I experienced her as a gifted leader….she listened intently to others and incorporated their ideas into planning she was curious and open to all possibilities she was committed to the task at hand (wasn’t just going through the motions) and that was evident in her way of leading/being. While I didn’t know her well in the conventional sense, I believe we can sense another’s pattern. Marlaine Smith (former dean, Florida Atlantic University): “I served on two committees with Melody: One was the Newman Center Advisory Board and the second was a subcommittee of this Board to plan the April 21-22 Newman Dialogue in Memphis. Here are reflections from others who serve on the planning team: There will be an empty seat at the virtual conference table, but her memory, and the inspiration that she conveyed to everyone around her, will remain with us all. But her presence will live on in the hearts and minds of the many lives she touched. Melody has left this earth far too early her potential as a nursing leader and scholar was just emerging.

Newman talk about her ideas, and how much she was inspired by Dr.

Newman, and her eyes lit up as she shared her experience of listening to Dr. I recently asked Melody about how she knew Dr. She brought her vibrant, dedicated spirit and passion to the planning of the conference, and to furthering the vision for nursing that Margaret Newman established as a guiding light for the development of nursing knowledge. Newman Center for Nursing Theory at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing.

Melody was an Assistant Professor and Director of the newly established Dr. It is with great sadness that we share the untimely death on February 6th of our friend and colleague, Melody Norris Waller, PhD, RN, who was serving on the planning team for the 2022 Virtual Nursing Theory Week that starts on March 17th.

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