Nursing Leaders

Florence Nightingale

Contributions are well documented

Florence Nightingale

Lady with the lamp

Florence Nightingale

She was the 1st nurse to exert political pressure on government

Notes in Nursing: What It is and What It Is Not

Florence Nightingale’s Greates achievement and made her be recognized as nursing’s 1st scientist-theorist

Florence NIghtingale

She was given an honorarium of 4500 and used it to develop Nightingale Training School for Nurses, which was opened in 1860.

Clara Barton

A school teacher who volunteered as nurse during the American Civil War

Clara Barton

Her responsibility was to organize the nursing services

Clara Barton

Established the American Red Cross

Lilian Wald

Founder of Public Health Nursing

Lilian Wald

Her and Mary Brewster were the 1st one to offer trained nursing services to the poor in the New York slums

Lavinia L. Dock

* Feminist, prolific writer, political activist, suffragette


* Friend of Wald

Lavinia L. Dock

She participated in protest movements for women’s rights which granted women to vote

Lavinia L. Dock

Campaigned for legislation to allow nurses rather than physicians to control their professions

Lavinia L. Dock

Founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses on the United States and Canada – precursor to the current National League for Nursing

American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses on the United States and Canada

Precursor to the current National League for Nursing

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Public health nurse in New York

Margaret Higgings Sanger

Had a lasting impact on women’s health care

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Imprisoned for opening the 1st birth control information clinic in America

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Considered to be the founder of “Planned Parenthood

Mary Breckenridge

Notable pioneer nurse

Mary Breckenridge

Established “Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)”

Mary Breckenridge

She worked with the American Committee for Devastated France, distributed food, clothing, and supplies to rural villages and taking care of the sick children