Lula Warlick

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Lula Warlick
A Black woman with dark hair, wearing a white nurse's uniform
Lula Warlick, from a 1927 publication
BornDecember 12, 1884
Lincolnton, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedJuly 21, 1957 (age 72)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)Nurse, educator, nursing administrator

Lula Gertrude Warlick (December 12, 1884 – July 21, 1957)[1] was an American nurse, educator, and nursing administrator, based in Philadelphia for much of her career.

Early life and education[edit]

Lula Warlick was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, the daughter of Eliza Ann Jackson. She trained as a teacher at Scotia Seminary, graduating in 1907. In 1910, she graduated from Lincoln Hospital School for Nurses in New York,[2] with further studies in a summer program at the University of Iowa in 1925.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Warlick worked at Provident Hospital in Chicago from 1911 to 1917, and at Kansas City's Old General Hospital from 1917 to 1920.[3][5] She also taught health and hygiene classes in Kansas City schools from 1924 to 1926, and trained Black women as nurses' aides during World War I.[6]

Warlick became superintendent of nurses at Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia in 1920.[7][8] She also taught in the hospital's school of nursing,[9][3] and organized community outreach programs.[10][11] She was active in the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses; she spoke at the association's annual conference in 1931,[12] and another paper by Warlick was read at conference in St. Louis in 1937.[13] She attended the National Organization for Public Health Nursing conference in Chicago in 1942.[14]

Warlick retired from nursing in 1943.[7] She was honored in 1954, with a banquet in Philadelphia sponsored by the Chi Eta Phi nursing sorority.[15]

Publications[edit]

  • "New Nurses' Home of Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses" (1930)[16]

Personal life[edit]

Warlick died in 1957, at the age of 72. in Philadelphia.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Birth and death date as they appear on her Pennsylvania death certificate and on her U.S. Social Security record. However, her gravestone in Collingdale, Pennsylvania gives 1882 as the year of her birth; via Ancestry.)
  2. ^ Coles, Anna B. "The Howard University School of Nursing in Historical Perspective" Journal of the National Medical Association 61(2)(March 1969): 111.
  3. ^ a b c "Miss Lula G. Warlick Returns to Mercy Hospital". Journal of the National Medical Association. 19 (1): 44–45. January–March 1927. PMC 2624036.
  4. ^ Breaux, Richard M. (2010). ""To the Uplift and Protection of Young Womanhood": African-American Women at Iowa's Private Colleges and the University of Iowa, 1878-1928". History of Education Quarterly. 50 (2): 179. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00258.x. ISSN 0018-2680. JSTOR 40648057. S2CID 143292487.
  5. ^ "Nurses Graduate". The Kansas City Sun. 1918-06-01. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Free Course for Nurses; Negro Women Will Be Trained at the City Hospital". Kansas City Journal. 1918-08-12. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c Collier, Tiffany Hope (2021-11-18). "Lula Warlick". North Carolina Nursing History. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  8. ^ "10 Graduate at Mercy Hospital". New Pittsburgh Courier. 1934-06-16. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "12 Mercy Nurses Graduated". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1932-06-15. p. 22. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Hine, Darlene Clark (2020-07-29). Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-05695-5.
  11. ^ "The Horizon" The Crisis 33(February 1927): 208.
  12. ^ "Negro Nurses Meet Aug. 18th". The Greensboro Record. 1931-07-31. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Fight on Paresis Increase Among Negroes Urged". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1937-08-20. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Membership Ban Topic for Nurses". Jackson Advocate. 1942-05-30. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Sorority to Honor Nurse at Dinner". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1954-11-12. p. 28. Retrieved 2024-02-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Warlick, L.G. (1930). "New Nurses' Home of Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses" Journal of the National Medical Association 22(3): 121.

External links[edit]

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