Nursing Legends
Known as the "Lady with the Lamp", she revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is a female organ where a fetus develops during a pregnancy.
What is the uterus?
This woman was the previous President of Stony Brook University.
Who is Dr. Maurie McInnis?
The organ that provides oxygen and nutrients to a developing fetus.
What is the placenta?
This woman was the first female American vice president.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The African American Nurse and abolitionist provided care to wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
These two small, almond-shaped glands produce eggs and hormones like estrogen.
What is the ovaries?
Though she never gave consent, cells from this African American woman’s body became the first immortal human cell line, revolutionizing medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
The medical term for the process of giving birth.
What is labor and delivery?
In 1932, this female pilot became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Known as the "Mother of Public Health Nursing," this African American nurse founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) in 1908.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
The tube that connects the ovary to the uterus and where fertilization often occurs.
What is the fallopian tubes?
This was the first African American woman to earn an MD.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
The term for a pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus, often in the fallopian tubes.
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
In 1849, she became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
The first Puerto Rican woman to become a registered nurse in the U.S., she fought for better healthcare access for Puerto Ricans in New York.
Who is Ana "Anita" Betances?
This structure dilates during labor to allow childbirth.
What is the cervix?
This Costa Rican-American astronaut was the first Hispanic woman in space.
Who is Dr. Ellen Ochoa?
The hormone is detected in pregnancy tests.
What is the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)?
This woman was the first female to win the Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
She founded modern hospice care and advocated for compassionate end-of-life treatment.
Who is Cicely Saunders?
This hormone is primarily produced by granulosa cells in response to FSH stimulation.
What is estrogen?
This mathematician, whose story is told in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures, was responsible for the calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA and helped Americans go into space in 1969.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The condition where a baby is positioned feet or buttocks first instead of head-first before delivery.
What is the breech position?
This first lady held the first all-women's press conference in the white house, starting in 1933. Over the next 12 years, she held 348 press conferences for women reporters.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?