Evelyn Lundeen

Evelyn Lundeen was an American nurse who lived from 1900 to 1963 and who headed the first premature nursery in the United States, working with the physician Julius Hess. Beyond her own ward, she travelled to other cities to teach the principles of nursing care for premature infants, spreading the practice she had helped set up. With Hess she also co-authored an early textbook on the care of premature babies, which put that practice into print for other nurses and physicians. Her career belongs to the early history of care for premature newborns, in which nursing skill and organised nursery care were central.