Sisters Of Charity Timeline
17th century
St. Louise de Merillac
Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity, Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent, but would nurse the poor in their homes, "having no monastery but the homes of the sick, their cell a hired room, their chapel the parish church, their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge of a hospital at Angers, Frances., philippines • 1645 - Jeanne Mance establishes North America's first hospital, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. • 1654 and 1656 - Sisters of Charity care for the wounded on the battlefields at Sedan and Arras in …show more content…
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1890s
Lillian Wald • 1890 - Kate Marsden, founder of the St. Francis Leprosy Guild, travels to Yakutia, Siberia in search of a herb reputed to cure leprosy. [14] • 1893 - Lillian Wald, the founder of visiting nursing in the U.S., begins teaching a home class on nursing for Lower East Side (New York) women after a trying time at an orphanage where children were maltreated. • 1893 - The Nightingale Pledge, composed by Lystra Gretter, is first used by the graduating class at the old Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in the spring. • 1897 - The American Nurses Association holds its first meeting in February, as the "Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada". • 1897 - Jane Delano becomes Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital. [15] • 1899 - Japan establishes a licensing system for modern nursing professionals with the introduction of the "Midwives Ordinance". [16] • 1899 - Anna E. Turner goes to Cuba on a cattle boat with nine other nurses to serve two years at a yellow fever hospital in Havana. [17] • 1899 - The International Council of Nurses is …show more content…
May, 1918. • 1900 - Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt, the founder of orthopaedic nursing, opens a convalescent home for crippled children at Florence House in Baschurch which espouses the yet-unproven theory of open-air treatment. • 1901 - New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act on September 12. • 1902 - Ellen Dougherty of New Zealand becomes the first registered nurse in the world on February 10. • 1902 - New York City Board of Education hires Lina Rogers Struthers as North America’s first school nurse. • 1902 - The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service replaces, by royal warrant, the Army Nursing Service. [18] • 1908 The United States Navy Nurse Corps is established. • 1908 - Representatives of 16 organized nursing bodies meet in Ottawa to form the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses, which will become the Canadian Nurses Association in 1911. [19] • 1909 - The American Red Cross Nursing Service is formed. [20] • 1909 - The University of Minnesota bestows the first bachelors degree in nursing, setting a new standard in the training of
St. Louise de Merillac
Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity, Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent, but would nurse the poor in their homes, "having no monastery but the homes of the sick, their cell a hired room, their chapel the parish church, their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge of a hospital at Angers, Frances., philippines • 1645 - Jeanne Mance establishes North America's first hospital, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. • 1654 and 1656 - Sisters of Charity care for the wounded on the battlefields at Sedan and Arras in …show more content…
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1890s
Lillian Wald • 1890 - Kate Marsden, founder of the St. Francis Leprosy Guild, travels to Yakutia, Siberia in search of a herb reputed to cure leprosy. [14] • 1893 - Lillian Wald, the founder of visiting nursing in the U.S., begins teaching a home class on nursing for Lower East Side (New York) women after a trying time at an orphanage where children were maltreated. • 1893 - The Nightingale Pledge, composed by Lystra Gretter, is first used by the graduating class at the old Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in the spring. • 1897 - The American Nurses Association holds its first meeting in February, as the "Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada". • 1897 - Jane Delano becomes Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital. [15] • 1899 - Japan establishes a licensing system for modern nursing professionals with the introduction of the "Midwives Ordinance". [16] • 1899 - Anna E. Turner goes to Cuba on a cattle boat with nine other nurses to serve two years at a yellow fever hospital in Havana. [17] • 1899 - The International Council of Nurses is …show more content…
May, 1918. • 1900 - Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt, the founder of orthopaedic nursing, opens a convalescent home for crippled children at Florence House in Baschurch which espouses the yet-unproven theory of open-air treatment. • 1901 - New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act on September 12. • 1902 - Ellen Dougherty of New Zealand becomes the first registered nurse in the world on February 10. • 1902 - New York City Board of Education hires Lina Rogers Struthers as North America’s first school nurse. • 1902 - The Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service replaces, by royal warrant, the Army Nursing Service. [18] • 1908 The United States Navy Nurse Corps is established. • 1908 - Representatives of 16 organized nursing bodies meet in Ottawa to form the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses, which will become the Canadian Nurses Association in 1911. [19] • 1909 - The American Red Cross Nursing Service is formed. [20] • 1909 - The University of Minnesota bestows the first bachelors degree in nursing, setting a new standard in the training of