Fueling Nursing’s Future Highlights from the 2021/2022 Academic Year COLLABORATING Across Disciplines SHINING BRIGHT Beyond the Classroom FUNDING to Fuel the Future
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New National Fellows & Honors New Department Chair
Greg Welch, PhD, FNAI, FIEEE
National Academy of Inventors, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mindi Anderson, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CHSE-A, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN
Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Outstanding Scholar 2022
Mona Shattell, an internationally recognized mental health and psychiatric nursing expert, joined UCF at the start of 2021/2022. Dr. Shattell is the chair of the Department of Nursing Systems and the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Endowed Chair.
MORE COLLABORATION
Improving Provider Resiliency
An interdisciplinary team from UCF, including the College of Nursing’s Desiree Díaz, received a $1.5 million federal grant to develop a virtual program to improve the mental health of healthcare providers.
Fueling Interdisciplinary Research
UCF was awarded $300,000 from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation to support eight interdisciplinary healthcare research projects, including social determinants of health, pain management, simulation and more.
Listen: Desiree Díaz, associate professor and president-elect of the International Nursing Association of Clinical and Simulation Learning (INACSL), shares how simulation technology is paving the way for the future of nursing and more.
Critical Resolution Passed
A group of UCF nursing students’ resolution, “In Support of Education About Post-Intensive Care Syndrome,” passed unanimously at the National Student Nurses’ Association convention.
The Student Nurses’ Association at UCF Orlando was awarded the Diamond Chapter Award – the top honor in the state – for the seventh time.
Top Honor for First-Generation Student
Erin Tonkin ’22BSN, a student leader with a 3.9 GPA, was awarded UCF’s highest student honor, the Order of Pegasus. Tonkin also completed an Honors Undergraduate Thesis on expanding diversity, equity and inclusion in simulation education.
PhD Develops Promising Epilepsy App
To help other families like hers, Michelle Tall ’17MSN, ’21PhD developed Medilepsy – an app that proved effective in a study in helping adolescents with epilepsy and their caregivers selfmanage the chronic disease.
Funding for First Postdoctoral Fellow
Suzanne Hyer ’19PhD received NIH funding to study the role of social determinants of health on pregnancy weight gain and infant birth weight among Black women.
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Showing Compassion
UCF BSN student and leukemia survivor Max Jones beat the odds and is now pursuing a career in pediatric oncology inspired by the nurse who took care of him during his treatment – UCF alumna Delaney Postma ’15BSN
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Support for Knight Nurses
Gift to “Guide” Graduate Students
Thanks to the generosity of Roslyn and Jody Burttram, DNP students have a new ultrasound machine. “It’s not just another piece of equipment or technology,” says Assistant Professor Frank Guido-Sanz. “It’s something that is essential to the core of our curriculum, and it pays off in so many ways ... but most importantly, in patient outcomes and safety.”
A Look Ahead to 2022/2023
In summer 2022, UCF was awarded transformational funding to address the nursing shortage. The investment includes $29 million to build a new state-of-the-art building for the College of Nursing at the UCF Academic Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona.
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