Male (Travel) Nurse

Since Joneo isn't doing any travel nursing for the time being, he is sending this male nurse action figure out to see the world instead! Please post pictures of him while he travels from cache to cache, if possible! 

-Important Dates in Nursing-

250 BC: First nursing school founded in India. The all male student body had to meet high standards of good behavior, purity, and cleverness, and be skilled in the making and cleansing of beds.

252 AD: Parabolani nursing order started to treat plague victims. "Parabolani" is a Greek word meaning to take a risk, reflecting the bravery of these nurses who often exposed themselves to disease.

500: Benedictine nursing order founded by St. Benedict.

1550: St. Camillus de Lellis, Patron Saint of Nurses and Nursing born in Italy.

1757: James Derham, a black slave, worked as a nurse to buy his own freedom. He was the first black physician in America. 

1820: Florence Nightingale, the most influential nurse in history, born.

1861: American Civil War began. Both sides used male and female nurses. Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse for the Union.

1873: Linda Richards became the first "trained" nurse in America after graduating from Boston Training School. She started the first nursing school in Japan in 1886.

1898: The Nurses Associated Alumnae of U.S. and Canada formed. They formed the Army Nurse Corps, which prevented men, who made up most military nurses, from participating in military nursing at all. This group later became the American Nurses Association and banned men from joining until 1930. Even as late as the Korean War, male nurses who were drafted were not allowed to serve as nurses.

1955: President Eisenhower signed the Bolton Act which allowed male nurses equal commision with female nurses. The first male member of the Army Nurses Corps was Lieutenant Edward T. Lyon, who joined on October 6th, 1955.

1984: Patricia Benner published her book "From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice", an insightful look into the world of nursing that is still in print today.