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Collection DocL : Lavinia Dock Collection

Description

Key

89764

Reference Code Element

DocL

Type

Text

Creator

Personal name, Dock, Lavinia

Administrative/Biographical History

Lavinia Lloyd Dock
26 Feb 1858-17 Apr 1956
Lavinia Dock was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1858. She graduated from the Bellevue Training School for Nurses in 1886. In 1889 she helped in the disaster relief effort following the devastating flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1890 she became the assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. The same year, her textbook "Materia Medica for Nurses" which quickly became a standard in Nursing curriculum was published. She spoke at the Columbian Exposition at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. In 1907, along with Mary Adelaide Nutting she wrote the illustrated "A History of Nursing." She went on to write more books on nursing and the American Red Cross including "A Short History of Nursing" with Isabel M. Stewart in 1920, and "History of American Red Cross Nursing" with Sarah E. Pickett in 1922. She was a member of the Nursesââ¬â¢ Settlement in New York, Secretary of the American Federation of Nurses and of the International Council of Nurses. She was also a member of the National Womenââ¬â¢s Party which campaigned for the equal rights amendment introduced in 1923. She served as secretary for the International Council of Nurses from 1899 to 1922. From 1900 to 1923 she was a contributing editor for the American Journal of Nursing's "Foreign Department". She was made an Honorary Alumni of the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumnae Association and in 1976 she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

Scope and Content

The Lavinia Dock Collection contains photographs of Dock during her time at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and later in life.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing--People

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2004, 2007

Processing Information

The Lavinia Dock Collection was processed by Anthony Dellureficio in 2004 and described by Elisabeth Sultzbaugh in 2007 through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

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