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| Events - Take Note! | ||||
| Click on the "Event Calendar" link above for a comprehensive list of upcoming School of Nursing events. | ||||
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October 14, 2005 - Nursing Alumni Reception at VNA Convention, Falls Church, Virginia. October 16, 2005 - "Come as You Go" Bodos brunch for School of Nursing recent graduates, on Sunday following the Florida State Game. Pavilion II Garden. Call Heather at (434) 982-0645 for details. October 21-23, 2005 - Family Weekend
November 2, 2005 - Zula Mae Baber Bice
Memorial Lecture at 12:30pm in Jordan Hall Auditorium. Janet Allan, dean and professor
at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, will speak on
"Making the Case for Prevention: Shifting the Focus from Screening
to Lifestyle Changes." |
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Reunion Year Alumni - Save the Dates! |
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| Your Input Matters - Web Surveys | ||||
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Won't you take a few minutes and give us some feedback? Alumni Survey - The
Nursing Alumni Association and School of Nursing Alumni Office want
to be sure we're meeting your needs. In 5-10 minutes you can
help us direct our programming efforts, give feedback on the
Virginia Legacy, and more. Parent Survey - We are early in the process of ensuring
the parents (and grandparents) of our students are getting the news
and information they want and need from us. We'd also like to
involve parents in the life of this school. If you have 5
minutes to spare, please give us some insight into your experience
as a parent. |
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| State of the School Address - August 2005 | ||||
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On August 29, Dean Jeanette Lancaster delivered the 2005 State of the School Address in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. Other features of this annual event included the introduction of new faculty and staff, updates on research and academic programs, and a financial report. A highlight was the presentation by Mark Stanis, Senior Project Manager for the School’s new Nursing Education Building, who unveiled drawings of the proposed design and explained the project’s concept and status. This year the event was capped off with a reception at Pavilion II to honor Doris Greiner who has stepped down as Associate Dean for Academic Programs. Listen to the "podcast"
of Dean Lancaster's address online. |
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| School of Nursing in the News | ||||
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BARBARA J. PARKER, a professor at the School of
Nursing, was cited in an article June 26, 2005 in the Salt Lake
Tribune headlined: U.VA., VCU STUDENTS GET INFORMATION U.VA. NURSING GRADUATE FINDS HE'S IN HIGH DEMAND PAINFUL JOURNEY ENDS IN U-VA. DIPLOMA |
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| What Can You Do About the Nursing Shortage? | ||||
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| Faculty Achievements | ||||
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Kathy Fletcher has been appointed by Governor Warner to serve a four-year term on the newly formed Virginia Board for Long Term Care Administrators. To see the other board members, visit www.governor.virginia.gov/Press_Policy/Releases/2005/Jul05/0722.htm. Dorothy Tullmann has been named a Scholar in the 2005 Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars Program by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, part of the New York University Division of Nursing. Selected for both her significant research in gerontologic nursing and for her strong leadership potential, she is one of eleven nurses selected from a national pool of outstanding candidates. Congratulations to Suzi Burns who was recently inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The FAANP program was established in 2000 to recognize nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through nurse practitioner clinical practice, research, education or policy. A limited number of nurse practitioners are selected for this highly coveted distinction each year. Congratulations to Jeanne Erickson, a single-course faculty member, who is in the distance learning Oncology Doctoral Program at the University of Utah where she was recently recognized with the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for 2005. She also received the National Research Service Award and an American Cancer Society Award. Gene Corbett, MD, associate professor of nursing and professor of medicine, was recognized with the All University Teaching Award at the Rotunda on April 28, 2005. Mikel Gray was appointed Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing. He has also been appointed to the Scope and Severity Panel for Urinary Incontinence for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service. On June 9, 2005 the Board of Visitors named three School of Nursing professors to endowed chairs. Arlene Keeling now holds the Centennial Distinguished Professorship; Beth Merwin now holds the Madge M. Jones Professorship; and Barbara Parker now holds the Theresa A. Thomas Professorship. Three faculty members are the recipients of the 2005 awards
sponsored by the Nursing Alumni Association. Cheryl
Bourguignon was selected for the 2005 Distinguished Professor
Award. Rebecca Harmon was selected for the 2005
Excellence in Teaching Award. And Arlene Keeling was
selected for the 2005 Faculty Leadership Award. |
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| Alumni Achievements & Resources | ||||
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Congratulations to Audrey Wright Snyder (BSN '89, MSN '91, ACNP '98, and PhD candidate) who was selected to receive the 2005 Alumni Scholarship sponsored by the Nursing Alumni Association. August 10, 2005 - Governor Warner appointed Sandra Whitley Ryals (BSN '64) as the new executive director of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation (VTSF). Prior to her appointment, Ryals served as chief deputy director at the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. In that role, she developed total quality improvement initiatives for the agency and directed agency legislation. During the National Week of the Nurse (May 2005), UVa's Professional Nursing Staff Organization honored three exceptional nurses for their work, two of them UVa alumnae. For her work with patients in the UVa Heart Center, Alice Carpenter (BSN ’89) received the 2005 Excellence in Clinical Practice award. Carpenter spends at least 90 percent of her work time in direct patient contact and, like all recipients, was nominated by a colleague at UVa. "None of us could be as successful as we are in our individual nursing careers at UVa if we were not also successful as a nursing care team," Carpenter said. As a nurse on a general medicine floor, Jenn Foronjy (BSN ’02) has shown deep compassion for her patients, and earned the 2005 Excellence in Caring Award as a result. Like Carpenter, Foronjy also spends at least 90 percent of her time in direct contact with patients. A 2004 graduate of the U.Va. nursing doctoral program and a board
member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal
Nurses, Barbara Moran, testified on Capitol Hill, urging Congress to
pass a Breastfeeding Promotion Act. Take the University with you on computers and
handhelds everywhere! Now, U.Va. screensavers and wallpaper
are available for you to download. This new version offers
backgrounds for hand-helds as well as Buddy Icons for Instant
Messaging:
http://www.virginia.edu/uvascreensaver/ |
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| Student Achievements | ||||
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Each year, in addition to the
need-based scholarship support
awarded to students using gifts made to the Nursing Annual Fund, the
Alumni Council also awards scholarships and a fellowship purely on
the basis of merit. The 2005-06 recipients of these highly
competitive awards are Sarah J. Creech, Roy Carpenter Beazley
Undergraduate Merit Award; Rachel M. Brown and Neli Z.
Ramirez, Second Degree Merit Awards; Patricia Cole Moss,
RN-BSN Merit Award; and Regina D. DeGennaro, Graduate Merit
Fellowship. |
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| Update on the New Nursing Education Building | ||||
| Plans for our new Nursing Education Building continue to move
steadily forward. Bowie Gridley Architects, the firm retained to
design and construct our building, has now finished exterior design
schematics, as well the interior programming plan. We now know not
only what our building will look like from the outside, but we also
know what will be housed on each of the building's four floors. On
September 16 the Board of Visitors approved the design of the new
building. Over the next few months, design work will continue on
interior spaces. We expect to break ground for the new building
sometime next year. In the meantime, we continue our efforts to raise funds from
nursing school alumni and friends for this important project. A
challenge grant of $2 million from the University matches new
private donations dollar-for-dollar and, when added to the $6
million provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia, enables us to move
forward with this project. Before groundbreaking, we hope to have
met the University challenge and raised enough money not only to
construct the new building, but also to complete the necessary
renovations of McLeod Hall. For more information, call David Black
at (434) 924-0138. |
Matt and Nancy Walker (BSN '83) of McLean, Virginia have joined many other alumni couples to support the construction of the new building. Read their story in the latest issue of PULSE, a publication of the Health System. |
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| Response to Hurricane Katrina | ||||
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GULF AREA GETS MEDICAL AID |
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| University News | ||||
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ACCESS UVA WORKS TO CREATE ECONOMICAL DIVERSITY
IN INCOMING CLASS Visit the University's Higher Education Restructuring website for news on the management agreement as well as to submit your questions as the institution moves forward. http://www.virginia.edu/restructuring/ University of Virginia President
John T. Casteen III issued a videotaped message in which he
discusses the importance of diversity in the University community.
RECTOR, VICE RECTOR ARE IN PLACE AT U.VA. |
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| Nursing Shortage in the News | ||||
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GRANT TO INCREASE NUMBER OF NURSING TEACHERS IS ANNOUNCED By Marek Fuchs of the New York Times/June 7, 2005 A nationwide shortage of experienced registered nurses has resulted in too few nursing instructors - and that, in turn, has left thousands of people who expressed interest in nursing careers unable to get their degrees, health care experts say. To address the training gap, federal officials announced on Monday the first of a series of grants intended to broaden the pool of health care instructors. The $1.1 million grant will be used to train new nursing instructors and mentors, who will then be available to teach more nurses. The grant, which was announced by the United States labor secretary, Elaine L. Chao, at a news conference at Pace University here, is the first infusion of more than $12 million earmarked for workforce training in the fields of health care and biotechnology, officials said. Representative Nita M. Lowey, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, who helped secure the grant, said the nursing shortage had become a chicken-and-egg problem. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/nyregion/07teach.html? |
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| Find your Friends at HoosOnline | ||||
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The Directory - a searchable directory of all U.Va. alumni. Real-time profile management. Includes phone numbers, addresses, and other information that you may want to share, such as U.Va. activities, affiliations, organizations, honors - even the dorm you lived in! Only that information that you choose will appear, your privacy is protected. E-Mail Forwarding Service - this is not an e-mail account, but a permanent forwarding address that lets you show your affinity for U.Va. and keep the same user name for years to come, wherever you use or purchase your e-mail service. Your new address will be "your name"@alumni.virginia.edu. University Career Assistance Network (UCAN) - do you need a mentor? Would you like to be a mentor? HoosOnline will connect you with this valuable network of U.Va. alumni. Find it on the Web at http://www.hoosonline.com |
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School of Nursing Homepage Nursing Alumni Association Homepage University of Virginia Homepage Make a Gift Questions or concerns? Send an e-mail to nursing-alumni@virginia.edu and we'll see that your question is forwarded to the appropriate office. Copyright 2005 The School of Nursing. All rights reserved. ### |
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