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Your inside look at the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing--October Edition
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With Homecoming just around the corner, I can’t help but reflect on the rich history of the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing (IVMSON). Each day I am reminded of how blessed I am to serve at a school with such a profound sense of tradition and a diverse group of students and alumni. Since its inception in 1922, regardless of its name or location, IVMSON has con-sistently prepared graduates to enter nursing practice with confidence and exemplary clini-cal and leadership skills. Mrs. Moffett’s vision continues to be the foundation of our programs as we focus on aca-demic excellence, compassion, caring and service. It is no secret that “Moffett Nurses” are a special group of individuals who uphold the highest standards of patient care. Regardless of graduation year, being a Moffett Nurse means something, and our faculty work diligently to instill Mrs. Moffett’s philosophies in our graduates year after year. This issue of The Pulse highlights our privilege of having such a diverse group of students, alumni and friends involved with our school. Over the past month we have celebrated re-cord enrollments, the 100th birthday of an alumna, the accomplishments of 25 nurses with the “courage to care,” the reunion of the class of 1954 and much more. As you will see, we are constantly working to bridge our past and our future—together we are making great strides in nursing education and patient care. Whether you are an alumnus, student, parent or friend of the school, I hope that you will seriously consider joining us for Homecoming on Saturday, November 6th. The details of our events are included in this newsletter. You are an important part of both our history and our future and we would be grateful if you would join us as we celebrate 88 years of nursing education. Nena F. Sanders, DSN, RN Ralph W. Beeson Dean and Professor
Message from the Dean: The Golden Thread
In This Issue:
Homecoming
2010 Nursing
Drives Record Enrollment
Class of 1954
Reunion Courage to
Care Gala Students Par-
ticipate in Dis-aster Drill
Simulation
Center Opens
The Pulse
“Caring is the shining thread of gold that holds together the tapestry of life." Mrs. Ida V. Moffett
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IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
Join Us for Homecoming 2010—RSVP Today!
Nursing Drives Samford to Record Enrollment
Bring your family and come celebrate 88 years of IVMSON tradition!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
IVMSON Annual Alumni and Friends
Homecoming BBQ
12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m.
Center for Healing Arts Plaza
$5/person, payable at the door
Please RSVP by Oct. 29th to Katie Stripling at
[email protected] or 205-726-2265
Individual Class Reunions
BBH Class of 1960 10 a.m. in CHA 106 For details, contact Josephine “Josy” Blount Lowe at [email protected] IVMSON BSN Classes of 1999 and 2000 10 a.m. in CHA 111 For details, contact Julie Dorsch Weber at [email protected]
There’s still time to plan a reunion for your class!
Contact Katie Stripling at 205-726-2265 or [email protected] for details.
For the second consecutive year Samford University is experiencing record enrollment. Total enrollment is 4,715, up from fall 2009’s record of 4,658.
There are several factors contributing to the increase, one of which being an 89% increase in nursing school graduate en-rollment over fall 2009. According to Dean Sanders, the explosive growth in graduate enrollment is directly related to two programs, including IVMSON’s three-year-old doctor of nursing practice degree program. IVMSON has received nearly $1 million in grants to provide scholarships for students obtaining advanced degrees, particularly to teach, which has in-creased enrollment.
“There is a national shortage of nursing faculty and a growing need for additional nursing fac-ulty for the future,” said Dean Sanders. “Today’s nursing faculty is aging and retiring and we have been able to expand our nurse educator option to help meet the faculty needs for the future.”
“The significant increase also relates to the future need for nurse practitioners. With the antici-pated new health care reforms, there will be an increased need for primary care providers. Nurse practitioners will be called upon to fill that need.” IVMSON graduate programs attract individuals from across the country and include students from 26 states.
Did you know IVMSON enrollment
has increased by nearly 160% over the last 10 years?
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Marna Barefield Green, class of 1932, celebrated her 100th birthday on September 23. Raised in Ala-bama, Mrs. Green now lives in Houston, TX. She has two children, three granddaughters, and five great-grandchildren.
Green’s life has been dedicated to taking care of her family, neighbors and others; she’s always look-ing for something to do for someone else. Her Christmas cookies and wonderful parties in her home are legendary and she spent years making receiving blankets for Ben Taub Hospital’s charity patients. She loves to dress up and often wins prizes for her creative Halloween costumes and decorative hats.
Mrs. Green celebrated her 100th year at a party surrounded by friends and family; one of her favorite pianists entertained guests before dinner.
Lori Lioce, DNP 2010, earned
a position with Huntsville
Hospital in the Emergency
Medicine department as a
Family Nurse Practitioner
and also a full-time position
as a Clinical Assistant Profes-
sor of Nursing at UAH.
Lori Lioce, DNP 2010, was re-elected as the Vice-Chair
of the American Nurses Association, Board of Trustees,
Political Action Committee for 2010-2012.
Mary Nunnally, BSN 2008, received her CCRN Certifi-
cation in September. This certification is awarded by
the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
Susan Stillwell, DNP 2009, was inducted as a fellow into the Academy of Nursing Education. Fellows are chosen based on their sustained and significant contributions to the field of nursing education.
ACCOLADES, HONORS, AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS—ALUMNI
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
Alumna Celebrates 100th Birthday!
Lori Lioce, DNP
Sharron Schlosser, Susan Stillwell, Gretchen McDaniel and Arlene Hayne
Fifty-six years after graduating from the Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing, alumnae from the 1954 class gathered for their annual reunion. This year’s event was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday, October 9th. Over lunch the ladies reminisced about their experi-ences in Massilon, Ohio for psychiatric nursing and New Orleans’ Charity Hospital for pediatrics. No matter how much things change over the years, the closeness of this group has remained in tact.
Eva Hardy presented her poster "Shoulder Arthroscopy and SLAP Lesions" at the ASNA Convention in Mobile. The poster was connected to an article based on the same con-tent that was published in May of 2009 in OR Nurse. Amy Snow and her family completed the adoption of their little girl, Juana Grace, in September—a full month and a half a head of schedule! Dr. Jennifer Coleman presented "Evidence-Based Practice: Making the case - Setting the stage" to the Nurses Re-search Council at Children's Hospital. The focus was inte-grating evidence-based practice into bedside nursing care .
CLASS OF 1954 GATHERS FOR ANNUAL REUNION
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ACCOLADES, HONORS, AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS—FACULTY AND STAFF
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
Dr. Jill Cunningham and Dr. Margie Findlay presented their poster “Samford University’s Mobile Health Project” during the Sixth Annual Mobile Health Clinics Forum.
The Samford University Association of Nursing Stu-dents (SUANS) would like to thank everyone who supported their t-shirt sale. Shirts are now available for pick-up in Beverly Hyche’s office in the Center for Healing Arts.
SUANS NEWS
Be on the lookout for the next shirt sale in the com-ing months. Details will be e-mailed and posted on our social media sites soon. MARK YOUR CALENDARS: The next SUANS meeting will be Friday, November 5th. UAB will be present-ing. Look for information about the Give Kids the World trip in the next issue of The Pulse.
Twenty-eight IVMSON students participated in a disaster drill simulating the effects of an F-3 tornado at the River-chase Galleria on Sunday, September 19.
Students, who were all seniors, posed as “victims” of the disaster and even wore makeup to imitate blood and other injuries. Emergency personnel from 22 agencies across Jefferson and North Shelby counties participated in the drill that highlighted some of the possible effects a tornado strike could have on the area. It also tested inter-agency cooperation that would be needed if a city in the area experienced large scale damage.
In addition to helping improve the safety of the community, students who generously volunteered their time learned valuable lessons from the drill. “The students were all very excited to be a part of this important drill and approached it with the seriousness of a clinical day,” said Cindy Berry, DNP, assistant professor in IVMSON. “Not only did they learn about what happens in a community when a disaster occurs, they learned the role of emer-gency medical services (EMS) and other first responders. They experienced firsthand how blessed we are to live in a place with so many resources and dedicated public servants.”
Perhaps the most significant lesson learned had less to do with responding to physical needs, and more to do with emotional response. “By far the most important thing they learned is how a patient or family feels when a loved one is injured or missing in an emergency,” added Berry. Students can now empathize with patients and their families who have experienced such disasters and know the importance of responding with caring and compassion.
Berry and John Lundeen, MSN, instructor IVMSON, served as evaluators for the process by accessing things such as appropriate triage of patients, the ability of rescue personnel to recognize the severity of patient injuries, timeli-ness of response and other strengths and weaknesses. Students will also have the opportunity to evaluate the drill and will focus on how they were treated by responders.
IVMSON Students Participate in Disaster Drill
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
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IVMSON Honors Alumni for the “Courage to Care”
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
2010 Recipients
IVMSON honored 25 alumni for their “courage to care” during its annual Courage to Care Awards Gala on Friday, September 17 in the Pete Hanna Center. Recipients, all either Birmingham Baptist Hospital or IVMSON graduates, were nominated by their peers for the honor because they ad-here to the Moffett Maxims for excellence in nursing practice and patient care delivery.
More than 250 guests gathered to raise funds for scholarships and honor the recipients. Samford’s Campus Dining catered a delicious fall menu. Fol-lowing the program, guests served themselves from the event’s signature “dessert bar” that included a variety of colorful fruit tarts, fanciful cupcakes, assorted layer cakes and other sweet treats.
IVMSON appreciates the support of generous sponsors who helped make the evening possible. Patron sponsors included Princeton Baptist Medical Center and St. Vincent’s Health System. Benefactor sponsors were Brook-wood Medical Center, Judge and Mrs. Robert G. Faircloth, Paula and Kerry Gossett, Jo and Robert Kicker, Gretchen and Randall McDaniel, Money Fam-ily Trust, Mrs. Doris J. Myers and Trinity Medical Center.
The Gala Committee would like to express its sincerest appreciation to eve-ryone who helped make this event possible.
Gala Committee:
Barbara Money, Chair
Janet Alexander Jennifer Coleman Jackie Davis Beverly Hyche
Gretchen McDaniel Suzanne Scharf Susan Sheffield Katie Stripling
Susie Bowden
Cynthia Briner
Carolyn Chalkley
Paula Davenport
Mary Ann Davis
Karen Faircloth
Gerald Forshee*
Bridget Gilley
Kerry Gossett
Delphene Hobby-Noland
Suzanne Holland
Jessica Johnson
Marcia Lowe
Wanda Marquardt
Francis McCurdy
Doris Myers
Laurie O’Dell
Sylvia Rayfield
Sharron Schlosser
Doris Strother
Joy Whatley
Johnny Whitfield
Lynn Woo
Regina Yarbrough
Nan Zeanah
*not pictured
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COURAGE TO CARE GALA PHOTOS
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
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Dessert Bar Fruit tarts—a crowd favorite
John Lundeen, Judi Vinzant, Erin Killingsworth, Vicki Rochester, Cindy Berry, Marian Carter, Jennifer Coleman, Gretchen McDaniel
Barbara Money and Dean Nena F. Sanders IVMSON Diplomats
Susan Sheffield, Arlene Hayne, Sharron Schlosser, Gretchen McDaniel and Margie Findlay
Visit IVMSON on Facebook for more photos!
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IVMSON Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2010
Join us For Open House!
On Friday, October 22nd, IVMSON will open the doors of its newly renovated human simulation center to alumni, friends and community leaders. We hope that you will stop in to see the revolutionary technology that is trans-forming the IVMSON student learning experience. The center maximizes space and functionality to accom-modate a greater number of students and increase expo-sure to the technology. The center includes the following patient care areas: Operating Room Adult Medical Surgical Room Pediatric Room Labor, Delivery and Post Partum Room Newborn Nursery Area Observation Room Control Rooms Simulators offer students invaluable clinical experience as they allow faculty to recreate common health-care situa-tions and provide students the opportunity to respond accordingly. The simulators: Differ in function and purpose React to nursing interventions just as a typical patient
would, demonstrating the effects of different drugs and treatment methods
Serve as a component of all undergraduate clinical courses
Serve as an integral aspect of the anesthesia curricu-lum to bridge the didactic-clinical gap and afford stu-dents the practice of both technical and non-technical skills in a safe setting without patient risk
Prepare students to enter the clinical environment upon graduation with confidence in their skills
The simulation center began operation in fall 2010, but funding is still needed to maintain the facilities and tech-nology. Gifts to the center help support the ongoing ef-forts to improve this unique learning environment. If you are interested in supporting the center or have questions about Open House, please contact Katie Strip-ling at 205-726-2265 or [email protected].
If you have any student, fac-ulty, or alumni awards, presen-tations, conferences, scholar-
ships, photographs or any other announcements, etc.
that you would like posted in the next edition of The Pulse,
please send them to [email protected] or call 205-726-2265
...to all who participated in providing information for this newsletter.
“Caring is the shining thread of gold that holds together the tapestry of life.” Mrs. Ida V. Moffett
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SPECIAL THANKS Share Your News!
October 22: Simulation Center Open House 3-6 p.m. November 5: IVMSON Advisory Board Meeting November 5: SUANS Meeting November 6: Homecoming Alumni BBQ, 12:00 p.m., CHA Plaza November 24-26: Thanksgiving holidays December 18: Commencement
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Important Dates
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Katie Stripling [email protected] 205-726-2265
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Birmingham, AL 35229
Phone: 205-726-2872
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http://www.samford.edu/giving/nursing.aspx
Alumna Beatrice Tangle Dolihite featured in Warrior Care
Click here to watch Warrior Care—Maj. Beatrice Dolihite,
