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basement for the nurses' sleeping quarters. Outside the hospital, there was only one graduate nurse in
Portland. Instruction for the first class included a few lectures by physicians and classwork conducted by Loveridge on three evenings a week. Loveridge's mornings were taken up in preparing patients for surgery and she also served as head nurse during operations. Her afternoons were spent in boiling
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Loveridge's first reaction was that she thought it inconceivable that anyone could be happy outside of New York. However, she felt it her
Christian duty to make some sacrifice and agreed to accept the responsibility for one year. She left Unadilla, New York, and came to the west on May 1, 1890, to
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