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PhD graduate earns Georgia’s Nurse Practitioner of the Year award

James F. Lawrence, Jr., PhD, APRN-BC, FAANP, CPS, a Doctor of Philosophy graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing (class of 2006), has been awarded the 2012 State Nurse PractitionerExcellence Award by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The award is given annually to a dedicated nurse practitioner in each state who demonstrates excellence as a leader, advocate, role model, and clinician in their area of practice. Lawrence will receive his award during the Academy’s 27th annual conference scheduled for June in Orlando, Fla.

Lawrence works as a nurse practitioner at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in the medical center’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation clinic. His patients are severely injured military personnel returning fromIraq and Afghanistan as well as those living in chronic pain. He also works as a part-time nurse practitioner with Guardian Hospice and is a part-time faculty member at Georgia State University and Georgetown University.

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Megginson named dean of health sciences

Lucy Megginson, PhD, RN, assistant professor of nursing at the University of West Georgia, has been named dean of Health Sciences at Georgia Highlands College (GHC). Megginson previously served as assistant professor of nursing at GHC from 2005 to 2010. Last year she was also an adjunct professor at Shorter University in its Study-Abroad program.

Megginson holds both a Doctor of Philosophy (class of 2010) and Bachelor ofScience in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina College ofNursing. She earned a Master of Science in nursing education from the University of West Georgia. She returns to Highlands with classroom and clinical experience at both the graduate and undergraduate level. 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.

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