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America's No. 1 Nursing School
For more than 20 years, the University of Washington School of Nursing has been ranked America's No. 1 nursing school, including 17 years atop the U.S. News and World Report list, which began ranking nursing schools
in 1993.
Emphasizing Research
and Teaching
Six degree programs, multiple specialties, continuing education opportunities and world renowned research are part of the UW School of Nursing's goal of addressing society's most pressing challenges in health care. Students: Oliver Liscano and Joann Ucol.
Stay Connected
The School of Nursing is grateful for the support of its outstanding alumni, friends and community partners. Many participate as clinical preceptors, advisers and volunteers, and provide financial support for our students, faculty and programs.
Recognizing Leaders in Nursing
Every year the UW School of Nursing honors local and national leaders for their important contributions to the field of nursing and pays tribute to our community's most accomplished nurses and health care leaders at the annual Nurses Recognition Banquet.
Advancing Nursing Research
With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care the UW School of Nursing is the No. 3 Nursing School in research funding from the NIH, with six centers of excellence and over 185 active and pending research projects.
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Deborah Ward, RN, PhD, FAAN Associate Professor Emerita Psychosocial & Community Health Box 357263 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7263 Email Address: deborah.ward@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu |
| Debbie Ward was a political science major as an undergraduate at Oberlin College. But instead of law school or the foreign service, Debbie became a home health aide during a stint living in rural Connecticut. This experience led her to the then-newly-re-established program for graduate study in nursing at Yale University; an intense basic nursing program was followed by training to become a family nurse practitioner. Debbie worked as an FNP in the inner city clinic of Yale New Haven and as a solo geriatric practitioner in a public health department in Hartford before beginning her Pew doctoral fellowship in health policy at Boston University. Her doctoral study involved calculating the value of the unpaid work of family caregivers. | |
| Her research and practice interests continue in health politics and policy. She is involved both locally and nationally in the changing format and content of health service delivery. Her teaching interests include discussion-based learning and a focus on students' personal learning styles. Her research has included technologic enhancements to patient education for low health literacy clients, recognizing the expansion of nursing work, and the patient safety movement. In addition to consultative and professional association work, she is immediate past chair of the consumer-elected Board of Trustees of Group Health Cooperative, the Pacific Northwest's pioneering health maintenance organization. |
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