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2021: A YEAR IN REVIEW

Injecting Hope:

South Florida's 2021 Highlights from UM School of Nursing
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BY ROBIN SHEAR
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www.southfloridahospitalnews.com For the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS), as

for most other health-focused enterprises, 2021 proved a momentous year. Here are

CHARLES FELIX a few highlights.
CAROL FELIX When vaccination efforts began in January, SONHS clinical faculty were among
Publishers the first in the area to step up and receive the shot. Faculty, students, and alumni
also assisted with COVID-19, SONHS testing and vaccination efforts, such as
NANCY LAMMIE Jackson Health System’s massive community vaccination initiative.
Editor After almost a year of remote and virtual learning, students returned to classes in
a hybrid fashion. By fall semester, students were fully back in classes, clinicals, and
JUDY GRAMM simulation for in-person instruction. This year SONHS graduated more than 600
Editorial Manager & Webmaster members of the Class of 2021 in seven different undergraduate and graduate degree
programs from nursing, public health, and health science.
JMC GRAPHICS The School was named #30 in Newsweek’s Feb 2021 article “Best 50 Colleges of
Art/Production Nursing in America” and came in at a ranking of 31 in U.S. News and World
lammienancy@aol.com Report’s inaugural ranking of undergraduate nursing programs, well ahead of its
412-877-5321 peer schools in the area.
National honors for SONHS faculty in 2021 included inductions into the
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National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Nursing, and American
Daniel Casciato Association of Nurse Practitioners. In January, SONHS Dean and Professor Cindy
Barbara Fallon L. Munro was announced as a member of the National Institute of Nursing
Vanessa Orr Research’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, which provides recom-
Lois Thomson mendations on the direction and support of the nursing, biomedical, social, and

behavioral research that forms the evidence base for nursing practice.
Among the school’s many research-related awards in 2021 was a $3.05 million
grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health to conduct an effective-
LOOK FOR OUR ness implementation trial for eHealth Familias Unidas for Mental Health, an online
NEXT ISSUE mental health intervention for Latinx youth and their families, in the primary care
setting. In addition, SONHS faculty were tapped to contribute to the NIH’s
IN JANUARY Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities, working
to address health disparities in the LGBT and Latinx South Florida community.
TO REACH US The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) granted the School a
10-year accreditation renewal, through June 2031, for the baccalaureate degree pro-
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gram in nursing, master’s degree program in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice
ADVERTISING program, and post-graduate APRN certificate program.
OR EDITORIAL In addition, SONHS launched three new BSN-DNP tracks for registered nurses interested in becoming doctorally prepared
Family Nurse Practitioners, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners, or Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse
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Practitioners.
or e-mail In international developments, the School announced its four-year redesignation as a Pan American Health Organization/World
carol@southfloridahospitalnews.com Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing Human Resources Development and Patient Safety. In addition, the school
solidified new international partnerships, including with the Universidad de Costa Rica’s Center for Tropical Disease Research
(CIET), sent supplies to Haiti following the earthquake, and conducted a blend of virtual and in-person nursing, education, and
research initiatives with partners in Guyana, Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Jamaica, among other nations.
SUBSCRIPTIONS On the simulation front, the School rebranded its 5-story, 41,000-square-foot simulation hospital as S.H.A.R.E.™, which stands

for Simulation Hospital Advancing Research and Education (@umiamishare) and developed mixed-reality applications for famil-
One Year $40
iarizing nurse anesthesia students with the operating room environment.
Two Years $60 Faculty launched an award-winning simulation-based human trafficking awareness curriculum that has trained over 200 stu-
dents to date and piloted two different telehealth-based initiatives to support family caregivers and improve health outcomes.
Three Years $75
Promoting the pillar of Education for Life, SONHS hosted a dozen lectures in 2021, addressing simulation in translational sci-
ence, diversity in the workplace, Latino health disparities, human trafficking awareness, and more. Most guests were still virtual
To subscribe, but among the in-person visitors were two former U.S. Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar and Donna Shalala.
call (561) 368-6950 “I’ve never seen anything like it," Azar said after touring S.H.A.R.E.™. “It is wonderful to see the University of Miami harness this
great technology. The nursing students leave here ready to take care of patients in the real world.”
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