wa00009. Nurses and Nursing Education

Abstract Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.

Abstract Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.

Abstract Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.

Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Abstract Clubwoman and conservationist involved in the Council of National Defense Women's Committee during World War I.

Abstract The first licensed out-of-hospital birth center in Iowa, specializing in nurse-midwifery.

Overview Nurse adminstrator and professor, the daughter of Finnish immigrants.

Abstract Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Abstract Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Arrangement Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994...

Overview Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Abstract Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.

Abstract The Iowa League for Nursing's efforts have included active participation in community planning and action for health care, advocating changes such as home health care. The organization made efforts to assure the continuing supply of nurses by providing them with the educational opportunities to reach their maximum career potential, ability to move into management and leadership positions, and promoting a greater public appreciation of nursing as a profession.

Abstract Local chapter of the Iowa Nurses Association.

Abstract State branch of the national organization. The overall purpose of the association has been to promote and improve the professional skills and status of nurses. Arrangement Administrative Records, 1904-1989 (boxes 1-18) American Nurses Association, 1928-1989 (boxes 18-24) Committees, 1933-1989 (boxes24-34) Continuing Education, 1955-1989 (boxes 34-36) Conventions, 1904-1989 (boxes 37-44) Districts, 1920-1984 (boxes44-48) Economic...

Abstract Writer, performer, volunteer, and nurse in Iowa City.

Overview Oral history. Japanese-American nurse who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Abstract World War I Army nurse from Clayton, Iowa.

Abstract 1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.

Abstract Postville, Iowa, native who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing in 1940.

Abstract Nurse who worked in Missouri in the 1930s and at the University of Iowa Hospitals from 1948 to 1965.

Abstract Public health and visiting nurse who later taught at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.