Transcript
Dr. Elizabeth Buck
Hello everyone, I’d like to welcome you to the 2020 virtual hooding ceremony of the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing. Here’s our agenda today. And then rest of the presenters.
Dr. Michelle Jenkins-Unterberg
Good afternoon, my name is doctor Michelle Jenkins Unterberg and I am the Dean of the Walker College of Health Professions and it is my great pleasure to congratulate all of the graduates in the Catherine McAuely School of Nursing. Earning a Master of Science in nursing degree or a doctor of nursing practice degree is quite an honor that few nurses achieve and I’m very proud of your accomplishments. Now more than ever, there is a great need for health care professionals and I am proud of your commitment to impact the lives of society. Congratulations to all of you.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck
Greetings everyone, this is Dr. Liz Buck I’m the assistant Dean for nursing. I’d like also to add my welcome to the graduates and your families, friends and loved ones who may be watching this recording with you. This is certainly not the celebration that would planned a few months ago, but on behalf of the faculty and staff of the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing, we want to recognize the MSN and DNP graduates of 2020. We are celebrating the culmination of a tremendous amount of hard work and learning on your parts. Only 13% of all nurses having an MSN and less than 1% of nurses have a doctoral degree. All of you are joining a very unique segment of our profession and you should be very proud of your accomplishments. Speaking on behalf of the faculty of the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing, I can say that we are very proud of you. 2020 has been designated by the World Health Organization as the year of the nurse worldwide to celebrate the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale on May 12th. As you know, she is the founder of modern nursing, was quite a visionary in her day, and her legacy lives on in each one of us. It is somewhat ironic, isn’t it that the pandemic of COVID-19 has hit during the year of the nurse? You can’t watch any TV news broadcast without seeing the public recognizing nurses for their selfless caring during this crisis all over the world. Many of you have put yourselves in harm’s way, just as those we see on TV. You are our heroes and we salute you. I don’t think that you will ever forget how hard it was to find a preceptor, even before the pandemic. In most states, after you have a year of experience, you could be ready to be a preceptor yourself. So please pay it forward. When students come begging and asking you to help them with their education. At this time, we’re going to present some awards. The first is the outstanding Scholarly Project Award to a DNP student. This award is given at each hooding ceremony in memory of one of our excellent DNP students, JoAnne Maklebust, who passed away in November 2014. She should be an inspiration to us all because she earned her DNP when she was 80 years old. Doctor Maklebust was an international expert on wound care, authoring textbooks and multiple publications as well as earning many honors. Being named a Fellow of the American Academy of nursing, one of the highest achievements a nurse can earn. Doctor Snell, would you like to announce this year’s Maklebust Award winner please?
Dr. Mariea Snell
Yes I would. I’m pleased to announce. Announce that Patricia Rodriguez Kent is this year’s recipient for her project, titled “The Teach Back Method”, improving hemoglobin A1C levels in indigent patients with Type 2 diabetes. Her project was expertly guided by her chair Dr. Gail Petroff. Congratulations, Patricia.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck
Congratulations! The Elaine Albert Award is given to a Master of Science in Nursing graduate who has demonstrated excellence in scholarly inquiry and evidence based practice. It is named for nursing faculty who passed away suddenly and her family has established this award in her memory. Doctor Zimmerman, would you like to announce this year’s winner of the Elaine Albert Award?
Dr. Nina Zimmerman
Yes, thank you Dr. Buck. The recipient of the 2020 Lane Albert Award is Amanda Wagner. Congratulations, Amanda.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck
This is the second year that we are presenting the Daisy award to a graduate student. The Daisy award was founded in November 1999 in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Daisy stands for diseases attacking the immune system. The Barnes family was awestruck by the care and compassion Patrick received from his nurses. The Daisy award is given to say thank you. And to celebrate the graduate student nurses commitment to compassionate patient care, an outstanding clinical skills. Dr. Brandie Stiles nominated this student for the Daisy award because he has shown excellence in all areas of the program. He is loved by faculty, peers, clinical preceptors, and patients. Since the beginning of the program, he has made every effort he could to improve his clinical performance and learn as much as he can before graduation. His clinical instructor spoke nothing but good things about him and praised his critical thinking skills along with his compassion that he has toward patients with mental illness. In addition, he always reached out and helped his classmates and peers. This year’s Daisy Award winner is Timothy Chad Fry. Congratulations Chad!
At this time, I’d like Dr. Snell and then Dr. Zimmerman to add their congratulations to all of you followed, by the coordinators of your concentrations who were instrumental in your success.
Dr. Mariea Snell
Thank you, Dr. Buck, I’d like to congratulate all of our graduate students. You’ve accomplished great things over your time here at Maryville, and I know you will continue to do so in your communities. As our Dean stated earlier, we need expert providers and leaders more than ever and I’m confident that you will serve in that capacity and go on to make a significant impact in the profession for our patients and for our world. Again, congratulations and go on to do great things.
Dr. Nina Zimmerman
Hi everyone, this is Dr. Nina Zimmerman. I would like to congratulate the graduate nursing students of 2020. You are ready to embark on a new role as an advanced practice nurse, and I welcome you to our advanced practice nursing profession. I am so proud of you into and to also call you a colleague. With this role comes a tremendous amount of responsibility. Please remember a few things, listen to your patients. Advocate for your patients. Be humble and respectful and never stop learning. I hope you take time to celebrate your amazing accomplishments with your family and friends. I wish you the very best in your professional endeavors. Take care and stay well.
Dr. Mykale Elbe
This is doctor Mykale Elbe. I just want to first say how very proud we are of all of you guys and your hard work. We are sad that we can’t be there to celebrate with you guys. I know this is one of our favorite times of the year because we finally get to meet all of you guys that we’ve only met through the computer screen. So I really do hope you guys enjoy this time. Celebrate with your family and friends as much as you can. I would also like to echo that I finally get to call you all colleagues and I’m very proud of that. I can tell the FNP students that in the last week, watching your guys’ final presentations, you all are going to be amazing nurse practitioners. Also, I can echo that you guys will be amazing preceptors because already I can listen to your guy’s recordings and hear how much you guys have learned. How easily you guys can share that knowledge. So I do really encourage you to consider being a preceptor and again echo the congratulations and very how proud we are of you guys.
Dr. Brandie Stiles
Hi I’m Brandie Stiles and I want to congratulate all the future, not necessarily future anymore. Um, psych nurse practitioners as we take boards in graduate, many of you are going to hit the floor running with all the pandemic going on. And I wish you nothing but the best and a successful future.
Dr. Joanne Kern
Hi, I’m Dr. Joanne Kern. I would like to, for some of you, I’ve had the pleasure of being your course instructor in the adult gerontology primary care courses or in the DNP courses, or both. For others, I’ve also had the pleasure of serving as your scholarly project chairperson. I realize this is not the graduation you imagine. We all do. In fact, it’s not even the semester any of us could have imagined through the challenging time. So you have all persevered. Each of you have chosen to advance your career in nursing. I would like to personally congratulate each of you as you move forward in your careers. Congratulations, celebrate, you deserve it.
Dr. Kathy Wright
Hello, this is Dr. Kathy Wright Congratulations on your accomplishments. I wish you all the best in your continued nursing journey.
Professor Loretta Colvin
Hi, my name is Loretta Colvin, and I’m the coordinator for the acute care program. I am very proud of all of our students for what you’ve accomplished, across our programs. We know everyone has been working on the front lines or working on the back end, volunteering, making masks at home, all sorts of things that have really helped to bring our health care teams in our society together. And we know you’ve been doing this while juggling school clinicals and everything else. And we’re very proud of everything that you’ve been able to accomplish, and we’re very excited to see you come into the profession and join the ranks in caring for our patients in our society. So congratulations, you deserve it. You earned it and celebrate.
Dr. Michelle Jenkins-Unterberg
So on behalf of all of the faculty and all of the staff in the Myrtle E. And Earl Walker College of Health Professions, we congratulate the graduates in the McAuely School of Nursing. As you’ve heard from all of the coordinators and directors, and assistant dean. We are so proud of you and wish we could be there to congratulate you in person, but please know that we are proud of you and please, when you can celebrate this accomplishment and what you’ve earned with your family and your friends. We wish you the absolute very best.
Dr. Elizabeth Buck
Congratulations everybody!
Dr. Nina Zimmerman
Congratulations!
Dr. Mykale Elbe
Congratulations!
Apart, but Celebrating Together
The COVID-19 crisis meant we couldn’t hold events like our hooding ceremony in-person, but we wanted to recognize our brave nursing students on earning their master’s and doctorate degrees. So we got a little bit creative.
Maryville Online’s nursing faculty got together to give words of wisdom, pass out awards, and congratulate our class of 2020 as they prepare to make an immediate impact in their careers.
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