Browsing by Subject "Graduate nursing education"

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    Interview with A. Marilyn Sime
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-04-15) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Sime, A. Marilyn
    A. Marilyn Sime begins by discussing her background, including her education. She discusses her experiences as a baccalaureate student at the University of Minnesota; working as a nurse at the University Hospital in the late 1950s; working as a nurse in Minot, ND, in the 1950s; her experiences as an instructor at the University of Minnesota; teaching in the baccalaureate program; and her doctoral research. She compares her responsibilities at the different places she worked, particularly Minot and the University Hospital. She describes nursing curriculum changes in the 1960s; technologies she interacted with in the critical care unit; how physicians treated nurses; the efforts of the School of Nursing to secure funding for building Unit F; the concern in the 1960s over the shortage of health care workers; challenge exams for RNs in the 1970s; the Boston University School of Nursing; the rural nursing program at the University of Minnesota; and the Block Nurse Program at the University of Minnesota. She discusses team nursing; faculty organization issues and discontent with Edna Fritz’s leadership; the effects of the School of Nursing being part of the College of Medical Sciences in the 1960s and the changes with the reorganization of the health sciences in the School of Nursing becoming more autonomous in 1970; and relations between the health science units and their faculty after the reorganization. She talks about the practical nursing program; changes in the graduate nursing curriculum and the development of doctoral program; funding; issues of gender; the women’s health movement; the development of the nurse midwifery program; the public health nursing program; the relationship between the University Hospital and the School of Nursing; the Minnesota Nursing Association, the American Nursing Association, and the National League of Nursing; and nurse practitioners. She remembers Katherine Densford, Edna Fritz, Isabel Harris, Irene Ramey, and Lyle French.
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    Interview with Barbara Leonard
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-10-20) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Leonard, Barbara
    Dr. Barbara Leonard begins her interview by discussing her education and her interest in public health nursing. In particular, she describes her early experiences with vaccination and her clinical rotations in college. She then reflects on her work toward a master’s degree in public health at the University of Minnesota, including her coursework, mentors, the creation of the Public Health Nurse Practitioner Program, and the changes to and restructuring of nursing programs in the School of Public Health. She also discusses the following: the impact of the Rajender Consent Decree, relations between the School of Public Health and the School of Nursing; curriculum reform within the School of Nursing; the positioning of nursing programs within the School of Public Health; the favorable economic position of the health sciences in the 1960s and 1970s; and knowledge and skills-based competition among healthcare professionals. The interview then turns toward the following topics: Lee Stauffer as dean of the School of Public Health; transitions in the scope of public health regarding prevention and healthcare delivery; relations among divisions within the School of Public Health; the leadership of Alma Sparrow; her pursuit of a Ph.D. in Healthcare Administration; and her interests in maternal and child health and particularly children with chronic disease.
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    Interview with Dianne Bartels
    (University of Minnesota, 2013-06-21) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Bartels, Dianne
    Dr. Dianne Bartels begins her interview by describing her interest in healthcare and her experiences in nursing school and as a nurse at University of Minnesota Hospital. In relation to her work as a nurse at University Hospital, she reviews medical technologies, relations among different members of the staff, Florence Julian and Marie Manthey’s leadership, the development of primary nursing, and the relations between nursing staff at the Hospital and the School of Nursing. Dr. Bartels then discusses all of the following topics in relation to her career in nursing: her time at Mary Crest College in Davenport, IA and the University of Washington; her return to Minnesota as associate director at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park; concerns about nursing shortages; her experiences as associate director at University of Minnesota Hospital; the push for a doctoral program in the School of Nursing; the emergence of Diagnosis-Related Groups; issues around nursing unions; the emergence of HIV-AIDS; abortion services at University Hospital; and the effects of budget constraints on the creation of new programs. In relation to her work at the Center for Bioethics (the Center for Biomedical Ethics at its inception in 1985), Dr. Bartels covers the following topics: the creation and funding of the Center; Dr. Paul Quie’s leadership; the responsibilities and functions of the Center; the placement of the Center in the AHC rather than the Medical School; major bioethical issues the Center faced; her own leadership within the Center; Art Caplan as director of the Center; Jeffrey Kahn as director of the Center; her doctoral research; and ethical issues in genetics and genetic counseling. She concludes with a reflection on the expansion of the Center for Bioethics.
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    Interview with Ida Martinson
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-07-07) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Martinson, Ida
    Ida Martinson begins by discussing her background, including her education and why she became a nurse. She discusses working at St. Luke’s Hospital as a diploma student, working with Christian Family Service Center, studying tuberculosis nursing in Japan as part of the University of Minnesota Student Project for Amity among Nations, going to the University of Illinois for her Ph.D., working in the University of Minnesota School of Nursing as faculty, and going to the University of California, San Francisco. She describes relations between nurses and physicians; the medical technologies she interacted with at St. Luke’s Hospital; and having a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Physiology and in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. Other topics discussed include relations between diploma and baccalaureate nurses; interactions between the School of Nursing and other health sciences schools at the University of Minnesota; interactions with insurance companies; her research in Asia; the building of Unit F; regional planning and nursing workforce in the 1970s; and the Midwest Nursing Research Group. Martinson describes her research, including her doctoral research, doing research in Taiwan, and the Home Care for the Dying Child Project. She discusses doing clinical work when she was a baccalaureate student; School of Nursing curriculum revisions; concern over the shortage of health care workers in the 1960s; the federal Nurse Scientist Program; the School of Nursing’s efforts to develop a nursing doctoral program during the 1970s and early 1980s; the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970; public health nursing; sabbaticals; working with the Human Subjects Research Committee; her work in China; nurse practitioners; the Nurse Midwifery Program; the Program for Human Sexuality and attending a Sexual Attitude Reassessment; efforts by the health sciences faculty to establish a health sciences bargaining unit; the development of the 4 Block Nurse Program; and a nursing exchange program with China. She talks about the faculty at the University of Minnesota while she was a student, Katherine Densford, and other School of Nursing deans.
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    Interview with Lee Stauffer
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-08) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stauffer, Lee
    Lee Stauffer begins by discussing his background, including his education and employment history. He describes his experiences working for Gaylord Anderson, becoming dean of the UMN School of Public Health, working as a sanitarian, inspecting student housing for the UMN, as assistant to the public health engineer, as a student in the School of Public Health, and as dean of the School of Public Health. He discusses Gaylord Anderson, Lyle French, Richard Bond, Ancel Keys, Robert Howard, Alma Sparrow, Henry Blackburn, Richard Chilgren, Edith Leyasmeyer, and Neal Vanselow. He describes the School of Public Health in the 1950s and 1960s; the Environmental Health summer institute courses and the ground water development training program; the relationship between divisions in the School of Public Health; the position of the School of Public Health within the College of Medical Sciences; space; funding; concern about a shortage of health care workers in the 1950s and 1960s and federal support to increase enrollment in the School of Public Health; the controversy about the salary difference between himself and the dean of the School of Nursing, Isabel Harris; the nursing Ph.D. program; the public health nursing program; the Rural Health Care Committee; the state legislature; the Department of Family Practice and Community Health; continuing medical education; the Medical School’s relationship with private practitioners; the health sciences reorganization in 1970; the effort to establish a School of Allied Health; the environmental activism movement and activism on campus during the 1960s and 1970s; the Pilot City Health Project; the Program in Human Sexuality; the Center for Health Services Research; the focus on health care delivery in the 1970s; budget retrenchment in the late 1970s/early 1980s; the public health administration program; and recruiting minority students.
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    Interview with Mitzi Duxbury
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-11-04) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Duxbury, Mitzi
    Mitzi Duxbury begins by describing her background, including her education and why she went into nursing. She discusses her experiences as a nursing diploma student; working at Cook County Hospital as a diploma student; and working as a nurse at Fort Riley Hospital in Kansas and at the Washington, D.C. General Hospital. She also describes her experiences as a baccalaureate student at the University of Wisconsin, working at the March of Dimes; and as assistant dean for graduate students at the University of Minnesota. She describes her graduate work; relations between nurses and doctors in the different hospitals in which she worked; the techniques and technologies she worked with as a nurse; developing contracts with North Dakota University for the UMN School of Nursing; the building of Unit F; lobbying for the School of Nursing budget at the state Legislature; and working with the World Health Organization. She discusses midwifery as a nursing specialty; nursing autonomy; the efforts to establish a Ph.D. program in nursing at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing; faculty research and funding; and the Committee for Long Range Planning for the School of Nursing. She also discusses how gender affected her career, and the health care systems of different countries. She talks about Irene Ramey, Ellen Fahey, Lyle French, and other School of Nursing faculty.
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    Interview with Sandra Edwardson
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-05-30) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Edwardson, Sandra
    Sandra Edwardson begins by describing her upbringing and education in Minnesota, followed by her pursuit of a graduate degree in nursing, and her reasons for entering the nursing field, particularly maternal and child nursing. She then discusses nursing shortages, working as a nurse for the Indian Health Service in Mississippi during the Civil Rights era, and contrasts the treatment of Native Americans in Mississippi and Minnesota. Edwardson goes on to describe moving back to Minnesota where she taught at Saint Olaf College for a number of years and then decided to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in Hospital and Healthcare Administration. As part of her recollections surrounding her experience as a Ph.D. student, she describes the environment for women, her work with Dr. Vernon Weckworth as her advisor, and her dissertation research on Homecare for the Dying Child. She then covers the following topics: becoming an instructor in the Independent Study Program, becoming an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, the creation of a doctoral program in nursing at the University and doctoral education in nursing at large, teaching in the Nursing Administration program, working with the Institutional Review Board, and obtaining both research and building funding. She discusses the deanships of Inez Hinzvark and Ellen Fahy, her experience as assistant dean under Fahy, conflicting attitudes regarding nursing philosophies within the School of Nursing, regional planning for nursing, retrenchment and planning strategies at the University, the creation of the Master of Nursing degree at the University of Minnesota, the creation of the National Institute for Nursing Research, the transfer of the public health nursing program from the School of Public Health to the School of Nursing, her transition to interim dean and later to dean, the Rajender Consent Decree, and then her move from associate to full professor. She goes on to describe the tenures of some of the vice presidents of the Academic Health Center and particularly Frank Cerra’s creation of the Dean’s Council, collaboration within the health sciences, community research projects, the recruitment of minority students, the creation of a nurse practitioner program in the School of Nursing, the relationship between the School of Nursing and the University hospitals, the development of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, and her relationship with the Regents, the University president, and the State Legislature.
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    Interview with Vernon Weckwerth
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Weckwerth, Vernon
    Vernon Weckwerth begins his interview by discussing his upbringing during the Great Depression near the Red River Valley of Minnesota, his early education, and the rather circuitous route he took to the University of Minnesota. He discusses his graduate education, his return to Minnesota, and his professorship in health care administration in the School of Public Health. Weckwerth highlights some of his work in hospital administration within the context of the University’s land-grant mission and the creation of the Independent Study Program (ISP) to serve rural populations. As he relates his creation of ISP, Weckwerth elaborates on his educational philosophy and town/gown issues. Though his degrees were not in public health, Weckwerth took all of the public health courses offered by the University. He relates his interest in public health in terms of his rural upbringing and how he entered the field professionally. He then discusses the leadership of Gaylord Anderson, Lee Stauffer, and Edith Leyasmeyer in the School of Public Health. He also covers the following: his interpretation of dean appointments, his philosophy of public health as a field, the relationship of the School of Public Health to other departments, biostatistics, his role in the national heart study, the creation of the family practice program, the reorganization of the AHC, his experiences with the state legislature and community and professional organizations, his role in creating a doctoral program in nursing, the spread and closing of ISP, and his time on the faculty senate.