UCF College of Nursing

“The greatest good to society is to serve those with the least,” says Assistant Professor Michael Valenti, a mental health nursing provider, researcher and current president of the board of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Florida Chapter. In his Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing course, Valenti prepares undergraduate nursing students to care for people of all ages […]

NASA wants spectators to stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Assistant Professor Annette Bourgault speaks to Space.com and offers some of the following advice. “Despite asking people to stay home, I know they’re going to come anyway. So I guess the best message is, please, anybody who’s watching the launch from places other than […]

Assistant Professor Frank Guido-Sanz, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, has been honored by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties with a 2020 Outstanding Researcher Award. The award recognizes a nurse practitioner educator who has contributed to the knowledge development of nurse practitioner practice, education and policy through research. A board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner and Adult-Gerontology […]

Associate Professor and Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) Program Director Christopher W. Blackwell has been selected to participate in a field test for the national AGACNP certification exam. Responses on field tests allow the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Content Expert Panels to select, revise and eliminate items for updated board certification exams. Blackwell is […]

Four College of Nursing faculty were honored among the 2019-2020 recipients of the UCF Teaching, Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning incentive awards. The annual university awards recognize the contributions of faculty who deliver high-quality undergraduate and graduate educations; advance the body of knowledge in their field through research, scholarship and creative activity; and […]

Jason A. Duprat ’09BSN has always pushed himself out of his comfort zone, and his current deployment with the U.S. Navy Reserve to the COVID-19 hot spot in New York City is no different. Read More

With millions of Americans out of work, more and more people are turning to jobs in healthcare. Dean Mary Lou Sole said it is not uncommon for the nursing program to see more applications when the job market is tough, and shares insights on what to consider first. Read More

Duty has already called for Capt. Paul Kohler ’20MSN, whose graduate nursing degree is being put to the test five miles up and 5,000 miles away from home. Read More

Associate Professor Mindi Anderson, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CHSE-A, ANEF, FAAN, one of the world’s leading healthcare simulation experts, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL). Anderson was elected to vice president of operations of INACSL, and officially will begin her […]

A UCF nursing doctoral student is using her experience with research to develop hundreds of masks for local nurses and fellow Knights. Read More