Famous Nurses

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1. What nurse that shares a last name with a small passerine bird is perhaps one of the most famous nurses of all times? She braved harsh conditions on the battlefield during the Crimean War and advocated hygiene. Mary Canary Florence Meadowlark Florence Nightingale Dorthea Dix

2. Which volunteer nurse for a Union Hospital during the Civil War was the wife of a United States President? She was born in Lexington, Kentucky but moved to Springfield, Illinois when she married.Her husband wore tall hats and gave a famous speech. Mary Todd Lincoln Abigal Adams Elizabeth Johnson Betsy Ross

3. Which one of America's most celebrated poets of all time was also a volunteer nurse in Washington, D. C. during the Civil War? This inspired a collection of poems, 'Drumtaps' being one of them and also 'Specimen Days and Collect' and 'O Captain! My Captain!' Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Bronte

4. Who was the first African-American registered nurse? She graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses in 1879, and went on to have a very illustrious and outstanding career as a nurse. Shirley Chisholm Shirley Temple Mary Ezra Mahoney Edith Cavell

5. Which English nurse was the head of a nursing school and Red Cross hospital during the German occupation of Belgium during World War I? She had helped over 200 allied soldiers escape from occupied territory and was later arrested and executed. Dolly Madison Clara Barton Ellen Carson Edith Cavell

6. Which nurse was the foremost pioneer in the development of American midwifery and the provision of care to the nation's rural areas as founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. This was began in 1925 in rural southeastern Kentucky. Mary Ann Bickerdyke Harlan Sanders Mary Breckenridge Elizabeth Grace Neil

7. Which nurse was the first African-American woman to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army? She was the 16th chief of the Army Nurse Corps, an organization to which she dedicated 26 years of her life. She also served as Director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing. Elizabeth Grace Neill Hazel W. Johnson-Brown Marion L. Minter Margaret ' Hot Lips ' Houlihan

8. Which nurse was a noted humanitarian, reformer, educator and campaigner? She is perhaps best known for her patient advocacy of the improvement of conditions of jails and mental asylums in North America and Europe. She was 59 years old when she offered her services to the Union Army during the Civil War earning the nickname "Dragon Dix" because she clashed with military officials due to her strict ways. Jeanne Dixson Angie Dickinson Dorothea Lynde Dix Hilary Dickory

9. Which nurse during the Civil War cared for soldiers during the battle of Shiloh and later worked aboard the hospital ship Hazel Dell. She later became the very first female surgeon in America. Mary Jane Safford Clarrisa Barton Mary Lou Retton Sally L. Tompkins

10. Which nurse is credited with the founding of the American Red Cross? Paris Hilton Edna Reddington Clara Barton Dolly Madison