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PIONEERING IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING written by anita smith photography by rob culpepper
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Leadership and pioneering became a way of life for Juanzetta S. Flowers, DSN, RN, an inductee into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame and the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. One of Alabama’s first nurse practitioners, Flowers is a member of the UAB School of Nursing Board of Visitors (BOV), which currently is raising funds to endow a doctoral level scholarship. The BOV – a community-board vision of Dean Emeritus Rachel Z. Booth – is closely linked to Flowers, whom Booth enlisted to help make the BOV a reality. Flowers also worked with Booth in setting up the nursing school’s Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center on International Nursing. Ultimately earning three degrees from UAB’s nursing school plus a UAB counseling degree, Flowers was a nurse practitioner at UAB’s medical school and then an innovative faculty member at UAB’s nursing school. Her first UAB position was as the nurse who helped organize the first private outpatient clinic staffed by UAB physicians – the forerunner of The Kirklin Clinic. A tribute to now-retired emeritus faculty member Flowers came from Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Linda Moneyham, PhD, RN, FAAN. “Dr. Juanzetta Flowers represents our School’s history of generating quality leaders who impact our country and world. She exemplifies the type of leaders we want our school’s graduates to become.”