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Irene L. Beland (June 21, 1906August 15, 2000) was an American
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and
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researcher.


Biography

Beland was born on June 21, 1906, in
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. In 1913, her family moved to
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. After high school, she taught at a country school for two years, before enrolling in St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in
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. She earned her
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diploma three years later. Beland was later accepted into the department of physics and biochemistry at the
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, earning a bachelor's degree in 1937 and a master's degree in 1938. Her master's thesis was titled ''The comparative toxicities of the cardiac glucosides in the frog.'' Beland taught medical nursing at the University of Minnesota from 1938 to 1940 and held teaching positions at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing and Minneapolis General Hospital from 1940 to 1947. From 1947 until her retirement in 1970, she held a faculty position at
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in Detroit, Michigan. Beland is credited with developing one of the country's first graduate programs for medical-
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specialists. In 1965, Macmillan published the first edition of her book, ''Clinical Nursing: Pathophysiological and Psychosocial Approaches''. The book was one of the first to examine nursing from a holistic perspective. Beland would go on to author or co-author three more editions of the text. In 1983, she was named an honorary fellow of the
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. Beland died on August 15, 2000, in Rochester, Minnesota. Her collection of papers is held at Boston University's
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.


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