Jane Arminda Delano
Introduction
As years go by, our world revolutionizes for the better of human beings. Many individuals have made a great impact in evolving our society throughout health. In the year of 1850, a woman by the name of Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing by opening the first nursing school. After, her great contribution that started nursing, many other women have made historical impacts that helped transform and nurture nursing. One of those women was Jane Delano, Delano was a nurse but also a dedicated leader that helped contribute during Americas hellish nightmare of World War Ⅰ, by training other nurses to treat ill and wounded soldiers.
Life Background
Jane Arminda Delano was born on March 12, 1862 at Montour Falls,
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In 1898, during the Spanish War she joined the ARC intended to enroll nurses in the Red Cross Nursing Service (RCNS). Where she “established a qualification system that required all Red Cross nurses to possess at least two years of training in a professional hospital-based nursing school recognized by the nurse’s state registration bureau, they also had to pass a medical exam certifying that they were in good health” (Moser- Jones, 2015). In time of war on 1905, the ARC had a shortage of nurses and Delano “joined the nursing unit to help Clara Barton provide the right amount and properly skilled nurses into the battle camps” (Moser- Jones, 2015). Delano was named head of the Army Nurse Corps in 1909, and later that year on December the RCNS named Delano, the “fist chairman of the National Committee on the Red Cross Service. She only served in the ANC for three years until she resigned,” (Feller, & Moore, 1995) to devote all her time to the ARC. Although, she resigned she helped establish medical and nursing staff into hospitals, while the French, British, and Canadians were on war she also helped the population in Europe with their enrollment of nurses in to the
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