Nursing's Greatest Leaders (eBook)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

About the Editor

Contributors

Forward by Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Exemplary Nursing Leadership

David Anthony (Tony) Forrester, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Professor, Division of Nursing Science, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey and is Clinical Professor, Department of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine at Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

(tony.forrester@rutgers.edu)

Introduction

Why study exemplary nursing leadership within the context of nursing history?

What is “leadership” and what is “exemplary nursing leadership?”

Assumptions about Leadership.

What is the difference between “nursing leadership” and “nursing management?”

What are the essential traits or characteristics of exemplary nurse leaders?

Five Practices of Exemplary Nursing Leadership

Modeling the Way

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 1.

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 2.

Florence Nightingale (British; 1820 – 1910).

Inspiring a Shared Vision

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 3.

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 4.

Mother Mary Aikenhead (Irish; 1787 – 1858) and Clara Barton (American; 1821 – 1912).

Challenging the Process

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 5.

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 6.

Margaret Higgins Sanger (American; 1879 – 1966), Sister Elizabeth Kenny (Australian; 1880 – 1952), and Clara Louise Maass (American; 1876 – 1901).

Enabling Others to Act

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 7.

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 8.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (American; 1802 – 1887), Lillian D. Wald (American; 1867 – 1940), and Mary Breckinridge (American; 1881 – 1965).

Encouraging the Hearts of Others

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 9.

Exemplary Leadership Commitment 10.

Edith Louisa Cavell (British; 1865 – 1915).

Summary

Modeling the Way

Chapter 2. Florence Nightingale: Where Most Work is Wanted

Frances Ward, PhD, RN, CRNP, Professor Emerita of Nursing,Temple University (franceseward@gmail.com)

Radicalization

Modeling the Way in Practice

Modeling the Way in War

Modeling the Way in Peace

The End of Empire

An Improving Woman

Demystification

Florence Nightingale Timeline

Inspiring a Shared Vision

Chapter 3. Mother Mary Aikenhead: A Life of Vision

Deborah Cleeter, MSN, EdD, RN

CEO, Sawgrass Leadership Institute

(DebCleeterSLI@comcast.net)

Childhood

The Novitiate

Inspiring a Shared Vision

Foundress, Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity

Ministries for Prisons, Schools, and Orphanages

Hospitals, Nursing, and Hospice

Leading in the Face of Personal Struggle

Global Legacy

Journey toward Canonization

Exemplary Leadership

Mother Mary Aikenhead Timeline

Chapter 4. Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield

Karen Egenes, EdD, RN, CNE *

Associate Professor and Chair, Health Promotion Department, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.

(kegenes@luc.edu)

Frances Vlasses, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN

Professor and Chair, Health Systems, Leadership, and Policy Department, also Co-director, Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education,
Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.

(fvlasse@luc.edu)

Early Efforts to Inspire a Shared Vision

Developing the Tools to Inspire a Shared Vision

Role Models for Inspiring a Shared Vision – Clara Barton in Europe

Inspiring a Shared Vision – Developing New Strategies

Inspiring a Shared Vision on a Local Level

Inspiring a Shared Vision Abroad – International Relief Efforts

Inspiring a Shared Vision – In Time of War

Attainment of the Vision

Summary – Clara Barton’s Leadership Legacy

Clara Barton Timeline

Challenging the Process

Chapter 5. Margaret Higgins Sanger: The Law Shall be Broken

Patricia Hindin, PhD, CNM , CLC

Assistant Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

(hindinpk@sn.rutgers.edu)

The Law Shall be Broken

Early Years

The Making of Margaret Sanger

Public Service and Progress in Birth Control

Major Accomplishments

Margaret Higgins Sanger Timeline

Chapter 6. Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Conviction and Controversy

Mary Kamienski, PhD, APRN-C, FAEN, FAAN

Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice and Specialty Director, Family Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner in Emergency Programs,
School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

(mary.kamienski@rutgers.edu)

Nature versus Nurture

The Vision

Commitment to the Vision

Beyond Polio

Societal Values

Not a Nurse

The Reality of Polio

The American Frontier

The War Rages On

Sister Elizabeth Kenny Timeline

Chapter 7. Clara Louise Maass: Servant Leader Undaunted

Carol Emerson Winters, PhD, RN, CNE

Professor and Director, Nursing Education Concentration, M.S.N. Program, College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

(wintersc@ecu.edu)

Spending Childhood as an Adult

Training School for Nurses

The Spanish-American War

Nursing Soldiers with Yellow Fever

Nursing American Troops in the Philippine Islands

Annulment of Nursing Contract and Return Home to New Jersey

The Yellow Fever Commission is Established in Cuba

Returning to Cuba to Nurse Yellow Fever Patients

Clara Maass Volunteers to be Bitten by Infected Mosquitoes

Clara Maass Develops Yellow Fever

Posthumous Honors

Modeling the Way

Challenging the Process

Clara Louise Maass Timeline

Enabling Others to Act

Chapter 8. Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and Reform

Barbara Caldwell, PhD, RN, APN

Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice and Specialty Director, Psychiatric-Mental Health Program, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark,
New Jersey.

(caldwellba@sn.rutgers.edu)

Setting the Stage: The Influence of Family

Enacting Nontraditional Female Roles: Educator and Writer

Finding Mentors: Religious and Educational Commitment

Political Leadership and the Moral Movement

Developing Leadership Expertise and Campaigning for Change

Prisoners’ Letters and Expansion of Leadership

Transition to National Leadership

International Leadership and Recognition

Caught in a Power Struggle

Dorothea Lynde Dix Timeline

Chapter 9. Lillian D. Wald: Pioneer of Public Health

Mary Ann Christopher, MSN, RN, FAAN *

President, Strategic Transformation in Health (STH) Consulting, Avon, New Jersey.

(machristopher2@gmail.com),

Regina Hawkey, MPA, RN, NE-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief of Provider Services, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, New York.

(regina.hawkey@vnsny.org)

Mary Christine Jared, MS, RN, PHNP-BC

Nurse Executive and a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, New York..

(mary.jared@vnsny.org)

An Age of Transformation

Early Life

Building on the Public Health and Settlement Movements

Empowering Communities to Help Themselves

Mobilizing Social Institutions to Improve the Health of Communities

Enlisting Philanthropic and Business Interests to Promote the Public’s Health

Exemplary Leadership in Action: The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 – 1919

Lillian Wald’s Legacy as a Leader – Alive and Well Today

A Community in Crisis: VNSNY’s Response to Superstorm Sandy

Lillian D. Wald Timeline

Chapter 10. Mary Breckinridge: Angel on Horseback

Denise M. Tate, EdD, APRN-BC

associate dean, Undergraduate Nursing Programs, W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing, Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, New Jersey.

(dtate@tesc.edu)

Nursing Leadership

Family and Early Life

Later Life

Challenging the Process

Inspiring a Shared Vision

The Creation of Wendover

Encouraging the Hearts of Others

Enabling Others to Act

Modeling the Way

The Passing of Mary Breckinridge

Mary Breckinridge Hospital

Breckinridge Honored

Mary Breckinridge’s Leadership Legacy

Mary Breckinridge Timeline

Encouraging the Hearts of Others

Chapter 11. Edith Louisa Cavell: Courage in the Face of Duty

Barbara J. Patterson, PhD, RN, ANEF

Professor and Associate Dean for Scholarship and Inquiry, also Director of the PhD Program, School of Nursing, and Chair of the Institutional Review Board,
Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.

(bjpatterson@mail.widener.edu)

Assuming Her Duty to Humanity

Encouraging the Hearts of Others: Changing Nursing in Belgium

Encouraging the Hearts of Others: The Matron

Leadership Lessons from Edith Cavell and World War I

Edith Cavell’s Leadership Legacy

Summary

Edith Louisa Cavell Timeline

The Future

Chapter 12. Nurses Leading Change: The Time is Now!

Susan W. Salmond, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN *

Professor, Division of Nursing Science and Executive Vice Dean, School of Nursing and Co-director of the Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and
Translation, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

(susan.salmond@rutgers.edu)

David Anthony (Tony) Forrester, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Professor, Division of Nursing Science, School of Nursing, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey and is Clinical Professor, Department of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine at Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

(tony.forrester@rutgers.edu)

An Unstable U.S. Health System: High Cost without High Return in Health Outcomes

Re-visioning Healthcare

Enter Healthcare Reform

The Shift from Volume- to Value-based Reimbursement

New Care Models to Improve Quality and Reduce Cost

New Care Settings and New Technologies

A New Context: The Time is Now for Nursing and Nurse Leaders

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Preparing Nurse Leaders for a New Future

Index