Nurse History Flashcards
Defined nursing as both an art and a science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created free-standing nursing education; published books about nursing and healthcare; is regarded as the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War; served as the supervisor of nurses for the army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses; established the Red Cross in the United States in 1882.
Clara Barton
Served as superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the civil War; was given the authority and the responsibility for recruiting and equipping a corps of army nurses; was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service and supervised nursing staff during the Civil War.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
A nurse during the civil war; returned to New York and organized the New York charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in Bellevue Hospital; recommended standards for nursing education.
Louise Schuyler
Graduated in 1873 from New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts, as the first trained nurse in the United States; became the night superintendent of Bellevue Hospital in 1874 and began the practice of keeping records and writing orders
Linda Richards
Provided social services within a neighborhood setting; a leader for women’s rights; recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize
Jane Adams
Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in New York City; the founder of public health nursing.
Lillian Wald
Graduated from New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America’s first African American Nurse
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
A nurse and an abolitionist; active in the Underground Railroad movement before joining the Union Army during the Civil War
Harriet Tubman
Established a training program for nurses at the Montreal General Hospital (the first 3-year program in North America)
Nora Gertrude Livingston
Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the founders of the Canadian Nurses Association
Mary Agnes Snively
Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women’s movement.
Sojourner Truth
A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital; initiated policies that included limiting the number of hours in a day’s work and wrote a textbook to help student learning; the first president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada. (ANA)
Isabel Hampton Robb
Became the first professor of nursing in the world as a faculty member of Teachers’ College, Columbia University; with Lavinia Dock, published the four-volume History of Nursing
Mary Adelaide Nutting
