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>CANTRELL APPOINTS FIRST ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR NURSING AT U.VA.
>HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
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>CHARLOTTESVILLE,VA., May 28 -- Marlene Bond, MSN, chief nursing
>officer/chief health care professional for the University of Virginia
>Medical Center, has been named the first associate vice president for
>nursing at the U.Va. Health Sciences Center. Her appointment was
>announced Friday, May 29, by Dr. Robert Cantrell, vice president and
>provost of health sciences at U.Va., at the Board of Visitors' Health
>Affairs Committee meeting.
>"Nursing care has always been an integral part of health care delivery,
>but now, with nurses being such valuable members of the health care
>team, this new position recognizes their increased importance,"
Cantrell
>said. "I am pleased that Ms. Bond is willing to expand her
>responsibilities as chief of nursing to advise me on the expanded scope
>of our clinical nursing and other health care professional activities."
>This appointment is in addition to Bond's role as the Medical Center's
>chief nursing officer/chief health care professional. As associate vice
>president for nursing, her responsibilities and influence now extend
>throughout the entire University of Virginia Health System and she
>serves on the Health Systems Senior Staff. In her new role, Bond is
>responsible for the licensure and credentialing of all health care
>professionals, as well
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>as the standards of practice for health care professionals throughout
>the U.Va. Health System.
>Since joining U.Va. in 1967 as a clinical instructor in
medical-surgical
>nursing, Bond has served in a broad range of clinical, educational and
>administrative positions, including assistant director of recruitment
>and retention for the Division of Nursing, administrator at Blue Ridge
>Hospital, clinical assistant professor of behavioral medicine
>and psychiatry and patient care services administrator for the
>Psychiatry Service Center.
>Bond, who has a B.S.N. from Cornell University and a M.S.N. from U.Va.
>School of Nursing, is a member of the American Nurses Association and
>Virginia Nurses Association. She also served as a member of the Board
of
>Directors for the Mental Health Association.
>"This new position is a wonderful recognition for the entire nursing
and
>health care professional staff at U.Va., and gives me an opportunity to
>bring the concerns and issues of the nursing staff to the vice
president
>and his senior staff," Bond said.
>"The biggest challenge we face in the next few years will be retention
>of our wonderful staff as we face a national shortage of qualified
>nurses. One way to keep good nursing staff is to work to bring about a
>positive change in the organizational culture, so that all members of
>the health care team are valued and supported."
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>May 28, 1998
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