Congratulations to the following School of Nursing Students, Faculty and Alumni
Congratulations to two of our alumni, MajorTeresa Ginn Paris and Major Deborah Jones. Both are graduates of the UTC Nursing program and career Air Force nurses. Major Jones will be promoted to Lt. Colonel at her hometown high school in Wartburg,Tennessee June 16th at 11:00 am. She was recently certified as a Nurse Practitioner by UTK and is working on her Phd.
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Congratulations to Catherine McElhinny who was recognized by Erlanger Health System for her courtesy, respect, caring and compassion with her patients. Read more...
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Professors Amber Roache and Lilly Fotiadis attended the 2011 Johnson and Johnson Promise for Nursing in Nashville, TN.
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Student Video from 2010 Jamaica Trip.
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Dr. Virginia Keatley, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, was the speaker for Memorial Health Care System's Certified Nurses Day, which recognizes all of their Board Certified Nurses. There are 96 Board Certified Nurses at Memorial Health Care System.
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Gloria Deml, BSN, Med, is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Nursing, and she has been selected to be on the planning committee for the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and National Nurses (AWHONN) for the upcoming state conference. This conference will be held in June 2010 at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Congratulations to Professor Deml! This is quite an honor.
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Dannielle Barr, BSN Graduate, has been recognized for academic excellence in a UTC athlete.
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Jennifer Stephens, 2009 Gateway Graduate, graduated Summa Cum Laude on August 9, 2009.
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Dr Barbara Norwood is the H. Clay Evans Professor. This professorship is given for faculty excellence in research. Dr Norwood’s program of research focuses on using simulation in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. She also serves as the Simulation Coordinator of the School of Nursing.
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Professor Scott Monterde is the Mary B Jackson Graduate Professor for recognition of his excellence in te
aching graduate-level courses. Professor Monterde is an outstanding example of a faculty who marries theory and scientific principles to actual clinical practice and issues in all of his lectures and, in his clinical practice when working one-on-one with nurse anesthesia students. He seeks out actual anesthetic cases and designs case study presentations into his lectures in not only various courses, but in clinical case conference as well. He spends many hours looking at current evidenced base literature relating to the case and brings the "real world" of practice into the classroom setting for some very lively and enlightening discussions with the students. Students have shared with me that there have been many nights, when they are on call and happen to go up to the nurse anesthesia lounge, they find Scott still working in his office on lectures or case study preparations.
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Dr. Martina Harris was selected as the Mary B. Jackson Undergraduate Professor in recognition of her excellence in teaching. Dr Harris’s approach to education is scholarly. She looks at her courses in the context of the level, and of the curriculum, and uses evidence for decision-making. Dr. Harris is always eager to explore innovations in teaching methodologies, but with a pilot test first, and then evaluation. She is never so attached to an idea that she cannot let go, i.e., she is willing to go where the evaluations take her. Since becoming coordinator of the clinical course, she has introduced much needed standardized procedures and documentation in evaluation and skills check-off. Her skills check-off procedure was adopted by the curriculum committee (and subsequently by faculty) for all clinical courses. As a level coordinator, she has been responsible for coordinating important changes that incorporate all courses, which strengthened the student experiences. Most importantly, Dr. Harris has a keen ability to connect with students. When teaching, she has excellent command of the content and the classroom is alive and actively engaged! By the end of the first week of a semester, she knows the names of, and something unique about, each student. In the clinical arena, students regularly report how much they “love clinical” with Dr. Harris. She is able to guide them gently into their first clinical experiences, but also pushes them beyond their “comfort zone.” Her ability to evaluate students in clinical has become refined over the last few years, and I would say her clinical judgment is one of the best in the School.”
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The College of Health Education & Professional Studies (CHEPS) presented the 2008-2009 Faculty Awards on April 16, 2009. Several School of Nursing faculty were honored:
Judith Buhrman, preceptor for the FNP concentration for the last 10 years and a graduate of the FNP program, received the CHEPS Outstanding Clinical/School Faculty Award. This award is given yearly to recognize a clinical/school faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to the education of students.
Professor Kelli Hand received the School of Nursing Faculty Award. Prof. Hand has been a lecturer in the School of Nursing for several years. She has been a very effective clinical faculty and has won the respect of the students. She is active in Zeta Alpha every year, with both Spring Conference and Induction, as well as chapter business. She has been the level 4 coordinator and co-chaired Curriculum Committee in 2008-2009. Prof. Hand also serves as a DREAMWork Mentor.
Dr. Linda Hill received the UTC/CHEPS Elizabeth Dalton Award. This award is given for teaching, advising, professionalism and dedication to students and nursing. Dr. Hill has received a HRSA grant over $900,000 to expand the nurse anesthesia program in Tupelo.
Dr. Kay Lindgren received the College of Health Education and Professional Studies Excellence in Grantsmanship. This award is given yearly to recognize a faculty member whose grantsmanship record is an asset to the College and to the University. Dr. Lindgren has received three major grants totaling over two and a half million dollars to support School of Nursing programs.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students assist Hurrican Gustav evacuees. More information here.
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This past spring semester, nursing student Kelly Fuller studied abroad in Cusco, Peru with the service corps ProPeru program. Kelly lived with a host family and, attended classes where faculty taught course content in Spanish. On the weekends, Kelly and the other volunteers in the ProPeru program assisted with community projects in impoverished outlying villages. Projects included reforestation, installing clean burning stoves, and health campaigns initiatives that included assisting with diagnostic tests, participating in women’s health assessment, and participating with the distributing of medical supplies. Kelly was able to visit other parts of the country: Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon rainforest. The ProPeru experience is one that Kelly would recommend to any student interested in international health and health issues.
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Drs. Norwood, Keatley, and Secrest presented papers at the 10th World Congress of the International Orem Society during the summer of 2008, held in Vancouver, British Columbia. This was a very rewarding experience as many of the attendees were scholars who had worked directly with Orem as she was developing her model. They, in turn, were very excited to see how we have used Orem to guide our curriculum development.
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Dr. Susan Davidson, Gateway Coordinator, presented a poster at the 19th International Nursing Research Congress: Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice in Singapore this past July, 2008. This congress is the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society annual research congress. The poster was entitled: "RN-BSN: Opening the Gateway" and displayed the data collected from the first year and beginning of the second year of this HRSA sponsored grant program. It was exciting to meet with nurses from all over the world and I even met with some I knew from the States. Singapore was very clean and the people were very friendly. Dr. Davidson says It was an exciting experience and one she will never forget!
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The UTC School of Nursing featured in The University of Tennessee Alumnus magazine:
http://alumnus.tennessee.edu/view/features/preparing-for-the-nursing-shortage/.
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Dr. Judy Wakim was honored for her service to the School of Nursing at a banquet hosted by the University.
Dr. Wakim retired from the School of Nursing in April 2008.
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Fifteen students and five faculty provided health services at a free clinic in Jamaica during the summer of 2007. To take a quick trip to Jamaica with the nursing students go to jamaicatrip!
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Dr. Christine B. Smith (MSN, 1987) is the Coordinator of the MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Concentration at the UTC School of Nursing. She was recently named 2007 Distinguished Alumna for GPS and given the Woman and Youth Award for the Boys and Girls Club of Chattanoog, which has only been received by one other female.
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Debbie Shepherd (BSN, 1980) is the Administrator for Erlanger North.
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Ashley Yates (BSN, 2006) helped organize the "Walk for Cammy's Cause" on September 2, 2006. According to Memorial Hospital, they raised $70,000 to help launch the non-profit Mary Cameron Robinson Foundation for the Prevention of Eating Disorders.
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Rachel (Harris) Norris, (BSN, 1994), has been promoted to Nurse Manager of the Heart Failure Management Unit (HFMU) at Erlanger Medical Center. Rachel is married with 2 children.
