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Florence Nightingale - ✔✔"founder of modern nursing"
Lowered mortality rate of soldiers in Crimean War 42-->2% (asepsis)
Nightingale SON
Nursing was an art and a science
Advocated health maintenance (open windows, etc.)
Linda Richards - ✔✔1st trained nurse in US (taught @ Nightingale's SON)
Est. training programs in other countries
Dorothea Dix - ✔✔Nursing leader in Civil War
Champion for mental health (PTSD, etc.)
Clara Barton - ✔✔Teacher, not a nurse
Founder of American Red Cross
Worked to allow RC to operate in peace and war times
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, Lillian Wald - ✔✔Founded the Henry Street Settlement
Devoted to public health and community care nursing
Mary Adelaide Nutting - ✔✔Est. university education for nurses
1st nurse to work as a professor
Lorette Ford - ✔✔Est. 1st Nurse Practitioner program in the US
Mary Eliza Mahoney - ✔✔1st trained African American nurse in the US
Changed the face of nursing & broke barriers to minoriry nurses could get into nursing
school
Beginnings of Nursing - ✔✔Handmaidens to physicians
Was mostly men for a long time
Feminization of Nursing - ✔✔Nursing schools held women to Victorian stereotypes of
women (good breeding, submission to authority, sensitive)
Men were not allowed in nursing schools originally
Factors that affect the future of nursing - ✔✔Aging of America
Cultural Diversity
Professional Diversity in nursing
Technological Developments
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