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profiles in nursing

Historic and contemporary nurses who have advanced our profession.

Profiles in Nursing: Ellen Church, the First Stewardess

 

Profiles in Nursing: Pam Fuller, Dean of Online Nursing School

A new kind of education

 

Anita Dorr (1915-1972), Invented the Crash Cart

She also launched the ENA

 

Profiles in Nursing: Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (1823-1913)

Nursing during the Civil War, in her own words

 

Profiles in Nursing: Linda Burnes Bolton, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

In the service of others

 

Profiles in Nursing: John Garde, DRNA, MS, FAAN

Awakening the practice of anesthesia

 

Profiles in Nursing: Deva-Marie Beck, RN, Ph.D.

Taking on the world

 

Courtney Lyder, Dean of UCLA School of Nursing

His vision for the future

 

Profiles in Nursing: Betty Williams, Champion for Black Nurses

A career of firsts

 

Profiles in Nursing: Elizabeth Soule

How epidemics changed the profession

 

Profiles in Nursing: Nancy Skenandore, Native American Role Model

Nancy Cornelius Skenandore, 1861-1908

 

Profiles in Nursing: Leah Curtin, Mother of Nursing Ethics

Calling her influential is an understatement

 

Linda Aiken's Research is Changing the Nursing Profession

The Magnet program for hospitals is directly related to Aiken’s work

 

Profiles in Nursing: Catherine M. Kain, RN and State Dept. Diplomat

In the effort to resist communism, nurses were assigned to countries all over the world

 

Profiles in Nursing: LeRoy Craig challenged nursing colleges, the ANA and the military

 

Profiles in Nursing: Walt Whitman, Civil War Nurse (Who Knew!)

 

Profiles in Nursing: Marjorie Gordon, Pioneer of the Medical Record

Data management beyond charting in colored ink for different shifts

 

"What Nurses Do is Important" — Barbara Brodie and Nursing History

What nurses do is important enough to write down

 

Lina Rogers, the First School Nurse

Spearheading an intervention to keep kids in school

 

Agnes Reinders, Launched the Specialty of Nurse-Midwifery

She established the American College of Nurse-Midwives and developed the core practice standards

 

Mabel A. Wandelt & the Forces of Magnetism

Leader of the “leavers and stayers” study

 

Edith Patton Lewis

A psychiatric nurse who wrote herself into history

 

Mildred Montag, Visionary of the Associate Degree

Expanding the profession into uncharted territory

 

Barbara Nichols, Ambassador of Global Nursing

Making waves in the international health pool

 

Chad O'Lynn, a Modern-day Templar Knight

Changing the atmosphere for men in nursing