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NBNA Honors Dr. Joyce Newman Giger with Trailblazer Award

Dr. Joyce Newman Giger will be honored with the NBNA Trailblazer Award at the 31st Annual Institute and Conference of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc., July 30 - August 3, 2003, at the New Orleans Marriott. The awardees will receive the honor at the President's Gala on Saturday, August 2, 2003. The theme of the Conference is "Emerging Health Threats: Nursing Solutions in a New Era".

Joyce Newman Giger, EdD, RN, CS, FAAN is Professor, Graduate Studies, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has authored approximately 100 articles, 14 book chapters, and 5 books on strategies to enhance the provision of culturally appropriate care and has developed a model for assessing cultural phenomena relevant to the delivery of culturally appropriate care. Her textbook titled, "Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention", Mosby Year Book, Inc. (1990;1995;1999;2003), has been adopted widely by schools of nursing and has been translated in French. In February 2002, it was selected for the 12th year as a "Brandon-Hill Best New Book".

Dr. Giger's co-authored model on transcultural health care provides a framework that focuses on key cultural phenomena that impact on health care and advocates systematic exploration of the individual's cultural context. Her model for transcultural assessment which has six major phenomena has been cited, excerpted, modified and utilized in 357 nursing textbooks, medical texts and other allied health related areas in 2001 alone. In recognition of this exemplary body of work, Dr. Giger received the "Outstanding Research in Minority Health Care 2000 Award" from the Southern Nursing Research Society.

In addition, Dr. Giger was the Principal Investigator for the Uniformed Health Services, University of Health Sciences Department of Defense, Tri-Service Nursing Military $750,000 one year grant to study "Culturally Appropriate Risk Reduction Strategies for Chronic Indicators and High Risk Factors for Pre-menopausal African-American Women (25-40) with Coronary Heart Disease or Associated Risk Factors".

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Giger was selected a member of the inaugural class for the NIH/NINR Summer Genetics Institute in 2000 and was one of five ethnic minority recipients of the coveted Minority Scholarship supported by the Human Genome Project. In 2003, Dr. Giger was selected as the King/Chavez/Parks Scholar for the School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In February 2003, Secretary of Health and Human Services, The Honorable Tommy Thompson, appointed Dr. Giger to a four- year term on the Advisory Council for the National Institutes for Health/National Institute for Nursing Research. Dr. Giger is the editor of the Journal of the National Black Nurses Association.

The National Black Nurses Association, founded in 1971, is a professional organization, representing 150,000 African American registered nurses, licensed vocational/practical nurses and nursing students. The mission of NBNA is to "investigate, define and determine the health care requirements of African Americans and other diverse communities to foster optimal health and health care services commensurate with that of the larger society."

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