page_title: Timeline of nursing history
section_title: 1900s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of nursing history / 20th century / 1900s
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Uniforme d'une infirmière dans les années 1900. English: Nurse uniform in the 1900's.
context_page_description: 1–500 AD – Nursing care palliative needs of persons and families. Religious organizations were the care providers.
  55 CE – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess.
  300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing.
  c. 390 CE – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola.
  c. 620 CE – Rufaidah bint Sa'ad became the first Muslim nurse.
context_section_description: 1900 – Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt, the founder of orthopaedic nursing, opens a convalescent home for crippled children at Florence House in Baschurch which espouses the yet-unproven theory of open-air treatment.
  1901 – United States Army Nurse Corps (NC) is established
  1901 – New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act.
  1901 – State registration for nurses began in New Zealand.
  1902 – Ellen Dougherty of New Zealand becomes the first registered nurse in the world.
  1902 – New York City Board of Education hires Lina Rogers Struthers as North America's first school nurse.
  1902 – Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service replaces, by royal warrant, the Army Nursing Service.
  1903 – The Armstrong Act of 1903 is passed in New York, requiring registration of nurses.
  1905 – The Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial is erected at Arlington National Cemetery in the United States.
  1906 – The first nursing school Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses/Iloilo Mission Hospital training school for Nurses, now Central Philippine University–College of Nursing, is established in the Philippines.
  1906 – Severance School opens in Korea, the first of many training schools.
  1908 – The United States Navy Nurse Corps is established.
  1908 – The New Zealand Nurses Organisation's journal, Kai Tiaki was first published.
  1908 – Representatives of 16 organized nursing bodies meet in Ottawa to form the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses, which will become the Canadian Nurses Association in 1911.
  1908 – Akenehi Hei registered as the first Maori nurse.
  1909 – The New Zealand Trained Nurses Association was established.
  1909 – The American Red Cross Nursing Service is formed.
  1909 – The University of Minnesota School of Nursing bestows the first bachelor's degree in nursing, setting a new standard in the training of nurses.
caption: French nurse's uniform, 1900
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