Education
Who is referred to as “American Florence Nightingale”?
Anna Caroline Maxwell
Which war did Maxwell go to help the injured soldiers? Hint: it was fought in 1898
Spanish-American war
Where did Anna Maxwell Live in childhood?
Born in New York; Lived in Canada until age of 23
At which new york city school did Anna Caroline Maxwell’s training programs lay the groundwork to become a bachelors of science? Hint: the same university Alexander Hamilton went.
Columbia University
Who did Maxwell urge to consider hiring trained nurses for the military during the Spanish American War? Hint: Their warnings are on the side of cigarette boxes
The surgeon general
Anna Maxwell was a founder of what major journal?
American Journal of Nursing
What were the first three “courses” that Maxwell added to her preliminary framework for training nurses? Hint: one of the courses we are going to learn next semester.
Med/Surg nursing, Obstetrics, Contagious diseases
Which field hospital was Maxwell sent to that became the initial impetus for Maxwell improving sanitation during war time conditions?
Camp Thomas in Chickamauga, Georgia
What contribution did Anna Maxwell make to fashion?
Designed nurses uniforms
What important position did Maxwell hold in hospitals in Boston, Montreal, and New York City? Hint: the modern day equivalent would be similar to “director of nursing?
Superintendent of nursing
Bonus: she was the first person to hold this role at the Presbyterian Hospital Training School for Nurses in NYC aka New York Pres aka Columbia
How did Anna Maxwell incorporate nurses into the military?
Encouraged the military to hire nurses on medical staff force
Helped to secure an officer rank for nurses
The development of what two major systems of nursing foundations were of significant importance to Maxwell across her career? Hint: hand hygiene and aseptic technique would fall one area and the “five” rights of medication administration and uniform charting would be an example of the other
Sanitation and Standardization