SON Alumna Nominated for Army Surgeon General

Friday, May 13, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho (BSN '82)

President Barack Obama has nominated Major General Patricia D. Horoho (BSN ’82) as the next Army Surgeon General. Maj. Gen.  Horoho is currently serving as the U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General and 23rd Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. The nomination, which must be confirmed by the Senate, includes promotion to the rank of three-star general. Horoho would be the first woman to serve as Army Surgeon General.

Major General Horoho earned her BSN degree from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing in 1982. She was honored  by Time Life Publications, the American Red Cross, and Nursing Spectrum for her care and action as a first responder when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

Read more about the nomination in these stories:

Obama nominates E.E. Smith grad for Army surgeon general
Horoho nominated to be next surgeon general
Horoho Nominated as First RN to Serve as Army Surgeon 

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2011 SON Global Health Awards

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

Congratulations to the School of Nursing students and faculty who received global health awards this year. These awards are primarily from the School’s global health funds, which are generated from the Visiting Scholars program. This year $22,000 was awarded.

Applications were reviewed by three teams from the Global Nursing Advisory Council (GNAC) joined by faculty who received awards in previous years. Award amounts are primarily based on airfare to the destination. We were still unable to fund all who applied. Through the GNAC we have focused our areas of support so that students and faculty are helping expand our capacity in global health but also are involved in sustainable work, either through service that can be built on from year to year, or in developing scholarship opportunities. We are particularly pleased to award two Cronenwett Global Awards designated for undergraduate students (see Global Study Award Helps Students Gain World Experiences).

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Merle Mishel to be Inducted into Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

Monday, May 2, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne
Dr. Merle Mishel

Kenan Professor of Nursing Dr. Merle Mishel will be inducted into the 2011 Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes scholars and leaders whose funded program of research has had a long-term impact on the profession and patient/family outcomes. The nomination recognized Dr. Mishel’s more than 20 years of federally funded research and her development of the theory of uncertainty in illness. Dr. Mishel says she is pleased that this award recognizes the importance of nursing research and is honored to have an international organization recognize her work as meaningful.

The scales she developed to help investigators measure uncertainty in illness are used in 30 countries and have been translated into many languages. Dr. Mishel will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame at STTI’s 22nd International Nursing Research Congress in Cancun, Mexico, in July.

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Global Study Award Helps Students Gain World Experiences

Friday, April 29, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

Linda H. Cronenwett (center) with Tina Evans (left) and Rebeca Moretto (right), the 2011 recipients of the Cronenwett Global Study Award.

The Cronenwett Global Study Award was created by a private gift from a SON alumna and her husband to honor the leadership of Linda H. Cronenwett, immediate past dean of the SON, and her passion for improving quality and safety in health care. This year’s recipients are BSN students Tina Evans and Rebeca Moretto. They will both be traveling internationally this summer as part of N489, SON’s Practicum in Nursing Global Health Experience.

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Nursing in the Genomic Era Conference

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

The Nursing in the Genomic Era Conference was held at the School of Nursing on Friday April 8. During the conference students taking the Family-Centered Genomic Health Care class displayed poster presentations on various genetic conditions.

See a sample of the creative posters from the student in the slide show here.

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Service Learning Trip to Honduras

Thursday, April 7, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing students and faculty participated in a service learning trip to Honduras during  Spring Break. Before the trip the Association of Student Nurses helped collect vitamin and over the counter medications for the group to take with them.

Clinical Assistant Professor Jean Davison was the SON Course Coordinator and Team Leader for the multidisciplinary group, which included 20 students and nine volunteers who included two doctors, three nurse practitioners and two pharmacists. Nine of the students were from the School of Nursing.

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Cheryl B. Jones named Faculty of the Year by UNC Hospitals

Thursday, April 7, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

Associate Professor Dr. Cheryl B. Jones

Associate Professor Dr. Cheryl B. Jones  has been chosen as Faculty of the Year by the UNC Hospitals  Nursing Division. She is the Research Consultant for UNC Hospitals, and one of her roles in this position is to foster research relationships between the School of Nursing and the Hospitals.

UNC Hospitals emphasizes nurses engaging in research to address critical problems in practice, and Dr. Jones is working with its nursing Research Council to develop a research agenda that guides its nursing research efforts. She also mentors teams at the Hospitals that have research ideas or are developing ideas into research proposals.

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7th Annual Aging Exchange

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

The Annual Aging Exchange is an event dedicated to recognizing and promoting research in the field of aging at UNC-Chapel Hill. It will be held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on Thursday, April 7th from 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. It is open to the public and free parking is available.

The UNC Institute on Aging, in collaboration with its co-sponsors, will host this event.

The program will feature:
*A guest lecture by Dr. Margaret Moss, Yale University School of Nursing
*Poster presentations by UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students and faculty
*Presentation of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards
*A reception with light hors d’oeuvres
*An opportunity to network with colleagues, students, and other attendees with an interest in aging-related research

Find the complete schedule here and directions here.

This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP by e-mailing or calling Diane Wurzinger: diane_wurzinger@unc.edu or call (919)843-2647.

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Learn techniques for self-reflection, optimal health and life transformation

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

The Mind-Body Skills Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a meditative group process that includes a powerful and effective combination of research-based mind-body techniques to help people deal with life changes, stress and illnesses. The 10-week course, taught in a supportive group setting by Dr. Vera Moura, provides techniques for self-care, self-awareness and health promotion. Courses are offered year-round, both to health-care professionals and also to the general public, including people with chronic disease.

In the words of one participant: “What I have grown to recognize about myself is that I spend a great deal of time taking care of everyone. … This class taught me about my origin and my environment and the role it all played in how I have learned to survive and to cope with life. I feel better about my existence, and it has allowed me to engage in self-care.”

Learn more about upcoming MBSG courses through the UNC Program on Integrative Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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RN-BSN and Women’s Health NP Options Suspended as of August

Friday, March 25, 2011 — Nancy Lamontagne

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing will suspend admissions into the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN-BSN) option of the BSN program and the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner option in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program after August 2011.

These programmatic changes are necessary because of ongoing state budget cuts. In January, Chancellor Holden Thorp instituted campus-wide cuts equal to a 5 percent permanent state budget reduction to take effect July 1. That move anticipated expected reductions to the University’s state appropriations that could reach as high as 15 percent for fiscal 2011-2012. These anticipated cuts come on top of almost 10 percent in permanent cuts that the School of Nursing has absorbed over the last two years.

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