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NURSING CENTERS SUPPORTING OUR MISSION |
| Learning Resource Center Director: DeeDee Freeman The mission of the Center is to provide both undergraduate and graduate students a place to develop, refine, and apply knowledge in the clinical practice of skills. A computer lab is available for student use. Faculty are provided resources to support classroom instruction, clinical learning activities, and scholarly endeavors. |
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Nursing Research Director: Dr. Carolyn Cason, RN, PhD Research is an important component of the professional role in the School of Nursing. The Center provides research support services to faculty and students: identifying funding sources, developing competitive proposals, writing grant applications, retrieving literature, collecting, entering and analyzing data, and disseminating research results. Collaborative relationships for research with metroplex health care agencies are in place. |
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Center for Psychopharmacology Education and Research Co-Directors: Dr. Diane Snow and Dr. Mary Weber This Center is committed to advancing the knowledge of psychopharmacology and related neurosciences. The Center promotes the acquisition of this knowledge through education of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and other health care professionals. |
| Center for Hispanic Studies in Nursing
and Health Co-Directors: Dr. Mary Lou Bond, RN, PhD, FAAN and Dr. Wendy J. Barr, RN, PhD The Center is dedicated to fostering understanding between health care professionals and people of Hispanic/Latin American origin for the purpose of increasing understanding of health and healing through research of individual experience, cultural meanings and the structure of institutions as important variable influencing health outcomes. The Center is also committed to the provision of educational programs and services which will assist health care providers to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver increasingly culturally sensitive and competent care. The Center promotes interdisciplinary and interuniversity collaboration as a strategy for development of resources to solve or deal with bicultural issues facing health care professionals. |
| Rural Health Outreach
Program Director: Sylvia Alonzo Rawlings The purpose of the Center is to provide appropriate, affordable, accessible continuing education to the nursing staffs of acute care and psychiatric hospitals, long term care facilities, home health agencies and other health care facilities in the rural communities of North Central Texas. |
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for Continuing Nursing Education Director: Antonia (Toni) McKenna The mission of this Center is to provide quality continuing nursing education for the improvement of nursing practice and health care in North Texas. The program strives to be a regional center for the advancement of professional continuing nursing education and to meet the diverse needs of nurses in most every clinical specialty and all levels of functional roles. |
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Center for Leadership in Nursing & Health Care Director: Antonia (Toni) McKenna The mission of the Center for Leadership in Nursing and Health Care is the development of leaders in health care at all stages of life and career. The Center promotes the personal and professional development of nurse executives, managers, clinicians, educators and other related health care professionals employed in all types of settings. We do this by creating safe spaces and experiences where leaders come for building knowledge, taking action, reflecting and renewing. The goal of the Center is to increase leadership knowledge, skills and research expertise through collaboration with a variety of community resources in offering lectureships, institutes, conferences, workshops, seminars and mentorships.
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Contact us:
Graduate Information Undergraduate Information University closing status call: 972.601.2049 |
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