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2 unusual facts about nursing


Maria Ruud

She graduated from Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, then went on to the University of Minnesota, receiving her B.S.N. She later earned her M.S.N. at the University of California in San Francisco.

Nursing

Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Linda Richards, who established quality nursing schools in the USA and Japan; Linda Richards was officially America's first professionally trained nurse, graduating in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston


1974 NBA Finals

With Ron Williams unable to handle the Celtic press and shooting guard Jon McGlocklin nursing a sprained ankle, Bucks coach Larry Costello turned to little-used forward Mickey Davis for help in the backcourt.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Anna Maxwell

Maxwell was also the first director of the Presbyterian Hospital's nursing school, founded in 1892, which later became the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Ayub School of Nursing

The Ayub School of Nursing (ASN), located in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, is the nursing education unit of Ayub Medical College, however most teaching and training occurs at Ayub Teaching Hospital.

Azad Moopen

The MIMS Academy Trust, under his Chairmanship has set up a 32-acre campus at Karad in Malappuram District which has more than 1,100 students in medical and nursing subjects.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Towards the end of her life - in her mid-60s - she worked alongside Florence Nightingale, nursing casualties of the Crimean war.

Blanche Ely High School

Blanche Ely High School offers medical and engineering magnet programs and vocational programs such as the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) and the LPN nursing

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Clinical Care Classification System

In 1988 to 1990, Harriet Werley established the Nursing Minimum Data Set, which consisted of 12 variables: 8 variables focused on patient demographics and the remaining 4 focused on nursing practice—

Dinsdale Park

Following the sale of the property in 1914 by Aubone Surtees, the building has had various uses, including a psychiatric hospital, a local authority residential school and a nursing home.

Diploma in Nursing

The Cherry Ames series of children's books was created to encourage girls to go into the nursing profession during World War II.

Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions

Along with promoting education in the areas of health profession the college is host to a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, an international honor society for nursing.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

In May 2013 the Trust took over the Health E1 clinic in Brick Lane which had been run by nursing staff with GPs and other specialist nurses for those who couldn’t register with a practice because they had no settled address.

Eirlys Warrington

A ward manager role in orthopaedic and trauma nursing at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary was followed by a move to the Accident and Emergency Department to become part of the developing M6 motorway accident team.

Erema

Having completed her self-imposed mission, she sets out on her way back to California and the sawmill; reaches the other side of the Atlantic in time to help in nursing the sick and wounded in the civil war; and among them finds her old friends, Sampson Gundry and his grandson, arrayed on opposite sides in the war.

Hanoi International American Hospital

The hospital will supposedly offer such services: General Medical Care, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Psychiatry, Neurology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing Services, Otorhinolaryngology, Acupuncture, Oncology, Cardiology, Pathology.

Health Initiative of the Americas

Medical, Nursing and Pharmacy students spend a month in Cuernavaca, Mexico learning how to deal with Spanish-speaking patients in a culturally sensitive manner.

Heimar de Fátima Marin

Heimar Marin is also the President of Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (2002–2008); Associate-editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics; and Vice-chair and Elected Chair (2009–2012) of the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA NI SIG).

HMHS Llandovery Castle

Among those lost were fourteen nursing sisters from Canada, including the Matron Margaret Marjory (Pearl) Fraser from Nova Scotia (daughter of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Duncan Cameron Fraser).

Innamincka, South Australia

In 1928 the Australian Inland Mission (a part of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia) built a hospital here, the Elizabeth Symon Nursing Home.

Jaintia Hills district

Prominent Colleges in Jaintia hills include Jowai Polytechnic A reputed and the only Nursing School in the district namely Dr. Norman Tunnel Hospital School Of Nursing, Thomas Jones College and Kiang Nangbah Govt. College, Jowai which offers degree courses in arts and science.

Joan Sydney

She remains remains best known for her long-running Logie Award winning television role between 1983-1990 as Margaret "Maggie" Sloan', the matron and patriarch of the fictional Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, in A Country Practice on the Seven Network.

Judith Adams

She joined the New Zealand Territorial Army as a nursing sister in 1963, and was later posted to Vietnam as a civilian nurse under the Colombo Plan during the Vietnam War.

Léogâne

The missionaries of World Wide Village, set up outpatient clinics beside the Japanese Red Cross at the nursing school in Léogâne within days after the earthquake.

Liverpool Infirmary

William Rathbone V set up the world's first ever district nursing service in Liverpool.

Margaret Alexander

Margaret F. Alexander, British nursing administrator and medical professional

Maxelende Ganade

Justino 'Ning" Romea, a writer of the Bohol Chronicle and composer of the RPC Song (now the UB Hymn) and the Bohol Provincial School of Nursing Hymn, was commissioned to pen the Bohol Provincial Hymn.

Medina College-Pagadian

After acquiring St. John College and Hospital, Medina College Pagadian City in the Philippines is the leading nursing school in the province of Zamboanga del Sur attracting students from Sulo, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga City, Lanao del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, and even Cotabato City.

Mental health in Singapore during the colonial period

Right up to that point, care for the mentally ill was the responsibility of a few expatriate nurses and health attendants who lacked training in nursing (Institute of Mental Health 2003, p. 16).

Michele Leonhart

During Leonhart's testimony before the Judiciary Committee, she was questioned by a member of the Committee on Aging, Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), about her policy for nurses prescribing painkillers for patients in nursing homes.

Monash University, Berwick campus

Monash University, Berwick Campus is a campus of Monash University located in Berwick, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. It offers degrees in Business and Commerce, Nursing and Education.

Muriel Angelus

Angelus died at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Virginia, aged 95, survived by her daughter from her second marriage.

Nanarchy

Lister (Craig Charles) is finding it very difficult to get used to life with only one arm, but seems to enjoy Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) nursing him, and Kryten is absolutely loving it.

Nursing home residents' rights

In 1980 the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act was passed to protect the civil rights of, amongst others, residents of nursing homes and similar facilities.

Nursing literature

Virginia Henderson is regarded as one of the earliest nurse educators to expand the scholarly writings of nursing into textbooks for use in schools and colleges of nursing.

Nursing Students Without Borders

The founding chapter of Nursing Students Without Borders has undertaken a larger initiative to provide support for the construction of a Red Cross medical clinic in San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador.

Rae Perlin

Her passion was not nursing but art where she eventually studied with Samuel Brecher under Hans Hofmann.

Richard Angelo

He graduated from the St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in 1980, and then signed up for a two-year nursing program at Farmingdale State College, where he was a well-regarded honor student.

Rick Davies

Davies' mother died in late 2008 at a nursing home in Stratton St Margaret; Davies travelled from his Long Island, New York home every Christmas to visit her.

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Degree programme in International Business (BBA), Master's Degree programme in International Business Management (MBA) and Degree programme in Nursing (RN).

Shuli Mualem

After leaving the army she attended the Shaare Zedek nursing school, gaining a bachelor's degree, before taking a master's degree course in industrial engineering at the Technion.

Social entrepreneurship

A list of a few historically noteworthy people whose work exemplifies classic "social entrepreneurship" might include Florence Nightingale, founder of the first nursing school and developer of modern nursing practices; Robert Owen, founder of the cooperative movement; and Vinoba Bhave, founder of India's Land Gift Movement.

Squannacook River

The former E.H. Sampson Leather Board Mill became a senior citizen/ nursing home.

St Augustine's Hospital, Chartham

In 1972, when the hospital was under the leadership of medical superintendent John Ainslie, a post-doctorate researcher in chemistry called William Ankers (from the nearby University of Kent) obtained a temporary job as a nursing assistant.

Tallaght Hospital

Famous for its nursing school which was founded in 1859 by Miss Bramwell who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, the Adelaide has been at the forefront of many medical advances.

Trinity Palmetto Point Parish

The village of West Farm is home to three universities: The Robert Ross Nursing University, the University of Medicine and Health Sciences (St. Kitts), and the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine.

Union busting

In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster named Martin J. Levitt reported that he conducted a counter-organizing drive at a nursing home in Sebring, Ohio.

Village Care of New York

During the late 1970s when HIV was only spoken about in whispers and called the "gay cancer" the same core group that helped to purchase the nursing home decided to split their focus and to start caring for the residents of Greenwich Village that were afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

William Howard Russell

Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent"—though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports.

William Passavant

He noted the comparable apostolic deaconesses, as well as the Sisters of Charity (a Roman Catholic order founded by St. Vincent DePaul), the Mennonite nursing deaconesses in Holland, and Elizabeth Fry's work in England.


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