Excerpt:
The American Nurses Association, composed of professional nurses dedicated to the promotion of health and the care of the sick, has served as the forum in which the nation's critical health issues have been discussed throughout the last century.
Annotation:
This centennial exhibit focuses on the primary reason for all of ANA's concern and activities, the fulfillment of nursing's social responsibility to provide health care to people. The site is a selection of nurses' quotes and summarized narratives that depict ANA's involvement with professional nurses and their patients throughout a century of care-giving. The site includes a chronology of events in nursing history from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. The timeline is largely drawn from an institutional perspective. Quotes from nurses are interspersed within the chronological narrative.