Best of 2020-2021

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Charge On, Change Lives Highlights from the 2020–2021 Academic Year THOUGHT LEADERS Advancing Simulation CRUSADERS Reducing Healthcare Disparities HIGH ACHIEVERS Excellence in Education


2021 U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings

8

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BEST ONLINE NURSING EDUCATION MASTER’S PROGRAMS

14

BEST ONLINE BACHELOR’S PROGRAMS

16

MOST INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS

27

BEST ONLINE MASTER’S IN NURSING PROGRAMS

65

BEST GRADUATE PROGRAMS, DNP

# # # #

NURSING.UCF.EDU


HIGH-ACHIEVING GRADUATES

96%

NCLEX-RN FIRST-TIME PASS RATE OF BSN GRADUATES

96%

NURSE PRACTITIONER BOARD CERTIFICATION EXAM PASS RATE

FUNDING THE FUTURE

85%

COLLEGE FACULTY AND STAFF GIVING

300K+

$

NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED


EXPERT LEADERS

International Recognition from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Mindi Anderson, director of the Healthcare Simulation graduate program and among the world’s first advanced certified healthcare simulation educators (CHSE-A), was named Educator of the Year.

Syretta Spears, assistant director of the Simulation, Technology, Innovation and Modeling Center, is among the world’s first 25 advanced certified healthcare simulation operations specialists (CHSOS-A).

Faculty Inducted as National Fellows

Veronica Decker FNAP

Desiree Díaz FAAN

Jacqueline LaManna FADCES

National Academies of Practice

American Academy of Nursing

Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists


IMPACTFUL IDEAS

Increasing Diversity in Clinical Research Participants Professor Donna Felber Neff is part of a $2 million, three-year statewide effort examining intergenerational influence to recruit and enroll diverse older adults as participants in clinical research studies – a population that’s currently under-represented – to address healthcare disparities.

Nation’s First COVID-19 Study Examining Experiences of Black Women Carmen Giurgescu, associate dean of research, received additional funding for her ongoing $3.8 million NIH R01 study to explore pregnant Black women’s experiences during the pandemic and identify factors related to maternal morbidity and mortality.

Creating Diverse Simulations to Reduce Healthcare Disparities With a research grant from Laerdal Medical, healthcare simulation expert Desiree Díaz is using healthcare simulation education to increase awareness among nursing students about healthcare disparities for Black pregnant women and infants to enable the students to become more culturally competent providers.

PATENT-PRODUCING

UCF ranks #25 among U.S. public universities, # 60 in the world for producing patents.


EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Improving Access to Mental Health Services

Overcoming Obstacles to Earn Highest Honor

Board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner Marie Smith-East ’21PhD focuses her research on improving geographic access to healthcare using geographic information systems (GIS) and presented on the topic related to the pandemic at the Florida Nurses Association Membership Assembly.

First-generation student Sadie Richards ’21BSN was awarded UCF’s highest student honor – the Order of Pegasus – and plans to become an advanced practice nurse advocating for marginalized populations.

Advocating to Reduce Disparities

Chloe Frye ’21BSN

Josée Etienne ’21BSN

Chloe Frye ’21BSN and Josée Etienne ’21BSN wrote a resolution for the Student Nurses’ Association to support increasing awareness of the lack of pain assessments in patients of color – the resolution passed at the state and national levels.

“ Our students have grown during this unique time in history and demonstrated that they are ready to show the world what it means to be a Knight nurse.” — DEAN MARY LOU SOLE


Showing Compassion More than 250 Class of 2021 BSN graduates from UCF Orlando, Cocoa and Daytona joined a nationwide effort to help administer thousands of COVID-19 vaccines – making a significant impact on the health of the Central Florida community one dose of hope at a time. As featured in USA TODAY.

955

8

TOTAL GRADUATES

4.0 GPAs

806

63

BSN DEGREES

UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC HONORS

70

18

DOCTORAL DEGREES

HONORS COLLEGE DUAL GRADUATES

80

15

MSN DEGREES + GRADUATE CERTIFICATES

HONORS UNDERGRADUATE THESES


NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO.3575 ORLANDO, FL

12201 Research Parkway, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32826

AT-A-GLANCE

30,000 HOURS OF SERVICE IN 17 UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

12,500+ NURSING ALUMNI

3,100+ NURSING STUDENTS

21 NATIONAL FELLOWS ON FACULTY

3.65M

$

IN RESEARCH FUNDING FOR 2020–21


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