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Operation Nightingale was an intensive effort by the United States Army Nurse Corps (ANC) to recruit nurses during the Vietnam War. The ANC had a shortage of nurses, and Operation Nightingale was aimed at recruiting 2,000 employees.
Born Vickie Dawn Carson on February 13, 1966, in Montague County, Texas, little is publicly known about Jackson's early life.A licensed vocational nurse since 1989, who worked at several other hospitals and a nursing home around North Texas, she eventually found employment at the Nocona General Hospital sometime during late 2000. [3]
Kimberly eventually earned her high school diploma or equivalency of and went to Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas to earn her vocational nursing license. She was hired as a nurse at a DaVita dialysis clinic. She was hired despite a checkered employment history: at the time, she had been fired at least four times from healthcare jobs.
The London museum celebrating the most famous figure in nursing history will open again on May 12. It marks the 202nd anniversary of her birth and International Nurses’ Day.
Ethel Gordon Fenwick (1856–1947), British nurse who campaigned for a law limiting nursing to "registered" nurses only Erna Flegel (1911–2006), Adolf Hitler 's nurse Alma E. Foerster (1885–1967), American nurse who served in World War I , received the Florence Nightingale Medal (1920) and then worked in the United States Public Health Service
Regina Purtell (1866–1950) was an American Roman Catholic sister and United States Army nurse. She cared for Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders", and the media dubbed her "The Florence Nightingale of the Spanish-American War." [1] In 1902, after Roosevelt had become president, she became his personal nurse at his request when he underwent ...
Winkler County, Texas. The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas concerning the retaliation against two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009. The case attracted national attention for its implications on whistleblowing by nurses.
Above: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license.