Jean Sorrells-Jones - University of Virginia Medical Center Division of Nursing Collection, 1985/2000

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Preferred citation:

University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Jean Sorrells-Jones - University of Virginia Medical Center Division of Nursing Collection

Summary

Extent:
11.5 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Jean Sorrells-Jones - University of Virginia Medical Center Division of Nursing Collection

Background

Scope and content:

The collection is composed of records from the Division of Nursing during Jean Sorrells-Jones tenure from 1987 to 1997. These include meeting minutes, correspondence, proposals, project notes, planning documents, policy records and more.

Biographical / historical:

Jean Sorrells-Jones has been a leader in nursing education, community health and clinical nursing practice. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and holds bachelor's and master's degrees respectively in nursing and maternal-child nursing from the University of Colorado. She was the University of Virginia's director of nursing and chief patient care services officer from 1987 to 1997. Sorrells-Jones went on to develop an MSN program at the University of Texas and a BSN program at Longwood University.

Arrangement:

The original order has been respected in the arrangement of these papers, reflecting some topical grouping and chronological organization within topics.