... are familiar, was to identify nursing in the public mind with professionalism, sanctified duty, and patient advocacy by promoting high standards of cleanliness, safety and caring (Gladfelter 2007). The history of nursing is almost exclusively a history of women's accomplishments despite the fact that, as early as the fourth and fifth centuries, men have worked as nurses (Evans 2004), Fulfilling the caring role in areas such as asylums, workhouse infirmaries, military services and private associations. The failure to recognise this contribution leaves male nurses today with little information about their professional background and historical position (Mackintosh 1997). The early history of nursing clearly accepts that a place and role for men as nurses existed from earliest times. It is a tradition which is detailed in records of the monastic movement, with the foundation of the St Antonines in 1095 to care for sufferers of erysipelas (St Anthony's Fire) and the mentally ill, ...

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