SON: Connections - Fall 2003

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The following faculty and students were honored June 13 at the School of Nursing 16th Annual Convocation and Awards Ceremony:

Rheba de Tornyay Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Deborah Ward, Associate Professor of Psychosocial and Community Health
Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Margaret Buxton, lecturer in Family and Child Nursing
Sandra Eyres Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching: Monica Jarrett, Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
BSN Special Achievement Award: Marc Silfies and Choua Yang
BSN Humanitarian Award: Jessica Bafus and Betsy Greacen
Master's Humanitarian Award: Christina Coops
Master's Outstanding Scholar Award: Nicole Kerkenbush

The following students received Healthy Aging Graduate Scholarship this year:

Pat Olsen, a UW Bothell master's student, received a 2003-2004 Healthy Aging Graduate Scholarship for an evaluation of the community-based health enhancement program.
Diana Schaefer, a master's student in Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, received the graduate scholarship and studies the experience of caregiving among older Vietnamese caregivers in the Vietnamese immigrant community.
Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems master's student Elena Siegal has been selected for the graduate scholarship and is conducting a descriptive study of licensed nurse-nursing assistant communication: managing care of older adults in long-term care settings.
One doctoral scholarship was awarded to Tsae-Jvy "Tiffany" Wang for her research on aquatic exercise in improving function in older adults with osteoarthritis. The 2003-2004 Healthy Aging Graduate Scholarships are funded by the de Tornyay center for Healthy Aging and the John A. Hartford Foundation.

Kathleen Lange, a master's student in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, received a Worldwide University fellowship and will spend a quarter studying at the University of Leeds in England. There she will learn about mental health services provided in a single payor system and study cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectical behavioral therapy in Great Britain. The University of Washington is a participant in the Worldwide Universities Network, a consortium of research universities in Britain, the United States, and China that collaborate on research and educational opportunities in interdisciplinary areas.

Hanako Tani, a fifth-year student in the School of Nursing and five fellow students from the University of Washington health sciences were among the winners in a national competition the 2003 Secretary's Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The office of Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announces the awards. Co-authors Brian Johnson, School of Medicine; Marie Bach, School of Pharmacy; Lauren Haffner, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Tani; and Denice Hoz, School of Social Work, won third place for their project, "Students in the Community: A collaborative effort to provide quality health care to the homeless." The authors are part of Students in the Community, a group sponsored by the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, and comprised of students from all the health sciences schools. The group teamed with Aloha Inn, an organization that provides transitional housing for homeless men and women in Seattle, to provide access to quality health services and health education.

In recognition of their work to improve the health of Seattle-based refugees, the 2003 senior nursing students in the Nursing Clinical 409 course earned an Outstanding Service Award from the Pacific Asian Empowerment Program (PAEP). The students were honored for their work with Hmong, Mien and Lao refugees through the PAEP and the Aging and Disability Services (ADS) of Seattle. Working with elderly people in the ADS nutrition program since spring 2002, the nursing students assessed perceived health concerns, assets, resources and needs of the patients. They then conducted health promotion and injury/disease prevention sessions on areas of concern.

The PAEP award also recognizes the work the students did through the Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA) and ADS in winter and spring quarters 2003. The students created a video describing the refugee population in Rainier Valley and how PAEP, ADS and ReWA are working with them. Marjorie Muecke, Professor of Psychosocial and Community Health, and her colleagues presented the video to several hundred health and social service providers at the annual refugee conference held June 28 near Seattle.

Students Amanda Barnes, Jinny Chang, Suni Dawn Elgar, Betsy Greacen, Michele Higgins, Christina Ketchum, Irawati Lam, Lora Magsanoc and Carol Vuong also launched a Web site, Health Tips for Refugees, in conjunction with ReWA. You can find it online at: http://www.son.washington.edu/students/rewa.

Ruth Craven, Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, and Associate Dean of Educational Outreach and Community Relations, received the 2003 Sandy Eyres Faculty Appreciation Award June 19 from the Staff Advisory Council. Echoed throughout the nomination remarks were the sentiments: "Ruth exemplifies the goal of establishing a collaborative working relationship between faculty and staff," and "She knows we all are an important part of what makes the school special."

Hsiu-Ying Huang, Research Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, has been awarded the Oncology Nursing Society Research Fellowship for 2004. The award will support her study: "Exercise for Cancer Symptom Control."

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