Descriptive Summary
Repository: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Title: Lois Miller Pilch Collection
Physical Characteristics: 1.25 linear feet; 03 boxes
Language: English
Collector: Lois Miller Pilch, donated by Pilch's daughter Tamara G. Pilch.
Biographical Information
Edna Lois (Miller) Pilch (1913-2000) was a 1934 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Nursing with a career specialization in public health nursing and maternal-child health. After a number of years as a private duty nurse and a clinical instructor in obstetrics, Pilch joined the Washington, D.C. Department of Public Health, Bureau of Nursing, in 1948. She remained associated with the department in several capacities -- as a staff nurse, director of services, or consultant -- for 33 years, retiring in 1981.
In addition to her degree from Virginia, Pilch earned a BS in public health nursing from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1952, and a Master's in nursing, also from Catholic University, in 1963, majoring there in public health nursing service administration. Pilch quickly assumed leadership roles for various D.C. Public Health Department projects and divisions, including development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of services for physically and mentally challenged children, and for the constellation of specialty adolescent health programs offered at the newly organized D.C. Children's Hospital Adolescent Clinic. Pilch wrote a number of program and procedure manuals, program evaluations, grant applications, and biographical essays, and gave many papers throughout her career. She published an article for the ANA Clinical Conferences Monograph Series (5: 24-33, 1965) titled: "A Multidisciplinary Approach to a School-Centered Rehabilitation Program for Pregnant School-Age Girls." She was widely recognized as an excellent teacher.
Scope and Content
The majority of the Lois Miller Pilch Collection contains materials written and assembled by Pilch during her long career with the Washington, D.C. Department of Public Health, from 1948 to 1981. Subject areas concern public services for adolescent health and for children with mental and physical disabilities. Global-level program descriptions and reviews complement documentation generated by daily operations. Of particular interest here are case reports describing individuals and family circumstances; use of these items is restricted to IRB-certified researchers.
The collection also contains Pilch's student papers, her master's thesis, professional reports and presentations, and a range of pamphlets and publications concerning maternal, child, and adolescent health. Two charting notebooks used in hospital service from 1937 and 1939 detail medications, treatment regimes, and remarks for identified patients; use of these items is restricted to IRB-certified researchers as well.
Series Description
Pilch's curriculum vitae and student materials occupy the collection's initial folders, followed by various items in chronological order to 1965. The Box-02 folders reproduce Pilch's organization of three distinct notebooks containing materials on: 1) the Washington, D.C. Children's Hospital Adolescent Clinic, 1964; 2) D.C. Public Health Department materials on child mental retardation, bulk 1966-67; and 3) D.C. Public Health Department materials on crippled children, 1976. Box 03 contains a chronological arrangement of various items generated by Pilch in the latter part of her career, followed by a publications series. The final three folders of the collection contain the restricted items.
Contents List
LOIS MILLER PILCH: CURRICULUM VITAE, CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING DONATION (CONTAINS PAMPHLET WITH IMAGE OF PILCH, 1938, AND IMPRINTED STATIONERY)
ca. 1980, 2005, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-001
"EDNA LOIS MILLER:" STUDENT NOTEBOOK – "NOTES ON PRACTICAL NURSING," LOCATION UNIDENTIFIED
n.d. Box-Folder: 01-002
LOIS M. PILCH: STUDENT PAPERS
1951-1962 Box-Folder: 01-003
LOIS M. PILCH: STUDENT PAPERS
1963, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-004
LOIS M. PILCH: MASTER'S THESIS "PERSONNEL HEALTH POLICIES THAT EXIST IN GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES WHICH AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES"
1963 Box-Folder: 01-005
MATERIALS CONCERNING SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM
[1952, 1955], 1958 Box-Folder: 01-006
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF NURSING, INTAKE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
1954/10/21 Box-Folder: 01-007
VARIOUS ITEMS CONCERNING TRAINING MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
1957-1970, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-008
WASHINGTON, D.C.: MATERIALS CONCERNING THE PILOT SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN
ca. 1958. Box-Folder: 01-009
TUBERCULOSIS REGISTRY FORMS (BLANK) AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION
ca. 1960, 1964 Box-Folder: 01-010
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH: MATERIALS CONCERNING MENTAL RETARDATION CLINIC
1960-67 Box-Folder: 01-011
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH: MATERIALS CONCERNING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SCREENING FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
1961-67, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-012
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: REPORTS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR REPORTS
1963, 1965, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-013
LOIS M. PILCH: CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING HER "NURSING OUTLOOK" JOURNAL ARTICLE
1964/06/19-1964/10/16 Box-Folder: 01-014
MATERIALS CONCERNING TEENAGE PREGNANCY STUDY
1964 Box-Folder: 01-015
LOIS M. PILCH: REPORT ON CYSTIC FIBROSIS IN-SERVICE PROGRAM
1965/05/24 Box-Folder: 01-016
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ADOLESCENT CLINIC MATERIALS, ORGANIZED BY PILCH
1964 Box-Folder: 02-001
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ADOLESCENT CLINIC MATERIALS, ORGANIZED BY PILCH
1964 Box-Folder: 02-002
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TABS 1-5
1966-67 Box-Folder: 02-003
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TABS 6-8
1965-67 Box-Folder: 02-004
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TABS 9-10
1966-1975 Box-Folder: 02-005
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TAB 11, INCOMPLETE
1966-67 Box-Folder: 02-006
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TABS 12-15
1950-1980 Box-Folder: 02-007
"D.C. STATE HEALTH PLAN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 1976," AND "MANUAL OF CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SERVICES," BY LOIS M. PILCH, pp. i - 133
1976 Box-Folder: 02-008
"D.C. STATE HEALTH PLAN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 1976," AND "MANUAL OF CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S SERVICES," BY LOIS M. PILCH, pp. 134 - END
1976 Box-Folder: 02-009
REPORTS ON SERVICES FOR SCHOOL-AGED MOTHERS, CRIPPLED CHILDREN, IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
1970-71, 1980 Box-Folder: 03-001
BIOGRAPHIES OF NURSING LEADERS, BY LOIS M. PILCH: 1) MARGARET McLAUGHLIN, 2) JOSEPHINE PITMAN PRESCOTT, 3) EDITH ALDRIDGE, 4) PEARL McIVER, 5) RUTH A. HEINTZELMAN, 6) SISTER M. OLIVIA GOWAN
1972-76 Box-Folder: 03-002
PAPERS BY LOIS M. PILCH
1975-1981 Box-Folder: 03-003
PUBLICATIONS: MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS
1937-1953 Box-Folder: 03-004
PUBLICATIONS: MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS
1961-1972, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-005
PUBLICATIONS: MATERNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION, "MATERNITY CARE IN PICTURES: A PORTFOLIO OF 31 TEACHING CHARTS SHOWING SAFE MATERNITY CARE" (NEW YORK: M.C.A., 1939)
1939 Box-Folder: 03-006
"MILESTONES OF MODERN MEDICINE," (LANCASTER, PA: EDUCATORS' MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, [1955])
ca. 1955 Box-Folder: 03-007
RESTRICTED ITEM.
IRB CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR CONSULTATION.
LOIS M. PILCH: NURSES' RECORD BOOKS (2), WITH BLANK RECORD FORMS
1937, 1939 Box-Folder: 03-008
RESTRICTED ITEM.
IRB CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR CONSULTATION.
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ADOLESCENT CLINIC MATERIALS, ORGANIZED BY PILCH. FIVE ITEMS AS MARKED CONTAINING PATIENT INFORMATION
1964 Box-Folder: 03-009
RESTRICTED ITEM.
IRB CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR CONSULTATION.
WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING CONSULTANT IN MENTAL RETARDATION, MATERIALS ORGANIZED BY PILCH, TAB 5: CASE REPORTS FOR MENTAL RETARDATION CLINIC REFERRALS
1966-67 Box-Folder: 03-010
Notes
Access
Institutional Review Board certification required for examination of materials containing patient information. Otherwise, no restrictions apply.
Use Restrictions
No identifying patient information may be released.
Preferred Citation
University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Lois Miller Pilch Collection
Processing Information
Processed by Henry K. Sharp in December 2014.