Historiographic and biographic accounts of Faroese nurses’ training and health-promoting work from 1910 to the end of the 1930s

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Elisabeth O. C. Hall, Annemi Lund Joensen, Susanne Malchau Dietz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023
• Subjects: Biography; Faroe Islands; historiography; nursing education; nursing history; Pirka; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Faraway; Circumpolar Health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2233151; https://doaj.org/article/44c76696a5b349f1bad5c5ab6414140d

ABSTRACTThe Nordic country Faroe Islands consists of 18 mountain islands situated in the North Atlantic Sea. In the late 1800s, nursing in the Faroe Islands was behind international standards. A transition towards organised nursing commenced when Danish deaconesses arrived in 1897; their missions we...