She Was the Most Influential Nurse in US Military History
first woman commissioned officer US Army
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Military.com | By Blake Stilwell
Few military careers are as distinguished as Florence Blanchfield’s. Not only was she a veteran of both World Wars, she was the first woman to achieve equal officers’ rank with her male colleagues -- and she ensured every nurse that came after her did, too.
If anyone had the nursing skills and dedication to her people required for such a feat, it was Florence Blanchfield. She came from a family of nurses and was trained as one herself by age 22. From there, she studied under one of the founding professors of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
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