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NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING | F ALL 2003 | VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1
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FROM THE DEAN’S DESK
Partners Become Powerful Allies
in Addressing Nursing Need
O
ver
the past
decade, this
country has witnessed
an escalating
demand
for caregivers
and nursing education.
The aging of the nursing workforce
and faculty has intensified the
need to enhance nursing education
and to prepare future nursing educators,
leaders and researchers. This push
strains the capacity of the University
of Washington School of Nursing just
when support from the state budget
has diminished, dramatically affecting
our teaching capacity and goals.
These changes in demand and funding
have hastened the evolution of
partnerships that are now indispensable
to the school’s mission. I am heartened
by the sustained and expanded programs
made possible through alliances, particularly
with regional health care organizations,
in response to the need to
educate more nurses and prepare them
for practice in a complex world.
As students respond to the call for
more nurses, the demand for our programs
is increasing. This fall more than
400 students applied for 96 openings in
the baccalaureate nursing program.
Some 90 percent of the applicants we
turned away were qualified for admission.
Because we need to accommodate
more students in our programs, partnerships
have taken on a new meaning
and level of commitment. Increasingly,
we find the school relying on the
gracious hospitality from clinical facilities
and health care organizations for
support in educating our students and
for welcoming our research efforts.
Regional hospitals and community
health organizations have established
scholarship programs for students,
increasing the pipeline of students.
They have joined with the school to
jointly fund faculty who spend part of
their time teaching and conducting
research at area hospitals, allowing us to
expand our teaching capacity. They provide
preceptors and some donate a significant
amount of expert nurses’ time
to teach our students in the clinical
settings, enhancing the students’ learn-
CHANGES IN DEMAND AND FUNDING HAVE HASTENED THE EVOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE NOW INDISPENSABLE TO THE SCHOOL’S MISSION.
ing experience. In return, our partners
receive access to expert educators, nurse
researchers and top-notch students.
As this academic year begins,
we will continue our efforts to enhance
existing programs and forge new partnerships
with the clinical agencies in
our community and beyond. Together,
we can address the nursing shortage.
NANCY WOODS, PHD, RN, FAAN
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Editor
Lia Unrau
Contributing Writers
Sharon Frey Jones, Emily Leaver,
Pamela Wyngate
Designer
Stefanie Choi
Contributing Photographers
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cancer Lifeline,
ERA Care Communities, Gavin Sisk
Editorial Board
Basia Belza, Ruth Craven, Pamela Jordan,
Penny Vielma, Debbie Ward, Nancy
Woods, Sue Woods
Thanks to Claire Dietz for
editorial assistance.
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IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2003 | VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1
2 Shared Success
Nurses Tackle Teaching, Students Take on Hospitals
4 Extending a Lifeline
Researchers Collaborate with Local Organization
to Help Cancer Patients and Their Families
6 Terror Tamed
Nursing Students Enter the Clinical Arena
with Help at Their Side
8 Health Care by Design
Teri Oelrich Guides Architectural Plans
that Fuse Patient, Caregiver and Client Needs
9 Report to Contributors
A Special Thank You to Our Contributors
DEPARTMENTS
17 Briefly
20 Alumni News
21 Message Corner

Nurses Tackle Teaching,
shared success
Students Take on Hospitals
By Lia Unrau
C
atherine Fiona MacPherson
peered through the window of
her patient’s room in the pediatric
cancer center. Propped up against the
bed pillows sat junior nursing student
Shawn Craven, and curled up in his lap,
turning pages of a book, sat the 4-yearold
patient, a child receiving end-of-life
care for an aggressive metastatic tumor.
The moment stands out from staff
nurse MacPherson’s first year as a parttime
clinical lecturer for the University
of Washington School of Nursing.
In spite of his skill and confidence with
technical procedures and older children,
Craven had put off caring for small
children during his clinical experience.
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“He just wants me to read to him,”
Craven told MacPherson. He was
more nervous about reading a story to
a 4-year-old than learning how to start
an IV, MacPherson recalls. So they
talked about an approach, and she hung
around outside the room to be supportive,
just as she would if a student were
concerned about something technical.
“That picture [of them reading
together] captured for me a lot of the
essence of pediatric nursing,”
MacPherson says. Craven may not
choose pediatrics for his career, but
MacPherson is certain he learned a
powerful lesson that day: “Good nursing
is about caring and just being there.”
Mark D’Andrea, a senior in the BSN program, received a student loan scholarship
from Virginia Mason Medical Center, where he currently works in the critical care unit.
In exchange for paid tuition, he will work at VMMC for one year following graduation.
Last year,
the pediatric
oncology unit at
Children’s
Hospital &
Regional Medical
Center in Seattle
opened its doors
Fiona MacPherson
to UW students
and agreed to allow MacPherson, a
staff nurse, to teach 20 hours a week.
With an appointment as a UW lecturer
in family and child nursing, she is
part of a loaned faculty program that
allows expert nurses to contribute
directly to students’ education by teaching
them in their clinical settings. In
exchange, the nurses receive mentoring
and guidance in clinical teaching from
School of Nursing faculty.
“I saw the opportunity to teach the
students as an opportunity to share my
love of what I do with future nurses,”
MacPherson says. “It gives me huge job
satisfaction to try something new and
challenging. It’s a great opportunity for
professional growth and development.”
As MacPherson starts her second
year of clinical teaching, she joins
other nurses participating in the UW
loaned faculty partnerships with
Northwest Hospital & Medical Center,
Virginia Mason Medical Center, the
Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound
Health Care System, UW Medical
Center and Harborview Medical
Center. In many cases, the partner institution
pays the nurses’ regular salary
while the nurses teach a section of UW
students in place of regular clinical

work. Each has its own unique take on
the partnership.
The VA hospital, which has a longstanding
relationship with the School
of Nursing, is starting its third year of
the loaned faculty program. Frankie
Manning, nurse executive for VA Puget
Sound Health Care System, says the
program provides “a mechanism for our
staff who are fairly mature and have lots
of wisdom and expertise to contribute
to the education of nurses. At the same
time, we can extend the length of their
careers and practice by giving them
what is, in some ways, a sabbatical from
their worksite.”
At Virginia Mason, the focus of the
dual nurse-faculty role is on a smooth
transition from student to employee and
on continuing education, says Charleen
Tachibana, vice president and chief
nurse executive at Virginia Mason.
“What we began hearing from our
residents as well as our students was
that the experiences were much more
positive, they were more pleased with
L
ong-standing partners ERA Care
Communities and the University
of Washington School of Nursing
have a new ally in putting education
and research into practice at retirement
communities.
In September, Karen Feldt joined
ERA Care Communities as chief of
community health. Feldt oversees the
Wellness Clinics, Assisted Living,
Skilled Nursing and Recreation programs
at ERA Care facilities. She will
work closely and collaboratively with
the School of Nursing to enhance the
institutions’ partnership on various
levels, including student experiences,
research projects and faculty guidance
of health care programs.
Prior to joining ERA Care, Feldt
the transition to a working nurse
role,” she says. The result of their transition
programs, of which the loaned
faculty program is one part, Tachibana
says, is “a zero percent turnover for our
first two years of hire.” She adds:
“The cost of a clinical faculty was far,
far less than what we were spending
in turnover.”
Several area hospitals also partner
with the School of Nursing in another
way: student scholar loan programs.
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center,
Harborview, Swedish Medical Center,
UWMC and Virginia Mason participate
in the program, which pays a student’s
tuition and some expenses for one
to three years. In exchange, the student
agrees to work at the medical center
part time during school and for one to
two years after graduation.
“Our students love ‘getting to know’
a partner institution and seeing all
the possibilities available in it,” says
Julie Katz, assistant dean for academic
services. “The scholarships allow the
New ERA Care Executive to Enhance Collaborations
was an associate professor at the
University of Minnesota School of
Nursing and, as a geriatric nurse practitioner,
she conducted research on
pain and dementia.
“We are facing a freight train in
terms of the growing elderly population
in the future,” Feldt says. “I know that a
lot of new undergraduates and people
going into nursing think they want to
work with [pediatrics] or work in a really
high-tech environment like the intensive
care unit. My vision is allowing
opportunities to be involved in a hightouch
kind of environment, a place
where you really learn about caring and
nursing in a way that impacts the lives
of older people. Regardless of what environment
young nurses choose, in the
students to really succeed in school,
and they all but eliminate the sometimes
difficult transition to RN employment.
These programs allow us to truly
integrate with our partners, forming
bridges that bring us student support,
and them quality RNs.”
Virginia Mason wanted a way to
celebrate the accomplishments of nursing
students, and Tachibana says, “We
clearly wanted people who were interested
in the type of clientele that we
serve and could find a match with us.”
Both the faculty loan and student
scholarship programs address the challenges
ahead with the faculty and
nursing shortage, says Susan Woods,
associate dean for academic programs,
and the school is in negotiations to
establish more partnerships with other
sites. “The people we’re partnering with
need to retain their nurses and they
need new nurses. We need resources
to prepare new nurses and faculty and
the students need scholarships. So these
programs are a win-win.”
future they likely will deal with older
people because they will be the majority
of our health care consumers.”
Since 1990, the School of Nursing
and ERA Care Communities have
brought university-based gerontological
practice, education and research into
the day-to-day operations of a retirement
community. School of Nursing
faculty serve on a number of boards and
committees, including a steering
committee — chaired by Carol Leppa,
associate professor in the UW-Bothell
nursing program — charged with contributing
to each facility’s community
health services. ERA Care hosts clinical
experiences and research opportunities
for UW undergraduate and graduate students
in nursing and other disciplines.
FALL 2003 3

Researchers Collaborate with Local Organization
to Help Cancer Patients and Their Families
extending
a lifeline
By Pamela Wyngate
Y
ou have breast cancer. These are
four words no one wants to hear.
Yet physicians will speak these words to
one in eight women, according to the
National Cancer Institute. Nursing
Professor Frances Lewis and her
research team are concerned with what
women and their families do with the
onslaught of medical information, treatment
decisions and emotions that come
after an initial cancer diagnosis.
mong the many ways that the
School of Nursing reaches out to
the Seattle community is through student
mentoring programs. The programs
always need new mentors and volunteers
to encourage young people to pursue
higher education and explore careers in
nursing and health care. Following are
just some of the programs that team
with the School of Nursing. To learn
more or to get involved, visit each program’s
Web site.
• Making Connections promotes
understanding and participation in
health science and science careers. Led
by Susanna Cunningham, professor of
biobehavioral nursing and health systems,
the Making Connections program
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“The evidence is that in a doctor’s
office after a cancer diagnosis, even
if patients are calm, they actually only
retain about 33 percent of what they
hear,” says Lewis, the Elizabeth Sterling
Soule Endowed Professor in Nursing
and Health Promotion. “I’ve talked to
patients who know the names of the
kind of estrogen receptors associated
with their cancer, but they don’t know
if they should have surgery now or later.”
Mentoring Programs Encourage Nursing Careers
A
is a partnership of local organizations,
and joins middle school students with a
female professional or graduate student
in the fields of math, science or technology:
http://www.son.washington.edu/
centers/MakingConnections/
• Kids Into Health Careers, or
KIHC, brings high school students of
color to the School of Nursing for exposure
to nursing as a career; members also
participate in community festivals:
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/
• The UW Achievers program brings
faculty and staff volunteer mentors from
across campus together with incoming
freshmen to encourage completion of a
degree:http://depts.washington.edu/achie
ve/index.html
Lewis and her research team focus
on families with mothers who have
breast cancer and are raising children.
The team also partners with Cancer
Lifeline, a Seattle-based organization, to
address quality-of-life issues for patients
and families dealing with various kinds
of cancer.
Cancer Lifeline, founded by a cancer
patient with recurring cancer, began as
a telephone line/support system in 1973.
• GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness
and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs) helps to match minority middle
school students with mentors at the
UW and in the community: http://gear
up.washington.edu/
• WISE (Women in Science and
Engineering) offers various tutoring and
mentoring programs to help women
achieve their goals in science and engineering:http://www.engr.washington.edu/programs/wise/services.html
• CAN-DO (Collaborative Access
Network on Diversity Outreach) is a
campuswide network that supports outreach
and recruitment efforts from the
university to minority communities:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwcando/

Today trained volunteers respond to
more than 3,000 calls each year, offering
support and community resource
referral. Cancer Lifeline also offers
more than 30 classes and support groups
at its Seattle location. A second location
in Bellevue is slated to open in
January 2004.
“Not unlike many patients with
recurring cancer, the Cancer Lifeline
founder felt she needed support for her
illness, but that she couldn’t ask her
family and friends to go through it all
over again,” explains Ellen Zahlis,
research consultant in family and child
nursing and associate director of Cancer
Lifeline. “The anonymous telephone
support line is seen as less of a burden
on loved ones.”
Zahlis and Mary Ellen Shands,
researcher with the Family Functioning
Research Program at the UW and
program associate at Cancer Lifeline,
agree that their dual roles — studying
the impact of cancer on the family
at UW while serving as staff for Cancer
Lifeline — raises the level of work they
do as a whole.
“I’m sure our programs and services
at Cancer Lifeline are better informed
because of the research we do and that
our research findings are better understood
because of our joint positions,”
Zahlis says.
Since Cancer Lifeline is not affiliated
with a single provider, it is a dynamic
organization able to assess and
incorporate input from Puget Sound
cancer researchers, patients, care
providers and families. Working with
patients on the lifeline helps Zahlis and
Shands better understand the patient
and family experience.
“We get feedback from clients about
how to make a difference and can
actually apply this in Cancer Lifeline
programs,” explains Zahlis. “For
instance, we offer gentle yoga and
Qi Gong classes because patients told
us that exercise makes them feel better.
Participants in Cancer Lifeline’s Yoga Program get a good stretch. School of Nursing research
on care of cancer patients, led by Frances Lewis, benefits many Cancer Lifeline programs.
The scientific research is now backing
that up. Listening to patients helps us
design better study protocols. It works
both ways.”
Barbara Frederick, executive
director of Cancer Lifeline, says, “There
is no doubt that Cancer Lifeline programs
benefit from our close relationship
with the research team at the
university. Having members from the
research team who are also on staff here
not only adds to our understanding of
people’s experience with cancer, it also
results in more rigor in our evaluation
of our programs.”
Lewis’ research team has conducted
large descriptive studies, psychosocial
interventions, and randomized
clinical trials. In a recent study funded
by a Dorothy S. O’Brien Cancer
Lifeline grant, the research team
analyzed interviews from mothers with
breast cancer, focusing on how they
communicated with their children
about cancer and the children’s worries.
The study findings improved programs
at Cancer Lifeline and became the
basis for a clinical trial conducted by
the research team.
“So many patients seeking support at
Cancer Lifeline have diligently read the
literature and have wonderful doctors,”
says Lewis. “It’s not about medical care.
It’s about a better quality of life for cancer
patients and their families.”
Zahlis agrees: “We want to help cancer
patients and their families cope with
the illness and all its implications. We
don’t want them to just find a groove
and muddle through. We want them to
thrive as people and as a family.”
Two UW studies involving husbands of
women with newly diagnosed breast cancer
and mothers with newly diagnosed breast
cancer with a school-age child are currently
in progress. For more information, call
206-685-0837.
FALL 2003 5

Nursing Students Enter the Clinical Arena
with Help at Their Side
terror tamed
By Sharon Frey Jones
T
he baby was crying so hard,
it seemed impossible to conduct
the exam. Younhee Cho, a student
in the University of Washington
School of Nursing’s family nurse practitioner
program, could see the parents’
anxiety level mounting as the infant’s
cries escalated.
She was about to abandon her
efforts when her mentoring physician,
Dr. Steve Dassel, entered the room.
Within minutes, Dassel had both baby
Right: Lecturer Maggie Baker, students
Andrea Valdez and Caroline Walker, and
lecturer Theresa Barenz, pictured from
left, described their experiences working
together in a clinical setting during a 2003
event for scholarship recipients.
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and parents calm and relaxed. “Dr.
Dassel smiled at the baby and cradled
her while he spoke softly to her parents,”
remembers Cho. “His ability to
calm the baby and the parents was
amazing. There’s no way to teach in
school what I learned from him.”
Teaching both the science and the
art of nursing is the essence of the UW
School of Nursing’s preceptor program.
Each year, more than 350 physicians and
nurse practitioners instruct, guide and
Left: Nurse
practitioner and
preceptor Pat
Abbott looks on
as master’s
degree student
Pat Forg examines
a patient in
the urgent care
clinic at UW
Medical Center.
mentor students on a quarterly basis.
Dedicated preceptors like pediatrician
Dassel, who is retiring from practice this
year, spend countless hours (in Dassel’s
case, more than 2,000 since 1995) helping
students master critical skills and
modeling professional behavior.
“If only you could videotape the
little things Dr. Dassel does to put children
and their parents at ease,” says
recent graduate John Cranton. “I
watched Dr. Dassel counsel the parents
of a young boy who had an occasional
stutter. He could have simply told them
that stuttering is common and often
goes away with time, but he could see
how worried they were. Instead, he
asked the boy’s parents if the stutter was
making the child upset or affecting his
social life or his learning. When they
said no, he told them to watch for any
changes in these areas as signals that it
might be time to do something.” The
child’s parents were visibly relieved.
Dassel’s ability to “take the worry
away” while explaining something
in simple terms was a valuable lesson
to Cranton, who feels fortunate to
have a large memory bank of his own
“Dr. Dassel videos.”
For Dassel, working with the
students is just plain fun. “The students
stimulate me to read and question what
I do,” he says. “It’s wonderful to watch
them develop.”
“It’s extraordinary to see how the
enthusiasm of the nursing students
motivates their preceptors,” observes

Maggie Baker, a clinical instructor and
research assistant professor. “Students
enter the clinical arena with a lot of
questions that need to be answered.
They’re scared — sometimes terrified,
but eager and enthusiastic.” Baker
watches as UW Medical Center nurse
preceptors are inspired and energized by
the positive feedback they receive from
students. When the students have an
‘aha!’ moment with their preceptor, it’s
thrilling for everyone, she says. Baker
recalls student Andrea Valdez’ ‘aha!’
moment last winter. “I assigned Andrea
to a complex young patient with liver
failure. She went to the door of the
woman’s room and came back to
me with eyes as big as saucers and said,
‘Do you think I can really do this?’”
According to Baker, Valdez moved
past her fears and quickly began relating
to the young woman as a person, not as
a set of tasks or list of medications.
There came a moment when everything
clicked and Valdez suddenly realized
his fall, Continuing Nursing
Education (CNE) at the
University of Washington is expanding
its programs with two new conferences.
Nurses who want to learn new skills
or prepare for national certification
in medical-surgical practice can attend
“Update in Medical-Surgical Nursing”
Oct. 23–24 in Seattle. “Recognizing
and Responding to Domestic Violence
in Your Clinical Setting” is offered
Nov. 7 in conjunction with the Nursing
Program at UW Tacoma.
Other fall offerings include some
25 half- and full-day skills workshops
on Saturday, Oct. 11, a conference
on advancements in wound and
that she had conquered her anxiety
and was really helping to comfort her
patient and the patient’s family. For
Baker, the chance to watch students
like Valdez transform from green, scared
nursing students to proficient caregivers
is “an incredible privilege.”
Watching his students develop and
learning the lessons they had to teach
inspired Dr. Frank Mitchell to serve
as a preceptor for 22 years (he recently
retired from the program). “Teaching is
itself a learning experience,” says
Mitchell. He remembers one student in
particular with a master’s in psychology.
“She was very knowledgeable about
ways to integrate the psychological side
of care with the physical,” he recalls.
Together they developed effective
CNE Expands Offerings, Links to Community
T
ostomy care, and the 29th annual
update on gerontological nursing, just
to name a few.
CNE offers more than 30 conferences
each year, linking nurses throughout
the region with the UW to learn
about new research and innovations
in nursing practice. A team of representatives
from numerous community
agencies, regional and national organizations,
and School of Nursing faculty
plan each conference. Pharmaceutical
and other commercial companies also
typically provide educational grants
and exhibit at the events.
“Our community partners enable
us to bring in speakers and conduct con-
techniques for helping his gerontology
patients make lifestyle changes.
“Working with the students was a lot of
fun,” Mitchell states. “They were thorough,
asked challenging questions and
spent a lot of time with my patients.”
Because he discovered ways to help
the students without cutting back on
the number of patients he was able to
“STUDENTS ENTER THE CLINICAL ARENA WITH A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT
NEED TO BE ANSWERED. THEY’RE SCARED— SOMETIMES TERRIFIED, BUT EAGER
AND ENTHUSIASTIC.” — MAGGIE BAKER
see, Mitchell found the time he spent
with them to be a profitable investment.
One of the best benefits of being
a preceptor is getting to work with great
nurse practitioners that you can hire
later, Mitchell notes. But, he says, nothing
beats the enormous satisfaction
he got from hearing his students say,
“Hey, I feel I’m a lot better now than
when I started.”
ferences we might otherwise be unable
to offer,” says Martha DuHamel,
assistant dean for CNE. “In addition
to financial support, our many partners
contribute to planning, sponsoring
speakers, providing release time for
staff to attend and funding scholarships
for students.”
DuHamel adds: “Along with providing
lifelong learning opportunities,
community involvement and support
make up the foundation of our program.
We couldn’t do it without them.”
For a list of upcoming CNE events,
see the back cover of Connections, or
for a complete listing of programs, visit
www.uwcne.org.
FALL 2003 7

ALUMNI PROFILE
health care
by design
By Lia Unrau
W
hat happens when architects
ask a nurse for her opinion?
Teri Oelrich’s dream job.
In fact, Oelrich, a 1984 graduate of
the School of Nursing, plays a driving
role in designing hospitals and health
clinics. Oelrich says her career perfectly
blends her loves of health care and
analysis, using both her BSN and MBA
degrees. At NBBJ, an international
architecture firm widely recognized for
its expertise in designing health care
facilities, Oelrich helps architects
design buildings that support healing
and health. In 1989, Oelrich became
the first nurse that NBBJ hired.
Now a principal at the firm, Oelrich
says, “I feel like I touch more patients
now than I did as a nurse. Now when
I help redesign a ward or redesign
a surgery suite, I’m taking care of every
single person that goes through there.”
From operating rooms to long-term
care facilities, Oelrich assesses needs
and helps plan layouts and finances.
When she first takes on a new project,
it’s all about the numbers — how many
patients, length of stay, how much
staff is needed. She then translates
the numbers into the space needed —
something brand new, a remodel or an
addition, taking into account clinicians’
preferences for layout.
Oelrich works on vastly different
projects around the world — from
the brand new Surgery Pavilion at the
University of Washington Medical
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Center to a children’s hospital in
Shanghai, which she worked on with
the World Health Organization.
In 1999 a client in New Zealand
made Oelrich realize how much
Americans take for granted when it
comes to hospital stays. The hospital
resisted her recommendation to move
from four-bed wards to private rooms,
assuming it would save money.
“It took every bit of knowledge I
had on epidemiology, on infection rates,
on the way people heal in a quiet environment,”
she says. “It took every study
I’d ever done on the built environment
and how it affects patients to convince
the hospital to change after 200 years
of doing it a certain way.” In the end,
the hospital opted for two-bed rooms, a
great improvement over the larger wards.
But across the board, the trend is
toward single rooms, Oelrich says,
even in neonatal intensive care units
(NICUs). In collaboration with hospitals,
Oelrich is studying whether the
change is better for babies and how
separate rooms affect staff, who are used
to standing between bassinets and caring
for infants at nearly the same time.
So far, two NBBJ clients have
opened private-room NICUs, and three
more are in the works. At Blank
Children’s Hospital in Des Moines,
Iowa, and Providence General Hospital
in Everett, Wash., Oelrich collected
data on length of stay, how much time
parents spend in the room, noise level
Teri Oelrich Guides Architectural Plans that
Fuse Patient, Caregiver and Client Needs
and infection
rates in hopes of
determining
whether the
private rooms
shorten a baby’s
stay and improve
their health.
Teri Oelrich
“That’s one
of the most exciting things I’ve done
because there’s not a lot of evidencebased
design happening right now,”
Oelrich says. “That’s where you look at
outcomes of the health of people and
change the way you design a facility.”
The original data was presented to
the National Association of Children’s
Hospitals and Related Institutions
in Seattle last year; Oelrich is currently
analyzing a second year of data
and will present her findings at an
American Institute of Architects meeting
in November.
“I feel like I’ve had a lot to do
with changing the way architects work
with the hospitals and bringing staff
on board to help design,” Oelrich says.
“In their careers, all nurses are going to
be involved in a building project and
nurses can truly affect their environment.
Volunteers and floor nurses need
to speak up. I think when people realize
they can make changes, that’s when
it gets fun.”
Teri Oelrich ’84 and her husband,
Keith ’84, live in Portland, Ore., with
their two boys, Christopher and Jake.

eport to
contributors
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING

Dear Friends of the School of Nursing,
O
n behalf of the students, faculty
and members of the community
who benefit from private gifts to the
University of Washington School of
Nursing, thank you. As volunteers for the
School of Nursing, we are thrilled to
champion such a worthy mission. Nurses
are essential to the health care system
and provide for virtually every one of
us at some point in our lives.
By supporting the No. 1 ranked
School of Nursing, you ensure that there
FOUNDATIONS
51%
10 REPORT TO CONTRIBUTORS
will be sufficient numbers of wellprepared
nurses to deal with the looming
nursing crisis.The projections are
staggering: By the year 2020 there will be
20 percent fewer nurses than the United
States needs, or a shortage of up to
800,000 registered nurses nationwide.
This shortage stands to dramatically
impact the quality of health care in this
country. Private gifts provide the margin
of excellence above and beyond state
funding and help sustain excellence in
the profession through nursing education
and research, clinical practice and lifelong
learning opportunities. They also provide
access to renowned faculty and top students.These
are the same elements that
define partnerships between the School
of Nursing and our alumni, friends, grateful
patients, and health care and community
partners who have a vested interest
in addressing the nursing crisis.
Your support helps to enrich the
exchange of ideas through lectures and
seminars on campus and through scholarly
exchanges by our students and faculty
with our colleagues at Chiang Mai
University in Thailand. Gifts also sustain
CORPORATIONS
7%
INDIVIDUALS
20%
ORGANIZATIONS
22%
Private Support
JULY 1, 2002–JUNE 30, 2003
the Citizens of the World program,
through which our students enhance the
health and well-being of communities
around the world. Gifts like yours also
support outstanding students with
unique projects or ideas and provide for
creative curriculum changes that keep
intellectual vitality in the classroom.
Our partnership will preserve the
rich tradition of providing a superior
education for nursing students. It will
help us realize the dream of the UW’s
early vision to prepare nursing professionals
to address the health care needs
of the nation and beyond.The beneficiaries
of this vision will be our families,
friends and the generations of tomorrow.
The impact will be greater than perhaps
any of us can imagine, profoundly
touching millions of lives.
Again, thank you for your support of,
and partnership with, the school.
ELI ALMO AND REBECCA ALMO
Campaign Advisory Board co-chairs
Foundations $1,269,570 51%
Organizations 557,994 22
Individuals 511,601 20
Corporations 179,142 7
Total $2,518,307 100%
Source: Office of Development & Alumni Relations, Advancement Services,
University of Washington

A Special Thank You to Our Contributors
An asterisk denotes a University of
Washington benefactor whose gifts during
the past fiscal year (July 2002– June 2003)
to the School of Nursing or through
cumulative giving over a lifetime total
$100,000 or more.
PRESIDENT’S CLUB CONTRIBUTORS
$2,000 OR MORE
CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS
*American Academy of Nursing
American Association for Colleges
of Nursing
AMN Healthcare Services Inc.
*Association of Schools of Public Health
AstraZeneca LP
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The Boeing Company
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
*Children’s Hospital & Regional
Medical Center
The Ida Culver House—Broadview
Eli Lilly and Company
Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Genecom LLC
*The Geneva Foundation
Harris Foundation
John A. Hartford Foundation
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
*Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
March of Dimes—Western Washington
Medtronic Inc.
Novartis Ophthalmics
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Oregon Research Institute
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc.
Pharmacia Corporation
Physician Assistant Foundation
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Scios Inc.
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
*The Seattle Foundation
The Tudor Foundation
United Way of King County
Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals
ZymoGenetics
INDIVIDUALS
*Eli and Rebecca Almo
*Kathryn Barnard ’72
*Marjorie Batey ’53
*Jeanne Benoliel
Estate of Armand Eugene Brim
Evona Brim ’55
*Estate of Ethan Brines
*Estate of Ruth Brines
Nancy and Robert Burr
*Rheba and Rudy de Tornyay
Sylvia ’44 and Dempster Drowley
Margaret and Gordon Gilbert
Mary-Alice Goodwin
Patricia ’75 and Jeffrey Greenstreet
Anne and Donald Griffin
Sue and Csaba Hegyvary
Ruth ’63 and Walter Hockenbery
Germaine Krysan ’50
*Yaffa Maritz
Estate of Irja T. Maughan
Myrene McAninch
Betty ’49 and James McCurdy
*Hester McLaws Trust
*Lisa Mennet and Gabe Newell
Pamela ’62 and Donald Mitchell
Linda Olson ’59, ’64
Carrie Rhodes
E. Annette and Roger Rieger
Charyl Kay ’67 and Earl Sedlik
Cecilia and Mark Spahr
Harry Strachan
Andy Studebaker
Margaret Sucharski ’54
Marlene ’58 and Peter Wessel
Lenore Williams ’40
Nancy ’69 and James Woods
John Yau
DEAN’S CLUB CONTRIBUTORS
$1,000 – $1,999.99
CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS
Alpha Omega Alpha
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
Berlex Laboratories Inc.
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Medline Industries Inc
Merck Company Foundation
Pegasus Airwave Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
Philips Medical Systems
Solvay Pharmaceuticals
Helen Schiff Foundation
The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving
UW Nursing Alumni Association
Washington State Dairy Products
Commission
INDIVIDUALS
Helen Belcher ’52
Bobbie ’72, ’81 and Richard Berkowitz
Cathryn Booth
Mary ’58, ’74 and Donald Brown
Mary ’63 and James Butler
Susanna Cunningham ’69
Susanne and Stephen Daley
Marjorie ’79, ’93 and John DesRosier
Margaret Dimond ’68
Myrna ’59 and George Eaton
Birte ’75 and James Falconer
Cheryl ’66 and Tamotsu Furukawa
Paul Hammerschmidt
Isobel Hartley ’65
Lorrie La Branche and John Schaeffer
Elaine ’65, ’69 and Steven Larson
Joanne ’77 and A. Bruce Montgomery
Ann Nieder ’45
Tracy and Todd Ostrem
Patricia and Eugene Pepper
Barbara ’48 and Howard Rice
Nole Ann Ulery-Horsey and David Horsey
KATHERINE HOFFMAN CIRCLE
$500 – $999.99
CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS
Angelo Foundation
Cordis Corporation
Kos Pharmaceuticals Inc.
INDIVIDUALS
Cristy ’78 and Samuel Anderson
Marguerite ’84 and Richard Angelo
Ruth ’70 and Phillip Backup
Linda ’66 and Ronald Birum
Ruth ’68 and William Craven
Susan ’70 and Michael Cummings
*Sandra ’59 and Peter Dyer
Leona Eggert ’69, ’70
Polly ’78, ’86 and Todd Gardner
Janet ’59 and Daril Hahn
LuVerna Hilton ’57
Lillian and Akira Horita
Susan Kline ’86 and Matthew Keifer
Marcia ’74, ’82 and Philip Killien
Nancy Kintner ’40 and Gloria Laush
Mary ’46 and Hugh MacIsaac
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Deborah Martin ’76 and Robert Sullivan
Grace ’58 and Richard Merrill
Eunkyung and Young Namkoong
Carol ’62 and John Purvis
Violet ’77 and Eugene Turner
Merridee ’63 and Richard Vuori
Ann ’85 and Timothy Whitney
VIRGINIA OLCOTT CIRCLE
$100–$499.99
CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS
Discovery International
Exxon Mobil Foundation
GE Foundation
Lexi-Comp
Marin Community Foundation
Mead Johnson Nutritional Group
Mededcon
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
PACCAR Foundation
Pe Ell Clinic
Plainsboro Marketing Group
Western Interstate Commission
for Higher Education
INDIVIDUALS
Doris Aaker ’56
Darlene Aanderud ’67, ’69
Mildred Abbott ’36, ’37
Heather and David Abernathy
Nancy ’98 and Wendall Adams
Dorothy Aeschliman ’66
Dyanne ’67 and William Affonso
Ruth ’71 and James Alexander
Grace Allen ’43
Alice ’94 and Bradley Ambrose
Betty ’40 and Earl Anderson
Kathryn Anderson ’81 and
Stanley Shepherd ’78
Minnie ’75 and Harold Anderson
Diane Audiss ’88, ’94
Avis Axelson ’53
Sally ’72 and Robert Baird
Renae ’77, ’95 and Kenneth Battie
Karen Beauchesne ’80
Joanne ’59 and Clarence Becker
Lisa Bednar-Butler ’81 and Michael Butler
Helen ’53, ’69 and Jerry Behan
Anne Belcher ’68
Patricia Bentz ’61
Susan ’76 and David Berryhill
12 REPORT TO CONTRIBUTORS
Stella ’46 and Willard Bevens
Karen ’78 and Tom Birdsey
Merle Bond ’58
Virginia Booth ’60
Nan Borg ’73
Nancy ’60 and N. Edward Boyce
Marian Brainard ’53
K. Alice Breinig ’75
Ethel ’73 and Harold Brende
Judith ’64 and Phillip Brenes
Elizabeth Bridges ’91, ’98
Debra Brinker ’76 and Bruce Cutter
Carol ’82 and Paul Brown
Harriet Burkholder ’91
Esther ’39 and William Burnett
Ann Buzaitis ’90
Elizabeth Byerly ’58, ’70
Evalyn ’54 and Waldon Byers
Margo ’82 and Thomas Bykonen
Amy ’91, ’96 and Kenton Caldwell
Kathleen Callahan ’76
Donna ’72 and Douglas Campbell
Signe ’91 and Timothy Carlos
Donna Cash ’89
Grace ’47 and Vernon Cates
Ellyn Cavanagh ’89, ’91, ’99 and Carl Pilcher
Kathryn Chamberlin ’00
Melodie Chenevert ’65, ’68
Evelyn ’53 and Thomas Chinn
Noel and Judith Chrisman
Dianne Christopherson ’78 and
David Gorgen
Pamela Cipriano ’81 and Ronald Turner
Cathe Clapp ’75 and Denis Keyes
Heather Clarke ’72, ’85
Diane ’87 and G. Craig Clinard
Jean ’50 and William Coburn
Matya Cooksey ’97
Marilyn ’58 and Thomas Councell
Gayle Crawford ’77
Melodie ’83 and Joseph A. DaCorta
Yu-Tzu Dai ’85, ’95
Nadyne ’63 and James Davis
Kathleen ’76 and Dennis DePape
Katherine ’61 and Lary Dobbs
Marylin Dodd ’71, ’73
Joanne Douthit ’87
Marie Driever ’85
Dorothy ’50 and Dick Drummond
Martha and Thomas DuHamel
Billie Eby ’65
Karen Ellis
Kathleen ’84 and Fred Ellis
Linda ’65 and C. Douglas Elsner
Betty Ely ’52
Janice ’75 and Gary Enzmann
Jean Espenshade ’72
Lorraine ’58, ’58 and Fred Ewing
Catherine ’77 and Marcus Fairbanks
Sheila and Michael Fall
Terry Fletcher
Connie Fletcher-Powell ’95 and Brad Powell
Nancy Focht ’62
Gwendolyn ’66 and Charles Foss
Marcia ’67 and Donald Fraley
Deborah ’87 and David Friend
Jacqueline Frost-Kunnen ’81 and
Robert Kunnen
Donna Gamble ’53, ’60
Colleen ’71 and Douglas Gant
Katherine ’76 and William Garrett
Jill ’85 and Gerard Gasperini
Linda ’79 and Jeffrey Gilson
Patricia ’89 and Carl Giurgevich
Jane ’92 and Michael Goodchild
Margaret ’55 and Charles Gray
Margaret Gray ’80
Susan Griffith ’84 and Drew Fillips
Cynthia Gurney ’78
Marian ’54 and Bernard Hambleton
Setsuko Harada ’60
Carolyn ’65 and Robert Hargrove
Susan Harrington ’85 and John Fine
Geraldine ’85 and William Hastrup
Ann Hathaway ’71
Janet Hays ’68, ’84
Susan Heath ’81
Joyce Heaton-Kolts ’70 and William Kolts
Richard Henker ’93 and S. Danielle Brown
Deeann ’00 and Jay Henniger
Elizabeth-Ann ’94 and David Herrick
Dorothy Hicks ’68
Deborah Hilsman ’77
Beverly Hoeffer ’66
Betty ’77 and Alfred Hoffman
Ruby ’50 and Leon Holman
Wendie ’82 and Francis Howland
Lynn ’76 and Howard Hudson
Judith Huntington ’68, ’85
Janice ’61 and Samuel Hurworth
Andrew Irish ’87
Judith ’56 and Frank Ivanovich
Carol Ivory-Carline ’82
Linda Jackson ’83

Nancy Jackson
Elaine Jay ’65
Alison ’78 and Russell Johnson
Arlene ’68 and David Johnson
Charlene Johnson ’94
Janet ’65, ’67 and Kenneth Joslyn
Dana ’75 and Marvin Kelly
Gail ’67 and John Kelly
Victoria ’79 and Joseph Kelsey
Edna ’62 and Melvin Kelso
Judith Kelson and Jonathan Schuster
Jonathan Kempner
Nancy ’77 and Brian Kirkpatrick
Sallie ’76, ’00 and James Kirsch
Donna Knapp ’66
Sandra Knott ’70
Ardell Kuchenbecker ’51
Pamela ’68 and John Kuthe
Karen ’85 and Larry ’86 Lancaster
Barbara ’86 and Leif Lantz
Lauren ’86 and David Lawson
Kimberly ’84 and LeRoy Leale
Kathryn Lee ’77, ’86
Vivian Lee ’58, ’59
Marcia ’73 and Stephen Leventhal
Frances ’68 and John Lewis
Marlene Link ’67
Virginia Lintott ’57
Marie Lobo ’75, ’81
Janet Lohan ’91, ’98
Ellen Long-Middleton ’82 and
Jeffrey Middleton
Laura ’96 and Loren Lusk
Lisa ’77, ’83 and Stephen MacGeorge
Frankie Manning
Sherry ’89 and John Marini
Yvonne Marquis ’90, ’94
Mary Mathews ’69
Debbie ’89 and John McBee
Doreen McGrath ’80
Wynema McGrew ’60
Beverly ’75, ’81 and Brian McKenna
Mary ’60 and Thomas McMahon
Helen ’61 and Robert McNeil
Debra ’80 and Robert ’79 Melo
Sybil Mercer ’51, ’57
Margaret Mitchell ’81
Betty Mitsunaga ’53
Donna Moniz ’75
Roger Monson ’82 and Beverly Bell
Myfanwy Moore ’52
Patricia Moore ’67
Alumni Pool Resources, Seek to Create
New Endowed Professorship
I
n an effort to establish a new endowed professorship honoring outstanding
nursing faculty at the University of Washington, this year School of Nursing
alumni banded together to create the Alumni Endowed Professorship Fund.
Alumni contributions to the new fund will create the school’s fifth endowed
faculty professorship. Such positions make a powerful statement that the
recipients are highly valued, widely respected and acknowledged as leaders in
their fields. An endowment also serves as an investment in a faculty member’s
future achievement.
The school needs $250,000 to establish an endowed professorship.To date,
contributions to the fund total more than $141,000, over halfway to the goal.
“The majority of people can’t fund a chair or professorship alone,” says
Marjorie Batey ’53, professor emeritus. “But maybe someone could give $1,000.
What would happen if we pooled such gifts? We have the strength in numbers
to achieve the goal.”
In addition to a gift from Batey, Betty McCurdy ’49 and her husband James
McCurdy also gave substantial funds for the new alumni professorship. A gift
from Evona Brim ’55 and the estate of her husband, the late Gene Brim,
contributed toward the goal as well.
“As an alumna, I feel one of the ways to show how you value the school is
to help strengthen the school,” says Betty McCurdy. “One of the ways to do
that is to strengthen the faculty so that they in turn can help the students.”
Gifts to the Alumni Endowed Professorship Fund will enhance the salary
of an outstanding faculty member who is being heavily recruited by other
institutions; provide the professorship holder with funds to pursue innovative
teaching and new research; allow the endowed professor to hire student teaching
or research assistants; or attract a senior faculty member who can develop
leading-edge, interdisciplinary research and programs.
The Alumni Endowed Professorship Fund is a permanent fund created to
grow over time.The principal is invested and left intact; the income it produces
will allow the school to retain or attract outstanding faculty.
“The school needs this fund to strengthen its programs for students, that’s
what it comes down to,” Batey says. “And it’s a basic principle that if you can’t
do something by yourself, see if you can get several people to join together
to get it done.”
Gifts to the new Alumni Endowed Professorship Fund may be made in the name
of a favorite faculty member, to honor him or her. Gifts can be made outright
or deferred through a planned gift of any type of asset such as cash, securities,
real estate or other property. For more information, contact Laurie Ramacci Noegel
in the Office of Development at 206-221-7674 or ramacci@u.washington.edu.
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“A scholarship from UW Nursing
enabled me to complete my
education. We wanted to give
something back.”
SANDRA DYER
OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
When Sandra Dyer studied at UW Nursing, the usual educational expenses were made
more burdensome by a strict uniform requirement for student nurses. A nursing scholarship
provided her with financial relief and has inspired much of her philanthropy since then.
For example, Sandra and her husband, Peter, established a charitable remainder trust
that provides them with income and will eventually benefit UW Nursing. If you would like
to investigate how a charitable remainder trust can provide you with reliable income and
significant tax benefits, please contact the UW Office of Gift Planning.
1200 Fifth Ave., Suite 414, Seattle, Washington 98101
1.800.284.3679, 206.685.1001
E-mail: giftinfo@u.washington.edu
Web: http://supportuw.washington.edu/leavealegacy
Portia Moore ’77 and John Gordon
Carlyn Morisset ’50, ’73
Lisa Moritz ’88
Nancy Mork ’69, ’76
Helen ’70, ’71 and Gerald Morrow
Sandra ’64 and Roy Mory
Sara Neagley ’81
Julie ’70 and John Nebel
Marion ’67 and Daniel Nelson
Donna and James Nichols
Ingrid Nielsen ’88 and Robert Rakita
Marie Niemann ’68
Susan Nivert ’83 and Barbara Glenn
Elfrida Nord ’69
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Photo: Joel Levin
Mary Novak-Jandrey ’77 and
Edward Jandrey
Frederica and James O’Connor
Patricia O’Hearn ’73, ’76
Laura ’93 and Robert Olin
Nancy Opsata ’70
Deborah ’80 and Gregg Ost
Mary Owens ’95
Tracey Peschon ’87
Susan Pfister ’84
Joan ’75 and John Pierce
Marilyn Pires ’72
Sandra ’64 and Richard Piscitello
Nancy Plunkett ’79 and Peter Londborg
Suzanne and John Price
Suellyn ’64 and Lyle Rader
Laurie Ramacci Noegel and Scott Noegel
Sheila ’51 and Thomas Randall
Marilee Rasmussen ’69
Meribeth Reed ’95
Rose and Thomas Reid
Alice ’42 and Gerald Reilly
Diane ’78 and James Reus
Susan Richardson ’78
Donna Rodgers ’76
Gail ’79 and John Rona
Patricia Ross ’47
S. Ann Ross ’71
Jane ’69 and Kenneth Runyan
Catherine Ryan ’89
Beverly Saboe ’71
Nancy ’86 and John Safranek
Sally Sample ’72
Glenda ’60 and Robert Schuh
Dawn Sedlacek ’75
Kathleen ’79 and Steven Sedlacek
Debra ’94 and Nicholas Seguin
Patricia ’82 and Daniel Shafer
Thomas Sharp ’87
Joan Shaver ’69
Martha Shively ’77
Mary ’60 and Denis Short
Carole ’79 and Richard Siefken
Suzanne Sikma ’94
Barbara Silko ’93 and David Hose
Frances Sisson ’80
Janet ’54 and Neil Smith
Julie ’87 and Samuel Smith
Colleen ’74 and Neale Smith
Kathleen Smith-DiJulio ’75 and
Donald DiJulio
Cleda Snively ’35
Laurie ’74 and Paul Snyder
Kimberly McNally ’83 and Mark Sollek
Shirley Spitz ’49
Marlene ’76 and Robert Stoehr
Sarah Strauss and Huston Kitts
Susan ’64 and Charles Strub
Beverly ’62 and Robert Stuart
Norma ’45 and Roland Sundstrom
Margaret ’56, ’62 and Harold Sutlief
Janice ’60 and William Swanson
Kristen Swanson
Leanne Sweeney ’76
Gloria and Donald Swisher
Ellen ’56 and George Tanaka

Viva Tapper ’97, ’00
Diana Taylor ’88 and Jay Folberg
Karen ’86 and Raymond Thomas
Rosemary Thomas and Steven Reimer
Sharon ’75 and Michael Toomey
Carolyn ’69 and Louis Torre
Lorraine ’40 and Benjamin Troop
Sheila Trumbull ’61
Dorothy Turkington ’40
Margaret ’66, ’70 and Raynard Tuttle
Helen ’52 and Eberhard Uhlenhuth
Inese Verzemnieks ’72 and
Jeffrey Cummings
Florence ’67 and Roger Vining
Evelyn ’47 and Joseph Virgin
Patricia ’55 and Clement Walker
Judith ’67 and William Waring
Catherine ’81, ’86, ’02 and Lloyd Warms
Una Westfall ’90
Susan Whitman ’81
Janet ’75 and Terry Wight
Julia ’84 and Christopher Wiklof
Shirley ’67 and George Williams
Jacqueline ’71 and Michael Williams
Faustine Wilson ’58
Kathleen Wood ’80
Kathleen Wrynn ’90, ’93 and
Holly George
Jean Wyman ’73
Margaret ’50 and Ted Yasuda
David Zane ’00 and Beth Pearson
Brenda ’91, ’96 and R. Eugene Zierler
We sincerely apologize for any
misspelling or omission of donors’ names
in this report, which recognizes gifts
made to the University of Washington
School of Nursing during the past fiscal
year. We appreciate the opportunity
to correct our records; please call the
Office of Development at 206-543-3019
to advise us of errors.
If you wish to make a gift, we
invite you to use the enclosed envelope.
For more information about giving, please
contact the Office of Development. We
welcome the opportunity to discuss options
for making your gift most beneficial to
the UW School of Nursing and fulfilling
your personal philanthropic goals.
Doctoral Student Creates Technology to Help
Nursing Choices, Wins Support from Microsoft
W
hen caring for a patient, nurses must manage large amounts of information
and make hundreds of decisions, large and small. Catherine
D’Ambrosio, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington School of
Nursing, is working to make decision-making easier for nurses.
“Textbooks just can’t cover all the possible unique attributes a patient might
possess,” D’Ambrosio says. “It’s difficult to assimilate all the information particular
to each patient.”
So D’Ambrosio developed an artificial intelligence computer program that
calculates recommendations for the nursing care of individual patients.
Her research caught the attention of software giant Microsoft, which selected
D’Ambrosio for a 2003–2004 Microsoft Fellowship.
The fellowship, new this year, helps prepare future faculty
with innovative ideas and an interest in instructional
technology.Through its Education Solutions Group, the
Microsoft Fellowship program provides training, tools
and resources to further D’Ambrosio’s research studies.
D’Ambrosio’s project is unique among the 12
national fellowship winners because hers aims to provide
education for nurses at the bedside, a non-traditional education setting.
To test her system, D’Ambrosio focused on a precise problem — the toileting
care decisions nurses make when caring for patients with cognitive impairmentrelated
incontinence. Based on individual input for each patient, D’Ambrosio’s
program calculates nursing care recommendations such as whether or not to
prompt a patient to use the bathroom, the extent of prompting needed, how
many nurses are needed to help with care, and what type of physical assistance
the patient needs at a given time.
More than 70 percent of the time, expert nurses agreed with the preliminary
system’s recommendations. If D’Ambrosio’s refined program accurately
captures nurses’ problem-solving and decision-making, she hopes the system will
be available to bedside nurses, nursing assistants and eventually, family caregivers.
“Microsoft was looking for future faculty who embrace technology as a
means of teaching, and Catherine’s project seems the epitome of embracing
computing technology,” says Pamela Mitchell, associate dean for research and the
Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Professor in Nursing and Health Promotion.
After D’Ambrosio completes her doctorate in October, she will continue her
research through post-doctoral work at Oregon Health Sciences University.
There, she will apply her system to calculate best-practice recommendations for
chronic non-healing wounds.
Although D’Ambrosio is unsure whether she will become a professor or
work in some other environment in the future, she remains committed to her
goal of improving nurses’ access to expert knowledge.
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OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND
COMMUNCATIONS
TRACY OSTREM, ASSISTANT DEAN FOR DEVELOPMENT
LAURIE RAMACCI NOEGEL, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
LIA UNRAU, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
SIDNEY HERNESS, DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
BRIDGETTE LIVAUDAIS, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SCHOOL OF NURSING
BOX 357260, SEATTLE, WA 98195-7260
PHONE 206-543-3019, FAX 206-543-8155
WWW.SON.WASHINGTON.EDU
NURSING VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP
C AMPAIGN ADVISORY BOARD
ELI ALMO (CO-CHAIR)
REBECCA ALMO (CO-CHAIR)
PETER DYER (HONORARY CO-CHAIR)
SANDRA DYER (HONORARY CO-CHAIR)
BOB REID (HONORARY CO-CHAIR)
JEAN REID (HONORARY CO-CHAIR)
MYRENE MCANINCH
BETTY MCCURDY
ANNE MCKINLEY
LISA MENNET
ANN NIEDER
TRACY OSTREM
CHARYL KAY SEDLIK
NANCY WOODS
NURSING PRACTICE ADVISORY BOARD
HELEN ADAMS
CONNIE ANDERSON
PAT ANDERSON
PEARL BARNES
JOANNE BLACKSMITH
TERRY CAMP
JANE CAMPBELL
JOYCE CARDINAL
NANCY CHERRY
ANN CHRYST
CATHY CLAPP
CHARLENE CROW SCHAMBACH
LEWIS FILHOUR
SUSAN GRANT
KAREN HAASE-HERRICK
KATHY HARRIS
SUSAN HEATH
CINDY HECKER
MARCIA JOHNSON
ROSA JOHNSON
DONNA LARSEN
LINDA LATTA
FRANKIE MANNING
PATRICIA MULHEARN
ROBERTA O’LEARY
MARY SHEMESH
MARGARET SHEPHERD
JOHNESE SPISSOA
SANDY STEELE
CHARLEEN TACHIBANA
B ARBARA TREAHEARNE
LINDA TRIPPETT
GAYLE WARD
SALLY WATKINS
LINDA WEIRHEISER

Briefly
Nursing Pioneer Kathryn Barnard
Wins 2003 Episteme Award
B ARNARD HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
TO INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Kathryn Barnard, the nurse researcher who pioneered
infant and child development studies, will receive
the 2003 Episteme Award from Sigma Theta Tau
International, the Honor Society of Nursing.
The prestigious award, considered by many to be the
“Nobel Prize of nursing,” recognizes Barnard’s lifelong
contributions to nursing science and the health of infants
and their families.
For more than 30 years, Barnard, the Charles and
Gerda Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing at the University of Washington,
has devoted her career to research, education, practice improvements and political
activism on behalf of vulnerable infants and their families.
Barnard’s findings changed the way that health care providers evaluate children
and helped care providers understand the key role that early intervention plays
in preventing problems in behavior, thinking and emotional development. Her
research forms the basis for an internationally recognized education program that
teaches nurses and other health care professionals how to identify at-risk infants.
Through her Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST) program,
these methods have reached 17,000 health care professionals in 20 countries.
In 2001, she founded the multidisciplinary Center for Infant Mental Health
and Development at the UW, a privately funded center that develops, tests and
applies therapies that foster the socio-emotional health of infants at risk, and
trains interdisciplinary providers in their use.
“The Episteme Award from Sigma Theta Tau International is the equivalent
of the Nobel Prize for nursing,” says Nancy Woods, dean of the School of
Nursing. “It is reserved for people whose research has truly made a difference in
the delivery of health services. Kathryn Barnard’s record is an exceptional example
and illustrates well why she is deserving of this award.”
Barnard has truly created opportunities for infants around the world to thrive
in a safe and nurturing environment, says Kristen Swanson, professor and chair
of the Department of Family and Child Nursing. “By teaching mothers, nurses,
community workers and ultimately, politicians about the importance of care that
is delivered contingent upon infants’ cues, Dr. Barnard has had a major influence
on the care of infants worldwide,” Swanson says.
The society will present the award to Barnard at the Episteme Laureate
Presentation on Nov. 3 during Sigma Theta Tau International’s 37th Biennial
Convention in Toronto. As Episteme Laureate, Barnard, who received her Ph.D.
from the UW in 1972, will deliver the keynote speech on Scientific Sessions Day
at the convention.
The Episteme Award acknowledges a major breakthrough in nursing knowledge
development that has resulted in a significant and recognizable benefit
to the public. The Baxter International Foundation provides a $15,000 research
award to the winner.
KANG HONORED AS ASIAN
AMERICAN LIVING PIONEER
Rebecca Kang, associate professor of
psychosocial and community health, will
receive one of eight Asian American
Living Pioneer awards on Oct. 11. The
awards, presented by the Northwest Asian
Weekly Foundation, recognize people in
Washington state who not only have
made outstanding contributions to their
field but were also among the first Asian
Americans to do so.
This year’s awards recognize outstanding
Asian Americans for their pioneering
roles in medical care and research.
The foundation is honoring Kang for her
“important
research on parent-childinteraction
between
Hawaiian and
Korean mothers
and infants”
and her “considerable
expertise
in parent-child
intervention programs and protocols.”
Both the Northwest Asian Weekly and
the Seattle Chinese Post newspapers will
feature stories about Kang.
Kang received her Ph.D. from the
School of Nursing in 1985.
DEAN HONORED FOR RESEARCH
Nancy Woods, dean of the School
of Nursing, received the 2003 NAMS/
Duramed Pharmaceuticals Perimenopause
Research Award in recognition of her contributions
to research that has advanced
the understanding of perimenopause.
The North American Menopause
Society (NAMS) honored Woods on
Sept. 17 at its 14th Annual Meeting in
Miami Beach, Fla.
Wood’s research with the 15-year
Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study,
done in collaboration with Ellen Mitchell,
associate professor of family and child
nursing, resulted in a staging system
that helps women and clinicians track
where women are in their transition
to menopause.
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Briefly
NURSING PROFESSOR TO CYCLE CROSS-COUNTRY FOR CANCER AWARENESS
A survivor of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
and a world-class bike racer, Anna
Schwartz will join Lance Armstrong,
five-time winner of the Tour de France,
and 25 other cyclists in a weeklong relay
across America.
Schwartz, an associate professor of
biobehavioral nursing and health systems
in the University of Washington School
of Nursing and a nurse practitioner at
Northern Arizona Cancer Center in
Flagstaff, Ariz., was selected from a pool
of nearly 1,000 people to participate in the
2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope.
The tour aims to raise public awareness
about the value of cancer research.
Starting Oct. 11, team members will
pedal from Los Angeles to Washington,
D.C., stopping at cancer centers along the
route. Collectively the teams will cover
UW NURSING STUDENT NAMED FIRST WINNER
OF SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE NURSE EDUCATORS
School of Nursing doctoral student
Bonnie Bowie just received a financial
shot in the arm that will help her reach
her goal of teaching nursing to others.
In June, the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and
CampusRN.com awarded Bowie its first
$2,500 scholarship through a newly created
program designed to support nursing
education at the baccalaureate and
higher degree level.
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120–180 miles a day, each individual team
riding 3–4 hour shifts every 12 hours. At
their stops, the riders will invite people to
personally commit to learning about cancer
and the necessity of cancer research.
The cyclists will also keep a journal on the
Web chronicling the 3,200 mile trek.
Schwartz was chosen to ride in the
Tour of Hope because, she says, “I am a
strong cyclist, I’m involved in cancer
research and I’m a spokesperson for
cancer survivors.”
Schwartz is currently conducting
research on the benefits of exercise on the
short and long-term physical and emotional
side effects of cancer treatment. “I have
benefited from and seen how cancer
research has benefited others,” Schwartz
says. “Now I want to increase awareness
about the importance of cancer research.”
“I have enjoyed every aspect of my
nursing career, and feel that I now have
much to bring to students who are studying
to be nurses,” Bowie said. “The
CampusRN-AACN scholarship will
help support me and my family while I
pursue my goal of becoming a nursing
faculty member.”
A registered nurse for 26 years, Bowie
received her bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in nursing from the University
of San Diego. After working as a staff
nurse, nursing manager, director and consultant,
she transitioned into teaching and
found her true passion, she says. Bowie
began teaching undergraduate and graduate
courses at Seattle University in 2000
and has since committed herself to a faculty
career and pursuing doctoral studies.
She continues to teach part time while
enrolled full time in the Ph.D. nursing
program at the University of Washington.
The Center on Infant Mental Health and Development honored the first students to
complete its new Graduate Certificate Program in Infant Mental Health with a special
reception in August. Seven students from the fields of parent education, social work,
community mental health, psychotherapy, counseling and nursing completed the two-year
program of classroom study and an intensive clinical component this summer. Two other
students are doctoral candidates and will integrate the program requirements into their
Ph.D. studies. The students are, pictured from left to right, Robin King, Sandra Jolley
(doctoral student), Lisa Mennet (doctoral student), Willow Myers-Newell, Melissa
Hoffman, Julie Nagel, Sylvia Kurin and Judy Erbe.

The following faculty and students were
honored June 13 at the School of Nursing
16th Annual Convocation and Awards
Ceremony:
• Rheba de Tornyay Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:
Deborah Ward, associate professor of
psychosocial and community health
• Award for Excellence in Clinical
Teaching: Margaret Buxton, lecturer
in family and child nursing
• Sandra Eyres Award for Excellence
in Graduate Teaching: Monica Jarrett,
associate professor of biobehavioral
nursing and health systems
• BSN Special Achievement Award:
Marc Silfies and Choua Yang
• BSN Humanitarian Award:
Jessica Bafus and Betsy Greacen
• Master’s Humanitarian Award:
Christina Coops
• Master’s Outstanding Scholar Award:
Nicole Kerkenbush
The following students received Healthy
Aging Graduate Scholarships this year:
Pat Olsen, a UW Bothell master’s
student, received a 2003–2004 Healthy
Aging Graduate Scholarship for an evaluation
of the community-based health
enhancement program.
Diana Schaefer, a master’s student
in biobehavioral nursing and health
systems, received the graduate scholarship
and studies the experience of caregiving
among older Vietnamese caregivers in the
Vietnamese immigrant community.
Biobehavioral nursing and health
systems master’s student Elena Siegal has
been selected for the graduate scholarship
and is conducting a descriptive study of
licensed nurse –nursing assistant communication:
managing care of older adults
in long-term care settings.
One doctoral scholarship was awarded
to Tsae-Jvy “Tiffany” Wang, for her
research on aquatic exercise in improving
function in older adults with osteoarthritis.
The 2003–2004 Healthy Aging
Graduate Scholarships are funded by the
de Tornyay center for Healthy Aging and
the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Kathleen Lange, a master’s student in
the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
program, received a Worldwide
University fellowship and will spend a
quarter studying at the University of Leeds
in England. There she will learn about
mental health services provided in a single
payor system and study cognitive behavioral
therapy or dialectical behavioral
therapy in Great Britain. The University
of Washington is a participant in the
Worldwide Universities Network, a consortium
of research universities in Britain,
the United States, and China that collaborate
on research and educational opportunities
in interdisciplinary areas.
Hanako Tani, a fifth-year student in the
School of Nursing, and five fellow students
from the University of Washington
health sciences were among the winners
in a national competition for the 2003
Secretary’s Award for Innovations in
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
The office of Secretary of Health and
Human Services Tommy Thompson
announces the awards. Co-authors Brian
Johnson, School of Medicine; Marie Bach,
School of Pharmacy; Lauren Haffner,
School of Public Health and Community
Medicine; Tani; and Denice Hoz, School
of Social Work, won third place for their
project, “Students in the Community:
A collaborative effort to provide quality
health care to the homeless.” The authors
are part of Students in the Community, a
group sponsored by the Center for Health
Sciences Interprofessional Education,
and comprised of health sciences students.
The group teamed with Aloha Inn, an
organization that provides transitional
housing for homeless men and women in
Seattle, to provide access to quality health
services and health education.
In recognition of their work to improve
the health of Seattle-based refugees, the
2003 senior nursing students in the
Nursing Clinical 409 course earned
an Outstanding Service Award from the
Pacific Asian Empowerment Program
(PAEP). The students were honored for
their work with Hmong, Mien and Lao
refugees through the PAEP and the Aging
and Disability Services (ADS) of Seattle.
Working with elderly people in the ADS
nutrition program since spring 2002, the
nursing students assessed perceived health
concerns, assets, resources and needs of
the patients. They then conducted health
promotion and injury/disease prevention
sessions on areas of concern.
The PAEP award also recognizes the
work the students did through the Refugee
Women’s Alliance (ReWA) and ADS in
winter and spring quarters 2003. The
students created a video describing the
refugee population in Rainier Valley and
how PAEP, ADS and ReWA are working
with them. Marjorie Muecke, professor
of psychosocial and community health,
and her colleagues presented the video to
several hundred health and social service
providers at the annual refugee conference
held June 28 near Seattle.
Students Amanda Barnes, Jinny
Chang, Suni Dawn Elgar, Betsy Greacen,
Michele Higgins, Christina Ketchum,
Irawati Lam, Lora Magsanoc and Carol
Vuong also launched a Web site, Health
Tips for Refugees, in conjunction with
ReWA:http://www.son.washington.edu/
students/rewa.
Ruth Craven, professor of biobehavioral
nursing and health systems, and associate
dean of Educational Outreach and
Community Relations, received the
2003 Sandy Eyres Faculty Appreciation
Award June 19 from the Staff Advisory
Council. Echoed throughout the nomination
remarks were the sentiments: “Ruth
exemplifies the goal of establishing a collaborative
working relationship between
faculty and staff,” and “She knows we
all are an important part of what makes
the school special.”
Hsiu-Ying Huang, research assistant professor
of biobehavioral nursing and health
systems, has been awarded the Oncology
Nursing Society Research Fellowship
for 2004. The award will support her study:
“Exercise for Cancer Symptom Control.”
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Alumni News
UW ALUMNA RECOGNIZED FOR
OUTSTANDING PHD THESIS
Wendy Fallis ’02 PhD, director of research
and evaluation at Victoria General
Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, will
receive the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau
International 2003 Research Dissertation
Award. The award will be presented at the
Nursing Honor Society 37th Biennial
Convention in November in Toronto.
The Research Dissertation Award
recognizes a nurse whose doctoral dissertation,
completed between Jan. 1, 2001,
and Dec. 31, 2002, is exceptional and
exemplifies high standards of scholarship.
Fallis’ award-winning dissertation is
titled “Core and Bladder Temperature
Gradient in Critically Ill Adults: Urine
Flow Rate as a Factor.” Fallis found a
statistically significant but non-clinically
significant difference between urinary
bladder temperature and pulmonary artery
temperature.
“Karen Thomas [associate professor
of family and child nursing] and Joie
Whitney [professor of biobehavioral nursing
and health systems] kindly wrote letters
of support for my submission,” Fallis
wrote. “However, it was the expertise
and encouragement that I received from
all my supervisory committee members
and Kevin Cain [research and statistical
consultant, Office for Nursing Research]
that allowed me to produce the dissertation
that led to this award.”
Margaret Bruya ’68 MN, assistant dean
for health services for the Intercollegiate
College of Nursing/Washington State
University College of Nursing, received
the State Award for Nurse Practitioner
Excellence from the American Academy
of Nurse
Practitioners.
The award
recognizes a nurse
practitioner who
demonstrates
excellence in
practice, research,
nurse practitioner
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ELSIE ENGBRECHT KIEPER, 99,
LOOKS BACK 75 YEARS
When 24-year-old Elsie Engbrecht Kieper,
an RN fresh from Minnesota, stepped
from the train and onto the University of
Washington campus in 1928, she didn’t
even know where she would sleep that
night. After enrolling in public health
classes in the Department of Nursing, she
got a list of rooming houses. It was 6 p.m.
and fortunately, the first house she went
to had a bed for her.
Kieper, who turned 99 years old on
Sept. 7, came to the UW for its public
health certificate—believed to be the
only such program offered in the country
at the time. But later that year family
matters called her to North Dakota to care
for her seriously ill mother—just one
quarter shy of earning her degree.
But Kieper put her new knowledge to
use and worked in Harvey, N.D., and
Carrington, N.D., taking care of the ill,
new mothers and infants until 1930. In
those days, Kieper says, women had their
babies at home and a nurse took care
of them there, working long hours.
She agreed a lot has changed in nursing
since then, including the pay. “I worked
24 hours a day, and made $5 a day,”
she remembers.
After raising her family, she returned
to nursing in 1960 and retired in 1971,
when she was 67, after the death of
her husband.
BRUYA RECEIVES STATE AWARD FOR NURSE PRACTITIONER EXCELLENCE
education or community affairs—in this
case, in the state of Washington. Bruya
was recognized for her contributions
during a ceremony June 29 at the academy’s
Annual National Conference in
Anaheim, Calif.
“This honor recognizes all who have
made it possible for me to have become
the practitioner, colleague and personal
side of who I am today,” Bruya said.
“The strong support of my parents, my
husband, prior faculty, student and professional
and personal colleagues has been
invaluable and much appreciated over the
past 25 years of my career. I believe that
Kieper in 1926
and 2003.
Today, Kieper lives comfortably in
Fessenden, N.D., and spends much of
her time reading: the daily Harvey Herald
Press gets read cover to cover, as does
the Reader’s Digest and Christian Reader.
Friends in town bring her books from their
book club, too, when she needs a new one.
Kieper insists she doesn’t have a secret
to a long, healthy life, unless you count
eating rich, German food and never drinking.
“I’m just an ordinary girl who married
a farmer,” she says.
Her family plans a 100-year celebration
next summer. As for Kieper, she plans
to keep reading—another paper will
arrive tomorrow.
no matter what you accomplish, others
have been there to help you.”
Bruya was also a presenter at the
conference. Her topic, “Development
of An Academic Nursing Center,” focused
on the establishment of People’s Clinic,
which Bruya co-founded in 1998. This
nurse-managed clinic provides primary
care to children and families in the
Spokane region who are unable to access
affordable health care.
Bruya was the 1983 recipient of
the University of Washington School of
Nursing Distinguished Alumna award.

Clare Cornell ’82 MN received one of
five 2003 Cameos of Caring Advanced
Practice Awards for her accomplishments
within the nursing profession and for
being a nursing role model.
The University of Pittsburgh School
of Nursing gives the awards, selecting
from a pool of nominees from 32 participating
Pennsylvania hospitals. Each hospital
nominates one nurse who demonstrated
excellence in nursing care, served as
an advocate for patients and families,
and embodied the essence of the nursing
profession. Cornell, a nurse practitioner
in family practice, represents West
Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System,
Forbes Regional Hospital.
Cornell received her award at the
2003 Cameos of Caring Awards Gala
Oct. 4 in Pittsburgh. The University of
Pittsburgh School of Nursing created
Cameos of Caring in 1999 to honor exceptional
bedside nurses who work at acute
care hospitals.
Message Corner
SCHOOL OF NURSING
SEEKS PRECEPTORS
Master’s degree students need high quality,
precepted clinical experiences on a
quarterly basis as part of their education.
Preceptors for MN students may be physicians,
nurse practitioners, osteopaths or
physician assistants. For undergraduate
students, preceptors may be registered
nurses with either a Bachelor of Science
in Nursing or an MN degree. Whether
you have previous experience with students
or are just starting to learn teaching
skills, you can provide a valuable piece of
a student’s clinical education. If you, or
someone you know, would like to precept
a student, contact Julie Katz, assistant
dean, at 206-543-8736 or katzj@u.washington.edu.
Ellyn Cavanagh ’99 PhD served with
a humanitarian team this summer at
Rabia Balkhi Maternity Hospital
and Indira Ghandi Children’s Hospital
in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her contact,
Meribeth Reed ’95 PhD, Captain, United
States Public Health Service, wrote that
things went “well” for Cavanagh, “if you
think sitting on a blood clot while you
deliver a baby, and placentas by the
hundreds thrown out with the garbage in
the open courtyard when it’s 100 degrees
out is OK!”
According to Reed, Cavanagh
apparently did the work of a dozen
clinicians. After returning home in late
September, Cavanagh expects that she
will remain involved in humanitarian
aid with the women and children of
Afghanistan. She posted several photos
from her experience on the Web
at: http://MMC.smugmug.com/Other.
B ABY CUES:
A CHILD’S FIRST LANGUAGE
Want help reading your baby’s “cues”?
BabyCues, based on 30 years of nursing
research, is
a set of 52 cards
featuring color
photos illustrating
and explaining
behavior
cues infants and
young children
“I need a break!” use as their
first language.
The cards are designed to help parents
and other caregivers have more meaningful
interactions with their babies. Cost
is $24.95, plus shipping. All proceeds
benefit NCAST-AVENUW, a self-sustaining
program that develops and distributes
research-based products for the University
of Washington. To order online, visit
www.ncast.org.
Annetta Droppert VanAndel ’70 BSN
graduated from National-Louis University
in Chicago with an EdD in adult education.
The focus of her critical engagement
project is: “911! Diverse Cardiac
Caregivers Cries for Educational
Assistance: A Study of Lived Experiences.”
VanAndel also writes that she and her
husband Don are committed to their roles
as marriage mentors to engaged couples.
Jenny Tsai ’01 PhD, assistant professor
of nursing at Seattle University, received
a grant from the Centers for Disease
Control for the study “Occupational
Health of Immigrants Working in
Restaurants.” Study results will be used to
develop theory-based interventions to
promote immigrants’ occupational health.
Her co-investigator is Mary Salazar,
professor of psychosocial and community
health at the UW School of Nursing.
WHAT’S THE SCOOP?
Want to share your news or memories
with fellow alums? Please send us information
about your career changes, papers
presented, honors, further education,
reunions and any updates you’d like to
share. Also, send us your favorite photo,
new or old, along with a brief description
of who’s pictured, the date and the place,
and we’ll run it in an upcoming issue.
Please include your name, class year and
program and your news. Please provide
your contact information in case we
have questions.
Send photos and alumni news to
Connections, University of Washington
School of Nursing, Box 357260, Seattle,
WA, 98195-7260; unrau@u.washington.edu;
206-543-3019.
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Continuing Nursing Education Calendar
For information about these events or to place your name on the mailing list for continuing education programs,
call Continuing Nursing Education at 206-543-1047 or visit www.uwcne.org.
OCTOBER 8–11
26th Pacific Northwest National
Conference for Advanced Practice in
Primary and Acute Care
OCTOBER 23–24
Update in Medical-Surgical Nursing
NOVEMBER 3–4
Foundations in Chemotherapy Practice
On the cover
“I’ve discovered what I want to do,”
announced Charissa Kurtz to instructor
Fiona MacPherson after the first day
of her clinical rotation at Seattle’s
Children’s Hospital. Kurtz, a UW senior
nursing student and a nurse technician
in the pediatric oncology unit, plans to
work there after she graduates in 2004.
NOVEMBER 7
Responding to Domestic Violence in
Your Clinical Setting: Don’t Wait Until
It’s an Emergency
NOVEMBER 13–14
Update in Wound Care 2003:
New Dimensions in Wound and
Ostomy Care
NOVEMBER 17
Rapid Response: An Essential Skill in
Urgent Care
DECEMBER 3
4th Annual Clinical Update in Home Care
DECEMBER 4
29th Annual Update in Gerontological
Nursing: A Whole New Life
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