Forums and Events
History Forums – 2009/10
McLeod Hall #5044
12:00-1:00 PM
September 15, 2009
"Comfort and Healing Just Under Our Fingertips": Massage in Nurse Training-School Curricula, 1861-1945.
Paula Thomas Ruffin, MSN, RN, CMT
PhD Student
University of Virginia School of Nursing
October 20, 2009
“In the interests of Halifax sufferers”: Massachusetts disaster relief nurses’ response to the Halifax, Canada explosion of 1917.
Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan
Coordinator, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program
Interim Deputy Director, Occupational Health Nursing Program
The University of Michigan School of Nursing
November 17, 2009
A "Roar Like a Thousand Niagaras":
The Monongah Mine Disaster and the Care of Victims, Rescuers, and Survivors, December 1907.
John C. Kirchgessner, PhD, RN, PNP
CNHI Assistant Director,
Assistant Professor of Nursing,
U.Va. School of Nursing
April 13, 2010
"Contrary to Approved Methods of Practice":
Massage Therapy, Polio, and Nursing, 1900-1945
Audrey Snyder, PhD, RN, ACNP, CEN, FAANP,
Assistant Professor of Nursing,
U.Va. School of Nursing
The Agnes Dillon Randolph Award & Lectureship
March 16, 2010
4:30 - 6:00
Claude Moore Nursing Education Building #G010
Reception, sponsored by Beta Kappa Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, to follow.
Competence, Coolness, and Control:
Rethinking the Trope of Disciplined Obedience in the History of Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN,
Associate Professor of Nursing and Associate Director, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Editor, the Nursing History Review
Patricia D'Antonio was selected as this year's recipient of the CNHI's Agnes Dillon Randolph Award & Lectureship. This award, named in honor of one of Virginia's early nursing leaders, is given to an individual who has contributed significantly to the intellectual rigor and scope of the discipline of nursing history. Dr. D'Antonio was chosen for her sustained contributions to nursing and health care history, particularly with regard to psychiatric nursing, historical methodology, and nursing in the community.