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Fermin Renteria and Teresa Whited have been chosen for management plans by means of the American Association of Faculties of Nursing.
| Tiny ROCK — Two school associates from the UAMS Faculty of Nursing have been chosen to acquire component in leadership plans through the American Affiliation of Faculties of Nursing (AACN).
Fermin Renteria, DNP, APRN, assistant professor in the University of Nursing, was named to the 2022-23 course of the AACN’s Elevating Leaders in Educational Nursing (ELAN) application. The just one-calendar year fellowship is created to strengthen the leadership expertise of aspiring deans and senior faculty users. Participants commence with a 5-day management immersion working experience this summer season, and they’ll attend virtual workshops and get coaching in the course of the yr.
“Several of my colleagues are fellows in the ELAN system, and I see the large effect it has experienced on their management abilities,” stated Renteria, the director of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing method on the Very little Rock campus. “I am honored to have been chosen and thankful to the University of Nursing for sponsoring my participation.”
“Dr. Renteria’s professionalism, teaching and curricular knowledge, powerful interaction abilities and ability to get the job done collaboratively have garnered the respect of colleagues in the faculty and across the campus,” claimed Patricia Cowan, Ph.D., RN, dean of the College of Nursing.
Teresa Whited, DNP, APRN, affiliate professor and associate dean for academic programs in the College of Nursing, was chosen to attend the 2022-23 AACN-Wharton Govt Leadership Program. Whited earlier accomplished the ELAN program. The AACN-Wharton software is designed to hone participants’ capabilities in negotiation, leadership and influencing some others.
“I am pretty energized and honored to be selected for the Wharton Govt Leadership Software,” Whited said. “This is a amazing prospect that will help me improve and give back again to the college or university in a stronger way.”
Whited serves in management posts at the point out and countrywide amounts, together with as co-legislative chair for the Arkansas Nurses Affiliation-PNAP and the Arkansas chapter of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as a board member for the Affiliation of Faculty for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners committee member for the meeting organizing committee at national NAPNAP, and as a participant in the system director and Well being Plan Distinctive Curiosity teams in the Countrywide Business of Nurse Practitioner Colleges (NONPF).
“Dr. Whited’s conversation competencies, trouble-solving qualities and motivation to staff good results have founded her as a potent chief at UAMS,” Cowan reported.

UAMS is the state’s only overall health sciences university, with schools of Medication, Nursing, Pharmacy, Wellbeing Professions and Public Wellness a graduate school a hospital a main campus in Very little Rock a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville a statewide community of regional campuses and 7 institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Investigate Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Ageing, Translational Investigation Institute and Institute for Electronic Wellness & Innovation. UAMS involves UAMS Health, a statewide health process that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical organization. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma heart in the condition. UAMS has 3,047 pupils, 873 healthcare people and fellows, and six dental inhabitants. It is the state’s biggest community employer with more than 11,000 employees, which includes 1,200 physicians who provide treatment to individuals at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Middle and Baptist Wellbeing. Go to www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.
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