/news-archive/tag/heba-sadaka/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:53:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/11/15/sadaka-nurses-award/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:53:51 +0000 /news/?p=83850 ... Sadaka Honored with Arkansas鈥檚 Great 100 Nurses Award]]> 鈥淚 feel very grateful. It鈥檚 an honor, and I appreciate that someone took the time to nominate me,鈥� Sadaka said. 鈥淚 also feel like I am surrounded by good people in the nursing field, and I believe there are so many other great nurses out there.鈥� The Great 100 Nurses Foundation was founded more than 30 years ago by PK Scheerle, a registered nurse in New Orleans. Since its founding, the Great 100 Celebrations have honored thousands of nurses across Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma. Nurses are selected for the Great 100 Nurses Award based on their concern for humanity, their contributions to the profession of nursing, and their mentoring of others. Sadaka and her fellow award winners were honored during a Sept. 27 reception at Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock. “I am so proud of Heba for being selected for Arkansas’s Great 100 Nurses Award,鈥� said聽Dr. Sloan Davidson, director of the School of Nursing. 鈥淪he is a diligent聽faculty member, student advocate, and registered nurse. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock School聽Nursing is fortunate to have her.” A nurse of nearly three decades, Sadaka began her career by earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 1993 from Alexandria University in Egypt before moving to North America. After this move, she completed a master鈥檚 degree in nursing education/acute adult gerontology from the University of Iowa in 2010. As a certified nurse educator, Sadaka has been teaching nursing courses for over 15 years. She taught at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston before joining 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2017 where she teaches in the RN-BSN Program. 鈥淣ursing education is about inspiring nurses,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 know these students come to nursing because most of them love working with people and taking care of people. Nursing is not just a job. I want my students to love being nurses.鈥� Sadaka and her husband, Sammy, associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, live in Little Rock and have two children, Monica and Kyrilos. Sadaka is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in nursing from 糖心Vlog传媒MS and plans to graduate in 2023. In her dissertation, she is researching the correlation of environmental factors on children鈥檚 physical activities.]]> /news-archive/2021/04/08/sadaka-quality-matters-certification/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:40:46 +0000 /news/?p=78719 ... Sadaka receives Quality Matters certification for nursing course]]> Heba Sadaka, assistant professor of nursing at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, has achieved the Quality Matters (QM) course certification for Health Assessment I, NURS 3220. This two-credit course is the first of two sequenced courses focusing on client assessment as well as data collection and documentation. Throughout the class, Sadaka teaches the knowledge and skills needed to perform comprehensive health history, physical, and psychosocial assessments through the use of a variety of tools and techniques.聽 鈥淗ealth assessment is the backbone of nursing practice,鈥� Sadaka said. 鈥淎 good assessment is essential to ensure safety and to plan patient and family needs.鈥澛� This certification indicates a course meets nationally and internationally recognized standards at an 85 percent level, representing a commitment to creating and maintaining quality and excellence. This course has achieved a 100 percent on nationally and internationally recognized standards due to the work of Sadaka and the Scholarly Technology and Resources (STaR) team. It is now listed in the QM of certified courses, receiving a QM seal to display within the course. 鈥淎fter developing the course, the STaR team did an internal course review and made some recommendations,鈥� Sadaka said. 鈥淏rad Sims, Sharonda Lipscomb, Merlene Love, and Geoff Nash have all been helpful and willing to go the extra mile to ensure that course met all the QM standards and to benefit our students.鈥� Sadaka began her career by earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 1993 from Alexandria University in Egypt before moving to North America. After this move, she completed a master鈥檚 degree in nursing education-acute adult-gerontology from the University of Iowa in 2010.聽 As a certified nurse educator, Sadaka has been teaching nursing courses for over 15 years. She joined the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock community in 2017 and has taught in a variety of settings including in-person, inter-professional, simulation, clinical, and online courses.聽 鈥淢y role as a facilitator is to create learning activities that help the learners achieve the course outcomes,鈥� Sadaka said. 鈥淭he course must be easy to navigate with clear expectations. This is crucial to aid students in achieving their learning goals without having to worry about where to find things within the course. Best practices in online education allow students to be part of the online learning community and feel engaged, helping students succeed and reducing anxiety.鈥�]]>