william f. connell school of nursing william f. connell school of nursing YEAR IN REVIEW 2014–15
Dear Connell School community, I am pleased and excited to write from the Connell School of Nursing’s new home in Maloney Hall. Our late May move to a 35,000-square-foot location on the second and third floors of Maloney made for a momentous end to an extremely successful academic year. I am proud to share with you this annual overview of the many ways in which our faculty, students, and alumni furthered nursing research, practice, and leadership in 2014–15, the last of our 55 fruitful years in Cushing Hall. Five new faculty members joined us last fall, bringing with them expertise and experience in gerontology, dementia, wound management, and women’s health. An impressive number of our faculty, students, and alumni received awards and grants that recognize outstanding research and practice. Students and faculty attended conferences across the US, presenting on topics ranging from sleep patterns to diabetes prevention to maternity care. Exemplifying the role of the nurse leader as global citizen, Connell School students and faculty once again joined service trips to Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. And the Connell School itself was named a member of the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. As we settle in to an expansive new facility that gives us the space and equipment we sorely need to educate Boston College students and prepare nurse leaders for the twenty-first century, I eagerly look forward to what the coming years will bring us.
Sincerely,
Susan Gennaro Dean Connell School of Nursing www.bc.edu/cson2015
FA C U LT Y The Connell School of Nursing welcomed new faculty members elisabeth bailey, marie boltz, kyung hee lee, beth mcnutt-clarke, and melissa pérez, who bring wide-ranging expertise in gerontology, dementia, and community health. The Connell School was named a member of the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence after a complex application process overseen by Associate Professor marie boltz and Assistant Professor stewart bond. Associate Professor marie boltz was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2014. In August 2014, the Boston Herald interviewed Professor ann wolbert burgess on the growing importance of forensic nursing and providing care for crime victims. In May 2015, Connell School faculty, students, and alumni presented at the International Association of Human Caring Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana: • Clinical Associate Professor susan desanto-madeya; jiwon lee ’15; Ph.D. candidate danielle leonesheehan, M.S. ’12; Clinical Instructor richard ross, S.J.; Associate Professor danny willis; and others presented “Spiritual healing: A humanly lived experience of wellbecoming.” • michael cheney, M.S. ’14; Associate Professor jane flanagan; Ph.D. student debra lundquist ’85; and others presented “Evaluation of wireless pedometer use in a cohort of nurses.” Assistant Professor joyce edmonds received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Association for Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses in June 2015. The Society of Rogerian Scholars elected Associate Professor jane flanagan its president in fall 2014. The Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners presented Assistant Professor holly fontenot with its Distinguished NP Award in spring 2015. Clinical Assistant Professor nanci haze received a Teaching with Technology Award from Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence at the center’s Excellence in Teaching Day in May.
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs kathy hutchinson led a binational team of researchers who found that engaging mothers of girls in Jamaica could help reduce the risk of HIV infection among local adolescent girls. Indiana University School of Nursing named Professor dorothy jones one of its Top 100 Alumni Legacy Leaders in summer 2014. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners inducted Associate Professor susan kelly-weeder as a Fellow in June 2015. Assistant Professor kyung hee lee was a corecipient of the 2014 Nursing Outlook Excellence in Practice Award, presented at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Lee and her coauthor received the award for their article “Missed nursing care: Magnet versus nonMagnet hospitals.” Associate Professor cathy read received the American Nurses Association Massachusetts 2015 Mary A. Manning Nurse Mentoring Award this past April. Professor sr. callista roy was interviewed for the Gerontological Society of America’s 2014 Mary Starke Harper Lectureship, which highlights a nurse leader’s contributions to the field of gerontology over the course of a career. Associate Professor kelly stamp was elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Associate Professor pat tabloski received the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Rochester School of Nursing in October 2014. NursePractitionerSchools.com named Leila Holden Carroll Chair judith vessey one of its top 25 pediatric nursing professors. Associate Professor lichuan ye received a Boston College Ignite Award for her Sleep Promotion Toolkit. The Ignite Program helps University faculty compete for external research funding.
Professor Emerita and alumna marjory gordon, the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association and a “Living Legend” of the American Academy of Nursing, died April 29, 2015. She will be remembered for her assessment theory, Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns, and as the author of four books, including the Manual of Nursing Diagnosis.
STUDENTS anna blaikie ’15, jue luo ’16, taylor shannon ’15, and angela zablotny ’15 participated in Boston College’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in January.
kellie chiou ’16, laura mata ’16, colleen mcgauley ’15, jessica o’neil ’15, and yvonne shih ’15 attended the
• Ph.D. student amanda lulloff, M.S. ’14: “Sleep interruptions and the hospital environment for pediatric oncology patients,” coauthored with colleagues from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University and funded in part by Lulloff’s Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation grant • heather johnston ’15, colleen mcgauley ’15, and yvonne shih ’15: “‘Early bird’ or ‘night owl’: College students’ sleep patterns,” coauthored with Associate Professor lichuan ye Ph.D. student debra lundquist ’85 was honored with a 2015 Research Doctoral Scholarship from the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation. In April 2015, Ph.D. student anne macdougall, M.S. ’14, and Associate Professor melissa sutherland presented the poster “Violence screening among college women: Missed opportunities” at the annual Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International Conference in Atlanta.
yvonne shih ’15 received Boston College’s Robert A.
April 2015 National Student Nurses’ Association Convention in Phoenix. All are board members from the Massachusetts branch of the Student Nurses’ Association.
Sherwood Award for community and civic engagement in April 2015. She also received a scholarship from Minority Nurse magazine and was featured in the fall 2014 issue.
kelly distefano ’15 was selected to present her poster
At the March 2015 Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association Conference in Las Vegas, taylor fischer ’15 and lourdes talavera ’16 presented two posters coauthored with Assistant Professor tam nguyen: “Prevalence of gestational diabetes in Asian-American women” and “A systematic review of type 2 diabetes mellitus prevention and management interventions for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” habin cho ’16, hana chung ’17, and tammy leung ’15 also attended the conference.
“The global women’s health provider: Examining obstacles and interventions in maternity care in Nepal” at Boston College’s inaugural Research Day in December 2014. She was also chosen as one of Boston College’s “Seniors to Remember.”
taylor fischer ’15; allison gilmer ’15; marina iturralde ’15, M.S. ’17; grace kalnins ’15; patience marks ’15; and savita sukha ’15, M.S. ’17, attended the September 2014 Sigma Theta Tau International Leadership Connection Conference in Indianapolis. All are undergraduate research fellows and members of Boston College’s Alpha Chi chapter. Also in attendance were louisa dichard, M.S. ’92, Alpha Chi’s vice president; Associate Professor cathy read; and Associate Professor kelly stamp, the president of Alpha Chi. Five students presented posters at the Eastern Nursing Research Society Conference in Washington, D.C., last April: • Ph.D. candidate karen jennings, M.S. ’11: “Binge eating among racial minority groups in the U.S.: An integrative review,” coauthored with Associate Professor susan kelly-weeder and Associate Dean for Research barbara wolfe
nina wujech, M.S. ’15, participated in a five-day medical mission in her home country of Cameroon, where she conducted free cancer, hypertension, and diabetes screenings and offered free treatment, medication, and counseling.
angela zablotny ’15 studied in Durban, South Africa, where she conducted independent research on schoolgirls’ experiences with menstruation as expressed through body mapping. Her project will be published by the School for International Training in an online database that features projects from programs around the world.
ALUMNI The American Academy of Nursing inducted diane cheryl berry, M.S. ’97, Ph.D. ’02, and annie lewis-o’connor, Ph.D. ’07, as Fellows in October 2014. The Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired awarded margaret cleary ’59, M.S.’61, the John H. McAulay Award at its August 2014 conference.
karen daley, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’10, was appointed to the
In February 2015, eight CSON seniors traveled to the dominican republic with Clinical Instructors Rosemary Byrne and Melissa Pérez to provide health care education and create presentations on health care topics important to local communities. Three members of the Class of 2015, Kaitlin Hildreth, Colleen McGauley, and Karlee Rajaniemi, traveled to Lourdes, france, in May 2015 to aid ill pilgrims seeking healing.
EVENTS
Board of Trustees of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
valerie lewis-mosley ’79, one of two originators of the trademarked Boston College acronym AHANA (African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American), was the featured speaker at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Banquet in February 2015. The American Nurses Association of Massachusetts honored sara looby, Ph.D. ’08, with an Excellence in Nursing Research Award in April 2015.
anne p. manton, M.S. ’81, was named a Living Legend in Massachusetts Nursing by the American Nurses Association of Massachusetts in April 2015.
john welch, M.S. ’12, nursing director for Partners in Health’s Ebola response, traveled to Liberia in October 2014 and spent a month caring for patients with the Ebola virus.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS The Connell School of Nursing’s Comparative Global Health Care course added a new partner: Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) in Santiago, chile. Launched in 2010, the elective course is the result of an academic partnership between CSON and two Swiss universities—Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud and Institut et Haute Ecole de Santé La Source. The universities collaborate to offer a three-credit course held alternately in Boston, Lausanne, switzerland, and now Chile. PUC will host the course in January 2016. In December 2014, Hilda Alcindor, dean of the Faculté des Sciences Infirmières de l’Université Episcopale d’Haiti in Léogâne, talked to CSON students, faculty, and staff about the significant role nurses play in haiti’s continual development. Since 2010, CSON has brought students and faculty on weeklong missions to Haiti to learn more about community health nursing.
About 100 students connected with nearly two dozen employers and organizations at Boston College’s nursing day and career fair in December 2014. Students met potential employers, attended advising sessions, and talked to alumni. At the fall 2014 Pinnacle Lecture, maureen gormley ’85, chief operating officer of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, discussed her unconventional career path, the influence of a nurse’s values on patient care, and authenticity in leadership. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Dean antonia villarruel gave the spring 2014 Pinnacle Lecture. She discussed her experience, leadership, and demonstrable success using community-based research, which engages individuals and institutions in local communities during every phase of research. At CSON’s 2015 reunion, cecilia mcvey ’72 received the Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award. McVey, associate director of Nursing and Patient Services for the VA Boston Healthcare System, also participated in a discussion on academic partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations in nursing. Following the discussion, guests became the first to see the School’s new location in Maloney Hall.
PHILANTHROPIC GIFTS The Connell School’s main lab in Maloney Hall is named in honor of Boston College alumni scott brown ’79 and his wife tracy burnett brown, who graduated from the School of Nursing in 1980. The couple, who are the parents of two Boston College graduates, made a gift to the University to support the education of nurse leaders.
RESEARCH GRANTS Assistant Professor kyung hee lee received a three-year Boston College Aging Research Incentive Grant (ARIG)— awarded by Boston College’s Institute on Aging to fund faculty projects that contribute to the field of aging—for her project “Event-specific emotional expression of persons with dementia in long-term care.” Associate Professor ellen mahoney is director of research for Boston College’s National Resource Center for Participant Directed Services (NRCPDS). The center partnered with the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Council on Aging, and other experts to form the new Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Family Support, which received a five-year grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Administration for Community Living. Boston College’s research program will focus on identifying the support needs of family caregivers in self-directed home and community-based service programs at all stages of the caregiving path. Associate Professor ellen mahoney and NRCPDS’s founding director, School of Social Work Professor kevin mahoney, also received a Research Across Departments and Schools Award from Boston College for their proposal “Voices of veterans in veteran-directed home and communitybased services.”
Associate Professor melissa sutherland received a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to pursue her study of violence screening in college health centers. Leila Holden Carroll Chair judith vessey was awarded an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) by the National Institutes of Health for her project “Development of the CABS: Child-adolescent bullying screening.”
PARTNERSHIPS The American Association of Colleges of Nursing gave its exemplary academic-practice partnership award to the Connell School and five other members of the Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance, a collaboration between the VA Boston Healthcare System and a coalition of Massachusetts nursing schools. The Veterans Health Administration also awarded CSON and the VA Boston Healthcare System a grant to establish a mental health nurse practitioner residency pilot program, one of only four such nurse residency partnerships nationwide.
BY THE NUMBERS 2014–15 Students
Faculty
382 undergraduates
54 full time
95 percent female
95 part time
28 percent AHANA*
94 percent female
92 incoming freshmen 259 master’s students
Alumni
22 Ph.D. students and candidates
9,998 alumni
32 states and us territories
55 us states and territories
6 countries
18 countries
* Individuals of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent
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