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DEPARTMENT
NEWSLETTER
FOURTH ANNA HAUGEN BERDAHL LECTURESHIP
A symposium celebrating the Department of Nursing's 40 years
in the Gilbert Science Center will be held in conjunction
with Augustana's Homecoming activities on Friday, October
5, 2007. The event will begin with a nursing alumni luncheon
at the Minnehaha Country Club at 11:30 a.m. The lecture will
follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Edith Mortenson Theater on the
Augustana College Campus. A tour of the Gilbert Science Center
is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.
Joanne Thompson Olson, RN, PhD, Associate Dean and Professor
at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
will be the keynote speaker. Joanne received her B.A. in nursing
from Augustana College in 1972. The title of Dr. Olson's lecture
is "How Core Values Help You Live in a Changing World."
The lecture is free and open to the public.
The luncheon is supported by the Anna Berdahl Lectureship.
Due to seating capacity, preregistration for the luncheon
is required. Please send your registration form and $5.00
registration fee to the Department of Nursing by September
30, 2007. The registration form can be found in the department
newsletter.
The Anna Berdahl Lectureship Committee is creating a commemorative
booklet to include alumni memories of experiences in Gilbert
Science Center and anecdotes from your nursing careers. Please
email your written reflections (limit of 250 words please)
to mary.moline@augie.edu.
AUGUSTANA RECEIVES $25,000 NURSING GRANT
Augustana College is one of 15 schools nationwide
to receive grant money in a project to boost nursing education.
Each school will receive $20,000 this academic year and another
$5,000 a year from now in the Quality and Safety Education
for Nurses project. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation donated
$1.09 million. An advisory board led by a dean at the University
of North Carolina chose Augustana and the other pilot schools
from 53 applications. Augustana's project will focus on technology
in nursing. Using a recent gift from former professors V.
Ronald and Joyce Nelson, the school's nursing department bought
a computer-controlled mannequin for teaching clinical judgement
in situations such as head injuries and heart failure.
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