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Almira H. Ockerman
School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Almira Hoppe Ockerman, B.S., R.N., Assistant Professor of Nursing and Supervisor of Surgical Nursing Specialties.
Diploma, Hillcrest Hospital School of Nursing, Minneapolis, 1923; B.S. in Nursing Education, University of Minnesota, 1929; M.S. in Nursing Administration, University of Minnesota. Post-graduate courses at Washington University and New York University.
Nursing service at Hillcrest Hospital, the University of Minnesota, and Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri; associate director of nursing service and instructor in nursing at Russell Sage College School of Nursing, Troy, New York, 1937-1942; director of nursing at Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, New York, 1943-1949; assistant professor of nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing, and supervisor of surgical nursing specialties, University of Michigan Hospital, 1951-1952; associate professor of nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Health, and director of nursing service at Cincinnati General Hospital, 1954-1965; director of the Department of Nursing at Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, 1965-1974. Ockerman retired in 1974 at age 72.