First Class of MN Students Graduates from FPB
Represent a new milestone for FPB's Graduate Entry program
Posted 5/25/11
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"The Graduate Entry program was able to revise the curriculum based on input from faculty, students, and clinical partners as well as external trends and forces in health care and professional nursing." --Graduate Entry Program Director and Assistant Professor Deborah Lindell, DNP, PHCNS-BC, CNE |
On May 15, 2011, 32 students from FPB's Graduate Entry program received their Master of Nursing (MN) degrees, thus completing the pre-licensure nursing stage and giving them eligibility to apply for RN licensure.
These students represent the first class to study and complete FPB's revised and enhanced pre-licensure curriculum, which was developed over the past two years. The MN degree replaces the Certificate of Professional Nursing, which had been awarded at FPB since 1992.
"This past year was one of constant change and progress for the Graduate Entry program," says Program Director and Assistant Professor Deborah Lindell, DNP, PHCNS-BC, CNE. "We were able to revise the curriculum based on input from faculty, students, and clinical partners as well as external trends and forces in health care and professional nursing."
This year, seven graduating MN students were awarded with special recognition. They are as follows:
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Sarah Gutin: Alumni Award (for outstanding clinical performance)
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Dora Horovitz: Cushing Robb Award (for exemplary academic performance and nursing leadership)
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Sarah Miano and Nicole Cruver: R. and S.H Elliott Award for Community Service (for devoting hundreds of volunteer hours to plan and implement the upcoming Student-Run Free Clinic)
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Anna Grzebieniak: M.R. Zaworski Award for Leadership (for work in quality and safety in healthcare)
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Darina Molkina: Dean's Legacy Award (for outstanding academic performance and commitment to community service)
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Mandisa Molton: "Spirit of Nursing" Award (for outstanding academic performance and compassionate commitment to nursing)
In addition, all 32 MN graduates, having earned about 15 credits towards most of FPB's Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) majors, may proceed onward to the advanced nursing practice stage to obtain a specialist master's degree. An MSN will allow them to work as a nurse practitioner, nurse anesthetist, midwife, or clinical nurse specialist, and they can also continue to the practice doctorate stage and achieve the pinnacle degree for nursing practice, the DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice).
A faculty team from the School of Medicine and FPB's Graduate Entry program was recently selected by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation's Institute for Healthcare Improvement to participate as one of six medical-nursing interprofessional school teams working to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes around teamwork and leadership and to enhance the competencies required to promote quality and safety in health care.
