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.
She had both a mother and a father. Her mother was a high school vice-principal and her father owned a manufacturing company in Philly. Avery’s inspiration was her neighbor, pediatrician Emily Bacon; she was the one who took Avery to see her first premature baby. Avery went to private school her whole life and later went to Wheaton College. After graduating from Wheaton in 1948 with a degree in chemistry, she pursued her dream of going to medical school.
Shortly after receiving her diploma, Henderson worked for her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University and began teaching immediately. In 1934, she became a part of the staff at Teachers College and taught for fourteen years. “During that period, she revised Bertha Harmer’s Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing, which was published in 1939 and has been widely adopted by schools of nursing” (American Nurses Association, 2012). In 1953, Henderson switched roles from teaching to becoming a research associate at Yale University School of Nursing. She worked on a project that was constructed to survey and assesses the status of nursing research in the United States.
Our presentation is on Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory. Here is a quote from her book that captures the essents of her theory “Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always. Katharine Kolcaba was born Katharine Arnold Dec. 8th, 1944 in Cleveland Ohio She is married and has 2 daughters and 8 grandchildren In 1965 she received her Diploma in Nursing from St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in Cleveland. In the mid 1980’s Kolcaba wanted to further her nursing career, so she returned to school. In 1987 she earned her RN and Masters of Nursing from Case Western Reserve University.
Florence Nightingale, a strong and determined woman ahead of her time, was greatly influential in her life-long efforts toward making significant improvements in the medical field. To better understand how Florence Nightingale became instrumental in improving health standards and hospital conditions, it is important to understand her upbringing and where her interests began. She was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820 while her parents, who were from England, were vacationing (Gorrell 4-5). Since Nightingale’s father was well-educated and wanted the same for his daughter, she was homeschooled by private tutors and studied history, math, and several languages (Gill 93-97). Little did her father know that one day Nightingale would find a career as a nurse helping to save the lives of soldiers during the dangerous Crimean War in 1853 (Gorrell 14-17).
Kamala, which means "lotus flower" in the sacred Indian language of Sanskrit, spent her early years in nearby Berkeley, where her parents attended college and worked in the civil rights movement. Gopalan would become a nationally respected doctor, specializing in breast cancer research, and Donald Harris would teach economics at Stanford University. When she was seven, her parents divorced, young Kamala and her sister Maya Lakshmi were then raised by their mother. Though Harris would most often be identified as African American, she also highly valued her Indian heritage, especially the tradition of strong, courageous women she saw personified in her feminist mother and in her grandmother, who she saw on family visits to the Indian city of Chennai. Gopalan's family was Brahmin, India's highest social class, with a tradition of higher education and service to the
Her work influenced the nursing profession throughout the world. She was a well known nursing educated and a prolific author (http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Henderson.html). Virginia Henderson’s first definition of nursing was published in the 5th revision (1955) of Harmer and Henderson text Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing. Her revised definition, published by the International Council of Nurses, superseded Florence
When Karen was 21, and against her parents wishes, she enrolled in the University of Freiburg Medical School in Germany. She transferred from there to the University of Gottingen and ultimately graduated from the University of Berlin in 1913. Horney met her husband, Oskar Horney, while she was in medical school. The two had three daughters together but that did not prevent Horney from continuing her career in psychoanalysis. Often dealing with difficult times Horney turned to Freudian analysis to help her resolve some of her issues.
Nightingale earned this name as she made her nightly rounds checking on the soldiers (Trina). She specialized in hospital hygiene, and sanitation (Terry). Nightingale made it her mission to improve how hospitals ran and the death rates caused by poor hospital hygiene (“Nightingale, Florence”). Florence Nightingale was a great person in history because she was caring, intelligent, and revolutionized the nursing profession. Florence Nightingale was a very nurturing nurse.