Background
Spruill, Ida was born on September 6, 1947 in Florence County, South Carolina.
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Ida Spruill
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Bachelor in Philosophy and Sociology, North Carolina Center U., 1970; Master of Social Work in Policy and Planning, Atlanta U., 1974; Bachelor of Science in Maternity-Child Track, Tennessee State University, 1984; MSN in Gerontology, University of Southern California, 1990.
Career
Substitute teacher, Marion (South Carolina.) County School District, 1969-1970;
field representative, South Carolina. Council on Human Rights, 1970-1972;
case worker, South Carolina. Day Care Project, Columbia, 1974-1975;
medical social worker, Center Midland Home Health, Columbia, 1975-1977;
medical social worker, Center Midland Perinatal High Risk Project, Columbia, 1977-1979;
field instructor social work program, Benedict College, Columbia, 1978-1980;
social worker, administrative assistant, Grace Eaton Day Center, Nashville, 1982-1985;
staff nurse emergency room, labor and delivery, newborn nursery and post-partum and gynecology, McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence, South Carolina., 1984-1986;
resource pool nurse, Florence's Nursing Superior vena cava syndrome for florence, Marion County General Med-Surgical Nursing, 1986-1987;
charge nurse labor, delivery, post partum and gynecology unit, Marion County Memorial Hospital, 1986-1987;
staff nurse resource pool obstetrics-gynecology floor and newborn nursery, Medical University of Southern California, Charleston, since 1987;
contractual nurse child health program, Charleston County Health Department, since 1988.
Researcher and presenter in field.
Achievements
Membership
Southern regional representative National Hunger Coalition, Washington, 1979-1980. Co-organizer First Food Bank, Columbia, 1980. President, board directors The Other Way, Human Endeavor South Carolina., 1980-1981.
Committee chair Hands Across American, State ofS.C., 1984-1985. Board directors South Carolina. Committee Against Hunger, since 1988.
Chairperson health fair committee minority student union Medical University of Southern California, Charleston, since 1987, president, 1989-1990. Member ANA, NASW, National Black Nurses Association, Chi Eta, Sigma Theta Tau.
