Florence Wald
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Florence Wald (1917- ) is an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as the founder of the U.S. hospice movement.[1].
[edit] Biography
Wald was born in New York City in 1917 and received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a M.N. and M.S. from Yale School of Nursing. She became Dean of Yale School of Nursing in 1959[2]. In 1966, she resigned as Dean in order to study end of life care in Great Britain. In 1971, she, along with two pediatricians and a Yale medical center chaplain, founded the first hospice in the U.S. located in Branford, Connecticut.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Wald Biography
- ^ History of the Yale School of Nursing
- ^ The Hospice Experiment - American RadioWorks
- Friedrich, M.J. (1999) "Hospice Care in the United States: A Conversation With Florence S. Wald". JAMA. 281: 1683-1685.
- [History and contributions of Yale School of Nursing: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/nursing/historical/]
- [Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame: http://www.cwhf.org/hall/wald/wald.htm]
- [The Hospice Experiment: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/hospice/a4.html]
