Ada Romaine-Davis
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ADA ROMAINE DAVIS, 79 Dr. Davis, one of the earliest nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives, helped raise the professional standards of the nursing profession through her work as a professor, author and editor. She worked at Johns Hopkins from 1993 until her retirement in 2001. She previously was associate dean and director of the graduate program in nursing at Georgetown University, after starting a weekend baccalaureate program for registered nurses at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore. Dr. Davis, a native of Cumberland, Md., received her nursing diploma in 1949 from the former King's County Hospital School of Nursing in Brooklyn, N.Y. She worked as a nurse in the 1950s at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, Suburban Hospital in Bethesda and the old Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington. She received her college degrees from the University of Maryland: a bachelor's in 1973, a master's degree in public health nursing in 1974 and a doctorate in higher education administration in 1979. Dr. Davis worked as a nurse consultant at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources in the Public Health Service's Bureau of Health Professions in Rockville from 1987 until 1993. After retiring from Johns Hopkins, she worked as nursing publications editor at the school, as senior editor of the American Nurses Credentialing Committee in Washington and as an assistant in the religious education office at St. Jane Frances De Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda, where she had been a member since 1958. Her books included "John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine" (1991) and "Advanced Practice Nurses: Education, Roles, Trends" (1997). She was also the associate editor of the "Hopkins Family Health Guide" (1998). Her husband of 45 years, John F. Davis, died in 1999. Survivors include three children, Kevin M. Davis of Chevy Chase, Karen Evans-Romaine of Athens, Ohio, and William R. Davis of Bethesda; and three grandchildren. -- Patricia Sullivan Показывать: |
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