Eleanor C. Lambertsen

Eleanor C. Lambertsen (1916 to 1998) was an American nurse known for her team nursing model, set out in her dissertation Nursing Team Organization and Functioning and published as a book in 1953. Born in Fanwood, New Jersey, she graduated from Overlook Hospital in 1938, directed its nursing school, and earned a doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1957. She was the American Hospital Association's first director of its division of nursing, later led the nursing division at Teachers College, and was dean of the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing. She advised the World Health Organization on nursing from 1961 to 1982 and entered the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2012.