Dock, Lavinia L. (1858–1956)

American nurse. Born Lavinia Lloyd Dock, Feb 26, 1858, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; died April 17, 1956, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; dau. of Gilliard and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh Dock; graduate of Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in NY (1886).

Contributed to nursing field; advocated women's rights; assisted Jane Delano with yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida (1888); began working under Isabel Hampton Robb as assistant superintendent of nurses at the then-new Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses (Nov 1890); with Robb, attended the Conference of Charities, Correction, and Philanthropy at Chicago World's Fair (1893), which led to creation of American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of US and Canada (later named National League for Nursing) and served as its secretary (1896–1903); worked at Henry Street Settlement to help NYC poor (1896–1916); with British nurse Ethel Gordon Fenwick, worked to establish the International Council of Nurses (1899) and later served as its secretary (1900–22); provided a model for establishment of the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of US and Canada (1896), renamed the American Nurses Association (1911), the 1st general membership organization for nurses in America; served as contributing editor to American Journal of Nursing. Writings include the 1st pharmacology manual for nurses, Text-book of Materia Medica for Nurses (1890), which sold over 100,000 copies, A History of Nursing (2 vols. 1907, 2 vols. 1912), (with Isabel Stewart) A Short History of Nursing (1920) and Hygiene and Morality (1910).