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Never Let Your Circumstances Determine Your Destiny

Nurse.com

People who typically go unrecognized in nursing history — Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, James Derham, and Mary Eliza Mahoney — were prominent advocates for equality in nursing and in the suffrage movement. Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree.

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My Nursing Experience: How Our Twins Overcame the Odds

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I spent the greater part of my life in nursing. I started as an ICU nurse then moved into travel nursing and lived everywhere from the Virgin Islands to the Carolinas. My nursing experience trained me for many situations. We had a board documenting the length of the pregnancy, and we celebrated every single day.