Five UNMC faculty members will be receiving 30-year service awards during the Annual Faculty meeting Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater. This week, UNMC Today is highlighting the College of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Medicine and Eppley Institute for Cancer Research award recipients. Today’s focus is on Jean Krajicek Bartek, Ph.D., and Judith Heermann, Ph.D., both from the College of Nursing.
College of Nursing
Jean Krajicek Bartek, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the College of Nursing’s adult health and illness department and the department of pharmacology in the College of Medicine. Currently, she is researching the predictors of alcohol and drug outpatient treatment completion. Her previous studies have focused on medication use by the homeless and family problems in alcoholism.
Dr. Bartek teaches and coordinates a graduate and undergraduate pharmacology course and a graduate ambulatory nursing course. The pharmacology courses are broadcast simultaneously to four sites via satellite. Dr. Bartek also is a nurse practitioner at the College of Nursing’s Family Health Care Center in South Omaha. In June she will study Spanish intensively in Guatemala with other UNMC faculty, students and staff members.
Judith Heermann, Ph.D., R.N., is currently an associate professor in the College of Nursing and has taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs. She has been an instructor and clinical nurse researcher at University Hospital and is now a clinical nurse researcher at NHS.
Outside the traditional classroom, Dr. Heermann has researched a wide variety of patient care topics, including the effects of infant characteristics on parenting, the impact of family focused developmental care on the parenting of pre-term infants, and the care partner education program for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in cooperative care.