Civil War Nursing Barriers

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The barriers and challenges that nurses in that United States have had to overcome date back to the Civil War time. During this time a nurses was considered any women who would follow her husband or son into war to care for them if needed as well as other soldiers. Knowledge regarding nursing was very basic and mainly centered around personal experience. Civil war nurses were the first to changed how the nursing profession was perceived in the public opinion and paved the way for formal education to caring for the sick. Shortly after the civil war people started to migrate into large cities which lead to the spread of disease and illness. At this time there was no formal learning standard for nursing, till in 1872 when the first nursing