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CHAPTER 1
EARLY NURSES:
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth early care providers to slaves
Dorthea Dix provided nursing care during Civil War
Florence Nightengale is credited with being the first Nurse Theorist
Clara Barton worked for Red Cross as volunteer nurse
Linda Richards America’s first trained nurse
Mary Mahoney was the first African American professional nurse
Lillian Wald founder of public nursing
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
Governance: The establishment and maintenance of social, political, and
economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, their self-
discipline, their working conditions, and their professional affairs
Socialization:
The process by which people:
Learn to become members of groups and society
Learn the social rules defining relationships they will enter into to
The goal is to instill in individuals the norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors
deemed essential for survival of the profession
NURSING ORGANIZATIONS
American Nurses Association
National League for Nursing
National Student Nurses Association
International Honor Society: Sigma Theta Tau