Effie J. Taylor

Effie J. Taylor (1874 to 1970), born Euphemia Jane Taylor in Hamilton, Ontario, was a Canadian nurse who led the International Council of Nurses as its president from 1937 to 1947. She trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital and studied at Columbia University, then taught and held posts at Johns Hopkins, including assistant matron and nursing director of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic until 1920. In 1922 she moved to Yale, where she became superintendent of the Yale-New Haven Hospital while teaching, introduced a nursing course on mental illness and brought patient focused treatment into nursing programs, and from 1934 to 1944 she was dean of the Yale School of Nursing. She was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1959 and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1986, after her death in Hamilton in 1970.