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Nursing and Midwifery Professionals

Nurses and midwives, following ISCO-08 Minor Group 222, Nursing and Midwifery Professionals. Belongs here: a midwife, a nurse, and a nurse also noted as a businesswoman, embryologist, humanitarian, public health reformer, statistician or social reformer, where nursing is the recorded primary role. Does not belong here: a physician who also performed nursing-adjacent duties but whose SubLabel names physician as the primary role, grouped under a physician heading instead.

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Era First Practiced
1860 1
Tradition or Region
Western biomedicine 1
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1. History of Nursing (Wikipedia)
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  • History of nursing, Nightingale school 1860, era
    Florence Nightingale, an angel of mercy, set up her nursing school in 1860
  • History of nursing, Nightingale school 1860, region
    Florence Nightingale, an angel of mercy, set up her nursing school in 1860
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