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 Learn
- Why Henry Street Settlement became the model for every mobile clinic you’ve ever seen
- How WWI clearing stations invented the “golden hour” trauma concept decades early
- The legislative milestones that protected the title Registered Nurse beginning in 1903
- How WWII flight nurses evacuated 1.2 million soldiers with minimal loss of life
- The post-war surge of nursing degrees funded by the GI Bill and why it still matters today
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