Descriptive Summary
Repository: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Title: Arlene W. Keeling Collection
Physical Characteristics: 2 linear feet; 4 boxes
Language: English
Collector: Arlene W. Keeling.
Biographical Information
Arlene Wynbeek Keeling, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing Emerita at the University of Virginia School of Nursing and a former director of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. Dr. Keeling joined the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Nursing in 1992, becoming Associate Director of the Center that year. She is a former chair of the School of Nursing's Acute and Specialty Care Department and former coordinator of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program. A member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Keeling also served as president of the American Association for the History of Nursing.
Dr. Keeling graduated from the Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing, in Montclair, New Jersey, and subsequently pursued her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in nursing from the University of Virginia. Over these years, she perfected a specialty in acute coronary care nursing, and in this capacity undertook a series of major research studies involving recovery times after invasive cardiac procedures, published in Applied Nursing Research in 1994, The American Journal of Critical Care in 1996, 2000, and 2004, and in Pacing Clinical Electrophysiology in 2000. In addition to numerous other scientific topics, Dr. Keeling's research interests, publications, and presentations encompass nursing history and women's studies. Her book Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000 won the 2007 American Association for the History of Nursing Lavania L. Dock award for exemplary historical research and writing. In 2010, Keeling published, with two faculty colleagues, Barbara Brodie and John Kirchgessner, The Voice of Professional Nursing Education: A 40-year History of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. And with Barbra Mann Wall, she served as co-editor and contributing author for Nurses on the Front Line: When Disaster Strikes, 1878-2010, where she examined the 1918 influenza epidemic in Boston. The University of Virginia Nursing Alumni Association awarded Dr. Keeling the Distinguished Professor Award in 2000 and the Faculty Leadership Award in 2005.
Scope and Content
The Arlene W. Keeling Collection contains a limited number of professional and personal materials assembled by Dr. Keeling over her career. These principally concern her coronary care time-in-bed-study research data, and interview transcripts relative to a history of coronary care nursing, 1962-1975, including items from the Bethany Hospital Coronary Care Unit (Kansas City, KS). Related items are cardiac nursing patient teaching materials, American Heart Association program materials, and American College of Cardiology brochures. Correspondence files and Publication/Presentation records illustrate Keeling's professional interests. A sizeable collection of photographs documents various professional events, among them the University of Virginia Nursing School centennial, as well as a trip to England for a nursing conference. Also included are copy photographs used in various publications, and two yearbooks from the Mountainview School of Nursing.
Of particular importance to nursing history researchers is a collection of original manuscript materials, prints and photographs which Dr. Keeling has acquired for use in Bjoring Center exhibitions, presentations, and research projects. These include late-nineteenth to early-twentieth-century materials concerning nursing practice and medical treatments, including images of nurses, in addition to a group of original prescription orders made in 1893 and 1904 in Portland, Maine. Military nursing is represented in two Civil-War era Sanitary Board reports, and in a variety of World-War-One and World-War-Two era items, including post cards, a poster, and newspaper articles. Other materials suitable for teaching the history of nursing round out the collection, including a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century artifacts.
Series Description
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in four standard manuscript boxes, with references to artifact donations and oversize images shelved elsewhere. Box 01 contains materials concerning professional activities and research, organized by subject heading. Box 02 contains personal and professional photographs, as well as the Mountainview Hospital School of Nursing yearbooks. Box 03 contains Keeling's Nursing History Collection, organized by subject heading or general identification. Box 04 contains the Coronary Care Unit Study materials: grant application, data analysis, bibliography and reprints, and, finally, the two folders of restricted items containing patient information.
Contents List
ALL-UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARD, NOMINATION PORTFOLIO
1995 Box-Folder: 01-001
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY BROCHURES
1969, 1971 Box-Folder: 01-002
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION HEART PARTNERS PROGRAM
1996 Box-Folder: 01-003
BETHANY HOSPITAL, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, CORONARY CARE UNIT
1962-1992, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-004
CARDIAC NURSING MATERIALS
1981-84, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-005
CARDIOLOGY: LOCKHART McGUIRE, M.D., PHOTOGRAPH AND OBITUARY
1991, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-006
CENTENNIAL OF THE SCHOOL OF NURSING: VARIOUS ITEMS, INCLUDING THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF NURSING 2001 CONFERENCE MATERIALS, REPRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES, ART EXHIBITION ITEMS
1999-2001 Box-Folder: 01-007
CORRESPONDENCE
1992-2000 Box-Folder: 01-008
HISTORY OF CORONARY CARE NURSING, 1962-1975: CONSENT FORMS, INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS, CORRESPONDENCE
2000-01 Box-Folder: 01-009
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
1975-2006, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-010
PUBLICATIONS CONCERNING DR. KEELING
1992-2004 Box-Folder: 01-011
PHOTOGRAPHS: PERSONAL, EARLY: MOUNTAINVIEW HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING, MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY
1969, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-001
PHOTOGRAPHS: PERSONAL, LATER
1992-2002, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-002
PHOTOGRAPHS: PUBLICATIONS: FOR CHITTY, ED. "PROFESSIONAL NURSING," AND OTHERS
1955-1999, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-003
PHOTOGRAPHS: SCHOOL OF NURSING FACULTY: ACUTE CARE DIVISION
2002 Box-Folder: 02-004
PHOTOGRAPHS: SCHOOL OF NURSING: RESEARCH CLASS; NURSING HISTORY AWARDS
1995, 2002 Box-Folder: 02-005
PHOTOGRAPHS: TRAVEL TO ENGLAND
X Box-Folder: 02-006
YEARBOOK: "VIGIL," MOUNTAINSIDE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING, MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY
[1968] Box-Folder: 02-007
YEARBOOK: "VIGIL," MOUNTAINSIDE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING, MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY
1969 Box-Folder: 02-008
PLAQUE FROM THE HARTFORD CORONARY CARE UNIT
1985 Box-Folder: 02-009
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: HOME CARE NURSING PAMPHLET
ca. 1930 Box-Folder: 03-001
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: NURSE'S RECORD BOOK, MYRTLE STEVENS, ILLINOIS LOCATION
1917-19, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-002
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PHILATELY
1948-1995 Box-Folder: 03-003
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PRESCRIPTIONS (PORTLAND, MAINE)
1893, 1904 Box-Folder: 03-004
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PRINT OF SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS, PHOTOGRAPH OF WOMAN AND CHILD
1881, ca. 1910 Box-Folder: 03-005
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF NURSES
1893-95, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-006
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: [U.S.] SANITARY COMMISSION REPORTS, NUMBERS 38 AND 39
1861, 1862 Box-Folder: 03-007
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: TEACHING MATERIALS: IMAGES OF 1) POCKET PROCEDURE MANUAL FROM 1927, 2) OREGON TRAIL, 3) CALENDAR ART: "NURSING, THE FINEST ART". Box-Folder: 03-008
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: VIRGINIA BOARD OF NURSING CENTENNIAL PAMPHLET
2003 Box-Folder: 03-009
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: WORLD WAR ONE ERA PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS, PLUS MODERN PRINT OF POEM "IN FLANDERS' FIELD"
ca. 1916-19, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-010
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: WORLD WAR TWO ERA MATERIALS: POSTCARDS, CHEST X-RAY POSTER, CADET NURSE REUNION, NEWSPAPER STORIES
ca. 1940-44, 1993, 2003-05 Box-Folder: 03-011
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PROGRAMS (2) OF THE TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NURSING HISTORY
1993/10/1-3 Box-Folder: 03-012
NURSING HISTORY MATERIALS: PHOTOGRAPH OF HOSPITAL BASSINETS, ONE WITH INFANT, ca. 1950; CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENT COMPANY CARDIOSCOPE INFORMATION, NEWSPAPER ARTICLE REPRINTS, 1952-53
ca. 1950, 1952-53 Box-Folder: 03-013
CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: GRANT APPLICATION
1998 Box-Folder: 04-001
CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: DATA ANALYSIS, DRAFT ONE
[2000] Box-Folder: 04-002
CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: DATA ANALYSIS, DRAFTS TWO AND THREE
[2000, 2001] Box-Folder: 04-003
CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: DATA ANALYSIS
2000-01 Box-Folder: 04-004
CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: BIBLIOGRAPHY, REPRINTS
1962-1988, n.d. Box-Folder: 04-005
RESTRICTED MATERIALS, I.R.B. APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR CONSULTATION: CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: PATIENT INFORMATION DATA SET
1998 Box-Folder: 04-006
RESTRICTED MATERIALS, I.R.B. APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR CONSULTATION: CORONARY CARE UNIT RESEARCH PROJECT: PATIENT INFORMATION DATA SET
1998 Box-Folder: 04-007
REFERENCES TO ITEMS SHELVED IN OVERSIZE COLLECTIONS:
Oversize Series 1, Early Photographs (before ca. 1930):
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE NEW HAVEN, CT. RED CROSS CANTEEN AT THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN, AND HARTFORD RAILROAD YARD, NEW HAVEN, CT.
ca. 1917 Series-Folder-Item: 01-07-007
PHOTOGRAPH OF THREE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN SEATED BY A WOOD STOVE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
ca. 1925 Series-Folder-Item: 01-10-010
Oversize Series 4, Prints, Certificates and Diplomas:
ADVERTISEMENTS: BORDEN'S EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1918 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-006
ADVERTISEMENTS: BORDEN'S EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1920 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-007
ADVERTISEMENTS: PET EVAPORATED MILK. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1923 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-008.1
ADVERTISEMENTS: PET EVAPORATED MILK. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1923 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-008.2
ADVERTISEMENTS: PET EVAPORATED MILK. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1923 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-009
ADVERTISEMENTS: PET EVAPORATED MILK, SHOWING BABY AND BOTTLES. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
ca. 1927 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-010
ADVERTISEMENTS: PET EVAPORATED MILK, SHOWING DOCTOR ON HOUSECALL AND BABY BOTTLES. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1928 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-011
ADVERTISEMENTS: CARNATION IRRADIATED EVAPORATED MILK, SHOWING NURSE AND QUADRUPLETS. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1941 Series-Folder-Item: 04-03-012
VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL, HILTON HEAD, SC, EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR, FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY? DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
ca. 1862 Series-Folder-Item: 04-04-001
"'PILGRIMS ON THE PLAINS,' SKETCHED BY THEO. R. DAVIS,' FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY, SHOWING NURSE CONSULTING WITH MOTHER HOLDING CHILD. DONATION OF ARLENE KEELING.
1869-06-12 Series-Folder-Item: 04-04-002
PHOTOGRAPH, BLACK AND WHITE, (FRAMED) OF C. H. MAYO AND W. J. MAYO (MARKED: "METHODIST-KAHLER SCHOOL OF NURSING, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, BOX 654, ROCHESTER, MN. 55903"). DIMENSIONS:14.75 x 11.5.
ca. 1930 Framed, in vertical storage under workroom table.
PHOTOGRAPH, BLACK AND WHITE, (FRAMED) OF NURSES AND CHILDREN AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, GREAT ORMOND STREET, LONDON, DURING WORLD WAR TWO
ca. 1940 Oversize Photograph Box
PHOTOGRAPH OF NURSE AND INFANT IN A REFUGEE CENTER IN LONDON, DURING WORLD WAR TWO
ca. 1940 Framed
Notes
Administrative Information
Access
No Restrictions for boxes 01-03 and box 04 folders 001-005. Box 04 folders 006 and 007 contain patient information; researchers must obtain I.R.B. approval prior to consultation.
Use Restrictions
No Restrictions for boxes 01-03 and box 04 folders 001-005. H.I.P.P.A. regulations limit use of the information contained in box 04 folders 006 and 007.
Preferred Citation
University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Arlene W. Keeling Collection
Processing Information
Processed by Henry K. Sharp in 2012.