TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - About the Authors A1 - Schoon, Patricia M. A1 - Porta, Carolyn M. A1 - Schaffer, Marjorie A. PY - 2019 T2 - Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual: The Henry Street Model for Nurses, 3e AB - Patricia M. Schoon, DNP, MPH, RN, PHN, is Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a founding member of the Henry Street Consortium and has taught nursing and public health for more than 35 years. She was the first geriatric nurse practitioner (GNP) in the United States in 1972. Schoon received the Minnesota Nurses Association Nurse Educator Award in 2005 for her work on Nurses Day on the Hill and an online political advocacy toolkit. She received the Association of Community Nurse Educators 2016 Outstanding Contributions to Community/Public Health Nursing Education Award and March of Dimes 2017 Minnesota Nurse of the Year Education and Research Award. Schoon was President of Chi at-Large Chapter and faculty advisor for Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma). She has developed innovative programs in the community, including a foot-care clinic for the homeless and a faith-based program for older adults. She has coauthored articles on the Henry Street Consortium, development of a foot-care clinic in a homeless shelter, and a 2017 article on partnership engagement, an outcome of a Robert Wood Johnson grant to develop best practices in academic-practice collaboration. SN - PB - Sigma Theta Tau International CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/13 UR - apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189287539 ER -