Tag: danvers state hospital

• The Asylum Life: House on the Hill.

  The Asylum Life: House on the Hill. What goes around comes around. It’s still nurses week and I’m giving my brain a rest from the usual suspects. Danver’s State Hospital was the second state hospital in Mass that I worked in. My third job in psych. I had worked at the “Cambridge Hotline” as a…

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 11, 2015

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• Dorothea Dix Psych Nurse and Social Reformer

  There are wonderful nurses throughout history that have made changes that have benefited us all.  Dorothea Dix is one of my favorite historical nurses. http://www.biography.com/people/dorothea-dix-9275710 Dorothea Dix was an educator and social reformer whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread international reforms. Synopsis Born in Hampden, Maine, in 1802, Dorothea…

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 7, 2015

  mental illness, nurses, nursing, psych nurses, social reform

  acasia gum, danvers state hospital, dorothea dix, maine, massachusetts, mental illness, metropolitan state hospital, nurses, nurses week, nursing, social reform, state hospitals, worcester