Nurses suffered from loss of job and difficulty in finding another place of work just as nearly everyone faced during the Great Depression. Many families traveled from town to town looking for work, and nurses were not an exception. The need for education was growing as numbers of enrolled college or university enrolled tripled while high school attendance doubled . Although the country was facing great hardship, women like Annie Goodrich were fighting to further change the image of nursing to standardize nursing education in efforts for “establish nursing as a distinct profession.” One might ask how is it possible to make such a name for nursing during the immense lack of work in which is needed to establish nursing as distinct. Schools turned