Charity Hospital School of Nursing COLLECTION

 

 

(Mss 220)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

April 1998

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Historical Note

 

Series, Subseries, and Descriptions

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          21 linear feet

 

Geographic

locations:                 New Orleans, La.

 

Inclusive dates:      1894-1990

 

Summary:                Records of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing.  The collection includes annual, monthly, and miscellaneous reports; committee records; enrollment records; subject files; corre­spondence; rules and regulations; min­utes; diplomas and certificates; photo­graphs; clippings; questionnaires; maga­zines and books; alumni records; forms; and miscellany.

 

Related

collections:              Edgar Hull Papers (Mss 291)

 

Source:                     Gift, 1991

 

Access:                     No restrictions

 

Copyright:                Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

 

Citation:                    Charity Hospital School of Nursing Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

 

 

 

Historical Note

 

 

On January 21, 1736, Jean Louis, a sailor who resided in New Orleans, died, leaving a will which provided funds to found a hospital in the city.  It was the beginning of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, although the first legislation pertaining to Charity was not passed until 1808.  Three years later, the Louisiana Legislature enacted a charter.  The city directory of 1823 provides this description: “The Charity Hospital, situated No. 147 Canal Street, consists of two large buildings, containing one surgical hall, two large fever wards, one dysentery ward, one ward for chronic cases, one for females, one for con­va­les­cents, one bathing room, one apothecary store, and a number of other apartments for the fam­ilies of the residents, officers, etc.  The Hospital has lately undergone a complete repair and reform, and is at this time as clean, wholesome and well conducted as any institution of the kind in the Union.  During the last year, about 1,700 sick persons were admitted, 1,200 of whom were discharged well, and the remainder died, one-half of which, of Yellow Fever.”

 

            To the modern reader, conspicuously absent from this description is any mention of nurses.  Until 1834, nursing care was provided by African-American slaves and by con­vales­cing patients who had recovered enough to attend those who were sicker.  In that year, according to A. E. Fossier, “the Sisters of Charity [of St. Vincent de Paul] inaugurated their long period of devotion to the indigent sick.  These Sisters not only supervised, but did the nursing; their assistants were inadequate and incompetent, and were principally recruited from convalescent patients barely able to perform the lightest duties, and whose only remuneration was their meager board.  This unsatisfactory and inefficient nursing persisted until the inauguration of the Training School for Nurses” (p. 43).

 

            The first such school was established at St. Thomas Hospital, London, in 1860, but not until 1873 were nursing schools founded in the United States--at Bellevue, New Haven, and Massachusetts General hospitals.  Glowing reports from around the country encouraged the Board of Administrators of Charity Hospital in 1881 to consider inaugurating such a school.  Thirteen years later, the Charity Hospital School of Nursing was established, through the cooperative efforts of the hospital’s Board of Administrators and the Daughters of Charity.  Initially, eleven students enrolled in the two-year program, which held its first graduation on December 11, 1895.  During the first year of study, nurses were paid eight dollars; in the second year, twelve dollars.

 

            The present collection contains records, 1894-1900, of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing.

 

 

Source:      Fossier, A. E.  “The Charity Hospital of Louisiana.”  New Orleans:  Reprinted from New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (May-October 1923).

 

 

 

Series, Subseries, and Descriptions

 

 

Series I.         Alumnae “Follow-up Program...” file (n.d. and 1948-1971)

 

                        Correspondence and informa­tion forms.

 

Series II.        Clippings (n.d. and 1904, 1913, 1949, 1964, 1967, 1979-1980, 1985)

 

Series III.       Course plans file (1967-1976)

 

                        Includes course descriptions, requirements, schedules, topical outlines, laboratory procedures, bibliographies, study and examination guides, evaluation forms; related memoranda and correspondence.

 

Series IV.      Graduation file (1936-1987)

 

                        Statistics on graduates, graduation budgets and cost statements, sample diplomas, directions for staging gradua­tions, miscellaneous related documents.

 

Series V.       History file (n.d. and 1926-1975)

 

                        Memoranda, forms, pamphlets, and correspondence on the origin and development of curricula and other aspects of nursing education at the Charity Hospital School of Nursing and in general.

 

Series VI.      Indices, (1937-1943, 1948-1973)

 

                        Indices of names in the minutes of the Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing, and of the Faculty Associa­tion’s Executive Committee and Promotion and Graduation Committee.

 

Series VII.     Manuals and handbooks (n.d. and 1936-1937, 1939, 1942, 1950-1970)

 

Series VIII.    Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing (1931, 1937-1943, 1945-1979)

 

                        Includes minutes of the Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing and of its various committees.

 

Series IX.      Student organizations of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing (1938-1940, 1943, 1967-1974)

 

                        Minutes.

 

Series X.       Executive Committee of the Nursing Service Depart­ment of Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans (December 1968-July 1975)

 

                        Minutes.

 

Series XI.      Directors of Louisiana Diploma Schools of Nursing

 

                        Minutes of meeting to revise A Manual for Accredited Schools of Nursing... Minimum Requirements... (1963, 1964; with related documents, 1955-1968)

 

Series XII.     Miscellaneous file (n.d. and 1932, 1940-1942, 1949-1974, 1979)

 

Series XIII.    Photographs (prints) (n.d. and 1896, 1907, 1913, 1928, 1929, 1935, 1937, 1945-1952, 1956, 1957, 1959)

 

Series XIV.    Publications and theses ([1923], 1937, 1947, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1975)

 

Series XV.     Scrapbooks (1923, 1943-1947, 1960-1962)

 

Series XVI.    Student fee and expense file (1957-1968)

 

                        Includes types, amounts, payment schedules, and related information; file arranged by year of class admission.

 

Series XVII.   Studies and reports (n.d. and 1874, 1877, 1879-1979, 1981-1990)

 

Series XVIII.Workshops (1963-1966)

 

                        Programs with lists of participants, topical seminars, schedules, bibliographies.

 

Series XIX.    World War II Nursing and Civil Defense records (1941-1948)

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

Series I.  Alumnae “Follow-up Program...” File

 

220-1              Correspondence and information forms, n.d. and 1948-1971.

 

 

Series II.  Clippings.

 

220-52            N.d. and 1904, 1913, 1949, 1964, 1967, 1979-1980, 1985. 

 

                        (See also Scrapbooks)

 

 

Series III.  Course plans file.

 

                        Includes course descriptions, require­ments, schedules, topical outlines, laboratory proce­dures, bibliographies, study and examination guides, evaluation forms; related memoranda and correspondence, 1967-1976.

 

220-63                        Anatomy and Physiology.

220-64                        Basic Math.

220-65                        Chemistry.

220-66                        Community Nursing.

220-67                        Dynamics of Growth and Behavior.

220-68                        Dynamics of Human Behavior.

220-69                        Elementary Pharmacology.

220-70                        Fundamentals of Nursing I and II.

220-71                        General Medical Nursing.

220-72                        General Mental Health Concepts.

220-73                        Growth and Development.

220-74                        History of Nursing.

220-75                        Microbiology.

220-76                        Nursing of Children.

220-77                        Orientation.

220-78                        Out Patient Nursing, Unit I Emergency and Disaster Nursing.

220-79                        Professional Relationships.

220-80                        Psychiatric Nursing.

220-81                        Psycho-Social.

220-82                        Senior Medical Surgical Nursing.

220-83                        Senior Seminar: Issues.

220-84                        Sociology.

220-85                        Surgical Nursing I.

220-86                        Surgical Nursing II.

 

 

Series IV.  Graduation file.

 

                        Statistics on graduates, graduation budgets and cost statements, sample diplomas, directions for staging graduations, miscellaneous related documents, 1936-1987.

 

220-93            “Graduating Classes by Names 1949 to 1958”: lists of students by year of gradua­tion; including IQ assessments, religious affiliation, withdrawals with reasons.

 

220-94            “Graduating Classes Summary 1936 to Now [1964]”: statistics on student enrollment, withdrawal, and graduation; includes reasons for with­drawals.

 

220-95            “Graduation: Acknowledgements”: correspondence thanking luminaries for their participation in graduation ceremonies, 1952-1983.

 

220-96            “Graduation Exercises - Budgets and Costs,” 1949-1976.

 

220-97            “Graduation Exercises - Diplomas”: information on design and cost of diplomas, pins, and rings, 1970-1987.

 

220-98            “Graduation Exercises Publicity”: clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, 1947-1973.

 

220-99            “Graduation Invitations 1952 to Present [1979].”

 

220-100         “Graduation: Letters of Approval”: requests from the Director of the School of Nursing to the Direc­tor of Charity Hospital seeking approval of gradua­tion plans and expenses, 1969-1977.

 

220-101         “Graduation: Letters of Invitation”: invitations to participate in ceremonies, 1973-1978.

 

220-102         “Grad[uation], Line Up & Stage Set Up”: documents concerned with the staging of graduation exercises.  1964-1977.

 

220-103         “Graduation: Miscellaneous”: notes, correspon­dence, clipping, 1960-1976.

 

220-104         “Graduation: Programs,” 1939-1984.

 

220-105         “Graduation[s]...”: documents concerned with graduations, including lists of graduates, direc­tions for staging ceremonies, press releases, and related correspondence and miscellany, 1983-1984.

 

 

Series V.  History file.

 

                        Memoranda, forms, pamphlets, and corre­spondence on the origin and development of curricula and other aspects of nursing education at the Charity Hospital School of Nursing and in general, n.d. and 1926-1975.

 

220-53            “Coordinating Committee Historical Development,” 1968.

 

220-54            “History: Affiliate, O.R.T. & Supplementary Cours­es,” n.d. and 1925, 1926, 1950, 1959, 1964.

 

220-55            “History of Charity Hospital School of Nursing.”  Pamphlet dated Feb. 11, 1973.

 

220-56            “History of Clin. (Ward) Teaching Program 1938-48.”

 

220-57            “History of Nursing Content in Schools of Nursing: A Nationwide Survey” by Beatrice J. Kalisch and Philip A. Kalisch, [1975].

 

220-58            “Promotion and Graduation Committee Historical Development,” 1968, 1971.

 

 

Series VI.  Indices.

 

                        Indices to names in the minutes of the Faculty Associa­tion of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing, and of the Faculty Association’s Executive Committee and Promotion and Graduation Committee, 1937-1943, 1948-1973.

 

220-59            Name index to minutes of the Faculty Association, 1937-1943, 1950, 1953, 1955-1973.

 

220-60            Name index to minutes of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Association, 1948-1960.

 

220-61            Name index to minutes of the Promotion and Graduation Committee of the Faculty Associa­tion, 1969-1972.

 

 

Series VII.  Manuals and handbooks. 

 

                        N.d. and 1936-1937, 1939, 1942, 1950-1970.

 

220-87            “Basic Nursing Procedures,” 1950-1962.

 

220-88            “Fundamentals of Nursing I,” 1969-1970.

 

220-106         “Nurses’ Orientation Manual - 1964”. 

 

220-107         “Nursing Service Policy Manual” file: correspon­dence concerning manual, but manual not present.

 

220-108         “Orthopedic Nursing Procedures, Physical Therapy Manual,” 1952.

 

220-44            “Pediatric Manual,” 1962.

 

220-45            “Rules and Regulations Governing the Student Nurses of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing.”  Mimeo­graph of typescript, n.d. but “1936-1937(?)” pencilled on cover.

 

220-46            Student Handbook, Charity Hospital School of Nurs­ing, New Orleans, Louisiana, Revised August, 1942.  [S.l., 1942].

 

220-47            Student Nurse’s Experience Record Book” file: booklets and related documents, n.d. and 1956-1970.

 

220-48            “Student Nurses’ Handbook Issued Before 1948 and After 1939.”  Charity Hospital School of Nursing.  Mimeograph of typescript in clasp-binder.

 

220-106         “Subsidiary Workers Manual - 1939.”

 

 

Series VIII.  Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing.

 

                        Includes minutes of the Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing and of its various committees, 1931, 1937-1943, 1945-1979.

 

                        Subseries VIII.1: Faculty Association (1952-1970)

 

                                    Faculty Association of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing.  Minutes, together with annual reports; attendance records; calendars of scheduled meet­ings; committee and subcommittee rosters, studies, and reports; communications; meeting agenda; relat­ed miscellany.  1952-1970.

 

                                    Clasp-bound minutes

 

220-31                                    1952-1960

220-35                                    1961-1962

220-33                                    1963

220-36                                    January 1964-August 1964

220-38                                    September 1964-July 1965

220-39                                    September 1965-July 1966

220-34                                    September 1966-July 1967

220-32                                    August 1968-July 1969

220-31                                    February-July 1970

 

                                    Buckram-bound minutes

 

220-23                                    Volume 1, 1937-1943

220-24                                    Volume 2, 1945-1949

220-25                                    Volume 3, 1950-1954

220-26                                    Volume 4, 1955-1959

220-27                                    Volume 5, 1960-1962

220-28                                    Volume 6, 1963-1965

220-29                                    Volume 7, 1966-1967

220-30                                    Volume 8, 1968-1969

 

                                    Note: Although considerable duplication exists in the two groups of minutes, each group con­tains material not found in the other.

 

                        Subseries VIII.2: Committees

 

                        Admissions Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

                                    Minutes, November 30, 1939, 1962-1970.

 

220-41                                    November 30, 1939

220-42                                    1962-1968

220-43                                    1967-1970

 

                        Committee on Affiliations of the Faculty Associa­tion.

 

                                    Minutes, 1941-1943, 1953, 1954, 1956-1959.

 

220-49                                    1941-1943

220-37                                    1953, 1954, 1956-1959

 

                        Committee on Case Histories of the Faculty Associa­tion.

 

220-50                        Minutes, 1940-1941.

 

                        Committee on Clinical Instruction of the Faculty Association and sub­committee of same.

 

220-51                        Minutes, 1931, 1939-1942.

 

                        Coordinating Committee of the Faculty Association, Nursing Service and Education.

220-112,

220-113                     Minutes, March 1969-March 1972.

 

                        Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

220-114                     Minutes, 1939-1943, 1968; with related material, n.d. and 1950-1954, 1963, 1965.

 

                        Education Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

220-115                     Minutes, 1951-1953.

 

 

                        Evaluation Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

220-116                     Minutes, May 13, 1963-May 14, 1964 (clasp-bound volume).

 

                        Executive Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

                                    Minutes, 1948-1960.

 

220-89                                    Volume 1, 1948-1951

220-90                                    Volume 2, 1952-1955

220-91                                    Volume 3, 1956-1960

220-92                                    Loose material, January 10, 1961-May 30, 1961

 

                        In-service Education Committee (Faculty Development Committee) of the Faculty Association.

 

220-40                        Minutes, 1961-1968.

 

                        Liaison Committee of Faculty Association, Nursing Service and Education.

 

                                    Minutes, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968.

 

220-109                                 1961, 1963, 1964 (clasp-bound volume).

220-113                                 1968 (loose-leaf binder).

 

                        Library Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

220-37                        Minutes, 1951, 1953-1960.

 

                        Committee on Nursing School Records of the Faculty Association; Sub­committee on Efficiency Records; Subcommittee on Clinical Records.

 

220-117                     Minutes, 1939-1942.

 

                        (See also Rules, Regulations, Records, and Reports Committee of the Faculty Association.  Minutes, 1956-1968)

 

                        Personnel Policies Committee of the Faculty Associ­ation.

 

220-37                        Minutes, 1951-1953.

 

                        Promotion and Graduation Committee of the Faculty Association.

 

                        This committee was created on May 12, 1961.  Its functions were to formulate and recom­mend requirements for promotion and graduation, and for professional and personal conduct; to review and evaluate student records; to decide on eligi­bility for promotion and graduation; to handle disciplinary cases not delegated to the Student Council.  The committee remained active until August 28-29, 1968, when a meeting of the Faculty Association “approved of promotion and gradua­tion work being handled through Faculty Association meetings....”  Subsequently, at a meeting on