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For 15 years, Mary Eliza Mahoney worked in a hospital before actually becoming a nurse. She started as a cook, then became a janitor and did laundry. She was an unofficial nurses aid, which is what impacted her to to become a registered nurse.

She was only one of the three nurses to make it through the New England Hospital training program. Later, she went on to to co-find the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.

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