Rozella M. Schlotfeldt

Rozella May Schlotfeldt (1914 to 2005) was an American nurse, educator and researcher from DeWitt, Iowa, who shaped university nursing education in the United States. She earned a nursing degree at the University of Iowa in 1935, served in the Army Nurse Corps in England, France and Austria during the Second World War, and took a master's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1956 at the University of Chicago. In 1960 she became dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, where she created the collaboration model that joined classroom teaching with clinical practice at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and she stayed on as a professor until 1982. She served on the task force behind the 1964 Nurse Training Act, advised the Surgeon General on nursing, co-founded the Midwest Nursing Research Society, led the American Academy of Nursing, and in 1971 was elected to the Institute of Medicine.