Nursing Education

The Arlene W. Keeling Collection contains a limited number of professional and personal materials assembled by Dr. Keeling over her career. Of particular importance to nursing history researchers is a collection of original manuscript materials, prints and photographs which Dr. Keeling has acquired for use in Bjoring Center exhibitions, presentations, and research projects. These include late-nineteenth to early-twentieth-century materials concerning nursing practice and medical treatments.

The Lorraine Bowers Albrecht Collection (UVA SON DIPLO 1951). This collection focuses on medical illustration and the curriculum and materials Albrecht used while she was an instructor at Lansing Community College. The collection contains many anatomical drawings, some of which are signed by Myra Clark whose individual collection is also archived at the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. The collection also includes material from Albrecht’s student years at the U.Va. School of Nursing.

The Bacon Papers represent various phases of her personal and professional life as a nurse between 1942 and 1985. The material is most notable for its World War II correspondence, and for an interview of Bacon discussing her war experiences on cassette tape.

The Elizabeth Marie Bear Collection consists of materials assembled by Bear throughout her career.  Particular strengths here include correspondence with social anthropologist Esther Lucile Brown in addition to a taped interview with Brown, the subject of Bear's doctoral dissertation.  Also present are letters and other items of her colleague and fellow nurse Martha Beth Hicks.  Materials from two organizations – the Frontier Nursing Service and the Penn Center of St. Helena Island, South Carolina, a historic African-American cultural and educational institution – are represented.  These primarily include photographs and artifacts.

Alice Burford Booth, R.N., spent most of her career in psychiatric nursing (1945-1967) at the Medical College of Virginia. The Booth Papers include psychiatric nursing material from her days as a student and from her career as an instructor. The information gathered here is a useful resource on the medical treatment of the mentally ill in the World War II era, and on changing attitudes toward mental illness in the medical community and society at large.

The Lucy Buchholz Collection is in effect a small tribute to three women whose careers were critical for the development of nursing education in Virginia as well as for the professionalization of nursing practice.  The bulk of the collection (11 folders) concerns Roy Beazley, faculty member of the University of Virginia and Director of Nursing at the University Hospital; included are a few pieces of correspondence, newspaper clippings, keepsake programs, an essay, and photographs.  Other items belonged to her sister, Edith Beazley Miller, and include private duty nurse receipt books and keepsakes arranged in five folders. Ms. Miller was an instructor for a local high school LPN program and nurse at Martha Jefferson Hospital.  The single folder containing biographical items for Mable Montgomery includes a portrait photograph, newspaper articles honoring Montgomery, and an award presentation text.  Ms. Montgomery was an officer and Executive Director of the Virginia State Board of Nursing for three decades.

The bulk of the Janet Colaizzi Collection concerns activities, programs, and psychiatric nursing administration at Eastern State Hospital, the Commonwealth of Virginia's mental health facility in Williamsburg.

The Virginia C. Dericks Papers include a small group of biographical materials and publication reprints, but the vast majority of the papers concern Dericks' academic and professional interests.  These include research projects and course notes;  materials for the development and maintenance of professional standards, best practices, and definitions;  public and professional talks;  and patient care strategies.  Six folders of the Dericks Papers contain restricted materials which require, prior to consultation, Institutional Review Board certification.  These concern a mastectomy patient care study; interviews with colostomy patients; and patient correspondence, referrals, and lists.

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 collection is a detailed chronicle of Dora Fechtmann’s life as a nurse from student days through her years serving with the Navy Nurse Corps in the South Seas during World War II. The collection includes four scrapbooks containing photographs, postcards, and correspondence, beginning with her training and concluding with her military nursing service in Base Hospital No. 2 in New Hebrides, New Zealand. The collection also includes a diary, c. 1935-1937, that contains the specific details of her training as a nurse at Rockingham County Memorial Hospital Nurses School in Virginia. Included with the collection is a detailed autobiographical narrative, My Scrapbook: An Album of Memories. Documents of interest include correspondence between herself and the mother of a slain soldier under Fechtmann’s care.

The Janet Vivian Graham Papers highlight the professional and personal career of U.S. military nurse Janet V. Graham, Ph.D., R.N. The collection contains materials from Dr. Graham's educational activities as well as her professional activities in the U.S. military health system, particularly concerning health planning and nursing administration as applied to the development of computerized data collection, management programs, and system design.

The Jones Papers contain publications, presentations, memos, professional notes, journal articles, and correspondence related to her work as a psychiatric mental health certified nurse specialist and as a licensed counselor. The materials, dating from the 1940s to the 1990s, represent an overview of Jones’ varied career as clinician, counselor, instructor, administrator, and consultant.

This collection consists of four boxes of the papers of Jeanette Lancaster from her years as Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia (1989-2008). It contains photographs, CDs, slides, speeches and publications by and about Lancaster.

The bulk of the Rosemary T. McCarthy Papers concern Dr. McCarthy's interests and activities after her retirement from the Army Nurse Corps in 1983. Chief among these is her participation in the Korean War Veterans' Memorial Advisory Committee, documented in correspondence, publications, photographs, and related materials. The collection also includes general correspondence concerning professional and academic matters.

The Josephine McLeod/Virginia State Board of Nursing Collection principally contains correspondence, reports, and informational brochures relative to nursing training programs and schools operating in Virginia in the 1920s to the 1940s.

The Osgood Collection is composed primarily of government publications containing data from numerous nursing surveys from the 1960s through the 1990s. These studies focus primarily on nursing education and manpower, and legal issues related to the health professions.

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.

This small collection of items by and concerning Phyllis J. Verhonick was assembled from two sources: 1) the private collection of U.S. Army Nurse Corps Colonel Rosemary T. McCarthy, and 2) institutional holdings of the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Included are biographical sketches of Verhonick, given after her decease, three academic papers (of the many she produced), a diary (1971-74) of meeting and research notes by Verhonick (as Acting Dean of the School of Nursing), and materials related to the University of Virginia Nursing Research Conferences and the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Nursing Research Courses organized in her memory.

The Pat Booth Woodard Collection assembles a variety of documents relative to the theory and practice of nursing education at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in the late-1960s to mid-1970s.

Dr. Kenneth R. White, Ph.D., APRN, FACHE, FAAN, is a widely recognized and awarded leader in health care, health-care administration, and in the academic world. The Kenneth R. White Papers trace Dr. White's professional activities and interests up to 2020, when he resigned his appointment as professor and Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, subsequently accepting the deanship of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing. A range of materials, including correspondence, interviews, publications, speeches, media coverage, and photographs touch on his varied positions in hospital administration, nursing, and academia.

The majority of items in the Dorrie K. Fontaine Papers date from Fontaine's years as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing from 2008-2019, and relate to major initiatives and areas of activity in that leadership position: Appreciative Inquiry; ASPIRE (Academic Strategic Partnerships for Interprofessional Research and Education); Compassionate Care; the Contemplative Science Center; Diversity; Interprofessional Education; PACE (Program for All-inclusive Care of the Elderly); the RN/MD Task Force; and the Virginia Health Reform Initiative. 

The Laurel Archer Copp Papers principally concern Dr. Copp's research interests in the experience of pain and its management.  In addition to research notes, bibliographies, and case studies, the collection includes many of Copp's academic papers and course materials she developed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Nursing. 

The Habel Papers trace the career of this advocate for nursing education and public health. Much of the correspondence in the collection dates from her retirement years, when she took the initiative to address public figures with critiques and advice about the resolution of social problems.

Dr. Imogene M. King (1923-2007), RN, EdD, FAAN, was a professor of nursing at the University of South Florida from 1980-1990, where she concluded her academic career as a professor emerita.  Previously, she held appointments at Loyola University, Chicago (1961-1966 and 1972-1980), and Ohio State University, Columbus (1968-1972).  King is best known for her writing and advocacy for nursing theory, and was instrumental in developing this field of scholarly inquiry and its practical application. The collection contains material from King’s entire academic career.

Dr. Kenneth R. White, Ph.D., APRN, FACHE, FAAN, is a widely recognized and awarded leader in health care, health-care administration, and in the academic world. The Kenneth R. White Papers trace Dr. White's professional activities and interests up to 2020, when he resigned his appointment as professor and Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, subsequently accepting the deanship of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing. A range of materials, including correspondence, interviews, publications, speeches, media coverage, and photographs touch on his varied positions in hospital administration, nursing, and academia.

The Virginia Burggraf Papers document the career and professional activities of Dr. Virginia B. Burggraf, DNS, RN, C, FAAN, a professor emerita of the Radford University College of Nursing, Radford, Virginia. Dr. Burggraf’s overarching specialty is gerontological nursing, and her papers provide a detailed overview not only of her scholarly interests and accomplishments but also of her extensive work in community outreach, covering all aspects of aging and geriatric health care. 

The majority of items in the Dorrie K. Fontaine Papers date from Fontaine's years as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing from 2008-2019, and relate to major initiatives and areas of activity in that leadership position: Appreciative Inquiry; ASPIRE (Academic Strategic Partnerships for Interprofessional Research and Education); Compassionate Care; the Contemplative Science Center; Diversity; Interprofessional Education; PACE (Program for All-inclusive Care of the Elderly); the RN/MD Task Force; and the Virginia Health Reform Initiative. 

The Laurel Archer Copp Papers principally concern Dr. Copp's research interests in the experience of pain and its management.  In addition to research notes, bibliographies, and case studies, the collection includes many of Copp's academic papers and course materials she developed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Nursing. 

The Habel Papers trace the career of this advocate for nursing education and public health. Much of the correspondence in the collection dates from her retirement years, when she took the initiative to address public figures with critiques and advice about the resolution of social problems.

Dr. Imogene M. King (1923-2007), RN, EdD, FAAN, was a professor of nursing at the University of South Florida from 1980-1990, where she concluded her academic career as a professor emerita.  Previously, she held appointments at Loyola University, Chicago (1961-1966 and 1972-1980), and Ohio State University, Columbus (1968-1972).  King is best known for her writing and advocacy for nursing theory, and was instrumental in developing this field of scholarly inquiry and its practical application. The collection contains material from King’s entire academic career.