“Igniting the Power of Civility in Nursing: Fostering Healthy Workplaces” will be the theme for the university’s 2014 Loewenberg School of Nursing Distinguished Lecture. Dr. Cynthia Clark, a pioneer of civility in the medical field, will make a visit to campus.
Decades of the nurse’s groundbreaking work and other medical observations will be the topic of discussion in room 136 in the Fogelman Executive Conference Center on Sept. 26 at at 9 a.m.
Clark has earned her medical stripes throughout her 30 plus years in nursing. A professor of Boise State’s Nursing School the seasoned nurse has earned awards from her lengthy research and ultimately became the founder of Civility Matters. Her book Creating and Sustaining in Nursing Education received the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Award for Professional Issues in Nursing.
“I’m just so fascinated by what drives her and her intense research,” Lin Zhan, the Dean of the Loewenberg School of Nursing, said.
Clark has devoted her life to stressing the importance of maintaining a productive work area through the theory of courtesy from student to faculty to the workplace.
According to doctor’s personal website, her meaning of civility is “an authentic respect for others requiring time, presence, a willingness to engage in genuine discourse, and an intention to seek common ground.”
Unsafe medical workplace activity such as bullying and neglect drives the veteran doctor to promote her findings in her research through lecturing. “I met with her about a year ago at an academy,” Zhan said. “I insisted that she come and speak.”
The Loewenberg School of Nursing provides a high learning experience for medical students.
Just like Clark, the nursing school prepares students through intense research and gives opportunities to explore new theories and ideas by collaborative practice and service. The U of M’s nursing program is also accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate Nursing Education.
