Title: Service is the Rent We Pay: The Complexity of Nurses’ Advocacy
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch will be provided
Location: NUR 1.112 (MPR) | UT Austin School of Nursing | 1710 Red River, Austin, TX
*CNE: Attendees may earn up to 1 CNE
Presented by: Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor of Nursing Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
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Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a historian of nursing and Professor of Nursing Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her research focuses on 20th century healthcare issues, in particular, the history of health policy as it relates to scope of practice and service models, and the history of technology. Her recent work examines the intersection of civil rights and health care. Her work has been funded by the NLM, NEH, and the RWJ Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Program. In 2011, she was the first historian inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau Research Hall of Fame. In 2024, she was designated a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.
She the author/editor of four books. Her work has been published in the NEJM, the Lancet, and Health Matrix. She has been interviewed by national and international media, including NPR, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and J&J media campaigns. Dr. Fairman directed the $20 million RWJF Future of Nursing Scholars Program and is Director Emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at Penn. She is an American Academy of Nursing Fellow, Visiting Nurses Association of Philadelphia Trustee, and Board member of CGFNS. Dr. Fairman served as the 2009 Scholar in Residence at the IOM and worked with the Committee on the Future of Nursing. She is the first nurse to deliver the Fielding H. Garrison Lecture (the American Association for the History of Medicine). In 2022, she was awarded a Rockefeller Bellagio Academic Writing Fellowship. In October 2024, she was designated a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.
This event is made possible by The Jack & Laura Lee Blanton Lectureship in Nursing.
Parking: Parking for this event is available for a fee in Trinity Garage (TRG) at the corner of MLK and Trinity, or at the Health Center Garage (HCG). If you need an accommodation to participate in this event or you are a faculty member who would like to bring a class, please contact Amber Shah at ashah@nursing.utexas.edu or 512-471-7964.
*Accreditation: This activity is accredited by UT Austin School of Nursing to provide 1.0 CNE. The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.