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Question: Who was the first nurse in the history!?
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Rufaydah Alaslamia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, people have been nursing others as long as there have been humans, so that question is impossible to answer!.

In medieval times, monasteries often had infirmaries attached to them, and nursing was done by monks and nuns!. In Catholic countries, nursing continued to be a job that was done by nuns, but in England after the reformation, nursing as an occupation seems to have fallen into disrepute, and it was not really restored to a position of respectability until the 19th century!.

The woman who revolutionaised nursing practices in England was Florence Nightingale, and it would I think be true to say that she was the first English nurse of the modern era, trained, professional, scientific in her approach to nursing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mary Eliza Mahoney 1845-1926
She was the first African-American registered nurse in the U!.S!.A!.

Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena!. He was the first American nurse seventy years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock!. Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena was shipwrecked off the south Texas Coast!. He is the first identified nurse in what was later to become the United States!.

The history of Rufaidah, the first professional nurse in Islamic history

Linda Richards
America's First White Trained Nurse
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If a nurse means "a female do medical-care to patients for living", then it goes back a LONG LONG time!.


Chinese historical document is describing nurse who failed to save a patient injured during building the great wallWww@QuestionHome@Com

that depends on what your definition of a nurse is!. the role of nurses has changed vastly with time!. now they are essentially underpaid doctors!.Www@QuestionHome@Com