MaryMary Eliza Mahoney was the first black professional nurse in America. She was born April 16, 1845, in Boston, the oldest of three children. At the age of 18, Mary decided to pursue the dream of being a nurse. When she was 33, she was accepted in New England Hospital for Women and Children’s nursing school. Of the 42 students who stated that year, she was one of the first four to graduate that following year.
Of the $500 she made a year, she put $200 away to attend graduate school (Pioneer 807). In June of 1918 Lancefield became a technical for a Streptococcus study at the Rockefeller Hospital (Pioneer 805). At this time, classifying streptococcal bacteria had a very difficult method and was in a very messy state. After moving back to Oregon with her husband for a year, they returned to New York and Lancefield continued with her work with Zinsser, whom typically didn’t like women in his laboratory but made an exception for Lancefield due to her history in biology/bacteriology. It was here that Lancefield began her work with Streptococcus viridians, which was suspected by the medical community to cause rheumatic fever.
Shomoi K. Francis March 3, 2011 Ms. Wright Chemistry 1 Patricia Bath Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, and the daughter of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Her father an immigrant from Trinidad was a newspaper columnist, a merchant seaman and the first black man to work for the New York City Subway as a motorman. She was raised in Harlem; Bath was motivated academically by her parents. Inspired by Albert Schweitzer, she applied for and won a National Science Foundation Scholarship while attending Charles Evans Hughes High School; this led her to a research project at Yeshiva University and Harlem Hospital Center on cancer that irritated her interest in medicine. I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project.
She went to medical school in the early 1960's and persevered against the sexism and racism to graduate and become an ophthalmologist, surgeon, and patients' rights activist. Dr. Bath was the first African American female surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. In the early 1980's she received a patent for a medical invention making her the first African American female doctor to do so. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for removing cataracts.
Not only did Blackwell have a governess but also a private tutors to held aide in her intellectual development. The idea to pursue medical school came to Blackwell when her friend who was dying said that in her opinion that a female physician would have made her treatments more comfortable. In 1845 Blackwell began perusing medical school but she didn’t know where it would be or how she would pay for it. So Elizabeth took a job teaching at a music academy in Asheville, NC with the goal of saving the $3000 needed for Medical School. While trying to gain entry to medical school many Physicians told her to either go to Paris or disguise herself as a man.
Providing me with this scholarship money will not only help me get through my schooling now, but it will also give the world, one more nurse who can be an angel to a sick child, like my cousin Vincent. This scholarship will help fund a compassionate, and driven seventeen - year – old girl who imagines becoming the reason that some kids aren’t afraid of the doctor anymore; a girl who envisions smiles after shots and one less sick child. If becoming a pediatric nurse means I can make that impact, then I’ll be glad to do that for the rest of my
In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. The author’s background plays a vital role in delving into the author’s work in any attempt to come up with meaningful explorations and interpretations. Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Since her father Laurice, a shoe shiner, died when she was a baby, Butler was raised by her grandmother and her mother (Octavia M. Butler) who worked as a maid in order to support the family. Butler grew up in a struggling, racially mixed neighborhood.
She got rid of the restrictive clothing and in her later years, wore men's clothing when she lectured about Women's Rights. Sometime in June 1855, Mary joined a small group of women doctors when she graduated from Syracuse Medical College. Syracuse was the nation's first medical school and took in men and women equally. She graduated at 21 when she took three 13-week semesters of medical training that she had to pay $55 for each
With my efforts, I was able to obtain a grant for my High School education in a private school and that made my mother so happy and proud. When I was 16 they discovered that I have a rupture in the retina of my left eye and she did everything to collect the money to take me to the hospital and had a surgery; I remember seeing her cried, telling the doctors to please fix my eyes, that she wouldn’t me suffer the same way that she did. Even that I don’t see perfectly well, I been able to succeed thanks to the prompt actions that were taken. I never thought of moving out of my country, what for? I had it everything: a house, a job, my family, a fiancée; but different social and family situations take me out of my nest and sent me to fly to a different world.
Running Head: ADMISSION ESSAY Admission Essay Keuka College Maryann B Cogdill Practice Change Five years ago I decided to address a practice change that I felt desperately needed to be done to provide the best care for our patients on the obstetric unit in our small community hospital. We were safely delivering 500 babies on an annual base but had great hopes of expanding our practice. At the time, we did not provide couplet care but had one nurse for the mother and another nurse for the baby. My staff had become comfortable tending to the needs of either the postpartum mother or the newborn. Some of these nurses had worked for our organization for over 30 years and simply found their expertise in