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fabiola | wealthy matron of roman empire, some say a patron saint of nursing |
Knights of St Lazarus | cared for pesons with leprosy, syphyllis |
Alexian brothers | cared for persons with black plague |
Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
Harriet Tubman | "moses of her people" worked with underground railroad |
Sojourner Truth | worked with the freedmen's relief association after the war |
Dorothea Dix | Union's superintendent of nurses during the Civil War |
Spirit of Nursing momument to WWI Nurses | Arlington National Cemetery |
Sairy Gamp | negative image of nurses created by Dickens |
Virginia Henderson | created a modern definition of nursing |
Clara Barton | established the Red Cross |
Linda Richards | America's first trained nurse |
Mary Mahoney | First african american professional nurse |
Lillian Wald | Visiting Nurse Service |
Lavinia L Dock | suffragist worked for obtaining women's right to vote |
Margaret Higgins Sanger | Founder of planned parenthood |
Mary Breckinridge | established frontier nursing services |