Olive W. Klump in 1951

Olive M. Whitlock Klump (June 8, 1902 – December 14, 1980) was an American nurse who was the first industrial nurse to work for the United States federal government, as part of the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Industrial Hygiene, from 1939 to 1943.[1] She later directed the Los Angeles County Health Department's Bureau of Public Health Nursing for over two decades.[2]

Early life

She was born Olive M. Whitlock[3] in 1902[4] in Weatherby, Missouri.[5] She earned a B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1930[3][6] in nursing; she worked on a ship to support herself during college, first as a waitress, then as its physician-assistant.[5] She then worked as a rural nurse in Atchison County, Missouri.[2][3]

Whitlock led the Division of Public Health Nursing and Child Hygiene for the Oregon State Board of Health from 1935 until 1939,[2][3] and also served as an instructor at the University of Oregon Medical School during this time.[3]

Public Health Service

Whitlock was appointed to the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1939 to 1943.[2] She worked with the American Public Health Association to design a survey to collect information from industrial nursing professionals from across the United States.[7] Whitlock authored the resulting report, which was published two years later. The report recommended that industrial nurses should be recruited from professional nursing channels, established the core duties of industrial nurses, and recommended the number of nurses per employees.[8]

She married Karl Klump in 1942, after which she went by Olive W. Klump.[5][9]

Los Angeles County Department of Health

From 1945 until her retirement in 1968, she was Director of the Bureau of Public Health Nursing of the Los Angeles County Health Department.[2] Among her initiatives was using data-driven time management analysis to improve workforce allocation in 1960.[10] In 1966, she wrote about the effect on nursing of shifts from general to specialized funding of programs.[6]

In 1948, she was the President of the California State Organization of Public Health Nursing.[11] During 1949–1952, she was president of the California State Nurses Association.[12][13]

She received the Pearl McIver Public Health Nurse Award in 1966, and the following year the Nurses Association of the Los Angeles County Health Department commissioned a portrait of Klump to hang in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records.[14]

Death and legacy

She died on December 14, 1980, in Glendale, California at the age of 78.[4] The American Cancer Society named an award after her.[2][5]

References

  1. ↑ Parrish, Rebecca S.; Allred, Rachel H. (1995). "Theories and Trends in Occupational Health Nursing: Prevention and Social Change". AAOHN Journal. 43 (10): 514–521. doi:10.1177/216507999504301006. ISSN 0891-0162. PMID 7575785.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Association News". American Journal of Public Health. 71 (7): 763. July 1981. doi:10.2105/AJPH.71.7.759. ISSN 0090-0036.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 University of California Bulletin: Summer Session 1942, Los Angeles. University of California Press. 1942. p. 19.
  4. 1 2 "Olive Klump". Social Security Death Index. Retrieved December 25, 2020 – via Fold3.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Deaths: Olive Klump". St. Joseph News-Press. January 10, 1981. p. 10. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  6. 1 2 Klump, Olive M. (1966). "So You Have a Grant". The American Journal of Nursing. 66 (5): 1033–1036. doi:10.2307/3419938. ISSN 0002-936X. JSTOR 3419938. PMID 5177038.
  7. ↑ Brown, Mary Louise (1964). "Nursing in Occupational Health". Public Health Reports. 79 (11): 967–972. doi:10.2307/4592297. ISSN 0094-6214. JSTOR 4592297. PMC 1915671. PMID 14212595.
  8. ↑ "Report of the Committee To Study the Duties of Nurses in Industry". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 33 (7): 865–881. 1943. doi:10.2105/ajph.33.7.865. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1527641. PMID 18015857.
  9. ↑ Industrial Hygiene Newsletter, January 1945. Division of Industrial Hygiene, National Institute of Health, U.S. Public Health Service. 1945. p. 4.
  10. ↑ "Nursing Budget Uses Activity Time Data". Public Health Reports. 75 (3): 234. March 1960.
  11. ↑ Wilson, Bess M. (April 11, 1948). "Week Will Stress Public Health Work". The Los Angeles Times. p. 58. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  12. ↑ Holly, Hazel (November 11, 1949). "New President Outlines Objectives At Last Session of CSNA Meet". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 11. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  13. ↑ Evans, Kate E. (October 31, 1952). "Long Beach Nurse Heads State Group". The Los Angeles Times. p. 23. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Honors for Two APHA-Member Nurses". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 57 (7): 1229. July 1967. doi:10.2105/AJPH.57.7.1227. ISSN 0002-9572.
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