College of Nursing, School Nurse Practitioner Program Records
Collection
Identifier: Series-0091
This series contains correspondence, grant proposals, memoranda, minutes of meetings, photographs, negatives, slides, a scrapbook, and publications. The records were generated by the College of Nursing. The material in the collection covers the period 1971-1988, with most of the collection dating from 1986-1988.
Correspondence files comprise the bulk of the series. Major correspondents include Lorena Downs, Program Director, Dee Evers, Director, Department of Continuing Education, College of Nursing, and Judith B. Igoe, Director of the School Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Colorado. Other files document various activities of the School Nurse Practitioner Program within the College of Nursing, the School Nurse Achievement Program, the HealthPACT program, the Wellness Center, continuing education brochures, seminars, continuing education units, curriculum, preceptor training, training at health facilities and schools in South Carolina, and consultation with faculty of the University of Colorado's School of Nursing.
Most files are unrestricted. Restricted are those files of students enrolled in the School Nurse Practitioner Program. The restrictions are provided for in the Freedom of Information Act S.C. Code Ann. §30-4-40(a)(2).
The School Nurse Practitioner Program offered at Clemson University was a sixteen-month program of continuing education for nurses interested in delivering primary health care to an underserved and needy population of school age children and adolescents in the southeastern portion of the United States. The need for school-based health care and nurse practitioners was documented by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National School Health Project, 1983. There was no school nurse practitioner training program in the State of South Carolina or elsewhere in the Southeast when Clemson University's College of Nursing was awarded a grant by the Division of Nursing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1985.
Lorena Downs, RN, CPNP, MA, was hired as program director in April, 1986. Judith Igoe, Director of the School Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Colorado, served as consultant. The first class of students was admitted in March 1986 and the second class of students was admitted in March of 1987. Eligibility requirements were for practicing registered nurses with a minimum of three years of work experience who intended to pursue a career in school nursing or college health nursing. A total of 11 students completed the program.
The School Nurse Practitioner Program was terminated September 30, 1988 because funding for the program was not continued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
College of Arts and Sciences
1965 Associate of Arts in Nursing
Director, School of Nursing
1965.1968 Lida Williams
Dean, College of Nursing
1968-1980 Geraldine Labecki
1980-1981 Gloria Tanner (Acting)
1981-1986 Mary Lohr
1987 January Kelly, Mary Ann (Acting)
1987-1995 Opal Hipps
Departments
1968 School of Nursing established July 1
1972 College of Nursing created May 1
1995 School of Nursing restructured
Centers
1978 Wellness Center
Program Directors
1986-1988 Lorena Downs, School Nurse Practitioner Program
3.85 Cubic Feet (consisting mainly of folders, (51) photographs, (74) negatives, (4) slides, (1) scrapbook)
English
This series contains some of the material/records produced by the College of Nursing School Nurse Practitioner Program
The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
This series consists of the following accessions: 89-16 and 89-75
3.85 cubic feet consisting mainly of folders, (51) photographs, (74) negatives, (4) slides, (1) scrapbook
Student assistant Jeannie Nguyen and Archivist III Linda L. Ferry processed this collection. The finding aid was completed in November 2005.
The conversion of this finding aid to Encoded Archival Description format was made possible with a grant from the South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board in 2009-2010. The finding aid was prepared for encoding by Kristi Roberts.
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