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Silver Oak Search Consultants, Inc. supports the efforts of the
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
(NACNS) and the CNS Foundation. This year, Silver Oak had the privilege of
contributing $5,000 to the CNS Foundation enabling the award of five $1,000 scholarships
to currently enrolled CNS students.
These scholarships are granted in recognition of the essential role Clinical Nurse
Specialists play in the advancement of nursing practice to improve the quality
of patient care.
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Tom Boeker-SOSC, Jan Bingle-Chair CNS Foundation,
Sam Buster-SOSC
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Silver Oak Search Consultants, Inc. is pleased to announce recipients of the
Silver Oak/CNS Foundation scholarships for 2007. Four of the student recipients
were selected by the CNS Foundation based on their poster entries at the 2007
NACNS conference in Phoenix, AZ.
Congratulations to poster entrants:
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Melanie Banks, BSN, RN
La Salle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences
"Improving Outcomes for Patient Post Joint Replacement: An Evidence-based Teaching Tool"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Patty Zuzelo
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Melanie Banks, Tom Boeker-SOSC
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Rebecca Echeverri, BSN, RN
Montana State University College of Nursing
"Barriers to Participation in Cardiac Rehabilitation A Rural Perspective"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charlene Winters
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Tom Boeker-SOSC, Rebecca Echeverri,
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Ann Marie Lazarus, BSN, RN
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"Searching, Finding and Using Evidence for Cardiac Rehabilitation"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Heye
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Sam Buster-SOSC, Ann Marie Lazarus
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Colleen Quinn, RN, BSN
La Salle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences
"Keeping the Public Safe: Emergency Preparedness in the Face of Mass Casualty Incidents"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Patty Zuzelo
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Colleen Quinn, Tom Boeker-SOSC
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left to right: Tom Boeker and Sam Buster-SOSC, Collin Quinn, Melaine Banks, Ann Marie Lazarus,
Rebecca Echeverri, Sue Davidson-CNS Foundation
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Congratulations to the fifth student, Kathie Kobler, RN, BS recipient of the first
Silver Oak Search Consultants Clinical Nurse Specialist Scholarship.
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Kathie Kobler, RN, BS
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Ms. Kobler lives in Buffalo Grove, IL and is enrolled in the University of Illinois at Chicago
Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist/Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nursing Program. Her
practice focus is providing bereavement care to dying babies, children and to their patients
in the Labor and Delivery, NICU, PICU, Pediatric and Adolescent care units at Advocate Lutheran
General Hospital. Within this context, she designs individualized support from the time the
diagnosis is known, during end of life and throughout the first year of bereavement through a
program known as KAYLA's Hope, the followup bereavement program with over 1,100 families enrolled.
Her work at the system level has included service on a committee which wrote for and received
a $100,000 grant to develop and implement pediatric and adult palliative care programs in her
facility, and she serves as the coordinator. At the national level, she is Vice President
of the Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA)
and recently served as the chair of the 2006 National Perinatal Bereavement conference with
over 350 attendees.
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Congratulations to all of our scholarship recipients!!
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