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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.
Loretta Cecelia Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] December 28, 1920 – January 22, 2025) was an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965.
University of Virginia School of Nursing, American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Recognized for her leadership in nursing history, education, and health policy, founding the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and advancing the study of nursing’s impact on healthcare systems. 2009 Leah Curtin: University of Cincinnati: Nursing Management
Daurene Lewis, nurse and first Black woman mayor in North America; 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
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]
Lillian Wald was a pioneering nurse and social reformer who played a crucial role in establishing public health nursing in the United States. She emphasized the importance of community-based nursing, hygiene education, and disease prevention, which became fundamental principles in modern nursing. [3] Wald died in 1940 at the age of 73.
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.
In an interview for the Nursing Standard he presented arguments for a wider scope of nurse education, development of roles and skills with appropriate training courses. He proposed links with higher education and re-structuring of the nursing curriculum. [13] From 1987-90 Holder was the Director of Nurse Education, Parkside Health Authority. [5]