Nurse leader linda richards essay

After this noted graduation, Richards accepted a position as night superintendent at the newly established Bellevue Training School (New York City) which was the first Nightingale model training school in the United States. In 1874 she returned to Boston as superintendent of the Boston Training School.

Linda Richards (full name Malinda Ann Judson Richards, b. July 27, 1841 - d. April 16, 1930) spent a lifetime as a caregiver, and made history as a nurse on several fronts. Richards was born near Potsdam, New York, the youngest of three daughters born to Betsy and Sinclair Richards.

She was a pioneer in starting many nursing schools throughout the United States and one in Japan. Malinda Ann Judson Richards was born in 1841, the third of three children. Her father was a preacher who named her after a missionary with the hope that she would also go into the mission field.

Richards was caretaker for her ill mother, who also succumbed to tuberculosis when Richards was 13, an experience that piqued her interest in nursing as a career. Although she became a factory worker, then a teacher, nothing surpassed in passion for nursing.