Dorothy Johnson Biography
Dorothy Johnson biography: Life story of the nursing theorist of Behavioral System Model Dorothy Johnson was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1919. She was the youngest in a family of seven. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and her Masters in Public Health from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. She began publishing her ideas about nursing soon after graduation from Vanderbilt. Most of her education career was in Pediatric Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles. She withdrew from the academe as a Professor Emeritus at January 1, 1978. Dorothy Johnson has influenced nursing through her publications since the 1950′s. Through her career, Johnson has made her cause on the importance of Research-Based Knowledge about the effect of nursing care on clients. She was an early advocate of Nursing as a Science as well as an Art. She also assumed that nursing had a body of Knowledge reflecting both the sci...