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4 Stephanie A. Stachniewicz, Founding Member by Joan Lynaugh Long before the Bates Center was conceived of in 1985 and actually opened in 1989, Stephanie Stachniewicz was its innovative, vigorous, thoughtful and committed advocate. With history initiatives just in the talking stage during the early 1980s, Lillian Shotis Brunner decided to introduce Joan Lynaugh to Stephanie over lunch. And, from there, all sorts of important happenings emanated. As a long time influential leader of the Philadelphia General Hospital Alumnae Association, Stephanie was able to bring the support of these important nurses Stephanie Stachniewicz and Mayor of Philadelphia James Tate. Photo: Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing Collection BBCSHN to the Center. Their decision to place their collections with the Center had a major impact on other individuals and groups. Stephanie became the Secretary of the Advisory Board of the Center when the Board was organized under Lillian Brunner’s guidance in 1985. She served on that Board for the next seventeen years. She gave sound advice, she raised money to support the work of history, she encouraged us when we wondered if it all would work, and she made sure that everything about the Center was the best. One of Stephanie’s great ideas was the Alice Fisher Summer Fellowship underwritten by a major gift from the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing (PGH) Alumnae which has supported 14 scholars to date. Another was the revival of the annual procession to the graves of Alice Fisher and Lillian Clayton (both influlential PGH nurse educators) which occured in May for many years. Everyone had fun, ate well in the Hamilton Mansion and shared prideful thoughts about our predecessors. After graduating from the PGH School of Nursing in 1947 (as a member of the Cadet Nurse Corps) she practiced in the Pulmonary Department and then Emergency Service; later, she taught and practiced in the Out Patient Department. As part of her faculty role in the PGH School of Nursing she taught History of Nursing. Meanwhile, Stephanie earned a BSNE from Penn in 1956 and her MSN in 1967. Her intellectual strength and decision making ability made it seem inevitable that she would be selected for the huge job of Director of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service at PGH in 1972. During the conflicted and difficult years leading to the closing of PGH and its School of Nursing in 1977, Stephanie Stachniewicz exhibited leadership which is recalled with respect and fondness by all those involved. In 1978, she and Jean Axelod published The Double Frill: The History of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing . This is an outstanding work which is used to this day as an exact and accurate history of nursing in Philadelphia. (Rennovations, continued) Although all associated with the Center were very comfortable in the old space, the new space will be more user friendly, expansive, and will allow faculty, staff, and researchers to interact in contiguous spaces. Upon entry to the new Center, Betsy Weiss, who will occupy a desk in a central reception area, will as always, immediately greet visitors. The Alumnae Association of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will have a prominent office and display space. Faculty offices are located within the Center. There are designated spaces for doctoral students and a post-doctoral fellow. A conference room with state of the art technology will support our seminar series and meeting needs. The new reading room will provide much needed research space for visiting scholars and help us apply archival access policies similar to those found at other established repositories. Researchers will have lockers to store personal belongings, and there is a public seating section behind our reception area to accommodate them when Betsy Weiss must leave her desk to retrieve needed collection items. The reading room is glass-enclosed, creating an atmosphere of openness and light, and at the same time, providing a quiet space for concentrating on and accomplishing critical work. (News from the Center, continued) toral Nurse Fellowship; the Bates Center Alice Fisher Fellowship; NANDA~I Foundation Grant; the American Association for the History of Nursing Doctoral Student Research Award; and the Gamma Gamma and Xi Chapters of Sigma Theta Tau International Grant. She completed her dissertation in June and will begin a post-doctoral Department of Veteran Affairs Fellowship this fall. Center Publications Karen Buhler Wilkerson, “Care of the Chronically Ill at Home: An Unresolved Dilemma in Health Policy for the US,” Milbank Quarterly, 2008, (4), 611-639.
Patricia D’Antonio, “Nurses – and Wives and Mothers: Women and the Latter Day Saints Training School’s Class of 1919,” Journal of Women’s History, 2007, 19 (3): 112-136. Julie Fairman and Patricia D’Antonio, “Reimagining Nursing’s Place in the History of Clinical Practice,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Advance Access published on March 28, 2008. Julie Fairman, “Context and Contingency: The Post World War II History of Nursing Scholarship.” Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2008 40 (1): 4-11. Barbra Mann Wall, “Twenty-Five Years of Historical Scholarship.” Pennsylvania Nurse, 2008 63 (2): 10-12. Barbra Mann Wall, “Looking Back: Celebrating Nursing History,” American Journal of Nursing, 2008, 108 (6): 26-29. Barbra Mann Wall, Nancy Edwards, and Marjorie Porter, “Textual Analysis of Retired Nurses’ Oral Histories,” Nursing Inquiry, 2007, 14 (4): 279-288. Patricia D’Antonio, Ellen Baer, Sylvia Rinker & Joan Lynaugh (2007). Nurses’ Work: Issues Across Time and Place. New York: Springer Publishing. Several faculty also contributed chapters to a newly released book on the research methodology of nursing history See Sandra Lewenson and Eleanor Herrmann (Eds.) (2008), Capturing Nursing History. New York: Springer Publishing. A New Book Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care by Julie Fairman (Rutgers University Press) is a welcome addition to anyone’s bookshelf. As noted on the book jacket, “In Making Room in the Clinic, Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social movements influenced it, and how it contributed to the changing definition of medical care. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, including interviews with key figures in the movement, Fairman describes how this evolution helped create an influential foundation for health policies that Julie Fairman’s book, Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care emerged at the end of the twentieth century, including health maintenance organizations, a renewed interest in health awareness and disease prevention, and consumer-based services.” Dr. Fairman’s book is an insightful look into the history of nurse practitioners which advances our knowledge of this critical movement and provides a scholarly lens through which to view the present status of health care and health care policy in the United States. Making Room in the Clinic is a highly recommended must read! International Happenings Faculty and students of the Bates Center have been active on the international scene delivering papers at conferences and universities including Germany, Canada and Denmark. Drs. Patricia D’Antonio and Julie Fairman presented their research at the 2nd International History of Nursing Conference sponsored by the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung in March 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany. 5 Dr. Barbra Mann Wall has been busy initiating and coordinating a movement to have nursing history included as a section of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). In January 2008, directors of nursing history centers in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, and Denmark wrote to the Executive Director and the President of the ICN, requesting that nursing history be included as a section in the 2009 ICN conference in Durban, South Africa to which Dr. Judith Oulton, Executive Director of the ICN, concurred. At the Canadian Nursing History Association meeting in Toronto in June 2008, nursing historians made tentative plans for the Durban meeting deciding to form a panel to discuss steps needed to become an Affiliate of the ICN.Through the ICN, historians from across the globe can participate in the international exchange of ideas, experience, and expertise for the nursing profession. This joint project will allow significant collaborations that can bring important historical, sociological, and cultural contexts to events that have shaped the nursing profession. Dr. Wall also gave one of three keynote addresses at the First Danish Nursing History Conference in a talk titled, The History of Nursing History in Kolding, Denmark in September, 2007. She presented Public Representations of Religion: The American Catholic Hospital at the Religion in Education, Culture and Society Conference in Bremen, Germany, sponsored by the European Association for the Study of Religion, Sept. 25, 2007. At the American Association of the History of Medicine Annual Conference in April, 2008, three of our faculty, Drs. Julie Fairman, Patricia D’Antonio and Barbara Wall organized, hosted and presented at the Sigerist Circle Panel entitled Nursing and Activism. Joining them on the panel were fellow historians Drs. Meryn Stuart, Cynthia Connolly and Arlene Keeling. Presenting at the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing’s International Nursing History Conference in Toronto, Canada in June, 2008 were Drs. Barbra MannWall, Patricia D’Antonio, Julie Fairman and Jennifer Hobbs and doctoral student Winifred C. Connerton. (continued on page 6)
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