Background
Blake, Florence Guinness was born on November 30, 1907 in Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of James and Thelma (Dunlap) Blake.
Blake, Florence Guinness was born on November 30, 1907 in Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of James and Thelma (Dunlap) Blake.
Diploma, Michael Reese Hospital School Nurs., Chicago, 1928. Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1936. Master of Science, University Michigan, 1941.
She co-authored two other pediatric nursing textbooks, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing and Nursing Care of Children. She was on the nursing faculty at several American universities. She was posthumously honored with induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
Florence Blake was born on November 30, 1907.
She was the daughter of musician Thelma Dunlap Blake and minister James Blake. She graduated from the Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing in 1928.
She completed an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1936. After teaching pediatric nursing in China for several years, she earned a masters degree from the University of Michigan in 1941.
Beginning in the 1940s, Blake headed the graduate program in advanced pediatric nursing at the University of Chicago.
In a review published in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Morris Green wrote that the book represented the first textbook that attempted to provide comprehensive nursing knowledge on child care. Blake led the advanced pediatric nursing graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison between 1963 and her retirement in 1970. She died on September 12, 1983.
Blake was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1996.
Advocate for advanced education in pediatrics nursing. Scholar, teacher, researcher in field.