About the American Association for the History of Nursing

History provides current nurses with the same intellectual and political tools that determined nursing pioneers applied to shape nursing values and beliefs to the social context of their times. Nursing history is not an ornament to be displayed on anniversary days, nor does it consist of only happy stories to be recalled and retold on special occasions. Nursing history is a vivid testimony, meant to incite, instruct, and inspire today's nurses as they bravely tread the winding path of a reinvented health care system. To find out about these nursing pioneers and their efforts, join the American Association for the History of Nursing. Individuals are encouraged to become members of the association in order to receive the journal as a benefit of membership.