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at professional meetings and served on numerous panels, published
more than 33 articles, four book chapters and edited two books with
Mildred Hogstel on physical assessment.
Curry is unique as an academician as her expertise on human growth
and development covers both ends of the human development
continuum. She is a recognized expert in obstetrics and women’s
health care, teaching students in the classroom as well as in clinical
arenas. As a commitment to her professional service, she continues to
teach childbirth education classes to the public.
In the past decade or so, Curry’s interest in the healthy development of
older adults has found outlets in scholarship and service. Her research
team of the late Mildred Hogstel and Charles Walker published
numerous studies focused on care processes and care giving with
older adults that have influenced changes in practice in gerontological
nursing. In addition, the team has provided weekly support group
services for the past several years for employees who have the
responsibility for caregiving of a family member in addition to their
full-time employment.
Curry is adept at creating interdisciplinary research partnerships. In
addition to her nursing research team, she has partnered with faculty
in social work and marketing to explore phenomena or to explain
common clinical problems using new concepts. For example, the
nursing and marketing team’s study of hospital discharge plans for
heart failure patients classified the extent to which nurses and their
clients co-produce health outcomes. Influencing practice changes
with resultant healthier patients are at the core of her research.
Linda Moore receives Lifetime
Achievement Award
TheTarrant Countybranchof theNational Associationof SocialWorkers
selected Linda Moore, professor of social work, as the 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award recipient and nominated her for the National
Association of Social Work, Texas Chapter, Lifetime Achievement
Award. This prestigious award recognized and honored her 30 years of
leadership and contributions, which have influenced the quality and
direction of social work practice and education at the local, state and
national levels.
Moore is a long-time active
member in the state and national
organization of NASW, and has
held many elected leadership
positions in this organization as
well as the Council on Social Work
Education (CSWE), Association of
Baccalaureate Social Work Program
Directors (BPD) and the Texas
Association of Social Work Deans
and Directors (TASWDD). She has
published and presented nationally
in the areas of the emergence of
the NAACP and was the driving
force in the establishment of the
Whitney Young project through NASW. Moore is an advocate for the
marginalized and oppressed and has worked tirelessly as an advocate
to educate and inspire students to understand how policy affects
practice. She is a strong advocate for social work education and used
her leadership positions to help build coalitions across social work
organizations.
Her colleagues describe Moore as, “a visionary, leader, creative thinker,
futurist and force for change, influencing the direction of social work
education for more than thirty years at local, state and national levels.
We as social work educators are enriched and empowered because of
LindaMoore’s significant contributions and her lifetime achievements.”
NASW is the largest membership organization of professional social
workers in the world, with 145,000 members. NASWworks to enhance
the professional growth and development of its members, to create
and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social
policies. The Texas Chapter, with about 5,700 members, is the major
professional social work organization in the state.
NASW is committed to advancing professional social work practice and
the profession; and to promoting human rights, social and economic
justice and unimpeded access to services for everyone. Its members
work in a broad range of settings, including hospitals and other health
care settings, community agencies, government, academia, business,
nursing homes, schools and private practice.
Her colleagues describe Moore
as,
“a visionary, leader, creative
thinker, futurist and force for
change,
influencing the direction
of social work education for
more than thirty years at local,
state and national levels.”
accolades
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