Mr. Lavinia Lloyd Dock Ms. Lavinia Lloyd Dock was born February 26, 1858, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was one of six children of the wealthy Mr. Gilliard Dock. Mr. Lavinia Dock encouraged each of his children to attend school. At the age of 18, Mrs. Lavinia Dock lost her mother and, with the help of her older sister, played an important role in the care and raising of her younger siblings (Sicherman, B., & Green, C.H. (1980 )) . This was the beginning of a long future of care for Mrs. Lavinia Lloyd Dock.Education. In accordance with her father's wishes, Mrs. Lavinia Dock attended conventional school at a girls' academy in Harrisburg. After completing the women's academy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while reading a magazine article about the program available for training nurses at Bellevue Hospital, Mrs. Lavinia Dock chose to study nursing (Sicherman, B., & Green, C.H. (1980 )). In 1884, Mrs. Dock trained at Bellevue Hospital in New York. While there, Mrs. Lavinia Dock learned all she could during twelve hour work days and inadequate instruction from the evening staff (Sicherman, B., & Green, C. H. (1980)). She graduated from Bellevue Training School for Nurses in 1886 (American Association for the History of Nursing). While serving as a night shift supervisor at Bellevue Hospital, he compiled the first medication manual for nurses. Gilliard Dock financed the publication of this manual entitled Material Medica for Nurses (1890) which became the standard in nursing education for the next decade (Sicherman, B., & Green, C. H. (1980)). Contributions to modern nursing Ms. Dock's first contribution to modern nursing was when he compiled Material Medica for Nurses (1890) (Forest). This......middle of paper......esAmerican Association for the History of Nursing (n.d.). AAHN Graves of prominent nurses - Dock. Retrieved March 30, 2014, from http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/dock.htmlDock, LL (n.d.). Materia medica textbook for nurses: Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956: Free download and streaming: Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/textbookofmateri00dockuoftForest (n.d.). Suffragist of the month. Retrieved from http://www.suffragistmemorial.org/Suffragist_of_the_Month.htmlSicherman, B., & Green, C. H. (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Dock, Lavinia Lloyd. (n.d.) The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. (1995). Retrieved March 30, 2014, from http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dock,+Lavinia+Lloyd