The term is derived from the primarily nocturnal habits of the owl. Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or after dawn.
By Suzanne Ridgway. Lllian Wald was born into a comfortable Jewish family in 1867, but chose to work in the tenements of New York City. She coined the phrase âpublic health nursingâ and is considered to be the founder of that profession. Lillian was educated at a private boarding school.
Historians regard Lillian D. Wald as the founder of the modern-day public health nursing. The Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service in New York City stand as living memorials to her lifelong dedication to humanitarian causes.