Nursing: The American Nurses Association Hall of Fame
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This prestigious award recognizes an individual’s lifelong commitment to the field of nursing and its impact on the health and/or social history of the U.S. The following individuals were inducted to the ANA Hall of Fame in 2014: Barbara Thoman Curtis, RN, Florida Nurses Association, Robert V. Piemonte, EdD, RN, CAE, FAAN, ANA-New York, Pearl McIver, MS, RN (1893–1976), RADM Jessie M. Scott, DSc, RN, FAAN (1915–2009), Pennsylvania State Nurses Association and Mary Ellen Patton, RN Ohio Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's entire registered nurse population. From the halls of Congress and federal agencies to the board rooms, hospitals and other health care facilities, ANA is the strongest voice for the nursing profession. It is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
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2014 Hall of Fame Inductees <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://nursingworld.org/">American Nurses Association Hall of Fame</a>
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Mary Eliza Mahoney, First African American Nurse 1845-1926
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Mary Mahoney was the first African-American woman to study and work as professionally trained nurse. Born in Massachusetts, she was a hospital worker before entering training and receiving a diploma in 1879 from the nursing school of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Trained nurses were a relatively new institution then, but standards were rigorous, and only four of 18 women who started the course with Mahoney graduated. Her high level of performance thwarted racial bias and paved the way for other African-American women to enter the profession. Mahoney developed a successful career as a private duty nurse and as one of the few early African-American members of the American Nurses Association, she was an active member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. A longtime advocate of woman suffrage, Mahoney is believed to be one of the first women to register and vote in Boston following passage of the 19th Amendment. The Mary Mahoney Award of the American Nurses Association honors significant contributions to race relations.
Honored by the National Womens Hall of Fame 1993
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Source: <a href="http://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/mary-mahoney/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, Retrieved Oct 15, 2012
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Mahoney">Wikipedia</a>
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Mary Breckinridge, Nurse
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Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. She was known for helping many people with her hospitals. After equipping herself for the challenging nurse-midwife job to the rural America, Mary Breckinridge began serving in Kentucky in 1925, wherein she introduced the new system of rural health care. In that same year, she established Frontier Nursing Service, providing care for low service fee. In areas covered, maternal and neonatal mortality rates significantly dropped. FNS is still serving mothers and children down to this very day.
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Source: Mary Breckinridge. (2012, August 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RxWZUw">http://bit.ly/RxWZUw</a>
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Lillian Wald, First President of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing
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Lillian D. Wald ( 1867 – 1940) was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, editor, publisher, activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights and the founder of what is now called public health or community nursing. Her unselfish devotion to humanity is recognized around the world and her visionary programs have been widely copied. As an advocate for nursing in public schools her ideas led to the New York Board of Health's organizing and running the first public nursing system in the world. She was the first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Wald established a nursing insurance partnership with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that became a model for many other corporate projects, suggested a national health insurance plan, and helped found Columbia University’s School of Nursing.
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Between 1905 and 1940
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Source: Lillian Wald. (2012, September 27). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:20, October 15, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/WdXSEo">http://bit.ly/WdXSEo</a>
Link:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Wald"> Lillian Wald via Wikipedia</a>
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Nurse Elizabeth Grace Neill
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<p><strong><em>What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>GEORGE ELIOT</em></p>
Elizabeth Grace Neill ( 1846 - 1926) was a nurse from New Zealand who lobbied for passage of laws requiring training and registration of nurses and midwives in New Zealand. Neil was back in health care upon the establishment of the New Zealand’s Department of Health, creating a nursing service. 1901 came, and Neil got the privilege of helping draft a bill aimed to protect the public from nursing malpractice for New Zealand Parliament, one that became the world’s first Nurses’ Registration Act. Soon after, the Midwives’ Registration Act was passed and Neil was given the task of setting up the very first state maternity hospital, the St. Helen’s Hospital, which opened in 1905 and followed by 3 more in a span of 2 years. Elizabeth Grace Neil’s thorough knowledge of the technicalities of nursing profession made her a crucial personality in the international nursing politics.
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
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Source: Elizabeth Grace Neill. (2012, May 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 9, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/UcNqx5">http://bit.ly/UcNqx5</a>
Link: The Encylopedia of New Zealand <a href="http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2n5/1/1">http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2n5/1/1</a>
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Florence Nightingale, Nurse
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<p><strong><em>Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</em></p>
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. The history of modern nursing started in 1849, when Florence Nightingale began her first formal nursing training at the Institute of St. Vincent de Paul, in Alexandria, Egypt. After further trainings in Germany and in France, she voluntarily served as Superintendent at the Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness in London. The knowledge and skills Nightingale gained from these experiences equipped her to take the challenges in tending to the British military victims when the Crimean War broke out on 1854. Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
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1910
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Source: Zaf Udin. (2011. June 11). 25 Famous Nurses. Pulseuniform. Retrieved Oct 15, 2012 from <a href="http://bit.ly/JtoMfP">http://bit.ly/JtoMfP</a>
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Florence Nightingale, Nursing, Crimean War, London, Women
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Colonel Ruby Bradley - US Army Nurse
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1941
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Source: <a href="http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/639">West Virginia Humanities Council</a>, Retrieved May 21, 2015
Link: <a href="http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/639">West Virginia Humanities Council</a>
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Dorothea Lynde Dix, Activist
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802 – 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. The reputation as a famous nurse was earned by her fearless fight for the right of the mentally ill in front of Massachusetts legislators and of the United States Congress. Dix found herself in this battle due to her passion for teaching. She saw with her own eyes the dismal conditions of the mentally disabled people when she entered the East Cambridge Jail to teach Sunday class for women inmates on March 1842. Dix immediately brought the matter to courts, wherein she won many battles using careful and extensive data of extreme conditions in jails and almshouses, getting these poor individuals improved states.
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Portrait of Dorothea Lynde Dix, head and shoulders, facing left. <br /><br />Source: Dorothea Dix. (2012, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RTNK09">http://bit.ly/RTNK09</a>
For further exploration please visit <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470530/">http://bit.ly/QWh3iU</a><br /><br />Link: Library of Congress <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12244">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12244</a>
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1862- Dorothea Dix, Appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses
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A noted social reformer, Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War. The soft spoken yet autocratic crusader had spent more than 20 years working for improved treatment of mentally ill patients and for better prison conditions. A week after the attack on Fort Sumter, Dix, at age 59, volunteered her services to the Union and received the appointment in June 1861 placing her in charge of all women nurses working in army hospitals. Serving in that position without pay through the entire war, Dix quickly molded her vaguely defined duties.
She convinced skeptical military officials, unaccustomed to female nurses, that women could perform the work acceptably, and then recruited women. Battling the prevailing stereo types-and accepting many of the common prejudices herself-Dix sought to ensure that her ranks not be inundated with flighty and marriage-minded young women by only accepting applicants who were plain looking and older than 30. In addition, Dix authorized a dress code of modest black or brown skirts and forbade hoops or jewelry.
Even with these strict and arbitrary requirements, relaxed somewhat as the war persisted, a total of over 3,000 women served as Union army nurses. Called "Dragon Dix" by some, the superintendent was stern and brusque, clashing frequently with the military bureaucracy and occasionally ignoring administrative details. Yet, army nursing care was markedly improved under her leadership. Dix looked after the welfare of both the nurses, who labored in an often brutal environment, and the soldiers to whom they ministered, obtaining medical supplies from private sources when they were not forthcoming from the government. At the war's conclusion, Dix returned to her work on behalf of the mentally ill.
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Source: Dorothea Dix Biography. (n.d.). The American Civil War Home Page. Retrieved October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://www.civilwarhome.com/dixbio.htm">http://www.civilwarhome.com/dixbio.htm</a>
Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dix-Dorothea-LOC.jpg">Dorothea Dix</a>
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Dorothea Dix, Superintendent, Nursing, Civil War, Women, Military
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A Word of Thanks
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In this poster, the American Red Cross offers its sincere gratitude to the public for their volunteer and financial contributions.
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on May 21st, 1881 in Washington, D.C. It is a volunteer-led organization funded by public contribution and cost-reimbursement.
Prior to World War I, the Red Cross had already implemented programs such as public health nursing, water safety, and first aid. When war broke out, however, the organization grew tremendously. In wartime, local chapters increased from 107 to 3,864, and membership skyrocketed, from 17,000 to more than 30 million adults and Junior Red Cross members. Public contributions were around $400 million.
By World War II, more than 104,000 military nurses were enrolled, and 13.3 million pints of blood were collected through a national blood program. This led to the introduction of the first nationwide civilian blood drive, which now supplies almost 50 percent of blood in this country. During the peak of wartime in 1945, over 7.5 million volunteers provided their services, and at the end of World War II, the public had contributed over $784 million in support.
The consequences of these efforts were widespread, affecting nearly every American family. Almost every household contained a volunteer, someone who had made a financial contribution, or a recipient of aid.
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Source: Our History. (n.d.). American Red Cross. Retrieved October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://www.redcross.org/museum/">http://www.redcross.org/museum/</a>.
For Further Exploration Please Visit <a href="http://www.redcross.org">www.redcross.org</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_word_of_thanks-American_Red_Cross_-_NARA_-_513745.jpg">Word of Thanks (via Wikipedia)</a>
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