Record Accession Number: 1358
First UVA program NURS Second UVA program
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Home town Arlington Home state VA
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Home town classification Suburb
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High school classification Public
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Was your high school co-ed? Yes
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Did you come directly from high school to UVA? No
Comments if not directly from high school U. of Rochester, U. of Colorado
Important activities before coming to UVA
Comments on important activities horticulture
If married, was it before, during, or after UVA? During
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Was your spouse associated with UVA? No
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Mother's first degree B.A. Mother's first college U. of Michigan
Mother's second college Mother's second degree
Mother's third college Mother's third degree
Father's first degree B.S., civil engineering Father's first college
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Why did you choose UVA?
Comments on choice to attend UVA Best nursing school near home
How did you finance UVA?
Comments on financing Parents paid for it
Why did you choose your UVA concentration(s)?
Comments on choice of concentration interested in caring for people
Description of UVA classroom experiences
Comments on classroom experiences Excellent and thorough
Description of UVA professor interactions
Comments on professor interactions Good, but not always understanding of the student's needs - too much emphasis on academics and less on life experiences - such as caring for dying.
Who impacted your life at UVA?
Comments on life impact Patients taught me real life and I appreciated their courage during illness.
Most memorable UVA educational experience
Comments on memorable educational experience Plenty of book learning - excellent theory but too short on actual nursing experience.
UVA weekend activities
Comments on weekend activities With my fiance.
UVA extra-curricular organizations
Comments on extra-curricular organizations None - we were limited to the medical campus.
Important local, state, national, and international issues while at UVA
Comments on important issues People from Appalachia - poverty and poorly educated
How interest in issues was expressed
Comments on how interest was expressed Listened to them when they came to the hospital.
UVA housing
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Likes and dislikes about housing
Comments on likes and dislikes sufficient
Where were meals eaten
Comments on meal location medical hospital cafeteria
Did you interact outside of UVA?
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Memories of Charlottesville
Comments on Charlottesville memories Beautiful.
Did you feel part of UVA community? Did you feel part of community?
Incidents that caused these community feelings We were not supposed to attend classes outside of medical campus.
Vivid UVA memories
Comments on vivid memories I remember working at the hospital Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This is when I understood the real need for caring about people and having to sacrifice myself to their needs. It was a moving experience that I cherish always.
Did marital status affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of marital status I dated my fiance and was married 1 year before graduating in Spring 1960. This gave me purpose and determination to complete my degree.
Did cultural background affect UVA experiences
Comments on influence of cultural background Our class was 100% white Americans. I don't think that was a natural cross section of American students! I would have preferred more cosmopolitan racial and ethnic diversity.
Did UVA prepare you for post-UVA life?
Comments on preparedness In a limited way - lots of theory, the why's behind how to do things. But I yearned for more interpersonal experiences both to feel more confident about nursing and to learn more about how to handle my own emotions better.
Most significant post-UVA events
Comments on most significant event Caring 23 years for my husband as a heart patient. Raising 2 boys as a single parent (age 14,15). Loss of my only sibling (sister) to breast cancer. Learning to stand tall all alone.
Personal factors that affected professional life
Comments on personal factors Raising a family. I did not work outside the home until boys were in college.
Other factors affecting life after the university
Comments on other factors I retreated from conventional nursing. I am now growing organic vegetables for restaurants and learning to be a massge therapist.
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Do you think of yourself as a career woman?
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Barriers faced in work and volunteering
Comments on barriers question Either overqualified or too old to return to nursing. Pyschologically I believe in alternative healing instead of conventional medications, surgical intervention.
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Current employment status
Comments on employment status Greenhouse organic farm vegetable production.
Additional comments Medical Schools and Nursing programs should become more at ease and teach approaches to healing other than the conventional. Help the students explore nutrition - herbal healing, energy and vibrational healing. I believe a review of Eastern medicine and Aryvedic (ancient Indian) medicine along with native Indian shaman and other cultures would broaden the student's outlook. I recall we studied first European history of medicine as if the rest of the world didn't even exist! We now live globally and should not be limited to the ideas of the state of Virginia, East Coast or even U.S. medicine. Prepare new students to accept Asians, Russians, Africans, Hispanics and to understand their cultures.

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