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Famous Nurses

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Introduction:
"Test your knowledge on these wonderful nurses. You may be surprised just who were nurses and what they contributed to the field."


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.
    Florence Meadowlark
    Florence Nightingale
    Dorthea Dix
    Mary Canary


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.
    Betsy Ross
    Elizabeth Johnson
    Mary Todd Lincoln
    Abigal Adams


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!'
    Emily Bronte
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Walt Whitman
    Emily Dickinson


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 Temple
    Mary Ezra Mahoney
    Edith Cavell
    Shirley Chisholm


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.
    Edith Cavell
    Ellen Carson
    Dolly Madison
    Clara Barton


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.
    Angie Dickinson
    Dorothea Lynde Dix
    Hilary Dickory
    Jeanne Dixson


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?
    Edna Reddington
    Clara Barton
    Dolly Madison
    Paris Hilton


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