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The analysis also included information on the conditions and licensing requirements in
Austria, England, Norway, the United States and western Germany. Between 1916 and 1918, Meyerson also worked with a team of doctors, nurses and politicians to evaluate working conditions for district nurses. Because there were no requirements for nursing education, Meyerson pressed for standards to be established for nursing schools and urged that they come under the regulating authority of the Medical Board. During
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and then from 1898 to 1907 she worked as an overseer at the
Bernhardt Hospital. In 1906, her mother died and Meyerson used her inheritance to purchase a five-story stone house at #56 Brahegatan, which was used as a nursing facility with a three-room apartment, which she and Gerda shared. She directed
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Stockholm. She left a legacy to the Israeli Sickness and Funeral Society. She is remembered as the first vice-chair of the Swedish Nursing Association when it was formed in 1910. She was the driving force in providing for the social needs of patients
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Meyerson was elected as its first deputy chairman. Between 1911 and 1922, she coordinated classes for nurses training from throughout the Nordic countries and served as a lecturer, as well as the organizer of the communications and accommodations for the participants in the courses.
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Denmark, eastern Germany, and Finland for the government to evaluate education and working conditions of women who were working in the healthcare industry. She worked as secretary of the team for this comparative study from 1912 to 1916.
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before marriage, she did not shave her head. Herman was a wholesaler, who later worked as the
Assistant Director of the Scandinavian Bank. Her paternal grandfather, Lesser Meyerson (also Meijerson) was a manufacturer and leader in the Mosaic community. Her maternal grandparents, Simon and Thèrése
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The twins were the only daughters in the family, with two older brothers and one younger brother. The children were born in their grandfather
Meyerson's home and moved several times to various locations around the city. The girls attended the
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Swedish Nursing Association. In 1920, based largely upon the proposals made by the committee reviewing nursing conditions, the
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passed legislation to establish nursing inspectors and conduct surveys on standardization. In 1921, she made another trip traveling through
Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. She published an article in
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she helped develop a network of nurses who cared for 120 German nurses recuperating from fatigue or illness, who had been housed with various
Swedish families by the Swedish Nursing Association.
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in nursing facilities and concerned with the fate of retired nurses, proposing the Comrade Fund, to support aging nurses. The fund currently provides assistance for medical, eye or dental care.
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the operations at this nursing facility until 1917. It is unclear whether she paid herself a salary, or whether she provided her services free of charge at Sister Agdas Nursing Home. In 1910 the
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The weekly courses typically had over 200 participants and were both continuing education classes and practical skills practices. Assisting in the presentations were Dr.
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on the educational requirements and hospital facilities she encountered on her trip. Over the course of her career, Meyerson published approximately thirty articles in
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