Women / Persons ~ P16338
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Alternate Names:
- M. Adelaide Nutting
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 1 November 1858 – 3 October 1948
Types:
- Educator, professor
- Nurse
- Nursing reform
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: world's first professor of nursing; principal of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; first nurse to be appointed to a university professorship (taught at Teachers' College, Columbia); 1944 the National League for Nursing Education created the Mary Adelaide Nutting Medal; inducted into the American Nurses' Association Hall of Fame in 1976; wrote nursing textbooks