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To ATD's Class of 2019!
Congratulations on your graduation! We hope this finds you happy, healthy and excited to embark on your new career as a registered nurse or advanced practice nurse. We also hope that when you look back on your tenure at UCLA you think fondly of your affiliation with Alpha Tau Delta (ATD) as a Gamma chapter member.
We would like to invite you to join Gamma Pi. The purpose of ATD is to help support your educational, career and social growth within the nursing profession. Many of our alumni members are seasoned nurses with advanced degrees who are well known and respected in the nursing profession. The opportunity for networking, job seeking and camaraderie is one of the many advantages of being a member of Gamma Pi.
We also help raise money for scholarships, grants and loans that benefit both the Gamma and Gamma Pi chapter members. Many of our alumni members have received scholarship assistance for pursuit of their Masters and Ph.D. degrees.
The active membership fee is $50.00 per year; however, our chapter is happy to pay half of your first year’s dues. Please accept our invitation and send $25.00 to our Chapter Treasurer, Karen Hellwig with the attached form. If you are interested in joining us and have questions, please contact me at (310) 210-7784 or [email protected]
We look forward to welcoming you back to ATD!
Fraternally,
Julie Poepoe, MSN, FNP-BC
ATD Gamma Pi President
Congratulations on your graduation! We hope this finds you happy, healthy and excited to embark on your new career as a registered nurse or advanced practice nurse. We also hope that when you look back on your tenure at UCLA you think fondly of your affiliation with Alpha Tau Delta (ATD) as a Gamma chapter member.
We would like to invite you to join Gamma Pi. The purpose of ATD is to help support your educational, career and social growth within the nursing profession. Many of our alumni members are seasoned nurses with advanced degrees who are well known and respected in the nursing profession. The opportunity for networking, job seeking and camaraderie is one of the many advantages of being a member of Gamma Pi.
We also help raise money for scholarships, grants and loans that benefit both the Gamma and Gamma Pi chapter members. Many of our alumni members have received scholarship assistance for pursuit of their Masters and Ph.D. degrees.
The active membership fee is $50.00 per year; however, our chapter is happy to pay half of your first year’s dues. Please accept our invitation and send $25.00 to our Chapter Treasurer, Karen Hellwig with the attached form. If you are interested in joining us and have questions, please contact me at (310) 210-7784 or [email protected]
We look forward to welcoming you back to ATD!
Fraternally,
Julie Poepoe, MSN, FNP-BC
ATD Gamma Pi President
Gamma Pi Alumni Spotlight
Julie Poepoe - Gamma Pi President
Julie Poepoe is an Assistant Professor and Lead Clinical Faculty in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at West Coast University. She holds an MSN in Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of California Los Angeles and a BSN from San Diego State University. She has taught in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. She is board certified as a Family NP and practices clinically in a college health clinic in Torrance, CA. She is the president of the Alpha Tau Delta, National Fraternity for Professional Nurses and has been an active member of the California Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her nursing background includes emergency medicine, urgent care, college health and primary care. She joined West Coast University in 2013. My journey- I was an ER nurse for many years and decided I wanted to continue the autonomy I already had in the ER and manage my own patients. FNP was a natural fit and transition for me. I love being a nurse! I was President of the ATD Gamma Chapter during my MSN program at UCLA from 2002-2003. I was awarded several scholarships and decided upon graduation to join the alumni chapter and give back. The friends and connections I have made in ATD have been lifelong! I am married with two school age children. I'm busy... but life is good! |
Lynn Zeman - Gamma Pi Vice President, National Co-President
My nursing career began when I was 16 , working as a Nurses Aide at Santa Monica Hospital, now the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital. At 17, I did the same at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. After graduating from high school, I went directly to St. Vincent 's College of Nursing in Los Angeles. At that time it was a 3 yr. school, focusing heavily on clinical practice. I had a wonderful foundation there, but felt I was missing a lot of the theoretical basis for nursing decisions, and I missed the liberal arts education. So after I graduated , took the State Board Exams (now the NECLEX] I transferred to UCLA School of Nursing. I became a member of Gamma Chapter there in 1963, and became a member of Gamma Pi when I graduated in 1964. I have been an active member of Gamma Pi since 1964, and have held all of the offices at least once! Following graduation, I went to work as a Public Health Nurse at the Inglewood Health Dept., loving every minute of it. I worked there until we had our son, then stopped to be a full-time mom. After our daughter was born 4 yr. later, I was thinking about returning to the health dept. but they were not hiring part time nurses, and I was not ready to do that yet. While our kids were little, I volunteered with the Red Cross, teaching Preparation for Parenthood classes at night, while my husband took care of the kids. I also substituted for School Nurses in the area. I began to love School Nursing and the schedule would match my kids school schedule, so I took a couple of audiometry classes at Calif. State College at Northridge, allowing me to obtain my certification as an audiometrist, thus be able to do hearing tests in the schools. As my children grew to be more self sufficient, I kept adding hours and eventually began working as a full-time School Nurse, first in Redondo Beach, and then in the Lawndale School district. I have absolutely loved school nursing and even after retirement in 1999, I continued to do hearing and vision tests in the schools. Another Nurse and I then started our own business as a testing team and contracted with districts too small to hire their own school nurses. I have loved working with you UCLA Nursing Students, as our chapter tries to offer scholarships each year to the UCLA student nurses. My message to the Gamma members is to obtain as much education as possible, and to join the Gamma Pi chapter after graduation, so that you too can continue to help the nursing students. |
Karen Hellwig - Gamma Pi Treasurer
MN, RN-BC, PHN: Masters specialty in Community Mental Health; UCLA BS 1966, MN 1972 I have worked as a Nursing Instructor at El Camino College for 45 years & home health nurse for 31. Love both aspects of nursing. Have taught Peds/OB, Med-surg, & now Mental Health for 35 years. Am the psychiatric home care case manager for Physicians Choice Home Health currently though I see med-surg patients as well. I have been retired from El Camino College for 7 years but teach part time mental health clinical. Have also taught through Western Governors’ University for 2 years. I volunteer with the Flying Samaritans & fly to Baja, Mexico 1-3 times a year to volunteer at a medical/dental clinic. I am also the informal parish nurse at my church & am involved in checking blood pressures at our church’s food ministry monthly. I have been Treasurer for Gamma Pi Chapter of Alpha Tau Delta for about 40+ years & have also been President & Corresponding Secretary. I still love nursing! My message to Gamma members—nursing school is just the beginning of your education. I have learned more from my patients that I ever learned from school or books, so be open to what your patients can teach you. Don’t feel like you have to have all the answers when you graduate; be able to use your resources to get the answers, & tell your patients, “I don’t know the answer to that question, but I’ll find out.” Stay updated with all the latest medical/nursing information/drugs. I wish you much luck as your pursue your goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. I would be happy to answer any questions or assist any Gamma students. |
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