![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the next thirty years she worked all over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Her professionalism helped raise the status of all nurses. Families that employed Mahoney praised her calm and quiet efficiency. Never married, she often treated her patients like family. Mary Mahoney’s reputation for proficiency steadily grew as she began to receive many positive referrals from clients and patients. By 1899, they had graduated five other African-American nurses.Īfter graduation, Mary registered with the Nurses Directory at the Massachusetts Medical Library and began working as a private duty nurse. The course had begun with 42 entrants.īecause of her skill and dedication she opened the pathway for more African-American women to be admitted to the New England Hospital for Women and Children’s student nurse program despite the heated racism arguments that were present in many American nursing schools at this time. In the end, Mary would be one of only four student nurses who were able to graduate from the program in 1879. It was a very strict and intense program lasting 16 months. At the age of 33, Mary was accepted as a student nurse in that same hospital. At eighteen, she began working at the New England Hospital for Women and Children as a cook and cleaning -woman. Mary Mahoney was born on in the Dorchester section of Boston. On AugMary Eliza Mahoney made nursing history by becoming the first African-American graduate nurse in the United States. ![]()
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