Tener Goodwin Veenema
{{Short description|American nurse}}
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Tener Goodwin Veenema is an American nurse and a public health scientist. She is a Senior Scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. In 2021, Goodwin Veenema was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Early life and education
Veenema was born to parents Susan Tener Goodwin and Jack C. Goodwin.{{cite news |title=Marriage of Goodwin / Veenema |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97644481/marriage-of-goodwin-veenema/ |access-date=March 14, 2022 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=November 9, 1980|via=newspapers.com}} Growing up, she attended Suffield Academy in Suffield, Connecticut.{{cite news |title=Students prepare history exhibits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97644943/students-prepare-history-exhibits/ |access-date=March 14, 2022 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=March 11, 1976|via=newspapers.com}} Upon graduating, she enrolled at Mount Holyoke College and was chosen as the "Miss Greater Enfield of 1978" at the Miss Enfield Scholarship Pageant.{{cite news |title=Suffield Woman Wins Pageant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97645067/suffield-woman-wins-pageant/ |access-date=March 14, 2022 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=April 17, 1978|via=newspapers.com}} Following her undergraduate education, Goodwin Veenema received master’s degrees in nursing administration, pediatrics, and public health before earning her PhD in health services research and policy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.{{cite web |title=Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN |url=https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/veenema/ |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022}}
Career
In 2013 Veenema joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. In 2013, she was named one of 32 recipients of the 2013 Florence Nightingale Medal as someone who had displayed "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian victims of a conflict or disaster."{{cite web |title=School of Nursing professor among 32 recipients of Florence Nightingale Medal |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2013/08/20/veenema-nightingale-medal-nursing/ |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=August 20, 2013}} Following this, she was promoted to associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing{{cite web |title=Nursing News—October 2013 |url=https://nursing.jhu.edu/news-events/news/archives/news/Nursing_NewsOctober_2013 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=October 3, 2013}} and joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for Refugee and Disaster Response.{{cite web |title=Nursing News—February 2014 |url=https://nursing.jhu.edu/news-events/news/archives/news/nursing_news_february_2014 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=February 2014}} As a result of her expertise, Veenema was chosen to help advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Western African Ebola virus epidemic. As an advisor to the CDC, she helped translate guidance into real-world training, cover screening methods, lab test standards, and the disposal of waste.{{cite web |title=Is America Ready for Another Ebola Outbreak? |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/america-ready-another-ebola-outbreak-n230221 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=October 21, 2014}}
As a result of her expertise, Veenema was appointed to the 2015 Institute of Medicine (now referred to as the National Academy of Medicine) Standing Committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Strategic National Stockpile.{{cite web |title=FACULTY APPOINTED FOR EXPERTISE IN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS |url=https://nursing.jhu.edu/news-events/news/news/faculty-appointed-for-expertise-in-emergency-preparedness |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=July 31, 2015}} Following this, she accepted a Fulbright Scholarship while also serving as editor of the textbook Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards.{{cite web |title=TENER VEENEMA |url=https://www.fulbright.ie/custom_alumni/tener-veenema/ |publisher=Fulbright Program |access-date=March 14, 2022}} She was later selected to serve as the 2017–18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Medicine.{{cite web |title=Tener Veenema to serve as National Academy of Medicine Nurse Scholar-in-Residence |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2017/07/26/tener-veenema-to-serve-as-national-academy-of-medicine-nurse-scholar-in-residence/ |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=July 26, 2017}}
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Veenema served as Co-chair of Johns Hopkins' COVID-19 Health Care Worker Protection Rapid Research Group. In this role, she was principal investigator of a study exploring the mental health impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and hospital staff, and she led a workshop on effective infection containment and how to prepare and educate nursing and health care students who are newly entering the workforce.{{cite web |title=COVID-19 & Nurse Scientists on the Front Line: Tener Goodwin Veenema |url=https://www.fninr.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&category=covid-19&id=59:covid-19-nurse-scientists-on-the-front-line-tener-goodwin-veenema |publisher=Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research |access-date=March 14, 2022}} She was also appointed chair of the National Academy of Medicine Standing Committee for the CDC Center for Preparedness and Response.{{cite web |title=Bloomberg School faculty in the news |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2022/02/15/cheers-public-health/ |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=February 15, 2022}} In 2021, Goodwin Veenema was named a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for being an "international expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency management."{{cite web |title=10 Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine |url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/10-johns-hopkins-faculty-members-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=March 14, 2022 |date=October 18, 2021}}
Personal life
Selected publications
The following is a list of selected publications:{{cite web |title=AU:Tener Goodwin Veenema |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=AU%3ATener+Goodwin+Veenema |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=March 14, 2022}}
- Disaster Nursing (2007)
- Disaster nursing and emergency preparedness for chemical, biological, and radiological terrorism, and other hazards (2019)
References
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External links
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