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 1 2011 LIVING LEGENDS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING 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 2 2011 LIVING LEGENDS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING 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 3 2011 LIVING LEGENDS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING 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 4 2011 LIVING LEGENDS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING 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