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Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN, the Doris
R. Schwartz Associate Professor in
Gerontological Nursing, MEd,
PRDHCE, DNA, RTN, RSCN,
RGN, RN, collaborated with Sophia
Chan, PhD, at the University of Hong
Kong Department of Nursing in a collaboration
around undergraduate clinical
education.This work developed into
a review of their revised master’s curriculum
and a video conference on
advanced-practice nursing, which
included Penn Associate Professor
Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, and
Therese Narzikul, MSN, CRNP in
Hong Kong. Next, they intend to
implement a new undergraduate
exchange emphasizing traditional and
complementary therapies.
Dean Meleis was the keynote
speaker at the second pan-Pacific nursing
conference,“Advancing Nursing
Science in the Pan-Pacific Region,”
held in Hong Kong, and at the fifth
Nursing Academic International
Congress,“Cultural Diversity in
Alternative Health Care and Nursing
Therapeutics” in Bangkok. She also
attended the thirteenth International
Congress on Women’s Health Issues in
Seoul as Council General.
“Cultural Diversity in Alternative
Health Care and Nursing Therapeutics”
was the keynote address delivered by
dean Meleis in Thailand in December
at the Fifth Nursing Academic
International Congress.
Middle East
Anne Keane, EdD, FAAN, RN, associate
professor and Interim Associate
Dean for Graduate Studies and
Professional Development and Barbara
Medoff-Cooper, PhD, FAAN, CRNP,
RN the Helen M. Shearer Professor in
Nutrition, participated in the annual
review of the first integrated clinical
masters nursing program in Israel.
Students have completed their first year
in a program preparing advanced prac-
WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing
and Midwifery Leadership
A WHO Collaborating Center is a national
institution that the director general of the
World Health Organization designates to
form part of an international collaborative
network for carrying out WHO’s mandate
for international health work and its program
priorities. Today, 34 collaborating
centers make up the WHO Nursing and
Midwifery Global Network. Fifteen of these
are in the Americas/Pan American
(AMRO/PAHO) Region: Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Mexico, and the United States.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is one of these 15.
tice nurses (APN) in critical care,
oncology, or gerontology.
The Americas
Associate Professor Terri E.Weaver,
PhD, FAAN, CS, RN, Co-Director of
the Center for Urban Health Research,
presented the poster “Differences in
Treatment Outcomes among Sleepy,
Non-Sleepy,And Discordant Sleepiness
Groups” at the International
Symposium on Sleep and Breathing in
Reykjavik, Iceland.Additionally, the
University of Western Ontario serves as
a data collection site for ongoing
research,“Multisite Study of the
Functional Outcomes of CPAP Use.”
Dean Meleis was the keynote
speaker at both the eighth Nursing
Research Pan-American Colloquium,
“Nursing: Contributing to Health by
Constructing Networks” in Mexico
City, and the International Nurse
Educator Conference of the Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario,
“Embracing the Future: Educating
Tomorrow’s Nurses” held in Toronto.
Upon request from the Canadian
Armenia
Photo courtesy of the American
International Health Alliance
associations for the History of Nursing
and Medicine, Karen Buhler-
Wilkerson, PhD, FAAN, RN, Professor
of Community Health Nursing and
Director of the Center for the Study of
the History of Nursing, delivered the
Hannah Lecture in Toronto.“Simply
put, the United States has no realistic
system of support for the families of
those who need extensive or long-term
care.Today, a significant but largely
invisible group of “informal caregivers”
provides most care for the sick at home
– managing on their own as best they
can. Such care is challenging, exhausting,
and inconvenient and interrupts
daily patterns of living and work.
Providing care and the essentials of
daily living (food, shelter, and housekeeping
services) required tremendous
effort. For those living alone, illness is
even more challenging.”The lecture, in
part, examined nearly two centuries of
caring for the sick at home in the
United States as examined in Dr.
Wilkerson’s acclaimed book, No Place
Like Home:A History of Nursing and
Home Care in the U.S.
Nurses in the newly
independent states
of the former Soviet
Union participate in
an ongoing project
introducing the concept
of accreditation.
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