Linda Suttle, MS, RN
Executive Director
16 Shorty Smith Rd.
Laurel, MS 39443 601-498-9196
Congratulations to Jan Starling, RN. Jan was recognized with the 2010 ANA Honorary Nursing Practice Award.
She is one of two nurses from Mississippi to ever win this award!!
She completed her associate’s degree at Northeast Mississippi Community College
in Booneville and got her first job working on the cardiac floor at NMMC 19 years ago.
Jan says,
“Once I started working at the hospital, I couldn’t see myself doing anything else,” Starling said. “I tell people heart failure is my first love.”
These days, Starling checks in on patients in person and by phone, audits charts, serves as a nurse educator, watches over patient safety and serves on congestive heart failure and other hospital committees.
M-OADN is proud of you, Jan & of Northeast MS Community College Registered Nurse Graduates!
N-OADN List Serv If you have never signed up for the list serv then please consider doing so! Directions for signing up and how to use this resource can be found on the N-OADN website.
Go to the Resources tab on the left side of the screen and then look for the “Join N-OADN list serv.” Follow the directions and enjoy.
The N-OADN Foundation Board of Directors met for a meeting in Raymond, Mississippi on June 6, 2010. The Board discussed its current award, scholarship, and grant programs and extended the deadline for submissions from May 1 to September 1. We would like you to help the Foundation spread the word as to the funding opportunities that are available through the Foundation.
The most recent grant recipient, Cynthia Maskey, PhDc, CNE, RN, Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, IL. “I am very grateful to the N-OADN Foundation for the research grant which I used to support my dissertation work entitled, An Evaluation of the Relationship between Critical Thinking and Reflective Judgment in Senior Associate Degree Nursing Students.
“The results have proven to be very exciting and enlightening and hopefully they will spark further research in nursing education with AD students and graduates. As was hypothesized, there was a positive correlation in the AD participants between critical thinking in nursing as measured by the HESI Exit Exam and reflective judgment as measured by the Reasoning about Current Issues Test. Other variables examined in relation to critical thinking and reflective judgment included age, nursing program GPA and the number of earned college/university credits. The significance of the correlations related to these variables were individual variable dependent. I will be presenting my research results in poster format at the 2010 N-OADN Convention in Atlanta.”
For applications and more information on these and other N-OADN Foundation scholarships and awards, please visit the
N-OADN website and click on N-OADN Foundation.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE M-OADN AWARD WINNERS!
Outstanding AD Student: Jessica McKinnon, Jones County Junior College
Bobbie Anderson: John Haire Jr, Coahoma Community College
Nurse In practice: Van Dees, Meridian Community College Graduate
AD Nursing Educator of the Year: Melissa Barrett, MS Delta Community College
