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Florence Nightingale -founder of modern nursing
-First nursing scientist
"Lady with the lamp"
-Made nursing a real, respected profession
-Created the first formal nursing school
-Showed that cleanliness and hygiene save lives
-Improved hospital sanitation and patient care
-Used data and facts to prove what works in healthcare
-Focused on caring for the whole patient (clean, quiet, safe environment)
, "Notes on Nursing" Florence Nightingale's book
Symbols of nursing the oil lamp, the Caduceus (Hermes Staff) the staff of Asclepius, & the Nursing
Cap.
Mary Seacole -Jamaican-scottish nurse who was refused the right to work with Nightingale
-Doctress
-Established the British hotel
-Treated soilders on the battle front
Clara Barton -Angel of the Battlefield
-founded the American Red Cross
Dorthea Dix -Nursing pioneer
-Patient advocay
-Lobbyist (set up guidelines to protect nurses)
-Protein of Women in Nursing
Marry Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke -Mother to the Boys in Blue (soilders of American Civil war)
-Cared for the wounded
-US Sanitary Commission agent (raised money for supplies)
Harriet Tubman United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became
a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to
freedom in the North (1820-1913)
-Union Army Spy and nurse
-Nurse to African American Soldiers and Civilians
Sojourner Truth -Abolitionist to appointee at Freedman Hospital
-was a slave
-Advocate for Nursing Education
Walt Witman -American poet
-nurse volunteer
"The Wound Dresser" - a poem he wrote about nursing
Mary Eliza Mahoney -1st African American to Graduate from Nursing School
-National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Lillian D. Wald -Public health nurse (clean streets)
-fought for women and children rights
-1894 Henry Street Settlement
-Visting Nursing Services of New York
Margaret Sanger -family planning advocate
-Popularized "Birth Control"
1952 - Founded planned parenthood
Hazel Johnson -1st African American General officer
-chief of the army nurse corp