Male Nursing History

One famous male nurse of the past was James Derham. He was an African American man who worked as a nurse in New Orleans in 1783. He was able to save enough money to buy his freedom from slavery. He went on to become the first African American physician in the United States.

Male Nurses of the Past

A famous male nurse in history was Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and writer, served as a volunteer hospital nurse in Washington, DC during the Civil War. He recorded his experiences in a collection of poems called "DRUMTAPS" and in his diary, "SPECIMEN DAYS and COLLECT."

Male Nurses of the Past

One male nurse in history was Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena. He was the first American nurse seventy years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena was shipwrecked off the south Texas Coast. He is the first identified nurse in what was later to become the United States.

Famous Male Nurses

St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614) founded the Nursing Order of Ministers of the sick. Men of this order cared for the dying, people stricken with the plague, and alcoholics. St. Camillus opened a hospital for alcoholics in Germany. St. Camillus de Lellis

was born at Bacchianico, Naples in 1550 and died at Rome July 14, 1614.

Male Nursing History

John Ciudad (1495-1550) founded the order of the brothers of St. John of God or the Brothers of Mercy in (1538). He opened a hospital in Grenada and asked a group of friends to assist in providing care to the mentally ill, homeless, crippled, derelicts, and abandoned children. Men of this order also visited the sick in their homes.

 

 

 More Famous Nurses in History

Rufaidah bint Sa'ad was a pioneer of nursing in Islam. She lived at the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the 1st century AH/8th century CE. Her full name was Rufaidah bint Sa'ad of the Bani Aslam tribe of the Khazraj tribal confederation in Madinah. She was born in Yathrib before the migration of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). She was among the first people in Madina to accept Islam and was one of the Ansar women who welcomed the Prophet on arrival in Madina.

 

 Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail was the first American Indian graduate registered nurse, fully prepared to pursue her dream of dedicating her life to helping Native American peoples. Susie completed her formal education by training at the Franklin County Memorial Hospital in Northfield and then practicing at Boston City Hospital. One of Susie's most cherished distinctions was granted in 1978, when the American Indian Nurses Association named her "Grandmother of American Indian Nurses."

Florence Nightingale

1820-1910

She was a British Unitarian and a nurse who founded nursing as a modern profession. She was also a mathematician. A pioneer in the nursing field, she established herself as a competent nursing administrator during the Crimean War, where her insistence on sanitary conditions cut the death rate considerably. Florence Nightingale continued to advance the field in her later years, providing better health service and opportunities for women at the same time.

She was called the "Lady with the Lamp." She made history with her nursing work in the Crimean War and helped shake up the field of medicine. Her opinions on women physicians and her invention of the pie chart are included.

History of Nursing Uniforms

In 1860, The Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St. Thomas's Hospital in London. Nursing is recognized as an honorable profession. Nurses uniforms tended to be nearly floor-length dresses with very long pinafore-type white aprons (they weren't like the bib-front aprons of the 1950's, but had side straps that went over the shoulders), the dresses had long sleeves with starched white collars and cuffs. Some had starched bows around the neck instead. Caps were frilly and were often kept in place by ties under the chin.

Ethel Fenwick was the first nurse on the world's first Nursing Register. She was also the founder of the British Journal of Nursing in 1893 and the founder and 1st president of the International Council of Nurses.

Nurses Uniforms History

In the 1950s, nursing in the UK explodes into life as the Health Service gets up and running. A 'Golden Age of Uniforms' begins. As hospitals became warmer, short sleeves appear and nurses who roll their long sleeves up start wearing arm cuffs or frills to cover up their rolled-up sleeves. Bib-front aprons also replaced the older aprons.

History of Nurses Uniforms

From 1914-1918, World War brings home the importance of Florence Nightingale's work and reinforces the importance of Military Nurses such as the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service (QAINS) and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS). Nurses are wearing tippetts, short, shoulder-covering cloaks which bear badges or stripes denoting their ranks.

Talking about male nurses:

I have read so many articles in the past about people saying there shouldn't be such thing as male nurses. Where do these people come from?

If we could have more male nurses in the world, things would be much easier. There are so mant benefits when it comes to a male nurse and these are things people tend to miss.

There is no law that states that male nurses aren't allowed. There are so many good male nurses out there, I have met quite a few, but even though they are proud of what they do, they still tend to not mention what they do for a living at family dinners.

This makes me sad as all should be equaly, no matter what culture, color or sex you might be.

Here is an article on male nurses if anyone would like to read more: http://www.onlinelpnprograms.com/male-lpn/