News and Events

New Edition of Marilyn Oermann’s Book on Nursing Education Released

The fourth edition of Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education by Dr. Marilyn Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, was released at the end of February.

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Havens Named to National Commission on the Magnet Recognition Program

SON professor Donna Havens has just been notified that the Executive Committee of the American Nurses Credentialing Center Board of Directors has appointed her to serve as the academic member of the National Commission on the Magnet Recognition Program.

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Soltis-Jarrett Joins NC Board of Nursing Advisory Committee

Kudos to associate clinical professor Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD, who has been been appointed to the North Carolina State Board of Nursing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) Advisory Committee.

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Carolina nursing student volunteers in Mexican village health clinic

Amy Davenport is a Carolina BSN student who is volunteering in the Oaxacan village of Teotitlan del Valle this summer at the public health clinic. Her writing is extraordinary and captures the essence of village life and the practices of another culture. I hope you will be captivated by her stories, as I am.

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Tom Bush, MSN, FNP-BC Receives NC 2010 Award for Excellence from American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners and Advocates Honored during National AANP Conference

Nursing Student Minh Nguyen Receives First Cronenwett Global Study Award

It is with great joy we announce the first UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing Cronenwett Global Health Scholar award! It is fitting that the Global Nursing Advisory Council selected Minh Nguyen, a student in our baccalaureate program to receive this first award based on his plans for a summer experience in his native Vietnam to work with a rural hospital on quality and safety.

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Three New Tenure-Track Faculty Appointed

Dean Kristen Swanson reports that the School of Nursing will have three outstanding new tenure line faculty joining us in August. Each of them brings exciting new expertise to our research and teaching mission.

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Oermann Authors “Writing for Publication in Nursing”

Dr. Marilyn Oermann, professor and division chair in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing, has another new book: Oermann, M.H., & Hays, J.C. (2011). Writing for Publication in Nursing (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. This is Marilyn’s 19^th book.

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Accelerated BSN Student Judith Hunt Wins Essay Contest

Judith Hunt, a nursing student at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, recently was awarded a $1,000 first-place scholarship for her entry in an essay contest on BrainTrack.com, a worldwide university and college directory that lists more than 10,000 higher-education institutions in over 190 countries.

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Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners Meet NC Health Care Needs

A Note of Thanks From Dr. Victoria Soltis-Jarrett