title: From there to here in fifty years.
abstract: Braving her family's disapproval and facing life alone in a strange city, Dorothy Mereness graduated from nursing school in 1941 at the age of 31. From there she embarked upon a half-century career as an innovative educator and pioneer in the field of psychiatric nursing. Here is an overview of her life in her own words.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mereness
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000266:history; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000266:history*; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history; D014481:United States