Which nurse is described as a nurse and midwife associated with the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, contributing to nutrition, hygiene, and prenatal care?

• A. Mary Breckenridge
• B. Jessie Sleet Scales
• C. Lillian Wald
• D. Mary Mahoney

Answer: (B)

Mary Breckenridge is the nurse and midwife linked to the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. She founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and built a program of nurse-midwife care focused on rural maternity, emphasizing prenatal care, nutrition, and hygiene to improve outcomes for mothers and babies. This work helped establish nurse-midwifery as a formal practice and expanded access to skilled maternity care in underserved rural areas.

The other nurses mentioned are notable for different contributions in nursing history—public health nursing and urban community care in the United States or breaking racial barriers in nursing—but they are not connected to the Frontier Nursing Service or the 1925 rural maternity initiative.