Fund established for two former ETSU professors who died in car accident
Issue date: 3/5/09 Section: News
A fund has been established at the University of Wyoming in memory of two former East Tennessee State University College of Nursing professors.
Dr. Carol Macnee and Dr. Susan McCabe lost their lives in a car accident on Dec. 18, 2008. Both left ETSU in 2004 to join the faculty of the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
While at ETSU, Macnee taught in the department of family and community nursing and was an active leader with the Johnson City Downtown Clinic. Her research on patient satisfaction among homeless clients and on smoking cessation in Appalachia received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
McCabe held a faculty appointment in ETSU's department of professional roles and mental health nursing and was a psychiatric nurse practitioner at the Johnson City Downtown Clinic. Since 1998, she had delivered more than 70 presentations - primarily in the field of mental health nursing - at numerous professional conferences in the United States as well as in Taiwan and Australia.
Both were co-authors of the textbook "Understanding Nursing Research: Reading and Using Research in Evidence-Based Practice."
At the University of Wyoming, Macnee directed the Nightingale Center for Nursing Scholarship and, at the state level, was the coordinator of the Wyoming Nursing Summit for four years.
McCabe was project director of a Health Resources and Services Administration-funded program that provided accelerated learning experiences for psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner students. A three-year project, the program was recently extended an additional three years.
Gifts to the Macnee/McCabe Memorial Fund can be sent to University of Wyoming Foundation, 1200 E. Ivinson Street, Laramie, WY 82070.
Dr. Carol Macnee and Dr. Susan McCabe lost their lives in a car accident on Dec. 18, 2008. Both left ETSU in 2004 to join the faculty of the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
While at ETSU, Macnee taught in the department of family and community nursing and was an active leader with the Johnson City Downtown Clinic. Her research on patient satisfaction among homeless clients and on smoking cessation in Appalachia received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
McCabe held a faculty appointment in ETSU's department of professional roles and mental health nursing and was a psychiatric nurse practitioner at the Johnson City Downtown Clinic. Since 1998, she had delivered more than 70 presentations - primarily in the field of mental health nursing - at numerous professional conferences in the United States as well as in Taiwan and Australia.
Both were co-authors of the textbook "Understanding Nursing Research: Reading and Using Research in Evidence-Based Practice."
At the University of Wyoming, Macnee directed the Nightingale Center for Nursing Scholarship and, at the state level, was the coordinator of the Wyoming Nursing Summit for four years.
McCabe was project director of a Health Resources and Services Administration-funded program that provided accelerated learning experiences for psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner students. A three-year project, the program was recently extended an additional three years.
Gifts to the Macnee/McCabe Memorial Fund can be sent to University of Wyoming Foundation, 1200 E. Ivinson Street, Laramie, WY 82070.
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