was a Japanese
nurse
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. She was born in 1876 in
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...
and in 1895 entered the .
[九州大学大学文書館(編) 2011『九州大学百年史写真集1911-2011 One hundred Years of Kyushu University』(九州大学百周年記念事業委員会)]
Career
Hospital director
Ōmori Harutoyo
was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of Kyōto University (''Kyōto teikoku daigaku Fukuoka ika-daigaku'', now the Faculty of Medicine, ...
, gave her a chance to oversee education inland, after her graduation in 1903. was established, she was appointed chief clinical nurse and after it was commissioned she became general head nurse She worked to develop a nursing school. With construction of diagnosis and treatment departments, she became the chief nurse of the department of
ophthalmology
Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders.
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,
dermatology
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and
otorhinolaryngology
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.
In 1908, she held retreats for young nurses, naming the retreat ''Wakaba-kai'' (若葉会). These retreats came to symbolize the nurse. She published a collection of ''
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...
''.
In 1933, she retired from nursing and spent the rest of her life doing reading or making
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...
in
Fukuoka City ''Hirao'' lodge. After retiring, she published ''Wakaba'' (若葉) magazine, and worked to develop the study of nursing ethics for
Kyushu University.
Death and legacy
In 1963, she died at the age of 92. In the same year
Kyushu University made a
bust of her, , to honor her achievements in celebration of the university's 60th anniversary.
See also
*
List of nurses
This is a list of famous nurses in history. To be listed here, the nurse must already have a Wiki biography article. For background information see History of nursing and Timeline of nursing history. For nurses in art, film and literature see l ...
References
External links
九州大学病院-キャンパス情報「吉田とめ女史之像」Kyushu University Medical school(in Japanese).
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1876 births
1963 deaths
Japanese nurses
Kyushu University
Japanese women poets
Writers from Fukuoka Prefecture
20th-century Japanese poets
20th-century Japanese women writers