{"id":69573,"date":"2025-09-01T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=69573"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:52:11","slug":"golden-girls-of-nursing-utc-legends-reflect-on-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/golden-girls-of-nursing-utc-legends-reflect-on-a-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden girls of nursing: UTC legends reflect on a legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prior to her retirement from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga at the end of the 2024-25 academic year, the School of Nursing celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/service-awards-recognizes-242-faculty-and-staff-for-their-years-at-utc\/\"><strong>Dr. Cherry Guinn<\/strong><\/a>\u2014who spent 40 years on the UTC faculty\u2014at its April 2025 NightinGala event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As part of the NightinGala festivities, Guinn, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/golden-days-a-celebration-of-50-years-of-the-utc-nursing-program\/\"><strong>Professor Emeritus Martha Butterfield<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/44-years-later-barbara-norwood-retiring-named-newest-professor-emeritus\/\"><strong>Professor Emeritus Barbara Norwood<\/strong><\/a> sat down with the UTC video team to reminisce about the founding of the University\u2019s School of Nursing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UTC Nursing - Golden Girls\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1071263168?h=8ca98f3eea&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cWe started working on trying to get a program here at the University back in 1968, and it took a while of course, and Mary Jackson was hired as the first director and she came in in \u201973 and we hired Barb (Norwood) and then we started developing the curriculum and accepting our students for the first class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cI knew clinical and I knew it well and when they told me this is the way the curriculum was needed to go, makes sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cThe whole idea of having the bachelor\u2019s degree as the entry into the profession was a foreign idea in Tennessee, so we had a lot of people who were very skeptical and afraid of what was going to happen, so we had to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cherry Guinn:<\/strong> \u201cWe were the gateway for you to go into the profession, so we were very strict about what the students learned and how they learned it and how they did in clinical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cWe accepted a class of 60 in January and that 60 went through one course. They didn\u2019t take this course one semester; they went straight through. Back then, we had for them, we had what we call challenge exams and they took those challenge exams and if they passed the challenge exam, they got credit for that course. Quite frankly, very few passed. They thought they could just swing in and the fact that they had been doing med-surg for 10 years, that they could pass an OB test didn\u2019t really work so well for them. They persevered and stayed with us. They wanted that baccalaureate degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cI had a ceramic jar and that ceramic jar had on it \u2018Ashes of Problem Students.\u2019 And so when students would come in and they were talking about how fabulous they thought they were and trying to convince me of it, I could just take that little jar and just turn it so that they could see the label that said \u2018Ashes of Problem Students.\u2019 You would see them look at it and their eyes get a little bit big. They suddenly decided that maybe their issue wasn\u2019t quite as important as I thought it was and they would sing tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cI think seeing our first class graduate, and as we started the RN-to-BSN program and how many of the nurses in the community came and took part in the program and graduated from the program, I think that was a very special thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guinn:<\/strong> \u201cI think part of what I\u2019ve seen changed in my tenure here was simulation became a very real viable option to apply what you were learning in class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cI remember being told, not asked that, yes, you are going to go to Metro. There\u2019s nobody else in that whole building. But there was a hospital bed and a mannequin in it, and the mannequin couldn\u2019t do a whole lot, not much of anything. As a matter of fact, I would breathe for it. But that was the start of the simulation program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guinn:<\/strong> \u201cHere we would have this mannequin called whoever she was, and we would take it through every single clinical like you have in med-surg. That was the first course. Then you\u2019d go into OB and peds and then you go back to a med-surg and we had preceptorship and different things going on, so it became part. We learned how to be pretty good mannequins overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cThe concept of a safe hospital where the simulation is where things can go terribly wrong, you can let it come to its natural fruition without intervening and telling the student, \u2018Wait, stop. You can\u2019t do that.\u2019 But done right, you\u2019ll see the students have the same emotional response as a real-life situation if you do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guinn:<\/strong> \u201cBut you also are taking measures to work with a student when they go through all those emotions, too. You just don\u2019t say, \u2018OK, we\u2019re done.\u2019 You have to kind of debrief and work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cI remember back when we first started, it was very simple, the routine, and now we have moved more to the simulations and the things that the students are able to do in the labs that we used to have to do in the clinical area. I think they have a lot more confidence coming into the clinical area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m proud of where that has come from because I really had a lot of hesitation because I didn\u2019t know how to do that and nobody else did either, and there wasn\u2019t an instruction book. So it has really come a long, long way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cTo see what we started with Barbara and where it is now. It\u2019s just beyond my comprehension almost to see the explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cIt started what, in two rooms and a closet up in Race Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cWe were booted around all over campus. That\u2019s why the new building is so exciting. We have our own place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guinn:<\/strong> \u201cI want the students to be proud of where they went to school because they\u2019re part of that legacy now. UTC is rated like No. 1, and they live it out when they take their jobs and when they do their clinical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s also interesting to be a patient in a hospital and have a former student come in and see you and say they feel like they have to be on their toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norwood:<\/strong> \u201cI think I would say that if you\u2019re in it for the monetary reward, you need to consider something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfield:<\/strong> \u201cI think you\u2019d be the best you can. Be proud of where you\u2019ve come from. This is a great program and anybody who graduates so much should be proud and carry their head up high.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Learn more<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs\/admissions\/visit\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Visit UTC<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/health-education-and-professional-studies\/school-of-nursing?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=18358936761&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAo79GmwAzSWccTDP2Udf07Ga79Ye1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwmK_CBhCEARIsAMKwcD4aIQ4uy4c0M3POt_224hO-r_iLjx13rrY4oh2EV_3da0U1yeEvnv0aAlN9EALw_wcB\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">School of Nursing<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/apply\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">How to apply<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to NightinGala 2025, Dr. Cherry Guinn, Professor Emeritus Martha Butterfield and Professor Emeritus Barbara Norwood sat down with the UTC video team to reminisce about the founding of the University\u2019s School of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/golden-girls-of-nursing-utc-legends-reflect-on-a-legacy\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4936,70,123864,56,7712,52,83654,64],"tags":[83289,83601,124659,123828,122787,125790,123829],"class_list":{"0":"post-69573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-advancement-and-alumni","9":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","10":"category-faculty-and-staff","11":"category-graduate-school","12":"category-health-and-wellness","13":"category-news","14":"category-school-of-nursing","15":"tag-barbara-norwood","16":"tag-cherry-guinn","17":"tag-dr-cherry-guinn","18":"tag-leveraging-our-special-place-as-chattanoogas-university","19":"tag-martha-butterfield","20":"tag-nightingala","21":"tag-operating-with-excellence","22":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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