Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History
Limited Edition Nursing Pins
M. Adelaide Nutting - 2006
Mary Adelaide Nutting was an outstanding nursing educator and dedicated to the professionalization of nursing. A graduate of the first class of the Johns Hopkins School of nursing in 1891, she became superintendent of nurses and principal of the school in 1894. She championed national standards for nursing, founding the Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (later the National League for Nursing Education) and helped launch the American Nurses Association. The first professor of nursing in the world, as head of nursing at Teachers College, Columbia University she transformed nursing internationally. She was honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation, the recipient of the M. Adelaide Nutting Medal (created by the NLN in her honor), the Liberty Service Medal of the National Institute of (WWI) of the National Institute of Social Services and an Honorary MA from Yale University, and is an ANA Hall of Fame inductee.
