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Which states do not have LPNs? TX and CA- they are called LVNs
Clara Barton -"Angel of the Battlefield" during US Civil War
-first president of American Red Cross
Dorothea Dix -Superintendent of Female Nurses in the Army in 1861
-not a nurse, but a retired teacher
-activist for better mental heath care
Florence Nightingale -established modern nursing
-nurse during Crimean War
Mary Mahoney -1st African American nurse in US
-established National Association for Colored Graduate Nurses and served as its first president
Linda Richards -recognized as the first "trained nurse" in the US
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-her method of documenting patient information in Bellevue Hospital NY became the standard
across the nation
-later opened first school of nursing in Japan
Isabel Hampton Robb -Changed the standard from 24 hour shifts to 12 hour shifts with
meal breaks
-instrumental in establishing 3-year training program for nurses
the Great Trio -Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lillian Wald and Annie Goodrich
-Wald was known as the first visiting nurse
-Nutting graduated in the first nursing class at Johns Hopkins
-Goodrich developed the Army School of Nursing
LPN licensed practical nurse
-programs range from 9months-1 year
ADN associate degree nurse
-2-3 year program
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RN Diploma registered nurse
-3 years in a hospital based program affiliated with a college or university
RN Baccalaureate 4 years at a college or university
diploma program nurse typically 3 year programs but graduate as RNs
baccalaureate degree nurse 4 year program but with more of an emphasis on management
and leadership
scope of practice the limitations and allowances of what they can do as nurses
one-plus-one programs programs that prepare you to take NCLEX-PN after the first year
so you can begin working while completing the second year of schooling
PN to ADN programs give credit for LPN/LVN education toward RN education