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The following text is from the Preface of the Guide for Integrating History into the Nursing Curriculum. (1999)
The Invitational Nursing History Conference, a think tank begun twelve years ago, meets annually to wrestle with critical issues affecting both nursing historical research and nurse historians. Its milieu is collegial, affording intellectual and academic freedom, where both personal and professional research concerns and issues are shared and supported.
This document is an outgrowth of that conference. It is a visible expression of the concern of nurse historians about the place of nursing history in contemporary nursing education. It offers students the opportunity to recognize our recurring assets and liabilities within changing contexts. We believe that knowledge of nursing's past is a tool for the empowerment and forward movement of nurses and nursing in our evolving healthcare system.
All of the members of the Invitational Nursing History Conference are also members of the American Association for the History of Nursing. We believe that this work fulfills several goals of the association: to serve as an information resource; to produce and distribute materials related to the history and heritage of the nursing profession; and to emphasize the relevance of history for understanding the past and illuminating the present.
This work was compiled over a two-year period by nurse historians who are often working in other professional areas. That fact predicates this document as a labor of love and respect for nurses of the past and their efforts, as well as for the nurses of today and tomorrow.
We hope that this special gift to nursing education from the Invitational Nursing History Conference will be used to endow nursing students with one of their most empowering tools: nursing's history, our professional roots.
Sandra Kress Davis
RN, Ed.D
Convener of the Invitational Nursing History Conference
*For more information or to obtain a copy of the curriculum, please e-mail Sandra Davis