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Alum Recognized as 2006 Health Care Worker of the Year by OHA
Frankye Herald, RN, director of Mahogany’s Child at Miami Valley Hospital and 1993 graduate of our BSN program, has been named the 2006 Health Care Worker of the Year by the Ohio Hospital Association. A total of 81 nominations for the award were received by the hospital association from hospitals across Ohio. Nominees were required to demonstrate leadership, reflect values and ideals of Ohio health care facilities, exhibit work above and beyond the call of duty, deliver services within the community and overcome odds to succeed.
Through her work at Mahogany’s Child, Herald is involved daily in community health education and disease prevention within Dayton’s minority population. Since its inception in 2001 Mahogany’s Child has touched more than 7,000 African American, Hispanic, and Appalachian women annually by providing health education and screenings.
Herald is an inspiration for residents in the Dayton communities she serves, as she overcame unbeatable odds to reach personal and career goals. Herald, a nurse for 14 years, raised three boys as a single parent, was a welfare recipient and furthered her education taking television courses and attending night school. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Wright State University with true, unabashed perseverance.
"The best gift I can offer our community is health," said Herald. “The Miami Valley boasts some of the highest statistics for illness in the nation, and that is why Mahogany’s Child is a critical program to help educate women about their bodies, the importance of health screenings and how to maintain wellness for healthy longevity.”
Outstanding Alumna of the Year
Cathy D. Trame, ‘97 M.S.
Cathy Trame, clinical nurse specialist for pain services at Miami Valley Hospital, has instituted many training programs, participated and spearheaded research investigations to identify pain management strategies, and has become a national speaker and advocate for proper pain management.
A board member of the Ohio Pain Initiative, Trame has published numerous articles and presented around the nation on such topics as chronic pain, pain management, control of pain, and pain management in the elderly. Her expertise and her role as a patient advocate have spawned research that has improved patient outcomes and pain management.
As a frequest speaker to undergraduate and graduate nursing students at Wright State, Trame is on of the school’s highest-ranking speakers because of her ability to convey complex material in a manner that is understandable to all levels of nursing students. Trame’s honors include Nursing Recognition Awards in the area of Nursing Research from MVH in 1999 and 2002. She also received the KMC Star Award and the My Nurse Award for being chosen by her nursing peers as the nurse in the hospital that they would like to care for them personally.
Appointments/Promotions
Cindra Holland was promoted from the rank of clinical instructor to clinical assistant professor.
Mary Lynd, assistant professor, was appointed to be a reviewer for the Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
Leatha Ross was promoted from the rank of clinical instructor to clinical assistant professor.
Awards
Candace Cherrington, assistant professor, was designated as a 2005 Hildgard E. Pelau Scholar by the American Nurses Foundation.
Donna Miles Curry, assistant professor, will receive the Wright State University Fred A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service Award in the fall 2006. In addition, she was awarded three quarters of professional development leave for the 2006-2007 academic year. She plans to work on acute care pediatric nurse practitioner program development, global nursing education and health, an oral history research project, pediatric nursing research, and, family nursing.
Mary Lynd, assistant professor, received the Midwest Region Nursing Excellence Award in the category of mentoring from Nursing Spectrum.
Gail Moddeman, assistant professor, received a an honorable mention for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)/Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Award for Stand Alone Baccalaureate Geriatric Course.
Leatha Ross, clinical assistant professor, was named recipient of the Wright State University Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence: Outstanding Instructor. This honor will be bestowed in all 2006.
Susan Praeger, professor, received the Outstanding School Nurse Educator Award from the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) in June at the NASN 38th Annual Conference in New York City. The president of NASN noted that “Your school nurse licensure program is considered the leading program in Ohio for licensing school nurses through the Ohio Department of Education, and you have been instrumental in leading the effort to update the standards for the evaluation of school nurse licensure programs across the state of Ohio.”
Alice Teall, clinical assistant professor, and Patricia Vermeersch, associate professor, were nominated by Wright State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning for a teaching award from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). Dan DeStephen, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, wrote that “These nominations reflect the university’s belief that the recipients represent the best teachers at Wright State University.”
Grants
Candace Cherrington, assistant professor, received funding in the amount of $3,500 from the American Nurses Foundation for her study on illness representation in acute coronary syndrome.
Yi-Hui Lee, assistant professor, received a Research Initiation Grant from Wright State University’s Research Council in the amount of $10,000 for her project entitled HIV/AIDS-related risky sexual behavior and related pychosocial factors among Chinese-American adolescents and Chinese adolescents.
Mary Lynd, assistant professor, received a $5,000 grant for her proposal, Student Response to an Innovative Approach to Nursing Education. The grant was funded by the National League for Nursing’s Task Group for Innovations in Nursing Education.
Gail Moddeman, assistant professor, received a $1,000 grant from the Miami Valley
Gerontology Council for her study, The postoperative pain experience of adults after discharge from outpatient surgery.
Elizabeth Sorensen, assistant professor, received a $1,000 research travel grant from the Wright State University Research Council to attend the Association of Perioperative Nurses’ World Conference in Barcelona, Spain in fall 2005.
Alice Teall, clinical assistant professor, and Margaret Clark Graham, professor, were awarded $19,812 for their proposal, The Clinical Record System funded by Wright State University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The grant will be used to develop a tool to be used in a format for a handheld computer that will allow students to record patient encounters, assess the marketplace for tools similar to the prototype, and develop and modify the softward needed for commercialization of the prototype.
Joyce Zurmehly, assistant professor, received funding from Sigma Theta Tau International in the amount of $9,993 for her proposal, Registered Nurse Empowerment and Intent to Leave Current Position and Profession. |
