Nevins superintendent of the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.[3] for 23 years.[4] She was president of the National League for Nursing Education,[5][6] and first president of the Graduate Nurses' Association of the District of Columbia.[7] She was a founding officer of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Alumnae Association.[8] She was third vice-president of the American Hospital Association for the 1916-1917 academic year.[9]
Nevins became director of the nursing department of the Potomac Division of the American Red Cross in 1917.[10][11] In 1918, as a Red Cross leader in the region, Nevins called for Virginia women to volunteer to supplement the nursing shortage during the 1918 influenza pandemic.[12] She spoke in favor of expanding home nursing courses and placing public health nurses in more small towns.[13] She retired from the Red Cross in 1920.[1]
Personal life
In 1940, Nevins was living with her widowed sister, Mabel Elizabeth Mather, in Austin, Texas.[14][15] Nevins died in Chicago in 1957, at age 92.[16]
^American National Red Cross Nursing Service; Dock, Lavinia L.; Pickett, Sarah Elizabeth; Noyes, Clara Dutton (1922). History of American Red Cross Nursing. Macmillan. p. 246.
^Gm, Nevins (March 1993). "Address of President Georgia M. Nevins. Eleventh Annual Convention of the Superintendents' Society, 1905, Washington, D.C". NLN Publications (14–2514): 56–8. PMID8479884.
^Nevins, Georgia M. (1906). "Report of the Secretary of the American Society of Superintendents of Training-Schools for Nurses". The American Journal of Nursing. 6 (10): 715–720. doi:10.2307/3403450. ISSN0002-936X. JSTOR3403450.
