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Emily L. Loveridge
Emily L. Loveridge (1860–1941) was an American nurse, educator, school founder, and hospital superintendent. She established the first nursing school in the Northwestern United States at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland, Oregon (1890), the hospital having been founded fifteen years earlier by the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. In 1906, she became the hospital's superintendent and had the distinction of her hospital being the largest History of Protestantism in the United States, Protestant hospital in the U.S. having a woman as superintendent. In 1926, she was elected President of the Northwest Hospital Association. Early life and education Emily Lemoine Loveridge was born in Hammondsport, New York, August 28, 1860. Her father, the Rev. Daniel E. Loveridge, was an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal minister, who was born in Connecticut and came Pacific Northwest, west from Unadilla, New York in 1888 to take charge of an Episc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Journal Of Nursing
The ''American Journal of Nursing'' (AJN) is a monthly peer-reviewed nursing journal established in 1900. the editor-in-chief is Carl Kirton and it is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In 2009 the journal was selected as one of the "100 Most Influential Journals in Biology and Medicine in the Last 100 Years" by the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association. History The journal was established in 1900 as the official journal of the Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses of the United States which later became the American Nurses Association. Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia Dock, Mary E. P. Davis and Sophia Palmer are credited with founding the journal, the latter serving as the first editor. Other editors have included Mary May Roberts (1921–1949), Nell V. Beeby (1949–1956), Jeanette V. White (1956–1957), Edith P. Lewis (1957–1959), Barbara G. Schutt (1959–1971), Thelma M. Schorr (1971–1981), Mary B. Mallison (1981–1993), Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
