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Joan E. Lynaugh papers
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Joan E. Lynaugh’s (born 1935) contributions as a nurse historian are unparalleled. Interested in improving the delivery of health care to all Americans, she worked to develop the nurse practitioner role, redesigning nursing curricula and teaching nurses to meet that challenge. For more than twenty-five years, she has encouraged the development of historical research on nursing and health care. In addition, she was one of the founders of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of the History of Nursing in 1985.
Lynaugh earned her nursing diploma in 1956 and continued her education at the University of Rochester obtaining both a BS and MS in Nursing. She completed her PhD at the University of Kansas in 1982. Recruited by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1980 to direct their new initiative in primary care nursing, Lynaugh brought with her a commitment to family nurse practitioner education and faculty practice which significantly contributed to the reshaping of primary care nursing. As a result of her efforts, the University of Pennsylvania is one of nursing’s most successful and publicly understood models of care and has one of the top nurse practitioner programs in the country.
Lynaugh has dedicated more than 40 years of her career to issues in health-care delivery and practice patterns for nurse practitioners in primary care, as well as the history of nursing. A prolific researcher, writer, and editor, she is the author or co-author of ten books and numerous chapters and articles. Lynaugh’s earliest research analyzed the origins of community hospitals as essential, local, and voluntary institutions. In addition she focuses on the role of women in institution building, labor supply and demand phenomena, international nursing, and the evolution of higher education in nursing. She has also studied the issues affecting practice by nurses and physicians, as well as formative changes in both professions, professional nursing practice in post-World War II America, and the emergence of critical care nursing in the United States.
In 1992, she became the first editor of the Nursing History Review, the official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing. She consults often on matters of historical scholarship as well as throughout the United States and Europe. Lynaugh’s distinguished career in nursing has been recognized by numerous organizations including the Centennial Nursing Heritage Award from the American Nurses’ Association and the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing. In 2005 she was designated a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Managers of the Visiting Nurse Society of Greater Philadelphia as well as the Director Emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
The Joan E. Lynaugh papers is a collection acquired by the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing between 2000 and 2012. The materials, arranged in twelve series, help sheds light on her prolific professional career as well as her personal life.
Series 1 contains personal documents such as passports, awards, diaries, as well as her baby book and personal correspondence Joan Lynaugh received during her life. It also includes familial papers related other family members’ class notes and correspondence. Series 2 focuses on her educational experiences, particularly her graduate courses as well as her dissertation research for her project, “The Community Hospitals of Kansas City, Missouri 1870 to 1915”.
In the third, fourth, and fifth series, Joan Lynaugh’s professional experiences are explored. These papers document her work prior to her employment at the University of Pennsylvania as well her involvement at the University. The forth series follows the University’s actions and her own professional activities through correspondence, committee minutes, course materials, papers and speeches, and general publications. Series 5 explores her involvement with the Barbara Bates Center. These documents shed light on the Center’s development and activities from the mid-1980s through the 1990s.
Series 6 and 7 contain materials related to Joan Lynaugh’s projects throughout her career as well as some the research documents collected during her professional life. This includes her work with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the International Council of Nurses, as well as with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The eighth series focuses on her activities with the American Association for the History of Nursing, including her years as editor of the Nursing History Review.
The last four series (9-12) contains various personal and professional photographs, book chapter images, audio cassette tape interviews, and memorabilia, including her high school and college yearbooks as well as some of the awards she received for her work.
This collection was donated by Joan Lynaugh and others.
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This collection is open to the public unless noted otherwise at the request of the Donor or to protect individual personal information.
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This series contains personal documents such as passports, awards, diaries, as well as her baby book. In addition, there are numerous personal correspondence Joan Lynaugh received. Also included are familial papers including class notes and correspondence. Additional personal correspondence can be found in Series 4.
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Included in this series are papers regarding Joan Lynaugh’s educational experiences. Most notably are her graduate coursework notes, research for her dissertation, as well as her dissertation, “The Community Hospitals of Kansas City, Missouri 1870 to 1915”.
This section includes materials regarding Joan Lynaugh's professional activities prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
One of the larger series in this collection, this section contains documents related to Joan Lynaugh’s influential career at the University of Pennsylvania. Broken into several sections, materials include correspondence, committee minutes, course materials, faculty and student activities, grants, projects, University reports and actions as well as speeches and papers written by Joan. For additional information about projects she worked on, please see Series 6.
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This series contains information about the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982-2008. Materials include correspondence, committee minutes and agenda, Center budgets, publications and projects, as well as fellowships offered by the Center.
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This series contains materials regarding the various projects Joan Lynaugh worked on during her career. This includes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Critical Care Project, and the International Council of Nurses Centennial History Project, amongst others. Materials include interview notes, research, correspondence, project meetings, papers, and publication information. Cassette tapes of interviews conducted for these projects can be found in Series 10. Photographs related to the projects are contained in Series 9.
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This section regards the research material collected by Joan Lynaugh about the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as well as the History of Nursing. The subseries about the Kellogg Foundation contain both primary research, including interviews, as well as copies of primary and secondary source copies. The History of Nursing subseries is information about important figures in nursing and nursing history as well as Philadelphia’s nursing history.
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Materials contained within this series regards Joan Lynaugh’s involvement with the American Association for the History of Nursing, including the publication of the Nursing History Review which she was editor of for numerous years. Documents include publication information, potential articles, correspondence, and notes.
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This series contain photographs pertaining to her personal and professional life. Photographs include some from her childhood into the early 21st century. There are also photographs related to her research projects, including the images used in her books. For Project information see Series 6. and Series 7.