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While our Florida Nursing History Group does not host a Nurses Honor Guard, there are honor guard groups in Florida. One starting point as of 2024...

Posted by Kim Curry

Dear colleagues, As we work on building our Florida nursing history, I would like to trace the first 20 years of the nurse practitioner role in...

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Sharing this link to a story about The University of Miami School of Nursing's history. Check out their collection here:...

Posted by Jean Aertker, DNP, APRN, FAANP

Dr. Christine Ardalan is featured in a podcast with the Florida Historical Quarterly, the journal of the Florida Historical Society. The podcast...

Posted by Kim Curry

Many have heard of the Nightingale Tribute created several years ago by Kansas ANA nurse member Duane Jaunger RN, MSN to honor a deceased nurse...

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Historian Christine Ardalan's book "Public health nurses of Jim Crow Florida" has just been released in paperback. The paperback version retails...

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A new link has been added to the "Links and News" area to an article in the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN): "Fiction Versus Reality:...

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Christine Ardalan, nurse and historian, has been presented with the Arthur W. Thompson award for the most outstanding article in the Florida...

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Social Upheaval and a Dean’s Vision for Professional Nursing: The Work of Dorothy M. Smith. Author: Kim Curry. Published in Online Journal of...

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The Pull of the Stars is a fictionalized account of a maternity ward in Dublin, Ireland during the Influenza pandemic of 1918. The protagonist,...

Posted by Kim Curry