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Henry Street Settlement

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Henry Street Settlement: see Wald, Lillian D Wald, Lillian D. , 1867–1940, American social worker and pioneer in public health nursing. In 1893 she organized a visiting nurse service, which became the nucleus of the noted Henry Street Settlement in New York City. The U.S.
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Lillian Wald, a registered nurse and social reformer who founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in 1895, coined the term PHN in 1893 to describe the nurses who worked in poor and middle-class communities rather than in hospitals or in the homes of wealthy employers.
But she also toured the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side and cuddled children with AIDS - pointedly without donning gloves - in the pediatric unit at Harlem Hospital Center.
Through the work of social reformer Lillian Wald and her fellow nurses at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, public health nursing emerged as an arm of county and municipal governments, and public health nurses participated in the myriad programs for uplift and social justice.
 
 
 
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