Following high school, she started her nursing program in Fitkin Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Neptune, New Jersey wherein she received the nursing diploma in 1942. From 1942-1944, she studied Chemistry in Rutgers University, and then furthered her education at the Teacher’s College of Columbia university in New York City in which she received her Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts and Doctor of Education Degrees. Concomitantly, she worked as a health nurse at a private school. Her first administrative position was on the faculty of Yale University from 1945-1949.
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.
She had a forty-year career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service, where she served as the Chief Nurse Officer: achieved the rank of a two star Flag Officer, the first nurse in any Service to do so; functioned as Deputy Surgeon General under the tenure of VADM C. Everett Koop: and after retirement founded the only federal graduate school of nursing. Her name is universally synonymous with the highest ideals and values of the nursing profession and she has been twice honored on the floor of the United States Senate.
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.
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.
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
Faye G Abdellah 21 editions published between1964and 1986 inEnglishand held by 738 libraries worldwide
Preparing nursing research for the 21st century : evolution, methodologies, challenges
New directions in patient-centered nursing; guidelines for systems of service, education, and research
6 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 406 libraries worldwide
Patient-centered approaches to nursing
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
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
Appraising the clinical resources in small hospitals
1 edition published in1954inEnglishand held by 44 libraries worldwide
Nursing's role in the future : the case for health policy decision making
Patients and personnel speak; a method of studying patient care in hospitals
Background papers Faye G. Abdellah, Steven R. Moore
Overview of nursing research, 1955-1968
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/
Here are the lists of some of her popular works:
Better patient care through nursing research
Faye G Abdellah 21 editions published between1964and 1986 inEnglishand held by 738 libraries worldwide
Preparing nursing research for the 21st century : evolution, methodologies, challenges
New directions in patient-centered nursing; guidelines for systems of service, education, and research
6 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 406 libraries worldwide
Patient-centered approaches to nursing
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
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
Appraising the clinical resources in small hospitals
1 edition published in1954inEnglishand held by 44 libraries worldwide
Nursing's role in the future : the case for health policy decision making
Patients and personnel speak; a method of studying patient care in hospitals
Background papers Faye G. Abdellah, Steven R. Moore
Overview of nursing research, 1955-1968
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/