Exam 1 Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing.
“lady of the lamp”
Improved sanitation in hospitals
Mary Seacole
Minority nurse
Worked voluntary with her own resources
Dorothea Dix
reforming conditions of the mentally ill and prisoners.
during the civil war she was the superintendent of nurses.
Clara Barton
A teacher, not a nurse
Founded the American Red Cross in 1881
Mary Mahoney
First African American to earn a nursing license
Lillian Wald
Devoted her life to public health
first pubic health nurse
Loretta Ford
Military nurse
Started the first NP program
Mary Ann Nutting
First graduating class of John Hopkins
Expanded the curriculum in the school from2-3 years
Linda Richards
Created the night shift
mentored by Florence N
Contributed to the creation of written patient reports
Protestant Reformation
Nuns were forced to stop nursing and stay home
- Prostitues and those women trying yo avoid going to jail were then summoned to perform nursing duties.