Development of Professional Nursing: Nurses

Question 1

Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

1820-1910 born in Florence Italy; Author of Nightingale Pledge; Established Nightingale training school in England 1860

Question 2

Mary Seacole

Answer 2

Born in Jamaica; Denied right to assist in the Crimean war due to being black; Conducted forensics exams on an infant who died of Cholera

Question 3

Clara Barton

Answer 3

Served on the front lines providing supplies and care; Credited with founding American Red Cross

Question 4

Lillian Wald

Answer 4

Started the Henry Street Settlement in NY; Instrumental in public health nursing

Question 5

Lavinia Dock

Answer 5

Part of the Henry Street Settlement; Suffragettes; Editor of AJN; Wrote nursing textbook

Question 6

Linda Richards

Answer 6

First trained nurse; Nurses notes; Physicians orders, 1874

Question 7

Mary Mahoney

Answer 7

First professional black nurse, 1879

Question 8

Isabella Hampton Robb

Answer 8

John Hopkins superintendent for Higher Education; Founder of ANA and NL of nursing education

Question 9

Margaret Sanger

Answer 9

Planned Parenthood- a pioneer for birth control, women’s right

Question 10

Mary Adelaide Nutting

Answer 10

Coursework before clinical practice; Associated nursing program with University; First nurse professor

Question 11

Mary Breckinridge

Answer 11

Frontier Nursing Service, Kentucky

Question 12

Luther Christman

Answer 12

Advocate for advanced nursing degrees, BSN for entry-level; Founded American Assembly of Men in Nursing (1975)