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Madeline Naegle,
professor at New York University College of Nursing, has been
awarded a Fulbright fellowship to the Sao Paolo University
School of Nursing in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, where she will
work on a mental health/substance abuse curriculum, participate
in seminars and workshops, and conduct faculty-development
and research-skills training. |
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Deena Nardi, professor of
nursing at the University of St. Francis College of Nursing
in Joliet, Ill., has been elected vice-chair of the Expert
Panel on Global Nursing and Health of the American Academy
of Nurses. |
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Mary Naylor, Marian S. Ware
Professor in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, is a co-director of the Interdisciplinary
Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI). The five-year,
$10 million program was recently launched by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to generate, disseminate and translate
research to improve the quality of care provided in hospitals.
Two-year grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded in July
2006 to support up to seven interdisciplinary research teams
as part of the program’s first round of funding.
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Patricia Neafsey, professor
at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing, has been
awarded an RO1 award in excess of $1 million dollars by the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The grant will
fund a study titled “Reducing adverse self-medication
behaviors in older adults with hypertension.” |
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Anne E. Norris, associate
professor at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing,
co-authored “Condom use of male, enlisted, deployed,
naval personnel with multiple partners” in Military
Medicine. |
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Julie Novak, professor of
nursing, head of Purdue University School of Nursing and associate
dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences,
received the 2005 Grassroots Health Policy Award at the annual
Dean’s Conference of the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing, held in Washington, D.C. |
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Nilda P. Peragallo, dean of
the University of Miami’s School of Nursing and Health
Studies, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health
and Human Services to serve on the National Advisory Council
to the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Peragallo will consult and provide advice to the NIH director,
with major responsibility to review and make recommendations
regarding grants for biomedical research and research training
activities to improve minority health. The term is for five
years. |
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Julia R. Plotnick, former
assistant surgeon general and chief nurse officer of the U.S.
Public Health Service, received a Diva Award from The Institute
for Nursing of the New Jersey State Nurses Association Foundation.
Plotnick is currently serving as a consultant to the Nursing
Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases Preparedness
and is a visiting faculty member at the College of Nursing
at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is a past
recipient of the Audrey Hepburn/Sigma Theta Tau International
Award. |
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Patricia L. Richard, associate
professor at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston,
has been appointed associate dean for education technology
at the school. |
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Hila Richardson, responsible
for the development and oversight of NYU College of Nursing’s
undergraduate program, continuing education offerings and
partnerships with community agencies for academic nursing
practices, has become associate dean of the school’s
undergraduate program. |
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Polly Royal, assistant professor
at Purdue University School of Nursing, received the Purdue
Nursing Student Council Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award. |
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Roberta “Jeanne” Ruiz,
associate professor at The University of Texas Medical Branch
School of Nursing at Galveston, has been appointed to the
school’s Will Dean Bivens Singleton Professorship. |
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Linda Sarna, professor at
the University of California, Los Angeles (Westwood) School
of Nursing, received the Excellence of Scholarship and Consistency
of Contributions to the Oncology Nursing Literature award
from the Oncology Nursing Society. This award, supported by
SuperGen, recognizes Sarna’s positive impact on the
oncology nursing profession through the use of written words
to share research findings, describe content basic to care
of patients with cancer, and support professional development
of colleagues. |
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The 2005 John F. Templeton Spirituality and
Medicine Award for Curriculum Development for Medical Schools
was awarded to The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
at Galveston. The four-year, $50,000 award will help fund
a spirituality course for UTMB medical, nursing and allied
health students and the collection of research data from students
about spiritual development and well-being. Kay Sandor,
associate professor in the UTMB School of Nursing, is a course
director for the interdisciplinary program. |
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Deborah Witt Sherman, associate
professor and program coordinator of the first nurse practitioner
palliative care master’s program at New York University
College of Nursing, is now directing the doctoral program
in nursing at NYU. |
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Maria Shirey, principal consultant,
Shirey & Associates, and adjunct associate professor,
leadership and management, at the University of Southern Indiana
in Evansville, has been selected to join the board of directors
of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Certification
Corporation. Her three-year term begins July 2006. |
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Jane C. Shivnan, coming from
roles as the John Hopkins Hospital Magnet coordinator and
assistant director of oncology nursing, is heading up the
Office of Global Nursing, a new joint initiative of the Johns
Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department
of Nursing. As a component of the Institute for Johns Hopkins
Nursing, the Office of Global Nursing has been created to
facilitate international education of nursing students, provide
support to global nursing research activities, encourage international
nursing practice projects and coordinate global nursing service
outreach practice. The program is intended to support and
expand School of Nursing collaborations in Switzerland, Lebanon,
Thailand, Sweden, South Africa, Turkey, Slovenia and China. |
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Lena Sorensen has been named
an assistant professor on the faculty of New York University
College of Nursing. She comes to NYU from a teaching career
that has spanned the University of Colorado; University of
Tromsø, Norway; University of Massachusetts; and Boston
University. She has also worked as a clinical psychiatric
nurse specialist at McLean Hospital in Boston and as a public
health nurse in several communities. |
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Marlene K. Strader, an independent
healthcare consultant and former field representative and
faculty member with the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), is the recipient of the
first annual Innovation in Education Award. The award, presented
by Courtemanche & Associates Healthcare Synergists during
the 2006 JCAHO Update Conference, recognizes excellence in
education and consultation regarding regulatory compliance
in healthcare. |
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Neville E. Strumpf, Edith
Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director of the Center
for Gerontologic Nursing Excellence, is the recipient of the
Claire M. Fagin Distinguished Researcher Award from the University
of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Now in the 25th year at
Penn Nursing, Strumpf has been the recipient of $12 million
dollars of federal and foundation grants to support research
in aging and geriatric education. |
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Shirley Szekeres has been
appointed dean of the School of Health and Human Services
at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y. |
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