Nursing Through Time

I am delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new website developed at Penn Nursing: Nursing, History and Healthcare at www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc. The site provides a lens through which scholars, students, clinicians, journalists, policymakers, and consumers can understand the historical roots of many issues and challenges faced by the nursing profession.  It is that profession that has devised ways and means of delivering health care services to the American public throughout the years. The website also addresses a wide range of current topics vital to comprehending and broadening our understanding of healthcare and nursing concerns, including the role of professional nurses, nurse shortages, workplace problems, and public health issues.

This website received significant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine, a Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health grant, and the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, as well as support from the American Academy of Nursing’s expert panel on nursing and history and our School’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.  The site was created by our nurse historian Jean C. Whelan, PhD, RN, under the initial direction of our late Professor Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, PhD, RN, FAAN.