Rockdale Medical Center recently named Deborah Almauhy as its chief nursing officer (CNO).
Almauhy, RN, CRRN, Ph.D., JD, brings extensive academic, clinical and leadership experience to the hospital in Conyers. She has had a collateral career in nursing in the civilian sector, while serving 25 years as a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
Prior to working in nursing administration, most of Almauhy’s career was as a director in urban emergency, trauma and burn centers, including Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She has served as vice president of clinical operations and CNO at Shepherd Center in Atlanta and was CNO at Oconee Regional Medical Center in Milledgeville.
GOAL scorer: Nursing student Briauna Howard is the winner of Gwinnett Technical College's 2012 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership.
The Technical College System of Georgia sponsors the GOAL program, which recognizes outstanding technical college students and honors excellence in academics and leadership. Winners are selected at each of the state’s 26 technical colleges.
Howard, who began her education pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology, enrolled in Gwinnett Tech’s registered nursing program after helping her husband battle brain cancer.
A top student, Howard was selected to serve as a student ambassador and is helping to lead GTC’s involvement in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life fundraiser. Howard also was one of four charter recipients of the Clarke Family Nursing Scholarship.
The mother of two preschool-aged children, she works as the medical secretary for the neonatal intensive care unit at Gwinnett Medical Center.
Great company for women execs: WellStar Health System has been named to the Top 50 Companies and 10 Nonprofits for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). The list recognizes organizations whose policies and practices encourage women's advancement and whose numbers at the highest levels of leadership demonstrate that commitment.
WellStar has created a culture which advances and supports women at every level, providing support to nurture success. Women at WellStar comprise 82 percent of the 12,000-plus work force. Women make up 75 percent of the top 20 percent of earners, and they hold 47 percent of profit-and-loss positions. These women lead business units and have direct responsibility for profit and loss.
New dean: Lucy Megginson, assistant professor of nursing at the University of West Georgia, has been named dean of Health Sciences at Georgia Highlands College in Rome.
While at West Georgia, she helped develop a new nursing curriculum and a program for the institution’s new doctor of education degree in nursing. Megginson previously was an assistant professor of nursing at GHC from 2005 to 2010. Last year, she was also an adjunct professor in Shorter University’s study-abroad program.
Megginson will be instrumental in guiding and expanding GHC’s new nursing baccalaureate degree.
Megginson will begin her duties at Georgia Highlands this summer. She will take the reins from Rebecca Maddox, who has served as interim director of nursing for the last two years.
Nationally ranked program: Georgia Southern University's master's of science in nursing-family nurse practitioner program has been ranked in the top 20 nationally by U.S. News & World Report. The program also secured top honors among all colleges and universities in Georgia.
Georgia Southern’s program is included in the top 20, along with Yale, Duke, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and others.
Georgia Southern’s program is designed to prepare registered nurses with an undergraduate degree in nursing for a career as a family nurse practitioner.
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