Transition To Rn Role

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Florence Nightingale

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had a greater influence on the care of the sick than any other single individual did. During the Crimean War after being asked by Sidney Herbert, secretary of war (England) she went to Scutari & changed the mortality rate from 42.7% to 2.2% in six months by focusing on hygiene, & sanitation. She believed strongly in continuing education. “Role of nursing: put the body in such a state as to be free of disease or to recover from disease.”

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Clara Barton

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School teacher who volunteered with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as a nurse & operated & directed large scale relief operations during the Civil War. She organized the American Red Cross in 1882.

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Dorothea Dix

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A Boston school teacher known for her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill, her descriptive reports & careful documentation eventually resulted in the construction of state psychiatric institutions

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Isabel Hampton Robb

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made radical changes to nursing education. She cut down students’ workday to 10 hours & eliminated free private duty services.

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Mary Breckinridge

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After WWI she established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). She established the first midwifery training schools in US.

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Mildred Montag

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She initiated the study “Community College Education for Nursing”; published 1959 , which resulted in the establishment of, associate degree-nursing education.

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Lavinia Dock

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A nursing leader & women’s rights activist who was instrumental in the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. She also was a key figure in community health nursing and established the Henry Street Settlement with Mary Brewster & Lillian Wald. She also introduced nursing into school settings.

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Virginia Henderson

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Early theorist who taught that the patient is a person who requires help toward independence.

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Mary Mahoney

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Graduated from the New England hospital for Women & Children in 1879 as America’s first African American nurse.

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Hildegard Peplau

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a psychiatric nurse instructor, described the nurse-client relationship.

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Melinda Ann Richards

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America’s first trained nurse. She became a key figure in the development of nursing education. She spent her career moving from hospital to hospital in an improvement campaign.

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Margaret Sanger

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She & her sister opened the first birth control clinic in America in Brooklyn. She battled for free dissemination of birth control information for decades.

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Lillian Wald

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Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in NYC, the founder of public health nursing