Vital Connections: The annual newsletter of the Faculty Nursing Alumni Association

4 Pages·2000·0.42 MB·English

by  FACUTLY OF NURSING, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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Moving Forward
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from AM DELIGHTED appears on all of our print
to join the dedi¬ materials. Our website has
the Dean
cated team at the also been enhanced. I invite
Faculty of Nursing as the you to visit it at www.nurs-
new Director of Develop¬ ing.utoronto.ca to find out
ment and Alumni Relations.
The Faculty is a vibrant
T IS A PLEASURE place where many exciting
to be able to things are happening. These
share my thoughts include significant curricu¬
with you after six months as lum changes, numerous lec¬
Gail Donner
Dean of the Faculty of tures given by our nursing
Nursing. Without a doubt, one of the highlights of what has professionals, the participa¬
been a very busy time for me was the reception held on tion of our students and
December 13th, where I had an opportunity to meet and faculty in local, regional,
greet so many of you. Over 130 alumni joined us, and their national, and international
enthusiasm and interest in the Faculty’s activities were over¬ conferences, the Cressy and
whelming. Thanks to those of you who were there and a spe¬ Arbor award presentations,
cial thank you to so many others of you who wrote, called, as well as various alumni
Tina Leslie
and sent e-mail messages to let us know what you’ve been activities, like Spring
doing and to express your interest in developments at the Reunion. about all the upcoming
Faculty. At the reception we also launched our new website, Another wonderful lectures, conferences, and
www.nursing.utoronto.ca, and used the opportunity to show development is the new awards that enrich the
off our new “look.” In fact this new image has also been Think Nursing logo that experiences (cont. on pg. 2)
extended to this newsletter. We hope you like it.
contents
The University is currently engaged in a thoughtful
process of self-examination and planning for the next five
Message from the Dean 1
years. This activity, aptly named Raising Our Sights, will set
Moving Forward 1
the future direction of the University. The Faculty of Nursing
is in the midst of developing our plan to participate in that Centre for the Study of Pain 2
future. Our goal is to be the best Faculty of Nursing in Upcoming Events 2
Canada and among the best in North America. To succeed, Spring Reunion 3
we need to recruit the best faculty and the brightest students,
Message from the Alumni
and to create an environment — both physical and virtual —
Association President 3
that supports the advancement of nursing (cont. on pg. 2)
The Distinguished Alumni Award 4
PS nursing
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(Dean, cont. from pg. 1) practice, research, and education.
We believe we are well positioned to achieve our goal, but
upcoming events
obviously it will take work.
Some of that work will be in the form of curriculum revi¬
sion, development of courses, and recruitment of faculty to
Please visit our website at www.nursing.utoronto.ca
enhance our expertise and replace faculty who are retiring.
for more details regarding these and other events.
We have launched new programs, including a second-entry
undergraduate program that graduated its first class last fall,
a joint MN/MBA Program, and a post-Masters Acute Care
Research Day
Nurse Practitioner Diploma. This spring we will graduate the
Tuesday, 25 April 2000
last class in the four-year BScN — we have had a proud tra¬
dition, and we will be celebrating that graduation in a special
way. Our new infrastructure includes an Associate Dean,
Spring Reunion
Education, Professor Donna Wells and an Associate Dean,
Saturday, 3 June 2000
Research, Professor Ruth Gallop, who guide our educational
and research programs. Ms Rosanne Lopers-Sweetman, our
Health Care in a Complex World: Assistant Dean, provides direction in ensuring administrative
An International Research Conference support and in helping us maintain this old and clearly
3-4 May 2001 inadequate building.
No doubt we will need help as we move forward to reach
our goals. And some of the help will come from an alumni
development and fundraising strategy that will enable us to
enhance student support. Our students are mature men and
(Moving, cont. from pg. 1) of the learning experience, we
students, faculty, the com¬ have made graduate student
Centre for the Study of Pain
munity, and other members support a key priority.
of the profession. Increasing numbers of our
In keeping with our new graduate students are mature
look, Vital Connections has people with complex lives
been redesigned and and a variety of obligations.
expanded to reflect the new Thanks to the generous sup¬
image and focus. We hope port of the Centre for
you enjoy this new publica¬ Addiction and Mental
tion. Future issues will Health, Heart and Stroke
include articles about our Foundation, and University
students, faculty, alumni of Toronto Foundation, with
events, educational matching funding provided
programs, and award-win¬ by the Government of
ning research activities. Ontario and the University
Our goal at the Faculty is of Toronto, three graduate
Judy Watt-Watson, Gail Donner and Dorothy Pringle at the
to create a professional envi¬ students will be able to reception and ribbon cutting ceremony.
ronment where students can devote more of their time to
learn in state-of-the-art their studies. / y / he Faculty of Nursing is pleased to be one
classrooms and research If you would like to / of the founding members of the Centre for the
facilities, be taught by the know more about our stu¬ ' Study of Pain. This unique interdisciplinary collab¬
most distinguished faculty, dent support needs and how oration includes the Faculties of Dentistry, Medicine,
and have access to the finest you can help, please contact Nursing, and Pharmacy. It is a very exciting time for studies
resource supports. In order me by phone at 416-978- in pain as we are now at the threshold of new understanding
to provide this dynamic 2861 or by e-mail at of key issues in pain mechanisms and management that will
environment and enhance [email protected]. serve to revolutionize the treatment of pain.
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women who have complex lives and diverse responsibilities.
The financial burden is a very real barrier to their continuing
education. We would like to be able to increase the number
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of awards we have available so that nurses who want to study
and learn can do so with a little more ease. To help us with
from the
this task, we have recently appointed a Director of
Development and Alumni Relations, Tina Leslie. Please read Nursing
Tina’s message elsewhere in this newsletter. I am excited
about the possibilities and know that our alumni and our Alumni
alumni association will be ready to help when we call on you
— and call on you we will! We can’t get to where we want to Association
go as a Faculty and help nursing be where we want it to be
unless we all work together. President
As we plan to make the baccalaureate degree the
requirement for entry to practice by the year 2005, we
think the Faculty of Nursing will have an important con¬
Heather Watson
tribution to make — to nurture the future leaders in
practice, education, and research and to be a model for
others to follow. I feel privileged to be able to act as Dean f / AM PLEASED TO BE ties to support students and
during these exciting times. If you would like to talk to representing you as the faculty, increase partici¬
me at any time, please call me at 416-978-2862 or e-mail the new President of pation of the Alumni
me at [email protected]. Let’s make the future a the Faculty of Nursing Executive in activities, and
team effort! Alumni Association represent the nursing alumni
(FNAA). Having pursued at various university and
my undergraduate and grad¬ nursing community events.
uate education at the Faculty The Alumni Association
and having had several years of sponsors numerous educa¬
Alumni Executive experience, tional and social events
I trust that I will be in good that foster networking
standing to serve in this position. among nursing alumni.
New directions taken in The FNAA also supports
Saturday, 3 June 2000 Faculty of Nursing nursing education and scholarships and programs
8:30 - 10:00 AM 50 St. George Street health care by the faculty for both alumni and stu¬
Room 201 ensure that U of T nursing dents. Our work is made
students are well prepared to possible through gifts to
• Complimentary Brunch meet the challenges of the the Annual Fund. I
• How High Can We Fly: Raising Our Sights
nursing profession after encourage you to consider
Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation
• graduation. Alumni can par¬ becoming an annual con¬
• Alumni Association’s Annual General Meeting
ticipate in the continuous tributor, and thank you for
Please join Dr. Gail Donner, Dean, to discuss her vision for learning process and help your ongoing generosity.
the future. Share your special memories of the Faculty’s past our students. An important If you would like to par¬
as we celebrate our 80th anniversary and look to the future. focus of the FNAA this year ticipate in, or provide finan¬
will be to investigate the cial support for, the mentor¬
University-wide events will be held for graduating classes
possibility of a mentorship ship program, please contact
with a year ending in a “0” or a “5.”
program to support, guide, me by e-mail at heather.watson
Please RSVP by Friday, 26 May 2000 to Francine Cohen and provide networking @sickkids.on.ca.
by phone at 416-978-4786 or by e-mail to
opportunities for our under¬ I am enthusiastic and
[email protected]
graduate students. The excited over the possibilities
FNAA will also continue for the upcoming year. Let's
looking for new opportuni¬ make it a great one!!
University of Toronto
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The Distinguished
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Alumni Award
A Bequest
he Faculty of Nursing Alumni Association
at the University of Toronto invites nominations for
for Nursing
the Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is
bestowed annually to acknowledge a graduate of the Faculty
who has made an exceptional contribution to nursing.
Qualities that should guide your decision to nominate
someone should include the following: Every bequest, regardless of its size, is
• Has pursued a career in nursing with enthusiasm and welcome and will help the Faculty of
energy; Nursing meet the challenges and take
• Is recognized by peers as outstanding in terms of clinical advantage of the many opportunities
practice, teaching, research, policy development, or that lie ahead.
administration;
• Projects a positive image of nursing as a career; We would be delighted to discuss
• Has current knowledge of issues, directions, and devel¬ various funding options with you in
opments in nursing; strict confidence. To inquire, or to
• Makes you proud to know her/him as a nurse and as a request a free Ways of Giving kit,
U of T graduate. please contact:
The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented during
Spring Reunion in June of 2000. Previous winners are: Myrna
Slater (1991), Josephine Flaherty (1992), Eleanor Ross
(1993), Denise Alcock (1994), Linda O’Brien-Pallas (1994),
Bettina Braj (1995), Gail Mitchell (1996), Syringa Marshall-
Tina Leslie
Burnett (1997), Margaret Risk (1998), and Judith Britnell
416978-2861
(1999).
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If you know any alumni who deserve this recognition, t. leslie@utoronto. ca
please contact the Alumni OfFice, 416-978-4786 or e-mail
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[email protected], to request a nomination form. iM’-
Completed nomination forms must be received by tmm
Wednesday, 19 April 2000. J
Published by the Dean Editorial Committee Design
Faculty of Nursing Gail Donner, RN, PhD Barbara Bauer Cathie Ellis
University of Toronto Emma Beamson James Ireland Design Inc.
50 St. George Street Director of Development Francine Cohen
Toronto, Ontario and Alumni Relations Heather Watson Printing and Production
M5S 3H4 Tina Leslie, CFRE U ofT Press
416-978-8318
www. nursing, utoronto.ca
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