By
Tammy Gay
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See related story in
the Oct. 19, 2000, edition of the Lexington
Herald-Leader.
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LEXINGTON, KY
(Oct. 19, 2000) -- Marcia K. Stanhope, D.S.N., associate
dean, professor and director of continuing education at the
University of Kentucky College
of Nursing will be awarded the 2000 Public Health Nursing
Creative Achievement Award by the American Public Health
Association on Nov. 14.
Currently, her textbook Community and Public Health Nursing,
co-edited by Jeannette Lancaster, Ph.D., dean of the University of
Virginia College of Nursing, is the leading textbook used
nationally and internationally by nursing schools. The textbook,
which is in its fifth edition, was named Book of the Year twice by
the American Journal of Nursing in 1984 and 1992. Stanhope
also has been the primary author on four other books pertaining to
public and community health nursing, with one receiving the
American Journal of Nursing 1999 Book of the Year award.
Another public health nursing accomplishments includes her work
to establish the Good Samaritan Nurse Managed Center, which she
co-directs. The center, a partnership between the College and the
Good Samaritan Foundation, provides nurse practitioner fellowships
and community health interns at 10 established agencies and school
health education programs in Lexington and the surrounding area.
In one year, the nurse managed centers provide services to more
than 3,500 individuals who would not have had access to health
care. |
