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PROGRESS TEST 4_FND/ E. I
C. Write a biography of ONE nursing figure below in approximately 210 words. Use the
given information to write the biography. (@25)
Margaret Sanger Dorothea Dix
(1879–1966) (1802–1887)
• born in 1879 • born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden,
• her mother died at the age of 50 following Maine
11 childbirths and seven miscarriages • the eldest of three children
• attended nursing school in New York • her father was Joseph Dix
City’s Lower East Side to care for the • began teaching Sunday school at the East
mothers of large, poor immigrant families Cambridge Jail, a women’s prison 1841
who had taken abortion efforts into their • began traveling around the state to
own hands research the conditions in prisons and
• coined the term “birth control” 1914 poorhouses
• was arrested in 1916 for opening the first • asked Congress to grant more than 12
birth control clinic in the country million acres of land for the benefit of the
• founded the American Birth Control mentally ill as well as the blind and deaf
League in 1848
• conducted a research on birth control pill in • went to Europe in 1854
1960 • discovered disparity between public and
• died in 1966 private hospitals and recommended
• students feel the impact of holistic nursing reforms in many countries
and its history of patient advocacy and • volunteered her services in 1861 when the
compassion every day Civil War broke
• set up field hospitals and first-aid stations,
and recruited nurses
• contracted malaria in 1870 and died in
1887
• become a leading figure in the field
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