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Collection WaxCC : Constance Cole Waxter Collection

Description

Key

114166

Reference Code Element

WaxCC

Type

Text

Dates

1941-1980, inclusive

Extent

8 boxes

Creator

Personal name, Waxter, Constance Heard Cole

Administrative/Biographical History

Constance Heard Cole Waxter
Constance Heard Cole Waxter was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1921 to Mary Dunlap Heard, Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1917, and Osborne Overton Heard, who was a modeler at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology. She attended Blue Ridge College from 1939 to 1941 before receiving her nursing diploma from Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1944. She was Head Nurse in the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute from 1944 to 1945, on graduate duty in the Wilmer Institute in 1946, and was the 3-11 Supervisor in the Wilmer Institute in 1948. In 1951, she worked as Supervisor of Nurses at the Hillcrest Infirmary in Alabama. She returned to Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1956 to 1976 to work in positions as instructor of Surgical Nursing in the Halsted Clinic, instructor in the Women's Clinic, assistant director of obstetric and gynecological nursing, assistant director of the nursing department, staff assistant to the Women's Clinic and Department of Nursing, and finally as special assistant to the director of nursing service. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University in 1969. Waxter became the first president of the Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1969. She served as the president of the Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumni Association from 1976-1977. She died in Baltimore in 2022 at the age of 101. , JHH SON Class of 1944

Scope and Content

The Constance Cole Waxter Collection consists of materials related to her professional nursing career. Included are materials related to her time as a student nurse at Johns Hopkins and member of the Cadet Nurse Corps, including photographs and uniforms. The bulk of the collection relates to Waxter's work at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Included are materials relating to her work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Women's Clinic, Center for Experimentation and Development in Nursing (CEDN) projects - particularly the A4B4 project, her time as Employee Relations Nurse - focusing on staff turnover rates, and redevelopment plans for the clinic, including blueprints. Also included are search materials for a new Johns Hopkins Hospital Director of Nursing, some curriculum related materials and lectures, nursing studies and reports, and scholarship committee work. The collection also documents her involvement with professional nursing organizations, including the Maryland Nurses Association, her founding presidency of the Nurses Association of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and her work with and presidency of the Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumni Association.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Center for Experimentation and Development in Nursing

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing. Class of 1944

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2006, 2012

Processing Information

The Constance Cole Waxter Collection was initially processed by Ruth Carver in 2006. Shannon Cooley processed a large accrual to the collection in 2012. Processing has been supported through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

Accession

2016-020

2010-141

2010-072

2009-171

2003-177

2000-045

Composed Of

Found 6 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1- Records related to service at Johns Hopkins Hospital	184677		Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection
2- Records related to Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumni Association	184678		Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection
3- Records related to the Maryland Nurses Association	184679		Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection
4- Records related to Nurses Association of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists	184680		Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection
5- Records related to other nursing professional organizations	184681		Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection
6- Material Culture	184682	1940s-1970s	Series	CollectionWaxCC- Constance Cole Waxter Collection

Related Artifacts

Found 2 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	647A	White short-sleeved 1940s graduate uniform from Constance Cole (Waxter), class of 1944
	744A	White long sleeved, short skirt uniform form Constance Cole (Waxter), class of 1944

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