Elvira López Mourín, the First Nurse in the World to Participate in an Aid Mission with the Air Force: Returning an Identity to the History of Nursing

  1. Emilio Rubén Pego Pérez 345
  2. Isidoro Rodríguez Pérez 12
  3. Lourdes Bermello López 6
  1. 1 Nursing University School of Lugo. University of Santiago de
  2. 2 Compostela, Spain
  3. 3 Department of Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and
  4. 4 Medicine, Research Group of Dependence, gerontology and geriatric,
  5. 5 University of Santiago de Compostela, F
  6. 6 University Hospital Lucus Augusti (HULA), Spain
Zeitschrift:
International Journal of Nursing and Health Care Science

Datum der Publikation: 2022

Ausgabe: 2

Seiten: 2022-171

Art: Artikel

Zusammenfassung

Elvira López Mourín was a professional and military nurse who was part of the first promotion of professional nurses of the Spanish Red Cross. Shemoved to the Melilla Hospital to meet the health demands of the Rif War. Her participation in the act of the first Spanish sanitary flight made hernews in the media of the time and has allowed her figure to be recovered. Her professional career was lost after 1933 when she joined the Army’sJunior Auxiliary Corps as a nurse at the Madrid Emergency Military Hospital.The act that commemorates Elvira López Mourín is her successful participation in the first medical flight mission in Spain. During her professionalcareer, she worked as a nurse in Melilla and as part of the Subordinate Auxiliary Corps of the Army at the Madrid Emergency Military Hospital.