In the News

News and Events

In the News: Recent media coverage of the UW School of Nursing

2009

October

"UW's Nurse Scientists"

Seattle Woman magazine, October 2009

UW School of Nursing faculty researchers, Center for Women;s Health & Gender Research featured.

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/UWNurseScientists.asp

February

"Nursing schools facing teacher shortage"

KING-5 News, Feb. 2, 2009

Features Dean Marla Salmon discussing the nursing shortage.

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_020209WAB-nursing-shortage-LJ.1090d909.html

January

“Nurses often left out of medical error talks”

U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 22, 2009

Features Sarah Shannon, associate professor, BNHS, and vice associate dean for academic programs.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/22/nurses-often-left-out-of-medical-error-talks.html

Sarah Shannon ’s work was featured in numerous publications and online news sites this month, including:

The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/22/AR2009012202202.html

Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134760.php
UWeek: http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=46184

“Opportunities in Forensic Nursing”

Minority Nurse.com, Winter 2009

Includes a mention of the SoN forensic nursing program.

http://www.minoritynurse.com/forensic-nursing/opportunities-forensic-nursing

“Vision for health care access is being realized”

Everett Herald, Jan. 16, 2009

Editorial praises Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic, which incorporates a training program for UW nursing students.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090116/OPINION01/701169936/-1/OPINION

“Smart dummies: Mannequins to train doctors, nurses”

KPLU radio, Jan. 15, 2009

Features Juvann Wolff, director of the school's simulation lab.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1457748

“School of Nursing students win volunteer award”

SoN Web site, Jan. 15, 2009

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/CommunityServiceAwardJan09.asp

"American Journal of Nursing announces 2008 Book of the Year awards"

American Journal of Nursing, Jan .13, 2009

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/AJNawards.asp

“Visionary: Heather Young, RN”

Nurse.com, Jan. 12, 2009

Features former faculty member Heather Young, who received her master’s in nursing and her doctorate in nursing science from the SoN.

http://include.nurse.com/article/20090112/CA02/101120108

“State must fund nursing education programs”

Tacoma News Tribune, Jan. 9, 2009

http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/othervoices/story/589390.html

“Best of 2008: School of Nursing”

UWeek, Jan. 8, 2009

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=46146

“Perspective: Join Jan. 10 discussion on health-care reform”

Port Townsend Leader, Jan. 7, 2009

Opinion piece by Phyllis Schultz, retired UW School of Nursing faculty member)

http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=5&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=22882&TM=63990.26

“Nursing cuts not a healthy plan”

Seattle P-I, Jan. 5, 2009

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394829_nursingcutsonline06.html

“UW med students prepare with cutting edge technology”

Seattle P-I, Jan. 5, 2009

Features Brenda Zierler, associate professor, BNHS, and associate dean, TIER.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/394704_simulsurg05.html

2008

December

“New books with Seattle-area ties”

Seattle Times, Dec. 29, 2008

Features “Nurse: A World of Care,” with senior editor Dean Marla Salmon.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2008567367_zboo29localbooks.html

“Balancing punishment, treatment when crimes are committed”

Seattle P-I, Dec. 28, 2008

Features David Lovell, research assoc. prof., PCH.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/393944_mental29.html

“UW health sciences schools receive more than $1 million for training in interprofessional communication”

UW Medicine online news, Dec. 19, 2008

Features Brenda Zierler, assoc. prof., BNHS, and assoc. dean, TIER.

http://depts.washington.edu/mednews/uwmedonlinenews/12192008.html

“UW’s Zierler Named Executive Nurse Fellow”

Nurse.com, Dec. 8, 2008

Features Brenda Zierler.

http://include.nurse.com/article/20081208/NW02/112080145

“Oliver Osborne, PhD, RN: Grandfather of AAPPN”

Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses, Dec. 7, 2008

Features Oliver Osborne, professor emeritus; Mary Tschudin, dean emeritus; and former faculty members Marilyn Whitley and Linn Larson.

http://aappn.org/wordpress/index.php/2008/12/07/oliver-osburne-phd-rn-grandfather-of-aappn/

“Nurse: A World of Care” book review

Journal of the American Medical Association, Sept. 24, 2008

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/12/1468

November

“Nursing Goes Global”

International Educator, November/December 2008

Features Catherine Carr, assoc. prof., FCN; Sarah Ross, director of international programs; post-doctoral student Julie Potsma; and MN student Shawna Pochan.

http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/novdec08_feature_nursing_2.pdf

“A conversation with School of Nursing Dean Marla Salmon”

UWeek, Nov. 20, 2008

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=45323

"Nurse practitioners bring depth, perspective to wide spectrum of patients"

Reprinted by permission from News & Notes from Michael Soman, president/chief medical executive, Group Health Permanente, Nov. 7, 2008

Features Marie-Annette Brown, the Group Health Endowed Nursing Professor in Chronic Illness Care

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/IntheNewsGroupHealthNov08.asp

“Study looks at how job stress, length of time in US, affect risk for chronic health conditions among Filipino immigrants”

Kaiser Network, Nov. 5, 2008

Features Butch de Castro, asst. prof., PCH.

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=55396

“Examining I-1000”

KUOW radio’s Weekday with Steve Scher, Nov. 3, 2008

Features Dean Emeritus Rheba de Tornyay discussing her position on Initiative 1000, which would let terminally ill patients get help to end their lives.

http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=16191

October

“Dean provides insight for nursing school”

The UW Daily, Oct. 29, 2008

Features Dean Marla Salmon.

http://dailyuw.com/2008/10/29/dean-provides-insight-nursing-school/

“New Faculty Senate chair David Lovell sees busy year ahead”

UWeek, Oct. 23, 2008

Features David Lovell, research assoc. prof., PCH.

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=44648

“Mary Pigott makes $1M gift to UW”

Puget Sound Business Journal, Oct. 17, 2008

Features Andrea Myers, new asst. dean for development and external relations.

http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/apps/dailyclips/scraped/PSBJ_2008-10-17.html

“Introducing the new Secretary of the Faculty, Marcia Killien”

UWeek, Oct. 16, 2008

Features Marcia Killien, prof., FCN

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=44499

“Seattle Children’s earns magnet status”

Nurse.com, Oct. 6, 2008

Features Susan Heath, asst. dean of clinical nursing practice.

http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080910/NW02/309100027

September

“Two widows on opposing sides of assisted suicide”

KUOW News, Sept. 23, 2008

Features Dean Emeritus Rheba de Tornyay.

http://kuow.org/program.php?id=15874

“Initiative 1000 would let patients get help ending their lives”

Seattle Times, Sept. 22, 2008

Features Rheba de Tornyay.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008193092_death21m.html?syndication=rss

"A consensus about day care: Quality counts"

New York Times, Sept. 14, 2008

Features Cathryn Booth-LaForce, prof., FCN, and executive assoc. dean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/health/healthspecial2/15daycare.html?scp=1&sq=day%20care&st=cse

“Nurse organization pickets at UW hospital”

Seattle P-I, Sept. 3, 2008

Features Lorie Wild, asst. dean for clinical nursing practice/chief nursing officer, UWMC

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/377638_uwnurses04.html

August

“Proposal is reckless, unnecessary”

Seattle P-I, Aug. 25, 2008

Guest column by Dean Emeritus Rheba de Tornyay on assisted suicide.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/376408_antidignity26.html

July

"Study Finds Nurses Need Their Naps”

Nursezone.com, July 31, 2008:

http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/more-news.aspx?ID=18132

Features research by SoN alumnae Diana McMillan, PhD ’01, and Wendy Fallis, PhD ’02.

June

“Working Dad: Back to basic training”

Seattle P-I, June 26, 2008

Features Pamela L. Jordan, assoc. prof., FCN.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/368565_dad27.html?source=rss

“Pauline Mary Bruno, 1922-2008: Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at age 77”

Seattle P-I, June 16, 2008

Obituary on former SoN professor.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/367239_obitbruno17.html

“UC Davis appoints Heather Young as associate vice chancellor for nursing”

June 16, 2008

Young, who will lead a new school of nursing at UC Davis, received her master’s in nursing and her doctorate in nursing science from the UW.

http://media-newswire.com/release_1067933.html

“Good parents, bad results: 8 ways science shows that Mom and Dad go wrong when disciplining their kids”

U.S. News & World Report, June 12, 2008

Includes Jamila Reid, co-director of the UW Parenting Clinic, and a mention of work by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, prof., FCN.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/06/12/good-parents-bad-results_print.htm

“Program helps parents bond with baby”

KING-5 TV, June 9, 2008

Features Jean Kelly, prof., FCN

http://www.king5.com/education/stories/NW_060908EDB_firstrelationships_SW.16e8bc14.html

“Redesign flawed health care system”

Seattle P-I, June 9, 2008

Commentary features Dean Nancy Woods on the contributions of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and others in solving the primary-care shortage.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/366363_nursepract10.html

“Show, not tell”

Yale Nursing Matters, Spring 2008

Profile of Yale alum Carolyn Webster-Stratton, prof., FCN

http://nursing.yale.edu/News/Publications/YNM/8_2/V8_2_pg24-25.pdf

“New study shows significant gaps in availability of hospice care”

AHC Media, June 2008

Features George Demiris, assoc. prof., BNHS, on the use of technology, including videophones, to better serve patients in rural areas.

http://ahcpub.com/hot_topics/?htid=1&httid=1923

May

“A bed for every child who needs one”

The Seattle Times, May 29, 2008
Commentary by Susan Heath, assistant dean for clinical-nursing practice and chief nursing officer at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2004444415_heathop29.html

“Fund state nursing programs or face critical shortage”

The (Tacoma) News Tribune, May 27, 2008
Commentary co-authored by Judy Huntington, executive director of the Washington State Nurses Association and 2008 winner of the SoN’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/353149.html

“School of Nursing honors profession’s leaders”

UWeek, May 8, 2008
http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?Search=Nursing&articleid=41569

“Saving marriages can save tax dollars, advocates argue”

Seattle P-I, May 7, 2008
Features Pamela L. Jordan, assoc. prof., FCN.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/362168_marriage08.html

“Sleep troubles vary between Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers”

KING-5 TV, May 2, 2008
Features Susan McCurry, research prof., PCH.
http://www.k5thehometeam.com/Global/story.asp?S=8265406&nav=menu177_7_2_10

April

“Raising the medical bar"

UW Daily, April 29, 2008

A feature on the school's Doctor of Nursing Practice program

http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/4/29/raising-medical-bar/

“Working Dad: Two parents minus passion equals an unhealthy marriage for the whole family”