Mrs. Lavinia Lloyd DockMrs. 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 go to school. At the age of 18, Mrs. Lavinia Dock lost her mother and, with the help of her older sister, played a major role in the care and education of her younger siblings (Sicherman, B and Green, CH (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 a conventional school at an all-girls academy in Harrisburg. After completing her education at the Girls' Academy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and reading a magazine article about the program offered to nurses to be trained at Bellevue Hospital, Mrs. Lavinia Dock chose to study nursing ( Sicherman, B. and Green, CH (1980)). In 1884, Mrs. Dock underwent training at Bellevue Hospital in New York. There, Mrs. Lavinia Dock learned all she could during twelve-hour work days and less than adequate instruction from the evening staff (Sicherman, B. and Green, CH (1980)). She graduated from the Bellevue Training School for Nurses in 1886 (American Association for the History of Nursing). While serving as a night supervisor at Bellevue Hospital, she wrote the first medication manual for nurses. Mr. Gilliard Dock financed the publication of this manual entitled Material Medica for Nurses (1890) and it became the standard in nursing school training for the next decade (Sicherman, B. and Green, CH (1980)) .Contributions to modern nursingMs. Dock's first contribution to modern nursing came when she compiled Material Medica for Nurses (1890) (Forest). This...... middle of article ......esAmerican Association for the History of Nursing (nd). AAHN Graves of Prominent Nurses - Dock. Retrieved March 30, 2014 from http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/dock.htmlDock, LL (nd). Manual of materia medica for nurses: Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956: Free download and streaming: Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/textbookofmateri00dockuoftForest (nd). Suffragist of the month. Retrieved from http://www.suffragistmemorial.org/Suffragist_of_the_Month.htmlSicherman, B. and Green, CH (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.Dock, Lavinia Lloyd. (nd) The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. (1995). Retrieved March 30, 2014 from http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dock,+Lavinia+Lloyd