Florence Blake

Florence Guinness Blake was an American nurse, professor and author who made significant contributions to pediatric nursing and to familycentered nursing care. Blake wrote her classic text, The Child, His Parents and the Nurse, in 1954. She coauthored two other pediatric nursing textbooks, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing and Nursing Care of Children. She was on the nursing faculty at several American universities. She was posthumously honored with induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

Florence Blake was born on November 30, 1907. She was the daughter of musician Thelma Dunlap Blake and minister James Blake. She graduated from the Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing in 1928. She completed an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1936. After teaching pediatric nursing in China for several years, she earned a masters degree from the University of Michigan in 1941. Beginning in the 1940s, Blake headed the graduate program in advanced pediatric nursing at the University of Chicago.

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