A group of student nurses are discussing the many traits necessary to be a public health nurse. Which early leader should the students recognize as an example of advocacy for her patients by defying the laws of her time?

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Margaret Sanger openly defied a law that she saw as unjust (the Comstock Act that prohibited the provision of any information on contraception to women). This defiance eventually resulted in the formation of The International Planned Parenthood Federation. During the same period that Lillian Wald and her contemporaries were working to alleviate the suffering caused by disease and poverty, Margaret Sanger began a different battle. Florence Nightingale wrote a series of papers on the need for "home missioners" and "health visitors" and endorsed the view that prevention was better than cure. Mary Brewster was a nurse and a friend of Lillian Wald who both together started the Henry Street Settlement.

A Group of Student Nurses Are Discussing the Many Traits