Nursing Research Guide: History of nursing

Use the links to the three journals listed below to find articles on the history of nursing.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

International History of Nursing Journal

Nursing History Review

The Barbara Bates Center for The Study of the History of Nursing at Penn

Brownson's Nursing Notes

Nursing, History and Health Care (Penn)

The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities (Online book available through Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

US National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine

The databases linked below may provide relevant search results. Searching for nursing specialties (for example, critical care nursing) with the term history may give you some good results. Subject headings most likely to give you relevant results include the following:
 

History of medicine

Home care services -- History

Home nursing -- History

Military nursing -- History

Nurses -- History

Nursing -- History

Psychiatric nursing -- History