Early Spring Issue March 2015 Volume 8, Issue 3

School of Nursing Newsletter

Upcoming Dates

March 24: Pre-licensure Coun-cil. 3 - 5 p.m. McNeill 1038.

April 2-3: Easter Break.

April 6-10: 2nd Annual CHHS Week. McNeill Hall.

April 10: CHHS Research Day Burney Center, 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

April 13: Faculty Council. Multipurpose Room, 4-5 p.m.

April 20: “Meet and Greet” for Dec. ’17 Pre-licensure Cohort, noon - 1:30 p.m. McNeill Hall 1051.

April 23: NHRMC Clinical Af-filiate Meeting, NHRMC, 12- 1:30 p.m.

April 27: Prelicensure Council Meeting, Room 1028. 3 - 5 p.m.

April 29: Last day of classes

May 1 - 7: Final exams.

May 6: Nurses’ Day Celebra-tion, Burney Center Ballroom, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

May 4-6: Hurst NCLEX Re-view. Multipurpose Room, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

May 9: SON Awards Ceremony, Kenan Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.

May 9: University Commence-ment for CHHS and Watson School of Education, Trask

Greetings from the Interim Director

Editor: Sandra O’Donnell (odonnells@uncw.edu) Production: Debra Simpson (simpsond@uncw.edu)

Please submit items of interest, calendar events, notable achievements, commu-nity events and questions you may have for our faculty and staff to our editorial/production staff: Sandy O’Donnell or Debra Simpson.

With the start of the Spring ’15 semester, many changes have taken place in the SON. In January, I accepted the invitation to take on the role of interim school director. In this new administrative role I am excited to move our high-quality programs forward this semester. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the faculty, staff, and students that have come together to help me in this new academic role. We received notification from the Collegiate Commis-sion on Nursing Education confirming that all accreditation standards have been met for the prelicensure, RN-BS, and the MSN Family Nurse Practitioner programs – validating the consistent high quality of our nursing programs. This is a busy time for us in the SON with many faculty presenting

their scholarship throughout the U.S. and internationally, increasing enrollment in our RN-BS and clinical research programs, searching for a graduate program coordinator, deliberat-ing on faculty workload policies, planning a simulation faculty development workshop, in-creasing the number of student participants in University and Departmental Honors, creat-ing learning activities related to inter-professional collaboration, integrating active applied learning activities in classroom and clinical settings, representing the SON at the Board of Trustees meeting, and welcoming Laurie Badzek as our new director in July.

The New SON Director Announced CHHS Dean Charles Hardy announced Jan. 8 the ac-ceptance of Laurie Badzek to become the next Director of the SON. She will begin her role on July 1. Badzek is a ten-ured, full Professor at the West Virginia University School of Nursing where she teaches nursing, ethics, law, and health policy. She has practiced in a variety of nursing and law positions and was appointed to the W. Va. State Guardianship Commission in ’89 and to the W. Va. Cata-strophic Illness Commission in ’99. Badzek received her B.S.N. and her J.D. from West Virginia University Schools of Nursing and Law. More biographical information on Badzek will be forthcoming. We welcome Badzek to UNCW and to her leadership role within the School of Nursing.

Happy Spring 2015!

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Notable Recognition Tammy Arms attended the Donald W. Reynolds Faculty Development to Advance Geriatric Education at Duke Universi-

ty, a mini-fellowship in Leadership and Scholarship in Geriatrics. Arms was the only nurse/nurse practitioner among medi-cal participants.

Diane Pastor will be inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a Nurse Scholar in mid-April in Alexandria, VA. She was nominated for the Academy by Barbara Lutz.

Congratulations to Beth Gazza for being selected as the CHHS Faculty Spotlight for the month of February.

Notable Achievements Kellie English Bemelmans (CLR May ’11) is solo hiking the Arizona trail. She started on March 1 at the Mexican border with plans to hike north 800 miles over the course of 12 weeks. Kellie, an attorney and a Clinical Research Associate at PPD, is hiking to raise mon-ey/awareness for Homes for Our Troops and to fulfill a personal goal. Photo at right is courtesy of Si Cantwell, StarNews Online. Faculty Presentations: April Matthias presented on Sept. 20 “U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps University of Cincinnati Ac-celerated BSN Program: The Quiet Patriotism of Becoming a Nurse, 1943-1946.” This re-search study, funded by a Corbett grant, was a peer-reviewed paper presentation at the American Association for the History of Nursing, 31st Annual American Association for the History of Nursing Conference: Nursing and Health Care History, Hartford, Conn. Diane Pastor made several presentations relating to her trip to Vietnam during the Fall ’14 semester focusing on health care and nursing education and practice within the country. Presentations were made to the Nu Omega chapter of STTI in January, to various groups during Intercultural Week (iWeek) on the UNCW campus in February, and to New Hanover Regional Medical

Center staff this month for Grand Rounds. Barbara Lutz, Anne-Marie Goff, Nancy Ahern and student, Paige Thacker attended the Southern Nursing Research Society Conference in Tampa Feb. 25-28. All were able to present their respective studies. Lutz presented her research entitled: “Strategies for Improving Stroke Caregiver Readiness”; Goff presented her poster “Stressors, Learned Resourcefulness and Academic Performance;” and Ahern, along with her undergraduate research assistant Thacker (pictured at left) presented their poster “Awareness & Knowledge of Child and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: a Parent’s Perspective.”

Barbara Lutz made several presentations over the past several months:

October 2014: the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Research Conference in Toronto: “Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Populations in Stroke.”

October, 2014: the American Academy of Nursing Annual Policy Conference in Washington, DC, where she and her col-leagues presented a poster titled “Facilitating Successful Transitions Home Following A Visit to the Emergency Depart-ment.”

ctober, 2014: the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Annual Education Conference in Anaheim, CA, where she partici-pated in two invited panel presentations: 1) “Family-centered Care: Voices of Family Caregivers;” and 2) “The Essential Role of the Rehabilitation Nurse in Facilitating Care Transitions: What Role Do You Have?”

November 2014: the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Meeting in Chicago, IL where she participated in an invited symposium. Her paper was titled: “Issues and Dilemmas in Stroke Survivor Transitions: Transitional Care for Stroke Family Caregivers.”

February 2015: the American Heart Association, International Stroke Conference (ISC) and State of the Science Stroke Nursing Symposium (SOSNS) in Nashville, TN. At ISC, Lutz presented an invited paper titled “Strategies for Patients and Caregivers Who Are Discharging to Home.” She also participated as an invited panelist to discuss recommendations from a scientific statement on evidence-based interventions for stroke family caregivers that was published in Stroke last summer.

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Faculty Publications. Congratulations to several faculty for their research publications. The citations are as follows:

Pastor, D.K., Cunningham, R.P., & Kuiper, R.A. (2015). Gray Matters: Teaching Geriatric Assessment for FNPs Using Stan- dardized Patients. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 11(2), 120-125.

Gazza, E. A. (2015). Future of the DNP Nurse Executive. In A. Rundio & V. Wilson (Eds.), The Doctor of Nursing Practice and the Nurse Executive Role (pp. 115-126). Philadelphia: Wolters Klower Health.

Stevens, E. E., Gazza, E. A., & Pickler, R. (2014). Parental Experience Learning to Feed their Preterm Infant. Advances in Neo natal Care, 14(5), 354-361. doi: 10.1097/ANC.000000000000010.

Falsafi, N. & Leopard, L. (2015). Pilot study: Use of Mindfulness, Self-compassion, and Yoga Practices with Low-income and/or Uninsured Patients with Depression and/or Anxiety. Journal of Holistic Nursing 20(10), 1-9. doi: 10.1177/0898010115569351.

Matthias, A. (2015). Making the Case for Differentiation of Registered Nurse Practice: Historical Perspectives Meet Contempo-rary Efforts. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 5(4): 108-114.

Creasy, K.R., Lutz, B.J, Young, M.E., & Stacciarini, J.M. (in press). Clinical Implications of Family-centered Care in Stroke Rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Nursing.

Cook, C., Lutz, B.J., Young, M.E., Hall, A., & Stacciarini, J.M. (2015). Perspectives of Linkage to Care among Persons with HIV. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 26(1), 110-126. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.jana.2014.11.011.

Broome, S. & Lutz, B.J. (in press). Becoming the Parent of a Child with Life-threatening Food Allergies. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. [Published online ahead of print November 14, 2014]. .DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2014.10.012.

Bakas, T., Clark, P.C., Kelly-Hayes, M., King, R.M, Lutz, B.J., & Miller, E. on behalf of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (2014). Evidence for Stroke Family Caregiver and Dyad Interventions: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. Stroke. [Published online ahead of print July 17, 2014].

Book Chapters:

Lutz, B.J. & Larsen, P.D. (2014). Models in chronic care. In P. D. Larsen (Ed.), Chronic illness: Impact and intervention (9th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Pierce, L.L. & Lutz, B.J. (2014). Family caregiving. In P. D. Larsen (Ed.), Chronic illness: Impact and intervention (9th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Student Publications:

Two RN-BSN students Alan Welfare and Jennifer Joyner had letters to the editor published late last fall. The citations are listed below:

Welfare, A. (2014). Letters to the Editor. American Nurse Today 9(11). Online edition: http://www.americannursetoday.com/ letter-editor-creating-high-performance-interprofessional-teams/

Joyner, J. (2014). Letters to the Editor. Nursing Education Perspectives 35(6), 401-401. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5480/1536-5026- 35.6.401.

Curriculum News The Class of May ’15 is the first cohort of students to complete the new five-semester curriculum, which added a semester of nursing courses and a separate capstone course and strengthened the transition to professional practice. Based on student and faculty discussion, the SON Curriculum Committee has begun discussing potential adjustments to courses and/or content to be implemented the 2016-2017 year.

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Simulation Learning Center (SLC) News

The SLC joined the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and other businesses across the state for Students@Work Week held March 2 to 6. Throughout the week middle school students took part in job shadowing and mentoring programs to help them assimi-late classroom learning with the realities of work environments. Students@Work is a joint initiative between the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and the N.C. Business Committee for Education. This year, more than 100 businesses and 19,000 students par-ticipated. The SLC participated in the program through an on-site mentoring visit. Seventeen middle school students toured all eight simulation labs and learned to listen to heart and lung sounds on computerized mannequins with a stethoscope after learning to assess their own pulses. This opportunity allowed students to gain an understanding of medical equipment and how technology and simulation are used to educate nursing students and

other health professionals within the UNCW College of Health and Human Services. Faculty and students have already utilized the SLC labs this semester in creative

ways. The Geriatric Nursing Course, led by Tamatha Arms, carried out a simulated experience involving dementia. Students actually had their vision, hearing, mobility

and dexterity altered to simulate the experiences of a demented patient. They wore

headphones listening to “voices,” and wore cumbersome gloves. They had strong

glasses on and walked with surgical shoe covers filled with beans to simulate arthri-tis, from which many older adults suffer. If that is not difficult enough to manage,

they were assigned tasks to do at the same time in our Home Care Apartment such as

cutting a pill, matching socks, folding towels, and looking up a phone number (see

photo at right). Student evaluations of the experience demonstrated their apprecia-

tion for the realism of this simulation and how it increased the empathy they have

for demented patients.

A faculty development workshop is planned for April 13th titled, “Interdisciplinary

Simulation: Using Simulation in Teaching and Assessment.” Faculty within the CHHS and in other university departments

across campus have been invited to attend and work together for an inter-professional collaboration in simulation.

Association of Diversity for Student Nursing (ADSN)

On Feb. 21, several ADSN members (pictured at left) volunteered for the Special Olympics 5K and

Polar Plunge at Kure Beach. The students guided

the runners along the 5K course and provided

enthusiastic support for the runners to complete

the course. Students met a fellow nurse who

dressed as an RN Superhero as part of a costume contest (see photo at left). The organization plans

to volunteer at the Special Olympics Spring

Games on April 22.

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Community Nursing Students

Students in the prelicensure Community Health course participated in a Bolivia, NC Health Fair on Mar. 1. Collaborating with the Brunswick Community Health Department, students learned how to operate the LDX Cholestech machine (designed to assess cholesterol and blood glucose), performed blood pressure assess-ments and teaching on maintaining prostrate health, good nutrition and the importance of regular exercise. Two interns from CHHS were also in attendance, as were various health agen-cies and fitness centers. The students and com-munity participants were able to tour the Health Department’s mobile health unit, which travels to various areas of Brunswick County on a weekly basis.

New Interdisciplinary Course Diane Pastor, in collaboration with radiation oncologist Patrick Maguire, has developed a new interdisciplinary course within CHHS, “Caring for the Cancer Patient” (CHHS 492). Twelve students from Clinical Research, Nursing and Exercise Science are enrolled in the course.

Spring 2015 Meet and Greet The Spring ’15 “Meet and Greet” has been scheduled for the new student cohort entering in the Fall (Class of Dec ’17). The event will be held Apr. 20, from 11 to 1 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room. There will be a table set up for each current cohort to discuss that level of the program and to welcome the new students. Class officers of other cohorts are encouraged to set up sepa-rate tables to assist students in this newest cohort with questions and guidance. In addition, there will be a table for each stu-dent organization; namely, the Association of Nursing Students and the American Assembly of Men in Nursing, to showcase their activities and to encourage membership.

ETEAL Event in the SON The SON participated in the campus-wide ETEAL Exploration Day to showcase ETEAL projects and applied learning activities. The SON presentation, which consisted of two tables in McNeill Hall, was developed by Nancy Ahern. This was a university-wide event sponsored by ETEAL. ETEAL (Experiencing Tranformative Education through Applied Learning) is UNCW’s Quality Enhancement Plan to improve quality of learning for students and faculty.

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2ndAnnual CHHS Research Day: April 10, 2015 The College of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce the second Annual CHHS Research Day, “Making Your Mark—Implementing and Evaluating Community-based Violence Prevention Programs.” The keynote speaker is Moises Pros-pero, who will discuss the benefits of inter-professional research collaborations to implement community-based interventions related to violence prevention, how social-emotional learning can improve academic performance and reduce problematic be-haviors; and expanding current literature into innovative research, policy, and applied practice projects.

Jeanne Kemppainen, the Irwin Belk Distinguished Professorship, will make a presentation on a theoretical basis for inter-professional research, models for inter-professional research projects, and challenges and opportunities for inter-professional research.

Faculty and students have been invited to submit an abstract describing their research/scholarship or evidence-based projects. The event will be held in the Burney Center.

Reflection Day 2015

Students in the undergraduate pediatric course will present their "reflective" projects on Spring '15 Reflection Day, April 28. The event will be held in McNeill 1051 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Students will present their papers presenting pathophysiology and relevant nursing diagnoses, as well as present individual projects incorporating the arts and humanities that are reflective of their experiences with various patient scenarios. Papers and projects also reflect on how the students' experiences frame future models in nursing practice. Students, staff and faculty are invited to drop in during the event time to view the projects and lis-ten to the presentations.

News from the Office of Student Success

The Office of Student Success has had a busy semester with the addition of two new full-time staff members in the office. We hired Natalie Bernardina and Becky Hardy in January. We have also begun to interview candidates for four new positions in the office. These new advisors’ workload will consist of assisting RN-BS students through the orientation and initial advising phase, RN-BS process mapping, and possibly assisting with Assessment.

Collaborative Event on Cultural Activities within the CHHS An inter-professional collaboration between the SON, the School of Social Work and the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences have planned a cultural activities on Apr. 17 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. in the McNeill Auditorium, entitled “Fighting Pedi-atric Cancer: The Necessity of an Inter-professional Approach to Advocacy, Quality Healthcare Service Provision and Funding Research.” There will be a guest speaker and a panel of individuals involved with the care of children with cancer.

SLC Assistant Exhibits Photography Barbara Snyder, SLC Assistant, was invited to submit 12 photo-graphic works of art to be included in the 4th Friday Gallery Walk, sponsored by the Arts Council of Wilmington, on Feb. 27. The peer-reviewed art exhibitions are displayed at various art galleries in downtown Wilmington. Snyder, pictured at right, stands before one of her works “Mannequins.” Snyder also served as the official photographer on the Cultural Immersion trip to Belize in early March. (See related story on the final page.)

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Please submit calendar events, notable achieve-ments, community events, research/scholarship activities and questions for faculty/staff to our edi-torial and production staff: Sandy O’Donnell (odonnells@uncw.edu) or Debra Simpson (simpsond@uncw.edu).

The 2015 Belize Experience On March 8 three faculty, one staff assistant and 22 students, consisting of 6 FNP stu-dents and 16 undergraduates, boarded a plane in Wilmington and headed to the Cen-tral American county of Belize. The final destination was on the outskirts of San Igna-cio, a town located in the western part of the country and east of Guatemala. Over the course of the next seven days students and faculty conducted several health clinics and educational sessions within a variety of set-tings: elementary schools, private homes, a university, a village health clinic and an ur-ban market. This cultural experience empha-sized the importance of providing health care and sharing information vital to the management and/or prevention of acute and chronic health conditions among the Belize-ans of mixed racial backgrounds (Creoles, Mestizos, Mayan and Garifuna).

Travel to and from the clinical sites involved the use of a compact bus that navi-gated winding paved and gravel roads. Midday heat was often oppressive and work conditions were rustic as compared to U.S. clinical sites, but the determina-tion and hard work of the group prevailed. At each of the multiple clinical sites students and faculty demonstrated compassion and caring for hundreds of locals who visited the clinics and for a few who were visited within private homes. Key components of optimal nursing care were exhibited throughout the week’s activ-ities: a willingness to serve others; flexibility with changing schedules and clini-cal sites; mutual respect and appreciation of colleagues; and providing funda-mental nursing skills and compassion for the diverse population.

The hard work performed under difficult conditions was balanced by touring two hospitals and a long-term care facility and various sightseeing excursions. The group was able to visit Xuantunich (a popular Mayan ruins site), participate in an evening jungle hike to explore noc-turnal sights and sounds of the jungle, shop at the San Ignacio Market and enjoy a tubing expe-dition down one of the local rivers.

According to undergraduate student Hyla Smith, “We shared experiences, knowledge, skills, and hope. We touched lives and in return our lives were touched, all because of a crazy adventure in Belize!”

Appreciation is extended to those on this trip who cared for more than 800 Belizeans in clinics and within private homes. Students were Anita Aviles, Maila Bezerra York, Miranda Clary, Erin Cline, Ashley Concepcion, Jessica Croninger, Jessie Disalle, Jamie Dor-man, Amanda Foster, Sarah Fruendt, Nina Hadley, Patty Hanes, Melissa Howdeshell, Becca Lester, Ali Maher, Kelly McPherson, Hyla Smith, Tori Smith, Silva Stout, Nicole Turner, Megan Turner and Jenn White. Faculty and staff assistance was provided by Jane A. Fox, Susan Marshall, San-dra O’Donnell and Barbara Snyder.