JANET HOLLOWAY, MA, RNC, associate professor, continues
to impact nursing practice through effective use of critical thinking strategies
while teaching undergraduate baccalaureate students. She has helped to prepare
more than 500 professional nurses through her commitment to teaching the beginning
nursing students, the students for whom the best instructors are needed.
Jan's creative approaches to clinical instruction continually
change. She utilizes new theoretical strategies and rapidly advancing technology
in her educational curriculum. Jan is known as second author on a landmark study
regarding Confusion in the Hospitalized Elderly. She has contributed to the
development of a rating scale to assess computer programs, and Jan also uses
interactive video discs for patient-care focused conferences, thus enabling
her to remain in the forefront of her colleagues and curricular concerns. She
has recently co-developed a new course elective on caring which will enable
her to teach formally what so many students and RNs have experienced, her gentle
yet focused consultations at the bedside.
Jan has consistently, and for many years, actively participated
in local, state, and national activities of the Inland Empire Nurses Association,
Washington State Nurses Association and American Nurses Association. She was
instrumental in networking Eastern Washington nurses with former House Speaker
Tom Foley; and thanks to Jan, many a nurse who was invited to join in on WSNA
legislative committees or special projects continue to lobby for nursing.
Jan has been recognized by the alumnae of the Intercollegiate
Center for Nursing Education (ICNE) as a nurse educator and leader whom they
remember best as being a significant mentor in their educational formation and
professional growth. The impact of her contributions will long be experienced
by patients receiving care from Jan's lifetime of students
