17th century
St. Louise de Marillac
Sisters of Charity
The Reformation – The 17th century was the time of the Reformation when the breakdown of religious orders meant that monasteries, hospitals and nursing care facilities were closed in most Protestant areas.[1]
1633 Sisters of Charity founded.(Crisp & Taylor)
1633 – The founding of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac.[2] The community would not remain in a convent, but would nurse the poor in their homes, "having no monastery but the homes of the sick, their cell a hired room, their chapel the parish church, their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital."[3]
1645 – Jeanne Mance establishes North America's first hospital, l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
1654 and 1656 – Sisters of Charity care for the wounded on the battlefields at Sedan and Arras in France.
1660 – Over 40 houses of the Sisters of Charity exist in France and several in other countries; the sick poor are helped in their own dwellings in 26 parishes in Paris.
17th–18th century were considered the "age of reason". A lot of myths were contradicted by scientific fact.(Daly, Speedy & Jackson)
19th century
1835 – Nursing Society of Philadelphia (NSP)
1850 – instructional school for nurses opened by NSP.
1853 – Crimean war.
1854 – Nightingale appointed as the Superintendent of Nursing Staff.
1856 – A charitable organisation known as the "Nightingale Fund for Nursing" was founded in Britain, to commemorate Nightingale's work in the Crimean War.(Daly, Speedy & Jackson)
1856 – Establishment of Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases peculiar to Women and Children.(Daly, Speedy & Jackson)
1861–1865 – The Civil war, American Army nurses corps.
1872, 73 – formal nursing training programs were established, establishment of formal education.