Myrtle Irene Brown Papers, 1946-1975

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Summary

Creator:
Brown, Myrtle Irene
Abstract:
This collection contains materials related to Myrtle Irene Brown (1915-2007), faculty member and dean of the Duke University School of Nursing from 1967 to 1970. Materials include lectures, correspondence, evaluations, committee records and minutes, rosters, financial aid materials, conference and council records, reports, standards, supply lists, blueprints, and plans. Major subjects include the graduate and undergraduate curriculum, faculty and administration, admissions, student activities, and facilities at the School of Nursing. Materials range in date from 1946 to 1975.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet (2 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
AR.0020

Background

Scope and content:

Contains lectures, correspondence, evaluations, committee records and minutes, rosters, financial aid materials, conference and council records, reports, standards, supply lists, blueprints, and plans of Myrtle Irene Brown, faculty member and dean (1967-1970) of the Duke University School of Nursing. Major subjects include the graduate and undergraduate curriculum, faculty and administration, admissions, student activities, and facilities at the School of Nursing. Materials range in date from 1946 to 1975.

Biographical / historical:

Myrtle Irene Brown was born on February 1, 1915 in East Peoria, Illinois. She was educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois (BA), the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota (BA and MS), and New York University (PhD). Early in her nursing career, she worked with Sister Elizabeth Kenny in developing treatments and caring for those stricken with polio during the late 1940's polio epidemic, served as a consultant in Maternal-Child Health with the World Health Organization in Delhi, India, and traveled the country as a Nurse Research Consultant with the American Nurses Foundation. She began teaching as an instructor in Advanced Pediatric Nursing at Montana State College Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, Montana. She was eventually appointed Assistant Professor in Maternal-Child Health at Johns Hopkins University, and later became an Associate Professor of Community Health and Medical Practice at the University of Missouri.
Brown joined Duke University as Professor of Nursing, Director of Patient Care, and Dean of the School of Nursing from 1967 to 1970. She was the first dean at the School of Nursing to hold a doctorate. While at Duke, she conducted research for the American Nurses' Foundation and the Bureau of State Services, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. During this period she authored "Changing Maternity Care Patterns in Migrant Puerto Ricans" (1961), "Nursing Care of the Aged: An Annotated Bibliography for Nurses" (1967) and "Working with Older People: A Guide to Practice" (1969/1971), and was a contributor to the Nursing Research Conference (1970).
After leaving Duke, Brown became a professor and the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs for the School of Nursing at the University of South Carolina, where she worked until her retirement in 1980. At the University of South Carolina, she played a crucial role in the creation of graduate level programs such as the Master's degree programs in nursing and the Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner programs. The Alpha Xi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society (Columbia, South Carolina) created the Myrtle Irene Brown Award for Excellence in Nursing Research in her honor.
During her career, Brown produced more than twenty-seven publications concerning her research into Maternal-Child Health, Gerontology and the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses. She was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the American Nurses Association, the South Carolina Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing Education, the American Sociological Association, the South CarolinaGovernor's Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators, the South Carolina Sickle Cell Advisory Council, the South Carolina Governor's Ad-Hoc Committee on Health Care Delivery, Sigma Theta Tau, a life member of the Trained Nurse Association of India, and an Emeritus Member of the American Public Health Association.
Brown died on August 2, 2007, in Columbia, South Carolina.

Acquisition information:
Source unknown
Processing information:

Processed by Emily Glenn: December 2003

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Papers, 1946-1975.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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Personal Name(s):
Brown, Myrtle Irene
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Nursing
Topical Term(s):
Education, Nursing.
Faculty, Nursing.
Nursing Services.

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[Identification of item], Myrtle Irene Brown Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.