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Lavinia Lloyd Dock (February 26, 1858 – April 17, 1956) 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 ...
The famous nursing leader, M. Adelaide Nutting, said that Lavinia Dock was the “most noble, most unselfish, most largely helpful of women, a student, a scholar, in many ways the greatest spirit that has ever moved in our midst.” 1
It is an injustice to summarize the life of Lavinia Dock: her brilliance sparked many causes and not just in nursing. Born February 26 1858 in Harrisburg, PA, she was one of six children. Well educated, she is said to have been inspired to enter nursing after reading a magazine article.
Lavinia Dock was a pioneer both in nursing education at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and in social activism, fighting disparities among women, immigra...
The Lavinia Dock Collection contains correspondence and photographs. Additional original material pertaining to Dock can be found in the records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses and the Johns Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association.
May 16, 2021 · Lavinia Lloyd Dock was a nurse and social reformer born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1858. From a well-to-do family, she chose to train as a nurse and after serving as a visiting nurse among the poor she compiled the first manual of drugs for nurses, Materia Medica for Nurses (1890).
May 7, 2024 · May 7, 2024 — Lavinia Dock, who studied nursing at Bellevue Hospital’s school for nurses in New York City in the late 1800s, is well known for her dedication to the field of nursing; and for her participation in both the labor and the suffrage movements.
Oct 25, 2022 · Lavinia Dock was a pioneer both in nursing education at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and social activism, fighting disparities among women, immigrants, and the working poor with information. Her reason and her tenaciousness set a clear path for 21st-century researchers who mobilize nursing science to push social justice.
Lavinia Dock. Lavinia Dock was a respected leader in nursing and lifelong suffragist. While studying at New York’s Bellevue Hospital in 1886, she joined other women who went to the polls on election day and attempted to cast their ballots. This was her first arrest for the cause.
This historical study focused on the life of Lavinia Lloyd Dock as a reformer in nursing and social movements during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lavinia Dock was...
