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Dean Scott takes the helm University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing has a new top administrator. On July 15, Dean Linda D. Scott, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN succeeded Dean Katharyn A. May, PhD, RN, FAAN, becoming the eighth dean of the 92-year-old school. Scott comes to Madison from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, where she was the associate dean for academic affairs. When the dean position posted, Scott said it immediately caught her attention. In many ways, Madison offers familiar territory to the Michigan native, who earned Linda Scott her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Michigan State University and her PhD from the University of Michigan, with a master’s degree obtained from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Having spent much of her life in the upper Midwest and having obtained the majority of her education from Big Ten institutions, she said she felt ideally prepared for both life and leadership at Wisconsin’s flagship public university. “The University of Wisconsin has a phenomenal reputation regionally, nationally and internationally, in part due to our School of Nursing,” Scott said. “This alone made the deanship appealing to me. Beyond that, I am very comfortable within the environment of a large state university. My professional goals and background are aligned with this position and the strategic direction of the school. I could not pass up the opportunity to engage in this impressive legacy and help move it forward. It is a privilege and honor to be a part of this rich history and to chart the course for its future.” Scott made several trips to Signe Skott Cooper Hall during the spring and early summer to look at the lay of the land. When she was not meeting with faculty, staff, alumni and donors, she was exploring the rest of campus and the city. “It is important to me to know our
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The exterior of Signe Skott Cooper Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pictured during a sunny summer afternoon Aug. 12, 2014. The building is the new home to the School of Nursing.
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Katharyn May speaks at the SON Littlefield Leadership Lecture and Tea in 2015.
school and also our communities,” Scott said. “The school has an accountability to our students, faculty and staff as well as our alumni, donors, agency partners, Board of Visitors and the community. It is important to identify our priorities and the expectations of us. I want to get a sense of where we are with meeting those expectations, as well as the opportunities that will improve the health and quality of life for the citizens of Wisconsin.” Scott credits May, her predecessor, for positioning the school to have a greater impact on the education of students and to
meeting the health needs of the Wisconsin community. May led the effort to build Signe Skott Cooper Hall, the $53 million cutting-edge educational facility on the west end of campus. While the building gave the school a unique physical presence, May also worked to raise the school’s profile regionally and nationally. Along the way she championed professionalism, challenged nursing stereotypes, and advanced entrepreneurial approaches to research, discovery and translation. The result of May’s efforts is an emergent school of nursing poised for growth and impact. When she took the reins, Scott said the nursing profession is rapidly growing more complex and technical. Nursing education cannot prepare students for everything they might face in practice, so schools and colleges of nursing must instead prepare future nurses to make educated and confident decisions when they encounter a situation for the first time. The profession is also striving to answer the call to produce a workforce that better represents the populations it serves. Increasing the diversity among the student population must remain a priority for the school.
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What College & University Students need to know To vote in any election in Wisconsin, you MUST present an acceptable Photo ID
Editor’s Note: It has been more than six months since President Barack Obama requested financial assistance to combat the Zika virus. Congress did nothing. Since that time more than 10,000 new cases have been diagnosed in this country and our territories. Kaye Lillesand This is a classic example of what happens when Congress and state legislatures impact the care that health-care professionals give and patients receive. It is also an example of why our votes are so important. It is no secret that representatives, both state and national, are influenced by money coming into their campaigns. While most of us do not have the money of the big spenders, WE DO HAVE A VOTE! Below are two press releases from Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin. The first is information that college and university students need to know to be able to vote this fall. The second is a commentary on the new Ethics Commission and how powerful money is in the election process. – Kaye Lillesand, Nursing Matters Editor
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Jay Heck, Executive Director Common Cause in Wisconsin Recent federal court decisions may make it possible for Wisconsinites to be able to cast in-person absentee ballots earlier than has been the case since 2011, including weekends in some counties. As a result of a court ruling Jay Heck in July, a voter now only needs to have lived at his or her current address for at least 10 days by Election Day in order to register to vote in that election district or ward. But it seems fairly clear right now that Wisconsin’s restrictive voter-photo-ID law will be in effect this fall. Voter photo ID presents some particular difficulties for those college and university students who lack a Wisconsin driver’s license. Some colleges and universities already have a student ID that is compliant with Wisconsin law and can be utilized to vote. Others offer an alternative school-issued “voter photo ID” that students must proactively request. Still others offer no ID that can be used for voting.
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“I know we will face great challenge, but to me these are opportunities to forge ahead to make profound differences.”
continued from page 1 It is within this climate of emergence and change that Scott assumes leadership of a school that she believes is ready to enter a new era of nursing. “I want to build on the current momentum,” she said. “I know we will face great challenge, but to me these are opportunities to forge ahead to make profound differences.”
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May leaves lasting legacy When May announced her decision to step down from her administrative position, she was the longest-standing dean on campus. It would be the school’s first changing of the guard in more than 15 years. During that time, May made an impact on the school. She established new partnerships, including one with Gunderson Health System and UW Health, the latter in a milestone agreement that expanded on longstanding clinical placements, growing research collaborations and a successful nurse-residency program. She oversaw the launch of several new academic programs, such as the early-entry PhD program – designed to identify students inclined to inquiry and investigation and shepherd them into research and advanced studies while still undergraduates – and the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which replaced a masters-level nurse-practitioner
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‘Ethics Commission’ allows contributions (Recently) the newly constituted partisan “Ethics Commission” voted 4 to 2 to allow its members – and members of the new, partisan “Elections Commission” – to make political contributions to state candidates for election. This is insanity. As Ethics Commission member Robert Kinney, a former Oneida County circuit judge, argued, “it’s a matter of perception and public confidence. “We have, right now, people claiming that elections are rigged. We don’t want to create a situation where there’s less confidence in government, less confidence in fairness, less
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Linda Scott speaks to a group as part of her new position as dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing.
degree, to propel advanced-practice nurses into health-care leadership roles. May’s most visible achievement is Signe Skott Cooper Hall, the 166,000-squarefoot nursing-education facility on the health-sciences campus that includes the UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, the School of Pharmacy, and the School of Veterinary Medicine. May spent much of her 15 years planning and securing funding to make Cooper Hall a reality. The building opened to great fanfare in
confidence in nonpartisanship.” Kinney and Rep. Pat Strachota, former Assembly majority leader, effectively voted against allowing contributions, according to an Associated Press article about the vote. But much shame on Peg Lautenschlager, the former Democratic Attorney General, for voting against the ban on contributions from the partisan commissioners. As well as to Democratic hyper-partisan attorney David Halbrooks, Republican Party partisan Laurie McCallum and former Republican State Sen. and Waukesha County Judge Mac Davis for their support of allowing commission members to make contributions. Just how stupid do they think Wisconsinites are? The non-partisan retired judges, who comprised the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board prior to June 30, 2016, did not make political contributions to candidates for state office. But these commissioners, by a 4 to 2 vote, decided “it’s fine.” No, it isn’t. How far we have fallen, so quickly. Wisconsinites already have very little confidence in the newly constituted hyper-partisan Government Accountability Board to effectively oversee elections, campaign finance law, ethics and lobbying in Wisconsin, which was formed by Republican legislators and Gov. Scott Walker after they destroyed the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board late this past year. This latest decision destroys what little confidence there may have been.
August 2014. A little more than a year later, May announced her intent to step down by the end of 2016, with the actual date determinant on how quickly the search committee could recruit and hire her successor. After an extensive search, Scott was selected. May has been clear that this move is not a step toward retirement. Instead she said she plans to return to teaching and research after a year-long sabbatical. For her first project, May is collaborating with colleagues from drama and theater to investigate ways to use performance-skills training to enhance the development of leadership and professionalism in nursing students. “One of the areas I’ve been pretty passionate about throughout my teaching career is helping nurses understand that they must not give away the power of the first impression,” May said. “Many nurses forget that how they carry themselves, how they introduce themselves, even how they talk about their responsibilities all have a powerful effect on how patients feel about the care they will receive. I want all of our
graduates to walk into a clinical situation and communicate to patients, clients and family members that ‘I got this’ – even if they don’t feel like they do.” The challenge, May said, is learning how to teach and coach those skills. Her plan is to use unique types of simulation in the school’s Center for Technology-Enhanced Nursing to prepare nurses to handle challenging interpersonal situations and to develop authority, presence and confidence. “This is at least five years of work,” May said. “But I’m convinced there is something worth exploring here, and am looking forward to getting started. “I truly believe Wisconsin nursing is head and shoulders above the rest. Always has been – and I am absolutely confident – always will be.”
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Remember Marquette alumni Editor’s note: As a part of the Marquette University College of Nursing’s 50th Anniversary, staff have created a booklet recognizing 50 distinguished alumni. “These 50 distinguished alum profiled exemplify the tradition of excellence that characterizes UWM nursing,” it says. I so enjoyed reading the profiles I thought you would enjoy them as well. We will run a series during the next few months. Part of the NURSINGmatters mission is to recognize the accomplishments of Wisconsin nurses. If any of you have stories of nurses who have “made a difference” please send them to us to share in our publication – email me at kayelillesand@gmail.com to send stories or photos, or to ask questions. – Kaye Lillesand, Editor Nursing Matters
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Joanna Johnson – 1891-1971 An early leader in industrial – occupational health – nursing, Joanna Johnson pioneered and helped define the nurse’s role in making workplaces safer for employees. When she joined the Employers Mutual Insurance Company – now Wausau Insurance Companies – in 1928 as the firm’s first nurse specializing in occupational health, she was the first person to fill such a spot at any insurance company. Johnson was born Aug.16, 1891, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. She attended Oshkosh State Normal School – now the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh – but following a bout of pneumonia she decided she wanted to be a nurse. She enrolled in St Mary’s Training School for Nurses in Rochester, Minnesota, and received her nursing diploma in 1919. After working at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee and in Pasadena, California, Joanna Johnson she returned to Milwaukee in 1923. Her health of workers, she became a leader first employment as an industrial nurse in her field. She traveled throughout the was at the Northwestern Malleable Iron Company. After four years there, she served country providing consultation on industrial-health nursing for as a public-health nurse in organizations such as the Waukegan, Illinois. American Red Cross, the Johnson came to She began by Employers Mutual in 1928. helping companies National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Her role was to help the develop their the National Organizafirm’s policyholder compaown health and tion for Public Health nies improve working consafety programs, Nursing and numerous ditions by preventing disinitiate first-aid public-health agencies. She ease and accidents, reducing provided groundwork for disability and contributing training and to the welfare of employees. establish record- the creation of the IndusShe began by helping comkeeping systems. trial Nurses section of the National Safety Council. panies develop their own Johnson served as editor health and safety programs, of the first published staninitiate first-aid training and dards and guidelines for industrial nurses. establish record-keeping systems. She was a frequently sought speaker on With few guidelines, but great vision industrial nursing and contributor to nursabout what nurses could contribute to the ing journals and to Industrial Medicine. The April 1953 issue of Nursing World was dedicated to her in recognition of her 25th anniversary with Wausau Insurance Company. She retired in 1954, but became bored with retirement. She served for a Opening for LPN/CMA position! short time as director of the Green Bay Agnesian HealthCare/Grande Cheese, Wyocena, Visiting Nurses Association, but then Wisconsin location has an immediate opening. moved back to Pasadena, where she died Part-time LPN or CMA. Patient care and office in 1971. support. Clinic experience preferred. 16 hours per In her honor, the Joanna Johnson Proweek. Monday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday fessional Chair in Occupational Health 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Must be licensed or eligible Nursing was established at UW-Milwaufor licensing in Wisconsin as an LPN or certified kee with funds provided by the Wausau as a CMA. Join a great team! Insurance Company. It was the nation’s first professional chair in occupationApply online at agnesiancareers.com. al-health nursing; it recognized Johnson’s agnesian.com pioneering and innovative contributions to her chosen field.
What if we focused on Personal Environments? I think about the effects of personal environment and relationships on mental and physical health. I think about the importance of feeling valued, loved and wanted. Living in Brenda Zarth an environment of negativity, hopelessness, violence and neglect can lead to feelings of the same. Just as the converse is true, living with positive role models, love and encouragement, safety and security can lead to success. Every person whom I can think of, who has succeeded through major life challenges, can identify a mentor who was strong and supportive – a mentor he or she attributes their success to. I heard a lovely NBC segment May 27 on Karen Spencer, who married Princess Dianna’s brother Charles. Spencer wanted to improve the way orphanages take care of children. Orphanages in Nicaragua had been run on the idea that it might be better for the children not to become too attached to any one person in case a special caregiver would die, quit or leave; having multiple caregivers might prevent feelings of loss and abandonment. A child in the orphanage might have up to 70 caretakers by the time they were 5 years old. They didn’t have the opportunity to bond, or feel special, loved or valued by another human being. “Millions of children are really being stunted in all areas of their development and not being given the opportunity to grow up to be productive members of society,” Spencer said. “And not only is that tragic, it’s also extremely expensive. These are children that are going to go on to cost a huge amount of money in the long-term. “Working with child-development experts at major universities, Whole Child (Spencer’s project) came up with a framework to train staff and reform practices at orphanages. It centers on four initiatives: assigning every child a primary caregiver, giving each of them a cubby to call his or her own, celebrating birthdays individually, and creating a memory book for every orphan. The book is hugely important for obvious reasons for the child. But also it’s a very tricky way of getting the caregiver to be more connected to the child.” “When they launched (this project) with seven centers in Nicaragua, a
Children — and adults — need the opportunity to bond, or feel special, loved and valued by another human being.
baseline evaluation showed 85 percent of the children they would be working with scored as though they were intellectually disabled. Six years after the reforms, with no change in the number of staff, that had dropped to 15 percent. “There were physical changes, too, without any apparent increase in the nutrition the youngsters were getting – a 37-percent increase in height and a 47-percent increase in weight, according to a study by the University of Pittsburgh.” That project suggests to me the importance of personal environment and relationships on humans – and that it doesn’t require an increase in funds. It’s simply a change in perspective. In America we spend a huge amount of money skirting the issue of mental health. What if we put some energy into facing it? I tried to think of examples in America that demonstrate community and relationship support. I think of the payback from volunteering and participating in boys and girls clubs, churches, social organizations, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the adopt-a-grandparent programs. What if hospitals and clinics formed partnerships with local churches and social organizations that sponsor mentors to support patients going through difficult life challenges? What if we held community meetings with local organizations, problem solving our challenges and sharing strengths? The gatekeeper is the nurse on the front line, evaluating and assessing needs and helping patients at the beginning of contact, triaging all aspects of needs in our patients, parents and children – connecting resources and facilitating relationships. I would love to focus more on establishing healthy environments and communities, facilitating healthier individuals. Email BrendaZarth@gmail.com or visit brendashealthplan.blogspot.com with comments or questions.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has launched a dedicated Choosing Wisely “microsite” of resources developed by Consumer Reports to help patients and physicians make evidence-based decisions regarding health care. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is licensed by Consumer Reports to distribute content on Choosing Wisely and does not restrict access to this vital information to members only. It’s a tool available for everyone, including employers who may further distribute the information to their workers. Visit http://consumerhealthchoices.org/ excellusbcbs to access the microsite. Choosing Wisely is a physician-led initiative developed by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. It promotes shared decision-making between patients and doctors to improve the quality of care and reduce unnecessary spending on services that have little or no proven benefit. More than 70 medical societies have contributed more than 400 care recommendations designed to produce positive health outcomes. “Our analysis of regional health care data is guiding us to the Choosing Wisely recommendations that we know will have an immediate and positive impact on the
Throughout the infographic, the term “young adults” refers to those ages 26-29. HIV risk, smoking and binge drinking data are from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey at “Health Data NY.” https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Behavioral-Risk-Factor-Surveillance-Survey-2011/wg5m-7zi8 Behaviors that put an individual at risk of getting HIV include use of intravenous drugs, having sex without a condom and being treated for a sexually transmitted disease. 3 The figures reflect what the average uninsured upstate NY adult (ages 26-29) might pay annually to treat a specific condition or episode of care. The figure includes costs for all treatments and services, including prescription drugs and doctor visits. Cost figures are based on an Excellus BCBS analysis of average charges for certain episodes of care in the 39 counties of upstate New York. Costs will likely be higher in areas other than the 39 counties of upstate New York. Also, cost comparisons in this section do not include sales tax. 4 Based on a $30 per month gym membership. 5 Reflects costs for the average iPhone user. 1
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Throughout the infographic, the term “young adults” refers to those ages 26-29. HIV risk, smoking and binge drinking data are from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey at “Health Data NY.” https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Behavioral-Risk-Factor-Surveillance-Survey-2011/wg5m-7zi8 Behaviors that put an individual at risk of getting HIV include use of intravenous drugs, having sex without a condom and being treated for a sexually transmitted disease. The figures reflect what the average uninsured upstate NY adult (ages 26-29) might pay annually to treat a specific condition or episode of care. The figure includes costs for all treatments and services, including prescription drugs and doctor visits. Cost figures are based on an Excellus BCBS analysis of average charges for certain episodes of care in the 39 counties of upstate New York. Costs will likely be higher in areas other than the 39 counties of upstate New York. Also, cost comparisons in this section do not include sales tax. 4 Based on a $30 per month gym membership. 1
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