In 1891, she was in the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.

[7] She was a founding officer of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Alumnae Association.

[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.

[1] In 1940, Nevins was living with her widowed sister, Mabel Elizabeth Mather, in Austin, Texas.