Mary Eliza Mahoney
- A profile of the first African-American professional nurse.
- http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Mahoney.cfm

Aunt Lizzie Aiken from Peoria
- Excerpt of a memorial book written in 1906 describing Mrs. Aiken services to the soldiers at Shawneetown in 1861.
- http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisWomen/files/pe/htm1/aiken.cfm

Louisa Maertz
- Profile: Louisa Maertz, 1837-1918, an untrained United States Civil War nurse.
- http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisWomen/files/bh/htm2/bhHTM003.cfm

Nurse Edith Cavell
- In 1914, she harbored allied soldiers from behind the Germans lines. Story By Peter Clowes for Military History magazine.
- http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bledithcavell1.htm

Edith Cavell
- A British nurse executed during the First World War. A statue in St. Martin's Place, just off London's Trafalgar Square, bears the words, 'Humanity, Fortitude, Devotion, Sacrifice'--fitting tributes to the life she led. Authored by Abraham Unger, M.D.
- http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bledith_cavell1.htm

Profile - Jane Delano: Innovator in Nursing
- A pioneer in the American Red Cross Nursing Service.
- http://www.redcross.org/museum/registry/profile.asp?id=745

Edith Cavell: A Norfolk Heroine
- Profile of British nurse Edith Cavell who worked in Belgium in World War I. She was arrested for helping allied soldiers to freedom and executed by the German authorities.
- http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/

Adah Belle Samuel Thoms
- A crusader for equal opportunities for blacks in nursing. She was one of the first to recognize a new field for nursing, public health.
- http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/thomab.htm

Florence Guinness Blake
- Inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1996. A distinguished pediatric nurse who strove to advance education in pediatric nursing.
- http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/blakfg.htm

Spotlight - Jo Anne Ashley
- A nurse, author and educator. She was a staunch advocate of the role of nursing in the health field, power in nursing and the historic perspective of nursing.
- http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/spotlight.htm

Profile - Sophie Mannerheim
- A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. A Finnish stamp was dedicated to her.
- http://home.c2i.net/amd/finwomen/mannerheim.htm

Sally Louisa Tompkins
- Opened one of the most successful hospitals during the civil war, returning more of its patients to the ranks than any other medical care facility. She was the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army.
- http://www.civilwarhome.com/tompkinsbio.htm

Hall of Fame Inductee: Clara Louise Maass
- From the American Nurses Association: Profile of one of the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow fever.
- http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/maascl.htm

Profiles in Caring: Lillian D.Wald
- Biography of the founder of the Henry Street Settlement, the forerunner of the Visiting Nurse Society of New York.
- http://www.nahc.org/NAHC/Val/Columns/SC10-4.html

Linda Richards
- Considered America's first trained nurse. A "Women of Courage" profile.
- http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/richards.htm