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	Kindred Spirits Award The Kindred Spirits Award is open to any undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Students are asked to submit work that analyzes its subject using the lens of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and culture, or that focuses on the contributions of women and men of all colors to society, history, culture or thought. All w inners will receive a plaque and a monetary award. Kindred Spirits Award Application 2009 Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship Audrey McGraw, RN-BSN Class 2009, received the fifth annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for addressing diversity in care through creation of an insightful and original tool to bridge an identified communication gap. McGraw’s project, entitled SpAN-IT: *Spanish-Speaking Audiovisual Tool, is an easy to use, highly accessible, audio-visual tool for use at the patient bedside that provides nurses with simple, audible, volume-controllable, native-Spanish-dictated dialogue to assist in meeting the communication needs of post-operative, intubated, and mechanically-ventilated Spanish-speaking patients, in situations where interpreters are limited and other communication methods are not feasible. This project is for use in the CardioVascular-Thoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CVT-SICU) of First Health Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C. View the award-winning submission* in PDF format 2008 Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship Caitlyn Mathis, BSN Class of 2008, received the fourth annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for raising awareness in the Latino community regarding the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Mathis’s project, *Protegiendo a Nuestros Niños* [*Protecting Our Children] is a booklet that was creatively designed, using a culturally-insightful template called the fotonovela. The format resembles a comic book, but uses photographs rather than cartoons. She developed her project for El Centro Hispano and Child Protective Services, in Durham, NC. View the award-winning submission* in PDF format Previous Kindred Spirits Awards 2007 Kindred Spirits Award Meredith McGee, BSN Class of 2007, received the third annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for examining diversity in care through sensitive, creative and original coursework. McGee submitted an essay titled “I Don’t Discriminate…Do I?” in which she addressed the open-minded and non-judgmental attitude that nurses need to posses to care for the myriad of patients in the healthcare system. McGee said her goals were to raise awareness among nurses of how their actions affect patients and emphasize fair and compassionate health care. View the award-winning submission in PDF format 2006 Kindred Spirits Award Laura Niday, BSN Class of 2007, recieved the second annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship. Niday submitted an essay titled “Maternity Care for Limited English Proficiency Patients,” in which she described the experience of caring for a Latino woman, during and after her Cesarean section, who did not speak English. “In the field of obstetrics where support for laboring women and new mothers is vitally important, I believe that having the ability to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients would be of great benefit,” said Niday. “This experience has driven me to continue learning Spanish and to strive toward increasing my cultural competence,” she said. View the award-winning submission in PDF format 2005 Kindred Spirits Award BSN student Christina "Kim" Martinez was selected as the first recipient of the Annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship. Martinez submitted an abstract which included a comprehensive care plan reflecting on an experience she had providing care for a 47-year-old Mexican man, who recently immigrated to the United States, suffering from acute renal failure. View the award-winning submission in PDF format Back to Top

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Kindred Spirits Award

The Kindred Spirits Award is open to any undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Students are asked to submit work that analyzes its subject using the lens of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and culture, or that focuses on the contributions of women and men of all colors to society, history, culture or thought. All w inners will receive a plaque and a monetary award.

Kindred Spirits Award Application

2009 Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship

Audrey McGraw, RN-BSN Class 2009, received the fifth annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for addressing diversity in care through creation of an insightful and original tool to bridge an identified communication gap.
McGraw’s project, entitled SpAN-IT: Spanish-Speaking Audiovisual Tool, is an easy to use, highly accessible, audio-visual tool for use at the patient bedside that provides nurses with simple, audible, volume-controllable, native-Spanish-dictated dialogue to assist in meeting the communication needs of post-operative, intubated, and mechanically-ventilated Spanish-speaking patients, in situations where interpreters are limited and other communication methods are not feasible. This project is for use in the CardioVascular-Thoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CVT-SICU) of First Health Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C.
View the award-winning submission in PDF format

2008 Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship

Caitlyn Mathis, BSN Class of 2008, received the fourth annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for raising awareness in the Latino community regarding the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

Mathis’s project, Protegiendo a Nuestros Niños [Protecting Our Children] is a booklet that was creatively designed, using a culturally-insightful template called the fotonovela. The format resembles a comic book, but uses photographs rather than cartoons. She developed her project for El Centro Hispano and Child Protective Services, in Durham, NC.

View the award-winning submission in PDF format

Previous Kindred Spirits Awards

2007 Kindred Spirits Award

Meredith McGee, BSN Class of 2007, received the third annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship for examining diversity in care through sensitive, creative and original coursework.

McGee submitted an essay titled “I Don’t Discriminate…Do I?” in which she addressed the open-minded and non-judgmental attitude that nurses need to posses to care for the myriad of patients in the healthcare system. McGee said her goals were to raise awareness among nurses of how their actions affect patients and emphasize fair and compassionate health care.

View the award-winning submission in PDF format

2006 Kindred Spirits Award

Laura Niday, BSN Class of 2007, recieved the second annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship. Niday submitted an essay titled “Maternity Care for Limited English Proficiency Patients,” in which she described the experience of caring for a Latino woman, during and after her Cesarean section, who did not speak English. “In the field of obstetrics where support for laboring women and new mothers is vitally important, I believe that having the ability to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients would be of great benefit,” said Niday. “This experience has driven me to continue learning Spanish and to strive toward increasing my cultural competence,” she said.

View the award-winning submission in PDF format

2005 Kindred Spirits Award

BSN student Christina "Kim" Martinez was selected as the first recipient of the Annual Kindred Spirits Award for Excellence in Multicultural Scholarship.

Martinez submitted an abstract which included a comprehensive care plan reflecting on an experience she had providing care for a 47-year-old Mexican man, who recently immigrated to the United States, suffering from acute renal failure.

View the award-winning submission in PDF format

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