North Carolina Nursing History

Health Care Institutions and Schools of Nursing

• History of Carolina East Health System
• History of Craven Community College (Mentions nursing program started in 1963, one of the first ADN programs in the state.)

Articles

• Gerard, P. (2014). Civil War Series: During the Civil War, Sisters of Mercy Provide Medical Attention. Our State [magazine]. Available online at https://www.ourstate.com/sisters-mercy

Archives

• Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina, 1910. Available electronically from UNC's Documenting the American South. Mentions Stewart Sanatorium in New Bern, NC on p. 67.
• Memories of New Bern, Dr. Dale T. Millns, Interview 1011 [transcript]. Available from New Bern-Craven County Public Library digital research collections.
• New Bern, N.C. Colored nurses issuing food after fire [photograph]. (1922). Available from American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress).
• New Bern City Schools Scrapbook, 1903-1918. Digitized copy available through Digital NC.
• Stanley Hospital [photograph]. Unkown source. Stanley Hospital was opened by Union troops who controlled New Bern during most of the Civil War.
• Sara Greene Shriner (1904-2003) papers are available at the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo. She was born in New Bern, North Carolina. She moved to the Washington, D. C. area in 1929 to attend the nursing program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After graduating in the early 1930s, she spent a decade working at Walter Reed, as well as taking private-duty jobs. Among the private-duty nursing jobs she took, was with The Lost Colony drama. During the 1960she became a volunteer nurse for the American Red Cross, often working at civil rights demonstrations and war protests. 
• Photographs of First Lieutenant Mary Edna Joyner of Dover, Craven County, as a nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II are located in the NC State Archives. Lieutenant Joyner enlisted in November, 1942 and served until February, 1946 in the Mediterrainean Theater. She was born on January 22, 1915 and died on October 14, 1993.

Newspaper Clippings

• 1899, Oct 01. "Florina Whitley, daughter of Merritt Whitley, a wellknown colored citizen, has passed examination..." The Daily Journal, p.4. New Bern, North Carolina.
• 1915, Aug 20. Visiting Nurse. The Daily Free Press, p.1. Kinston, North Carolina.
• 1916, Feb 17. A Most Helpful Service. Salisbury Evening Post, p.4. Salisbury, North Carolina.
• 1916, Dec 06. Children Give a Neat Sum for Red Cross Work. The Morning New Bernian, p.6. New Bern, North Carolina.
• 1917, Jan 04. Community Nurses Work in December. The Morning New Bernian, p.7. New Bern, North Carolina.
• 1953, Jun 13. Miss Hennie Honored; Mt Morris Executive. The New York Age, p.20. New York, New York.