Nursing has marked it place repeatedly in history and has went through trials and tribulations to get to where it is now.
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During the Crimean War in truing during the years of 1853-1856 a nurse by the name of Nightingale to it upon herself to gather 38 nurses and help assist a British hospital by cleaning up the hospital and providing care to the injured soldiers. After collecting data and building credibility she later founded the first training school for nurses at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1860. In 1959 Nightingale would be recognized for her most famous publication Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not. Where she emphasized one needs to possess a unique type of knowledge to practice professional nursing. This would lead to the developing of Nursing in America and in her native home of England.
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A number of nursing leaders from all over the world to share ideas and discuss any problems to nursing education. Among these many nurses the ones to remember are Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia Dock, and Bedford Fenwick. Robb would present a paper discussed and elaborated and the lack of uniformity. It was here the paper by Florence Nightingale on the need for scientific training for nurses. It was here the birth of the National League for Nursing and the American Society. In 1912 the society would change its name to National League of Nursing Education and in 1952 to the National League of Nursing. This would also lead to the American Nurses Association being founded in 1911 by Isabel Hampton Robb. The goal of this group was to improve the alliance of nurses and educators. This same group of American nurses with the assistance of nurses of abroad would work with Bedford Fenwick of Britain to found the International Council of Nurses. The ICN was focused to bonding nursing organization of all