Pam Hellings, R.N., Ph.D., CPNP-R, is a professor emeritus with the OHSU School of Nursing, a former administrator and faculty senator, and a retired pediatric nurse prac [...]

A May 1930 letter approving Nurse Cecil L. Schreyer for a leave of absence from the Portland Free Dispensary.
People's Institute and Free Dispensary Records; 2008-010

A November 1918 letter thanking the City Commissioners for a budget appropriation for the pay of a nurse.
People's Institute and Free Dispensary Records; 2008-010

A 1909 letter concerning the urgent need to replace the clinic's departing head nurse.
People's Institute and Free Dispensary Records; 2008-010

A May 1930 letter concerning nurses' leaves of absence and substitutions.
People's Institute and Free Dispensary Records; 2008-010

A February 1929 letter concerning continued funding for the Visiting Nurse Association.
People's Institute and Free Dispensary Records; 2008-010

The idea of a supervisor has changed from that of a taskmaster to that of a teacher, taking teacher in its broadest aspect, for we must admit that teaching and teachers h [...]

We have found that the health of the school child is one of the foremost objectives of any educational system. The nurse has a very important place in reaching this goal. [...]

Black and white lantern slide of a young boy identified as Johnny Stanley, a student in one of the Peoples Institute kindergarten classes, in new clothes after being dres [...]