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Sr. Bernard Sheridan
(1860-1924)

Celebrating America's first formally educated nurse anesthetist, trained and educated by Saint Vincent's Hospital, Erie, Pennsylvania

View pictures of the dedication ceremony


www.archivists.org/periodicals/ao_backissues/AO-July05.pdf

[deepz]

Wonder where the PANA came up with the formally educated part.

Ira Gunn, writing in the history chapter of Nag & Zag, refers back to Thatcher:

"Sister Mary Bernard founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas, and in 1877 entered St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, to train as a nurse. A year later she took over the anesthesia duties of the hospital..........." (First Edition, p.4)

A year later??!! In one year she became a nurse AND an anesthetist! How do we define 'formal education' I wonder?


deepz