ABSTRACT
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLIGHT NURSING AS A SPECIALTY A. Historical Perspective The role of the nurse in prehospital air and ground transport has evolved principally in the United States. The role of nursing in the transport of patients began much like the role of nursing in general-in time of war. Florence Nightingale introduced sanitary science through nursing care in military hospitals from 1854 to 1855. She reduced the death rate in the British Army from 42% to 2%. Miss Nightingale founded the first training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860 and brought professionalism to the art of nursing.
