• Dorothea Lynde Dix
  So powerful was her voice that when the Civil War erupted, Dix was named Superintendent of Army Nurses.  In that role she distinguished herself caring for both the Confederate and Union wounded soldiers – part of a long tradition of nurses serving humanity during times of war and conflict.
• Walt Whitman
  One of the nation’s greatest poets, Whitman spent much of the Civil War serving as a volunteer nurse, ministering to wounded soldiers in Washington, DC.
• Florence Nightingale
  During and after the Crimean War, she made countless contributions to the art and science of nursing, including reforming Britain’s army medical system, arguing for the importance of sanitation and good diet, creating plans for hospitals designed to promote healing, and founding the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in Training.  The first modern secular school of nursing, it would spread its influence around the world.
• Mary Seacole
  The daughter of a Scottish soldier and Jamaican mother,a doctress, Seacole made significant contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War, but was never truly recognized because she was black. 
• Lillian Wald
  An American nurse in the early 1900’s, Wald launched the field of social work in America and crusaded for civil rights.  Galvanized by the suffering she saw in the squalor of New York’s Lower East Side, Wald founded the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, which gave rise to the practice of home-care nursing. 
• Bobbi Campbell
  A registered nurse, who in 1982, publicly declared himself to be infected with what later was called AIDS.  He dedicated himself to warning the gay community and advocating for others infected with the same disease.  When nothing else worked, he used humor to get attention, calling himself “Sister Florence Nightingale.”

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