166: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 3 – The Rise of Modern Nursing

World War trenches, inflatable splints, and airborne operating rooms—this finale races from post-Nightingale training schools to the helicopter pads of today. Host Shane Waters uncovers how pioneers like Mary Seacole, Clara Barton, and Lillian Wald turned wartime chaos into blueprints for public-health nursing; how state licensure and the GI Bill vaulted nursing into universities; and why WWII flight nurses boasted a survival rate above 96 percent Nursing Through The Age…. Along the way, you’ll hear echoes of Indiana classrooms and the professors whose lessons inspired this very series.What You’ll LearnWhy Henry Street Settlement became the model for every mobile clinic you’ve ever seenHow WWI clearing stations invented the “golden hour” trauma concept decades earlyThe legislative milestones that protected the title Registered Nurse beginning in 1903How WWII flight nurses evacuated 1.2 million soldiers with minimal loss of lifeThe post-war surge of nursing degrees funded by the GI Bill and why it still matters todayEnjoying Hometown History?Follow/Subscribe so the next season lands automatically in your queue.Rate & Review on Apple Podcasts—each 5-star note keeps us independent.Share this episode with a friend who loves untold medical history—word of mouth is our lifeblood.Every hometown has a story—sometimes it flies 10,000 feet above a battlefield with a stethoscope in hand.Visit me online at https://www.blacklabelpodcasting.com/show/hometownhistory/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy