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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Nurses in History: Did you know?

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Rejected an offer of marriage from the poet Milnes. She did not want anything to interfere with what she believed was a God-given calling as a nurse.
WALT WHITMAN
Was a volunteer nurse at Army hospitals set up during the Civil War. Many of his observations led to his “The Great Army of the Sick.”
MARY LINCOLN-TODD
The wife of President Abraham Lincoln, who then married Lincoln’s rival, Stephan A. Douglas, worked tirelessly during the Civil War as a nurse, tending wounded soldiers.
CLARA BARTON
She began her nursing career at the age of 11, caring for her brother after he fell while working on a barn. Barton is known as the founder of the Red Cross, which began as she carried supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War.
MARY ELIZA MAHONEY
The first African-American professional registered nurse was Mary Eliza Mahoney.  She was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which later became the American Nurses Association.
MARY BRECKINRIDGE
One of the first to found family care centers, Mary Breckinridge provided a new model of rural health care in Appalachia. She founded the Frontier Nursing Service as a way to help others in far-flung areas of the U.S., where medical care was scarce.
 

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