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Rebecca Bergman (1919 - 2015) was an Israeli nurse who established the first academic nursing program in Israel. She was also the first nurse to win the Israel Prize.[1]

Biography[edit]

Bergman was born in Canada and emigrated to Palestine in 1941, where she took nursing classes at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.[2]

She was a head nurse in the American Zone in Germany after World War II.[2] During her time working with the Joint Distribution Committee, she escorted 83 Jewish orphans to their relatives in Canada.[1] She also helped locate Jewish children who were hidden in monasteries in Germany in order to escape the Holocaust.[1]

In 1963, she completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University.[3] She was the first Israeli nurse to earn a doctorate.[4]

In 1968, she established and was the director of the first academic nursing program in Israel.[2] This program was held at Tel Aviv University and originally aided by the World Health Organization (WHO).[3] Bergman's program was a three year curriculum that led to a bachelor's degree in nursing and the program had the full support of the Israeli Nurses Association.[3] Her contributions to the curriculum also emphasized the "humanistic side of nursing," teaching psychology, sociology, anthropology and respect for patients as individuals.[4]

Bergman died in 2015.[5]

Publications[edit]

  • Bergman, Rebecca (1963). Team Nursing in Public Health in Israel. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 9665253.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (1975). "Work-Life of the Israeli Registered Nurse". International Journal of Nursing Studies. 12 (3). with Nelu Shavitt, Itzhak Ditizian and Yosef Melamed: 133–168. doi:10.1016/0020-7489(75)90010-3.
  • Bergman, Rebecca; Feinberg, Dalia (July 1981). "Working Women and Breastfeeding in Israel". Journal of Advanced Nursing. 6 (4): 305–309. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1981.tb03227.x.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (1982). "The Role of the Unit Sister - Emphasis on Quality of Care and Accountability". South African Nursing Association.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (May 1983). "Understanding the Patient in All His Human Needs". Journal of Advanced Nursing. 8 (3): 185–190. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1983.tb00312.x.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (1983). Nursing the Aged: Institutional and Personal Factors Influencing the Work of Nursing Personnel in Long-Term Care Institutions. Jerusalem: Department of Nursing - Tel-Aviv University. OCLC 11746915.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (1990). Nursing Research for Nursing Practice: An International Perspective. New York: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 9780412335006.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (1997). "Contribution of Academia to Nursing Practice in Israel". Nurse Education Today. 17 (4). doi:10.1016/s0260-6917(97)80059-7.
  • Bergman, Rebecca (2003). "The Use of Physical Restraints for Patients Suffering from Dementia". Nursing Ethics. 10 (5). with Chava Weiner and Nili Tabak: 512–525.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Rosenfeld, Peri (2005). "Women in Green: The Contributions of Hadassah Nursing to Immigrant and Refugee Health in Pre-State and the Early Years of the State of Israel". Nursing History Review. 13: 110. ISSN 1062-8061.
  2. ^ a b c Davis, Anne J. (January 2002). "Interview with Rebecca Bergman". Nursing Ethics. 9 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1191/0969733002ne476xx. Retrieved 16 August 2015. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c Bartal, Nira; Steiner-Freud, Judith (2005). "Nursing Education Moves Into the University: The Story of the Hadassah School of Nursing in Jerusalem, 1918-1984". Nursing History Review. 13: 128–130. ISSN 1062-8061.
  4. ^ a b "Three Tau Professors win 1999 Israel Prize". Tau News. 1999. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Prof. Beccy Rebecca Bergman". Avelim. 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

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