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Emma Cushman poses with three children. They are all wearing black outfits.Profiles In NursingEmma Cushman (1863-1931), Saving World War I OrphansPistol-packing guardian angel for the young victims of the Armenian Genocide...Foreign Missions in Turkey; establishing a hospital in Caesarea, Palestine (now part of Israel); administering the American Hospital in Konya, Turkey; and later setting up a series of orphanages. She...
A picture of a pink building on the left and a photo of Christiane Reimann on the rightProfiles In NursingChristiane Reimann (1888-1979) and the International Council of NursesThis headstrong heiress was a realistic visionary...Reimann completed her training at Bispebjerg Hospital in 1916. At the end of World War I in 1918, she sailed on the first postwar ship from Copenhagen to New York,...
Cicely Saunders bends over to talk to her older, female patient lying in a hospital bedProfiles In NursingCicely Saunders, Founder of Modern Hospice CareCicely Saunders created Palliative care...reasons, but felt called to nursing during World War II. She enrolled in the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, from which she graduated in 1944....
Multiple nurses stand around a patient in a bed. They are wearing white dresses and nursing capsProfiles In NursingMarian Alford (1905-1989), Nurse OrganizerTaking action to improve conditions for nurses...Her original interest was obstetrics, but she soon moved into hospital administration, holding positions at Stanford and later Peralta Hospital in Oakland. Alford took an early interest in local nursing...
On the left is Jennifer Worth in a nurse's uniform and hat looking up, on the right is a nurse holding a baby in Call the MidwifeNurses OnscreenJennifer Worth (1935-2011) and “Call the Midwife”Her experience in ‘50s and ‘60s London became a bestselling memoir and popular BBC TV series...for several other hospitals and finally with dying patients at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. Later Career Despite her attraction to the work, Worth did not remain in nursing...