Nurse Leadership Paper:
Clara Barton
March is Women’s History Month, the most honored women and self-taught nurse in America’s history is Clara Barton. She risked her life and supported the troops during the Civil War. The biggest accomplishment by far was that founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. She is noted to be to play the role of “Angel of the Battlefield”(Strickler, 2018). A little unknown fact about her is that she was a teacher and director of a women’s prison and was also a teacher before the war. When the Civil War broke out she helped to collect bandages and other medical supplies for the troops. She found that just collecting the supplies, was pointless usually, they can be delivered to them. She then best supported the troops by going to the battlefields in person with the much-needed supplies (Strickler, 2018).
After the war, she traveled to Europe because she fell ill. During her travels, she found Dr. Louis Appia and Henri Dunan; who founded the International Red Cross (“Clara Barton: Daughter of Destiny”, 1942). On her return to the Americas, she pleads with President Rutherford Hayes and congress to have the United States join the international Red Cross. The President and Congress did not join in after month went by she founded the American Red Cross (“Clara Barton: Daughter of Destiny”, 1942). To help protect the sick and wounded during wartime and natural disaster, to give aide base on voluntarily. When she came back from the United States is influenced by friends and contacts to help found the American Red Cross in the United States (“Clara Barton: Daughter of Destiny”, 1942).
Clara was very brave and self-sacrificed her self to help others. She has a persistent work attitude, and in having that she accomplished many things during her lifetime. Clara was very inspirational to others, this on one of the reasons the Red Cross was so successful. She was a leader who taught the American society that if we can help and should help the people who are in need (Strickler, 2018). She leads by personal example, as she opened paths ways for others to volunteer their services to others. She invented new ways to solve big health problems and saved many lives over her lifetime. She was deeply devoted to serving others, thus the result was several achievements she fulfilled during her lifetime.
References:
Clara Barton: Daughter of Destiny. (1942). JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 118(16), 1420. doi: 10.1001/jama.1942.02830160080038
Clara Barton. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/clara-barton.html
Strickler, J. (2018). Clara Barton: Angel of the battlefield. Nursing, 48(3), 43–45. https://doi-org.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1097/01.NURSE.0000529805.60418.26
