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from the heights
Siena Heights Professor
Receives Nursing Honor
Siena Heights University
Associate Professor of
Nursing Sister Sharon
McGuire, OP, PhD, was
one of the new Fellows
inducted at the annual
clinical conference of the
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners on
June 23 in Phoenix, Ariz. Sister Sharon has
been a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner
since 1989. She has worked with a Latino population on the US-Mexico border, developed
the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the
University of Texas at El Paso, and has participated in international health service trips with
nursing and nurse practitioner students. She
currently teaches in the RN-to-BSN and the
Pre-Licensure nursing programs at SHU. The
FAANP program was established in 2000 to
recognize nurse practitioner (NP) leaders who
have made outstanding contributions to health
care through NP clinical practice, research,
education or policy.
Nursing Program Gets
Five-Year Accreditation
This spring the Siena Heights Nursing program
recently received a five-year accreditation—
the best a new program in baccalaureate or
graduate nursing education can receive—
from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing
Education. In fact, the program was found in
“perfect compliance” with all elements relating
to accreditation. “I am unbelievably humbled
and honored that Siena Heights University
Nursing is fully accredited by the Commission
on Collegiate Nursing Education,” said SHU
Director of Nursing Dr. Sue Idczak. “This organization represents the highest standards required in baccalaureate and graduate nursing
education.” Siena Heights Nursing met all four
standards, including 26 key elements, with no
compliance issues. “This is a remarkable accomplishment for Sue and Siena Nursing,” said SHU
President Sister Peg Albert, OP, PhD. “To receive
this level of accreditation shows the amount
of hard work and dedication involved in completing this process. Sue and her faculty, as
well as Sister Sharon Weber, our vice president
of Academic Affairs, should be commended
for their efforts.” SHU Nursing offers both the
BSN pre-licensure program and the RN to BSN
degree completion program. Siena Heights
was approved in 2008 to educate licensed
registered nurses to complete the Bachelor of
Science in Nursing degree, with the first prelicensure BSN students beginning classes in
January 2010. All SHU Nursing faculty hold
Master of Science in Nursing degrees, and two
faculty are PhD prepared. “A five-year accreditation is exceptional for the first ev