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Florence Wald

Nursing

#6

World Rank

#10

Historical Rank

#5

USA Rank

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Florence Wald's Degrees

Bachelors Sociology Mount Holyoke College

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According to Wikipedia, Florence Wald was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement". She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States. Late in life, Wald became interested in the provision of hospice care within prisons. In 1998, Wald was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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Florence Wald's Published Works

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Hospice care for dying patients. (1975) (41)
TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PRACTICE THEORY (1964) (30)
The hospice movement as a health care reform. (1980) (26)
The hospice movement: a backward glance at its first two decades. (1978) (11)
The Needs and Resources for Hospice Care in the Connecticut Prison System: A Feasibility Study (2002) (9)
The widening scope of spiritual care (1989) (7)
Spiritual or Pastoral Care: Two Models (1988) (6)
Hospice care in the United States: a conversation with Florence S. Wald. Interview by M. J. Friedrich. (1999) (6)
Terminal care and nursing education. (1979) (5)
[Hospice care for dying patients]. (1977) (4)
Issues in nursing (1967) (3)
Emerging nursing practice. (1966) (3)
Development of an interdisciplinary team to care for dying patients and their families. (1969) (2)
Approaching the 21st Century (1990) (2)
Regulations vs. ideals: A case history of a hospice closure (1992) (1)
Hospice movement must recognize human needs. (1979) (0)
A Crossroads (2001) (0)
Book Review: Spiritual, Ethical, and Pastoral Aspects of Death and Bereavement. (1994) (0)
Hospice Care for Dying Patients What people need most when they are dying is relief from distressing symptoms of disease, the security of a caring environment, sustained expert care, and assurance that they and their families will not be abandoned. (2016) (0)
Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. By Peter A. Selwyn: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. $20.00 (1999) (0)
15. A Nursing Perspective on Patient Care (1983) (0)
Terminal Care and (1979) (0)

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