April 11, 2006

Nurses to receive credit for attending lecture

TROY – Alabama Board of Nursing-certified nurses will have the opportunity to earn contact hours by attending the Helen Keller Lecture at Troy University Thursday.

The lecture begins at 10 a.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theater on the Troy Campus.

Board-certified nurses and nurse practitioners will qualify for 1.5 contact hours through the Iota Theta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international nursing honor society. Nurses attending the lecture should bring their license cards to receive the credit for the contact hours, according to Shellye Vardaman, who is coordinating the credits on the Troy Campus.

The Helen Keller lecture is designed to promote awareness of people who excel in their chosen fields despite physical limitations. The lecture is sponsored by Troy University, the Alabama Department of Education, the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services and The Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education. Others who have presented the lecture include Erik Weihenmayer, the first person who is blind to climb Mt. Everest; Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability; and former U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin, a friend of the Keller family.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

###