Register of the Helen Nahm Papers, 1922-1977
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Register of the Helen Nahm Papers, 1922-1977
Collection number: MSS 78-5
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
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- Special Collections staff
© 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Helen Nahm Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1922-1977
Collection number: MSS 78-5
Creator: Nahm, Helen, 1901-1992
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Helen Nahm Papers, MSS 78-5, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Helen Nahm was born in Augusta, Missouri on August 17, 1901. She received her early nursing education at the University of
Missouri, Columbia (Diploma in Nursing, 1924; A.B., 1926) and soon began her teaching career at the Scott and White Hospital
School of Nursing in Temple, Texas. After six years she returned to the University of Missouri School of Nursing as an instructor
and in 1935 she was named Director of Nursing there. She obtained her M.S. degree in psychology in 1939 from the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis; her Ph.D. in educational psychology and general education would be obtained from the same institution
in 1946. She was director of the School of Nursing at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1942-1946. In 1946 she
accepted directorship of the Division of Nursing at Duke University. Upon leaving Duke University in 1950, Dr. Nahm became
associated with the National League for Nursing and she served in the positions of director of the Accrediting Service, director
of the Department of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs (1952-1953), and director of the Division of Nursing Education
(1953-1957). She was appointed Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of California Medical Center in 1958. She retired
as professor and dean in February of 1969.
While dean of the UCSF School of Nursing from 1958 to 1969, Dr. Nahm established the School's Doctoral of Nursing Science
(DNS) program, the first in the West and one of the few in the country at the time. She also introduced and innovative undergraduate
program leading to a B.S. degree in Nursing, and an expanded clinical specialty program leading to an M.S. in Nursing. She
also created the School's Social & Behavioral Sciences Department, the first basic science department within any school of
nursing.
Honors conferred on Dr. Nahm include an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Missouri; the first Citation
of Merit in Nursing from the Alumni Association of the University of Missouri; the Adelaide Nutting Award from the National
League for Nursing; and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Nahm died on May 23, 1992.
Scope and Content
Writings, correspondence, speeches, reports, programs, clippings, award citations, and photographs.
Related Material
The bulk of Dr. Nahm's papers are to be found at the Nursing Archives, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
item 3
PhD dissertation (excerpts)
item 5
Lecture, reading notes (MSS)
item 6
Correspondence: committees, positions, 1949-1969
Physical Description: (photocopies)
item 7
Correspondence received, news clippings, 1946-1970
item 8
Correspondence, 1974-1977
item 9
Correspondence received, professional, 1949-1977
item 10
Duke University, Division of Nursing Education
item 11
Duke University, School of Nursing: tests, syllabi
item 12
Graduate education of the nurse
item 13
Reports, papers, 1954-1972
item 14
Reports of consultation visits, 1954-1972
item 15
Report of visit to Far East, 1962
item 16
Report of sabbatical leave, July 1965 - January 1966
item 17
Programs of meetings, HN as speaker
item 20
"Nursing Education in 1976: Revolution or Evolution?" radio program recording1976
item 21
Position paper, California State Plan for Health, 1970
item 22
MS, History of accreditation
item 23
MS on accreditation, 1974
