Doris Glick Papers

Doris Frankhouser Glick, Ph.D., R.N., is an associate professor, emerita, of the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Dr. Glick joined the U.Va. faculty in 1989, and pursued research in public health programs, policy, and evaluation, with particular attention to issues concerning access to care for vulnerable and underserved populations. Shortly after her arrival at Virginia, Dr. Glick organized and coordinated a grant-funded project to establish primary care nursing clinics at two local public housing complexes, Westhaven and Crescent Halls, and for a rural public school population in Greene County, outside of Charlottesville. The majority of Westhaven residents were low-income African-American women and children, while the Crescent Halls facility served low-income elderly and disabled individuals. Glick's carefully-constructed clinical program thus permitted analysis of primary care nursing services among a variety of populations, crossing the boundaries of race, gender, age, ability, and community contexts. Nursing School sponsorship of the clinics from 1993 to 2000 offered undergraduate and graduate-student practicum experiences under the supervision of U.Va. clinical practice professors and community health staff, a significant component of the school's curriculum.

Glick began her career at the Reading (Pennsylvania) Hospital School of Nursing, where she received the diploma in 1963. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Florida State University in 1973, followed by a Master in Nursing from Emory University in 1975. After obtaining a Certificate in Public Administration in 1981 – again from Florida State – Glick defended her Ph.D. in Community Systems Planning and Development, and in Health Planning and Administration, at Pennsylvania State University in 1987. She served as a charge nurse in the early 1970s, then moved to the academic side of nursing practice as an instructor at Florida State in 1973-74. Glick became a Public Health Nursing Consultant with the State of Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Health Program Office, and after five years in this position, relocated to Penn State University, where she advanced from Instructor to Assistant Professor. Glick capped her career at the University of Virginia.