Where the two professions met
In the nineteenth century the hospital sisterhoods and the emerging secular profession met, argued, competed and borrowed. Three pieces on what each already had, and what changed when training became a course.
Where the two professions met
In the nineteenth century the hospital sisterhoods and the emerging secular profession argued, competed and borrowed from each other.
What training meant before it was a course
Instruction was apprenticeship inside an institution, and formalising it was the change that the later reforms are named for.
The spread across Europe
Houses were established across the continent on the same rule, which is what makes the model comparable between countries.