Rheba de Tornyay

Rheba de Tornyay was a nurse who lived from 17 April 1926 to 27 September 2013 and held two university deanships in nursing. She served as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1971 to 1975. In 1984 she became dean of the University of Washington's School of Nursing, which U.S. News and World Report ranked first during her tenure. In 1995 the American Academy of Nursing named her in its Living Legends. The available source is short, so this entry records her deanships, that naming and her dates and does not describe her scholarship or teaching.