Elinor D. Gregg
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Elinor D. Gregg (May 31, 1886 – March 31, 1970), also known as, Elinor Delight Gregg, Nurse Cross Red, was an American public nurse.[1] She was one of the pioneers of industrial nursing.[2] She established the public health nursing division in the American Bureau of Indian Affairs.[3] She played an important role in taking public health nursing to the Native Americans.[4]
Elinor D. Gregg was born in 1886 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[5] She was one of the seven children of Rev. James Bartlett Gregg and Mary Needham Gregg.[6] She completed her formal education in the Colorado Springs public schools. She attended grammar school, Cutler Academy, and Colorado College.[7] In 1906, she continued her nursing education at the Waltham Training School for Nurses, Massachusetts.[2]
Early career
Following her graduation in 1911 from the Waltham Training School for Nurses, she started her career as an industrial nurse at the Boston Manufacturing Company, which built the world's first integrated spinning and weaving factory at Waltham, Massachusetts. During her tenure as an industrial nurse, she combined the nursing service with social and recreational activities.[8] Between 1914 and 1915, she worked as an assistant superintendent of nurses at Cleveland City Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Meanwhile, she completed an institutional management course at Massachusetts General Hospital.[9]
In 1915, she became the Superintendent of the Infant's Hospital in Boston, which was affiliated with the Training School for nurses of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of Boston.[2]
Nursing at the war front
During her service at the Infant's Hospital, World War I began in Europe. She was assigned to Base Hospital 5 in Boston, which was also known as the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Unit or the Second Harvard Unit.[10] At the war front, she served as the Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross in Britain and in France.[2]
