PMID: 7581277Jan 1, 1996Paper

Missionaries and the early development of nursing in China

Nursing History Review : Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
K Chen

Abstract

By the late 1930s, nursing, which had come into being in China in the 1880s, had developed into a profession represented by a well-organized national association with a membership of 6,000, which was continuously expanding by hundreds of new recruits trained at nearly 200 nursing schools all over the country. The progress was remarkable. In retrospect, we can easily discern the outstanding contribution made by the Western medical missionaries. To the latter's dedication, the profession owed its birth and its incipient growth in particular. Trained missionary nurses, following in the footsteps of missionary pioneers, penetrated into all parts of the country to start dispensaries and hospitals literally from nothing. In 1923, China had 53 percent of the missionary hospital beds and 48 percent of the missionary doctors in the world. Missionary nurses constituted 32 percent of the total number of nurses in China in 1923 and their number reached a peak of nearly 700 in 1927. Although the number of medical missionaries, physicians, and nurses was tiny compared to the size of the nation's population, and although their interest in "healing the sick" aimed to serve their primary goal of "saving the soul," their contribution to nursing ...Continue Reading

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