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In 1938 Vazquez decided to pursue a career in medicine at the age of sixteen and began studies to become a nurse. She first studied nursing in the Escuela del Distrito de Bayamón, where she graduated in 1942. [2] She then continued her education with a course in obstetrics from the Hospital de la Capital de San Juan.
Doctor of the University: D.Univ. [1] [10] Honorary Doctor of Arts: Hon. D.A. [12] Honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters Hon. D.A.H. [13] Honorary Doctor of Business Hon. D.B. [14] Honorary Doctor of Dental Surgery: Hon. D.D.S. [11] Honorary Doctor of Divinity: Hon. D.D. [9] [11] Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts: Hon. D.F.A. Honorary Doctor of ...
Loretta C. Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] born December 28, 1920) [2] is an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965.
Even after a patient has passed away, hospice provides a year of family bereavement services. President Jimmy Carter, a hospice patient for nearly two years, serves as an example of what hospice ...
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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Agnes von Kurowsky Stanfield was born on January 5, 1892, in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Her parents met while her German-born father [3] Paul von Kurowsky was teaching languages at the Berlitz school in Washington, D.C., [2] where her mother Agnes Holabird was a pupil. [2]
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...