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.
Lillian Wald, Public Health Nursing. In addition to being a famous nurse, Lillian Wald was also a humanitarian, teacher, peace and civil rights activist, social worker, public health official and author. Her nursing education allowed her to see the deplorable conditions that she labored so valiantly to improve and gave her the knowledge and skills to achieve her mission.