Chesney Archives

Search Our Collections

Collection NasJ : Jane Evans Nash Collection

Description

Key

118931

Reference Code Element

NasJ

Type

Text

Creator

Personal name, Nash, Jane Evans, 1880-1955

Administrative/Biographical History

Jane E. Nash
6 May 1880 - 8 August 1955
Jane Evans Nash received her nurses' diploma from Bellevue Hospital in New York City in 1903. She worked as a private duty nurse in New York and became the Matron of Bellevue Hospital in 1906. She served as superintendent of the Latter Day Saints' Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah beginning in 1908 and returned to Bellevue in 1910 for social work. By 1911 she became superintendent of the Fordham Hospital in New York before coming to Baltimore. She acted as superintendent of the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing from 1912 to 1950. During this time she was active in developing a graduate nurses' registry, and guided the school through construction and transistion projects. She also served as president of the Maryland State Nurses Association for eight years., Superintendent of Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing 1912-1950

Scope and Content

The Jane Evans Nash Collection consists of her leather folder, a twenty-fifth anniversary guest book, letters, a poem written for her, and a signed portrait from Thomas Cullen.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Church Home and Hospital (Baltimore, Md.). School of Nursing

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2006

Processing Information

The Jane Evans Nash Collection was processed by Ruth Carver in 2006 through a grant from the Alumnae Association of the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing.

ArchivEra v4.4.1.9 - Johns Hopkins Medical Institution | ArchivEra (Final)