 Dorothea left home because of alcoholic/abusive parents  Opened school in Boston. Taught children from well- to-do families. After some time she decided to poor and neglected children at home.  met the Rathbone family who introduced her to the belief that government should help with social welfare.  1840 & Returned to America to care for mentally ill people who had no one to care for them.  Traveled to Illinois to study mental illness. She met with legislature and they adopted first mental hospital.  called for reform in mental illness when visiting North Carolina.  North Carolina State Medical Society formed  Hospital named after Dorothea Dix

 Known as British nursing hero of Crimean War  Soldiers called her “Lady with the Lamp” because she worked throughout the night helping British soldiers.  Took notes entitled Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of British Army, started reform in hospitals.  published notes on nursing  opened a nursing school at Saint Thomas Hospital in London  Felt nurses should be trained in science and also advocated for attention to cleanliness and nurses should have compassion for patients  She started nursing to be the important profession that it is today and saw to it that hospitals were kept safe and clean from patients.

 Parents hoped for her to become missionary  At age of 4, family moved. 6 weeks after her father passed away from lung hemorrhage.  Family moved back to Newbury, VT. Her mother became ill with tuberculosis.  Linda nursed her mother through her final illness and was only 13 years of age when her mother passed.  She began training under Doc Currier, the family doctor.  got married  husband got ill. She nursed him until his death in  She moved to Boston and was hired as an assistant nurse at Boston City Hospital

 Signed up for nurse-training program.  A year after training she is first to graduate  Created a system for charting and keeping medical records for each patient.  ready to take over the floundering Boston Training School  met Nightingale who suggested she attend King’s College Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in England  1878– becomes ill from overwork and uses that to open first nurse-training program in Japan.  opened more schools in Massachusetts, Philadelphia, and Michigan.