Georgia Nevins
Georgia Marquis Nevins | |
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 Georgia M. Nevins, from a 1916 publication. | |
| Born | October 28, 1864 Bangor, Maine |
| Died | October 13, 1957 Chicago |
| Nationality | America |
| Occupation(s) | Nurse, nursing educator, hospital administrator |
Georgia Marquis Nevins (October 28, 1864 – October 13, 1957) was an American nurse, nursing educator, and hospital administrator.
Early life
[edit]Nevins was born in Bangor, Maine, and raised in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Charles Nevins and Helen Virgilia Marquis Nevins. In 1891, she was in the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Nevins superintendent of the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.[3] for 23 years.[4] She was president of the National League for Nursing Education,[5][6] and first president of the Graduate Nurses' Association of the District of Columbia.[7] She was a founding officer of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Alumnae Association.[8] She was third vice-president of the American Hospital Association for the 1916-1917 academic year.[9]
Nevins became director of the nursing department of the Potomac Division of the American Red Cross in 1917.[10][11] In 1918, as a Red Cross leader in the region, Nevins called for Virginia women to volunteer to supplement the nursing shortage during the 1918 influenza pandemic.[12] She spoke in favor of expanding home nursing courses and placing public health nurses in more small towns.[13] She retired from the Red Cross in 1920.[1]
Personal life
[edit]In 1940, Nevins was living with her widowed sister, Mabel Elizabeth Mather, in Austin, Texas.[14][15] Nevins died in Chicago in 1957, at age 92.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Miss Nevins Leaves Red Cross Service". Evening Star. 1920-09-26. p. 30. Retrieved 2020-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Li, Vivian (November 14, 2019). "Women have always been integral to Hopkins Medicine". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
- ^ Nevins, Georgia M. (1905). "Address of the President". The American Journal of Nursing. 5 (9): 560–562. doi:10.2307/3402498. ISSN 0002-936X. JSTOR 3402498.
- ^ American National Red Cross Nursing Service; Dock, Lavinia L.; Pickett, Sarah Elizabeth; Noyes, Clara Dutton (1922). History of American Red Cross Nursing. Macmillan. p. 246.
- ^ Gm, Nevins (March 1993). "Address of President Georgia M. Nevins. Eleventh Annual Convention of the Superintendents' Society, 1905, Washington, D.C". NLN Publications (14–2514): 56–8. PMID 8479884.
- ^ Nevins, Georgia M. (1906). "Report of the Secretary of the American Society of Superintendents of Training-Schools for Nurses". The American Journal of Nursing. 6 (10): 715–720. doi:10.2307/3403450. ISSN 0002-936X. JSTOR 3403450.
- ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company.
- ^ Warren, Mame (2006-06-09). Our Shared Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. JHU Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0-8018-8473-3.
- ^ "Philadelphia Convention Surpasses All Previous Meetings". Modern Hospital. 7: 401. November 1916.
- ^ "Confer on Nursing Program". The Red Cross Bulletin: 8. November 24, 1919.
- ^ "Miss Georgia Nevins to Head Potomac Nurses". Evening Star. 1917-11-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Need More Nurses to Help Fight Influenza". The Richmond News Leader. October 2, 1918. p. 14. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Will Extend Home Nursing". The Baltimore Sun. 1919-04-12. p. 16. Retrieved 2020-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Georgia Nevins in the 1940 Census". Ancestry. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
- ^ "William Tyler Mather". University of Texas. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
- ^ "Miss Georgia Nevins". Austin American-Statesman. 1957-10-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- A portrait of Georgia M. Nevins from 1924, in the collection of the U. S. National Library of Medicine.
- Georgia Nevins at Find a Grave
