Historical Context of Nursing

Question 1

Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

-Founder of Modern Nursing
-Crimean War (1854–1856): Hospital set-up in Scutari, Turkey
-Data collection on morbidity and mortality helped reform the British medical system.

Question 2

Mary Seacole

Answer 2

-In 2003 voted the Greatest Black Briton
-Did not work with Nightingale during the Crimean War. She was rejected by Nightingale.
-Expert on cholera—managed the care of the soldiers of Crimea.

Question 3

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Answer 3

First Educated Professional trained African American Nurse, 1879

Question 4

Jessie Sleet Scales

Answer 4

-First to bring community health nursing principles to people living in poverty in New York City around 1900
-a visionary African American nurse, was among the first to bring community health nursing principles to the tenements of New York City around 1900.

Question 4

Lilian Wald

Answer 4

-Nurse and Social activist
-Founded the Henry Street Settlement, 1893
-One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Question 5

Mary Breckinridge

Answer 5

-Founder of Frontier Nursing Service to visit patients in rural Kentucky.
-Nurse-midwife whose establishment of neonatal and childhood medical care systems in the United States dramatically reduced mortality rates of mothers and infants.