Rheba de Tornyay

Rheba de Tornyay (April 17, 1926 - September 27, 2013) was a nurse. She was named in the Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing in 1995.[1]

She was a pioneering dean who in 1984 took the University of Washington’s School of Nursing to a No. 1 U.S. News & World Report ranking, where it has stayed ever since.[2]

De Tornyay served as dean of the UCLA School of Nursing from 1971 to 1975.[3]

  1. ^ "Living Legends - American Academy of Nursing Main Site".
  2. ^ "Obituary: Rheba de Tornyay, pioneering UW School of Nursing dean". The Seattle Times.
  3. ^ "History of the UCLA School of Nursing Outstanding Leaders: Our Deans".