Vol. 7, No. 1
- Magnet Designation for UNC Hospitals
- Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture on Feb. 21
- Meet Micah McCanna, Nursing Student and Winter Sports Athlete
- SON’s Barksdale Featured on UNC.edu
- News You Can Use
- 2011 Carolina Summer Research Institutes and Courses
SON’s Barksdale Featured on UNC.edu
SON Associate Professor Dr. Debra Barksdale juggles teaching, research, mentoring, volunteering and providing national nursing leadership. In fall 2010, she was the only nurse appointed to the Board of Governors for the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Dr. Barksdale was recently featured in a spotlight on the front page of UNC.edu:
From the time she was small, Debra J. Barksdale thought big. At the age of 9, she was inspired by the television show Julia, starring Diahann Carroll as a black American nurse. “Everything I did from that point on was so that I could be a nurse,” she says.
She was determined to be the first in her family to acquire a four-year degree, and she went on to be a nurse practitioner and to attain a Ph.D. in Nursing Research from the University of Michigan.
Read more in For Carolina nurse, big ideas bring big results.