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References

http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/papers/robb.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Hampton_Robb

http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/02-07/robb.asp

Background Information

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.

Nurse Leader

Around The world and back

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.

Impact on nursing education

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.

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