Category Archives: Faculty & Staff News

While the pandemic canceled study abroad trips this spring, global health education continued for UCF nursing students thanks to innovative instructors.     Under the guidance of interpreters and two faculty members, a group of 10 undergraduate nursing students practiced how to provide pre-, intra- and post-operative care to medically underserved patients in rural Peru. It is what the students would have […]

  The STIM Center at the UCF College of Nursing is among more than 100 programs in 10 countries to receive accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, which is the world’s largest healthcare simulation accrediting body. Read More

  UCF Pegasus Professor and College of Nursing Endowed Professor Greg Welch is one of six IEEE Impact Creators sharing the passions that have them jumping out of bed in the morning and the topics that keep them inspired in their careers. Read More

  Mary Lou Sole has been reappointed as the dean of the College of Nursing. The decision by Michael D. Johnson, interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, extends the role of a UCF leader who has advanced student success, academic excellence and community engagement at the college since becoming dean in 2015.   […]

When the world needed nurses more than ever, you rose to the challenge of COVID-19. “Our health care system and frontline professionals have been challenged in ways we never imagined possible,” says Annette Bourgault, assistant professor at the UCF College of Nursing and editor at Critical Care Nurse, the journal of the American Association of […]

Updated February 25, 2021 Awardees will be officially recognized at the 40th Anniversary Virtual Gala on May 15, 2021   In celebration of the 40th anniversary, the UCF College of Nursing is honoring 40 alumni who reflect its values of excellence, innovation, integrity, compassion, service and community. The awardees will be officially recognized at the […]

“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 […]