Reminiscences of Linda Richards - America's First Trained Nurse #221886

Trained Nurse, but as she herself says, I was the first student to enter the newly organized school (at the New England H05pital for Women and Children) and so the first to gradu ate from it. Her real distinction comes from several other sources. In a day when there were no trained nurses, Miss Richards, who had become interested in nursing because of the need demonstrated during the War Between the States, and not content to learn entirely by rule of thumb, determined to secure such preparation as was then available.