Arizona Nurse Edition 23 : Page 4
From the Executive Director JOEY RIDENOUR, RN, MN, FAAN ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF NURSING 1921-2011 90TH ANNIVERSARY During the early 1900s, state nurses associations were organized for the sole purpose of seeking legislation to pass nurse practice acts (NPA) in each state. The NPA’s were merely registration acts or lists of trained nurses who volun-tarily signed or registered to be recognized as a nurse. North Carolina was the first state to enact a nursing practice act in 1903, and by 1923 all states had nurse practice acts in place. The Arizona State Board of Nursing was created in 1921. Historical information entered into the first book of minutes from 1921-1923 you may find interesting are: 1. The first nurse to place her name on the register as “RN # 1” was Sister M. Evangelista Weyand from St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing, Tucson. (There are now over 71,000 RN’s in Arizona.) 2. Nurses coming from other states were to register within a month, sign an affidavit they will remain in Arizona for two years and pay a $10 fee. 3. The Arizona Board of Nurse Examiners (Arizona State Board of Nursing) borrowed $259 from the Arizona State Nurse’s Association to “put the board in operation.” 4. If the Board failed to repay the debt, the newly pur-chased typewriter would become the property of the Arizona Nurses Association and the Board would be reported to the state. 5. First Secretary and full time staff member was paid $2,000 year or $166 month. 6. The Secretary was instructed to contact California, New York, Maryland and California and inform them they were the only states in which reciprocity would be established. 7. Superintendants of schools of nursing throughout the state were sent a letter instructing them to adopt three arm badges: white for graduate nurses, blue for under-graduate nurses and red for practical nurses. Nurses were to be instructed that they “must wear these badges while in that institution.” 8. A.R.N. was the first title for nurses: Arizona Registered Nurse. 9. Sister Evangelista was appointed Chairman of a com-mittee to develop a list of questions for the October 1921 test. Board Members were assigned to submit questions for the test. 10. Three schools of nursing were recommended to add to the accreditation list of the American Nurse’s Association: St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing, Tucson; Arizona Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing (Good Samaritan), Phoenix and St. Joseph’s Hospital 4 arizona STATE BOARD OF NURSING REGULATORY JOURNAL “For what is the present, after all, but a growth out of the past?” -Walt Witman, American Poet For over 90 years, nurse competency and patient safety has been the “public good” of the Arizona State Board of Nursing. In this edition of the AzBN Regulatory Journal, Pam Randolph provides a historical over view of the evolu-tion of nursing education in Arizona. The Executive Director or the Arizona Nurses Association, Robin Schaffer, also pro-vides historical AzNA information as the organization was formed for the sole purpose of enacting the Nurse Practice Act. Also featured is the history of St. Mary’s (Carondolet) as the first school of nursing in Arizona. Special thanks to those in our history who pioneered patient safety and to nurses today who create new ways for making patients safe. School of Nursing, Phoenix. 11. At end of fiscal year June 1923, the Board paid off the debt to the Arizona Nurse’s Association with a remain-ing balance of $25.65
From The Executive Director
Joey Ridenour, Rn, Mn, Faan
ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF NURSING 1921-2011 90TH ANNIVERSARY<br /> <br /> During the early 1900s, state nurses associations were organized for the sole purpose of seeking legislation to pass nurse practice acts (NPA) in each state. The NPA's were merely registration acts or lists of trained nurses who voluntarily signed or registered to be recognized as a nurse. North Carolina was the first state to enact a nursing practice act in 1903, and by 1923 all states had nurse practice acts in place.<br /> <br /> The Arizona State Board of Nursing was created in 1921. Historical information entered into the first book of minutes from 1921-1923 you may find interesting are:<br /> <br /> 1. The first nurse to place her name on the register as "RN # 1" was Sister M. Evangelista Weyand from St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing, Tucson. (There are now over 71,000 RN's in Arizona.)<br /> <br /> 2. Nurses coming from other states were to register within a month, sign an affidavit they will remain in Arizona for two years and pay a $10 fee.<br /> <br /> 3. The Arizona Board of Nurse Examiners (Arizona State Board of Nursing) borrowed $259 from the Arizona State Nurse's Association to "put the board in operation."<br /> <br /> 4. If the Board failed to repay the debt, the newly purchased typewriter would become the property of the Arizona Nurses Association and the Board would be reported to the state.<br /> <br /> 5. First Secretary and full time staff member was paid $2,000 year or $166 month.<br /> <br /> 6. The Secretary was instructed to contact California, New York, Maryland and California and inform them they were the only states in which reciprocity would be established.<br /> <br /> 7. Superintendents of schools of nursing throughout the state were sent a letter instructing them to adopt three arm badges: white for graduate nurses, blue for undergraduate nurses and red for practical nurses. Nurses were to be instructed that they "must wear these badges while in that institution."<br /> <br /> 8. A.R.N. was the first title for nurses: Arizona Registered Nurse.<br /> <br /> 9. Sister Evangelista was appointed Chairman of a committee to develop a list of questions for the October 1921 test. Board Members were assigned to submit questions for the test.<br /> <br /> 10. Three schools of nursing were recommended to add to the accreditation list of the American Nurse's Association: St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing, Tucson; Arizona Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing (Good Samaritan), Phoenix and St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, Phoenix.<br /> <br /> 11. At end of fiscal year June 1923, the Board paid off the debt to the Arizona Nurse's Association with a remaining balance of $25.65 "For what is the present, after all, but a growth out of the past?"<br /> <br /> - Walt Witman,<br /> <br /> American Poet For over 90 years, nurse competency and patient safety has been the "public good" of the Arizona State Board of Nursing. In this edition of the AzBN Regulatory Journal, Pam Randolph provides a historical over view of the evolution of nursing education in Arizona. The Executive Director or the Arizona Nurses Association, Robin Schaffer, also provides historical AzNA information as the organization was formed for the sole purpose of enacting the Nurse Practice Act. Also featured is the history of St. Mary's (Carondolet) as the first school of nursing in Arizona. Special thanks to those in our history who pioneered patient safety and to nurses today who create new ways for making patients safe.
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