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Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. [1] She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College , in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.
Janet Lim (1923-2014), nurse at St. Andrew's Community Hospital. She was the first nurse from Singapore to study in Britain. She was inducted as 2014 Singapore Women's Hall of Fame. [5] Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), volunteer nurse during the American Civil War; Kate Lorig, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
1992 – Eddie Bernice Johnson is the first nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. 1993 – After reforms in 1993, nursing education in Sweden is changing from vocational training to academic education. [94] 1999 – Elnora D. Daniel is the first black nurse elected president of a major university, Chicago State University. [30]
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1]
She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. Lenah Higbee became Chief Nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital in April 1909. [6] In January 1911, Higbee became the second Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. [7] For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was the first woman awarded the Navy Cross.
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Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]