MINNESOTA NURSES ASSOCIATION. FOURTH DISTRICT:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Minnesota Nurses Association. Fourth District, creator.
	Title:	Minnesota Nurses Association Fourth District records.
	Dates:	1898-2013.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, financial records, committee files, photographs, workshop and conference materials, and other files of a regional subdivision of the Minnesota Nurses Association. Includes information about hospital conditions, cooperation with the Red Cross during the two world wars, placement of nurses during the Great Depression, reorganization of the Association (1930s), and the Fourth District Student Nurses' Association.
	Quantity:	17.25 cubic feet (18 boxes and 1 oversize folder in 1 partial box)
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Unidentified Minnesota nurse, 1950s In 1898 a group of nine Saint Paul nurses met to form the Ramsey County Graduate Nurses' Association. Hospitals were small and most nursing was done by private duty nurses. Unregulated directories in drugstores provided the only placement service, making no distinction between trained and untrained nurses. The Association established an official registry - the first of its kind in the nation - to supply persons and physicians with nurses when they desired them. They met regularly to hear papers prepared by members and enforced standards for nurses listed in the registry.

The Saint Paul nurses saw the need for state legislation setting standards for nursing school and for registration of nurses. A state nurses association formed in 1905 and two years later Minnesota enacted a nurse’s registration law. The Saint Paul group reflected the new conditions by changing its name to Ramsey County Registered Nurses' Association.

A reorganization of the American Nurses' Association required that the state be divided into district rather than county divisions. Thus, in 1919, Ramsey united with Isanti, Chisago, Anoka, Washington, Dakota, Scott, Rice and Goodhue counties to become the Fourth District of the Minnesota State Registered Nurses' Association. The growth and diversification of the nursing profession necessitated the formation of an institutional section (for hospital nurses) and a private duty section within the Association in the early 1920s. Later sections were added for public health nurses, administrative nurses, general staff and head nurses, and nursing educators.

Changing health care and insurance practices after World War II resulted in the decline of private duty nursing, once the most important element in the association. Most nurses were now employed by hospitals and other institutions. Major concerns became collective bargaining and the maintenance of professional standards in the face of rapidly changing conditions in the health care industry.

In 2011, the Fourth District Nurses Association closed its office and, except for closing financial accounts, disbanded.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Historical Materials
		General Organizational Records
		Divisional Records/Committee Files
		Subject Files
		Fourth District Student Nurses' Association
		Nurses' Personal Papers
		Workshops and Conferences
		Miscellaneous Fourth District Materials

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota Nurses Association Fourth District Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 13,452; 17,044

Processing Information:

Processed by: David B. Peterson, October 2015

Catalog ID number: 990084405110104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

HISTORICAL MATERIALS

Location

Box

152.F.18.1B

History of the Fourth District Association, 1938-1948.

District fortieth anniversary celebration, 1938.

History of the registry, 1938.

History material, 1947.

Receipts for first purchases, 1903-1909.

Histories, 1980, 1998, 2004.

History of the Fourth District Minnesota Nurses Association (1898-1998), 1998.

Lynn Sprayberry's draft centennial history, 1998.

75th anniversary, 1973.

100th anniversary, 1998. 4 folders and 1 master and 1 user videocassette (VHS).

History and organizational manuals, 1980s, 2003.

Historical data, 1973-2008.

Rolling along, 1938.

40th anniversary history of the Ramsey County Graduate Nurses Association.

Location

Box

144.C.13.7B-1

Fourth District scrapbook, 1953-1954. 1 volume.

Fourth District slide show, undated. 2 slide carousels.

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GENERAL ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS

Location

Box

152.F.18.1B

Articles of incorporation, 1920-1950.

Articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1937-1958.

Constitution and bylaws, 1919-1920.

Original bylaws, undated, 1919.

Bylaws, 1986-2009.

Executive Secretary reports, 1926-1955. 3 folders.

Annual reports, 1951-2011. 7 folders.

Annual meeting minutes, 2005-2011.

Annual meeting programs, 1988-2007, 2010.

District president reports, 1953-1956.

Minutes of district meetings:

1898-May 1917. 4 volumes.

Location

Box

152.F.18.2F

June 1917-1973. 8 volumes and 5 folders.

Minutes of directors meetings:

1918-1932. 3 volumes and 2 folders.

Location

Box

152.F.18.3B

1926-1956. 14 volumes and 2 folders.

Location

Box

152.F.18.4F

1954-1974. 7 folders.

1992-2011. 7 volumes.

Board of directors materials:

May include minutes, reports, committee minutes, and correspondence.

1969-1980. 3 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.13.2F

1980-1994, 2003-2004. 9 folders.

Director's correspondence, 1934, 1956-1960. 2 folders.

Financial records:

Treasurer's accounts, 1902-1930. 7 volumes and 1 folder.

Audited financial statements, 1922-1974. 3 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.13.3B

Miscellaneous financial records, 1962-1972. 2 folders.

Monthly financial statements, 1968-1973.

Financial reports:

1993-2009. 16 volumes.

Location

Box

142.K.13.4F

2009-2011. 2 volumes.

Financial data, 2011-2013. 2 folders.

Audit reports, 1985-2008. 4 folders.

Tax exempt filings, 1950-1991, 2008-2011. 3 folders.

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DIVISIONAL RECORDS/COMMITTEE FILES

Records of sections, committees, and conference groups. Committees were formed to discuss such topics as membership, nominations for officers, finances, and legislation. The conference groups were organized along the lines of the sections.

Location

Box

142.K.13.4F

Administrative Section files, 1949-1965. 1 volume and 1 folder.

Educational Administrators, Consultants and Teachers Section, 1955-1963.

General Duty and Head Nurse Section, 1932-1963. 1 volume and 1 folder.

Institutional Section, 1920-1939. 1 volume and 1 folder.

Institutional Nursing Service Administrators Section, 1955-1963.

Private Duty Section:

Minute books, 1922-1958. 4 volumes.

Location

Box

152.F.18.7B

Correspondence and reports, 1925-1959. 3 folders.

Location

Box

152.F.18.5B

Private duty registry reports, 1958-1973. 2 folders.

Public Health Section, 1927-1931. 1 volume.

Ad Hoc Committee, 1965-1967.

Advisory Committee, 1937.

Careers Committee, 1961-1970. 2 folders and 1 volume.

Constitution and Bylaws Committee, 1919-1973. 2 folders.

Constitution and bylaws, 1953-1965.

Coordinating Committee, 1961-1973.

District Structure Committee, 1961-1966.

Executive Committee, 1961-1974.

Finance Committee, 1953-1973. 3 folders.

Inter-group Relations Committee, 1934-1959.

Journal Committee, 1940.

Legislative Committee, 1954-1973. 2 folders.

Library Committee, 1940-1957.

Mayor's Committee to Study Ancker Hospital Situation, 1954-1955.

Membership Committee, 1935-1973. 4 folders.

Nominations and Election Committee, 1929-1973. 2 folders.

Nursing Practice Committee, 1969-1973.

Program Committee, 1934-1971. 3 folders.

Public Relations Committee, 1963-1973.

St. Paul Local Committee on Red Cross Nursing, 1914-1939. 1 volume and 1 folder.

Red Cross Nursing Service Committee, 1940-1943.

Location

Box

152.F.18.6F

Registry Committee, 1920-1966. 4 volumes and 2 folders.

Relief Fund and Insurance Committee, 1930-1938, 1951.

Administrative Conference Group, 1955-1973.

Central Service Conference Group, 1954-1959.

Geriatric Conference Group, 1969-1973.

In-service Education Conference Group, 1963-1974.

Maternal Child Health Conference Group, 1967-1973.

Medical-Surgical Conference Group, 1965-1973.

Operating Room Nurses Conference Group, 1955-1965.

Operating room supervisors, 1940-1954.

Pediatric Conference Group, 1956-1967.

Location

Box

142.K.13.5B

Appointments Committee, 1976-1989. 2 folders.

Awards/Annual Meetings Committee, 1986-2011. 4 folders.

Bylaws Committee, 1975-2009. 5 folders and 1 volume.

Continuing Education Committee, 1976-1980.

Continuing Education Committee questionnaires, 1976-1978.

Dialogue Committee, 1976-1983. 2 folders.

East Metro Special Interest Group, 1994.

Education Committee, 1980-2009. 6 folders and 1 volume.

Finance Committee, 1981-2007. 7 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.13.6F

Finance Committee, 1994-2010. 1 volume.

Gerontology Interest Group/Geriatric Conference, 1969-1993. 5 folders.

Injured Nurses Interest Group, 1986-1987.

In-service Education Group, 1975-1979.

Joint Nursing Committee, 1976-1991. 2 folders.

Joint Nursing Committee (Health Systems Agency Committee), 1975-1979. 2 folders.

Joint Nursing Committee with Third District, 1977-1991. 2 folders.

Legislative Committee, 1975-2009. 6 folders and 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.K.13.7B

Living Will Workshop Task Force, 1989.

Long Term Care Interest Group, 1994-2006. 1 folder and 1 volume.

Long Term Goals Task Force, 1984-1986.

Maternal and Child Health Conference Group, 1977-1978.

Membership/Public Relations Committee, 1974-1994. 2 folders.

Mental Health Conference Group, 1978-1980.

Minnesota Nurses Association Governmental Affairs Commission, 1983.

Newsletter Committee, 1995-1998.

Nominations/Elections Committee, 1975-2011. 8 folders and 1 volume.

Nurse Manager Occupational Group, 1985.

Nurse Practitioner Interest Group, 2000-2006. 1 volume.

Nursing Administrators Conference Group/Nursing Services Administrative Conference Group, 1970-1977. 3 folders.

Nursing Practice Committee, 1954-2011. 6 folders and 1 volume.

Operating Room Nurses Interest Group, 1997-2001. 1 volume.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Conference Group, 1973-1975.

Personnel Committee/Personnel Policies Committee, 1954-2011. 3 folders and 1 volume.

Program Committee, 1975-1984. 2 folders.

Public Relations/Membership Committee, 1977-2003. 3 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.13.8F

Public Relations/Membership Committee, 1989-2010. 4 folders and 1 volume.

Relocation Task Force, 1984-1985.

Reporter/Newsletter Committee, 1983-2011. 2 folders and 1 volume.

Retired Nurses Interest Group, 1999-2005. 1 volume.

Search Committee, 1985-1989.

Staff Development Conference Group, 1976-1981. 2 folders.

Strategic Planning Committee, 1990-1999. 2 folders.

Workshop Committee, 1975.

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SUBJECT FILES

Location

Box

152.F.18.6F

American Nurses Association Education for Nursing position paper, 1965-1966.

American Nurses Association Study for Professional Registries, 1959-1963.

Central membership and billing, 1969-1973.

Colvin, Sarah T., 1930-1948.

Contains letters written by Colvin, the first president of the Minnesota State Registered Nurses' Association.

Committee appointments, 1937-1973.

Cost analysis for Fourth District, 1939.

Jane Delano Memorial Program, 1939.

District office reorganization, 1933, 1939-1941. 2 folders.

Redistricting, 1948-1951.

Ericksen, Theresa, 1904-1940.

Includes journal articles, letters, a biographical news clipping, and an autobiographical account of Erickson, a veteran of the Spanish-American War who figured strongly in the origination of the nursing registry.

Executive Secretary's correspondence concerning Central School, 1935.

History of Public Health Nursing, 1948. 1 folder and 1 volume.

School Nursing: Then and now, 1914-1952.

Metropolitan St. Paul Hospital Planning Council, 1963-1967.

Location

Box

152.F.18.7B

Miscellaneous reports and correspondence, 1932-1951.

News releases and news clippings, 1959-1966.

New York State Nurses Association membership experiment, 1970.

Nursing in Minnesota: A statistical review, 1973.

Work placement of nurses during the Depression, 1932-1938.

Location

Box

142.K.13.8F

Action plans, 1999-2004.

Annual convention, 1977, 1984, 1998, 2005. 4 folders.

Awards, 1978-2009. 16 folders.

Board correspondence, 1978-1980, 1994-2011. 3 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.14.1B

Board data, 1989-2010. 7 folders.

Brochures and flyers, undated.

Building manager, 1961-1980, 1988-1989.

Certificates, 1978, 1991, 1999, 2008.

City candidate screenings, 1987.

Closure documents, 2011-2012.

Committee orientation meetings, 1976-1985.

Committee rosters, 1993-2003.

Convention delegate orientation, 1980-1992.

Delegate instructions to Minnesota Nursing Association conventions, 1954-1980.

Delegates to Minnesota Nursing Association conventions, 1957-1973, 1977-1979.

District (dinner) meetings, 1974-1995. 5 folders.

Executive director reports, 1989-1990.

Hosting Minnesota Nursing Association state convention, 1954.

Headquarters policies, 1980s-2006.

Local health policy, 1997.

Membership, 2005-2011.

Miscellaneous newsletters (non-Fourth District), 1962-1996.

News releases, 1979, 1982-1988.

Office, 1962-1964, 1991, 2009-2011.

Office procedure for executive director and office manager, 1980-1981.

Orientations, 1991.

Phone directories, 1993-1998, 2003/2004.

Photographs, 1950s, 1990-1996. 4 folders.

Location

Box

142.K.14.2F

Photographs, 1998-2002. 2 folders.

Policies, 1985-1997.

Position papers, circa 1969-1976.

Reporter, 1951-2011. 10 folders.

Includes one folder of undated fragments.

Smoke Free grant project, 2005-2007.

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FOURTH DISTRICT STUDENT NURSES' ASSOCIATION

In 1944 nursing students in Saint Paul and Minneapolis began to organize into groups. The State Nursing Student Association was formed in October 1947 and was divided into districts that corresponded with those of the Minnesota Nurses' Association.

Location

Box

152.F.18.7B

In the Know: History of the Fourth District Student Association, undated.

Constitution and bylaws, 1960s.

Presidents' reports, 1962-1971.

Minutes of meetings, 1953-1969. 2 folders.

Minutes of executive council meetings, 1953-1971. 3 folders.

Financial statements, 1958-1962.

Committee and committee correspondence, 1955-1965.

Officers and secretarial information, 1956-1963.

Miscellaneous papers, undated.

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NURSES' PERSONAL PAPERS

Location

Box

142.K.14.2F

Marlys Johnson personal papers, 1945.

Relate to U.S. Cadet Corps and Abbott Hospital.

Marquetta Origen Creative Nursing Award, undated.

Reminiscences of nurses, undated, 1982.

[0.4 cubic feet empty, letter size]

Location

142.C.19.5

Johanna Mildred Beining: Diploma from St. Elizabeth's Hospital Training School for Nurses (Chicago), 1919. 1 oversize folder.

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WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

Location

Box

142.K.14.3B

Stop the Violence, 1999.

Melding Science and Philosophy: Wholeness and Western Medicine, 1999.

Healing Touch, 2000.

Diabetes Mellitus and Our Aging Population - Part 1, Part 2, 2000. 2 envelopes.

Risks of Care: Legal Issues in Professional Nursing, 2000.

Conscious Sedation: Awake and Asleep, 2000.

Creating Healthy, Violence and Abuse Free Work Environments, 2000.

Long-term Care: Roles, Relationships and Regulations, 2000.

Healing Power of Multi-Cultural Folktales: Stories from Wise Women, 2001.

The Ethics of Caring, 2001. 2 envelopes.

Neurological Assessment, 2001. 2 envelopes.

Midlife and Menopause, 2001. 2 envelopes.

Giving Meaning to the Numbers, 2001. 2 envelopes.

Ethics: Essential Everyday, 2001. 2 envelopes.

Strategies for Personal Success, 2001.

Nurses are True Spirit of Caring, 2001.

Herbal Remedies, 2002.

Living and Working with Arthritis, 2002.

Lab Values, 2002.

Respiratory Viral Infections, 2002.

Advance Directives, 2002.

Life is Uncertain, 2002.

Fixes for a Broken Heart: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, 2002. 2 envelopes.

Diabetic Medication Update, 2002. 3 envelopes.

Living with Schizophrenia, 2002.

Code of Ethics for Nurses and Code Gray: To Code or not to Code, 2003. 2 envelopes.

Taking Care of Yourself, 2003.

Humor, 2003.

Hormone Replacement Therapy, 2003.

Communications and Challenging Behavior, Alzheimer's, 2002.

Bugs Carrying Bugs, 2002.

Advance Directives, 2002.

Life is Fragile, 2002.

Fibromyalgia, 2003.

Viruses: The Realities, 2003.

Diabetic Medications Updates, 2003.

Personal Finance, 2003.

Pain Management: Pharmacological and Complementary Therapies, 2004.

Privacy: Ethical Implications to Practice, 2004.

Political Caucus Training, 2004.

Professional Boundaries, 2004.

Bi-Polar Disorder: Patient, Family, Disease, 2004.

Fad Diets, 2004.

Hats and Shoes of Nursing, 2004.

Ethics: Duty to Self, 2004.

Common Drugs of Abuse, 2005.

Menopause and Osteoporosis Update, 2005.

Estate and Disability Planning, 2005.

Secondhand Smoke, 2005.

Identity Theft, 2005.

Hope for the Everyday Heart, 2005.

Comedy Hour, 2006.

Regulation of Nursing Practice, 2006.

Annual meeting, 2006.

Secondhand Smoke, 2006.

Caucus Training, 2006.

Cyber knife Therapy/Treatment, 2006.

Secondhand Smoke, 2006.

Electronic Medical Record: Legal Issues, 2006.

Up in Smoke, 2007.

Vaccines: Who, What, When, 2007.

When the Well Runs Dry, 2007.

Delegate Orientation, 2007.

Insulin Pump Therapy, 2007.

Street Drugs in Everyday Patients, 2007.

Rapid Patient Response Teams, 2007.

Handle With Care: Safe Patient Handling and Movement, 2007.

The Ethics of Safe Staffing, 2008.

Traumatic Brain Injury: The Walking Wounded, 2008.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2008.

Simple Answers to Financial Questions, 2008.

Emerging Infections, 2008.

Club Drugs, 2008.

How to be an Involved Voter, 2008.

Rapid Response Assessment, 2008.

Trends in Prevention of Thromboembolism, 2008.

Personal Safety, 2008.

Be Kind to Your Hinges: Joint Health and Safety, 2008.

The Ethics of Safe Staffing, 2009.

Renal Update: Acute and Chronic, 2009.

Just Do IT! Or Not! 2009.

Balancing Act: ABG Interpretation and Pulmonary Update, 2009.

Living with Diabetes: What's New? 2009.

Ethical Concerns when Working as Charge Nurse, 2009.

The Plugged in Heart, 2009.

Nurses Self-Care, 2009.

The Beat Goes On: Cardiac, 2010.

Where Does the $$ Come from? 2010.

Nurses at Risk for C-diff, 2010.

Where Does the $$ Come from? 2010.

Hips and Knees-Bones that Hurt, 2010.

'Tis the Season: The Return of Influenza and Pertussis, 2010.

Battered Women's Shelter, 2010.

4 Health Care System, 2010.

Something's Wrong with My Brain-Ischemic vs. Hemorrhagic Crisis, 2011.

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MISCELLANEOUS FOURTH DISTRICT MATERIALS

Location

Box

152.F.18.7B

Bank book (unidentified), 1947-1958. 1 volume.

Secretary's record of documents and securities, 1932-1952. 1 volume.

Ramsey County Graduate Nurses' Association articles of incorporation, bylaws, and rules governing registry, 1898, 1912.

Miscellaneous Fourth District printed matter, 1920-1953.

Includes articles of incorporation and bylaws.

Fourth District newsletters, 1954-1955.

Newspaper clippings, 1930s-1960s. 5 folders.

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Hospitals -- Minnesota.; Medicine -- Minnesota.; Nurses -- Minnesota.; Nursing -- Minnesota -- Societies, etc.; Nursing -- Vocational guidance -- Minnesota.; Professional associations -- Minnesota.; Women in medicine -- Minnesota.

Persons:: Colvin, Sarah Tarleton, 1865-1949, creator.; Ericksen, Theresa, 1867-1943, creator.

Document Types:: Photographs.

Occupations:: Nurses -- Minnesota.

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