Nursing 1850-1880

By euniherr85

  • Dorothea Dix testifies to NJ legislature

    Regarding New Jersey's poor treatment of patients with mental illness

  • Florence Nighingale begins training as a nurse

    Trains at the Institute of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt
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    1850-1880

  • Filippo Pacici isolates Cholera bacteria

  • Crimean War begins

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    CRIMEAN WAR

  • Florence Nightingale leaves Britain to help in Crimean War

  • Louis Pasteur develops germ theory

  • "Notes on Nursing" published

    Florence's views on nursing. The basis of nursing practice is based on her ideas from this publication

  • "Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not"

  • Stethoscope invented

  • Abraham Linclon elected US president

  • Dorothea Dix becomes Superindendent of Women Nurses

    Dix organized and staffed military hospitals and established firm criteria for her contract nurses and matrons

  • American Civil War begins

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    American Civil War

  • Sally Louisa Tompkins opens hospital for Confederate soldiers

    Later, she is make an officer in the army

  • International Red Cross established

    Geneva, Switzerland

  • Emancipation Proclaimation

  • President Linclon is assassinated

  • American Civil War ends

  • Franco-Prussian War begins

  • Linda Richards becomes America's First Trained Nurse

    Graduates from New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses

  • First formal nursing school opens

  • Sr. Henrietta Stockdale starts first training for nurses in Africa

  • Koch publishes work on Anthrax

    First proof that a bacteria can be the source of an infectious agent

  • Gustav Neuber envisions aseptic design

    German surgeon discovers need to protect surgical environment in addtion to the surgical incision site to prevent infection.

  • Second Anglo-Afgah War begins

  • Mary Eliza Mahoney becomes first black professional nurse in US

    Graduates from New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses

  • Ignaz Semmelweis first to track spread of infections

    Where infections came from and how they were being spread

  • Clara Barton establishes American Red Cross