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Dr. Prince Named Associate Dean of Nursing LCON is delighted to announce that Dr. Lola Prince has agreed to assume the duties of Associate Dean of Graduate Nursing Programs, effective May 1. Dr. Kay Ferrario has been mentoring Dr. Prince as her replacement throughout the spring semester. Ferrario will continue as a full-time professor in nursing.
LCON Highlights ALUMNA NURSE SHOWS “GEM-LIKE” QUALITIES Cecilia Pezdek ’96 was noted in NURSE.com magazine as a finalist for the 2014 Nursing Excellence GEM awards. Pezdek is an R.N. at Advocate Hospital. DR. DEENA NARDI PUBLISHED THROUGH TASK FORCE WORK The combined taskforce of the Expert Panel on Global Health and Nursing and the Transcultural Nursing Society’s “Guidelines for implementing culturally competent nursing care” has just been published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing., 25 (109), 109121. DOI: 10.1177/1043659614520998. As a member of the combined task force, Dr. Deena Nardi worked on this project for seven years. This is the first time that the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has endorsed guidelines for culturally competent nursing care for international use.
STUDENT NURSING ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES Michelle Siears, president; Kaylene Hackman, secretary and Amy Powell, publications officer, along with Kate Weigel, faculty advisor, attended the Student Nurses Association of Illinois (SNAI) Leadership Conference in March at Loyola University Chicago. Hackman will also be representing USF’s student nursing association as a member of the Board of Directors of SNAI. In addition, Weigel and Siears along with Amanda Buechel, vice president; John Kasper, SGA representative and Michael Susner, bylaws officer, attended the National Student Nurses Association 62nd Annual Convention in Nashville, Tenn. in April. In their spare time, the members of the SNA Board of Directors like to give back by doing service, including serving breakfast at Daybreak Shelter in Joliet. (See photo below. )
LCON Throwback Cheryl Brubaker, a faculty member in Albuquerque’s Family Nurse Practitioner program, is celebrating Albuquerque’s ten-year anniversary! Brubaker was a member of the first graduating class at that campus in 2004, and is now teaching in the program. Brubaker (far right) is pictured with her few classmates on graduation day in 2004, and even dug up her old student ID for kicks.
From left to right: SNA members Amanda Buechel, Amy Powell, Kaylene Hackman, Kelley Peterson and John Kasper served together at Joliet’s Daybreak Shelter this past spring.
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