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early Christians were willing to nurse the sick and take food to them - notably during the small pox epidemic
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1645 – Jeanne Mance establishes North America's first hospital
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1820 – Jensey Snow, a former slave, opens a hospital in Petersburg, Virginia
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Theodor Fliedner and his wife opened the first deaconess motherhouse in Kaiserswerth on the Rhine
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The American Methodists – the largest Protestant denomination -- engaged in large scale missionary activity in Asia and elsewhere in the world, making medical services a priority as early as the 1850s
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1850 instructional school for nurses opened by NSP
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In 1860 Queen Victoria ordered a hospital to be built to train Army nurses and surgeons, the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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in the 1880s, Methodists began opening hospitals in the United States , which served people of all religious backgrounds beliefs
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1895 13 hospitals were in operation in major cities
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1900s, the autonomous, nursing-controlled, Nightingale era schools came to an end – schools became controlled by hospitals, and formal "book learning" was discouraged in favor of clinical experience
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1901 - United States Army Nurse Corps is established
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New Zeland was the first to regulate nurses nationally,
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In 1941, emergency commissions and a rank structure were created, Nurses were given rank badges and were now able to be promoted to ranks from Lieutenant through to Brigadier
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The first doctor of philosophy degree program in nursing for a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) is founded at Hampton University School of Nursing. This doctoral program is unique in that it is the only doctoral program in the country that focuses on family and family related nursing research.
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William Passavant in 1849 brought the first four deaconesses to Pittsburgh, in the United States, after visiting Kaiserswerth. They worked at the Pittsburgh Infirmary (now Passavant Hospital).