| 词条 | Dita Hopkins Kinney |
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Dita Hopkins Kinney (September 13, 1855 — April 16, 1921) was the first superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps, serving from 1901 to 1909. Early lifeDita Hopkins was born in New York City and raised in California,[1] the daughter of C. T. Hopkins and Myra Burnett Hopkins. She attended Mills College. As a young widow, she trained as a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.[2] CareerKinney worked as a nurse in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California, before she became an army nurse in 1898. She was first assigned to the hospital at the Presidio of San Francisco. She also worked with tubercular patients at Fort Bayard, New Mexico. In 1901, she became superintendent of the United States Army Nursing Corps.[3] In that year, she was called "perhaps the most conspicuous woman in the nursing profession today".[4] Her work included lecture and inspection tours of army hospitals in the United States and abroad.[5] She resigned the superintendency in 1909.[6] Kinney left active nursing for health reasons in 1914, but taught American Red Cross nurses during World War I.[2] Personal lifeDita Hopkins married Mark Kinney in 1874,[7] and had one son before she was widowed in 1878. She died in 1921, aged 65 years, in Bangor, Maine.[2] References1. ^Benjamin F. Shearer, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=qgmoC1zwBCUC&lpg=PA484&ots=sNgOJEwMAZ&dq=Dita%20Kinney&pg=PA484#v=onepage&q=Dita%20Kinney&f=false Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime, Volume 2] (Greenwood Publishing 2007): 484. {{ISBN|9780313334221}} {{authority control}}{{Directors of the United States Army Nurse Corps}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinney, Dita Hopkins}}2. ^1 2 Mary T. Sarnecky, [https://e-anca.org/History/Superintendents-Chiefs-of-the-ANC/Mrs-Dita-H-Kinney "Mrs. Dita H. Kinney:1st Superintendent, Army Nurse Corps"] Army Nurse Corps Association. 3. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15491455/dita_h_kinney_1901/ "New Head Nurse"] The Potter Enterprise (February 6, 1901): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 4. ^[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3402480 "Mrs. Dita H. Kinney"] The American Journal of Nursing 1(6)(March 1901): 403-404. DOI: 10.2307/3402480 5. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15500862/dita_h_kinney_1902/ "Books and Magazines"] Harrisburg Telegraph (August 18, 1902): 7. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 6. ^Carolyn M. Feller and Constance J. Moore, eds., [https://history.army.mil/html/books/085/85-1/CMH_Pub_85-1.pdf Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps] (US Army Center of Military History 1995). Publication No. 85-1. 7. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15500977/dita_hopkins_kineey_1902/ "Woman's World"] Portsmouth Herald (January 9, 1902): 3. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 6 : 1855 births|1921 deaths|American nurses|American women nurses|American women in World War I|People from New York City |
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