Module 1 Flashcards
Knights of Saint Lazarus
leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin
Alexian Brothers
Black Plague
_________________ of the British
War Department to recruit a contingent of
female nurses to provide care to the sick &
injured in the Crimea.
Sir Sidney Herbert
Florence Nightingale set up the military hospitals to
sanitation practices, such as hand washing and
washing clothes regularly
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Mother Biekerdyke and Clara Barton
- Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott
- Dorothea Dix
The Moses of Her People”
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.
• abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent,
preacher, and women’s rights advocate
SOJOURNER TRUTH
searched the battlefields and gave care to
injured and dying soldiers
MOTHER BIEKERDYKE AND CLARA BARTON
organized American red cross
Clara Barton
volunteered as nurses to give care to injured
soldiers in military hospitals.
WALT WHITMAN & LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The Union’s superintendent of female nurses
during the Civil War
supervising the nursing care of all women
nurses working in the army hospitals.
DOROTHEA DIX (1802 - 1887)
NURSING LEADERS
- Florence Nightingale
- Clara Barton
- Linda Richards
- Mary Mahoney
- Lilian Wald
- Lavinia Dock
- Margaret Higgins Sanger
- Mary Breckindridge
organized/founded American Red Cross.
Clara Barton
• America’s first trained nurse
• known for introducing nurse’s notes and
doctor’s orders
• initiated the practice of nurses wearing
uniforms.
Linda Richards
first African American professional nurse.
Mary Mahoney