ANA Centennial: Voices from the past...visions of the future

Centennial Exhibit

Introduction
Voices from the Past, Visions of the Future
a summary of selected benchmarks in the history of the American Nurses Association
Acknowledgements

The American Nurses Association,

composed of professional nurses dedicated to the promotion of health and the care of the sick, has served as the forum in which the nation's critical health issues have been discussed throughout the last century.

Functioning as a democracy, the ANA provided the structure in which views were expressed, ideas were debated and evaluated, and positions and goals were formulated. Because it represented the views of administrators, clinical practitioners in institutions and community agencies, educators, and researchers, it has served for 100 years as the public voice for the diversity of America's professional nurses.

This Centennial exhibit focuses on the primary reason for all of ANA's concern and activities, the fulfillment of nursing's social responsibility to provide health care to people.

The following is a selection of nurses' quotes and summarized narratives that depict ANA's involvement with professional nurses and their patients throughout a century of care-giving. The content of "Voices from the Past, Visions of the Future" is a summary of selected benchmarks in the history of the American Nurses Association and is not to be considered an exhaustive study.

"Organization is the power of the day.
Without it, nothing great is accomplished."

Sophia Palmer, First and Second Convention of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nursing, 1897

The American Nurses Association gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary contribution of the co-consultants, Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, and Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, Associate Director, of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia School of Nursing, for providing the historical and graphic research and writing for this exhibition.

American Nurses Association
would like to recognize the following contributors:

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Maude M. Smith, RN, MA, MLS
American Academy of Nursing
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
Emergency Nurses Association
National Association of Orthopedic Nurses
National Association of School Nurses
National Student Nurses Association
New York University, Division of Nursing,
in honor of Martha E. Rogers, Sc.D, RN, FAAN


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Centennial Exhibit

The American Nurses Association,

"Organization is the power of the day. Without it, nothing great is accomplished."

"Organization is the power of the day.
Without it, nothing great is accomplished."