2020 CARNA Award nominees and recipients announced

The 2020 CARNA Award nominees and recipients were recently announced with many UCalgary Nursing connections among them.

Professor Emerita Dr. Lorraine Wright, PhD will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Wright joined UCalgary Nursing in the early 1980s to help establish the MN program and then founded the Family Nursing Unit (FNU) in 1982 where she remained director until 2002. She used her considerable skills in family therapy to spearhead this research and education department that provided assistance to families suffering with serious illness. She also taught and supervised Masters/Doctoral students who were specializing in Family Systems Nursing. 

She retired in 2002 after 27 years at the University of Calgary and since then has lectured and conducted workshops in many countries around families and illness beliefs, suffering, spirituality and illness.

The Calgary Urban Projects Society (CUPS) executive director, Carlene Donnelly, will receive the Partner in Health Award. Carlene has been with CUPS for almost 20 years and has extensive knowledge in non-profit leadership and poverty alleviation. She has been a valued member of the UCalgary Nursing Community Advisory Board since 2016.

Congratulations to Lorraine and Carlene and all the nominees including these members of our alumni and professional community:

Excellence in Clinical Practice

• Cristina Zaganelli, Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment Program, Calgary Zone, AHS – BN’02
• Debra Lundberg, Valve Clinics, South Health Campus – BN’92
• Shazin Charania, Outpatient Mental Health, Sheldon M Chumir Centre – BN’11

Excellence in Administration

• Dorothy MacKay, Systemic & Radiation Therapy Nursing, Tom Baker Cancer Centre – MN’88
• Jacqueline Simms, Sheldon M Chumir NW Clinic, AHS – BN’92, MN’95

Excellence in Research

• Colleen Cuthbert, University of Calgary – assistant professor, BN’06, MN/MDIP’08, PhD’17

Excellence in Education

• Giuliana Harvey, Mount Royal University – MN’06, PhD’19
• Joanne Bouma,  Mount Royal University – MN’99
• Sandra Davidson, University of Calgary – dean and professor, UCalgary Nursing

Rising Star

• Jacqueline Wilson, Nephrology and Transplant, Foothills Medical Centre – BN’18

Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Lorraine Wright, University of Calgary – professor emerita

Nominees:

• Doreen Nasr, Dementia Unit, Extendicare Hillcrest – BN’78
• Jannette Festival, NorthernStar Mothers Milk Bank – BN’03
• Wendy Bissett, Alberta Children's Hospital – BN’86

Partner in Health

• Recipient: Carlene Donnelly, CUPS Calgary Society – member, UCalgary Nursing Advisory Council

To view the full list of 2020 CARNA Awards nominees and recipients, visit nurses.ab.ca.