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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.
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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.
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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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David G. Allen, PhD, FAAN Professor Psychosocial & Community Health 357263 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7263 Email Address: dgallen@u.washington.edu |
| Struggles for social justice have been my primary motivation throughout my career. In nursing, this started more than a quarter-century ago through a series of articles deconstructing professional nursing and nursing research’s political commitments (and the denial of those commitments behind the discourses of professionalism and science). Since then I have continued to argue that health and justice were inseparable and nursing should engage more explicitly with the relationships among health care and political oppression—whether along dimensions of gender, racialization or social class. My friend and colleague Jan Thompson and I organized an annual conference on feminist and critical theories in nursing for more than a dozen years. When I came to UW, through my appointment in Psychosocial and later Psychosocial and Community Health, Professor Oliver Osborne and I developed the first explicitly anti-racist course and with other colleagues, I turned my attention to the tragedy and injustice of mental illness in prisons. Currently I have a joint appointment, with the majority of my efforts devoted to my work as Chair of the Women Studies department here at UW, Teaching: In nursing I continue to teach a course on philosophies of inquiry that I developed when I first came here and a course on racism and white supremacy in health and human services that is cross-listed with Women Studies. Recently with an amazing team of students, I developed a new course in Women Studies on masculinities. I’ve been around long enough that my former students are now my tenured colleagues! |
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