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              Carolina
Nursing
WINTER 2007
Nurse Practitioners
Teach by Example
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Carolina Nursing is published by The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Nursing for the
School’s alumni and friends.
Dean
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Contributing Writers
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Melissa LeVine, ’77
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Dear Alumni and Friends,
The School of Nursing’s Baccalaureate
Enrollment Expansion Plan enters its
second year in January, and I am pleased
to report that the program is going well.
Our enrollment numbers from the first
two admissions rounds this past January
and May indicate we are on track
to graduate up to 50 percent more
baccalaureate-educated nurses this year
than we did in 2002–2003.
Admitting students twice a year
continues the SON’s commitment to
combating the nursing shortage. But,
more importantly, it also makes us
accessible to more qualified applicants,
both undergraduate and second-career
students who can now choose the
application time that is most convenient
for them. Our flexibility to offer required
classes more than once a year also
benefits current students.
The admissions process continues to
be very competitive, including students
with excellent educational credentials
who have already made contributions
to their communities, locally, regionally
and globally. Along with more talented
students, we have also attracted many
more outstanding faculty members
anxious to teach energized and commit-ted
nurses-in-training. Your SON is
growing in all ways!
Many groups in the School con-tributed
to the program’s success, and the
faculty have worked tirelessly to create an
undergraduate curriculum that can run
seamlessly year-round. It’s quite a feat to
implement a new plan and have it unfurl
so well in its first year. Our faculty’s com-mitment
to the work required to increase
enrollments is a tremendous service.
Now that we have faced and met the
challenge of producing a larger number
of well educated nurses for the state of
North Carolina, another hurdle looms
on the horizon. We must ensure that
the SON can provide enough financial
assistance for students most in need.
Our School is known to be one of the
few nursing schools that provide a
superior education at an affordable price
—we must work to keep that perception
a reality.
As always, this academic year will be
an exciting one—stay tuned for new
developments.
Sincerely,
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
From the Dean
Your thoughts and opinions matter to us. With this issue of Carolina Nursing, we’re
devoting this space to ask you to tell us what you think about a current issue in the
nursing world. We’ll publish selected answers in our next issue.
Nursing leaders across the country are discussing whether nursing should develop a
residency program similar to the one for medical students. What’s your opinion?
Would this benefit nursing students? How and why?
Send your response to whitney_howell@unc.edu, and we’ll publish your
thoughts in the next Carolina Nursing.
Readers Respond
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 1
Contents WINTER 2007
2
“You Become a Safe
Place for Them”
SON Program Trains Nurse
Practitioners to Help Their Neighbors
6
Out of My Comfort Zone
and Into Nakuru Africa
SON Graduate Helps Treat Sick African
Adults and Children
9
Nurse Practitioner
Faculty Teach by Example
Ongoing Clinical Experience Enriches
Faculty Instruction, Inspires Students
12
SON Alumni Reunite
Class of 1957 50th Reunion
Celebration
16
Noteworthy Nurses
2007 Alumni Award Winners
18
Alumni Support
Generous Giving Pushes SON
Beyond Campaign Goal
Advancement 17
Briefs 22
Faculty Notes 26
Alumni Notes 28
Features
Departments Carolina Nursing
By Whitney L.J. Howell
When a mother brought her two
adolescent boys into the Child and Family
Center for Health in Durham, N.C., for
treatment, Cliff Thompson, RN, knew he
didn’t just have two patients. He had
three. While trying to hold her family
together, the mother was trapped in a
vicious cycle of domestic violence and
drug abuse.
The woman’s husband and boys’
father routinely used drugs and physically
abused his family. Over the next year,
Thompson helped her realize that she had
the strength to assume official control
of her family and become the head of
the household.
“I helped her reframe her life and
see what relationships were healthy and
which ones weren’t,” Thompson said.
“She was able to stand up to her
husband and has filed separation papers.
She and her sons have moved on to a
much healthier place.”
Thompson was able to make a
difference for this family and others
by being a student in the Nurses
Enhancing Mental Health Options for the
Underserved in North Carolina (NEMHO-UNC)
program at the UNC-Chapel Hill
School of Nursing (SON).
This program recruits and trains
students who are from either minority
or disadvantaged backgrounds to be
psychiatric and mental health clinical
nurse specialist/nurse practitioners in
their home communities. Thompson
will graduate in August 2008 with an
MSN degree and qualifications as both a
clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and a psy-chiatric-
mental health nurse practitioner
(PMH-NP) degree.
After completing the program,
Thompson, who is black, intends to
become a psychiatric therapist and, even-tually,
have his own practice. He hopes
that he and other nurses like him will add
to the quality and availability of mental
health services in North Carolina.
“With so many ongoing changes in
the state mental health system, NEMHO
graduates will prevent many people from
slipping through the cracks,” he said.
“It’s an amazing service we provide��
once you’ve developed a trust, people will
tell you things they���ve told no one else.
You become a safe place for them.”
Current State of Mental Health
Each year, North Carolina hospitalizes
1 million people for mental health
reasons. In addition, according to N.C.
Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) estimates, 322,000 non-hospitalized
citizens have a diagnosable
mental disorder that limits at least one
major life activity, and an additional
99,000 have a severe and persistent
mental illness that completely prevents
them from managing daily life. On top
of these numbers, more than 852,000
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“You become
a safe place
for them.”
SON Program Trains Nurse
Practitioners to Help Their Neighbors
citizens need help for substance abuse,
but in 2000, only 1 percent actually
received that aid.
To make mental health services more
accessible, widespread changes over the
past six years have radically changed how
state services are controlled. A 2001 law
switched the mental health system from
one directed by the public sector to one
managed by private companies. Now,
local governments monitor the companies
to ensure patients receive the help they
need. But, 15 percent of patients—those
who are poor but don’t qualify for
Medicaid or those with hard-to-treat
problems—are still being left behind.
According to DHHS data, along with
privately-managed services, there are 15
state facilities to assist adults who request
help, but only five facilities are psychiatric
hospitals. Of those, two hospitals,
Dorothea Dix in underserved Wake
County and John Umstead in Butner
County, will close in late 2007 or early
2008. A new facility, Central Regional
Psychiatric Hospital in Butner, will replace
these institutions, leaving Wake County
without a state-run mental health
hospital.
Once Wake County has no public
mental health inpatient institutions, nurse
practitioners will become a critical part of
psychiatric services there.
“There is a definite community role
for psychiatric nurse practitioners,” said
Margaret Raynor, BSN ’67, director of
medical education at Dix Hospital. “They
can see people as individuals, treat them
at home and have a better chance of
keeping them out of a facility and on
their medication.”
The state is also experiencing a decline
in the number of licensed psychiatrists
who work in communities. With hospitals
also closing, many people who need men-tal
health services aren’t getting them.
But that’s about to change, said
Michael Moseley, director of the N.C.
Division of Mental Health, Developmental
Disabilities and Substance Abuse. The
N.C. mental health system is restructuring
to bring more mental health services into
rural communities.
“We are shifting the system in terms
of how we support people with mental
health needs,” Moseley said. “We want
to take services to the people who,
historically, have not been served until
they were in a crisis.”
Where the SON Can Help
This is where NEMHO fits in. It’s a
bridge between these underserved
communities and the state department
of mental health, according to SON
professor Linda Beeber, PhD, RN, CS,
FAAN, who designed the program. Over
time, she hopes NEMHO will be integrat-ed
into the state mental health system.
“I envision that psychiatric-mental
health nurse practitioners will really take
the lead in helping build up capacity to
care for people with mental health
needs,” she said. “The state will still need
to care for those with the most severe
mental illnesses, and NEMHO graduates
can relieve the state’s burden by providing
consistent, high-quality care to those who
need help but who can also function
within the community.”
The three-year project supports both
Healthy People 2010, a national health
promotion and disease prevention
initiative, and the new state goal of bring-ing
mental health services to minority and
disadvantaged citizens who need them.
The Health Research and Services
Administration (HRSA) in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services funded the program with a
$669,647 grant from 2004–2007. A
continuation of the grant for $575,110,
received in July 2007, will bolster efforts
to recruit more qualified nurses. Faculty
member Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD,
APRN-BC, clinical associate professor
and coordinator of the MSN psychiatric-mental
health program, is the principal
investigator on this grant. The state
department of mental health is also a
stakeholder in the program, supplying
it with $160,000 of funding.
Currently, NEMHO has 17 students
from 15 counties surrounding Chapel Hill
and some from the western- and
eastern-most portions of North Carolina.
Approximately 50 percent of enrollees are
minority or disadvantaged students. The
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school is making a special effort to attract
students from diverse backgrounds
because it wants to extend psychiatric-mental
health expertise to qualified nurs-es
who would not otherwise enroll in a
UNC program for financial or logistical
reasons. Faculty actively recruit students
with the help of an advisory board, a
targeted recruitment plan and student
recruiters.
From the perspective of state mental
health officials, these recruitment efforts
are the first steps to enhancing and
changing the face of healthcare.
“Part of what we’re looking at in
the mental health system nationwide is
a workforce that is insufficient in
numbers,” said Michael Lancaster, MD,
chief of clinical policy for the N.C. Division
of Mental Health, Developmental
Disabilities and Substance Abuse.
“Graduates of the NEMHO program are
attractive and exciting because they
introduce a new type of clinical provider
that hasn’t been part of the workforce
before.”
Once several classes of NEMHO
students graduate, Lancaster said, the
state will feel the benefit. Individuals suf-fering
with mental illness who are treated
as outpatients will have increased access
to mental health assistance and the
support services they need. NEMHO
graduates will be in the unique position
to provide more extensive and consistent
care to this particular patient population
than hospitals can, he said.
As students graduate and begin their
own practices, they create compassionate
care environments as part of a healthcare
team. They properly implement advanced
nursing interventions, expertly dispense
psychotherapy and prescribe and manage
medications. According to the SON’s
Beeber, NEMHO students will treat more
than mental health conditions.
“The care these CNS/NPs provide is
not just related to mental health—
it’s about health in general,” she said.
“It’s treatment and help for mental illness
and for life. And, it’s not just about
the individual patient. It’s about the
community in which they live.”
That community could be a group
living facility, the patient’s co-workers, the
patient���s family and children or any group
he or she cares about. NEMHO graduates
are trained to help anyone associated
with the patient learn how to live with
the illness and help the patient be as
healthy as possible.
In order to do that, NEMHO students
go through extensive training, and
program coordinators have revamped the
traditional curriculum to allow students
to stay closer to their clients. Faculty are
now using a Contextually Enhanced
Learning (CEL) curriculum that combines
distance education, intensive residential
classes, partnerships with Area Health
Education Centers (AHECs) and a mental
health advisory board to train students.
Pat Hayes, BSN Class of ’67 and direc-tor
of nursing education at the Mountain
Area Health Education Center, said using
CEL will benefit areas that already have
critical shortages of mental health
providers.
“Throughout parts of North Carolina,
we are in a crisis without enough com-munity
services,” Hayes said. “NEMHO
students will be a great help because so
many of them are native to underserved
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“...it’s about entire health.
It’s treatment for mental
illness and for life.”
NEHMO-UNC Student Tamara Starr, NP-C, works
with patient files at her clinical rotation site.
communities and will stay here to provide
care.”
The grant provides most equipment
the students need to successfully
complete the program, including laptop
computers, Web cameras, software
and telephone/ cable connections.
Consequently, students only spend three
long days on campus each semester.
The rest of the time, they attend lectures
and participate in discussion groups via
the Internet.
Learning in the Community
To graduate, students must complete
between 500 hours and 900 hours of
clinical training at program-approved clini-cal
sites. NEMHO administrators chose
sites where clients of all ethnicities and
mental health needs seek assessment
and treatment. Preceptors monitor the
students’ progress, offer guidance and
prepare students to care for mentally-ill
adults, children and adolescents. In most
cases, students work at sites within one
to two hours distance from their homes.
Students conduct psychiatric intakes,
often assessing walk-in clients, determin-ing
what the problem might be and
deciding on the best treatment plan.
Working with these clients and their fami-lies
helps students hone their psychother-apy
and group therapy skills, as well as
become proficient in drug prescription
and management. If clients need daily
help, students decide on a community
support placement that will be the most
beneficial, and, on occasion, students
make referrals for primary care.
This clinical work isn’t just real-world
experience—it has theory and research
applications, as well, Beeber said.
“Students use what they’ve learned
hands-on to design what they envision as
their own dream mental health facility,”
she said. “They have to determine what’s
good and bad in the current system
and create something they think would
provide the best care.”
When presenting their dream facility,
students outline who the facility would
serve, what evidence-based services
would be appropriate and what strategies
would be in place to target and reach
underserved populations. The exercise
pushes students to see where they
can make improvements in the mental
health system, Beeber said.
NEMHO students and graduates
understand the importance of what
they’re studying and the commitment
they’re making to underserved
populations in need, Soltis-Jarrett said.
Even though many of them are already
working with psychiatric-mental health
patients, they realize they could do much
more with extensive training.
“Students recognize the huge
problem out there with mental health.
Many of them are already contributing
much-needed services, but they want
more education,” Soltis-Jarrett said.
“Working with the mental health patient
population without training is like hitting
a golf ball without taking lessons. You
can do it, but with lessons, your shot is
much better.”
Editor’s Note: We have a critical need
for scholarships to underwrite program
tuition. Call Norma Hawthorne @ 919-
966-4619 to discuss.
“YOU BECOME A SAFE PLACE FOR THEM”
ONE STUDENT’S
Perspective
Attending class and studying via her computer
has been an asset to Tamara Starr, NP-C, who is
a NEMHO student, as well as a mental health NP
with a community support agency, providing
assessment and medication management to the
underserved urban population in Charlotte, N.C.
She wanted to pursue additional education, but
leaving her patients wasn’t an option.
“Having a distance learning option definitely
makes NEMHO more doable,” said Starr, who is
in the first semester of the program. “Being able
to stay closer to my patients means I can fulfill
all of my clinic requirements each week.”
Before enrolling in NEMHO, Starr provided the
same services at a women’s prison in Texas, but
now, at her clinical site — a private psychiatric
practice — she works with patients who need
mental health services before they end up in the
criminal justice system. She said she gets great
joy and satisfaction from providing preventive
mental health assistance rather than solely pro-viding
aftercare.
After graduating, Starr intends to continue her
practice, treating underserved populations in
smaller counties that are unable to attract psy-chiatrists.
Like her fellow student, Thompson,
Starr believes the NEMHO program will pro-foundly
affect communities.
“As psychiatric-mental health NPs, we’ll be able
to cut back on the delinquency rate, the drop out
rate, drug abuse, legal troubles, the incidence of
broken families and the inability to live life to its
fullest,” she said. “We’ll be able to help people
move past bereavement and depression and help
communities as a whole to live happier and more
productive lives.”
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OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE
By Barbara Geddie, RN, MSN, CS
BSN Class of 1964
When my church announced it was
sponsoring a medical mission trip to
Nakuru, Kenya, I signed up to be one of
the medical personnel. We partnered with
Nakuru United Methodist Church. In col-laboration
with the Nakuru church’s pas-tor,
Rev. Josam, a pharmacist, and other
healthcare professionals, we provided
much needed healthcare to the people in
the area.
Light snow and ice glazed the roads in
February 2007, as the medical team head-ed
to the airport in Detroit to fly to
Nairobi, Africa. We would then go to
Nakuru the next day. Our
team leaders had been
planning every
last detail of this
project for more
than a year. There
were two teams—
the medical team and
the “Vision” team who
came five days later and
who would meet with officials to
plan future projects. The medical team
consisted of four nurses, one nurse practi-tioner,
two physicians, four support work-ers,
a dentist, dental assistant and dental
hygienist, a lab technician and two fourth-year
medical students from Carolina.
After we arrived, we were taken to
the clinic building that serves a community
of 480,000 people. Each month, the clinic
serves approximately 600 adults, in addi-tion
to 250 children who are immunized
for Hepatitis A and B, measles, polio,
and yellow fever. Rev. Josam started a
de-worming program this year and has
provided de-worming medication to more
than 20,000 children. His goal is to
de-worm 55,000 more children. Often,
these children have bowel obstructions.
By the time they travel 65 miles to the
nearest government hospital, they often
have a bucketful of worms removed!
Initially I was told I would assist a
pharmacist who was coming in, only to
discover I was the pharmacist! Fortunately,
Rev. Josam obtained the proper permits
from the government so our supplies were
not confiscated at the customs areas. The
pharmacy room had one window with
bars to prevent people from reaching or
climbing in. I spent two afternoons organ-izing
24 cases and crates of supplies and
medications, including some unfamiliar
medications seldom prescribed in the
United States. I grouped the medications
according to therapeutic drug categories
and then alphabetized each category.
On our first clinic day, I filled approxi-mately
1,000 prescriptions! A Kenyan doc-tor
joined us along with two Kenyan med-ical
officers. To prescribe, they would write
down the generic name of the medica-tions—
often different than the names
we knew—with no further instructions or
diagnosis. After brief conferences with
them, they wrote more specific orders
with a diagnosis, and I became familiar
with their orders and practices.
We developed a treatment sheet.
The front included triage information,
chief complaint, diagnosis and recom-mended
treatment information, and the
back listed pharmacy orders based on the
available medications. All patients receiv-ing
medication came to me after seeing
the doctors or nurse practitioner. I was
almost overwhelmed, both in trying to
figure out the medications and commu-nicate
dosing instructions either with my
very limited Swahili or sign language.
The second day I began prepackaging
the most prescribed medications, prepar-ing
dosage packs for the physicians to
give directly to the patients. This plan-ning
helped me manage special pharma-cy
needs more effectively. I also divided
up the intramuscular and intravenous
medications among the doctors and put
them in each examining room for ready
use. Those changes decongested the
pharmacy area and reduced the length
of time each patient had to wait.
Out of My Comfort Zone. . .
AND INTO NAKURU, KENYA
NAKURU, KENYA
Two children play outside a hut in Nakuru.
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During the seven clinic days, we had
between 1,500 and 1,800 patient visits.
An accurate count was nearly impossible
as many returned on subsequent days
for treatment of other problems. We
diagnosed and treated a plethora of
conditions, including worm-related prob-lems
(ascariasis, toxocariasis, trichariasis,
hookworms), dehydration of infants,
prevalence of typhoid fever and malaria,
parasitic infections, burns, HIV and respira-tory
infections. Multiple people were
referred for surgical procedures.
Interestingly, most of the patients wanted
to see the American medical team. Their
actions may have been because the
Kenyan doctor and two medical officers
usually prescribed based on patient report
rather than physical examination, as the
American team did. And the line of
patients never ended—many spent the
night on the ground, waiting to be seen
the next day.
We saw several other maladies. One
woman suffered head and facial burns
after fainting into a pot of hot water.
Worms were growing in another child’s
eyelid, and several other infants and
children were dehydrated.
We saw a three- or four-month old girl
A Kenyan girl sits on the
ground waiting her turn for
a vaccination.
TOP: Barbara Geddie (third from right in back row)
stands with the abandoned girls Rev. Josam Kariuki
and his wife Anne rescued and took into their home.
MIDDLE: Donated medications and saline solutions
Geddie used to set up the pharmacy. There were 24
crates of supplies.
BOTTOM: Abraham was abandoned after birth when
he was diagnosed as being HIV positive. He was taken
to the New Life Home, an infant orphanage that houses
more than 80 children, many of whom have AIDS. With
good nutrition and appropriate medication, Abraham
switched from HIV positive to HIV negative status.
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named Susan who had an axillary temper-ature
of 108.7! We attempted to admin-ister
a rehydration salt solution orally with
a syringe and bathe her down, but she
still convulsed for two hours. Although
her heart never stopped, we bagged her
to maintain her respirations. Our doctors
worked on her until the ambulance finally
arrived, and they went with her to the
nearest government hospital. Most of the
rural roads were dotted with potholes
with little to no paving, so the long ride to
the government hospital was difficult.
When they arrived at the emergency
room, the hospital had no oxygen or other
appropriate equipment, so the doctors
continued to bag the baby as they ran
four buildings away to the pediatric inten-sive
care area. There they saw five babies
hooked up to one bottle of saline in
piggy-back fashion. Eventually, the doctors
were able to get a line into our little
Susan. She was in a coma for several days.
However, when we left she was breathing
on her own, her eyes were open, and
she was moving around. The staff at the
hospital and people from the community
were amazed we had worked so hard for
one child. Hopefully Susan will make a full
recovery.
It was especially hard seeing mothers
pass their babies to strangers over the
fence just to make sure doctors saw the
infant, but it was equally hard reassimilat-ing
to American culture. The intensity of
our work got to all of us. The younger
medical team members often came to the
pharmacy for some words of encourage-ment
and stability or a hug, as they felt so
overwhelmed with the needs of the
people of this area. I maintained compo-sure
and reassured them until members of
the “Vision” team arrived. At that point, I
was almost “compassion-spent” and I felt
free to reach out to that team for the
assurance and comfort others had needed
from me.
Re-entry into our society brought
about a sense of personal disorientation.
The cultural change from poverty to
wealth was dramatic. We were all hungry
for our own families. Because so many
had needed my support and skills, both
as a nurse and as a psychiatric clinical
specialist, I found that I just wanted to
withdraw with family for a couple of
days to regroup and replenish.
While in Nakuru, I developed a
new sensitivity to the conspicuous
consumerism and wastefulness of our cul-ture.
I realized our “success” could not be
measured in the numbers we saw, but in
the hope we instilled. I experienced frus-tration
as I listened to travelers in our air-ports
complain about being delayed and
not having the food options they wanted.
It aggravated me when others became
upset about slow access to conveniences
the Kenyan people will never enjoy.
My personal and professional relation-ships
will be forever changed, and now I
will go about integrating my new experi-ences
with my old ones. I learned so
much from my fellow workers, from the
Kenyan people and about myself through
this mission trip. I want to be sure this
experience is not wasted and the lessons
are not forgotten.
I encourage each of you to consider
being a part of such an opportunity.
Our success will not be measured by the
number of patients we saw, diagnoses
we made, or treatment we provided, but
rather by the hope and compassion we
shared.
Read more about other SON international
efforts and find guidance on how to
volunteer, page 23.
���Our success will not be measured by the
number of patients we saw, diagnoses we
made, or treatment we provided, but rather
by the hope and compassion we shared.”
Geddie stands in the
doorway of the pharmacy,
holding an infant infected
with malaria.
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NP FACULTY TEACH BY EXAMPLE
LAURA NASIR: Laura Nasir’s day planner looks
like a rainbow—some-thing
important is written
in red, yellow, blue or green
on every page. But it’s the
green entries she prizes
above all others. Those
notations mark her time as
a family nurse practitioner (NP) with patients at
the Caswell County Health Department clinic in
Yanceyville, N.C.
“I always knew that I wanted to be a family
nurse practitioner, helping people in rural and
underserved populations,” said Nasir, MSN, RN,
FNP-C. “I find it intellectually stimulating, and I
feel as though I’m really helping people who
don’t often have access to good healthcare.”
Every month, Nasir, who is also a clinical
assistant professor at the School of Nursing,
spends between two and 10 days at the
Yanceyville clinic as the back-up NP to the clinic’s
director. In those nine-hour days, she is the only
NP on site, and she sees between 10 and 30
patients, ranging from well-child or well-woman
visits to chronic care patients to individuals
diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease.
During class time, Nasir peppers her lectures
with anecdotes about her patient interactions
during the week. The student response, she said,
has been enthusiastic, with many telling her she
has given them insight into the real life of a
nurse practitioner.
MAUREEN KELLY: Maureen Kelly, MS, RN,
CPNP, bookends her weeks
with tummy aches and
heartburn. Every Monday
and Friday, she treats
pediatric patients, up to
age 21, for a variety of
gastrointestinal maladies.
Mostly, Kelly sees young patients, between
birth and 5 years old. On any given day, she will
see children suffering from gastroesophageal
reflux, inflamed bowel disease or liver disease.
Often she brings undergraduate students into the
clinic to learn more about treating these types of
illnesses in younger patients.
Including students in her practice is part of
her other role as a School of Nursing faculty
member. Kelly, who is a clinical assistant profes-sor,
said being a practicing NP while teaching
students the diagnostic, decision-making and
primary care skills they need to be successful
requires careful balance.
“It’s a juggling act, but I have the beauty of
having two different things going on,” she said.
“I can switch back and forth and never get bored.
Plus, I have the opportunity to give students first-hand
experiences with patients who are similar
to the ones they may one day treat.”
JULEE WALDROP: Julee Waldrop, MS, RN,
FNP, PNP, spends half of
her professional time sur-rounded
by healthy cooing,
sleeping and crying new-borns.
She is the director
of the Normal Newborn
Nursery in the UNC
Children���s Hospital, where she not only treats
patients, but she also oversees medical interns
and students, as well as nurse practitioner
students.
“The nursery is a very fun place to work
because I get to help babies transition from
intrauterine life to their lives outside the womb,”
Waldrop said. “I also get to teach new parents
how to take care of their infants—my practice
is something I will never give up.”
For a full seven-day week each month,
Waldrop assesses how well newborns are
feeding, performs daily exams to monitor blood
sugar and temperature and watches for compli-cations.
She also teaches parents about safety
issues related to their babies.
When she isn’t caring for the hospital’s
smallest patients, Waldrop, a clinical associate
professor, teaches pediatric NP students in their
first clinical course. In addition, she is involved
with an online pediatric pharmacy course and
is working on an independent study trial of
holistic nursing and advanced practice.
Teach by Example
Nurse Practitioner Faculty
By Whitney L.J. Howell
The old adage “lead by example” easily translates to “teach
by example” at the School of Nursing (SON). Yes, students do
learn facts and nursing theory from textbooks, but they glean
some of the most important knowledge—how best to interact
with patients and to react to unanticipated situations — from
nurse practitioner faculty during lectures.
Currently, there are 10 practicing faculty who either bring
real-world healthcare experience to the classroom or take the
students to the patients. The practices span the gamut of health-care
specialties, and time with patients is something each faculty
member treasures. Without it, they said, they couldn’t effectively
teach SON students to be the best nurses possible.
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NP FACULTY TEACH BY EXAMPLE
CARRIE PALMER: Patients with chronic dis-ease
occupy most of the
American healthcare sys-tem,
and Carrie Palmer,
MSN, RN, ANP, CDE,
spends half of her profes-sional
time treating them.
Most of her patients have
diabetes, but she also sees those who take blood
thinners and others who need chronic pain
management.
“Whenever a patient comes in to see me, in
addition to providing care, there is an aspect of
social work to what I do,” Palmer said. “I try to
help them get quality medications and help them
figure out how to make healthcare affordable for
them.”
Palmer, who practices in UNC Hospital’s
Ambulatory Care Center general internal medi-cine
clinic, sees patients of all ages, with the
majority between ages 50 and 60. Palmer mostly
sees Medicare patients, many of whom are also
indigent. No matter what their life circumstance,
Palmer said she views all patients as individuals
with responsibilities and valid healthcare
concerns.
It’s that perspective on providing care that
Palmer tries to impart to her students in the
classroom. As a clinical instructor in the School
of Nursing, she shares her clinical experiences,
she said, because she wants her students to be
close enough to patient care to really understand
what happens.
TOM BUSH: Every Monday and Tuesday after-noon,
Tom Bush, MSN, RN,
FNP-C, can be found at
UNC Hospital’s Ambulatory
Care Center, twisting
wrists and bending knees.
It’s all done to alleviate
pain—he is an orthopedic
NP who works with both pediatric and adult
patients. He also sees patients on Wednesday
and Thursday mornings, totaling up to 60 visits
per week.
It’s a heavy workload that never gets boring,
Bush said, because he can walk from a patient
who has an elbow injury to one who is experi-encing
foot pain to one with a neuromuscular
disorder.
“My days are never repetitious, and main-taining
a clinical practice gives me a great bal-ance
in my professional life,” said Bush, who
also has a joint appointment as clinical assistant
professor in both the School of Nursing and
Carolina’s School of Medicine. “My practice
informs my teaching, just as my teaching informs
my practice.”
Bush ameliorates the majority of his
patients’ ailments, sending roughly 10 percent to
an orthopedic surgeon.
Residents and students rotate through his
practice to gain hands-on experience in treating
musculoskeletal pain. In addition, Bush directs
the only orthopedic nurse practitioner fellowship
in the country. The one-year program focuses on
sports medicine and primary care orthopedics.
WANDA WAZENEGGER: Almost every day,
Wanda Wazenegger, MSN,
RN, FNP, travels an hour
and a half on the highway
to fulfill her two profes-sional
desires — her devo-tion
to teaching at the
School of Nursing and her
love of treating patients in the gastrointestinal
clinic at Mid Carolina Gastroenterology
Associates, P.A., in Sanford, N.C.
Wazenegger sees adult patients with med-ical
ailments ranging from difficulty swallowing
to heartburn to rectal bleeding.
“With gastrointestinal patients, you really
are treating the beginning and end of the human
system,” she said. “My patients are often wor-ried
about their problems, and I explain what’s
going on at an easy-to-understand level. It also
helps to have a sense of humor in this specialty,
as it puts patients at ease.”
Working with patients and treating problems
that can cause great discomfort and affect
everyday living helps Wazenegger, a clinical
instructor, teach students to look at each patient
as a distinct individual.
“If you see a needy spot and can help
someone, do it politely and with respect. You
may never know how much your help has been
appreciated,” Wazenegger said. “I tell my
students, if you can solve just one problem
every day, then you have not lived in vain.”
REGINA MCCARTHY: Women’s health isn’t
just about a yearly exam
for Regina McCarthy, MS,
CNM, CPNP—it’s about
looking at the whole
woman and helping her
achieve her highest level of
health. As a certified nurse
midwife in the UNC Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology at UNC North, she treats women
every Thursday. She also occasionally sees
patients at the UNC Women’s Hospital.
“I find my practice very satisfying as it is a
vital complement to my role as a faculty member,”
said McCarthy, who is also a clinical assistant
professor in the School of Nursing. “I love my
patients, and my primary goal is to empower
women by helping them find their best physical,
emotional and social health for their stage in life.”
While she no longer delivers babies, she does
provide prenatal and postpartum care for obstet-rics
patients. She also sees women of all ages for
annual exams and more specific problems, includ-ing
hormonal transitions and contraception.
Additionally, she is the attending NP one weekend
a month in the Normal Newborn Nursery at North
Carolina Children’s Hospital, educating medical
students and residents who rotate there.
McCarthy said her practice keeps her updat-ed
on the newest and best approaches to clinical
care, helping her maintain her position as a solid
role model for students.
VICTORIA SOLTIS-JARRETT: Victoria Soltis-
Jarrett, PhD, APRN-BC,
PMH-NP, has two profes-sional
homes—the School
of Nursing and her psychi-atric
practice in Winston-
Salem, N.C. Every week,
she spends one to two
days, and even some weekends, seeing patients
who suffer from some form of mental illness.
She specializes in helping women with the
most severe forms of mental illness, including
treatment-resistant mood disorders, personality
disorders, life-long depression and somatoform
disorders—disorders for which physical symp-toms
seem unfounded. On occasion, she takes
pro bono clients who have no insurance and
are unable to pay.
“I take care of the invisibles,” said Soltis-
Jarrett, who is also a clinical associate professor
at the SON. “If I don’t treat them, they will likely
go without the counseling and medications they
need to be healthy.”
In addition to her practice, Soltis-Jarrett
coordinates the SON’s master’s level mental
health program. She also teaches assessment,
family therapy and community mental health.
And, her practice time enhances all of her
teaching.
“You can’t teach without drawing from your
own practice,” she said. “You can’t just talk
about theory.”
DIANE BERRY: One day a week, Diane Berry,
PhD, CANP, works in the
fast-paced environment
of the North Carolina
Memorial Hospital emer-gency
department. On any
given day, she sees
patients over age 13
who have any number of urgent medical needs.
“The emergency room is usually very busy”
said Berry, who is also a SON assistant professor
and director of Outreach and Dissemination for
the Center for Innovation in Health Disparities
Research.
Berry’s practice centers on minor trauma
and includes anything from bicycle and mild
car accidents, kidney stones, women's issues,
orthopedics needs, psychiatric concerns and
minor surgical procedures. Treating these various
minor medical and surgical problems helps keep
her evidence-based practice current, she said,
adding that she learns something new everyday.
When Berry is not working with the emer-gency
room staff, which includes several recent
School of Nursing NP graduates, she teaches the
capstone course on the complex management of
patients for adult nurse practitioner students.
Whenever an apropos moment arises, she said
she injects one of her practice-related experi-ences
into the classroom discussion.
“I find that these examples really help
students link what they are learning in the
classroom with real practice,” she said.
ANN JESSUP: Ann Jessup, PhD, RN, CFNP,
started her clinical nurse
practitioner career working
with children. Now, she
works specifically with
those whose bones break
too easily.
Once a week, Jessup
joins a pediatric endocrinologist, seeing children
who have osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic
disorder that causes a defect in the collagen
in bones, making them easily susceptible to
fracture. Although it is difficult to work with
children who have a debilitating disease, she
said her practice is rewarding.
“I get satisfaction working with patients and
their families,” Jessup said. “It’s rewarding to
know that I’ve helped them and their parents
through a difficult time.”
Weekly, Jessup may work in the clinic,
treating children for regular visits, or she may
visit the hospital for a consult while they receive
an intravenous treatment of pamidronate, a drug
that reduces bone deterioration.
After a hiatus to earn her doctorate, Jessup
began this clinical practice, allowing her to both
see patients and teach.
“As a clinical faculty member, it’s important
to keep up your own skills,” she said. “I don’t
ever want to lose the appreciation for how
practitioners and clinics work with parents and
children, and I value the fact that my practice
gives me extra experience to offer my students.”
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NP FACULTY TEACH BY EXAMPLE
“I love my patients, and my
primary goal is to empower
women by helping them find
their best physical, emotion-al
and social health.”
—REGINA McCARTHY
A Golden Weekend
12 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The BSN Class of 1957
BSN Class of 1957
Celebrates 50 Years
The BSN Class of 1957 celebrated their 50th reunion weekend May
11–13, 2007. In addition to many campus-wide events, the group
enjoyed a luncheon just for School of Nursing alumni on Saturday, May
12. Class members gathered on the Class of ’57 Balcony of the new
addition, a room they gifted to the SON in 2004 with their collective
contributions. Reliving memories and celebrating each other was the
order of the day.
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 13
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
1st ROW: Ann Page Ransdell, Ruth Holmes Benedict, Nancy Johnson
Montgomery, Frieda Bryant Bruton, Shirley Coggins Mason, Sarah Buie
Coffey, Barbara Hedberg Self, Mary Lou Norwood Booth
2nd ROW: Sara Burt Mursch, Martha Lentz Levitan, Margaret Davis
Reed, Anne Glenn Johnson, Katherine Randall Peck, Nancy Matthews
Hamann, Jacquelin Van Hook Long, Rachel Humphries Stevens
14 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Celebrating Milestones and Success
The School of Nursing (SON) honored
four alumni award recipients and cele-brated
the 50th reunion of its first
Master’s Graduate, Audrey J. Booth, MSN
‘57, at an awards and recognition recep-tion
this fall. Alumni, faculty, emeritus
faculty, students and friends of the SON
gathered for this evening of celebration.
Alumni Association President Nancy
Barrett Freeman, BSN ‘73 and Awards
Committee Chair Donna Winston Laney,
BSN ‘80 presented the Alumna of the Year
Award to Nancy Lou Nicks Stephenson,
BSN ‘69, and the Carrington Award for
Community Service to Michelle Bowie
Brooks, BSN ‘83. Kristin Levoy, BSN ‘03 is
the 2007 Graduate of the Last Decade
Recipient, and Dean Linda Cronenwett
presented the Honorary Alumna of the
Year Award to Anne C. Wilson, mother of
Katherine Wilson, BSN ‘04. Each award
recipient is featured on page 16.
Booth’s North Carolina journey began in
May 1954 when she arrived in Chapel Hill
to organize the pediatric nursing staff at
Memorial Hospital. She later began studies
as a master’s student in the School.
“As the only student in the master’s
program, I was the prototype,” Booth
said. “For some seminars, I could select
any one I wanted from the hospital to
teach me. And, I had seminars alone with
Dean Kemble, too. That was quite an
experience!”
Booth’s education greatly benefited
UNC and her adopted state. She served
the School as faculty member, including
12 years as associate dean, and she also
held positions as director of statewide
activities for the Area Health Education
Centers program and chair of the N.C.
Board of Nursing from 1975 to 1980. She
has been involved at the leadership level
of many statewide nursing initiatives.
At the time of Booth’s retirement
from the faculty, Dean Laurel Copp
summarized her numerous contributions.
“Her interest in and loyalty to the
School of Nursing has manifested itself in
many accomplishments, including initia-tion
of fundraising, alumni activities and
first publication of the alumni magazine,”
Dean Copp said.
The Alumni Association honored her
as Alumna of the Year, and The School of
Nursing Foundation, Inc. expressed its
gratitude to Booth in March 1995 by
granting her status as an Honorary
Lifetime Director.
Dean Linda Cronenwett with the 2007 awards
recipients: Michelle Bowie Brooks, BSN ’83, Anne C.
Wilson, and Nancy Lou Nicks Stephenson, BSN ’69.
Dean Linda Cronenwett visits with Bill Booth, Mary Lou
Norwood Booth, BSN ’57, Faculty Emerita Eleanor
Browning and Carolyn London, BSN ‘56
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 15
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
LEFT: Audrey J. Booth, ’57,
the School’s first MSN
Graduate.
RIGHT: Donna Winston Laney,
BSN ’80 (L) presents the 2007
Alumna of The Year Award to
Nancy Lou Nicks Stephenson,
BSN ’69 (R).
Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67,
and Dee Lowdermilk greet
Audrey Booth, MSN ‘57
Marge Bye, MSN ’78, Dean
Emerita Cynthia Freund,
MSN ’73, Associate Dean
Maggie Miller, MSN ’77,
Faculty Emerita Laurice
Ferris, and Gwen Waddell-
Schulz, BSN ’70, MSN, ’76
enjoy the celebration.
An Evening of Celebration
SON Honors Alumni for Achievement
NOTEWORTHY NURSES
16 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
Nancy Lou Nicks Stephenson received an Alumna of the
Year Award at the SON 2007 Alumni Award Ceremony for
her exemplary dedication to education and research.
Stephenson has steadily impacted nursing for the past
33 years, both as an educator and a researcher. Not only
is she an assistant professor at East Carolina University
School of Nursing, teaching undergraduates, graduates and doctoral
students, but she is also the chair of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
there.
Her research has taken her influence beyond academia. As a complement-ary
and alternative medicine researcher, Stephenson focuses on reflexology
with cancer patients, using her national funding to teach the partners of
cancer patients how to deliver foot reflexology interventions. Her studies
have appeared in several journals, including Applied Nursing Research and
Journal of Holistic Nursing.
Stephenson received her BSN from Carolina in 1969 and returned from
2000 to 2002 for a postdoctoral fellowship.
Anne Campbell Wilson received an Honorary Alumni of the
Year award for her tireless efforts in promoting nursing edu-cation
and the SON in memory of her daughter Katherine
Craig Wilson, BSN 2004.
Katherine died in February 2005 at age 28 after valiantly
surviving small cell lung cancer for five years. Katherine
was diagnosed during her first year at the SON. Wilson tutored her daughter,
and when Katherine’s eyesight failed her, Wilson recorded notes and lectures
so Katherine could study. Katherine graduated with honors, Sigma Theta Tau.
Before Katherine died, her friends and family established a scholarship in
her name. Wilson and her husband John D. Wilson, Sr. serve on the selec-tion
committee.
Wilson has become an international spokesperson for investment in cancer
research and improved care for cancer patients. As a director of the SON
Foundation Board, she honors her daughter’s spirit.
Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals recognized Wilson in early 2007 with a first place
award for a photo she took of Katherine and John, both displaying bald
heads—Katherine’s as a result of chemotherapy and John’s in symbolic
sympathy and support.
2007 UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Alumna of the Year
NANCY LOU NICKS STEPHENSON, BSN ’69, MA, MSN, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘02
Michelle B. Brooks received an Alumna of the Year award
during the SON 2007 Alumni Award Ceremony for her
tireless efforts to bring quality healthcare to underserved
populations in eastern North Carolina.
In the last decade, Brooks served as the coordinator for
Community Care of North Carolina, a pilot site for locally-driven
care for the Medicaid population. The program included a network of
providers and organizations that work to improve access, healthcare quality
and efficient use of resources. Through Brooks’s leadership, the program
expanded to 27 counties, helping 100,000 Medicaid recipients.
In addition, through the East Carolina Community Health Consortium, she
secured six years of federal funding to start HealthAssist, a program that
provides medical care, prescription drugs and case management to the
working poor. Brooks also helped develop the James D. Bernstein
Community Health Center, a 15,000-square-foot facility with medical and
dental services, a full-service, low-cost pharmacy and an educational/
social service component.
Brooks graduated from the SON in 1983 and later received a Master of
Nursing degree from East Carolina University.
2007 Carrington Award for Community Service
MICHELLE B. BROOKS, BSN ’83, MSN, RN
Kristin Levoy received the Graduate of the Last Decade
(G.O.L.D.) award at the SON 2007 Alumni Award Ceremony
for steadfastly caring for patients and mentoring new nurses
who join her team of hematology-oncology nurses at Duke
University Medical Center.
In her four years since graduating from the SON, Levoy
has worked as an inpatient and outpatient oncology nurse and taken on
additional roles as charge nurse, preceptor and pain champion. For the past
year, she has worked as a nurse clinician for a physician in the Department
of Gynecologic Oncology, helping patients undergoing chemotherapy for
ovarian, endometrial or cervical cancer manage their symptoms.
As a mentor, Levoy modeled professional behavior daily, never leaving work
unfinished, maintaining a collegial and helpful attitude and giving recent
nursing school graduates the support they need to find their niche in the
nursing profession. And, even in her spare time, she finds ways to serve
patients—she is on the Patient Services Committee for the Leukemia
Lymphoma Society.
Levoy graduated from the SON in 2003.
2007 Graduate of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award
KRISTIN LEVOY, BSN, ’03, RN
2007 Honorary Alumna of the Year
ANNE C. WILSON,
Mother of Katherine Craig Wilson, BSN ‘04
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 17
ADVANCEMENT
Please join me in celebrating the
success of our Carolina First Campaign.
We did it! We have topped our $15 mil-lion
goal and exceeded it. And, I want
to thank you, again, and applaud your
loyalty and commitment. Over the last
seven years, you have stepped up to
answer the call to support your School
of Nursing with a gift to the capital
campaign and with regular gifts to the
unrestricted Annual Fund.
Some of us have joined with our
classmates and contributed to a class gift,
naming a collective space in the building
addition opened in 2005. Some of us
have created scholarships that will sup-port
students far into the future. Some of
us have named the School of Nursing in
our wills, leaving a bequest that will
live long after we are gone—making a
difference for one or many students. We
continue to demonstrate through our
giving how much the School has meant
to us in our lives and our careers, opening
doors, creating opportunities and being
of service, regardless of our personal
path.
Thanking you is especially meaningful
to me because I know that every gift,
small or large, matters. When I read the
endowment reports, see how our funds
have grown and realize that this is how we
provide financial security for the School,
I appreciate even more how personal
each gift is because it touches so many.
Please take a moment to celebrate
with me. We did it!
Sincerely,
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN `77
When Susan Adonika Troutman
marched in Carolina’s 2005 commence-ment,
she swelled with pride. Her weekly
commutes from Hickory, N.C., and nights
spent in a Chapel Hill hotel were worth
the sacrifice—she had earned her MSN
degree from the School of Nursing (SON).
Even though the logistics were
challenging for the mother of four and
practicing nurse, Troutman said she
chose Carolina’s nursing school without
hesitation.
“When you graduate from Carolina,
it means something,” she said.
Troutman said she is reminded every
day that she made the right decision. As
a nurse practitioner in occupational health
clinics, she diagnoses and treats a wide
range of health issues. Her Carolina edu-cational
background is often helpful
whether she’s recalling how to best
present a case to a physician or employ-ing
her learned ability to listen effectively
and ask questions that lead to improving
a patient’s health.
Gratitude for an education that has
served her well and a desire to “pay it
forward” led Troutman to make her first
gift to the SON shortly after graduating.
Nursing students and the nursing profes-sion
have many needs, she said, and an
investment in Carolina is an investment in
future practicing nurses and nursing fac-ulty
in a time of shortage.
“Students need extra support to
make it through, and any additional ben-efits
my annual giving can provide will be
worth it,” she said. “My students days
weren’t that long ago, and I remember
what a big difference even something as
small as a pizza
break during exam
week made.”
Other items,
including technologi-cal
upgrades and
scholarship support,
are also significant,
and Troutman said
she wants to help
provide these things
and humanize the
educational experi-ence
for current students.
Troutman makes decisions daily
that affect the health of her patients.
Last year, when she decided to start
supporting the SON financially, she
made a choice to positively impact the
healthcare of us all.
We Answered the Call . . .And More!
Making the Decision to Give
Susan Adonika Troutman, MSN ’05
Susan Adonika Troutman,
MSN ’05, began giving to
the SON to benefit students.
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ADVANCEMENT
Melissa Dixon LeVine, BSN `77, MSN
`81, and her husband, Harry LeVine III,
have made a bequest to the School of
Nursing that will create The Melissa D.
and Harry LeVine III Distinguished
Professorship in Quality of Life, Health
Promotion and Wellness.
The LeVines believe that nurses are
influential examples for students and
the public, and as such, are important
role models for healthy behavior. They
are committed to wellness, quality of
life, workplace health and well-being
and have supported programs in the
School of Nursing that help achieve
these goals. In 2000, they established
the LeVine Wellness Program for SON
faculty members and staff that promot-ed
healthy lifestyle activities, including
exercise and weight control. The
bequest is one more way the LeVines
are implementing their values to create
their legacy.
Melissa and Harry also wanted to
remember Harry’s mother with a tribute
to her memory. They made a gift to
recognize her by designating a rooftop
garden tile for the new building
addition as part of the Carolina First
Campaign.
The LeVines are one example of
how deferred giving can make a big
difference for the School of Nursing to
ensure its future. Thank you, Melissa
and Harry, for your generosity and
thoughfulness.
$600,000 Bequest From LeVine Family Takes SON Over the Top
I want to give to Carolina in a meaningful way because I have received so much from my alma
mater. The School of Nursing accepted me when my husband and I learned, after the application
deadline, that we would be moving to the Research Triangle Park. My faculty believed in me and
role-modeled the skills that they would have me learn. Through their example I learned the
importance of "walking the talk." I knew that this was a different and exceptional place because
of that. They not only gave me the knowledge I needed to pass the boards and do my job, but
taught me how to be a nurse. I discovered I can use my nursing education in whatever way I
want to apply it.
I didn’t realize at the time that they were teaching me these things.
After I left North Carolina and after I set aside the hustle-bustle of career nursing to “do the
mom thing,” I focused my energies on my family and volunteer work. I learned then how
important it was to pay attention both to physical fitness and to emotional fitness. I saw how
my family and community benefited from my regular exercise: taking the time for my own needs
enabled me to meet the needs of others with more grace and efficiency.
As my life has progressed and I have been blessed with good health and family, I look for
ways to give back to the School that gave me so much. I want Carolina to keep teaching those
valuable lessons to the people who can pass them along to others. So, I’ve included the School
of Nursing in my will, intending to fund a professorship that will attract top faculty with a focus
on quality of life, health promotion and wellness. What better way to contribute to a healthy
future for the School and North Carolina, while keeping the circle alive?
Why UNC School of Nursing is in My Will
Melissa LeVine, BSN `77, MSN `81
About the photo: Melissa D. Levine was a
featured gardener in the Lexington, Ky.,
Herald-Leader, March 17,2007, www.kentucky.com
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Nursing actions are grounded in caring science. From early conceptualizations
to grand theory development, to current caring based professional practice
models, caring science informs our thoughts and actions. We request abstracts
that synthesize, integrate and examine the broad area of caring science.
Strands include: Scholarship development, Health care interactions, Caring
based interventions, Workplace environment, Self-care and Spirituality.
To register, contact the Continuing Education Department at (919) 966-3638.
Keynote Addresses
Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN, FAAN
Cary C. Boshamer Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristen M. Swanson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, University of Washington Medical Center
Pamela Triolo, PhD, RN, FAAN
System Chief Nursing Officer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Panelists
Samantha Pang, PhD, RN
Professor, Head of School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN
Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Murchinson-Scoville Endowed Chair in Caring
Science, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center at Denver
For program information, contact Valerie Lunsford, Assistant Clinical Professor,
UNC Chapel Hill SON and Conference Co-Chair, at vlunsfor@email.unc.edu
REGISTER TODAY!
The Laurel Archer Copp Literary Award
20 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
ADVANCEMENT
The importance of
scholarly writing to the
future of the School of
Nursing is emphasized
through a faculty award
established by Dean Emerita
Laurel Archer Copp.
The award, named after Copp who
served as the school’s dean from 1975 to
1990, is designed to promote scholarly
writing among nursing faculty. Scholarly
writing, for the purpose of this award, is
defined as the creative use of words to
achieve insight or impact on patient care,
teaching, research or service.
“This is something I wanted to do
from the first day I started as dean,”
Copp said. “It was very important for
me to promote and foster writing and
publication among both the tenured and
non-tenured faculty.”
Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN,
FAAN, winner of the first annual award,
said she appreciates that faculty will be
recognized and encouraged to record
their work in a way that is accessible to
future faculty and students.
“This award acknowledges Dean
Emerita Copp’s legacy and the impor-tance
of writing to academic life, and it
offers faculty inspiration to leave their
legacy in words,” Sandelowski said. “I
was honored to be the first recipient
of this award. Dean Copp set a high
standard for elegant and significant schol-arship
and for showcasing the
beauty and weight of the word.”
During her tenure, Copp said she
consistently encouraged faculty to write,
fine-tune papers and submit them for
publication. Her mantra to help faculty
improve their writing was to always write
something every day.
Every year this monetary award will
go to a faculty member or group of facul-ty
members who have published. The
award will be announced publicly, and
individuals will receive plaques. Their
names will be added to a group plaque
on permanent display in the School.
Two review panels, one including
writing experts from within the school
and one consisting of writing experts
from the community and the university as
a whole, will review the submissions.
Articles published within the last
two years in a peer-reviewed journal or
magazine are eligible. Nominations will
be judged based on their effectiveness
of expression, creativity, literary quality,
excitement or energy, stylistic excellence,
stimulation of thought or action.
Dean Emerita Laurel Archer Copp (L) presents the first Laurel Archer Copp Literary Award to faculty
member Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN, FAAN (R).
Setting the Standard for Academic Writing Excellence
This year, Elizabeth Ryan from Fayetteville
and Amanda Hodges from Greensboro
each received a $2,500 scholarship for
the academic year. Because both received
small amounts of other financial assis-tance,
they said the award is a welcomed
addition to the money they have to apply
to school expenditures.
Ryan, an Army wife whose husband is
deployed for 15 months in Iraq, is a for-mer
circus trapeze artist. She said she
decided to pursue nursing as a profession
because it’s a job that always offers new
experiences and opportunities to learn.
For Hodges, being a scholarship recip-ient
demonstrates that people in the
community appreciate and value the
career she has chosen for her life’s work.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree from
UNC-Chapel Hill and working on clinical
trials at Duke University Medical Center,
she entered the School of Nursing’s BSN
program.
The Dean’s Merit Scholarship was
created by an anonymous donor who
wanted to support academically talented
and deserving students. The $200,000
endowment gift will grow over time to
support at least four BSN students per
year. It is a legacy for Carolina’s future
nursing students who will care for the
state’s citizens.
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 21
ADVANCEMENT
Scholarships Awarded
Dean’s Merit Scholarships: Financial Aid for Outstanding Students
Dean Linda Cronenwett presents the first
Dean’s Merit Scholarship to BSN students
Elizabeth Ryan (L) and Amanda Hodges (R).
The Katherine Wilson Scholarship was
awarded this year to Martha Gardner
Anders, a BSN candidate in the School of
Nursing (SON). The first Wilson Scholar
Michelle Landin graduated in May 2007.
Before enrolling in the SON, Anders
worked extensively with children who are
living with cancer. During her undergradu-ate
career at the University of Washington
in Seattle, Anders worked with Side-by-
Side, a program that offers support to
families of children battling cancer.
“In college I began volunteering with
programs that would prepare me for a
career in nursing,” she said. “These expe-riences
further solidified my desire to
become a nurse, and I want my life’s work
to reflect my passion for the wellness of
individuals and their communities.”
The scholarship honors Katherine
Wilson, a 2004 SON graduate who lost
her five-year battle with small cell lung
cancer at age 28. The award is given to a
student who has meritorious academic
achievement, has a desire to pursue either
end-of-life or oncology nursing and who
has overcome significant obstacles
throughout his or her life.
“I was so thrilled to learn I had been
named the Katherine Wilson Scholar—
I cried when I got the news,” said
Anders, who is the second recipient of
the award. “As far back as I can remem-ber,
nursing was what I wanted to do. It’s
something that called to me from an early
age, and this scholarship will allow me to
fulfill that life-long desire.”
Anders, who is in her first year at the
SON, has also experienced several
personal struggles, including her father’s
diagnosis with coronary artery disease
when she was 9 years old and the death
of her father-in-law from multiple
myeloma cancer.
Second Katherine Wilson Scholarship Awarded
Martha Anders (BSN ’09, R) stands with Anne and
John Wilson, parents of Katherine Wilson.
22 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
BRIEFS
By Candi Newsome, BSN ’08
For the community health nursing
component of our nursing school educa-tion,
we were required to create a project
that benefited an assigned community.
My project partner, Jody Allen, BSN ’08,
and I were assigned to downtown Durham’s
Center for Senior Life, where we organized
a health fair for the seniors of Durham
County. We concluded that through a
health fair, we would increase awareness
of and use of the newly built senior citizen
center, as well as encourage health
promotion and education from the various
organizations that we invited. We invited
29 different organizations, including Senior
PharmAssist, Meals on Wheels, Main
Street Pharmacy and Beltone Hearing.
We estimated that 100 participants would
attend, but 250 came!
Planning a health fair in two months
was a big challenge for me, a first-year
nursing student. But the strong nursing
knowledge I have learned equipped me
with the confidence and determination to
make the health fair successful. I applied
what I have been learning—skills, leader-ship
and communication abilities—to create
an outstanding event.
Without the essential nursing know-ledge
that I have acquired thus far from
the School of Nursing, the health fair would
not have been the success that it was.
I feel we set the bar for future health fairs
at the center.
Health Fest 2007
We concluded that,
through a health fair, we
would increase awareness
and use of the newly-built
senior citizen center,
as well as encourage
health promotion and
education.
BELOW: Candi Newsome, BSN ’08, (C) with
her project partner Jody Allen, BSN ’08, (R),
standing with the El Centro Hispano repre-sentative
(L) during Health Fest at the
Durham Center for Senior Life.
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 23
BRIEFS
By Megan Murphy, BSN ’07
Undergraduate students, with help
from the Global Health Committee (GHC),
staged the second annual School of
Nursing (SON) Global Health Fair. The
event took place in Carrington Hall and
its new addition April 9–13, 2007.
Organizers hosted several events that
spanned the week.
During the week, activities included
airing the documentary, Salud, a film
about Cuba’s healthcare system and its
global contributions, and a moderated
panel of students and faculty with global
nursing experience, including Bill Powell,
SON adjunct assistant professor, Chris
Harlan, SON clinical assistant professor,
Erin Mingrone, BSN ’07, Anna Kate
Owens, BSN ’07, and Joan Smith, SON
clinical assistant professor. In addition,
students who recently traveled to the
Mississippi Gulf Coast for a Katrina relief
service trip and to Guatemala and
Honduras over the spring break gave
excellent presentations, describing their
experiences.
The Fair was intended to bolster
global health awareness across all student
groups and faculty in the SON. Given the
diversity within North Carolina, along with
the school's commitment to impart cultur-ally
competent care, global health has a
role to play in the future of nursing at
Carolina. In the months to come, look for
expanding SON global health programs
and events. Undergraduate seniors Korey
Christian, BSN ’08, and Will Morrow, BSN
’08, will lead student participation.
The SON-GHC will continue to meet
monthly and host brown bag lunches
open to everyone. Watch for events
online at http://nursing.unc.edu/global-health/
or by searching global health on
the SON homepage. We hope to see all
of you next spring at the Third Annual
Global Health Fair.
The Second Annual SON Global Health Fair
Raising Global Health Awareness Across the SON–
LEFT: Students take a moment to read
about their classmates’ experiences
providing healthcare in other countries.
Presentations featured trips to Honduras,
Guatemala and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
24 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
BRIEFS
News from Macau
In June, the SON co-sponsored the Macau Polytechnic Institute's international nursing conference, Quality and
Safety in Nursing Practice. Dean Linda Cronenwett presented the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded
“Quality and Safety Education for Nurses” and led a discussion with 500 attendees from 17 countries about how
competencies identified for pre-licensure education match expectations for global nursing education.
Associate Dean Gwen Sherwood, through a presentation entitled, “Educational and Clinical Partnerships for
Quality and Safety in Nursing,” challenged attendees to consider new ways to create partnerships that achieve
quality and safety goals in a changing healthcare system.
Macau Polytechnic Institute's department of nursing signed a Memorandum of Understanding in August 2005
with the SON, becoming a global partner for the School. Already faculty exchanges have enriched both schools,
and a student exchange program begins in June 2008.
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 25
BRIEFS
BSN Students
Megan Allison
Kristin Atkins
Erin Barry
Molly Beal
Jennifer Bernhardt
Lisa Biltz
Timothy Black
Michelle Blau
Allison Booth
Tracy Brown
Dianne Bruton*
Margaret Bryant
Katherine Bumgarner
Brandon Camire
Kelly Campbell
Cari Castrodale
Kelly Crockett
Emily Davis
Jennifer Davis
Lauren Dickerson
David Dirito
Ashley Edwards
Beth Erickson
Matthew Fields
Jessica Forby
Shannon Gorrell
Jennifer Grabe
Lessley Harwell
Catherine Hill
Heather Hunt
Tiffany Johnson
Anna Kairalla
Sara Kanar
Amber Kirkley
Michelle Landin
Mary Ellen Lincicum
Claire Manning
Matthew Moody
Elissa Moore
Leigh Mullen
Lauren Musolf
Megan Myers
Laura Niday
Christine Norton
Laura Osteen
Katie Price
Tara Purohit
Elizabeth Purvis
Brenna Remsburg
Tracie Rivet
Adrienne Rose
Charles Rowlett *
Donald Salguero*
Camille Scronce
Bethany Sellers
Page Spencer
Ashley Sprouse
Lindsay Stortz
Mary Tate
Katherine Watson
Lisa Whitmire
Mallory Williams
Brooke Winchester
Melody Wong
Amy Young
Nurse Leaders
Steven Anderson
Jennifer Borst
Deborah Flowers
Heather Fund
Donna Jernigan
Karen McCain
Megan Parpart
Mary Lynn Piven
Courtney Rawls
Heather Willis
Graduate
Students
Lindsey Austin
Sandra Barr
Katherine Baylor
Amy Coghill
Kathy Dayvault
Deborah Fallen
Chiuyugh Hsiao
Karen Hurka
Richardson
Karen Jakub
Crystal Keen
Dianne Lore
Anastasia Masino
Virginia McLean
Danielle Mitchener
Wendy O’Brien
Sara Owens
Eric Parker
Janice Pickney
Anastasia Robbins
Jennifer Schmitz
Cheryl Simons
Laura Thomas
Julie Wilson
Sigma Theta Tau Inductees
Thirteen members of the Class of 2007
earned the right to graduate with
Honors by completing year-long research
projects. Each year, the School of Nursing
presents honors students with a Tammy
Flake Award. The monetary award was
established by the classmates and friends
of Tammy Flake, a member of the class
of 1989, who passed away shortly before
graduation. The awards are made possi-ble
through an endowed fund created by
Tammy’s parents, Jimmy and Jean Flake.
To read more about this year’s Honors
students, visit http://nursing.unc.edu/cur-rent/
honors/2007.
With Honors
The SON recently created
a “Hall of Honor” as a way
of proudly displaying the
accomplishments of
Honors students.
*RN-BSN students
New inductee Matthew Moody (R) received
the Sigma Theta Tau International Honors
Society BSN Outstanding Achievement
Award in the 14-month BSN option.
26 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
FACULTY
Pam Jenkins joined the School of Nursing
(SON) in March as director of Continuing
Education. Her appointment to clinical associate
professor became effective in June. Before
joining the SON, Jenkins worked as a public
health nurse consultant for the N.C. Department
of Public Health, as executive director of the
CARE clinic, an organization that provided free
healthcare to uninsured and low-income patients
and as an HIV program administrator and health
educator in the U.S. Army.
The SON welcomed 12 new clinical assistant
professors: Pauline Welborne-Brown,
Victoria Cryer, Grace Hubbard, Anne
Jessup, Beth Lamanna, Diana McCarty,
Laura McQueen, Susan Pellicio, Anne
Robinette, Joan Smith, Julie Vann and
Diane Yorke.
The SON also welcomed 10 new clinical instruc-tors:
Andrea Biondi, Suja Davis, Ted Heiser,
Marquita Ford, Rhonda Lanning, Christina
Leonard, Mary Ann Meyer, Carrie Palmer,
Mary Charles Sutphin, and Elizabeth Wells.
Faculty Notes
Gail Mazzocco, clinical associate professor and
statewide AHEC liaison, was nominated to serve
as the AHEC representative on the North Carolina
Center for Nursing Board of Directors. Her term
runs until June 2010.
Debra Barksdale, assistant professor, was
selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of
Nurse Practitioners this year. She was one of
only 26 nurses chosen. Established in 2000, the
program recognizes nurse practitioner leaders
who have contributed to healthcare through
nurse practitioner practice, research, education
or policy.
Dee Lowdermilk, clinical professor, as selected
as one of the “100 Incredible ECU Women.”
Recipients are chosen by their peers as outstand-ing
leaders. As one of only two nursing gradu-ates
to receive the award, she will be honored by
the East Carolina University Women’s Roundtable
as part of the University’s Centennial Celebration.
Kathy Alden, clinical associate professor, was
named to the 2007 list of the Great 100 Nurses
for North Carolina. The Great 100, Inc. is a peer
recognition organization that honors North
Carolina nursing by highlighting the importance
of registered nurses, acknowledging nurses
annually who demonstrate excellence in practice
and commitment and allocating funds for
registered nurse education scholarships.
Beth Lamanna, clinical assistant professor,
was chosen as Chair-Elect of the Public Health
Nursing Section of the American Public Health
Association (APHA). In this role, she will work to
promote the APHA’s missions, including ensuring
social justice and eliminating health disparities;
strengthening the public health work force;
actively engaging students; and promoting
environmental health.
Charlene Garrett was promoted to clinical
assistant professor.
Mary Lynn was promoted to professor.
Dustine Dix was promoted to clinical assistant
professor.
Elaine Harwood was promoted to clinical
assistant professor.
Julie Page was promoted to clinical assistant
professor.
New Faculty
Honors and Promotions
CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007 27
ALUMNI
Linda Brown received her MSN from Duke
University and a postmaster’s certificate as an
FNP from Carolina. During her years at the
School of Nursing from 1982 to 2007, she taught
in the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Brown was certified by ANCC and held a joint
appointment for practice. She practiced with
Piedmont Health Services at the Caswell County
Community Health Center. There, she was
responsible for managing primary and prenatal
care for adults and children. More than half her patients were of Hispanic
origin. Brown had a particular interest in the prevention and management
of chronic illness.
Gayle T. Davis served the School of Nursing
(SON) from 1971 to 2007. She received her EdD
in adult education from North Carolina State
University and her MSN from UNC Chapel Hill.
She completed the postmaster’s pediatric nurse
practitioner program at Carolina. Davis primarily
taught undergraduate pediatrics at the SON. In
later years, she also taught pediatric nurse prac-titioner
courses. Her primary interests were
health promotion in children, care of asthmatic
children, ambulatory pediatrics and nursing education.
Molly Dougherty made an impact as an edu-cator
at both the University of Florida, where
she received her bachelor’s, master’s and PhD
degrees, and then at the School of Nursing. In
1996, Dougherty was named the SON’s first
Frances Hill Fox Distinguished Professor.
Dougherty contributed to the science of nursing
with her research in women’s health, aging,
minority health issues and community-based
nursing interventions as chair of Academic
Division II, professor and doctoral program faculty leader. She has received
federal grants for her research on topics, such as pelvic muscle function
and management of urinary incontinence. She also currently serves as the
editor of Nursing Research, the premiere international nursing research
magazine.
Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67, was the chair of
Academic Division II and a clinical professor prior
to her retirement from the School of Nursing
(SON) in February 2007. Foley first joined the SON
as an instructor in August 1971 and was promot-ed
to assistant professor in July 1973. In 1974,
she joined the Fayetteville Area Health Education
Center as the Director of Nursing Education,
where she spent 12 years. During those years,
Foley was also a nurse in the U.S. Army Reserve. She went on active duty
in September 1986 and retired in 2000 at the rank of Colonel. Foley then
rejoined the SON faculty as the Director of the Continuing Education
Department, serving in that role from 2000-2004. She was named chair of
Academic Division II in 2004. Foley received her MN from Emory University
and her PhD from Georgia State University.
Shirley Mason, BSN ’57, joined the faculty in
1973 as an assistant professor. Through her
career in the School of Nursing (SON), she was
also an associate professor and practice area
coordinator. Mason started her 50-year career as
a staff nurse at the North Carolina Memorial
Hospital in the surgical and medical intensive
care units. She became head nurse of the outpa-tient
department in 1960. From 1963 until she
came to the SON, Mason worked at both the
Medical College of Virginia and the Veterans Affairs Regional Medical
Program in Richmond. She received her master’s degree in nursing from the
University of Maryland and her educational doctorate from North Carolina
State University.
Susan Pierce joined the faculty in 1975 after
earning her MSN in medical-surgical nursing
from UNC-Chapel Hill. During her 32-year
School of Nursing career, she earned a PhD in
philosophy and ethics frm UNC-Chapel Hill and
retired as a full professor. Pierce also served as
department chair, director of statewide AHEC,
associate dean for Administration and Planning
and associate dean for Community Outreach,
while continuing her scholarship in the area of
ethics and end-of-life care. In her retirement on Oak Island, N.C., she
remains active in the American Nurses Association, serving as the Board
of Directors Secretary, as an American Nurses Foundation Trustee, and as
an American Nurses Credentialing Center director.
Retirements
❯ 1967
Nancy Rankin Crutchfield (BSN) was chosen
as North Carolina School Nurse of the Year by
the School Nurse Association of North Carolina
for 2006-2007. This spring, she also became one
of seven members for the National Board for
Certification of School Nurses, a board that over-sees
the examination for school nurses to
achieve certification.
❯ 1981
Deborah Allen (BSN, MSN) recently received a
Mary Lewis Wyche Fellowship from the North
Carolina Foundation for Nursing. The fellowship
acknowledges registered nurses dedicated to
advancing their education with either a master’s
or doctorate in practice, education or administra-tion
on a full-time basis. The award is for $5,000
annually. Allen is currently a nurse practitioner at
the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at
Duke University Medical Center.
❯ 1983
Jean Hix McDonald (BSN) recently took a
position as the school nurse at Glenwood
Elementary School in Chapel Hill. She lives in
Chapel Hill with her husband Cary and their
triplets.
❯ 1984
Sandra Wilusz (BSN) will soon complete her
education and receive her MSN/FNP degree
from East Carolina University.
❯ 1992
Lynne Russell Brophy (MSN) is an Adult
Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist at Bethesda
North Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently
serves on a national Oncology Nursing Task
Force, preparing an online oral antineoplastic
agent course. She lives in Loveland, Ohio, with
her husband Jon and two children, Ned and Erin.
❯ 1997
Jennifer Foster McCracken (BSN) was
promoted to Health Services Manager for
Catawba County Public Health in Hickory, N.C.
She oversees all clinical and community-based
programs for the department.
Beth McBride Barber (BSN) recently
graduated with an MSN in Nursing Education
from Western Carolina University.
❯ 2000
Sabrina Walton (MSN) was elected as
Treasurer for the Sigma Theta Tau, Lambda Rho
Chapter at Large in Jacksonville, Fla.
Ben Murray (MSN) was named 2007 Idaho
Nurse of the Year for Nursing Management.
Murray is the Director of Nursing at Saint
Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, Idaho.
Saint Alphonsus is a 400-bed regional medical
center and the only trauma center between
Salt Lake and Portland.
Janice Tedder (BSN) recently won a gold
medal World Wide Web Health Award from the
Health Information Resource Center for her Web
site www.hugyourbaby.com. Her Web site,
selected from nearly 1,000 entries, teaches par-ents
how to calm and play with their baby, as
well as how to help the baby sleep. The Web site
also received an award for best graphic design.
Tedder is a family nurse practitioner in the
UNC Health System.
Cheryl Speight Chapman (BSN) graduated
from UNC Charlotte’s Nurse Anesthesia program
in December 2006. She now works at Carolinas
Medical Center-Pineville in Charlotte, N.C.
ALUMNI
Alumni Notes
28 CAROLINA NURSING WINTER 2007
Henry and Frances (BSN ’58) Read enjoy a lunch
with 24-month BSN student and 2007 Frances A.
Read scholar Kati Blodeau and her son R.J.
Henry established the scholarship 10 years ago
to celebrate Frances’ 40th reunion, anniversary
and retirement.
Wilmington area alumni gather frequently for social activities and to hear the latest SON news.
The group poses poolside during an April luncheon at the home of Foundation Board President
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN ’77.
What’s new
with you?
Keeping up with each other is hard to do these
days. Please let Carolina Nursing share your news!
Whether it’s a new job, special accomplishment or
an addition to your family, we’ll be happy to get
the word out for you. Be sure to include your
name (and maiden name), class year, any change
of address and your news.
Please send news to:
Alumni Association Director, School of Nursing
UNC Chapel Hill, Carrington Hall, CB #7460,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460 or sonalum@unc.edu
January 23, 2008 Writing for Publication
January 25, 2008 Pediatric Update
January 30, 2008 Evidence-Based Practice
February 2, 2008 Test Construction
February 8, 2008 Diabetes Conference
February 13, 2008 EKG Interpretation
February 21, 2008 Lessons in Leadership
February 27, 2008 TIAs & Stroke
March 5–6, 2008 Neonatal Nursing Institute
March 8, 2008 19th Annual PACU & Ambulatory Surgery Conference
March 14, 2008 Evidence-Based Maternity Care
March 15–April 26 Clinical Research (Saturdays)
April 4, 2008 Women’s Health Issues
April 6–9, 2008 International Association of Human Caring Conference
April 16, 2008 Safe Patient Handling
April 18, 2008 End of Life Care
April 18–June 6, 2008 History Taking & Physical Examination
April 22, 2008 Cultural Sensitivity/Diversity
April 24, 2008 Legal Update
April 30, 2008 Magnet Status & Research
May 2, 2008 Orthopedic Update
May 5–8, 2008 Basic Principles of Teaching
May 8, 2008 Pain Conference
May 14, 2008 Psychiatric Mental Health Institute
May 21, 2008 Summer Bad Bugs
August 4–7, 2008 Advanced Principles of Teaching
For more information or to register, contact Continuing Education
at (919) 966-3638 or visit http://nursing.ce.unc.edu.
Continuing Education Spring 2008 Programs
Carolyn Nifong Morgan,
BSN ’61 with a patient.
SON then... Do you remember when? Tell us your memories about these photos or
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Correction
The Office of Advancement misiden-tified
an alumna in the historical
photo in the Annual Report. The
alumna should have been identified
as Carolyn Nifong Morgan, BSN ’61.
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