American Red Cross Nursing Service
The American Red Cross Nursing Service (Sisterhood of the American Red Cross, ARCNS) was founded in 1909 by Jane Arminda Delano , a nurse and member of the American Red Cross . As a pioneer in modern day nursing , she organized the ARCNS by pooling the efforts of the American Nurses Association , the United States Army Nurse Corps, and the Red Cross. Through their efforts, there were 8,000 trained and trained emergency response units by the time the United States entered World War I. Working with Mary Adelaide Nutting , President of the American Federation of Nurses, and Annie Warburton Goodrich , the Dean of the Army School of Nursing, more than 20,000 nurses joined the Army during the war.
The Red Cross Sister has become a national symbol, around 370,000 nurses (as of 2018) have registered since the ARCNS was founded to help in times of war or disasters and to support people during times of peace.
literature
- Tenerife Goodwin Veenema: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness. Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8261-4417-1 . (English)
Web links
- Red Cross: Red Cross Nursing History (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jennifer Casavant Telford: The American Nursing Shortage during World War I: The Debate over the Use of Nurses' Aids in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 2010, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 85-99. (English)
- ↑ Tenerife Goodwin Veenema: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness. Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-0-8261-4417-1 . P. 620 (English)