{"id":3976,"date":"2015-10-30T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2015-10-30T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:18:09","slug":"higgins-receives-nursing-education-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/10\/30\/higgins-receives-nursing-education-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgins Receives Nursing Education Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"TNA awards 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TNA-awards-F2015.jpg?resize=888%2C377\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Leslie Higgins, professor of nursing and director of Belmont\u2019s Graduate Studies\u00a0in Nursing, was recently named as the recipient of the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA) Nursing Excellence \u2013 Nursing Education Award. The Education Excellence award recognizes a nursing faculty who reflects outstanding performance in promoting and maintaining excellence in professional practice, mentorship and educational standards, and provides leadership to improve quality of care.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as a nurse educator for 40 years, Dr. Higgins began with a joint appointment at Vanderbilt School of Nursing\/Vanderbilt Medical Center and has continued to work with students since then. Her nominator said of her, \u201cLeslie coined the phrase \u201cthe Belmont touch\u201d to characterize a graduate program that is rigorous but student-centered. She acknowledges her high expectations for students, and sets a climate wherein students want to perform at their very best. She shows students how to think critically through her own use of this process. In conversation with Leslie, one can always see \u201cthe wheels turning\u201d as she thinks through complex phenomena and encourages students to do the same. Her approach to nursing education is grounded in evidence-based practices, while emphasizing the art of nursing that attends to the whole person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Leslie Higgins, professor of nursing and director of Belmont\u2019s Graduate Studies\u00a0in Nursing, was recently named as the recipient of the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA) Nursing Excellence \u2013 Nursing Education Award. The Education Excellence award recognizes a nursing faculty who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/10\/30\/higgins-receives-nursing-education-excellence-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}