Annie Warburton Goodrich Research Paper

Annie Warburton Goodrich: An American Pioneer
Brittanie Tolbert
Bellarmine University
NURS 110
July 28,2013Annie Warburton Goodrich known as Yale’s first female dean and “mother of nursing education” was born February 6, 1866 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was second of seven children. Her well-to-do father was a insurance executive and her mother was the daughter of a pioneer in progressive psychiatry who founded Hartford Retreat, an institution for the treatment of mentally ill, Dr. John S. Butler (Green,Sicherman.1980). At the age twelve she attended private school in Connecticut, later in London and Paris , paid for by the governesses. After, completing her education, Goodrich entered into the social life of Hartford,
April 1917, World War l created rapid movement within professional nursing communities to arrange for the massive requirements for nurses in wartime. Goodwich was apart of the Emergency Committee on Nursing formed in June 1917. February 1918 she teamed up with American Red Cross facilities to provide care and teach non-licensed nurses how to care for the wounded in Europe . She was overwhelmed with her new task in this new position. She proposed the army launch its own school of nursing, May 1918 her idea was approved. This was her opportunity to create the nursing program of her dreams. In 1923 the United States War
Department recognized her wartime efforts by awarding her the Distinguished Service
Medal CITATION Gur88 \l 1033 (Gurney, 1988).
Since her initial entry into nursing practice, she has been active in nursing professionalism, including the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for
Nurses CITATION Gur88 \l 1033 (Gurney, 1988). In 1909 she served as president of the American Federation of Nurses and from 1912 to 1913 was president of International Council of
This committee issued recommendations that included entrance requirements to schools of nursing, including training in the basic sciences, and affiliation of schools of nursing with multiple hospitals in order to provide well-rounded clinical experience CITATION Gur88 \l 1033 (Gurney, 1988). Yale University offered a facility to Goodrich committee in 1923 for the first experimental university-based independent school of nursing. Goodrich became the dean and professor of that nursing school at Yale University. For the 11 years of her leadership, Yale
School of Nursing entrenched stricter nursing requirements. Goodrich retired in Colchester,
Connecticut in 1934. The New York Times wrote in 1947 about Goodrich stating that ‘”her lifelong mission was to revolutionized the education of nurses by improving the practical, hospital-based training then standard and gradually replacing it with university-based professional-school education CITATION Jud11 \l 1033 (Schiff, 2011).
Goodrich’s awards include the Medal of the institute of Social Sciences in 1920, the U.S.
Distinguished Service Medal in 1923, the Walter Burns Saunders Medal from the