When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from ...

The history of Black nurses in the United States is fraught with rejection and perseverance due to segregation and racism. Still, these nurses have consistently proven care to the Black community from ...

Nurses are being rightfully hailed for their steadfast commitment to patient care in the era of COVID-19. But the pandemic is far from the first time nurses have served on the front lines — and it won ...

With many families scrambling for solutions to the U.S. formula shortage, stories of local women volunteering to serve as wet nurses have popped up around the internet, which raises the question: Is ...

New Filipino nurses place their hands on their chests during an oath-taking ceremony for new professional nurses at a 2010 convention in the Philippines. New Filipino nurses place their hands on their ...

"We've lost the idea of nurses as experts," says author Sarah DiGregorio. "We've lost the idea of nurses as authority figures." It's a topic she takes on in her new book: Taking Care: The Story of ...

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago... "We've lost the idea of nurses as experts," says ...