About the Author

Geraldine McCarthy PhD MSN MEd DipN RNT RGN is founding Professor and Dean of the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing & Midwifery, which was established in University College Cork (UCC) in 1994. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD MBA RN FAAN FNAP is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997.