January 21, 2010

Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAANAssociate Dean for Research

School of NursingResearch

Centennial Landmarks

U of MN School of Nursing :• Longest continuously operated university-based school of nursing in

the world• Research-intensive; in top 5% of schools of nursing in the USA• SON has the only PhD program in the state

(n=128 graduates)• More than 12,500 nursing degrees have been granted.• Housed on 2 campuses - one in the Twin Cities & the other in

Rochester

Month, day, year

The School of NursingA Century in the Making

1909• 8 students

• 1 nursing instructor

• Curriculum included the Practice of Nursing & Dietetics

• Initial clinical practice was at a 25 bed hospital

• Tuition $25/semester

2008-2009• 980 students (49% UG; 51%

GRAD)

• 40 Tenured/tenure track faculty• 39 Clinical Track faculty

• Five degree; dual degree, & certificate programs

• Clinical practice -248 partnerships across all settings

• Tuition $326/credit

Academic Programs

Undergraduate Program:• 1909 1st group of students entered University

Program

Graduate Programs: • 1950 Masters of Science (MS) in Nursing• 1983 PhD program initiated • 2007 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) began• 2007 Master of Nursing (MN) began

Centers of Excellencein School of Nursing

Federally Funded Centers: - Center for Adolescent Nursing (MCHB/HRSA)- Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs - Center for Health Trajectory Research (P20 NIH/NINR )

Foundation Funded Center - Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (The John A. Hartford Foundation)

International Centers - International Council for Nurses (ICN) Center for Nursing

Minimum Data Set Knowledge Discovery - Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing

LeadershipSchool of Nursing supported

-Center for Child & Family Health Promotion Research -Center for Gerontological Nursing

SON Research Portfolio

4 SON Research Foci:

• Health Promotion among Vulnerable Populations

• Prevention & Management of Chronic Health Conditions • Symptom Management • Health/Nursing Informatics and Systems Improvement

Research Portfolio

Health Promotion among Vulnerable PopulationsChildhood Obesity Prevention• Healthy Family Meals Intervention (PI: Jayne Fulkerson)• Team COOL (PI: Martha Kubik)Adolescent Health Promotion• PRIME TIME: Health Promotion for Multiple Risk Behaviors among

Adolescents (PI: Renee Sieving)Immigrant/Refugee Health• Latino-based Multimedia to Prevent Noise Induced Hearing Loss

Among Construction Workers (PI: Madeleine Kerr)• Understanding Somali Refugees’ Perceptions of Mental Health Care

(PI: Cheryl Robertson)

Prevention/Management of Chronic Health ConditionsExercise Interventions:• Exercise Intervention for American Indian Women with Gestational

Diabetes (PI: Melissa Avery)• Arm Ergometry vs Treadmill Walking to Reduce Claudication (PI: Diane Treat-Jacobson)• Comparison of Exercise Responses in Four End Stage Renal

Disease Treatments (PI: Patricia Painter)

Coping Interventions:• Web-based Program to Help Youth Cope with Cancer Treatment -

(PI: Susan O’Connor Von)• Caregiver Outcomes Post Nursing Home Placement (PI: Joseph Gaugler)

Symptom Management

Complementary & Alternative therapies• Anxiety Self-Management/Mechanical Ventilation (PI: Linda Chlan) • Mind-Body Interventions Post-Transplant (Co-PIs: Cynthia Gross &

Mary Jo Kreitzer)

Incontinence • Disparities in Incontinence and Perineal Skin Damage

in Nursing Home Elders (PI: Donna Bliss)

Health/Nursing Informatics and Systems Improvement

Improving Health Care Delivery & Services• Adult Day Service Utilization and Outcomes:A Mixed Methods

Approach (PI: Joseph Gaugler)

• Developing Comprehensive Dementia-Specific Nursing Home Quality Indicators (PI: Chris Mueller)

• Development of a Consumer Research Network for Studying Obesity (PI: Julie Jacko)

• Predictive Modeling for Improving Incontinence and Pressure Ulcers in Homecare (PI: Bonnie Westra)

Federal80%

Corporate/ Foundation

16%

Internal UMN4%

State1%

Federal

Corporate/ Foundation

Internal UMN

State

Research Funding Sources

Based on FY 2009 annual direct costs (7.1 million)

Funded Grants

FY 2009 FY 2008 FY 2004

Total Direct Costs $27.6 million $25.4 million $17.0 million

Total Research Grants 63 53 61

Total Instructional Grants 11 11 13

Total “Other” Grants 14 12 6

Total funded projects 88 76 80

Research Portfolio

Interprofessional Collaboration

Currently, SON faculty are• PIs on 73 externally funded grant projects

13 involve key personnel from 15 University departments• Co-PI’s or Co-I’s on >20 interdisciplinary projects with PIs in other

departmentsExamples of Collaborators:• Academic Health Center:

College of Pharmacy, College of Veterinary Medicine, Medical School, School of Public Health

• Other University Colleges/Departments: College of Education & Human Development, Computer Science & Engineering, CFAD, CLA, Hubert Humphrey Institute (CURA)

Community-based Research Partnerships:

• Center for Somali Family and Children Services -Sunlight Exposure, Dietary, and Dress Habits of Somali Girls

• Community Action Head Start Program - Get a Head Start on Asthma Project

• Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) - Latina Adolescent Program

Global Partnerships:• Iceland - International Asthma School Nurse Project (I-SNAP)• US AID Project - Africa, Amazonia. India, South East Asia

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Lifespan Health Trajectories

CCFHPRCenter for Child & Family Health Promotion Research

CGNCenter for Gerontological

Nursing

Vulnerable Populations

Health Trajectory Research

Densford Leadership

Nursing Informatics

Children with Special Health Needs

Adolescent Nursing

Geriatric Excellence

Research & Scholarship in SON