Patricia O'Brien D'Antonio, PhD, FAAN, RN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Contact Information
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Room 2017 Fagin Hall
418 Curie Blvd.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4217
UNITED STATES
tel: (215) 746-8322
email: dantonio@nursing.upenn.edu
Dr. D'Antonio is an Associate Professor of Nursing and the Associate Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, She is also the editor of the Nursing History Review, the official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing. She received her BS from Boston College, her MSN from the Catholic University of America, and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. D'Antonio's clinical specialty is adult psychiatric/mental health nursing.
Teaching
Dr. D'Antonio teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses that encourage students to think more deliberately about the meaning of nursing, nursing practice, and fundamental human and social needs. She currently serves as course director for N749 History and Health Policy; and as associated faculty for N750, Nursing and Inquiry. She has also served as course director for N50, Introduction to Professional Nursing.
Research
Dr. D'Antonio's research positions nurses, too often historically invisible, as absolutely central to the larger interdisciplinary histories of institutions, clinical practice, health care policy, and women's care work. Her most recent book, Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early 19th Century Philadelphia (Lehigh University Press, 2006), places nurses at the center of an institution's history and demonstrates the power of day-to-day nursing decisions in shaping clinical practice and theoretical innovations. Dr. D'Antonio's research has also been internationally recognized for its importance in creating a new intellectual paradigm for nursing's history: one that analyzes nurses as members of families and communities as well as clinicians in hospitals and health care agencies. This paradigm frames her present program of NIH and NEH funded research which analyzes nursing's historical diversity, and explicates the professions success in providing educational achievement, respected practice, and community based social power to its practitioners, especially those of color and different ethnic backgrounds. This research is part of her newest book, American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work (Johns Hopkins University Press, in press).
• Currently Funded Grants
• Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Clinical Practice
Dr. D'Antonio is a clinical specialist in psychiatric/ mental health nursing, and particularly interested in the care of patients and families experiencing severe and persistent illnesses.
Honors/Credentials
Dr. D'Antonio is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the advisory board of the United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, and serves on numerous editorial boards and review committees. She has held fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum and the University of Virginia's Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. Her awards include the Best of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship; the Lavinia Dock Award and the M.Adelaide Nutting Award for exemplary research from the American Association for the History of Nursing; and three American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. Most recently, Dr. D'Antonio has received the Legacy Award from the Penn Alumni Society; and has been named the 2010 Agnes Dillon Randolph Distinguished Lecturer by the University of Virginia.
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