ISPN-SERPN Collection Development and Description
The ISPN-SERPN Collection includes materials from 1949 to the current day related to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing practice, education, research and administration. The collection consists of three significant collections:
- The Jeanette Chamberlain Archives
- The Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing (SERPN)
- The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN)
JEANETTE CHAMBERLAIN ARCHIVES
The University of Virginia (UVA) Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (ECBCNHI) installed the Jeanette Chamberlain Archives in 2006. The Chamberlain Archives are housed at the UVA Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
Jeanette Chamberlain, who retired in 1988 as a branch chief at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), died on August 26, 2010, in Silver Springs, MD. In 1968, Chamberlain was appointed Chief of the Psychiatric Nursing Education Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). During her 20 years at NIMH, she advocated for increased federal funding for building new nursing schools, traineeships, and stipend support for graduate education in psychiatric nursing (McCrone, 2010; Yoder Wise, 1984).
The Chamberlain Collection includes numerous federal publications addressing support for advanced psychiatric nursing education and practice; hand-written documentation describing the university programs that received advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing (PMHN) training grants, amounts received, and number of graduates; and a copy of a 1956 report written and presented by Hildegard Peplau for the National League for Nursing meeting held in Williamsburg, Virginia, titled Historical Development of Psychiatric Nursing.
EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSES (ISPN)
The evolution of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) began in 1983 with the founding of the Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Programs in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. The Council membership consisted of all directors of PMH Nursing graduate programs that were supported by NIMH and aimed to promote cohesion of PMH Nursing curricula and clinical practice education expectations across the nation. The Council membership recognized the need to open the organization’s membership to PMH Nursing educators, researchers, and clinicians, leading to the founding of The Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing (SERPN) in 1986. SERPN continued the work of the Council with the expanded membership, collaborating with the American Nurses Association and other PMH Nursing organizations to inform and support the progression of PMH Nursing standards of practice, research, and federal initiatives to promote PMH Nursing education and practice.
The 1990s were challenging times, and the leadership of SERPN began conversations with the existing PMHN specialty organizations to consider unification of these practice specialties within one organization to promote collaboration, cooperation, and focused leadership within the specialty. SERPN spearheaded the efforts of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses (ACAPN) and the International Society of Psychiatric-Consultation Liaison Nurses (ISPCLN) to join together to form the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses (ISPN, 1999 to present). Each of these
organizations had a component that focused on advanced mental health nursing practice and mental health research (Bjorklund, 2003). The organization of Adult and Geropsychiatric–Mental Health Nurses (AGPN) was later added as a division of ISPN. The combined focus of the divisions within ISPN was the advanced practice psychiatric–mental health nurse.
Installing the ISPN SERPN Collection at the University of Virginia
In September 2017, ISPN President Rene Love, established the ISPN Historical Task Force, appointing Beth Bonham (Chair), Sally Raphel, Susan Krupnick, Catherine Kane, and Jane Neese as members. The task force reviewed options for a depository for ISPN materials. Eventually, it recommended the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (ECBCNHI) for ISPN and associated materials. In
March 2019 and 2020, Catherine Kane worked with the leadership of ISPN to identify the ISPN Foundation as the administrator of the affiliation between the ECBCNHI and ISPN. The COVID-19 pandemic curtailed the efforts of the task force to move forward with developing the collection. In April 2022, President Cheryl Woods Giscombe announced that the ISPN Board had approved the establishment of ISPN’s historical archives at the ECBCNHI. At the 23rd Annual ISPN Conference in Redondo Beach, California, Catherine Kane, Dan Wesemann (President of the ISPN Foundation) and Dominique Tobell (Director of ECBCNHI) gave a presentation describing the process of building and sustaining the ISPN Historical Archives for education and research.
References
American Nurses'; Association, American Psychiatric Nurses'; Association, Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (1994). Statement on Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nursing Practice and Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nursing Practice. Washington, DC: American Nurses Publishing.
Bjorklund, P. (2003). The Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing Reclaimed. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 19(2), 77-87.
Chamberlain, J.G. (1983). The role of the federal government in development of psychiatric nursing. Journal of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health Services, 21(1), 11-18.
Cornwell, C. & Chiverton, P. (1997). The psychiatric advanced practice nurse with prescriptive authority: Role development, practice issues, and outcomes measurement. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 11(2), 57-65.
Hein, L.C. & Scharer, K. M. (2014). A modern history of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2, 49-55.
McCrone, S. (2010). A tribute to the life of Psychiatric Nursing Leader: Jeanette Chamberlain 1924-2010. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 24(6), 369-370.
The Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing (SERPN). (1994). Position Statement. Pensacola, FL: SERPN.
The Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing (SERPN). (1996). Educational Preparation for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice. Pensacola, FL: SERPN.
Yoder Wise, P.S. (1984). Living history series: Jeanette G. Chamberlain. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 15(2), 63-65.
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