Development of Professional Nursing: Nurses Flashcards
Know the influential Nurses throughout history
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910 born in Florence Italy; Author of Nightingale Pledge; Established Nightingale training school in England 1860
Mary Seacole
Born in Jamaica; Denied right to assist in the Crimean war due to being black; Conducted forensics exams on an infant who died of Cholera
Clara Barton
Served on the front lines providing supplies and care; Credited with founding American Red Cross
Lillian Wald
Started the Henry Street Settlement in NY; Instrumental in public health nursing
Lavinia Dock
Part of the Henry Street Settlement; Suffragettes; Editor of AJN; Wrote nursing textbook
Linda Richards
First trained nurse; Nurses notes; Physicians orders, 1874
Mary Mahoney
First professional black nurse, 1879
Isabella Hampton Robb
John Hopkins superintendent for Higher Education; Founder of ANA and NL of nursing education
Margaret Sanger
Planned Parenthood- a pioneer for birth control, women’s right
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Coursework before clinical practice; Associated nursing program with University; First nurse professor
Mary Breckinridge
Frontier Nursing Service, Kentucky
Luther Christman
Advocate for advanced nursing degrees, BSN for entry-level; Founded American Assembly of Men in Nursing (1975)