Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965)
Författare till Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service
Om författaren
Foto taget av: Mary Breckinridge on horseback
Verk av Mary Breckinridge
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1881-02-17
- Avled
- 1965-05-16
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Dödsort
- Hyden, Kentucky, USA
- Utbildning
- British Hospital for Mothers and Babies (midwifery)
St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing - Yrken
- Midwife
Nurse
teacher - Organisationer
- Frontier Nursing Service (founder)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- Kort biografi
- Mary Breckinridge was a nurse-midwife and founder of Frontier Nursing Service. She used knowledge gained from nurse-midwives in England and France and created a nursing service to provide care to mothers and babies in rural Kentucky. She also founded a midwifery school that is still prominent today.
Medlemmar
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 50
- Popularitet
- #316,248
- Betyg
- 4.0
- ISBN
- 7
- Språk
- 1