Mary Malia Nutting Role In Nursing

When the topic of nursing comes up everyone has an idea that it’s in the health care field, and is someone that takes care of someone in need. This career I believe is one of the most important in the healthcare field because nurses are known to be healers. Before the profession even became official people would get the care from family, friends, or religious volunteers. The history of nursing is still valued today because there are still things to learn and with their guide, it helps this career make positive changes to help take better care of the client's health. The education back then was not fully official such as the protocols that are needed or simply how to do tasks that prevent worse outcomes. Mary Adelaide Nutting’s main efforts

Mary Adelaide Nutting’s main goal was to start bringing education for nurses within universities. She was born November 1, 1858, in Quebec, Canada. She started off, as a music teacher in Canada then eventually found that nursing was the career for her. In 1889 she was in one of the first classes that started in John Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. Once she graduated she became the superintendent (Gilbert, 1997). While working there, she got to assist in the development of the organizations that are now known as International Council of Nursing, the American Nurses Association, and the National League for Nursing. When people get curious about how the nurse licensing laws came into place, Nutting was responsible. Her ideas are the main reason why nurses have a protocol to follow, and why nursing education moved into the university. The organization that she created,

Nutting became the first professor of nursing in the world at Teachers College, Columbia University. That is the same school where the first graduate program in nursing developed. Many years later in 1922, she was awarded an honorary degree from Yale University, colleagues declared her to “one of the most useful women in the world” (Gilbert, 1997, p.vii). During her times of being superintendent, nurse, professor, etc, she truly made a difference in nursing. One way of contributing to this field is that she wrote some literature throughout her experiences. When she was part of the Committee on Nursing of the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense, she was responsible for increasing nursing resources that helped throughout certain areas that did not receive such