{{short description|American nurse}} {{Infobox person | name = Claribel Wheeler | image = ClaribelAWheeler1921.png | alt = A middle-aged white woman with short greying hair, wearing a nurse's uniform and glasses | caption = Claribel A. Wheeler, from a 1921 publication | birth_name = | birth_date = August 13, 1881 | birth_place = Prospect, New York, U.S. | death_date = December 8, 1965 | death_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = {{flatlist| * Nurse * educator * hospital administrator}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse(s) = | relatives = }}
'''Claribel Augusta Wheeler''' (August 13, 1881 – December 8, 1965) was an American nurse, educator, and hospital administrator. She was executive secretary of the National League of Nursing Education from 1932 to 1942, superintendent of the Washington University School of Nursing from 1923 to 1931, and president of the Ohio State Nurses Association.
==Early life and education== Wheeler was born in Prospect, New York, the daughter of Schuyler V. Wheeler and Lucia Augusta Kellogg Wheeler.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1939-08-11 |title=Mrs. Charlotte De Courcy Dies; Taught Drama at High School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-times-dispatch-mrs-charlotte-d/145391215/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |pages=24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She graduated from Vassar Brothers' Hospital in 1907, with further studies in hospital administration at Teachers College, Columbia University.<ref name=":0" />
==Career== Wheeler was supervisor of nurses at Vassar Brothers Hospital beginning in 1908.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qcMCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Claribel+Wheeler&pg=PA392 "Vassar Hospital Alumnae Notes"] ''The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review'' 41(6)(December 1908): 392.</ref> She was principal of Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing in Cleveland, president of the Cleveland League of Nursing Education and the Ohio League of Nursing Education, and the Ohio State Nurses Association.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Robson |first=Emilie G. |date=March 1936 |title=Claribel A. Wheeler, R.N. |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1936/03000/claribel_a__wheeler,_r_n.5.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=226 |issn=0002-936X}}</ref> In Missouri, she was superintendent of the Washington University School of Nursing from 1923 to 1931, succeeding Julia C. Stimson.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Missouri Women in the Health Sciences - Biographies - WU School of Nursing Directors |url=http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mowihsp/bios/wusndirectors.htm |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Bernard Becker Medical Library Digital Collection}}</ref> She was active in the Sigma Theta Tau nursing organization.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1929-02-23 |title=Sorority of Nurses in Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-times-sorority-of-nurse/145391509/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Indianapolis Times |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
From 1932 to 1942, Wheeler was executive secretary of the National League of Nursing Education.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Goostray |first=Stella |date=1942 |title=Report of the President: May 1942 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415831 |journal=The American Journal of Nursing |volume=42 |issue=7 |pages=800–803 |doi=10.2307/3415831 |jstor=3415831 |issn=0002-936X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In this role, she spoke at conventions of state nurses associations in North Carolina in 1932 and 1937,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1932-10-09 |title=State Nurses to Meet this Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer-state-nurses-to-me/145390820/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The News and Observer |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1937-10-26 |title=Stand Out at Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-durham-sun-stand-out-at-convention/145391026/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Durham Sun |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> South Carolina in 1933,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1933-04-27 |title=Nurses of State Hear Richardson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-state-nurses-of-state-hear-richardso/145389852/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The State |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Tennessee in 1935 and 1938,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1935-10-13 |title=State Nurses Gather Today in Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-state-nurses-gat/145389188/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Chattanooga Daily Times |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1938-10-09 |title=Concurrent Nurses' Conventions to be Here This Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-knoxville-journal-concurrent-nurses/145393660/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Knoxville Journal |pages=27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> New York and New England in 1935,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1935-05-13 |title=Hospital Day is Celebrated in Queen City |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-express-hospital-day-is/145391372/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Buffalo Courier Express |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1935-05-07 |title=Claribel Wheeler Addresses Nurses; Dr. Clark Speaker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-daily-news-claribel-wheeler-a/145393803/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Burlington Daily News |pages=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Georgia in 1937,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1937-10-24 |title=Georgia Nurses Meet November 4 in Rome Session |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal-georgia-nurses-meet/145389644/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Atlanta Journal |pages=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and Alabama in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1940-10-07 |title=Nurses Answering Call to Service, Convention Hears |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news-nurses-answering-cal/145389370/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Birmingham News |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She also spoke at nursing schools.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1946-05-18 |title=Miss Claribel Wheeler to Address Lakeview Graduating Class |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/suffolk-news-herald-miss-claribel-wheele/145389501/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Suffolk News-Herald |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1938-11-01 |title=Miss Claribel Wheeler to Speak to Graduate Nurses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-columbia-record-miss-claribel-wheele/145390927/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Columbia Record |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Publications== Wheeler contributed articles to the ''American Journal of Nursing'', and edited the Nursing Education Department feature of that publication.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=Claribel A. |last2=Hodgkins |first2=Myrtle P. |last3=Morgan |first3=Blodwen |date=April 1937 |title=Nursing Education Department: The Assignment of Experience on the Ward |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1937/04000/Nursing_Education_Department__The_Assignment_of.15.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=395 |doi=10.1097/00000446-193704000-00015 |issn=0002-936X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * "The Educational Problem of the Small Hospital" (1917)<ref>Wheeler, Claribel. [https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1917/07000/the_educational_problem_of_the_small_hospital.10.aspx "The Educational Problem of the Small Hospital"] ''AJN American Journal of Nursing'' 17(10)(July 1917): 928-931.</ref> * "Value of Public Health Nursing Affiliation in Training of Student Nurses" (1919)<ref>Wheeler, Claribel A. [https://archive.org/details/publichealthnurs1112nati/page/958/mode/2up?q=Claribel "Value of Public Health Nursing Affiliation in Training of Student Nurses"] ''The Public Health Nurse'' 11(12)(December 1919): 958-959.</ref> * "The Profession of Nursing" (1921)<ref>Wheeler, Claribel A. [https://archive.org/details/publichealthnurs134nati/page/200/mode/2up?q=Claribel+ "The Profession of Nursing"] ''The Public Health Nurse'' 13(4)(April 1921): 201-206.</ref> * "Hospital Helpers" (1921)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Claribel A. |date=February 1921 |title=Hospital Helpers |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112099961143&seq=191&view=1up&q1=Claribel |journal=The Modern Hospital |volume=16 |pages=153–154 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref> * "The Function of the Private Duty Nurse in the Community" (1925)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Claribel A. |date=March 1925 |title=The Function of the Private Duty Nurse in the Community |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1925/03000/THE_FUNCTION_OF_THE_PRIVATE_DUTY_NURSE_IN_THE.9.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=199 |issn=0002-936X}}</ref> * "Equipping a Nurses' Residence" (1928)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Claribel A. |date=August 1928 |title=Equipping a Nurses' Residence |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1928/08000/equipping_a_nurses__residence.10.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=28 |issue=8 |pages=787 |issn=0002-936X}}</ref> * "The Selection of Students for Schools of Nursing and Problems of Adjustment" (1930)<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/firstwordsselect0000unse |title=First words : selected addresses from the National League for Nursing, 1894-1933 |date=1991 |location=New York |publisher= National League for Nursing Press |isbn=978-0-88737-526-2 |pages=183–194}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Claribel A. |date=September 1930 |title=The Selection of Students for Schools of Nursing, and Problems of Adjustment |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1930/09000/the_selection_of_students_for_schools_of_nursing_.25.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=30 |issue=9 |pages=1169 |issn=0002-936X}}</ref> * "Let Us Look at our Clinical Services" (1935, with Blanche Pfefferkorn)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pfefferkorn |first1=Blanche |last2=Wheeler |first2=Claribel A. |date=February 1935 |title=Let Us Look at our Clinical Services |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/abstract/1935/02000/let_us_look_at_our_clinical_services.22.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=162 |issn=0002-936X}}</ref> * "A Study of the Nursing Care of Tuberculosis Patients" (1938)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Claribel A. |date=September 1938 |title=A Study of the Nursing Care of Tuberculosis Patients |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/citation/1938/09000/a_study_of_the_nursing_care_of_tuberculosis.17.aspx |journal=American Journal of Nursing |language=en-US |volume=38 |issue=9 |pages=1021–1037 |doi=10.1097/00000446-193809000-00017 |issn=0002-936X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * "Lay Participation in Nursing Education" (1941)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Association |first=Michigan Nurses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fC4wljmlyHwC&dq=Claribel+Wheeler&pg=PA31 |title=Proud of Our Past, Preparing for Our Future: A History of the Michigan Nurses Association, 1904-2004 |date=2004 |publisher=Turner Publishing Company |isbn=978-1-56311-896-8 |page=31|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Wheeler died in 1965, at the age of 84, in Richmond, Virginia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-12-09 |title=Miss C. A. Wheeler, Nurse Executive, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-times-dispatch-miss-c-a-wheel/145391647/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |pages=18 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20250715041531/https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101441718-img?_gl%3D1%2A1xfs5fu%2A_ga%2AMTY1Nzc4Njg2MS4xNzExOTQzNTIx%2A_ga_P1FPTH9PL4%2AMTcxMzEyMjk0MS4yLjEuMTcxMzEyMzEwNS4wLjAuMA..%2A_ga_7147EPK006%2AMTcxMzEyMjk0MS4yLjEuMTcxMzEyMzEwNS4wLjAuMA.. A portrait of Claribel Wheeler], in the National Library of Medicine Digital Collections {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wheeler, Claribel}} Category:1881 births Category:1965 deaths Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni Category:People from Oneida County, New York Category:Nursing administrators Category:Nursing educators Category:20th-century American nurses