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In 2001, California enacted phlebotomy licensure following a public health outcry about an on-the-job trained phlebotomist that re-used needles. [15] [16] California has two levels of phlebotomy licensure: Certified Phlebotomy Technician I (CPT I) – authorized to perform skin puncture and venipuncture blood collection. [17]
Virginia Estelle Randolph (May 1870 – March 16, 1958) was an American educator in Henrico County, Virginia. [1] She was named the United States' first "Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher" by her Superintendent of Schools, Jackson Davis, [2] and she led a program funded by the Jeanes Foundation to upgrade vocational training throughout the U.S. South as her career progressed.
Sarah Garland Boyd Jones in 1893 became the first woman physician licensed in Virginia. [23] Sophia B. Jones was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, who founded the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M
Bessie Virginia Griffin, better known as Bessie Blount, [1] (November 24, 1914 – December 30, 2009), was an American writer, nurse, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. Early life [ edit ]
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
The first steps toward the establishment of a training school for social workers in Richmond, Virginia were taken under the auspices of the Bureau of Vocations for Women, headed by Orie Latham Hatcher. The first planning meeting, chaired by Virginia Spotswood McKenney, was held on October 21, 1916. [3]
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
The college was founded as Southwest Virginia Institute in Glade Spring, Virginia, on September 17, 1884, by Reverend J.R. Harrison, a Baptist minister, as a means to bring higher education opportunities to women in southwest Virginia. Instructing both boarding and day students, the school steadily grew until it outgrew its facilities in less ...