Do women deserve access to combat roles ?” Back then, it was: “ Do men deserve access to nursing roles ?’ For the majority of the 20th Century, men were barred from commissioning in the Army Nurse ...

"We've lost the idea of nurses as experts," says author Sarah DiGregorio. "We've lost the idea of nurses as authority figures." It's a topic she takes on in her new book: Taking Care: The Story of ...

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When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from ...

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago... "We've lost the idea of nurses as experts," says ...

New Filipino nurses place their hands on their chests during an oath-taking ceremony for new professional nurses at a 2010 convention in the Philippines. New Filipino nurses place their hands on their ...

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