Significan leader of nursing
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Florence Nightingale | English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910). Est 1st nursing school. Est. Standards for hospitals. Est. nursing education, made nursing a respectable occ. for women. |
| Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross |
| Dorthea Dix | Tireless reformer, who worked mightily to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. Appointed superintendant of women nurses for the Union forces. Also recurited army nurses for civil war. |
| Harriet Tubman | Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Was a nurse during the civil war. |
| Sojourner Truth | Former Slave who joined women's movement. Was a nurse during civil war. |
| Isabel Hampton Robb | First Superintendent of John Hopkins Training School in Baltimore, Maryland. She was one of the original founders of the American Journal of Nursing. She limited the number of hours in a days work . 1st president of ANA. Wrote a textbook to help nurses learn. |
| Mary Breckenridge | Established Frontier Nursing Service & 1st Midwifery School |
| Mildred Montag | As a post WWII solution to the nursing shortage, I developed the ADN & I taught at a college near Detroit: Est. First Associate of nursing degree program. |
| Lavinia Dock | Woman's right to vote, woman's rights activist. Was a nurse |
| Virginia Henderson | famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge" [1]. |
| Mary Mahoney | 1st African American RN professional nurse, concerned with relationships b/w cultures and races |
| Hildegard Peplau | Nursing theorist. Nurse/client relationship- orientation, working, termination phase. |
| Linda Richards | First trained nurse in America, began Records system, documentation system |
| Martha Rogers | Est. visiting nurse services in arizona. Researcher, theorist, auther. Best known for developing the science of unity of human beings. |
| Margaret Sanger | United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood. Open first B.C. clinic |
| Lillian Ward | Moved to NYC to become a nurse. Becane a bational figure-an outspoken advocate of child labor legislation and women suffrage, and a vigorous opponent of American involvement in World War I. Provided nursing services for sick in lower east side new york. |
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