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Florence Nightingale
This marked the birth of the Founder of Modern Nursing, she improved standards of care for war casualties. She was Nursing's first scientist-theorist, nurse researcher and she opened up the first training school for modern nurses. -
Lillian Wald
This marked the year Lillian Wald was born. She went on to become the founder of public health nursing. She established the Henry Street Settlement to aid the poor living in the slums of New York City. -
Linda Richards
She was the first person to graduate from Nightingale's Training School for Nurses and became America's first trained nurse. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
She began nurses training at the New England Hospital and graduated in August of 1879. She became the first African American Trained Nurse. -
Margaret Sanger
This marks the day the founder of Planned Parenthood was born. Planned Parenthood was founded in 1986. -
Clara Barton
This is the year she founded The American Red Cross. Barton also was a volunteer nurse in the Civil War -
Lavinia Dock
Dock, with the assistance of Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting, founded the American Society of superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada, which became the National League for Nursing.
