Foreword
This issue of the NM Nurse is devoted in its entirety to today’s snapshot of the history of nursing in New Mexico. It is reflective of an ongoing commitment from NMNA to capture the rich nuances of our profession in the State.…
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Foundations of Care: Women Pioneers in Grant County Healthcare (1880s-1940s)
At some point, the suffering became intolerable. The indigent miners’ coughs echoed through Silver City’s dusty streets, their lungs ravaged by rock dust and tuberculosis, their bodies broken by falls and explosions in the dark belly of the earth. It’s…
On Whose Shoulders We Stand: Key Health Challenges in NM History, and How Nurses Rose to Meet Them
Tuberculosis and NM Statehood From 1880 through the 1940’s, TB remained a significant driver of the development of the early healthcare infrastructure in NM. For decades it remained the leading cause of death nationally, and from 1912 through the 1940s…