Mary Breckinridge, Nurse
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Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. She was known for helping many people with her hospitals. After equipping herself for the challenging nurse-midwife job to the rural America, Mary Breckinridge began serving in Kentucky in 1925, wherein she introduced the new system of rural health care. In that same year, she established Frontier Nursing Service, providing care for low service fee. In areas covered, maternal and neonatal mortality rates significantly dropped. FNS is still serving mothers and children down to this very day.
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Source: Mary Breckinridge. (2012, August 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RxWZUw">http://bit.ly/RxWZUw</a>
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Mary Eliza Mahoney, First African American Nurse 1845-1926
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Mary Mahoney was the first African-American woman to study and work as professionally trained nurse. Born in Massachusetts, she was a hospital worker before entering training and receiving a diploma in 1879 from the nursing school of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Trained nurses were a relatively new institution then, but standards were rigorous, and only four of 18 women who started the course with Mahoney graduated. Her high level of performance thwarted racial bias and paved the way for other African-American women to enter the profession. Mahoney developed a successful career as a private duty nurse and as one of the few early African-American members of the American Nurses Association, she was an active member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. A longtime advocate of woman suffrage, Mahoney is believed to be one of the first women to register and vote in Boston following passage of the 19th Amendment. The Mary Mahoney Award of the American Nurses Association honors significant contributions to race relations.
Honored by the National Womens Hall of Fame 1993
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Nursing: The American Nurses Association Hall of Fame
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This prestigious award recognizes an individual’s lifelong commitment to the field of nursing and its impact on the health and/or social history of the U.S. The following individuals were inducted to the ANA Hall of Fame in 2014: Barbara Thoman Curtis, RN, Florida Nurses Association, Robert V. Piemonte, EdD, RN, CAE, FAAN, ANA-New York, Pearl McIver, MS, RN (1893–1976), RADM Jessie M. Scott, DSc, RN, FAAN (1915–2009), Pennsylvania State Nurses Association and Mary Ellen Patton, RN Ohio Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's entire registered nurse population. From the halls of Congress and federal agencies to the board rooms, hospitals and other health care facilities, ANA is the strongest voice for the nursing profession. It is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
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2014 Hall of Fame Inductees <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://nursingworld.org/">American Nurses Association Hall of Fame</a>
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