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Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 25, 1916) was a Confederate nurse and the first woman to have been formally inducted into an army in American history. She may have been the only woman officially commissioned in the Confederate Army. [1]
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 ...
Virginia Henderson (1897–1996), 'First Lady of Nursing", American nurse theorist; Monina Hernandez, first Filipino nurse to be appointed to the Nursing Council of New Zealand [2] and first Filipino elected as director of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation [3] Pamela Hibbs (1935 – 2021) UK pioneer in pressure sore prevention
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]
Betty Robbins, born in Greece, was the first female cantor in the 5,000-year-old history of Judaism. [129] She was appointed cantor of the reform [130] Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York, in 1955, [131] when she was 31 and the Temple was without a cantor for the High Holidays. [132] [133]
Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.
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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (née Sarah Garland Boyd; 1866 – May 11, 1905) was an American physician from the U.S. state of Virginia.She was the first woman to receive a certificate from the Virginia State Medical Examining Board and co-founded a hospital in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Miles Berkley Jones.