2026 Preliminary Conference Schedule

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Thursday, June 4, 2026
Pre-Conference

2:00 - 4:00 pm
Cost: $55
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Teaching Healthcare History Through Visual and Experiential Learning 

This symposium will discuss selected teaching strategies using visual and narrative environments to teach healthcare history. Exemplars will include film, museums, and public art with application activities. 

Panel

Friday, June 5, 2026

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Panel 1: Nurses and the Nursing Profession

8:00–9:30 (15 minutes to speak; 7 minutes Q&A)

• The Role of Nursing Theory Think Tanks in Advancing Nursing Knowledge and Theory: A Historical Qualitative Study Utilizing the Margaret Newman Archive, 1978–1988
  Alisa Haushalter

• Building a Modern Nurse: State Policy, Philanthropy, and the Professionalization of Nursing in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)
  Andrej Toth

• Light, Order, and Authority: Visualizing Nursing and Sanitary Science at Scutari
  Elizabeth Ahern

• Nurses not Nursing: The Profession and Social Movements
  Jess Dillard-Wright

Coffee Break
9:30–10:00

Keynote Lecture

10:00–11:30

• Nurses, Mothers & Others: Baby-Saving and its Legacy in American History
  Molly Ladd-Taylor

Lunch on Your Own
11:30–12:30

Panel 2: Nursing in the South

12:30–2:00 (20 minutes to speak; 10 minutes Q&A)

• Nurses Among the Florida Seminoles and Miccosukee, 1934–1971
  Christine Ardalan

• Bringing Nursing and Medical Care to West Alabama: A Retrospective Review of West Alabama Health Services from the 1970s to 2000s
  Charlotte Swint

• A Century of Public Health Nursing: Archival and Material-Culture Evidence from a Southern State
  Valeria Eadler and Alisa R. Haushalter

Coffee Break
2:00–2:15

Panel 3: Teaching Nursing History

2:15–3:45 (15 minutes to speak; 7 minutes Q&A)

• From Camp to Clinic: Teaching Nursing History Through the Legacy of Pauline Bray Fletcher and Simulation-Based Learning
  Darlla Thompson

• Integrating History into a Time-Limited Guest Lecture
  Sally Ellis Fletcher

• Understanding Our Roots: Engaging Students in the History of Nursing
  Amber P. Williams

• Using AI in Course Development for a Nursing History Course
  Cassondra Burks

Coffee Break
3:45–4:00

Panel 4: Nurse Training and Education

4:00–5:15 (15 minutes to speak; 10 minutes Q&A)

• The Historical Foundations of Advanced Nursing Education
  Kim Curry

• The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Experiment: MGH – Charlestown Bunker Hill Pediatric NP Program
  Karen Anne Wolf

• The Kiowa School of Practical Nursing: Its Role Within and Beyond the US Indian Service
  Sarah Saffa

View the rest of the conference schedule on the AAHM website.