Emmy Rappe

Emmy Carolina Rappe, (14 January 1835-1896), was a Swedish nurse and principal for a nurcing school. She was one of the pioneers and founders of the Swedish nursing education.

Rappe was born to nobleman Baron Adolf Fredrik Rappe and Ulrika Catharina Wilhelmina Hammarskjöld. Rappe was considered to be a suitable candidate to establish a proper school for the education of profesional nurses in Sweden, and was in 1866 sent as a student to Florence Nightingales school at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

She returned to Sweden in 1867, and studied at Sahlgrenska sjukhuset hospital in Göteborg and at others clinics in Stockholm, before she was made head nurse and principal of the newly established nursing school in Uppsala. In 1877, she mowed to Uppsala centralhospital. After her retirement, she was active as a hospital inspector.

References

* [http://hem.fyristorg.com/lars.sjoberg/documents/pages/emmy.htm Läs mer om denna pionjär] sv icon
* Österberg, Carin et al., "Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare". Lund: Signum 1990. (ISBN 91-87896-03-6)