Center for Nursing History
Overview
The Historical Gallery
On-Line Exhibition
Services to Faculty, Students, Off-Site Researchers,
Community
To Make an In-Kind or Financial Contribution
Biography of Laurie K. Glass, PhD, RN, FAAN
Learn More: Nursing History Contacts
Overview
The Center for Nursing History is one of a small number of
centers dedicated to a historical appreciation of nursing’s
influence in health care. It was founded in 1975.
The heart of the center is the Historical Gallery, housed
on the ground floor of Cunningham Hall. Here, researchers,
students and visitors can experience rare artifacts, momentos
and photos related to the advances in the art and science of
nursing.
The center also contains more than 700 rare books and other
publications and is the largest academic collection of its
kind in Wisconsin.
The Historical Gallery
The Historical Gallery offers visitors a walk through history.
Seventeen moveable display cases and six mannequin provides
a clean view of objects from the center’s collection.
All items are catalogued and inventoried.
The Historical Gallery aims to:
- instill appreciation of the history related to nursing
education and health care
- increase awareness of the historically significant role
played by nurses
- serve as a learning resource for faculty, students and
the community
- provide a rare viewing experience of historically significant
artifacts.
Online Exhibition from the Nursing
History collection
A small exhibition entitled "Selections from the Nursing
History Collection" was on view in the Special Collections
Reading Room of UWM's Golda Meir Library from March 1996 through
September 1996 and has been reconstituted as this online exhibit.
The exhibition of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, photographs,
posters, and artifacts highlights the resources of a significant
collection of more than 400 rare and classic books and pamphlets
covering all aspects of American nursing history from the late
nineteenth century to the 1950s.
The books and pamphlet collection was donated to Special Collections
in November 1995 by the UWM Center for Nursing History.
To view an online version of this collection:
www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/nursing/nurhome.htm
Services to Faculty, Students,
Off-Site Researchers, Community
The Center for Nursing History offers consultations, tours,
and short-term loans of display items.
To Make an In-Kind or Financial
Contribution
The Historical Gallery is appreciative of donations of memorabilia
that are, or will be, of historical interest in the area of
nursing. Memorabilia keep nursing history alive and is meaningful
to current students, the community and nursing historians.
Examples of in-kind donations include: portraits; books; films;
notes; equipment; posters; uniforms; pins and: momentos of
student nursing, military nursing, hospital and public health
nursing.
Financial support from individuals, groups or foundations
is also greatly appreciated. Donations are used for acquisitions
and upkeep related to the Historical Gallery.
To make a donation or to contact us:
Dorothy Kidwell
Phone: 414-229-4189
Email: kidwell@uwm.edu
Mailing address: Dorothy Kidwell, UWM College of Nursing,
PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201
Make checks payable to: UWM-Foundation, College of Nursing
Laurie K. Glass, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emeritus/Director, Center for Nursing History
Phone: 414-229-4073
Email: lglass@uwm.edu
Biography of Laurie K. Glass,
PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emeritus Laurie K. Glass is an established expert in nursing
history. She served as the director of the Center for Nursing
History since 1980.
In 2002, she and Ellen Murphy, JD, RN, FAAN, professor, UWM College of
Nursing, received the Lavina L. Dock Award from the American Association
for the History of Nursing, an award that recognizes outstanding research
and writing produced by an experienced scholar in nursing history. Their
book, “AORN:Emergence and Growth,” (Denver: AORN) is a commemorative
look at perioperative nursing that chronicles the growth and evolution
of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses. Glass received her PhD in nursing research and nursing history from the
University of Illinois - Chicago. Her specific interests are:
- historical analysis of nursing leaders and their impact
on issues and events
- history of professional nursing organizations.
Glass has been a member of various national committees which
focus on nursing history and is past president of the Wisconsin
Nurses Association. She is an adjunct associate professor at
the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Nursing. Glass
retired from the USNR Nurse Corps as a CDR in 1991 after serving
for 21 year.
Glass started at UWM in 1975, and retired in May of 2005. She taught foundations
of nursing, issues and trends, research, and nursing history
to undergraduate and graduate students. She has served on numerous
school and university committees. Funded projects include:
- the history of the Association of Operating Room Nurses
- the preservation of Sinai-Samaritan Medical Center records
and artifacts.
American Association for the History of Nursing
http://www.aahn.org/news.html
Discovery of Florence Nightingale's Correspondence
http://newsbreak.louisville.edu/020208/freeman.html
Florence Nightingale Museum
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/
Historical notes on nurse attorneys
www.son.wisc.edu/alumni/dimensions/dim95/nursatty.html
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