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Faculty on the Move News Highlights >>> Christina Amidei, a UCF nursing instructor and doctoral student, was inducted as a 2009 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)—the highest professional honor for the field of nursing. She joins six other UCF College of Nursing faculty members who are esteemed Academy Fellows, including: Drs. Karen Aroian, Angeline Bushy, Jacqueline Byers, Karen Dennis, Anne Norris and Mary Lou Sole. She also received the 2010 Nurse Leader Clinical Practice Award from the Florida Nurses Association. Dr. Diane Andrews, an assistant professor in UCF’s College of Nursing, was elected president of the Florida Medical Association Alliance and completed her one-year term in 2009. Dr. Christopher Blackwell, an assistant professor in UCF’s College of Nursing, is shaping the field of nursing by contributing to the professional standards of advanced practice. He is serving as an exam writer and content expert for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), specifically for the national certification exam for adult nurse practitioners. Although the appointment is renewable, his current fiveyear appointment ends in 2015. Dr. Blackwell has also been accepted as an academic panelist for the National Council for Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®). He was appointed to this position by the National League for Nursing and can be called upon to serve as an exam writer. Additionally, he continues to serve as an appointed member of the medical expert panel for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), representing the profession of nursing through public service announcements and other forms of communication outreach. He also works with GLMA’s mentorship program and assists beginning nurse scholars who share a similar research interest in the development of their professional program of research.

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Drs. Talbert, Wink, Chase and Leuner are working with UCF College of Medicine faculty and community partners on a federal grant from the Dept. of Health & Human Services to assist primary care providers to adopt electronic health records. Dr. Betsy Guimond, a UCF nursing instructor, received one of three Debra Spunt Research Mini Grants from the International Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning. The grant supported her dissertation, “Evaluation of a Simulation-Enhanced Obstetric Clinical Experience on Learning Outcomes for Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Transfer,” which she’ll present at the association’s national meeting in June, 2011. Dr. Guimond successfully defended her dissertation and earned her Ph.D. in nursing from UCF in December 2010. Dr. Linda Hennig, associate dean for undergraduate affairs for UCF’s College of Nursing, was named in 2009 one of “100 Great Nurses” in Florida by the Florida Nurses Association. Debra Hunt, a UCF nursing instructor and doctoral student, received the first Martha Manuel Emerson Investigator Award from the Lupus Foundation of Florida and a Community Action Award from the Florida Nurses Association. She has also been elected to serve as president of the Board of Directors of the South Lake Hospital Foundation. Previously, she served two terms on the South Lake Hospital District Board of Trustees. She has been recognized as an advocate for and volunteer with the South Lake Health Clinic, which provides free health care services to low-income, uninsured residents of south Lake County. Hunt has also been re-elected as second vice president of the Florida Nurses Association Board of Directors. Dr. Jean Leuner, dean of UCF’s College of Nursing, was invited to participate in national nursing accreditation training by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The training was held in June 2010 in Washington, D.C. She now joins three other UCF nursing faculty members (Drs. Susan Chase, Judy Ruland and Mary Lou Sole), who can be called upon to serve as on-site evalua-

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tors in the CCNE’s accreditation process of a nursing program. She was also selected to co-lead the Nursing Education Capacity Team for the state of Florida, one of 18 original teams selected nationally by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center to Champion Nursing in America to promote best practices and innovative strategies to expand nursing education capacity in the state. The Orlando Business Journal named her a 2010 “Women Who Mean Business” finalist and the Florida Nurses Association honored her in 2009 as one of the state’s “100 Great Nurses.” Dr. Leuner has also been elected to the Board of Trustees of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. Dr. Anne Norris, a UCF nursing professor, was nominated by her students and featured as a 2010 Notable Nurse in the October 2010 issue of Central Florida’s LIFESTYLE magazine. Susan Ricci, an instructor in UCF’s College of Nursing and coordinator of the college’s Concurrent A.S.N. to B.S.N. program with Seminole State College, was recognized by the Florida Nurses Association with a 2010 Nurse Educator in Undergraduate Nursing Award. Dr. Mary Lou Sole, a UCF nursing professor, was named the 2010 Distinguished Research Lecturer by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and presented her research in May 2010 at the National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in Washington, D.C. AACN established the Distinguished Research Lecturer Award in 1982 to honor nationally known nurses who make significant contributions to acute and critical care research. The AACN’s National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition represents the world’s largest educational conference and trade show for nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families. Dr. Sole was also honored by


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