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Nurses & Healers

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FLORENCE
Florence Nightingale carried her famous lantern through the wards of Scutari during the Crimean War, earning her the enduring title 'The Lady with the Lamp'.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BARTON
Clara Barton nursed soldiers on Civil War battlefields and went on to found the American Red Cross in 1881.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KENNY
Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny pioneered a revolutionary treatment for polio patients in the 1940s, challenging the medical establishment of her day.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DOROTHEA
Dorothea Dix served as Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War and had spent decades before that crusading for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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From Florence Nightingale to Dorothea Dix, this nurses and healers word search puts you inside a world where care was the whole work.

About Nurses & Healers

Long before nursing was a recognized profession, women were already at the bedside, mixing remedies, binding wounds, and sitting through the long watches of the night. Florence Nightingale's lamp became a symbol not only of her own tireless vigil in the Crimea but of every healer who chose the ward over comfort. From Clara Barton on the Civil War's bloodiest fields to Sister Elizabeth Kenny coaxing movement back into polio-stricken limbs, these women rewrote what care could look like.

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