From This Place: Alumni and Faculty in Action
Quyen Stevenson, ’98, MSN ’09, family nurse practitioner graduate, received DiversityNursing.com’s $5,000 education award. The family nurse practitioner graduate was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants for the nursing scholarship. Quyen is in her final two quarters at Seattle University completing her DNP. In addition to going to school, she is practicing at the VA Puget Sound in the outpatient wound and ostomy clinic. Quyen said, “I am grateful for the education at SPU and would not be where I am, especially in my nursing career, without the support of the nursing faculty.”
Christine Hoyle, DNP, ARNP, FNP, associate dean for graduate programs, School of Health Sciences, gave a podium presentation, “Building skills in health promotion and chronic disease prevention for the DNP prepared nurse practitioner: multigenerational case-based approach,” with colleagues from University of Washington at the third International Conference on Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions. The conference, themed “Global Perspectives for Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions,” was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in February.
The conference was organized through the cooperation of the following universities and organizations: Ramathibodi School of Nursing, Mahidol University; School of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University; World Health Organization; Sigma Theta Tau International; School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; School of Nursing, Yale University; School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University; and School of Nursing, University of Washington.
Christine also gave an informal learning session for post-masters’ nurse practitioner students at Mahidol University’s Ramathibodi School of Nursing in Bangkok.
Carol Redfield, MN, RN, instructor of nursing, School of Health Sciences, presented two research posters at the “Building Elder-Friendly Futures Locally and Globally” gerontology conference. The conference was held October 8–9, 2014, at the University of Washington. The first research poster, “International Intergenerational Interaction to Enhance Aging Well-Being and Student Learning,” was co-authored with Ting-Chun (Addison) Lin ’14, Megan Busek ’14, and Valorie Orton, MSN, RN, instructor of nursing, School of Health Sciences.
The second poster, “Changes in Interpersonal Goals and Well-Being Across Social Interactions Between Nursing Students and Older Adults,” was co-authored with SPU students Melissa Aust and Jason Jay; doctoral student Adam McGuire; and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology Thane Erickson.