Descriptive Summary

Repository:  University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

Title: Janet Colaizzi Collection

Physical Characteristics: 0.75 linear feet; 02 boxes

Language: English

Collector: Janet Colaizzi.

Biographical Information

Janet Colaizzi (b. 1936) received a B.A. in Nursing and Philosophy in 1964 and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology and Philosophy in 1966, both from Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. She earned a doctorate in history from Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1983. Dr. Colaizzi's career spans both teaching and professional practice. As an assistant professor at Duquesne University and subsequently at Ohio Wesleyan University, she taught psychiatric nursing for eight years. Later in her career, she joined the faculties of Christopher Newport University and Saint Leo University, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, where she taught history and philosophy courses for more than a decade. Dr. Colaizzi's activities as a practitioner began in 1983 with positions at both the community and university levels. She coordinated the psychiatric inpatient treatment team at the Charles B. Mills Mental Health Center, in Marysville, Ohio, and supervised professional staff at the Upham Hall Psychiatric Hospital of Ohio State University. In 1986, Dr. Colaizzi moved to Virginia and continued work as a psychiatric nurse clinician at Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital in Williamsburg, where she also served as nursing education coordinator.

Dr. Colaizzi has made numerous presentations concerning the current theories and history of psychiatric practice, and has reviewed monographs, published journal articles, and authored two books: Homicidal Insanity: 1800-1985, published by the University of Alabama Press in 1989, and an institutional history released in 2006: The Unfortunates Committed to Our Care: The History of Eastern State Hospital, Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1865.

Scope and Content

The bulk of the Janet Colaizzi Collection concerns activities, programs, and psychiatric nursing administration at Eastern State Hospital, the Commonwealth of Virginia's mental health facility in Williamsburg. Of particular importance are a series of professional staff manuals relating treatment standards and philosophies at the hospital, which offer a good overview of mental health care in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s. Also of interest is a patient handbook from 1964; materials concerning nursing staffing, organization, and orientation; and details of a patient token economy program, designed to promote patient responsibility and self-discipline. The remainder of the collection contains materials of a more general nature relative to psychiatric nursing, including manuals, a textbook, and other publications on psychiatric nursing practice and the development of professional standards. The period covered runs from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Series Description

Arrangement
The Janet Colaizzi Collection consists of two groups of materials: items specific to Eastern State Hospital and items concerning psychiatric nursing more generally.  These are arranged in alphabetical order by subject heading within the two groups.

Contents List

JANET COLAIZZI - CURRICULUM VITAE, RECOMMENDATION LETTER
2012   Box-Folder:  01-001

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: ADOLESCENT UNIT RULES
n.d.   Box-Folder:  01-002 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: ANNUAL REPORTS
1979, 1980   Box-Folder:  01-003 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS, BIOGRAPHIES IN NEWSLETTER (INCOMPLETE)
n.d.   Box-Folder:  01-004 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES, DUTIES AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
1964-69, 1981   Box-Folder:  01-005 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: MANUALS: ATTENDANT TRAINING MANUAL
1968/11/20   Box-Folder:  01-006 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: MANUALS: NURSING SERVICE ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL
1970/09   Box-Folder:  01-007 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: MANUALS: WARD MANUAL
1954-1979.   Box-Folder:  01-008 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: MEETING MINUTES: ADOLESCENT UNIT TEAM
1974/08/19-21   Box-Folder:  01-009 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
1986/05/01-02   Box-Folder:  01-010 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: NURSING STAFF: ASSIGNMENTS AND NURSING OFFICE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
1970s, 1980   Box-Folder:  01-011 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: PATIENT HANDBOOK
ca. 1964   Box-Folder:  01-012 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS, FACTS
1972-1989   Box-Folder:  01-013 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: PSYCHIATRIC NURSING STANDARDS
1982/07   Box-Folder:  01-014 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: REGISTERED NURSE ORIENTATION
n.d.   Box-Folder:  01-015 

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL MATERIALS: TOKEN ECONOMY PROGRAM
1968-1972   Box-Folder:  01-016 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: BROCHURES
1969-1973   Box-Folder:  01-017 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: CONFERENCE PAPERS:
1) COMMUNICATION IN THE HELPING PROCESS IN NURSING
2) MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER CONFERENCE ON RIGHTS, EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP
1965/02/15-18, 1988/04/21   Box-Folder:  01-018 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: MANUALS: "A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR NURSING SERVICE PERSONNEL," VA DEPT OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND HOSPITALS
1972   Box-Folder:  01-019 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: MANUALS: "A NURSING SERVICE MANUAL," VA DEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION
1978   Box-Folder:  01-020 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: MANUALS: "EXPERIENCING THE PATIENT'S DAY, A MANUAL FOR PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL PERSONNEL," BY ROBERT W. HYDE, MD, BOSTON PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
1983   Box-Folder:  01-021 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: MANUALS: "PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, A BASIC MANUAL," BY ANNIE LAURIE CRAWFORD, RN, BS, MEd, AND BARBARA BORING BUCHANAN, RN, BS, MS
1966   Box-Folder:  02-001 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: REPRINTS:

  1. STAFF, AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, (JAN/FEB 1968)
  2. MENTAL HEALTH IN VIRGINIA, (MAR/APR 1972)
  3. THE SCOPE OF NURSING PRACTICE, AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION, 1987

1968, 1972, 1987   Box-Folder:  02-002 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: TEXTBOOK: "PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, SYLLABUS AND WORKBOOK FOR STUDENT NURSES," BY LENORE KIMBALL, RN, BS
1962   Box-Folder:  02-003 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: TRAINING PROGRAMS, VA DEPT OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND HOSPITALS, INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM:
1) REPORT NO. 2 "SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES IN WORKING WITH PATIENTS AND FAMILIES"

2) REPORT NO. 3 "EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS"
1966, 1967   Box-Folder:  02-004 

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING MATERIALS: TRAINING PROGRAMS, VA DEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION: MEMORANDA AND A MANUAL CONCERNING ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION
1979-1984   Box-Folder:  02-005

Notes

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Preferred Citation: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Janet Colaizzi Collection

Processing Information: Processed by Henry K. Sharp in 2012.