Nursing in Pandemics and Epidemics

Podcast ‘Past Caring’ Episode 1 ‘Pandemics’

The role nurses played during past pandemics:

https://soundcloud.com/user-645585181/episode-1-pandemics/s-q6pCqrdEbOA

Pandemic! Nursing 100 years of infection.

An exhibition which describes how nurses tackled highly infectious diseases throughout history-from TB, Spanish Flu, Ebola and COVID-19:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/pandemic-nursing

“Broussais instructs a nurse to carry on bleeding a blood-besmeared patient”.

Coloured lithograph:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/n9yzhx8f/images?id=n9j5dnnq

Report on the cholera outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854.

During this time England saw one of the most severe outbreak of Cholera during what is known as the third Cholera pandemic which lasted until 1846-1860. Many nurses were involved in caring for the victims of Cholera. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j6bgbzq4/images?id=f7bwecfz

Healthcare workers in HIV

A resource which explores the stories through oral histories of the healthcare workers during the HIV epidemic from 1980s and 1990s:

https://www.healthcareworkersinhiv.org.uk/

Eliza’s lessons: Infection Control in 1887

A blogpost detailing what the experience of dealing with infectious diseases would have been like for a nurse in the late 1800s: https://www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/bulletin/2021/mar/history-of-nursing-infection-control-in-1887