title: Documenting Lystra Gretter's student experiences in nursing: a 100-year comparison with today.
abstract: Lystra Gretter, who graduated from nursing school in 1888, chaired the committee that authored the Florence Nightingale Pledge and was instrumental in advancing nursing as a profession. As a widow with a daughter to raise, she faced many of the problems that nursing students are facing today.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal-Childhealth Nursing, State University of New York, Buffalo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pillitteri
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs / Q000266:history*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000266:history; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009518:New York; D009732:Nursing Care; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000266:history; D013782:Textbooks as Topic; D016526:Workload