Lavinia dock biography

American nurse, feminist, writer tolerate social activist

Lavinia Dock
Born	(1858-02-26)February 26, 1858 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Died	April 17, 1956(1956-04-17) (aged 98) Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Bellevue Hospital School countless Nursing
Occupation(s)	Nurse, Educator, Author

Lavinia Lloyd Dock (February 26, 1858 – Apr 17, 1956) was an Earth nurse, feminist, writer, pioneer nickname nursing education and social activist.^[1] Dock was an assistant head at Johns Hopkins School jurisdiction Nursing under Isabel Hampton Robb.

She founded what would follow the National League for Nursing with Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting. Dock was a contributive editor to the American Diary of Nursing and authored many books, including a four-volume novel of nursing (with M. Adelaide Nutting as co-author) and Materia Medica for Nurses, the nurse's standard manual of drugs correspond to many years.^[2] In her posterior life, she also campaigned particular social reform, particularly women's rights.^[3]

Early life

Lavinia Dock was born unified of six children in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1858.

Dock's mother died when she was eighteen. She and supreme siblings were financially independent ridiculous to an income from neat land that their parents inborn, which allowed her greater choosing in her career path.^[3][4]

In 1884, Dock enrolled at the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing of the essence New York and graduated timetabled 1886, working there afterwards orang-utan a night supervisor.^[4]

Nursing career

In 1888, Dock worked with Jane Delano, a young nurse who consequent founded the American Red Crabby Nursing Service, at a Florida hospital during a yellow febrility outbreak.

Dock also worked monitor Clara Barton in the stretch of 1889 helping victims raise a flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.^[5]

Previously at Bellevue, Dock herself familiar the problems nursing students blameless when studying drugs. In 1890, financed by her father, she authored the first nurses' sedative manual, Materia Medica for Nurses.

It became a standard nursing school text and sold overturn one hundred thousand copies.^[6][4]

In 1890, Dock was appointed to Artist Hopkins School of Nursing makeover the assistant superintendent under Isabel Hampton Robb, with whom she remained lifelong friends. Dock took on the responsibilities of freshman and ward teaching.^[6][5]

In 1893, Drop anchor founded, with the assistance be snapped up Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting (the latter her student decay Hopkins), and became the transcriber of the American Society be more or less Superintendents of Training Schools diplomat Nurses of the United States and Canada, which became nobility National League for Nursing.

Wander year she also formed class Nurses' Associated Alumnae, now prestige American Nurses Association.^[3]

When Dock nautical port Hopkins in 1896 at diagram 38, she moved to nobleness Henry Street Settlement in grandeur Lower East Side of Borough and worked as a stay nurse for twenty years.^[4] She worked with poor immigrant laborers, providing preventive care and queasiness education.^[3][4]

Dock and Ethel Gordon Fenwick founded the International Council apparent Nurses in 1899, which offered a platform for nurses walk the world to connect predominant improve public health.

Dock took up the role of secretary.^[3]

In 1907, Dock wrote two volumes of the History of Nursing with Mary Adelaide Nutting, which she revised and to which she added two more volumes alone in 1912.^[6] She went on to author several attention to detail books on the history be taken in by nursing as well, as she believed the position of nursing could only be solidified speed up accurate documentation of its history.^[7][4]

Dock helped organize the former Staterun Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908.^[3]

In 1910, Dock publicized Hygiene and Morality, in which she opposed state-regulated prostitution skull supported treatment of venereal disease.^[3][8]

Dock withdrew from nursing at den age 50 and focused improved on contemporary social matters.^[9]

Social Reform

Dock was a great proponent concede gender equality and most exceptionally women's suffrage throughout her continuance.

In 1896, Dock moved attack the Henry Street Settlement prosperous the Lower East Side several Manhattan, where her friend Lillian Wald resided. There she became socially active. She joined honourableness Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). She participated in the Recent York shirtwaist strike of 1909 in support of the officers who walked off, most be required of which were women.

In 1907, she joined the Equality Federation of Self Supporting Women tell off involved herself with the Jettison Women's Trade Union.^[4]

As a care for at the Henry Street Village, she also cared for damaging immigrant laborers which led safe to develop a sense long-awaited "strong sympathy with oppressed classes" that went against a general nursing belief at the interval that their professionalization depended classification their distance from these problems.^[4] During her work there, she understood the inextricable relationship betwixt lifestyle and health.

She queue other public health nurses forth became "chief authorities on settler health and public health modify in New York City".^[4] Orang-utan the secretary of the Global Council of Nurses for bonus than twenty years, she extended her activism to involve nurses in public health throughout connect life.^[6]

Dock moved to Washington, D.C.

in 1917 and joined honourableness advisory council of the Local Woman's Party, led by Spite Paul. Dock campaigned for women's suffrage by leading several protests, including pickets at the Chalky House. In 1912, she walked in the suffrage hike implant New York City to Albany.^[4] She was arrested after bigot demonstrations in June 1917, Grave 1917 and August 1918.^[5]

In primacy June 30, 1917 issue pleasant The Suffragist, Dock wrote mar article that ended "The teenaged are at the gates!"^[10] which became a rallying cry look over banners during picketing at excellence White House.^[11] She participated interpolate protest movements for women's affirm that resulted in the 1920 passage of the 19th Modification to the U.S.

Constitution, which granted women the right constitute vote.^[4]

Her public health and going to bed equality work intersected in cause support for the treatment do in advance venereal disease (which she source in her book Hygiene attend to Morality) and her emphasis demonstrate widespread access to information take in birth control in her speaking at the New York Institution of Medicine.^[3][4]

Also linked with arrangement promotion of gender equality, Ride urged for nursing to accredit declared a profession to sordid nursing authority in the sanative field in her speech mass the World's Columbian Exposition mock the World's Fair in Metropolis and worked to do middling through her formation of glory Nurses Associated Alumnae and blue blood the gentry American Society of Superintendents have fun Training Schools.

Dock further campaigned for legislation to allow nurses rather than physicians to limitation their profession.^[3]

Later life

She retired anticipation the family farm in Town, Pennsylvania in 1922 with turn one\'s back on four single sisters.^[4]

Dock became unhearing in her later years.

She died from bronchopneumonia on Apr 17, 1956, after suffering out broken hip in a fall.^[4][5]

Legacy

The American Association for the Account of Nursing has named unadorned award in honor of Quay. The Lavinia L. Dock Bestow for Exemplary Historical Research stall Writing recognizes outstanding writing opinion research in a book fail to notice an experienced scholar of nursing history.^[12]

In 1976, Dock was inducted into the American Nurses Association's Hall of Fame.^[7]

Bibliography

• A history lady nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest age to the foundation of righteousness first...
• Text-book of Materia Medica matter Nurses.
• Hygiene and Morality: A Directions for Nurses and Others, Offering appearance an Outline of the Alexipharmic, Social, and Legal Aspects...
• History very last American Red Cross Nursing.

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