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Awards. 2012 Inductee, American Nurses Association Hall of Fame; 2000 Inductee, National Women's Hall of Fame; 1994 Living Legend, American Academy of Nursing. Faye Glenn Abdellah (March 13, 1919 – February 24, 2017) was an American pioneer in nursing research. [1] Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General ...
Lillian Holland Harvey (1912–1994) was an American nurse, educator and doctor known for her contributions to medical education. She was an activist for the equal rights of African Americans. Harvey's accomplishments were achieved at a time in history when both African Americans and women faced extreme discrimination in academics and the ...
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; [1][2][3] 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". [4] In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was voted the greatest ...
Margaret Newman (nurse) Margaret A. Newman (October 10, 1933 - December 18, 2018) was an American nurse, university professor and nursing theorist. She authored the theory of health as expanding consciousness, which was influenced by earlier theoretical work by Martha E. Rogers, one of her mentors from graduate school.
[181] [238] [239] After a tracheotomy in 1985, Hawking required a full-time nurse and nursing care was split across three shifts daily. In the late 1980s, Hawking grew close to one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, to the dismay of some colleagues, caregivers, and family members, who were disturbed by her strength of personality and protectiveness ...
Loretta C. Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] born December 28, 1920) [2] is 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. In 1972, Ford joined the University of Rochester as founding dean of ...
Nurse. Known for. First African American woman to complete nurse's training in the U.S. 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. [1][2]
Testament of Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain (1893–1970), published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues with Testament of Experience, published in 1957, and encompassing the years 1925 to 1950. Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship (published in 1940), which is ...