LOUISE SELANDERS, EdD, RN, FAAN
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, NIGH USA
Dr. Louise Selanders is an internationally-recognized and award-winning nurse historian who passionately believes that the history of nursing offers answers to current and future issues of nursing education, practice and research. She has sought to accurately identify Nightingale's key contributions to the areas of nursing theory, leadership and to a philosophical development of the profession.
Dr. Selanders has co-authored the award winning volume titled 'Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action' (2005) which details how the solutions identified and implemented by Nightingale, in her time, can be effective in resolving current issues such as global health, managed care and the nursing shortage. This volume was selected as the 2005 ‘American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year.’ Dr. Selanders has been a full professor at the College of Nursing at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where she was the Director of the Master's Program. She is also an honoured Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses.
Now serving as Professor Emerita, Dr. Selanders continues to collaborate with MSU — offering a challenging annual study abroad program to students and faculty each summer in London, UK — identifying the origins of modern nursing and comparing and contrasting the current status of nursing in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dr. Selanders actively participated in the organization of NIGH’s Co-Sponsored ‘Florence Nightingale Commemorative Global Service for Achieving UN Millennium Development Goals’ celebrated at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City on October 21, 2012.
This work built upon her participation to co-host three Services honouring Florence Nightingale, Nurses and Nursing at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, in 2001, 2004 and at the Service celebrating the 2010 International Year of the Nurse / Florence Nightingale Centennial in 2010. She was featured Keynote Speaker at the Inaugural Service in 2001.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Dr. Selanders also joined Dr. Barbara Dossey and a team of researchers & Episcopal church leaders to determine the significance of Nightingale’s life and work as inspiration for the official Episcopal Church Calendar. At the 1997 Convention of the Episcopal Church of the United States, Nightingale was hence placed on the Church Ballot and entered, in 2000, into the 'Church Calendar of Lesser Feasts & Fasts,' to be 'celebrated,' annually, on August 12th.
Dr. Selanders has co-authored the award winning volume titled 'Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action' (2005) which details how the solutions identified and implemented by Nightingale, in her time, can be effective in resolving current issues such as global health, managed care and the nursing shortage. This volume was selected as the 2005 ‘American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year.’ Dr. Selanders has been a full professor at the College of Nursing at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where she was the Director of the Master's Program. She is also an honoured Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses.
Now serving as Professor Emerita, Dr. Selanders continues to collaborate with MSU — offering a challenging annual study abroad program to students and faculty each summer in London, UK — identifying the origins of modern nursing and comparing and contrasting the current status of nursing in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dr. Selanders actively participated in the organization of NIGH’s Co-Sponsored ‘Florence Nightingale Commemorative Global Service for Achieving UN Millennium Development Goals’ celebrated at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City on October 21, 2012.
This work built upon her participation to co-host three Services honouring Florence Nightingale, Nurses and Nursing at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, in 2001, 2004 and at the Service celebrating the 2010 International Year of the Nurse / Florence Nightingale Centennial in 2010. She was featured Keynote Speaker at the Inaugural Service in 2001.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Dr. Selanders also joined Dr. Barbara Dossey and a team of researchers & Episcopal church leaders to determine the significance of Nightingale’s life and work as inspiration for the official Episcopal Church Calendar. At the 1997 Convention of the Episcopal Church of the United States, Nightingale was hence placed on the Church Ballot and entered, in 2000, into the 'Church Calendar of Lesser Feasts & Fasts,' to be 'celebrated,' annually, on August 12th.