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Spring + Summer 2025

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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

It's just 63 steps from the School to UVA Health. A new Synergy Center - which centralizes nurse recruitment, onboarding, retention, and professional development, aligned with workforce needs - means there's no discernible gap between the two.

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FROM THE DEAN

Like Typhoid Mary in reverse, Dean Baernholdt on how she and colleagues aim to spread 'good contagion.'

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

How Mrs. Chase and Baby Chase took nursing education and simulation by storm in the early 1900s.

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SCHOOL NURSE SAVVY

Forget ice packs and Band-Aids. Alumna Ashley Palmore and her colleagues in San Diego County are a new breed of school nurse.

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ON MY BOOKSHELF

The books that UVA Health University Medical Center chief nursing officer Kathy Baker (a Harry Potter, Dolly Parton, and cookbook fan) keeps close.

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NURSING NARRATIVES

Three nursing students offer written reflections on their nursing 'whys.'

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IN HIS OWN WORDS

On the court or in the lab, how simulation staffer Rob Craig keeps time with nursing students and as a key part of UVA athletics game operations.

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Departments

A NEW SIM STANDARD

The Schools of Nursing and Medicine created a Simulation Collaborative that's both centralized and energized sims for healthcare professionals.

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CLASS NEWS AND NOTES

Sarah Knoeckl earns VCNP award, Jennifer Killmer earns a DAISY, Alvin Garcia earns an MBA, and Tuyet Chuong gets named to VNA committee.

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THE CONWAY PROMISE

How Bill and Joanne Conway have changed the game for nursing students across the United States, and at UVA.

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PHARMA FELLOWS

Two UVA DNP students are the first nurses ever hired for drug giant AstraZeneca’s oncology/hematology fellowship program.

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LEARNING, CONTINUED

From kidney transplants (Jun. 18), stress and caregiving (Sept. 11), an APP conference (Oct. 9), and a "Do no harm" talk with Michelle Longley (Oct. 16).

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FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

How springtime makes Alumni Association president Josh James re-remember that sometimes it's best to say 'no.'

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