2024 Nurses' Week Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. The first hospital training school for nurses began in this country in 1846
  2. 4. Who was the founder of the Native American Nurses Association
  3. 7. What the nurse's cap was modeled after
  4. 8. What country does not require nursing license renewal for life
  5. 13. The first recorded nursing school was in 250 BC in what country
  6. 14. Male nurses served on the front line as orderlies in this war
  7. 15. She worked to convince the US Senate to ratify the Geneva Convention which, among other things, provided protection and "neutrality" to nurses and medical staff in war zones
  8. 17. This person introduced public healthcare service to rural communities by establishing nursing on horseback to families out of reach of regular healthcare
  9. 19. City where the first nursing program for African Americans was established
  10. 20. This airline originally hired nurses as their flight attendants to ease the public's fear of flying and in case of emergencies
  11. 21. National Nurses Week was first observed during this month
  12. 22. The symbol for nursing
  13. 23. The first African American president nurse of the ANA
  14. 24. Who was the first male nurse
Down
  1. 1. The first President of the ANA
  2. 3. What First Lady was also a volunteer nurse
  3. 5. What American poet also worked as a nurse during the Civil War
  4. 6. What cowboy/sharpshooter also served as a nurse
  5. 9. The first male to be named dean of a nursing school in the US
  6. 10. The oldest British hospital that is still in use since 1123
  7. 11. National Nurses' Week was formally designated in 1974 by this President
  8. 12. What country has the highest ration of nurses per capita
  9. 16. First nurse to be promoted to rank of Brigadier General
  10. 18. What war was Florence Nightingale instrumental in improving the health and illness of the fighting soldiers