Bernadette Melnyk was recognized as the 2006 Research Nurse of the Year at the March of Dimes gala in November 2006.
Mary Killeen was recognized as the 2006 Outstanding Nurse Educator at the March of Dimes gala in November 2006.
Ellen Fineout-Overholt was elected to the National Academies of Practice, October 2006.
Dave Hrabe and Karen Saewert were elected to national office for the National League for Nursing.
Kathy Malloch has been elected to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Board of Directors.
Bronwynne Evans was elected as a fellow in the National Geriatric Nurses Association.
Denise Link was appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to the Arizona State Board of Nursing.
Susan Mattson was competively selected for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Leadership Academy.
Rojann Alpers received the Education Nurse of the Year award at the annual March of Dimes Nurses of the Year event in Phoenix. Kay Jarrell of the ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation was the recipient the previous year.
Carol Baldwin has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Las Fuentes Clinic in Guadalupe, Arizona. The clinic provides services to the Pascua Yaqui and underserved, uninsured Mexican-American patients. She also received an ASU in the Community Certificate of Recognition for the Southwest Borderlands – Nursing Web site.
Carol Baldwin, Cheryl Cooke, Katherine Maxwell, Ester Ruiz, Bev Warne, and Barbara White received outstanding mentor awards at the Global Caring Nursing Foundation awards banquet in Phoenix. Ester Ruiz received the highest mentorship award. All of these faculty were among 15 outstanding nurse mentors chosen.
Shirley Bell was awarded lifetime membership in the Arizona Nurses Association for her significant contributions to the work of AzNA.
Angela Chia-Chen Chen has been invited to be an affiliate faculty for The Asian Pacific American Study at ASU.
Julie Fleury received the Senior Geriatric Nursing Research Award and Nelma Shearer received the New Investigator Geriatric Nursing Research Award at the 2006 Western Institute of Nursing Conference in Albuquerque in April.
Debra Hagler was appointed to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Scholarship Review Panel and the Awards Review Panel, as well as to the National League for Nursing CNE Certification Test Development Committee.
Vanessa Hill has been elected to serve on the American Society of Public Health Nursing Section Leadership Committee. The committee is part of a national public health nursing leadership initiative between ASPH and the Health Resources Services Administration.
Cindy Holcomb received ANCC Board Certification as a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing.
Mary Killeen was recently selected to serve as a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) reviewer. This was a highly competitive process, with more than 250 nominations and selection of only 25 percent of the individuals who applied.
Colleen Keller and Denise Link have been elected to the National Academics of Practice.
Denise Link has received a Faculty Recognition Award from the Office of Student Affairs for her leadership in the effort to make healthcare available for students at the new Downtown Phoenix Campus. She also has been appointed to serve as a member of the Arizona Ad Hoc Committee on Cervical Cancer.
Susan Mattson has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the Western Institute of Nursing.
Bernadette Melnyk was elected to the Executive Board of the American Academy of Nursing and is a recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.
Karen Saewert recently was named Communication Chair for Region 2 of Sigma Theta Tau International.
Alyce Schultz was elected vice president for Sigma Theta Tau International and Leigh Small was elected to the STTI Leadership Succession Committee.
Beverly Warne was recognized by the Native American Nurses Association as a teacher, mentor, and founding mother of the organization.
Barbara White has been selected to chair the steering committee for the Instructional Leadership Network, one of four Leadership Networks supported by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
Ester Ruiz was selected to receive the Shannon Mentorship Award at WIN in March 2006.
Colleen Keller was elected to the National Academies of Practice, March 2006.
The abstract, "Health Disparities of Mexican American Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes," (CM Baldwin, MZ Mays, J Fleury, CS Keller) was one of 29 accepted for presentation out of over 500 submitted abstracts. The abstract was presented at the National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health held in Washington, D.C. in January 2006.
