• NLN Announces Expansion of the NLN Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

    The National League for Nursing proudly announces that a project underway for nearly a decade—the NLN Collection at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, housed at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia—has been expanded.

  • Mercy Hospital Nursing Staff, Miss Lula G. Warlick standing, 3rd from right

    Movers & Makers: The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital

    The Barbara Bates Center is proud to announce that Mercy-Douglass Hospital will be featured in a TV special from WHYY’s Movers & Makers, which airs on Thursday, February 16, at 7:30 PM EST.

  • Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, Professor of Nursing and Dean Emerita.

    Penn Nursing Professor Emerita Named a 2022 Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania

    Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf recently recognized 11 women as Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, highlighting their extraordinary achievements and contributions to the commonwealth at an event at the Governor’s Residence. One of them was Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN FANN, Professor Emerita of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing).

  • Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Transitions from Standing Faculty at Penn Nursing

    Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans and professor of nursing, an internationally recognized scholar and leader in nursing education and history will transition from her faculty role on June 30th, 2022.

  • Bellagio Center Residency for Penn Nursing Professor

    Penn Nursing’s Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans, Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Future of Nursing Scholars Program, has been selected for The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program, a month-long residency in Bellagio, Italy. Her residency will take place in 2022.

  • Two Nurses with Four Babies, c.1918, Alumni Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital Scho...

    Children and The Influenza Pandemics of 1918 - 1919 and 2020 - 2021

    Barbara Bates Center associate director Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN, reflects on the 1918 influenza pandemic’s effects on children and its lessons for today.

  • Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN

    Epidemics from the Perspective of Professional Nursing: Beyond Germs, Public Health, and Pot Banging

    What is the meaning of an epidemic from a nursing perspective? The Barbara Bates Center’s Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, explores this question in a new article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 

  • Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

    In Whose Best Interest: Nursing Regulation during a Crisis

    A nimble and flexible regulatory response regarding the nursing workforce is essential to a fully integrated public health approach to national crises and pandemics.