Penelope Johnson: Big Horn Basin’s first ‘Woman in Blue’

The public health nursing program began in the United States at the turn of the century, but even by 1931 there were no public health nurses in Wyoming. In January of 1936, Wyoming had drawn up a plan for maternal and child health services. The program, the beginning of public nursing in Wyoming, was designed to provide preventive medical and public health services to prenatal, infant, preschool and school children.