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Isabel Adams Hampton was born in Welland, Ontario August 26, 1859.
At age 17, she started work as a public school teacher. She entered Bellevue Training
School for Nurses in New York in 1881 and received her diploma in 1883.
In 1889 she met Dr. Hunter Robb, an gynecologist at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, and they were married in London, England on July 11, 1894.
Florence Nightingale sent Hampton her wedding bouquet.
The couple moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
They had two sons, Hampton, born Dec. 25, 1895, and Phillip, born Feb. 28, 1902.
She was killed April 15, 1910 in a streetcar accident in Cleveland, Ohio.
After Graduation from Bellevue Training School for Nurses
she was substitute for the superintendent of nurses in the Woman's Hospital, New York
and then spent two years in Rome as a nurse at St. Paul's House.
Upon returning from Rome, she served as a private duty nurse for a family in New Jersey.
In 1886 she went to Chicago were she was the superintendent of Illinois Training School for
Nurses at Cook County Hospital.In 1889, she came to the newly opened Johns
Hopkins Hospital, where she was the first Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the Training School.
In 1893 at the World's Fair in Chicago, she organized the Nurses section of the International Congress of Charities,
Correction and Philanthropy.In 1894 she left Hopkins to marry Dr. Hunter Robb.
In 1896, she became the first President of the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada.
During her time in Chicago, she implemented reforms which are largely
still followed today.One of her most notable contributions to the system
of nursing education was the implementation of a grading policy for
nursing students.While working at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing,
she continued to suggest reforms, participated in teaching, and published.
She wrote Nursing: Its Principles and Practice.
She was a key figure in the development for curriculum for the Lakeside
Hospital Training School for Nurses. Robb also wrote Nursing Ethics
in 1900 and Educational Standards for Nurses in 1907.
She also helped to create a graduate hospital economics course
at Columbia University Teachers College.