Nursing education in the United States, 1898-1910: a time of auspicious beginnings.

Nursing education in the United States has been and continues to be a slowly evolving process. For those involved in nursing education at the end of the 20th century, a brief trip back to the end of the 19th century--to chronicle some of the events of that time that have had an impact on nursing education today, and to review some of the accomplishments of our early nursing educators--makes for an interesting journey.