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Nightingale Institute for Health & the Environment                       

Eleanor A. Schuster, DNSc, RN       
Environmental Nurse Leader       
1931 - 2001
      

      
Eleanor Schuster & Hollie Shaner
Fall 2000     

Eleanor Schuster was a wise and wonderful teacher. She taught us about living life authentically, gracefully, joyfully and lovingly. She touched all of us eternally.

 

Education      Recent Publications
Personal Knowing of Eleanor Schuster

EDUCATION

St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing
Phoenix, Arizona
Nursing Diploma 1951
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Nursing BS 1957
University of California
San Francisco Medical Center
Nursing MS 1965
University of San California
San Francisco Medical Center
Nursing DNSc 1973
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Reflections to Environment as Client, Paper #5, Journal of Holistic Nursing, June, 1998. Invited critique.

Profiles of Nurse Healers, Chapter, Delmar Publishers, Albany, N.Y. 1997.

Environment. AHNA Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing, Chapter 20, Aspen, Gaithersberg, MD, 1997.

Discovering Common Ground: The Future of Health, Healing and Environment, Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly, May, 1997.



PERSONAL KNOWING OF ELEANOR SCHUSTER

Awards and Honors      Articles      Books      Book Reviews
Guest Editor      Manuscript Reviews      Manuscripts In Preparation



Awards and Honors

Sigma Xi Science Honor Society 1985
Certificate of Commendation Society of Lifelong Learning, FAU 1988
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Florida Atlantic University 1991 & 1997
Award for Excellence in Nursing Education National Coalliance for Teaching Excellence 1992
Sigma Theta Tau Iota Xi Chapter Leadership Award 1993
Holistic Nurse of the Year Award American Holistic Nurses' Association 1993
Presidential Merit Award Florida Atlantic University 1993
Invitation to Apply for Certification Status, Holistic Nursing American Holistic Nurses' Association 1997


Articles

Family Planning in the Curriculum, Nursing Outlook, March, 1967.

Nurse Studies Privacy, Nursing Research Report, American Nurses' Foundation, October, 1973.

Privacy and the Hospitalization Experience Communicating Nursing Research, Marjorie Batey (Ed.). Western Interstate Council of Higher Education, Boulder, Colorado, 1975.

Privacy and the Hospitalization Experience. Social Science and Medicine, May 1976.

Effects of Drugs on Human Sexuality, Fetal Development and the Nursing Infant, Pharmacology in Nursing, 13th Edition, C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1976 (Begersen, Betty S.).

Privacy, the Patient and Hospitalization, A Sociological Framework for Patient Care, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1978.

Nursing Practice, Sexuality and Altered Health States, Nursing Clinics of North America, September, 1982.

Sexuality and the Individual with Diabetes, Nursing Clinics of North America, September, 1982.

A Theory of Protection: Parents as Sex Educator, Advances In Nursing Science, April, 1985.

Earth Caring, Advances in Nursing Science, September, 1990.

Environment Needs Nurses Who Care, The American Nurse, April, 1992.

Aspects of Health & Environment: The FAU Campus Community, What We Need to Know and Do. Conference Proceedings, Florida Atlantic University, April 17, 1992.

Earth Dwelling, Holistic Nursing Practice Journal. July, 1992.

Greening the Curriculum, Feminist Process in Education. Journal of Nursing Education. October, 1993.

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Books

Schuster, Eleanor A. and Carolyn L. Brown, Eds. Exploring our Environmental Connections. National League for Nursing, New York, N.Y., 1994.



Book Reviews

Burns, K.R., Johnson, P.J., Health Assessment in Clinical Practice, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood, N.J., 1979.

Kolodny, R.C., Masters, W.H., Johnson, V.E., Biggs, M.A., Textbook of Human Sexuality for Nurses, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1979. Nursing Outlook, August, 1980.

Swinford, P.A., and Webster, I.A., Wellness: A Guide for Health Promotion for the Nursing Profession, Aspen Corporation, 1988.

Perrone, B., Stockel, H.H., Drueger, V., Medicine Women, Curanderas and Women Doctors, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1989.

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Guest Editor

Symposium on Human Sexuality, Nursing Clinics of North America, September, 1982.

Therapeutic Application of Energy Concepts, Journal of Holistic Nursing, March, 1991.


Manuscript Reviews

Journal of Professional Nursing, 1984-1986

Journal of Holistic Nursing (Editorial Board), 1990-present

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Manuscripts In Preparation

"Students' Perceptions of the Classroom as Sacred Space"

"Nurses' Perceptions of the Compassionate Use of their Hands"

"Working from the Inside Out: An Approach to Caring for Self"


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