Veronica O'Day has published: "A Brief History of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools: Shaping Policy through Collaboration" in Journal of New York State Nurses Association, Spring-Summer, 2007.

Edith West has an article published in The Journal of Oral History: Conflicts and Continuity, British and American FNS Nurses (1950s- 1960s): Oral History Narratives on Nursing. Autumn 2007, Vol. 35, No 2, p.23- 35.

Nancy Diane Blasdell completed her PhD from the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing in May, her dissertation was Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Descriptive Study of the Experience".
Beth Ann Reedy has published: American Babies Their Life and Times in the 20th Century , Praeger Publishers.

Christine Ardalan and Patricia Messmer have published Private Duty Nurse Undine Sams: Passion Power and Political Action. There will be a book launch along with the inauguaral opening of the South Floriday Nursing Archives at Florida International University on October 18, 2007.

Elizabeth A. Tyree, completed her PhD from Loyola University. Her dissertation: Culture Care Values, Beliefs and Practices Observed in Empowerment of American Indian Community Health Representatives.

Martha Schneider has been appointed Nurse manager of ICU, TCU, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville.

Claire Chatterton has received her doctorate from the University of Salford, UK. Her thesis was entitled, "The Weakest Link in the chain of nursing? Recruitment and retention in mental health nursing. 1948 -1968"

Arlene Keeling, received the Dock Award for her book Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000 [Ohio State University Press].

Clara J Richardson is now the Director of the Center for Nursing History, Ethics, Human Rights and Innovations at Purdue University.

Teresa O'Neill was award a Fulbright Scholarship for Nigeria, for 2007-08. Tess also co-authored a companion text to Clark's 5th edition of Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Populations.

Elaine Marshall has accepted the position of Endowed Chair at Georgia Southern University, School of Nursing.

Elaine C Hubbard has been honored by having the Center for Nursing Research in Aging, University of Rochester School for Nursing, named after her.

Shirley Fondillerhas published Go, and Do Likewise a history of the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, 1877-1979.
The book can be ordered ($20) from:
CU-NYHSN Alumni Association
c/o Office of Alumni Affairs
1300 York Avenue, Box 61
New York, NY 10021

Mary E. Gibson has completed her doctorate from the University of Virginia. Her dissertation is: "From Charity to an Able Body: the Care and Treatment of Disabled Children in Virginia 1910-1935".

There is a new book about Imogene King's Conceptual System: Middle Range Theory Development Using King's Conceptual System has been published by Springer Publishing. Editors are Christina Leibold Sieloff, PhD, RN, CNA; Maureen A. Frey, RN, PhD.
Also, Dr. King is featured in Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession, Volume II Beth P. Houser, RN, DNSc, FNP-C, CNAA, and Kathy N. Player, RN, EdD (Indianapolis: Nursing Knowledge [STTI]].

Jan Leonard completed a doctorate in nursing from University of Masachusetts Amherst last Sepetember, 2006. Her dissertation was "The Role of Professional Nursing in the Origin of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996, from a Feminist Perspective, 1981-1996".

Luther Christman has been honored by the ANA's establishment of the Luther Christman Award. The Luther Christman award recognizes the significant contribution an individual man has made to the nursing profession. It is named in honor of Dr. Luther Christman and his outstanding service to advancing the nursing profession.

Arlene Keeling presented "American Nursing and Pandemic Flu, 1918: Responding to the Unexpected" at the International Congress of Nursing conference in Yokohama, Japan.

Thelma Robinson's book Nisei Cadet Nurse of World War II. Patriotism in Spite of Prejudice. will be translated and published in Japan.

Edie West has been the recipient of the following grants

• 2006 Awarded the ‘Liesel Hiemenz Fund’ for “the demonstration of academic excellence and potential for leadership and service in the nursing profession” by Nurses Educational Funds, Inc (NEF) of $1,500.00 for the 2006- 2007 academic year
• 2005 Awarded the Association of Medical Surgical Nurses AMSN) ‘Nursing Research Grant’ toward dissertation travel expenses ($500.00 one time gift)

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing selected Drs. Arlene Keeling, John Kirchgessner and Barbara Brodie to write a comprehensive history of the organization, and its service to the profession. Dr. Keeling is the Principal Investigator of the project which is scheduled for completion in time for the association’s 40th anniversary in 2009.

Sharon Hadenfeldt completed her PhD in December of 2006 at the University of Nebraska. Her dissertation was A Historical Study of Nurse Anesthesia Education in Nebraska.

Pat van Betten successfully prepared small grant requests for Sigma Theta Tau International to fund displays for the Nevada State Nurses' Association 75th Anniversary. Pat credits the Grant Writing Workshop held as the Pre-Conference in 2005, Atlanta.

Mary Gibson successfully defended her dissertation "From Charity to an Able Body: the care and treatment of disabled children in Virginia 1910-1935." at the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.

Joy Buck, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Nursing History and Health Policy at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, is the 2007 recipient of the Brodie Research Fellowship. Her research is entitled “Nursing the Borderlands of Life: Reconstructing Care for the Dying, 1945-2006.”

Wanda Hiestand has received the Columbia University's Teachers College Nursing Education Alumni Association Achievement Award for Leadership in Professional and Allied Organizations.

Jennifer Casavant Telford successfully defended her dissertation "American Red Cross Nursing during World War I: Opportunities and Obstacles." at the School of Nursing, University of Virginia. She is presently Term Faculty, School of Nursing, George Mason University.

Barbara Chamberlain completed her dissertation, The Lived Experience of Being a Baccalaureate Nursing Student for Whom English is a Second Language" and received a DNSc from Widener University She was also awarded the National Student Nurses' highest award, honorary lifetime membership, for dedication and support of nursing students across the country.

Marilyn E. Flood has a new book, Promise on Parnassus The First Century of the UCSF School of Nursing published by the University of California-San Francisco Nursing Press.

Sadie M. Smalls has received a small grant from Teachers College (Columbia University) Nursing Education Alumni Association to write a biography of Estelle Massey Osborne first Black nurse to receiveve maters in nursing.

Arlene Keeling is the author of "Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000" just published by the Ohio State University Press.

Christine Silverstein has published Therapeutic interpersonal interactions: The sacrificial lamb? in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 42(1)33-41.

Peggy Jean Ledbetter is Dean Emerita at Northwestern State University and in January was inducted into the Louisiana State Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

Mary Ann Cordeau, accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Nursing, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT .

Catherine Dodd, Jacqueline Brooks, Edith West all received funding from Nurses Educational Funds, Inc.

Nancy Harris completed her dissertation "Alice Magaw: The Mother of Anesthesia" at the University of Iowa.

Janet Bryant represents staff nurse issues on the editorial board of American Nurse. She is also a Director and Chair of Nominations for District One of Nevada Nurses Association.

Eleanor Crowder Bjoring has published Passing the Legacy: History of the Last Fifty Years of the School of Nursing at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

M. Elizabeth Carnegiehas been named Senior Adviser, New York University College of Nursing.

Joy Buck has received funding from ANF for "Setting the Standard for Specialization in Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 1985-2006". She has also been designated the 2006 Anne Zimmerman/ANF Awards Scholar.

Beth Norman appears in a documentary titled, "History in Focus: the Flags of Our Fathers" on the History Channel. It's a thirty minute program produced to accompany the upcoming Clint Eastwood film on the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Shirley Fondiller has just published: Fondiller, S., Nerone, B.J. (2006). Health Professions Style Manual. NY: Springer Publishing Co.

John Kirchgessner completed his dissertation “A Reappraisal of Nursing Services and Shortages: A Case Study of the University of Virginia Hospital, 1945-1965” from the University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on May 21, 2006.

Margarete Sandelowski is co-author of the upcoming Synthezising Qualitative Research Springer Publications.

Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, ARNP completed her PhD from The University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis is "Determinants and Determination - Negotiating New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Legislation 1973 to 1985"

Sandra Lewenson has several new book chapters:

Lewenson, S. B. (2007). Chapter 2: A Historical Perspective on Policy, Politics and Nursing. In D. J. Mason; J. K. Leavitt, and M.W. Chaffee,(Eds.). Policy and politics in Nursing and Health Cares (5th ed.)

Lewenson, S. B. (2007). Chapter 11: Historical research method. In H. J. Speziale & D. R. Carpenter (Eds.). Qualitative research in nursing: Advancing the humanistic imperative, 4rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott. Lewenson, S. B. (2007). Chapter 12: Historical Research in Practice, Education, and Administration. In H. J. Speziale & D. R. Carpenter (Eds.). Qualitative research in nursing: Advancing the humanistic imperative, 4rd ed.. Philadelphia Lippincott. Lewenson, S. B. (2006). History as evidence. In R. Levin & H. Feldman (Eds). Teaching and learning evidence-based practice in nursing : A guide for educators, pp. 247-259. New York : Springer

Lewenson, S. B. (2005). Using nursing history to educate for leadership. In H. Feldman & M. Greenberg (Eds). Educating for leadership. New York : Springer

Dr. Susan Sweat Gunby received the National Student Nurses Association Leader of Leaders Award, sponsored by Elsevier Publishing, at the April 2006 NSNA annual meeting in Baltimore. This national award is presented to one person in recognition of distinguished support and service to nursing students.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson and Jean Whelan for the The American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Nursing History is pleased to announce the funding of "Nursing, History and Healthcare: A Website". The sponsoring institution is the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. The grant, for $150,000, is a three year National Library of Medicine Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health grant and will result in the creation and development of a website which will document and analyze nursing's most compelling and controversial political and social issues and place them in their historical context. The website will address in electronic format a wide range of issues critical to comprehending and broadening our understanding of health care and nursing concerns. These include but are not limited to the role of professional nurses, nurse shortages and workplace problems, access to care, advance nursing practice, racism, and public health issues. The project represents an innovative, one of a kind, creative method of disseminating historical information and analysis to a broad audience and promises to make a significant contribution to our knowledge base of nursing history and its close connection to health care policy.

Karen Wolf has been appointed Associate Director of Administration and Development, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Graduate Program in Nursing.

Margarete Sandelowski is co-author of the upcoming Synthezising Qualitative Research Springer Publications.

Patricia D’Antonio, Joan Lynaugh, Ellen Baer and Sylvia Rinker are co-authors of Nurses' Work which is scheduled for September publication by Springer.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, PhD, FAAN, RN retired from 34 years on faculty of the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania. She is now Emeritus Professor of Community Health Nursing. She had also been director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing since 1995. An event to honor Karen is planned for October 10, 2006. Julie Fairman is the new the director of the Bates Center.

Congratulations to Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, ARNP who completed her PhD from The University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis is "Determinants and Determination - Negotiating New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Legislation 1973 to 1985"

Dr. Susan Sweat Gunby received the National Student Nurses Association Leader of Leaders Award, sponsored by Elsevier Publishing, at the April 2006 NSNA annual meeting in Baltimore. This national award is presented to one person in recognition of distinguished support and service to nursing students.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson and Jean Whelan for the The American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Nursing History is pleased to announce the funding of "Nursing, History and Healthcare: A Website". The sponsoring institution is the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. The grant, for $150,000, is a three year National Library of Medicine Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health grant and will result in the creation and development of a website which will document and analyze nursing's most compelling and controversial political and social issues and place them in their historical context. The website will address in electronic format a wide range of issues critical to comprehending and broadening our understanding of health care and nursing concerns. These include but are not limited to the role of professional nurses, nurse shortages and workplace problems, access to care, advance nursing practice, racism, and public health issues. The project represents an innovative, one of a kind, creative method of disseminating historical information and analysis to a broad audience and promises to make a significant contribution to our knowledge base of nursing history and its close connection to health care policy.

Congratulations to Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, ARNP who completed her PhD from The University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis is "Determinants and Determination - Negotiating New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Legislation 1973 to 1985"

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing will host a Historical Tea on Saturday, June 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Health Sciences Learning Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The guest of honor will be Professor Emerita Signe Skott Cooper ('43 ZC, '48 BS), internationally recognized and greatly respected teacher and nursing historian as well as curator of the School of Nursing's historical collection. Proceeds from the event will go toward construction of a nursing sciences building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's health sciences campus. The building will be home to the Signe Skott Cooper and Hilda Skott Historical Suite.
Nursing alumni and friends are invited to peruse historical exhibits at the Health Sciences Learning Center before indulging in an assortment of teas, celebratory champagne, finger sandwiches, and other hors I d oeuvres, followed by a style show of historical nursing uniforms. Guests will also have the opportunity to view one of the School's most recent acquisitions: a rare, 1860 edition of Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing, the 136-page primer that served as a cornerstone for nursing curricula.
Tickets are $35.00 per person. For ticket information, contact Marsha Callahan at (608) 265-9234 or marsha.callahan@uwfoundation.wisc.edu

Dr. Susan Sweat Gunby received the National Student Nurses Association Leader of Leaders Award, sponsored by Elsevier Publishing, at the April 2006 NSNA annual meeting in Baltimore. This national award is presented to one person in recognition of distinguished support and service to nursing students.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson and Jean Whelan for the The American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Nursing History is pleased to announce the funding of "Nursing, History and Healthcare: A Website". The sponsoring institution is the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. The grant, for $150,000, is a three year National Library of Medicine Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health grant and will result in the creation and development of a website which will document and analyze nursing's most compelling and controversial political and social issues and place them in their historical context. The website will address in electronic format a wide range of issues critical to comprehending and broadening our understanding of health care and nursing concerns. These include but are not limited to the role of professional nurses, nurse shortages and workplace problems, access to care, advance nursing practice, racism, and public health issues. The project represents an innovative, one of a kind, creative method of disseminating historical information and analysis to a broad audience and promises to make a significant contribution to our knowledge base of nursing history and its close connection to health care policy.

M. Patricia Donahue, PhD, RN, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the UI College of Nursing has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr. Donahue is retiring this Spring. See See Iowa Website for full story.

Rima Apple and Julie Fairman are participating in a Work and Family Issues Roundtable at the 79th Annual AAHM meeting in Halifax, and Arlene Keeling is presenting Between the Contract Doctor and the Medicine Man.

Patricia D'Antonio has a new book: Founding Friends. Families, staff and patients at the Friends Asylum in early nineteenth century Philadelphia. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press.

Harriet Feldman is co-author of Educating Nurses for Leadership [New York: Springer] was recognized by the American Journal of Nursing as a 2005 Book of the Year forn AJN Book of the year in Nursing Education & Continuing Education.

Barbara Montgomery Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN, Louise C. Selanders, EdD, RN, FAAN, Deva-Marie Beck, EdD, RN and Alex Attewell, BA, AMA, co-authors of Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action (Nursesbooks.org, 2005) were recognized by the American Journal of Nursing as a 2005 Book of the Year for History and Public Policy category.

Karen Anne Wolf is a co-editor of A History of Nursing Ideas , just published by Jones & Bartlett, Boston, MA.

Christine Ardalan has a new book: Warm Hearts, Caring Hands: South Florida Nursing History from Frontier to Metropolis.Ft Lauderdale, FL: Haber & Quinn Public Relations

Dr. Sonya Grypma recently completed doctoral studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, where she is researching Canadian Nurses who were interned under the Japanese in China between 1941 and 1945.

Mary Gibson, is presenting November 15 at the Fall History Forums at McLeod Hall, Charlottesville:

Therese Meehan is the 2005 Barbara Brodie History Fellow

Mary Sarnecky will deliver the 13th Annual Agnes Dillon Randolph Lecture, March 21, 2006 at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Charlottesville.

Brigid Lusk will be speaking on Nursing a Lingering Illness: Cancer Nursing , 1890-1930 Tuesday, October 25 at 6:00 pm as part of the Public Lecture Series at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago

Dorothy B. Pocklington, was editor of Heritage of Leadership: Army Nurse Corps Biographies, that has been selected as the recipient of the 2005 International Award for Nursing Media in Print by Sigma Theta Tau International.

The staff of the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History, Foundation of NYS Nurses is pleased to announce that “Preserving the History of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: A Guide to Locating Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Records in New York State” is complete and available online.
NY Psych-Mental Health Records

Joan Lynaugh and Imogene King have been named "Living Legends" by the American Academy of Nursing.

Patricia D'Antonio will be inducted as a new Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Patricia Rushton, Lynn Clark Callister, and Maile Wilson, have publishsed Latter-day Saint Nurses at War: A Story of Caring and Sacrifice Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies.

Our president, Sandy Lewenson, has the following recent publications:

Lewenson, S. B. (2004). Integrating nursing history in the curriculum. Journal of Professional Nursing. 20(6), 374-380.

Lewenson, S. B. (2003). Chapter 11: Historical research method. In H. J. Speziale & D. R. Carpenter (Eds.). Qualitative Research in Nursing: Advancing the Humanistic Imperative. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Mary Walton and Cynthia Connolly co-authored "A Look Back: Nursing Care of Typhoid Fever" American Journal of Nursing, April 2005. Joy Buck, our second vice president has completed her doctorate from UVA.

Therese Meehan has been named the 2005-07 Barbara Brodie Fellow by the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, UVA. Dr. Meehan's focus is the Bermondsey Nuns in the Crimea.

Barbra Mann Wallis director of the A new Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights at the Purdue University School of Nursing and Martha Libster is the associate director. For more information on the new center visit their website: Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights.

Sugino Oishi has published [in Japan]: Virginia Ohlson’s Story An American woman who has dedicated her life to nursing in Japan.

Lois Lagerman and Susan Buchholtz have written two chapters in the new publication: Heritage of Leadership. Distributed by the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc. Washington D.C. The Army Nurse Corps biographies are a legacy of 22 Chief military nurses as a profession.

Patricia D'Antonio, Jean Whelan and Linda H. Freeman have articles in November 2004 AJN.

Joy Buck, our second vice president has just completed her doctorate from UVA.

Therese Meehan has been named the 2005-07 Barbara Brodie Fellow by the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, UVA. Dr. Meehan's focus is the Bermondsey Nuns in the Crimea.

Barbra Mann Wall is director of the A new Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights at the Purdue University School of Nursing and Martha Libster is the associate director. For more information on the new center visit their website: Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights.

Our president, Sandy Lewenson, has the following recent publications:

Lewenson, S. B. (2004). Integrating nursing history in the curriculum. Journal of Professional Nursing. 20(6), 374-380.

Lewenson, S. B. (2003). Chapter 11: Historical research method. In H. J. Speziale & D. R. Carpenter (Eds.). Qualitative Research in Nursing: Advancing the Humanistic Imperative. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Lewenson, S. B. (2003). Chapter 12: Historical Research in Practice, Education, and Administration. In H. J. Speziale & D. R. Carpenter (Eds.). Qualitative Research in Nursing: Advancing the Humanistic Imperative. Philadelphia Lippincott.

Sugino Oishi has published [in Japan]: Virginia Ohlson’s Story An American woman who has dedicated her life to nursing in Japan.

Lois Lagerman and Susan Buchholtz have written two chapters in the new publication: Heritage of Leadership. Distributed by the Women in Military Service for America Memorial foundation. Inc. Washington D.C. The Army Nurse Corps biographies are a legacy of 22 Chief military nurses as a profession.

Joy Buck presented "Netting the Hospice Butterfly: Medicate and the Metamorphisis of an Ideal, 1965-86 " February 22 2005 at UVA's Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.

Patricia D'Antonio, Jean Whelan and Linda H. Freeman have articles in November 2004 AJN.

Susan Gunby is featured in the new issue [3rd Quarter] of Reflections on Nursing Leadership. And inside is a lovely photo of our two members, Luther Christman and Imogene King who were inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame at its annual meeting. Dr Christman is one of the twelve nurse leaders featured in Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession. Center Press.

Martha Libster has completed her dissertation, "Herbal Integrators: The Use of Botanical Therapies by Mid-Nineteenth Century American Nurses during the Botanical Medical Movement, 1830-1860" through Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. She has published two books: Herbal Diplomats and with co-author Sr. Betty Ann McNeil, Sister Matilda Cosery's Advisce Concerning the Sick. Both books published by Golden Apple Publications.

The following members presented at the 15th International Nursing Research Congress (Sigma Theta Tau International) in Ireland July 22-24, 2004

Quincealea A. Brunk, Habi-Health: A Prototype for Community Wellness
Joy Buck, At Home in the Company of Strangers: The Specialization of Home Care of the Dying 1965-1982
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, Home Care Financing: A Cautionary Tale
Cynthia Connolly, Knowledge Migration, Culture, and Science: A Case Study of Children, Nurses, and Tuberculosis Prevention in Western Europe and North America, 1900-1940
Julie Fairman, Nurse Practitioners; Fragmentation or Collective Power
Linda Holbrook Freeman, Florence Nightingale in the News: Contribution, Controversy, and Celebrity 1900-1910
Mary E. Gibson, History as a context for nursing research and practice: Implications for transnational understanding
Jonathan Gilbride, Historical Research: Where are the Data?
Lynn Houweling, Cultural Competence and Historical Research Methods: Issues of Difference, Issues of Similarity
Arlene Keeling, Historical Perspectives on Expanding Scope of Practice: Nurses' Work in Dispensing, Furnishing and Prescribing Medications in the USA in the 20th Century
Duncan Mitchell What's in a Name? A Comparative Study of the History of Intellectual Disabilities Nursing in the United Kingdom and United States Deborah A. Sampson, ARNP Spoken Words: Oral History Methods and Cultural Meaning
Louise C. Selanders, Florence Nightingale and the Great Exhibitions: Health, Registration and the Nursing Profession Barbra Wall, Irish Catholic Sisters and Nursing in America, 1865-1925
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, Home Care Financing: A Cautionary Tale ,
Jean C. Whelan, Increasing Supply, Increasing Demand: Why the United States Never has Enough Nurses

Barbara M. Dossey, Lynn Keegan, and Cathie E. Guzzetta (2005). Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, 4th ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Barbara M. Dossey, Louise C. Selanders, Deva-Marie Beck & Alex Attewell. (2005). Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action. Washington, D.C.: Nursesbooks.org.

Joellen Hawkins, along with Lois Haggerty, have published Diversity in Health Care Research, Strategies for Multisite, Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Projects (Springer Publishing). Joellen Hawkins has also just published Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in Gynecologic Settings (8th Ed. Springer Publishing). And Dr. Hawkins is editor of the new journal Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners. The International Journal of NPACE.

Luther Christman and Imogene King were inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

Beth Norman was inducted into the [college wide] Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Hall recognizes alumni who, through their superlative achievements in professional and civic life, have brought honor to themselves and to the university.

Cynthia A. Gurney, presented "Adaptation of Medical Personnel to Combat" to the Army Nurse Corps Association at their annual meeting in May.

Bob Welch was the speaker at the Nursing Archives Annual Meeting on April 21 at Boston University. Bob's book, American Nightingale: The story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Michael Zwerdling has published Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute see Nurse Postcards for details.

Patricia van Betten and Melisa Moriarty published Nursing Illuminations A Book of Days (Mosby).

Tom Olson along with Eileen Walsh, published Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke's and the Nature of Nursing, 1892-1937 (Ohio State University Press).

Effie Graham, Jackie Pflaum, and Elfrida Nord, Editors published With a Dauntless Spirit: Alaska Nursing in the Dog-team Days . Effie Graham passed on last September.

Marjorie Lentz Porter and Barbra Mann Wall, are Editors of Advocacy and Action: 100 Years of the Indiana Nursing and the Indiana State Nurses' Association .

Lynn Houweling has a wonderful article "Image Function and Style. A history of the nursing uniform" in April American Journal of Nursing This article is also in the the catalog of RN: The Past, Present and Future of the Nurses' Uniform an exhibit from The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Catalogs may be purchased from the museum

Susan Benedict was one of the keynote speakers at Complicity and Compassion: The 1st International Conference on Nursing & Midwifery in the Third Reich. The converence was held June 10-11 2004 at Limerick, Ireland.
Susan Mayer presented two papers: The School that would not die: The Jewish Hospital School of Nursing in the Warsaw Ghetto. and The Beneficence of Luba Bielicka-Blum.
Mary Lagerwey presented: Lessons to be learned.

Cynthia Toman received Ottawa University's 2003 Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding thesis in the humanities.

Julie Fairman will present the Agnes Dillon Randolph Lection on March 23, 2004 at the University of Virginia.

Rebecca B. Harmon completed her doctoral dissertation "An Oral History of Psychiatric Nursing in a State Hospital, 1950-1965" at the University of Virginia[ 2003].

Laima Karosas has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, ".The interrupted development of Lituanian nurses"., at the University of Connecticut.

Sioban Nelson has also received a Rockefeller Archive Center Grant Award for A Study of Nursing in China, 1900 - 1951.

Marianne Tallberg received International Red Cross Florence Nightingale medal " for the contribution to Finnish health care especially nursing education, in nursing history and historical research and in information technology, professional language of nursing, terminology and classifications"

Catherine J. Dodd, MS, RN, has been inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing.

Florence Melchior is the 2002 winner of the CAHN/ACHN Dr. Margaret Allemang Scholarship in Nursing History. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Geertje Boschma, is about student labour at two Alberta hospitals during the early 20th century.

John Parascandola received the 1st Sidney Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry. He is presenting a lecture on "Quarantining Prostitutes: VD Rapid Treatment Centers of WWII America" December 11 at the National Library of Medicine.

Arlene Keeling received a three year $150,000.00 grant (G13 - Publication grant) from the National Library of Medicine to research the "History of Nursing and Prescriptive Authority, 1900 to the present."

Barbara Brodie, now retired, has been named Associate Director, Arlene Keeling is now Director and John Kirchgessner Assistant Director of The Center For Nursing Historical Inquiry.

AJN Book of the Year!
Bastable, S.B. (2002). Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice. (2nd edition). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Barlett.

2003 Dock Award Winner!
Boschma, G. (2003). The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920 Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chow, Rita K. (2002) Initiating a Long-Term Care Nursing Service for Aging Inmates. Geriatric Nursing, 23(1), 24-27.

2003 Dock Award Winner!
Boschma, G. (2003). The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums 1890-1920. Amsterdam University Press/University of Chicago Press.

Lusk, B., & Lash, A. (2002). A decade of international activities by US nurse faculty: A descriptive analysis. Nursing Outlook 50:4, 144- 151.

2002 Dock Award Winner!
Glass, L. K. , Murphy, E.K. (2002) AORN Emergence and Growth. Denver: AORN.

Herrmann, E.K. (2002). Value an old nursing book. Connecticut Nursing News. 9.

Commencing in 2004 one issue per year of Nursing Inquiry will be devoted to historical research, methodology and book reviews. Nursing Inquiry has long been committed to publishing high quality historical research on nursing. However, increasing demand for special issues on historical research has led to this exciting new initiative. The first history issue will be September 2004. Deadlines for manuscripts will be 31 January 2004 and they will go through the normal review process.
Please refer to the Nursing Inquiry website for guidelines for contributors.
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