The nurse is preparing a presentation on notable nursing figures. In w

QUESTION

The nurse is preparing a presentation on notable nursing figures. In which order, chronologically, should the nurse present this information?

1. Loretta Ford
2. Mary Seacole
3. Lucy Osborne
4. Faye G. Abdellah
5. Cecilia Makiwane

ANSWER:

Correct Answer: 2, 3, 5, 1, 4

Mary Seacole (1805-1881) learned about nursing from her mother in Jamaica, British West Indies. When she learned about the war in the Crimea, she offered to go to the Crimea to tend the soldiers. Lucy Osborne (1835-1891) was a Nightingale-trained nurse who arrived in Australia in 1868 as superintendent of nurses, along with five head nurses, to provide nursing care to patients at the Sydney Hospital. Cecilia Makiwane (1880-1919) became South Africa’s first Black African professional nurse in 1908. Loretta C. Ford (1920- ) is credited with founding the first nurse practitioner program in 1965, in collaboration with Dr. Henry K. Silver, a pediatrician. Together, they developed the Public Health Nurse Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program to educate nurses in advanced nursing practice to provide care for children in rural Colorado. Faye G. Abdellah (1919- ), the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States, is credited with developing the first nurse scientist program.