HISTORY
OF THE HONOR SOCIETY
In 1922, six students from the Indiana University Training
School for Nurses in Indianapolis, Indiana founded the honor
society of nursing. Learn more about the honor society's heritage.
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Caring for people caught
in the crossfire
A nurse monitors equipment at Al-Makassad
Islamic Charitable Hospital in East Jerusalem in
1991, during the First Intifada. The term intifada,
Arabic for uprising, is now commonly used to refer
to campaigns by Palestinians to end Israeli occupation
of land taken in 1967 during the Six-Day War.
The First Intifada began in 1987 and ended in 1993
with the signing of the Oslo Accords and creation
of the Palestinian National Authority. The Second
Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, began
in September 2000, following Yasser Arafat’s
rejection of peace proposals made in July 2000 by
then-Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak at Camp David
in the United States.
Throughout both intifadas, Al-Makassad Hospital,
a teaching and tertiary care facility, has continued
to serve Palestinians wounded in the violence.
Photo: Sophie Elbaz/Sygma/Corbis |
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