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Iowa Named as Action Coalition to Ensure High-Quality, Patient-Centered Health Care

Iowa has been selected as an Action Coalition by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to ensure that all Americans have access to high-quality, patient-centered health care, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilities.

‘100 Great Iowa Nurses’ Honored in Des Moines

Each year, 100 Great Iowa Nurses are selected from a pool of hundreds of admirable candidates and honored by the state of Iowa, fellow nurses and community leaders.

This year’s 100 Great Iowa Nurses were honored on May 6, 2012—the beginning of National Nurses Week—at a reception in the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines. Recipients from prior years were invited back to be recognized, and the 2012 awardees were surrounded family, friends and colleagues to share in the recognition of their outstanding achievements.

Anesthesia Students Published in AANA Journal

Eric Barrett and Jason Trotter, both February 2011 graduates of UI’s Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist (SRNA) program, were recently published by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).

Barrett’s article, titled “Management of a Traumatic Tracheal Tear: A Case Report,” appeared in the December 2011 edition of AANA Journal.

The following is an excerpt from Barrett’s article:

Dr. Buckwalter to Receive Prestigious UI Award

Dr. Kathleen “Kitty” Buckwalter (BSN ’71, MA ’76) has been selected to receive the University of Iowa’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Professor Emeritus Buckwalter, along with other recipients, will be recognized for this accomplishment at the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards luncheon and ceremony on June 9, 2012. This award is the Alumni Association’s highest honor.

Dr. Joann Eland Interviewed on IPR

Last week, UI College of Nursing Associate Professor Dr. Joann Eland was a guest on Iowa Public Radio’s (IPR) “Talk of Iowa” program.

During the interview, Dr. Eland was asked specifically about technology and the impact it has had on the nursing profession.

The interview can be listened to in its entirety by clicking here.

IOWA INVESTIGATOR: Sharon Tucker

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

CON Alumna, Janice Telsrow Featured in QC Times Article on School Nurses

School nurses do more than tend to sick kids

By Deirdre Cox Baker

In a 10-minute span one Wednesday morning, school nurse Janice Telsrow saw four students who needed medication dispensed to them, one who was returning clothes he had borrowed the day before and a sixth child who apparently had injured her knee.

CON Professor Awarded ACS Seed Grant, Featured in UI News Digest

Der-Fa Lu, PhD, RN, assistant professor in the UI College of Nursing, was recently named one of two researchers to receive a one-year, $30,000 American Cancer Society seed grant through the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Society at the university.

To view the full news brief, click here

UI Nurse Anesthetist Grund Comments on Drug Shortage Epidemic

The well documented national prescription drug shortage has Easter Iowa hospitals scrambling. A recent Gazette article looks at the impact on area medical facilities and references several UIHC personnel, including senior nurse anesthetist, Jillian Grund.

To read the full article, click here

CON Professor Named AANP Fellow

Sherry McKay, MSN, ARNP, GNP-BC, assistant professor at the UI College of Nursing was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

McKay, who mentors undergraduate nursing students and nurse practitioner (NPs) to help them develop into the nursing leaders of tomorrow, was inducted at the Academy’s 26th National Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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