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September 18, 2023
“The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley
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Update from the College of Nursing Dean’s Search Committee
A huge thank you to everyone who made our dean finalists’ visits such a success. I know each candidate felt welcome and enthusiastic about the potential opportunity to be our next leader. I especially want to thank Jay Ortiz for his organizational skills in scheduling each interview and making sure the candidates were exactly where they needed to be. I anticipate Dr. Nelson will take all of our input and a decision about and negotiations with our finalist will be made in the next week or two. I look forward to sharing more information with our faculty and staff as soon as possible!
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Our college had a fun-filled weekend! On Friday, our Alumni Council was invited for an exclusive tour of Archer Family Health Care before holding their fall meeting. We enjoyed a discussion on how to best support student scholarship, as well as remarks from current Alumni Council president, Ashley-Marie Mendez. Following this, our students connected with our experienced alumni at the Mentorship Meet-and-Greet, where they also gained new insight into various nursing specialties. That evening, we concluded the day’s events at the Cade Museum for our Donor Recognition Event, where we heard inspiring stories from current DNP student Jorge Mulet and BSN student Camilla Bustamante, who shared how private scholarships enabled them to pursue their nursing journey. We also honored several awardees at the event — it was so inspiring to see how the Gator Nursing community and our donor support can change lives. On Saturday, we enjoyed a great turnout at our Alumni Reunion Tailgate and also enjoyed a grand showcase of auction items benefitting the Book Award Scholarship fund provided by our alumni council. It was also wonderful to conclude our weekend's events with a well-earned win against the Tennessee Volunteers! Thank you so much to everyone who made this weekend’s events a success: Yancy Lawrence (who did the lion’s share of the event coordination), Anna Hoffman, Rachel Rivera, Kyle Chambers and Kacie Perryman.
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GatorMail offers several email encryption options to help protect users from cyberthreats and provide a secure email experience. GatorMail email encryption is a proactive way to require authentication, protecting sensitive or restricted information from being seen by unauthorized viewers. The four options currently offered are:
● Encrypt Only: Encrypts email contents and may require authentication to read
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● UF Confidential: Allows recipients to modify content but blocks copy/print privileges
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All faculty and staff are invited to support Sigma Alpha Theta’s 5K Making Strides Against Breast Cancer team and walk to help fund and support the improvement of breast cancer patient care on Saturday, Oct. 21 at Celebration Pointe. The chapter is offering T-shirt sales to support this initiative — $20 for S-XL; $23 for 2XL; $25 for 3XL. All funding will go to support the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Our Alpha Theta chapter has sponsored this event in honor of Allison Peters and her fight against cancer. Please order your t-shirt by Oct. 2, by providing your name, email and t-shirt size using Venmo @Tlindsey-8, cash or a check (Sigma Alpha Theta). Your cash or check can be given to any officer for the chapter. If you order a shirt and cannot pick it up at the college ahead of time, you will be able to pick your shirt up before the walk begins at 8 a.m.
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We have many recent publications to celebrate! Congratulations to Raga Bjarnadottir! Her team’s research protocol for the R33 phase of their UF ECLIPSE study was recently published in JMIR Research Protocal. Great work advancing nursing informatics scholarship!
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Congratulations to Bryce Catarelli, Michael Bumbach and Rene Love! Their recent publication in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners highlighted our college’s practice partnership with the UF Student Health Care Center! You can read more here.
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And congratulations to Diana Wilkie, Yinwei Yao and post-doc Tasha Schoppee! Their recent publication in the Journal of Palliative Medine suggested that dignity therapy, whether it is led by chaplains or nurses, may help improve dignity for outpatient palliative care patients with cancer.
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Faculty and Staff Spotlight
This week’s spotlight is Lisiane Pruinelli! Lisiane is an associate professor who was brought to the college as part of UF’s AI Initiative. While she is not working (and not out to the beach) you may spot her grabbing coffee at her favorite bakery, Petit Uppercrust, after a morning run or Pilates. Although she moved to Gainesville just nine months ago, she has since found her way around and is proud to call it “home!” She loves to look around and see everything that is green, check on her gator “friend” by the UF parking lot, bike, cook, meet with new colleagues and friends and check out new events hosted by UF Performing Arts.
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