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NUR 425 Nurse Leaders fully solved & verified for accuracy.
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Mary Breckenridge - answer registered nurse in 1910. She
introduced nurse-midwifery to America, founding the Frontier
Nursing Service (FNS), which also focused on bringing general and
maternal pre and post-natal care to women living in the Appalachian
mountains of eastern Kentucky.
Mary Ezra Mahoney - answer In 1879 Mary Ezra Mahoney became
the first African-American women to become a registered nurse in
the United States. Because of the successes of this alumna, the New
England Hospital for Women and children, loosened policies against
admitting African-American nursing candidates. She went on to
advocate for the rights of all African-American nurses and co-
founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
(NACGN) in 1908.
Walt Whitman - answer While known as a teacher, journalist and
one of America's most recognized poets, Whitman served three
years during the Civil War as a volunteer nurse. He visited wounded
soldiers at military hospitals around the Washington D. C. area and
cared for the wounded bodies and souls, listening to their stories,
sending word to their families on their behalf, raising soldiers'
spirits and sitting by them when they died, visiting more than
100,000 Confederate and Union wounded soldiers.
Florence Guinness Blake - answer A 20th Century pioneer in
nursing education, Blake advocated for better training for nurses,
dedicating much of her work to pediatric nursing and education. She
founded the first of its kind advanced pediatric nursing graduate
program at the University of Chicago. In 1950 she authored and
published "The Child, His Parents and the Nurse", a book explaining
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