N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse

N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse Role Study Guide During the Civil War Tubman served mainly in South Carolina as a nurse, scout, and occasionally a spy. One military campaign in which she participated freed 756 slaves and damaged millions of dollars of property. Tubman continued her role in social issues, including the women’s rights movement. She was commended for caring for the sick and wounded without regard to color. In 1908, she founded a home in Auburn, NY for the elderly. That house later became known as the Harriet Tubman House. Sojourner Truth Truth was a former slave who lived in Florence, MA. She was named Isabella when she was born in approximately 1797 in upstate New York. Truth slaved for five different masters until slavery was abolished in New York State in 1827 and she became free. After winning a court battle for the return of her son from owners in Alabama, she moved to New York City where she worked as a housekeeper for the next 15 years. Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth and became a travelling preacher. She walked through Long Island and Connecticut telling people in her life about her relationship with God. After several months, she joined other progressive thinkers at the Northampton Association until it disbanded in 1846. She dictated the story of her life to Olive Gilbert, which was published in 1850 as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth : A Northern Slave . The book led to Truth becoming a popular speaker on the anti-slavery and woman’s rights lecture circuit. After the Civil War, she began working with and caring for former slaves in the newly created Freedman’s Village. Mary Mahoney Mahoney is credited with being America’s first trained African-American nurse. She graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879. Mahoney recognized the need for nurses to work together to improve the status of blacks in the nursing profession. She co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah Belle Samuels Thomas and Martha Franklin in 1908. Isabel Hampton Robb Robb was an educator, leader, and founder of the nursing school at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. In 1881, she entered the Bellevue Training School in New York. She recruited Lavinia Dock, another Bellevue alumnus, to teach at Hopkins as well. Robb reformed education at Johns Hopkins by limiting the amount of private duty the students were required to do and reducing the length of the student’s workday. After her marriage to Dr. Robb, her colleagues were upset to think she might give up nursing, but she did not. Lillian Wald Wald graduated from the New York Hospital School of Nursing. She left medical school to start an early public health nurse practice and institute school nursing in 1893. Wald worked with Mary Brewer to establish the Henry Street Settlement, a social welfare and nursing agency. Annie Goodrich Goodrich served as president of the American Nurses Association from 1915 to 1918. During her

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