Julia Catherine Stimson: The Nurse Who Helped Shape a Profession
She was an American nurse, born on the 26th of May 1881 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was raised in an educated and well-connected family. She studied at Vassar College and earned a bachelor’s degree and went on to earn her Masters. She worked in hospital administration. By 1917, with the First World War, she volunteered for military service.
During the war, she become Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, and was the first woman to attain the rank of Major in the United States Army. She worked tirelessly to organise and lead nursing and cared for thousands of wounded soldiers. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the World War I Victory Medal, the Royal Red Cross, and later the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1929.
Even after retiring in 1937, she returned during the Second World War to help recruit and guide a new generation of nurses, continuing her quiet determination.
She sadly died on the 30th of September 1948 at the age of 67, having also received the American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal.
Do you think she realised just how much she was changing the future for others?
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