AWARDS & PROMOTIONS

The School of Nursing was presented with the 2006 Stand-Alone Baccalaureate Geriatric Course Award by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Pictured left to right: Jeanette Lancaster, AACN President; Elizabeth (Ibby) Tanner, JHUSON Faculty; Martha N. Hill, JHUSON Dean; Terry Fulmer, Co-Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

Faculty

Elizabeth Jordan (left) has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).

Joan Kub  received the "Mentor of the Year Award" from the Maryland Nurses Association at their October awards luncheon.

Rosemary Mortimer (pictured right) has been selected as President-Elect for Maryland Nurses Association (MNA).

Julie Stanik-Hutt, an Acute Care Nurse-Practitioner, has been chosen for the position of President-Elect of the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP).

Hopkins nursing faculty filled two tables at the induction ceremony held at the 33rd Annual American Academy of Nursing Annual Meeting.  Two Hopkins nurses were inducted into the organization this year:

Linda Tarr-Whelan ’60 (left), who served as Deputy Assistant to President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women under Bill Clinton, and now runs her own lobbying firm.

Joyce N. Thomas (right), Co-Founder and President of the Center for Child Protection and Family Support, Inc.; former President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children; and former director of the Division of Child Protection of Children’s National Medical Center.

Students

Seniors Rachel Walker and Nicole Mitchell represented the Maryland Association of Nursing Students and the National Student Nurses Assocation at the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research dinner at Omni Shorham in Washington, D.C. in October 2006.

Alumni

Normalynn Garrett, PhD '00, has been named Researcher of the Year by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation.  Garrett recently retired as program director of the United States Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing at the U.S. Army Medical Department Center & School (AMEDD C&S). She continues to work for the school as an instructor and teaches pharmacology and biochemistry in the anesthesia nursing program.

Janet Orlin, Traditional '06, received the Student Nurse Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award on September 28, 2006 in a surprise presentation at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  A leader within her class, Orlin has completed two years of training as a healthcare chaplain, worked professionally for over 10 years at academic medical centers, holds two master's degrees and has recently completed her nursing degree at Johns Hopkins. SON faculty member Mary Terhaar nominated Orlin in recognition of her exceptional service to patients, noting "[your] willingness to utilize every tool at your disposal on behalf of patients and the decision to be compassionate with all of those you treat, illustrate the heart and soul of the nursing profession."