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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Teachers College.
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Ildaura Murillo-Rohde
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She specialized in psychiatric nursing, held academic appointments at several universities and was a psychotherapist in private practice. Murillo-Rohde founded the National Association of Hispanic Nurses in 1975. She was a World Health Organization consultant to the government of Guatemala and was named a Permanent United Nations Representative to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund for the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.
She was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 1994.
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born on September 6, 1920 in Panama. She came to the United States in 1945.
She completed a nursing diploma from the Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing in 1948. She earned an undergraduate degree in the teaching and supervision of psychiatric nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She earned an Master of Arts in teaching and curriculum development and an Master of Education in education and administration, both from Columbia.
In 1971, Murillo-Rohde was the first Hispanic nurse awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University (New York University). Murillo-Rohde became an associate dean at the University of Washington and was the first Hispanic nursing dean at New York University. Murillo-Rohde founded the National Association of Spanish-Speaking Spanish-Surnamed Nurses (NASSSN), known as the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) after 1979, and served as its first president In 1991, David Dinkins appointed Murillo-Rohde to a commission that examined the quality of care at New York City hospitals.
In 1994, she was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.
Murillo-Rohde died in Panama on September 5, 2010. NAHN awards a scholarship and an educational excellence award in her honor.
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Panamanian-American