Dean Cronenwett Receives Sigma Theta Tau International Award

Dean Linda Cronenwett has been selected to receive the Dorothy

Sigma Theta Tau International presented Dean Linda Cronenwett with the Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award.

Sigma Theta Tau International presented Dean Linda Cronenwett with the Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award.

Garrigus Adams Award for Excellence in Fostering Professional Standards at the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Founders Award Celebration on the evening of Nov. 2 during the STTI convention in Indianapolis, Ind.

The Dorothy Garrigus Award is presented to a STTI member who demonstrates leadership in encouraging the use and promoting the growth of professional standards, expands the understanding of professional standards to increase the quality and quantity of practice, utilizes professional standards to advance nursing practice, participates in the evolution or interpretation of the standards of the profession and is involved in signficant areas of fostering professional standards.

Faculty Member Marilyn Oermann Receives NLN Award

Faculty member and division chair Marilyn Oermann received the National League for Nursing

Faculty member and division chair Marilyn Oermann will receive an NLN award in September.

Faculty member and division chair Marilyn Oermann will receive an NLN award in September.

(NLN) Award for Excellence in Nursing Education Research. Her award will be presented during the awards banquet that will be held during the NLN Education Summit on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.

Quality & Safety Education for Nurses Project Wins Two Awards

Sigma Theta Tau International has honored the Quality & Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Project with two multi-media awards. Dean-emeritus Linda Cronenwett and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Gwen Sherwood serve as co-principal investigators for this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded study. Polly Bednash, executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, also serves as a co-principal investigator.

The project is the 2009 International Award recipient of the

The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing QSEN team received two awards from Sigma Theta Tau International.

Information Technology Award for Knowledge Advancement. This award recognizes a portion of QSEN’s Web site (www.qsen.org), entitled, “Collaborative Web Site: Transforming Nursing Curricula to Improve Quality and Safety in Patient Care.” The second award, the Nursing Media Award for Other (Electronic, Art, Photography, etc.), will honor the QSEN entry “Transforming Nursing Curricula to Improve Quality and Safety in Patient Care.”

The QSEN team received these awards for the content and technology of the QSEN Web site and its role in transforming nursing curricula to improve quality and safety education for nurses.

Both awards were presented in November during the Tribute Awards luncheon at the Sigma Theta Tau International’s 40th Biennial Convention in Indianapolis, Ind.

To view the QSEN Web site: www.qsen.org

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