PROFILE
Living Legends in Nursing It was the mid-’60s when Loretta Ford ’49, MS ’51, EdD ’61, PNP, FAAN, FAANP, CU alumna and nursing faculty member, forever changed the practice of nursing through the creation of the world’s first pediatric nurse practitioner program. In the next decade, renowned nursing theorist and CU alumna Jean Watson ’64, MS ’66, PhD ’73, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, established a transformative new model of nursing practice focused on human connection, and the art and science of caring. In the early 2000s, Colleen J. Goode, PhD, RN, FAAN, and her team at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) launched the country’s first post-baccalaureate nurse residency program for new nursing graduates in partnership with the CU College of Nursing and then-dean Pat Moritz, RN, PhD, FAAN. UCH and CU Nursing were one of six sites that tested the initial program.
Loretta Ford ’49, MS ’51, EdD ’61, PNP, FAAN, FAANP, Colleen J. Goode, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Jean Watson ’64, MS ’66, PhD ’73, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN
