@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1876 Aug 12: Author Mary Roberts Rinehart born tinyurl.com/y7cffgkq Despite title this 1919 collection focuses on nursing practice. Rinehart trained as a nurse & married a doctor. Most famous for her mysteries Died 22 Sept 1958 tinyurl.com/y9ocmb4p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory
@dohertyta.bsky.socialToday's #HistNursing #Badge is East #Birmingham Hospital
Est 1885 as an infectious diseases hospital became a general hosp in 1953 renamed 'Heartlands' in 1993.
They treated the world's last smallpox patient in 1978
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@dohertyta.bsky.socialGreat to see a new website for @eahnursing.bsky.social launched, inc their journal
European Association for the History of Nursing #HistNursing 💙👏
@dohertyta.bsky.socialWhen you love Tunnocks (tea cake or wafers) & you find out they sponsor a prize for writing re #Scottish #Archives
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Maybe a #HistNursing or #WomensHistory winner this year? @womenslibrary.bsky.social @histnurse.bsky.social @womenshistscot.bsky.social
@digitallegacyco.bsky.socialThe Royal College of Nursing’s ‘Digital Revolution. Nursing in the Age of Technology’ exhibition is now open for visitors.
More information: digitallegacyassociation.org/rcn-digital-...
@rcnlibraries.bsky.socialCome and visit our latest exhibition! 🏛️🖼️✨
Healthcare, computing, robotics, virtual reality, critical care, digital legacy? If any of these things interest you, you'll be sure to enjoy this new display!
For more info, visit this webpage: https://bit.ly/4y4C6Y2
@dohertyta.bsky.socialFrom the @rcnhistory.bsky.social #NursesInRed #Wikipedia project
Meet Ruth Darbyshire CBE RRC (1878-1946) Born #Prestwich Trained in #London
Matron University College Hospital 1922-35. Awards inc the Kaisar-i-Hind medal
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: British author Rona Shambrook wrote over 50 romances 1942-2001 under this pseudonym, many medical tinyurl.com/3653farn This one published in 1950 #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: “Julia” was an American TV comedy that ran from 17 Sept 1968 until 23 March 1971. Diahann Carroll played a nurse working in the office of a doctor played by Lloyd Nolan tinyurl.com/y4jxpuk9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv
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@stemfem.bsky.social9/16/1871 — b. Ella Phillips Crandall, American nursing leader, health educator. Key figure in establishing public health nursing as a profession; #publichealth + nursing edu authority. Exec sec, Natl Org for Public Health Nursing (1912-20) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #NurseSky #HistNursing
@rcnhistory.bsky.socialRCN launches new exhibition _ the digital revolution- nursing in the age of technology . Hybrid event with fantastic speakers including #histnursing at 6pm UK time 16 Sept . www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Betty Neels [b. 15 Sept 1909 d. 7 June 2001] wrote more than 130 romances published by Mills & Boon in England then by Harlequin in the U.S. tinyurl.com/8w2429vr This one from 1974 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Marjorie Hart published several medical romances between 1961 & 1973, this one in 1963 tinyurl.com/vrbjawcj #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@dohertyta.bsky.socialToday's #HistNursing #Badge is #Dulwich Hospital
Opened in 1887 as the Southwark workhouse hospital w/ 24 #Nightingale wards. It was a #WW1 military hospital. It closed 2005
More info ezitis.myzen.co.uk/dulwich.html
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@rcnhistory.bsky.social@rcnlibraries.bsky.socialRCN Scotland 's HQ in Edinburgh has an extraordinary nursing connection! It used to be the childhood home of suffragette nurse Florence McFarlane during the 19th century.
Find out more https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/Blogs/nurse-suffragette-240826. #HistNursing
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: British author Olive Norton [1913-1973] used several pseudonyms, including this one for her 1963 novel tinyurl.com/uz2kc6zr Her many books included several medical romances #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@dohertyta.bsky.socialIf you've not read this blog post or watched the #Scotland #suffragette #nurses event with @womenslibrary.bsky.social you really should!
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