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Her major contribution was to define nursing as ‘assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery’. She was said to have delineated nursing from medicine although her own view, that nursing and medicine belonged on a continuum, was rather different.

Contrary to its name, the New River is actually one of the oldest in the world and unusually flows south to north because it was formed before the mountains. Standing tall at 292 feet, the State Capitol dome is higher than the dome at the nation’s capital.