SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk Article about Nurses as First Responders Receives Top Honor And the Golden Pen Award goes to… co-authors Mary Salazar, Professor of Psychosocial and Community Health, and Betty Kelman '99 M.N. Their article, Planning for Biological Disaster: Occupational Health Nurses as 'First Responders,' was recognized as the year's finest article written by a member of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) for the AAOHN Journal. The project "was motivated by the events that unfolded after Sept. 11, 2001," Kelman says. Although the article appeared in the April 2002 issue, some of its information on individual biological diseases was published on the AAOHN Web site immediately after Sept. 11. Kelman, a Seattle University School of Nursing lecturer who taught at the University of Washington from 2001 to 2002, says that the piece evolved from a lecture given to undergraduates. Pamela Moore, editor of the AAOHN Journal, notes that the article "serves as an excellent example of using scholarship to provide practicing OHNs with essential tools to meet the changing demands of a complex workplace environment. In this case, those demands happened to be of an extraordinary nature." Return to Headlines Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195