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Recent Grad to Provide CON Representation on UI’s Alumni Board

Adelaide “Addy” Caprio (BSN ’06) has been selected to serve as the College of Nursing’s representative on the University of Iowa Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.

“Representing the CON is an honor,” said Caprio. “I have a sense of finally being able to give back to the CON and to UI after all that they have given me. The personal and professional ties I have with the university will only strengthen and grow with this opportunity.”

Student Life: Q&A with a Rising ‘Star’

In only a few short weeks into the fall 2012 semester, the research of Staja Booker has been getting nationally noticed. It could even be said that Booker, a first-year student in the College of Nursing’s PhD program, has a bright future in front of her—so it’s fitting that she has been nicknamed “Star” nearly all of her life.

IOWA INVESTIGATOR: Anne Ersig

What is the focus of your research? What questions are you trying to answer? What problems are you attempting to solve?

My research focuses on understanding individual and family responses to actual or potential health problems from a biopsychosocial perspective. Currently, I am pursuing two lines of research related to this overall goal.

Herr Joins National Leaders to Develop Competencies for Pain Management Education

Keela Herr, PhD, RN, AGST, FAAN, professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing, recently helped develop and lead an intensive two-day summit at UC Davis Health System with 30 other pain and education experts from throughout North America.

BSN Student Wins Prestigious Scholarship

Even though Amalia Gedney is originally from Wisconsin, she has always considered herself a Hawkeye at heart.

Gedney has clearly felt right at home at UI’s College of Nursing, too. Not only has she excelled in her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, but she also recently learned that she was named a 2012 American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Janssen Student Scholar.

“I feel honored to be recognized by APNA,” said Gedney. “I am very excited and look forward to representing UI and the College of Nursing.”

Recent DNP Graduate to Present at Innovation Institute

Lori Mein (DNP ’12) was recently selected to present at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing’s upcoming DNP Innovation Institute.

The Institute will feature the significant contributions of DNP-educated nurses on improving health care and clinical practice and illustrate how to make an idea sustainable by highlighting innovative evidence-based projects that solve real-world problems and improve patient care.

Reyes Appointed Dean at Kirkwood

Current PhD student Jimmy Reyes has been named dean of Kirkwood Community College’s nursing department.

Reyes, who obtained his BSN, MSN and DNP degrees from the University of Iowa College of Nursing, had been serving as interim dean.

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Dean Frantz Part of Inaugural AACN Leadership Program

WASHINGTON, DC – The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is pleased to announce the inaugural class of nursing deans and senior faculty leaders who have been selected to participate in the new AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program. Scheduled for August 14-17, 2012 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, this world-class enrichment program, which is designed exclusively for top academic leaders in nursing, is generously sponsored in part by the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence.

CON Alumna on Hand to Assist Following Aurora Tragedy

Angie Van Lengen normally works in the labor and delivery unit at The Medical Center of Aurora (Colorado).

All that changed early Friday, July 20, when Van Lengen (BSN ’09), a native of Mason City, IA, was called on to assist in the center’s ER facility following a mass shooting in the Century Aurora16 movie theater that left 12 people dead and left 58 wounded—several still in critical condition.

Dr. Buckwalter Provides Nursing Presence in New IOM Report

Since 1983, Professor Emeritus Kathleen “Kitty” Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been working tirelessly to advance mental health care for older adults.

Two years ago, she was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations. During this time, Dr. Buckwalter compiled information for the newly released IOM report—“The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands?”—and provided a voice for the nursing profession within the context this important documentation.

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