Edith Kellnhauser

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Edith Kellnhauser (* 1933 in Wolkering , Regensburg district ; † May 23, 2019 ) was a German nursing scientist , university professor and publicist .

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Edith Kellnhauser completed what was then still a two-year training course as a nurse at the hospital of the motherhouse of the sisterhood of the Bavarian Red Cross in Munich from 1951 to 1953 . Until 1955 she worked in a surgical ward at the RK Hospital in Munich and from 1956 to 1957 she took over the management of a private ward of the women's clinic . From 1957 to 1958 she completed the third year of training as a registered nurse at the West Middlesex Hospital in London , which she completed with the state examination and recognition as a State Registered Nurse by the English nursing system established in particular by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) General Nursing Council for England and Wales.

In 1959 Kellnhauser moved to the United States , which - with a three-year break from a stay at the University Hospital in Alexandria - became her adopted home for more than 25 years.

After several months of inpatient service in the field of surgery and internal medicine at the Catholic private hospital "The Little Company of Mary" in Chicago , she completed a three-month post-qualification at the Chattahoochee State Psychiatric Hospital between November 1959 and January 1960 and thus acquired the license to be a nurse and the Recognition as a State Registered Nurse, which was also valid in the other states of the United States.

Kellnhauser has worked as a ward nurse , department nurse , clinic head nurse and deputy nurse director at Florida State Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital and at Cedars Medical Center in Miami, particularly in the areas of oncological and psychiatric care as well as surgical and internal intensive care .

From 1977 to 1980 she studied at the Florida International University , Miami, philosophy with the degree Bachelor of Arts , and from 1983 to 1985 Education with a focus on adult education with the degree Master of Science , where she also guest student at guest lectures by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was .

After her return to Germany in 1986, Kellnhauser worked at the German Hospital Institute in Düsseldorf until 1992 , where she was responsible for the scientific and editorial management of the HECLINET literature database.

In 1992 Kellnhauser was appointed professor for nursing management and nursing education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and became the founding dean of the "Nursing" department. In 1993 she was at the University of Osnabrück with the work of nursing chambers and professionalization of nursing. An international comparison with examination of the transferability to the Federal Republic of Germany to the Dr. phil. PhD .

After her retirement in 1999, she continued to work in various areas of nursing. She has lectured at professional congresses and arranged internships for nursing students in the United States. She was a member of professional commissions and bodies.

From 2001 she published the textbook Thiemes Pflege , founded by Liliane Juchli . In 2012 her autobiography An Extraordinary Nursing Career was published .

Awards

Fonts

  • with Ursula Zawada: Nursing documentation in home nursing. Visitas, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-927509-02-7 .
  • Nursing chambers and professionalization of care. An international comparison with examination of the transferability to the Federal Republic of Germany. Dissertation. University of Osnabrück 1993. Bibliomed, Melsungen 1994, ISBN 3-921958-97-0 . 2nd edition: Zawada, Mönchengladbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-932042-08-9 .
  • Technical English for nurses. The use of English technical terms using the example of care in the USA. Schlütersche, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-87706-898-7 .
  • An exceptional nursing career. Autobiography. Hpsmedia, Hungen 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814259-8-7 .
  • The founding process of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nursing Chamber. Schlütersche, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-89993-380-2 .

literature

  • Edith Kellnhauser. In: Birgit Trockel, Irmgard Notthoff, Margret Knäuper (Eds.): Who is Who in Care. Germany - Switzerland - Austria. With a foreword by Ruth Schröck . Huber, Bern 1999, ISBN 3-456-83016-5 , pp. 259-260.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Edith Kellnhauser receives an honorary doctorate. In: Information Service Science . 20th May 2019
  2. ↑ Edit Kellnhauser: nursing chambers and professionalization of nursing an international comparison with testing the applicability to the Federal Republic of Germany. 2nd Edition. Zawada, Mönchengladbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-932042-08-9 .
  3. ^ Cross of merit on ribbon for Edith Kellnhauser on bibliomed-pflege.de, accessed on May 24, 2019
  4. ↑ Markus Golla: DE: Prof. Dr. Edith Kellnhauser awarded the German Nursing Prize 2019. In: Care Professional. March 14, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kellnhauser, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kellnhauser, Edith Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nursing scientist, university professor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolkering , Regensburg district
DATE OF DEATH 23 May 2019