MC 1413

Inventory to the New Jersey State Nurses Association Records

By Special Collections and University Archives

December 2011

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Finding aid encoded in EAD, version 2002 by Tara Maharjan, September 2021
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

Descriptive Summary
Creator: New Jersey State Nurses' Association
Title: New Jersey State Nurses Association Records
Dates: 1901-2009
Quantity: 76 cubic feet (71 boxes and 5 oversized boxes)
Collection No.: MC 1413
Access: Stored offsite: Advance notice required to consult these records.
Language: English
Repository: Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

New Jersey State Nurses Association Records, MC 1413, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

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Detailed Description of the Collection/Container List

This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the "containers" (for example, folders, volumes, or cassettes) and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise the collection. The availability of any digital items from a container is indicated with a hyperlink.

NEW JERSEY STATE NURSES ACCOCIATION RECORDS
Box
1 Inter-organization Meetings
By-laws, 1909-2006 and undated
See also box 59.
Box
2a New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, 1998-1999
New Jersey Board of Pharmacy, 1998-1999
New Jersey Board of Nursing, 1998-1999
Box
2b Minutes, Board of Directors, 1921-1953
For earlier minutes, see box 8.
Box
3 Minutes, Board of Directors; Executive Committee, 1954-1968
Box
4 Minutes, Board of Directors; Executive Committee, 1969-1984
Box
5 Minutes, Board of Directors; Executive Committee, 1985-1998
Box
6 Minutes, Board of Directors, 1999-2005
Box
7 Minutes, Board of Directors, 2006-2007
For later minutes, see box 59.
Box
8 Minutes, 1901-1920
Primarily typed copies; printed versions present for 1902/03 and 1913 only.
Annual Reports/Convention Programs, 1924-1987
Some annual reports are in the form of "convention" issues of New Jersey Nurse. Eventually includes awards banquet programs as well.
See also boxes 24, 40, 49 and 59.
Box
9 Correspondence -- Board of Directors, 1986-1995
President's Cabinet, 1982-1997
Facilitating Council -- Minutes, 1994-1996
See also boxes 14 and 53.
Box
10a Auditors Reports, 1934-1942, 1951-1982, 1990-1991, 1996 and 1999-2007
Annual Budgets, 1977-1980, 1999/00 and 2001/02
Cash Book, September 1925-August 1930
Financial Statements and Summaries, 1939-1972, 1975-1980, 1985, 1999, 2005 and 2008
[Other Financial Files]
In part, these files pertain to a capital campaign.
Maryland Bank, N.A. (MBNA), 1986-1996 and 1999
These files pertain to an affinity credit card program.
Box
10b Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1962-1971
Box
11 Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1972-1975 and 1977-1985
Box
11 Annual Meeting Recording, 1976
Audio cassette without transcription.
Box
12 Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1986-1996
Box
13 Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1998-2008
Box
14 Committee -- Appointments, 1994-1995
Committee -- Awards, 1989-2007 with gaps
Committee -- By-Laws, 1980-1997
Committee -- Community Health, 1970-1992
Committee -- Convention, 1970-1999
Committee -- Facilitating Council, 1995-2000
See also boxes 9 and 53.
Committee -- Health Care Economics, 1988-1992
Committee -- Membership, about 1947-2000 with gaps
Box
15 Committee -- Nominations, 1970s, 1989-1997 and 2001-2002
Committee -- Nurses Day / Week, 1973-1997
Committee -- Planning and Budget, 1987-1996
Committee -- Public Relations, 1953-2001 with gaps
Committee -- Research, 1982-1993 and undated
Committee -- Resolutions, 1982-2009 with gaps
Committee -- Restructuring, 1965-1967 and 1990-1992
Committee -- Roll of Honor, 1982-1995
Committee -- Teller, 1993 and 1995
Box
16 Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Private Duty, 1938-1956 and 1976
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- General Duty / Medical-Surgical/ Adult Health
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Maternal/ Parent-Child, 1970-1992
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Gerontological/Geriatric, 1970-1996
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Ethical Practice, 1975-1989
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Human Rights, 1992-1993
See also box 18.
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Impaired Nurse/ Peer Assistance, 1984-2002
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Management, 1984-1993
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Nurse Practitioners / Forum of Nurses in Advanced Practice
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Prospective Payment, 1986-1988
Practice Committees/Cabinets/Forums -- Psychiatric/Mental Health, 1960-1971, 1992, 1995 and 2007-2008
Box
17 Ad Hoc Committees and Professional Practice Issues
Topics represented include HIV/AIDS; nursing needs; health care reform; etc.
Box
18 Councils/Cabinets -- Policy and Practice, 1979-2002
Councils/Cabinets -- Human Rights, 1989-1991 and undated
See also box 16.
Councils/Cabinets -- [Miscellaneous Files], 1982-2000
include copies of NJSNA Resource Directory for Chemical Dependency; Peer Assistance Committee, 1991; etc.
Box
19 Institute for Nursing [the foundation of the NJSNA], 1978-2006 and undated
Includes minutes and files on fundraising, scholarships, awards, etc.
See also boxes 25 and 57; for the Institute 's Annual Child Health Seminar, see boxes 48-50.
Box
20 Committees, Etc. -- Education
Committees, Etc. -- Entry into Practice
Committees, Etc. -- Articulation
Box
21 Committees -- Legislative/ Legislation, 1944-2003
Includes reports, recommendations and correspondence, as well as information on legislative receptions and workshops.
Box
22 Headquarters, 1925-1998 with gaps
Includes guest book pages, staff lists, organizational charts, personnel policies, relocation information and photographs.
Executive Directors, 1948-2002 with gaps
Includes correspondence, photographs, etc.
[Position Statements, Testimony, Strategic Plans, UMDNJ Files, Etc.], 1980-2003
Box
23 Organization History and Anniversary Celebrations, 1902-2001
Includes letters, biographical information, personal reminiscences, copies of legislation, early membership ledgers and lists, an amended certificate of incorporation, government proclamations and photographs.
Some early letters published in Journal of Nursing History 1:2 (April 1986), a copy of which is present in the box.
Includes letters signed by political figures, including Walter E. Edge, Thomas H Kean and Bill Clinton.
Box
24 Meeting Programs, 1904-1922
For annual and semi-annual meetings. Also includes printed minutes for 1913 and some printed reports.
See also boxes 8, 40, 49 and 59.
Presidents, about 1959-2005 and undated (with gaps)
Primarily biographical data and original and copy photographs. The materials, although compiled later, include information on early NJSNA presidents as well.
See also box 45.
Archives Committee, 1981-1995
Commemorative Stamps, 1961, 1970-1976 and 1985
Letters, press clippings, US. postage stamps (3 different issues),first day cancellations and event programs, together with other ephemera. Includes some information about Clara Maass.
Box
25 Continuing Education Committee, 1973, 1981-2003 and undated
Institute for Nursing, 1999-2009
See also boxes 19 and 57; for the Institute's Annual Child Health Seminar, see boxes 48-5 0.
Box
26 IN-PAC (Interested Nurses Political Action Committee), 1975-2001
"The Political Action Arm of the New Jersey State Nurses Association. "
Includes by-laws, minutes, handbooks, financial statements, fundraising documents and endorsement lists.
Box
27 District 3
Financial journals, 1926-1977, and minute books, 1943-1978.
Box
28 District 4 / Constituency 4 / Region IV
Incorporation certificate, by-laws, minutes, reports, newsletters and information (including a VHS cassette) about two nursing schools in Trenton. The materials date from 1946 to 2003.
District 5 / Region V
Reports and by-laws. The materials are from 1943, 1993 to 1997 and undated.
District 6 / Constituency 6 / Region VI
A history, board minutes, handbooks, newsletters, event programs, etc. The materials date from 1971 to 1999 with gaps.
See also box 71.
Constituency 7
By-laws, reports, program notices, financial documents, etc. The materials date from 1984 to 1987.
See also box 68.
Constituency 9
By-laws, 1979 and 1985.
Box
29 District 2 / Constituency 2 / Region 2
Certificate of incorporation, 197l; by-laws, 1934-2000 with gaps; board minutes (sometimes including reports), 1923-1979; membership list, 1925; correspondence, 1927-1928; etc.
Box
30 District 2 / Constituency 2 / Region 2
Board minutes (sometimes including reports), 1980-1993; policies, 1977; newsletter, 1982-1986, 1993 and 1996; financial statements, 1985 and 2001; event programs, 1999-2004; general duty section minutes, etc., 1949-1962; public health section minutes, etc., 1953-1961; and private duty section minutes, etc., 1940-1960.
Box
31 District 1 / Constituency 1/ Region I
District 3 / Constituency 3 / Region III
Box
32 Society of Certified Clinical Specialists in Psychiatric Nursing -- Applications
Box
33 Society of Certified Psychiatric / Mental Health Nurses / Clinical Specialists
Box
34 Economic and General Welfare Program
Box
35 JNESO (Jersey Nurse Economic Security Organization) [ contract-related]
Box
36 JNESO, 1985-86 / Court Cases 85-4912
Box
37 87-4912
87-5004
Other Legal Documents
Box
38 Passaic General Hospital [School of Nursing] Alumnae Association
Box
39 New Jersey Nursing Council for War Service, Inc.
Certificate of incorporation, 1943; minutes, 1942-1945; annual meeting files, 1944-1945. Also other files, including on the New Jersey Nursing Defense Council [predecessor organization?}, 1942; the War Manpower Commission's Procurement and Assignment Service; a Red Cross committee, 1940-1941 and later; and the Nursing Council of Essex County, 1937-1943, together with various state reports and national publications (a newsletter, manuals and a vocational pamphlet).
New Jersey State Organization for Public Health Nursing (NJSOPHN)
Annual reports, 1941 and 1944-1952.
New Jersey State League of Nursing Education (NJSLNE)
Annual report, 1945.
New Jersey State Department of Institutions and Agencies
Files with general information concerning nurses employed by the Department, 1967-1968.
[Miscellaneous Files]
Among other topics, includes folders, 1988 and 1999-2000, relating to events (an inauguration, an honorary dinner and memorial services) celebrating four individuals.
Box
40 Annual Reports/Convention Programs, 1988-2006 and 2008
Organized supplemental materials are included for 1998; scattered supplemental materials appear for certain other years (e.g., handwritten notes, printed invitations, resolutions and, for 2002-2005, program highlight leaflets). Beginning in 1998, the annual conventions were sponsored jointly with the New Jersey League for Nursing.
See also boxes 8, 24, 49 and 59.
Awards Banquet Programs, 1988-2008
Box
41 Annual Report/Convention Program, 2009
Awards Banquet Program, 2009
Box
42 Grants
Box
43 NJ Nursing Students
Box
44 List of NJ Nurses in WWII [notebook]-2,678
60th Anniversary History Materials [notebook]
"Roll of Honor" Names and Photos [2 notebooks]
Budgets [notebook], about 1963-1966
Institute of Nursing Campaign Benefactors
Box
45 Office Files, 1983-2004
Organized by subject, but not in alphabetical order. Among other topics, includes one or more folders for: Retreats; School Nurse [Certification]; Shore, Muriel M, President; Shortage, Nursing; Slide Show Presentation; Smoking · Commission; Speakers; Star Ledger; State Nurses Associations; Strike-Jersey Shore; Task Forces; Testimony; Union Contracts-Mercer Street Friends Center; and Work Force Trends.
Box
46 Office Files, about 1990-1999
Organized by subject, but not in alphabetical order.
Box
47 Office files including participants in organizations (e.g., American Nursing Association)
Reports, budget materials, etc., about 1998-2000
Box
48 Conventions
Proposals for Centers of Excellence
HIV-AIDS, 1992-1993
[2 notebooks]
Annual Child Health Seminar, 1997
Nursing Shortage Staff Commission, 1988
100th Anniversary History
Box
49 Annual Reports, 1938-1960
Reports for NJSNA annual meetings contained in three bound volumes: 1938-1950; 1951-1955; and 1956-1960.
See also boxes 8, 24, 40 and 59.
Annual Child Health Seminar, 1994-1996
Planning notebooks for the 11th through the 13th Annual Child Health Seminars sponsored by the Institute for Nursing in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Health.
Box
50 Annual Child Health Seminar and Other Contracts, 1993-1998
Except 1995.
Box
51 Miscellaneous Files # 1
Box
52 Miscellaneous Files #2
Box
53 NJ Breathes
Coalition of interested Nursing Organizations
NJSNA Region 6
100th Anniversary Correspondence
Facilitating Council, 1999-2001
See also boxes 9 and 14.
Collected Reports of Sarah Maiter Errickson, RN PHN
[binder]
Box
54 NJSNA Position Statements on Senate Bills/ Lobbying #1
Box
55 NJSNA Position Statements on Senate Bills / Lobbying #2
Pamphlets -- NJSNA Agreements with various Hospitals
Box
56 Miscellaneous Files #3
Box
57 Annual Opening Business Meeting Reports
NJ Institute for Nursing Minutes
See also boxes 19 and 25;/or the Institute's Annual Child Health Seminar, see boxes 48-50.
NJSNA Continuing Education Approval Program
Box
58 Microfilm - New Jersey Nurse
Buttons
Box
59 By-Laws, 1982-1996 and undated
Primarily NJSNA by-laws, but includes some consistency/district and other by-laws as well.
See also box 1.
Minutes, Board of Directors, January 2008-January 2010
For earlier minutes, see boxes 2b-8.
Box
Annual Reports/Convention Programs, 1975-1995
See also boxes 8, 24, 40 and 49.
Box
60 Temple Sha-arey Shalom, Springfield, NJ Health Initiative Completed Survey Forms
CONFIDENTIAL
NJ Association of Nurse Anesthetists Legal Files, 1999-2009
CONFIDENTIAL
Box
61 Photographs #1
Box
62 Photographs #2
Box
63 Photographs #3
Box
64 Photographs #4
Box
65 Photographs #5
Box
66 Photographs #6
Box
67 Photographs #7
Box
68 Constituency 7 : Scrapbooks
See also box 28.
Clippings # 1
Box
69 Clippings #2
Box
70 Publicity / Printing
Box
71 Constituency 6: Newsletter, 1981-1984
See also box 28.
Box
71 ANA Election Guidelines for States, 1998
Box
71 Miscellaneous Publications
Papers relating to Margaret Marie Hanrabam Musselman (WWI nurse trained in NJ, incl. photos)
Box
Oversize Box 1 Broadsides, Proclamations, etc.
Box
Oversize Box 2 Financial Ledger, 1901-1936
Proclamations, 191l-1950s
Box
Oversize Box 3 Proclamations, Resolutions, etc.
Box
Oversize Box 4 Proclamations, Resolutions, etc.
Box
Oversize Box 5 33 1/3 LP recording, "Off Air Appointment with Peggy," April 28, 1954, Interview Assembly Bill 27