With an emphasis on the qualities that have fostered strong nursing leadership, this book provides a unique perspective on the lives and achievements of the most revered nurses throughout history. It is comprised of biographies of many of nursings most important activist agents of change, with a focus on those characteristics that enabled them to accomplish their goals and implement changes that improved nursing, health, healthcare, and society.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Foreword - Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Introduction
• 1. Exemplary Nursing Leadership - David Anthony Forrester
• Why Study Exemplary Nursing Leadership Within the Context of Nursing History?
• What Is Leadership and What Is Exemplary Nursing Leadership?
• What Is the Difference Between Nursing Leadership and Nursing Management?
• What Are the Essential Traits or Characteristics of Exemplary Nurse Leaders?
• Five Practices of Exemplary Nursing Leadership
• Summary
• Part II: Modeling the Way
• 2. Florence Nightingale: Where Most Work Is Wanted - Frances Ward
• Radicalization
• Modeling the Way in Practice
• Modeling the Way in War
• Modeling the Way in Peace
• The End of Empire
• An Improving Woman
• Demystification
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• Part III: Inspiring a Shared Vision
• 3. Mother Mary Aikenhead: A Life of Vision - Deborah Cleeter
• Childhood
• The Novitiate
• Inspiring a Shared Vision
• Foundress, Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity
• Ministries for Prisons, Schools, and Orphanages
• Hospitals, Nursing, and Hospice
• Leading in the Face of Personal Struggle
• Global Legacy
• Journey Toward Canonization
• Exemplary Leadership
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• 4. Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - Karen Egenes and Frances Vlasses
• Early Efforts to Inspire a Shared Vision
• Developing the Tools to Inspire a Shared Vision
• Role Models for Inspiring a Shared Vision—Clara Barton in Europe
• Inspiring a Shared Vision—Developing New Strategies
• Inspiring a Shared Vision on a Local Level
• Inspiring a Shared Vision Abroad—International Relief Efforts
• Inspiring a Shared Vision—In Time of War
• Attainment of the Vision
• Clara Barton's Leadership Legacy
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• Part IV: Challenging the Process
• 5. Margaret Higgins Sanger: The Law Shall Be Broken - Patricia K. Hindin
• The Law Shall Be Broken
• Early Years
• The Making of Margaret Sanger
• Public Service and Progress in Birth Control
• Major Accomplishments
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• 6. Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Conviction and Controversy - Mary Kamienski
• Nature Versus Nurture
• The Vision
• Commitment to the Vision
• Beyond Polio
• Societal Values
• Not a Nurse
• The Reality of Polio
• The American Frontier
• The War Rages On
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• 7. Clara Louise Maass: Servant Leader Undaunted - Carol Emerson Winters
• Spending Childhood as an Adult
• Training School for Nurses
• The Spanish–American War
• Nursing Soldiers With Yellow Fever
• Nursing American Troops in the Philippine Islands
• Annulment of Nursing Contract and Return Home to New Jersey
• The Yellow Fever Commission Is Established in Cuba
• Returning to Cuba to Nurse Yellow Fever Patients
• Clara Maass Volunteers to Be Bitten by Infected Mosquitoes
• Clara Maass Develops Yellow Fever
• Posthumous Honors
• Modeling the Way
• Challenging the Process
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• Part V: Enabling Others to Act
• 8. Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and Reform - Barbara Ann Caldwell
• Setting the Stage: The Influence of Family
• Enacting Nontraditional Female Roles: Educator and Writer
• Finding Mentors: Religious and Educational Commitment
• Political Leadership and the Moral Movement
• Developing Leadership Expertise and Campaigning for Change
• Prisoners’ Letters and Expansion of Leadership
• Transition to National Leadership
• International Leadership and Recognition
• Caught in a Power Struggle
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• 9. Lillian D. Wald: Pioneer of Public Health - Mary Ann Christopher, Regina Hawkey, and Mary Christine Jared
• An Age of Transformation
• Early Life
• Building on the Public Health and Settlement Movements
• Empowering Communities to Help Themselves
• Mobilizing Social Institutions to Improve the Health of Communities
• Enlisting Philanthropic and Business Interests to Promote the Public's Health
• Exemplary Leadership in Action: The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918–1919
• Lillian Wald's Legacy as a Leader—Alive and Well Today
• A Community in Crisis: VNSNY's Response to Superstorm Sandy
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• 10. Mary Breckinridge: Angel on Horseback - Denise M. Tate
• Nursing Leadership
• Family and Early Life
• Later Life
• Challenging the Process
• Inspiring a Shared Vision
• Attention! Nurse Graduates
• The Creation of Wendover
• Encouraging the Heart
• Enabling Others to Act
• Modeling the Way
• The Passing of Mary Breckinridge
• Mary Breckinridge Hospital
• Breckinridge Honored
• Mary Breckinridge's Leadership Legacy
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• Part VI: Encouraging the Heart
• 11. Edith Louisa Cavell: Courage in the Face of Duty - Barbara J. Patterson
• Assuming Her Duty to Humanity
• Encouraging the Heart: Changing Nursing in Belgium
• Encouraging the Heart: The Matron
• Leadership Lessons From Edith Cavell and World War I
• Edith Cavell's Leadership Legacy
• Timeline
• Questions for Discussion
• Part VII: The Future
• 12. Nurses Leading Change: The Time Is Now! - Susan W. Salmond and David Anthony Forrester
• An Unsustainable U.S. Health System: High Cost Without High Return in Health Outcomes
• Re-Visioning Health Care
• A New Context: The Time Is Now for Nursing and Nurse Leaders
• The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
• Preparing Nurse Leaders for a New Future
• Questions for Discussion