Ann Henshaw Gardiner (July 3, 1890 – 1982) was a director of nursing, scientist, and teacher who founded nursing education at Duke University Hospital in 1930. After serving as a nurse in France during

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, she contributed to a number of

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programs in the United States.

Education

She was born in

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, and later graduated from Shepherd College and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), where she acted as the Children's Ward's head nurse by the end of her studies. She obtained a Bachelor of Science at

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and subsequently studied vertebrate embryology at the Puget Sound Biological Station and at Kansas State College, where she received a Master of Science in 1927.

Career

She served at the U.S. Base Hospital in Bordeaux, France during World War I. Before and after obtaining her master's degree, she directed nursing programs at

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, Stanford University, and

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. In 1930, along with Dean Bessie Baker, she established Duke University's School of Nursing, where she served as an Assistant Professor for a decade. After leaving Duke, she became Dean of Nursing Education at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina and contributed to a number of nursing programs in West Virginia. After 1945, she directed Nursing Education at King's Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia until her retirement in 1967.

Honours

Ann Henshaw Gardiner was celebrated with the unveiling of a portrait in Duke University's School of Nursing on June 13, 1980.

References

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