History of Nursing Education and the Contemporary Trends

Abstract

In Latin America, the first nursing schools emerged in the last decades of the 19th century, propelled by medical professionals, English and American nurses, or those from Catholic or Protestant institutions, often founded near hospitals, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation or the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Its emergence was the result of the need to meet the demands of patient care. The foundation period coincides with that of some Latin American countries, and at the beginning of the 20th century the reforms of Florence Nightingale were brought to America.