DEVA-MARIE BECK, PhD, RN, International Co-Director

Deva-Marie Beck is a visionary, nursing scholar, clinician, health educator, and world ambassador for human health and well-being. She has networked for nursing and transdisciplinary health promotion issues in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Turkey. As International Co-Director of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Deva is concerned with the worldwide nursing shortage crisis. Using her media skills in print, internet and video formats, publishing, promotion and marketing, Deva is currently addressing this issues by preparing NIGH’s “Circle of Strategies” to inform the worldwide nursing community, including a series to employ multi-media capacities for “building a healthy world” and to empower the nursing profession on a global scale. In January 2005, she launched NIGH International at the Canadian National Press Club in Ottawa.

At the Florence Nightingale Commemorative Services convened at the Washington National Cathedral, in 2001 and 2004, she was one of the featured presenters, with the U.S. Surgeon General and other distinguished Nightingale scholars. In May, 2004, she chaired discussions with national and international nursing leaders at the Nightingale 2010 Consultation in Washington D.C. and has addressed these issues as a featured presenter for Sigma Theta Tau International (2003, Toronto), at the International Association for Human Caring (2003, Boulder & 2004, Montreal), the American Holistic Nurses Association (2003, 2004, Scottsdale, 2005, Philadelphia). She will be featured again at Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Conference in Indianapolis in November, 2005.

Deva is co-author of the American Nurses' Association (2005, American Nurses Association’s NursesBooks.org) Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action and has recently contributed a chapter, Nightingale’s Passion for Advocacy: Local to Global to the new text The History of Nurses Ideas (2005, Jones & Bartlett). She was a co-convener, in 1996, with the Turkish First Army, of the "International Tribute to Florence Nightingale at Scutari," convened at the Istanbul Selimiye Barracks Army Base during the United Nations Human Settlements Summit. While in Canada during 2000-2001, she co-created a national initiative entitled "The Courage to Care" to celebrate the millennium with a national nursing and health promotion events which she co-convened at the National Press Club of Canada and the Canadian Nursing Memorial Tribute in the Parliament Buildings of Canada., With support from the Canadian Millennium Bureau, "The Courage to Care" was also developed — with Deva as lead-editor—into a 16-page tabloid newspaper distributed to 75,000 people across Canada and co-edited a related video documentary developed for the Canadian National Archives.

During more than 30 years of clinical nursing experience, she has practiced in a wide variety of Home-Care and Critical Care clinical settings. In 2001-2003, her nursing practice included Home Care in Washington, D.C, Northern Virginia and in Maryland, specializing in assessment and support for complex home-based intravenous infusions and central-line management. She has also worked at the MICU and SICU at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, and in Coronary Care and a variety of Critical Care and Telemetry units at UCLA, UCI, and UCSD Medical Centers in California, as well as with Hispanic populations in the PACU and the Endoscopy Outpatient Surgery of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, California. Throughout the 1980s, Deva developed holistic health workshops and distance-learning courses for nurses as an official California BSN provider for nursing re-licensure credits. She is co-author of the related book, The Pleasure Connection: How Endorphins Affect Our Health and Happiness (Synthesis Press, 1987), the first book to introduce Endorphins and related neurotransmitter research to the general public. This book was later released in a Francophone edition, Les Endorphines (Le Souffle D’Or, 1989). She is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau International, of Rotary International, the American Holistic Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, the Canadian Club of Rome, and Epsilon Pi Tau, an international honor society for leadership in science and technology education. She also serves on the Executive Council of the Media Club of Ottawa.

 

 

BARBARA DOSSEY, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, International Co-Director

Barbara Dossey is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement. She is Director of Holistic Nursing Consultants in Santa Fe, New Mexico and International Co-Director of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), where serves as a Founding member of the NIGH Board. Dr. Dossey is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is certified in holistic nursing and is a seven-time recipient of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. She was awarded the 1985 “Holistic Nurse of the Year” by the American Holistic Nurses Association; the 1998 “Healer of the Year” by the Nurse Healers Professional Associates International, Inc; the 1999 “Pioneering Spirit Award” by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; the 1999 “Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year” by the Scientific and Medical Network, United Kingdom. In 2001, she was recognized as “TWU 100 Great Nursing Alumni,” Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. In 2003, she received the “Distinguished Alumna Award” from Baylor University, Waco, Texas. With her husband, Larry, she received the 2003 “Archon Award” from Sigma Theta Tau, International, the international honor society of nursing, honoring the contributions that they have made to promoting global health. In 2004, they also received the “Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award” from the Aspen Center for Integrative Medicine, Aspen, Colorado.

Between 1992-1999, Barbara completed seven related historical research trips to London England and to Istanbul, Turkey to study primary and secondary resources on life and work of Florence Nightingale for published book Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer (Springhouse Publications, 2000) and for numerous related articles. She has also authored or co-authored 22 books including Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (4th ed., 2005), Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership. Global Action (2005), Pocket Guide for Holistic Nursing (2005), Holistic Nursing (30 interactive web modules (2005), Compassionate Care of the Dying: Manual and Standards for Practice (2004), AHNA Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing (editor, 1997), Profiles on Nurse Healers (1998), Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997), Pocket Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (1997), Rituals of Healing, (1994) Critical Care Nursing: Body-Mind-Spirit (1992),

A major focus of her work currently is holistic nursing, compassionate care for the dying, and virtual education. She is also exploring the impact of Florence Nightingale's life and work on contemporary nursing and humankind. For the 72nd General Episcopal Church Convention in Philadelphia July 1997, Barbara wrote three of five documents to accompany the Resolution Proposal to request the reconsideration of Nightingale's commemoration and for her name to be placed on the church calendar list of Lesser Feast and Fasts in the Book of Common Prayer. The official vote to accept Nightingale to the church calendar occurred in July 2000. The inaugural Florence Nightingale Commemorative Service was held on August 12, 2001, at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Barbara is a member of the American Nurses Association (1978 - 2005); the American Holistic Nurses' Association (1981 - 2005), where she served as South Central Regional Director, 1985-1989, on the Core Curriculum Task Force,1995-1996 and as Co-Chair AHNA Standards Committee - 1995-2000. She also maintains active membership in the American Association for the History of Nursing, the International Association for Human Caring, the American Academy of Nursing, the New Mexico Nurses Association, and Sigma Theta Tau, Beta-Beta Chapter. Her consulting work includes for Columbia University, NYC, for the new nurse practitioner tract in Integrative Therapies and Advanced Practice Nursing Education; for New York University School of Nursing, NYC Advisory Board, Advanced Practice Nursing Program, Health Resources Services Administration training grant (2000-2003) and for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Division of Nursing, as a Consultant for Nursing Emphasis for Doctoral Program in Nursing Grant; the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (1980-81 - Nursing Dilemmas on the Care of Hopelessly-Ill Patients with Brain Death; phase II of study - 1982 and as a consultant and lecturer for an HHS Grant — Humane Caregivers Seminar at the University of Texas Health Science Center in 1980.

 

 

ELEANOR KIBRICK, MSc, Program Director

Eleanor Kibrick, MSc, brings a wide variety of relevant experience to the development of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), as a teacher, keynote speaker, facilitator and workshop leader, and a conference and event designer and organizer, for the past 35 years. She has lived and worked around the world, across the United States and Canada, and in Europe, India, South East Asia and Japan. As an educator, Eleanor taught physiology to undergraduate and graduate nurses and other health professionals for many years and oversaw the development of educational curricula for children and adults at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. During her Toronto years, she also established and managed a drug crisis intervention center for youth and also trained hospital ER personnel in intervention techniques. From 1983-1984 she was part of a conference management team working in Brussels and then in India to produce the International Exposition on Rural Development (IERD) who’s theme was: "Sharing Approaches that Work." She and her team organized preliminary seminars in Brussels and Geneva and then worked in India for several months preparing for the event. Over 600 rural development grassroots innovators attended, in addition to representatives from major International organizations including The World Health Organization, UNESCO, and the World Bank. She also worked with the Directors of World Conference of Religion and Peace in India and Japan in planning major events for Nairobi in 1984 and New Delhi in 1988. Since 1995, Eleanor continues to play an active role on the organizing committee of the annual "Prayer Vigil for the Earth," now in its 13th year, convened at the base of the Washington Monument (1993-2000) and on the banks of the Potomac River (2001-2004). In late September 2001, the "Prayer Vigil for the Earth" was given permission, by the U.S. National Parks Service, to convene the first public event allowed on the Washington National Mall following the Pentagon bombing attack on September 11th.

Eleanor has much experience as a workshop leader and public speaker. She was an invited presenter at the 2003 Leadership Retreat for 200 senior managers and exemplary clinicians at Methodist Lebonheur Health Care System in Memphis, TN. In 2003, she also presented on the connections between mind/body research and the nursing shortage at the first Science of Whole Person Healing Conference in Bethesda, MD, and co-authored a related paper published in the conference proceedings. In 2004, she was featured at the annual meeting of the International Association for Human Caring in Montreal and at the annual conference of the American Rehabilitation Nurses in Atlanta. She was also a guest speaker at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Washington, DC for their employees’ health education program. In March, 2005, she organized a Women’s Health Workshop in Washington, DC, where Dr. Y.L. Ni, M.D. and Master Li, traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners were her co-presenters. In early April, 2005, Ms. Kibrick was the keynote speaker at the "Holistic Spring Renewal Conference: Experience the Power of Holistic Nursing", sponsored by the North Shore-Ling Island Jewish Health System. Later on in April, at the Whole Person Health Summit 2005 in Washington, DC, she presented: "Introducing the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH)" and "The Power of Words: Promoting a Culture of Caring." She has been a featured presenter at the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) annual conferences in Scottsdale in 2003 and 2004 and 2005 in Philadelphia with: "Communicating in Our Global Village: Cross-Cultural Expressions for Holistic Nursing Practice."

 

 

LOUISE C. SELANDERS, RN, EdD, Special Advisor. Nursing Education

Louise is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where she has served on faculty since 1975. She currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Board of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health. Louise is internationally recognized as a Nightingale historian and scholar and is co-author of Florence Nightingale Today: Healing,Leadership, Global Action. (2005, NursesBooks.org). With her colleagues, she initiated the Nightingale Commemorative Service at the National Cathedral, which continues as an international means of recognizing the profession and its members.

She earned her Education Doctorate in 1992 at Western Michigan University, where her dissertation, An Analysis of the utilization of power by Florence Nightingale 1856-1872 and her subsequent work reignited interest in Florence Nightingale for the American and international nursing community. Since her leading-edge research as the first contemporary Nightingale scholar in a generation, Louise has authored and co-authored more than twenty books, chapters and articles on Nightingale. These include Florence Nightingale: An environmental adaptation theory. (1993, Sage Publications); The feminism of Florence Nightingale: An analysis of her writings and actions, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Perspectives of Nursing Conference. (1997); Florence Nightingale: The evolution and social impact of feminist values in nursing and The power of environmental adaptation: Florence Nightingale’s original theory for nursing practice (1998), Journal of Holistic Nursing); Florence Nightingale: An environmental adaptation theory in Foundations of nursing theory (1995, Sage Publications); Florence Nightingale and the transvisionary Leadership Paradigm, in Nursing Leadership Forum (Fall, 2000); and in 2002, The dichotomy of the Nightingalean intent and the practice reality in the development of the feminist perspective in nursing, included in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, Portland, Maine.

She has presented numerous Nightingale keynote addresses, including Claiming nursing’s future through understanding the past: The vision of Florence Nightingale. Symposium Presentation at the International Council of Nurses Centennial Conference, London England, 1999; Nightingale scholars and their work. Presentation for the Florence Nightingale Museum Scholars Conference in conjunction with The International Council of Nurses Centennial Conference, London, England, 1999; Florence Nightingale and the transformactional leadership paradigm, at the Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Conference Scientific Sessions, San Diego, California, 1999; The development of leadership in modern nursing: Florence Nightingale as a foundational philosopher: Annual Florence Nightingale lecture, July 12, 2000, London, England; Nightingale and the novel, Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of Florence Nightingale Museum Friends, London, England, July 11, 2001; Florence Nightingale: Perseverance, power and possibilities, Primary speaker at the 1st Service of Commemoration and Celebration of Florence Nightingale and Nursing, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., August 12, 2001; Nursing as a Social Change Agent: The Leadership of Florence Nightingale, Sigma Theta Tau International biennial convention, Toronto, Canada, 2003; Will the real Florence Nightingale for the 21st Century Please Stand Up, Keynote Speaker, National Parish Nurses Association, Garden City, New York, 2004. Dr. Selanders has also presented twice, in collaboration with the Alex Attewell, the Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, Nursing and Social Change, at the International Conference for the Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Florence Nightingale and the Great Exhibitions: Health, registration, and the nursing profession. at the 15th International Research Congress in Dublin, Ireland, both in 2004.

In addition to all of these achievements, Dr. Selanders has inspired many nursing students to travel to Britain for in-depth understanding of Florence Nightingale. She has been a primary presenter and tour coordinator for Michigan State College of Nursing sponsored Alumni tours 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 to London, England. Their tour focus is nursing history and the Nightingalean contribution to modern nursing practice, education and research. She has also served as primary faculty for study abroad month-long offering for undergraduate students which comparatively explores nursing education, practice and policy development in the United Kingdom and the United States. Louise is past president of Alpha Psi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau and has been active in the organization at the international level.

 

 

WAYNE KINES, Director of Communication

Wayne Kines is co-founder of the World Media Institute (WMI), a network and fellowship of professional communicators devoted to the emergence of global citizenship. For three decades, he has published the World Media Institute's tabloid newspaper TRIBUTE in the Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, presenting complex issues on the global agenda in ways that can be understood by ordinary citizens. A featured TRIBUTE project occurred in 1986 to prepare the way for the international public hearings of the U.N. Commission on Environment and Development. To present the 1988 ‘Brundtland Report’ in follow-up, the World Media Institute published TRIBUTE to our COMMON FUTURE, a 64-page tabloid summary of this Report, circulated to 50,000 communicators throughout the world.

A similar tabloid, TRIBUTE: THE ROAD to RIO prepared journalists and others for the Earth Summit in 1992. WMI also published tabloid TRIBUTES to World Heritage, to Rural Development, to Women’s Development, to Global Economic Reform, and to Primary Health Care. In consultation with members of its global network, WMI is now undertaking — over the next decade— to prepare and publish a series of Special Editions of THE GLOBAL CITIZEN on subjects of urgent world concern.

Wayne has spent 50 years traveling, living and working around the world, as a journalist, editor, broadcaster, teacher, mass media strategist, conference organizer, health educator, and with the United Nations, as a communications director. With a journalism career beginning at the Winnipeg Free Press, Wayne later joined the Calgary Herald, the United Church Observer in Toronto, Canada Month and En Ville in Montreal and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg and Ottawa. He is co-founder and former board chairman of Westman Media Co-operative Ltd., the first citizen-owned, community-based cable television network in the world, now serving 35 communities of Western Manitoba in Canada.

He has organized media seminars and conferences throughout the world, and coordinated in 1972, the non-governmental component of the milestone U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and subsequent UNEP Governing Councils in Geneva and Nairobi. He helped to create the U.N. Centre for Economic and Social Information in New York and Geneva, to launch the U.N. tabloid DEVELOPMENT FORUM, from Geneva and was the first Director of Communication for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), headquartered in Nairobi. He has organized world media seminars on health, heritage, rural development, human settlements, and water and ocean pollution, including strategic seminars on "Action Plan for the Mediterranean," convened in Barcelona and Athens. In 1995, he served as Associate Director of the U.N. Global Conference on Family-Friendly Cities when 650 corporate and community leaders from 55 countries gathered in Salt Lake City. Thus, his GLOBAL FORUM was formed, in 1997, as a catalyst to encourage various communities of interest to coalesce around a theme by staging conferences and expositions to effect the "sharing of approaches that work" and to spread "best practices" as proven projects for world-wide replication.

Wayne worked for 30 years with Nightingale nurse Jane Stuart and shared in the development of her Kirathimo primary-health-care rural village campaign, which she began in Kenya and they jointly developed in Belize with support by Rotary International and the YM-YWCA. He has a daughter, five sons and eleven grandchildren. Wayne is a Charter member of the National Press Club of Ottawa, Canada, an active member of Toastmasters International, Rotary International, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, the Society for International Development and the Executive Council of the Media Club of Canada.
He is serving as interim Executive Director for the World Council of Indigenous Peoples during its present period of restructuring and continues as President of the World Media Institute. As Director of Communication, Wayne is also responsible for developing the communications and media strategy for the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH). He works from his home-base at Wild Goose Harbour, Ontario, Canada.

 

 

BILL ROLPH, MLS, Director, Information Management

Bill Rolph has spent 35 years managing, coordinating, and organizing information environments in business, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. He began his career as a librarian and after seven years became an independent consultant. For ten years beginning in 1984, he was Associate Director and Information Manager for Special Services Center, a consulting organization, based in Arlington, Virginia, where he continues to live. He has worked in Ontario, Canada, in the Greater Washington, DC area, and abroad in Belgium and India. He has participated in service projects in Europe and India with the Institute of Cultural Affairs International and The Vanguard for Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India). Some of his major clients include the Executive Office of the Mayor in Washington, DC; EDS, Government & Industry Group; U.S. Department of Environment; U.S. Department of Justice; and the Smithsonian Institution.

A specialist in organizing information environments, he has created and supervised an array of client information services in libraries and information centers, coordinated document life cycle management and knowledge management projects, and designed or initiated records management and archival programs. He has advised and consulted about strategic planning and customized retrieval systems, made presentations and conducted training sessions in organizations about using and developing information assets, and performed research for clients. He also planned and coordinated conferences and other events, including exhibit spaces and information marketplaces. He has authored more than 15 major reports and innumerable biographies, guides to information resources, and a variety of subject profiles.

He attended Wilmington College in Ohio, served in the military early in the Vietnam War era, and graduated from Indiana University with a Masters degree in Library and Information Science (MLA). He has continued his education through professionally accredited coursework and professional workshops and seminars. He has a long history of volunteer work with local and international organizations, emphasizing inter-racial and inter-faith relations, and local development. He has traveled in Canada, Europe, India, Japan, and South America.

 

 

 

BETSY E. LEHRFELD, JD, Legal Council

Betsy E. Lehrfeld is a partner in Swankin & Turner, a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in consumer, standards and health issues. She is a member of the bars of California, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court. Betsy represents nonprofit and business organizations, and provides advice on commercial, contract, corporate and tax exemption matters. She has appeared before the FDA and has served as general counsel to numerous clients including Consumers United Insurance Company and the Consumer Health Foundation. In the latter capacity, Betsy had major responsibility for the conversion of a 60-year old nonprofit health maintenance organization into a charitable grant-making community health foundation with over $36 million in assets.

Prior to law school, she had her own public relations business in San Francisco, California, working with The Louis Harris Organization (public opinion polling) and Clinton Reilly Enterprises (political consultants), as well as nonprofit organizations and businesses. She established and directed a West Coast office for the Council on Economic Priorities, a nationally known corporate social responsibility research group that publishes Shopping for a Better World.

Since 1990, Betsy has been Executive Director of the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization that conducts research, publishing and demonstration programs in food and health policy and sustainable agriculture, and she served as Executive Editor of its publishing activity, Potomac Valley Press. She participated, as a member of Potomac Partners, in the lobbying effort to pass the Organic Food Production Act of 1990. Betsy received a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University (1967) and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) (1977). She has been with Swankin & Turner since 1980.