Robb's Role In The Nursing Profession

Like many nurses of the 19th century Isabel Hampton Robb was an immigrant to the United States when she began her training as a nurse. Her first formal educational experience was at the New York training school for nurses at Bellevue Hospital (Wolf, 20XX). Isabel Robb was a prime example of a professional woman during her era. Her prestigious role as a teacher and a nurse became very evident early in her career. She was born a leader and role model for those nurses who strived to become effective in implementing change in the nursing profession. Isabel Hampton Robb has been recognized as the single-most versatile visionary nurse of her time. During a generation when women did not even have the right to vote, Isabel Robb helped establish …show more content…
At this time nursing education was highly disorganized without any set structure. It was here at John Hopkins she put into place her theories for the higher nursing education. This was implemented by creating highly professional and mandatory training for nursing credentials. From the beginning she ran the nursing program with military precision.(St. Andre). Under her guidance the program quickly developed a highly advanced criteria. A more advanced graded curriculum with core standards for nursing was put into place. She set a strict foundation for nursing training to include standards for hygiene protocol, bacterial control and even a standard for bed making techniques. Primarily through her influence here at John Hopkins training center and under her direct guidance an unprecedented stringent plan for a structured, grading curriculum was put into …show more content…
It was during this congress that Isabel gathered together a group of prominent nurses and education professionals to discuss the formation of an organization. This group became known as the Society of Superintendents of Training schools for Nurses. This organization exerted an immeasurable significant influence throughout the United States on nursing education. (Rae, 20XX) In 1895 American Society of superintendents of training schools for nurses Robb gave a paper which she advocated a three year course and eight hour days for nursing students. Throughout her career she worked in advancing the unity of the Society to include most nursing training schools across the United States. The American Society of Superintendents of Training School for Nurses rapidly grew in time and today in known as the National League of