Edith Cavell: A Brief Biography

In 1917, Amelia and her mother took a trip to Toronto, Canada, even though, there was a war happening. Amelia saw wounded soldiers on her left and right. She knew she had to help in some way. So, she stayed in Toronto and became a nurse’s aid. This began her path down the medical and nursing road. After the war, Amelia started premedical nursing school in New York. (Lardner, 207).

Determination and great effort are some of the words that come to mind when reviewing some of the heroic acts by the great nursing pioneers. World War I brought out to light amazing people. There was great necessity for medical assistance in the battlefield and outside the battlegrounds (Nies and McEwen 2011). Mary Breckenridge is an example of the women whom influenced in medical care of the wounded during the war. Aside from establishing the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), Mary Breckenridge moved to the rural areas following her passion to care for disadvantaged women and children (Stanhope and Lancaster,

worked against him for the good of her country. Her heroic life was especially shown by her

From 1861 to 1865, “between 2,000 to 5,000 women” volunteered to serve as nurses in military hospitals during the Civil War. Nurses from all over came to lend a hand during this devastating time. Clara Barton, Annie Etheridge, Dorothea Dix, Susie King Taylor, and Helen Gilson were just a few of the many nurses who volunteer their services to the war effort. Women wanted to be involved and help out as much as they could. Most women did not want to be at home - doing their traditional domestic work. Many women thought that helping out during the Civil War as nurses was an addition to doing their home duties. Women also believed that working as a nurse helping soldiers during the war would make a difference in how people viewed them. Being a

Many soldiers died in the civil war about 620,000 men died she saved most of these men.

“For my soldiers I will stay. For I am one of them as well and by their side I will remain.” I wonder if Clara Barton spoke to herself in that very same way…Get your eyes ready to take a journey through the life of one of the great women who aided our soldiers; far back before we were born. Clarrisa Harlowe Barton, later known as Clara, was born on Christmas day in 1821. She was the fifth and youngest child of Sarah Stone and Stephen Barton in Oxford, Massachusetts. Her father was well known because of the local Universalist church. She remembered the church as austere, with tall box pews and high narrow seats (Goodwin, 1).

Just a few years later, World War II spread across Europe. Josephine helped out France in every way she could: performing for troops, being an honorable correspondent for the French Resistance (smuggling secret messages), and serving as a sub-lieutenant in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (About). For her efforts, she was later awarded the Medal of the Resistance with Rosette and dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.

Sacrifice in the line of duty, her splendid record as a solider, her unblemished character, and

Persistence, passion, and patience were three of the key traits that allowed Clara Barton to revolutionize the way people around the world receive help in times of need by helping to create the American Red Cross. Whether, it is soldiers on the battlefield or a hurricane that has ruined tons of cities she was willing to help no matter the cost or risk. After years of working upfront during the battles of the civil war to help the wounded soldiers, she once said,"I saw many things that I did not wish to see and I pray God I may never see again (Clara Barton). " For this reason, it is to say that her selflessness helped to save numerous lives. Transforming America by becoming part of the international association known as the Red Cross, Barton

Clara worked hard to become the pioneering nurse. She knew she wanted to take care of people when she had taken care of her brother for three years. Her brother David fell off of a barn roof and wasn’t expected to live. Clara stayed by his side and took good care of him. When she heard that Southern sympathizers attacked soldiers from Massachusetts Regiment she decided to tend to the wounded.

An outlet that Alcott and many other women utilized to truly be a part of the war was medicine which enabled them to work on the battlefields and see the bloodshed first-hand. Since large numbers of men on both the Confederate and Union side were wounded and killed, and hospitals were overflowing with recovering soldiers and more staff was needed. Although many societal constraints made it difficult for women to enter the medical field, fierce leaders such as Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton paved the way for future women to work alongside men as medical professionals. Overall, the general perspectives regarding female nurses are evident in personal narratives as well as historical literature. These sources provide us with a deeper insight into the challenges women faced and how their actions paved the way for future

“Barton's letters and diaries from this time suggest that she and Colonel Elwell had a passionate relationship, but she was always discrete enough not to say so outright. She and the colonel may have shared a strong intimacy, but it was always shadowed by the knowledge that he would one day return to his wife and children. Colonel Elwell's letters to Barton suggest that he returned her affections in full. This was, quite possibly, the happiest time in Barton's life” (Crompton “Offering Comfort”). Clara Barton was in love with a man that was a married guy. Some people think that she went to war just to be with him. That may have been a little factor but not one hundred percent. Clara Barton saved hundreds and nursed hundreds back to health. Clara Barton, though in love, helped people. She may have loved a guy that was married but she did not do anything about it. She had the love for many people and not just one man. Clara Barton established The Red Cross. Clara Barton’s experience in war had led her to develop the Red Cross. Even if she had went to help in war for love. She made a great program out of her war experiences. Clara Barton may have made a few mistakes but, nobody’s

Clara Barton is remembered for risking her life to treat soldiers on the battlefield and founding the American Red Cross. Shortly

She had not only survived in the war but also Spanish Influenza which killed so many after the war. She loved her years in the army and was determined to be ‘one of the boys’. This didn’t make her stop traveling or believing in herself. She took her nephew with to jerusalum. In Suffolk they had special beliefs and special illness. In war world war it was in November 11 2008. It killed about 10million lives and more than twice that were saved. Flora had faight on the eastern and western and in the middle east and in Africa. Flora had believed that she was able to fight in the war and did everything she could do it to be in that. The first war was int 1914. One of the special events that happened in world war one was the official outbreak of world war 1 and that happened in Russia . Another one that I found out about it. Another one was on august 1 and that was the offical outbreak in world war 1 that was in germany that had declare in Russia.The germany had failed in the france and the troops that had march into the edward and had many different demands. Eventually the Germany had failed with the withdraws and it had forces and the austria in Hungary. The canda had joined the the neutrially and then the expenditory had a force and

Edith Cavell demonstrated effective followership behaviour (thus effective leadership behaviour) by being open to new ideas, possessing a willingness to challenge ideas, and acting as a change agent (Grossman & Valiga, p. 44). Her willingness to challenge ideas was demonstrated by her public protest of the German occupation of Belgium and distain of German treatment of Allied soldiers. She acted as a change agent by inventing ways to smuggle Allied soldiers out of the country. Cavell also demonstrated these three behaviours during her stint as matron for the Berkendael Medical Institute. As described previously, she was unimpressed with what were current nursing standards in Brussels. For example, she instituted the practice of follow-up home visits for patients following discharge (Ryder, 1975). Cavell hypothesized that this would prevent readmissions, which indeed it did. It can also be said that Cavell was a foreword thinker on her views on gender. She was once quoted as saying, “The old idea that it is a disgrace for women to work is still held in Belgium and women of good birth and education still they think lose [status] by earning their own living”, suggesting that even in the early portion of the 20th century, Edith Cavell