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Jan 3, 2005 -- No. 1 |
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UNC pharmacy wins national competition
for third consecutive year
For the third year in a row, students from UNC’s School of Pharmacy won the clinical skills competition at the midyear meeting of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
The team of Amanda Ball, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Greensboro, and April Miller, a fourth-year pharmacy student from New Bern, won the two-day competition, which featured a record 85 two-person teams representing pharmacy schools nationwide.
The competition challenges students to analyze a complex clinical case, pinpointing the patient’s drug therapy problems, identifying treatment goals and developing a pharmacist’s care plan.
This year’s case involved a hypothetical patient with a weak heart who had suffered a heart attack in a hospital with limited facilities. Many complications, including very low blood pressure resulting from shock and the lack of surgical alternatives, added to the challenge of recommending an appropriate drug therapy for the patient.
The teams were pared to 10 finalists who appeared before a three-judge panel to defend the reasoning behind their decisions.
Ball and Miller each took home a trophy and $500. UNC’s School of Pharmacy also gets to keep the traveling plaque it has held for the past two years.
Pfizer Inc. has sponsored the competition since 2001.
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UNC Lineberger presents awards to six
for excellence in nursing, clinical services
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center recently awarded its 2004 Oncology Nursing Excellence Awards and Clinical Services Excellence Awards to six staff members.
The awards recognize excellence in care for cancer patients. The Oncology Nursing Excellence Award is in memory of Charmayne Gray, an oncology nurse who died in a car accident in 2002.
Barbara Kok, lead nurse for the bone marrow and stem cell transplantation outpatient clinic, received the top Oncology Nursing Excellence Award. Dawn Hardison, a clinical business associate in the pediatric, adult hematology-oncology and surgical oncology clinics, took top honors for the Clinical Services Excellence Award.
Also receiving nursing honors were Sylvia Wrenn and Tina Shaban. Wrenn is the nurse coordinator for the head and neck oncology program. Shaban is the coordinator for the patient and family resource center.
Laura Miller and Shirley Gentry received honorary Clinical Services Excellence Awards. Miller is program assistant for the head and neck oncology program and the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma program. Gentry is the pharmacy technician for oncology outpatient clinics.
Kok and Hardison each received $1,500 to be used for educational purposes. Wrenn, Shaban, Miller and Gentry each received $100.UNC Lineberger is one of 38 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. Center faculty members treat cancer patients, conduct research into the causes of cancer, direct statewide programs in cancer prevention, and train future physicians, nurses, scientists and public health professionals.
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