This week is National nurse’s week from May 6-12. May 12 is Ms. Florence Nightingale’s birthday. It’d been 102 years since her death, but her spirit still lives among us. Without Florence, the nursing profession will be non-existent. We thank you Florence for your vision on the art and science of nursing care.
May 12 is also Nursing Informatics Day. I’d like to take this time to thank all of the nurse informaticists and the pioneers of nursing informatics. Thank you for your contribution on the nursing specialty of informatics. Without your work, the nursing informatics community will not exist. I’d like to say the some of the nursing pioneers mentioned below were once my professors at the University of Maryland and some were authors whose research or books I read while I was in school.
Nursing informatics pioneers (in no particular order):
Dr. Patrica Abbott
Dr. Ida Androwich
Dr. Jean Arnold
Dr. Suzanne Bakkem
Dr. Marion Ball
Dr. Patty Brennan
Dr. Patricia Button
Dr. Betty Chang
Dr. Connie Delaney
Dr. Carole Gassert
Dr. Susan Grobe
Dr. Rosemary Kennedy
Dr. Debra Konicek
Dr. Norma Lang
Karen Martin
Susan Matney
Dr. Kathleen McCormick
Judy Murphy
Dr. Susan Newbold
Dr. Judy Ozbolt
Dr. Carol Romano
Dr. Virginia Saba
Dr. Patricia Schwirian
Dr. Joyce Sensmeier
Roy Simpson
Dr. Diane Skiba
Dr. Nancy Staggers
Dr. Linda Thede
Dr. James Turley
Dr. Judith Warren
Dr. Charlotte Weaver
Dr. Elizabeth Weiner
Dr. Rita Zielstorff
