Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American woman to be licensed in this profession in the US.
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American woman to be licensed in this profession in the US. A British practitioner of this profession famously said "Patriotism is not enough" before being executed by German soldiers in Belgium for helping Allied prisoners in her care to escape. Edith Cavell worked in this profession, as did an earlier practitioner who introduced hand washing and other sanitary practices to her workplace during the Crimean War, drastically lowering mortality rates and earning her the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp." FTP, modern practice of what profession was instituted by Florence Nightingale?
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American woman to be licensed in this profession in the US.
nursing (accept "nurse")