Nurse Practitioners

The bulk of the Dunn Papers concerns the origination, maintenance, and activities of the Barbara Brodie Scholars program of the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Named in honor of distinguished nursing scholar and University of Virginia faculty member (1970-2003) Barbara Brodie, the Brodie Scholars endowment funds scholarships for nurse practitioner and doctoral students at the University of Virginia. Also represented in the Dunn Papers are graduate program essays and other materials relative to Dunn's doctorate, as well as a folder of miscellaneous items from Dunn's professional career.

The Jaquette Papers help to shed light on the early development of the nurse practitioner movement in the seventies. The materials gathered here contain training program protocols, practice protocols, legislative materials, educational pamphlets, journal articles, and newspaper articles related to this important nursing specialty.

The JoAnne Peach Collection provides extensive documentation of the development of the role of nurse practitioner in Virginia as well as the development of the nurse practitioner program at the U.Va. School of Nursing. The collection includes NP program curricula and instructional materials, correspondence, papers, and publications.

The Barbara Sheer Nurse Practitioner Collection comprises three groupings of materials. The first concerns the National Alliance of Nurse Practitioners (NANP), with documents from the period of the organization’s existence in the 1990s to its dissolution in 1994-1995. The second grouping concerns the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), with documents concerning its years of operation in the 1990s, plus earlier materials relative to the organization's founding, financial records, and meetings in the 1980s. The third grouping is a large and varied collection of items relating to the nurse practitioner profession as a whole; of significance are items concerning certification, scope of practice, and educational standards for nurse practitioners.

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners (NAPNAP) Collection comprises materials principally dating from 1993 to 1997, with small numbers of earlier and later items. This collection of documents is sequential to a larger and earlier manuscript collection housed in the Department of Historical Collections and Services, University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: The Papers of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1972-1992, MS-20. Researchers are advised to consult both collections.

This collection documents the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) history, leadership and educational efforts including criteria for evaluation of educational programs. The collection includes extensive records of NONPF statements on political issues such as Nursing Practitioners Insurance, the Social Security Act, the Nursing Shortage Reduction Act and Health Care Reform. This collection also documents NONPF’s alliances with the Nurses Coalition for Legislative Action in legislative matters and the National Alliance of Nurse Practitioners in Insurance records.

The collection is comprised of materials related to the formation and operation of the New York State Coalition of Nurse Practitioners Inc., and, more generally, to the efforts by individuals and the organization to obtain for nurse practitioners full legal recognition and authority to practice in New York State, ultimately achieved in 1989. These important primary-source documents trace the almost 20-year struggle to obtain the scope-of-practice legislation nurse practitioners sought, and reveal the intensity of labor required to coordinate and promote a campaign of political activism, often in the face of opposition from professional associations of physicians and nurses. Included in the collection are notices and minutes of organization meetings, materials concerning the coalition's annual conferences, various official publications and records of legislative activity.

The Patricia M. Quill Collection includes material pertaining to Saint Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing and to Ms. Quill's experience as a founding member and eventual president of the New York State Coalition of Nurse Practitioners (NYSCONP).

The Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Inc. is a national organization of nursing educators who teach in pediatric, family and school nurse practitioner programs and who collaborate on relevant practice and educational issues. The AFPNP collection includes exam materials such as proctor lists and writing assignments, meeting minutes, reports, standards, continuing education, conceptual models and funding. A variety of documents help to outline the relationship with NAPNAP and other organizations.