~History of Nursing~
Unit 6
Nursing Leaders
Nursing Schools
~Early nursing leaders~
~United States~
• Nursing in the United
States limited just as
in Europe
• Development began in
the 1800’s
• Civil War was the
impetus for nursing
development
• Early nurses were
teachers
~Dorothea Dix~
• There were no trained
nurses available to care for
the soldiers during the
Civil War
• Northern leaders asked
Dorothea Dix to train and
organize volunteers
• Dix was a teacher
• Named Superintendent of
Female Nurses of the Army
• Major contributions to the
care of the mentally ill
The nursing leader who was important in the
care of the Union soldiers during the Civil
War was:
1. Clara Barton
2. Mary Mahoney
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Dorothea Dix
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~Clara Barton~
• Spearheaded efforts to
gather supplies for the Civil
War soldiers
• Barton was a teacher
• After the war she organized
searches for Prisoners of
War
• Named Superintendent of
the Dept. of Union Nurses
• 1881 – Founded the
American Red Cross
The Red Cross was founded by:
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Clara Barton
3. Dorothea Dix
4. Mary Mahoney
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~First schools of nursing~
•
After the Civil War the need for
educated nurses was recognized
•
Schools organized based on the
Florence Nightingale model
•
First school – Bellevue Hospital
School, New York City
•
The Boston Training School at
Mass General Hospital
•
New England Hospital for
Women and Children, Boston,
MA
~Linda Richards~
~America’s first trained nurse~
• Enrolled in one of the first
nursing programs
• New England Hospital for
Women and Children,
Boston, MA
• Graduated after one year
program – first trained
nurse -- 1873
• Major contributions in the
care of the mentally ill
~Mary Mahoney~
•
Refused to be employed in
domestic work as was common
for women of her race
•
Qualified and allowed to enroll
in the New England Hospital for
Women and Children, Boston,
MA
•
Became first educated African
American nurse (1879)
•
Became politically active and the
inspirationfor the National
Association of Colored Graduate
Nurses
The first graduate nurse was:
1. Mary Mahoney
2. Clara Barton
3. Linda Richards
4. Dorothea Dix
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~Isabel Hampton Robb~
•
Nurses became professionally
organized and politically active
at the national level
•
Organized the Nurse ‘s
Associated Alumnae of the US
and Canada
(renamed the American Nurse’s
Association)
•
Formed the Society of
Superintendents of Training
Schools for Nurses (became the
National League of Nursing)
~Lavinia Dock~
• Advocate of legislation
to control nursing
practice
• Prolific writer: Hygiene
and Morality, History
of nursing
• Devoted suffragette
• Outspoken advocate for
women’s rights
• Political activist
~Sophia Palmer~
• First editor of the
American Journal of
Nursing
• Forceful editorials
helped shape nursing
practice
• One of the first to
campaign for
registration legislation
The nursing leader who was a proponent of
women’s rights as well as nursing rights
was:
1. Lavinia Dock
2. Sophia Palmer
3. Isabel Hampton Robb
4. Mary Mahoney
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