Okay, okay, I admit it: I am a nursey nerd. But I have to share with you this great opportunity for a free book! I am only partly into it but already learning so much about our history of nursing and research in the National Institute of Nursing Research's History Book.
Apparently, despite a presidential veto (Reagan!), the Center for Nursing Research, a part of the National Institute for Health, was created in 1985. It was Senator Orrin Hatch who helped our profession so much when he championed others to override President Reagan, "The notion that the $5 million for nursing research within NIH’s $5.5 billion budget was “too much,” Hatch said, was “preposterous. A proposal for nursing research to have one one-thousandth of the NIH budget is too much? My fellow Senators, don’t you believe it,” he admonished. “It is high time that nursing research took its rightful place in those NIH halls of ivy.” Most senators agreed. They voted to override the veto, 89 to 7"(NINR, 2012).
This NINR (as it is now an Institute and not a Center) has continued to support nursing research and has trained more scientists, as a percentage of its budget, than any other Institute (NINR, 2012). Its history book is now available for FREE download here: http://www.ninr.nih.gov/NewsAndInformation/NINRPublications/HistoryBook
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