Vol. 6, No. 11
- Happy Holidays from your School of Nursing!
- Dean Swanson Comments on Bush’s Miscarriage
- Video: Dr. Deborah Mayer Speaks about Elizabeth Edwards
- Innovative Clinical Nurse Leader and Clinical Nurse Leader-Nurse Educator Options at UNC Chapel Hill
- Save the Date: Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture on Feb. 21
- Students and Faculty Volunteer at Project Homeless Connect
- Nursing in the Media: Nurses’ Role in the Future of Health Care
- News You Can Use: AHA Recommends Changes to CPR
- Center for Lifelong Learning Courses
- Updates: Video of an Alumna Working in Haiti
- It’s Easy to Connect with your Classmates
Updates: Video of an Alumna Working in Haiti
SON Alumna Hard at Work in Haiti
Tiffany Young, BSN ’99, has been in Haiti since June working as a Medical Program Coordinator for Samaritan’s Purse. Health care teams in Haiti are now on the front lines of the cholera epidemic there. The organization has featured her in a very moving video you can view below (photo and video courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse).
Gloria “Pam” R. Porter Receives Award from Duke
Gloria “Pam” R. Porter, BSN ‘96, received a 2010 Duke Medicine Friends of Nursing Award for Nursing Excellence, Nurse Research Mentor Award. She was recognized at a Gala in the Durham Marriott along with 35 other Duke nurses. She was nominated by Mr. Winslow Carter, a Guidance Counselor at East Chapel Hill High School, for her work with his students and also by a former patient who is a lung transplant recipient. Read more about the awards here.
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