Who was the first recorded nurse administering anesthesia?
a. Loretta Ford c. Alice Magaw
b. Sister Mary Bernard d. Mary Breckenridge
B
The first recorded nurse administering anesthesia was Sister Mary Bernard, a Catholic nun, in 1877.
Alice Magaw, is considered the mother of anesthesia for her outstanding contributions to the field.
Mary Breckenridge was a British midwife who worked with the Frontier Nursing Services in rural
Kentucky in the 1920s. Loretta Ford helped establish the role of the nurse practitioner in 1975 at the
University of Colorado
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