00028 FAIRVIEW DEACONESS HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Bonnie B. Palmquist Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.
 Finding aid encoded by Dennis Meissner December 23, 2003Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Fairview Deaconess Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.). School of Nursing. School of Nursing records. 1888-1987. Minutes (1888-1986) of the board and several subunits, some correspondence, scrapbooks (1939-1972), photographs, miscellaneous financial and patient information, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to the nursing program of a hospital founded in 1888 by the Deaconess Society of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. 7.25 cu. ft. (6 boxes and 1 oversize folder). See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. HISTORICAL NOTE

The roots of the Fairview Deaconess Hospital and its nursing program go back to the 1888 establishment of a deaconess home on Hennepin Avenue by Sister Elizabeth Fedde, following a meeting of the General Council of the Norwegian Lutheran Church (later the American Lutheran Church) in Minneapolis. In 1891 the first permanent home was established at 417 East 23rd Street, which became known as the Deaconess Home and Hospital. Thereafter the facility was operated under the overall leadership of a rector, with a deaconess serving as superintendent of the hospital and a sister superior directing the home.

A new 90-bed hospital (24th Street and 15th Avenue) was dedicated in 1910, and in 1916 the training school for nurses was established, superceding the deaconess training program. The following year Bergh Hall, a dormitory to house 40 student nurses, was completed. In 1920 the institution was renamed Lutheran Deaconess Hospital (LDH), and both its physical plant and its programs continued growing over the following decades. A new nursing school and dormitory--Bergeland Hall--was dedicated in 1967, and in 1968 the positions of nursing school director and nursing services director were split.

In 1973 LDH formally consolidated its programs with Fairview and Fairview-Southdale hospitals, the merged entity becoming known as Fairview Community Hospitals and, in 1981, LDH was renamed Fairview Deaconess Hospital (FDH). The School of Nursing graduated its final class in 1987.

 SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Minutes (1888-1986) of the board and several subunits, some correspondence, scrapbooks (1939-1972), photographs, miscellaneous financial and patient information, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to the nursing program of a hospital founded in 1888 by the Deaconess Society of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

The records document nurses' training, their service in World War II, and their social activities; patient care and the analysis of hospital services; and the role of religion in a hospital operation.

 ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:

Minutes and Related Records Financial Materials Miscellaneous School and Student Materials RELATED MATERIALS

Related materials: Minnesota Board of Nursing. "Nursing education program files (closed)," in the Minnesota State Archives, includes files on the Fairview Deaconess Hospital nursing school.

 OTHER FINDING AIDS

A print version of this finding aid is available in the repository; filed in ALPHA notebooks under the heading: Fairview Deaconess Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.). School of Nursing.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Hospital patients -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Registers. Hospitals -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Lutheran Church -- Hospitals -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Military nursing -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Nursing schools -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Nursing students -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Women in the Lutheran Church -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. Nursing -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Study and teaching. Organizations: Lutheran Deaconess Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.). Document Types: Photographs. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Fairview Deaconess Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.). School of Nursing Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

 Accession Information:

Accession number: 13,851; 13,868; 14,766

 Processing Information:

Processed by: Bonnie Beatson Palmquist, August 1992

Catalog ID number: 09-00036777

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION Minutes and Related Records 152.H.3.2F 1 Board of Trustees, 1888-1890, 1890-1901, 1918-1923. 3 volumes. Board of Directors, 1928-1957. 1 volume. Annual meetings, 1921-1957. 1 volume. Staff meetings, 1919-1927. 1 volume. Faculty meetings, 1961-1977. 13 folders. 152.H.3.3B 2 Faculty meetings, 1977-1987. 7 folders, 1 notebook. Executive Committee, 1967-1982. Faculty Committee, 1959-1971. 2 notebooks. Finance Committee, 1975-1981. Student Health and Welfare Committee, 1976-1985. 2 folders. Library Committee, 1978-1982. Financial Aid Committee, 1982-1986. 2 folders. School of Nursing Committee, 1965-1973. 2 folders. 152.H.3.4F 3 Curriculum Committee, 1972-1986. 2 notebooks, 4 folders. Faculty Inservice Committee, 1965-1985. 2 notebooks, 2 folders. Lutheran Deaconess Hospital Alumnae Association, 1950-1966. 1 volume. Medical and Surgical Society, [192-]. 1 volume. Student Government Association: Bylaws, rules, and regulations, 1946-1951. 152.H.3.2F 1 School of Nursing bylaws, 1900. Financial Materials 152.H.3.4F 3 Plan of fiscal operation, 1970-1971. Budget, 1983. Miscellaneous financial information, 1890-1901.

Materials found loose in volumes.

 142.C.11.6F 4 Cash book, 1899-1907. 1 volume. Curriculum and Student Materials 152.H.3.3B 2 School of Nursing faculty handbook, 1976. School of Nursing student handbooks, 1954, 1971, 1972. Music books.

Materials used by students.

 School printed matter. 152.H.3.4F 3 Records of examinations, 1917-1948.

Students' grades on state boards.

 Analysis of hospital services, 1923-1925.

Includes scrutiny of patient diagnoses, causes of death, infections.

 Deaconess nurses in World War II, 1941-1945.

Includes biographical information and duty assignments.

 Chorus and Drama Club activities, 1960-1971. 1 notebook. 152.H.3.2F 1 History and play review, 1983. 144.C.11.6F 4 Patient register, 1891-1900. 1 volume.

Includes name, age, religion, doctors' names, illness, and length of stay in hospital.

 Scrapbooks, 1959-1972. 5 volumes.

Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and similar items.

 143.C.3.2F 6 Scrapbooks, 1932-1964. 3 volumes.

Scrapbooks (1932-1944, 1944-1950, 1961-1964) containing newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and similar material relating to the hospital and the nursing program. Includes information on the Cadet Nurse Corps organized during World War II. One scrapbook was dismantled and the photographs placed into an acid-free envelope. This scrapbook contains photographs of Anna Bergeland's retirement dinner (1960) and various nurses' activities.

 142.D.9.6 5 Photographs, undated, 1923-1941. 3 volumes.

The albums mainly contain portraits of early deaconesses. Also present are folders of loose photographs of graduating classes, faculty and medical staffs, deaconesses, Lutheran Deaconess Hospital facility (both interior and exterior), patient care, support staff, students, nurses' uniforms, and one folder of printed material. Also includes the Deaconess cottage guest book, 1923-1941.

 +110 Oversize photographs, 1910-1967. 1 folder, containing 2 posterboards, 2 scrapbook leaves, and 3 loose images).

These photographs were compiled and mounted for a hospital celebration (ca. 1967). The mounted images are labeled and depict nurses and other hospital employees, as well as hospital and nursing school locations. The unmounted images depict an operating room.