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Dock was born on February 26, 1858 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Gilliard Dock, a well-to-do landowner, and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh. She lived at home until her mid-twenties.
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Dock was born on February 26, 1858 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Gilliard Dock, a well-to-do landowner, and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh. She lived at home until her mid-twenties.
Dock graduated from a private school in Harrisburg. Although nursing was not considered "ladylike" for a woman of her social background, she enrolled in Bellevue Training School for Nurses in New York City; she graduated in 1886. At that time her brother, George, who became a professor of medicine, was studying medicine in Europe.
An article on nursing in New Century suggested a career to Dock. Her first job was with United Workers, an organization that provided trained nurses in Norwich, Connecticut. She then volunteered to serve in Jacksonville, Florida, during a yellow fever epidemic and later joined other disaster services. In 1889, while helping victims of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood, she met Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. Years later, Dock collaborated on The History of American Red Cross Nursing (1922). She also was a visiting nurse for the New York City Mission and a night supervisor at Bellevue Hospital. Dock contributed to the professionalization of nursing in many ways. Her Materia Medica for Nurses (1890) was a convenient reference work containing information about the proper doses of drugs and the best manner of administering them. Since the publisher anticipated a loss, Dock's fatherhad to advance money for the printing. The book eventually went through eight editions and sold more than 150, 000 copies.
The same year that Materia Medica appeared, Dock became assistant director of the new school of nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Three years later she was made head of the Illinois Training School for Nurses at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. She left this position and nursing education as well in 1896, giving her lack of skill in dealing with people as the reason.
In 1893 Dock became the secretary of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, the first national nursing association. The organization later spawned the American Nurses' Association. The first issue of the association's journal, the American Journal of Nursing (October 1900), contained Dock's article "What We May Expect From the Law. " This article was the opening shot in the fight to get state registration for nurses. Dock herself received the "Registered Nurse" title in New York in 1902. In 1898 Dock moved to the Henry Street Settlement House on New York City's Lower East Side. Henry Street was unique among settlements in having a visiting nurse service, and Dock became a lifelong friend and confidante of its nurse and social worker-founder, Lillian Wald. The settlement environment not only encouraged Dock to continue her contributions to nursing but also stimulated her involvement in social reforms. She was one of the founders and the first secretary (1899-1922) of the International Council of Nurses, serving without salary and traveling to Europe a number of times at her own expense. Because of her pacifist principles, Dock permitted no mention of World War I in the section of the American Journal of Nursing that she edited.
While at Henry Street, Dock became a militant suffragist. In 1912 at the International Council of Nurses conference in Cologne, Germany, her resolution endorsing women's suffrage passed unanimously. Upon her return to the United States, Dock became a member of the Woman's Party, picketed the White House and as a result was sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. The episode got considerable publicity in the November 1917 issue of the American Journal of Nursing. On another occasion she was arrested for creating a disturbance at the polls. Altogether, Dock was jailed three times. She also advocated birth control and joined the movement for stricter antiprostitution laws. In 1900 Dock published Short Papers on Nursing Subjects. Shortly afterward she began her collaboration with Mary Adelaide Nutting on the four-volume History of Nursing (1907-1912). With Isabel Maitland Stewart she condensed the four volumes into A Short History of Nursing (1920), which went through four editions. Her Hygiene and Morality: An Outline of the Medical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Venereal Diseases (1910) showed moral courage for the time.
Dock died on April 17, 1956, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
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Dock was a woman of strong convictions, high standards, and selfless energy who made major contributions to the development of the nursing profession. She was an ardent pacifist, which influenced her efforts to make nursing an international profession.
Dock never married. Prolonged illness in Dock's family forced her in 1922 to give up her organizational activities and retire with her four sisters to the family farm in Pennsylvania.