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Nursing

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Person
Juanita R. Hipps was born on 1 July 1912.  She served in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II Pacific Theatre.  She was the author of "I Served on Bataan"(New York: J.B. Lippincott Company), a best selling book in 1943 and which was the basis for the motion picture "So Proudly We Hail." Read more

History
Until the 19th century, nurses were not regarded as 'professionals' and nursing was considered as being for women of  'low morals'.

Film
Night Nurse (1931): directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable. Plot Outline: A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. IMDb

Numbers
12: the percentage of black nurses in the United States who have master's or doctoral degrees, compared to about 10% of non-minority nurses and approximately 7% of Hispanic and Asian nurses. Read more

Thing
Nurse: in zoology, a worker ant or bee that feeds and cares for the colony's young.

Song
The Nurse Who Loved Me by A Perfect Circle
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Quotes
After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. (W. C. Fields US actor, comedian)

Wordplay
Florence Nightingale
is an anagram of
Angel of the reclinin
g

Nurse Florence Nightingale
is an anagram of
Heroine curing fallen gents
Source: Fun with Words

Literature
Nurse's Song by William Blake
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Date
October 1854: Sidney Herbert, the British Secretary at War asked Florence Nightingale to go and nurse British soldiers in the Crimean War. Read more

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