Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Nurses

Australia

 * Barbara Carson, nurse and trade unionist
 * Hannah Elizabeth Glover, established Australian Army Nurses' Reserve
 * Alison Mary Street AO – Head, Haemostasis and Haemophilia Units, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Department of Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital
 * Amelia Lucy Wayn, (c.1862–1951), WWI army matron, historical researcher and indexer
 * Barbara Skeete Workman – Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and Southern Health at Kingston Centre Campus

Costa Rica

 * Haydee Gómez Cascante (1926-) La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica ,

Sweden

 * Christina Lindholm - internationally acclaimed professor of Clinical Nursing and world leading expert on wound healing. Currently senior professor of Sophiahemmet University in Sweden, former Director of Research at the Karolinska University Hospital.
 * Dagmar Stenbeck (aka Emma Dagmar Ekelund) (1889-1985) formed the auxiliary Red Cross nurses of Sweden. Recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal., , ,

UK

 * Mary Jones (nurse) (1812–1887), nursing reformer ODNB
 * Mary Milne (nurse) Mary Elizabeth Gordon Milne (1891–1972), nurse ODNB
 * Mary Young (nurse) (1883-1945) Scottish nurse and resistance worker ODNB


 * See also
 * Red links in these lists
 * Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing
 * Lists of Fellows and Honorary Fellows in an old version of the article (since removed)


 * Resource: The British Journal of Nursing has digitized all of their historic volumes which can be found here. The articles are listed page by page, but you can navigate at the bottom of the page for the next page. After searching years, one page at a time, I was notified by We hope that she found a search engine. I have found articles in the BJoN for many international nurses and hope the reference is helpful for others.

US

 * Josephine Cox Anderson (1849-1941), called "The Angel of Pecos," Anderson nursed patients during the flu epidemic in 1918, ran a sanitarium in Carlsbad. ,
 * Esther Silverstein Blanc, (1913-1997) nurse, educator, juvenile fiction award winning author., , , , ,
 * Meta L. Christy (1895-1968), not a nurse, but I'm adding osteopath here since it's an "alternative medicine." She was the first black osteopath and worked in New Mexico.
 * Anita Dorr, co-founder of the Emergency Nurses Association, inventor of the crash cart, teacher and activist, "a major historical figure, not only in emergency nursing, but in all of nursing history".
 * Virginia Lynch “is the foremost pioneer in forensic nursing and helped create a system that would bring justice to millions of rape victims.”
 * Tracy McCarter, Black female nurse, erroneously jailed in NYC for murdering her white husband, who died during a domestic violence incident in 2020.
 * Suzanne Miyamoto PhD, RN, FAAN executive of the American Academy of Nursing,
 * Jeanne Prentice, South Dakota midwife, fighting to protect a woman's right to have a midwife to supervise home births ,
 * Joyce Slinksy, John F. Kennedy Medical Center ER nurse
 * St. Philip School of Nursing, Richmond, Virginia (1920-1962) African American nursing school, , , ,
 * Red links in these lists:
 * List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing
 * American Nurses Association Hall of Fame

Presidents of International Council of Nurses

 * Leonie Chaptal (1929-33) France
 * Marie Bihet (1953-57) Belgium
 * Agnes Ohlson (1957-61) United States
 * Alice Clamageran (1961-65) France
 * Margarethe Kruse (1969-73) Denmark
 * Mo-Im Kim (1989-93) South Korea

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