EMBARKING ON A NEW ERA - UCLA School of Nursing

Carol Greene, B.S. ’74, M.N. ’89An advanced practice nurse with many years of experiencein clinical practice and leadership roles, Greenecurrently serves as regional ANP manager for PediatrixMedical Group, a leading national provider of maternal-fetal,newborn and pediatric subspecialty physicianservices. After graduating from the UCLA School ofNursing with her baccalaureate degree, Greene spent10 years working as a nurse in acute care. She then returnedto UCLA to earn her master’s degree and begina career as a neonatal nurse practitioner. Along with herclinical experiences, she became involved in management.Greene is currently director of advanced practitionersfor the western region of her national medicalgroup. As an active member of the Continuing NursingEducation team for Pediatrix Medical Group, Greenepresents at conferences and reviews materials for Webbasededucation.Margo Creighton Neal, M.N. ’74After graduating from the UCLA School of Nursing,Neal was part of the first wave of psychiatric/mental health nurses to be certified by the AmericanNurses’ Association. She was also the first independentprovider of continuing education for nurses in theUnited States, starting in 1970. Neal began with oneprogram, Nursing Care Plans, and worked with anothernurse, Mary Jensen, to develop the process andcontent and to present workshops. She worked withtwo coauthors – Phyllis Cooper and Pat Cohen, alsograduates of the school – to produce the first volume ofNursing Care Planning Guides and ended up publishingfive more volumes in several editions. In 1985, Neal soldher education and publishing enterprise to Williams &Wilkins, medical and nursing book publishers in Baltimore.Four years later she and a partner started NursecomInc. to publish nursing journals and clinicalbooks and engage in association management.1970The Neuman SystemsModel: A Total Approachto Patient Problemsis published byDr. Betty Neuman, amember of the faculty.1971Dr. Rheba de Tornyayis recruited asthe school’ssecond dean.■ The Roy Adaptation Modelis described by Sister Callista Roy,a graduate student at the school.1972A federal grant enables the schoolto become one of the first to establish aprogram to prepare nurse practitioners.1976Dr. Phyllis Putnam, a member of the facultyfrom 1963 to 1990, obtains a grant to starta geriatric specialization program at theschool, the first of its kind in the nation.1977Dr. Mary Reresbecomes the School ofNursing’s third dean.