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The National League for Nursing (NLN) is a national organization for faculty nurses and leaders in nurse education.It offers faculty development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to more than 45,000 individual and 1,000 education and associate members.
In 1938, National League for Nursing Education (NLNE) began accreditation for registered nurse education programs. Beginning in 1964, federal funding for nursing education under the US Nurse Training Act was contingent upon the compliance of schools of nursing with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of the same year.
National League for Nursing: Former associate director of the National League for Nursing. Helped to form the New York Regents External Degree Program, now known as Excelsior College. 2007 Margaret McClure: Columbia University: New York University: Hospital chief nursing officer.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb (1859–1910) was an American nurse theorist, author, nursing school administrator and early leader.Hampton was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, wrote several influential textbooks, and helped to found the organizations that became known as the National League for Nursing, the International Council of Nurses, and the American ...
Lavinia Lloyd Dock (February 26, 1858 – April 17, 1956) was an American nurse, feminist, writer, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. [1] 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.
Nursing can be a rewarding profession, and nurses are in demand. The World Health Organization warns that there could be a worldwide shortage of as many as 9 million nurses and midwives by 2030.
At Penn, Fagin developed the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League and a PhD program as well. She also opened the first center for nursing research in the U.S. in 1980. She is credited with leading a transformation in nursing education by advocating that nurses should have a science-based education and graduate with bachelor's degrees. [1 ...
She was a pioneer of education, hospital administration, and other fields. In 1944, Nutting was awarded a medal in her name, presented by the National League of Nursing. The "Mary Adelaide Nutting Award" is given once a year, to a recipient who was shown devotion and furthered the development of nursing education. [1]