november 2015 enewsletter
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Monthly publication from the University of South Carolina College of Nursing.TRANSCRIPT
The CONnectionGAMECOCK
News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING
Inside This Issue
Alumni & Development...2-3
Students Corner...............4-5
Faculty & Staff Notes.....6-8
NO LIMITS........................9
NOVEMBER 2015
Dean Jeannette Andrews
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Celebrating 15 Years of USC’s Clinical Doctorate
In the 1990s, Dean Mary Ann Parsons, along with innovative USC faculty, had a col-lective vision to develop a second doctoral program in nursing. The existing doctoral program, PhD in Nursing Science, provided training, socialization, and education for nurses who wanted a career in research and the generation of new knowledge to inform our evidence base for practice. However, there lacked a terminal degree for nurses who wanted to expand their education with a clinical focus, enhancing the translation and implementation of evidence into practice, system-level practice changes, and leader-ship. Hence, in 2000, Dean Parsons and USC faculty launched the fourth clinical doctorate program in the country – a Nursing Doctorate (ND). The first USC ND graduate was Dr. Linda Morphis, a women’s health nurse practitioner and USC fac-ulty member. In March, 2005, based on the national movement toward the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), the USC program degree changed from the ND to DNP.
Now with over 200 DNP USC graduates, our alumni are scattered around the country making an impact in healthcare delivery. They join the 3000+ DNPs across the US, with significant growth expected to continue over the next 5-10 years. Currently in the US there are 18,000+ nurses enrolled in 241+ DNP programs. (AACN, 2014). Here at USC, we have 80 DNP students enrolled in four tracks: Family Nurse Prac-titioner, Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and Nurse Executive Leadership.
We will celebrate USC’s 15 year history of the Clinical Doctorate at our Viana Mc-Cown lectureship on Friday, November 13, 2015. Dr. Marian Broome, Dean of Nurs-ing at Duke University and editor of Nursing Outlook, will be our keynote speaker. She will be followed by a panel exploring the past, present, and future of the DNP role. Our guest panelists are: Dr. Stephanie Burgess (USC faculty), Amy Freeman (United Healthcare), Dr. Jennifer Bell (Michelin), Louis Gossett (SC Manufacture’s Alliance), Susan Witkowski (SC Free Medical Clinic Association), and Dr. Joan Culley (USC faculty). Following the panel presentation, we will have breakout sessions with a vari-ety of options for nursing students, nurses, and alumni.
We look forward to seeing all of you on November 13. This will be a great time to socialize, network, and “catch up” with your peers. Click here for information on registering for the Viana McCown Lectureship.
Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAANDean & [email protected]
VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development
Dr. Marilyn Sonnenberg, Faculty Emertita, has been named the 2015 My Carolina Alumni Association Honorary Life Membership Award recipi-ent.
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USC College of Nursing1027 Barnwell Street Columbia, SC 29208
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Help us plan our alumni engagement program by filling out this survey and letting us know how you’d like to engage with the college. The survey should take no more than 5 minutes and, as a bonus, we’ll send you a token of our appreciation if you complete the survey in its entirety. Take the survey HERE.
Attention UofSCNursing alumni
Students Corner
Megan Scharner, a freshman from Cincinnati, Ohio, joined the College of Nursing family this fall as its first McNair Scholar.
Read more HERE.
USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative held its 3rd Annual Stethoscope Ceremony to recognize and congratulate the 16 students who successfully progressed to the Upper Division of the nursing program.During the Stethoscope Ceremony, faculty members honored junior nursing students by draping a stetho-scope around each student’s neck and donning them with special memorabilia pins cut in the shape of a stethoscope and engraved with the anticipated date of graduation.
The new Simulation Lab at USC Lancaster featured on CN2. Watch it HERE.
Student Spotlight:Emily Bollinger, BSN StudentRead it HERE.
Study Abroad Undergraduate & Graduate Nursing Students
Financial Aid Due November 15th
NicaraguaDates: February 20 -28, 2016 Contact: [email protected]
USC-Costa Rica in Global Health Dates: Maymester 2016Contact: [email protected]
Germany: Munich, Nuremburg Dates: May 7-21, 2016 Contact: [email protected]
LondonDates: Maymester 2016 Contact: [email protected]
Australia: Sydney, Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne Dates: Aug 1-14, 2016 Contact: [email protected]
Sheri Webster successfully defended her PhD disserta-tion based on her research study, “Unexpected and In-terrupted Transitions among Newly Licensed Registered Nurses: Perspectives of Nurse Managers and Preceptors.”
Eboni Harris, PhD student and clini-cal assistant professor, and DNP Student, April Pelgram, at the Jonas Scholars Leadership Conference in Washingtton, DC. The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar program supports the education of fu-ture nurse leaders. “This experience has influenced me to continue to be actively involved in the Coalition for Access to Healthcare to advocate for legislative change and educate the public about the role and value of APRN’s,” Pegram said.
Jason Richard successfully defend-ed his DNP project, “Nurses Utilizing the V.O.I.C.E.S. HIV Prevention In-tervention in the Black Church Com-munity.”
Faculty Publications
Inoue, I., Higashi, T., Iwamoto, M., Heiney, Sue P., Tamaki, T., Osawa, K., Inoue, M., Shiraishi, K., Kojima, R., & Matoba, M. (in press). A national profile of the impact of parental cancer and their children in Japan. Cancer Epidemiology, in press.
Qiu R, Eberth JM, Gallant N, Copeland A, McDonnell KK. (in press). Planning and implementation of low-dose CT lung cancer screening pro-grams in the U.S. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.
Bakitas, M., Elk, R., Astin, M., Ceronsky, L., Clifford, K., Dionne-Odom, J. N., Emanuel, L., Fink, R., Kvale, E., Levkoff, S., Ritchie, C., Smith, T. (2015 in press). A Systematic Review of Rural Palliative Care Research: A New Fron-tier. Cancer Control Journal.
Faculty Presentations
Karen McDonnell, DeAnne Messias, and Lisa Webb, Presented “Fam-ilies Facing Lung Cancer: Tensions and Compromises,” at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing meeting in Washington D. C.
Helen Halasz participated in a panel presentation “Graduate Student Ad-vising: Strategies for Degree Progression,” at NACADA, The Global Com-munity for Academic Advising, Las Vegas, NV.
Tingen MS, Andrews JO, Heath J, Williams L, Schroeder C, Dainer P, Khelif S, Waller J. (2015). Tailored parental cessation delivered concurrently with tobacco prevention in children enrolled in urban and rural southern el-ementary schools. American Association for Cancer Research, Annual Meet-ing. Atlanta, GA.
Berger, K.C. & Kelchner, V.P. (2015). An innovative intervention for stu-dents at-risk of high school dropout illuminates a needed role for PMHNPs delivering mental health care in the school setting [Poster Presentation]. American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) 29th Annual Conference, Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Faculty and Staff Notes
Welcome to the CON
Courtney Fleck Graduate Programs
Coordinator
Kimberly RawlinsonDr. Pinto’s Research
Project Manager
Dara BrownDr. Pinto’s Research
Intervention Coordinator
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a new grant to fund the South Carolina Nurses’ Ac-tion Coalition. The project, led by Dr. Kathy LaSala, principal investigator, and Susan Outen, project manager, aims to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree in South Carolina and pre-pare nurses to lead change to advance health.
Dr. Tisha Felder re-cently received funding for a prestigious K01 Mentored Research Sci-entist Development Award from the National Cancer Institute. Her project will identify and test multi-level interven-tion strategies to improve adherence to hormonal therapy among disad-vantaged breast cancer survivors who experience excess rates of breast can-cer mortality. Read more HERE.
Dr. Bernadine Pinto’s paper, “Peer mentorship to promote physical ac-tivity among cancer survi-vors: effects on quality of life,” was recently selected to feature in Wiley’s News Round-Up. The Round-Up is a biweekly mailing sent to over 1,800 sub-scribing journalists that promotes a selection of the most newsworthy re-search published across Wiley’s journals.
Dr. Tena McKinney on a robot screen at the SC Tele-health Summit at the Co-lumbia Convention Cen-ter. The USC CON Psych Mental Health Nurse Prac-titioner curriculum includes education on telehealth and telehealth simulations. The faculty is working to develop three rooms in the Simula-tion Lab that are dedicated to psych simulation includ-ing telehealth.
Bev Baliko, Erin McKinney, Allyson Bagley, and Garner Leigh Caswell provided nursing services at pop-up health clinics in the wake of Columbia’s flooding. Read more HERE.
Dr. Ronit Elk been ap-pointed a permanent member of the NIA-S standing committee.
Dr. Carolyn Harmon has been elected the Presi-dent Elect/Treasurer for the South Carolina American Nurses Informatics Associa-tion Chapter.
Grants Submitted
Jiajia Zhang and Swann Adams, “New Method to Quantify Distance Impact on Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Survival,” R21 to NIH/NCI.
Jeannette Andrews, “The Jonas Nurse Scholars Program: 2016-2018 Cohort,” Loan Program to Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare.
Zaina Qureshi and Ronit Elk, “Establish-ing Screening Preferences for Cancer Affect-ing the Prostate (ESCAPE),” K07 to NIH/NCI.
Zaina Qureshi and Ronit Elk, “Eliciting Screening Preferences for Cancer Affecting the Prostate (ESCAPE),” Mentored Research Scholar Grant to ACS.
Robin Estrada, “A Patient-Centered Asth-ma Management Communication Interven-tion for Rural Latino Children,” K23 to NIH/NHLBI.
Sue Heiney, “ STORY + Smart Phone Ap-plication for Treatment Adherence to Endo-crine Therapy in African American Women with Breast Cancer,” R21 to NIH/NINR.
Bernardine Pinto, “Understanding Sed-entary Behavior among Breast Cancer Sur-vivors ,” R21 to NIH/NCI.
Grants funded
Kathleen LaSala, “South Carolina One Voice One Plan Action Coalition Future of Nursing State Implementation Program 2015 - 17,” Program Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
James Hebert and Tisha Felder, “GMaP Subcontract with University of Kentucky,”Subaward from NIH.
Thank you to Kimberly Bradshaw and Erin McKin-ney for representing the CON and working with the an-nual giving office on the Family Fund Drive.
Dr. Laura Hein was the recipient of a 2015 Folio: Eddie Award for her re-cent article, “Caring for Transgender Patients,” published on Nursing made Incredibly Easy!. The Folio: Awards are one of the most prestigious award competitions in the publishing industry.
South Carolina deans and associate deans traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with senators about nursing and healthcare policies.
Research Spotlight: Karen Kane McDonnell, PhD, RN, OCN, Assistant Professor
UPCOMING EVENTS
November 5th Lung Cancer Screening The Hall at Senate’s End
5-7 pm
November 13th Viana McCown Lectureship
REGISTER HERE
November 14th Cockaboose
November 14thSCNF Nurses Walk
Riverfront Park REGISTER HERE
December 14th Convocation
Main Street United Methodist Church
Building on a strong administrative and clinical background in cancer care, Dr. Karen Kane McDonnell acknowledges that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, with more deaths attributable to lung cancer than to colorectal, breast and prostate cancer combined. She believes it is imperative to ad-vance the science of lung cancer screening and survivorship so that more survivors and their families live with a greater quality of life. Dr. McDonnell has focused her research program on lung cancer initiatives. The long-term goal of her research program is to improve outcomes for persons diagnosed with lung cancer and their family mem-bers. Her current study, A Dissemination Project to Advance Lung Cancer Screening in SC, was funded by the South Carolina Cancer Alliance as a collaborative effort with colleagues at USC Arnold School of Public Health, School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing. As a Co-PI of this grant,
Dr. McDonnell designed and conducted a pilot study to test a clinically-based decision aid entitled “Is Lung Cancer Screen-ing for You?” Working with pairs of high-risk patients and primary care physicians, the research team explored shared decision-making processes as well as tested the feasibility of a newly-developed low literacy decision aid. The research team envisions that the results of this study will be used in the future to disseminate a lung cancer screening decision aid and toolkit for health care providers throughout the state of South Carolina.
Dr. Tena McKinney (pictured with Dr. Debra Hatmaker, ANA Execu-tive Director) represented UofSCNursing at the South Carolina Nurses Association convention. She was elected to anoth-er term as Commission Chair of Advocacy and Professional Development at SCNA.
No Limits to our Teaching• First and largest BSN and nursing graduate programs in the state of SC • 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 #3 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 86% tenure track faculty have externally funded research, 5 new NIH awards in past two years• 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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