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Description
Vera Paoletti became interested in nursing as a teenager after watching a close family member succumb to leukemia. This experience led her to work as a candy striper at Jefferson Hospital through her high school years and then enroll in the Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing in 1966. Once she graduated in 1969 Ms. Paoletti began her career as a nurse at Jefferson, first in surgery on Ninth Pavilion and then in oncology on Eleventh Pavilion before becoming head nurse first of a nineteen-bed unit reserved for VIPs and then two years later of Sixth Main. In 1975 she left Jefferson to pursue public health nursing in South Philadelphia, during which time she also worked as a nurse for the Air National Guard in Pomona, New Jersey. Ms. Paoletti then spent a handful of years in Anchorage, Alaska working as a hospital nurse before returning to the Philadelphia area. At this point she began working in endoscopy, which eventually led her to start a clinical research site in gastroenterology at Graduate Hospital before moving into the pharmaceutical field.
Publication Date
2-11-2016
City
Philadelphia
Keywords
Thomas Jefferson University, alumni, women, oral histories, nursing, diploma nurse, Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing, Jefferson Hospital
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Nursing | Oral History
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce these oral histories must be obtained in writing from the Thomas Jefferson University Archives and Special Collections. No use (beyond limited quotation) should be made of the transcripts of these interviews without authorization.
Processing Information
Oral history was edited by Kelsey Duinkerken, March 2016
Provenance
Interview was conducted by Kelsey Duinkerken with Vera Paoletti on February 11, 2016
Recommended Citation
Paoletti, Vera and Duinkerken, Kelsey, "Vera Paoletti" (2016). Jefferson Nursing Oral Histories. 12.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursing_oral_histories/12
Included in
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nursing Commons, Oral History Commons
Comments
DISCLAIMER: These oral histories express the personal views, memories, and opinions of the interviewee. They do not represent the policy, views, or official history of Thomas Jefferson University.