2022
12.1
Virginia Business magazine named Dean Marianne Baernholdt a “Top Person to Meet in 2023.”
12.4
In a Richmond Times Dispatch essay, second-year BSN student Abdallah Aljerjawi (above right, with fellow BSN student and Walentas Scholar Katherine Flores) a native of Gaza, penned, “From one war zone to another” in response to the November 13 shooting at UVA that left three students dead and two injured.
Aljerjawi and Flores were also part of UVA President Jim Ryan's "DoubleTake" storytelling event in February 2023, at the Rotunda, now in its fifth year and a program based on the award-winning podcast The Moth at which eight students. faculty, and staff members shared first-person narratives of their lived experiences.
12.31
For the third time since 2018, the School earned the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for 2022, a distinction that "sets us apart," said Melissa Gilbert Gomes (CERTI' 12), Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
In particular, the latest HEED Award celebrated three specific diversity "points of light" from across the 2021-22 academic year: the unveiling of a new nursing student pledge that deepened nursing students' explicit commitment to equity, respect, and diversity; the School's citation as an exemplar for its public response to George Floyd's murder to students, faculty, staff, and its broader community of constituents; and the arrival of a new cohort of exceptionally diverse Accelerated BSN students, a new transfer pathway established as an avenue for students with diverse educational needs who are critical to the development of a more diverse healthcare workforce, a key national initiative.
2023
1.13
More than 80 faculty, staff, and administrators attended a strategic planning retreat to inform the School’s ten-year strategic plan, a refreshed mission, vision, and goals. With community input and review, the plan will be deployed later this spring.
1.28
Fifty-two Clinical Nurse Leader master’s students earned their UVA pins, signifying the near end of their journey through the two-year program. View more photos on our Facebook page here.
1.30
Meghan Mattos (MSN '09), associate professor, an NIH-funded scholar, and nurse scientist, earned the Lucie Young Kelly Faculty Leadership Award for 2023. The award is for outstanding emerging faculty members who are leaders in research, teaching, and within the School community.
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The School’s Mary Morton Parson’s Clinical Simulation Learning Center was one of 14 labs endorsed by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning for its commitment to the four core standards of simulation: pre-briefing, debriefing, facilitation, and professional integrity.
2.1
Guided by Melissa Gomes (CERTI ’12), associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Ivy Hinton, assistant professor, the School took part in a monthlong common read of Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, by Tricia Hersey, throughout February.
2.6
Pam Cipriano, dean emerita, an associate research professor, and president of the International Council of Nurses, earned a DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award from UVA Health.
2.11
Associate professor Katrina Debnam, a violence expert and NIH-funded scholar who studies Black girls’ romantic relationships, was among about 20 UVA faculty scholars to earn a 2023 UVA Research Achievement Award from Provost Ian Baucomb.
2.13
In a historic application year, UVA extended offers to nearly 6,000 students as part of its early action cycle, 83 of which were to nursing students.
2.28
Clinical instructor David Simmons (BSN '84, MSN '93) was honored with the 2023 UVA Health Martin Luther King Jr. Award.
3.1
The “I Am ALS” panel, sponsored by the Hummingbird Fund and the Haney Conference for Compassionate Care at the End of Life, featured Jim Plews-Ogan, MD, a UVA pediatrics professor emerita living with ALS, as well as Time Lowrey, a retired pharmacist living with ALS.
3.16
Woodard Professor Richard Westphal (PhD 04), co-creator of “Wisdom and Wellbeing,” which earned, in 2021, a $2.14 million HRSA grant from the Biden Administration as part of the America Rescue Plan, was featured on an hourlong Virginia Public Media program, “Caring for the Caregivers,” a discussion of peer training and support on hospital units.
3.21
The 6th annual Barbara Parker Research Symposium offered nine PhD students a forum to share their original investigations; Maria McDonald, Reanna Panagides (BSN '20), and Sookyung Park earned awards for their presentations.
3.25
Several student groups, including Diversity in Nursing for a Better Community, the Black Student Nurses Alliance, and the Latinx Nursing Student Union, hosted the 2023 “Dare to Dream” event, which gathered 25 area high school students and their parents for tours, presentations, and hands-on learning. The entirely student-run event offers underrepresented students a glimpse at a “day in the life” as a nursing student to encourage future healthcare providers.
3.31
Joining the School of Nursing's faculty in the spring and summer of 2023 are:
- Susan Goins-Eplee, MSN, MDiv, RN, CNL, HEC-C
- Jennifer Gaines, MSN, RN, CHSE, IBCLC, instructor and clinical simulation educator
- Dawn Bourne, DNP, RN, FNP-C, HEC-C (BSN '04, MSN '10, DNP '16), assistant professor
- Emily Evans, PhD, WHNP-BC, RN (PhD' 14)
- Christina Feggans-Langston, MSN, RN, clinical instructor and Westhaven community health nurse
- Lee Moore, DNP, LNP, PMHNP-BC, CNE, assistant professor
4.25
The latest U.S. News & World Report Best Grad Schools again gave the School high marks in its 2024 guide. The School's MSN was ranked No. 14 overall (No. 7 MSN) and its DNP was ranked No. 28 overall (No. 20 public DNP), keeping it in the top 2% of nursing graduate programs nationally.
The School’s BSN program previously earned a No. 10 spot in U.S. News’ Best Colleges Guide in its 2023 edition. Additionally, after a fruitful funding year, the School's NIH ranking leapt 10 spots in 2023 to No. 33 in the nation, its best showing since the advent of those rankings in 2014.
4.28
A Celebration of Life for the late Dr. Barbara Brodie (PNP ’75) gathered dozens of the famed professor's former students, colleagues, friends, and admirers in an event in McLeod Auditorium and on Zoom. Brodie taught for 32 years and was connected to the School of Nursing and UVA for more than four decades.
5.3
Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) alumni and School officials will dedicate a new bench, memorializing the partnership between UVA Hospital, Jackson P. Burley High School, and UVA School of Nursing that began in the 1950s when Black students were not allowed to attend UVA. About 150 students, including a handful of men, completed the program, which ran until 1966. In 1967, UVA launched its BSN program, following a nationwide trend that moved nursing schools out of hospitals and into university programs. Mavis Claytor (BSN '70, MSN' 85), the School's first black graduate, transferred from Roanoke College in 1968, the following year.
Many of these LPN alumni, who went on to have lengthy and distinguished nursing careers after graduating, were key to integrating black nurses into the profession at UVA Medical Center and beyond.
The new bench is one of a host of such structures that are part of the UVA Memorial Benches Initiative, which seeks to make the built environment at UVA more inclusive of all students.
5.21
On the north steps of the Rotunda, 280 graduates in the class of 2023 will earn their nursing degrees as part of UVA's 194th final exercises and the School of Nursing's 122nd class of graduates, including:
- 83 students who earned BSNs
- 38 RNs who earned BSNs
- 52 CNL students who earned MSNs
- 79 graduate student nurses who earned MSNs and post-master's degrees
- 21 students who earned DNPs
- and seven students who earned PhDs in nursing
Congratulations, students!
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Comments Welcome!
In fall 2023, the School will host the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for a reaccreditation site visit for our BSN, MSN, and DNP programs. CCNE will also be reviewing the post-graduate APRN certificates.
You are invited to submit, in writing, confidential comments that relate to accreditation standards. Please send written and signed comments before August 30, 2023, to thirdpartycomments@ccneaccreditation.org. Comments may also be mailed to:
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
Attn: third-party comments
655 K Street, NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20001
More information: https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/about/accreditation/comments/