ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Anne Boykin, Ph.D, is Dean and Professor of the College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. She is also Director of the Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring. This center is focused on humanizing care in the community through the integration of teaching, research, and service grounded in caring. Dr. Boykin is past President of the International Association for Human Caring, a member of several local boards, and is actively involved in various nursing organizations at the national, state, and local levels. She has published and consulted widely on caring in nursing. Currently, she and Dr. Schoenhofer are engaged in a two-year funded demonstration project. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the value of a model for health care delivery in an acute care setting that is intentionally grounded in Nursing as Caring.
Savina O. Schoenhofer, Ph.D, is Professor of Graduate Nursing at Alcorn State University in Natchez, Mississippi. Dr. Schoenhofer is co-founder of the nursing aesthetics publication, Nightingale Songs. Her research and publications are in the areas of everyday caring, outcomes of caring in nursing, nursing values, nursing home management, and affectional touch.