KATHARINE DENSFORD, NURSING LEADER: A VOICE FROM THE VANGUARD (UNDERGRADUATE NURSING, NURSING CURRICULUM, DENSFORD KATHARINE).
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
Description: Katharine Densford (Dreves) served as Director of the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota from 1930 to 1959. In that capacity she guided the school's operations on a day to day basis and implemented innovative and foresighted educational reforms. As an active member of the major state, national, and international nursing organizations, Katharine Densford helped shape curricular changes and implemented them quickly. She then evaluated the results and shared those results with her colleagues through speeches and publications.

Miss Densford's initial goals for the university of Minnesota School of Nursing included improved faculty preparation, improved criteria for the selection of student and a dynamic curricula that encompassed the ever changing base of knowledge. She channeled a great deal of energy and effort into realizing those goals.

Through the diligent use of historical research methods, Miss Densford's contributions to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and to nursing education nationally were scrutinized. They are presented in concert with national trends. The findings of this study support the contention that Katharine Densford was a highly visible and skilled agent for change and progress in nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-04, Section: B, page: 1955.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1991.

School code: 0227.