Lavinia L. Dock
American nurse educator, feminist and author · United States · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1858 to 1956 · aged 98
Lavinia Lloyd Dock was an American nurse, feminist, writer, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. Dock was an assistant superintendent at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton Robb. She founded what would become the National League for Nursing with Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting.
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Dock was a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing and authored several books, including a four-volume history of nursing and Materia Medica for Nurses, the nurse's standard manual of drugs for many years. In her later life, she also campaigned for social reform, particularly women's rights.
