Several RNs have received national certification in their areas of specialty, including Mary Bonk, Sharon Svabek, James Cameron, Susan Maurer, William Young, Elaine Degeneffe, Deborah Seton, Allen Belcher, Rebecca Carchia, Christine Wilson, Gwen Whitmire, Elizabeth Lomonaco, Frederick Boisvert, Judith Hall, Teresa Nimrick, Maria Boscarino, Leah Scanlon, and Judith Collins.
University of Miami
Elias Provencio-Vasquez, RN, NP, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, associate professor at UM’s School of Nursing and Health Studies (Coral Gables), has been awarded a national fellowship that is focused on expanding the role of nurses to lead change in the U.S. healthcare system. He is one of 20 nurses selected nationwide as a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow. Fellows in the three-year program remain in their current positions while they receive training, mentoring, and the opportunity to implement innovative healthcare strategies in their communities.
University of Central Florida
Nursing grads Meagan Pike and Joyce DeGennaro received Florida Hospital Mission of Excellence Awards in August. Pike was honored for regularly going above and beyond care issues in the clinical setting. Pike has been involved in a peer-learning program that has enabled her to apply her pharmacologic knowledge and skills to help teach others in the clinical setting. DeGennaro was honored for her work in the community and as an active member of the Student Nurses Association.
Florida International University
Anahid Kulwicki, RN, DNS, FAAN, was promoted to the new position of associate dean for research. Kulwicki also was granted tenure by the FIU board of trustees this summer. Kulwicki successfully organized the university’s first PhD Colloquium addressing advances in transdisciplinary research to promote health equity and has been involved in numerous research and program grants. She has implemented grants on predictors of child adjustment among Iraqi Gulf War refugees and a study on tobacco use among adolescents funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Lucie Dlugasch, ARNP-BC, MSN, assistant clinical nursing professor at the Florida International University College of Nursing & Health Sciences, has earned her PhD in nursing for successfully defending her dissertation project, titled “The Experiences of Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Usage of Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Who Are Not Using Insulin.” The study analyzed the experiences of adults with type 2 diabetes not taking insulin who were self-monitoring blood glucose levels as part of their self-care regimen. Dlugasch, who has an academic interest in studying health behaviors and chronic illness, was awarded a doctoral nursing degree from the University of Miami.
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