By 51. According to a recent World Health Organization report, 93 member countries of the United Nations annually spend less than $100 per capita on health care, 56 member countries spend less than $500 per capita and 26 member countries spend over $1000 per capita.
52. The Teutonic Knights, the Knights of Lazarus and the Knights Hospitalers were all orders that organized male nurses to tend to sick and wounded.
53. Second Lieutenant Edward Lynn, in 1955, was the first male to be commissioned in the United States Army Nurse Corp.
54. Around nine million children visit emergency rooms in the U.S. each year due to injuries.
55. “To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.” Jeremy Taylor, from The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying (1651).
56. In October of 1902, Lina Rogers Struthers became the first school nurse in the United States.
57. The second week of May is National Nursing Home Week.
58. A bachelor of science degree in nursing (BSN) takes about 4 to 5 years.
59. Lucretia Lester was a midwife for 34 years, between 1745 and 1779, and is reputed to have helped deliver 1,300 children, of which only two were lost.
60. The Knights Hospitalers was founded in 1119 to protect a hospital build in Jerusalem and also provided nursing care.
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