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    Interview with Ruth Stryker-Gordon
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-03) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stryker-Gordon, Ruth
    Ruth Stryker-Gordon begins by discussing her background and why she went into nursing. She describes her experiences as a nursing student at the UMN, as a tuberculosis field nurse with the Minnesota State Health Department and doing TB screening in rural Minnesota. She also discusses her experiences as a school nurse, as a pediatric nurse, as assistant director of nursing at St. Barnabas and introducing ward clerks; working at the Sister Kenny Institute; getting her MA in education; and serving on the Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators. She discusses Katherine Densford; Sister Elizabeth Kenny; her husband, Kenneth Gordon; Lee Stauffer; Edith Leyasmeyer; Robert Kane; Owen Wangensteen; Richard Varco; nurses that worked on Indian Reservations (Bureau of Indian Affairs nurses); male nurses; women of color nurses; women faculty in the School of Public Health; recruiting minority students; and faculty of color. She describes iron lungs; living in Powell Hall as a nursing student; the introduction of penicillin; relations between nurses and physicians; interactions between the Sister Kenny Institute and the UMN Medical School; the Shyamala Rajender Decree and pay discrepancies between male and female faculty; and relations between divisions of the School of Public Health. She discusses changes in nursing in the 1960s; faculty in the School of Public Health at the UMN; developing curriculum in nursing home administration; the Kellogg Centers for long-term care administrative education; the School of Public Health division of Hospital and Health Care Administration, its Independent Study Program, and its Masters in Hospital Administration program; the Public Health Nursing program; nursing homes; and funding and space issues in the School of Public Health.
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