Add to ORKGMary Lewis Wyche was born on February 26, 1858 near Henderson in Vance County. As a young woman, she wanted to become a nurse but was thwarted by both family obligations and the absence of any schools of nursing in North Carolina. Her calling to become a nurse was so great that when she was able, she moved to Philadelphia to study nursing and graduated from Philadelphia General Hospital Training School in 1894. Upon graduation, she returned to the Tar Heel State and revolutionized the nursing profession (Rogers, 1949). Wyche should be fondly remembered by NC nurses for four primary achievements: the establishment of the first school of nursing in NC, the creation of the first professional nursing organization in the state, the passage of th...
A brief history of the North Carolina Nursing Association's Annual Conventions (NCNA), first held in...
The upcoming 2019 NCNA Annual Convention marks 70 years since delegates to the 42nd Convention, held...
The Spanish American War of 1898 was the first war in which the US Army hired graduate nurses to ser...
This is a brief recap of nurse Mary Lewis Wyche's efforts to create and establish a statewide nursin...
On March 3, 1903, before women in the United States had the right to vote or were allowed to hold pu...
On the crisp fall morning of September 14, 1951, a group of 27 young, White, women arrived on the se...
Mary Rose Batterham spent her first decade as a nurse battling everything from typhoid epidemics to ...
We highlighted the first four presidents of NCNA in the Special Fall 2021 issue of the Tar Heel Nurs...
For over a hundred years, organized nursing in North Carolina has recognized the unique health chall...
When NCNA formed in 1902, membership privileges were extended only to white nurses. Although North C...
The names and accomplishment of Ella King Newsome, Phoebe Yates Pember, and Kate Cummings are famili...
Within a decade of Lina Rogers Struthers becoming the first school nurse in the United States in 190...
For over a hundred years the story and even the name of the first registered nurse (RN) in the Unite...
One of the most inspiring yet little-known life stories of a minority nursing pioneer is that of U.S...
As all our lives are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to remember and honor a nur...
A brief history of the North Carolina Nursing Association's Annual Conventions (NCNA), first held in...
The upcoming 2019 NCNA Annual Convention marks 70 years since delegates to the 42nd Convention, held...
The Spanish American War of 1898 was the first war in which the US Army hired graduate nurses to ser...
This is a brief recap of nurse Mary Lewis Wyche's efforts to create and establish a statewide nursin...
On March 3, 1903, before women in the United States had the right to vote or were allowed to hold pu...
On the crisp fall morning of September 14, 1951, a group of 27 young, White, women arrived on the se...
Mary Rose Batterham spent her first decade as a nurse battling everything from typhoid epidemics to ...
We highlighted the first four presidents of NCNA in the Special Fall 2021 issue of the Tar Heel Nurs...
For over a hundred years, organized nursing in North Carolina has recognized the unique health chall...
When NCNA formed in 1902, membership privileges were extended only to white nurses. Although North C...
The names and accomplishment of Ella King Newsome, Phoebe Yates Pember, and Kate Cummings are famili...
Within a decade of Lina Rogers Struthers becoming the first school nurse in the United States in 190...
For over a hundred years the story and even the name of the first registered nurse (RN) in the Unite...
One of the most inspiring yet little-known life stories of a minority nursing pioneer is that of U.S...
As all our lives are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to remember and honor a nur...
A brief history of the North Carolina Nursing Association's Annual Conventions (NCNA), first held in...
The upcoming 2019 NCNA Annual Convention marks 70 years since delegates to the 42nd Convention, held...
The Spanish American War of 1898 was the first war in which the US Army hired graduate nurses to ser...