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Effie Jane Taylor, 1874-1970
Dean 1934-1944

Euphemia (Effie) Jane Taylor was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on April 8, 1874. After graduating from Hamilton Collegiate Institute followed by two years at the Wesleyan Ladies College also in Hamilton, she obtained her nursing education from Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School of Nursing in 1907. She obtained a Teachers Certificate from Teachers College in 1909 and her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Columbia University in 1926. She was awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts (M.A.) from Yale University in 1926 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Keuka College in 1944.

Positions held

Head Nurse, private wards, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1907-1908

Supervisor and Assistant Instructor, Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nursing, 1909-1912

Organizing Director of Nursing Services, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital (also developed first course in psychiatric nursing in a general hospital), 1913-1919

Director and Chief Nurse, Army School of Nursing Unit at Camp Meade, 1918-1919

Associate Principal, Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1919-1922

Executive Secretary, National League of Nursing Education, 1923

Closing Superintendent, Connecticut Training School, 1923-1926

Professor (Associate Professor, 1923-1926), Yale University School of Nursing and Superintendent of Nurses, New Haven Hospital, 1923-1934 (first Professor of Psychiatric Nursing in the world)

Second Dean and Professor, Yale University School of Nursing, 1934-1944, Emeritus, 1944-1970.

Professional organizations

Chair, Mental Hygiene Section, American Nurses Association, circa 1928
President, National League for Nursing Education, 1932-1936
President, International Council of Nurses (ICN), 1937-1947
ICN Representative to the United Nations, circa late 1940's-1950's

Honors

Adelaide Nutting Award, National League for Nursing, "for outstanding leadership and achievement in nursing", 1959

Florence Nightingale Medal, highest International Red Cross honor "for distinguished and devoted service to the sick and wounded in time of war and peace and in disasters", 1959.

Helen Varney Burst, Yale University School of Nursing: A Brief History, 1998.

Taylor, working in her office.

Taylor with the other members of the first YSN faculty. She is seated on the far left.

Effie Jane Taylor, 1874-1970 Dean 1934-1944

Effie Jane Taylor, 1874-1970
Dean 1934-1944