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Profiles In NursingIsabel Hampton Robb (1859–1910), Founding President of the ANAShe brought rigor and standards to nursing educationThe first president of what is now the American Nurses Association (ANA), Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was also an important innovator in American nursing education. She spearheaded a movement to transform nursing schools from hospital training programs into...
Profiles In NursingSarah Edmonds Seelye a.k.a. Frank Thompson (1841–1898)A master of disguise, this Civil War nurse went undercover as a Union spyAlthough during the Civil War it was possible to pay someone else to serve for you in the Army, some people — including about 400 women — used subterfuge and even disguises to enter military service. One of those adventuresome women was Sarah Edmonds...
Profiles In NursingLinda Richards (1841–1930), The First Graduate of America’s First Nursing SchoolAfter graduating from the inaugural class of America’s first professional nurse training program, Linda Richards made remarkable reforms to nursing education and practice: improving hospital lighting, creating the first charting system, and establishing...

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Profiles In NursingNursing in the Wild WestThe true tales of Calamity Jane and Nellie CashmanIt may be difficult to believe today, but there was a time when nurses suffered a dubious reputation. While the nuns who founded nursing orders and hospitals were seen as ministering angels, lay nursing was seldom considered a respectable profession, and...
Profiles In NursingRose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851–1926), Cancer Nurse and Candidate for SainthoodOncology nurse and candidate for sainthoodThe youngest child of famed novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was born into a wealthy New England family with literary and political connections. A series of tragedies led her to relinquish the comforts of privilege to become an...
Profiles In NursingMary Seacole (1805–1881), Crimean War MemoiristHer bestselling book inspired the British public and Royal FamilyA multiracial lay nurse and businesswoman from Kingston, Jamaica, Mary Seacole created a life for herself that defied the stereotypes of her time and built a memorable legacy on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Growing up in Jamaica Born Mary Grant...

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Profiles In NursingDolores “Dee” O’Hara (1935–), First NASA Space NurseHer nursing skills launched an out-of-this-world careerWhen Dolores “Dee” O’Hara entered nursing school after graduating from Oregon’s Lebanon High School in 1953, she had no idea her nursing career would have her literally reaching for the stars. In 1960, she became the first nurse to join NASA,...
Profiles In NursingAnn Bradford Stokes (1830–1903), From Civil War “Contraband” to U.S. Navy PensionerAfter escaping the plantation where she was enslaved, Stokes boarded a Union hospital ship and volunteered to become a Navy nurse.After escaping the plantation where she was enslaved, Ann Bradford Stokes boarded a Union hospital ship and volunteered to become a Navy nurse. Later, she became the first woman in U.S. Navy history to be granted a military pension for her own service....
Profiles In NursingFlorence McQuillen (1903–1981), “Benevolent Dictator” of Nurse AnesthetistsA scholar and CRNA pioneer, she learned chloroform delivery under pressure at a small hospital in MontanaFlorence “Mack” McQuillen, fondly remembered as the “benevolent dictator” of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) from 1948 to 1970, was an influential leader in nurse anesthesia practice. A Crash Course in Chloroform Born in...

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