Sixty-one percent of active members hold master’s and/or doctoral degrees 56% have a specialty certification 48% are clinicians 40% have more than 15 years of work experience 21% are administrators or supervisors, and 20% are educators or researchers. Membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students, who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, and to nurse leaders exhibiting exceptional achievements in nursing. Its 580 chapters are located on more than 700 college and university campuses in the United States and countries including Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, China ( Hong Kong), Eswatini, South Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. It is the second largest nursing organization in the world. More than 500,000 nurse scholars have been inducted into Sigma. By 2014 the society’s membership had grown to 130,000 active members in more than eighty-five countries and territories. Sigma’s Center for Nursing Scholarship was constructed on the IUPUI campus in 1989. Since that time the organization has awarded more than $100,000 annually for nursing research around the world. In 1936 the organization "funded the first recorded research grant" for nursing in the United States. The society's name is derived from the initials of three Greek words: storga, tharos, and tima, which mean "love," "courage," and "honor." IU's Alpha chapter was officially chartered on October 4, 1922, with the organization's first national conference held in 1929 in Indianapolis. The Founders' vision for the new honor society was to advance the nursing profession as a science, support nursing scholarship, and to recognize its leaders. They had the support of the Director of the Indiana University Training School for Nurses, Ethel Palmer Clarke (served 1915-1931), who is noted by the Society as being "instrumental" in their endeavor. In 1922 six Indiana University students at the Indiana University Training School for Nurses (the present-day IU School of Nursing) founded Sigma Theta Tau at their dormitory in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing ( ΣΘΤ) is the second-largest nursing organization in the world with approximately 135,000 active members. To support the learning, knowledge and professional development of nurses committed to making a difference in health worldwide International nursing organization Sigma Theta Tauĭeveloping nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhereĬonnected, empowered nurse leaders transforming global healthcare
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