LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Seven inspiring individuals as well as a foundation helping to transform a nursing profession whilst raising awareness of a valuable role nurses fool around in 21st century healthcare will be honored during a second annual Nurse 21 Awards presented by a UCLA School of Nursing on May 9 during a SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The honorees paint a diverse group of nurses an internationally renowned expert in healthcare as well as a worldwide nursing shortage, an educator as well as policy advisor now working in South Australia, a strategic advisor for a Future of Nursing Campaign for Action, a nursing student who is challenging a stereotypes as well as inequalities which affect all nurses, a clinical nurse specialist, an expert in mental illness nursing as well as a single of a worlds best-known as well as many rarely respected healthcare foundations. We have been honored to recognize these champions who have been working to redefine as well as expand a role of nursing, said Courtney H. Lyder, dean of a UCLA School of Nursing. Their impact has been huge as well as will continue to be so. The keynote residence during a Nurse 21 celebration will be delivered by Heidi Crooks, RN, MA, who will additionally receive this years Nurse 21 Leadership Award. Crooks now serves as comparison associate director of operations as well as studious caring services as well as chief nursing military officer during a UCLA Health System. Crooks is a past recipient of a Most Innovative Patient-Focused Care Award from a Hospital Council of Southern California as well as a 2001 Caregiver of a Year Award. In addition to Crooks, other 2012 award recipients include: Corporation/Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital Campaign: The Future of Nursing Campaign for Action. This unique initiative is designed to identify, generate, synthesize as well as disseminate justification necessary to implementing a recommendations outlined in a Institute of Medicines report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health as well as to contribute to Campaign for Actions goal of advancing comprehensive change in healthcare for patients as well as a country. International. Judith A. Oulton, D.Sc. (hon.), M.Ed., RN, former chief executive military officer of a International Council of Nurses (ICN) as well as current part of of a board of curators of a U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention. Oulton is an internationally renowned expert in issues such as healthcare as well as a worldwide nursing shortage. Her efforts to advance a margin of nursing have spanned her entire career. Oulton retired from ICN, a federation of national nurses associations which works to maintain a clever international village of nurses as well as to promote sound illness policies around a world in partnership with a United Nations as well as other non-governmental organizations. Media Advocacy Diana Mason, RN, Ph.D., former editor of a American Journal of Nursing. During her 10-year tenure, a journal was named a single of a 100 many influential journals of a century in biology as well as medicinethe only nursing journal to be selected for this distinction. Currently Dr. Mason is a Rudin professor of nursing as well as co-director of a Center for Health, Media as well as Policy during Hunter College, The City University of New York. She additionally serves as strategic confidant for a Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action which is coordinating implementation of a recommendations in a Institute of Medicines report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Community Award Kristine Gebbie, former head of public illness for a state of Oregon, Washington State Secretary of Health, as well as part of of a White House team which established a AIDS Policy Office for President Clinton. Gebbie has additionally served as a comparison policy advisor to a Office of Disease Prevention as well as Health Promotion on subjects of public illness infrastructure as well as a public illness workforce. She has chaired policy committees for both a Centers for Disease Control as well as Prevention as well as a U.S. Department of Energy. Presently Dr. Gebbie works as an adjunct professor, faculty of illness sciences, during Flinders University School of Nursing & Midwifery in South Australia where she continues her longstanding research interests in competency-based education as well as puncture preparedness. Distinguished Alumni Sandra Rome, RN, MN, AOCN, a clinical nurse specialist during Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Rome received both her BSN as well as her MN degrees from a UCLA School of Nursing. She now serves as an assistant clinical professor during a school, by which she frequently mentors graduate students as well as provides guest lectures. Rome has impacted nursing on a national level by membership, speaking, as well as publishing several articles as well as book chapters in nationally recognized journals as well as texts. Distinguished Alumni Dr. Vivien Dee, DNSc, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is professor as well as director of a Ph.D. nursing program during Azusa Pacific University. Upon graduation from UCLA, she served as nurse expert during Western Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities in Santa Monica as well as then as assistant director for child services during a UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital from 1977-1987. In February, 2011, she was a keynote speaker during a International Nursing Conference in Riyadh, sponsored by a Kingdom of Saudi Arabias Ministry of Health. Emerging Leader Award Jonathan Lee, a fourth-year student in a undergraduate program during a UCLA School of Nursing. In his second year he co-founded Men in Nursing during UCLA, as well as under his leadership a group has turn a single of a largest as well as many active chapters of a American Assembly for Men in Nursing. As an individual as well as by Men in Nursing during UCLA, Lee continues to challenge a stereotypes as well as inequalities which affect all nurses as well as hold back a nursing profession. Further information may be obtained during http://nursing.ucla.edu/Nurse21. The UCLA School of Nursing is redefining nursing by a pursuit of uncompromised excellence in research, education, practice, policy as well as studious advocacy. Ranked between a top nursing schools in a country by U.S. News as well as World Report, a propagandize additionally is ranked No. 7 in nursing research saved by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as No.1 in NIH stimulus funding. In 2010-2011, a propagandize received $24 million in total research grant appropriation as well as was awarded 26 faculty research grants. The propagandize offers programs for a undergraduate (BS), postgraduate (MSN as well as MECN) as well as doctoral (Ph.D.) student. For more information, please visit nursing.ucla.edu. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc
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