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Mary Breckinridge

Known For

  • Frontier Nursing Service

- Originated in rural mountains of Kentucky

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Decreased infant mortality rates

- British-educated Nurse Midwives

- Provided education and healthcare

Born: February 17, 1881 in Tennessee

Died: May 16, 1965 in Kentucky

Presentation by: Tiffany Herrera and Madeline Robinson

References

Contributions

Castlenovo, G. (2003, November). Mary Breckinridge. Retrieved from http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/press/pioneers/breckinridge.html

Midwifery Schools, Nurse-Midwife Degrees& Midwifery Training Courses | Frontier Nursing University. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife

Polinger Foster, K. (2014). New light on the legacy of Mary Breckinridge: The story of two French nurses in America, 1923-24. Frontier Nursing Service Quarterly Bulletin, 89(2), 25-30.

  • Volunteered as nurse in World War 1 (1918).
  • Public health nurse in Washington D.C. during influenza epidemic (1918).
  • Volunteer for American Committee for Devastated France (1918-1921).
  • Co-founded Association of Social Hygiene of France (1918).

  • A member of the Frontier Nursing Service founded the American College of Nurse Midwives (1932).

Frontier Nursing Service

Shampo, M. A. (1999). Stamp vignette on medical science: Mary Breckinridge--poineer nurse brings modern nursing to rural environment. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 74(12), 1312. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.fgcu.edu/login?urel=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.fgcu.edu/docview/216870782?accountid=10919

Why did we choose her?

  • Advocate of healthcare, especially for mothers and their babies.
  • Provided healthcare to those in rural areas, with limited access.
  • Active in helping those in need.

“I drive through bumpy dirt roads, cross rivers and climb mountains out to isolated homes, sometimes without electricity. Whenever I feel myself get stressed, as I drive through a tropical rainstorm or thick mountain fog to reach a laboring woman, I think of Mary Breckinridge on her horse and remember that I am a Frontier Midwife!”

- Rebecca Turecky

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