School of Nursing Resources

History of Nursing Resources

Bjoring Center

UVA School of Nursing's Bjoring Center (first floor of McLeod) maintains physical and digital collections exploring the history of nursing and its social contexts, at UVA and beyond. The links below highlight some of their collections.

Race in Healthcare: Historical Essentials for UVA Nurses
Digital repository of primary sources and links to secondary sources.
the Benoist Collection
Collection of sources related to public health nursing in the South in the early 1900s.
the Milio Collection
Collection of materials about a nurse-led maternal-child health center in an underserved community in Detroit during the 1960s.
Individual Collections
Lists the physical collections related to individual nurses that speak to their experiences in public health, during war, as early nurse practitioners, as nurse researchers, and more.
Other Historical Resources
UVa School of Nursing's list of links to other sites covering the history of nursing.

Other Resources on the History of Nursing

Bates Center at UPenn
A large, digitized collection of materials covering nursing in the late 1800 and early 1900s, including materials related to suffrage and nursing and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
American Association for the History of Nursing
National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
NLM's Digital Collections include a large image archive from the history of health care as well as many other archival resources.