Ann Henshaw Gardiner
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Ann Henshaw Gardiner | |
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| Born | July 3, 1890 Hedgesville, WV |
| Died | October 3, 1982 (aged 92) Alexandria, VA |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nursing Education |
Ann Henshaw Gardiner (July 3, 1890 – 1982) was a director of nursing, scientist, and teacher who founded nursing education at Duke University Hospital in 1930.[1] After serving as a nurse in France during World War I, she contributed to a number of nursing programs in the United States.
She was born in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and later graduated from Shepherd College and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), where she acted as the Children's Ward's head nurse by the end of her studies.[2] She obtained a Bachelor of Science at Columbia University and subsequently studied vertebrate embryology at the Puget Sound Biological Station and at Kansas State College, where she received a Master of Science in 1927.[3]