Nurses who founded the profession and carried it to the battlefield and the slum: Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton of the American Red Cross, Mary Seacole in the Crimea, Dorothea Dix for the mentally ill, Mary Eliza Mahoney as the first African American trained nurse and Lillian Wald with public health nursing. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a nurse known for founding the profession or for field and community nursing. It excludes midwives and hospice nurses.
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Dorothea Dix (Wikipedia)
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Superintendent of Army Nurses
Clara Barton (Wikipedia)
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Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821, April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
Florence Nightingale (Wikipedia)
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Florence Nightingale () (12 May 1820-13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.
Wikipedia: Lillian Wald
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Lillian D. Wald (March 10, 1867, September 1, 1940) was an American nurse, humanitarian, human rights activist and author. An early advocate for nurses in public schools, she started American community nursing and founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
Wikipedia: Mary Eliza Mahoney
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Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845, January 4, 1926) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.
Mary Seacole (Wikipedia)
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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805-14 May 1881) was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.
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