BACKGROUND OF FAYE GLENN ABDELLAH
Faye Glenn Abdellah was born on March 13, 1919 in New York to a father of Algerian heritage and Scottish mother. Her family subsequently moved to New Jersey where she attended high school.
On May 6, 1937, she and her brother witness the explosion and destruction of the dirigible HINDENBURG. The fire subsequent to the ignited hydrogen killed many people. On an interview, she narrated, “Having no training in what to do in an emergency situation, I could only view the tragedy of the poor scorched victims exiting the dirigible. It was then that I decided that I would never again be powerless to assist when people were in so dire a need for assistance. It was at that moment that I thought that I’ve got to do something; I’ve got to become a nurse."
NURSING CAREER
In 1949, she met Lucile Petry Leone who was the first Nurse Officer and decided to join the Public Health Service. Her first assignment was with the division of nursing that focused on research and studies. They perform studies with numerous hospitals to improve nursing practice.
During the wartime, the Public Health Service became a part of the Navy and she was assigned to work with the Korean people during the Korean War years. As a senior officer, she was alternatively assigned to Japan, China, Russia, Australia, and the Scandinavian countries to identify the role of the Public Health Service in dealing with various health problems. She was able to assist and initiate, in an advisory role, numerous studies in those countries.
ACHIEVEMENTS
As the first nurse and the first woman to serve as Deputy Surgeon General, Dr. Abdellah developed educational materials in many key areas of public health, including AIDS, the mentally handicapped, violence, hospice care, smoking cessation, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Dr. Abdellah, after teaching at several prestigious universities, founded the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and served as the school's first dean. Beyond the classroom, Dr. Abdellah presented workshops around the world on nursing research and nursing care.
Dr. Abdellah's work has been recognized with 77 professional and academic honors, including the prestigious Allied Signal Award for her pioneering research in aging. She is also the recipient of eleven honorary degrees. As a leader in health care, she has helped transform the practice of nursing and raised its standards by introducing scientific research into nursing and patient care. Her leadership, her publications, and her accomplishments have set a new standard for nursing and for women in the health care field.
PUBLICATIONS
Faye Glenn Abdellah published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, many of them in Military Medicine, and also a number of books which have been translated into six foreign languages.
Here are the lists of some of her popular works:
- Better patient care through nursing research
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 21 editions published between 1964 and 1986 in English and held by 738 libraries worldwide
- Preparing nursing research for the 21st century : evolution, methodologies, challenges
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 4 editions published between 1994 and 1996 in English and held by 447 libraries worldwide
- New directions in patient-centered nursing; guidelines for systems of service, education, and research
- ( Book ) 6 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 406 libraries worldwide
- Patient-centered approaches to nursing
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 10 editions published between 1960 and 1973 in English and Finnish and held by 376 libraries worldwide
- Effect of nurse staffing on satisfactions with nursing care: a study of how omissions in nursing services, as perceived by patients and personnel, are influenced by the number of nursing hours available
- by Faye G Abdellah (
Book ) 1 edition published in 1958 in English and held by 78 libraries worldwide
- Patients and personnel speak, a method of studying patient care in hospitals
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 1 edition published in 1964 in English and held by 45 libraries worldwide
- Appraising the clinical resources in small hospitals
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 1 edition published in 1954 in English and held by 44 libraries worldwide
- Nursing's role in the future : the case for health policy decision making
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 35 libraries worldwide
- Patients and personnel speak; a method of studying patient care in hospitals
- by United States ( Book ) 1 edition published in 1957 in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide
- Background papers Faye G. Abdellah, Steven R. Moore
- by Surgeon General's Workshop on Health Promotion and Aging ( Book ) 2 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
- Overview of nursing research, 1955-1968
- by Faye G Abdellah ( Book ) 1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide
RESOURCES:
- Up Close and Personal:Interview with Rear Admiral Faye Glenn Abdellah. Military Medicine, Vol. 169, November 2004
- National Womens's Hall of Fame,http://www.greatwomen.org/
- http://www.worldcat.org/
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