N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse

N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse Role Study Guide Lavinia Dock Dock was a nursing leader and women’s’ rights activist who was instrumental in the Constitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote. She was a key figure with community health nursing and introduced nursing into school settings. She believed that the advancement of nursing could only be achieved if women were treated equally. She worked with the Henry Street Settlement and was a community health nursing pioneer. Melinda Ann Richards Richards was America's first trained nurse and was a key figure in the development of nursing education. She campaigned for improvements in nursing schools and nursing service. Mary Breckenridge After WWII, Breckenridge established the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and established the first midwifery training schools in the United States. She worked in France after WW11 (1918) distributing food and supplies and caring for the sick. 1.5 Influence of Major Studies and Reports on Nursing Winslow-Goldmark Report on Nursing and Nursing Education in the United States Published in 1923, this report was written by Josephine Goldmark with the primary sponsor being Goldmark and the Rockefeller Foundation. The study was originally aimed at education of public health nurses but was later expanded to all nursing education, including teachers and supervisors. It pointed out fundamental faults in hospital training schools and resulted in the establishment of the Yale University School of Nursing. Its recommendations included the following: • Public health nurses should have hospital training and a postgraduate course in public health • University nursing schools • Funds to endow university education • Public safety should be protected by legislation requiring educational standards in “progressive” states • Efforts should be made to recruit competent women to public health nursing • State legislation should provide for “subsidiary” nurses Due to this report, the Rockefeller Foundation endowed nursing schools at Yale and Vanderbilt. An endowment generates interest to pay for education. Yale became the first school of nursing as a separate university with its own dean. Also, Frances Payne Bolton endowed the school of nursing that was later named for her at Case Western Reserve University. Nursing for the Future (Brown Report) This report focused on determining society’s need for nursing. The report described inadequacies in nursing schools. The report resulted in recommendations that nursing education be placed in

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