P | HISTORICAL/NURSING LEADERS Flashcards
• Improved standards of care for war casualties
• Nursing’s first scientist-theorist, nurse researcher
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Florence Noghtingale
• Volunteer nurse in
American Civil War
• Establishment of American
Red Cross
Clara Barton
• America’s first trained nurse
• Introduced the nurses’ notes
and doctor’s order
• Initiated practice of wearing
uniforms
Linda Richards
• First African American
professional nurse
• Worked for acceptance and
equal opportunity
Mary Mahoney
• Founder of public health
nursing
• Trained services to poor in NYC
slums
• Henry Street Settlement
Lilian Wald
• Protest movements for
women’s rights
• Legislation to allow nurses
control their own profession
• Precursor to National League of
Nursing
Lavinia Dock
• Considered founder of Planned
Parenthood
Margaret Higgins Sanger
• Established Frontier Nursing
Service (FNS) in rural U.S.
• Started one of the first midwifery
training schools in U.S.
Mary Breckinridge
• Discrimination because of gender
• First man to be a dean at a university school of nursing
Barriers:
• Image of femininity
• Belief that only homosexual men are nurses
• Suspicion surrounding intimate touch
Luther Christman
poet, journalist, volunteered as nurses in military hospitals
Walt Whitman
american novelist and poet, volunteered as nurses in military hospitals
Louisa May Alcott
Crusades
Knights of…
Saint John of Jerusalem
Teutonic Knights
Saint Lazarus
Hospitalers
RELIGION
• Conversion to Christianity
• Houses of care and healing
Roman Empire
RELIGION
Houses of care and healing
Fabiola
• Care and nurturing of other family members
• Subservient, dependent role in community
Women’s Roles