Dean Elizabeth Poster was among 12 women honored by The Health Industry Council at the first annual Top 12 Women in Healthcare in North Texas dinner in Dallas. Event chair and founder, Stacy E. Marshall, president and CEO of MARSHALL Multimedia Group said he created the award program to honor industry leaders who have increased the positive images of women. In his opening remarks he commented: 'This award honors the most successful women in healthcare who have become the champions of our time. They are the visible forces who contribute to the success of some of the most powerful and influential healthcare systems in the nation and are at the helm of some of the most innovative breakthroughs of the 20th century.'

Selected from a list of over 100 nominations, Dr. Poster has been dean since 1995 and in that time the college has become the largest public nursing program in the nation with 6,000 nursing students. During her tenure as dean she established the Dream Makers Scholarship initiative for nursing students that has raised over 1.4 million dollars for nursing scholarships in 11 years.

Today has been declared UTA Day in Arlington and faculty and staff at the College of Nursing are showing their spirit! Tonight also marks the opening of the new Events Center and the first basketball game in the new venue. GO MAVS!

LT Kelly Bowman (BSN 2003), will present "Reflections of a Navy Nurse" at the Arlington Nursing Student Association's meeting on Friday, January 27 at 12:00 in Pickard Hall room 104. LT Bowman served in Iraq for seven months and since returning from that deployment she has worked at Camp Pendleton and in Bethesda Maryland where her responsibilities included providing critical care expertise in support of the White House Medical Unit. She has recently returned from a seven month deployment with the U.S. Marine Corps as a critical care nurse and flight nurse.

Nursing students and those interested in nursing are invited to attend this presentation. UPDATE: this has been moved to PKH 204

LT Bowman's bio

Derek McGinnis - Survivor's Video - crediting LT Bowman with saving his life

We now have 314 students in AP MSN (Academic Partnership online) courses. The number of students is a significant milestone for our program, but I get more excited about the impact we are making. Our faculty and coaches are shaping the future of healthcare and nursing by preparing these transformational nurse leaders for administrative roles in the states or territories of California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Washington, West Virginia, and, of course, Texas.

Dr. Jennifer Gray, Associate Dean

The University of Texas at Arlington today announced the creation of a $1 million endowment to support a new chair of geriatric nursing research established through a generous gift by the Moritz family.

The gift establishes the first endowed faculty chair in the College of Nursing, which has more than tripled its enrollment over the past three years to about 6,000 students this fall making it the largest nursing program in Texas. The commitment from the Moritz family, namesakes of Moritz Dealerships, is given in honor of achievements of the college and will enable UT Arlington to advance research in the critical field of elder care.

“This is a phenomenal commitment,” said Elizabeth C. Poster, dean of the College of Nursing. “This gift will help us attract the kind of prominent scholar who can help move our research agenda forward and help inspire our students to see themselves as scientists and scholars for the future.”

Read the full press release here

The College of Nursing has a record breaking number of students graduating this year and more and more are planning to attend the graduation ceremony. Graduation is one of the most important milestones in the lives of both our undergraduate and graduate students and sharing it with loved ones and supporters is very important.

As a result of the large number of graduates and their desire to have family and supporters attend with them, the College will conduct two simultaneous ceremonies. Commencement for BSN students will remain at Texas Hall and the ceremony for MSN, DNP and PhD graduates will be held in the Bluebonnet Ballroom at the University Center.

Both ceremonies will be held Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Congratulations to all.