Apgar was born in Westfield, New Jersey, on June 7, 1909, She was the youngest of the three children Her early interest in science and medicine may have resulted from witnessing her eldest brother passing due to tuberculosis as well as her other brother’s struggle with chronic childhood ilnesss. She graduated from Westfield High School in 1925 and entered Mount Holyoke College the same year. There she majored in zoology and supported herself with a number of part-time jobs. Apgar received her AB from Mount Holyoke in 1929 and began her medical training at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S) Most notable is the fact that she is one of only nine women in a class of ninety. she graduated fourth in her
I will use reflection to compare my findings to how literature states it should be done. I plan to show an understanding of holistic care and how it is used in each stage of the nursing process. Holistic care is an approach to healthcare which treats the individual as a whole person in relation to their needs (Hinchliff et al, 1998). In order to maintain confidentiality I have provided my client with a pseudonym (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2002). I based this assignment on Mary, who is a 72 year old lady and suffers with osteoarthritis which is a degenerative disorder in bone and cartilage (Hinchliff et al, 1996).
Those cells and the trillions that would soon grow from them became the cornerstone of a “medical revolution” and have become one of the most important tools in science. Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 1, 1920 to father Johnny Pleasant and mother Eliza Lacks Pleasant. In 1924 after Henrietta’s mother died giving birth to her tenth child Johnny Pleasant who didn’t have enough patience to raise his children took Henrietta and her nine siblings back to Clover, Virginia where his family farmed tobacco fields and divided them up. Henrietta ended up with her grandfather Tommy Lacks who was already raising another grandchild of his, Henrietta’s cousin David Lacks nicknamed Day. Henrietta and Day had their first child together a few months after Henrietta’s fourteenth birthday and on April 10, 1941 they married and went on to have four more children: Elsie, David Jr., Deborah and Joe who has changed his name to Zakariyya.
B. Shortly after medical school, Cole moved to New York City and joined the staff of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, a hospital owned and operated by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn her MD. C. Blackwell soon established the Tenement House Service. The service intended to promote health in overcrowded slums, populated by poor--mainly black--people, by sending out a "sanitary visitor" to teach basic hygiene and child care. Cole became one of the first "sanitary visitors" in the program and worked in this capacity for many years.
She earned degrees in chemical engineering and Afro-American studies in 1977. She was the first female leader of the Black Student Union there. She then enrolled at Cornell University’s Medical College in New York City. Her interest in seeing the world and helping other people led her to volunteer during summer school as a medical worker at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand. A grant program also allowed her to conduct health studies in the east African country of Kenya, in 1979.
Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and would overcome racial and gender barriers to medical education by training in all-female institutions run by women who had been part of the first generation of female physicians graduating mid-century. Cole was the 2nd out of five children. Cole attended the Institute for Colored Youth, graduating in 1863. She then went on to graduate from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867, under the supervision of Ann Preston. Her graduate medical thesis was titled The Eye and Its Appendages.Afterwards Cole interned at Elizabeth Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.
Her grandparents on both sides were Jewish scholars and rabbis; one of them, grandfather Schwartz, lived with the family for several years and had a great influence on young Lillian. She was a bright student, completing high school when she was only 15. Wald decided to travel, and for six years she toured the globe and during this time she worked briefly as a newspaper reporter. In 1889, she met a young nurse who impressed Wald so much that she decided to study nursing at New York City Hospital. She graduated and, at the age of 22, entered Women's Medical College studying to become a doctor.
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Amber Andersen English Hour 9-9 March 28, 2010 Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson was born Laurie Beth Halse on October 23, 1961 in a small town called Potsdam, New York. When Anderson was a little girl one of her favorite hobbies was to write stories. Her first job as a freelance journalist was at The Philadelphia Inquirer where she began to write her first book, Speak which won The New York times best seller. The following year Anderson decided to write her second book which was a historical fiction called Fever 1793. Laurie read an article in the August 1993 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793.
From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He was an award-winning teacher and researcher, and worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts, and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project. Randy lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008. | Jai Glasgow | The wife to Randy. Was also a literature graduate student who met Randy at a lecture.
Physician Assisted Suicide: Right to Life or Right to Death? Sarah Ku University of Kansas School of Nursing Sarah Kathleen Ku is from Overland Park, Kansas. While attending the KU School of Nursing she was the recipient of the Brisley Scholarship. She has also been named to the Dean’s honor roll for the University of Kansas for all eight semesters. She hopes to begin her career in an acute care medical surgical environment in the Kansas City area.