Weightlifter. Introvert. Mom, widow, and niece and granddaughter of nurses. Pediatric nurse practitioner and an NIH-funded nurse scientist who uses big data and continuous monitoring to create on-unit visual warning systems to predict ICU patients’ decompensation.
Writer, poet, and a professor and mentor to PhD in nursing students who’s teaching an NP assessment lab to DNP students in fall 2025. The newly-named Malvina Yuille Boyd Professor of Oncology Nursing. |
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Check out the School's Instagram (@uvaschoolofnursing) Oct. 14 when BSN students Sophie Hearp, Kelsey Olvany, and Gib Smith take over the account from beautiful Brisbane, Australia, to share their experiences at U of Q as part of its semester-long exchange.
You can learn more about study abroad in Australia, New Zealand, and J-Term opportunities at an Oct. 15 12 noon luncheon and presentation just for BSN students. RSVP at the link below. |
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How professor and associate dean Shelly Smith uses Potato Heads to help students understand rapid-cycling PDSAs ("plan, do, study, act"), has students practice critiquing one another's communications, hosts mock legislative sessions and debates on controversial topics, like patients' right to die, and offers harrowing personal stories from across her expansive professional career as she syncs two key DNP courses with AACN Essentials guidelines. |
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Designed JUST for UVA School of Nursing alumni and current students, this Zoom event will introduce you to alumni who will share stories about what graduate degrees in nursing offered them personally, professionally, and financially - and what they might offer YOU.
Emceed by assistant professor and triple Hoo Ashley Apple, and featuring fellow faculty members Kelley Anderson, Ginger Petengill Freese, Laurel Geis, and Richard Ridge, attendees will get a look at the spectrum of UVA's program pathways and get a chance to ask questions.
No matter your goals, UVA's got a program to suit! Don your blue and orange and RSVP to join your UVA peeps for this once-a-semester event.
October 15, 5:30 - 6:30 PM |
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In the News . . .
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UVA Connect (9-29) UVA Health earns honor for lending hands: 2025 United Way Day of Caring
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With Good Reason / NPR (9-27) The great American nursing shortage
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UVA Connect (9-25) UVA's undergrad nursing program ties for No. 10 in latest U.S. News ranking
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Beckers Healthcare (9-23) US News' 21 best BSN programs
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WVTF/NPR/Radio IQ (9-19) Virginia awaits word from the CDC on who should get the COVID vaccine and who should pay
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UVA Today (9-16) Who experiences caregiver stress, and how can it be managed?
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All UVA Health employees, including faculty and staff at the School of Nursing, are required to get a flu vaccine by Oct. 31, 2025. A list of upcoming clinics at UVA Health is here.
Employees who receive the vaccine from their primary care providers (including those affiliated with UVA) or a pharmacy must present documentation Employee Health or email it to fluvax@uvahealth.org no later than Oct. 31, 2025.
+ Please note that while students are also required to get the flu vaccine by Oct. 31, they follow a different protocol and received guidance from the School's compliance officers Maria Murerwa and Ashley Lawson. |
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Our Community
American Association for Men in Nursing UVA Chapter meeting
Join colleagues and clinicians at this inaugural kickoff meeting. All faculty, staff, student, and clinician allies welcome. Register
Oct. 6, 6:30 PM
MCL 1003
Faculty and Staff Flu Vaccine Clinics
A list of upcoming opportunities for faculty and staff to get their flu vaccine at UVA Health.
CCI Guided Meditation with Betty Mooney
Thursdays, 1 PM, on Zoom
Canine Cuddles and Cookies
A CCI event with Lila the therapy dog.
Oct. 8, 12 PM
CMNEB lounge
World Mental Health Day
A free art and wellness event.
Oct. 10, 12 PM
The Fralin Museum,155 Rugby Road
Global Initiatives Education Abroad info session
For BSN students interested in exchange programs in Australia and New Zealand. Register
Oct. 15, 12 PM
CMNEB 3020
ONR forum: Tips for Navigating the IRB at UVA
Presented by Stephanie Keister, senior research compliance analyst at UVA.
Oct. 15, 12 PM
MCL 5060 and on Zoom
What Can a New UVA Nursing Degree Do for YOU?
Hear from UVA alumni who've sought advanced nursing degrees. For current students and alumni.
Oct. 15, 5:30 PM on Zoom
Compassionate Care Research social event
For all faculty, staff, student and community members interested in the science of compassionate care.
Dec. 9, 5 PM
UVA Contemplative Sciences Center
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Continuing Education Provided by UVA Health
APOGEE: Advanced Practice Provider Conference
A day-long conference to expand advanced practice providers' knowledge across the clinical spectrum
Oct. 9-10
In-person only, Newcomb Hall
More Than a Wound: Classifying skin failure from HAPI, with alumnae Michelle Longley, CNS (BSN ’06, MSN ’08, CNS ’20) , and Ellen Smith (BSN ’84)
Nursing Alumni Spotlight Series
Oct. 16, 4 PM on Zoom
Beyond Band-Aids and Duct Tape: Building systems that care
A talk by 2025 Bice Lecturer Lauryn Walker, chief strategy officer and research consortium executive director for the Virginia Center for Health Innovation.
Oct. 22, 12 PM
Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium and on Zoom
The 52nd Annual Edward W. Hook Jr., MD, Recent Advances in Clinical Medicine conference
Oct. 22-24
In person at the Omni Hotel, Charlottesville, and on Zoom
Food is Medicine: Partnerships to improve rural cardiovascular health, with Kelley Anderson, nurse scientist and professor
Updates from the Experts series
Oct. 30, 4 PM on Zoom
2025 EMPOWER Conference
Education for medical professionals to optimize weight management expertise and resources
Nov. 1, 7:30 AM
The Kimpton Hotel, Charlottesville
Beyond Borders: Navigating health risks in global travel, with Kathryn Reid, family nurse practitioner and professor
Updates from the Experts series
Nov. 13, 4 PM on Zoom |
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