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Nina Gage, c. 1925

Nina Diadamia Gage (June 9, 1883 – October 18, 1946) was an American nurse who was a leading teacher of modern nursing in China, and ran a nursing school in Hunan province. She was president of the International Council of Nurses from 1925 to 1929. After returning from China to the US in 1927 she held various senior nursing posts in nursing education.

Early life and education

Nina Diadamia Gage was born in

Yale-in-China mission in Changsha, Hunan since about 1904.[2] She went there in 1909 and began work as a dispensary nurse.[3]

Career

Students at Hsiang-Ya School of Nursing c. 1917, taking examination in bacteriology.

In 1912, she became the first president of the Nurses Association of China, and after a two-year term went on to be chairman of its education committee. She played a leading role in establishing a school of nursing at the missionary-founded Hsiang-Ya (Xiangya) Hospital.[2] By 1919, she was Dean of the school.[4] She wrote several articles about her experiences for readers of the American Journal of Nursing, sometimes illustrating them with photographs.[citation needed]

Her time in China was interrupted by

Teachers College,[5] and she received an MA from the associated university, Columbia University
, in 1925.

She was elected president of the

Helsingfors (Helsinki) where she presented a paper on adapting the nursing curriculum to local needs. This was praised in the American Journal of Nursing as showing Gage's "breadth and generosity of mind".[4] She was introduced to the nurses as "the first dean" of a school of nursing anywhere in the world and the announcement of her presidency was enthusiastically applauded: a high point in her career.[3]

In 1927, she went to Geneva, as ICN president, for a mid-term conference. At the end of her presidency she was responsible for the 1929 ICN Congress in Montreal where nurses from China were involved in planning and organising the event.

Hampton Institute, a historically black institution.[7]

She moved to

Protestant Hospital, in Nashville, Tennessee[6] and retired in 1945. She died on October 18, 1946.[9] In 1949 Gage Hall at the Newport Hospital was named in her honour.[8]

References

  1. ^ Wellesley Legenda 1905
  2. ^ a b Nancy E. Chapman, Jessica C. Plumb. The Yale-China Association: a Centennial History, Chinese University Press 2001, pp 17–19.
  3. ^ a b Entangled with Empire: American Women and the Creation of the "New Woman" in China, 1898-1937, ProQuest 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d "Nina D. Gage, R.N.", The American Journal of Nursing, Jan 1926, 26:1, pg. 8
  5. ^ "Alumni Activities: Nursing and Health Alumni Notes", Teachers College Record, 1922.
  6. ^ a b "News about Nursing", The American Journal of Nursing, Jan 1946, 46:1, p. 58
  7. ^ 'Hampton makes appointments of 2 whites'. The Afro-American , 6 June 1931
  8. ^ a b Cordelia W. Kelly. Dimensions of Professional Nursing, Macmillan 1962, p. 464.
  9. ^ British Journal of Nursing, January 1947, p. 8

Further reading

  • Levitan, K., Nina D. Gage: an American nurse in early twentieth century China, Yale University dissertation 2000
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