Lavinia Dock

Lavinia Lloyd Dock (born February 26, 1858 in Harrisburg , † April 17, 1956 in Chambersburg ) was an American nursing scientist, nursing historian and secretary of the " International Council of Nurses (ICN)".

Lavinia Lloyd Dock grew up with five siblings. She trained as a nurse at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and received her diploma in 1886. In 1889 she became a teacher at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Nursing School in Baltimore and represented the school administration Isabel Hampton Robb . The Johns Hopkins Hospital was under the direction of the Canadian clinician Sir William Osler from 1889 , who also dealt with questions of medical education and worked as a medical historian. In 1890 Lavinia Dock finished her first academic work with the title "Textbook of materia medica for nurses". This was followed by a job in the education and training of community nurses in New York City. Lavinia Lloyd Dock founded the “American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses” in order to improve nursing education in the country based on William Osler's commitment to medical education. In 1899 Lavinia Dock was recognized as a leader in US nursing science when she was elected Secretary of the International Council of Nurses. Between 1907 and 1912 Dock wrote the four-volume classic "History of Nursing" together with Mary Adelaide Nutting . Dock died very old in 1956 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Works

Text-book of Materia Medica for Nurses . GP Putnam's Sons, New York & London 1890. 2nd edition 1897 (digitized) 3rd edition 1901 (digitized)
Together with Adelaide Nutting. A history of nursing . GP Putnam's Sons, New York & London 1907-1912, 4 volumes, Volume I (1907) (digitized) , Volume II (1907) (digitized) , Volume III (1912) (digitized) , Volume IV (1912) (digitized)
- Agnes Karll (translator). Mary Adelaide Nutting and Lavinia Dock. History of nursing . D. Reimer, Berlin 1910–1913 Volume I (1910) (digitized version) Volume II (1911) (digitized version) Volume III (1913) (digitized version)
Hygiene and morality: a manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases . GP Putnam's Sons, New York & London 1910 (digitized version) , 5th edition 1912 (digitized version)
A short history of nursing . GP Putnam's Sons, New York & London 1920 (digitized version)
History of American Red Cross Nursing , 1922. (digitized version)

literature

Karin Wittneben and Maria Mischo-Kelling: Nursing education and nursing theories , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich, Vienna, Baltimore, 1st edition 1995, with a foreword by Hildegard Peplau , p. 17.
Horst-Peter Wolff: Lavinia Lloyd Dock , in: Horst-Peter Wolff (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history” , Volume 1, Ullstein Mosby Berlin and Wiesbaden 1997, p. 41.

Individual evidence

^ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dock, Lavinia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dock, Lavinia Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American nurse, nursing scientist, and nursing historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1956
Place of death	Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

[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 .