Intro to Nursing as a Profession

Question 1

Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

• Founded modern nursing education
• Established nursing education and stressed need for continuing education
• Believed nursing is separated and distinct from medicine

Question 2

Isabel Hampton Robb

Answer 2

Leader in nursing and nursing education

• organized nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital
• initiated limiting hours in a day’s work
• first president of the Nurse’s Associated Alumnae (future ANA)

Question 3

Virginia Henderson

Answer 3

“First Lady of Nursing”

• famous for her definition of nursing
• revered as 20th century Florence Nightingale

Question 4

Sojourner Truth

Answer 4

Provided nursing care to soldiers during the civil war and worked for women’s movement.

Question 5

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Answer 5

First African American Nurse 1879

Question 6

Dr. Mildred Montag

Answer 6

Founder of Associate Degree Nursing Education