Famous Nurses
She served as a nurse during the Crimean War where she cared for soldiers, trained other nurses and drastically improved hygiene conditions in hospitals. Founded the first nursing school at London’s St. Thomas Hospital.
Forence Nightingale
The lady with the lamp
Florence Nightingale
In the popular sitcom "Scrubs", this sassy, no nonsense lead character worked as the head nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital.
Carla Espinosa
This nurse saw the ability to control family size as crucial to ending the cycle of women’s poverty. At the time, it was illegal to share information on birth control, so she launched her own feminist publication called The Woman Rebel. She was arrested after opening a birth control clinic, but this did not stop her. She went on to open what would later be known as Planned Parenthood and helped fund the modern oral contraceptive.
Margaret Sanger
What is the most consumed beverage in the nursing profession?
Coffee
In this 2000 comedy film, Ben Stiller plays an awkward nurse named Greg Focker, whose attempts to win over his ex-CIA future Father-in-law are complicated when the family makes numerous jokes at his expense.
Meet the Patents
Nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield" and later founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
On average, nurses walk this amount during a 12-hour shift.
4-5 miles
This nurse in the Harry Potter film franchise treated Harry, and his friends' injuries with a number of spells and magical treatments real-life nurses would llove to have at their disposal.
Madam Pomfrey
Known as the "First Lady of Nursing". Known for her Nursing Need Theory. The theory emphasizes the importance of a patient’s independence and focuses on basic human needs so that patients can heal quickly. Throughout her career, she sought to focus on nurse’s duties to patients.
Virgina Henderson
This is the most common work-related injury reported by nurses.
Back pain
Abby Lockhart and Carol Hathaway were two nurse characters on which prime-time television show in the 1990-2000s.
ER
She became the first African American woman to obtain her nursing license. She worked mainly as a private care nurse for over 40 years and continued to advocate for minority nurses
Mary Eliza Mahoney
During the Civil War, this American Red Cross founder worked tirelessly as a nurse tending to wounded soldiers.
Clara Burton
In this 1996 that earned a total of 9 Academy Awards, young nurse Hana, played by Juliette Binoche, cares for a badly burned, mysterious British man played by Ralph Fiennes.
The English Patient