Nurses who served in the Vietnam War were largely invisible and unrecognized until the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Project demanded that they be heard.

In National Hispanic Heritage Month, we delve into the dynamism of Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, founder of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses in the 1970s.

An odd-looking artifact in the Bjoring Center's archives is a reminder of the early days of nursing care with the advent of insulin.

Capucao, a nurse, nurse historian, and Fulbright alumnus, has been named the School's first Mellon Race, Place, and Equity post-doctoral fellow.

News from the University of Virginia School of Nursing

News from the University of Virginia School of Nursing

The writer Nella Larsen was a leading light during the Harlem Renaissance, having published two novels to wide acclaim. Then she apparently disappeared.

News from the University of Virginia School of Nursing

On Jan. 16, 1943, a group of Black women who occupied the bottom rung of the hospital's paid staff decided they'd had enough.

In 1964, 28 nursing students got bussed to New York City to appear on the hit TV show 'I've Got a Secret.' Among them were twins Joyce and Janet Fisher.

Healthcare historian Dominique Tobbell's latest award

Student nurse Bernice White catalogued many milestones, large and small, from her training days in the 1930s. What personal 'firsts' do you keepsake?

Without benefit of plastic mattress covers, adjustable beds, and industrial laundry services, early nurses making beds had their work cut out for them.

This Pride Month, we celebrate one of the early advocates for the LGBTQ+ community who pushed for change on the board and at the bedside.

In 1965, a young nurse named Rita Chow had a novel idea for analyzing nursing care in surgical intensive care: closed-circuit television.

A new bench honors the150 Black graduates of the School's Licensed Practical Nursing program that operated from the 1950s and 1960s during segregation.

The search for traces of Rachael, an enslaved nurse and midwife at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, who is all but erased from the historical record.

Tobbell, a medical historian, just published DR. NURSE, which delves into the always interesting, sometimes difficult history of nursing science.

The groundbreaking activism of Black nurses in Charlottesville during the era of segregation who fought for civil rights and health justice for Black Virginians

Postcards from globetrotting American nurses throughout history

In celebration of Native American Indian Heritage Month, we honor public health nurse Lula Owl Gloyne (1891-1985).

Plunging the depths of the Bjoring Center archives for a variety of games, toys, and tools that nurses use to help children understand.

Capucao, a PhD candidate, will travel to the Philippines to continue his investigations on the history of Filipino American nurses.

Lt. Alice Huffman, who graduated from UVA's nursing program in 1938, served with the 750-bed mobile hospital unit during World War II.

Gardner, instrumental in the establishment of UVA's outpatient neurology clinic, also lobbied for wage increases for nurses throughout the 1970s and 80s.

A look back at the tools of the nursing trade from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Being a flight nurse during Vietnam required skill, mettle, and improvisation. Dianne Gagliano had all of those qualities, and more.

The reading habits of medical historian Dominique Tobbell, director of the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.

It's been a half-century since UVA's nurse practitioner master's programs were founded. A look back—and forward—at the NP (r)evolution.

During Pride Month, we highlight one of the earliest national organizations for gay rights--established, not surprisingly, by nurses.

During the 19th century, enslaved women performed the majority of nursing work on plantations.

The history of Black nurses fight to integrate military nursing was contested and complex.

We trace the complex history of Black midwives throughout American history and their essential roles in their communities.

PhD student Tori Tucker has analyzed Black nurses' roles through their oral histories. She began with clinician and UVA graduate Mavis Claytor.

Tobbell, former director of UMN's History of Medicine program, assumes the role of director at the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry on Dec. 25.

Childbirth in the early 20th century was a dangerous proposition. Public health nurses like Caroline Benoist partnered with lay midwives to change the trend.

Mary Seacole isn't as heralded as fellow Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale, but her impactful care of ill, injured, and dying was legendary.

Since the 1890s, tuning forks have helped nurses assess patients' hearing, and the type and cause of hearing loss they might experience.

While high-fidelity simulators are a fairly recent innovation, the concept of simulation has been part of traditional nursing education for more than a century.

How to safely reopen schools during this pandemic remains problematic. From a nursing history perspective, one solution is obvious: put a nurse in every school.

Shirley Willer, a registered nurse and early advocate for gay rights, first learned that she was a deviant in nursing school in the 1940s.

This Juneteenth, as Pres. Trump plans a campaign rally, Tulsa, OK, is in the news, just as it was 99 years ago, in 1921, when the Tulsa massacre took place.

Walt Whitman's identity as a queer nurse is rarely recognized, even in the annals of nursing history.

Alcott is best known for her iconic book LITTLE WOMEN. She was also, less famously, a Civil War nurse, writes second-year BSN student Emily Williams.

Though COVID-19's impact feels seismic and seminal, nurses know that the concepts of quarantine, social isolation, and fresh air aren't new - and they work.

The rapid spread of the new coronavirus harkens back to the 1918 influenza epidemic, when nurses provided the front-line response.

Juliet used it to fake death, and 14th c. Italian women used it to make their eyes look sexy. But make no mistake: Belladonna can be both dangerous and deadly.

An artifact in the Bjoring History Center highlights the fight against leprosy, still endemic in many parts of the world.

During the silver age of passenger train travel, the sought-after job of nurse stewardess was equal parts work and adventure.

Compared to the nation's first ERs, opened by public health nurse Lillian Wald in the late 1800s, today's ERs gleam with promise. It wasn't always that way.

The new film “Harriet” tells the story of this Civil War spy and fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad, but omits her central role as a nurse.

Breast pumps are an age-old apparatus, sharing a lineage with bloodletting and cupping devices.

The LPN program was established during segregation and trained more than 150 nurses who later integrated UVA Hospital and the School of Nursing.

It's been nearly 50 years since UVA's nursing honor society Beta Kappa established a local chapter to honor exceptional nursing students and graduates.

Before the advent of synthetic sutures, wounds were closed with a wide variety of materials, from sheep intestines called 'catgut' to horse hair.

UVA nurse historians stole the show at the American Association for the History of Nursing annual conference, in Dallas, TX

Nurses across NY and NJ were on the front lines of disaster that bright Tuesday morning 18 years ago. PhD grad Franklin Hickey interviewed some of them.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny challenged the medical establishment with a novel treatment for polio, earning fame and fierce opposition along the way.

Daily teas brought UVA nursing students together in the living room of McKim Hall dorm between the 1920s and 60s, when such decorum was expected and taught.

School nurses might be ubiquitous today, but the concept is relatively young. Lina Rogers, part of the Henry Street Settlement in NYC, was our nation's first.

Even though Vapo-Cresolene was part of the FDA's “Chamber of Horrors,” it had remarkable staying power through the 1950s.

From 1927's Great Mississippi Flood to Hurricanes Camille, Sandy and Katrina, nurses - especially public health RNs - have a long legacy of care.

Detroit was in the throes of one of the worst race riots in U.S. history in the summer of 1967. Public health nurse Nancy Milio was there.

Though used since the 1600s, and possibly earlier, glass syringes - fragile, expensive, and time intensive - were the norm until the middle 1950s.

While Filipino-Americans comprise 1% of our population, they comprise 4% of the 3.9 million US RNs. A new history project delves into their little-known story.

With the July 4 holiday fast approaching, AAHN president and prof emerita Arlene Keeling on our nation's current and historic fear of immigrants.

She was modern. She taught you that you could do anything. She was smart, and she was courageous, and had a dedication to her calling.

A need for Southern nurses fueled the creation of UVA's Cabaniss Nursing School in 1928. It also paved the way for nursing's rightful place in academia at UVA.

The world, country, and UVA was awash in change in 1969. As we honor alumni at reunions this weekend, a look back at some details from the BSN class of 1969.

For nearly 120 years, UVA School of Nursing has bestowed nursing pins to its graduates, which signifies their academic progress, pedigree, and noble profession.

In 1934, a nurse anesthetist named Dagmar A. Nelson was sued by the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Her crime? The illegal practice of medicine.

With the appointment of two-term ANA president Pam Cipriano as interim dean, we're taking a look back at the legacy of leaders affiliated with UVA Nursing.

Though a vaccine largely keeps the disease in check, many are unaware of measles' deadly history. Until 1963, thousands of children and adults perished from it.

UVA's LPN program - which operated between the 1950s through the early '80s - offered black nurses a path to the profession during segregation, and beyond.

An April 6 alumni event aims to celebrate the five dozen LPN graduates of a UVA-Burley High School program from the 1950s and 60s, before desegregation.

Boston's Floating Hospitals were the brainchild of Rev. Tobey, who took note of the city's children who suffered from “summer complaint” in the hottest months.

Birth - once a family affair that took place in the home - began its move to the hospital setting in the 1800s as Americans became more mobile and urbanized.

A Flashback that looks back at the growing specialty of cardiac medicine, and how it fundamentally shifted the roles, care, and skills of nurses - for good.

Federally employed public health clinicians like Nurse Shamburg meant much to rural Americans, like those in Gee's Bend, AL, who'd never before had health care.

62 years after its founding, UVA admitted its first male nursing student. Since then, however, more and more guys have flocked to Virgina's #1 nursing program.

UVA's NP programs began with the social justice movements in the 1960s, as interest in rights for women, the poor, and racial minorities began to swell.

A mutating virus that began in a Kansas military camp ultimately killed 670,000 Americans, and between 50-100 million people world-wide over 15 months.

A 1947 UVA grad recalls everything from hand washing protocol to life in McKim Hall during World War II, when Cadet Nurses rallied to the cause.

Frank Hickey was just miles away when planes struck the Twin Towers. What he saw his fellow nurses do that day changed his perspective - and his dissertation.

Nurse historian and visiting professor tells the harrowing story of aversion therapy, a 'treatment' for gay men from the 1930s to 70s administered by nurses.

Tending people with favus and trachoma, and everything in between, Ellis Island's nurses often meant the difference between life and death for ill immigrants.

How UVA's interprofessional focus keeps nursing and medical students working in unison, and helps nurture competent, compassionate collaborators

“So many awfully sick boys that we don't have any hours off duty during the day, and work overtime at night.” - WWI nurse Camilla “Katie” Wills, 1918

What can a crumbling DC psychiatric hospital teach us about patient care?

And then there were four.