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in 1861 she was appointed superintendent of army nurses for Civil War service.S he helped establish the first state hospital in 1881
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known as "Mother" Bickerdyke, due to her nursing of soldiers during the Civil War.
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America's First Trained Nurse
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first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A
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Was the first president of the Red Cross. Thanks to her efforts the Geneva Treaty was signed by the United States.
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She was the head of the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
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the founder of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service and of the Henry Street Settlement
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In 1907 Mary Adelaide Nutting joined the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University and became the world's first professor of nursing
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Led suffrage pickets from the National Women's Party Headquarters to the White House
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Sanger founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
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Established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) ito provide professional health care in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky, one of America's poorest and most isolated regions.
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First full-time nursing instructor in Virginia
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She was responsible for the first practical nurse program.
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The first baccalaureate of nursing program in the state of Alabama, was started under her leadership.
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The first Dean of Yale School of Nursing
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The foundress of the worldwide Transcultural Nursing movement.
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A nursing theorist, published "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing"
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Head of the Division of Nursing at New York University.
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Founder of the Orem model of nursing, or Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory.
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Founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
