9/18/25 Caring Conversation with Nurse Theorists Dr's Boykin and Schoenhofer 

Dr. Anne Boykin is Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic University where she was founding Dean of the Christine E Lynn College of Nursing for almost 30 years. She is Co-Director of the College’s Anne Boykin Institute for the Advancement of Caring in Nursing. This Institute provides global leadership for nursing education, practice and research grounded in caring; promotes the valuing of caring across disciplines; and supports the caring mission of the College. Dr. Boykin is recognized internationally and nationally for her scholarship on caring. She has co-authored and edited several books, book chapters and articles focused on caring, transforming healthcare, nursing as a discipline and story as a method for studying nursing. Dr. Boykin is retired and serves as a consultant on caring-based healthcare transformation.

Savina O’Bryan Schoenhofer completed bachelor’s degrees in Nursing and Psychology in 1972 at Wichita State University, where she also earned graduate degrees in nursing and counseling. She completed a PhD in educational foundations and administration at Kansas State University in 1983. In 1990 Schoenhofer cofounded Nightingale Songs, an early venue for communicating the beauty of nursing in poetry and prose. In addition to her work on caring, including coauthorship with Anne Boykin of Nursing As Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice (1993, 2001a), Schoenhofer co-authored books on nursing home administration and heathcare system transformation, and has written numerous articles on topics such as nursing values, primary care, nursing education, support, touch, mentoring and robots in nursing. Schoenhofer, who resides in Jackson, Mississippi, is retired from a 32-year teaching career, at universities including Wichita State, Florida Atlantic, University of Mississippi, Texas Tech and Alcorn State. Dr. Schoenhofer is committed to the continuing development and study of Nursing As Caring.