Nursing & History Expert Panel
The Expert Panel on Nursing and History helps the Academy document its own history to assist others in developing positive health care goals for the future. The Panel provides access to important historical nursing evidence through audio/visual documentation, and Living Legends and Edge Runners rosters as well as detailed publications by these individuals that brought about change in healthcare.
Inaugural Year: 2003
Current Co-Chairs:
Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Director, The Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry,
Chair, Department of Acute and Specialty Care
The University of Virginia School of Nursing
225 Jeanette Lancaster Way
Charlottesville, VA 22908
(434) 924-5906
Email:
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Sandra B. Lewenson EdD, RN, FAAN
Professor & Associate Dean-Academic Affairs
Pace University
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
914-773-3331
Email:
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AAN Staff: Mallory Schindler
Board Liason: Judith Baggs
Previous Chairs: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson (2002-2005)
Frequency of Meetings: Annually in person
Publications: No publications to date.
Charge to Expert Panel:
Identify and develop a Historical Edge Runners project that illuminates many of the of the significant contributes of earlier nurses to the shaping of the profession. Complete the Nursing History and Healthcare Website, Support the Academy in capturing its own history and Illuminate the contributions of the organization to the shaping of the health care system
Summary:
The overarching goal of the Expert Panel on Nursing History is to help the Academy capture its own history that will assist them to evaluate their accomplishment and develop goals for the future. The Academy will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013 and in preparation for this event it is important to establish a process in which to examine its history. The Expert Panel believes that by acknowledging and knowing its history, the Academy will be better able to demonstrate the vitality, contributions, and value this organization brings to health care both nationally and globally. By using history as evidence, the Academy will be better able to support the practice, research, education, and administration in nursing. To accomplish this overarching goal the Expert Panel supports the following recommendations:
- Development of an archival and preservation policy.
- Encourage the academy to obtain the services of an archivist to review and prepare the Academy papers for archives in preparation for the 40th Anniversary in 2013.
- Set a process in motion that will allow the Academy to acknowledge a new category of nursing edge runners focusing on the contributions of “previous generations” of edge runners and by doing so, acknowledge the profession’s long history of developing innovative initiatives that have led to significant improvements in health care and the development of health care policy .
- The Expert Panel is developing a procedure that will capture these early nursing leaders’ history in practice, research, education, and administration - for example: identify who they were, what their innovative contributions have been, and the effect they had on health care and health care policy.
- Academy might highlight the stories of some of the earlier nursing edge runners at each of its annual conferences – keynote, panel, or posters, Expert Panel Nursing and Nursing History Website (see below) or other appropriate formats.
- Continue to record (both audio and video) Living Legend ceremony and develop a process to preserve previous information on the Living Legends that may not have been recorded.
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