American Academy of Nursing 2011 Living Legends

October 13, 2011

RECOGNITION ceremony Washington, D.C. 2011 LIVING LEGENDS American Academy of Nursing 2011 LIVING LEGENDS American Academy of Nursing

evening program

WELCOME

Catherine L. Gilliss, DNSc, RN, FAAN President, American Academy of Nursing

RECOGNITION OF 2011 CIVITAS AWARD RECIPIENT

Marie Elaine Michnich, DrPH, MPH, RN

RECOGNITION OF 2011 LIVING LEGENDS

Patricia E. Benner, PhD, RN, FAAN

Suzanne Lee Feetham, PhD, RN, FAAN

Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN

Meridean L. Maas, PhD, RN, FAAN

May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN

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LIVING LEGENDS

The American Academy of Nursing is proud to recognize outstanding Fellows who epitomize nursing’s proud history and serve as role models for all of us. The following nurses are honored as Living Legends in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world.

1994 LIVING LEGENDS 1998 LIVING LEGENDS 2003 LIVING LEGENDS 2007 LIVING LEGENDS Faye Abdellah Vernice Ferguson Signe S. Cooper Marie J. Cowan Myrtle Aydelotte Claire Fagin Ira P. Gunn Phyllis G. Ethridge Mary Elizabeth Carnegie Madeline Leininger Ramona T. Mercer Carrie B. Lenburg Ildaura Murrillo-Rohde Margaret L. McClure Hildegard Peplau 1999 LIVING LEGENDS 2004 LIVING LEGENDS Sister Callista Roy Jessie Scott Grayce Sills Florence S. Downs Gloria R. Smith Harriet Werley Margretta Madden Styles Juanita W. Fleming Loretta Ford Edith Patton Lewis 2008 LIVING LEGENDS 1995 LIVING LEGENDS Connie Holleran Sally Ann Sample Gene Cranston Anderson Luther Christman Shirley A. Smoyak Helen Grace Rheba de Tornyay 2000 LIVING LEGENDS Margaret A. Newman Virginia Ohlson Geraldene Felton 2005 LIVING LEGENDS Robert Piemonte Rozella Scholtfeldt Jeanne Benoliel Joyce C. Clifford Phyllis Stern Shirley Chater Jean E. Johnson 1996 LIVING LEGENDS Thelma Schorr Imogene M. King 2009 LIVING LEGENDS Clifford Jordan Joan E. Lynaugh Barbara M. Brodie Mary V. Neal 2001 LIVING LEGENDS Leah Curtin Dorothy M. Smith Susan Gortner 2006 LIVING LEGENDS Marjory Gordon Mary Starke Harper Kathryn E. Barnard Ruby Leila Wilson 1997 LIVING LEGENDS Lucie Kelly Sr. Rosemary Donley Mabel Wandelt Ruth Lubic Marlene F. Kramer 2010 LIVING LEGENDS Mary Kelly Mullane Florence Wald Angela Barron McBride Billye J. Brown Jo Eleanor Elliott Ellen B. Rudy Donna K. Diers Doris Schwartz 2002 LIVING LEGENDS Norma M. Lange Mary Woody Lillian Sholtis Brunner Barbara L. Nichols Anne Zimmerman Rhetaugh Graves Dumas Betty Smith WIlliams Virginia K. Saba Gladys E. Sorensen

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PATRICIA E. BENNER, PhD,RN,Faan Sponsored by: Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, RN, FAAN Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN Christine A. Tanner, PhD, RN, FAAN

SUZANNE LEE FEETHAM, PhD,RN,Faan Sponsored by: Kathleen Potempa, PhD, RN, FAAN Pamela S. Hinds, PhD, RN, FAAN Jean Jenkins, PhD, RN, FAAN

ADA SUE HINSHAW, PhD,RN,Faan Sponsored by: Janet Heinrich, DrPH, RN, FAAN Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, FAAN

MERIDEAN L. MAAS, PhD,RN,Faan Sponsored by: Kathleen C. Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN

MAY L. WYKLE, PhD,RN,FGSA,Faan Sponsored by: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN

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PATRICIA E. BENNER PhD,RN,Faan

Patricia Benner is Professor Emerita national data base on nursing errors in the Department of Social and reported to State Boards of Nursing. Behavioral Sciences at the University Dr. Benner is currently involved in a of California, San Francisco. She was research project sponsored by the the first recipient of the Thelma Shobe Lilly Foundation with Dr. Christian Chair in Ethics and Spirituality in the Scharen on transition from seminary School of Nursing, and is a former to pastorate for clergy students. Senior Scholar at The Carnegie She is a key consultant on research Foundation for the Advancement on health care delivery and care of Teaching. Dr. Benner’s research of wounded warriors from current and teaching have focused on combat settings, with Principal articulating knowledge embedded Investigator, Captain Pat Kelley, in nursing practice, skill-acquisition, PhD RN. clinical reasoning, domain-specific nursing education and the ethics of Dr. Benner has created a national web- care. Nationally and internationally, based faculty development resource, many clinical promotion programs entitled EducatingNursesVideos. and clinical practice development Com which fosters an ongoing programs are based on her research. dialogue about transforming nursing Her work has demonstrated that education. Videos of Master teachers, practice is a way of knowing in its newsletters and ongoing dialogue own right and is the seedbed for encourage evidence-based and innovation and research questions. Dr. Benner has received two domain-specific nursing education preparation for teachers. honorary doctorates. A second nursing education initiative NovEx (NovicetoExpert. org), developed with colleagues, Drs. Tom Ahrens, and Dr. Benner is author of, From Novice to Expert: Excellence Pat Hooper-Kyriakidis, is an innovative online, interactive, and Power in Nursing Practice. She directed the Carnegie simulation-based e-learning program. The goal of this initiative Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National is to promote the transformation of nursing education through Nursing Education Study, Educating Nurses: A Call for implementing evidence-based nursing care and integrating Radical Transformation, (Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard, knowledge acquisition and knowledge use in clinical practice. V., Day, L.: Jossey-Bass). She is the first author of Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Ethics and Clinical Judgment She has received the following honors: Linda Richards Award (2010, 2nd Edition, Springer) with Christine Tanner and for Leadership in Education, National League for Nursing 1989; Catherine Chesla, and Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Inducted as Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Nursing, United Acute and Critical Care with Patricia Hooper-Kyriakidis and Kingdom, 1994; Doctoral Students’ Mentor of the Year Award Daphne Stannard (2011 2nd Edition, Springer). She wrote at UCSF, 2000; American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year one of the early books on interpretive phenomenology under Award for six different books; American Association of Critical the title, Interpretive Phenomenology along with a book on Care Nurses Pioneering Spirit Award, 2004; Sage Award for interpretive phenomenology as a way for nurses to articulate Contributions to Nursing Leadership, Center for Nursing their concerns for the patient’s personhood, embodiment Leadership University of Minnesota, 2004; The American and lifeworld in Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Organization of Nurses Executives (AONE) Excellence in Health and Illness with co-author Dr. Judith Wrubel. Dr. Research Award, 2007; and, President’s Award for Creativity and Benner developed a nursing taxonomy of nursing error with Innovation in Nursing Education, National League for Nursing colleagues at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing 2010. that resulted in an intake and research instrument for a

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SUZANNE LEE FEETHAM PhD, RN,Faan

Suzanne Feetham is a nationally and Dr. Feetham co-lead a quality internationally recognized leader improvement activity across the who has affected policy change agency to develop a standardized through her leadership positions in clinical measurement system for academia, health systems and the HRSA’s grantees. This system Federal government (NIH & HRSA). aligned with national measures from Her leadership and scholarship has organizations such as the National advanced science in family research Quality Forum (NQF). and the integration of genetics and genomics in national education, Dr Feetham’s interdisciplinary practice and policy. leadership is evident through her tenure as the first non-physician Dr. Feetham was instrumental in chair of professional and policy building the science of pediatric organizations including the Michigan nursing in the context of the family. Myelodysplasia Association, the Her seminal scholarship affected a Spina Bifida Association of America- change in the paradigm in family Medical Advisory Group, and the science from family-based deficits to Michigan Governor’s Commission on family strengths. The Feetham Family Crippled Children. Her leadership Functioning Survey, developed in contributed to advancing policy to 1977, is used today in research of improve the care and outcomes of families across disciplines with known children with health problems and translations in 8 languages. their families.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Feetham’s vision for genetics and families Her vision and mentorship contributed to the formation began. Before the mapping of the human genome, Dr. of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), the ENRS Feetham identified the significance of family responses as a Family Research Interest Group, and the American Academy result of their learning genetic information. This stimulated of Nursing Genetic Healthcare Expert Panel. Her leadership four decades of scholarship and leadership which has included has been recognized through the first ENRS Suzanne Feetham advocating for nursing education and core competencies in Nurse Scientist Family Research Award, Sigma Theta Tau genetics and now genomics. She led the American Academy International Nursing Honor Society Pinnacle Award for of Nursing Genetic Healthcare Expert Panel in developing the Mentorship and a Founders Award from the International visionary International Council of Nursing’s publication Nursing Society of Nurses in Genetics. and Genetics - Leadership for Global Health. In 2006 she was a team recipient for the HHS Honor Award for the U.S. Surgeon Dr. Feetham’s leadership and scholarship demonstrates a General’s Family History Initiative Team, a landmark public sustained legacy in advancing the science of research of families, health effort to encourage and provide a mechanism for all the integration of the genetic and genomics in the practice of Americans to collect and record family health information. all health professionals and informing policy to advance health equity for at risk populations. Her commitment to mentoring Her leadership and scholarship has affected sustained system students and professionals assures a sustained impact of these change in health care. When at HRSA’s Center for Quality, important contributions.

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ADA SUE HINSHAW PhD, RN,Faan

Best known for her contributions San Francisco and the University of to nursing research and education Kansas. as well as health policy, Ada Sue Throughout her career, Dr. Hinshaw Hinshaw has held several leadership has conducted nursing research positions during her career. In focusing on quality of care, patient academia, she is Dean and Professor outcomes, measurement of such at the Graduate School of Nursing, outcomes, and building positive Uniformed Services University of the work environments for nurses. She Health Sciences (2008 to present) has given hundreds of presentations and Dean/Professor Emeritus at the and her findings have been widely University of Michigan, School of published in numerous articles and Nursing (1994 to 2006). Dr. Hinshaw books. In addition, Dr. Hinshaw was the first permanent Director has served on numerous scientific of the National Center for Nursing advisory committees and task forces, Research and the first Director of has been a visiting professor at the National Institute of Nursing various schools of nursing, and Research (1987 to 1994). Active in has been involved with many health policy, she was President of professional organizations. the American Academy of Nursing (1991 to 2001), on the Governing Dr. Hinshaw has received many Council for the Institute of Medicine awards including the Midwest (1999 to 2002), Vice-Chair of the (2002 Nursing Research Society Lifetime to 2003) study panel for Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming Achievement Award, the Health Leader of the Year Award the Work Environment for Nurses (2004) and served as AAN/ from the United States Public Health Service, the Elizabeth ANF/IOM Scholar-in-Residence (2006-2007). McWilliams Miller Award for Excellence in Nursing Research from Sigma Theta Tau, the Distinguished Leader Award from Providing initial leadership to the new nursing research the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Nurse Scientist entity at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Hinshaw of the Year Award from the American Nurses Association, was the first permanent Director of the National Center Council of Nurse Researchers, the Walt McDermott Excellence of Nursing Research and the first Director of the National in Services Award from the IOM, the Pioneering Spirit Award Institute of Nursing Research. She led the Institute in its from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and support of valuable research and research training in many Honorary Fellowship for Public Policy Award from the New York areas of nursing science, such as disease prevention, health Academy of Medicine. In addition, she is the recipient of 13 promotion, acute and chronic illness, and the environments Honorary Doctoral Degrees. that enhance nursing care patient outcomes. Additionally, Dr. Hinshaw was the Director of Nursing research at the University Dr. Hinshaw received a BS from the University of Kansas, an Medical Center’s Department of Nursing; and she has held MSN from Yale University, and a PhD and MA in sociology from program leadership positions at the University of California, the University of Arizona.

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MERIDEAN L. MAAS PhD, RN,Faan

Meridean Maas is best known for her the University with two awards; the contributions to the development University Outstanding Mentor and implementation of professional Award and the Regents Award for nurse governance in employing Faculty Excellence. Dr. Maas was organizations; the development and Principal Investigator and Director of use of standardized nomenclatures the inaugural five years of the John A. describing nursing diagnoses, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing nursing interventions, and nursing- Excellence and since her retirement sensitive patient outcomes; and has continued to work for the Center the nursing care of older persons, in various capacities. She organized especially those with dementia. As and directed a Regional Research a clinician, administrator, educator, Consortium of schools of nursing scientist, and entrepreneur, she in the Midwest which resulted in has consistently labored to enable increased faculty gerontological nurses to practice accountably to nursing research, external funding, the full scope of their knowledge. and peer reviewed publications. Following 25 years of practice in From 1995 to 2008, Dr. Maas acute and long-term care, Dr. Maas consulted with a number of nursing joined the faculty at the University of schools to assist with developing Iowa College of Nursing for another faculty research intensity. Dr. Maas 25 years and as Professor of Nursing and her colleague, Dr. Janet Specht, Emerita remains active with the John owned and operated an innovative, A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence and the evidence-based alternative nursing care facility for persons with Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness. dementia for five and one-half years with excellent resident, family, and staff outcomes. This innovative entrepreneurial During the 25 years from 1957 to 1982, Dr. Maas held clinical effort and resulting innovative facility received the Academy’s and administrative roles in acute care and long-term care, Edge Runner designation in 2008. Currently, Drs. Maas and including executive nursing, clinical specialist, and consultant Specht own and operate a nurse care management service for roles. In the early 1970s, she obtained a Division of Nursing older persons in their homes, demonstrating a cost-effective research grant, the first federally funded nursing research grant and greater quality of life alternative to institutionalization for awarded to a non-academic grantee institution, to describe older persons. the process whereby registered nurses developed a model of professional nurse governance in a large long-term care Dr. Maas’ research focused on nursing interventions for persons facility and to evaluate the effects of the governance model on with dementia and their family caregivers funded by Sigma residents and staff. It was during her work in long-term care that Theta Tau, NIA, and NINR and the classification and validation she developed her passions for classification of nomenclatures of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes, also funded by NINR. describing nursing phenomena and for evidence-based nursing Numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, care of older persons. and books resulted from these active programs of research. Dr. Maas earned her PhD in the Sociology of Organizations In 1983, she joined the faculty of the College of Nursing at the from Iowa State University in 1979, a post-master’s in stroke University of Iowa, retiring in 2006. During her academic career and rehabilitation nursing from Texas Women’s University in she was Chair of Organizations and Systems and Adult and 1970, and Master’s and Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Gerontological Nursing Area Studies, Director of the Doctoral the University of Iowa College of Nursing in 1960 and 1957, Program, and held the Sally Mathis Endowed Professorship respectively. From this base of preparation throughout her in Gerontological Nursing Research for five years. During her career, Dr. Maas has maintained the conviction that professional academic tenure, she mentored a large number of doctoral nurses are the critical difference in the provision of quality and post-doctoral students. The University recognized her health care for individuals, families, and communities. contributions to mentoring students and to the missions of 7 2011 LIVING LEGENDS American Academy of Nursing

MAY L. WYKLE PhD, RN,FGSA,Faan

May L. Wykle is the former Dean and and was named to the White House Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denakas Conference on Aging in 1993. She Professor of Nursing at the Frances has reviewed grants for the National Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Institute of Nursing Research, Case Western Reserve University. National Institute of Mental Health, She is the recent past president of National Institute on Aging research the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma review committees and the Geriatric/ Theta Tau International. Dr. Wykle Gerontology Advisory Committee is presently serving on the advisory for the Veterans Administration. board for the Johnson & Johnson She was appointed by the National national “Campaign for Nursing’s Institutes of Health to the Advisory Future,” which is helping address Board of the Fogarty International the current nursing shortage with Center. In April 2003, she was several initiatives aimed at recruiting appointed by Governor Robert Taft new nurses and retaining current to the Ohio Commission on Minority nurses. She has been a faculty Health. She was recently named the member at Case Western Reserve President to the Board of Directors University Faculty since 1969. Since for the Friends of the National 1988, she has served as Director of Institute of Nursing Research. the University Center on Aging and Health. Dr. Wykle has completed Dr. Wykle has received numerous research projects in areas such as honors and awards including Case’s self-care, geriatric mental health, family caregiving, minority 1989 John S. Diekhoff Award for Excellence in Graduate caregivers, and caring for patients with dementia. She has Teaching, a Merit Award from the Cleveland Council of initiated educational programs internationally in Europe, Africa Black Nurses and the 2000 Gerontological Nursing Research and Asia. She has served as a visiting professor at the University Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She was of Michigan, University of Texas at Houston, and the University named “Outstanding Researcher in the State of Ohio” by of Zimbabwe in Africa, and as a visiting scholar at The University the Ohio Research Council on Aging and the Ohio Network of Oklahoma and Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation of Education Consultants in the Field of Aging. In 2001, she in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Simmons College in Boston, received the “Gerontological Nursing Research Award” from Massachusetts. She was appointed as the first “Pope Eminent the Midwest Nursing Research Society and John A. Hartford Scholar” at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Family Caregiving Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing and the Outstanding at Georgia Southwestern State University. Undergraduate Alumni Award from Case Western Reserve University. She also received the Ethelrine Shaw-Nickerson Dr. Wykle graduated from the Martins Ferry Hospital School Award from the Ohio Nurses Association and she was the of Nursing in 1956. She earned her BSN in nursing, an MSN recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National in psychiatric nursing, and a PhD in Education at The Frances Black Nurses Association. Most recently, Dr. Wykle received Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve the prestigious Frank and Dorothy Humel Horvorka Award University. She is recognized nationally as an expert in the field which recognizes Case faculty for exceptional achievements of aging adults. Dr. Wykle is a fellow in the American Academy in teaching, research and scholarly service that have benefited of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America and charter the community, the nation and the world. Dr. Wykle and Dr. member of the National Black Nurses Association’s Center for Sarah Gueldner recently completed the book, Aging Well: Excellence. She was a recipient of a Geriatric Mental Health Gerontological Education For Nurses and Others Health Academic Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, Professionals. Her book, Serving Minority Elders in the 21st and was the Director of a Robert Wood Johnson Teaching Century earned the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Nursing Home Project. In 1986, she participated in a study Year Award in 2000. commissioned by Congress of the nation’s nursing homes

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