History of the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Nursing Theta Omicron Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society

• Established September 17, 1983. Tina Delapp from the UAA School of Nursing was a driving force, forming the Steering Committee and persevering to establish the chapter.
• Members of the Steering Committee
• Tina DeLapp (Chair)
• Patricea Brown
• Bernice Carmon
• GeorgAnn Beckwitt
• Carol Craig
• Barbara Loveys
• Jan Adasiak
• Almeda Amoureaux
• Gail McGuill
• Elizabeth Eggert
• Kat Sarasin
• Molly Owen-Palmer
• 91 inductees from throughout the state

School of Nursing Honor Society

• Visit from Sigma Theta Tau International in March 1985
• Dr. Lucie Kelly recommended chartering a Sigma Theta Tau Chapter
• November 1985 - Notification of acceptance of petition charter
  
  Theta Omicron Chapter
• Chartered on April 12, 1986
• 1995 - Establishment of the Tina DeLapp Excellence Award
• 1999 - Establishment of Theta Omicron Research Award Committee
  
  Research Support
• Historical research on Nurse Pioneers in Alaska - Effie Graham, author, 1999
• Production of film by the Alaska Student Nurses Association on Native Recruitment into nursing
• "Decision to Strike" - Bernice Carmon, Dianne Toebe & Jackie Pflaum, 1999
• "An exploration of the use of social support by people who are grieving the death of a pet" -- Holly Dimeglio, 2005
• "Understandiing heart disease in women: A focused ethnographic approach" - Jill Rife 2006 (in process)
• "Alaskan Village Adults Understanding of Thiamine Responsive Megaloblastic anemia" - Donna Fenske 2006 (in process)
• Theresa Philbrick
• Carolyn Wohlers

Nursing Conferences

• Annual Research Conferences with nationally-known keynote speakers held beginning in the late 1980s and continuing to the present. More recent examples are listed below.
• September 1999 - Viral hepatitis: An Alaskan Perspective
• May 1997 - Alternative/Complimentary Modalities in Nursing Practice
• May 1999 - Rural Health Nursing - Frontier for the 21st Century
• February 2000 - Cardiology 2000 - Advances in Clinical Care
• May 2001 - Evidence Based Research into Practice Conferences (co-sponsored by Alaska Tribal Health Consortium)
• May 2002 - Evidence Based Research into Practice Conference (co-sponsored by Alaska Tribal Health Consortium)
• February 2005 - Women's Health in the Middle Decades
• February 2006 - Hot Topics in Clinical Practice
• June 2007 - Mountains of Evidence - Learning Under the Midnight Sun with Marita Titler (co-sponsored with Alaska Native Medical Center)
• August 2007 - Evidence-Based Practice with Bernadette Melnyk & Ellen Fineout-Overhold (co-sponsored with Providence Alaska Medical Center)

Charitable Events

• May 2005 - Alzheimer's Memory Walk (co-sponsored by Omicron Delta)
• June 2006 - Alaska Run For Women (supporting breast cancer research)
• June 2007 - Alaska Run For Women (supporting breast cancer research)