Connell School of Nursing Year in Review, 2010-2011

william f. connell school of nursing

year in review 2011

Dear Connell School community, I am extremely pleased to share with you this overview of the exciting activities that took place at the Connell School of Nursing during the 2010–2011 academic year.

Our faculty, sta, and students received well-earned accolades in education, research, and service.

Once again this year, our community epitomized the Boston College ideal of being men and women for others, responding to the earthquake in Japan, the continued devastation in Haiti, and health care needs in countries such as Nicaragua as individuals and in groups.

A nurse who is also a Jesuit, Richard Ross, S.J., joined our community as part of our clinical faculty this year. Along with teaching, he is helping us ensure that our formation goals for our students are being met.

Our alumni continue to shine in leadership roles around the world. And I continue to take pride in being a part of a vibrant and extraordinary community whose signal accomplishments during the past academic year are outlined in this review.

Sincerely,

Susan Gennaro Dean www.bc.edu/cson/yir

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Faculty CSON faculty members angela amar, pamela grace, and patricia tabloski were inducted into the American Academy of Nursing, along with six Connell School alumni and a visiting scholar.

At its 18th annual Scientific Assembly, the International Association of Forensic Nurses named CSON Associate Professor angela amar its 2010 Distinguished Fellow, and presented her with the association’s best research paper award.

Clinical Assistant Professor donna cullinan received Boston College’s 2011 Community Service Award, given annually to an employee whose actions exemplify the Jesuit spirit of service to others. Cullinan was honored for her longstanding commitment to bringing sustainable health care to Haiti and her other volunteer endeavors.

The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care gave rosanna demarco, CSON associate professor, its Excellence in HIV Prevention Award in recognition of her significant and outstanding contributions to the field.

Associate Professor jane flanagan , winner of the Partners Health Care Excellence in Action Award, also won the Research for Practice Writing Award from Med-Surg Nursing.

The UCLA School of Nursing named Professor and Nurse Theorist callista roy one of Sixty Who Have Made a Difference in the 60-year history of the school.

Assistant Professor deborah sampson was inducted into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She also received the 2010 Award for Advancing Nursing from the New Hampshire Nurses’ Association, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners’ State Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award.

kelly stamp, assistant professor, received the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Academic Nursing Early Career Award.

The American Nurses Foundation named Assistant Professor melissa sutherland its 2010 Gloria Smith Scholar. The foundation also awarded a grant to Sutherland and a team of fellow researchers to study the intersection of violence and reproductive health in a sample of women.

Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences bestowed its Outstanding Alumni Award on patricia tabloski , Connell School associate dean of graduate studies and assistant professor. Tabloski spent five months as a Mayday Pain & Society Media Fellow.

The International Association of Forensic Nurses recognized Clinical Assistant Professor holly fontenot as one of 25 nurses leading the health care response to violence.

jean weyman, assistant dean for continuing education,

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing named Dean susan gennaro one of 60 visionary leaders at the nursing school’s 60th anniversary celebration.

Associate Professor danny willis received the Eastern Nursing Research Conference’s Rising Star Research Award.

Assistant Professor allyssa harris , who was named a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, also received the New England Regional Black Nurses Association award for Excellence in Education and Teaching.

susan kelly-weeder, assistant professor, won the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses’ 2011 Excellence in Nursing Education Award.

Associate Professor joyce pulcini received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.

cathy read, associate dean for undergraduate programs, received the International Society of Nurses in Genetics 2010 Founder’s Award for Education.

accepted a programming excellence award from the Learning Resources Network, an international association for lifetime-learning professionals and organizations.

Students sabianca delva ’11, anya diané ’12, and andrea lopez ’14 were elected to the Massachusetts Student Nurse Association (MASNA) board of directors.

anya diané ’12 and jennifer etienne ’12 were awarded Hausman Fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Doctoral degree student nahoko harada traveled to Japan with a group from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School just days after the earthquake and tsunami struck.

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antoinette m. hays ’74 became the 10th president of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.

Assistant Professor susan kelly-weeder received a three-year training grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research to study co-occurrence of binge eating and binge drinking among college students.

mairead hickey ’72 is now executive vice president and chief operating officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Army Col. darlene macisaac hinojosa ’86 was the featured speaker at Boston College’s 10th annual Veterans’ Remembrance Mass and Ceremony. She is the first CSON graduate—and first woman—to address the veterans’ gathering.

sarah joy (carlson) hollingsworth ’05 received the 2010 GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award, which is presented in recognition of excellence in a chosen profession to a community or social cause, or to Boston College.

susan kelley, ph.d. ’88, won the Boston College Alumni Award for Professional Excellence.

Events CSON inaugurated its Pinnacle Lecture Series, which brings recognized nursing leaders to campus to address issues at the forefront of health care today. The first two speakers, terry fulmer, m.s. ’77, ph.d. ’83 , dean of the New York University College of Nursing, and linda burnes bolton, vice president and chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, both addressed key issues raised in last year’s landmark report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine. ann riley finck ’66 accepted the third annual Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award at CSON’s reunion, where she also took part in a panel discussion on neuroscience nursing.

Education For the third year, the Connell School received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to award scholarships directly to students from groups who are disadvantaged or underrepresented in nursing and are entering the school’s accelerated master’s entry program.

Associate Professor pamela grace and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital were awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration grant to support ethical decision making in staff nurses.

Associate Professor danny willis is the principal investigator on a study, “Adult Male Survivors Healing from Childhood Maltreatment,” that is funded in part by a two-year National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research grant. Willis also received the Eastern Nursing Research Conference’s Rising Star Research Award.

Assistant Professor lichuan ye was named a Haley Nurse Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

International partnerships, study, and trips At the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, in Ecuador, students now take semester-long courses in Spanish and English. Starting in 2012, nursing students can take a community health nursing clinical course in rural Ecuador under the supervision of faculty from Boston College and a local university. Boston College students can also take a summer course in Quito on global health policy that includes opportunities to visit health care settings throughout Ecuador.

Seventeen students and faculty traveled to Haiti in spring 2011; the group cared for 300–400 patients a day in Leogane.

Three Connell School professors and 11 students spent spring break in Ciudad Sandino, an impoverished area of Managua, Nicaragua, where students provided nursing services at a local clinic, taught health education, helped train community health workers, and met with key local officials.

Dean susan gennaro and three seniors traveled to Lourdes, France, to assist ill and ailing pilgrims visiting the shrine with hopes that bathing in the Lourdes holy water would cure them.

Boston College and the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland signed a memorandum of understanding in late October that established terms and principles of a collaborative exchange between the Connell School and the Swiss university. The two institutions will exchange teaching and research faculty; develop international academic programs and scientific research projects; collaborate on academic publications; and engage in other academic, scientific, or technological research.

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By the numbers students 382 undergraduates 96 percent female 20 percent ahana 95 incoming freshmen 330 graduate students 37 ph.d. students and candidates 30 states and u.s. territories 5 countries

faculty 48 full time 54 part time 95 percent female

degrees, programs, certificates b.s. m.s. m.s./ph.d. m.s./ m.b.a. (joint degree program with the Carroll School of Management) m.s./ m.a. in Pastoral Ministry (joint degree program with the School of Theology and Ministry) Three routes of entry to master’s degree programs in advanced nursing practice Two post-master’s certificates

clinical specialties Adult health Community health Family health Forensic nursing Gerontology Nurse anesthesia Palliative care, including pediatric palliative care Pediatric health Psychiatric mental health Women’s health

alumni 9,468 alumni 51 states and u.s. territories 17 countries