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STUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATION ORGANIZES
BLOOD DRIVE FOR WEST, TEXAS
The Student Nurses Association sponsored a blood drive in
conjunction with the Carter Blood Bank in April. Amy Linzmeier,
community service chair for SNA, led the organization of the blood
drive. Approximately 250 students, faculty and staff participated. One
of the nursing students lived in West and was directly affected by the
explosion there. She was very touched by the turn out.
INAUGURAL HARRIS COLLEGE NURSING
FELLOWS HONORED
The inaugural class of Harris College Nursing Fellows celebrated its
achievements at a luncheon May 1. Dean Paulette Burns spoke about
the College’s goals to develop the nursing leaders of the future; Pamela
Frable, associate dean and director of nursing, spoke about academic
achievement and the importance of lifelong learning; and Marinda
Allender, director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program, announced
the winners of the Showcase Award. Rebeccah Gould earned first
place honors, which provided her an additional clinical experience as
well as a Target gift card. Meredith Lane received second place and
Melissa Gilbreath placed third.
Zoranna Jones, director of the Academic Resource Center, presented
certificates to each of the Fellows. The inaugural Harris Nursing
Fellows included Carson Anderson, Sarah Bach, Melissa Gilbreath,
Rebeccah Gould, Dana King, Meredith Lane, Amy Moan, Desiree Ortiz
and Felisha Trevino.
A call for nominations for the Harris Fellows for 2013-2014 will go
out soon.
NURSING GREEN
CHAIR
Lisa Day, Ph.D., RN, CNS,
CNRN, CNE, a consultant on
the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of
Teaching’s National Study
of
Nursing
Education,
presented “The Formation
of Professional Identity:
Preparing Students for Civic Responsibility and Service” as the Harris
College of Nursing’s Green Honors Chair in February. Day is an assistant
professor in the Duke University School of Nursing, and has served
as a clinical nurse specialist for neuroscience and critical care at the
University of California-San Francisco Medical Center.
NEVER BEEN TO
SPAIN?
Eleven students majoring in
social work and nutritional
sciences spent three weeks in an
interdisciplinary class in Sevilla,
Spain, along with Tracy Dietz,
associate professor of social
work, and Anne VanBeber, professor and chair of nutritional sciences.
The focus of the class was global citizenship and responsibility,
specifically as it relates to world hunger.
While in Spain, their service learning opportunities included gathering
donated baby clothes and blankets and delivering them to a women’s
prison, helping with several classes and in the kitchen at the Santa
Joaquina School, contributing hygiene items to a convent for use by
their homeless clientele and working at a food bank.
However, it wasn’t all work and no play. The class was the first winner
of TCU Abroad’s Facebook Summer Study Abroad photo contest. They
also took in a flamenco performance, attended an olive oil tasting took
several tours of the area and oddly enough, going for a camel ride!
RANKIN LECTURE
Gwen Sherwood, Ph.D., RN, FAAN presented“Transforming Healthcare:
The New Science of Quality and Safety” as the annual W.F. “Tex” and
Pauline Rankin Lectureship in Nursing in March. Sherwood is co-editor
of the
International Textbook on Reflective Practice
and has been a
leader in developing nursing education across borders, working with
nursing faculty in China, Thailand, Macau, Mexico, England and Kenya.
Gwen Sherwood greets Suzy Lockwood andW.F. “Tex”
Rankin at Rankin Lecture in April.
NEWS
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