As part of the nationwide tradition of celebrating National Nurses Week, the UW School of Nursing’s annual gala provides a chance to thank local nurses and health care leaders for their commitment.
Individual Seats: $95 includes three course meal and no host bar
Patron Table: $1,2000
Alumni/Group Table: $1,000
To register on-line for individual seats contact the UWAA
or call 206-543-0540 or 1-800-AUW-ALUM
To sponsor a patron or alumni/group table, please contact the School of Nursing at nsevents@u.washington.edu or 206-616-9219.
Speaker Suzanne Gordon - award winning journalist, author and lecturer will deliver the keynote speech. Gordon has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, among others. She also has published several books, including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines and From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public. Her forthcoming book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care, is slated for publication by Cornell University Press in April 2008.
Each year, we honor four passionate, dedicated individuals who have made lasting contributions to the field of nursing. Join us as we pay tribute to our 2008 award winners:
28th annual Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Lecture
"A Call for Reform: New Ways to Ease the Pain, Symptoms and Stress of Serious Illness"
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
Kane Hall, Room 120
Lecture: 6:00 - 7:00
Panel Discussion: 7:00 - 8:00
Dr. Betty Ferrell,
City of Hope National Medical Center,
Duarte, CA,
Oncolongy nurse and research scientist
Dr. Charles von Gunten,
San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care,
Provost-VP, Center for Palliative Sutdies
A groundbreaking new medical speciality is emerging to provide comfort and support for those struggling with serious or terminal illness.
Palliative-care specialists are pioneering new standards to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for the sick and dying.
Learn how palliative care helps the seriously ill grapple with the physical, emotional and practical implications of their diagnoses - and why too many patients still don't get the care they need.
"I really thought it was a magnificent event--very nurse-empowering. We had wanted to capture both the science and scholarship along with the passion and caring that characterizes this field as we see it, AND leave with an action message for the audience. I think we accomplished all this and more! " Barbara McGrath, UW School of Nursing
"An absolutely WONDERFUL event that was just superb--speakers, panel members, organization, attendance. It was also such a warm and embracing community experience for the School of Nursing, its alumni, and its supporters! Barbara Cochrane, The DeTornyay Term Professor for Healthy Aging
Panel Members:
Fran M. Lewis, Moderator and Soule Committee Chair; the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Endowed Professor, UW School of Nursing
George Demiris, Associate Professor, BNHS, UW School of Nursing
Stuart J. Farber, Associate Professor, UW School of Medicine; Director, UWMC Palliative Care Service
Nancy R. Hooyman: The Hooyman Endowed Professor in Gerontology, Dean Emeritus, UW School of Social Work
Sarah E. Shannon: Associate Professor, BNHS, Vice Associate Dean for Academic Serivces, UW School of Nursing
Established in 1979, the Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Lecture honors the founding dean of the UW School of Nursing. It is an annual presentation featuring prominent nursing and health care leaders and is supported through the Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Fund and the University of Washington Alumni Association.
Up to two million Americans are affected annually by blood clots, also known as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Some 300,000 die each year from pulmonary embolism, most as a result of DVT.
Join us for DVT Awareness by Design, an event to raise awareness about blood clot risks, signs and symptoms.
Wednesday, March 12 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
In the lobby of the Health Sciences building
1959 NE Pacific St.
Hear from Melanie Bloom, widow of NBC News correspondent David Bloom, who died at age 39 from complications of DVT, as well as a current patient diagnosed with DVT.
Learn about a new UW-created patient safety toolkit to help prevent, diagnose and treat venous thromboembolism, a disease that includes DVT and pulmonary embolism. An panel of UW vascular experts, led by School of Nursing Associate Dean Brenda Zierler, will share insights.
Be part of a nationwide challenge to design DVT-themed socks.
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