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Florence Nightingale: - Answer--Founder of modern nursing;
-reformed healthcare for soldiers
Mary Seacole: - Answer--She was a black nurse who tried to go and help Florence
Nightingale but was denied because of her skin color.
- known for her determination and contribution to nursing despite the racial
discrimination against her.
Harriet Tubman: - Answer-- first American to lead American troops into battle.
- cared for the sick in the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina
- known as the "conductor of the underground railroad".
Sojourner Truth: - Answer--Known for her abolitionist and nursing efforts,
-was an advocate of clean and sanitary conditions for patients, and insisted that these
conditions were needed for the patients to heal.
Susie King Taylor: - Answer--hired to work in the laundry and she served as a nurse
because of the growing amount of wounded soldiers who needed care.
-learned to read and write, helping her teach many comrades in Company E to read and
write.
Linda Richards: - Answer--first trained nurse in the US 1873
-a superintendent at Boston Training School.
Mary Mahoney: - Answer-First black nurse in the US.
Clara Barton: - Answer--Served on the front line during the Civil War.
-operated a war relief program to provide supplies to the battle fields and hospitals.
-set up a postwar service to find missing soldiers and is credited with founding the
American Red Cross.
Lillian Wald: - Answer--developed the first nursing service for occupational health
- is known for the development and establishment of a viable practice for health nurses
in the 20th century.
Mary Brewster: - Answer-She founded public health nursing.
Linda Rogers: - Answer-Became the first school nurse of New York City.
Mary Breckenridge: - Answer-Founder of Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky.
, Barbara Nichols: - Answer-Served two terms as the first black president of the American
Nurses Association.
M. Elizabeth Carnegie - Answer--She wrote, edited and contributed chapters to nearly
20 books and is author of all three editions of the award-winning The Path We Tread:
Blacks in Nursing Worldwide,
-She initiated the baccalaureate nursing program at the historically black Hampton
University in Virginia, where the archives are named in her honor.
Estelle Osborne: - Answer--honored as "Nurse of the Year" by New York University
Department of Nursing in 1959
-Estelle Massey Scholarship was established in her honor at Fisk University.
Beverly Malone: - Answer-Chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing.
Lavinia Dock: - Answer-She wrote Materia Medica for Nurses, one of the first nursing
textbooks.
Robb Hampton: - Answer--The American Nurses Association's first president
- was the nursing profession's prime mover in organizing at the national level.
Margaret Sanger: - Answer-She founded the birth control movement at the turn of the
20th century.
Dorthea Dix: - Answer-Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army.
how did key pieces of legislation impact the nursing profession? - Answer-Nurse
practice acts and registration of nurses were established in 1910, which established
scope of practice and minimal educational requirements for nurses.
What were the effects of the Crimean, Korean, U.S. Civil, WWl, WWII, and Vietnam
Wars on the nursing profession? - Answer-During the wars, many advancements in
medical care and public health care were being made; surgical and diagnostic
techniques were being improved; environmental conditions improved; serious epidemics
became nonexistent; nurses were needed more than ever
What are the challenges facing nursing in the 21st century and why? - Answer-Access,
quality, cost, safety, accountability, aging population, serious nursing shortage,
generational differences in an aging workforce with poor prospects for replacement,
high acuity, short staffing, conflict in the workplace, expanding technology, complex
consumer health values, increasingly intercultural society, insufficient staffing,
inadequate salaries, stress, work overload, violence in the workplace, lack of
participation in decision making, dissatisfaction with the quality of nursing care, etc.
What are the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predictions for the future of the nursing
profession? - Answer-The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the future of nursing is
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