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News of the Faculty
Professor Emerita Joan
Lynaugh Named Living
Legend
Professor Emerita, Joan Lynaugh MSN,
PhD, FAAN was recently named a
Living Legend by the American
Academy of Nursing.
“Dr. Lynaugh exemplifies the best
qualities, accomplishments, and legacies
for which the Living Legend Award
was established. Her selection is not
only an acknowledgement of Dr.
Lynaugh’s many contributions to nursing;
it is also an acknowledgement of
the significance of scholarship in nursing
history,” says Dean Afaf I. Meleis,
PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN. Currently, Dr.
Lynaugh is working on historical questions
related to the development of
higher education in nursing.
Dr. Lynaugh was recruited to Penn
Nursing in 1980 to direct the School’s
new initiative in primary care nursing.
She brought with her a commitment
to family nurse practitioner education
and faculty practice which significantly
contributed to the reshaping of primary
care nursing education at Penn
and throughout the country.As a result
of Dr. Lynaugh’s efforts, we have today
at Penn one of nursing’s most successful
and publicly understood models of
care and some of the top nurse practitioner
programs in the country.
As founding director of the Barbara
Bates Center for the Study of the
History of Nurses, Dr. Lynaugh is a true
pioneer who put research and scholarship
in history on the national and
international map.Although “scholarship
in history” distinguishes some of her
contributions, she has dedicated more
than 40 years of her career to issues in
healthcare delivery, practice patterns for
nurse practitioners in primary care, as
well as the history of nursing.
Dr. Lynaugh’s earliest research analyzed
the origins of community hospitals
as essential, local, and voluntary
institutions. She has also studied the
issues affecting practice by nurses and
physicians, as well as formative changes
in both professions, professional nursing
practice in post-World War II America,
and the emergence of critical care
nursing in the United States, among
other topics. Her research has been
supported by grants from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation, the Milbank
Memorial Fund, the American
Association of Critical Care Nurses, the
International Council of Nurses, and
the University of Pennsylvania.
Her many honors and awards
include Phi Kappa Phi, 1979; Sigma
Theta Tau, 1980; Fellow,American
Academy of Nursing, 1982;
Distinguished Alumni Award,
University of Rochester, 1985;
Honorary Alumni Award, University of
Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Alumni Association, 1986;Agnes
Randolph Dillon Award for History,
University of Virginia, 1994;American
Nurses’Association Heritage Award,
1996. Hannah Lectureship, Canadian
Association for the History of Nursing,
1997; Lavinia L Dock Award for
Historical Research and Scholarship,
American Association for the History
of Nursing,1998; President’s Award,
American Association for the History
of Nursing, 2000.
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