Nursing
Elizabeth Kerr Porter
Elizabeth Kerr Porter "was a leader in nursing education and an advocate for nurses' rights," (ANA 2011). Porter advocated for nurses' labor rights in terms of the right to collective bargaining and professional organization. Her work helped improve working conditions for nurses and also lobbied against racial discrimination in the nursing professions. Porter served for many years as the president of the American Nurses Association and also as the Dean of the nursing graduate degree program at Case Western Reserve University. Therefore, Elizabeth Kerr Porter promoted the interests of nursing education, enhanced the image of the profession, and also championed the labor rights interests of professional nurses.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix worked as both an educator and a nurse, but never actually combined her two careers. Dix devoted most of her career to raising awareness about mental illness. Dix advocated for the humane treatment of...
She helped lobby for legislative support for mental health treatment and became an international advocate for the mentally ill. Through her advocacy work with mental illness and prisons, Dix helped transform social stigmas and promote a rehabilitative and humane approach toward both prison inmates and those labeled as mentally ill.
Effie J. Taylor
Euphemia Jane Taylor (Effie J) has been described as "a visionary" and a "nurse whose ideas were very much ahead of their time," (Buckwalter & Church 2009). Taylor's stance helped empower nurses and the nursing profession. Taylor was also concerned with psychiatric nursing, and devoted a large part of her career to the development of holistic care interventions. She is one of the founders of psychiatric nursing, and headed the first psychiatric clinic in the world at Johns Hopkins.
Virginia A. Henderson
Virginia A. Henderson worked as a nurse during the First World War.…
References
American Nurses Association (ANA 2011). Elizabeth Kerr Porter. Retrieved online: http://www.nursingworld.org/ElizabethKerrPorter
Buckwalter, K.C. & Church, O.M. (2009). Euphemia Jane Taylor: An Uncommon Psychiatric Nurse. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 17(3):125-131
Bumb, J. (n.d.). Dorothea Dix. Retrieved online: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/dorotheadix.html
Lewis, J.J. (n.d.). Clara Barton biography. About.com. Retrieved online: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/bartonclara/a/clara_barton.htm
Thomas, R.M. (1996). Virginia Henderson, 98, Teacher of Nurses, Dies. New York Times. March 22, 1996. Retrieved online: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/arts/virginia-henderson-98-teacher-of-nurses-dies.html
Controversies Over Women's Access Birth Control This study focuses on the article titled "Controversies over Women's Access to Birth Control" as written by Marcia Clemmitt. The author reviews different perspectives to close down the issue of dispensing birth control. It begins with an example of a pharmacist who refused to dispense his professional duty due to moral and religious practices. He viewed birth control as an immoral vice. The author explores