THE VALLEY FOUNDATION

SCHOOL OF NURSING AT

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

“Once a nurse, al-

ways a nurse. No

matter where you

go or what you

do, you can never

truly get out of

nursing. It’s like

the Mafia. You

know too much.

- Deb Gaudlin RN

In This Issue

Director Introduction

Schmitt Scholarship

Welcome Lisa Vischer!

Faculty and Alumni

News and Publications

Faculty and Student

Travel Summer 2017 SJSU Faculty at Peace Pole Dedication, October 2015

Introducing Colleen O’Leary-Kelley Dr. O’Leary-Kelly is the new Director of The Valley Founda-

tion School of Nursing. Prior to being elected to the role of

director of The Valley Foundation School of Nursing, Dr.

Colleen O’Leary-Kelley served as the clinical simulation

program director and was The Valley Foundation Endowed

Chair for Nursing. She chaired the Personnel Committee

and served as chairperson for Semester 2 curriculum com-

mittee.

She is originally from Southern California and received her

Bachelor of Science in 1978 from Mount St. Mary’s College,

Los Angeles. Dr. O’Leary-Kelley received a master’s de-

gree in critical care/trauma nursing in 1996 and her PhD in Nursing with a minor in

education from the University of California, San Francisco in 2003. Her area of concen-

tration focused on nutritional outcomes in critically ill patients. She completed a post-

doctoral fellowship at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA prior to

joining the nursing faculty in 2004. Dr. O’Leary-Kelley has enjoyed teaching undergrad-

uate, graduate and post-graduate students, and has mentored faculty, graduate, and

doctoral students. As director, she looks forward to working with the faculty to promote

collaborative partnerships within the university and with healthcare agencies in the

local area.

Colleen O’Leary Kelley, Director TVFSON Fall 2017

Conrad and Judy Schmitt

Scholarship Judy and Conrad Schmitt were two remarkable people whose 40 years

together began at San Jose State University in January 1976 where they

met for the first time. This partnership would result in a lifetime of service to

others. Judy provided care to patients that was thoughtful and inspired, but

perhaps more importantly, she devoted herself to the educational develop-

ment of others in the health care field, both by teaching and by mentoring.

She was known for being supportive but also direct, as she generously

helped others with her knowledge, compassion and sense of humor.

The events of September 11, 2011 had a profound effect on the lives of

Judy and Conrad as they did on those of many Americans. After discover-

ing an opportunity with the Department of State as a Psychiatrist overseas,

Conrad applied and was accepted as a Regional Medical Officer, Psychia-

trist, being sworn in as of January 2004. Judy and Conrad have lived in

Accra, Ghana in West Africa, Frankfurt, Germany where Conrad worked in

the American Embassies of Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark, and

then to Nairobi, Kenya, covering East and Central Africa.

Throughout her nursing career, Judy was a respected teacher, a strong

advocate for women’s rights, and a loving, inspiring mentor to many, en-

hancing their professional development. The Judy and Conrad Schmitt

Scholarship in Nursing is one way to remember Judy’s life and good works,

and to assist students with needs to achieve a goal that might not otherwise

have been possible. Luka Skeen is a semester 2 student and the recipient

of this scholarship. Luka earned a 4.0 in semester 1, and wants to become

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. For more information on Con-

rad and Judy Schmitt, click on this link:

http://blogs.sjsu.edu/wsq/2017/05/08/a-healing-legacy/

SJSU and

Stanford Meet

A small group TVFSON faculty

visited the Stanford Center for

Education and Professional

Development this month to dis-

cuss potential partnerships be-

tween the two institutions.

Stay tuned for more infor-

mation on this coming in the

Fall 2017 semester!

Palo Alto, August 7, 2017

San Jose, May 30, 2017

Dr. McNiesh Goes to Poland!

Dr. Susan McNiesh delivered a podium

presentation of a paper done in collabora-

tion with Dominique Teaford and Deepika

Goyal at the International Human Sci-

ence Research Conference in Jelenia

Góra, Poland in July. The paper “Seeking

virtual community support after the birth of

a child: Poised between necessity and

choice” was based on the initial Master’s

project of Dominique Teaford, and ex-

plored the experiences of women engaged

in a virtual community of new mothers

seeking support in the months after giving

birth. It explored the social limitations and

expectations the individuals confront while

engaged in an online community of partici-

pants represented by their avatars or other

shades of anonymity. Because the confer-

ence was phenomenologically based, Su-

san further interpreted the initial data

through a phenomenological lens.

Our Faculty

Colleen O’Leary-Kelley, Director

Tenured:

ABRIAM-YAGO, KATHY

ADELMAN, TOBY

BAWEL-BRINKLEY, KAREN

CANHAM, DARYL

COHEN, JAYNE

GOYAL, DEEPIKA

MALLOY, SUE

MAO, CHIA-LING

McNIESH, SUSAN,

STUENKEL, DIANE

WONG, VIVIAN

Tenure-track:

BUTZLAFF, ALICE

GAYLLE, DEBRAYH,

HILL, CONSTANCE

PATRICK, SHERI

RAUCH, LISA

ROSENBLUM, RUTH

SPILKER, ARLENE

Lecturers:

AGROIA, MEENU

ANDERSON, LINDA

ASHAOLU, BOLA

BAHL, SARA

BALLIN, RICARDO

BARNBY, JOYCE

BARRETO, JEFFREY

BILLNER-GARCIA, RENEE

BREWER, VANESSA

BROWN, TORY

CUMMINGS, RONI

DIAZ, SANDRA

EDWARDS, PAULA

FINKBEINER, CORNELIA

FRANCISCO, DANIEL

GARCIA, JACLYN

GERMAIN, MICHELLE

GUIDO, SARA

HARIRIFAR, MOJGAN

KEANE, CYNTHIA

KINNER, KATHERINE

LAW, DEBRA

LEE, SANDRA

LIND, TERI

MAYER, PEG

McKENNA, SUSAN

MISTAL, MARK

NELSON, DEBORAH

PATEL, RUPALEE

PAULSON, AUDREY

PHAM, CUONG

PULATIE, JOYCE

RUIZ, JOSEPHINE

SUGIYAMA, JODIE

TCHANTCHANIAN, TAKOUHIE

TEAFORD, DOMINIQUE

TRAN, BICH

UGOKWE, NNEDINMA

WALKER-VISCHER, LISA

WENG, CHRISTINE

WILLIAMS, CAROL

Faculty and Alumni News Selected Publications

Morrison-Beedy, D., Tzeng, H. M., & Abriam-Yago, K. (2017). Building the pipeline of

diverse nursing leaders: Reflections from the AACN Deans' mentoring program. Journal of

Professional Nursing.

Goyal, D. Perinatal mood disorders In Fitzpatrick, J. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Clinical Nurs-

ing. Springer Publishing (in press).

Germain, M., O’Leary-Kelly, C., Goyal, D. & Anand, S. Can clinical simulation increase

nursing students’ confidence levels in performing postpartum care? Nursing Education Per-

spectives (in press).

Goyal, D. & Garapaty, B. (2017). Maternal mental health In Hasnain, M., Parikh, P. &

Nagaraj, N. (Eds.). Health of South Asians in the United States: An evidence-based guide

for policy and program development (pp. 241-258). Routledge: New York, NY.

Hasnain, M., Goyal, D., & Ivey, S. (2017). Intimate partner violence In Hasnain, M., Parikh,

P. & Nagaraj, N. (Eds.). Health of South Asians in the United States: An evidence-based

guide for policy and program development (pp. 259-274). Routledge: New York, NY.

Hummel, D. L., Hill, C., Shaw, J. G., Slightam, C., Asch, S. M., & Zulman, D. M. (2017).

Nurse Practitioner− led Intensive Outpatient Team: Effects on End-of-life Care. The Journal

for Nurse Practitioners, 13(5), e245-e248.

Andonian, L., & Rosenblum, R. (2017). Faculty led study abroad: Influences on stu-

dent intercultural communication, interprofessional attitudes, and professional identi-

ty. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 7(11), 1.

Herman, S., Gish, M., Rosenblum, R., & Herman, M. (2017). Effects of RN Age and Ex-

perience on Transformational Leadership Practices. Journal of Nursing Administration, 47

(6), 327-337.

Join the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Class of 2020!

The California State University Northern California Consortium Doctor of

Nursing Practice (DNP) Program is a 5 semester post-Master’s, online, col-

laborative program between Fresno State and San José State.

http://www.fresnostate.edu/chhs/nursing/degrees-programs/dnp.html

Contact Us

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Nursing at

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2017.

~~Introducing~~

Lisa Walker-Vischer, DNP Coordinator

Lisa received her BSN in 1985 from SJSU, and her MS in 1992 from UCSF

Parent-Child Acute Care Nursing. Her CNS work focused on developing a

research proposal to identify what nursing interventions were helpful to par-

ents during the death of a child. She returned to school in 2012 for her DNP,

graduating in 2014 with her project “The experience of Latino parents of

hospitalized children during family centered rounds” published in the Journal

of Nursing Administration. Over the years she has received several acco-

lades, including 2004 Samaritan of the Year from Good Samaritan Hospital,

Daisy award in 2011, and in 2013 she received the Santa Clara Valley Medi-

cal Center Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession. Current-

ly, she is a Pedi/PICU CNS at Santa Clara VMC and program coordinator

for the DNP, and is very excited about the opportunity! She has been mar-

ried for 32 years to Tom, 2 daughters, 27 and 24 years old Kelsey and Mac-

kenzie. She states “I absolutely love being a nurse and a CNS. There is

such beauty and power in the professional role of the nurse.”

http://journals.lww.com/jonajournal/Abstract/2015/03000/

The_Experience_of_Latino_Parents_of_Hospitalized.8.aspx

DNP Cohort #6 Fresno, CA August 18, 2017

TVFSON Travels! Many SON faculty took exciting vacations or led

Faculty-led Programs to far corners of the world this summer!

CHINA with Dr. Mao

Dr. Abriam-Yago at the GREAT WALL!

IRELAND

IRELAND

Dr. McNiesh in POLAND