The CONnectionGAMECOCK

News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING

www.sc.edu/nursingwww.facebook.com/USCNursing - LIKE US!

Send Inquiries or Newsletter items to:Jan Johnsonjnjohnso@mailbox.sc.edu

Inside This Issue

Students’ Corner.................2-4

Online Institute...................5

Alumni & Development......6-7

Faculty & Staff Notes.........8-12

Events...................................11 CNL.......................................12

NO LIMITS............................13

MAY 2014

May – A Month of Celebration and New Beginnings

May is one of the busiest months in the College of Nursing. Final examina-tions, course completions and closeouts, research proposal submissions, clinic visits, Nurses Week celebrations, and of course -- graduation. This May, we will launch 230 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral prepared nurses into the workforce in South Carolina and beyond. Our graduates have demon-strated basic competencies and knowledge expected of a novice nurse, nurse practitioner, and/or nurse scientist. However we recognize that their journey as a life-long learner, a thought leader, an advocate, and a pioneer in this era of health reform is just beginning. Their character, integrity, ethics, honor, and passion will be a shining light on the incredible journey ahead. Our Gamecock Nursing “Village” expects great things from all of our students and alumni and, together, will support each other in every possible way.

My challenge to our graduates: Go forth, set audacious goals, and then make them happen -- for yourself, your patients and populations you serve, and your noble profession of nursing. We hope to see all of our alumni at the 50th An-nual Viana McCown Alumni Event on October 17, 2014 . More to details to come soon……. but go ahead and save the date and plan to join us.

“Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.” Wade Davis

Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, FNP, FN, FAANDean & Professorj.andrews@sc.edu

CON PhD candidate, Robin Estrada, with Dean Andrews at Convocation.

SNA Convention

Lauren Alexander is the recipient of the Promise of Nursing South Carolina Scholarship. Pictured here at the National Student Nurses Association Annual Con-vention in Nashville, TN.

The National Student Nurses Association Annual Conven-tion was held in Nashville, TN on April 9-13. USC had 14 students attend, including three students from USC Lancast-er and faculty advisors Gloria Fowler and Kate Chappell. The group was able to hear from excellent nurse leaders through plenary and focus sessions. Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, CDE, ANEF, Associate Director and Co-Director, Jef-ferson Interprofessional Education Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA spoke about Interprofessional Patient-Centered Care. Gloria Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA addressed convention attendees during opening ceremony with “What’s your hunch? Ideas that changed Nursing and Healthcare”. Re-becca Patton, MS, RN, CNOR, FAAN, Past President, American Nurses Association spoke several times at conven-tion and gave many words of advice and wisdom related to nursing leadership.

USC students Rebecca Christopher and Tiffany Haselden presented their resolution for increased avail-ability of accurate nutrition information, which passed in the House of Delegates with 91% support. Everyone who attend-ed learned valuable information about our future as nurses and met some wonderful nurse leaders!

Dominique Ciuffetelli, a USCL student, is featured in the heraldon-line article Autism awareness, treatment ‘moving in the right direction’

Read the Story Here.

USCL held their annual Lamp Lighting Ceremony on April 24th honoring their May 2014 BSN graduates.

Justin Chavis, Lauren Bailey, Allison Wagenlander, and Rebecca Christopher (Senna Desjardins was absent due to clincials) were honored at the USC TOAST break-fast awards on April 3rd. Students at any level can be nominated who have displayed significant achievement during the past year by faculty, staff or other students.

Rep. James E. Smith, District 72, Rep Beth Bernstein, District 78, Dee Minor, BSN, MSN, FNP, and Speaker of the House, Bobby Harrell.“The Doctor of Nursing Practice Program with College of Nursing has opened new doors for my career goals as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. While taking Health Policy and Politics this semester with Dr. Stephanie Bur-gess, I completed intern hours at the South Carolina State House shadowing House Representative, James E. Smith, District 72. I met several other House Members including The Speaker of the House, Mr. Bobby Harrell. My aware-ness of Health Policy and its impact on our nursing profes-sion has been significantly enhanced because of my experi-ence. It is important for all nurses to become involved with professional nursing organizations and state politicians to continue to positively transform the future of nursing.”

Dee Minor: DNP Student, Class of 2016Palmetto GoldCongratulations to Ashley Sirianni and Jordan Campbell, recipeints of the 2014 Palmetto Gold Student Scholarships. Pictured here at the April 12th Gala Celebration.

College of Nursing PhD student, Robin Estrada, was selected as one of the 2014 Breakthrough Graduate Schol-ars. The fourteen awardees for 2014 include students from a wide variety of disciplines, who show phenomenal com-mitment to their fields through research and scholarly ac-tivity. An awards luncheon was held on April 3rd at the McCutcheon House on the Horseshoe. Robin successfully defended her dissertation based on her research study, An Analysis of Interpreter-Mediated Healthcare Interactions and will graduate this month. Read the Spring 2014 Break-through Magazine Here.

USC Breakthrough Scholar Robin Dawson Estrada, PhD student

Convocation

College of Nursing Convocation was held Thursday, May 8th at the Koger Center for the Arts. Faculty and staff gathered with family of friends to honor the 230 graduates. Click here to see more event photos.

University Students Awards Day was held on the Horseshoe on April 17th. Congratulations to our CON seniors who were honored!

Outstanding Service to CON: Allison WagenlanderOutstanding Service to CON: Melody MalbinOutstanding Community Service Award: Justin ChavisOutstanding Clinical Performance: Kaycee HooverOutstanding Leadership Award: Jessica GrimesOutstanding Academic Achievement: Griffyn BrownPalmetto Gold Scholarship Award: Jordan CampbellGraduating Summa Cum Laude: Jalisa Evans, Amanda Granow, Casey Lewis, Francesca Martel, Kelsey Rolwood, Kelly Stout, Samantha Van Houten, Kaley Whims, Chelsea Williams

USC Salkehatchie Graduation

The University of South Carolina College of Nursing presents

The Online Teaching Institute: A Complete Beginner’s Guide for Building

a Successful Online Course

College of Nursing1601 Greene StreetColumbia, SC 29208

REGISTER HERE

FRIDAY - SUNDAY

June 6th - 8th

For more information contact Cheryl Nelson at cheryl.nelson@sc.edu or 803.777.8777

Do you need to know how to set up an on-line course? Would you like to improve an online course that you have already taught? This workshop is for you! Hands-on experience for everything you need to know to put a course online and teach it well.

Co-taught by a successful instructional designer and two ex-perienced online educators from the USC College of Nursing, this class is for instructors with no or limited prior experience with online teaching, academic program administrators, and anybody who is interested in online teaching and learning.

We are proud that U.S. News and World Report counts our online graduate programs among the nation’s best. In this workshop, we will take an evidence-based approach to online teaching and share with you the strategies that have proven to be successful both in our college and at large.

This workshop explores the basic components of on-line course delivery. Participants will learn how to:◆ Adapt existing course documents for online presentation◆ Build an attractive and easy-to-navigate course site in a course management system◆ Create engaging online activities◆ Communicate with large groups of online students in an efficient and effective manner◆ Assess student learning in multiple formats.

Meet your instructional team:

Vera Polyakova-Norwood, Director of Distributed Learn-ing at the USC College of Nursing, has extensive experience in developing online courses for a variety of student audi-ences and has achieved recognition for designing authentic and engaging online projects and activities for large and small groups of learners.

Dr. Mary Boyd and Dr. JoAnne Herman are senior faculty members at the College of Nursing. They are early adopt-ers and enthusiastic champions of online course delivery and student-centered approaches to teaching.

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.

VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development

Congratulations to our Alumni 2014 Palmetto Gold Recipents! Lillian M. Bouknight, MSN (’00), RN, CNEAssistant ProfessorNewberry College of Nursing

Debra M. Chalker, RN, CAPA, ADN (’76)Outpatient Services Clinical ManagerAiken Regional Medial Centers

Sylvia Christian-James, MSN, RN, ADN (’77)Nursing Supervisor and EducatorTuomey Healthcare System

Sharon K. Elder, RN, CNOR, ADN (’84)OR Clinical SupervisorAiken Regional Medical Centers

Tracy Fasolino, PhD (’09), FNP, ACHPNAssistant ProfessorClemson University School of Nursing

Margaret Hindman, PhD, APRN (’96), MN (’81), BSN (’77), FNP-BC, CNLDirector of Graduate StudiesUniversity of South Carolina Upstate

Christopher L. Howe, BSN (’02), RN, MHA, ARM-E, CPHRM, FASHRMDirector of Quality – NursingSelf Regional Healthcare

Jenelle Martin, MSN, RN, CDE, BSN (’77)Clinical Nurse SpecialistPalmetto Health Baptist

Shannon McCandless, BSN (’09), RN, CNENurse EducatorGreenville Health System

Amanda J. Mills, MSN, RN, BSN (’86)Chief Nursing OfficerMcLeod Loris Seacoast

Wanda Scharstein, BSN (’79), RNStaff NurseMcLeod Darlington

Ellen Synovec, BSN (‘72), MN (‘83), MBA, RN, NEA-BC Clinical Associate Professor University of South Carolina

Sue ScallyEach year in May we pause to remember Dr. Sue Lingo Scally. Sue played a key role in es-tablishing the Certificate of Graduate Study in Gerontology Program at USC. The program is an interdisciplinary certificate program and ad-dresses the needs of community professionals and full- and part-time students who are either currently engaged in planning, administration, and provision of services for older adults, or who have an interest in pursuing this work. The

Christy DeGregory, Ruth Seigler, Terri Whirrett, Calvert Klopp, Barbara Kelley, Keller Barron, Monica Cromer and Caryn Little. Committee members not shown Kay Mitchell, Mary Bundrick and Katherine Leith.

program was established for students earning their master’s or doctoral degrees in one or more of the Health Sciences or related disciplines to prepare them for career paths in the expanding fields of gerontology and geriatrics.

A Committee of friends, along with Sue’s husband Billy Scally and Sue’s family, established the scholarship to remember her life of com-mitment for advocacy and leadership in Eldercare Policy and Pro-grams. Sue’s scholarship will provide stipends to one or more students selected from the USC Health Sciences disciplines -- College of Nurs-ing, College of Social Work, Arnold School of Public Health, School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy -- or related disciplines such as HRT-food management, etc. who are interested in enrolling in the Certificate program.

You can make the difference with your gift as we reach the goal to fully fund The Sue Lingo Scally Endowed Fellowship Fund. By making a one-time or on-going annual gift/pledge, you can help ensure that Sue’s legacy lives on in new leaders who are making a difference.

We are pushing to the end of the goal of $25,000. To date gifts/pledg-es total $13,573, and with a final push you can help assure that Sue’s life is honored in perpetuity. Her scholarship fund has a ripple effect, impacting not only those who completes the Certificate of Graduate Study in Gerontology Program, but those whose lives they, in turn, make better.

Do you know an outstanding

College of Nursing Alumnus?

2014 NOMINATION FORMS

can be found here.

The deadline for applications is

May 30, 2014.

All Gifts and Pledges to support Nursing can be sent to:

USC College of Nursing1600 Hampton Street, Suite 736

Columbia, SC 29208Gift Processing

Checks Made Payable to the USC Educational Foundation or at our website

http://giving.sc.edu/

To learn how you can make a difference at USC College of Nursing

contact the Development Office

at 803-777-3468.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Viana McCown Lectureship

and Alumni Day

Capstone Conference CenterFRIDAY

October 17, 2014 Homecoming Weekend

Monica Cromer at the April 11th Carolina baseball game vs. Florida. Monica and Dean Andrews hosted CON Partnership Board members Steve and Renatta Loquist.

CON alumnus, Kahlil De-monbreun DNP, BSN (‘94), MSN (‘98), is featured in the Greenville Journal ar-ticle, Doctor Who? which dis-cusses changing the NP scope of practice laws. Dr. Demon-breun is a women’s health nurse practitioner and faculty member at the MUSC Col-lege of Nursing in Charles-ton, SC. Read the Story Here.

Dr. Ronit Elk has been invited to review research applications for the NIH Delivery and Methodolo-gies (HDM) Health Disparities and Equity Promo-tion Study Section (HDEP). She has also been in-vited to serve on the national organization, AAHPM Research Committee, for two years. Dr. Elk has com-pleted Phase 1 of her Palliative Care Study.

Dr. Keith Plowden successfully completed the Certified Nurse Educator Examination.

Dr. Laura Hein participated in the First Annual SC LGBT Leadership Summit. March 7-8, 2014.

Dr. Laura Hein was a panelist at The Affordable Care Act and the SC LGBT Community. SC LGBT Busi-ness Guild. January 9, 2014.

Mary Androne has been elected the Special Proj-ects Chair at the Business Officer of Nursing Schools (BONUS) conference. BONUS is the business of-ficers group with AACN.

Lonnie Rosier, Simulation Technician and Pro-grammer, is graduating with his Masters in Library Science.

Larialmy Allen has accepted the position of the Student Services Program Coordinator II for the graduate nursing programs.

Stacie Clark, Office of the Dean, is graduating cum laude with her Bachelor of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology.

Faculty and Staff Notes

Faculty Publications

Laura Szadek, DNP program graduate and Kathleen Scharer, “Identification, Prevention, and Treatment of Chil-dren With Decreased Bone Mineral Density,” Journal of Pediatric Nursing. In Press.

Nathaniel Bell’s manuscript “Routine versus ad hoc screening for acute stress following injury: Who would benefit and what are the opportunities for prevention?” has been accepted for publica-tion in BMC Journal of Trauma Management and Outcomes.

Friedman DB, Brandt HM, Freedman DA, Adams SA, Young VM, Ureda JR, and JR Hebert. Innovative and Com-munity-Driven Communication Practices of the South Carolina Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network. Preventing Chronic Disease, In Press, 2014. Heiney SP, Adams SA, and Khang L. A Comparison Be-tween Self-Reported and Registry-Reported Treatment Adherence Among African American Women With Breast Cancer. Journal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship, In Press, 2014. Greiner KA, Friedman DB, Adams SA, Gwede CK, Cu-pertino P, Engelman KK, Meade CD, and Hébert JR. Effec-tive recruitment strategies and community-based participatory research: community networks program centers’ recruitment in cancer prevention studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 23(3):416-23; 2014. PMID: 24609851

Professor Kate Chappell received the Uni-versity Clinical Practice Teaching Award at an awards ceremony on April 30th.

Courtney Jones Program Coordinator

SC Center for Nursing Leadership

Welcome to the CON!

The Palmetto Gold Gala was held April 12th at Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Congratulations to our CON Faculty Recipients, Dr. Joan Culley, Professor Ellen Synovec and Professor Ann Scott. We are so proud of our Carolina Nurses! See more event photos HERE.

Palmetto Gold

Happy Nurses Week!

National Nurses Week May 6-12, 2014

Nurses Leading The Way

Faculty Presentations

Drs. Andrews, Burgess, LaSala and McKinney pre-sented a proposal on April 7th to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation to increase access to mental health care in SC by increasing the number of Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners prepared through our upcom-ing PsychNP Masters, Post Masters certificate and DNP program. 41 out of 46 counties in SC are underserved for mental health.

Hein, L. C. & Scharer, K. (2014, March 29). The Composition of Support Groups in the LGBT Community – Input from Consumers. Oral pre-sentation. International Society of Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nurses. Greenville, SC.

Kathleen Scharer “Examining the Current State of Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.” Interna-tional Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses , 7th Annual Psychopharmacology Institute and 16th Annual Conference, Greenville, SC, March 2014

Hein, L. C. (2014, March 25) Diversity vs. Inclu-sion in Academia and in Practice. Keynote speaker. Come Out for Health. Medical College of Georgia. Georgia Regents University.

Dr. Laura Hein presented at Obamacare and the LGBT Community. Harriett Hancock LGBT Cen-ter. February 18, 2014

Berger, K. & Kelchner, V. (2014, March 28). Project Success: An Innovative Collaboration be-tween Nursing and Counseling to Address High School Dropout in a Higher At-Risk Population [Presentation]. International Society of Psychiatric Mental-Health Nurses 14th Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.

Berger, K. & Kelchner, V. (2014, March 26-28). Evaluation of Project Success, a Nursing/Counsel-ing Collaborative Intervention to Prevent High School Dropout [Poster Session]. International So-ciety of Psychiatric Mental-Health Nurses 14th An-nual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.

Adams SA; Arrington AK; Bell N; Eberth JM; Salloum RG; and SP Heiney. A Comparison of Breast Cancer Treatment Received Between Par-ticipants and Non-Participants of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Pro-gram in South Carolina. Accepted to: 7th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference, 2014. Risendal B, Dwyer A, Callihan E, Patterson AK, Lipscomb J, Birken SA, Adams SA, Heiney SP, Friedman DB, and MG Ory. Activities to Promote and Support Survivorship Care Planning at the State Level: A Report from the CDC/NCI Cancer Pre-vention and Control Research Network. Accepted to: 7th Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Con-ference, 2014.

The Cancer Survivorship Center

The Cancer Survivorship Center is dedicated to al-leviating the burden and suffering from cancer in South Carolinians. The center’s researchers have a strong history and continuing interest in cancer con-trol from prevention to survival.

A focus of the center is in identifying and interven-ing on factors that produce an unequal burden of suffering, particularly among minority populations. Federally funded work by Sue Heiney and Swann Adams include behavior interventions for breast can-cer prevention and survival, development of a mam-mography screening registry in South Carolina and social connection in African-American communities. Faculty members that make up the center include: Dr. Swann Adams, Dr. Sue Heiney, Dr. Nate Bell, Dr. Ronit Elk. Dr. Karen McDonnell, and Dr. Tisha Felder.

Current projects include:◆ Psychometric analysis of Powe fatalism inventory modified◆ Social connection in African-American women with breast cancer◆ Treatment adherence in African-American women with breast cancer◆ Interval breast cancers among African-American women◆ Travel distance and breast cancer mortality among a multicultural cohort◆ Road congestion and breast cancer incidence and mortality in South Carolina◆ Innovative uses of geospatial methods in breast cancer disparities research◆ The Sistas Inspiring Sistas Through Activity and Support (SISTAS) study◆ Partnerships with federally qualified health centers to acquire and utilize health data

Student-Led Research Under The Cancer Survivorship Center Samson M and SA Adams. The Association of Diabetes in Breast Cancer among African-American and European-American populations in South Carolina, Accepted for oral presentation: 17th Annual Graduate Student Day, 2014. Bevel M, Adams SA, Heiney SP, Brandt HM, Wirth MD, Khan S, Johnson H, Wineglass CM, Warren-Jones TY, Murphy EA, and J.R. Hebert.The Sistas Inspiring Sistas Through Activity and Support (SISTAS) Research Study: Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Diet among Af-rican-American Women in South Carolina (2011-2016), Accepted to: Seventh Annual James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Lecture, 2014. Samson M and SA Adams. The Association of Diabetes in Breast Cancer among African-American and European-American populations in South Carolina, Accepted to: Seventh Annual James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Lec-ture, 2014. Nursing PhD student, Pearman Parker submitted an appli-cation for the Jonas Scholarship, 2014. Dr. Swann Adams will be serving as her mentor for the work on this applica-tion.

Dr. Sue Heiney’s book, Cancer in Our Family, Second Edition: Help-ing Children Cope with a Parent’s Illness, has been named as one of three (of four) finalists in the pres-tigious 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition, in the follow-ing category: Parenting & Family Issues. The Gold Award winner will be announced in a ceremony at Book Expo America on May 28 in New York City.

Check out the College of Nursing’s

Facebook page.Be sure to “LIKE” Us!!!

Dr. Sue Heiney Dr. Swann Adams

Grants Funded

Swann Adams and Nathaniel Bell, “The Relationship of Trauma and Cancer: From Initial Diagnosis to Treatment Delay.” ASPIRE I grant funded by the University of South Car-olina Office of the Vice President for Research.

Nathaniel Bell, “An interdisciplinary approach to the evalu-ation of the social determinants of trauma outcomes.” Social Sciences Grant Program funded by the USC Office of the Pro-vost.

Nathaniel Bell and Swann Adams, “Geographic access to post-acute rehabilitation services after injury,” ASPIRE I grant funded by the University of South Carolina Office of the Vice President for Research.

Senna Desjardins, Nursing Student; Kate Chappell, Co-Mentor; Abbas Tavakoli, Co-Mentor, “Examining Re-lationships between Primary Caregivers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Score and Type of Child Abuse Allegations in the Family.” Magellan Scholars Program funded by the USC Office for Undergraduate Research.

Sue P. Heiney, Swann Adams and Tisha Felder, “Patient Centered Treatment Adherence to Hormonal Thera-py.” ASPIRE I grant funded by the USC Office of Vice Presi-dent for Research.

Karen K. McDonnell, Sue P. Heiney, DeAnne K.H. Messias, “Living with Lung Cancer: Receptivity and Pref-erences for Risk-reducing Behavior Change Among African American Families.” ACS IRG SOAR-USC Grant funded by the American Cancer Society/USC School of Pharmacy.

DeAnne K.H. Messias, “Women’s Well-Being Initiative’s Arts-Based Community Interventions for At-risk Youth.” AS-PIRE II Grant funded by the USC Vice President for Research.

Joynelle Rivers and Tisha Felder, “Reducing dispari-ties, reducing risks: Promoting breastfeeding among African American women.” IAAR Fellowship from the Institute for Af-rican American Research.

Grants Submitted

Nathaniel Bell and Swann Adams, “When Cancer is Identified After Injury: What are the Outcomes?” Pilot Grant submitted to Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC).

Swann Adams and Sue P. Heiney, “Multi-Level, Com-munity-Clinical Cancer Prevention and Control Interven-tions.” SIP-14-011submitted to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Sue P. Heiney and Swann Adams, “Multi-State Inter-vention: Self Care and Survivor Care Planning.”SIP-14-015 submitted to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Amelia Joseph and Rita Snyder, “Components of Nurse Surveillance in Failure to Rescue Situations: An Ex-ploratory Study.” Submitted to American Nurses Foundation/SouthernNursing Research Society.

Goodbye Professors Leaphart & Scharer!

The College of Nursing held Retirement Receptions for both Professor Eileen Leaphart and Dr. Kathy Scharer. They celebrated with colleagues, friends and family. Good luck, the CON will miss you both!

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 9th and 10th Commencement

May 12th

Maymester Begins

May 16CPCP Colloquium Series Featuring Dr. Ronit Elk

10-11:30 Discovery I, Room 140

June 2 & 3Nursing Leadership Summit

Contact: Nurslead@mailbox.sc.edu

June 6-8The Online Teaching Institute

Contact Cheryl Nelson at cheryl.nelson@sc.edu

2014 Nursing Leadership SummitSponsored by the SC OVOP

Future of Nursing Action CoalitionJune 2 & 3 – Hilton Head Island, SC

The SC Center for Nursing Leadership (housed at the USC College of Nursing) and the SCHA are co-leaders of the SC Action Coalition (AC) and want to invite you to join a select group of your colleagues at the 2014 Nursing Leadership Sum-mit. This special meeting will be held at the Sonesta Hotel on Hilton Head Island, SC., and will feature three national speak-ers who will help our AC move the work of the IOM Future of Nursing Report forward – Dr. Sue Hassmiller, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Senior Advisor for Nursing; Dr. Mau-reen Sroczynski, President, Fairly Associates and Consultant to the Center to Champion Nursing in America; and Mr. Wil-liam “Bill” Lecher, President of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing, and Senior Clinical Director at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Nurse leaders will convene on June 2nd for an afternoon of focused work on two issues:◆ Establishing a model for educational progression to move our BSN workforce toward the 80% level by 2020; and◆ Developing three leadership programs to prepare our nursing workforce for current and future leadership opportunities.

On June 3rd, our speakers will address the following:◆ Dr. Hassmiller – “The Future of Nursing: Perspective & Put-ting It Into Action”◆ Dr. Sroczynski – “Creativity & Connections: Building a Framework for Nursing Education & Practice”◆ Mr. Lecher – “Moving Diversity in Nursing from Planning Toward Action”

Additionally on June 3rd, our colleagues from the Georgia Fu-ture of Nursing Action Coalition will join us and give an update on their work. It will be excellent for the two states to compare notes and perhaps develop collaborative work along the way.

We want to encourage education/service associates to attend these sessions if at all possible, as it is through these partner-ships that the National Campaign for Action will have success-ful outcomes. We would also like students to come and have a special registration fee to make that affordable. Costs for the meeting – other than meals and hotel rooms – will be covered by the SC Action Coalition through the support of our RWJF State Implementation Program grant and the generous match-ing funds from our SIP grant donors.

If you are interested in joining this exceptional group, please email the SC Center for Nursing Leadership for registration information: Nurslead@mailbox.sc.edu

For more information contact:PhD Program Office

College of Nursing

University of South Carolina

Williams-Brice Building, Room 305

Columbia, SC 29208

Phone: 803-777-0290

Fax: 803-777-4507

E-mail: PHDNursingScience@sc.edu

www.sc.edu/nursing

PhD in Nursing Science

The PhD in Nursing Science has prepared professional nurses for research careers in academic and health care settings for more than 25 years. The PhD core curriculum includes philosophy and theory of nursing science and research design, methods, and analytic approaches. Beyond the core, each student has an individualized program of study and is mentored by Nursing faculty in one of three major Research Emphasis Areas: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Systems Research.

Highlights of the PhD Program at the University of South Carolina College of Nursing:

●Access to a wide range of academic and interdisciplinary resources on the flagship USC campus

● New fellowships and stipends are available for qualified applicants

● Two Research Centers: Healthcare Process Redesign Center and Cancer Survivorship Center

No Limits to our Teaching• First and largest BSN and nursing graduate programs in the state of SC • 94%-100% NCLEX and Nurse Practitioner Board Pass Rates, exceeding both state and national averages • New PhD student fellowships and stipends• National and Internationally recognized faculty• Online graduate programs ranked top in the country by US News and World Report

No Limits to our Innovation • State-of-the-art Client Simulation Lab providing revolutionizing and quality education to students• Cutting edge research in health care delivery, cancer survivorship, health promotion, and vulnerable populations• 4th DNP program in the country, now provided online• Center for Nursing Leadership is leading state-wide action coalitions responsive to the national Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

No Limits to our Caring • The College of Nursing’s Children and Family Healthcare Center is the only nurse managed medical home in South Carolina• Our dedicated expert clinical faculty provide comprehensive healthcare to all ages of an underserved population• Over 90 scholarships provided each year to our students, with the generosity from our alumni and donors• Well established partnerships with health systems and stakeholders across the state

No Limits to our Scholarship• National leaders in nursing research with 70% of our tenure track faculty having received NIH funding • Diverse portfolio of research funding from NCI, NINR, NHLBI, NLM, CDC, HRSA, Duke Foundation, & others• Two Research Centers: Healthcare Process and Redesign Center and Cancer Survivorship Center

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF NURSING

CONTACT USCollege of Nursing

University of South Carolina1601 Greene Street

Columbia, SC 29208

Office of the Dean:803-777-3861

Office of Academic Affairs:803-777-7412

Information Resource Center:803-777-1213

Office of Research:803-777-7413

Center for Nursing Leadership

803-777-3039

Employment Opportunities

www.sc.edu/nursingwww.facebook.com/USCNursing