WHILE, Alison (fl 1995)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP86
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: WHILE, Alison (fl 1995)
Date(s)	: 1995
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: While | Alison | fl 1972-1995 | nursing educationalist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Education, BSc sandwich course in Sociology and Social Administration, University of Southampton, 1972-1977; nursing training at St Thomas's Hospital, 1973-1975; MSc at South Bank Polytechnic, 1978-1980; PhD Nursing Studies, University of London, 1995; work at Department of Nursing Studies, Chelsea College, 1980-1985; King's College London, 1985-2002; Senior Lecturer, 1989; Professor of Community Nursing, 1992; specialist expertise in chronic disease care for people living at home. Publications: Health visiting and health experience of infants in three areas (London, 1985); edited Research in preventive community nursing care. Fifteen studies in health visiting (Chichester, 1986); Caring for children. Towards partnership with families (London, 1991); edited Health in the inner-city (London, 1991); Alison While, Julia Roberts and Joanne Fitzpatrick, A comparative study of outcomes of pre-registration nurse education programmes (London, 1995); Alison While, Christina Citrone and Jocelyn Cornish, Bereaved parents' views of caring for a child with a life-limiting incurable disorder (London, 1996). See also numerous articles and reports on the subject of nursing and palliative care.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises 44 audio tapes of interviews with the bereaved parents of children with life limiting illnesses, 1995; including a bundle of record cards indexing the tapes with the names of the children, their ages and notes on individual cases.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The record cards describe the contents of each tape.

Conditions governing access:

Closed for 80 years.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Alison While of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, 2001.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Alison While, Christina Citrone and Jocelyn Cornish, Bereaved parents' views of caring for a child with a life-limiting incurable disorder (London, 1996).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
April 2002