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Collection FreH : Hester K. Frederick Collection

Description

Key

90978

Reference Code Element

FreH

Type

Text

Creator

Personal name, Frederick, Hester K.

Administrative/Biographical History

Hester King Frederick
9 Aug 1881-24 June 1950
Hester K. Frederick was born in Baltimore in 1881. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1912. In 1917 she became the Fourthh Assistant Superintendent at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Traininng School for Nurses. She held the position of Practical Nursing Instructor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing from 1919 to 1927. She then left Hopkins to become the Superintentent of Nurses at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. She returned in 1930 to became the First Assistant Superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing and remained at this position until her retirement in 1941. She published a book titled "The Relation of the School of Nursing to the Hospital Administrative Unit as It Affects the Student Nurse." In 1938, along with Ethel Northam, Hester K. Frederick wrote a book entitled, "A Textbook of Nursing Practice" based on the curriculum she developed at Johns Hopkins and which was later translated into Chinese. After her retirement, she remained active in the American Red Cross, Home Nursing Program and worked as a Nurses' Deputy for the State of Maryland Office of Civilian Defense during World War II.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, student., 1909-1912

Scope and Content

The Hester K. Frederick Collection consists of her nursing diploma, Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumni pin, correspondence, financial records and her textbook which was translated into Chinese.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing. Class of 1912

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2004, 2006

Processing Information

The Hester K. Frederick Collection was processed by Anthony Dellureficio in 2004 and described by Elisabeth Sultzbaugh in 2006 through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

Accession

2000-129

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