Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Corina Barrow, chief nurse of operations for Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, stands with Michelle A. Whitaker, Augusta University student, and Lucy N. Marion, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP, dean, college of nursing at Augusta University Saturday March 4. Barrow provided a keynote address on nursing leadership and its impact on her career at the Sigma Theta Tau International induction ceremony on at the Somerville Campus of Augusta University. Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing is the second-largest nursing organization in the world with approximately 135,000 active members with 500 chapters in more than 90 countries. Barrow, MS, MSN, RN, NE-BC, is a retired Army Veteran who served from 1992 to 2016, and retired as a colonel. She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau as a nursing scholar in April 2003 at the University of Pittsburgh upon the completion of a dual master’s degree in nursing administration and nursing informatics. Whitaker, a Sigma Theta Tau inductee, is conducting her clinical rotations at the VA Augusta Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Aiken, S.C. (Courtesy Photo)