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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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Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7266 Email Address: nfwoods@u.washington.edu |
| For more than two decades I have focused my research and teaching efforts on women's health. | |
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Research: Recent projects include a study to characterize the natural history of the transition to menopause and the symptoms women experience during the menopausal transition. This collaborative project with Dr. Ellen Mitchell, "Menopausal Transition: Biobehavioral Models", involves following a cohort of midlife women for ten years with frequent measures of ovarian hormones, stress perception and stress response indicators, and symptoms, as well as annual health updates and daily menstrual calendars.
Another collaborative study with colleagues in Family Medicine and Nursing involves developing a web-based decision aid for women who are considering using hormone therapy for prevention of diseases of advanced age. I am also a co-investigator for the Women's Health Initiative Study, Seattle Clinical Center. |
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Teaching: I offer courses in Women's Health Physiology, Research Design for Studying Therapeutics, and Women's Health Issues.
Service: I have served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and as a member of the National Advisory Council on Nursing Research for the National Institute of Nursing Research, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. |
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