The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, then took its current name in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Linda Richards was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.
Nurses in Canada practise in a wide variety of settings, with various levels of training and experience. They provide evidence-based care and educate their patients about health and disease.
Sister Callista Roy, CSJ is an American nun, nursing theorist, professor and author. She is known for creating the adaptation model of nursing. She was a nursing professor at Boston College before retiring in 2017. Roy was designated as a 2007 Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.
Marlene F. Kramer was an American nurse, educator and author. She wrote a 1974 book, Reality Shock: Why Nurses Leave Nursing, which examined burnout in the nursing profession. Her book has been widely cited in subsequent studies on retention and satisfaction within nursing.
Susan Edith Tracy was an American registered nurse who developed invalid occupations as a branch of nursing.:118 Tracy was a founder member of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy. She was an educator and author, instigating the first training course about occupation and writing the first textbook about the therapeutic benefits of occupation.
Mary E. P. Davis (1840–1924) was a British North America-born American nursing instructor and a founder of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Eleanor C. Lambertsen was an American nurse. She was noted for a dissertation called Nursing Team Organization and Functioning which was later published as a book. Lambertsen's concept revolutionized nursing's and health care's organization and delivery. She received several awards for her achievements, and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2012.
Maude C. Davison was a Canadian-born, American nurse. After a career in Canada, she moved to the United States. She served as the Chief Nurse of the United States Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines during World War II. She received numerous awards for her military service in both World War I and World War II. In 2001, she posthumously was granted an Army Distinguished Service Medal for her leadership of the Angels of Bataan, the first and largest group of American military women taken as prisoners of war.
Dorothy Bannon, CBE was a pioneering British nurse who as Chief Matron-in-Charge of the Hospital and School Nursing Service of the London County Council. She was instrumental in the development of Britain's public-funded nursing service.
Jo Eleanor Elliott was a nurse based in the United States. She received the Living Legend Award from the American Nurses Association and was the head of the American Nurses Association. She was also led the Department of Health and Human Service's Division of Nursing, effectively as the nation's top nurse.
Louise Zabriskie was a registered nurse and the founder and director of Maternity Consultation Service, which offered free health services to expectant mothers in Manhattan. She authored textbooks on nursing and obstetrics, including the well regarded Nurses Handbook of Obstetrics, as well as the popular pre-natal and early parenting manual Mother and Baby Care in Pictures.
Jaime Homero Arjona (1906–1967) was Professor of Romance and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut (1932–1967), serving as chair of the Department of Foreign Languages for eighteen years (1946–1964). Constructed in 1959 and dedicated in 1968, the Jaime Homero Arjona Building in Storrs was named in his honor. The Arjona Building houses faculty offices and classrooms in the humanities and prior to 1968 was known as the Humanities Building.
Carolyn Ladd Widmer was an American nurse educator and academic administrator who served as the first dean of the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. She held this position for twenty-five years (1942–1967).
Hilda May Williams was an American nurse who served as nursing supervisor at the University of Connecticut infirmary in Storrs from 1931 to 1969.
Eleanor Krohn Herrmann (1935–2012) was an American nursing educator and historian who taught at several universities, concluding her career at the University of Connecticut (1987–1997). She was co-curator of the Josephine Dolan Collection of Nursing History.
John PeterMcDonald (October 17, 1922 – November 19, 1993) was an American librarian. McDonald served as university librarian and director at the University of Connecticut and executive director of the Association of Research Libraries (1974–76).
The Lincoln School for Nurses, also known as Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home School for Nurses, and Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, was the first nursing school for African-American women in New York City. It existed from 1898 to 1961. It was founded by Lincoln Hospital in Manhattan. The hospital and nursing school, moved to 141st Street, between Concord Avenue and Southern Boulevard in Mott Haven, the South Bronx, after 1899.
Charlotte Kratz MBE, FRCN, PhD was a trained nurse from the United Kingdom known for her pioneering community health work.
Elizabeth Eckhardt May was an American home economist, educator, and college administrator. She was dean of the School of Home Economics at the University of Connecticut from 1952 to 1964, and before that academic dean of Hood College in Maryland. Her research and writing involved rehabilitation and work supports for disabled women.
