Historical Development of Nursing Timeline
Coral R Williams
NUR/513
September 30, 2013
Willie Goodwin

Historical Development of Nursing Timeline
The purpose of this document is to explain the historic development of nursing science by 1) citing specific years, theories, theorists, and events in the history of nursing, 2) explaining the relationship between science and the profession, and 3) reviewing the influences on nursing science of other disciplines such as philosophy, religion, education, anthropology, social services, and psychology.
History of Nursing
In the 18th and 19th century modern nursing began to take shape. The Catholic’s recruited congregation females committed to the care of the sick within religious group. The Lutherans followed and trained women to facilitate care to the unhealthy, and in 1863 the Red Cross Society, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, devoted a program goal of educating nurses to care for the wounded during the war (s). This program was a success and therefore was the beginning of the formal education process for professional nursing. These first program trained nurses were known as civil nurses there responsibility was to provide care to soldiers (Potter, 2009).
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) began her career in nursing after completing an educational program in Kaiserwerth, Germany at the age of 31. During this time war and disease was devastating the British Army. She was called upon by the government and volunteered her services as well as the services of 38 nurses to care for wounded and suffering soldiers in Turkey. Nightingale found the conditions in the army hospital appalling as well as the rate of death associated with disease and infection. She opposed the conditions and was met with opposition but continued to validate her claims of a cleaner environment. Her strategy was successful when given the