Chapter 2 Flashcards
Founded the first English training school for nurses at St. Thomas in London
Florence Nightingale
It’s influence today extends beyond her undeniable impact on the field of modern nursing to the areas of infection control hospital epidemiology in hospice care
Florence Nightingale
Advocate for the mentally ill in a prewar year
Dorothea L. Dix
Superintendent of women nurses by union army trained nurses were employable post war
Dorothea L. Dix
Abolitionist and a former slave who lead slaves to freedom
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
They establish the underground railroad and lead slaves to freedom in the north
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
She thought soldiers both black and white to read and write.
Formerly a laundress us before becoming a nurse
Susie King Taylor
Emergence of nurses and nurse leader during the American Civil War an impetus for training for nurses
Call to duty
Lay person who made clean leanness a priority (Brought order out of chaos)
Marianne (mother) Bickerdyke
Angel of the battlefield
Clara Barton
Set up field hospital for the wounded in dying in Culpeper, Virginia. Founded American red cross.
Clara Barton
Propulsion
Impetus
Captain of Calvary by Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Superintendent Sallie Thompkins
Matron of hospital
Chimborazo hospital in Richmond, Virginia
Phoebe Pember
It help advance professional nursing practice. These leaders though largely on train, achieved dramatic improvements in care.
Civil War and nursing