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Laila Abdullah, nurse manager
at Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, and
senior instructor at Aga Khan University School of Nursing,
published a research paper about unanticipated hospital admissions
after ambulatory surgery in the June 2005 issue of Journal
of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA). JPMA is one of
the few scientific journals in the country that publishes
original articles on clinical and basic research. |
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Linda Aiken, director
of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and
the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing and Professor
of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing,
has received the 2006 Research!America Raymond and Beverly
Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership. Aiken’s
research has contributed much to understanding the relationship
between nursing care and patient outcomes, helping to improve
the quality of nurses’ practice environments in hospitals
nationwide. |
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Rojann Alpers, associate professor
at Arizona State University College of Nursing, has been named
to lead the school’s newly created Office for International
Nursing and Healthcare. The program is designed to provide
nursing students with a real-life perspective of health-care
challenges, practices and needs throughout the world and to
attract international students who will return to their countries
to strengthen their national nursing education systems. |
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Barbara Aranda-Naranjo, the
Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values-Based
Health Care at Georgetown University’s School of Nursing
and Health Studies, collaborated with Georgetown faculty and
nursing students to obtain a $20,000 grant from AmeriCorps,
the Corporation for National and Community Service, to fund
Nurses for America. The first nurse-focused grant given by
AmeriCorps, it funds recruitment, training and placement of
nurses in underserved areas for a period of two years per
recruit. Nurse members who complete a one-year term of service
are eligible for education awards totaling $94,500. |
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Nurse historian Christine Ardalan
has authored Warm Hearts and Caring Hands: South Florida
Nursing from Frontier to Metropolis, 1880-2000. Touted
as the first historical account of the nursing profession
in South Florida, the book, published by Arva Parks &
Co., features the contributions of long-time nursing professionals,
local historians and academic nurse leaders throughout the
region. |
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Paul M. Arnstein, associate
professor at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing
and former president of the American Society for Pain Management
Nursing (ASPMN), was among the first nurses to be certified
as a pain management nurse by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center (ANCC). The first nurse-focused pain management certification
available in the United States, the program, which attracted
385 candidates, was developed jointly between ASPMN and ANCC. |
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Mary M. Aruda, assistant professor
at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, participated
in an objective review of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership
for Children Program. Created to promote child health by encouraging
communities to enhance prevention programs and make health
care more accessible to every child, the collaborative grant
program is funded and administered by the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration
in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics. |
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Cindy R. Balkstra, board certified
pulmonary critical nurse specialist at St. Joseph’s/Candler
in Savannah, Ga., is president-elect of the Georgia Nurses
Association. Her two-year term as president will begin in
two years. |
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Beth Barba, associate professor
in the School of Nursing at The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro; The following nurse educators was named a 2005-2006
AGHE Fellow in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education by the
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. |
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After serving the National League for Nursing
as president-elect for the past two years, Tony Bargagliotti
has assumed the organization’s presidency for a two-year
term, during which she will be on a leave of absence from
her position as dean of the Loewenberg School of Nursing at
the University of Memphis. In addition to Bargagliotti, the
following members of the Honor Society of Nursing were also
elected to office at the annual NLN Education Summit in Baltimore,
Md. M. Elaine Tagliareni, professor and Independence
Foundation chair at the Community College of Philadelphia,
was elected president for 2007-09. Cathleen Shultz,
dean of Harding University College of Nursing, was elected
to a three-year term as treasurer. Elected governors-at-large
for 2005-08 are: Marsha H. Adams, director
of the undergraduate program of the University of Alabama
Capstone College of Nursing; Patricia A. Castaldi,
director of the practical nursing program at Union County
College in Plainfield, N.J.; Linda S. Christensen,
dean of the nursing department at Clarkson College in Omaha,
Neb., and Brother Ignatius Perkins, vicar
provincial for administration and coordinator of health care
ethics programs at Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of
New York. |
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Seven alumni of the School of Nursing at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have been
inducted into the School of Nursing Alumni Association Hall
of Fame: Patricia Blair, Christell O. Bray, Ernestine
H. Cuellar, Mary Anne Hanley, Darlene (Cheyenne) Martin
and Rosalina Morales. The School of Nursing
Alumni Association Hall of Fame honors alumni who have made
significant contributions to nursing through commitment to
excellence in patient care, community service and nursing
leadership. Esperanza Villanueva Joyce, a
1975 graduate of the School of Nursing at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, received the school’s
Rebecca Sealy Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2006. The award
is presented annually to an alumnus who has made outstanding
and widely recognized contributions to nursing in a leadership
role. |
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Sandra Bodin, lead clinical
informatics analyst for St. Mary’s/Duluth Clinic Health
System in Duluth, Minn., is president-elect of the American
Nephrology Nurses’ Association for 2006-07. Bodin’s
responsibilities include serving on the association’s
national board of directors and as liaison to assigned committees.
Bodin is a resident of Superior, Wis. |
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The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Web site
received a Gold Award in the association/professional society
division of the 2005 World Wide Web Health Awards. The only
Gold Award winner in the miscellaneous/professional classification,
the ONS Web site was scored as “exceptional.”
Deborah Braccia is the Web site editor. |
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Virginia Burggraf, associate
professor and First Marcella J. Griggs Distinguished Professor
in Gerontological Nursing in the School of Nursing, Waldon
College of Health and Human Services at Radford University,
received the Geriatric Faculty Member Award from the John
A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, in
collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of
Nursing. The award is given to an individual faculty member
involved in the teaching and/or design of geriatric curriculum
or course content that demonstrates knowledge of geriatric
nursing, encourages students to pursue a career in caring
for older adults, to further their studies in geriatric nursing
and to seek certification as a gerontological nurse. |
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Funded by a $50,000 grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, Adjunct Associate Professor Deborah
Burton, Associate Professor Susan R. Moscato,
Dean and Associate Professor Joanne Warner,
all of the University of Portland School of Nursing, and Linda
Keith, nurse manager at Providence Health System
in Portland, are collaborating in a study to determine how
a mission and ethics-driven focus has transformed the health
care culture to improve the work environment for nurses. |
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations has named Darlene A. Christiansen
executive director of its Hospital Accreditation Program.
It is the Joint Commission’s largest accreditation program,
accrediting nearly 5,000 health care organizations that demonstrate
compliance with its national standards and performance measurement
expectations. |
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Susan Cooper, assistant dean
for practice at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
(VUSN) received the Louise Browning Political Nurse Award
from the Tennessee Nursing Association (TNA). The award is
given to a TNA member who demonstrates excellence in professional
and technical involvement in government affairs, promoting
nursing awareness and participation in policy development
and political action, educating nurses about legislative issues
and the political process, and guiding the policy development
process of the association. |
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Patricia Coyle-Rogers, assistant
professor and director of continuing education at Purdue University
School of Nursing, was elected chair of the Nursing Professional
Development Content Expert Panel for the American Nurses Credentialing
Center. |
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Babette Biesecker Cresswell
has joined the faculty of New York University College of Nursing
full-time as program coordinator for the Holistic Nurse Practitioner
Program—the first and only such program in the country—where
she will teach didactic and clinical courses. |
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Michael Criswell, clinical
assistant professor at Purdue University School of Nursing,
received the Purdue Nursing Student Council Excellence in
Teaching Award. |
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