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Collection BacJ : Joan Backscheider Collection

Description

Key

154200

Reference Code Element

BacJ

Dates

1955-1972, inclusive

Extent

10 cubic feet (27 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Backscheider, Joan

Administrative/Biographical History

Joan Backscheider was born in 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a BSN from the College of Mount St. Joseph on-the-Ohio in 1956. She earned both her MSN in psychiatric/mental health nursing and her PhD in sociology from The Catholic University of America in 1959 and 1965. Backscheider taught at The Catholic University of America for two years and at Yale University for one year. She was active in the development of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. She was a member of the Nursing Model Committee of the Nursing Faculty of The Catholic University of America and the Nursing Development Conference Group. She served as assistant director of nursing services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as being a staff member at the Center for Experimentation and Development in Nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1969 to 1972. Backscheider died in 1972.

Chronology

staff, Center for Experimentation and Design in Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1969-1972

Scope and Content

The Joan Backscheider Collection consist of correspondence, research, records from her academic and clinical career in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, and her work with Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory. Her teaching and administrative records from the Catholic University of America and Yale University are particularly strong, and reveal Backscheider's interest in reforming nursing education and practice. Her case studies and statistical research conducted at the Connecticut Mental Health Center are a highlight of her work in psychiatric nursing.

Subjects - Name

Personal name, Orem, Dorothea

Subjects

Topic, Nursing Theory

Related Archival Material

Additional material related to Orem's Self-care Deficit Theory of Nursing can be found in the following collections: Dorothea Orem Collection, Sarah E. Allison Collection, and Judy Crews-Hanks Collection.

Administration

Archival Arrangement

Reference codes for folder- or item-level descriptions refer to a physical location in the form of [box number]/[folder number].

Date(s) of Descriptions

2008

Processing Information

The Joan Backscheider Collection is funded through a grant from the Sarah E. Allison Foundation. Nancy McCall and Anthony Dellureficio conducted an initial survey and site visit of the collection. Ruth L. Carver and Michael Miers processed and described the collection under the supervision of Phoebe Evans Letocha. Processing was completed in 2008.

Accession

2005-008

Custodial History

After Backsheider's death in 1972, her family transferred her papers to Dorothea Orem. Orem donated Backsheider's papers to Johns Hopkins along with her own collection.

Composed Of

Found 8 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1- Personal records	49846		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
2- Correspondence	49847		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
3- Consulting Records	49848	1962-1972	Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
4- Nursing Development Conference Group	58320		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
5- Catholic University of America	49849		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
6- Yale University and Connecticut Mental Health Center	49850	1967-1969	Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
7- Papers and Publications	49851		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection
8- Research Materials	49852		Series	CollectionBacJ- Joan Backscheider Collection

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