Georgia Nevins Explained

Georgia Marquis Nevins
Birth Date:October 28, 1864
Birth Place:Bangor, Maine
Death Date:October 13, 1957
Death Place:Chicago
Nationality:America
Occupation:Nurse, nursing educator, hospital administrator

Georgia Marquis Nevins (October 28, 1864 – October 13, 1957) was an American nurse, nursing educator, and hospital administrator.

Early life

Nevins was born in Bangor, Maine, and raised in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Charles Nevins and Helen Virgilia Marquis Nevins. In 1891, she was in the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.[1] [2]

Career

Nevins superintendent of the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.[3] for 23 years.[4] She was president of the National League for Nursing Education,[5] [6] and first president of the Graduate Nurses' Association of the District of Columbia.[7] She was a founding officer of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Alumnae Association.[8] She was third vice-president of the American Hospital Association for the 1916-1917 academic year.[9]

Nevins became director of the nursing department of the Potomac Division of the American Red Cross in 1917.[10] [11] In 1918, as a Red Cross leader in the region, Nevins called for Virginia women to volunteer to supplement the nursing shortage during the 1918 influenza pandemic.[12] She spoke in favor of expanding home nursing courses and placing public health nurses in more small towns.[13] She retired from the Red Cross in 1920.

Personal life

In 1940, Nevins was living with her widowed sister, Mabel Elizabeth Mather, in Austin, Texas.[14] [15] Nevins died in Chicago in 1957, at age 92.[16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 1920-09-26. Miss Nevins Leaves Red Cross Service. 30. Evening Star. 2020-05-20. Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Women have always been integral to Hopkins Medicine. Li. Vivian. November 14, 2019. The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. 2020-05-20.
  3. Nevins. Georgia M.. 1905. Address of the President. The American Journal of Nursing. 5. 9. 560–562. 10.2307/3402498. 3402498. 0002-936X.
  4. Book: American National Red Cross Nursing Service. History of American Red Cross Nursing. Dock. Lavinia L.. Pickett. Sarah Elizabeth. Noyes. Clara Dutton. 1922. Macmillan. 246. en.
  5. Address of President Georgia M. Nevins. Eleventh Annual Convention of the Superintendents' Society, 1905, Washington, D.C. Gm. Nevins. NLN Publications. March 1993. 14–2514. 56–8. en. 8479884.
  6. Nevins. Georgia M.. 1906. Report of the Secretary of the American Society of Superintendents of Training-Schools for Nurses. The American Journal of Nursing. 6. 10. 715–720. 10.2307/3403450. 3403450. 0002-936X.
  7. Book: Logan, Mrs John A.. The Part Taken by Women in American History. 1912. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. en.
  8. Book: Warren, Mame. Our Shared Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. 2006-06-09. JHU Press. 978-0-8018-8473-3. 42–43. en.
  9. November 1916. Philadelphia Convention Surpasses All Previous Meetings. Modern Hospital. 7. 401.
  10. November 24, 1919. Confer on Nursing Program. The Red Cross Bulletin. 8.
  11. News: 1917-11-07. Miss Georgia Nevins to Head Potomac Nurses. 7. Evening Star. 2020-05-20. Newspapers.com.
  12. News: October 2, 1918. Need More Nurses to Help Fight Influenza. 14. The Richmond News Leader. May 20, 2020.
  13. News: 1919-04-12. Will Extend Home Nursing. 16. The Baltimore Sun. 2020-05-20. Newspapers.com.
  14. Web site: Georgia Nevins in the 1940 Census. Ancestry. en. 2020-05-20.
  15. Web site: William Tyler Mather. University of Texas. 2020-05-20.
  16. News: 1957-10-15. Miss Georgia Nevins. 3. Austin American-Statesman. 2020-05-20. Newspapers.com.

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