Marie manthey biography

Marie Manthey

American nurse, author and businesswoman (1935–2024)

Marie Schuber Manthey (July 17, 1935 – December 12, 2024) was an American nurse, author and businesswoman. She was one of the originators of primary nursing, a system of nursing care delivery.

Manthey was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2015. The Living Legends designation honors individuals with "extraordinary contributions to the nursing profession, sustained over the course of their careers".[1]

Manthey died on December 12, 2024, at the age of 89.[2]

Education

Manthey received a diploma in nursing from St. Elizabeth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois in 1956. After passing the Illinois State Boards, she joined the University of Chicago Medical Center as a staff nurse, and then became an assistant head nurse and then head nurse on a twenty-bed surgical floor there.[3] She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Administration in 1962 and her Master of Science, Nursing Administration in 1964, both from the University of MinnesotaSchool of

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In Memoriam

Contributors: John Nelson, Dan Pesut, and Connie Delaney

Marie Ellen Manthey was born in Chicago, IL on July 17th, 1935. She passed away at home on December 12, 2024. She is survived by her son Mark and daughter Claire. She leaves behind one granddaughter, a niece and two nephews. Marie received many honors throughout her life that were in some way related to her pioneering of the model of care, Primary Nursing, and how it was integrated into the framework of care Relationship Based Care. She founded a company to consult in professional care delivery.

Healthcare is a relational industry, and several nurse leaders developed models of nursing care to promote the one-to-one relationship between patient and nurse as a way to improve the care through relationship, which improved understanding of needs in and response to care (Nelson, 2000). It wasn’t until Marie Manthey developed the relational method of nursing called Primary Nursing (Manthey, 1980, 2001) at the University of Minnesota that the relationship

About Me

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The Mosaic of My Life

By Marie Manthey

I became ill at the age of 5 and was hospitalized for a month at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago. It was a traumatic experience in a couple of ways. First of all, my parent’s didn’t know how to prepare me, since they had never been hospitalized themselves.. so they just said I was going to a large building. They left me there for a month, visiting twice a week, and sometimes when one or the other of them came, a very painful procedure was done involving an IM injection of their blood. As a result, I felt not only abandoned but also frightened and confused about the pain associated with their visits.

Florence Marie Fisher is the name of a nurse who cared for me. One day she sat at my bedside and colored in my coloring book. For me, that translated to ‘cared for me’ … and I decided then that I wanted my life to be about that kind of caring.

From that time on I knew I would be a nurse. I entered a hospital diploma program r

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