Elizabeth Blackwell Changes the World by Mckenzie Murdock English 10th Mrs. Sharpe March 18, 2013 Elizabeth Blackwell Changes the World Thesis: Elizabeth Blackwell positively impacted the health and well being of women and children in the 19th century by becoming the first certified woman doctor, opening an infirmary in New York, and establishing a women’s medical school. I. Introduction II. First certified woman doctor A. Siblings died of disease and so she decided to be a doctor B. Women were typically not doctors C. Problems being admitted to medical school D. Graduated in 1849 III.
After Nightingale came back to England from the Crimean War, she published two books, Notes on Hospital (1859) and Notes on Nursing (1859). With the support of wealthy friends and John Delane at The Times, Nightingale was able to raise £59,000 to improve the quality of nursing. In 1860, she used this money to found the Nightingale School & Home for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. She also became involved in the training of nurses for employment in the workhouses that had been established as a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. This was a critical long term contribution to medicine as it helped professionalise nursing which was once associated with working class women.
After graduating from Wheaton in 1948 with a degree in chemistry, she pursued her dream of going to medical school. She applied to both John Hopkins and Harvard. Without Avery knowing at the time, Harvard didn’t accept any females into their program but John Hopkins did. When she got into John Hopkins, it was without a question that’s where she would attend medical school, in fact, her inspiration Emily Bacon went there too. Avery had experienced a major culture shock from attending an all women’s college to finding herself be one of only four women in her class at John Hopkins.
Virginia Henderson Virginia Henderson has been called “The 20th century Florence Nightingale”, “The Nightingale of Modern Nursing”, “The Modern-Day Mother of Nursing” along with many other similar titles (http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Henderson.html). She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897. She received a diploma in nursing from the Army School of Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. in 1921. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in 1932 and Masters Degree in 1934 from Teachers college at Columbia University (Public Health Nursing Vol.24 No. 4, pp.
On May 12, 1914, 94 years to the day after the birth of Florence Nightingale, another influential nursing theorist was born, Martha Rogers. The eldest of four children Martha earned her Diploma in nursing from Knoxville General Hospital in 1936 followed in 1937 by her Bachelors of Science from Peabody College in Nashville. She later acquired two master’s degrees, one as a teacher and one in public health. She spent her early career in rural public health nursing and visiting nurse supervision, education and practice. In 1954 she was granted a Doctor of Science degree from John Hopkins.
They made great contributions in science in what historians recognize as the rebirth of the science in the first centuries of the Middle Ages. Of all these women whose work contributed especially in the fields of gynecology and obstetrics, emphasizes Trotula of Salerno who, with her own researches, studies and knowledge of Medicine of Hippocrates and Galen, has placed in a privileged place in the field of science. Little it is what we know about the life of Trotula. It is said that she lived in the Italian city of Salerno, between the XIth and XIIth centuries, where she taught at the Medical School, in which many women were students and teachers of the science. Some have identified her as Dr Johannes Platerius’ wife, and Matthias and Johannes the younger’s mother.
These major changes in women’s rights begin approximately 165 years ago. Although there have been many major events in the women’s movement, below is a timeline of four major events that I believe to significant. 1848: Five women, including young housewife and mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are having tea when the conversation turns to the situation of women in America. Within a week, they organize a two-day convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., to discuss women's rights. There, participants sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which calls for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.
In 1863, Jacobs moved to Alexandria, Virginia, with her daughter. There they organized medical care for the Civil War victims and provided emergency relief supplies. In Alexandria, Jacobs made perhaps her greatest contribution by establishing The Jacobs Free School. This was an institution that provided black teachers for the refugees. In 1865, they then relocated to Savannah, Georgia, where they continued their relief work.
Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Brenda J. Fritz NUR/513 January 20, 2013 Dr. Peter Zografos 1859 – Florence Nightingale -“The lady with the lamp”- “The first nursing theory that focuses on the manipulation of the environment for the benefit of the patient.” Columbia School – The first theoretical conceptualizations of nursing science came from graduates of these programs. (According to University of Phoenix Week Two Supplement (2006), Developmental Historical of Nursing Timeline) 1952, 1988 – Hildegard E. Peplau “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing” 1955 -Bersham Harmer and Virginia Henderson-(Nursing knowledge is based on a theory of nursing diagnosis from medical diagnosis and based on those early conceptions of nursing. (According to University of Phoenix Week Two Supplement (2006), Developmental Historical of Nursing Timeline 1959 – Lydia Hall Core, Care, and Cure Model. (According to University of Phoenix Week Two Supplement (2006), Developmental Historical of Nursing Timeline) 1960 – Abdellah, Beland, Martin, & Metheney. (According to University of Phoenix Week Two Supplement (2006), Developmental Historical of Nursing Timeline) 1961, 1990 – Ida Jean Orlando – Yale graduate who became a faculty member – Focus on relationship between the nurse and patient.
She even worked very hard to write the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a very strong and dedicated women in my opinion I hope I can show you that with her story. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College and graduated in 1905 then took the rest of the year to do graduate work at the New York school of Social Work. After that she went to England in 1906 to continue her education in social work.