page_title: Timeline of nursing history
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of nursing history
caption_attribution_description: A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine. Watercolour by R.H. Giles. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Convalescence; R.H. Giles; Nursing
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.
caption: A girl reads to a convalescent while a nurse brings in the patient's medicine
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