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hey wonderful i pray my name should be there soonest

this is a very good article representing the most influential nurses. I knew about the majority of them but some I didnt. thanks

Hey? Why isnt Vicki Milazzo on here? lol http://www.legalnurse.com/aboutus/aboutus_01.html

Agreed, joilena. Clara Barton in my opinion is THE most influential nurse in history. Florence Nightingale may have been the first that we know of, and she did alot of things, but Clara "perfected" it and then some. If you're interested the best book (in my humble opinion) out there is " Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War" by Stephen B. Oates. It's well worth reading! There is even a few items about Dorothea Dix in this book.

Awesome article...I hope it stays around for a long time. Just one little thing, though. Not to split hairs, but in the article about Clara Barton it says that she entered nursing school. This isn't actually true. She went to "college" (for lack of a better term for the school she attended) in NY and became a teacher. She went back to her home state (Massachusetts) and founded a school, which she wasn't allowed to become superintendent of because she was a woman! She wound up in Washington D.C. (Then Washington City) hand-writing patents in the US Patent office (where she was the only full time female employee, though she was listed as a temp. because of current laws regarding female workers). She felt an urge to do her part in the Civil War after her father passed. The story is rather long and complex from there. Sorry for getting up on the soapbox, I just detest history getting distorted.