Nurses in American History: The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900

Abstract

There is probably no 10-year span in nursing's history during which so many important events occurred or so many fateful decisions were made than in the period between 1890 and 1900. It was a time of unprecedented growth in American nursing, a period of emergence of several of our most important nursing leaders, an era of tremendous proliferation of schools of nursing, and the decade of the greatest organizational strides for the fledgling profession.