The history of nursing in the United States focuses on the professionalization of Nursing in the United States since the Civil War.
Saint Marianne Cope was among many Catholic nuns to influence the development of modern hospitals and nursing.
Lillian Wald, pioneer of public health nursing and founder of Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
February 1918 drawing by Marguerite Martyn of a visiting nurse in St. Louis, Missouri, with medicine and babies
1917 Army Nurse Corps Uniform Coat
Jane Delano
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Jane Arminda Delano was a nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service.
Chief Executives of the American Red Cross Department of Nursing (1918). Delano is in the center.
Delano reburial, 1920, Arlington National Cemetery