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CCNE (commission collegiate nursing education) nations leading accrediting agency for baccalaureate, master, DNP programs at schools of nursing and also accredits post baccalaureate nurse residences Arm of the aacn American Association of colleges of nursing (AACN) purpose - to establish quality standards for bachelors, and graduate degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards - influence the nursing profession to improve health care, promote public support of baccalaureate/ graduate education NLN purpose - to identify the nursing needs of society and to foster programs designed to meet: - open to all nurses/ non-nurses - accredits nursing education program - conduct surveys to collect data on education program - accredits practical nursing/ associate degree programs ANA purpose - improve quality of nursing care - establish standards of nursing practice - Establish code of ethics National League of Nursing (NLN) - accredits practical nursing programs and associate degree American Nurses Association ( ANA) - started as Nurses Associated Alumnae renamed to ANA - Represent all RN's in US considered voice of nursing Profession Extensive training Occupation? Doesn't require a specialized skill Mary Seacole - Jamaican nurse who cared for brattish solders at battle front during crimean war - Established a hotel for sick and injured soldiers Mary Elizabeth Mahoney - 1st black women to work as a professionally trained nurse in USA Florence S. Wald - part of hospice movement - developed 1st program in Connecticut - The mother of the American hospice movement Virginia A. Henderson - wrote textbook of nursing practice: textbook of the principle and practice of nursing - Holds 12 honorary degrees - Established tools that promoted nursing research: Nursing studies index Susie Walking Bear Yellow Tail - outlined need for cultural competency - presidents award in 1992 for outstanding nursing health care - helped end abuse in Indian healthcare system Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - area of nurse education - 1st president of ANA -Grading policy of nursing student in order to practice nursing - organized nursing school superintendent which became national league of Nurses (NLN) Lillian Wald - beginning of homeware visiting nurses services - pioneer in public health nursing/ henry street settlement - health of community affects health of individual - abolish child labor - improve working condition of women - assist with birth and death Mary Breckinridge frontier of nursing service (FNS) - educated nurse midwife - beginning of prenatal care - inducted into ANA's hall of fame of women, community and family nursing and rural health care Marget Sanger - dedicated to provide legal birth control - founded planned parenthood - 1916 worlds 1st birth control clinic in NYC