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Ida Jean Orlando 's Life

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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

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