Florence Blake

Florence Guinness Blake, who lived from 30 November 1907 to 12 September 1983, was an American nurse, professor and writer who contributed to pediatric nursing and to family-centered nursing care. In 1954 she wrote her classic text The Child, His Parents and the Nurse, and she co-authored two further pediatric nursing textbooks, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing and Nursing Care of Children. She taught on the nursing faculty of several American universities, and after her death she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. The atlas records her as a nursing educator whose books shaped how nurses care for children and their families.