The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939....
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Frontier Nursing University is a private graduate school of nursing in Versailles, Kentucky. It was established by the Frontier Nursing Service in 1939...
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The Forgotten Frontier is a 1931 American documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the...
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16, 1965) was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the...
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distinguish herself from her cousin Mary Breckinridge (founder of the Frontier Nursing Service) and to avoid the prejudice against women that was prevalent at...
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1881 – Mary Carson Breckinridge, American nurse midwife, founded Frontier Nursing Service (died 1965) 1887 – Joseph Bech, Luxembourgish lawyer and politician...
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Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture Frontier Nursing Service, an American nursing organization FN FNS...
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Committee For Mothers and Babies, which three years later became the Frontier Nursing Service. Breckinridge created the organization to address the inadequate...
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Breckinridge (1881–1965), a nurse-midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. Breckinridge family Ladies' Confederate Memorial MacLean, Maggie...
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nurse-midwifery emerged in the U.S. in 1925 with the founding of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) by Mary Breckinridge in rural Kentucky, inspired by British...
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Retrieved July 21, 2022. Breckinridge, Mary (1952). A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service. University Press of Kentucky. p. 246. ISBN 9780813181240. {{cite...
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Joan Slager (category Frontier Nursing University alumni)
nurse midwife and academic administrator serving the dean of nursing at Frontier Nursing University since 2018. Slager was born in 1958. She earned a...
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recipient, was born in Eureka Springs Mary Carson Breckinridge, Frontier Nursing Service founder, taught at Crescent College and Conservatory while living...
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Wendover (Hyden, Kentucky) (category History of nursing)
Wendover, also known as Frontier Nursing Service or Big House, is a historic house and former medical care facility near Hyden, Kentucky. Built in 1925...
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remained in France before moving to the United States to work for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. MacKinnon was born on the 4 March 1879 in Roag, Isle...
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Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Retrieved 10 December 2024. "The Forgotten Frontier (1931)". National Film Preservation Foundation. National Film Preservation...
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Strudwick Long. Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965), Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. Married Richard Thompson. Daughter of Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge...
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Reserve University. Ernst began working as a nurse-midwife at the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky in 1951. Her next job was at the Maternity Center...
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Inverness and even the first air ambulance service to the outer isles in 1936. The Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky, United States, was built on the...
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Breckinridge (1881–1965), American nurse midwife, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service Mary Cyrene Breckinridge (1826–1907), Second Lady of the United...
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Willie Sandlin (section Military service)
He and his wife, the former Belvia Roberts, were active in the Frontier Nursing Service. They had one son and four daughters.[citation needed] Sandlin...
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1929 – The Japanese Nursing Association is established. 1931 – The Forgotten Frontier, a documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky, is filmed...
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socialite, Dorothy Clark, chartered Belgenland to raise funds for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. On 14 January 1933 she held a supper dance aboard...
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MV Britannic (1929) (section Post-war service)
West Indies in February and March 1932 to raise funds for the Frontier Nursing Service. In summer Britannic shared the route with the older RMS Adriatic...
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Kentucky John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina Frontier Nursing Service, Hyden, Kentucky Hazel Green Academy, Hazel Green, Kentucky Henderson...
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Nurse midwife (category Nursing specialties)
Breckinridge, Founder of Frontier Nursing Service Certified Nurse‐Midwife (United States) Childbirth Doula Nurse practitioner Obstetrical nursing "Nurse Midwife"...
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Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, later known as the Frontier Nursing Service. Anna Lander West McDonnell (1876-1966), the youngest child of...
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Breckinridge, a British-trained American public health nurse, formed the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in Kentucky. The mission of FNS was to provide nurse midwife...
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Natural Landmarks in Kentucky National Historic Landmarks , National Park Service, accessed May, 2006. Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant...
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Kentucky to live with his daughter, Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. At first they lived in the first Midwife Clinic with the nurses...
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