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| Members of the HU School of Nursing Faculty |
The Hampton University School
of Nursing (SON) started off the American Nurses Association National Nurses
Week by wearing all white and preparing for the posthumous induction of an
alumna into the HU Nursing Hall of Fame. The week is celebrated throughout the
country May 6-12, and this year’s theme is “Nurses Leading the Way.”
HU SON Dean Dr. Deborah E.
Jones said the week is an opportunity to highlight the important contributions
nurses have made, and continue to make in the world.
“Hampton
University is proud to take part in the recognition of National Nurses Week,
and to honor one of our very own nursing professionals who contributed so much
to the field,” she said. “She championed and
worked in organizations to achieve independent practice and prescriptive
authority for nurses long before they became realities in the delivery of
health care.”
On
May 9, Dr. Lois Price Spratlen ‘54 will be posthumously inducted into the HU
Nursing Hall of Fame. She is only the 12th alum to be added into the group.
Upon her death in 2013, Dr. Spratlen bequeathed over $1 million to the
HUSON.
The funding is being used to establish The Lois Price Spratlen Endowed Chair
(LPSEC) within the school, and the selected professor will focus on mental and
community health research. Dr. Spratlen spent most of her career as a faculty
member in psychosocial nursing at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Additionally, in April, her widow,
Dr. Thaddeus H. Spratlen, provided the funding to establish “The Nursing Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship” for $25,000 in his wife’s honor.
“Because of the many strides
of nurses that have come before us, we owe it to them to be mindful and
appreciative of their contributions,” Jones said. “For nursing pioneers like
Lois Price Spratlen, Florence Nightingale and Mary Eliza Mahoney who came before
us, this week is another opportunity to remember and give thanks.”
