FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Rejected an offer of marriage from the poet Milnes. She did not want anything to interfere with what she believed was a God-given calling as a nurse.
WALT WHITMAN
Was a volunteer nurse at Army hospitals set up during the Civil War. Many of his observations led to his “The Great Army of the Sick.”
MARY LINCOLN-TODD
The wife of President Abraham Lincoln, who then married Lincoln’s rival, Stephan A. Douglas, worked tirelessly during the Civil War as a nurse, tending wounded soldiers.
CLARA BARTON
She began her nursing career at the age of 11, caring for her brother after he fell while working on a barn. Barton is known as the founder of the Red Cross, which began as she carried supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War.
MARY ELIZA MAHONEY
The first African-American professional registered nurse was Mary Eliza Mahoney. She was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which later became the American Nurses Association.
MARY BRECKINRIDGE
One of the first to found family care centers, Mary Breckinridge provided a new model of rural health care in Appalachia. She founded the Frontier Nursing Service as a way to help others in far-flung areas of the U.S., where medical care was scarce.
Rejected an offer of marriage from the poet Milnes. She did not want anything to interfere with what she believed was a God-given calling as a nurse.
WALT WHITMAN
Was a volunteer nurse at Army hospitals set up during the Civil War. Many of his observations led to his “The Great Army of the Sick.”
MARY LINCOLN-TODD
The wife of President Abraham Lincoln, who then married Lincoln’s rival, Stephan A. Douglas, worked tirelessly during the Civil War as a nurse, tending wounded soldiers.
CLARA BARTON
She began her nursing career at the age of 11, caring for her brother after he fell while working on a barn. Barton is known as the founder of the Red Cross, which began as she carried supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War.
MARY ELIZA MAHONEY
The first African-American professional registered nurse was Mary Eliza Mahoney. She was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which later became the American Nurses Association.
MARY BRECKINRIDGE
One of the first to found family care centers, Mary Breckinridge provided a new model of rural health care in Appalachia. She founded the Frontier Nursing Service as a way to help others in far-flung areas of the U.S., where medical care was scarce.
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