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Profiles In NursingMary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), America’s First Professionally Trained Black NurseThe daughter of enslaved people, Mahoney distinguished herself as a nurseThis Boston-born nurse was a true pioneer: The first Black woman in the U.S. ever to earn a professional nursing degree. A Country Torn by Slavery When Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in 1845, slavery was still legally practiced in half the U.S. In states...
Profiles In NursingSister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952), Controversial Australian Polio Treatment ReformerWas this controversial Australian nurse a hero or a hoax?To her admirers, “Sister Kenny” was a crusader, challenging a reactionary medical establishment’s preconceptions about one of her era’s most feared diseases. To many physicians, she was a dangerous, ignorant quack. The real story of Sister...
Profiles In NursingEvelyn Lundeen (1900-1963), Neonatal Nurse Who Redefined Premature Infant CareSetting the standards for neonatology careWhen Evelyn Lundeen began the job that would become her life’s work, neonatology as we know it was barely practiced in the U.S. When Evelyn Lundeen began the job that would become her life’s work, neonatology as we know it was barely practiced in the...

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Profiles In NursingEdith Patton Lewis (1914-2005), Investigative Reporter and EditorA psychiatric staff nurse, she wrote sharp pieces on the condition and career of being a nurseWriting is a fact of life for nurses, whether it’s charting, scientific papers or our endless daily stream of texts and emails. Writing is a fact of life for nurses, whether it’s charting, scientific papers or our endless daily stream of texts and...
Profiles In NursingLt. Elsie Ott, RN (1913-2006), and the First Globe-Spanning Wartime MedevacA WWII flight nurse takes a grueling, globe-spanning medical evacuationShe’d never even flown before, but in 1943, 2nd Lt. Elsie Ott, RN, became the U.S. Army’s first flight nurse, assigned to the first-ever intercontinental medical evacuation flight: a seven-day, 11,000-mile odyssey that took her and five patients from...
Profiles In NursingJane Delano (1862-1919), Champion of the American Red Cross Nursing ServiceRecruiting and training nurses to serve in war and peaceJane Arminda Delano found her calling as a nurse and a volunteer with the American Red Cross, helping to recruit thousands of nurse volunteers for World War I and to bring desperately needed healthcare to rural America. Yellow Fever Born in Townsend,...

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Profiles In NursingSarah A. Palmer, aka “Aunt Becky” (1830–1908), Civil War Nurse and MemoiristHer vivid wartime memoir is still in printSarah Graham Palmer Young, popularly known as “Aunt Becky,” was one of the best-known Union Army nurses of the Civil War, adored by many as a fierce champion of sick and wounded soldiers. Her vivid wartime memoir is still in print today. Gone to War...
Profiles In NursingAgnes Jones (1832-1868), English Workhouse Infirmary ReformerIn the age of Dickens, her efforts led to the reform of English public healthcareBorn wealthy, Agnes Jones dedicated her short life to caring for some of England’s most desperate citizens. Her tenacity, will and faith helped to transform English healthcare, earning her the deep personal regard of Florence Nightingale herself. The...
Profiles In NursingCol. Ruby Bradley (1907-2002), Army Nurse and Angel of Bataan POWA highly-decorated veteran, she survived four years as a Japanese POWNurses are trained to never abandon their patients. Perhaps no one nurse better understood that dictum than did Col. Ruby Grace Bradley, a U.S. Army Nurse Corps veteran who served in two wars and survived three years as a POW. Nurses are trained to never...

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