Sally Hitchcock Pullman at the Yale School of Nursing papers

Collection — Box: 1

Call Number: Ms Coll 79

Content Description

The collection documents Sally Hitchcock Pullman's attendance at the Yale School of Nursing from 1941-1944. Materials include course handouts, notes, completed assignments, and commencement programs. Courses documented include anatomy; chemistry; child development; drugs and solutions; elements of public health; nutrition; nursing arts; obstetrical and gynecological nursing; pathology, pediatrics; sociology; and therapeutics.

Dates

1941 - 1944

Creator

Pullman, Sally Hitchcock

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Sally H. Pullman Family, 2020.

Extent

.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0079

Additional Description

Overview

Sally Hitchcock Pullman (1919-2020) earned a Master of Science in Nursing from the Yale School of Nursing in 1944. She served as a WWII United States Army nurse in the South Pacific and in 1997 authored Letters Home: memoirs of one Army nurse in the Southwest Pacific in World War II about her wartime experience. The collection documents Pullman's attendance at the Yale School of Nursing from 1941-1944. Materials include course handouts, notes, completed assignments, and commencement programs. Courses documented include anatomy; chemistry; child development; drugs and solutions; elements of public health; nutrition; nursing arts; obstetrical and gynecological nursing; pathology, pediatrics; sociology; and therapeutics.