Nursing School Class of 1946 Informal Composite
VUMC History, Nursing, Vanderbilt Alumni
Picture of the School of Nursing Class of 1946, taken June 7, 1943
Vanderbilt Department of Medical Illustration
Mary Lou Donaldson Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University History of Medicine Collections
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Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Institute on Nursing Arts, Informal Composite
Picture of the Institute on Nursing Arts, June 1946
Public Health Nursing Students, Winter 1946, Informal Composite
Picture of the Public Health Nurses, Winter 1946
Public Health Nursing Students, September 1946, Informal Composite
Picture of the Public Health Nurses, September 1946
Clinical Teaching Group, August 1946, Informal Composite
Picture of the Clinical Teaching Group, September 1946
Nursing Student Visits a Rural Family, 1946
Josephine Rogers, senior nursing student, visits a mother and baby in a rural home in Rutherford County, Tennessee. This is part of her two months' field experience in public health nursing.
Rockefeller Fellow, Fernanda Alvez Diniz
Graduate nursing fellow Fernanda Alvez Diniz from Lisborn, Portugal. Ms. Diniz was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, a group of international students and faculty visiting Vanderbilt to learn how to establish and strengthen nursing education programs in their home countries.
Photograph taken in front of the Nashville-Davidson County Chapter of the American Red Cross, 2120 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, July, 1946. Reading from left to right: Mrs. Rukmini Iyengar, from India, Miss Dora Maria Ibarburu, from Uruguay, Mrs. Ruth E. Moore, Executive Secretary, Nashville-Davidson County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Miss Fernanda Alvez Diniz, from Portugal, and Miss Mary Coelho, from India.
A nursing student directs a parent on the best prescribed sleeping environment of the day for children.
Nursing Students Board a Bus for Public Health Training
Freshman nursing students board a chartered bus for a field trip to a local health agency. This is one of many such activities planned for the students during their study of community health and sanitation and principles of social work.