ALUMNI at a Glance
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’80s Ellarea (Elle) Farwell (BSN ’83) is attending Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla. where she is pursuing her master’s in Nursing Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Certification. She expects to graduate Dec. 2014. She was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Upsilon Omega Chapter in April 2013. For the past 19 years, she has worked at the Orange County jail in Corrections Nursing. She is married, and has five children and 18 grandchildren. Susan McLennon (BSN ’85) was promoted to associate professor of nursing with tenure at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is also the assistant chair for the department of science of nursing care at IU. Patricia Lafferty (BSN ’86, MSN ’97) earned her nursing PhD in spring 2014 from UCF after successfully defending her dissertation, “Factors Associated with Information Literacy Competencies of the Traditional Baccalaureate Nursing Student.”
’10s Amanda Cralley (BSN ’12) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient. Lisa D’Agostino (BSN ’13) had her undergraduate honors research “The Associations among Maternal Resiliency, Perceptions of Touch, and reports of Infant Touch” published in the University of Central Florida Undergraduate Research Journal.
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Jamie Lynn Eunice (BSN ’11) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient.
Teresa (Bucknam) Powshok (BSN ’93) worked in the health care industry for 12 years and now works as a land surveying manager. Married to her husband Drew, they have a 19-year-old son, AJ, and a 16-year-old daughter, Jackie.
Pamela Grellman (BSN ’11) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient.
’00s Pauline Dixon (BSN ’09) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient. Rebecca Ivatury (BSN ’04) served in the Air Force from 2005-9 as an Active Duty Officer and worked at Wilford Hall Medical Center as a trauma nurse. Rebecca also served in Balrad, Iraq and worked in a wartime military hospital in 2007. Following her active duty, Rebecca worked at the Brooke Army Medical Center as a research nurse performing research on Functional Outcomes of Wartime Vascular Injury. She completed a Master in Health Administration at Trinity University with a GPA of 3.83 while also a full-time mother and wife. Trecia D. Jones (MSN ’08) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient.
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Allison (Gallagher) Collings (BSN ’08) married fellow UCF Knight, Chris Collings (’06, ’10) on Aug. 2, 2014.
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Kristin O’Connor (BSN ’11) sang her way to the top 13 on the thirteenth season of American Idol. Leslie Parsons (BSN ’12) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient. Darin Principe (MSN ’13) was accepted for a Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Training program in Yakima, Wash. with the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. The residency is a 12-month program specifically for FNPs who are committed to developing careers as PCPs in community health centers and other safety net settings. The program structure includes precepted primary care sessions, specialty rotations, mentored independent clinics and didactic sessions. Amanda (Oyola) Tavares (BSN ’12) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient. Joanne L. Vano (BSN ’13) is a 2014 Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Award recipient. •