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Patricia A. Tabloski,
associate professor at Boston College William F. Connell School
of Nursing, authored Gerontological Nursing, published
by Pearson Prentice Hall (2006). Tabloski was also recently
elected chair of the membership committee of the Gerontological
Society of America and named to a task force assembled by
the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing to review
and make recommendations governing the practice of nursing
in expanded roles that include nurse midwives, nurse practitioners,
psychiatric nurses, mental health clinical specialists and
nurse anesthetists. Massachusetts is one of several states
in which boards of registration in nursing and medicine jointly
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Hussein A. Tahan represented
Sigma Theta Tau International on a panel of experts formed
by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
to develop a list of nursing activity statements to be used
in a survey conducted by NCSBN in early 2006 to measure nurse
competencies. |
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Barbara M. Thorpe, a nurse
practitioner affiliated with New Mexico Gynecology Consultants
and Southwest Clinical Research, received the 2005 Excellence
in Education and Research Award from the New Mexico Center
for Nursing Excellence, a nonprofit organization that advocates
for nursing resources to meet the health care needs of residents
of New Mexico. The award is sponsored by LifeMasters Supported
SelfCare, an interactive disease-management company with a
facility in Albuquerque, N.M. |
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In recognition of her excellence in clinical
nursing practice, Amy Strauss Tranin, a clinical
nurse at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill in Kansas City,
Mo., and a consultant in cancer genetics in programs throughout
the United States, will present the 2006 Oncology Nursing
Society/Schering Plough Oncology Clinical Lecture at the 31st
annual congress of the Oncology Nursing Society in Boston
in May. |
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Judith A. Vessey, Leila Holden
Carroll Endowed Professor at Boston College William F. Connell
School of Nursing, received the Society of Pediatric Nurses’
2006 Excellence in Nursing Research Award. |
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Deborah Walker-McCall, director
of the Educational Opportunity Fund program at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, and director of the Rutgers
College of Nursing’s Minority Nurse Leadership Institute,
received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Mid-State
Black Nurses Association of New Jersey. |
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Barbra Mann Wall, assistant
professor at Purdue University School of Nursing and director
of the Center for Nursing History, Ethics and Human Rights,
authored Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and
the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925, Ohio State University
Press, 2005. |
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Carol Toussie Weingarten,
associate professor at Villanova University College of Nursing,
was elected to a two-year term on the Cabinet on Nursing Practice
and Professional Development for the Pennsylvania State Nurses
Association. |
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Sue Will was elected president
of the National Association of School Nurses for the 2005-07
term. |
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Danny G. Willis, assistant
professor at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing,
was awarded a 2005-06 winter-spring research expense grant
in the amount of $1,800. The internally awarded grants are
open to tenure and tenure-track faculty. |
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Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth,
professor in the College of Health and Human Services at the
University of North Carolina in Charlotte and brigadier general
in the U.S. Army Reserve, has been selected to present the
2006 ONS Foundation Mara Mogensen Flaherty Memorial Lectureship
at the Oncology Nursing Society 31st Annual Congress to be
held May 4–7 in Boston, Mass. Her lecture, titled “Life
after cancer: What does sexuality have to do with it?”
will address ways that cancer affects sexuality and how oncology
nurses can play a major role in helping patients adjust to
treatment-induced changes. |
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Kathy Wodicka, distance and
e-learning manager at the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma
Theta Tau International, received the Career Achievement Award
from Purdue University School of Nursing. |
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