Margaret Sammick interview, 1983 Jan.

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Margaret Sammick interview, 1983 Jan.

Sammick discusses her decision to become a nurse; growing up in Livingston; gaining her degree in nursing at Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kan.; teaching nursing in Texas; going into the Army Nurse Corps; serving as a nurse overseas (England, France, Phillippines) during World War II; teaching at St. Vincent Hospital in Billings; decision to enter psychiatric nursing; post-graduate work at Institute of Living, Hartford Conn.; work in San Francisco at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute; patients and treatments in the 1950s; master's work at the University of Colorado; working at the University of Michigan for fifteen years; returning to Montana to work in Warm Springs in 1973; move to work at Carroll College; changing role of psychiatric nurses from 1950s to date; importance of professional organizations like the American Nurses Association; changes in nursing field in general; thoughts about aging; and activities since retirement.

Sound recordings : 8 tapes.Transcript : 61 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8072954

Montana Historical Society Library

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