Archive for the ‘Famous Nurses’ Category
She cree in pursuit of their dreams and would have been one of the first women airline pilots in 50 years if his father had not forced to leave the experience of flying because he thought he was not “appropriate” for a woman to be a pilot.
She began working for Eastern Airlines in the early 1950’s. The company policy prohibited flight attendants to be married (or pregnant) and then she was fired when the company discovered that she was married and expecting a baby.
Helen Sutherland
Helen Sutherland with Eastern Airlines circa 1952
She gave birth to two children and another child later before returning to airlines with Pan American Airways. She cumulative time in three decades of experience with airlines. Divorced before their children started school, one of the things I remember most is how it has worked hard to ensure they are always safe with a roof over our heads.
Helen beings animals before their children were born, had a monkey, a lot of birds songbirds, and an iguana. The monkey is jealous when born and was adopted by another family. He also loved birds. One year when we had chickens, one of the chicks became a rooster. Mom would go out street every morning before dawn and bring the rooster within what not to disturb the neighbors. The rooster would be allowed outside again after 8 hours when the neighbors have stopped working. Then EMU raised in her home in Texas.
After the airline industry continued to work for a car rental agency and later a home for retirement. She always finds satisfaction in the joy and comfort to the other peoples of the world. He lived the last six years of his life in a nursing home after suffering a stroke during recovery from brain surgery. She was tended by a group of nurses in care services in Texas, Colorado and Idaho. She was always a loving person and his beautiful smile warmed the hearts of those around them. One of his nurses told me a couple of days before his death that made her mother so they can feel good about going to work. Yes, that sounds like mom.
Due to the loving care she received from qualified health professionals, and the knowledge that there is an impending shortage of nurses in our nation, the children of Helen have decided to establish a nursing scholarship in order to honor his life and spirit. The scholarship is designed for single parents who are looking for a nursing degree at Boise State University, with preference given to single mothers. He is survived by three sons: Bill and John who live near Houston, Texas, and Tom, who lives in Boise, Idaho, and two grandchildren in Texas.
For more information about the scholarship or would you like to contribute to the endowment, contact: Helen Sutherland Nursing Scholarship, attn: Jennifer Neil, 2225 W. University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83706 (208) 426-2927 or 12661 N. Tom Sutherland Schicks Ridge Road, Boise, Idaho 83714 (208) 229-2202. TomSutherland@mail.boisestate.edu
Since 1981, Gretchen A. Vaughn, RN, MSN, CPON, has worked at Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati as a pediatric oncology nurse at various functions. She was a nurse at the Hematology / Oncology Stem Cell Transplant Unit for a period of four years before earning a master’s degree in Nursing Pediatric Oncology.
Gretchen then became an assistant head nurse and coordinator of education for three years. Since 1989 he has worked as a clinical nurse specializing in Hematology / Oncology Division.
In 1996, Gretchen finished his studies as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Credentials
BSN: College of Mount Saint Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1981.
MSN: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala., 1986.
Post-master of the PNP: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997.
Certification: Certificate of Pediatric Oncology Nurses, since 1993; certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, since 1997.
Research
The impact of the experience with cancer in children, brothers and parents and nurses can do the best ways to experience them.
Professional Organization Memberships
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Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses, 1984-present (Ohio chapter secretary 1990-1992, chapter president-elect of 1992 to 1993, chapter president 1993-1994 and 1997-1998)
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A National Commission on Education, vice president for vocational training, 1994-1998
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National association of graduate students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, member and secretary, 1985-1986
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Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Iota Chapter, 1986 to present
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Partners for Child Health Care, a member 1987-1993 (Program Committee 1990-1992)
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Member of the Oncology Nursing Society, national and Cincinnati / tri-state, 1992, 1995
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Member of Volunteers in Medical Missions, 1997-present
Special Interests
Education and support of nurses taking care of children with cancer and their families; different types of cancer seen in children; administration of chemotherapy - including medicines research; important aspects of nursing care for children who have cancer and their families; staff stress and coping as they provide care to children with cancer; international similarities and differences in providing nursing care for children with cancer and their families.
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Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nurses, assistant editor of international presentations, 1998 to present.
Area Related
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Forever improve the landscape of a relatively new profession, these passionate and prolific Nurses set increasingly high standards for the welfare of sick, injured and disabled. Each nurse must strive for both the advancement of care and condition of the people who need it most.
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - This British pioneer in the field (which was also a mathematician) insisted on more sanitary conditions for physicians and nurses during the Crimean War, which cut the mortality rate for soldiers wounded by a staggering amount . Florence Nightingale is a true legend of nursing whose work has changed the medical field dramatically for the better. It was also a tireless advocate for the advancement of women nurses and doctors.
Mary Todd Lincoln - better known as Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln proved his critics wrong (as Southern, his loyalty to the unionist cause is suspected) to put an hour almost impossible frequenting hospitals, cleaning wounds and comfort and nurture the soldiers who suffer unbearable pain.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) - Whitman is one of the most famous poets of americas of all time, Penning classics such as “Leaves of Grass.” But did you know that he served as a volunteer nurse in Washington, DC during the Civil War? He used the experience to write a collection of poems, Drumtaps.
Mary Mahoney Ezra (1845-1926) - The first African American registered nurse, Mahoney graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School Nurses in 1879, and went on to have an illustrious and distinguished career as a nurse .
Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) - In 1925, Mary Breckinridge introduced an innovative and modern rural health car system in the United States. Call Nursing Service de la Frontera (FNS) Breckinridge ‘model provided professional medical services to one another uncared for rural people in southeastern Kentucky. The FNS used a decentralized system of nurse-midwives, district nursing centers, and hospital facilities, among other achievements, make sure that no patient was more than 6 miles from a nurse-midwife in this 1000-square mile region .
Edith Cavell - An English nurse, Cavell is the head of a nursing school and the Red Cross Hospital during the German occupation of Belgium during World War I. After helping the escape of more than 200 allied soldiers from occupied territory, was subsequently arrested and executed, an event that increased public sentiment against German aggression.
Florence Guinness Blake (1907-1983) - A distinguished pediatric nurse, Florence Guinness Blake is perhaps best known for his devotion to advanced education in pediatric nursing. In particular, Blake pediatric nursing taught at several universities, and established the graduate program in advanced nursing care of children at the University of Chicago in 1946.
Hazel W. Johnson-Brown - A retired former head of the United States Army Nurse Corps, Johnson-Brown was the first African American woman to reach the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army. It was the 16 th chief of the Army Nurse Corps, an organization to which he devoted 26 years of his life. He also served as director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing.
Elizabeth Gracen Neill (1846-1926) - Journalist, social reformer and nurse, Grace Neill was driven by the desire to create change. His brilliant career established the first Nurses’ Registration Act in the world in 1901. His life was devoted to social reform in the welfare of the poor and the suffrage of women. Their work began on course to a more responsible society.
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Sophie Mannerheim (1863-1928) - Sophie was a nurse known as a pioneer in the modernization of the profession in Finland. She was trained in nursing at the Nightingale School in St. Thomas Hospital in London. He was later appointed as head surgical nurse Helsinki Hospital and later elected President of the Finnish Nurses’ association, a position he held for 24 years. Baroness Sophie Mannerheim was a founder of the Children’s Hospital in Helsinki, and the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.
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Virginia Avenel Henderson (1897-1996) - A nurse, researcher, theorist and author: Virginia Henderson graduated from the Army Nursing School, Washington, DC in 1921. She is an expert in nursing theory and graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University with a Master’s degree in nursing education. Henderson is famous for the definition of nursing as a responsibility to help people, whether sick or not, and help them gain better health and recover under any circumstances. The International Council of Nurses his honor with the first prize Christianne Reimann in June 1985.
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Many great people have historically done its duty to put nursing at the forefront of civilization, but nowadays there are also nurses who deserve our attention.
Jeanne Prentice (Active CNM, South Dakota) - The protection of the Mother’s right to choose a professional to oversee home births in South Dakota, Prentice is leading the initiative called “PUSH!” The aim is to enable nurses midwives for deliveries at home. Currently, women in many states can only have births at home unattended if they are able to find a doctor licensed to come to his house. That is not happening though. Therefore, Prentice is leading the charge to ensure that the home not only possible, however, safely and viable opstion. [Source: Black Hills Portal]
Joyce Slinsky (retired RN, New Jersey) - A registered nurse for 45 years, with 39 of those years in the ER (emergency room) from John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, was presented with an official proclamation by the State Assembly and Senate in reverence to his career. On January 20, 2007 was honored as a retiree and member of great value in their community of Brick, New Jersey. [Source: Asbury Park Press]
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Nurses - Dorothea Dix, Sally Louisa Tompkins, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Mary Jane Safford, and Clarrisa (Clara) Barton - angels of the Civil War battlefields.
Dorothea Dix was sixty years when the Civil War began, regarded by some as “too old” to “do no good” for the sake of the North. However, Dorothea was a veteran of hospitals, having devoted his life to reforming the insane asylums. Despite his age, was elected to head the nursing staff assigned to medical facilities in the North. Assertive and dominant, Dorothea was the importance of his appointment to the heart and immediately set rigid standards for nurses, issuing this call for volunteers: “No women under the age of 30 need apply to serve in public hospitals. All nurses needed to be plain-looking women. Their clothes must be brown or black, no bows, no curls, no jewelry and no hoop skirts. ” This expectation of hard work soon gave him a reputation for reliability among the wounded. And although his Dorothea pushed nurses, asked nothing more of them made of herself and often opened his home to the tired nurses to enable them to stay closer to hospitals.
Sally Louisa Tompkins lives in Richmond, Virginia in the outbreak of war, when Richmond was flooded with casualties who filled sufficient capacity beyond hospitals. Sally, an influential woman in Richmond, no small reputation, persuaded a judge in Richmond to leave his home in the interest of war. Sally turned it into a private hospital, staffed with his friends and slaves of their home. As the matriarchal head of care, Sally at the prospect of cleaning is different from other hospitals. While on the battlefield, the same surgery tools were used without washing between patients; Sally’s encouraged cleaning techniques as part of treatment for the wounded. Sally’s hospital gained a reputation for saving lives. In fact, most Confederate soldiers returned to the battlefield of Sally hospital in Richmond than any other medical facility in the south. During the 45 months that Sally’s hospital was in existence, countless soldiers were sent to her. Only 73 were lost to death. Confederation President Jefferson Davis granted the rank of captain Sally and a hospital official in the army-supported medical service. It was renamed Robertson Hospital and was led by “Captain Tompkins” for the duration of the war.
Because Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was born in southern heritage, this caused some suspicions about his loyalty to the start of the Civil War. However, Mrs Lincoln proved herself a loyal union and a nurse of great endurance. She frequented hospitals, feeding, cleaning, and consoling the wounded. The story is told of the First Lady’s visit to Campbell Hospital shortly after a number of limb amputations had been carried out. The stench was unbearable and amputees lay gemido of anguish. Many of the volunteers left, overcome by the smell and noise. Mary stayed Lincoln, holding the hands of people who suffer from bathing and its fevered brows with wet rags.
Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke was known throughout the world as a Galesburg, Illinois native as “Mother” Bickerdyke, so it was no surprise when asked to take supplies to the northern hospital in Cairo, Illinois, a walk several hours. Mary Ann was appalled by the filth that was present in the hospital, launching his own campaign to clean up the hospital in Cairo and hospitals on the battlefield as well. Mary Ann often walked the battlefields after sunset, in search of wounded who might have been overlooked by the brigades stretcher. General Ulysses S. Mary Ann Grant asked to join the campaign in Atlanta as a hospital volunteer. Because Mary Ann fought for a better hospital, she offended hospital staff and doctors. But she was loved by the soldiers. When a doctor informed Mary General Sherman, his response was to dismiss the complaint with these words: “She outranks me. You’ll have to see President Lincoln in this regard.”
Mary Jane Safford served as a nurse under the indomitable Mary Ann Bickerdyke. Although she was small and fragile, Mary Jane Mother Bickerdyke adopted the rules and she also walked the Union battlelines at night, looking for wounded. Mary Jane nursed the sick and wounded in the battles of Belmont, Missouri and Fort Donelson, Tennessee. The story is told that Mary was once so close to enemy lines Confederates who shot her. She made a white flag of his white Petticoat and a branch and continues to nurse the sick. Mary Jane accepted duties aboard the Union ship “of the city of Memphis,” to make five trips before subsequent collapse of exhaustion. When the Civil War has ended, Mary Ann Safford studied medicine and became one of the first female surgeons in the United States.
Clarrisa (Clara) Barton, attributed to the founding of the American Red Cross, began her nursing career when Union soldiers arrived in Washington, DC, after being brutally by secession supporters. She met baskets of food and supplies for their own home and the homes of friends and donations to these bloody regiment. This opened a new service area - the collection of supplies for the wounded. Clara is credited with what bandages and dressings for surgeons in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, as well as the hospital ran out of supplies. Once there, Clara delivered supplies and brought food and water to the men lying wounded on the battlefield. It was there that the surgeon James Dunn considers its “angel of the battlefield”, a name that stayed with Clara Barton since then.
Dorothea Dix, Sally Louisa Tompkins, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Mary Jane Safford, and Clarrisa (Clara) Barton - some of the northern states of the south and some - but all on the battlefield.