Introduction
This section is divided into three sub-sections:
- Schools of Nursing
- Individual Nursing Educators and Administrators
- Professional Organizations devoted to nursing education
Schools of Nursing
Beth Israel Hospital School of Nursing Nurses Alumnae Association collection. A wide range of material documenting the Beth Israel Hospital School of Nursing and its Alumnae Association, dating from 1902 to the 2000s.
Boston City Hospital School of Nursing collection. A collection of materials from the storied Boston, Massachusetts nursing school, dating from the late nineteenth century to its closure in 1979.
Capital City School of Nursing collection. Records, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other documentation from the nursing school in Washington, D.C, incorporated in 1877 and closed in 1972.
Children's Hospital School of Nursing collection. A collection of records, photographs, and other materials from the Boston, Massachusetts school of nursing, founded in 1889.
Mt. Auburn Hospital School of Nursing collection. Professional material, correspondence, and photographs from the Nursing school based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dating from 1905 to 1981.
Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing collection. Materials documenting the history, administration, education, and alumni activities of the Boston, Massachusetts school of nursing, dating from 1873 to the 2010s.
New England Baptist Hospital School of Nursing collection. Materials documenting the history, administration, curriculum, student life, and alumni activities of the School of Nursing at New England Baptist Hospital, founded in 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts and closed in 1997.
Newton Junior College Regional Program in Nursing collection. Organizational records, correspondence, and other materials from Newton, Massachusetts nursing program, dating from its beginnings in 1956 to the closure of Newton Junior College in 1976.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing collection. Materials documenting the academic programs, administrative operations, curriculum development, and institutional activities of the Newton, Massachusetts nursing school, primarily dating from the 1960s into the 1980s, with some materials dated as early as 1899.
Rhode Island Hospital School of Nursing collection. Materials from the Rhode Island nursing school, founded in 1882 and closed in 1973.
Nursing Educators and Administrators
Virginia O. Allen papers. Materials from the nurse, nursing researcher, nursing administrator, and teacher Virginia O. Allen (1930-2020).
Linda K. Amos papers. Materials from the nursing educator Linda K. Amos (1940- ), including her affiliation with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and other organizations.
Mary E. Balthasar papers. Material associated with the doctoral dissertation of Sister Mary E. Balthasar (1925-2023) for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY: Influential Factors Related to Differences between Requirements for Psychiatric and Gerontological Preparation in Baccalaureate Nursing Education Programs in the United States: A Historical Survey.
Irene L. Beland papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, publications, and other materials from nurse and educator Irene L. Beland (1906-2000), known for her innovations in patient-centered care and education for medical-surgical nursing specialists.
Rena E. Boyle papers. Materials from nursing educator and consultant Rena E. Boyle (1914-2006), who taught at the University of Minnesota and served as first Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Nebraska.
Amy Frances Brown papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, audiovisual material, and other items from nursing educator and author Amy Frances Brown; namesake of the Amy Frances Brown Prize for Excellence in Writing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie papers. Materials from the trailblazing Black American nurse, educator, editor, and author Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (1916-2008).
Mary Ella Chayer papers. Materials from nurse, educator, researcher, and author Mary Ella Chayer.
Luther Christman papers. A range of materials from the nurse, nursing educator, and first male Dean of a United States nursing school, Luther Christman (1915-2011).
Alice R. Clarke papers. Various records mostly pertaining to the American Nurses Association, dating from 1935 to 1960; from nurse and administrator Alice R. Clarke.
Joyce C. Clifford papers. Materials from influential nursing administrator, speaker, and author Joyce C. Clifford (1935-2011).
Philip E. Day papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other material from nurse Philip E. Day (1916-1989).
Rosemary Ellis papers. Materials from the nurse theorist, clinician, educator, and researcher Rosemary Ellis (1919-1986), a noted figure in nursing theory.
Eva H. Erickson papers. Materials from Eva H. Erickson (1912-2014), known for her work in hospital administration, nursing service administration, and nursing education.
Alice H. Friedman papers. Materials from nurse, administrator, nursing historian, and labor leader Alice H. Friedman (1922-2014), known for her advocacy for equal pay, fair treatment, and professionalization for nurses in the United States.
May Futrell papers. Materials from May Futrell, a nurse, scholar, educator, and pioneer in the development of the gerontological nurse practitioner program, who established the first such graduate-level program in the country in 1975.
Lydia Hall papers. Materials from rehabilitation nurse, nursing theorist, and educator Lydia Hall (1906-1969), best known for developing the "Care, Cure, Core" model of nursing.
Anne Hargreaves papers. Materials from recognized registered nurse Anne Hargreaves (1924-2019), a World War II veteran, former president and executive director of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and advocate for the protection of nurses’ role in direct care.
Lulu Wolf Hassenplug papers. Video recordings by and about nurse educator Lulu Wolf Hassenplug, who founded the University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing where she shifted nursing education from the hospital to the college campus -- insisting that nurses be taught and treated like students rather than as hospital employees.
Dorothy S. Hayward papers. Materials from public health nurse, nursing administrator, and nursing educator Dorothy S. Hayward, chiefly in the Boston metropolitan area.
Virginia Henderson papers. A range of materials from the "First Lady of Nursing" -- nurse, nursing educator, researcher, nursing theorist, and author Virginia Henderson (1897-1996), known for the Henderson Need Theory; creating the Nursing Studies Index; her influential definition of nursing itself; among other works. An audio recording of an interview with Henderson is also present in the Jessie B. Wilson papers.
Anna Taylor Howard papers. Materials from nurse, nursing educator, and researcher Anna Taylor Howard, dating from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Lucie Young Kelly papers. Materials from nurse, nursing educator, researcher, editor, and author Lucie Young Kelly (1925-2020), including substantial material about nursing honor society Sigma Theta Tau International.
Anne Kibrick papers. Materials from nurse, nursing educator, and nursing reformer Anne Kibrick (1925-2020), who helped move nursing education from hospitals to colleges and universities and advocated for nurses' role in prevention, treatment planning and healthcare policy.
Kathleen M. Leahy papers. Materials from nurse, author, and educator, Kathleen M. Leahy.
Madeleine Leininger papers. Manuscripts and other materials from nurse and nursing theorist Madeleine Leininger (1925-2012), creator of transcultural nursing.
Edith Patton Lewis papers. Manuscripts and correspondence from psychiatric nurse, investigative reporter, and editor Edith Patton Lewis (1914-2005), known for her exposés of poor and hazardous conditions at hospitals.
Lucile Petry Leone papers. A range of materials from nurse, nursing educator, and administrator Lucile Petry Leone (1902-1999), founding director of the US Cadet Nurse Corps and first nurse and the first woman to be promoted to assistant surgeon general of the US Public Health Service.
Anne B. Mahoney papers. Materials from nursing administrator Anne B. Mahoney, who helped lead the Massachusetts Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, and the American Journal of Nursing.
Robert F. Mahoney papers. Drafts and other materials pertaining to Robert F. Mahoney's book Emergency and Disaster Nursing.
Angela McBride papers. Materials from feminist, nursing educator, nursing researcher, and women's health advocate Angela Barron McBride.
Margaret L. McClure papers. Materials from nurse, administrator, educator, researcher, and author Margaret L. McClure, known for her groundbreaking work in studying how hospitals can attract and retain nurses and thereby drastically improve patient care.
Pearl McIver papers. Manuscripts, publications, correspondence, research, memorabilia, and other items from nurse and public official Pearl McIver (1893-1986), the first US Public Health Nurse employed by the US Public Health Service in 1936 and later Chief of the Division of Public Health Nursing for the service.
Mary Kelly Mullane papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials from nurse, nursing educator, and administrator Mary Kelly Mullane (1909-1999), best known for her work in Illinois.
Helen Nahm papers. Materials from nurse, researcher, scholar, and educator Helen Nahm (1901-1992), known for her work reforming and advancing nursing education in the United States from the late 1940s into the 1970s.
Dorothy Nayer papers. Materials from Dorothy Nayer (1911-2001), a nurse educator, freelance editor and writer, and consultant to nursing organizations.
Eva M. Noles papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other records from Black American nurse, researcher, historian, and author Eva M. Noles (1919-2015).
Dorothy Ozimek papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials by nurse, administrator, consultant, and author Dorothy Ozimek (1923-2016), known for her writings and speeches on nursing leadership, education, and practice.
Frances Portnoy papers. Materials from nurse, nursing educator, and scholar Frances Portnoy (1926-2018), who taught at various nursing schools in the Boston area.
Edith Pritchard papers. Manuscripts, research material, and other materials from nurse and educator Edith Pritchard (1897-1983), known for establishing a training program that assisted foreign-born nurses to pass state licensing examinations in the United States.
Alice M. Robinson papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, and audio recordings from nurse, educator, consultant, and editor Alice M. Robinson (1920-1983).
Martha E. Rogers papers. Materials from influential public health nurse, nurse theorist, educator, author, and administrator Martha E. Rogers (1919-1994), creator of the "Science of Unitary Human Beings" and namesake of the Society of Rogerian Scholars.
June Rothberg papers. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials from nurse and educator June Rothberg, best known for her political activism on behalf of nurses, the nursing profession, women, and health care in the United States.
Thelma M. Schorr papers. Materials from nursing journalist Thelma M. Schorr (1924-2024) who worked at the American Journal of Nursing for over forty years, becoming its editor in 1979 and its president and publisher in 1981.
Margaret Shetland papers. Materials from the public health nurse, educator, and author Margaret Shetland (1906-2006).
Virginia Stone papers. Manuscripts and other materials from nurse, researcher, educator, and author Virginia Stone (1913-1993), who developed the earliest educational programs and professional standards in the field of gerontological nursing.
Madeleine Vaillot papers. Manuscripts and correspondence from Madeleine Vaillot (1907-2003), a nurse, writer, and Dean of the Southeastern Massachusetts University College of Nursing.
Barbara Williams papers. Materials from the nurse and administrator Barbara Williams, who also worked with the US Nurse Cadet Corps.
Helen Wood papers. Correspondence and other material from nurse and educator Helen Wood, first director of the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester (1925-1931) and later Acting Director of the School of Nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Director of the School of Nursing at Simmons College in Boston.
Professional Organizations
Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing collection. Organizational records and other materials documents the formation, administration, activities, and evolution of the ICIRN from its establishment in 1960 through the late 2010s.
Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing collection. Office files, reports, and other materials from the MACN, founded in 1976 "to provide leadership and advocacy on matters pertaining to professional nursing education and practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
National League for Nursing Education collection. Publications and other records documenting the activities, educational programs, and organizational history of the National League for Nursing Education (NLNE), a nursing professional association dedicated to nursing education and accreditation. Includes glass lantern slides depicting the history of nursing and medicine from antiquity through the nineteenth century.
New England Collegiate Nursing Continuing Education Council collection. Materials documenting the organizational history, administration, programs, membership, and inter-organizational relationships of this regional nursing education organization focused on continuing education for collegiate nurses in New England
New England Council of Higher Education in Nursing collection. Organizational records and other materials from this regional nursing professional association dedicated to collegiate nursing education and continuing education in New England.
Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. collection. Organizational files and correspondence from the fund, created for the purpose of providing financial aid, in the form of loans, to nurses seeking to continue their higher education.
