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Halima Rafat, pioneer Afghan nurse and women's rights activist, one of the first nurses of her country; Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, nurse and Miss America 1988; Emmy Rappe (1835–1896), first professionally trained Swedish nurse, pioneer in the education of nurses; Elizabeth Raybould (1926 –2015) pioneer in Nurse education in Northern Ireland
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.
1992 – Eddie Bernice Johnson is the first nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. 1993 – After reforms in 1993, nursing education in Sweden is changing from vocational training to academic education. [94] 1999 – Elnora D. Daniel is the first black nurse elected president of a major university, Chicago State University. [30]
These nurses, who came to be called "The Sacred Twenty", were the first women to formally serve as members of the Navy. [5] The Navy required its first Nurse Corps candidates to be between 22 and 44 years old and also unmarried. As a 34-year-old widow, Higbee met these requirements. [3] She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1909. Lenah Higbee ...
She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1] Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. [2]
[4] [5] [6] She has been with CNA/NNOC for almost two decades in a number of capacities, working her way up into the leadership of the organization from her early days as a registered nurse member who helped to unionize her facility, to staff and then lead organizer, to a director, and now to her current position as executive director. [2]
The first continent with a UN member state to have a female leader after WWII was Asia. In 1960, Sri Lanka – known then as Ceylon – elected its first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
In 1920, after women's suffrage was achieved in the U.S., Mahoney was among the first women in Boston to register to vote. In 1923, Mahoney was diagnosed with breast cancer and battled the illness for 3 years until she died on January 4, 1926, at the age of 80. [16] Her grave is located in Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Massachusetts. [17]