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By Emily Kumlein

RIO – The light was fading a recent Friday night as Deb Brausen and Tracy Weber were settling in to enjoy their camping trip at Silver Springs in Rio.

But at 8:30 p.m., they heard cries for help from the neighboring camp-site.

Brausen, the recently-appointed vice president of UW Health spe-cialty care clinics, and Tracy Weber, a nurse in general surgery at UW Health, were in the right place at the right time. And they knew exactly what to do.

The sound led them to find 48-year-old Tammy Schroeder of Caledonia, lying on the ground, with no pulse. She had fallen while car-rying firewood. They immediately began CPR and told the family to call 911.

“It felt like second nature. I have been a nurse since 1990. You have to do CPR in the hospital, but this was the first time we had ever done CPR in the field. We could see the life going out of her eyes. We had to keep her alive,” Brausen recalled.

The campsite had purchased an automated external defibrillator, AED, just two weeks ago and it was put to good use right away. “It was getting dark out, so the fami-lies used their cell phones to give us light as we shocked her,” Weber said.

They shocked her four times but she never got a stable pulse. When the EMS arrived 15 minutes after

CPR started, they were able to get a pulse. She was rushed to Divine Savior Healthcare in Portage. Once she was stabilized, they transferred her to UW Hospital.

The next day, the family told Brausen and Weber that she was in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery. They were extremely thankful for the life-saving measures. “I don’t remember anything about that night; I did not wake up until Saturday when I was at UW Hospital. I know I would not be alive without them,” said Schroeder, who has a pacemaker.

Brausen and Weber credit the yearly training at UW Health. “It is

remarkable how calm we felt. It’s really a feather in the cap of UW Health for all the time, energy and resources they put into their train-ing. I’m a director now, but I still felt prepared,” said Brausen.

“We have to get recertified in CPR every other year and then we have training exercises the other years that really keep us prepared,” said Weber.

In a case where seconds matter, everyone was grateful this story had a happy ending.

“If it had to happen, I am glad it happened with two trained medical professionals right next door,” said Brausen.

Deb Brausen, VP of UW Health specialty care clinics, and Tracy Weber, a UW Health nurse, were on a campout when they wound up saving the life of a woman whohad fallen.

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I recently came upon two quotes that really started me thinking. No, more than thinking – I was contem-plating! I just had to share them with

you because they both are so appli-cable to nurses and nursing.

The first is from Maya Angelou:“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

While I was ruminating over this

one, I came across the second quote, from Vern Swaback, AIA. Vern is a dear friend-architect-philosopher! It is entitled “A Worthy Thought...”

“What we call imagination is deeply linked to what we consider beautiful. People who hate their work or fear it, are bored by it or treat it merely as an obligation, are not likely to be very imaginative about what they do. What liber-ates the imagination is the sense

that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love that break down the bar-rier between worker and work and commit to work, not merely the ‘thinking’ consciousness but the full resources of mind.”

Ponder, reflect, meditate, mull over and please let me know your thoughts.

Food for Contemplation

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has awarded Barbara Bowers – Ph.D., RN, FAAN, and associate dean for research and spon-sored programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing – the 2014 Task Force on Minority Issues in Gerontology (TFMIG) Outstanding Mentorship Award.

Bowers will receive the award at GSA’s 67th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held held Nov, 5 to 9 p.m. in Washington, D.C. The award honors individu-als who exemplify an outstanding commitment and dedication to men-toring minority research-ers in the field of aging.

Bowers, the school’s Charlotte Jane and Ralph A. Rodefer Chair and the Helen Denne Schulte Professor of Nursing, also serves as director of education, community, and academic partner-ships at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at UW-Madison and holds an adjunct professor appointment at Australian Catholic University. She is the

founding director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE).

Known worldwide for her research in long-term care, Bowers focuses on develop-ment of public policies and work processes that influence qual-ity of care and quality of life for frail older adults in both com-munity and residential settings. She is a noted expert on the reten-tion of nursing home staff, the relationship between work practices and care quality, and the development of new care models. As noteworthy, her guid-ance as a mentor has provided countless students with a well-

rounded graduate experience.“Dr. Bowers stands out even

among the most dedicated and dili-gent of mentors by virtue of her tire-less drive to build opportunities for her trainees and her steady dedica-tion of time, energy, and resources to support those opportunities,” wrote Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi,

Ph.D.’14, RN, the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE) Claire M. Fagin Postdoctoral Fellow, and one of the individuals who nominated Bowers for the award. “I am one of many students of color whom Dr. Bowers has mentored, and I believe that the high level of success and scholarship demonstrated by her mentees is the ultimate testimony to her dedication and commitment.”

“Dr. Bowers has opened doors for me, encouraging me to soar aca-demically to reach heights that she knew I could reach before I did,” wrote doctoral student Maichou Lor, MS’12, RN, an NHCGNE Patricia G. Archbold Scholar who also nomi-nated Bowers. “She challenges her students to surpass their comfort zones in search of academic excel-lence that is done not for the glory of the individual student, but for the advancement of science.”

The GSA, of which Bowers is a fellow, is the nation’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organiza-tion devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. Its principal mission is to advance the study of aging and dissemi-nate information among scientists, decision makers, and the general public.

–Kathleen Corbett Freimuth

Bowers honored for mentoring minority students

Barbara Bowers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, was nominated for the Outstanding Mentor-ship Award by Barbara King, Ph.D., APRN-BC, as-sistant professor of nurs-ing; Ju Young Yoon, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor of nursing; and Gilmore-Bykovskyi and Lor.

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Welcome to the seventh in “The Wisconsin Nursing Workforce: Status and Recommendations.” Each article contains a unique issue in Wisconsin with recommendations and strategies to address it. The rel-evant key message from the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Report (2011) is also included. Consider actions your organization can take to address these issues to avoid a future nursing workforce shortage in our state.

IOM REPORT KEY MESSAGENurses should achieve higher

levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless aca-demic progression toward 80 percent of workforce with BSNs and double the number of nurses at the doctoral level by 2020.

WISCONSIN ISSUETurnover among new graduates is

higher than turnover of experienced RNs. Retention of new graduates is essential to assure an adequate workforce, improve patient safety, and decrease health care costs.

RECOMMENDATIONImplement best practice strate-

gies for nurse residency programs in health care systems and other ven-ues to decrease turnover and ease transition to practice, in an effort to retain and recruit new graduates.

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grams for all new RN graduates and across all venues of practice.

2. Establish a standardized mecha-nism to monitor new graduate turnover.

3. Expand foundation support for nurse residency programs.Turnover and retention of nurs-

ing staff is a significant issue which impacts the quality, patient safety and financial costs of care. Nursing orientation costs an estimated $40,000–$64,000 per nurse. In addi-tion to orientation costs, turnover costs include marketing and recruit-ment expenses, salaries for overtime

and/or external staffing resourc-es to cover clinical staffing needs, and the potential effect on customer satisfaction scores. Nursing turnover has been estimated to cost 75 percent to 125 percent of the average annual nursing salary.

Turnover of new graduates in the practice setting is often significantly higher in the first three years of practice with reported rates between 18 to 50 percent. A report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010) indicates that 40 percent of new graduates had intent to leave their current position within three years, with 22 percent that changed positions or employers. Job stress, poor management and inadequate staffing are frequently cited as reasons for turnover.

The IOM report recommends the implementation and evaluation of residency programs to decrease turnover and ease the transition into practice. Given the future gap of nurses it will be important to implement significant strategies to improve retention and decrease turnover of new graduates. The federally-funded Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program (WNRP) and the SOAR-RN Rural Nurse Residency Program, first offered in 2005, are national exemplars.

Involving more than 60 hospitals, these programs address the profes-sional socialization needs of newly licensed nurses in urban and rural areas with ongoing research of pro-gram outcomes. Participating orga-nizations have experienced an aver-age two-year new graduate retention rate of 83 percent. In addition, the UHC/AACN Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency ProgramTM

implemented at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is recognized as an exemplary program by the Magnet® Commission and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Residency programs have been

shown to be an effective strategy to decrease turn-over and ease transition into practice. These programs show great potential to increase nurse retention if expanded to all clinical sites with rapid adoption and sharing of best practice strategies.

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When Signe Skott Cooper Hall opens for the fall semester 2014, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing will have green space to call its own. “It’s a very important aspect to the future of this amazing school,” says Dean Katharyn A. May. “For the first time in 50 years, this school has a sense of place – a sense of ownership and pride among students, faculty, staff and alumni.”

Green space means the culmina-tion of the dream to build Signe Skott Cooper Hall; it also signifies the healing philosophy upon which Cooper Hall was built. “Nursing, as a discipline, acknowledges the relationship between human health and the natural world,” May says. “Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, understood this. ‘It is the nurses’ foremost respon-sibility to put patients in the best possible position for nature to work her healing art,’ Nightengale told her students. Cooper Hall reflects Nightingale’s belief, now supported by scientific evidence, that human health and well-being are enhanced by natural light, access to the out-doors, and environments that sup-port a sense of connectedness.”

The School of Nursing, by way of Cooper Hall, has positioned itself for what May calls “a boundless future.” Cooper Hall embraces the principles and values that the School of Nursing has held throughout its long history centered on research and innovation, outreach, service, collaboration and leadership in edu-cation. “Indeed, these values, while not unique to the School of Nursing, continue to influence the work of its faculty, staff, students, and gradu-ates,” May says.

May points to research and inno-vation. “Over its long history, the School of Nursing has fostered leadership in science, education, and practice,” May says. “Dean Helen Bunge, the school’s first dean, estab-lished the very first research jour-nal for nursing, Nursing Research, which continues to be the gold stan-

dard. Today, the digital age drives nursing’s discovery enterprise. Manifest in the design of Cooper Hall is the notion that nursing must push past conventional thinking to remove the barriers to person- and family-centered care.”

Another core value, leadership in nursing education, stems from a long tradition of nursing lead-ers at Wisconsin who have moved the field forward. “Signe Skott Cooper was first and foremost an innovative teacher,” says May, “using radio as a way to deliver nursing education to remote places in Wisconsin. Over time, faculty continually has sought new ways to teach nursing to undergradu-ates. Cooper Hall provides students with learning opportunities to study person-centered care from inspired educators knowledgeable about consumer-health technologies.”

Enter the Center for Technology-Enhanced Nursing, or CTEN. May calls this second-floor area “the place to hear the heartbeat of clini-cal instruction.” CTEN’s environ-ments – hospital, clinic, home and eHealth digital technologies that allow interaction to transcend time and space – provide students with the opportunity to immerse them-selves in the challenges of the con-tinuum of care sequence.

In tandem with CTEN’s learning environments, Cooper Hall’s active learning classrooms (ALCs) offer students and faculty the best avail-able tools for engaging, team-based, interactive, problem-based learning. “We have to talk about collaboration very specifically as a critical com-petency in health care today,” May says. “Understanding the relation-ship of high-performance teamwork and safety adds yet another dimen-sion to nursing in the Cooper Hall era.

“High-performance teamwork among nurses, physicians, phar-macists, other health professionals, and family members is necessary in this complex health care system, not only to improve outcomes, but also to prevent harm,” May says. “Because the School of Nursing is part of one of the world’s great uni-versities, nursing at Wisconsin has always capitalized on partnerships in research, service, and education across a wide array of fields. Now, Cooper Hall is equipped for this dynamic.”

The school’s core value of engagement and outreach is inex-tricably connected to the Wisconsin Idea. Since its founding in 1924, the School of Nursing has built a legacy of excellence shaped by this principle that the university should

improve people’s lives beyond the classroom. “From Signe Skott Cooper’s traveling to remote places in Wisconsin to provide nurses with continuing education to today’s eHealth technologies,” May says, “we are committed to asking the questions, ‘What difference does it make that we do this?’ ‘Does it serve the people of the state, or the nation, or the world?’ The Wisconsin Idea drives so much of what hap-pens here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”

Service – serving the common good – is part of nursing’s genetic code, May says, as evidenced in Nightingale’s legacy. “She was one of the world’s first biostatisticians, pacing through the wards in the Crimean army hospitals at night, not just administering, but also counting the dying and the dead to understand the relationship between care prac-tices, time of year, and battlefield deaths. She demonstrated clearly using this evidence that the practices of nursing increased the likelihood that the soldiers would survive their wounds in contrast to traditional practices that doomed many of them to a death,” May explains.

“Today, our graduates reach across the globe to serve the health needs of populations – caring for the homeless in a respite care facility in Washington, D.C., providing pri-mary care for orphaned children in Kenya, staffing disaster relief efforts in the slums of Haiti.” The UW has a tradition of educating the largest number of Peace Corps volunteers – more than anywhere in the country, May adds. Nursing has played its part in this effort.

Cooper Hall ushers in a new era of possibility in nursing and health care at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May says. “Its powerful story stretches behind us, and we use those inspirations as a way to take innovation and excellence for-ward. Nursing is primed to tackle the grand challenges, the wicked problems affecting human health.”

–Kathleen Corbett Freimuth

Signe Skott Cooper Hall at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.PHOTO BY CHRIS FRAZEE/UWSMPH MEDIA SOLUTIONS

Signe Skott Cooper Hall: Honoring the school’s legacy, embracing its future

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Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and professor of nurs-ing, was appointed associate dean for academic affairs in June. A fac-ulty member with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing for 14 years, Zahner began her new position after returning from a yearlong sabbatical focused on academic-practice partnerships, academic leadership, and quality improve-ment in public health and public health nursing.

The position, Zahner says, allows her to apply her previ-ous experience – and passion – to manage-ment and process improvement to ben-efit the organization as a whole, rather than just her own research program. “It’s an exciting time in the life of the school with the development of a new strategic plan and the opening of Signe Skott Cooper Hall,” she says, “and I am eager to help the school move forward.”

Zahner grew up on a farm in Iowa with seven brothers and sisters and the clear parental expectation that each of them would attend college. An interest in health care and science led her to the nursing program at the University of Iowa, where she dis-covered a passion for public health. She began her nursing career as a post-surgical nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, Wisconsin,

but soon decided she would prefer to be working “upstream” – that is, addressing the causes of disease and disability through prevention rather than treatment. She took a public health position in rural Minnesota, confirming her interest in the field and allowing herself the opportunity to realize her own aptitude in man-

agement.After receiving a

master’s degree in public health from the University of Minnesota, Zahner worked in a refugee camp in Thailand and then moved to Madison, where she took a position in the city’s public health department, eventu-ally becoming the department’s director of nursing. She later enrolled at University

of California Berkeley, earning a doctorate in public health.

Though Zahner was unfamil-iar at the time with the Wisconsin Idea, the concept of improving lives beyond the classroom began to ger-minate in her practice as a doctoral student; her dissertation project provided research that proved ben-eficial to public health in the state of California. In 2000, she returned to Wisconsin as a faculty member with the UW-Madison School of Nursing and continued her commit-ment to the Wisconsin Idea through the LEAP project (Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing) and the develop-

ment of the Wisconsin Public Health Research Network.

In both cases, Zahner says, “I feel an obligation to make sure that my work is guided by the needs and experience of public health practitio-ners in the state and can be used by them to help improve public health education and practice in Wisconsin and beyond.”

Now, as associate dean for academ-ic affairs, Zahner is responsible for the administrative structure of the school, including human resources, budget, information technology, and facili-ties. “It’s the scaffolding that supports academic and research programs.” In addition to overseeing the operational functions, Zahner will lead the strate-gic planning effort and help explore more extensive partnerships.

Zahner begins her new position aware of the challenges ahead – from finding sufficient resources to main-tain and grow education and research programs to extending partnerships with key organizations. Improving

communication about innovative research, new teaching methods, and diversity and equity initiatives is also essential, she says, so that “our fac-ulty, staff, students, and alumni can take pride in our enterprise and con-tribute to it.”

Anticipating what she would like to accomplish during her tenure as associate dean, Zahner sets the bar high. “I would like the school to have a strong strategic plan and direction and stronger partnerships with other important organizations that are pro-ductive for both parties. I want to see Cooper Hall as a resource that we manage not just for nursing, but for the campus. I’d like to see a lot more interprofessional education taking place and alumni excited about com-ing back. I’d love to see our research and education programs flourishing. I’ll be quite content if I can leave the position with the school in an even better position than it already is.”

– Mary Anderson, UW-Madison SON Relations Specialist

Zahner appointed associate dean for academic affairs

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Serving on the faculty of the UW-Madison School of Nursing, Alice Simonds was an innova-tive teacher, an inspiration to her students, a role model and mentor to younger faculty members and a valued friend and colleague to her peers.

Simonds was born May 23, 1921 in Newark, N. J. and relo-cated to Clintonville. She attended the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago, and later received a B.S. degree from UW-Madison School of Nursing and a M.S. from Rochester University, Rochester, N.Y. She served with the Army Nurse Corps in 1945 and 1946.

Two years later she came to Madison and was employed as a staff in the operating room at University Hospitals for 12 years. Working with students convinced her of the value of operating room experience in the nursing cur-riculum, a belief she continued to hold after joining the faculty of UW-Madison School of Nursing.

Simondsbegan teach-ing by super-vising students in the oper-ating room. Later she helped design the school’s InstructionalMaterialsCenter and served as coordinator/supervisor of itstelevision studio.

She designed the first course in physical assessment and health history to be offered by the school and adapted it for use off campus. She developed numerous videocas-settes and slide-tape teaching units. Her teaching skills were exem-

plary and she used creative approaches to helping stu-dents learn.

She chal-lenged other faculty mem-bers to use media in their teaching and encouragedand assisted

them in using various forms of instructional technology. She consulted with faculty members from other schools of nursing, in Wisconsin and elsewhere, and with Nasco, a company in Fort Atkinson that produces simulated teaching materials.

Simonds received the Distinguished

Alumnus Award of the UW-Madison Nurses Alumni Organization in 1986. She retired in May of that year, after 22 years on the faculty, and was named emeritus clinical professor by the UW Board of Regents. A person of many interests, she enjoyed sail-ing on Madison’s lakes, downhill and cross-country skiing, classical music, reading and woodworking. She was a member of the Madison Civic Chorus for several years.

Simonds died Dec.15, 1997, in a snowstorm-related accident. At her memorial service, School of Nursing Dean Vivian Littlefield noted that Simonds had “a vision that future instruction would take new forms and become more com-plex” – a prediction that has cer-tainly come true.

The Alice Simonds Center for Instruction and Research in the UW-Madison School of Nursing was dedicated on May 9, 1998. It is appropriate recognition for a dedicated nurse-teacher who believed that students could ben-efit from diverse technologies.

Alice Simonds, left, taught nursing studentsby supervision over many decades.

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Current licensure is required. Excellent benefits package to include: immediate coverage under the WisconsinRetirement System, Health Plans available to meet your needs at low premiums, Sick Leave, Unused sick timeconverted to extended health care benefits upon retirement, paid vacation, 4.5 personal days each year, paid legalholidays per year, Life insurance, Supplemental retirement saving program, and Worker’s compensation.

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Indian Hills Community College has an opening for someone who will lead the nursing program administration, recruit students, provide student and staff men-toring & advising and provide excellent communication. This position is in Ot-tumwa, Iowa, and will teach nursing the-ory courses as assigned; will coordinate curriculum revisions; will select learning experiences at hospitals and other health care agencies for students in the nursing programs; will supervise students pro-viding nursing care and evaluate their progress; will supervise nursing faculty and conduct performance evaluation. A graduate of an approved school of nurs-ing with licensure as a registered nurse in Iowa or a compact state; masters or doctoral degree with a major in nursing; three years clinical nursing as an RN; two years of experience in nursing education required. A complete job description can be found at www.indianhills.edu. Starting salary range: $63,459 - $69,935 plus competitive fringe benefit package & 4-day workweek (184 days annually). Applications will be accepted until the po-sition is filled. Send letter of application and resume to:

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ANCC, RNS announce first boardcertification in rheumatology nursing

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the Rheumatology Nurses Society (RNS) today announced plans to develop a new board certification through portfolio for rheumatology nurs-ing. Announced at the RNS Annual Conference in Louisville, Ky., the new certification program will be developed beginning in 2014 and is scheduled for launch in 2015.

ANCC’s certification through portfolio is an alternative assess-ment method for credentialing individual registered nurses in their specialty area. Nurses docu-ment their skills, knowledge, abili-ties and career accomplishments as part of the application assessment process. Certification through port-

folio requires equivalent rigor as examinations to meet accrediting bodies’ criteria to determine profi-ciency through a peer review process informed by nurse experts.

Nurses certified through the ANCC portfolio assessment method are regarded as experts in their specialties and are considered to be among the highest-qualified nurses in the world. These credentials foster both profes-sional growth and job satisfaction while demonstrating a nurse’s com-mitment to providing excellent care.

ANCC incorporates the latest nursing practice standards, ensuring that nurses are credentialed using the most current criteria. ANCC’s experience with in-house test devel-opment using psychometric practices provides an excellent foundation for

the development of the rheumatology certification through portfolio. The ability to operationalize and adminis-ter individual credentialing programs is one of ANCC’s core competencies, and ANCC is the only nurse creden-tialing organization to achieve ISO 9001:2008 certification in the design, development and delivery of global credentialing services and support products for nurses and healthcare organizations.

“Certification through portfolio is an excellent method for credential-ing and will greatly serve the nurs-ing profession as nurses’ knowledge grows ever more specialized. We look forward to a productive collaboration with RNS and its members, as ANCC aims to develop the first-ever certi-fication in rheumatology nursing,”

said Executive Vice President and Chief ANCC Officer Linda C. Lewis, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE.

“We are delighted and excited to endorse ANCC’s development of a board certification to recognize the passion, commitment and quality that rheumatology nurses bring to their practices and the care of their patients every day. As leaders in health care, rheumatology nurses continue to reach for excellence in professional development and nursing practice. ANCC board certification will pro-vide a credible means for RNS mem-bers and all rheumatology nurses to validate their knowledge, engage in lifelong learning, and be recognized for their experience,” said Sheree C. Carter, Ph.D., RN, president of RNS.

Tluczek receivesAmerican Academy of Nursing’s highest honor

Audrey Tluczek, Ph.D., RN, asso-ciate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, has been selected by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) as one of its Class of 2014 fellows. Fellowship in the AAN is highly selective and considered the highest honor in the nursing profession.

Tluczek is among 168 esteemed nurse lead-ers nationwide selected for this honor. She and fellow colleagues will be inducted on Oct. 18 at the AAN’s 2014 Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by such a highly respected group of colleagues,” says Tluczek. “I hope that my contributions will advance those AAN objectives focused on the nursing care of children and families affected by advances in genetics and

genomics. I also hope my research will continue to inform clinical prac-tices and public policy related to newborn genetic screening.”

“Dr. Tluczek’s internationally rec-ognized work examines family response to new-born screening for cys-tic fibrosis,” says Lori Anderson, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor of nursing whose research focuses on children with chronic health condi-tions and their families. “It has led to an impor-tant shift in focus from the technical aspects of genetic screening to the psychosocial needs of

families,” she says.Early-on, as an advanced practice

nurse working with the parents of newborns screened for cystic fibrosis (CF), Tluczek often saw the worry and confusion that resulted from genetic testing, inadequate explana-tions, and lack of psychological coun-seling. Today, as a nurse researcher

and psychologist with specialized genetics training, she has devoted her professional career to addressing crit-ical knowledge gaps about newborn genetic screening (NBS) for CF.

Tluczek focuses her research on ways to improve the process of trans-lating genomic research to clinical practice in order to increase parental genetic knowledge, reduce parental anxiety, and enhance patient satisfac-tion with counseling. As such, her research is consistent with the AAN’s vision of transforming health care policy and practice. She continues to be the only researcher to document family psychosocial responses to specific NBS-related stressors and to apply the findings to improve fam-ily health services and psychosocial outcomes.

“Families are wonderfully diverse structurally, culturally, and geneti-cally,” Tluczek says. “Understanding the intersection of family dynam-ics, sociocultural environments, and genetic influences is critical to advancing evidence-based practice.”

Summarizing Tluczek’s contribu-

tions to nursing and health care, AAN sponsor Janet Williams, Ph.D., RN, professor and chair of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the University of Iowa, wrote: “Dr. Tluczek’s proactive focus on the child and parental well-being has allowed clinicians, policy makers, parents, and researchers to build on her discoveries to reach for positive outcomes for children and their fami-lies.”

The American Academy of Nursing (www.AANnet.org) serves the public and the nursing profes-sion by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nurs-ing knowledge. The Academy’s more than 2,200 fellows are nursing’s most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice, and research. Academy fellows also have a respon-sibility to contribute their time and energies to the AAN and to engage with other health care leaders out-side the academy in transforming America’s health care system.

– Kathleen Corbett Freimuth

Audrey Tluczek, Ph.D., RN