ipl-logo

Susan King Taylor: Intro To Professional Nursing

1092 Words5 Pages

Nursing Paper Fitsum Deresa Intro to Professional Nursing Charmain McKie, RN, MS, MPH Nursing Paper Susan (Baker) King Taylor is a very important historian that played a significant role in the nursing field. Her contribution to the nursing profession is astounding, but easily forgotten and unnoticed by many. Susie was born on August 6th, 1848 at Grest Farm on the Isle of Wight, in Liberty County, Georgia (35 miles from Savanna). The oldest of nine children born into slavery, her owners allowed her to move with her grandmother (Dolly Reed) in Savanna at the age of seven. Ms. Reed was a freed slave who considered education to be the most crucial aspect of a person’s life. Unfortunately it was forbidden …show more content…

At the age of 14 years old Susie King began teaching children and adults how to read and write. After some time had passed the former slaves along with Susie and her uncle’s family escaped the plantation. They joined with the Union Army encampment on St. Catherine Island and remained there for two weeks before transferring to St. Simon’s Island (Taylor, S. (1902). Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S.C, volunteers. Boston: The author.). The soldiers realized how much of an educated person Susan is and requested that she should establish a school for the uneducated within the group. This of course occurred when Captain Whitmore found out she could read and write in comparison to the …show more content…

Her life began as a struggle to obtain knowledge as an African-American female in the late 1800’s. Growing from an apprentice into a master she began educating the young and old into future teachers or physicians. Despite her already elevated literacy and nursing ability she still strived to further her intelligence. Much like how nurses and doctors go back to school to learn new practices; I believe Susan understood this need during her time as well. If I were born in the 19th century and had the pleasure of learning from Susie Taylor, or were to be a colleague I would try my best to match her wits. I would follow in her lead because she was one of a few African-American females to accomplish what she had during her time. She was the epitome of what a woman was considered to be and more. When Susie Taylor would maintain her logs, I would do the same but not a personal memoir. I would compile documentation on every medical procedure carried out, good or bad; then figure out how to correct the bad and improve the

Show More
Related

  • Accomplishments Of Kay Evelyn Scott

    721 Words  | 3 Pages

    Later on in life she changed the name to Evelyn Davis Early Learning Academy. Basically it was a big accomplishment in life because she was helping the poor work for money while she baby sat there kids all day everyday.

    Read More

  • Rebecca Nursing Case Essay

    1039 Words  | 5 Pages

    Good day Sir, our names are Logan Bosak and Kiera Markham, and we are pleased to represent Rebecca Nurse on this vitally important case. Your Excellency, the defendant stands hither accused falsely of witchcraft, a severe crime that should be dealt with the utmost care and understanding. You see Sir, Rebecca is a pious woman of high standing within the community, and as such, many citizens are surprised that Rebecca would be suspected of dealing with the devil. In fact, over thirty of the most prominent members of the community signed a petition attesting to Rebecca’s innocence and still others wrote individual petitions as well (Linder). Your Excellency must recall that Rebecca has not once strayed from her claim even as she was barraged with

    Read More

  • How Did Susan B Anthony Contribute To Women's Rights

    627 Words  | 3 Pages

    Susan B. Anthony was born into a Quaker family, with the hope that everyone would one day be treated equal. She denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman(Susan B. Anthony). From this point on, she knew that she needed to make a change. Susan B. Anthony, because of her intense work involving women 's’ rights, highly influenced all of the societies and beliefs that were yet to come. She employed a huge role in our history because of the fact that she advocated for women’s rights, for the integration of women in the workforce, and for the abolition of slavery.

    Read More

  • Jane Addam's Greatest Accomplishments

    509 Words  | 3 Pages

    Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.

    Read More

  • Mary Mcleod Bethune Essay

    499 Words  | 2 Pages

    Mary Mcleod Bethune’s life began in the same circumstances as many colored people during The Era Of Reconstruction. Bethune’s family was no exception to the entrapment that the withholding of civil rights caused. Bethune’s early realization that literacy could be used as a tool to potentially break and end the vicious cycle of degradation that occurred vapidly in her time would result in the founding of an amazing learning institute and years of service towards the cause of civil rights, her message of working for one’s self and compassion is still as powerful today as it was nearly a hundred years ago. Bethune was the only member in her family to attend school, a luxury for a child with sixteen other siblings. Bethune’s simple but poignant

    Read More

  • How Did Frederick Douglass Use Of Unfair Punishment

    817 Words  | 4 Pages

    Frederick Douglass was a man of immense courage, whose clear-cut auto biography convinced white Americans of the horrors of slavery, and gave them the ambition to abolish it. Slavery in the states had become a necessary evil to the whites, in which free labor meant growth and development of their home. Frederick Douglass’ expressions of his abhorrence for slavery are apparent in his detailed descriptions of the cruel treatment of masters to all slaves, and their forced illiteracy. The various acts of punishment towards slaves was a common gesture to all with the intentions of teaching the blacks their place in a white man’s world, and Douglass experienced this both by first and second hand experience.

    Read More

  • Frederick Douglass Learning To Read Essay

    498 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the 1800s, for a slave to know how to read and write was not only unheard of, but illegal. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in rural Talbot County, Maryland. For about seven years, he received reading lessons from his mistress Hugh, but that all changed as soon as she commenced her duties as a slaveholder. The once kind hearted woman was changed into a woman to be feared. She stopped teaching Douglass how to read and would monitor his whereabouts in her home to ensure that he was not reading anything.

    Read More

  • Human Rights In Harriet Tubman Escape To Freedom By Ann Petry

    767 Words  | 4 Pages

    This is a prime example of when the slaves children should have been at a school, under the supervision of a professional adult whose job it to educate children. This text example also shows that the children were not at a school, but at the plantation. Petry also states “In the summer of 1826, Harriet was 6 years old and by plantation standards, big enough to work.” (pg. 30 )

    Read More

  • Nellie Bly's Impact On Society

    835 Words  | 4 Pages

    Frederick Douglass once said, “Through conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read… It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost confidence [and learn how] to read,” (41). Douglass was known for being one of the most influential figures in America for being one of the few slaves to read; however, there is one other person who is an important figure in American history. Nellie Bly is an important American rebel, because of how she changed the newspaper industry for female writers. By becoming a writer, Bly helped change the way men portrayed women during the Victorian era. When Nellie Bly started to work in a newspaper

    Read More

  • King's Theory: Who Is Imogene King?

    862 Words  | 4 Pages

    She was inducted into the FNA Hall of Fame and the ANA Hall of Fame in 2004. She received the Living Legend award in 2005 for her contributions to nursing theory. She defines nursing as “a process of action, reaction, and interaction whereby nurse and client share information about their perception in the nursing situation” (Alligood, 2018, p. 261).

    Read More

  • Essay On Professional Identity In Nursing

    1816 Words  | 8 Pages

    Introduction Worldwide today there are about 14 million nurses of which in 2015 136854 were found to be in South Africa, who serve as the core of the health care system (Morteza, et al., 2012) (Anon., 2015). Over the years nursing has evolved, with the professional identity of nurses changing from merely being seen as doctor’s assistants to being important members of the health care team. Professional identity is described as a career or occupational identity which is a component of an individual’s overall identity (Johnson, et al., 2012). It is said to be “ a sense of self that is derived and perceived from the role we take on in work that we do” which is amplified by one’s societal standing, how you interact with others and interpretations of one’s experiences (Johnson, et

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Night John By Gary Paulsen

    580 Words  | 3 Pages

    “She don’t know nothin. It was me that taught the girl letters” NightJohn by Gary Paulsen. A girl name Sarny got taken away from her mother when she was born into slavery. Mammy was the one who raised all the young ones, so mammy raised her for the years. Then a man named John came and was there for teaching her to read and write.

    Read More

  • Comparing King's Essay, The Joy Of Reading And Writing

    877 Words  | 4 Pages

    Douglass belong to a well off family. The woman of the house thought him how to read and write some things. Until her husband found out that she was teaching him, then she suddenly stopped and was angry at Douglass, when he was reading. They felt like he would listen to the Irishman when he said “They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.” After losing his only source of teaching he resorted to the lest fortunate white kids for help.

    Read More

  • Essay On Mary Mahoney

    506 Words  | 3 Pages

    Mary’s sixteen month training made her a greater nurse. This training made it possible for her to be asked to speak for the NACGN, become a member of that association, and later become a member of the ANA. Mary’s active membership in the nursing associations, and her outstanding work as a nurse made it possible for an award to be named after her. It is because of Mary that women of all races who aspire to be in the nursing profession can make it through like Mary

    Read More

  • Evelyn Boyd Granville Essay

    696 Words  | 3 Pages

    Evelyn Boyd Granville was born in Washington D.C on May 1, 1924. Her father William Boyd worked odd jobs due to the Great Depression she was even the valedictorian at Dunbar High School. . Evelyn Boyd was separated from her mother when she was young. Evelyn and her sister Doris were raised by her aunt and her mother. Her mother was Julia Walker Boyd.

    Read More

More about Susan King Taylor: Intro To Professional Nursing

Open Document