Josephine Dolan

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Josephine A. Dolan
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Born(1913-07-27)July 27, 1913
Cranston, Rhode Island
DiedDecember 4, 2004(2004-12-04) (aged 91)
Westborough, Massachusetts
Education Boston University
Years active1944-1976
Medical career
ProfessionNurse, educator, historian
Field nursing education
Institutions University of Connecticut
Awards American Nurses Association Hall of Fame inductee

Josephine Aloyse Dolan (1913-2004) was a historian and educator who served as the first full-time professor of nursing at the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing. [1] In additional to her teaching responsibilities, Dolan was a historian who collected nursing documents, artifacts, and ephemera, which she donated to the School of Nursing in 1996 to establish the Dolan Collection of Nursing History. [2] After Dolan died, the collection was co-curated by her friend and colleague Eleanor Krohn Herrmann, who died in 2012. [3]

Dolan earned her nursing diploma from St. John's Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1935. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from Boston University in 1942 and 1950. [4] She received honorary doctoral degrees from Rhode Island College in 1974 and from Boston College in 1987. [1] Dolan also served on the board of directors for several professional associations, including the National League for Nursing. [1] She received the League's first Distinguished Service Award in 1972 and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2012. [5] The Connecticut Nurses Association has awarded the Josephine A. Dolan Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Education since 1980. [6] Dolan authored the seminal textbook, Nursing in Society: A Historical Perspective. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Herrmann, Eleanor K. (2006). "Josephine A. Dolan, 27 July 1913–4 December 2004" . Nursing History Review. 14 (1): 243–245. doi:10.1891/1062-8061.14.243. ISSN   1062-8061. S2CID   141919614.
  2. ↑ "Dolan Collection | School of Nursing". 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  3. ↑ Reitz, Stephanie (2012-08-06). "Nursing Professor Emerita Eleanor Herrmann Dies". UConn Today. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  4. ↑ Fisher, Sherry (2004-12-13). "Josephine Dolan, Nursing School's First Instructor, Dies At Age 91". UConn Advance. Archived from the original on 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  5. ↑ "Josephine A. Dolan, MS, RN, PdD (Hon.), DNSc (Hon.), 2012 Inductee". 2017-05-11. Archived from the original on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  6. ↑ "CT Nurses Association - Award Recipients". www.ctnurses.org. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  7. ↑ Reitz, Stephanie (2012-06-22). "UConn's First Nursing Instructor Inducted Posthumously in Hall of Fame". UConn Today. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
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