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News Briefs

Pulse 2008

Twenty-two faculty members in the College of Nursing were honored April 2

Bruce Leonard is the College of Nursing’s ScholarTeacher for 2007-2008. The award

for their published works at the third annual Faculty Author Recognition recognizes faculty members who Awards at Laupus Library. integrate research and creative Works recognized included activity in classroom teaching. books, book chapters and peerreviewed journal articles published Annette Peery has between Sept. 1, 2006, and Dec. 31, been inducted into the 2007. A bibliography is available at inaugural ECU Servire Society, www.ecu.edu/laupuslibrary/far.cfm. which honors faculty, staff and Acting Dean of the College of students who volunteer 100 or Nursing, Dr. Sylvia Brown, who more hours of community service also published, recognized Martha Laupus Library bronze medallions were distributed to book authors at the each year. Alligood, Rebecca Benfield, Nellie third annual Faculty Author Recognition Awards.. Droes, Melydia Edge, Martha Mary Ann Rose and Engelke, Laura Gantt, Phyllis Dan Drake received Horns, Darlene Elizabeth Jesse, Bruce Leonard, Martha Libster, the Collaborative Research Award during Sharon Loury, Martha McAuliffe, Connie Mullinix, Janice Neil, the 17th annual Collaborative Nursing Research Day held Feb. Dorothy Rentschler, Mary Ann Rose, Sharon Sarvey, Melissa 29. The $1,000 award supports a research project between a nurse Schwartz, Linda Steele, James Steele and Nancy Stephenson. As faculty member and a Pitt County Memorial Hospital clinician book authors, Alligood and Neil received a medal named for the and is sponsored by the College of Nursing and University Health former dean of ECU’s medical school, William E. Laupus. Systems of Eastern Carolina. Rose is a professor of nursing and past president of the U.S. News & World Report ranked the National Association of Bariatric Nurses. Drake is a perioperative College of Nursing ninth in distance education and bariatric clinical nurse specialist at Pitt County Memorial graduate-level nursing programs earlier this year. Hospital and president of the National Association of Bariatric “This ranking certainly validates the College of Nursing’s Nurses. Rose and Drake and members of the Bariatric Nursing commitment to excellence in delivering nursing education in Consortium will survey nurses on risks inherent in caring for technologically advanced environments,” said Dr. Sylvia Brown, morbidly obese patients and ways to improve safety. dean of the College of Nursing. “One statistic that is not commuAlso, the Bariatric Nursing Consortium, which began in 2004 nicated in this ranking is the quality of education that our online as a collaborative effort between PCMH and the college, received learners receive. Last year, our advanced practice nursing options the American Nursing Credentialing Center Magnet Award for had 100 percent passage rates on national certification examina2007. PCMH is a Magnet hospital, making the consortium tions. This is proof that distance education is an effective way to eligible for the award. Nurse faculty members are Rose, Marie deliver course content, even highly technical material needed by Pokorny, Maura McAuliffe, Martha Engelke, Sharon Sarvey, advanced practice nurses.” Elaine Scott and Mel Swanson.

Mary Kirkpatrick, professor and international coordinator for the College of Nursing, taught four weeks at the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in Holland at Teipkyo University. She taught nursing, dental and business students from the United States, Spain and Hungary. ECU is one of 11 universities worldwide in partnership with Maastricht, which provides interdisciplinary students an opportunity to learn and travel in Europe while faculty members from participating universities teach there.

Other national awards: Martha Alligood and Frances Eason have been inducted into the National League for Nursing Academy of Nurse Educators. Dorothy Rentschler has been certified as a nurse educator by the National League for Nursing. Janet P. Moye has been selected a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow for a three-year fellowship through 2010. Maura S. McAuliffe was one of 13 members of the National Quality Forum Safe Practices Maintenance Committee to receive the prestigious Pete Conrad Patient Safety Excellence Award. ■


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