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Sara E. Parsons (1864–1949), American nurse, writer and health administrator; Emma Maria Pearson (1828–93), writer and one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars; Lucy Creemer Peckham (1842–1923), American nurse, physician, and poet; Sue Pembrey (1942–2013) British nurse pioneer of patient-centred hospital care
The Living Legend designation from the American Academy of Nursing is bestowed upon a very small number of nurses "in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world."
Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science. Mary Ann Vecchio — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...
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]
Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., FAAN, FRCN, RN (born July 29, 1943) is an American nurse and researcher who is currently the Founding Director for the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
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Bonnie Castillo is the executive director of National Nurses United and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. [1] [2] [3] Castillo also held the positions of CNA/NNOC director of government relations and NNU director of health and safety.