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The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
University of Virginia School of NursingP.O. Box 800782
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0782
mailto:nurs-hxc@virginia.edu
URL: http://www.nursing.virginia.edu/cnhi/
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Biographical / Historical
Kathryn Jaquette graduated from Duke University in 1972 and entered the Cornell University Nurse Practitioner (NP) certificate program, one of the two earliest NP programs in the United States. During this time she participated in the National Health Service Corps, a program that provided educational funding in return for service by health care practitioners. Jaquette worked as a nurse in rural areas of the South for the first part of her service. During her last several months with the Corps, working out of Rockville, Md., Jaquette was assigned to research NP protocols in effect in various areas of the United States. After a period of practice as a family nurse practitioner (FNP), she went on to attend the University of Virginia, obtaining a Masters degree in psychiatric nursing, with a minor in teaching, in 1976. In 1984 Jaquette acquired a midwifery degree at the Frontier School of Nursing. Since 1984 she has been in private practice as an FNP in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of training program protocols, practice protocols, legislative materials, educational pamphlets, journal articles, and newspaper articles related to the nurse practitioner movement in the 1970s. The materials in the Jaquette Papers are the result of her research into NP protocols for the National Health Service, a task assigned by the Service with the intent to use the data to develop a standard NP protocol. After collecting information from NP public health programs around the country, however, the Service concluded that conditions of practice were so variable, and medical practice changed so rapidly, that the establishment of a uniform national NP protocol was not feasible. The papers reflect the state of NP practice in the United States in the 1970s, a period when the NP movement was just beginning and standards were being determined. The nurse practitioner now constitutes a recognized advanced practice nursing specialty, with established professional organizations, certification standards, and standards of practice. The Jaquette Papers help to shed light on the early development of this important nursing specialty.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged into one topical series, reflecting the order in which the material was originally organized.