Category Archives: Faculty & Staff News

Jacqueline LaManna, assistant professor and director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, is among six experts inducted in the class of 2020 fellows of the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists.   Read More

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]