{"id":68728,"date":"2005-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-college-of-nursing-honors-boston-college-dean\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-college-of-nursing-honors-boston-college-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/uri-college-of-nursing-honors-boston-college-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing honors Boston College dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tWakefield native honored as alumna of year<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 9, 2005 — 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing students heard a story recently about a little girl from a dead-end street across from the Larchwood Inn in Wakefield who grew up to become dean of nursing at Boston College and a national leader in nursing research.<\/p>\n


\n\tThey learned at the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing\u2019s 10th Annual Alumni Recognition Day that the story of Barbara Hazard Munro, dean and professor of the William F. Connell School of Nursing at BC since 1991, could be their story too.<\/p>\n


\n\tHonored earlier this month as 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s top alumna for 2005, Munro earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in 1961 after completing what was then a five-year program, and her master\u2019s degree in 1974, both from the University\u2019s College of Nursing.<\/p>\n


\n\tMunro told the faculty, staff and students during the program that the award humbled her. \u201cActually, this College of Nursing deserves the award, as this is where I learned to be a nurse, where I received my master\u2019s degree, and where I had my first teaching job in nursing. So, whatever I have accomplished, it is because of the excellent preparation I received right here.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI arrived here in the fall of 1956, after graduating from South Kingstown High School,\u201d Munro continued. \u201cI was a townie and several other townies are here to support me. We were commuters, and earned our way by working summers and weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tRuth Waldman, former associate dean of the nursing college, and Munro were classmates as master\u2019s degree candidates at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cThere was no question that she was the leader of the group from the beginning. She doesn\u2019t waste time.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cAs an educator, she always had a sense of what is important, and before many others, she realized how important continuing education was for nurses,\u201d Waldman said. <\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough now a fixture at Boston College, Munro said she is proud to be \u201cRhode Island Born and Rhode Island Bred, although not quite ready to be Rhode Island Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA former member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and 溏心vlog免费B站, she earned her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Connecticut. \u201cIf you want to become a bonafide researcher and academician, you need the Ph.D.,\u201d Munro said. <\/p>\n


\n\tAfter earning her bachelor\u2019s degree at 溏心vlog免费B站, she became a psychiatric nurse at the Leech Farm Veterans Administration Hospital in Pittsburgh. She then worked at a state hospital in Connecticut and returned to 溏心vlog免费B站 for her master\u2019s in nursing while raising her three children. She said it was Barbara Tate, 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing dean emerita, who taught her research class and who emphasized that nursing research should drive clinical practice.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI liked detective stories and figuring out things, so research was a great fit for me,\u201d Munro said. \u201cThere are many, many examples in medicine and nursing of things we have done because they seemed to work, but when studied scientifically, we found them to be useless or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn her faculty positions and as dean she pushes nursing students to question \u201cusual practices\u201d and to examine them through scientific study.<\/p>\n


\nMunro and her students have examined such issues as the ability of patients to read and understand printed instructions given to them in the primary care setting, bed positioning for post-cardiac angioplasty patients, use of advanced practice nurses in place of physicians as a way to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs, and interactive coaching for promoting healthy responsiveness between depressed mothers and infants.<\/p>\n


\nFor her work, she has been presented the Second Annual Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society, the Annie Goodrich Award for Teaching at Yale University, the Connecticut Nurses\u2019 Association Virginia A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Research.<\/p>\n


\nAn associate editor of the journal Clinical Nurse Specialist since its inception in 1987, she sits on the board of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.<\/p>\n


\nShe concluded her talk saying that being a nursing dean was not in her plans, but that nursing students and faculty have to be open to a variety of possibilities.<\/p>\n


\nMunro said BC\u2019s Father Michael Himes explained to her what he believed are the key elements of a vocation\u2014it brings joy, the person has to be good at it and there is a need for it.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe profession of nursing has brought me joy, from my work as a psychiatric nurse in a variety of settings to teaching undergraduate and graduate students. My education at 溏心vlog免费B站 helped me to be good at my profession and there is certainly a need for nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n(Barbara Hazard Munro, right, dean and professor of the William F. Connell School of Nursing at BC since 1991, displays a plaque presented to her by 溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Nursing Dean Paula Viau during the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing\u2019s 10th Annual Alumni Recognition Day. Munro earned her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from 溏心vlog免费B站. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno Photography.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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