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This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their contribution to nursing and midwifery in academics, business, economics, politics, research, government or the social sector.

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Australia

  • Barbara Carson, nurse and trade unionist[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0261b.htm]
  • Hannah Elizabeth Glover, established Australian Army Nurses' Reserve[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0525b.htm][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22324966]
  • 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{{cite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = STREET Alison Mary| date = 2006-11-17| year = | publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic}}
  • Amelia Lucy Wayn, (c.1862–1951), WWI army matron, historical researcher and indexer[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wayn-amelia-lucy-9016]
  • Barbara Skeete Workman – Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and Southern Health at Kingston Centre Campus{{cite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = WORKMAN Barbara Skeete| date = 2006-11-17| year = | publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic}}

Costa Rica

  • Haydee Gómez Cascante (1926-) La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica [http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2002/marzo/08/pais0.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160715210058/http://virtual.inamu.go.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=141%3Agaleria-de-la-mujer&id=154%3Ahaydee-gomez-cascante-1926&Itemid=1521]

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. [http://ewma2014.org/fileadmin/user_upload/EWMAconferences/2014/Programme/Christina_Lindholm_article_EWMA_Journal_WEB_1_.pdf]
  • Dagmar Stenbeck (aka Emma Dagmar Ekelund) (1889-1985) formed the auxiliary Red Cross nurses of Sweden. Recipient of the 1961 Florence Nightingale Medal. [http://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm45/0813.html], [http://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm45/0814.html], [https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=20056], [https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/RC_May-1962.pdf]

UK

;See also

  • Red links in these lists

:*Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing

:*Lists of Fellows and Honorary Fellows in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_College_of_Nursing&oldid=423688366 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 [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/ 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 [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/cgi-bin/advanced_search.pl# 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. [http://www.nmwomensforum.com/images/NewMexicoHistoricWomenMarkers.pdf], {{cite web |title=JOSEPHINE COX (GRANDMA) ANDERSON |url=https://www.nmhistoricwomen.org/location/josephine-cox-grandma-anderson/ |website=New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative |accessdate=12 May 2020}}
  • Esther Silverstein Blanc, (1913-1997) nurse, educator, juvenile fiction award winning author. [http://www.albavolunteer.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Volunteer2005-3-email.pdf ], [https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=Gt4TCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA157&ots=St3jgWejk4&dq=famous%20romanian%20WWII%20nurses&pg=PA157#v=onepage&q=famous%20romanian%20WWII%20nurses&f=false], [https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=G9-gganv05IC&pg=PT162&lpg=PT162&dq=Berchick,++Esther+Silverstein+Blanc&source=bl&ots=XntcGGwSPe&sig=kWdVZ3XJRk5CyMQAky_UtYMainI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBsoaO_KLMAhVHGB4KHRdOAigQ6AEIRzAL#v=onepage&q=Berchick%2C%20%20Esther%20Silverstein%20Blanc&f=false], [http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14698008076&searchurl=tn%3Dwars%2520i%2520have%2520seen%26sortby%3D17%26fe%3Don], [http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/ester-miriam-silverstein], [http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=1341&q=]
  • 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. [http://www.nmwomensforum.com/images/NewMexicoHistoricWomenMarkers.pdf]
  • 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".{{cite journal |last1=Jezierski |first1=Marlene |title=Anita Dorr: her legacy to ENA |journal=Journal of Emergency Nursing |volume=22 |issue=3 |url=https://www.jenonline.org/article/S0099-1767(96)80129-2/pdf |access-date=20 March 2023}}
  • Virginia Lynch “is the foremost pioneer in forensic nursing and helped create a system that would bring justice to millions of rape victims.”{{cite web |title=International Nurses Day: 5 famous nurses from history who changed the world |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/international-nurses-day-5-famous-nurses-from-history-1677099-2020-05-12 |website=Education Today News |accessdate=13 May 2020}}
  • Tracy McCarter, Black female nurse, erroneously jailed in NYC for murdering her white husband, who died during a domestic violence incident in 2020.{{cite web |title=Tracy McCarter|url=https://truthout.org/authors/tracy-mccarter/ |website=TruthOut|accessdate=2 Oct 2023}}{{cite web |title=Survived & Punished: Meet Tracy McCarter, a Nurse Jailed, Then Cleared, for Stabbing Abusive Husband|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/2/tracy_mccarter_domestic_violence_awareness_month|website=Democracy Now|accessdate=2 Oct 2023}}
  • 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 [https://ceufast.com/blog/four-amazing-women-who-changed-the-history-of-nursing-in-america], [http://epubs.democratprinting.com/article/Labor+Of+Love,+Nurse+Midwife+Views+Service++As+Lifelong+Calling/373147/0/article.html]
  • Joyce Slinksy, John F. Kennedy Medical Center ER nurse [http://infomory.com/famous/famous-nurses-in-american-history/]
  • St. Philip School of Nursing, Richmond, Virginia (1920-1962) African American nursing school [http://www.richmond.com/special-section/black-history/many-black-traditions-are-victims-of-desegregation/article_3a355e15-3b7e-5a00-9f02-40b602ac7864.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150627004507/http://richmondmagazine.com/news/lessons-from-st-philip-01-10-2013/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180407151526/https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=20721], [https://digital.library.vcu.edu/digital/collection/sps], [https://digital.library.vcu.edu/digital/api/collection/sps/id/100/page/0/inline/sps_100_0]
  • 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]]

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