She was named an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1981. She received the ANA Pearl McIver Public Health Nurse Award, Florence Nightingale Medal from the International Red Cross, Mary Adelaide Nutting Award from the National League for Nursing, and Bronfman Prize from the American Public Health Association. She served on the governing council and executive board of the American Public Health Association, as chairperson of the American Nurses Association (ANA) Committee on Functions, Standards, and Qualifications of Public Health Nurses, and as a member of the executive committee of the ANA Division on Community Health Nursing Practice. After receiving her doctorate, she became a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1962, retiring from that position in 1971.įreeman was president and member of the board of directors of the National Health Council and the National League for Nursing. Ruth Benson Freeman's major contributions to nursing were as an educator, author, and speaker in the field of public health nursing. A supporter of a rigorous education for nurses, with its own theory and curriculum, Davis observed, 'The hospital is the place par excellence to teach the art of nursing and to practice the science, but it is not the best place, or even a good place, to teach the concomitants.The school is.for the purpose of acquiring theoretical knowledge of the practical work required, so that the work from the beginning of the probation shall be intelligently, not mechanically, performed.' When the post office in Philadelphia refused to accept this issue for mailing, Davis made herself and her editor personally responsible for the magazine to the postal authorities.ĭavis was among the founders of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, later renamed National League for Nursing. In 1900, with 550 stock subscriptions sold, she and her colleagues published the first issue of the Journal.

Davis served as a business manager of The American Journal of Nursing from 1900-1909.

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