Charlotte Munck (nurse)

She was raised with her six siblings in a comfortable Christian home, in which her father was not only the pastor at Herlufsholm School but was socially active, especially in the field of health insurance.

In collaboration with the surgeon Frode Rydgaard, she edited Lærebog og Haandbog i Sygepleje (Textbook and Handbook of Nursing), published in 1927 which became widely adopted over the next four years.

On the trades union front, she chaired the Sygeplejerskernes Samarbejde i Norden (Nurses Cooperation in the North), often speaking at its congresses.

As a result of her experience in the United States, she developed a two-month training programme for nurses, addressing administration, instruction and social work.

[4] At a ceremony in May 2014 at Columbia University's School of Nursing, where Charlotte Munck had studied in 1909, New York's Danish Consul General Jarl Frijs-Madsen honoured her with the Distinguished Alumni Award for Lifetime Achievement: "Although it’s been more than a century since Charlotte Munck studied right here at Columbia Nursing, her fundamental philosophy lives on in the Danish health care system today.