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September 16, 2020 | XXIV, Issue Number 18
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Colleagues, last fall, when our attention turned to serious planning for the 2020 NLN Education Summit, we were excited about the prospect of celebrating our Summit during the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The year 2020 promised to be a transformative one for nursing, with a convergence of events worldwide that would lead to greater investment in the nursing and midwifery workforces and recognition of nursing’s essential role in contributing to the health of the global community.
Never did we imagine the reality of 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic. We did not foresee that images of tired, overworked, but well-educated, well-trained, and heroic nurses would be indelibly impressed on the public consciousness, and we certainly did not envision next week’s Virtual Summit.
During this year like no other for nursing, it is a good time to take the long view and recognize history’s greatest nurses and nurse educators, as well as those who inspire us today. Next Friday, we will virtually call to the podium three stellar educators selected from your nominations by the NLN Awards Committee.
Honoring Nursing Education Excellence
We traditionally present three NLN Awards at our Summits named for luminaries in nursing and nursing education. Laura Adrian Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, of the Uniformed Services University, will receive the award named for a founder of modern nursing education, Mary Adelaide Nutting. A transplant nurse and educator, Dr. Taylor has guided the design and implementation of innovative information technologies to ensure that nurses around the world have access to current resources on a wide variety of technology platforms.
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Eileen Stuart-Shor, PhD, ANP, FAHA, FAAN, will receive the award for outstanding leadership in clinical practice, named for NLN founder Isabel Hampton Robb. As a new graduate nurse, Dr. Shor co-founded a nurse-led clinic for the homeless in Boston that became a national model and now spans two continents, extending from underserved neighborhoods in the US to Africa. She is a lecturer in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a nurse practitioner at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The NLN Lillian Wald Humanitarian Award will be bestowed on William E. Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, a psycho-oncology postdoctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Rosa, editor of three books on leadership, global health, and theory-guided practice, is lead researcher for an international policy report sponsored by the World Innovation Summit for Health to be released in the spring: Nurses for Health Equity: Guidelines for Tackling the Social Determinants of Health. He was recently named a 2020 International Council of Nurses Global Nursing Leadership Institute Scholar. |
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These three awards will be presented during the Honors Convocation, which concludes the Summit on Friday, September 25, at 4 p.m. Eastern. At that time, we will also honor our newest fellows in the NLN Academy for Nursing Education and our 2020 Centers of Excellence. Sadly, we cannot present these awards in person, but it is always a thrill to call attention to the best in nursing education, past and present.
Inspiring Us All
NLN President Patricia Yoder-Wise will give two President's Awards at this Summit. One President’s Award will honor Bonnie and Mark Barnes, who founded the DAISY Foundation more than 20 years ago to honor the nursing professionals who provided compassionate care to their late son Patrick. The far-reaching DAISY Award Program fosters teamwork and nurse engagement and motivates the delivery of compassionate care. The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students, awarded during students’ clinical training, emphasizes human connections with patients as key to compassionate nursing. |
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And the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty honors the inspiration and influence educators exert on their students. Pat and I are profoundly grateful to Bonnie and Mark for their understanding of the importance of seeding positive change in organizations through the recognition of individual nurses and promoting the public image of nursing.
The second President’s Award will be presented to Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick, American Academy of Nursing Living Legend and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing and director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. |
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As editor of the NLN research journal Nursing Education Perspectives from 1998 to this past January, Joyce combined her twin passions for research and writing to transform NEP from a magazine limited in scope to a scholarly journal dedicated exclusively to advancing the science of nursing education, one of the NLN’s primary strategic goals.
She is a prolific author, with more than 80 books to her credit, and she continues to serve as editor of Applied Nursing Research and Archives in Psychiatric Nursing. Her contributions to nursing education and to nursing leadership are incalculable.
Special Issue of NEP
As editor of NEP, Joyce began the tradition of publishing a special themed issue for NEP to be distributed at each Summit. For the 2020 Summit, the special issue marks the 10th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report, first released in October 2010. The groundswell of discussion and debate that greeted the release of The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health triggered numerous national, state, and regional initiatives to transform nursing education and practice for the 21st century.
The three guest editors – Dr. Susan Hassmiller of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NEP Editorial Board members Dr. Audrey Beauvais and Dr. Teresa Shellenbarger – sought to assess the impact of the report on nursing education today. Their guest editorial, “The Future of Nursing Report 10 Years Later: Where Is Nursing and What Work Remains,” is particularly incisive with regards to the challenges and opportunities that remain.
In addition to original research, the special issue contains several important innovations for nursing education, as well as 14 Innovation Center articles published online only. I hope you subscribe to the eTOC and PAP alerts (electronic table of contents / articles published ahead of print) for Nursing Education Perspectives. Online access to the NLN journal is an important benefit of NLN membership. And note, two special issues are planned for Summits 2021 and 2022: Research on the Nursing Education Workforce, with a submission deadline of January 10, 2021, and Educating During Times of Crisis, with manuscripts due in January 2022.
Now, colleagues, let me acknowledge some unsung contributors to Nursing Education Perspectives and all scholarly publications – those of you who review manuscripts as peer reviewers. You rarely receive recognition, but you know who you are. Like the many NLN members who work behind the scenes, for example, those of you who review research grant applications and Summit abstracts, your work is vital to the science of nursing education, and we thank you for your contributions. We cannot ask you to stand to be recognized at our Virtual Summit, but I want you to know that we at the NLN are grateful for your contributions.
Let me also recognize the contributors to the brand new NLN Nursing EDge, an expanded and updated version of the popular NLN TEQBlog that was introduced last week. Carefully selected for their expertise in specialized fields of educational technology and working under the direction of the NLN Center for Innovation in Education Excellence, NLN Nursing EDge contributors offer faculty teaching at every level of the academic spectrum a wealth of information about innovations for classroom and clinical instruction. You’ll enjoy the Ask the Expert feature, which will allow you to dialogue with the bloggers.
And finally, if you live on the West Coast, let me say once again that our hearts are with you during this fire season. Some of you have been forced to evacuate your homes, and all of you are experiencing dangerous air quality. Firefighters, of course, are first responders, with many nurses on the frontlines as well. Let us hope the current dangerous situation ends soon. And I haven’t forgotten those of you on the Gulf Coast. You recently experienced Hurricane Laura as a category 4 hurricane, with Hurricane Sally making landfall this morning as a Category 2 storm – all this destruction amidst our ongoing pandemic with the accompanying loss of income, homes, and lives. Stay aware of the three Ws: Wear Your Mask; Watch Your Distance; and Wash Your Hands.
Stay safe and well. I will see you at the NLN Summit next week. |
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