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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.
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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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Frederica O'Connor, PhD Associate Professor Emerita Psychosocial & Community Health Box 357263 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7263 Email Address: roc@u.washington.edu |
| I am a psychiatric nurse with doctoral preparation in social psychology. My research interests include both individual-level and program-level considerations with community-residing adults who have serious and persistent mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia. My second interest is the effectiveness (and also the cost effectiveness) of treatment packages provided to seriously and persistently mentally ill persons receiving treatment from mental health agencies with state contracts to provide mental health care for this population. In preparation for research on the outcomes of public sector services for people with serious mental disorders, I am currently studying the structure and operation (including external influencing conditions) of an affiliated provider network serving a 5-county region. | |
| I am also co-PI of a study evaluating the efficacy of a multifamily group intervention for families with an adolescent showing signs of serious mental illness. | |
| A recent teaching accomplishment was the development (with two colleagues) of a Web-based teaching-learning case focused on an adolescent with emerging psychotic symptoms and his family. Major teaching-learning goal was to foster in learners the skill of contextualized, multifaceted clinical reasoning during assessment, intervention, and treatment evaluation. | |
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