Nursing in Israel--a review of the past, pre-state and early post-state period.

This study, presented at the ICN Congress in Tel Aviv, June 1985, tries to show nurses as a vibrant force of individuals and groups bent on instituting care or bringing about changes in the health community. Their activities, for the most part undocumented, have been forgotten or taken for granted, and notes, if written, remain unread. The story of their deeds is based on interviews with nurses and examination of the remaining shards, reports, articles and other archives materials. Nurses appear as administrators and as staff working under extreme difficulties in a country with few facilities and little manpower.