Nursing: History, Leaders, Organizations

An overview of materials available at Tompkins Cortland Community College library covering topics related to nursing leaders and the history of nursing; a supplement to NURS 110: Fundamentals of Nursing.

• Reference Books
• Searching for Books
• Databases
• Web Sites
• Books of Special Interest
• Turnitin

Reference Books

American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary
One hundred seventy-seven biographical sketches and bibliographies of American nurses.
[REF RT34 .A44]

Dictionary of American Medical Biography: Profiles of Those Who Died Before 1977
Focuses largely on doctors but considers enough nurses to be very useful. Indexes include place of birth, state where prominent, occupation, and gender.
[REF R153 .D53 1984]

Dictionary of American Nursing Biography
One hundred ninety-six biographical sketches of persons who were important in the history of nursing.
[REF RT34 .D53 1988]

Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing
Alphabetical arrangement of topics from abortion to World War II, includes extensive bibliography.
[REF RT31 .S66 1999]

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; a Biographical Dictionary
[REF CT3260 .N57]

Notable Black American Women: Book II [REF E185.96 .N68]

Nursing in Society: A Historical Perspective
Discusses many nursing leaders.
[RT31. D64 1983]

Searching for Books

To find books on a particular person, look in the Library Catalog. Use the person's name as a Subject Heading, e.g. Sanger, Margaret, or Nightingale, Florence. To find more general studies, look under some of the following Subjects:

• Midwifery History or Midwives Biography
• Military Nursing History
• Nurses Biography
• Nurses History
• Nursing History
• Nursing Social Aspects History

Important Point: If you cannot find books on your topic in the TC3 catalog, return to the Library Gateway and search the SUNY Catalog or Worldcat.

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Databases

CINAHL, PubMed, Science Direct, or Proquest. CINAHL is an acronym for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. To access it go to:

• Library Gateway
• Choose Research (the blue tab on the top left)
• Under Research choose Databases
• Under Databases choose Databases by Title
• Under Databases by Title choose CINAHL
• Use the subject heading "History of Nursing" (with the quote marks) to search. This will give you over 2,000 articles. To narrow your search by combining History of Nursing with another concept.
• Choose Search Methods and click on Advanced.

You can also view and print out (in pdf format) a two-page visual guide to Nursing History: Getting Started.

Important Point: Different databases have different interfaces. Ask a librarian if you need assistance in searching CINAHL or any other database.

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Web Sites

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions has Personal Paper Collections from the School of Nursing.

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists - Has an Archives and Library

American Association for the History of Nursing - With links to Nursing History Centers, Museums and Archives

Archives of Nursing Leadership - University of Connecticut School of Nursing and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing - With information on collections

Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry - University of Virginia

Hazel Braugh Record Center & Archives - American Red Cross. Offers a Timeline.

Honor Society of Nursing - Has an archives of Reflections on Nursing Leadership

Inventory of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Records, 1908-1951 - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. See History.

Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing - With Newsletter Archives

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Library of Congress

A Survey of Sources at the Rockefeller Archive Center for the History of Nursing

A Stony Path: A Timeline of African Americans in Nursing

U.S. Army Center of Military History - Has several publications on interest including The Women's Army Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service and Higlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 - "Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images."

Books of Interest

100 Years of American Nursing: Celebrating a Century of Caring
[RT4 .S375 1999]
Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
[D807 .U6 M357 1999]
Always A Sister: The Feminism of Lillian D. Wald
[HQ1413 .W34 D36 1989]
American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army Nurse in Vietnam
[DS559.44 .S57 1992]
American Nursing: A History
[RT4 .K34 2004]
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
[D807.U6 M66 2003]
Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914
[UH495 .G7 S86 1988]

Black Women in the Nursing Profession: A Documentary History
[Oversize RT31 .H5]
Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950
[RT83.5 .H56 1989]
Cadet Nurse Stories: the Call For and Response of Women During World War II
[RT4 .R63 2001]
Capturing Nursing History: a Guide to Historical Methods in Research
[RT31 .C37 2008]
Caring in Crisis: An Oral History of Critical Care Nursing
[RT120 .I5 Z35 1995]
A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863
[E625 .B33 1994]
Contemporary American Leaders in Nursing: An Oral History
[RT4 .S23]
Critical Care Nursing: A History
[RT120 .I5 F34 1998]
Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality [RT83.5 .D38 1999] Information on Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), Martha Minerva Franklin (1870-1968), and Adah Belle Samuels Thomas. [Early Black American Leaders in Nursing is also available online in NetLibrary]

Education of Nurses: Historical Foundations and Modern Trends
[RT31 .H5 v.5]
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
[RT17.P6 C48 2003]
Enduring Issues in American Nursing
[RT4 .E53 2001]
Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters
[RT37 .N5 A4 1990]
The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War
[Oversize RC971 .N23 1993]
Feminism and Nursing: An Historical Perspective on Power, Status and Political Activism in the Nursing Profession
[RT86.5 .R36 1995]
First Words: Selected Addresses from the National League for Nursing, 1894-1933
[RT4 .F57 1991]
Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
[UH347 .N6 W6 1951]
Florence Nightingale and Her Era: A Collection of New Scholarship
[RT37 .N5 F55 1990]
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer
[O-SIZE RT37.N5 D67 2000]
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
[D807 .U6 T66 1996]
Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps
[REF UH493 .C46 1996 and UH493 .C46 1987]
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
[UH493 .S27 1999]
Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future: A History of the New York State Nurses Association
[RT5 .N5 P386 2000]
Hospitals, Paternalism and the Role of the Nurse
[RT79 .A83]
In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the Navy Nurse Corps
[Oversize VG353 .S74 1997]
In Hospital and Camp: The Civil War Through the Eyes of Its Doctors and Nurses
[E621 .S86 1993]
Just a Nurse: From Clinic to Hospital Ward, Battleground to Cancer Unit: The Hearts and Minds of Nurses Today - Interviews
[RT79 .K73 1989]
Legacy of Leadership: Presidential Addresses from the Superintendents' Society and the National League for Nursing
[RT4 .L38 1993]
Lillian D. Wald: Progressive Activist
[HQ1439 .N6 L55 1989]
Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities
[RT41 .M46 2007]
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
[RT120 H65 B84 2001]
No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II [D807 .U6 F47 1996]

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale [RT40 .N5 1992]

Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
[RT31 .N864 1997]
Nursing History: The State of the Art
[RT31 .D64 1983]
Nursing in Society: A Historical Perspective
[RT31 .D64 1983]
Nursing, The Finest Art: An Illustrated History
[Oversize RT31 .D66 1996]
Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing
[RT4 .R25 1987]
Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War
[E621 .O97 1998]
Pages from Nursing History: A Collection of Original Articles from the Pages of Nursing Outlook, The American Journal of Nursing and Nursing Research
[Oversize RT4 .P34 1984]
Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854-1994 [RT83.5 .C37 1995]

" The Physician's Hand": Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing
[RT4 .M44 1982]
Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945
[RA395.A4 P43 1991]
A Piece of My Heart: the Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
[DS559.8.W6 P54 1997]
Pioneer Healers: The History of Women Religious in American Health Care
[BX4220 .U6 P56 1989]
The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention: What it is - By Clara Barton, Washington D. C., 1878. From the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division, one of a growing number of digitized historical texts in the Medicine in the America Collection. " In 1878, Clara Barton wrote this pamphlet to gain public support for the formation of a national society in the United States which would work in affiliation with the International Red Cross. Her tireless efforts were rewarded in 1881 with the organization of the American Association of the Red Cross."

Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century
[RT 85.2 N455 2001]
Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America
[RT4 .L49 1993]
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
[D807.U5 J33 2000]
To Bind Up The Wounds: Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War
[E621 .M34 1989]
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
[D807.U6 N58 1999]
Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service
[RT37 .B72 A3 1981]
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
[E621 .S35 2004]
A Women of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War
[E621 .O24 1994]

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