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Gretchen Osgood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-084

Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of government publications containing data from numerous nursing surveys. For the most part, these studies concern nursing education and manpower, and legal issues related to the health professions. The collection also contains a 1979 original manuscript on the history of nurse practitioners and miscellaneous other publications, letters, and articles on nursing collected by Ms. Osgood. These materials range in... date from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found in 1963-1990

Biographical / Historical

Gretchen Osgood received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in 1943, then went on to earn a diploma in nursing from Johns Hopkins University and an MS in Supervision in Public Health Nursing from Boston University School of Nursing. After working as a clinician and an instructor, then as an associate director of nursing at the University of Illinois Hospitals, Osgood became a Nurse Consultant in the United States Public Health Service in... 1962. She remained with the USPS Division of Nursing for the next 24 years, ending her career in the position of Deputy Director.

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Extent

1.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

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