![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her legacy pervades both the general public’s understanding of nursing and nursing itself: May is National Nurses Month because Nightingale’s birthday is May 12th, and the World Health Organization dubbed 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife to mark Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Just about every mainstream source, from the History Channel to Wikipedia, cites Nightingale, an upper-class lady of Victorian England, as the founder of modern nursing. If you think that Florence Nightingale invented nursing, you’re not alone. Dock, RN, and Mary Adelaide Nutting, RN, A History of Nursing, 1907 “No matter whether this treatment is carried out by sorcerers, priests, doctors, or old women, we find examples of the historic ancestry of modern nursing and the earliest forms of the art.” ![]()
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