Louise McManus

American educator
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Also known as: Rachel Louise McManus
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In full:
Rachel Louise McManus
Born:
March 4, 1896, North Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died:
May 29, 1993, Natick, Massachusetts (aged 97)

Louise McManus (born March 4, 1896, North Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S.—died May 29, 1993, Natick, Massachusetts) was an American nursing educator, an early leader in extending professional nurses’ training in the United States and internationally. McManus graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, before earning a nursing degree from the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. Her long association with Columbia University Teachers College in New York City began with her enrollment there as a student. In addition to receiving bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from that institution (she was the first nurse to earn a doctoral degree ...(100 of 250 words)