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Lucile Petry Leone (January 23, 1902 - November 25, 1999) was an American nurse who was the founding director of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943. Because the Nurse Corps met its recruiting quotas, it was not necessary for the US to draft nurses in World War II. She was the first woman and the first nurse to be appointed as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. ==Biography== Lucile Petry completed a double major in chemistry and English at the University of Delaware in 1924. She received a nursing degree from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1927, and a masters degree from Columbia Teachers College in 1929."〔 She became a clinical nurse instructor at Yale University, and then spent 11 years at the University of Minnesota, where she became an associate professor and Assistant Dean. From 1941 until 1966 Leone worked at the United States Public Health Service. In 1943, Petry became the founding director of the Cadet Nurse Corps.
The program was a success, training 124,000 nurse cadets in basic schools, making it unnecessary to draft nurses for war service. Petry became the first nurse and the first woman to be promoted to Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. She married Nicholas C. Leone in 1952. They divorced in 1967.〔 When she retired from government service in 1966, Lucile P. Leone was the Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer. Leone went on to serve as Assistant Dean and a teacher of nursing at Texas Woman's University until 1971.〔 During the 1960s, she served as President of the National League for Nursing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucile Petry Leone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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