Help us enhance information in Wikipedia about nursing in Newark!

The John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University in Newark welcomes students, staff, faculty, and the general public to an Edit-a-thon focused on the history of nursing in Newark, New Jersey.

The participants affiliated with this initiative will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. We will modify our editing behavior if any edits conflict with Wikipedia guidelines. Please contact the Project Coordinators, Dbiunno (talk) or Bobavrul or Runarchives if any activities appear to go against this statement.

• Hosts: The John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University, Newark
• Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
• Time: 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• Sign up and register here: Please register in advance. Seating is limited.
• Please register for a Wikipedia account at this link BEFORE coming to the event
• Location: John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ NJ 07102.
  • Washington Street station (Newark Light Rail) is a few blocks south of the campus. If you are driving, you'll need to pay for street parking.
  • To enter the Library please use the new Plaza Entrance on the south side of Bleeker Street. 40°44′33″N 74°10′31″W / 40.74239°N 74.1753°W / 40.74239; -74.1753 Climb to the plaza level. The Library is on the east (left) across the plaza from Paul Robeson Student Center on the west (right). When you go through the entrance door, you'll see the guard who will check your ID.
  • Directions to campus and a campus map
• Attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (ie, drivers license, real ID, etc) to enter Dana Library.
• The event will take place in a computer lab, so you don't need to bring your laptop.

• Introductions
• Brief introduction to Wikipedia
• Short presentation by Vic De Luca from Ironbound Community Corporation and Bob Vietrogoski, archivist at Smith Library, Special Collections in the History of Medicine

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• Dorevabelfiore (talk) 19:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Pharos (talk) 20:49, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Jim.henderson (talk) 20:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Vinpel (talk) 20:58, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Dbiunno (talk) 22:23, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Jeremyb (talk) 22:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To help get you started, we've attached links (footnote) to potential sources.

• Hildegard Peplau^[1][2][3][4]: American Nurse who created the first grad level program for the preparation of clinical specialists in pyschiatric nursing. Fix broken link to College of Nursing at Rutgers. Expand the section that describes her work in Newark/RU-N
• Rutgers School of Nursing: ^{[5][6][7] [8] [9]} Established in 1956. Article is very short. Please add more content.
• Saint Michael's Medical Center: Hospital founded in 1857. Article is very short. Find some reliable sources and add content.
• Clara Maas Medical Center^[10] Add the link to the NJ Historical Society Finding aid in the External Documents section.
• John Kenney Founded Kenney Hospital in Newark.

• Mary Boland (nurse)^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] [19] [20] [21]} Newark nurse who helped establish the Children's Hospital AIDS Program (CHAP), a groundbreaking model for pediatric AIDS care in Newark.
• Kenney Memorial Hospital, later called "Community Hospital" and still later, "New Salem Baptist Church"

On the New Jersey Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in Newark by Dr John Kenney, first hospital to train African American doctors during Jim Crow era.^{[22][23][24] [25]}