march 2016 enewsletter
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Monthly publication from the University of South Carolina College of NursingTRANSCRIPT
The CONnectionGAMECOCK
News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING
Inside This Issue
Students Corner...............2-3 Alumni & Development...4-5
Faculty & Staff Notes......6-12 Nusing Summit.................10
NO LIMITS.........................13
MARCH 2016
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Dean Jeannette Andrews
Culture of Engagement
We are seeing the nursing shortage beginning a downward spiral again in South Carolina. With a shortage, staffing becomes more complex and working conditions for nurses who “stay” are more challenging. The increased workload, lack of control, lack of rewards, lack of community, and lack of value create an undesirable work environment and that may lead to burnout, ongoing turnover, and potential negative impact on patient care.
In a controversial book, Patients Come Second (2103), Paul Spiegelman writes about a cul-ture of engagement — how prioritizing high employee engagement and satisfaction will naturally lead to high patient engagement and satisfaction. Here are a few of his recom-mendations that I find noteworthy for nursing leaders across the state:
•Inject fun into the employee culture. •Prioritize employees’ well-being and the totality of their lives. •Allow ongoing dialogue between leadership and staff. • Lack of tolerance for those who do not “fit the culture” and who are constantly negative. •Have a robust system of reward and recognition. •Invest heavily in the personal growth and development of employees.
Similarly, Cummings et al. (2010) in a systematic review of leadership styles for the nurs-ing workforce reported that evidence supports that leadership styles focused on people and relationships (transformational, resonant, supportive, and consideration) were associated with higher nurse job satisfaction.
Magnet hospitals and other settings with a shared governance models often facilitate a strong culture of engagement. However, leaders in all healthcare systems and at all levels can encourage a “sense of community and engagement”, recognize peers for their contri-butions, and role model as an engaging team player in their respective setting. While these actions will not combat the shortage alone, it will create healthier and “engaging” environ-ments in our work settings.
I invite you to join nursing leaders across the state at the Annual Nursing Leadership Sum-mit on March 25th. Registration information is included in this newsletter, our website, and Facebook page. I look forward to seeing you there!
Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAANDean & [email protected]
Students Corner
Student Spotlight: Callie Downs Read it HERE.
The College of Nursing Simulation Lab held its first IPE ACLS Experience with Pharmacy Capstone Students, Nursing Capstone Student and 3rd Year Medical Students.
Jean Livingston is a junior BSN student and member of the USC women’s swim team. The lessons she’s learned as a swimmer, from the importance of teamwork and commitment to the incredible feel-ing of seeing hard work pay off, translate easily to her nursing edu-cation and her goal of becoming a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Read more HERE.
Faculty and students visited the College of Nursing from InHolland University in the Netherlands. The students learned the ins and outs of the College of Nursing and our healthcare system. They shadowed nursing staff at Palmetto Health and the VA. This year is the 10th year that Alpha Xi chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International has hosted a group of NP and PA students and faculty from InHolland.
Professor Kate Chappell uses the new “robots” in the Clinical Simulation Lab. Nursing students can get train-ing from anywhere around the world by connecting re-motely to the lab.
Congratulations to Margo Lawson
on receiving the Palmetto Gold
Scholarship
Student Nurses Association Update
SNA MeetingMarch 15th 6:00pm - 7:00pm WMBB 231 Sweatshirt pickup
Volunteer OpportunitiesMarch 17th Red Cross in front of the old BA Building 11:00am - 4:00 pm Contact Kenzie King at [email protected] March 18th Reading to Children 7:45am - 10:30am Contact Emily Davis at [email protected]
USC College of Nursing’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program partnering with Greenville Health System to increase mental health providers in South Carolina.
Read more HERE.
Bradley Quarles and Martin Mrazeck are reviving the College of Nursing’s American As-sembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) Chapter. Nationally, the AAMN’s purpose is to promote uni-ty among male nurses and discuss issues they face in the workplace. However, their specific chapter is focused on leadership, involvement in the com-munity and selflessness. The organization is free to nursing students within the College of Nurs-ing and welcomes both male and female students.
Read more HERE.
VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development
Honoring Edna M. Swartzbeckby Jan Urban
I contribute to the College of Nursing because of a remarkable woman with an unparal-leled passion for nursing, Edna M. Swartzbeck. She earned her BS in Nursing (63) and a Masters in Nursing (74) at USC College of Nursing, both cum laude. A career that had begun as an ER nurse in Sharon, PA, was followed by 31 years of service at Dorn VA Medical Center where she retired as the first independent nurse practitioner. She served in the Army on active duty during the post Korean era and operations Desert Shield and Storm. Colonel Swartzbeck retired as chief nurse of the 3270th US Army Hospital Reserve Unit after 38 years of service. She was awarded both the National De-fense Services Medal and the Legion of Merit.
A life member of Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society in Nursing, Edna’s many achieve-ments included the SC Nurses Association Excellence in Practice Award (1982), the Joan Kershner VA Directors Commendation Award (1987) and the USC College of Nursing Legacy of Caring Award (2014). She was a member of the American and SC Nurses Association, the Horseshoe Society, the SC Education Foundation, the Reserve Officers Association, NARFE, and the Ft. Jackson Golf Club where she was the Ladies Club Champion for two years during the 60’s. She was passionate about nursing, as well as her church, philanthropy, gardening, birds, animals and especially her two kit-ties, Eddie and Faux Paw.
Throughout the years Edna introduced me to many of the leaders at the College of Nursing. These women are indeed some of our best and brightest, with both the vision and determination to move South Carolina from the bottom the health statistics. Edna also shared with me stories and letters from recipients of the Swartzbeck Scholarship in Nursing. She was immensely pleased with the impact her financial assistance provided to enable talented young people to pursue careers in nursing. If nurses are to remain the backbone of the healthcare profession they must look to loans and scholarships. Through Edna I saw just how important scholarship assistance can be.
Edna remained committed to the profession to which she had committed her life in her final months under the caring hands of a hospice nurse. She gifted her condo to the USC Foundation to assure that its full value without the expenses of probate would be available for nursing scholarships. Just months before her passing, Edna invited Dean Andrews to her home and presented her with a treasured bust of Florence Nightingale, a gift from Dean Amy Cockcroft.
I am blessed to have been Edna’s friend and can think of no better tribute to this re-markable woman and her memory, than my continued support of those entering the profession by contributions to the Edna M. Swartzbeck Scholarship in Nursing.
The National Cemetery at Fort Jackson
Thank you to the College of Nursing
Guardian Society Members:
Anonymous* Arthur and Judy AllenDr. Jeannette AndrewsFrances E. Ashe-Goins
Dr. Myrtle Irene Brown* Dr. Opal F. Brown
Amy and Charles Cockcroft* Carole H. Cato
Michael and Jeanne CavanaughCurtis and Anita Easter, Jr.
Dr. H. Nelson and Patricia EddyMichael and Sue HeineyDr. JoAnne Herman and
Dr. Wayne HermanJack and Beverley House
Harry Joe and Judith KingJohn and Barbara Fair Little
Dr. Marlene C. Mackey Julian Marchant*
Neil and Debra McLean, Jr.Dr. Mary Ann Parsons and
Dr. George Parsons*Rhea and Frank Pridgen
Billy F. ScallyRallie and Ruth Seigler
Charles and Marilyn SonnenbergJames and Mary Starling
Edna Swartzbeck* H. David Williams
*Deceased
Nursing alumnus, James Gregory, MSN, dis-cusses benefits of online degrees.
Read it HERE.
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Faculty and Staff Notes
Dr. Amber Williams and Dr. Robin Estrada presented “Carbon Monoxide awareness and safe-ty...we are all in this together,” at the SCPHA 2016 conference in North Charleston.
Dr. Patrick Hickey at the AAMN Foundation board meeting in Philadelphia. They met for a strategic planning session and set the course for the next three years.
Dr. Laura Hein served on the NLN workgroup that has just released its Vi-sion for Achieving Diversity and Mean-ingful Inclusion in Nursing Education. Read it HERE.
Cheryl Nelson and Gail Vereen (with Mac Bennett - President and CEO of United Way of the Midlands) accepted the Trailblazer Award for the College of Nursing at the Live United Awards.
Poster Presentations
Methodological Challenges in Creating A Research Dataset from Abstracted Medical Records of Victims from A Chemical Mass Casualty IncidentSara B. Donevant, RN, MSN, CCRN Joan Culley, PhD, MPH, RN, CWOCN Robin Estrada, PhD, RN, PNP-BC Jane Richter, DrPH, MSN, RN
Using Social Media as a Recruitment Tool for Nursing Research with African American Women: An Exploratory StudyEboni Harris, PhD(c), APRN, FNP-BC
Predictors of Group Climate for African American Women with Breast CancerPearman D. Hayne, PhD(c), MPH, RN Swann Arp Adams, PhD Sue P. Heiney, PhD, RN, FAAN
Nurse Faculty Assessment and Strategies Related to Clinical Judgment in BSN StudentsKay Lawrence, MSN, RN
Translating Research to Practice: Findings and Implications of a Multi-Method Exploration of Undergraduate Students’ Exposure to Cultural and Linguistic DiversityJamie Lawson, BSN Student DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PhD, RN, FAAN
Teaching Tummy Time to Expectant Latino Parents with Limited English Proficiency Alexandra Nitsos, BSN Student Robin Estrada, PhD, RN, PNP-BC DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PhD, RN, FAAN
USC CON students and faculty represented the college at the Southern Research Nursing Society (SNRS) Conference in Williamsburg, VA.
Dr. Jeannette Andrews received the 2016 Southern Nursing Research Society Award for Research in Minority Health.
Nathaniel Bell, an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing, is currently investi-gating how people get access to health care, what services they use, and what happens to patients as a result of ma-jor trauma. Using data from South Carolina’s rich source of linkable datasets Dr. Bell and his research team are in-vestigating a range of projects
Research SpotlightNathaniel Bell, PhD, Assistant Professor
related to access and outcomes of trauma care, including: per-formance improvement projects specific to the acute care of the trauma patient; long-term follow-up surveys to determine whether needs and expectations for recovery were achieved; variation in care attributed to predisposing and enabling fac-tors such as race and insurance status as determinants of type and frequency of diagnostic images patients receive over the course of care; the power of clinical indicators for predicting outcomes of care; the proportion of hospital readmissions that could be avoided had patients had better access to outpatient health care services; as well as recommending strategies for improving the usability and quality of the rich databases in South Carolina that are invaluable for improving the health of all South Carolinians.
Grants Submitted
Emily Bethea, Magellan Scholar (Faculty Mentors Kate Chappell & Dr. Abbas Tavakoli”, “Explor-ing Relationships between Adults’ Adverse Child-hood Experiences (ACE) and Indicators of House-hold Economic and Caregiver Stability in Families Involved with Child Maltreatment Allegations,” Magellan Scholars from The USC Office of Under-graduate Research.
Dr. Stephanie Burgess, “Advanced Education Nurs-ing Traineeship HRSA-16-071,” Traineeship from HRSA.
Dr. Ronit Elk, “Culturally Tailored Goals of Care Conversations with Patients with Advanced Can-cers: What African Americans Want Physicians to Know,” R21 from NIH/NCI.
Dr. Ronit Elk, “Culturally Tailored Conversations at EoL: What African American Patients Want Phy-sicians to Know,” ASPIRE-II from USCVPR.
Dr. Tena Hunt McKinney, “Telemental Health Connect (TMHC): Expanding Collaboration and Practitioner Diversity,” Foundation/Faculty Schol-ars Program 2016 from The Josiah Macy Jr. Foun-dation,
Dr. Karen McDonnell, “A Dyad-based Multiple Behavior Intervention for Reducing Lung Cancer Symptoms,” K07 from NIH/NCI.
Dr. Bernardine M. Pinto, “Peers Promoting Ex-ercise Adoption and Maintenance among Cancer Survivors,” Year 2 Non-Competing Continuation/RPPR fromNIH/NCI.
Grants funded
Dr. Jeannette Andrews, “The Jonas Nurse Scholar Program: 2016 – 2018 Cohort,” The Jonas Schol-ars Program.
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Dr. Kathrene Brendell has been appointed as the President of the Executive Board for the SC Chap-ter of APNA
Keynote speaker Co-sponsored by the “Radical Black Thought in the Contemporary South” speaker series, African Ameri-can Studies, College of Arts & Sciences and Department of Instruction & Teacher Education, College of Education, Uni-versity of South Carolina.
REGISTER HERE $10 boxed lunch for all interested USC Faculty & StaffRegistration is required by March 30th, 2016
15th Annual Research and Scholarship DayFeaturing The Mary Ann Parsons Lectureship
Envisioning Health Equity: The Role of Nursing Research and Scholarship
April4th Russell House
9:00am - 3:00pm
Keynote address by Abigail A. Sewell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Emory University Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania
#NursesLead
Midlands Heart Walk
2 easy steps:1) Click here: http://heartwalk.kintera.org/mid-landssc/nursingstepstothebeat
2) Click the “Join Team” button and follow the prompts to register.
The walk will be March 12, 2016 at the Colonial Life Arena in Downtown Columbia.
Join the College of Nurs-ing Team for the 2016 American Heart Associa-tion’s Heart Walk.
Cheryl Nelson – Team Cap-tain: Nursing Steps to the Beat.
Dean Jeannette Andrews attended the Rob-ert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Alumni Annual Meeting at Omni Amelia Island Plantation. Pictured with colleagues Sharon Tucker and Keela Herr.
Seawells1125 Rosewood Drive Columbia, SC 29201
8:30am - 3:00pm
March25th
The Center for Nursing Leadership is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Cost: $85Continental breakfast & lunch included
REGISTER HERE
For more information on the program or agenda contact The Center for Nursing Leadership at 803-777-3039 or [email protected]
Every Nurse A Leader: A Success Formula for Education, Practice and Research
2016 Annual Leadership Summit and Deans and Directors Education Workshop
Jerry Mansfield, PhDChief Nursing OfficerOhio State’s Wexner Medical CenterColumbus, OH
Janet Krejci, PhDVice President, Academic Affairs and ProvostIllinois State University, Normal, IL
Speakers
This conference is designed for CNOs, nurse managers, deans and directors, staff nurses, health educators and aspiring leaders.
CELEBRATE the Graduation of the 2015-2016 Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership Fellows
WELCOME the 2016-2017 Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership Fellows
Sponsored By:
Dr. Tisha Felder has been elect-ed the Director of Equity, Diver-sity and Inclusion for the College of Nursing. She will represent the college at the University level.
Dr. Sabra Custer talks to WLTX about how to avoid getting sick.
Watch it HERE.
Dr. Joan Culley was invited by the Environmental Pub-lic Health Readiness Branch/ Chemical Weapons Elimina-tion branch of the CDC to as-sist with the preparation of a Public Health Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) related to a Chemical Leak.
This new public health exercise is based on her research and chemical triage algorithm. She participated as a content expert, and the only nurse, during this session hosted by FEMA.
Dr. Sal DiNardi from the Mass Casualty Triage Grant is working with the CDC to audit the Industrial Hygiene program at the US Army chemical weapons demilitariza-tion sight known as the Pueblo Chemical Agent Pilot Plant (PCAPP). Read more about the Army’s program HERE.
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The Office of Student Services members with Cocky at an Advisors Educational Conference on Next Genera-tion Advising.
Cultural health diplomacyBy Steven Powell
Growing up the daughter of an itinerant Israeli ambassador, Ronit Elk nurtured a fascina-tion with cultures that hardly anyone might have predicted would lead her to work to improve end-of-life care in rural South Carolina. But Elk’s international childhood experiences sparked a lifelong appreciation for how much culture can impact just about everything in life. That mindset is a large part of the reason she joined the College of Nursing in 2013.
Read more HERE.
Congratulations to our Palmetto Gold Winners!
Beverly BalikoKathrene BrendellDeAnne Messias
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