CHAPTER 1 FUNDATIONS OF THOUGHTFUL PERSON-CENTERED PRACTICE Flashcards
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what is Nursing?
Nursing is a SCIENCE and an ART Nurses skillfully apply the knowledge to help others achieve maximum health and quality of life.
Florence Nightingale
Defined nursing as both an art and a science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created free-standing nursing education: published books about nursing and healthcare: is regarded the founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton
Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War: served as the supervisor of nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses: established the Red Cross in the US in 1882
Dorothea Dix
Serves as superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the Civil War: was given the aurthority and the responsiblity for recuiting and equipping a corps of army nurses: was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance serive and supervised nursing staff duing the civil war
Louise Schuyler
A nurse during the Civil War: returned to New York and organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in Bellevue Hospital: recommended standards for nursing education.
Linda Richards
Graduated in 1873 from New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts, as the first trained nurse in the US: became the night superintendent of Bellevue Hospital in 1874 and began the practice of keeping records and writing orders.
Jane Addams
Provided social services within a neighborhood setting: a leader for women’s rights: recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace prize.
Lillian Wald
Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the lower East side of New York City; the founder of public health nursing.
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
Graduated from the New England Hospital for Woman and Children in 1879 as America’s first African American Nurse.
Harriet Tubman
A nurse and an abolitionist; active in the underground railroad movement before joining the Union Army during the Civil War.
Nora Gertrude Livingston
Established a training program for nurses at the Montreal General Hospital: the first 3 year program in North America.
Mary Agnes Snively
Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the founders of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Sojourner Truth
Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women’s movement.
Isabel Hampton Robb
A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized the nuring school at John Hopkins Hospital; initiated policies that included limiting the number of hours in a days work and wrote a textbook to help student learning; the first president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada (which later became the American Nurses Association)
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Became the first professor of nursing in the world as faculty member of Teachers College, Columbia University; with Lavinia Dock, published the four volume History of Nursing.
Elizabeth Smellie
A member of the original Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada: organized the Canadian Women’s Army Corps during WW2
Lavinia Dock
A nursing leader and women’s rights activist; Instrumental in the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
Mary Breckenridge
Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one fo the first midwifery schools in the US.
Margaret Sanger
Founder of Planned Parenthood
Mildred Montag
As a post WWII solution to the nursing shortage, I developed the ADN & I taught at a college near Detroit: Est. First Associate of nursing degree program.
Virginia Henderson
famous for a definition of nursing: “The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge” [1].
Hildegard Peplau
Interpersoanl Relationship theory. Described the phases of therapeutic nurse-patient relationship and identified six commmon roles that nurses assume within the relationship. Developed a nursing model of anxiety
Martha Rogers
Est. visiting nurse services in arizona. Researcher, theorist, auther. Best known for developing the science of unity of human beings.
