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Nursing History Ppl
Nursing History People
Name | Significance |
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Edward Jenner | smallpox vaccine |
Louis Pasteur | § Making things at a certain temperature to prevent disease Used for milk, pasteurization |
Joseph Lister | § Aseptic technique □ Hand washing, cleansers when taking care of sick people What nurses use when washing |
Robert Koch | Father of microbiology |
Edwin Klebs | § Took Koch's germ theory and grew it § Decided germs cause disease Germ theory |
St. Vincent de Paul | § Founded one of the first religious orders § Important for people to stay home when they are sick |
John Snow | § Populations and communities, how disease affects these groups of people § Studies of epidemics Started with cholera |
Isabel Hampton Robb | Founded American Nurses Association |
Margaret Sanger | § Worked with poor families in NYC § Taught women about contraceptives Founder on planned parenthood |
Lillian Wald | § In NYC, Henry Street Development § Worked on teaching people sanitation |
Mary Brewster | § Worked with Lillian Wald Mothers of public health nursing |
Dorothea Dix | § Worked with mentally ill § Reformed how we treat them § Mother of mental health nursing |
Clara Barton | § Founded American Red Cross § Visit home in Washington DC |
Mary Breckenridge | § Founded midwifery school in Kentucky 'Frontier Midwifery School' |
Elizabeth Tyler | § Hired by Wald to work with HSD to work with African Americans |