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Editor of Textbook of Medical and Surgical Nursing and Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. 2002 Rhetaugh Graves Dumas: Union Institute & University: Yale University: Former dean and vice provost at the University of Michigan. Former deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health. 2002 Virginia Saba: Georgetown University
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
Medical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of settings. Traditionally, medical-surgical nursing was an entry-level position that most nurses viewed as a stepping stone to specialty areas. Medical-surgical nursing is the largest group of professionals in the field of nursing.
The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) is a professional association for medical-surgical nurses in the United States. Its stated mission is "to promote excellence in medical-surgical nursing". [1] AMSN was founded in 1991 and has chapters in all 50 states. [2]
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.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
Muriel Skeet (1926–2006) Chief Nursing Officer to the British Red Cross Society; Eileen Skellern (1923–1980) influential British mental health nurse; Jessie Sleet Scales (1865-1956), first black public health nurse in the United States. Myrah Keating Smith (1908-1994) nurse, midwife, only medical provider on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands ...
Joyce Catherine Clifford (September 12, 1935 – October 21, 2011) was a founder of the primary nursing model which was later applied to many hospitals because it reduced medical errors and improved survival rates.
Medical-surgical nursing certification (and recertification) is offered by the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board, an organization based in the United States that exists to establish credentialing mechanisms for validating proficiency in medical-surgical nursing. The Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board was founded by and is a ...