Historical perspective Flashcards
Crimean War
Florence Nightingale
She was asked by Sir
Sidney Herbert of the British War Department to
recruit a contingent of female nurses to provide care
to the sick and injured in the Crimea.
Florence Nightingale
American Civil War
Harriet Tubman (The Moses of Her People), Sojourner Truth, Dorothea Dix
provided care and safety to
slaves fleeing to the North on the Underground
Railroad.
Sojourner Truth
She became the Union’s
superintendent of female nurses responsible for
recruiting nurses and supervising the nursing care of
all women nurses working in the army hospitals.
Dorothea Dix
o Harsh environments and new injuries
o Progress in the field of surgery
World War I
o Acute shortage of caregivers
o Cadet Nurse Corps was established in response to
World War II
o Youngest group of medical personnel to serve in
wartime.
- Vietnam War
NURSING LEADERS
o Improved standards of care for war casualties
o Nursing’s first scientist-theorist, nurse researcher
o Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
o Nightingale Training School for Nurses
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
NURSING LEADERS
o Volunteer nurse in American Civil War
o Establishment of American Red Cross
Clara Barton (1821–1912)
NURSING LEADERS
o America’s first trained nurse
o Initiated practice of wearing uniforms
Linda Richards (1841–1930)
NURSING LEADERS
o First African American professional nurse
o Worked for acceptance and equal opportunity
Mary Mahoney (1845–1926)
NURSING LEADERS
o Founder of public health nursing
o Trained services to poor in NYC slums
o Henry Street Settlement
Lilian Wald (1867–1940)
NURSING LEADERS
o Protest movements for women’s rights
o Legislation to allow nurses control their own
profession
* Precursor to National League of Nursing
Lavinia Dock (1858–1956)
NURSING LEADERS
o Considered founder of Planned Parenthood
Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879–1966)
