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: Hall, Elisabeth O. C., Joensen, Annemi Lund, Malchau Dietz, Susanne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Original Research Article; Faraway; Faroe Islands; Circumpolar Health; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405744/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37539941; https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2233151

The 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 were to se...