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CE Home Study Course
Nursing, Suffrage, and Social A
Honoring Our Heritage, Voting Our Values, Protecting O
pioneers were harassed, threatened, jailed, and
his home study explores the
abused, yet they endured, persisted, and continued
history of women's suffrage in
Submitted by
to organize because of their sense of social responthe United States within the
the Joint Nursing
sibility for the health, welfare, and safety of others.
context of a larger social
Practice Commission
and Hedy Dumpel,
Upon completion of this study, nurses will have
advocacy agenda. Readers
RN, JD
a deeper appreciation for the amazing grassroots
will recognize how the develcampaign that is part of our shared history. It will
opment of modern nursing
Provider Approved
serve as a reminder of the barriers to nursing pracparallels and reflects the femby the California
tice and patient protection advocacy that continues
inist movement and the social
Board of Registered
to this day. Nurses will be able to articulate the
advocacy movement in the struggle for equal rights
Nursing, Provider
#00754 for 2.0
importance of organizing their peers and neighbors
and universal access to healthcare with a single
contact hours (cehs)
and encouraging them to exercise their right to
standard of excellent care.
vote, in order to change adverse healthcare related
This overview highlights selected nurse activists
social conditions, as circumstances require, and
and militant suffragists who generated a progressive wave of agitation that resulted in passage of the 19th Amend- influence healthy public policy on behalf of their patients, their
communities, and their profession.
ment, which extended the right to vote to women. Many of these
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