Ida Jean Orlando was born on August 12, 1926. She was born in New Jersey, but the family later moved to Kings County, New York, where her father worked as a mechanic and her mother was a homemaker. Her childhood occurred through the depression. Even though her family struggled financially, she wanted to study nursing to better her life. However, her mother was opposed to her leaving home to go to school because in Italian culture at that time, a girl did not leave the family home until she was married. Reluctantly she was able to leave home and she began her nursing education at New York Medical College 's Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital School of Nursing. Ida Jean Orlando received a Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing in 1951. In 1954, she completed her Master of Arts in Mental Health consultation. Throughout her studies she worked part time and sometimes concurrently as a staff nurse. Although she was in administration and nursing in Obstetrics, medical surgical, and emergency nursing, she was also an educator. Orlando devoted her life to mental health and psychiatric nursing, working as a clinical nurse and researcher (American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2016). Ida Jean Orlando received a Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing from St. John’s University in Brooklyn, New York. And in 1954, Orlando received her Master of Arts degree in mental health consultation from Teachers College, Columbia University. Consequentially she married her love
Dorothea Orem was born July 15, 1914 in Maryland. Orem was a decorated nurse. She was awarded her nursing diploma from Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. In 1939 she graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education from Catholic University of America and in 1945 excelled again when she earned her Master of Science in Nursing. During her career she
J.W. first began her nursing career after she graduated from Truman State University with a BSN. She then went back to school at Webster University and graduated with a master’s degree in both health services management and nursing. After working in clinical positions for many years, she decided to return to school one last time to obtain her EED in higher education leadership from Lindenwood University. After her graduation from Truman and Webster, she began working on a medical surgical floor and mostly conducted surgeries on hips and shoulders. She did that for about nine months, but decided to switch since her work was very physically demanding. She stated, “Then I went to a different town and I worked in ICU where I was a head nurse in the step down unit and dialysis unit for a while” (Personal communication, 10/19/2017). She then
Dorothea Orem is a notable figure in the nursing community, receiving several Honorary Doctorate degrees (McEwen & Wills, 2014). Orem was a member of the Board of Health in Indiana from 1949 until 1957 (McEwen & Wills, 2014). She received her first form of nursing education at the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC. She continued to educate her self by attaining her master’s degree in nursing from Catholic University in 1945. Orem experienced nursing from both practical and educational perspectives,
Alice Magaw was born November 9, 1860, in Cashocton, Ohio. Besides her contribution to nursing, little is known about Alice’s personal life and what inspired her to enter the field on nursing. However, one can guess that she saw a demand for nurses and had a passion for caring for others. During this time period, nursing schools were incorporated into hospitals. Alice Magaw attended the Women’s Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago from 1887 to1889, around the time that nursing began to transform from a lower class occupation to a respectable profession. After graduation Alice worked as a private duty nurse in Chicago. In 1893, Alice began her work under Dr. William J. and Charles H.
Susan B. Anthony entered the juryless courtroom. A judge sat before her. Just shortly after she arrived, Anthony said, “I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all” (ecssba.rutgers.edu). Anthony stressed that the laws were not fair only because they were created by men. The courtroom tensed as she made more points clearly proving the judge wrong about the laws made forth in the United States. Susan B. Anthony refused to sit, fearing that it would be her last chance to speak her freedom in the courtroom. The tension was brewing and the judge continued to rebut Anthony’s firm arguments. She made it clear that it was biased laws that were being created against women. Anthony wanted to change that. Her confident statements about her fine for one-hundred dollars because of her decision to vote even though it was against the law, made the courtroom quiet. Many uncomfortably shifted back and forth in their chairs, looking at Anthony’s every movement. Anthony maintained a calm, yet effective speech despite the pressure upon her. She continued to state that it was only wrong of her to vote because she was a woman, and that she was not being treated like a human being as stated in the amendments. Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights fought the injustice. She spent
She worked in various hospitals in different position from a bed side nurse to the head nurse. Not content with her work, she continued with her studies and graduated Masters in Education from India,
During the Reconstruction era, her father was active in the Freedman’s Aid Society and helped open the Shaw University. This is where Ida received her early schooling. Unfortunately, both of her parents and one sibling died due to a yellow fever outbreak and Ida was forced to drop out at the age of 16 and care for her siblings.
Imogene King was born in 1921in Iowa. Growing up, she dreamed of being a teacher but began nursing school to escape her small town life. She graduated with a diploma in nursing in 1945, then three years later earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education and worked as medical-surgical instructor and an assistant director at St. John’s School of Nursing until 1958, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being a teacher wither nursing career. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Nursing in 1957 and a doctorate in education in 1961 (Imogene King, 2011). King then became an associate professor at Loyola University in Chicago and formed a master’s degree program that was based on her nursing concepts, which later became the framework for her theory.
She graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1945 and as a Registered Nurse from Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in 1948 where she was an operating room nurse. She was employed for several years as an office nurse with Kane, Mollick and Banmiller Ob/GYN Associates in East Norriton and in private practice in home health care.
Dorothea Orem was born in1914 in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her nursing diploma from the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., in 1930, before she went on to complete her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1939 and 1945 respectively. Orem occupied numerous high profile nursing positions during her lifetime. She was director of nursing in various institutions and was a member of group of nursing theorists who formulated the framework for North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. She proposed Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing, which is made up of
In 1891, at the age of 22, Lillian Wald decided to attend nursing school. She moved to New York and acquired her education at New York Hospital’s Training School
Imogene King was not only involved in nursing for 60 years, but she was a leader in nursing right from her start in the diploma program at St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, Missouri. King saw nursing as a challenge. She credits her Jesuit education, her perception of personal
Ida Jean Orlando was born on 1926, who received her bachelor in nursing at New York Medical College School of Nursing (Parker & Smith, 2015). Orlando was an educator and a researcher who focused her study on the patient-to-nurse relationship. Her first book established The Dynamic Nurse-Patient Relationship in the 1960s (Parker & Smith, 2015). Her goals were to teach and
Mercer born October 4, 1929, obtained her nursing degree at the young age of 21 from St. Margaret’s School of Nursing in Montgomery, Alabama. Mercer spent her first 10 years as a nurse working in pediatrics and obstetrics. Following this, she obtained her
Ida Jean Orlando was born in 1929. She obtained her diploma in nursing from New York Medical College, her Bachelor of Science in public health nursing from St. John’s University and Masters in mental health nursing at Columbia University (Current Nursing, 2013). She was an Associate Professor at Yale School of Nursing and Director of the Graduate Program in Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing (Current Nursing, 2013). Orlando published her book The Dynamic Nurse-Patient Relationship in 1961.