Maureen Matteson-Kane is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She taught at the UNLV School of Nursing from 1977 to 2004. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing.
Collection Number: MS-00784 Collection Name: History of Nursing in Southern Nevada Oral History Project Records Box/Folder: Box 01 (Restrictions apply)
In the 1950s and 1960s, Nevada experienced a nursing shortage, largely as a result of the lack of nursing schools in the state and rapid population growth. To address the problem, the Nevada Board of Regents approved the implementation of an associate degree program at the campus of Nevada Southern University (now known as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas) in 1965, and that fall the first students were admitted.