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Category: Nurses

“I’d always been a tomboy and I’d always carried a knife”

I’d always been a tomboy and I’d always carried a knife, well sometimes. But, I had a scout knife. So, that’s where I got the nickname “Tom.”

White Rock Hospital cover shot from 'The Story of White Rock'

March 20, 2019 Missionaries / North Carolina / Nurses

Nurses who are glad to serve & who do not count too closely the hours of service

From 1919 to the 1940s, Madison County, NC’s first (and only) hospital was maintained and operated by the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA.

January 15, 2019 Kentucky / Nurses / Oral histories

She had enough faith in the nurses, that if she had the nurses she’d have a live baby

Betty Lester, of Hyden, KY, served as a practicing nurse midwife at the Frontier Nursing Service, Wendover, KY, beginning in 1928.

Ruby Bradley's military decorations framed

November 23, 2018 Military / Nurses / West Virginia / WWII

Hometown wisdom in time of war

Colonel Ruby Bradley was the US Army’s most highly decorated nurse. She was born in Spencer, WV, and became an Army nurse in 1934.

western maryland hospital postcard, no date

November 28, 2017 Doctors / Maryland / Nurses

The number of railroad accidents made the need for a hospital strongly felt

Western Maryland Hospital, the 1st institution of its kind in Allegany County, was erected on Baltimore Avenue to minister to the suffering.

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