ncm Flashcards
Worked together with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to give aid to the wounded soldiers.
Mary Grant Seacole
Referred to as the “Lady with the Lamp”. Contributed to the development of nursing education, practice and administration.
Florence Nightingale
“The Moses of Her People”. She served the slaves of the underground railroad during the civil war.
Harriet Tubman
She was a teacher and reformer of mental hospitals who, at the outbreak of war, was charged with recruitment of nurses and supervision of nursing activities.
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Wrote the book “Hospital Sketches” as she describes the works of Volunteer nurses during the Civil War
Louisa May Alcott
A poet who worked as a volunteer nurse in a union military hospital in Washington DC. He memorized the work of wartime nurses in the care of wounded soldiers in his poem.
Wait Whitman
Worked as a nurse during the Civil War and a nurse-counselor for the Freedman’s Relief Association
Sojourner Truth
She is renowned for her work in founding, cleaning and sanitizing Union military hospitals.
Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke
Organized the International Conference that founded the Red Cross during the Geneva Convention.
Jean Henri Dunant
Developed Australia’s first school for Nurses after training in St. Thomas Hospital under the Supervision of Nightingale when she became Superintendent at Sydney Hospital.
Lucy Osborne
America’s first trained nurse
Linda Richards
America’s first trained black nurse
Mary Mahoney
Organized and established American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Developed the Toronto General Hospital School ogf Nursing and was first president of the Cnadian Nurses Association
Mary Agnes Snively
Founder of Public Health Nursing. She also founded the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting nurse Service
Lilian Wald
