The Chronicle, Spring 2016

Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing

SPRING 2016 VOL. 29 NO.1

FEATURING A Celebration of Betty Smith Williams, Bates Center’s Global Presence, and more

COVER STORY A New Center Director: A Sustained Commitment to Excellence

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Our momentum continues to build as we have surpassed the half way mark to our $750,000 Preserving Our Future campaign goal. We are so grateful for supportive donors, who share our commitment to the exploration of nursing and health care policy, research, practice, and education through a historical lens. Attaining our fundraising goal will allow the Center to significantly expand its resources, scope and outreach. Continuing to build a strong base of support for the future is a top priority. Building this strong base of support will only be possible if we achieve an additional goal: to increase the number of donors at all levels. Every new donor helps to ensure the Center’s longevity and we are thereby committed to engaging as many supporters as possible. Showing support in any dollar amount is not only welcomed, but is truly meaningful.

In addition to the Center’s endowment goal, we have honed in on three particular special projects, which have become an important priority for us:

• Pre-Doctoral student fellowship in nursing history • Diversification of Center holdings through targeted acquisitions of racial and ethnic minority individual nurses, institutions and leaders collections • Creation of an endowed chair in the history of nursing

These projects help to further the outreach initiatives of the Center by providing ways to cultivate the next generation of nursing historians. Increasing our donor participation helps to will ensure the Center’s lasting legacy and impact. Please join us in this effort to brighten the future of the Bates History Center. Your continued support truly makes a difference!

Visit www.nursing.upenn.edu/historygiving to donate online

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CENTER ADVISORY BOARD NEVILLE STRUMPF, CHAIR ELLEN D. BAER SUSAN BEHREND DOROTHY DEL BUENO JULIE FAIRMAN VANESSA NORTHINGTON GAMBLE HANNAH HENDERSON SANDRA LEWENSON JOAN LYNAUGH MARIAN MATEZ ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER RICHARD J. PINOLA ELISE PIZZI ZANE ROBINSON WOLF ROBERT ARONOWITZ, CONSULTANT MARK FRAZIER LLOYD, CONSULTANT GATES RHODES, CONSULTANT

CENTER DIRECTORS PATRICIA D’ANTONIO, PHD, RN, FAAN, DIRECTOR

Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing

JULIE FAIRMAN, PHD, RN, FAAN DIRECTOR EMERITA JOAN E. LYNAUGH, PHD, RN, FAAN, DIRECTOR EMERITA

CENTER FELLOWS J. MARGO BROOKS-CARTHON, PHD, CRNP CYNTHIA CONNOLLY, PHD, RN, FAAN JULIE SOLCHASKI, PHD, RN, FAAN, ANN MARIE WALSH BRENNAN, PHD, RN

CENTER STAFF JEAN C. WHELAN, PHD, RN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JESSICA CLARK, MA, ARCHIVIST ELISA STROH CENTER ADMINISTRATOR

CENTER VOLUNTEERS GINNY CAMERON THORA WILLIAMS

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ABOUT THE CENTER The Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing was established in 1985 to encourage and facilitate historical scholarship on health care history and nursing in the United States. Part of the Center’s mission is to maintain resources for research, to improve the quality and scope of historical scholarship on nursing, and to disseminate new knowledge on nursing history through educational programs, conferences, publications, seminars and interdisciplinary collaboration.

CENTER HOURS Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Scholars planning to conduct research at the Center should e-mail nhistory@nursing.upenn. edu or call 215-898-4502. Our Center staff will respond with a description of the scope and content of relevant materials in the various collections.

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Dr. Zane Wolf, Advisory Board Member

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Killebrew-Censits Term Professor in Undergraduate Education; Chair, Department of Family and Community Health; Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

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tudying history lends itself to a broader view. It helps us understand change and prepares us to shape the future. That is why Penn Nursing’s Barbara Bates Center for The Study of the History of Nursing is an important component in the development of effective health policy and patient care strategies. Here, students and scholars understand the past, examine how it impacts the present, and develop ideas that influence the future.

TAKING THE REINS

For 25 years, the Center has been at the forefront of innovation, scholarship, and global research with contributions to the current discipline of nursing, in particular, and to healthcare and the humanities and science, in general. Patricia D’Antonio, the Killebrew-Censits Ter m Professor in Undergraduate Education and an international expert in the history of nursing and nursing practice, is its new director. Prior to her appointment, she had served as the Center’s associate director.

Leading the Center is a natural segue for Dr. D’Antonio. She will leverage her experience as a scholar, practitioner, and chair of the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn, as well as the editor of the Nursing History Review, to advance the internationally recognized work of the Center.

“I came to Penn in 1984 when the idea of a history center was still a dream of Drs. Joan Lynaugh, Ellen Baer, and Karen Buhler-Wilkerson,” says Dr. D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FANN. “I see myself as having grown up intellectually with the Center, to which I owe all of my scholarly success.”

Dr. D’Antonio replaces Dr. Julie Fairman, the Nightingale Professor of Nursing and chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, who led the Center for 10 years.

“The leadership transition from Julie to me has been a smooth one.

Her insight will continue to guide this next stage in the development of the Center,” says Dr. D’Antonio.

“My scholarship has brought the history of nursing into an interdisciplinary and global arena,” she explains, “particularly by helping people more deliberately think about the meaning of nursing practice, nursing policy, and fundamental human and social needs.”

As she takes the reins as the fourth director of the Center, Dr. D’Antonio is well aware of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

She plans to lead a sustained commitment to excellence, for which the Center is already known.

“There is a palpable excitement to the interdisciplinary scholarship that positions nurses, too often historically invisible, as absolutely central to the broader histories of institutions, clinical practices, healthcare policies, women’s care and community work across the globe,” she explains.

POINTS OF PRIDE The Center is the world’s preeminent place for scholarship in nursing history. Dr. D’Antonio is proud to witness how the Center supports the research projects of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, as well as scholars outside of Penn Nursing The Center has launched a new minor in History, Health, and Humanities because of the strong interest from undergraduates in the topic.

“Our faculty members work with students across all curriculums, from undergraduates interested in history research projects to doctoral students exploring the forces shaping healthcare,” she explains.

The Center also is instrumental in influencing health policy, patient care strategies, and education.

“A few months ago, I received a call from the office of the commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is creating community health hubs and one of the first will be in East Harlem,” she explains. “They were interested in how my current research, soon to be published as Nursing with a Message: Public Health

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Demonstration Projects in New York City, might help them think about how to implement a new policy for better health in neighborhood which is major foci of my research.

Enhancing and conserving the Center’s archival collections, developing educational programs, conferences, and seminars, and communicating the value of those offerings to scholars are high on Dr. D’Antonio’s list of action items.

“I want to grow our archival collections, particularly forwarding the initiative Julie began with our Pioneer Collection that details the history of ethnic and minority health organizations and nurses,” she says. “I want to think deeply about the communities the Bates Center serves and fully connect them and their questions to our resources.”

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BIG PLANS FOR NEW INITIATIVES Two large projects have Dr. D’Antonio’s immediate attention: continuing the capital campaign and beginning a new strategic plan process.

“We are in the middle of our fouryear capital campaign to raise $750,000 for our endowment to support our operations and extend the reach of our Center around the world through fellowships,” explains Dr. D’Antonio. “Julie took a bold step to initiate this campaign and, between the encouragement of our School of Nursing and our supporters, we are making great strides in assuring our future.”

The Preserving Our Future campaign supports and advances several missions of the Center, including building the endowment,

which supports the acquisition and conservation of collections and pays staff; funding predoctoral fellowships; broadening community outreach; enabling videoconferences; and creating an endowed chair in nursing history.

Dr. D’Antonio’s second immediate focus is strategically planning the Center’s continued success.

“Throughout every leadership transition here, we have strengthened our Center. It’s unusual for these kinds of generational leadership changes to be so smooth,” says Dr. D’Antonio. “The key to that is a strong plan that helps guide all initiatives so we take the Center to the next level.”

The Center’s strategic plan is in place through 2016, and was developed by assessing internal and external influences to clearly

define objectives and formulate a four-year strategy. Dr. D’Antonio was instrumental in the process, and is preparing the foundation for the next phase, as well as immersing herself in the operations side of the Center.

“It is a priority to begin the new planning process with our faculty, advisory board, and other constituents to develop our next mission.

This is not only about my vision, but a collaborative effort with people who are deeply invested in the success of the Center,” she adds. “On the operations side, I need to dig deep into budgets because I now have a fiscal responsibility to the Center.”

That aspect of her duties is vast and includes management of an archivist and a coordinator, as well as oversight of one of the largest and most accessible collections of doc-

uments and images in the country focused specifically on the historical development of nursing. This includes archival and manuscript material, along with a library containing about 3,000 books, monographs, and other printed materials, as well as more than 2,500 linear feet of collection documents, audio/visual items, glass slides, photographs, and artifacts.

“The Bates Center is important to me because of its importance to the scholarship on the history of nursing. As scholars, we use history as an intellectual framework to analyze contemporary issues in healthcare practices, policy formulation, and public health,” she says. “My job is to increase access to our Center, support our faculty and pre- and postdoctoral candidates, and continue a leadership legacy of excellence.”

“ENHANCING AND CONSERVING THE CENTER’S ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS, DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS, AND COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF THOSE OFFERINGS TO SCHOLARS ARE HIGH ON DR. D’ANTONIO’S LIST OF ACTION ITEMS.”

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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP for

Dr. Cynthia Connolly

Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN, PNP, FAAN, has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fellowship – one of the most prestigious in the humanities – will be used to complete her forthcoming book, Children, Drug Therapy, and Pharmaceuticals in the United States, 1906-1979.

Connolly’s book will be the first history of children and drugs. It traces the development, use and marketing of pharmaceutical products for children. It is critically important to study this issue because even though almost every twentieth century law governing drug safety was enacted in response to a pediatric drug disaster, drug safety improved for adults but not for children. Connolly’s research addresses this paradox.

“It is very gratifying for me to be recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, especially for this particular research project,” said Connolly. “An historical approach allows one to bring together the history of childhood, parenting, pediatric exper-

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imentation, and scientific and technological change. It underscores the rich, novel, and significant insights that can be gained by studying the paradox of children and drug safety policy through a humanities lens.”

Connolly, who holds a secondary appointment in the History and Sociology of Science department, and is also a Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women, focuses her research on analyzing the forces that have

“CONNOLLY’S BOOK WILL BE THE FIRST HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND DRUGS. IT TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT, USE AND MARKETING OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS FOR CHILDREN.”

shaped children’s health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

She brings to her scholarship thirty-five years of experience practicing and teaching pediatric nursing across settings and ages, from infants through adolescents. This informs her approach to teaching as does her policy experience on Capitol Hill and scholarship on the historical and political context in which children’s health and social welfare policy is generated. Connolly draws on this expertise to improve the lives of children today through her appointment as one of four Faculty Directors at Penn’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research.

Connolly’s award-winning first book, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970, analyzed an early twentieth century child-focused intervention, the preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent tuberculosis in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply embedded assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Saving Sickly Children was supported by numerous research grants, including a Scholarly Award in Biomedicine and Health from the National Library of Medicine.

“IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO STUDY THIS ISSUE BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH ALMOST EVERY TWENTIETH CENTURY LAW GOVERNING DRUG SAFETY WAS ENACTED IN RESPONSE TO A PEDIATRIC DRUG DISASTER, DRUG SAFETY IMPROVED FOR ADULTS BUT NOT FOR CHILDREN.”

Besides Connolly, only two other nurses have ever been awarded an NEH fellowship. They too are from the Bates Center: Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Killebrew-Censits Term Professor in Undergraduate Education, Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health, and Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing; and Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Nightingale Professor of Nursing and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences.

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Julie Fairman Steps Down as Bates Center Director In the fall of 2015, Dr. Julie Fairman brought to a close her nearly tenyear tenure as the third Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

Fairman’s leadership of the Bates Center has been extraordinary. She has been a responsible steward of its endowment, using it to put the Center on a path of continued growth and scholarly productivity.

Early in her tenure, she developed an engaged advisory board, now chaired by Neville Strumpf. She

also led her faculty in the development of a strategic plan for the years 2012-2016 that emphasizes eminence in scholarship, a strengthened global engagement, and increasing the visibility, accessibility, and scope of the Center’s historical collection. As can be in this and prior editions of the

FAIRMAN AND HER COMMITTEE MEASURE SUCCESS NOT ONLY IN DOLLARS BUT ALSO IN THE NEW FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS IT BRINGS TO THE CENTER. Chronicle, Fairman has ably succeeded in this accomplishing this plan for the Center and the Center’s place in the history of health care.

Fairman also brought to her role a prescient sense of where the future of the history of nursing would be. She pioneered

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the use of technology in opening up the Bates Center’s Seminar Series to a more global audience.

And she developed a strong place for the Center in social media. We now have Facebook and Pinterest sites. We have our own blog, “Echoes and Evidence” with essays picked up by such sites as Philly. com. And she began a “Pioneer Collection” of papers of ethnic and minority nursing institutions and individuals as she acknowledged that historians of today and the future would want to know more about a broader and more diverse array of nursing experiences.

Perhaps Fairman’s most visionary decision was the one that launched a $750,000 capital campaign to increase the Bates Center Endowment, the source of the Center’s operating expenses and fellowship funds. With a strong and committed development committee, chaired by Susan Behrend, the Campaign launched in 2014. And it has been successful. But Fairman and her committee measure success not only in dollars but also in the new friends and supporters it brings to the Center.

Fairman describes this decision to step down as the Director of the Bates Center as a “very difficult step

for me to make” but also feels that her most important and ongoing contributions to the Center now lie in her teaching and mentoring of its students, and the completion of what she describes as her “special projects” that she initiated and wants to see through to completion. These include the acquisition of the papers of the National League for Nursing, a storied organization that began in the late 19th century and completion of the collection of Ruth Lubic, a MacAr-

thur Award winning nurse-midwife who has devoted her career to improving the care of disadvantaged mothers and their newborns.

Fairman will also be concentrating on her roles as Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences at Penn Nursing and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Future of Nursing Scholars’ Program, one dedicated to creating a diverse cadre of PhD prepared nurses committed to transformational change in nursing and

health care. But she will not be going far from the Bates Center she has so well led. In addition to her special projects, Fairman will simply be transitioning into new roles as Director Emeritus of the Center and a new member of our Advisory Board.

Introducing Elisa Stroh BATES CENTER’S ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

In Januar y 2 016 , the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing welcomed Elisa Stroh as its new Administrative Coordinator. Elisa assumed the role following the transition of Tiffany Collier, the Center’s previous administrative coordinator, to a new position at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine.

Elisa will be responsible for a variety of tasks, including overseeing the Center’s communications, coordinating with donors, super-

vising workstudy students, assisting with the Seminar series, and overseeing the Center’s researcher requests. Elisa will also assist the new director, Dr. Patricia D’Antonio, in carrying out new initiatives for the Center in the coming months.

Elisa is a familiar face at the Center, having joined the Center in 2011 as a work-study student. While a student, Elisa assisted in various tasks, including assisting with the Center’s seminars, transcript requests, and events. After graduation, Elisa stayed on as a research assistant and took on more responsibilities for the Center’s day to day activities.

As the new administrative coordinator, she is excited to work with the Center faculty, directors, and staff on new projects and identify new areas for development.

TO CONTACT ELISA: REACH OUT TO THE CENTER AT (215) 898-4502 OR EMAIL NHISTORY@NURSING.UPENN.EDU

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WELCOME Dr. Zane Wolf

PHD, RN, FAAN, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

BARBARA BATES CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF NURSING WELCOMES A NEW MEMBER TO ITS ADVISORY BOARD, ZANE ROBINSON WOLF, PHD, RN, FAAN. Dr. Wolf will assist the Center with the development of strategic initiatives, will advise on special events and new projects, and will help further the Center’s strategic plan for eminence in scholarship, global engagement, and increased visibility and accessibility of the Center’s collections.

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Dr. Wolf is Dean Emerita and Professor of Nursing at LaSalle University’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences. She practiced as a critical care and medical surgical nurse and has worked in nursing education, teaching in diploma, associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral nursing programs. Dr. Wolf currently teaches courses on patient safety, nursing research, evidence-based practice, and caring and continues to conduct qualitative and quantitative research on medication errors, nurse caring, nursing education concerns, and other topics. Dr. Wolf has been an editor of the International Journal for Human Caring since 1999. She is a renowned author and recent books include Caring in Nursing Classics:

An Essential Resource (2013) and Caring in Nursing Classics: An Essential Resource - Teachers’ and Students’ Resource Book (2014).

Dr. Wolf also wrote Exploring Rituals in Nursing: Joining Art and Science which won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy in 2013. But Dr. Wolf is best known to the Bates Center as a long time friend and colleague and one whose book, Nurses Work, the Sacred and the Profane beautifully captures how profoundly important ritualized nursing practices are to the creation of a skilled and compassionate professional.

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CELEBRATES Dr. Betty Smith Williams During the week of January 25 the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing joined with Penn Nursing’s Office of Diversity and Inclusivity and its Assistant Dean, Dr. Lisa Lewis, to honor Dr. Betty Smith Williams.

Dr. Williams, our Martin Luther King Day Commemorative Speaker, has had a long and storied career as an educator, a researcher, and a pioneer in nursing. She was the first black nurse hired as faculty in higher education in California when she accepted her first academic position in 1956. Dr. Williams had an illustrious career in academe, capped by her appointment as Dean and Professor of Nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and, later, the founding Dean of the School of Nursing at the American University of Health Sciences in Signal Hill, California.

Dr. Williams has been as influential in creating organizational structures through which ethnic and minority nurses can have power and influence. In 1968 she co-founded the Council of Black Nurses Los Angeles. And she is the co-founder (1971) and now charter member of the National Black

Nurses Association. She served as the NBNA’s seventh president from 19951999.

In 1998, Dr. Williams co-founded the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurses Association, Inc. As it first president, she led the Association in its path-breaking and innovative Nurse Scientist Stimulation Program. This program received 2.5 millions in grant funds to increase the numbers of ethnic minority nurse researchers dedicated to reducing health disparities. She now serves the Association as its President Emerita.

Needless to say, Dr. Williams has received over 75 awards and honors, including the Distinguished Alumnae Award from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in 1998 and recognition as a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2010.

During her time at the Bates Center, Hafeeza Achrum, on of the Center’s predoctoral students,

began the process of compiling Dr. Williams’ oral history and Center Director, Patricia D’Antonio, spoke with her about the value of thinking about where she would want her own papers to go.

Later, in her MLK Commemorative Address, Dr. Williams spoke movingly of the role of ethnic and minority organizations in keeping a strong focus on the community.

“The ANA and the NLM will take care of broad workplace and educational issues,” she said. It is up to our organizations to keep the focus where it belongs: on our communities.”

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into the Center of Excellence in Rome, to foster eminence in nursing history scholarship.”

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y combining scholarship and networking, Julie Fairman, the Nightingale Professor of Nursing, the current Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences and the Emerita Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, has developed a new partnership between the Bates Center and The Center of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship in Rome.

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“ T w o years ago, when I was a visiting scholar at the University of Rome Torvagata, I had several conversations with Gennaro Rocco, the director of the Center of Excellence in Rome, and Alessandro Stievano of the IPASVI Board of Nursing in Rome,” explains Dr. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN. IPASVI is the Italian acronym for professional nurses, health workers and childcare attendants. “They were interested in incorporating historical research

Those conversations led to collaboration, with Dr. Fairman and colleagues at the Bates Center supporting the Center of Excellence in Rome with practical insight and scholarship. The official launch of the initiative is in May, when Dr. Fairman will give two talks during a symposium in Rome.

“While we partner with other Centers in the United States and one in Manchester, England, this collaboration is especially exciting because of the depth and breadth of nursing history in Italy,” she says. “It’s an exciting opportunity to help improve the quality and scope of historical scholarship on nursing.”

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GLOBAL PRESENCE The Bates Center will help the Center of Excellence in Rome develop its scholarship focus on the historical perspective in three areas: nurse registration; the roll

will help forward its mission to build evidence-based practice, advocate for interdisciplinary healthcare, and champion health profession reforms for nursing,” says Dr. Fairman.

“IT’S AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO HELP IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND SCOPE OF HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON NURSING.”

The Center of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship in Rome was established in 2010 and promoted by the IPASVI Board of Nursing in Rome. It is a non-university based center organized with four specific pillars: to advance nursing education, clinical practice, research development, and research training.

Now, the fifth pillar – to advance nursing history scholarship – will enhance the Center’s objective to improve healthcare in Italy.

of specialist nurses in advanced practice across countries; and organized models for continuity of care in primary care.

“The Center of Excellence in Rome’s research focus on history

in Italy try to renegotiate their role and their power within the healthcare system.”

Dr. Fairman sees a great opportunity for the new nursing history scholarship initiative at the Center of Excellence in Rome to help shape health policy there. “Nursing in Italy is different. Nurses have a different relationship with doctors and the legislature, as well as differences in terms of their abilities to practice to the fullest scope of their knowledge. My colleagues and I are excited to offer our expertise into how nursing history and scholarship can help them gain advantage in their health system,” she says.

“The idea to use history to shape health policy was a critical message I shared with them,” Dr. Fairman explains. “By collaborating with them, we provide support as nurses

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Launches New Undergraduate Minor

The Bates Center has launched a new minor in History, Health and the Humanities for undergraduate nursing students.. This innovative initiative integrates the particular ways of knowing unique to the humanities with clinical phenomena of interest that students want to investigate.

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faculty director of the minor, believes that its distinct strength “is that it fits into the synergy of trends in liberal arts as well as professional education in the twenty-first century.” A number of Universities have forged bridges between the humanities and sciences to nourish students intellectually, build self aware-

ness, and increase empathy. As Connolly points out “the aim of these programs is to use the breath and depth of the humanities as countervailing forces against the rampant mechanization and reductionism in current health care delivery and scientific inquiry.”

More pragmatically, it is what some of our undergraduate students want. Systematic feedback from some fifty-four students either enrolled in our courses or of those who have chosen to do historical research with Bates Center faculty from 2010 to 2014 shows strong demand for a minor that would provide them the tools and perspectives to study a clinical issue in ways different than the lens provided by natural or social sciences.

The foundational course in the minor will be a new course, Narrative Matters in Health and Illness Experiences. This course draws on the memoirs of individuals and families and privileges the concept of narrative – of story-telling – as a critically important yet consistently under valued pedagogy for education, research, policy generation, and healing. It will challenge students to better understand the lived experiences of those they will serve, often at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. And it will help them understand the power of art, literature, and film avoid the reductionist impulse in modern health care.

“THEY [THE STUDENTS] WANT MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY AS WELL AS MORE OPPRTUNITES FOR RESEARCH.” Five other courses will be required, one of which will be a course offered by either Drs. Connolly, Fairman, Sochalski, or D’Antonio. Then the students will be let loose to sample the rich humanities offerings of the University.

Finally, and critically, the minor in History, Health, and the Humanities engages with what students across the University say they want in their 2015 report on undergraduate education.

“The students, themselves, say they want just what the minor offers,” says Dr. Connolly. “They want more opportunity for integrated interdisciplinary study as well as more opprtunites for research.” The minor will start small, but the faculty and students in the Bates Center soon expect it to be quite vibrant – and an important advantage that will attract others to Penn Nursing.

For other Universities offering such bridges between the humanities and the sciences see:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY http://harvardmagazine. com/2014/07/a-melodiousrevolution

MIT http://shass.mit.edu/news/ news-2014-power-humanitiesmit-commentary-deandeborah- fitzgerald

CALTECH http://www.hss.caltech.edu/ content/humanities-options

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO https://collegeadmissions. uchicago.edu/academics/ majorsminors/hips/

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In The News JULIE FAIRMAN AND PATRICIA D’ANTONIO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS HEALTH POLICY AWARD FROM NURSING OUTLOOK Julie Fairman and Patricia D’Antonio received Nursing Outlook’s Excellence in Policy Award for their article “History Counts: How History Can Shape our Under st anding of Health Policy” at the 2015 Health Policy Conference of the American Academy of Nursing.

Nursing Outlook, the official journal of the Academy, recognized Fairman and D’Antonio’s strength in articulating the importance of understanding the historical context to influence the direction of policies and politics. As they write, “Nurses’ success in moving policy forward will depend on their ability to give voice to a historical perspective that recognizes the political and contextual forces that shape health care and places nurses and nursing at the center of long-standing debates about health services delivery, knowledge formation, patient safety, technology, and education for practice. As a policy strategy, we need to position the histories of nursing in a place that will make it accessible to decision makers and make them understand why it matters and counts.”

To read the entire article, go to http://www. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0029655413001425

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JULIE SOCHALSKI ON POLICY PANEL AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING On Friday, October 16, 2015, Bates Center Fellow, Julie Sochalski, joined two other distinguished Academy Fellows in a plenary session on “Leadership in Policy” before several hundred participants in its annual policy conference. The session, held in a TED format, focused on lessons learned in how policy is really made. Sochalski, also the Interim Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Penn Nursing, drew on her experiences during her three year tenure as Director of the Division of Nursing and Principal Advisor for Health Workforce Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was joined by Marla Salmon, a former Institute of Medicine Nurse Scholar-in-Residence and Stephanie Ferguson, a former White House Policy Fellow. The panel engaged the audience in a wide range of topics ranging from how to actually influence policy change to how to bring data forward to stakeholders who are in positions to make changes.

The audience particularly responded to Sochalski’s advice that to create change one had to develop the capacity to “pivot”: to keep the central objective clearly in mind but to also recognize that there were many different pathways to that objective.

To view the panel session please go to: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhBxqE6MDE

FOULKEWAYS VISIT TO THE CENTER In August, the Bates Center hosted a group from Foulkeways Retirement Community. Led by Center founder Joan Lynaugh, the members viewed an assortment of artifacts, curated by Jessica Clark, from the Center’s collections. After viewing the artifacts, the group heard a short presentation about the history of nursing and the Center. Several tour members were nurses themselves, and had much to offer about their experiences during their careers. Several advisory board members were present for the event, including Elise Pizzi, Dr. Neville Strumpf, and Susan Behrend.

ARCHIVES MONTH PHILLY 2015 This past autumn, the Bates Center participated for a second time in Archives Month Philly, an annual event which highlights the rich history of the many archive institutions and special collections in Philadelphia. The month-long celebration includes many events, including exhibits and open houses for both seasoned archivists and those who are new to the world of archives.

The Center held a month-long exhibit showcasing the past “100 Years of Nursing History.” The Center was ideally positioned to curate the collection of photos, documents, and artifacts that made up the exhibit. The exhibit included nursing’s involvement in both WWI and WWII, the evolution of nursing education, nursing’s perception in the media, and the development of the role of nursing. The growing diversity of the nursing workforce was highlighted, along with many of the accomplishments of the nursing schools for which the Bates Center holds the records. The kick-off event for the month-long open house included a short video, a nursing history quiz, and other activities for history buffs of all ages. This exhibit could not have been such a success without the leadership of the Center’s Administrative Coordinator at the time, Tiffany Collier and the Center’s archivist, Jessica Clark.

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From the Collections: Recent Accessions The Bates Center has been privileged to acquire several new accessions that complement our current holdings as well as new collections of nurses and training schools. These accessions highlight the lives and activities of nurses, training schools, and nursing school alumni associations. Processing of these valuable collections is critical to ensure their accessibility to researchers and scholars globally. To donate to the processing of these, and other, collections, please visit www.nursing.upenn.edu/historygiving.

Jessica Clark, Archivist (Twitter: @ArchivistJessC) Madeline H. Petrillo (-2015): Generously donated by Ms. Petrillo, this collection documents her experience as a pediatric mental health nurse and renowned speaker regarding her work with children and hospital care. This collection contains materials from her co-authored book of Emotional Care of Hospitalized Children (for which she received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in Pediatrics in both 1972 and 1980), her speaking and training workshops, and other research documents (9 linear feet).

Alumni Association of Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing (1895-2012): The Bates Center is pleased to accept additional materials donated by the Albert Einstein alumni for their collection. This donation includes printed materials concerning the alumni association as well as member lists, alumni award recipients, a student cape, official minutes, and meetings materials. In all, this collection of records documents the various activities and the dedication of the Albert Einstein alumni association (2 linear feet, total col20

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lection 59 linear feet).

Mathy Mezey (c. 1970s-c.2010s): The Center is thrilled to be the custodian of Dr. Mezey’s personal papers. Dr. Mezey’s collection of professional publications and presentations, work pertaining to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Project, and work concerning her involvement with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, documents her influential career in geriatric nursing and education. Dr. Mezey is the author of 11 books and over 80 publications that focus on educating nurses for the care of older adults and end of life decisions, quality of care for older adults in hospitals, and nursing homes (4.5 linear feet).

Rare Book Collections: Both Maggie Fillinger and Jodi Cantone generously donated collections of rare and important nursing related books. While the Center has limited book capacity, these items are remarkable additions to our general and rare book collections. From Fillinger, two books of particular note are Advice to Mothers, on the Subject of Their Own Health, 1811 and A Practical

Treatise on Midwifery, 1838. From Cantone, two highlights are New York at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1894 and Catalogue of Human Skeletons, Anatomical Models, Busts, Masks, etc. etc., 1893. The Center is thrilled to add these books for researchers to enjoy (both donations, 1.5 linear feet).

Northeastern Hospital School of Nursing (1924-2016): The Center is honored to receive the records of Northeastern, which will be closing its doors in May 2016. We have been working with the school to transfer their records over the past year as well as beginning to provide transcripts for its students. In addition to their school history, NLN reports, yearbooks, photographs, and student records, this collection also contains materials from St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing (closed c. 1970s). This wonderful collection will complement our large collection of nursing school records (currently 28 linear feet).

DONORS July 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015

THE BARBARA BATES CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF NURSING GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES ALL OF ITS SUPPORTERS FOR THEIR GENEROSITY Mrs. Catherine B. Amato

Dr. Barbara Gaines

Ms. Bonnie J. Mauger

Dr. Jane Herman Barnsteiner

Gaines Family Charitable Gift Fund

Dr. Annemarie McAllister

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD

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Mr. Daniel B. Behrend Mrs. Susan Weiss Behrend Mrs. Catherine Bitner Mrs. Marion Bryde Bogen Dr. Robert W. Bogen Dr. Geertje Boschma Dr. Barbara Brodie Solomon & Sylvia Bronstein Foundation Bryn Mawr Trust Company Ms. Melodie K. Chenevert Dr. Pamela Frances Cipriano

Mr. William C. Garrow Dr. Mary Eckenrode Gibson Mr. Mark Gilbert Dr. Margaret J. Grey Ms. Carol L. Gross Dr. Gloria Hagopian Mrs. Hannah L. Henderson Ms. Constance A. Holleran Mr. Vincent Hughes

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Mrs. Jacqueline M. Jerrehian Ms. Catherine R. Judge

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Mrs. Shirley B. Layfield

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Dr. Richard J. Lewenson

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Dr. Sandra B. Lewenson

Dr. Jonathan Erlen

Dr. Joan E. Lynaugh

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Mr. Terry Feetham

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Dr. E. Ann Matter

Dr. Adrian S. Melissinos Dr. Ann L. O’Sullivan Ms. Eileen P. Petrillo Ms. Madeline H. Petrillo Mrs. Annette Marie Pettineo Mrs. Vivian W. Piasecki Dr. Elizabeth A. Reedy Mr. Gates Rhodes Dr. Carla Schissel Dr. Virginia R. Sicola Dr. Suzanne C. Smeltzer Ms. Cathy L. Strachan Mr. John Strumpf Dr. Meryn Elisabeth Stuart Dr. Joyce E. Thompson Dr. Nancy J. Tomes Dr. Nancy M. Valentine Dr. Barbra M. Wall Dr. Jean C. Whelan Charles J. Wolf III, MD Dr. Zane Robinson Wolf

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The ICN 2016: 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NURSING, SEPTEMBER 29 – 30 2016, London, UK, aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Nursing. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of Nursing. For more information please visit http://waset.org/conference/2016/09/london/ICN

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The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF NURSING (AAHN) and the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO COLLEGE OF NURSING are co-sponsoring the Association’s 33rd Annual Conference, SEPTEMBER 22-24, 2016, in Chicago, IL. The conference provides a forum for researchers interested in sharing new scholarship that addresses events, issues, and topics pertinent to the history of the global nursing profession, its clinical practice, and the field of nursing history. Additional information about the conference can be obtained at www.aahn.org

The 2016 ANNUAL CAHN/ACHN CONFERENCE, Brains, Guts and Gumption: Historical Perspectives on Nursing Education, Practice and Entrepreneurship, will be held in Vancouver, Canada, JUNE 16 – 18, 2016. The CAHN/ACHN conference is hosted by the University of British Columbia (UBC) Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry, and co-sponsored by the UBC School of Nursing, Providence

Health Care – St. Paul’s Hospital location, the BC History of Nursing Society, the Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing, the Manitoba Association for the History of Nursing, the Halifax Nursing History Group, the Nursing History Research Unit at the University of Ottawa, and the Associated Medical Services (AMS).

For more information please visit the website at http://cahn-achn. ca/annual-conference/

The INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUES 21st Congress, Scale and Sustainability: Moving Women’s Health Forward, will be held November 6 – 9, 2016 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland (USA). Registration opened in January 2016. For additional information about the Congress, please visit the website at www.icowhi.org