Tag: Barbara Shaw
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Lillian Wald (1867–1940): Pioneer patient advocate and public health nurse
Barbara ShawChicago, Illinois, United States “Reform can be accomplished when attitudes are changed.”1—Lillian Wald In the teeming tenements of New York City’s Lower East Side in the 1890s, Lillian Wald, a young nurse, came to the aid of a young immigrant girl whose mother was hemorrhaging. She was drenched with blood after giving birth in…