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Nursing started with Jesus healing Peter's Mother-iin-law
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First hospital founded and opened, Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis
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George Washington recruited nurses care for wounded
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Mental Instituations were created for metally ill, by Dorothea Dix
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Florence Nightingale created holistic nursing during Crimean War
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Note on Nursing, by Flrence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale opened Schol of Nursing in London
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Nurses began to wear uniforms
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First American trained nurse, Linda Anne Judson Richards
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First African American Nursing graduate, Mary Eliza Mahoney
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Clara Barton established the American Red Cross
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First published American Journal of Nursing
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First Registered Nurse, Ellen Dougherty
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First public school nurse hired, Lina Rogers Struthers in New York City
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Planned Parenthood and Birth Control meetings established by Margaret Sanger
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The Sheppard-Towner Act
infant/mother mortalitiy -
First Intensive Care Units established in late 1950's
First idea was in 1955 by Dr. William Mosenthal a surgeon in the US at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center -
First hopice patient started by Dame Cicely Saunders
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Nurses started dressing more causual by wearing "scrubs"
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The Lewis Blackman Act
Patient safety act