Research: Topics: Health Care: Preliminary Guide to Mental Health Documentary Sources in NY
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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
New Brunswick, N.J.
Stanford, Thomas Naylor. Papers, 1773-1865; (bulk 1818-1860). 4 v. and 2 boxes.
Bookseller and publisher, of New York, N.Y.; b. 1796; d. 1865. Correspondence (1815-1860), chiefly with Stanford's brother-in-law, Rev. James Chapman, rector of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, N.J.; letters concerning Swords' Pocket Almanac, a serial published by Stanford's firm, containing statistical and other data of the Episcopal Church; correspondence (1777-1837) of Rev. John Stanford, in part relating to his service as chaplain to various New York City penal and insane institutions; and other papers.
Acquired 1944 and 1954.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SCHOOL OF
NURSING, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF NURSING
307 Nursing Education Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096
Fagin, Claire M. Oral history interview, 1982 June 10. 8 videocassettes.
Forms part of: Claire M. Fagin Papers. Claire M. Fagin received her B.S. from Wagner College School of Nursing in Staten Island, New York, (1948), an M.A. from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from New York University (1964). Her dissertation, "The Effects of Maternal Attendance During Hospitalization on the Behavior of Young Children", received national attention. She served as the director of the graduate program in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969. She then served as chair and professor of the department of nursing at the Herbert Lehman College of the City university of New York from 1969 to 1977, during which time she developed a new baccalaureate nursing program that prepared nurses for primary care practice. In 1977, Fagin assumed the position as Dean of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennysylvania. Under her leadership as Dean at the University, the School of Nursing became a well-known and respected institution, visible both domestically and internationally.
Among her many accomplishments are her appointments as the director of the Health Professions Institute of Lehman College and the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center (1975); as the first female board member of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company; as president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association; and as advisor for the World Health Organization. Fagin is also the editor of several acclaimed books in the fields of psychiatric and pediatric nursing, including FAMILY CENTERED NURSING IN COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY: TREATMENT IN THE HOME AND NURSING IN CHILD PSYCHIATRY. She has written numerous scholarly articles and papers and has given many speeches. Fagin retired as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1991 to assume the presidency of the National League of Nursing.
These video tapes document Claire Fagin's career from one of her first jobs at Bellevue Hospital on Staten Island New York as a psychiatric nurse for teenage delinquents to her position as the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Highlights of the interview include Fagin's instrumental role in merging mental health and psychiatric nursing and her "rooming in" study on dependency and withdrawal in children in a hospital setting which made Fagin famous.
Also detailed in the interview is Fagin's tenure as head of the nursing school at Lehman College in Bronx, New York--the obstacles that she had to overcome in order to implement her program; the actual implementation of her plans; the healthy conflicts that were a normal part of the job; and finally her reasons for leaving the school to become Dean of the nursing school at Penn. Fagin then describes the nursing school when she first arrived Philadelphia in 1977--a weak nursing faculty, low visibility on campus--and the changes and programs that she instituted such as replacing nursing professors who did not have their doctorate degrees, developing a nursing research center and starting a nursing doctorate degree program.
In addition, Fagin talks about topics such as the type of nurses that she tries to develop, that is, the "political nurse", one who has the skills to change aspects of her environment that she does not like. Also discussed are the affects of the women's movement on nursing and the debate in nursing over whether the bachelor of science degree should be the minimum degree requirement for nursing.
The tapes also provide information about Fagin's personal life such as her marriage, the adoption of her two children, and her attempts to be "superwife" and "supermother".
Claire M. Fagin Oral History Interview, Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.
Fagin, Claire M. Papers, 1926-1992. 10 linear ft.
Claire Fagin received her B.S. from Wagner College School of Nursing in Staten Island, New York (1948), M.A. from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and Ph.D. from New York University (1964). She served as Director of the Graduate Program in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969, and later as chair and professor of the Department of Nursing at the Herbert Lehman College of the City University of New York from 1969 to 1977, during which time she developed a new baccalaureate nursing program that prepared nurses for primary care practice. In 1977 she assumed the position of Dean of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania. Among her many accomplishments are her appointments as President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, member of the Institute of Medicine, advisor for the World Health Organization, and the first female board member of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company. Fagin is the editor of several acclaimed books in the fields of psychiatric and pediatric nursing, including FAMILY CENTERED NURSING IN COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY: TREATMENT IN THE HOME and NURSING IN CHILD PSYCHIATRY. She has written numerous scholarly articles and papers and given many speeches. Fagin retired as dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing in 1991, but still assumes the presidency of the National League of Nursing.
This collection spans Fagin's professional life, including her coursework as a master's and doctoral student, as well as course materials she prepared as a faculty member at Lehman College. Included is an extensive collection of her articles and speeches, illustrating many of Fagin's interests. A good deal of files from her tenure as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing are represented, as well as papers from her tenure as President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Included as well are personal papers and photographs, correspondence, and an interesting chronicle of New York City's West Side Urban Renewal Project through her involvement in her local block association.
Unpublished finding aid in repository. Claire M. Fagin Papers, Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.
Mereness, Dororthy A. Papers, 1910-1991. 3 linear ft.
Entering nursing in 1941, after several years spent teaching upon graduation from Case Western Reserve University, Dorothy Mereness became prominent in the emerging field of psychiatric nursing. She was involved with the early National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and, after completion of graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh, went on to publish articles and textbooks, notably ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING. Mereness also set up a graduate program, of which she was head, at New York University and served as dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Over the course of her career, Dorothy Mereness stressed the importance of psychiatric teams.
This collection includes correspondence, memorabilia, printed material, reports, subject files, speeches, and three dimensional objects documenting her career as a psychiatric nurse, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing, and executive director of the Pennsylvania Nurses' Association, District 1.
Dorothy Ann Mereness Papers, Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.
