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| Dean's Welcome for Academic Year 2009-2010 |
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Greetings from the Dean's Office at the College of Nursing!
I am delighted to be asked to serve the College of Nursing, which includes the departments of Nutrition and Dietetics, Family and Community Nursing, and Practice and Role Development, as Dean for the next two years. It is an awesome responsibility and one that I fully embrace.
The College remains positioned to carry on the tradition of making significant contributions in healthcare and nutrition locally, regionally and around the world. Our faculty and staff include exceptional individuals who are outstanding educators as well as researchers, community leaders, and advocates for a healthier nation.
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College Leadership
Several new faces will be joining the current leadership mission of the College of Nursing. Our fabulous leadership includes:
Professor Judy Hall - Chair of Nutrition and Dietetics Department. Judy also serves as Program Director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics.
Professor Stephanie Christian - Chair of the Practice and Role Development Department, also coordinates the College's accelerated degree option called "Bac-2" and our multi-systems and interdisciplinary course offerings.
Dr. Liz Tyree - Chair of the Family and Community Nursing Department. Liz also serves as Co-Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing master's specialties, Director of the College's Nursing Center, and researches cultural preservation in the face of waterway conflicts.
Dr. Darla Adams - Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, who is also the Nurse Anesthesia Program Administrator, President of the North Dakota Association of Nurse Anesthetists and a leader in advocacy for anesthesia care for the region.
Professor Roxanne Hurley - Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and former Bush Teaching Scholar. Roxanne leads our undergraduate nursing program, which includes program planning and assessment. Her scholarly work centers on pain management and best practices in clinical education.
Dr. Cindy Anderson - Associate Dean for Research, who is a Rober Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar and has an exciting program of research centered on nutritional determinants of hypertension in mothers and their children.
College Enrollment Profile
Nutrition and Dietetics enrollment is robus with approximately 90 students enrolled for a baccalaureate degree in Community Nutrition or Dietetics or a minor in Nutrition. The Department has campus and online course offerings to nursing and other health science majors.
The Undergraduate Nursing Program continues to enjoy healthy enrollment and now features four program options - traditional undergraduate, accelerated degree, LPN to BSN, and RN to BSN. Enrollment in nursing is strong with nearly 400 pre-nursing students and approximately 300 students completing course work for a baccalaureate degree in nursing.
The Graduate Nursing Program currently has over 200 graduate students in one of the six master's specializations or the PhD in Nursing program. The College is working towards implementing the Doctor of Nursing Practice - with no date yet set for implementation.
The BIG Event!
I would be remiss if I didn't mention how excited we are at the College of Nursing for Homecoming 2009. This fall the College of Nursing will be celebrating 100 years of nursing presence on the campus of the University of North Dakota, with 50 years as a College! We are inviting former and current students, staff, and faculty, as well as our community partners and advisors to campus in celebration of this BIG event. The event kicks off on October 1st with tours of the College of Nursing and the newly opened Behavioral Research Center located just south of the College building and will cluminate with a fabulous Gala Dinner and Dance at the Alerus Center the evening of October 2nd. We have so much to share with our alumni and friends, including the newly remodeled RAIN (Recruitment/Retention of American Indians into Nursing) instructional are, the Learning Resource and Simulation Center - celebrating its first anniversary this fall, and, of course, the many features of the National Institute of Health (NIH) funded behavioral research building, which boasts support for research on nutritional, domestic violence, gambling, wellness in the American Indian population, and childhood obesity - just to name a few!
I wish our students, faculty, and partners much success in the 2009-2010 year.
Julie Anderson, RN, PhD, CCRC
Dean
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