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{{Short description|American nurse, educator and academic (1926–2024)}}
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'''Claire Muriel Fagin''' [[American Academy of Nursing|FAAN]] ({{nee}} '''Mintzner'''; November 25, 1926 – January 16, 2024) was an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She was an early advocate of [[family-centered care]], with major contributions to psychiatric nursing, nursing education and geriatric care. Fagin was also one of the first woman to serve as president of an [[Ivy League]] university.
'''Claire Muriel Fagin''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[American Academy of Nursing|FAAN]]}} ({{nee|'''Mintzner'''}}; November 25, 1926 – January 16, 2024) was an American nurse, educator, and academic. She was an early advocate of [[family-centered care]], with major contributions to [[psychiatric nursing]], [[nursing education]] and [[geriatric nursing]]. Fagin was also one of the first women to serve as president of an [[Ivy League]] university.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Born in [[Manhattan]] on November 25, 1926, Fagin was the daughter of Mae and Harry Mintzer, immigrants to [[New York City]] from Poland and Russia.<ref name="nyt"/> Her parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in [[Queens]].<ref name=Fearless>{{cite news |last1=Manchester |first1=Lee |title=Fearless |url=http://wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/?p=1469 |accessdate=December 14, 2014 |work=Wagner Magazine |issue=Fall 2011 |publisher=[[Wagner College]]}}</ref> She elected to study nursing for a bachelor's degree in science at [[Wagner College]], and then earned a master's degree in nursing from [[Columbia University]] and a doctorate at [[New York University]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4PN4GnsrSgC | title=The international who's who 1991-92| isbn=9780946653706| date=1991-07-25| publisher=Europa Publications Limited}}</ref> Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children. She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals.<ref name=ANA>{{cite web|title=ANA'S 2010 Hall of Fame and Honorary Awards Program|url=https://www.nursingworld.org/ana/about-ana/history/hall-of-fame/2008-2010-inductees/|publisher=[[American Nurses Association]]|accessdate=December 14, 2014}}</ref>
Born in [[Manhattan]] on November 25, 1926, Fagin was the younger of two daughters of Mae and Harry Mintzer, immigrants to [[New York City]] from Poland and Russia.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="WaPoObit"/> Her parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in [[Queens]].<ref name=Fearless>{{cite news |last1=Manchester |first1=Lee |title=Fearless |url=http://wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/?p=1469 |accessdate=December 14, 2014 |work=Wagner Magazine |issue=Fall 2011 |publisher=[[Wagner College]]}}</ref> She elected to study nursing for a bachelor's degree in science at [[Wagner College]], earning her nursing degree in 1948, and then earned a master's degree in [[psychiatric nursing]] from [[Columbia University]] and a doctorate at [[New York University]].<ref name="nyt"/><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4PN4GnsrSgC | title=The international who's who 1991–92| isbn=9780946653706| date=July 25, 1991| publisher=Europa Publications Limited}}</ref> Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children. She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals and led to rule changes allowing 24-hour visits in pediatric wings.<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name=ANA>{{cite web|title=ANA'S 2010 Hall of Fame and Honorary Awards Program|url=https://www.nursingworld.org/ana/about-ana/history/hall-of-fame/2008-2010-inductees/|publisher=[[American Nurses Association]]|accessdate=December 14, 2014}}</ref>


When the [[National Institute of Mental Health]] established a [[clinical research]] facility in 1953, she became its first director of children's programs. She was the director of the graduate program in psychiatric nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name=PennObit/> From 1969 to 1977, she served as chair of the Department of Nursing at [[Lehman College]]. During that period, she developed a new baccalaureate nursing program that prepared nurses for primary care practice.<ref name=PennObit>{{cite web |url=https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/2453-claire-m-fagin-phd-rn-faan-former-dean-of-the |title=Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN, Former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Passes Away at Age 97 |website=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> She left in 1977 to join the [[University of Pennsylvania]] as dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|School of Nursing]]. At Penn, she developed the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League and a PhD program as well. She also opened the first center for [[nursing research]] in the U.S. in 1980.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name=PennObit/>
By the time Fagin earned her nursing degree, she was working at [[Seaview Hospital]], where she cared for children with [[tuberculosis]], developing a lifelong interest in the psychiatric problems of children and psychiatric nursing in general. After working at Seaview Hospital, she worked in the [[adolescent psychiatry]] unit at [[Bellevue Hospital]]. When the [[National Institute of Mental Health]] established a [[clinical research]] facility in 1953, she became its first director of children's programs at the [[National Institutes of Health Clinical Center]]. Fagin was the director of the graduate program in psychiatric nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name=PennObit/> From 1969 to 1977, she served as chair of the Department of Nursing at [[Lehman College]]. During that period, she developed a new baccalaureate nursing program that prepared nurses for primary care practice.<ref name=PennObit>{{cite web |url=https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/2453-claire-m-fagin-phd-rn-faan-former-dean-of-the |title=Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN, Former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Passes Away at Age 97 |website=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> She left in 1977 to join the [[University of Pennsylvania]] as dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|School of Nursing]]. At Penn, Fagin developed the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League and a PhD program as well. She also opened the first center for [[nursing research]] in the U.S. in 1980. She is credited with leading a transformation in [[nursing education]] by advocating that nurses should have a science-based education and graduate with bachelor's degrees.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name=PennObit/>


Fagin served as Dean from 1977 to 1991, when she left to do geriatric nursing research as a Scholar in Residence at the [[Institute of Medicine]], [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the [[University of California, San Francisco]].<ref name=hartford/>
Fagin served as dean from 1977 to 1991, when she left to do [[geriatric nursing]] research as a Scholar in Residence at the [[Institute of Medicine]], [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the [[University of California, San Francisco]].<ref name=hartford/>


In 1993 she was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania (from July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1994), becoming one of the first woman to serve in the capacity of a university president with an [[Ivy League]] university<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2013/september/claire-fagin/|title=Claire Fagin (M.A. '51)|website=Teachers College Columbia University}}</ref> (after [[Hanna Holborn Gray]], who served as [[List of presidents of Yale University|acting president of Yale University]] from 1977 to 1978<ref name="nyt"/>). She continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to the professoriate in 1994. In 2005 she completed five years as director of the "John A. Hartford Foundation Program: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity".<ref name=hartford>{{cite web|url=https://www.johnahartford.org/ar2013/Entrepreneurial_Partners_Fagen.html|title=Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN {{!}} Exemplifying a Passion for Geriatric Nursing |work=The John A. Hartford Foundation}}</ref> She was a past president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.<ref name=AJO>{{cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Bertram|title=Claire M. Fagin, Ph.D.: President: American Orthopsychiatric Association|journal=American Journal of Orthopsychiatry|date=April 1985|volume=55|issue=2|pages=164–165|doi=10.1111/j.1939-0025.1985.tb03429.x}}</ref> She was chairwoman of the advisory board that turned a $100 million grant from the [[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]] into the [[Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing]] at the [[University of California, Davis]].<ref name="nyt"/>
In 1993 she was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania (from July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1994), becoming one of the first women to serve in the capacity of a university president with an [[Ivy League]] university<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2013/september/claire-fagin/|title=Claire Fagin (M.A. '51)|website=Teachers College Columbia University}}</ref> (after [[Hanna Holborn Gray]], who served as [[List of presidents of Yale University|acting president of Yale University]] from 1977 to 1978<ref name="nyt"/>). She continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to teaching and research in 1994. She retired from teaching in 1996. In 2005 she completed five years as director of the "John A. Hartford Foundation Program: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity".<ref name=hartford>{{cite web |url=https://www.johnahartford.org/ar2013/Entrepreneurial_Partners_Fagen.html |title=Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN {{!}} Exemplifying a Passion for Geriatric Nursing |work=The John A. Hartford Foundation}}</ref><ref name="inq"/> She was a president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.<ref name=AJO>{{cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Bertram|title=Claire M. Fagin, Ph.D.: President: American Orthopsychiatric Association|journal=American Journal of Orthopsychiatry|date=April 1985|volume=55|issue=2|pages=164–165|doi=10.1111/j.1939-0025.1985.tb03429.x}}</ref> Fagin served as president of the [[National League for Nursing]] and as an adviser to the [[World Health Organization]].<ref name="WaPoObit"/> Fagin was chairwoman of the advisory board that turned a $100 million grant from the [[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]] into the [[Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing]] at the [[University of California, Davis]]. In 2022, she was the co-author of an analysis suggesting that the cause of burnout among health care workers during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] was inadequate hospital staffing.<ref name="nyt"/>


Fagin was Leadership Professor Emerita, Dean Emerita at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and received 15 honorary doctoral degrees as well as the Honorary Recognition Award of the [[American Nurses Association]].<ref name=upenn/> On November 30, 2006, the nursing education building at the University of Pennsylvania was renamed Claire M. Fagin Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v60/n27/buildingsforwomen.html|title=A Look at University of Pennsylvania Buildings Named for Women|work=University of Pennsylvania Almanac|date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>
She was Leadership Professor Emerita, Dean Emerita at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and received 15 honorary doctoral degrees as well as the Honorary Recognition Award of the [[American Nurses Association]].<ref name=upenn/> On November 30, 2006, the nursing education building at the University of Pennsylvania was renamed Claire M. Fagin Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v60/n27/buildingsforwomen.html|title=A Look at University of Pennsylvania Buildings Named for Women|work=University of Pennsylvania Almanac|date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>


Fagin was an Honorary Fellow of the UK [[Royal College of Nursing]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |title=Claire M Fagin RN PhD DNSc FAAN FRCN |accessdate=2011-08-15 |year=2002 |work=RCN Fellows |publisher= Royal College of Nursing |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904215902/http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |archivedate= 2008-09-04 }}</ref> was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2010<ref name="ANA" /><ref name=columbia/> and was a member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]], the [[American Academy of Nursing]], the Century Association and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. She was latterly emeritus on the Board of Trustees of the [[Visiting Nurse Service of New York]].<ref name=columbia>{{cite web|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/bigthinkers/segments/claire-fagin-/|title=Mini Moments With Big Thinkers {{!}} Claire Fagin|work=Columbia University}}</ref>
Fagin was an Honorary Fellow of the UK [[Royal College of Nursing]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |title=Claire M Fagin RN PhD DNSc FAAN FRCN |accessdate=August 15, 2011 |year=2002 |work=RCN Fellows |publisher= Royal College of Nursing |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904215902/http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |archivedate= September 4, 2008 }}</ref> was inducted into the [[American Nurses Association Hall of Fame]] in 2010<ref name="ANA" /><ref name=columbia/> and was a member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]], the [[American Academy of Nursing]], the Century Association and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. She was latterly emeritus on the Board of Trustees of the [[Visiting Nurse Service of New York]].<ref name=columbia>{{cite web|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/bigthinkers/segments/claire-fagin-/|title=Mini Moments With Big Thinkers {{!}} Claire Fagin|work=Columbia University}}</ref>


==Personal life and death==
==Personal life and death==
She married Samuel L. Fagin, an engineer and mathematician, in 1952 and had two sons.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Claire M. Fagin, Powerful Advocate for Nurses and Nursing, Dies at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/health/claire-m-fagin-dead.html|last=Dean|first=Cornelia|date=January 17, 2024|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref><ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=Claire Fagin, renowned nurse and researcher who led UPenn, dies at 97 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/18/claire-fagin-dead/ |access-date=22 January 2024 |work=Washington Post |date=January 19, 2024}}</ref> One of her children died of [[COVID-19]] in 2020, and her husband Samuel died in 2019.<ref name="inq" />
She married Samuel L. Fagin, an engineer and mathematician, in 1952 and had two sons.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Claire M. Fagin, Powerful Advocate for Nurses and Nursing, Dies at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/health/claire-m-fagin-dead.html|last=Dean|first=Cornelia|date=January 17, 2024|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref><ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=Claire Fagin, renowned nurse and researcher who led UPenn, dies at 97 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/18/claire-fagin-dead/ |access-date=January 22, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 19, 2024}}</ref> One of her children died of [[COVID-19]] in 2020, and her husband Samuel died in 2019.<ref name="inq" />


Claire Fagin died on January 16, 2024, in Manhattan, at the age of 97.<ref name="inq">{{cite news |last1=Snyder |first1=Susan |url=https://www.inquirer.com/education/claire-fagin-obituary-penn-school-of-nursing-dean-president-20240116.html |title=Claire M. Fagin, former interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, has died at 97 |work=https://www.inquirer.com |date=16 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mitovich |first1=Jared |title=Former Interim Penn President Claire Fagin dies at 97 |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/01/penn-claire-fagin-dies |access-date=16 January 2024 |publisher=The Daily Pennsylvanian |date=16 January 2024}}</ref><ref name=upenn>{{cite web |title=Statement on the passing of Claire M. Fagin |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/announcements/statement-passing-claire-m-fagin |website=Penn Today |access-date=16 January 2024 |date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
Claire Fagin died on January 16, 2024, in Manhattan, at age 97.<ref name="inq">{{cite news |last1=Snyder |first1=Susan |url=https://www.inquirer.com/education/claire-fagin-obituary-penn-school-of-nursing-dean-president-20240116.html |title=Claire M. Fagin, former interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, has died at 97 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=January 16, 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=upenn>{{cite web |title=Statement on the passing of Claire M. Fagin |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/announcements/statement-passing-claire-m-fagin |website=Penn Today |access-date=January 16, 2024 |date=January 16, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mitovich |first1=Jared |title=Former Interim Penn President Claire Fagin dies at 97 |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/01/penn-claire-fagin-dies |access-date=January 16, 2024 |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |date=January 16, 2024}}</ref>


==Selected Works==
==Selected works==
* {{cite book |last1=Fagin |first1=Claire M. |title=When Care Becomes a Burden: Diminishing Access to Adequate Nursing |date=2001 |publisher=Milbank Memorial Fund |isbn=978-1-887748-44-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5-zPQAACAAJ |language=en |ol=31523998M}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fagin |first1=Claire M. |title=When Care Becomes a Burden: Diminishing Access to Adequate Nursing |date=2001 |publisher=Milbank Memorial Fund |isbn=978-1-887748-44-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5-zPQAACAAJ |language=en |ol=31523998M}}
* {{cite book |last1=Baer |first1=Ellen Davidson |last2=Fagin |first2=Claire M. |last3=Gordon |first3=Suzanne |title=Abandonment of the Patient: The Impact of Profit-driven Health Care on the Public |date=1996 |publisher=Springer Publishing Company |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-8261-9470-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3J7uAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Baer |first1=Ellen Davidson |last2=Fagin |first2=Claire M. |last3=Gordon |first3=Suzanne |title=Abandonment of the Patient: The Impact of Profit-driven Health Care on the Public |date=1996 |publisher=Springer Publishing Company |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-8261-9470-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3J7uAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
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Claire Fagin
FAAN
Claire Fagin in 1993 after being named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania
Interim President of the University of Pennsylvania
In office
1993–1994
Preceded bySheldon Hackney
Succeeded byJudith Rodin
Dean of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania
In office
1977–1992
Preceded byDorothy Mereness
Succeeded byNorma Lang
Personal details
Born
Claire Muriel Mintzer

(1926-11-25)November 25, 1926
New York City, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 2024(2024-01-16) (aged 97)
New York City, U.S.
Spouse
Samuel Fagin
​
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(m. 1952; died 2019)​
Children2
Alma materColumbia University
New York University

Claire Muriel Fagin FAAN (née Mintzner; November 25, 1926 – January 16, 2024) was an American nurse, educator, and academic. She was an early advocate of family-centered care, with major contributions to psychiatric nursing, nursing education and geriatric nursing. Fagin was also one of the first women to serve as president of an Ivy League university.

Biography

Born in Manhattan on November 25, 1926, Fagin was the younger of two daughters of Mae and Harry Mintzer, immigrants to New York City from Poland and Russia.[1][2] Her parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in Queens.[3] She elected to study nursing for a bachelor's degree in science at Wagner College, earning her nursing degree in 1948, and then earned a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from Columbia University and a doctorate at New York University.[1][4] Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children. She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals and led to rule changes allowing 24-hour visits in pediatric wings.[2][5]

By the time Fagin earned her nursing degree, she was working at Seaview Hospital, where she cared for children with tuberculosis, developing a lifelong interest in the psychiatric problems of children and psychiatric nursing in general. After working at Seaview Hospital, she worked in the adolescent psychiatry unit at Bellevue Hospital. When the National Institute of Mental Health established a clinical research facility in 1953, she became its first director of children's programs at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Fagin was the director of the graduate program in psychiatric nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969.[1][2][6] From 1969 to 1977, she served as chair of the Department of Nursing at Lehman College. During that period, she developed a new baccalaureate nursing program that prepared nurses for primary care practice.[6] She left in 1977 to join the University of Pennsylvania as dean of the School of Nursing. At Penn, Fagin developed the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League and a PhD program as well. She also opened the first center for nursing research in the U.S. in 1980. She is credited with leading a transformation in nursing education by advocating that nurses should have a science-based education and graduate with bachelor's degrees.[1][2][6]

Fagin served as dean from 1977 to 1991, when she left to do geriatric nursing research as a Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the University of California, San Francisco.[7]

In 1993 she was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania (from July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1994), becoming one of the first women to serve in the capacity of a university president with an Ivy League university[8] (after Hanna Holborn Gray, who served as acting president of Yale University from 1977 to 1978[1]). She continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to teaching and research in 1994. She retired from teaching in 1996. In 2005 she completed five years as director of the "John A. Hartford Foundation Program: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity".[7][9] She was a president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.[10] Fagin served as president of the National League for Nursing and as an adviser to the World Health Organization.[2] Fagin was chairwoman of the advisory board that turned a $100 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation into the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. In 2022, she was the co-author of an analysis suggesting that the cause of burnout among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic was inadequate hospital staffing.[1]

She was Leadership Professor Emerita, Dean Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania and received 15 honorary doctoral degrees as well as the Honorary Recognition Award of the American Nurses Association.[11] On November 30, 2006, the nursing education building at the University of Pennsylvania was renamed Claire M. Fagin Hall.[12]

Fagin was an Honorary Fellow of the UK Royal College of Nursing,[13] was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2010[5][14] and was a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the Century Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was latterly emeritus on the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.[14]

Personal life and death

She married Samuel L. Fagin, an engineer and mathematician, in 1952 and had two sons.[1][2] One of her children died of COVID-19 in 2020, and her husband Samuel died in 2019.[9]

Claire Fagin died on January 16, 2024, in Manhattan, at age 97.[9][11][15]

Selected works

  • Fagin, Claire M. (2001). When Care Becomes a Burden: Diminishing Access to Adequate Nursing. Milbank Memorial Fund. ISBN 978-1-887748-44-5. OL 31523998M.
  • Baer, Ellen Davidson; Fagin, Claire M.; Gordon, Suzanne (1996). Abandonment of the Patient: The Impact of Profit-driven Health Care on the Public. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8261-9470-1.
  • Aiken, Linda H.; Fagin, Claire M. (1992). Charting Nursing's Future: Agenda for the 1990s. J.B. Lippincott Company. ISBN 978-0-397-54800-2.
  • Fagin, Claire M. (1990). Nursing leadership: global strategies. New York: National League for Nursing. ISBN 9780887374968. OL 8198312M.
  • Fagin, Claire (1988). "Claire Fagin". In Schorr, Thelma M.; Zimmerman, Anne (eds.). Making Choices, Taking Chances: Nurse Leaders Tell Their Stories. St. Louis, Missouri: The C. V. Mosby Company. ISBN 0801646111.: 94–104 
  • Fagin, Claire M. (1970). Family-centered Nursing in Community Psychiatry: Treatment in the Home. University of Michigan: F. A. Davis.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Dean, Cornelia (January 17, 2024). "Claire M. Fagin, Powerful Advocate for Nurses and Nursing, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Smith, Harrison (January 19, 2024). "Claire Fagin, renowned nurse and researcher who led UPenn, dies at 97". Washington Post. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  3. ^ Manchester, Lee. "Fearless". Wagner Magazine. No. Fall 2011. Wagner College. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ^ The international who's who 1991–92. Europa Publications Limited. July 25, 1991. ISBN 9780946653706.
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