Isabel Hampton Robb

Isabel Hampton Robb , b. Isabel Hampton, (born August 26, 1859 in Welland / Ontario , Canada ; † April 15, 1910 in Cleveland / Ohio , USA ) was an American nurse and nursing theorist.

Isabel Hampton initially trained as a teacher. On May 24, 1873, a nursing school opened its doors at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, the teaching concept of which was based on that of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas Hospital in London. The training to become a nurse lasted two years. The second year was a practical year of recognition. The school was founded to improve care conditions at the Bellevue Hospital. Prominent citizens of New York had donated a corresponding sum that made it possible to rent a house in which the nursing students could be accommodated. In order to be accepted into this school, a demanding admissions process had to be completed. This was mainly achieved by women from the middle classes, whereas women from the lower classes were the losers in this admission procedure. These women insulted the hospital administration, cursed them and pelted the new nurses from the middle-class milieu with stones. Isabel Hampton passed the admissions process with no problems. The struggle of women against women during the admission process left its mark on their thinking. At the time of the fighting, Linda Richards was on watch at Bellevue Hospital. Linda Richards was the first trained nurse in the United States. She received her education at the General Training School for Nurses in Boston. Linda Richards was in charge of practical training on the night watch.

On May 7, 1889, the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened and Isabel Hampton became the school's first principal. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was from the year 1889 under the direction of the Canadian clinician Sir William Osler , who dealt with questions of medical education and reclaimed the employment with education questions also for the nursing. One of Isabel Hampton Robb's main concerns was to increase the training from two to three years. Her students Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1957) and later Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858-1948) were her deputies in the office of the school administration. In 1889, Isabel Hampton published the first American basic nursing textbook, "Nursing: Its Principles and Practice". In 1894 she married Dr. Hunter Robb. She retired from the head of the school to have more time with her family. She took on teaching positions on the advanced training course at Teachers College. Isabel Hampton Robb's ideas about nursing professionalization went too far and prompted Florence Nightingale to criticize her.

publication

• Nursing: its principles and practice, for hospital and private use , 1889.
• Nursing Ethics , 1900.

literature

• Karin Wittneben : The development of professional and scientific nursing training in the USA from 1872–1990 , in: Maria Mischo-Kelling and Karin Wittneben: Pflegebildung und Pflegetheorien , Urban & Schwarzenberg 1995, pp. 13-15.
• Karin Wittneben: Hampton-Robb, Isabel Adams , in: Horst-Peter Wolff (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history” , Volume I, Ullstein Mosby Berlin / Wiesbaden 1997, p. 74.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Livia Prüll: Sir William Osler , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, pp. 246 + 247. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .