Int'l Nurse Theorist to Speak at Balik Turo Lecture

The Philippine Nurses Association in America (PNAA)-New York Chapter will hold a Balik- Turo lecture program on the recent trends in nursing education and practice on February 1 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium.

Highlighting the event is the talk by accomplished nurse theorist Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick on “Nursing Leadership”.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is an Elizabeth Brooks Ford professor of nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the American National League of Nursing and serves as the editor of its official publication Nursing Education Perspectives and two other nursing journals: Applied Nursing Research and Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Sillimanian healthcare professionals and PNAA members will complete the whole-day program with their lectures on “Electronic Medical Record Nursing Informatics”, “Core Measures for Philippines”, “Women and Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)” and “AMI Post- Operative Pain Management”.

Themed “Enhancing One’s Nursing Practice Through the Lens of the Experts,” the program is co-sponsored by 2007 Outstanding Sillimanian for Entrepreneurship Mrs. Olivia V. Yanson. Mrs. Yanson is a member of the Silliman University College of Nursing Alumni Association (BSN 1956), which organizes the program together with the College of Nursing. She and her family are among the University’s generous benefactors, with the building, Olivia Villaflores-Yanson Hall, forming part of their recent donations.  

For inquiries, contact Dean Prof. Florenda F. Cabatit at: [email protected] or (035) 422-6002 local 500.