Claire Muriel Fagin was an American nurse, educator, and academic.
21 Facts About Claire Fagin
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Claire Fagin was an early advocate of family-centered care, with major contributions to psychiatric nursing, nursing education and geriatric nursing.
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Claire Fagin's parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in Queens.
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Claire Fagin 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.
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Claire Fagin 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.
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Claire Fagin was the director of the graduate program in psychiatric nursing at New York University from 1965 to 1969.
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Claire Fagin left in 1977 to join the University of Pennsylvania as dean of the School of Nursing.
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At Penn, Claire Fagin developed the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League and a PhD program as well.
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Claire Fagin opened the first center for nursing research in the US in 1980.
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Claire Fagin 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.
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Claire 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.
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Claire Fagin was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Claire Fagin continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to teaching and research in 1994.
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Claire Fagin was a president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
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Claire Fagin served as president of the National League for Nursing and as an adviser to the World Health Organization.
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Claire 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.
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Claire 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.
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Claire Fagin was an Honorary Fellow of the UK Royal College of Nursing, was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2010 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.
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Claire Fagin was latterly emeritus on the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
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Claire Fagin married Samuel L Fagin, an engineer and mathematician, in 1952 and had two sons.
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Claire Fagin died on January 16,2024, in Manhattan, at age 97.