1 2 Authors: Dr Linda Pollock Professor Pam Smith Professor Daniel Kelly COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE History of Nursing Studies Compiled by Dr Veronica Adamson Published by: Nursing Studies School of Health in Social Science The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place Edinburgh, EH8 9AG Leaps Tel: +44(0)131 651 3972 Email: [email protected] in the Front cover: Nursing Studies group of 1961–66 Back cover: Nursing Studies group of 2006–10 YEARS of Dark © The University of Edinburgh 2017 NURSING STUDIES The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, TRANSFORMING registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Designed by Graphic Design Service, The University of Edinburgh NURSING 3 4 Introduction 2016 saw Nursing Studies at the University Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh current and former staff and students met to “Everything showed how important the study of of Edinburgh celebrate 60 years of higher has succeeded in establishing an impressive look back at their time at Edinburgh and to education leadership. The year saw a number catalogue of ‘firsts’. Elsie Stephenson’s look forward to the University of Edinburgh's nursing is and how we all do and will benefit from of high profile events take place, from royal appointment in 1956 as the first director of the contribution to developments in the field of the expertise and research provided by all your and civic receptions, to conferences and first academic department of nursing in Europe nursing and healthcare across the globe. The special lectures. One of the high spots of were followed by the first PhD completion conference was designed to document the excellent staff and students.” the year was the visit on April 19th 2016, in 1959, the establishment of an integrated ‘leaps’ taken by individuals and groups during of the University’s Chancellor, her Royal undergraduate MA nursing degree in 1960 each of the six decades of the Department’s The University’s Chancellor, Highness Princess Anne. The Princess met and the first International School of Advanced history. The conference title echoed Dr her Royal Highness Princess Anne many students, alumni, current and former Nursing Studies funded by The World Health Rosemary Weir’s history of the Nursing Studies University staff to celebrate the impact Organisation WHO in 1962. During the Department: “A Leap in the Dark” published in Nursing Studies has had in transforming 1970s there were further firsts marked by the 1996 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary the nursing profession. appointment of Margaret Scott Wright to the (Weir 1996). Weir’s publication documented first Chair of Nursing Studies in Europe in the origins of nursing scholarship in the When Edinburgh nursing students joined the 1971. During the same year the first European University of Edinburgh and the influential University in the late 1950s and early 1960s University Nursing Research Unit was set figures that played key roles in the evolution they blazed a trail in a profession that until that up as was the first joint academic/clinical and development of the first academic point had been hospital-based rather than appointments funded by the Nuffield Trust. Nursing Department in the UK and Europe. requiring academic study. Visionaries such as Professor Crew, the Professor of Public These strong foundations provided the We wished to fill a gap in understanding the Health and Elsie Stephenson the first Director environment to prepare well-equipped personal and professional achievements of Nursing Studies envisaged a wider role for graduates for clinical service by promoting and the national and international impact nurses that went beyond hospitals and cure. nursing excellence, advanced knowledge and of the Department on nursing and Nursing Studies spearheaded the movement research. Many graduates have gone on to healthcare by updating its history from from a service to an academic education for occupy influential leadership positions in policy a student and staff perspective to nurses and established nursing firmly within and academe nationally and internationally. complement Weir’s 1996 study for academia where ‘the unthinkable became the the Diamond Jubilee Year. thinkable, then the norm’ as higher education The Diamond Jubilee celebrations culminated opened up for women more generally. Today in November 2016 with the Leaps in the Dark all nurses require a degree. Alumni Conference where a diverse group of Rosemary Weir 1956 – 1965 1966 – 1975 1976 – 1985 1986 – 1995 1996 – 2005 2006 – 2016 A Leap in the Dark Nursing: a Research-Based Profession Awards & Celebrations Change & Development From Strength to Strength Innovation & Progress for the Future 1954 1962 FIRST 1967 1976 1981 1986 1993 1996 2007 2013 A proposal is made that a Nurse The first International School of Elsie Stephenson dies aged 51. Professor Scott Wright leaves to 25th Anniversary of the Department The undergraduate programme is Following the retiral of Helen Sinclair, Dr Kath Melia becomes the fourth Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL), Innovative Masters of Nursing in Tutor Course be located entirely Advanced Nursing Studies is The Elsie Stephenson Fund is set become Director of the School of of Nursing Studies. Dr Lisbeth renamed BSc (Nursing). 4th Elsie Dr Kath Melia becomes Head of Chair of Nursing Studies. Nursing is incorporated into the nursing Clinical Research established. within the University setting. launched supported by the WHO. up with the purpose of “increasing Nursing at Dalhousie University, Hockey is awarded the OBE in Stephenson Memorial Lecture: Department. Links are forged with Studies 40th Anniversary celebrated curriculum. Deborah Ritchie The 100th Nursing Studies PhD is Funding is sought from the It offers programmes to overseas opportunities for some of the best Nova Scotia. Professor Annie recognition of her contribution Trends in Transatlantic Nursing: the University of Navarre, Pamplona with guest lecture by Dr Anne Marie appointed Head of Nursing awarded to Juan Du for her thesis Rockefeller Foundation. students in nursing administration brains in Britain to develop their Altschul, becomes the second to nursing research. 2nd Elsie Recent and Prospective, Professor in Spain, facilitating postgraduate Rafferty, Director, Centre for Policy Studies. “The Unrecognised Role: hospital- 1955 or education. gifts to the full in Nursing and to Chair of Nursing Studies. Stephenson Memorial Lecture: Margaret Scott Wright, Calgary students to undertake the MSc in in Nursing Research. 2010 based nurses’ experiences of Mary Elizabeth Tennant, Assistant 1963 encourage the Nursing profession 1978 Past Aspirations – Present Hopes, University. Nursing and Health. 1997 Professor Pam Smith appointed health promotion”. Annie Altschul Director, International Health Foundations of Anatomy and to make appropriate use of all the Elsie Stephenson’s husband, Phyllis J Runciman, Queen 1987 1994 Dr Alison Tierney receives Head of Nursing Studies. Online Memorial Lecture: ‘The Changing Division, Rockefeller Foundation Physiology by Janet S Ross and tools and skills relevant to it”. William Gardner, bequests a fund Margaret College. Clinical Excellence in Nursing: The MSc in Cancer Nursing, partly a Personal Chair in Nursing 2002 undergraduate and postgraduate Face of Mental Health Nursing in visits the University and funding is Kathleen J Wilson (lecturer) is 1968 1973 to support activities to further the 1983 International Networking Congress funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief Research. Professor Alison Tierney awarded programmes developed for the the 21st Century, Jane Bunclark, provided for the establishment of first published; a major nursing Dr Margaret Scott Wright succeeds Inaugural Elsie Stephenson knowledge and practice of nursing. Dr Lisbeth Hockey retires; jointly hosted by the Department Fund, is established; Nora Jodrell the CBE for services to nursing Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), Consultant Nurse, South London & 1998 Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. a Nurse Training Unit. textbook now in its 12th edition. as Director of the Nursing Memorial Lecture: The Canadian 1979 Dr Penny Prophit, from the of Nursing Studies, the RCN and appointed as Director. 6th Elsie RCN International Nursing research and education. at the University of Malawi. The University creates a Faculty of University of Louvain, Belgium, Stephenson Memorial Lecture: 1956 FIRST Studies Unit. Edwina, Countess Scene, Professor Helen Carpenter, An innovative MSc in Health Sigma Theta Tau, the International Research Conference hosted by 2003 2011 2014 Elsie Stephenson is appointed Social Sciences incorporating the Mountbatten Trust set up to support University of Toronto. Education is established in becomes the second Director of the Honour Society of Nursing. Community Health Nursing in Crisis, Nursing Studies. The University undergoes major Professor Charlotte Clarke is Dr Sheila Rodgers appointed Department of Nursing Studies. undergraduate students to observe Nursing Research Unit. Professor Dr Lisbeth Hockey, former Director, Head of Nursing Studies. director to establish the new unit 1975 collaboration with the Health 1989 1999 restructuring and Nursing Studies appointed Head of School of The first edition of International nursing practices in different parts Altschul awarded the CBE for her Nursing Research Unit. Shion Gosrani wins the 2014 located in George Square with a Certificated courses in nurse Education Board for Scotland. Helen Sinclair becomes