What Decade Style of Nursing Are You?

You are an OG nurse, paving the way for other nurses and teaching them along the way. As a nursing pioneer, you are a natural leader, ready to take on new challenges, boost other nurses, cheer on new ideas, and high five your fellow coworkers for a job well done. Wherever you go, other nurses are sure to follow your lead.

Some of the most well-known nurse pioneers are: Florence Nightingale, Dorthea Dix, Clara Barton, Hazel W. Johnson-Brown, Mary Ezra Mahoney, Virginia Lynch

No doubt, nursing requires a big heart and a lot of empathy to help patients. As a nursing caretaker, your top focus is making your patients feel comfortable and cared for. In fact, one of the earliest roles in nursing was wartime nursing. Taking care of wounded soldiers was critical, especially in WWI from 1917-1919 and in 1940s, the height of WWII. Caretaker nurses have the personality to make an emotional impression on their patients.

Some of the most well-known nurse caretakers are: Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Agatha Christie, Edith Cavell, Helen Fairchild, Walt Whitman

You are even-keeled, no nonsense and brave to a fault. Dare we say, stoic. As a nursing monitor, you’re the type that keeps people’s feet on the ground and heads in the game. While you’re definitely a mover and shaker in your career, you value stability in finding solutions, because that keeps people healthy and happy, which is the best part of your job.

Some of the most well-known nurse monitors are: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Mary Walker, Helen Fairchild, Edith Cavell, Margaret Sanger, Calamity Jane

Solutions, solutions, solutions. You are all about problem-solving and asking the tough questions to find the best answer to help your patients. As a nursing innovator, you’re always looking to the future to find solutions to new problems with patients, making the world of nursing easier, more effective and better.

Some of the most well-known nurse innovators are: Anita Dorr, Teri Barton-Salinas, Gail Barton-Hay, Sister Jean Ward, Adda May Allen, Bessie Blount Griffin, Sharon Rogone