Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was dean from 1982 through 1997. Dr. Fitzpatrick is an American Academy of Nursing Living Legend and served as that organization's president from 1997 to 1999. Widely published in nursing literature, she is editor of two other nursing journals: Applied Nursing Research and Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.