User:Stevsair/Women in nursing

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Historically, women have made up a large majority of the profession and academic discipline of nursing. Women's nursing roles include both caring for patients and making sure that the wards and equipment are clean. In the United States, women make up the majority of the field of nursing, comprising 86% of Registered Nurses (RNs) in 2021; globally, women comprise 89% of the nursing workforce.

There is a lot of history when it comes to women nursing. During bombings, floods, fires, hurricanes, and especially epidemics, nurses utilize their skills they learned in their nursing schools and their places of work. For example, nurses from Boston, Massachusetts, assisted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after the ship explosion in 1917. Nurses from Boston were rewarded a year later when Canadian nurses went to Boston to help during the 1918 flu pandemic. Nurses don't get enough recognition for everything they have done throughout the years.

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Nurses are the backbone to any healthcare needs. In World War II, there were a lot of new opportunities for women in nursing. The US army needed nurses. In his State of the Union Address on January 6, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt painted a grim picture as he asked for the unprecedented step of conscripting women. This was a huge moment for women during this time. Women were known to stay at home while their men went to war. The unthinkable was about to happen for them as they were allowed to volunteer to join them.