Browsing by Subject "Public Health Nursing"

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    Interview with Barbara Spradley
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-11-01) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Spradley, Barbara
    Spradley begins by discussing her time in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Spradley describes spending several years in Arkansas while her husband was stationed at Fort Chaffee. She goes on to describe her experiences working as a public health nurse in Washington State. Spradley discusses her husband’s anthropological work and his recruitment to Macalester College, which led to their move to Minnesota. She discusses the tenure process at the University of Minnesota and fighting to have her work publishing textbooks considered as scholarly work by the committee. She discusses some of the politics of the School of Public Health during her time there, including interactions with Henry Blackburn, Barbara Leonard, and others. Spradley also talks about gender equality issues in the School.
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    Interview with Edith Leyasmeyer
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-06-07) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Leyasmeyer, Edith
    Edith Leyasmeyer begins by describing her background and why she went into public health and health care administration. She describes her experiences as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, as director of education programs at Northlands Regional Medical Center, working with the Minnesota Medical Association and Mayo Clinic, as faculty in the School of Public Health (SPH) at the UMN, and in the SPH’s dean’s office. She discusses the Hospital Administration Program, the Area Health Education Center, the Rural Physician Associate Program, the town/gown relationship with the UMN Medical School, SPH funding and budget, relations between divisions in the SPH, space, shift in philosophy in the SPH from a priority on teaching to one on research, relations between the SPH and other health sciences schools, recruitment of minority students and faculty in the SPH, attitudes toward women at UMN, changes in the SPH and the public health field, and HIV/AIDS. She talks about James Hamilton, Neil Vanselow, and other faculty at the UMN.