These leather saddlebags were owned by Mary Breckenridge (1881-1965) who founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. The bags were used during the 1930s by representatives of the nurse-midwife ...

Miami University Department of Nursing, Miami Regionals Appalachian Studies, and the Hamilton Campus Women's History Month committee welcomes Susan E. Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN for a special ...

“There was a time when the average American woman was more likely to die from childbirth than from any other condition except tuberculosis,” reads the intro to The Frontier Nursing Service: America’s ...

There’s no way to separate trailblazing nurse-midwife Mary Breckinridge from the last 100 years of Leslie County’s history, so when talk arose that the owner of her historic house might move it out of ...

A Frontier Nursing Service nurse delivered a baby at a home in the 1930s. When Mary Breckinridge started the rural health care experiment in Leslie and Clay counties in 1925, the area had few roads, ...

Different from the Grenfell Mission to the Labrador fishermen, yet similar to it in spirit, the younger Frontier Nursing Service in the mountains of Kentucky is more nearly analogous to the British ...

Couriers’ duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode the routes between FNS outposts. Courtesy ...

Frontier Nursing University is a private non-profit graduate school in Hyden, Kentucky. The Leslie County school was established by the Frontier Nursing Service in 1939 as the Frontier School of ...

Versailles, Kentucky, Feb. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Frontier Nursing University (FNU) announced that university President Dr. Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, will transition into a new role ...