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Pioneers of Nursing

 

Clara Barton

(1821 - 1912)
  

Battlefield nurse. Founder of the American Red Cross.
 

Mary Breckinridge

(1881 - 1965)

 

 Founded the Frontier Nursing Service--bringing midwifery and infant health care to rural areas.
 

Dorothea Dix

(1802 - 1887)
  

Early nursing pioneer who revolutionized health care for the mentally ill.
 

Lystra Gretter

(1858 - 1951)

 
Promoted nursing as a respectable profession, shifted the model of nursing education from a one-year apprenticeship to a three-year academic pursuit, created nurse-run hospital wards, cut the work day to 8-hour shifts, wrote the first standardized textbook for nursing education, established an early visiting nurses association and created one of the first professional nursing libraries.

 
 

Florence Wald

(1917 -  2008)

  
Pioneer in improving the care of dying patients by managing symptoms, including patient and family in all decisions, and maintaining dignity and the highest quality of life as the developmental task of saying good-bye was addressed.

 

 

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Also see:

American Nurses' Hall of Fame

American Association for the History of Nursing

Compelling bio on Margaret Sanger

 

 

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