Profiles

Adah Belle Samuel Thoms - A crusader for equal opportunities for blacks in nursing. She was one of the first to recognize a new field for nursing, public health.

Edith Cavell - A British nurse executed during the First World War. A statue in St. Martin's Place, just off London's Trafalgar Square, bears the words, 'Humanity, Fortitude, Devotion, Sacrifice'--fitting tributes to the life she led. Authored by Abraham Unger, M.D.

Edith Cavell: A Norfolk Heroine - Profile of British nurse Edith Cavell who worked in Belgium in World War I. She was arrested for helping allied soldiers to freedom and executed by the German authorities.

Florence Guinness Blake - Inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1996. A distinguished pediatric nurse who strove to advance education in pediatric nursing.

Hall of Fame Inductee: Clara Louise Maass - From the American Nurses Association: Profile of one of the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow fever.

Linda Richards - Considered America's first trained nurse. A "Women of Courage" profile.

Mary Breckinridge - Started the first rural health care system to provide nursing to the neglected people in southeastern Kentucky.

Mary Eliza Mahoney - A profile of the first African-American professional nurse.

Nurse Edith Cavell - In 1914, she harbored allied soldiers from behind the Germans lines. Story By Peter Clowes for Military History magazine.

Profile - Jane Delano: Innovator in Nursing - A pioneer in the American Red Cross Nursing Service.

Profile - Sophie Mannerheim - A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. A Finnish stamp was dedicated to her.

Profiles in Caring: Lillian D.Wald - Biography of the founder of the Henry Street Settlement, the forerunner of the Visiting Nurse Society of New York.

Sally Louisa Tompkins - Opened one of the most successful hospitals during the civil war, returning more of its patients to the ranks than any other medical care facility. She was the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army.

Spotlight - Jo Anne Ashley - A nurse, author and educator. She was a staunch advocate of the role of nursing in the health field, power in nursing and the historic perspective of nursing.