UF College of Nursing faculty honored as Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida

Two University of Florida College of Nursing faculty members are among those recently recognized as the 2003 Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida.

Pamela Pieper, M.S.N., A.R.N.P., a clinical associate professor, and Alice Poe, D.S.N., C.N.M., an assistant professor, both faculty members at the UF Health Science Center’s Jacksonville campus, were honored in May at a ceremony during National Nurses Week.

The Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida Inc. is a volunteer group of professional nurses who provide funding for nursing scholarships, contribute dollars for research to improve patient care, and recognize outstanding nurses and their successes.

Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida honorees are selected based on their professional contributions, and how well these contributions are known and recognized in the community.

Pieper has been a UF nursing faculty member since 1990 and is the pediatric surgery clinical nurse specialist/nurse practitioner and pediatric trauma coordinator at Shands Jacksonville. She recently was selected president-elect of the American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association and is chairwoman and founding member of the Pediatric Nursing Council of Northeast Florida.

Poe, a UF nursing faculty member since 1985, directs the college’s nurse-midwifery program in Jacksonville. She is a fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and has received the organization’s teaching excellence award. Poe conducts research on a variety of topics, including perineal integrity and health, women’s health, and midwifery professional issues and education.