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Elevate and Celebrate Award Ceremony

The annual Elevate & Celebrate Award Ceremony was held on Friday, May 9, and honored the outstanding contributions of our dedicated Gator Nursing team.The recognitions included the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators, College Faculty and Staff Awards and special honors for faculty members moving on to new…

Listen: WUFT Interview with Dean Shakira Henderson

In the latest episode of “Tell Me About It” WUFT’s Sue Wagner talks to Dean Shakira Henderson about the college’s Elevate 2029 strategic plan. The tenets of the plan were determined after months of dedicated collaboration and rigorous analysis, both internally and externally, to chart a course toward making…

Dean Shakira Henderson’s Nurses Week Message

In a special video message for National Nurses Week, Shakira Henderson, PhD, DNP, MS, MPH, EMBA, IBCLC, RNC-NIC, College of Nursing Dean and UF Health Chief Nursing Executive, shares her appreciation for the dedication, compassion and leadership shown by nurses every day. Click here to watch…

Bryce Catarelli Featured on Nurse.com

UF Nursing Clinical Assistant Professor Bryce Catarelli, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, was featured in the latest “Ask a Nurse Educator” blog and video for Nurse.com! Bryce reflects on her first year as a nurse with gratitude, crediting her student externship and nurse residency for preparing her well. She also answers…

Honoring Nurse Educators During National Nurses Week 

As we close out National Nurses Week — a time when we honor the heart and soul of health care — it’s easy to focus on those frontline nursing professionals. But behind every compassionate caregiver is a teacher, a mentor and a leader who believed in their potential and helped…

Nurses Week 2025 Celebrates the Power of Nurses

As we kick off Nurses Week, May 6-12, the spotlight turns on those professionals who serve at the heart of our health care system.    For many, the image of nursing remains the caregiver at the bedside, dispensing the comfort and compassion central to the profession. However, nursing has evolved…

New Traditions: UF Nursing’s Pinning Ceremony Gets Personal 

While the UF College of Nursing’s pinning ceremony on May 2 continued the time-honored tradition of marking the culmination of years of hard work for nursing students, this year, the college introduced a new tradition: graduates got to choose who pinned them during the ceremony.  Traditionally, college Alumni Council members pinned new…

Patient Care, Policy and Pageants: UF Nursing Student Leads with Purpose

  While University of Florida College of Nursing student Caroline Schapansky wears many hats — beauty queen, nursing student and student senator — they all align with a shared purpose: advocating for and uplifting those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “At the heart of everything I do, whether it’s nursing,…

UF Nursing Research Summit and Malasanos Lectureship Celebrates Innovation and Legacy

The University of Florida College of Nursing celebrated research, scholarship and the future of health care at the 2025 Nursing Research Summit and Malasanos Lectureship. This year’s theme,Then, Now & Forward: Advances in Nursing Education, Practice and Research, emphasized the power of nursing science to drive meaningful change in patient…