Virginia Legacy

Virginia Legacy is published two times each year (spring and fall) for alumni, parents, students, and friends of the U.Va. School of Nursing. We welcome your story ideas, comments, and feedback! Please e-mail the editor if you have a comment or idea to share.

Legacy Spring 2012: "Studying Abroad to Better Serve at Home"

• Welcome from Dean Fontaine: "Reaching out, with respect"
• News worth noting: interview with Janie Heath, associate dean for academic programs; Wilson wins national award; Clinical Nurse Leader Program nears five-year mark; Professor Sarah Farrell named exceptional nursing educator; RN to BSN students attend legislative day
• Student in focus: Chibueze Nwaiwu (BSN '13)
• New pledges push MeLeod Campaign over the top
• COVER: Studying Abroad to Better Serve at Home
• Philanthropy: Gift celebrates life of Nurse Practitioner Bonnie Chisholm (BSN '75)
• Impact: Taking care of sugar; Reducing incorrect surgical counts in the OR; CNL students pursue quality improvement research
• From the Nursing Alumni Association President Sharon Cumby Fay (BSN '76, MSN '80)
• Class notes and news
• Faculty publications, 2011

Features & Departments – Fall 2011

• Letter from the Dean
• Worth Noting: News from the School of Nursing
• From the Nursing Alumni Association:  Meet the new Alumni Council president, Sharon Cumby Fay (BSN '76); read about the upcoming nursing service trip to Vietnam; learn about Hoos Coming to Dinner, the Alumni Association's annual Alumni Scholarship opportunity, and about the Grier Medical Assistance Fund for alumni with serious medical expenses; and see the schedule of Nursing-specific events for the Thomas Jefferson Society and June Class Reunions.
• Student in Focus: Neil Peterson (MSN '11)
• Impact: Nursing Research - Prevention, Practice, Policy - Read about how nurses improve patient care through the PNSO Research Program.
• Philanthropy:  Learn more about how the $746,000 grant from the Macy Foundation supports interprofessional education at the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine. 
• Alumni in Action: Jessica Ann Summer (BSN '09)
• Class Notes & News
• Virginia Moments
• Calendar of Events 

 

Read the current issue:  Legacy 2012 Spring  ll 

 

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Editorial Staff and Advisory Board for 2011-2012

• Lynn Woodson, Editor
  Director of Communications, Health System Development
• Karol Kozak, Managing Editor
  Director of Alumni Affairs & Donor Relations, School of Nursing
• Anna Tubbs Emery, Lee Fleisher, Dory Hulse, Kathleen Valenzi Knaus, Linda J. Kobert, Grace Maselli,
  Contributors
• Elisângela Blevins, Class Notes & News Editor
  Development Associate, School of Nursing

 

• Carol Brotherton (MSN '10, PhD ’14) - Graduate Student representative
• Reba Moyer Childress (BSN ’79, MSN ’91, FNP ’92) - Clinical/Teaching Faculty representative
• Mary Eckenrode Gibson (BSN '75, MSN '86) - Alumni Council Vice President for Communications
• Randy Jones (BSN '00, MSN '02, PhD '05) - Research Faculty representative
• Joe Montoya (MSN '94, PCNP '96, DNP '08) - Alumni Council Communications Coordinator
• Dorothy Tullmann - Clinical/Teaching Faculty representative
• Amy Karr - ex officio, Associate Vice President for Health System Development - Nursing

• Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN
  Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean
  

  
  

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