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| The UL- Lafayette College of Nursing Alumni Committee would like to welcome you to our Alumni site on the College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions Homepage. The CON Committee on Alumni is charged with devising ways and means of maintaining alumni interest through providing information, collecting and disseminating news from our campus and increasing contact between the alumni and the main campus. The committee also works closely with the UL-Lafayette Alumni Association to insure adequate coverage of our college in their activities. | ||||||
Alumni Chairperson Greeting |
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| As Chairperson of the UL-Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions Alumni Committee, I would like to welcome to the first “edition” of the Alumni Newsletter. Our committee has recently had the opportunity to meet some of our goals by having this link available to anyone who accesses the ULL CON Homepage. Our committee is excited to be able to share with you, electronically, news and information that we feel the alumni would enjoy hearing, especially about things happening on our campus in the College of Nursing. In the past, we have had limited contact with our alumni due to infrequent mailings and not having a consistent way to receive information from our alumni except through the UL-Lafayette Alumni Association on campus. The newsletter will also provide an avenue for increased communication concerning events that this committee plans for CON alumni during the year. In this newsletter, you will read about an event held in October, 2007 which we would like to see grow and flourish with greater nursing alumni participation. At present, the newsletter is a “work in progress”. We will add and update information on the site once a semester and perhaps once during the summer months. Please share the availability of this link with fellow alumni in your workplace, your community and with your alumni friends. There is a “no reply” restriction for this link but my email information is available on the opening page. We would love to hear from you and have you share information with “your” alumni colleagues in nursing. We cannot promise that the newsletter will be able to handle all of the information that we receive but we do plan to have an “Alumni Spotlight” area to share some of the great things that our alumni are doing and achieving in our state and beyond!! Thank you for your assistance in “spreading” the word for us. Keep us in your “favorites” and “visit us” on line when you can! Faye B. Blankenship ‘70 UL-Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions ULL College of Nursing Alumni Committee, Chair |
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NLN Center of Excellence |
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| After two years of introspective planning and documentation in preparation for the application, the UL-Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions was awarded a Centers of Excellence in Nursing Education distinction by the National League for Nursing (NLN), one of the leading professional associations for nursing in the United States. The NLN designation for “Excellence in Faculty Development” is one of three focus areas offered. UL Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions is one of a select few universities in the United States that have received the NLN’s prestigious Excellence designation for creating an environment that promotes ongoing faculty development. The application process included a site visit by several consultants who observed many unique distinctions of our faculty. The College of Nursing faculty at UL-Lafayette have created a community of creative scholars and continues to nurture new faculty into the teaching and the scholarship role. It is the opinion of the NLN that the faculty of the College of Nursing have one of the best work environments in the country! The Award was presented at the Education Summit in Baltimore, Maryland which is attended by over 1400 nurse educators. |
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Simulation Labs |
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| The Critical Care Simulation Lab located at UL Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions is the first and only facility of its kind in Louisiana. It contains 6 patient simulators equipped with ICU monitoring that can be programmed by instructors to exhibit the same, quickly changing scenarios as seen in the ICU. Scenarios that play out in the day-to-day world of the intensive care will be re-created in the critical care lab through the use of highly advanced simulation technology. With use of the Critical Care Simulation Lab nursing faculty are able to provide the essential bridge to clinical practice. Students are able to transfer the knowledge obtained in the didactic portion of the course and apply it in a simulated intensive care unit before actually utilizing concepts and skills in a live setting. In the Fall, 2007 semester, we were privileged to open our Maternal-Child Simulation Lab. With a nursery areas, a pediatric room and a L&D/maternity area, this simulation lab has made it possible for students to experience reality situations before and during their maternal-child clinical experiences. The Maternal–Child Simulation Lab contains: 2 Noelle maternity manikins, 3 Baby Sims, 2 Pediatric Vital Sims manikins and two “special needs” infants plus a variety of supplies and equipment specific to the care of infants and pediatric patients. As the Fall and Spring semesters concluded, faculty and students realized the benefits of these simulation labs for our students, enhancing their regular clinical experiences by offering guided case scenarios. Plans are in progress to use both the Adult and M-C simulation labs to develop programs for staff nurses in our community. Through our CON – CE department, these programs will facilitate RN’s in advancing their knowledge and skills in these specialty areas. |
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Outstanding Alumni Spotlight |
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On Saturday, January 12th, 2008, the Louisiana Nurses Foundation and the Louisiana State Nurses Association hosted its seventh annual Nightingale Awards Program in Baton Rouge. The Nightingale Awards ceremony is a time when the nursing profession honors its own. The program and awards recognize quality service, commitment and excellence for Registered Nurses in the state of Louisiana. There were over 80 Registered Nurse nominees representing a variety of healthcare institutions and schools of nursing across the state.UL-Lafayette College of Nursing is proud to acknowledge that one of our alumni was honored at this event. Mary O. Broussard, a 1976 USL graduate, received the Nightingale Award for Nursing Administrator of the year! Mary is presently serving as RN Hospital Nursing Director at LSUHSC University Medical Center in Lafayette. Mary has been at University Medical Center (UMC) since 1974 years and has served that institution in many capacities. As of September 2005, she was named to the Nursing Director position at UMC. Please join us in congratulating her on this prestigious award and as our first Outstanding Alumni!! |
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Alumni Homecoming Event – October 2007 |
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| A College of Nursing Alumni Homecoming Open House and Reception was held this past October 18, 2007 at Wharton Hall and the UL-Lafayette Alumni House. The event began with guided tours of the new Smart Classrooms, Computer Lab, newly decorated Dean’s Office and Conference Room and the Maternal/Child and Adult Simulation Labs in Wharton Hall. The Alumni who attended these tours were impressed by the use of technology and simulation in nursing education. The tours were followed by a reception at the UL-Lafayette Alumni House which was catered by the University’s food service department. Live music was provided by one of our own alumnus, Patsy Bienvenu, class of 1970. Drawings for door prizes were held for those attending. The Class of 1977 was honored for having the most attendees at this event. The College of Nursing Alumni Committee has planned for a similar event for Fall, 2008. Please check this Alumni site later this summer for information and registration for that Homecoming Alumni Event. |
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Document last revised Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:28 PM
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