NEWS & EVENTS
TWO FPB FACULTY RECEIVE ANA HONORS
The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the United States, recently announced 19 registered nurses who will receive national awards for outstanding contributions to the nursing profession at ANA’s biennial House of Delegates meeting in Washington DC on June 16-20, 2010. The ANA House of Delegates is comprised of as many as 675 registered nurses, the vast majority of whom are elected by their state nursing associations, to help set the national nursing association’s agenda and positions for the upcoming two years.
This year, two FPB faculty members were among the 19 nurses who were chosen by the ANA House of Delegates: Jaclene A. Zauszniewski, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN and May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA.
The ANA recognizes Outstanding Contributions to Nursing through their National Awards Program. The Hildegard Peplau Award was established in 1990 to honor a nurse who has made significant contributions to nursing practice over a lifetime through scholarly activities, clinical practice, and policy development, specifically directed towards the psychosocial and psychiatric aspects of nursing care delivery.
This year the award goes to a very deserving recipient, Jaclene A. Zauszniewski, the Kate Harvey Hanna Professor in Community Health Nursing.
When asked how she felt when she heard the news of her selection, Dr. Zauszniewski said, "I was so thrilled to hear of my selection as the recipient of this very prestigious award. When I look at the list of former recipients, I consider myself so honored to be listed among them. Their contributions to psychiatric nursing have advanced our specialty's knowledge, practice, and research to make it what it is today. And, I will consider it my challenge and calling to continue this important work through my mentorship of the psychiatric nurses of the future."
The Mary Mahoney Award is named for Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American graduate
nurse in the United States. It was established to honor her active participation in
nursing organizations and her efforts to raise the status of African American nurses
in professional life. The Mary Mahoney Award recognizes significant contributions,
by an individual nurse or a group of nurses, to integration within the nursing
profession. This year's recipient was May L. Wykle, the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor and Dean of Nursing.
The ANA is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses through its constituent member nurses associations, its organizational affiliates, and its workforce advocacy affiliate, the Center for American Nurses. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.