Florence Wald, RN, MN, MS, FAAN, Dean Emerita of Yale University School of Nursing and visionary leader of the American Hospice Movement. She was born Florence Sophie Schorske In New York city on April 19, 1917 to Theodore Alexander Schorske and Gertrude Goldschmidt Schorske. She was the younger of two children and having pneumonia as a child, credits the superb comfort and care from her mother and a homeopathic physician as her reason for choosing to enter the nursing profession.
