Elizabeth Sharp
Elizabeth Sager Sharp CNM, DrPH, FAAN, FACNM, (December 16, 1933 - February 7, 2016) was an American nurse and midwife who specialized in maternal and newborn health. In 1999, she received the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Hattie Hemschemeyer Award.[1]
Sharp started to work as a midwife at Holland City Hospital in Holland, Michigan.[2] She continued her nurse training at Yale University, graduating in 1959.[2][3] She was taught by Ernestine Wiedenbach.[2] She also worked with Ruth Lubic.[2] Sharp received a doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins University.[2][4]
Sharp set up the Yale Young Mothers program to support teenage mothers.[3] She believed that midwifery services must include family planning.[3]
In 1970 Sharp moved to Georgia.[4] She was one of the founders of the midwife service at Grady Memorial Hospital (the Emory University Nurse-Midwifery Service).[3][4] In the 1970s Sharp set up a graduate midwifery training program, the Emory University Nurse-Midwifery Program, at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.[1][3] She was also one of the founders of the Graduate School of Public Health at Emory.[1][2]
Sharp was president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives between 1973 and 1975.[3] She is said to have "the credit for [setting up] midwifery in Georgia”.[4]
After her death at the age of 82, a scholarship was set up in her name at Emory University.[3] Her role in the history of midwifery and nursing has been studied.[4][5]
Publications[edit]
- "Relationships between Professions: From the Viewpoint of the Physician and Nurse‐Midwife in a Tertiary Center" (1981), with W. Newton Long, in Bulletin of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Vol. III, No. 3. pp. 184–200, and then in Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1982[6]
- "Nurse-midwifery education: its successes, failures, and future" (1983), in Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 28(2):17-23
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Elizabeth Sharp remembered as national midwifery leader". Emory News Center. 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f "Elizabeth Sharp '59: 90 Outstanding Yale Nurses Recipient". Yale School of Nursing. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Statement on the Death of ACNM Past-President Elizabeth Sharp". American College of Nurse-Midwives. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Thrower, Eileen J. B. (2018). "Oral Histories of Nurse-Midwives in Georgia,1970-1989: Blazing Trails, Building Fences, Raising Towers" (PDF). Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. 63 (6): 693–699. doi:10.1111/jmwh.12744. PMID 29803201. S2CID 44062295. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ "Talking History 2021 Webinars". American Association for the History of Nursing. 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Long, W.; Sharp, E. (1982). "RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROFESSIONS: From the Viewpoint of the Physician and Nurse-Midwife in a Tertiary Center". Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. 27 (4): 14–24. doi:10.1016/0091-2182(82)90165-3. PMID 6921239. Retrieved 16 February 2021.