Vol. 7, No.5
- Rumay Alexander Appointed to Regional Health Equity Council
- Faculty and Alumni Named AANP Fellows
- Debra Barksdale Chosen for RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows Program
- Jane Kaufman Retires from SON
- Grant Supports Study of Ethical Issues in Dialysis Facilities
- Oncology MSN Students Receive Scholarships
Faculty and Alumni Named AANP Fellows
Tom Bush, MSN, RN, FNP-C
SON Clinical Associate Professor Tom Bush as well as SON alumni Gale Adcock, MSN ’87, and Ellen Davis Jones, BSN ’84, were inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) at the AANP 26th National Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bush practices in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Orthopedics as a family nurse practitioner. Adcock directs the Health Care Center at SAS, and Jones is an associate professor at the UNC Greensboro School of Nursing.
The FAANP program was established in 2000 to recognize nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through nurse practitioner clinical practice, research, education or policy. Fellows of the AANP are visionaries committed to the global advancement of nursing through the development of imaginative and creative future nurse practitioner leaders, and as such, hold an annual think tank to strategize about the future of nurse practitioners and health care outside the confines of traditional thinking. A limited number of nurse practitioners are selected for this highly coveted distinction each year.