Rozella M. Schlotfeldt

In 1971, Schlotfeldt was elected to the Institute of Medicine for the National Academy of Sciences.

Shortly after she was appointed to dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School, Schlotfeldt joined the task force to pass the 1964 Nurse Training Act. While at Case Western Reserve University, Schlotfeldt also served as a special consultant to the Surgeon General's Advisory Group on Nursing from 1961 to 1963. From 1967 to 1974, Schlotfeldt served on the board for the Walter Reed Army Institute for Nursing Research. Shortly before her retirement, she was the president of the Ohio Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration.

A few years later, in 1960, Schlotfeldt moved on to become the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. While serving as dean, Schlotfeldt created the collaboration model of nursing where she combined clinical learning with lectures to ensure the best education of incoming nurses. This collaboration model is still in use today between the Frances Payne Bolton School and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She remained there until she retired as dean in 1972, but continued her career as a professor for nursing students until 1982.

Schlotfeldt has published over 100 works regarding her research. Her first being her dissertation titled, "The Educational Leadership Role of Nursing School Executives and Faculty Satisfaction." in 1956.

However, she did not get much teaching time, so she moved on to Wayne State University. There, she was an assistant professor until 1955, where she left to work on her Ph.D. After she finished her Ph.D, Schlotfeldt returned to Wayne State University as an associate dean of research.

Immediately following her graduation from the University of Iowa, Schlotfeldt was hired by University of Iowa Hospitals as a maternity staff nurse. In 1936, she took the position as staff and head nurse of the Veterans' Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Following that position, Schlotfeldt, became an instructor and supervisor of maternity nursing at the University of Iowa Hospitals.

Schlotfeldt graduated from her high school as the valedictorian in 1931. She went on to study nursing at the University of Iowa where she graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Nursing in 1935. During an employment period with University of Iowa Hospitals, Schlotfeldt completed a postgraduate program at Cornell University in conjunction with New York Hospital. In 1947, she received her MS in Nursing Education and Administration from the University of Chicago. By 1956, Schlotfeldt finished her Ph.D in Nursing Education at the University of Chicago.

Rozella May Schlotfeldt (June 29, 1914 – July 23, 2005) was an American nurse, educator, and researcher. Originally from DeWitt, Iowa, Schlotfeldt received her BS in nursing from the University of Iowa in 1935. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago in 1947 before becoming the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in 1960.

Rozella M. Schlotfeldt was born in 1914 in DeWitt, Iowa. Her father, John, was a businessman, and her mother, Clara, was a nurse. Her father died in 1918 when she was just four years old, so her mother went back to work to support Rozella and her four older sisters.