Module 1 Flashcards
Role of Women
Traditional female roles including the care and
nurturing of other family members
wife, mother, daughter, and sister
Occupied a subservient and dependent role,
Care for others in the community who
were ill
humanistic caring, nurturing,
comforting, and supporting
(established circa
1200) dedicated themselves to the care of people
with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin
conditions.
The Knights of Saint Lazarus
organized care for victims of the
Black Plague in the 14th century in Germany.
Alexian Brothers
they followed the same
traditions as women’s religious nursing orders
and established hospitals and provided
nursing care
In the 19th century,
Crimean war
(1854-1856)
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
transformed the military hospitals by setting up sanitation practices, such as:
hand washing and washing clothing regularly
American Civil War
(1861–1865)
was known as “The Moses of Her People” for her work with the
Underground Railroad.
During the Civil War she nursed the sick and suffering of her own
race.
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913)
provided care and safety to slaves fleeing to the North on the
Underground Railroad.
Sojourner Truth
searched the battlefields and gave care to injured and dying soldiers.
Mother Biekerdyke and Clara Barton
the Union’s superintendent of female nurses during the Civil War
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887)
first nursing scientist/
theorist for her work
“Notes on Nursing:
What It Is, and What It
Is Not (1860/1969)”
Florence
Nightingale
organized the
American Red
Cros
Clara Barton
founder of Public Health
Nursing.
Henry Street Settlement
and Visiting Nurse Service
Lillian Wald
