Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives 2013
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
Guide to the Ruth Wiens Papers
2013-018
Finding aid prepared by Jeff Colby
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit December 10, 2013
Table of Contents
Summary Information ... 3
Biographical/Historical... 4
Scope and Contents... 4
Arrangement...4
Administrative Information ...4
Controlled Access Headings...5
Other Finding Aids... 6
Collection Inventory... 7
B1 Personnel Records...7
B2 Personal Papers... 8
B3 OHSU School of Nursing...8
B4 SON Curriculum... 10
B5 Institutional Organization and History... 11
B6 Wiens Writings and News...12
Summary Information
Repository Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives
Creator - Donor Wiens, Ruth Avery, 1923-2012
Title Ruth Wiens Papers
Date [inclusive] 1926-1993
Extent 4.0 Linear feet
Location Room 440 Old Library, Historical Collections & Archives, Oregon Health & Science University.
Language English
Abstract Ruth Avery Wiens was an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse who worked at St Vincent Hospital and Medical Center as its Nursing Director; at the Veterans Administration Hospital; and at the UO School of Nursing as Dean Pro-Tem during the transition in SON leadership between Jean Boyle (1957-75) and Carol Lindeman (1976-95). Many of her papers have been donated which show the inter-relationships of nursing and nursing education.
Preferred Citation
Ruth Wiens Papers, Accession # 2013-018, Historical Collections & Archives, Oregon Health & Science University.
Biographical/Historical
Ruth Helen Avery Wiens, b.1923 Danbury Ct.; parents Ralph E.Avery and Elizabeth Meister Avery. R.N. (1949); BSN Oregon (1964) MSN Ed. (1965); Cert. Comm. Mental Health, UW (1979). Supt. Nursing Topeka State Hosp.(1949-53); faculty UO (1963-68); Clin Assoc. Fac.(1968-72); Asst. Dean Nursing (1972-75); Dean pro-tem Nursing (1975-76); Ass. Prof.,Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (1977-) From Who's Who
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide variety of materials-correspondence; rough drafts and finished copies of papers; correspondence; class schedules & syllabi; reports & studies; ephemera; photographic prints; newsclippings; reprints; and books.
Arrangement
The collection has been serialized in sections and arranged chronologically within each.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives 2013
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public.
No special equiment is required with this collection. The OHSU Historical Collections & Archives is the owner of the materials and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the OHSU HC&A before any reproduction use. The OHSU HC&A does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Controlled Access Headings
Function(s)
• Administrative Records
Genre(s)
• Curriculum
Occupation(s)
• Nurses and Nursing - Oregon • Nursing Schools - Faculty
Personal Name(s)
• Boyle, Jean, R.N.; M.N. , 1958-1975 • Elhart, Dorothy, M.S.
• Gaines, Barbara Conway, R.N., Ed.D.
• Lindeman, Carol Ann, R.N.; Ph.D.; F.A.A.N., 1935-• Markel, Charlotte, M.S.N. • Rawlinson, May, Ph.D. • Schantz, Donna, M.S. • Stone, Sandra, M.S. • Tilden, Virginia, D.N.Sc. • Wahl, Sharon, M.S.
Subject(s)
• Administration in Education • Nursing Schools - Administration • Nursing Schools - Oregon
• Oregon
Other Finding Aids
Other related SON finding aids include: 2000-006 Col. Strohm's Nurses Photograph Album 2003-001 Kathryn Hilterbrandt Collection 2003-004 Naida F. Hoffman Hurlburt Collection 2005-002 School of Nursing Records 2012-003 Ann Rosenfeld Papers 2013-008 Mary Ann Farnsworth Papers 2013-011 Sheila Kodadek Papers 2013-017 Catherine Burns Papers
B1 Personnel Records
Collection Inventory
B1 Personnel Records 1953-1990
F1 Personnel Records 1953-1989
F2 Wiens St. Vincent Dir. of Nursing (includes one print) 1968-1971
F3 Documentation of Wiens Skills & Jobs 1969-1981
F4 Sigma Theta Tau 1975-1976
F5 Position Descriptions Univ. Massachussetts School of Nursing 1976
F6 Changes in Tenure 1977-1985
F7 Paperwork for Wiens Office Keys 1978-1995
F8 Wiens I.R.A. Banking Accounts 1983-1990
F9 Wiens P.E.R.S. Account 1980-1988
F10 Statements of U.S. Office of Personnel Management re: Wiens VAMC Retirement 1986-1988
B2 Personal Papers
F12 Map to Wiens Residence no date
F13 Joke Souvenir: Virginia CIty Chronicle "Ruth Wiens In Virginia City Jail!" no date
F14 Joke Gift (artifact) "9 to 5" single record by Dolly Parton no date
B2 Personal Papers
F1 Cards from Staff & Students I 1973-1987
F2 Cards from Staff & Students II 1977-1987
F3 Ephemera 1985-2001
F4 Carol Meister Estate Case 1986-1990
F5 Carol Meister Estate Case-Documentation 1986-1989
F6 Carol Meister Estate Case-Correspondence on Expenses 1986-1989
B3 OHSU School of Nursing 1972-1987
F1 Cost Studies 1972-1976
B3 OHSU School of Nursing
F3 Annual Report UOMS,UODS,UONS 1974
F4 UOHSC Advisory Council Meetings 1973-1975
F5 Entering Sophomores 1974-1976
F6 SON Faculty Organization Handbook 1975-1976
F7 UOHSC Advisory Council 1975-1976
F8 SON Dean Search Committee 1975-1976
F9 Physical Development Plan 1975-1976
F10 Institutional Goals and Objectives 1975-1976
F11 Traineeship Program 1975-1977
F12 Steering Committee for SON Celebration 1976
F13 OSBHE Site Visit 1976
F14 Audrey E. Jones, R.N. 1979
F15 "Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Training in Public Facilities" by Florence Hardesty 1979
B4 SON Curriculum
F17 SON Meeting Minutes 1986
F18 Office Memoranda 1986-1987
F19 Blank Daily Schedule Form no date
Artifact-blank Class Record Book by Modern no date
B4 SON Curriculum 1964-1987
F1 Class Syllabi 1964-1967
F2 Classes and Schedules 1972-1987
F3 Baccalaureate Program Schedule Wtr-Spring 1975 1974
F4 Student Course Evaluations 1974-1985
F5 Nur 405 Reading & Conference: R.N. Student Orientation 1976
F6 Curriculum Syllabi 1976
F7 Examples of Nursing Exams [1976]
F8 Nur 452 Syllabus 1981
B5 Institutional Organization and History
F10 Class Syllabi Mental Health Nursing 1982-1985
F11 Grading Book 1985
F12 SON Curriculum 1986-1987
F13 Student Elective Grades Roster 1987
B5 Institutional Organization and History 1926-1985
F1 Nursing Degree Statistics-Historical 1926-1976
F2 Documentation of Organizational History UOMS-UOHSC 1938-1977
F3 UO SON & Nursing Education at St. Vincent M.C. 1968-1972
F4 St. Vincent Hospital Department of Nursing 1968-1972
F5 St. Vincent Hospital Administrative Manual no date
F6 History of St. Vincent Hospital Nursing Services no date
F7 Fifty Years of Professional Nursing (1926-76) 1976
F8 Dammasch Management Review Team (DMRT) Reports 1978-1979
B6 Wiens Writings and News
F10 Dammasch State Hospital Management Review Team 1979
F11 Response to DMRT by Paula G. Morton, R.N. 1979
F12 Psychiatric Nursing Services 1981-1982
F13 Organization Charts PCU UHS-1NW 1982
F14 Davis Correspondence Veterans Affairs 1983
F15 Lawsuit Gowan vs. VAMC 1984
F16 VA Program Planner (blank) 1985
F17 Mental Health Nursing State Board Review no date
B6 Wiens Writings and News 1953-1986
F1 Wiens in the News (includes photographic prints) 1953-1976
F2 Wiens in Print-Degrees and Jobs 1953-1983
F3 Wiens-Smaller Papers on Psychiatric Nursing 1956-1986
F4 Wiens- "A Chronicle of Chronicity" 1977
B7 Books
F6 Hargrave & Wiens- "Philosophy, Goals, & FUnctions of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing" 1986
B7 Books
107th Annual Commencement OSU 1976
109th Annual Commencement OSU 1978
OHSU Commencement 1983
Communication in Nursing Practice by Eleanor C. Hein(2 editions, Little, Brown Co.) 1973-1980
Nursing Diagnosis & Process in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, by Gertrude McFarland & Evelyn Wasli, Lippincott 1986
Textbook of Psychiatric Nursing by Arthur P. Noyes, M.D. and Edith M. Haydon, A.M., R.N., Macmillan Co. NY 1947
Psychology in Nursing by Wendell W. Cruze, Ph.D., McGraw-Hill Co. NY 1960
Sexuality: Human Needs & Nursing Practice by Janie Spelton Weinberg, R.N., M.S. and Sheila Grossman,R.N., M.S. W.B.Saunders Co. 1982
Clara Barton, Handbook 110 of the US Dept of Interior National Park Service 1981
"Psychiatric Aide Educator", Menninger Monograph Series #9; by Bernard H. Hall et al Grune & Stratton 1952
B7 Books
Trends in Nursing History 6th ed., by Elizabeth M.Jamieson, R.N.,B.A. andMary F. Sewall, R.N., B.S. 1966
Intensive Care: the Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron, Ivy Books, N.Y. 1987
Bellevue by Don Gold, Dell Books 1976
A History of the School (1910-1996), by Barbara Gaines, R.N., Ed.D. 1998
"A Sociopsychiatric Nursing Approach to Intervention in a Problem of Mutual Withdrawal on a Mental Hospital Ward" by Gwen E. Tudor, B.S., R.N., M.A. Reprint
Menninger Perspective #2 1993