Many students were not able to complete the program because of its many requirements. Students attended lectures and gained first-hand experience in the hospital. The program, which ran for 16 months, was intensive. In 1878, at the age of 33, Mahoney was admitted to the hospital’s professional graduate school for nursing. The New England Hospital for Women and Children operated one of the first nursing schools in the United States.
She also had the opportunity to work as a nurse’s aide, enabling her to learn a great deal about the nursing profession. She acted as janitor, cook, and washer women. Here Mahoney worked for 15 years in a variety of roles. It was also exceptional because it had an all-women staff of physicians. The hospital was dedicated to providing healthcare only to women and their children. When she was in her teens, Mahoney knew that she wanted to become a nurse, so she began working at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She was educated at Phillips School in Boston, which after 1855, became one of the first integrated schools in the country. Born to freed slaves who had moved to Boston from North Carolina, Mahoney learned from an early age the importance of racial equality. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in the spring of 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is noted for becoming the first African American licensed nurse. All rights reserved.Įager to encourage greater equality for African Americans and women, Mary Eliza Mahoney pursued a nursing career which supported these aims. NWHM biographies are generously supported by Susan D.
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This biography is reprinted in full with permission from the National Women’s History Museum (United States of America).
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