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“When I was completing my B.S.N. in 2002, the school of nursing was still housed in the old building on 57th Avenue, right at the edge of the campus,” recalls professor of clinical and associate dean for hemispheric and global initiatives Dr. Johis Ortega. “It was an isolated, outdated two-story building with just a few offices and one lab where we did all of our health assessment practicums. There were no classrooms—we had to use classrooms in other buildings on campus.”
Following Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, a SONHS team traveled to Cap-Haitien to implement a culturally-adapted educational program training health care professionals to identify and treat mental health patients. In 2011, SONHS introduced South Florida’s first Bachelor of Science in Public Health degree program.
Dean Nilda (Nena) Peragallo Montano was appointed dean in 2003 with a mandate to lead the school into the new century.
Dean Cindy L. Munro takes the helm at SONHS in 2017, setting a new vision for a school that is Novel, Optimistic, and World-Changing (“NOW”) in alignment with the U’s Roadmap to Our New Century.
As the school reinvented itself for the 21st century , it added a B.S. in Health Science degree, and changed its name to the School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS) in 2004. The following year, SONHS introduced Nurse Anesthesia and Acute Care master’s degree programs, as well as global studies programs in Chile and Haiti.
The 5-story, 41,000-square-foot Simulation Hospital Advancing Research and Education (S.H.A.R.E .™ ) opened its doors in 2017. It provides on-site, virtual, and extended-reality simulation opportunities in a variety of clinical, research, and educational settings.
Today, SONHS is home to the world-class Jorie Healthcare Partners Biobehavioral Research Laboratory. The lab supports emergent lines of research in a wide range of critical areas, fueling advances in the science of holistic, patient-centered care.
Launched in 2009, the school’s first D.N.P. degree program served as a national educational model. It was designed and promoted by then-Associate Dean JoAnn Trybulski (1950-2018).
S.H.A.R.E.™ offers fully-equipped, customizable environments including an ambulance bay, emergency department, incident command center, outpatient clinics, labor and delivery suites, operating rooms, adult and pediatric intensive care, medical-surgical units, a home health care residence, and much more.
SONHS launched Florida’s first B.S.N.-to- D.N.P. in Nurse Anesthesia program in 2014.
Completed in 2006, the 53,000-square-foot M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies houses SONHS faculty and administrative offices, and features smart classrooms, clinical practice labs, seminar and conference rooms, and high-tech computer labs, all equipped with industry-leading technology.
S.H.A.R.E.™ is promoting interprofessional collaboration and lifelong learning to improve patient safety outcomes. It captures the real-life flow of interaction, giving students and researchers the ability to assess and effectively address every possible safety breakdown in the hospital setting.
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