The dean of the School of Nursing, Mercedes Pérez Díez del Corralhas appointed Ana Choperena Vice-Dean of Students. He thus replaces in the position to Inmaculada Serranowho until now had been performing this task.

Ana Choperena Armendáriz has a degree in Nursing (2001) and a degree in Humanities (2008) with award Extraordinary End of degree program. She obtained the doctorate in History from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from the University of Navarra (2014), with a doctoral thesis entitled. Memoirs of nurses in the American Civil War: from the domestic to the professional dimension.. Currently, she is a professor at School of Nursing at the University of Navarra and teaches the subjects of "Narratives, care and human existence", "History of Nursing" and "Methodological Foundations of Nursing". Until now, she was the administrative assistant of the department of Nursing of the Adult Person and the coordinator of the 1st Nursing course.

Regarding his work at research, Choperena leads the project "Narratives and reflective internship : a program for the development of professional competences in nursing (NarratUN)"The objective of this publicly funded project is to consolidate the use of clinical narrative in the field of Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CUN). Likewise, she collaborates with the project GENOVIFEM of the group of research in Recent History, which seeks to give visibility to the female contribution in different fields, such as Nursing. It brings together publications that deal with the specificities of women's writing, narratives of nurses or the professionalization of Nursing, from the approach of the History of Concepts.

He has completed postdoctoral fellowships in the William F. Connell School of Nursing of Boston College and in the Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston, in the United States. At the same center she has worked with the research team of the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research. She has also participated in international conferences on narratives and health, and on the history of nursing.

In addition, she has experience in the internship care, having worked as a nurse for 7 years (2002-2009) in the Hemodialysis service of the CUN. She has held different positions at management in the School de Enfermería. 

Acknowledgment

Inmaculada Serrano has a degree in Nursing from the University of Navarra, and is completing the specialization program Obstetric-Gynecological Nursing (Midwife) at the University of Navarra. Clinica Universidad de Navarra. In 2001 he graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of the Basque Country and in March 2010 he defended his doctoral thesis at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra.

She has participated in different works of research and scientific publications, as well as in different committees for the organization of scientific meetings. From 1981 to 1984 she assumed the academic administrative office of the School of Nursing. From 2003 to 2006 she was deputy director of the department of Community and Maternal and Child Nursing. She is currently an associate professor of this department and coordinates the program of the Midwifery specialization program at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

The Dean of Nursing wanted to express her gratitude to Inmaculada Serrano for all her years of work in the Vice-Deanship.