Staff notes on patient diagnosis, 1929-1960.

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Staff notes on patient diagnosis, 1929-1960.

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These volumes contain handwritten notes from staff meetings at Willard State Hospital. The notes document staff presentations and discussions of cases of individual patients. Information given includes date; times of beginning and ending of meetings; staff in attendance; and names of persons giving reports and summaries. Patients whose cases were being discussed were sometimes present at the meetings, and their statements and the staff's observations of them are included. Reports from staff include abstracts of cases; patients' social, physical, and mental histories and diagnoses; treatment histories; and present symptoms. Staff determinations concerning diagnoses and parole decisions are sometimes noted.

0.3 cu. ft. (2 volumes)

New York State Archives

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Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

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The Willard State Hospital School of Nursing grew out of two-year hospital attendant classes begun in 1887 at Willard Asylum. In 1922, in attempting to standardize education and training of nurses, all nursing schools in the State (affiliated with both general hospitals and mental hospitals) were brought under the authority of the State Education Department. From the description of Willard State Hospital School of Nursing records, 1917-1977. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record...