Pieper wins selective APSNA Founders Award

The American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association has selected University of Florida College of Nursing faculty member Pamela Pieper, M.S.N., A.R.N.P.-C.S., as the recipient of their 2002 Founders Award. Pieper, a clinical associate professor in the department of women’s, children’s and family nursing at the college’s Jacksonville campus, is only the fifth recipient of the award, honoring those nurses who have made a significant contribution to pediatric surgical nursing.

Pieper has been on the college’s faculty since 1990 and is the pediatric surgery clinical nurse specialist/nurse practitioner and pediatric trauma nurse coordinator at Shands Jacksonville. She is chairwoman and a founding member of the Pediatric Nursing Council of Northeast Florida, and was appointed in 2001 to the Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Council’s Pediatric Committee. She has made more than 30 research presentations at both the local and national levels dealing with the topics of pediatric surgical care and the nursing profession as a whole.

The Founders Award is given in recognition of the vision of the organization’s founding group of nurses, who had a strong interest in the care of pediatric surgical patients. Recipients are selected based on their contributions to clinical expertise, research, authorship, mentoring, teaching and leadership within the field of pediatric surgical nursing.