VNL Magazine - Winter 2020 Issue

When Disaster Binds

Climate change is quickly altering life in Nicaragua, where professor Emma Mitchell empowers nurses there to prepare for disaster. How lessons there are preparing nurses at UVA, too, for the inevitable changes to come.

by Christine Phelan Kueter

Look for the Helpers

Some nursing students take their roles a step further through volunteerism. They are emergency responders, every inch of them a helper.

Happy at the Bedside

Paul Merrel belongs to an endangered species: he's an experienced critical care nurse who practices at the bedside, and not once has been tempted to leave.

What can you do with $20M?

A boatload. How the School will support 1K nurses over the next decade, double its sim lab space, and enroll more transfers - ALL thanks to the Conways.

Briefs

A record-setting gift, a phalanx of alumni and faculty awards, and students who're reach out to small fry and rallying high Va schoolers around nursing, too.

Philanthropy

How the “Fat Nine” came to be, and how they rallied around one of their own when illness struck.

How We Decide

When chronic and life-limiting illness strike, decision aids - like those developed by UVA scholars - help us live with less regret.

Leadership: By The Numbers

There's a reason so many UVA Nursing faculty are tapped as leaders: their voice, their intellect, their passion, and their keen ability to bridge the divide.