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  2. Mary Eliza Mahoney - Wikipedia

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    Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.

  3. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Faye Glenn Abdellah - Wikipedia

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    Faye Glenn Abdellah (March 13, 1919 – February 24, 2017) was an American pioneer in nursing research. [1] Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. [1]

  5. List of nurses - Wikipedia

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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

  6. Hazel Johnson-Brown - Wikipedia

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    Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]

  7. Lenah Higbee - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Margaret MacDonald (nurse) - Wikipedia

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    MacDonald worked to make a place for women in the male-dominated military. [2] [4] Military Nurse Badge. The First World War marked a big change in MacDonald's military career. She had moved to Britain to develop leadership skills from their military nursing program. She wanted to make a change for the women and challenge the gender roles of ...

  9. Clara Noyes - Wikipedia

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    Clara Dutton Noyes was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, one of the ten children of Enoch Noyes and Laura Lay Banning Noyes. Her father had been a colonel with the 26th Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. She graduated from nurses' training at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1896. [1]