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

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Inside This Issue

Students Corner...................2-6

Upcoming Event...................7

Alumni & Development........8-9

Faculty & Staff Notes...........10-12

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

MAY 2015

DNP Candidate, Nancy Ewing, Dean Jeannette Andrews and BSN Candidate, David Wolfer.

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

Congratulations to our Graduates! April and May signal busy, yet momentous months in the College of Nursing. Student and faculty award ceremonies, USC-L Lamplighting ceremony, Discovery Day, CON Research Day, Alpha Xi induction cer-emony, final examinations, course completions and closeouts, research proposal submissions, clinic visits, Nurses Week celebrations, our 1st CON Gala, and of course----graduation. This May, we will launch 233 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral prepared nurses into the workforce in South Carolina and beyond. We are extremely proud of our graduates! They have demonstrated basic competencies and knowledge expected of a novice nurse, nurse practitio-ner, 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. As we wrap up the 2014-2015 academic year, I wish to personally thank all of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and CON Partnership Board for your ongoing support and contributions to the College of Nurs-ing. The achievements of our village continue to grow and the future of our College is extremely bright. We look forward to our opportunities awaiting us in the near future. Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAANDean & Professorj.andrews@sc.edu

Students Corner

SNA members Martin Mrazeck, A’naya John-son, Christine Kent, Chasity McCray, Allie Barilla, Erin Forward, and Stephanie Carl, participated in USC’s 13th annual Relay for Life which raised $164,136.42 for the American Cancer Society.

Lauren Arens, Allie Barilla, Alex Hardin and Jamie Lawson represented the College of Nursing at the National Student Nursing As-sociation Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. The convention allowed members to serve as delegates with the opportunity to vote on current legislation, participate in leadership workshops and NCLEX review ses-sions as well as network with nursing leaders. USC delegates continued to spread the word about the need for carbon monoxide education.

CSL Lab Director, Erin McKinney, demonstrates the labor and delivery simulator for a group of visiting students from the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences in Nurem-berg, Germany. The students visited the United States for 10 days getting to know the ins and outs of the CON and our healthcare system. Last year, students from the College of Nursing went to Germany to learn about nursing programs and technology abroad.

Senna Desjardins will begin her nursing ca-reer in Rochester, Minnesota this July at Mayo Clinic in the Cardiac Surgery and Transplant ICU.

USCL held their annual Lamp Lighting Ceremony honoring their May 2015 BSN graduates.

Senior, Allie Kraybill, was a meme-br of the USC the equestrian team, leaving with 3 SEC championships and 1 national championship.

She is a Leadership Studies minor, went on the inaugural trip to Nuremberg, Germany, presented at the CON re-search day and be working at the Mayo Clinic on a Cardiovascular Surgery PCU. Allie said, “As a 5th year on the Eques-trian team, I served more as an assistant or student coach, with the girls calling me “Coach K.” Our running joke was did I really have 1000 wins? Truth be told, it is the quality of the win and not the quantity. Being able to be a part of a National Championship team is a once in a lifetime – watching years of hard work finally payoff is priceless.” “‘Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it. -Bud-dha’ I have this quote hanging on my wall. Nursing school has been a journey which I never imagined. I have seen my highest moments and I have definitely had my fair shares of lows. Regardless, I would not have traded my experi-ence here at Carolina, and in College of Nursing, for anything,” she stated.

USC Salkehatchie Graduation

Erika Rucker (Track and field) at the Game-cock Athletics 2015 Gala, winner of the SEC H. Boyd McWhorter Postgraduate Scholarship Award.

Congratulations to all of our CON Seniors who were recognized at the USC Awards Day Ceremony:

Academic Excellence Award Ashlee Greer Kayla Lampe

Outstanding Clinical Performance Award Stevie Cox Mary McGuinness

Outstanding Community Service Award Khadija Trotter

Outstanding Leadership Award Kelly Banholzer Anna Carol Bell Savannah Turner

Outstanding Service to the College of Nursing and/or the University Award Emily Seeger

Palmetto Gold Scholarship Winner Anna Carol Bell

Department of Athletics H Boyd McWhorter SEC Scholar-Athlete Award Erika Rucker

Rotary Ambassadorial Global Grant David Wolfer

Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Samantha Cooper Rachel Eklund Kayla Lampe David Wolfer

Outstanding Senior Samantha Cooper David Woofer

USCL SNA members set up a booth at the Lancaster County Relay for Life. They raised money for cancer research and shared with the community information about the USCL BSN collaborative program.

Best Graduate Research Poster : Pearman Hayne Best Undergraduate Research Poster : Amanda Hartman

Best Faculty Research Mentor : DeAnne Messias

Best Student Research Mentor : Kate Chappell

Most Outstanding Poster : Brianna Jacobs

View more photos HERE.

CON Research Day

“Graduation with Leadership Distinc-tion” (GLD) cords were awarded to:

Oyeyemi AdeniranShannon BurkeRachel EcklandYu Min NiJacqueline NolanDavid Wolfer

Read more about Graduation with Leadership Distinc-tion Here.

Alpha Xi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau held it’s spring in-duction at the College of Nursing on May 3rd. Thirteen new members were inducted into nursing’s International Honor Society.

Poster Presentations: Public Health - Second place Yu Min NiDr. Sabra SmithDr. Abbas Tavakoli

Poster Presentations: Social Sciences A - First place Senna DesjardinsProf. Kate ChappellDr. Abbas Tavakoli

Oral Presentations: Social Sciences - First place Jamie LawsonDr. DeAnne Messias

Poster Presentations: USC Connect - First place Dr. Karen Kane McDonnell

USC Discovery Day

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Student Spotlight:Kathleen Saunders, BSN SeniorRead it HERE.

We are pleased to announce that we have joined Nurses Lounge - a professional online network for nurses. This network will allow us to communicate news, events, continuing education opportunities, job openings and other valuable information to our students, faculty, alumni and the nursing profession at large.

The Nurses Lounge is quite different from other social networks and it is a FREE network that offers a wide range of information you might not find anywhere else. This is why we’d like to invite you to join the USC CON Nurses Lounge. As a member you will not only be connected to USC CON but also to nursing organizations and employers across the country as well as nursing specialty lounges such as “Certified Nurse-Midwife and “Nurse Practitioner” lounges.

Connecting to a site dedicated to the nursing profession will benefit you as an individual. In addition to receiving job postings and industry news, this free service also provides a way for you to stay connected professionally with USC CON faculty, fellow students and colleagues throughout your career.

Thank you for participating. We look forward to seeing you in Nurses Lounge!

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Convocation

College of Nursing Convocation was held Thursday, May 7th at the Koger Center for the Arts. Faculty and staff gathered with family and friends to honor the graduates.

View more event photos HERE.

Kate Chappell and Senna Des-jardins presented at the 7th annual Sara Schuh Child Abuse Conference in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Their focus session “Don’t Forget the Parents: Strategies to Facilitate Working with Caregivers for the Best Interest of the Child,” included Information on their Magellan research and results.

USC Lancaster Graduation

The University of South Carolina College of Nursing presents2nd Annual Online Teaching Institute:

A Complete Beginner’s Guide for Building a Successful Online Course

University of South CarolinaCollege of Nursing1601 Greene StreetColumbia, SC 29208

June 4th - 5th

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 two successful online educators from the USC College of Nursing, this class is for instructors with no or limited prior experience with online teaching, academic pro-gram administrators, and anybody who is interested in online teaching and learning.

The 2015 U.S. News and World Report’s Best Online Educa-tion Programs ranked the College of Nursing’s graduate pro-grams No.3 in the Nation. 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:

JoAnne Herman, PhD, RN, CSME, Professor Emerita, USC College of Nursing directed the implementation of online teaching in the graduate program. She has won multiple university,state, and national awards for excellence in teach-ing.

Kate K. Chappell, MSN, APRN, CPNP, Clinical Assistant Professor, USC College of Nursing has taught hybrid and on-line courses in the BSN and graduate programs since 2008. She led the implementation of multiple simulation-based learning modalities in live and online teaching at the Col-lege and has received college, university, and state awards for excellence in clinical practice and teaching.

REGISTER HEREEarn 3 graduate credit hours or 12 CEU credits

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

Celebrate Nursing Gala and Auction

On April 30th, the College of Nursing Partnership Board (led by Gala Chair Pattie Heady - left) hosted an auction with proceeds benefitting the College of Nursing and the USC Alumni Center. Members of the nursing community and beyond came together to celebrate and support nursing. A huge thank you to everyone in-volved in making this a successful event!

View more event photos HERE.

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Barbara grew up in Charlotte, NC, graduating from USC in 1968 with a BS Degree in Nursing. With an interest in pediatrics and public health, she spent most of her career in public school nursing, serving as a liaison between school and families.

She met her husband, Earl, at Carolina and has been married for 46 years with two married daughters and four grandchildren all living in SC, who are also Gamecock fans.

She enjoys her grandchildren, outdoor activities, travel and church work. Her nursing education prepared her for the different roles in her life as wife, mother, caregiver and community volunteer.

Earl graduated from USC in 1967 with a BA Degree in History from the College of Arts and Science. He attended USC on a Basketball Scholarship. He worked in public education as a teacher, coach, as-sistant principal and principal for the next 42 years. After working 36 years in South Carolina he returned to Kingsport, TN and served as principal at his alma mater, Dobyns-Bennett High School until retire-ment.

Both are now retired and spend all the time they can participating in activities with their families and trying to be role models for them. They also enjoy traveling and seeing as much of the country as possible. The photo above is at Denali National Park in Alaska last year with Mt. McKinley in the background.

Earl stated, “I wanted to establish this scholarship in Barbara’s name because she is the most caring person I know. She would not agree to that so we are establishing this scholarship in both names because we believe so strongly in caregivers and what they do. We saw first-hand the loving care given to our parents.” They often talk about their Carolina experiences and enjoy returning to USC and renewing acquaintances and reminiscing about their time there. They are excited about a possible move back to South Carolina in the future.

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Legacy of Giving: Barbara Huitt Lovelace and Earl Lovelace

Faculty and Staff Notes

Faculty Presentations

Pinto, B.M., Stein, K. & Dunsiger, S.I. (2015, April). Peer mentors delivering physical activity intervention to cancer survivors: Results among mentors. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Antonio, TX.

Pinto, B.M., Stein, K. & Dunsiger, S.I. (2015, April). Mediators of physical ac-tivity outcomes in a peer-led intervention for cancer survivors. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Antonio, TX.

Pinto, B. M. The Road Less Travelled: My Research Journey, Sigma Theta Tau, Columbia, SC, March 31, 2015.

Elk, R., Emanuel, L., Coburn-Smith, C., Duke, C., Reparaz, L., and Levkoff, S. (2015). Innovative Strategies to Address the Unique Cultural and Spiritual Perspectives of African American Patients and Families at End of Life. James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Lecture, Columbia, South Carolina, April 27, 2015. (poster presentation).

Culley, JM, Richter, J, DiNardi, SR, Craig, J, Valafar, H, Tavakoli, A. & Svendsen, E. Need for Emergency Department Informatics Computational Tools to Mange Chemical Mass Casualty Incidents. South Carolina Public Health As-sociation Annual Conference, Columbia, SC. May 20-22, 2015.

Tavakoli, A. S., Wooten, N. R., Al-Barwani, M. B., McKinney, S. H., & Levkoff, S. E. (2015, May). Analyzing Longitudinal Data from a Department of Veterans Affairs Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial. Poster presentation at the 2015 Dorn VA Research Day. Columbia, SC.

Al-Barwani, M. B., Wooten, N. R., Tavakoli, A. S., *Leon Negreiros, K. E. & Levkoff, S. E. (2015, May). Behavioral health beliefs and literacy among older male veterans seen in VA primary care clinics. Annual Conference of the South Carolina Public Health Association. Columbia, SC.

South Carolina Cancer Dis-parities Community Net-work is one of the recipients of the James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Leader-ship Award.

Dr. Swann Adams is the Leader of the Research Core for the South Carolina Can-cer Disparities Community Network.

Dr. Cristy DeGregory and Dr. Ellen Adkins received the “Two Thumbs Up Award” from the Office of Disability Services and the Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society.

Personal Challenge: Profession of NursingBy Dr. Patrick HickeyRead it HERE.

Winners of the CON Heart Beat Challenge are the Nursing Naturals - De Onna Greenwood and Cheryl Nelson - with 1,921,476 total steps! De Onna received a trophy and certificate from Dean Andrews and Kathy Mercer at a celebratory luncheon. The Road Warriors, Dr. Nathaniel Bell and Dr. Bernardine Pinto, came in second place with 1,451,720 steps.

Stopping a silent killerUSC Times

Dr. Amber Williams has painful, personal experience with carbon monoxide poisoning — she lost her 11-year-old nephew and nearly lost her sister-in-law in a deadly incident two years ago. That’s why she’s made it her mission to make people more aware of the danger.

Read more HERE.

Watch the WLTX news story HERE.

Carolina Trustee ProfessorshipDr. Deanne Messias

Clinical Practice Teaching AwardProfessor De Anna Cox

USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Service AwardDr. Laura Hein

University Faculty Award Winners

April Cone and Shelli Gibbs presented a poster on the Summer Bridge II Program in Savannah, GA at the Coastal Georgia Center for the Interprofessional Health Care Sum-mit hosted by Armstrong State University.

The College of Nursing is featured in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. USC College of Nursing: Shaping lifesavers and leaders

Read it HERE.

Research Spotlight: Ronit Elk, PhD, Research Associate Professor

Palliative care (PC) programs have been proven to reduce symptoms, alleviate suffering, enhance care delivery and result in family satisfaction. Unfortunately, there are no PC pro-grams in rural South Carolina. Culturally-tailored PC programs are critical in ensuring the unique needs of African American (AA) and White (W) elders are met. However, to date, there are no culturally-tailored PC programs for any rural elders in the US.

Dr. Ronit Elk’s study will address this gap through her NIH-funded R21 entitled, Com-munity-Generated Palliative Care Telemedicine for Rural Black and White Elders. This study is conducted in partnership with AA and W community members, and is the first to use Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to design a culturally-tailored PC program tailored to both AA and W rural elders at end of life. A Community Advisory Group (CAG) guides each of the 3 study phases. In Phase 1: separate focus groups were conducted with AA and W family members whose loved one recently died. In Phase 2, a

yearlong process, the CAG reviews focus groups’ results, determines implications for the PC Consult program, and devel-ops the study protocol. Phase 3: The culturally tailored PC Consult program will be delivered via telemedicine in Beaufort Memorial Hospital later this year.

Dr. Elk has been an Reviewer for NIH Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior Small Business Innovation Research Panel, a 2015 Panel Member for NIH, National Institute of Aging (NIA-S) Review Panel, an American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Diversity Advisory Group Committee member (2015-2017), a Guest Editor in Chief of a special issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine on End of Life Care for African Americans and a Guest Editor for a special issue of the journal LGBT Health on LGBT and Cancer.

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Faculty Publication

Peers promoting physical activity among breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial.Pinto, Bernardine M.; Stein, Kevin; Dunsiger, Shira Health Psychology, Vol 34(5), May 2015, 463-472.

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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

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