"This Way Forward: Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom (1875-1961)," APRIL 1, 2015, Johns Hopkins Nursing. https://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/2015/04/this-way-forward-carolyn-conant-van-blarcom-1875-1961/
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Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom attended the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses starting in 1898. She was head nurse in Hopkins’ obstetrics wards, superintendent of nurses at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis and the Maryland State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, and executive secretary of the New York Association for the Prevention of Blindness. She published various books and was director of the Atlantic Division of the American Red Cross. She was considered a pioneer in the area of preventing childhood blindness through better hygiene and infant and maternal care.