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Judith Haber,
associate dean for graduate programs at New York University
College of Nursing and recently named Ursula Springer Professor
of Nursing Leadership, has been named Psychiatric Nurse of
the Year by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. The
same organization has presented her with the 2005-06 Excellence
in Research Award. The Nurse of the Year Award—bestowed
on Haber for an unprecedented second time—recognizes
lifetime achievement and leadership contributions to the psychiatric
nursing specialty. The Excellence in Research Award was given
for her book Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal
for Evidence-Based Practice, 6th Edition, which Haber
co-authored with Geri LoBiondo-Wood, associate
professor, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, School
of Nursing, Houston, Texas. |
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Marcia Hacker, assistant professor
of nursing at Barry University, in cooperation with Alzheimer’s
Community Care of West Palm Beach, is conducting research
on the outcomes of home-based care delivered by the program. |
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Doreen C. Harper, former dean
of the Graduate School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts
Worcester, is now dean of the School of Nursing at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham. |
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Joellen W. Hawkins, professor
at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, has
been chosen as the first nursing editor of Taber’s
Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, published by F.A. Davis.
Also, the Haverhill Community Violence Coalition presented
an award to the William F. Connell School of Nursing in appreciation
for Hawkins’ many years of commitment to improving the
lives of citizens in the community. |
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Barbara Hazard, dean and professor,
Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, participated
in “The Nursing Crisis,” an episode of the Massachusetts
School of Law Education Forum that was honored with the Silver
Davey Award. The Davey Awards, sponsored by an international
academy of visual arts, honor creative excellence of smaller
television production companies. |
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Elizabeth J. Holman, former
director of Arizona State University Community Health Services
Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.—the first nurse-managed
health center in the United States—received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Nursing Centers Consortium.
Holman directed the clinic from 1981 to 2003. |
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Marsha Jackson, a certified
nurse-midwife, fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives
and co-director of BirthCare & Women’s Health, an
Alexandria, Va., midwifery practice serving the Washington,
D.C. area, is featured in a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s
Anacostia Museum. In practice for 26 years, Jackson has attended
nearly 2,000 births and has been instrumental in keeping home
birth services with CNMs available to women throughout the
United States. |
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Barbara Johnston, professor
and associate dean for graduate programs at Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, was named a recipient
of the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award.
Winners receive a plaque and $10,000 in cash. Johnston is
also the winner of the 2005 School of Nursing Excellence in
Distance Education Award. |
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Lucille A. Joel, professor
at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, was elected president of the board of trustees
of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools.
Recently the fifth edition of Joel’s book, The Nursing
Experience: Trends, Challenges and Transitions, co-authored
with Lucie Young Kelly, past president of the Honor Society
of Nursing and professor emeritus, Columbia University School
of Public Health and Nursing, was released by McGraw-Hill. |
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An article about pain management written by
Dianne L. Josephson has been published as
a pamphlet for public education distribution throughout the
state of Texas. Titled “Pain Management: Questions to
Ask Your Doctor” (in Spanish titled “Manejando
Su Dolor: Preguntas Para Su Doctor”), the document is
available for downloading at www.wtxpec.org. |
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Mary Kay Kempker-VanDriel,
director of Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, was named
a 2005 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, one of 20 nurses selected nationwide.
As part of the three-year Fellowship, Kempker-VanDriel will
conduct research related to access to care. |
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Mireille Kingman, nurse consultant
in health and policy at International Council of Nurses has
authored Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global
Health Care Economy, published by Cornell University
Press (2006). |
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Ruth Kleinpell, associate
professor at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago,
has been elected to the editorial board of Critical Care
Medicine, the journal of the Society of Critical Care
Medicine. Kleinpell is the third nurse to be elected to the
board, a position traditionally reserved for physicians in
the society. |
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Rose Knapp, formerly a nurse
practitioner in the Emergency Department of Monmouth Medical
Center in Long Branch, N.J., and for many years a part-time
instructor in New York University’s former Division
of Nursing, is now a full-time faculty member at the school,
which was recently elevated to NYU College of Nursing and
partnership with the NYU College of Dentistry. |
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Gail Kwarciany, clinical educator
at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston,
is the 2006 recipient of the Pearl Moore Making a Difference
Award, given by the Oncology Nursing Society. In 2004, Kwarciany
was asked to develop a plan of action for the Texas Department
of Corrections inmates being treated for cancer at UTMB. Through
her efforts, an inpatient medical surgical unit was converted
into a medical oncology unit, able to provide the specialty
care required by this population. It is in the only inpatient
acute care correctional hospital in the United States located
on a major university medical campus. |
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