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Nursing -- Ky -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Frontier Nursing Service collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0015 SAA 014
Abstract

The collection is comprised of correspondence, printed materials, articles, clippings and photographs relating to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) and its founder, Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1923 - 1988

Jane W. Pierson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.37
Abstract Jane Wilhelmina Pierson was born in Ohio on July 24, 1917, the daughter of William and Barbara (Ries) Pierson. In 1939, she graduated from Mercy School of Nursing and later completed Midwifery training in the Frontier Nursing Service (1952). After working for five years in the maternity ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, she served for two years as a frontier nurse on horseback in the Bull Creek, Kentucky area. After serving as a frontier nurse, Pierson worked at the Berea Hospital...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1952