Historical Figures

Question 1

Elizabeth Fry

Answer 1

founded the protestant sisters of charity in response to the pleas of British Social Reforms

Question 2

Florence Nightingale

Answer 2

“The Lady with the Lamp” - laid the foundation for nursing a profession - studied how “dirt” affected healing

Question 3

Clara Barton

Answer 3

“The angel of the battlefield” - established the American Red Cross

Question 4

Dorothea Lynde Dix

Answer 4

Reformer of Mental Hospitals - organized hundreds of women volunteers into the corps during the civil war

Question 5

Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke

Answer 5

“Mother Bickerdyke” - set up hospitals for union forces in civil war - no bias with skin color or rank - risked enemy fire and went on the field to help - rode her white horse along side generals after victories in the north

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

Underground railroad, abolitionist, civil war spy, and a nurse - was never fully paid for her work

Question 7

Mary Mahoney

Answer 7

1st African American Graduate nurse - in boston - one of 4/42 students who ended up graduating - went into private nursing because of discrimination in public nursing

Question 8

Lillian Wald

Answer 8

Pioneered the concept of “Public Health Nursing” - enacting child labor laws - public school nursing - ages 1-2 death rates went down - health of community affected health of individual

Question 9

Mary Adelaide Nutting

Answer 9

World’s First Nursing Professor - worked for nursing school reforms: more educational, less ward work - taught the “why” not the “how” in nursing

Question 10

Isabel Hampton Robb

Answer 10

President of BOTH The National League of Nursing and American Nurses Association - began nursing ethics - established the 1st grading policy in nursing school - wrote “its principles and practice” published in 1894