Limited Edition Nursing Pins


	of the New York State Nurses,
			The Bellevue Alumnae Center for History Limited Edition Nursing Pins

Lillian D. Wald	(First Year--1993)	No longer available
Mabel Keaton Staupers	(1994)
Lavinia L. Dock	(1995)	No longer available
Annie Damer	(1996)
Sophia French Palmer	(1997)
Marion Sheahan Bailey	(1998)
Ivy Nathan Tinkler	(1999)
Isabel Hampton Robb	(2000)
Veronica M. Driscoll	(2001)
Mary Breckinridge	(2002)
Clara Dutton Noyes	(2003)
Edith H. Smith	(2004)
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie	(2005)
M. Adelaide Nutting	(2006)
Martha Elizabeth Rogers	(2007)

		Lillian D. Wald
		In 1893, Lillian Wald established a "nurses' settlement, to provide nursing services to Manhattan's immigrant poor. Living in the neighborhood they served, these nurses functioned independently to provide care to the sick poor in their homes. Wald is credited with introducing the concept of school nursing, and was a founder of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Children's Bureau. She traveled widely and her influence was international, yet Miss Wald remained a vital part of the neighborhood served by the Henry St. Settlement.
1993		Sorry, this limited edition pin has sold out and is no longer available

Mabel Keaton Staupers
Mabel K. Staupers engaged in a life-long struggle to break down color barriers in health care services and the profession of nursing. She developed and coordinated a wide range of services that improved the health care of the citizens of Harlem. During World War II, as Executive Secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, she led the movement to gain full integration of Black nurses into the armed forces and the professional nursing organizations. The struggle to achieve recognition, status, and acceptance of Black nurses into the institutional structures of American nursing was significantly advanced because of her leadership.
		1994

		Lavinia L. Dock
		Lavinia Dock, 1886 graduate of Bellevue Hospital’s training school for nurses and charter member of NYSNA, was one of nursing's most Influential leaders. As author of the first definitive history of nursing and hundreds of columns, Dock was a catalyst for improved understanding and communications within the global nursing community. A believer in the power of collective action, she was a founder of the first state, national and international nursing organizations, and an advocate of legislation to regulate nursing. Her energies turned to the suffrage movement when she realized many of nursing's problems were part of the broader issue of women's rights. Author, musician, artist, visiting nurse and social activist, Dock accepted individual responsibility to act-often unconventionally, but always with devotion and style.
1995		Sorry, this limited edition pin has sold out and is no longer available

Annie Damer
Annie Damer was an 1885 graduate of Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses. She worked as private duty nurse, investigator for the Buffalo Charity Organization Society, and established social services for TB patients at Bellevue. As president of Buffalo's nurses association, Miss Damer was chair of a committee to organize the state nurses association in New York, and was instrumental in organizing the 1901 meeting of the ICN in Buffalo. She simultaneously held the office of president of the ANA, of NYSNA, and of the Bellevue Alumnae Association, and served as president of the AJN Company and the Board of Nurse Examiners. In the critical first decade of the 20th century, Annie Damer was a strong advocate for unity and excellence, promoted the advancement of educational standards, and worked to secure the legal recognition of nursing as a profession.
		1996

		Sophia French Palmer
		Sophia French Palmer was an influential nursing pioneer. An administrator and educator, she is best known as the first editor of the American Journal of Nursing. During the first twenty years of the journal Palmer's forceful editorials addressed critical issues and promoted change. She was a leader in the development of nursing organizations and in the movement to secure state regulation of nursing. Palmer was elected the president of the first Board of Nurse Examiners, and was the first to suggest the appointment of inspectors of training schools. Sophia Palmer championed the needs of the individual nurse while shaping the foundation on which the profession was built.
1997

Marion Sheahan Bailey
Marion Sheahan Bailey, respected for her practical approach and strong will, powerfully influenced the nursing profession and health care. A 1913 graduate of St. Peter’s Hospital School of Nursing in Albany, she began "the career of a lifetime" at the Henry St. Settlement. As Director of the NYS Department of Health’s Bureau of Public Health Nursing, she created a program that inspired public health workers across the country. She chaired the NYSNA Committee that developed the 1938 law requiring licensure "for all those who nurse for hire." In World War II, she chaired numerous national committees coordinating nursing’s efforts to meet military and civilian health care needs. For over fifty years, Ms. Bailey worked relentlessly to shape nursing’s response to societal changes, always stressing the centrality of the patient.
		1998

		Ivy Nathan Tinkler
		Ivy Nathan Tinkler is the first African-American to be appointed as Director of Nursing of the Lincoln School for Nurses and Lincoln Hospital. She also held leadership positions in hospitals in New York, Illinois, and Virginia and was Assistant Clinical Professor of Community Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Committed to strengthening the nursing profession, and to fostering others’ professional development, she served on the Board of directors and chaired important committees of such important organizations as Nurses House, the American Nurses Association, District #13 of the New York State Nurses Association, the Alumnae Association of the Lincoln School for Nurses, and the State Board for Nursing.
1999

Isabel Hampton Robb
Isabel Hampton Robb, 1883 graduate of Bellevue Hospital’s nursing school, was an brilliant leader. As superintendent of the Illinois Training School (1886-1889) and of the Training School for Nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1889-1894), Robb fought to limit hours of work, eliminate student stipends, and extend the required course of study to three years. She persuaded Teachers College, Columbia University, to offer nursing courses in 1899. She was the first president in 1897 of Nurses Associated Alumnae of the U.S. and Canada, which became the American Nurses Association. Robb also led the 1893 organization of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, which ultimately became the National League for Nursing. Her untimely death was a wrenching loss to the profession and public.
		2000

		Veronica M. Driscoll
		Veronica M. Driscoll, a passionate and visionary advocate of the professionalization of nursing, was NYSNA Deputy Director (1960–1967) and Executive Director (1969-1979). She led efforts to: elevate and standardize education requirements for nursing licensure; improve practice environments and recognition of professional nurses; and, strengthen nursing’s role in health care policy. Her writings, including Legitimizing the Profession of Nursing: the Distinct Mission of NYSNA, are nursing classics. She was NYSNA’s chief strategist in the 1972 revision of the NYS Nurse Practice Act which became a national and international model. She was the first Executive Director of the Foundation of NYSNA. To honor her extraordinary contributions to nursing, healthcare and society the Board of Trustees named the Foundation headquarters the Veronica M. Driscoll Center for Nursing.
2001

Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge?s leadership dramatically improved rural health care and training for nurse-midwives. A 1910 graduate of St. Luke?s Hospital School of Nursing, New York City, she spent two years in France with post-WWI recovery efforts. There she discovered her professional calling: nursing among the poor and improving health care for women and children. After advanced studies at Teachers College (Columbia University) and further midwifery training in England, she established the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to train nurse midwives and send them out into rural communities on horseback or by foot. Under her leadership the FNS substantially reduced maternal and neonatal death rates, and became a model for health care in the U.S. and around the world..
		2002

		Clara Dutton Noyes
		Clara Noyes, 1896 graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, dedicated her life to the recruitment and training of nurses. After many years as Superintendent at hospitals in Massachusetts and New York City, Noyes left Bellevue Hospital in 1916 to join the Nursing Service of the American Red Cross, where she remained for the rest of her life. She led recruitment efforts for nurses during WWI and became Director in 1919. After the war she kept Red Cross nurses active in general relief and public health nursing. Her international activities led to the development of public health nursing services and nursing schools worldwide. In addition to her leadership of the Red Cross Nursing Service, she also served as President of ANA, NLNE, the Board of the AJN, and as vice president of ICN. Noyes was a 1998 ANA Hall of Fame inductee.
2003

Edith H. Smith
Edith H. Smith, an adamant believer that nurses must control nursing education, dedicated her life to nursing education and the promotion of public health nursing. She served in the Navy (1917-1919) as part of the Stanford Medical Unit, reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant. She was instrumental in the recruitment and training of military nurses during World War II, working in the Federal Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. She held the experimental position of College Recruitment Representative for the east coast under the National Nursing Council for War Service. Highly respected for excellence, in 1943 she was appointed the first Dean of Syracuse University's new School of Nursing. She was responsible for the approval of the baccalaureate program by the National Organization of Public Health Nursing, the early integration of African-American and Japanese-American students and the founding of a Master's Nursing Program at SU in the early 1950s.
		2004

		Mary Elizabeth Carnegie
		M. Elizabeth Carnegie, author of The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, dedicated her career to making black nurses visible in and contributors to nursing literature. A 1937 graduate of the Lincoln School for Nurses, she earned a BS from West Virginia State; as a Rockefeller Fellow, a certificate from the University of Toronto and MA from Syracuse University; and, a PhD from NYU. As President of the Florida State Association for Colored Graduates of Nursing, she pioneered integration of black nurses in professional organizations. She was the first black nurse elected to a state nurses association board (Florida). She was Chief Editor of Nursing Research, the developer and Dean of Hampton University School of Nursing and Dean of Florida A&M University College of Nursing. Her honors include eight honorary doctorates, induction into the Halls of Fame of Teachers College, ANA, FSNA and West Virginia State, an endowed nursing chair at Howard University and the M. Elizabeth Carnegie Archives at Hampton University.
2005

M. Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting was an outstanding nursing educator and dedicated to the professionalization of nursing. A graduate of the first class of the Johns Hopkins School of nursing in 1891, she became superintendent of nurses and principal of the school in 1894. She championed national standards for nursing, founding the Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (later the National League for Nursing Education) and helped launch the American Nurses Association. The first professor of nursing in the world, as head of nursing at Teachers College, Columbia University she transformed nursing internationally. She was honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation, the recipient of the M. Adelaide Nutting Medal (created by the NLN in her honor), the Liberty Service Medal of the National Institute of (WWI) of the National Institute of Social Services and an Honorary MA from Yale University, and is an ANA Hall of Fame inductee.
		2006

		Martha Elizabeth Rogers
		Martha E. Rogers, ScD, RN, FAAN, was an internationally respected nursing educator and theorist. A graduate of the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing, she earned a Bachelor of Science from George Peabody College; an MA in Nursing Supervision from Teachers College, Columbia University; and a Master's in Public Health Nursing and a Doctorate of Science from Johns Hopkins University. Her extensive experience in public health nursing and lifelong interest in science shaped the development of her theoretical framework, The Science of Unitarian Human Beings. The Society of Rogerian Scholars, with international membership, promotes and extends her theory and publishes Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Science. Dr. Rogers authored Education Revolution in Nursing, Reveille in Nursing, and Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. She was head of the Department of Nursing at New York University of 21 years. Colorful, passionate, warm and witty, she was an inspiring leader. She was a member of ANA, NLN, NYS League for Nursing, American Association for Higher Education, the American Association of University Professors, and Sigma Theta Tau. She received eight honorary doctorates, the NYSNA Nursing Education Award, the Teachers College Nursing Education Alumnae Association's R. Louise McManus Medal and poshumous induction into the ANA Hall of Fame.
2007

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