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Nursing has been an integral part of patient care
forever, but it was not always considered a medical profession in its own right.
For centuries nursing was done privately by family members or publicly by religious
orders. Prejudice and concerns for "moral decency" barred women from caring
from the sick in hospitals until several wars in the 19th and early 20th centuries
created the environment for change. Nursing historians have long credited the
most visible pioneers of their profession, whose names are well-known: Florence
Nightingale, Edith Clavell, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton.
This article uncovers more about the evolution of nursing and how volunteers
played an important, if rarely credited, role - women from many countries serving
as nurses without pay or even paying their own way to the battlefront to do
war nursing. Even the American poet Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse during
the Civil War, influencing his famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.
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