Alice Merritt Robinson (1921-1983) was born in Sayville, New York in 1921. Inspired by World War II to become a nurse, she attended the Duke University School of Nursing. From 1944 to 1948 she served as an army nurse, during which time she became interested in psychiatric nursing. In 1947, Robinson returned to school to obtain her master's degree from the Boston University School of Nursing. She worked as a psychiatric nurse and clinical instructor at the Boston State Hospital, 1950-1955; at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, 1955-1956; and at the Vermont State Hospital, Waterbury, Vermont, 1956-1962. In 1962 she left hospital nursing to become one of the associate editors of
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Alice Merritt Robinson papers, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
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Gift of Mary Ann Tuft, 1989.
This series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook which pertain to Robinson's family and her personal life. Materials are arranged chronologically.
Included in this series are materials which deal with all aspects of Robinson's professional career: her education, her work as a psychiatric nurse, her speeches and speaking engagements, her work with Nursing Outlook and RN, her writing career, her own business, and the professional organizations with which she was involved. This series is arranged chronologically with some overlap due to commitments outside her full time job. The workshop materials are arranged chronologically according to the first date that the workshop was given.
Contained here are photographs of Robinson, her family, and friends at work and at play. The photographs are arranged chronologically. Two photo albums are also included.
Robinson's diplomas from Duke University for nursing and her BS in Nursing Education from Catholic University make up this series.
The series is comprised of reprints of articles written by Robinson, journals and magazines collected by Robinson, and books written by her. This series is arranged chronologically for individual works and alphabetically for the publications.