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Schumann Receives Good Samaritan Nursing Award
The Good Samaritan Foundation recognizes efforts to make nursing education more accessible
Mel Glasscock presents an award to Renae
Schumann, Ph.D., on behalf of the Good Samaritan
Foundation. Photo by Bryan Anderson
The Good Samaritan Foundation has honored Renae Schumann, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston, with its 2006 Excellence in Nursing Award for Academia.
Schumann was recognized for her efforts to make nursing education more accessible to students, particularly through coordinating the Workforce Increases in Nurses and Nursing Faculty: Excellence in Resource Collaboration (WINNER) program. The program, funded with a $2 million grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, examines and tests new methods of educating more nursing students with current resources.
“Dr. Schumann exemplifies creativity and innovation,” said Patricia L. Starck, D.S.N., dean of the UT School of Nursing. “Best of all, with a classroom of students, she is a fantastic teacher and makes her passion for nursing contagious.”
Schumann is the incoming president
of the Zeta Pi Chapter of Sigma
Theta Tau International Nursing
Honor Society, a member of the
board of directors of the Healthcare
and Nursing Education Foundation,
and a member of Houston’s Health
Services Steering Committee. She was recognized as
the John P. McGovern Outstanding Teacher in 2002 and was named Outstanding
Nurse, District 9, Texas Nurses
Association, in 1999. She joined
the nursing school’s faculty in
2000.
Her award was presented at a September luncheon at the downtown Four Seasons Hotel. The Good Samaritan Foundation promotes nursing as a career by providing student scholarship funds for clinical nursing courses. The foundation’s goal is to alleviate the current severe shortage of nurses throughout the state of Texas.
By David Mendel, Institutional Advancement