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Clara Barton
established American Association of Red Cross
Florence Nightengale
Crimean War
Health maintenance, restoration
Jean Henri Dunant
established Internationl Red Cross
Dorothea Dix
*Reformed treatment of mentally ill
*superintendent of female nurses nion Army - US Army Nurse Corps
Sojourner Truth
aka Isabella Baumfree - former slave, suffragette, worked at Freemane's Hospital in WA nursing black solders & training women for nursing roles
Harriet Tubman
black abolitionist
matron at Colored Hospital in VA
Melinda Ann Richards
First trained nurse in US; first graduate of New England Hospital for Women & Children in Boston
Lillian D. Wald & Mary Brewster
created Henry Street Settlement
Lina Rogers
1st public school nurse in NY
Mary Breckinridge
founded Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) to help rural poor in Appalachia region (FNS midwives lowered infant mortality rate)
Margaret Sanger
founder of Planned Parenthood Federation, gave birth control info
Lavinia Dock
Nurse suffragette who greatly influenced independent nursing practice, expanded role of nurse
Mary Eliza Mahoney
1st black nurse to graduate from nursing school in US & established National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Isabel Hamptom Robb
helped found American Journal of Nursing & ANA
Luther Christman
founder American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN)
Priest-physicians
Egypt & Hebrews
Ebers papyrus
Egyptian - contains prescriptions & 700 remedies
Imhotep
Egyptian - 1st physician in history
Babylonia
Hammurabi's code - earliest managed health care
Xenodochia
Hebrew - houses for strangers...precursors to modern inn & hospital
Hippocrates
Greek - Hippocratic oath
Romans
Gods & goddesses associated with specific disease, i.e., Febris goddess who could fevers...afebrile
Deaconesses & widows
Phoebe - 1st deaconness similar to today's social workers, chaplains & community health nurses
Parish Nurse Movement
20th & 21st centuries - nurses hired by churches (or volunteers) to care for sick & elderly
Monastic Movement
Monks & nuns who cared for sick & elderly, also built & staffed hospitals
Roman matrons
Fabiola very wealthy Roman matron, created nosocomium (place for sick) and geroncomion (place for aged)
Middle Ages
equal dark ages for health care - urbanization, communicable diseases increased
Renaissance/Protestant Reformation
Dark Ages of Nursing - thieves & prostitutes nursed in lieu of jail sentences
Bolton Act
World War II - created Bolton Act (aka Nurse Training Act of 1943)
Korean War
Nursing shortage (many nurses married after WWII)
Nurses dispatched to combat zone (MASH units)
Vietnam War
Difficult to recruit nurses due to unpopularity of war
Nurse Training Act of 1964 - made funding available for nursing programs
Mildred Montag
Provided framework for establishment of Assoc Degrees programs for nurses