A boy wearing a hospital gown sits on an iron hospital bed typing on a typewriter. A nurse, holding a glass, watches him. The boy is probably Lora Thacker of Raccoon Hollow [Harlan County], Kentucky, who had been unable to stand upright until he...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Log cabins; Dwellings; Buildings; People
In this winter scene two young boys talk to a nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service. The boys are standing on the porch of a log cabin and the nurse stands in front of the porch with one foot on the step. One boy is wearing overalls over a...
Nursing schools--Faculty; Medical teaching personnel--Attitudes; Nursing--Study and teaching (Associate degree); Nursing--Vocational guidance
The field of nursing currently faces a shortage of both nurses and nursing faculty. Yet, little is known about why clinical nurses opt to become nursing faculty. Qualitative investigations into this phenomenon are particularly rare. This study...
Address: 982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. A child lies in a piece of medical equipment with only his head exposed. A nurse stands near his head. She is dressed all in white. The long metal tube the boy lies in has a tag on it reading,...
Photograph of a student nurse at Louisville City Hospital, which later became Louisville General Hospital, 1917. The woman stands in front of a window with her hand on a wicker chair. Her uniform is a striped blouse with cuffs and an apron. She has...
Photograph of a student nurse at Louisville City Hospital, which later became Louisville General Hospital, 1917. The woman stands in front of a window with her hand on a wicker chair. Her uniform is a striped blouse with white cuffs below a white...
A community of people greet a nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service. The nurse is identifiable by the white scarf, dress, and shoes. The other women in the photo wear dresses in patterns and hats or bonnets. The nurse is holding an infant as are...
Mentoring in nursing; Nurse administrators--Training of; Rural nursing; Rural hospitals
The aim of this study was to examine rural nurse managers' experiences with
mentoring once assuming their new management role. This research study used
qualitative methods to examine mentoring experiences in relatively new and
inexperienced nurse...
School children; Schools; Buildings; Nurses; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; People
Seven boys in overalls and short-sleeved shirts stand in a row facing a young woman in a dress. She is holding a book and may be a visiting nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service. They stand outside on a grassy hill in front of wood building. The...
School children; Schools; Nurses; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; People
Girls and young women gather on a porch overlooking a green valley. A woman and two young children sit on one bench. A young woman with a scarf on her head and a tablet in her lap, sits on a chair. Everyone watches her as she speaks. She is...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Stoves; People
A nurse stands by a cast iron stove pouring something from a tea kettle into a bowl. She is dressed in white with a scarf on her head. The little girl watches her. Herbs and bowls are hanging from the walls and ceiling.
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service approaches a group sitting on a porch. The nurse is holding the reins of a dark horse with a blaze on its muzzle. She's wearing a cap and jacket, riding pants and boots, and a dark tie. Another horse is...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service talks with girls and a woman near a well. She is holding a brown horse by the reins. The horse wears a saddle. The nurse wears a cap and jacket with the initials FNS on the sleeve. She wears riding pants...
A woman in a cap, jacket, and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set in a stream with woods and a building in...
A woman holds her horse steady in a stream. Her riding outfit includes a hat, jacket, blouse, and wide-hipped pants tucked into knee-high boots. The dark horse has bridle with a bit. The saddle rests on top of a blanket and the rider's boots rest...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service arrives on horseback at a two-story log cabin. She holds a barefooted infant on the saddle in front of her. A crowd of mostly women and children stand in a semi-circle around her. The photograph was taken...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Health care personnel; People
Nurse Mary B. Willeford, Frontier Nursing Service, visiting patients, a woman and two young boys on log cabin porch, Kentucky. Willeford wears a suit jacket, hat, and glasses and holds an attache bag. The woman is in the doorway and the boys are...
A woman in a cap, jacket and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set at the edge of a woods near a stream. A...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Health care personnel
Nurse of Frontier Nursing Service on horseback, no identification, Kentucky. A woman in a suit jacket rides a horse across a stream in this chiaroscuro photograph with bare trees and gentle hills on the banks. A black circle is painted around the...
