Ernestine Wiedenbach papers, 1912-1988 (inclusive).

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Ernestine Wiedenbach papers, 1912-1988 (inclusive).

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The papers consist of personal and professional files which document Ernestine Wiedenbach's childhood, student days at Wellesley College, and career as a faculty member in the Yale University School of Nursing, where she directed the nurse-midwifery educational program. The papers include correspondence, dating from her retirement in 1966 and writings relating to her professional career. Also present are diaries spanning almost her entire life, excluding the years she spent on the Yale faculty.

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Wellesley College

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Yale University. School of Nursing

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The Yale School of Nursing was established in 1923 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. It awarded its first Bachelor of Nursing (B.N.) degree in 1926 and its first Master of Nursing (M.N.) in 1937. In 1934 the school began admitting only college graduates. An official graduate program was established in 1952. The basic program was altered in 1956 when it was expanded to prepare nurses in public health, maternal-newborn nursing, and psychiatric nursing. The Master of Nursing program was...

Wiedenbach, Ernestine

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Ernestine Wiedenbach was born on August 18, 1900, in Hamburg, Germany. Her family moved to New York in 1909. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1922, an R.N. from Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1925, an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1934, and a certificate in nurse-midwifery from the Maternity Center Association School for Nurse-Midwives in New York in 1946, where she also taught until 1951. Wiedenbach joined the Yale faculty in 1952 as an instructor ...

Yale University.

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