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Officer, US Army Nurse Corps Maj. Annie G. Fox (August 4, 1893 – January 20, 1987) was a Canadian-born American, the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. [ 1 ] She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , on December 7, 1941.
Nurses - Agatha of Sicily, [6] Alexius of Rome, Camillus of Lellis, [2] Catherine of Alexandria, John of God, Margaret of Antioch, Raphael the Archangel. Children's nurses - Foillan; Nursing services - Elisabeth of Hungary; Italian nurses - Catherine of Siena; Nurse anesthetists - René Goupil [4] Nursing mothers - Basilissa [2]
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John Julian Cuttance Wild (August 11, 1914 – September 18, 2009) was an English-born American physician who was part of the first group to use ultrasound for body imaging, most notably for diagnosing cancer. Modern ultrasonic diagnostic medical scans are descendants of the equipment Wild and his colleagues developed in the 1950s.
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After the Second World War, large numbers of male nurses moved into the workforce as they were demobilised after the war and had gained medical experience. In 1951 the male nurses joined the main nursing register. In 2004 the percentage of male nurses was 10.63% and has increased to 10.69% in 2008, [25] then to 11.4% in 2016. [5]
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).