NUR 425 Exam 1 - Nursing Leaders
Mary Breckenridge - answer- became an RN in 1910
- brought nurse-midwifery to US
- founded Frontier Nursing Service - brought general and maternal pre/post-natal care
to women in Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky
Mary Ezra Mahoney - answer- first African-American woman to become an RN in 1879
in US
- led to the New England Hospital for Women and Children to loosen policies against
admitting African-American nursing candidates
- advocated for the rights of all African-American nurses
- co-founded National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908
Walt Whitman - answer- served three years during the Civil War as a volunteer nurse
- visited wounded soldiers in military hospitals around D.C. area
- visited with more than 100,000 wounded Confederate and Union soldiers
Florence Guinness Blake - answer- advocated for better training for nurses, dedicating
much of her work to pediatric nursing and education.
- She founded the first of its kind advanced pediatric nursing graduate program at the
University of Chicago.
- In 1950 she authored and published "The Child, His Parents and the Nurse", a book
explaining the parent-child relationships from infancy through adolescence and
advanced her belief that parents should be involved in the medical care of their children,
which is still a model used in nurse education and practice today.
Lilian Wald - answer- taught immigrant women on Manhattan's lower East Side about
home nursing and good hygiene in 1890
- founded the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement House
Community Center, offering comprehensive assistance services to people in need
- Her nursing staff became the first public health nurses in the United States
- A pioneer in public health, Wald was responsible for nurses being placed in American
public schools, established the National Organization of Public Health Nursing, the
National Woman's trade Union League to advocate for working women and the
Children's Bureau to help end child labor.
Dorothea Dix - answer- known for her work as a humanitarian and social reformer,
lobbying for better care and treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners over the course
of 40 years
- In 1861, she volunteered for the Union Army in the Civil War, was appointed as
Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army by the Secretary of War and
oversaw 6,000 women providing nursing services in military hospitals
Mary Breckenridge - answer- became an RN in 1910
- brought nurse-midwifery to US
- founded Frontier Nursing Service - brought general and maternal pre/post-natal care
to women in Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky
Mary Ezra Mahoney - answer- first African-American woman to become an RN in 1879
in US
- led to the New England Hospital for Women and Children to loosen policies against
admitting African-American nursing candidates
- advocated for the rights of all African-American nurses
- co-founded National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908
Walt Whitman - answer- served three years during the Civil War as a volunteer nurse
- visited wounded soldiers in military hospitals around D.C. area
- visited with more than 100,000 wounded Confederate and Union soldiers
Florence Guinness Blake - answer- advocated for better training for nurses, dedicating
much of her work to pediatric nursing and education.
- She founded the first of its kind advanced pediatric nursing graduate program at the
University of Chicago.
- In 1950 she authored and published "The Child, His Parents and the Nurse", a book
explaining the parent-child relationships from infancy through adolescence and
advanced her belief that parents should be involved in the medical care of their children,
which is still a model used in nurse education and practice today.
Lilian Wald - answer- taught immigrant women on Manhattan's lower East Side about
home nursing and good hygiene in 1890
- founded the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement House
Community Center, offering comprehensive assistance services to people in need
- Her nursing staff became the first public health nurses in the United States
- A pioneer in public health, Wald was responsible for nurses being placed in American
public schools, established the National Organization of Public Health Nursing, the
National Woman's trade Union League to advocate for working women and the
Children's Bureau to help end child labor.
Dorothea Dix - answer- known for her work as a humanitarian and social reformer,
lobbying for better care and treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners over the course
of 40 years
- In 1861, she volunteered for the Union Army in the Civil War, was appointed as
Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army by the Secretary of War and
oversaw 6,000 women providing nursing services in military hospitals
