(Posted 10-8-99)
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THREE AT UNCG NAMED TO GREAT 100 NURSES
 
GREENSBORO--Three faculty members in the School of Nursing at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro have been named to North Carolina's Great 100 registered nurses for 1999.

Dr. Maureen O'Rourke, an assistant professor, Jenny Clapp, a clinical instructor, and Richard G. Ouellette, an adjunct instructor in the School of Nursing were honored at a ceremony Oct. 9 at the Koury Center in Greensboro.

Honorees were selected based on their outstanding professional abilities and commitment to improving health care in their communities. The Great 100 Inc. is a nonprofit nursing organization based in Raleigh.

A Winston-Salem resident, O'Rourke has been a faculty member at UNCG since 1997. Her research on prostate cancer treatment selection has been published in the nursing journals Quality of Life and Oncology Nursing Forum and the medical journal Cancer Investigation. She has presented her research in the Netherlands. She has received a grant from the Oncology Nursing Foundation. She is a past recipient of the UNCG Summer Excellence Research Award and a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing. She is a graduate of St. Joseph's College, received her master's degree from the University of California at San Francisco and her doctoral degree from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Clapp has been a faculty member at UNCG since 1997, where she specializes in maternal-newborn nursing. She also serves as a relief staff nurse in labor and delivery at Women's Hospital in Greensboro and as faculty advisor for the Association of Nursing Students at UNCG. She has been a presenter for numerous nursing workshops throughout North Carolina. She received the 1998 Sigma Theta Tau Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice. She is a member of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetrical and Neonatal Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from UNCG.

Ouellette has been an adjunct instructor in the School of Nursing since 1996. He received his undergraduate degree from Emmanuel College and his master's degree in education from Boston State College. He did post-graduate work at Harvard University. Since 1966 he has served as a staff nurse anesthetist and clinical instructor in the Outpatient Surgical Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.  He is the recipient of the 1999 Agatha Hodgins Outstanding Accomplishment Award from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
 

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