The Professional Program in Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is proud to announce the beginning of an Alumni Newsletter. We plan to publish the newsletter late-spring each year. We will be bringing you information about alumni, recent graduates, faculty and staff as well as the latest news about your alma mater and the nursing program. We hope you will send us updates about yourself so that we can stay in touch. Also, refer any RN’s who may be interested in our program. With the national online track, students can enroll from anywhere in the country!
HRSA Grant:
The UW-Green Bay Professional Program in Nursing is one of five UW Nursing programs (also including UW-Madison, Milwaukee, Eau Claire and Oshkosh) participating in a five year Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to enhance educational technology in nursing courses. So far, this grant has focused on integration of telehealth technology, simulation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in health, learning activities in the virtual world program of Second Life, and podcasts. Upcoming projects will include problem focused learning and e-learning.
Distinguished Alumni Award:
Paula Fleurant, a class of 1975 undergraduate and 1986 Environmental Science and Policy master’s graduate was one of three graduates to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award in a ceremony on April 25. Fleurant was a member of the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association Board of Directors from 1988 to 1995, serving in many leadership roles, including president from 1993-95. She was the quality care manager for St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay from 2001 until her retirement in 2007. She spent 13 years as coordinator of infection control at St. Vincent Hospital, and has served in a number of healthcare-related capacities since beginning her professional career as a nurse in 1966.
New Nursing Graduates:
A total of 48 nursing students graduated during the 2008-2009 academic year.
New graduates include:
Cynthia Brady, Roxanne Fish, Dawn McKay, Colleen Rademacher, Hollie Brockman, Julia Cam, Daniel Collins, Joan Compton, Darcie DiBasio, Ericka Eiserer, Elena Fry Hansen, Camella Granara, Lori Hendricks-Soderberg, Patricia Kleba, Sally Ledvina, Jennifer Matson, Marian Moreno, Mary Nasta, Courtney Nelson, Pamela O’Neil, Angela Peters, Kristina Smith, Paula Soletski, Jenna Fahey, Nikki Leow, Lori Peters, Aimee Ysebaert, Charlotte Ahrens, Larissa Bibber, Michelle Blakely, Caroline Chabot, Rebecca Fix, Gable Holderness, Cheryl Howard, Sarah Oleson, Alecia Sadowski, Mary Beth Tichawa-McCarthy, Megan Beer, Suzanne Benfield, Joyce Clark, Victoria Craddick, Jill Fulkerson, William Haag, Kimberly Heeb, Anna Hiatt, Dina Irwin, Anna Latorre, Gurmitt Mann, Benjamin Patrick, Rachelle Petika, Laurie Potter, Monica Prosser, Ann Sarutzki, Penny Smith, Julie Snyder, Casey Tillery, and Andrea Wells.
Congratulations to all of our new alumni!
Honor Society Inductees:
If you are interested in induction as a nurse leader in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nurses, contact Jennifer Schwahn at: schwahnj@uwgb.edu. Congratulations to our recent inductees: Joyce Clark, Victoria Craddick, Benjamin Patrick, Monica Prosser, Casey Covington-Tillery, Nikki Leow, Sarah Oleson, Mary Beth Tichawa-McCarthy, Aimee Ysebaert, Sally Ledvina, Pamela O’Neil, Camella Granara, Courtney Nelson, Marion Moreno, and Paula Soletski.
Scholarship Recipients:
The following students were chosen to receive this year’s Loretta Wells Scholarship: Julie Baeten, Kimberly Kosmoski, Paula Ferron, and Cristin Elsing. Receiving this spring’s Northeastern Wisconsin Oncology Nurses Association scholarship was Kimberly Kosmoski.
Faculty News:
Our Chair of Nursing, Dr. Derryl Block visited the Universidad Nacional De Tumbes in Tumbes, Peru in January. The University, Nursing School, and community partners warmly welcomed her and are excited about possible collaborative efforts.
Dr. Block was also a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Baccalaureate Education Task Force which revised The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. The document was endorsed by the AACN and is available at http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/BaccEssentials08.pdf.
Recent faculty publication topics have included: A review of current treatment options in psychopharmacology; integrating telehealth in nursing curricula; perceived stress and sense of belonging in Doctor of Nursing Practice students; content analysis of holistic ethics; complementary therapies in clinical practice; transpersonal caring; the case for RN-BSN completion; and school nursing and delegation. Consult our website for more information: https://blog.uwgb.edu/nursing/
Partnerships with ADN Programs:
We have developed an ADN partnership program and have 31 current partners in 20 different states. Graduates of partner institutions benefit from guaranteed credit transfers, often including post ADN credits for general education classes. To recommend a prospective ADN program partner, email us at nursing@uwgb.edu.
We want to hear from you:
Please tell us of your professional accomplishments including new jobs, publications, successes at work, degrees after graduation, etc. Also, let us know if you have a change of address or other contact information, especially your email address. Please send information updates to: nursing@uwgb.edu.
Best of luck to all the grads in their chosen field of work. Thanks for your dedication. I admire that you are helping your fellow human beings and making this your life’s work. My hat’s off to all RNs.
Congratulations to alumni! I would like to know how are they all doing now, how the career is going and that they are constantly promoting the University of Wisconsin, which is famous not only in United States.
Best of luck to all the grads in their chosen field of work. Thanks for your dedication. I admire that you are helping your fellow human beings and making this your life’s work. My hat’s off to all RNs.
Great to see more nurses entering the workforce. We need them! My best friend from university is going back to train to be a registered nurse this year because his wife travels a lot for her work. With a degree like this, he’ll be able to find work anywhere.
Congratulations to the Nursing Grads!
I have the utmost respect for all nurses, I have been in the hospitals and seen how hard you work. I also know somewhat of how hard you had to work to get to this point. Be proud of what you have achieved, hold your head up high. Nobody can take this from you and you can go anywhere and get a job in any hospital. Thank you all for how much you have helped my family. Bless you all!
My aunt was a nurse and she worked very hard and is now retired in FL.
She said it was a stressful job but it was worth it she loved helping people!
Congratulations to all the scholarship recipients!
excellent that you can send us this information about the alma mater and nursing programs
Nurses are nothing but angles. No matter what you do, never give up and you will achieve every one of your objectives. Keep up the good work!
Great article and helpful tips. Excellent article once again. I am looking forward for more updates.
Excellent post. I want to thank you for this informative read. I really appreciate sharing this great post. Keep up your work.
My mom was a nurse. She went to school while working part time and raising me and my brothers! Congrats to all the new alumni!
Congratulations! Your hard work paid off, now you can work on the field you chose. My sister in law is an RN, and she works hard but really enjoys helping others.
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Congratulations to the new nurses. I’m sure you are all going to do a lot of good for this world caring for the sick.
Good luck!
Good to see that all of their hard work paid off. Nice work!
I think we need so many more nurses. We need to graduate more and expand the roles that nurses can own in hospitals. They are very well trained and we need to expand their work to more areas.
Nurses are definitely underappreciated in my opinion…
Nurses are very hardworking and deserve more than what they are being paid.
Great article! Thanks to all you nurses out there.
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My Aunt is a nurse, I have great respect for everything they do.
I was a nurse in intensive care for 20 yrs till I fell and broke my arm. I now do admin, but still see the patients.
i am so proud of the nurses i work with. i am glad to see this website celebrating nurses.
She definitely has a lot of experience if she started in 1966.
I really am shooting for a nursing grant.
Wow! This has helped me so much with my school project; please carry on writing this stuff!
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Interesting article you got there.Where did you got all the information. I love reading blogs like because it keeps me informed and happy. Thank you for this great post and making my day bright.
Nursing is very admirable as a profession. I often think it and teaching are paid inversely to their actual contribution to this world. I think that is a shame.
How do nurses anticipate the upcoming changes in health care will affect their profession?
I read this and think nursing may be a good second career for me!
Congratulations to everyone of you
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Congratulations to the New graduates. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
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Excellent work indeed. Thank you for taking the time to
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one of Filipino’s dream job is nursing career even Doctor’s in the Philippines study nursing just to pursue nursing career in order for them to work on US soils as nurse to have a better living even though how many controversial had gone to this profession but still a number of new college students enroll in this program
It’s great to see people follow their dreams. Congratulations on your great accomplishment.
Medical Assistants assist physicians in various areas of a medical visit. Medical assistants have a wide range of skills acquired by training at a technical school which enables them to take care of the patients and seeing to many of their needs when visiting the doctor.
It takes a special person to be a nurse. I know I could never do it. Not only do you have to be not squeamish, but you have to be an excellent caregiver as well and that is one remarkable person.
Massive thanks to all you nurses out there.
True unsung heroes of this day and age.
Nurses have often a hard job and aren’t paid well.
I hope you will have luck and get a good job.
Is anyone aware of the wage bungle for nurses in Queensland, Australia? If the job is not tuff enough by itself, many nurses went without pay for weeks, really straining the family budget, and its still going on.
Carry on good work.That’s impressive .
Thank You,
It’s good to set a positive milestones. Nurses and doctors are the vital part in medical field.
The population om nurses is decreasing. Due to work overload and bad working conditions. Remember the good old days when there was a flock to an honorable profession.
The population of nurses all over the world is not that much. They’re an important resource of our society and play an important role in every hospitals.
With the stress many nurses are under – hopefully that can be addressed more. We would all be lost without our great nurses.
Nurses are a very valuable resource in our society
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Just remember…the milestones by which we advance are the milestones by which we fall. Choose your milestones wisely.
Great job to all the achievers. This type of professional ambition is needed now more than ever within the health community.
My hearty congrats to all who have stuck with their dreams and accomplished progress toward their goals. This is the fuel by which America is made great.
Thanks for the great looking forward to the next posts
I would like to say thank you to author of these articles on this site. I read all of these articles and i need to read some new articles. I’ve watched a video on youtube about this topic for now and i loved it. Also it is one of the rarely topic on this site. See you on a new topic…
Keep up the good work,you have no idea how much a good nurse is worth
Nice blog. Its really a good piece of work. Keep posting many.
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Well done to everyone who set milestones.
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It absolutely seems so. Great stuff by the way!
Good job to the UW-Green Bay grads. We’re proud…..from the friend of a UW-Milwaukee grad!
She spent 13 years as coordinator of infection control at St. Vincent Hospital, and has served in a number of healthcare-related capacities since beginning her professional career as a nurse in 1966.
congratulations to all alumni.. great job… kudos to you all…
Very nice looking blog with great information. I am looking forward to more posts!
Congratulations to all the Alumni award recipients. And I hope the newsletter goes well. They can get time-consuming and kind of difficult to keep up with.
Congratulations to all the Alumni and the scholarship recipients. It takes a special person to become a good nurse. My hats off to all of you that feel the calling for service like this.
It is always good to set milestones for everybody.
Hello, just want to say congratulations to all nurses who have worked hard to realize their future goals can help many people, good luck always
Really like your blog, the theme is good and the info you provide is really impressive, I am going to come back to check on the e info you put up, best of luck and keep up the good work. I do agree with Andy’s comment – it is hard to believe that there were only 48 students in the graduating class with the new health care initiative looming and the mass demand.
Thanks for the information on 2009 alumni news letter now it will enable old students like me to stay updated about University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. I am eager to read the news letter.
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Awesome job!
I hope you can attract more talents to join the course and wish you all the success.
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Congratulate to all!!!
Thanks Jan for a wonderful article.
Nurses are where the rubber meets road in the medical system, I appreciate their common sense and service.
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Congratulations everyone… Go Paula!
Congratulations to all the alumni! Nurses are a very valuable resource in our society! Thank you for all the work you will be doing.
Keep up the good work, enjoyed this post
You all do a gret job, all respect to you, my girlfriend is a nurse.
Its a very satisfying thing to have a goal – long or short, and then achieving it. Stopping nothing until its done. It can inspire us to do all kinds of things, and reach into deep reserves of energy and power and genius we didn’t know we had
Good post. The demand for nurses will increase in years to come.
I actually landed here by searching for koi fish, but I read the whole post and enjoyed it.
This is Great reading new generation of Nursing, knowing my Mother’s Sister was a Registered Nurse back in the 50’s. in Wisconsin. All having a very high esteemed job, helping others.
Lovely to see so many new nursing graduates and students who have successfully passed their nursing exams!
A notable congratulation to Ms Fleurant for receiving her distinguished alumni award!
Congrats to all the people who worked really hard to achieve this result.
As a guy who works with chiropractors, it’s nice to see a blog (and full-blown educational company) catering to nurses and your profession. Keep up the good work.
Dedication and hard work has paid off for all of you! Never forget what it took to get to where you are and how you got there.
Congrats to those who put their time and effort to help others. As we can see they dedicated themselves to helping others, shows good character. Thanks for what you do…
Nurses are a vital part of our personal injury law firm, so congratulations. Without you guys we’d never be able to give the great customer service that we do to all of the car wreck, injury and accident victims here in Memphis, TN.
From case selection, to understanding exactly what the injuries are and how to treat them you guys are definitely the best.
goals setting is very important. without goals you don’t know where you are going.
I have to agree with the others. 48 graduates does seem low in this day and age. We need a lot more skilled nurses so keep up the good work.
Congratulations on your great accomplishment. It’s great to see people follow their dreams.
Congratulations to Paula Fleurant. She has worked so hard to get to where she is today and she deserves the respect of her medical community piers! FYI: I do agree with Andy’s comment – it is hard to believe that there were only 48 students in the graduating class with the new health care initiative looming and the mass demand.
Congrats Paula Fleurant. A total of 48 nursing students graduated during the 2008-2009 academic year .. only 48? The shortage of registered nurses in America is truly alarming.
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Awesome job! I’m neither a scholar nor a theologian (in the event one could be a theologian without being a scholar), and I just want to contribute an observation
Nothing better than setting and then achieving goals. Congrats!!!
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congratulations to all who set milestones.
Milestones are the smallest chunk size we have to create in order to successfully achieve our dreams
Congratulations to Paula Fleurant.
It’s good to set milestones.