{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":36.36,"endTime":43.08,"body":"Welcome to this episode of Nursing EDge Unscripted "},{"startTime":36.36,"endTime":43.08,"body":"Saga, where we journey through the history of  "},{"startTime":43.08,"endTime":49.88,"body":"nursing education using stories that connect "},{"startTime":43.08,"endTime":49.88,"body":"the past to the present and then our future  "},{"startTime":49.88,"endTime":57.08,"body":"as we reimagine our teaching, learning, and "},{"startTime":49.88,"endTime":57.08,"body":"scholarship. It is often said that the past  "},{"startTime":57.08,"endTime":65.72,"body":"teaches us about the present to study history "},{"startTime":57.08,"endTime":65.72,"body":"is to study change. This year Saga gives voice  "},{"startTime":65.72,"endTime":72.28,"body":"to nursing through the words of our early nurse "},{"startTime":65.72,"endTime":72.28,"body":"leaders who organized a discipline and carved  "},{"startTime":72.28,"endTime":80.8,"body":"out systems to formalize the education of nurses "},{"startTime":72.28,"endTime":80.8,"body":"throughout the United States. In Their Own Words  "},{"startTime":80.8,"endTime":88.76,"body":"illuminates the visionary work of NLN pathfinders "},{"startTime":80.8,"endTime":88.76,"body":"who question traditional curriculum paradigms and,  "},{"startTime":88.76,"endTime":98.32,"body":"in the process, co-created standards for nursing "},{"startTime":88.76,"endTime":98.32,"body":"education to build the discipline of nursing. In  "},{"startTime":98.32,"endTime":106.76,"body":"part one we discussed how leaders of the Society "},{"startTime":98.32,"endTime":106.76,"body":"and NLNE proposed new ideas and perspectives  "},{"startTime":106.76,"endTime":115.88,"body":"in the context of mutual sharing diversity of "},{"startTime":106.76,"endTime":115.88,"body":"thought and ideas was central to their work. In  "},{"startTime":115.88,"endTime":123.28,"body":"part two we will discuss how the major nursing "},{"startTime":115.88,"endTime":123.28,"body":"organ organizations reorganized to create a  "},{"startTime":123.28,"endTime":131.92,"body":"more unified voice for nursing and how membership "},{"startTime":123.28,"endTime":131.92,"body":"racial and ethnic diversity was finally addressed,  "},{"startTime":131.92,"endTime":140.52,"body":"despite the continued absence of diversity in "},{"startTime":131.92,"endTime":140.52,"body":"nursing programs. Throughout the 20th century,  "},{"startTime":140.52,"endTime":150.28,"body":"individuals and schools joined the NLNE through "},{"startTime":140.52,"endTime":150.28,"body":"the state leagues. In 1940, the NLN board of  "},{"startTime":150.28,"endTime":157.6,"body":"directors recognized that in order to advocate "},{"startTime":150.28,"endTime":157.6,"body":"for a diverse national membership a new strategy  "},{"startTime":157.6,"endTime":163.88,"body":"needed to be developed since state leagues "},{"startTime":157.6,"endTime":163.88,"body":"in the south prohibited membership for Black  "},{"startTime":163.88,"endTime":172.56,"body":"nurses. In 1940, at the 46th annual meeting "},{"startTime":163.88,"endTime":172.56,"body":"in Philadelphia, delegates voted to change  "},{"startTime":172.56,"endTime":180.48,"body":"the organizational bylaws to create the option "},{"startTime":172.56,"endTime":180.48,"body":"of individual membership for nurses who \"are  "},{"startTime":180.48,"endTime":190.56,"body":"not eligible for membership in state leagues.\" "},{"startTime":180.48,"endTime":190.56,"body":"Similarly, that same year, the house of delegates  "},{"startTime":190.56,"endTime":197.52,"body":"of the American Nurses Association authorized "},{"startTime":190.56,"endTime":197.52,"body":"membership for Black nurses barred from joining  "},{"startTime":197.52,"endTime":203.84,"body":"the association because of the exclusionary "},{"startTime":197.52,"endTime":203.84,"body":"policies of their respective state nurses  "},{"startTime":203.84,"endTime":211.92,"body":"associations. Diversity of membership was finally "},{"startTime":203.84,"endTime":211.92,"body":"achieved for both organizations, but it would take  "},{"startTime":211.92,"endTime":220.64,"body":"years of members from diverse backgrounds to be "},{"startTime":211.92,"endTime":220.64,"body":"fully engaged in state organizations. There is  "},{"startTime":220.64,"endTime":228.64,"body":"no more powerful illustration of the painful and "},{"startTime":220.64,"endTime":228.64,"body":"prolonged journey to an inclusive organization  "},{"startTime":228.64,"endTime":236.84,"body":"than the story told by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carnegie "},{"startTime":228.64,"endTime":236.84,"body":"about her experiences while dean of Florida A\u0026M  "},{"startTime":236.84,"endTime":246.92,"body":"University in the late 1940s. In her words, "},{"startTime":236.84,"endTime":246.92,"body":"as recounted to historian Dr. Sandy Lewenson:  "},{"startTime":247.92,"endTime":254.08,"body":"\"The State Board had a conference in Jacksonville "},{"startTime":247.92,"endTime":254.08,"body":"at a hotel and invited me to present my rotation  "},{"startTime":254.08,"endTime":261.8,"body":"plan...It came time for lunch and I could not "},{"startTime":254.08,"endTime":261.8,"body":"sit and eat with them. They put me way over in  "},{"startTime":261.8,"endTime":269.04,"body":"the corner by myself and I couldn't eat. So, "},{"startTime":261.8,"endTime":269.04,"body":"I left there and went back to campus. I said  "},{"startTime":269.04,"endTime":276.12,"body":"I'm not going back there...And one older faculty "},{"startTime":269.04,"endTime":276.12,"body":"member said, \"Dean, that's what they want you to  "},{"startTime":276.12,"endTime":283.36,"body":"do...you're playing right in their hands when you "},{"startTime":276.12,"endTime":283.36,"body":"say I'm not going back. You are going back again  "},{"startTime":283.36,"endTime":290.72,"body":"and again.\" It was up to me to take the leadership "},{"startTime":283.36,"endTime":290.72,"body":"role and really fight for real integration,  "},{"startTime":290.72,"endTime":301.68,"body":"not just on paper. You never win by staying away.\" "},{"startTime":290.72,"endTime":301.68,"body":"As Dr. Carnegie and others struggled for equality,  "},{"startTime":301.68,"endTime":308.04,"body":"the national organization also recognized "},{"startTime":301.68,"endTime":308.04,"body":"the need for unity of purpose among the major  "},{"startTime":308.04,"endTime":317.44,"body":"nursing organizations. In 1944, Ruth Sleeper, "},{"startTime":308.04,"endTime":317.44,"body":"president of the NLNE, commissioned a study of  "},{"startTime":317.44,"endTime":324.48,"body":"leading nursing organizations to determine if a "},{"startTime":317.44,"endTime":324.48,"body":"better way to organize and promote professional  "},{"startTime":324.48,"endTime":333.16,"body":"nursing existed. Ms. Sleeper recognized that "},{"startTime":324.48,"endTime":333.16,"body":"to achieve a wider sphere of influence, nursing  "},{"startTime":333.16,"endTime":340.6,"body":"first had to be unified. Fragmentation along "},{"startTime":333.16,"endTime":340.6,"body":"educational lines had created isolated groups  "},{"startTime":340.6,"endTime":349.88,"body":"of educators and practitioners who could not "},{"startTime":340.6,"endTime":349.88,"body":"communicate effectively with one another. In 1949,  "},{"startTime":349.88,"endTime":359.92,"body":"Ms. Sleeper presented a plan to form two national "},{"startTime":349.88,"endTime":359.92,"body":"organizations: an already existing organization,  "},{"startTime":359.92,"endTime":367.56,"body":"the American Nurses Association, which had joined "},{"startTime":359.92,"endTime":367.56,"body":"with the National Association of Colored Graduate  "},{"startTime":367.56,"endTime":376.24,"body":"Nurses and a new organization, the National "},{"startTime":367.56,"endTime":376.24,"body":"League for Nursing, which United the NLNE,  "},{"startTime":376.24,"endTime":381.6,"body":"the National Organization for Public "},{"startTime":376.24,"endTime":381.6,"body":"Health Nursing, and the Association for  "},{"startTime":381.6,"endTime":390.6,"body":"Collegiate Schools of Nursing. In 1952, at "},{"startTime":381.6,"endTime":390.6,"body":"the 59th annual convention in Atlanta City,  "},{"startTime":390.6,"endTime":398.16,"body":"delegates voted to accept the new structure and "},{"startTime":390.6,"endTime":398.16,"body":"selected Ms. Sleeper to become the first president  "},{"startTime":398.16,"endTime":408.36,"body":"of the new organization. The new NLN moved swiftly "},{"startTime":398.16,"endTime":408.36,"body":"to create a more inclusive community. Ms. Willie  "},{"startTime":408.36,"endTime":415.84,"body":"May Johnson of the Public Health Nursing Service "},{"startTime":408.36,"endTime":415.84,"body":"of Montclair, New Jersey was elected as the NLN's  "},{"startTime":415.84,"endTime":425.76,"body":"inaugural board of directors as its first African "},{"startTime":415.84,"endTime":425.76,"body":"American member. In 1953 members voted to approve  "},{"startTime":425.76,"endTime":434.96,"body":"a position that \"all activities of the NLN "},{"startTime":425.76,"endTime":434.96,"body":"shall include all groups regardless of race,  "},{"startTime":434.96,"endTime":445.04,"body":"color, religion, and sex.\" By 1959, a Patients "},{"startTime":434.96,"endTime":445.04,"body":"Bill of Rights was adopted calling for nurses  "},{"startTime":445.8,"endTime":453.52,"body":"\"to respect the individuality dignity and "},{"startTime":445.8,"endTime":453.52,"body":"rights of every person regardless of race,  "},{"startTime":453.52,"endTime":465.64,"body":"color, creed, national origin, social or economic "},{"startTime":453.52,"endTime":465.64,"body":"status.\" The NLN's effort in the mid 20th century,  "},{"startTime":465.64,"endTime":474.52,"body":"to create a more diverse membership is consistent "},{"startTime":465.64,"endTime":474.52,"body":"with the NLN's current core value of diversity and  "},{"startTime":474.52,"endTime":482.6,"body":"inclusion, which affirms that by acknowledging the "},{"startTime":474.52,"endTime":482.6,"body":"legitimacy of us all, we move beyond tolerance to  "},{"startTime":482.6,"endTime":489.76,"body":"celebrate the richness that differences bring "},{"startTime":482.6,"endTime":489.76,"body":"forth. Throughout the history of the Society,  "},{"startTime":489.76,"endTime":498.16,"body":"the NLNE and finally the NLN, leaders shared a "},{"startTime":489.76,"endTime":498.16,"body":"collective commitment to diversity of thought and  "},{"startTime":498.16,"endTime":506.92,"body":"perspective, and finally diversity of membership "},{"startTime":498.16,"endTime":506.92,"body":"challenging long-held beliefs, calling for reform  "},{"startTime":506.92,"endTime":516.64,"body":"and a transformative future. In a speech "},{"startTime":506.92,"endTime":516.64,"body":"in 1972, perhaps Ms. Sleeper said it best:  "},{"startTime":517.72,"endTime":526.76,"body":"\"When walls crumble, and positive interaction "},{"startTime":517.72,"endTime":526.76,"body":"really begins, great things are possible.\""},{"startTime":530.6,"endTime":536.48,"body":"And so the Saga continues and may "},{"startTime":530.6,"endTime":536.48,"body":"our Saga continue as we bring to a  "},{"startTime":536.48,"endTime":544.64,"body":"close this episode of Nursing EDge Unscripted "},{"startTime":536.48,"endTime":544.64,"body":"Saga. Thank you for joining us and remember:  "},{"startTime":544.64,"endTime":551.52,"body":"Good teaching doesn't just happen...find your "},{"startTime":544.64,"endTime":551.52,"body":"fit, push the boundaries, and celebrate the"},{"startTime":551.52,"endTime":569.12,"body":"ahas."}]}