May 18th 2023

Fireside Chat and Book Signing: Carolyn Smeltzer

@ International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 60610

Opening Thursday, May 18th, from 5:30PM - 8PM

On view through Wednesday, December 31st

Fireside Chat: Carolyn Smeltzer
Diploma Nursing and Nursing Remembered through the eyes of Evanston Hospital School of Nursing (1898-1984)
Carolyn will discuss her newest book, Evanston Hospital School of Nursing (1898-1984), and copies will be for sale in the Museum Store.
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Hektoen Nurses and Humanities and the International Museum of Surgical Science are delighted to announce the exhibit: Remembrance & Renewed Hope, on view for the month of May in the Museum’s historic Library in honor of Nurses Month. The Museum’s library features a long antique green table and chairs. This exhibition will feature fourteen place settings for a Nurse’s dinner table display. Nine of the settings feature past nursing leaders (Remembrance) and five are current nursing leaders (Renewed Hope). The displays are created by a group of nurses who are also practicing artists. Discover each artist’s interpretation of these important nurse figures.

Featured nurses will include:

Florence Nightingale (D)
Mary Seacole (D)
Clara Barton (D)
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde (D)
The 1964 student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital Nursing school (D)
Luther Christman (D)
Anne Zimmerman (D) Executive Director of the Illinois Nurses Association (INA)
Sharon Cahill, BSN, RN (D)
Krystal Hanrahan, MSN, RN (D)
Janice Phillips, PhD, CENP, FAAN (A) Director of Nursing Research & Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center
Mary McDermott, BSN, MSN, EdD, FAAN (A)
Kristin Ramsey, MSN, MPPM, RN, NE-BC (A) Senior VP, Quality, NMHC, Wood-Prince Family Chief Nurse Executive, NMH/NMG
Barb Holmes Gobel, MS, RN, ACDN, FAAN (A) Associate Director of Professional Practice and Development & Magnet Program Director
Lauren Underwood, MSN, RN, MPH (A) Democratic Party Communication Chair, Democratic Representative IL in Congress 2023
Artists include:

Sedane Henderson PCT
Ma. Eliza Micha Alcantara RN
Alyssa Hudik RN
Janessa Anguiano RN
John Smisek RN
Alyssa Saklak RN
Maria Zaragoza LPN
Marcela Gomez RN
Johana Hernandez RN
Sonja Will, Administrator
Sophie Oracz, RN
Cora Palmer, RN
Guest Speakers related to the arts and humanities as well as workshops and conversations among nurse artists will be scheduled.

Learn more: https://imss.org/remembrance-renewed-hope/

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