Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - ANS-- founder of modern nursing
- cared for soldiers during Crimean War in Scutari, Turkey
- first nurse researcher --> collected data on mortality and morbidity
- founded first training school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London
- wrote "Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not"
Mary Seacole (1805-1881) - ANS-- "greatest Black Briton"
- established hotel for injured soldiers during Crimean War
- worked at the same time as Florence Nightingale (would not work with her because of
skin color)
- experience treating Cholera
- started her own clinic with her own money
Dorthea Dix - ANS-- advocate for mentally ill during the Civil War
- superintendent of Women Nurses (Union Army)
- created month long training program in New York
Clara Barton - ANS-- founder of Red Cross
- set up makeshift hospital
- "Angel of the Battlefield" during Civil War
Lillian Wald - ANS-- began first formal health practice
, - goal to improve life of immigrants in NYC
- also Lavinia Dock and Margaret Sanger (battled for safe contraception)
Jesse Street Scales - ANS-- due to segregation, needed a nurse to work in black district
to help with high incidence of TB
- trained at Providence Hospital in Chicago
- worked with Wald and Tyler to establish the Stillman House (branch of Henry Street
Settlement for black people)
Describe the importance of the Chicago World Fair. - ANS-- nurses met to discuss
nursing education
- they talked about the need for specific training for nurses
- National League for Nurses was created
Profession vs. Occupation - ANS-**Profession**
- a calling, vocation, or form of employment that provides a needed service to society
and possesses characteristics of expertise, autonomy, long academic preparation,
commitment, and responsibility
**Occupation**
- person's regular work or profession
- day to day job or principal activity
Discuss the development of nursing as a profession. - ANS-**In 1960's**
- medicare and medicaid established --> care moved from community to hospitals
- era of speciality care and specialization for nurses
- Vietnam War --> mobile health units and nurses working independently
**Education of Nurses**
- 1909 --> first university based program at University of Minnesota
- 1965 --> ANA released position paper that education should take place in institution of
higher education
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