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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING

Making An Impact To Strengthen Bonds With The Community

Plus: Student Success Center Expands Career Services Why Choose UMSON?

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A campus-wide initiative enhances opportunities for community-based engagement, scholarship, and learning.

Students and alumni share their reasons for choosing the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

Career services are expanded to provide a leg up on the competition.

Reaching Out

The UMSON Difference

Job Ready

Teresa Mott, BSN, master’s student in the nurse anesthesia specialty

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departments 2 News ........................................................ 3 Insights — A Message from the Dean ..........

> White Coat Ceremonies ............................ 3 > 125th Anniversary Gala .............................. 4

Partnerships ............................................. 18 Discovery ................................................ 26 Healthy Dialogue ..................................... 30

> By the Numbers ...................................... 5 > Firsts ..................................................... 7 > Welcome New Faculty ............................. 10

11 Change Agent .......................................... 12 Innovation ................................................ 14 Shady Grove Perspectives ......................... 16 Online ......................................................

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Honor Roll of Donors ...............................

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Alumni Pulse ........................................... 42 Back Story ........................... Inside Back Cover Save the Date ................................ Back Cover

ON THE COVER: Professor Jane Lipscomb oversees the University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Community-Based Engagement and Learning initiative to make the University a more integral partner in the West Baltimore community [See the story on page 20] Photograph by Mike Ciesielski UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 1

INSIGHTS “ It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”

Winter 2015 nursing for um is a publication of the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

The magazine informs readers about faculty, student, and alumni involvement in nursing education, research, practice, and leadership, and serves as a tool for connecting alumni and other constituents with the School of Nursing.

—Henry James

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ince joining the University of Maryland School of Nursing as dean nearly two years ago, I have had the opportunity to learn so much about the history of the School and its alumni; our dedicated and talented community of faculty and staff; and the passionate, bright, remarkable nursing students we serve.

As the largest nursing school in the state and one of the largest in the nation, we produce graduates who become top leaders in education, research, practice, and administration.

In October, we announced the names of 25 Visionary Pioneers, School of Nursing alumni chosen as trailblazers in nursing innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Their accomplishments, as well as your own, are many and diverse, making it easy to understand why the University of Maryland has been consistently ranked as one of the nation’s premier schools of nursing.

It is my great privilege to serve as your dean and I am committed to maintaining the legacy of excellence established throughout our 125-year history. This includes embracing our existing traditions and creating new ones that will provide enhanced opportunities to recognize the achievements of our students.

Over the last year, we introduced three exciting new traditions, including the Dean’s List honoring Bachelor of Science in Nursing students with a GPA of 3.75 or higher; the semi-annual White Coat Ceremonies, designed to instill a commitment to providing compassionate care among future health professionals; and the first-ever December Commencement ceremonies at Baltimore and the Universities at Shady Grove.

We’ve also expanded career services offered by our Student Success Center. In this issue of nursing for um, you can read a feature article on Career Services to learn more about our plans for supporting students and alumni as they navigate the job market.

As many of you know, we are celebrating the School’s 125th anniversary this year. We hope you’ve had a chance to participate in some of the events we’ve held over the last year.

If not, there’s still time to purchase tickets for our final event — a black-tie optional gala being held in April, where our inaugural 25 Visionary Pioneers will be honored.

I would like to close by thanking you for the outpouring of support, encouragement, and positive feedback we received on the redesign of our nursing magazine. Your comments indicated that you liked the new name and the new design, as well as the interesting stories we featured in our inaugural issue. I hope you enjoy reading this issue just as much.

Yours in celebrating our exceptional history as well as our exciting future,

Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor 2 WINTER 2015

Editorial Board: Patricia Adams, Editorial Director Susan G. Dorsey Marjorie Fass Laurette Hankins Karen Kauffman Kathryn Montgomery Robin Newhouse Rebecca Wiseman Contributors: Patricia Adams Gregory Alexander Tieana Boyd Marie Brown Stacey Conrad Laurette Hankins Nancy Menefee Jackson Todd Karpovich Kevin Nash Barbara Pash Cynthia Sikorski Matt Ward Blaise Willig Design and Editorial: Today Media Custom Communications 1014 W. 36th Street Baltimore, MD 21211 410-828-0120 todaymediacustom.com Chairman: Robert F. Martinelli President: Jonathan Witty Project Manager: Julie F. Lang Art Director: Randy Clark Senior Editor: Blaise Willig Photography: Mike Ciesielski Richard Lippenholz Kevin Nash nursing for um is published twice a year by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Md. We welcome comments, suggestions, and story ideas from alumni, partners, and friends. Please send all correspondence to the editorial director.

Send correspondence to: Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Communications University of Maryland School of Nursing 655 W. Lombard St., Suite 311D Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: 410-706-4115 Fax: 410-706-5560 padams@son.umaryland.edu Copyright © 2015 University of Maryland School of Nursing

NEWS

White Coat Ceremonies Celebrate Rite of Passage for Nursing Students

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ncoming Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Clinical Nurse Leader students received their white coats at groundbreaking programs held October 21 at the School of Nursing in Baltimore and November 3 at the Universities at Shady Grove. The School was one of 100 nursing schools to receive funding support through a collaborative effort between the Arnold P. Gold Foundation

(APGF) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to pilot White Coat Ceremonies.

The purpose of the program is to instill a commitment to providing compassionate care among future health professionals entering nursing schools.

Janice Hoffman, PhD, RN, ANEF, associate professor and assistant dean for the BSN program, was instrumental in bringing the program to the School.

“This is a great opportunity for our students to participate in the School of Nursing’s inaugural White Coat Ceremonies. It reinforces the reasons they enrolled in nursing school — learning how to provide safe, quality, compassionate care to patients and their families,” says Hoffman.

Though White Coat Ceremonies have been an important rite of passage at medical schools for more than 20 years, this new collaboration between the

“The white coat ceremony represents a change that has been taking place in the nursing profession over the past two decades.

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—Colin McCorkle

White Coat Ceremony, Baltimore

White Coat Ceremony, Shady Grove

APGF and AACN marks the first time a coordinated effort has been developed to offer such an event for nursing schools.

“The white coat ceremony represents a change that has been taking place in the nursing profession over the past two decades,” says student Colin McCorkle.

“The gap between physicians and nurses is narrowing when delivering patient care.

Decisions in hospitals are no longer made by an individual, but more as a collaborative effort between physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to assure that patients receive the best possible care.”

The APGF and AACN are planning 2015 to be the inaugural year for the nationwide rollout of the White Coat Ceremony to a larger number of nursing institutions.

—Kevin Nash UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 3

NEWS

125th Anniversary Celebration to Culminate with Spring Gala Visionary Pioneer Award Winners to be Honored Mark your calendar and plan to attend the final event celebrating the School of Nursing’s 125th anniversary — a black tie-optional gala from 6–10 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The highlight of the evening will be the recognition of the School’s 25 inaugural Visionary Pioneer Award Patricia Abbott, PhD, MS ’92, BSN ’89, RN, FACMI, FAAN Associate Professor, Division of Systems Leadership and Effectiveness Science University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor Rachel Z. Booth, PhD, MS ’70, BSN ’68, RN Former Dean, University of Alabama School of Nursing Mary Catherine Bunting, MS ’72, RN Baltimore benefactor; Chair, Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation Ethel Palmer Clark, DIN 1906 (Deceased) Darlene J. Curley, MS ’82, BSN ’80, RN, FAAN Executive Director, Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence COL Marla De Jong, PhD, MS ’96, RN, CCNS, FAAN Dean, United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, MS ’77, RN, FAAN Dean and Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia School of Nursing

Patricia A. Grady, PhD, MS ’68, RN, FAAN Director, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health Pamela V. Hammond, PhD, MS ’79, RN, FAAN Provost, Hampton University Donna S. Havens, PhD ’91, RN, FAAN Interim Dean and Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Nursing Ruth McCorkle, PhD, BSN ’68, RN, FAAN Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Nursing Esther McCready, DIN ’53 Maryland Civil Rights pioneer, retired nurse, and educator Patricia G. Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor, and Louis H. Peery Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah College of Nursing The Honorable Shirley NathanPulliam, MAS, BSN ’80, RN Member, Maryland House of Delegates

Winners — alumni who have made a significant impact on, and contribution to, the field of nursing based on their leadership, innovation, or entrepreneurship.

We are excited to announce the 25 Visionary Pioneers who will be honored at the event, and we congratulate them on their selection!

RADM (Ret.) Elizabeth Schuyler Niemyer, MS, BSN ’78, RN Chief, Program Office for United Healthcare, Military, and Veterans

Betty Lou Shubkagel, PhD, BSN ’54 (Deceased) Professor Emerita, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Marla T. Oros, MS, BSN ’84, RN President, The Mosaic Group

Debra L. Spunt, DNP ’08, MS ’83, BSN ’79, RN, FAAN (Deceased) Former Assistant Professor and Director, Clinical Simulation Laboratories, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Barbara J. Parker, PhD ’86, MS ’76, RN, FAAN Professor Emerita, University of Virginia School of Nursing RADM (Ret.) Carol. A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77, RN, BC, NEA, FAAN, FACMI Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Lisa Rowen, DNSc, MS ’86, RN, FAAN Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, University of Maryland Medical Center Phyllis Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’79, RN, CNE, FAAN Associate Dean for Community and Global Programs, and Director, Center for Global Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Joan M. Stanley, PhD, MS ’78, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP Senior Director of Education Policy, American Association of Colleges of Nursing Elizabeth Scanlan Trump, MS ’60 (Deceased) Collaborator on development of R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the trauma center’s first director of nursing, University of Maryland Medical Center David Vlahov, PhD, MS ’80, BSN ’77, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor, Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing

We hope you will join us to mark this momentous occasion in the School of Nursing’s history and to honor our inaugural Visionary Pioneers.

Tickets, which go on sale in January 2015, are $100 per person. A portion of the proceeds will go toward the 125th Anniversary Scholars Fund.

For more information, contact Tiffany Hooper at hooper@son.umaryland.edu or 410-706-7640. For information about event sponsorship opportunities, contact Laurette Hankins, associate dean for development and alumni relations, at hankins@son.umaryland.edu or 410-706-7640.

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Patricia Flatley Brennan

BY THE NUMBERS THE SCHOOL OF NURSING’S RENOWNED FACULTY —

163 STRONG — CONSISTS OF LEADERS IN NURSING EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE. HERE IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE

SINI 2014 Addresses Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum

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undreds of informatics professionals SINI celebrates 25 convened at the School of Nursing years of excellence in July for the 24th Annual Summer in 2015, so mark your Institute in Nursing Informatics. National calendar now and plan to leaders in health informatics explored new attend next year’s conference, roles for clinicians and informaticians in using July 22–24, 2015. For informatics tools to support patient-centered information, visit: nursing. care across settings. Philip Fasano, executive umaryland.edu/sini vice president and chief information officer at Kaiser Permanente, opened the program with “Transforming Health Care.” Patricia Flatley Brennan, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, professor of nursing and industrial engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presented the Commander Lura Jane Emery Distinguished Lecture, “Emerging Technologies to Support Patient-Centered Care.”

—Kevin Nash

Jenkins Inducted As Fellow of NLN Academy of Nursing Education

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ouise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81, RN, FAHA, ANEF, professor and Director of the Institute for Educators in Nursing and Health Professions, has been inducted as a Fellow of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.

New fellows were inducted at the NLN’s Annual Education Summit, held in September in Phoenix, Ariz. Jenkins is one of 20 nurse educators selected to join the Academy’s 169 fellows representing nursing programs across the academic spectrum and from other organizations across the United States.

—Kevin Nash

FACULTY DEMOGRAPHICS FOR THE 2014–2015 ACADEMIC YEAR:

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NEWS

School of Nursing Students Shine Eight Doctoral Students Named Jonas Scholars

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he School of Nursing has been chosen by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare to participate in the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program. Eight doctoral students have been provided with financial assistance, leadership development, and networking support through the program.

PhD students Lauren Bently, MS ’12, RN, and Elizabeth Heetderks, ACNP, were selected PhD Jonas Nurse Leader Scholars. Doctor of Nursing Practice

students Sharon Smith, MS, RN, OCN, CCRP, FNE; Christine Simon-Waterman, MSN, RN, CRNP; and Linda Murray, MS ’84, CRNP-Ped, a clinical instructor at the School, were named Jonas-Blaustein Nurse Leader Scholars.

PhD students Irene Akande, MSN, MS, BSN ’05; Valerie Dernetz, MA, BSN ’02, RN; and Marik Moen, MSN, MPH, RN, an assistant professor at the School, were named Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholars.

Supported by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, the program aims to increase the number of doctoral-prepared faculty members to teach in nursing schools nationwide and advance practice nurses to provide direct patient care. Jonas Scholars will receive a total of $10,000 from 2014– 2016, which will be used for tuition and other academic costs. The program supports a total of 250 Scholars nationwide — 100 students for the Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program and 150 as Nurse Leader Scholars.

AANA Foundation Awards Scholarships to Three Students institutions that respect and support gays and lesbians.

AANA’s Foundation is a charitable organization devoted to anesthesia research, education, and development. It seeks to advance the science of anesthesia through education and research. Additionally, the Foundation serves as the philan-

AANA’s Foundation is a charitable organization devoted to anesthesia research, education, and development.

Victoria Ladele, Alice Cho, and Tushana Fowlin

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hree School of Nursing students — Alice Cho, BSN, CCRN; Tushana Fowlin, BSN, CCRN; and Victoria Ladele, BSN, CCRN — have been awarded scholarships from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation, an organization that awards scholarships to students currently enrolled in a nurse anesthesia program recognized and accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. Sixty of the 644 applicants 6 WINTER 2015

were awarded scholarships totaling nearly $126,000.

Cho received the AANA Diamond Club Scholarship for $2,000, which is given by past presidents of the AANA in honor of Marie Bader, a past president. Fowlin earned the Maryland Association of Nurse Anesthetists Scholarship for $3,000, which is awarded to a student enrolled in the School of Nursing’s Nurse Anesthesia master’s option. Ladele received the GALA Scholarship for $1,000, given to students attending

thropic arm of AANA, and funds scholarships, doctoral fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, research grants, general poster sessions, oral “State of the Science” poster sessions, and doctoral mentorships.

“We are very proud of our exceptional students who have earned these accolades and scholarships,” says Dean Jane Kirschling.

“They stood out from an extremely competitive pool of applicants, which demonstrates their hard work and ability to compete.”

—Kevin Nash

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1 Robin Newhouse (left) receives the STTI award from Hester Klopper, PhD, MBA, RN, RM, FANSA, president, Sigma Theta Tau International

Newhouse Inducted into Researcher Hall of Fame

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obin P. Newhouse, PhD ’00, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor and chair, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, was one of 25 nurse researchers inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame at the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nursing’s 25th International Nursing Research Congress, held last summer in Hong Kong. Created in 2010, the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame is one of STTI’s International Awards for Nursing Excellence. The award recognizes nurse researchers who have achieved significant and sustained broad national or international recognition for their work, and whose research has impacted the profession and the people it serves.

—Kevin Nash

Haut Elected President of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

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ATHERINE HAUT, DNP, RN, CRNP, PNP, assistant

professor, has been elected president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). Haut, who began her term July 15, is only the fourth member of NAPNAP’s Maryland chapter to be appointed national president.

In her role as president, Haut will lead the executive committee and team with NAPNAP’s chief executive officer to represent the Association on pediatric initiatives, policies, and practices.

NAPNAP is a professional association that actively advocates for children’s health by providing funding, education, and research opportunities for pediatric nurse practitioners. The Association seeks to empower PNPs and their health care partners to enhance child and family health through practice, leadership, advocacy, education, and research.

—Kevin Nash

Nurse Anesthesia Master’s Specialty

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n 2004, Maryland confronted a looming health care crisis. The state’s hospitals faced a critical shortage of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). Job vacancy rates soared past 16 percent. Despite the shortage, Maryland possessed no programs to train CRNAs, even though these health care professionals administered 65 percent of the 26 million anesthetics performed nationwide annually.

Responding to the dire need, the School of Nursing established the state’s first and only non-military Nurse Anesthesia master’s specialty.

Since its inception, more than 200 students have graduated from the program.

Effective fall 2014, nurse anesthesia became a specialty area within the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. The full-time, 36-month plan of study prepares students to provide anesthesia services to a diverse diagnostic and surgical population.

For more information about the nurse anesthesia specialty, or to apply, go to: nursing.umaryland.edu/academicprograms/grad/doctoral-degree/dnp

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NEWS

Faculty Members Honored During UMB Founder’s Week

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ach year, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) celebrates the achievements and successes of the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and philanthropic support, and pays tribute to its 200-plus-year history. As part of the celebration, awards are presented in four categories: Researcher of the Year, Public Servant of the Year, Teacher of the Year, and Entrepreneur of the Year.

We are proud to announce that two School of Nursing faculty members were among the 2014 Founder’s Week award recipients. Karen Kauffman, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, associate professor and chair, Department of Family and Community Health, received the Public Servant of the Year Award, and Robin Newhouse, PhD ’00, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor and chair, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, received Researcher of the Year, along with C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, School of Pharmacy.

Kauffman, a member of the School of Nursing faculty since 2003, has devoted much of her career to fighting Alzheimer’s disease, which her mother suffered from for 20 years before dying in 2009.

Kauffman, who was a caregiver for her mother, started a private practice in 1999 to provide long-term care consultation for older adults, many dealing with dementia, and then served on a work group of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Assisted Living.

She has published in national and international peer-reviewed journals on various topics, including Alzheimer’s disease; served on the National Board of the Alzheimer’s Association; chaired the 23rd Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum; and chaired a panel to revise the 8 WINTER 2015

UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD; Karen Kauffman; and Dean Jane Kirschling

C. David Mullins and Robin Newhouse celebrate their award

national Alzheimer’s Association’s Statement of Ethics. She also serves on the board of the Greater Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Esteemed researchers in their own right, Newhouse and Mullins combined their expertise to develop a program that

engages patients as advisors in designing research on health issues important to patients. “PATIENTS” — PATientcentered Involvement in Evaluating the EffectiveNess of TreatmentS — involves close collaborations among researchers from the University’s Schools of Dentistry,

Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work in Baltimore, and the School of Public Health in College Park, the University of Maryland Medical Center, as well as external collaborators.

Funded with a $5 million grant from patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) trust fund dollars from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, PATIENTS focuses on bringing patients into the health research equation by using PCOR methods, an innovative perspective promising that studies will focus on design, methods, and outcomes that patients care about. The PCOR approach includes people who have not usually been involved in research studies, including minority patients and those with physical and cognitive impairments.

Newhouse, who joined the School of Nursing in 2007, conducts comparative effectiveness research using multi-site studies to test health system interventions to improve care processes and patient incomes. She has published extensively on health services improvement interventions, acute care quality issues, and evidence-based practice, and is chair of the Methodology Committee of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a committee to which she was appointed by the U.S. Comptroller General. Newhouse is the only nurse serving on this prestigious 17-member committee.

In 2013, Newhouse was elected to the board of AcademyHealth, an interprofessional organization for health services researchers, and last summer she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She serves on two current Institute of Medicine committees.

Newhouse and Mullins presented their research at the Researcher of the Year Lecture, held at the UMB BioPark on October 13.

All award winners were recognized at the Founder’s Week Gala, held at the Baltimore Hyatt Regency on October 11.

—Patricia Adams and Chris Zang contributed to this article.

Marian Moser Jones receives a token of appreciation from Dean Jane Kirschling

Millicent Geare Edmunds Lecture Features Red Cross Nursing

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ar, Disaster, and the Making of the Red Cross Nurse” was the topic of the 2014 Millicent Geare Edmunds Lecture, held at the School of Nursing in September. MARIAN MOSER

JONES, PhD, author of The American Red Cross, from Clara Barton to the New

Deal, presented the lecture. Her talk focused on American Red Cross nursing from the origins of the Red Cross and the rise of nurses to prominence within the Red Cross, through their mobilization with the American military during the first World War and their long battle to obtain recognition and respect for their work.

—Kevin Nash

Grant Named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow

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arian Grant, DNP, RN, CRNP, assistant professor, has been named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy

Fellow. Seven health professionals from across the nation were selected to participate in the program, which began in the fall.

RWJF’s Health Policy Fellow program offers exceptional mid-career health professionals an opportunity to actively participate in the health policy process at the federal level. Each year, fellows are chosen through a highly competitive selection process to leave their campus or workplace to spend a year in Washington, D.C. More than 250 fellows from a variety of disciplines in health and health care from across the nation have participated in the program since its inception in 1973.

—Kevin Nash UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 9

NEWS

WELCOME NEW FACULTY Mary Burr MS ’02, CPNP Clinical Instructor

Linda Cook PhD ’05, MS ’97, RN, CCRN, CCNS, ACNP-BC Assistant Professor

Mary Burr

Linda Cook

Crystal DeVance-Wilson

Dzifa Dordunoo

Lori Edwards

Karmen Gant

Michelle Moulton

Mary Parsons

Gina Rowe

Nicole Smith

Jennifer Stephenson

Shijun Zhu

Crystal DeVance-Wilson MS ’06, BSN ’00, MBA, PHCNS-BC Clinical Instructor

Dzifa Dordunoo MS, RN Clinical Instructor

Lori Edwards DrPH, MPH, BSN ’80, RN, APHN-BC Assistant Professor

Karmen Gant MS, RN Clinical Instructor

Michelle Moulton MS ’09, RN, PCCN Clinical Instructor

Mary Parsons EdD, MS, FNP-BC Assistant Professor

Gina Rowe PhD ’13, DNP ’10, MPH, FNP-BC, PHCNS-BC, CNE Assistant Professor

Nicole Smith MS ’14, RN Clinical Instructor

Jennifer Stephenson MS ’12, BSN ’01, RN Clinical Instructor

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ONLINE

Publishing Power Webinars Work to Create Journal-Ready Articles

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ebecca Placko Brotemarkle, PhD ’13, MBA, RN, CCM, ACRN, wrote her doctoral dissertation last year on a topic that’s being studied now at hospitals across the state. The School of Nursing assistant professor’s thesis, titled, “Length of Stay and Discharge Disposition in Older Trauma Patients,” was completed just as Maryland hospitals were beginning to take a closer look at improving length of stay and remittance outcomes for all patients.

Despite its Zeitgeist, the 28,000-word dissertation may well have been destined for the shelf. However, a new program is helping to ensure that the School’s research not only gets written, but also gets read. The University of Maryland Online Dissemination and Implementation Program (UM-ODIP), operating with a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation and matching funds from the School of Nursing, is designed to help junior faculty members write a manuscript and get it published within a year. The program’s first cohort of 25 participants finished in January 2014 with several articles published; the second group of 25 will complete their work in January 2015.

All of the articles from UM-ODIP are also being collected for inclusion in a year-end publication.

Led by Professor Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, FAAN, FAANP, UM-ODIP is basically a writer’s workshop based on a series of four webinars that help master’s and doctoral candidates turn their lengthy dissertations into journal-ready articles.

The webinars focus on introduction and significance, methods, results, and discussion, while also covering ways to figure out which journals might be the best target publications for each writer’s work.

Professor Barbara Resnick

The UM-ODIP webinars are housed on Citrix for one year.

Explaining that dissertations are very in-depth and require “a whole different style of language,” Brotemarkle also notes that scientific journals have word limits, so the process of distilling research for publication involves both rewriting and rethinking. “You have to say the same things, but use fewer words.” In fact, Brotemarkle’s distillation is down to a lean 5,200 words.

Resnick, the School’s Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Endowed Chair in Gerontology, has great insight into how articles should be written — she’s editor of Geriatric Nursing, and serves as associate editor of three other journals.

“I’m one of those people who actually loves to write,” Resnick says, adding, “I really believe in the critical importance of disseminating work, and that it is sinful if money has been put toward a project and a researcher never publishes it.”

As an editor, Resnick is all-too familiar with reading manuscripts that could use some help, and she aims to make sure graduates of UM-ODIP don’t commit common errors of omission, such as failing to proofread their work.

“A lot of what we do,” she explains, “is help people think through how to frame a paper; how to take research and make it publishable.”

—Matt Ward

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CHANGE AGENT

Advocates in Annapolis Health Care Background Serves Legislators Well

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wo School of Nursing alumni have drawn upon their handson experience as nurses to make their mark as legislators in Annapolis, working tirelessly to help ensure the stability of the state’s health care industry.

Addie Eckardt, MS ’81, BSN ’78, RN, a Republican representing District 37B when in the House of Delegates, recently won the Senate seat for District 37 after having served on the House Appropriations Committee for the past 12 years. She has consulted and worked with other legislators on policy committees that have a health focus.

“The delivery of quality, affordable, accessible health care for citizens is very important, and that includes services to folks who have mental illness and substance abuse,” says Eckardt, noting that she put in a bill in 2011 to integrate mental hygiene administration and addictions. “Actually, I believe all health

Addie Eckardt

care can be integrated as long as the specialty services are included in the team approach. I also believe a public health model is important to the very life and health of a community.”

Over the past several years, Eckardt has seen the system evolve to become a “Behavioral Health Department” with corresponding education and training

SUPER Stars Set Shining Examples School of Nursing students are getting

hydraulic fracturing for methane/natural

Shirley Nathan-Pulliam

of staff in addictions and mental health.

Several years ago, the state developed a co-occurring treatment model, and Eckardt believes it can work as a costsaving state policy over the long run, since mental illness is treatable as long as there is early diagnosis and intervention.

“I have been working on several items, and I do not consider getting a bill

in Maryland, which is currently examining lifting its moratorium,” says Christopher A. Gawrych, SUPER’s president and an

frontline experience with health care

gas is having on communities, and how

policy and research through the aptly

citizens can be advocates to help protect

named SUPER — Students United for

vulnerable populations. As a case study,

SUPER has invited legislators and

Policy and Research — group.

the group is looking back to 2012, when

other policymakers from the local, state,

the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association

and national levels; health services

about the active roles they can play in

put forth a charter to the American

researchers; and those working within the

current health care research development

Nurses Association’s House of Delegates

health care system in non-governmental

and policy practices. SUPER’s parent

outlining the need for “evidence-based

roles to share their experiences with

organization, AcademyHealth, is an

information to educate other health

the University of Maryland population.

advocate for health services research and

professionals, the public, and policy-

SUPER also participates in state health

policy advancement.

makers about the relationship between

care advocacy events, such as the School

energy choices and human health.”

of Nursing’s Advocacy Day in Annapolis,

SUPER participants are finding out

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“Hopefully, this will help develop policy on hydraulic fracturing practices

MS candidate in the School of Nursing’s Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) program.

allowing students to apply what they have learned about health services policy.

passed as the absolute test of success in Annapolis,” she says. “I would rather clearly identify the issue or problem to be solved, and develop and implement a well thought-out plan with many stakeholders, and get system change.”

Eckardt, a two-time graduate of the School of Nursing, is confident that nursing will continue to be a one of the most vital parts of the health care process.

According to the legislator, since she has “worked in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for a long time and been a state employee in an institutional setting,” she understands just how important it “to have adequate qualified nurses providing care in the identified classifications.”

“Over the years, with an aging workforce and shortage of RNs, I have passed legislation to allow nurses in shortage areas to retire and then be rehired under certain circumstances,” she adds. “As this worked well, the law was amended to expand that provision.”

Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, MAS, BSN ’80, RN, a Democrat who represented District 10 while in the House, also was just elected to the Senate for District 44.

She has dedicated her career to ensuring that all Maryland citizens have access to health care — regardless of social demographics. She has worked diligently

on several bills that directly impact nursing.

“My colleagues and I work closely together and they understand when I am passionate about something,” says Nathan-Pulliam, a 1980 graduate of the School of Nursing who notes that she maintains close ties with Dean Jane Kirschling and several faculty members.

In fact, she recently spoke to a public health nursing class.

One of the many bills that NathanPulliam sponsored during the 2014 legislative session requires the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Maryland Insurance Administration to jointly establish a stakeholder work group on workforce development for community health workers (CHWs). Under the bill, at least 50 percent of the membership of the work group must be individuals who are directly involved in the training of nonclinical health care workers or represent an institution or organization that is directly involved. The work group must study and make recommendations regarding the training and credentialing required for CHWs to be certified as nonclinical health care providers. It will also address reimbursement and payment policies for CHWs through Medicaid and private insurers.

“I want to make sure we understand the role played by community health workers,” Nathan-Pulliam says. “It is important to make sure we do not lose sight of why they exist and what they are supposed to do, so that they do not infringe on nursing scope of practice or any other health professionals such as social workers. Community health workers are not clinical experts, but they are trained to work in their communities, especially ones affected by health disparities.”

During the 2014 legislative session, the delegate also sponsored a bill that requires the State Board of Nursing to establish a program through which the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository reports all new and additional criminal history information to the Board for an applicant who has been fingerprinted for a required criminal history records check. The bill makes numerous changes regarding licensure, certification, and disciplinary actions, including authorizing the Board to issue cease and desist orders, seek injunctive relief, and impose civil penalties for specified violations.

This legislation was signed into law

by Gov. Martin O’Malley and took effect Oct. 1.

—Todd Karpovich

“As president, I strive to keep the organization open to all, including those who are passionate about research as well as casual students who may not have any idea about how research, policy, or education are shaping their profession and world, but are willing to take the first steps to learn,” Gawrych says. “Outside the walls of the university, we will need to be able to collaborate and take a team-based

SUPER Officers: Jacob Miller, vice president; Faculty Advisor Catherine Kelleher, ScD, MPH, RN, associate professor; Tyler Kochel, secretary; Christine Ruszin, treasurer; and Christopher Gawrych, president

approach to solve the complex problems facing health care.”

Many SUPER members are master’s students in the CNL master’s option, which has a heavy emphasis on the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) to

influence changes in patient care and

how Medicare decides to reimburse

policy to improve patient outcomes

hospitals for care,” Gawrych says,

and satisfaction.

“so it is a tool we are eager to share

“EBP can be used to effect the

and implement as an organization.”

smallest of changes all the way up to

—Todd Karpovich

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INNOVATION

Capping Off Health Care Improvements Scholarly Projects Solve Practical Problems

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hannon Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03, CRNP, FAANP, believes that nurses are in a unique position to improve patient care and health care systems. As assistant dean for the School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, she oversees the program’s scholarly projects that give students the opportunity to solve real-life nursing challenges.

The projects are part of the DNP program’s curriculum. Idzik, an associate professor at the School, helps students turn their ideas into capstone projects.

“They find evidence-based solutions to solve practical problems,” she says.

Badia Faddoul explains the Web-based health education game to a patient

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Students can choose from among six categories for their capstone projects: quality improvement, translation of evidence into practice, clinical- or practice-based inquiry, health care delivery innovation, program development and evaluation, and health care policy. “The categories are deliberately broad so as not to limit the projects,” says Idzik.

Past scholarly projects have ranged from implementing clinical practice guidelines and redesigning care delivery systems to using a team approach to care.

“Nurses are well positioned as direct care providers to change health care,” Idzik says. “We spend a lot of time with

patients and use systems often put in place by others. We have an understanding of health care systems that others don’t. We are the link to the whole system.”

Idzik chose the following two examples of scholarly projects, both of which, she says, “illustrate using innovation to solve current problems.”

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adia Faddoul, DNP ’12, RN, CCRN, wanted to teach adult patients about Coumadin, a widely used blood thinner for certain diseases.

Patients have to be careful when taking Coumadin, visiting their provider and being consistent with their diet.

Krysia Hudson tests a nurse’s decisionmaking through a virtual environment

Faddoul, a clinical practice coordinator in the Division of Quality and Safety at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), doubted that every patient would wade through, much less understand, the lengthy instructions that come with the drug. So, she developed a Web-based game as a health education tool.

“People use games as a fun activity. I thought I could use it as a way to teach patients,” says Faddoul, who, with support from School of Nursing faculty members, created a 20-minute, animated game that was uploaded onto computers at a UMMC clinic so that 20 patients could test it.

Her capstone project showed that most patients found the game useful. Moreover, the patients tended to be older adults, and they were open to the use of gaming as an informational tool.

Faddoul and School of Nursing faculty members are applying for a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research

to develop an iPhone and android device version of the game. If approved, she says, “UMMC would be a front-runner in this new field in informatics.”

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rysia Hudson, DNP ’12, MS ’92, BSN ’97, RN, an instructor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, developed a simulation environment for nurses who administer insulin to diabetics. She had two goals: to provide practice in insulin administration and to study clinical decisions concerning insulin.

“The two types of insulin are longlasting, given once a day, and short-acting, given around meals,” she explains. “It can be confusing to determine how much to give and how to monitor. Everything is so individual. And, there are variables that throw off the schedule, like if the patient isn’t in the room.”

Hudson used an existing virtual environment, Second Life, to test the decision-making of practicing nurses. She

set parameters for role playing based on real-life situations. During her six-monthlong capstone project, she tested day and night nurses, asking questions during the process to determine comprehension.

Some of Hudson’s findings: t /VSTFT XJUI NPSF FYQFSJFODF SFQPSUFE less usability of Second Life than nurses with fewer years of practice. t :PVOHFS OVSTFT GPVOE UIF WJSUVBM environment more useful than older nurses. t %BZ OVSTFT XFSF NPSF GBNJMJBS XJUI UIF scenario than night nurses.

“I believe it is valuable to have this kind of simulated experience at point of care,” says Hudson. “Simulation breeds familiarity with situations they might encounter and decisions they could make.

It’s a new modality for the nurses.”

Hudson adds that finding new ways to offer simulation is not only necessary, but may lead to improved nursing decisions and patient care.

—Barbara Pash

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SHADY GROVE PERSPECTIVES

Internships for Interprofessional Learning Collaborative Curriculum Puts Students in Real-World Settings

Barbara Goulding, RN (left), speaks to students about infectious diseases, HIV/STD testing, and case management at the Dennis Avenue Health Center

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he School of Nursing has been a long-time advocate of interprofessional learning, which involves students from various disciplines joining forces to learn the importance of teamwork.

In keeping with that objective, the School helped spearhead an internship program this past summer for students from various disciplines to work with staff at the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (MCDHHS).

The idea took shape when Uma Ahluwalia, director of MCDHHS, expressed interest in coordinating interprofessional education efforts with the School. As a result, a team of health profession course directors was convened to explore opportunities.

Rebecca Wiseman, PhD ’93, RN, associate professor and chair for the School of Nursing program at the Universities of Shady Grove (USG), was part of that group, which decided to apply for a University of Maryland 16 WINTER 2015

Interprofessional Learning and Interprofessional Care seed grant to pay for the internship. The grant was approved and a summer program began in June.

“At USG, we have been committed to interprofessional education for many years,” says Wiseman, noting that students participating in the paid internship came from the University of Maryland Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. Students from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Clinical Psychology program and UMBC’s undergraduate program for social work also participated, as well as representatives from the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health.

According to Mary Anderson, public information officer for MCDHHS, “It is imperative that we take an active role in supporting multi-disciplinary and collaborative practice education for graduates coming out of the disciplines that support the health and human

services enterprise. This is what drove our commitment to participate with USG to develop this collaborative curriculum.”

Anderson says the local community embraced the students. “Having these bright, energetic, and inquisitive interns has also been stimulating for staff who realize how much they have to offer in terms of experience and expertise,” she adds. “Within MCDHHS, there is fertile ground for further development of this construct and an interest in sustaining this initiative in subsequent semesters, if possible.”

Abaneh Ebangwese, a School of Nursing student at USG who participated in the program, says she knows how important it is for nurses to collaborate with other professions on a daily basis, so she wanted the experience before getting into the field. “I have absolutely enjoyed working with the other students in the internship,” Ebangwese says. “I learned so much about their professions which I would have otherwise known nothing about, because many programs, unfortunately, keep students ensconced within their professional programs and there is really never any emphasis on connecting with students in other professional programs.”

Ebangwese’s favorite part of the program was taking field trips to learn firsthand, from an interdisciplinary perspective, about the many services MCDHHS provides.

Katherine J. Morris, program director for UMBC’s undergraduate social work program, says unique opportunities are available for collaboration with USG, given the other universities and programs located on campus.

Melvin Cauthen, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C (right), provides students with an overview of services offered at the Dennis Avenue Health Center

For example, UMBC is affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Social Work, which offers a Master of Social Work degree at USG. Thus, students can complete both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work on the USG campus.

“Often it takes time to develop interprofessional teams that can successfully work together to best serve their clients or communities,” Morris says. “In education, we teach in ‘silos’; we want our students to know the social work perspective, theories, and ethics. But in the real world, our students need to be able to work with nurses, pharmacists, teachers, psychologists, physicians, and others. By teaching students the interprofessional perspective, roles, and ethics, they will be better prepared when they arrive in the workforce.”

Claire Graham, a nursing student at USG who participated in the internship, says nurses must be advocates for their patients, and this requires that they be interconnected with many different disciplines and professions within the hospital and community. The internship provided “opportunities to learn from, and about, many of the disciplines I will be working with in the future — pharmacy, social work, public health, and psychology — and how best to communicate with them,” Graham says.

“I was also interested in having exposure to a county government agency. I thought this internship would expand my knowledge on what my educational background and degree can do. I can work clinically in hospitals if I would like to, but there is definitely a place for me to do work I would enjoy in a serviceintegrated government agency, like

the Department of Health and Human Services.”

Graham says the other 11 interns with whom she worked all brought something unique to the table, from both their professional and personal backgrounds.

“Working in this team has helped open my eyes to things that are professionally not my first instinct, but are extremely important when providing patient-centered care,” Graham says.

“Because of the insights from the other interns, I really do think that I will be able to do my job better.”

Wiseman hopes the program can continue. “If we are able to get the funding to pay the stipends, paid in the form of tuition support for the students, we will continue with this program,” she says. “All agree it is an awesome opportunity.”

—Todd Karpovich

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PARTNERSHIPS

Fighting Breast Cancer Together Research and Awareness Opportunities Funded by The American Cancer Society and Komen Maryland

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he School of Nursing is continuing its recent legacy as an innovator in breast cancer research and awareness with a clinical study investigating the causes of weight gain during chemotherapy.

Patients with breast cancer who gain weight during chemotherapy have higher recurrence and mortality rates than patients who don’t gain weight.

“Nobody has looked at this phenomenon comprehensively,” says principal investigator Kathleen Griffith, PhD, MPH, 18 WINTER 2015

CRNP, AOCN, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing.

According to Griffith, weight gain during chemotherapy affects up to 75 percent of patients with breast cancer.

Her study, funded by the American Cancer Society, looks at 40 women — half of normal weight and half overweight — at the beginning, middle, and end of treatment. Measures in the study will include body fat, resting metabolic rate, inflammatory biomarkers, insulin resistance, and changes in patterns of

activity and eating, as well as information on mood, anxiety, depression, quality of life, and changes in sleep. DNA and RNA will also be stored for future analysis related to weight gain predisposition in the setting of chemotherapy.

“My goal here,” Griffith explains, “is to characterize the experience of chemotherapy from the standpoint of what’s happening behaviorally, biologically, and metabolically. By describing this, we can start to target ways to manage weight once they start treatment.”

Enrolling African-American women will be important, Griffith notes, because they tend to gain more weight during chemotherapy and have an overall 40 percent higher breast cancer mortality rate as compared to Caucasians. While weight gain is not the only factor influencing that survival disparity, the research will take into account factors that may influence racial differences in weight change outcomes.

Griffith, a nurse practitioner in the field of oncology, was also one of several School of Nursing faculty members to participate in a groundbreaking breast cancer awareness and education program: “The Komen Maryland Affiliate Nursing Partnership: Advancing Education and Practice.” This innovative partnership, which utilized startup funding from Komen Maryland between 2006 and 2012, was the first of its kind in the nation linking the Komen Foundation with a nursing school. The program continues today and remains focused on educating students and faculty about prevention and detection of breast cancer, and the treatment and care of persons living with the disease.

Sandra McLeskey, PhD, RN, a recently retired professor, was a leader on the Komen partnership grant. With a background in basic science, McLeskey

wanted to bring some empirical realism to the table, to help demystify the disease for nursing students. “A lot of them had a very simplistic view of breast cancer,” McLeskey says. “Most people overestimate their likelihood of getting breast cancer. They are more afraid of it than cardiovascular disease, which is backwards.”

The curriculum content specific to breast cancer has raised awareness among faculty and students. In addition, a lasting stock of didactic modules has been developed and worked into the School of Nursing’s undergraduate and graduate programs. The modules have been used

by more than 30 international nursing schools to date, according to Robin Prothro, MPH, BSN ’79, chief executive officer of Komen Maryland.

“This program provided the first content specific to breast cancer in any nursing school curriculum in the entire country,” Prothro says. “It was totally innovative, and the University of Maryland School of Nursing was the pioneer in devising the curriculum.

It was fantastic to be able to fund the development of the content modules and ensure their accessibility globally.”

—Matt Ward

Kathleen Griffith

According to Kathleen Griffith, weight gain during chemotherapy affects up to 75 percent of patients with breast cancer. Her study, funded by the American Cancer Society, looks at 40 women at the beginning, middle, and end of treatment.

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BY NANCY MENEFEE JACKSON

aculty, staff, and students at the School of Nursing know that the University of Maryland is more than just an anchor in West Baltimore — it’s an active member of the community. The university’s outreach efforts — from grant money to clinical services and wellness programs — reflect that understanding. But the university still sees room for improvement.

A major initiative, the University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for CommunityBased Engagement and Learning (CBEL), will help. Created in fall 2013 as the outcome of a campus-wide strategic plan, CBEL brings together the six professional schools to coordinate, guide, and enhance opportunities for community-based student engagement, scholarship, and learning.

“Most schools require students to spend some time in the community, to understand the context of the background of those they serve — how they work, play, and live,” says CBEL Director Jane Lipscomb, PhD, RN,

FAAN, a professor in the School of Nursing.

CBEL is using mapping technology to show where the six schools have students in the communities and where interprofessional education occurs. The mapping will help pair outreach and available resources and increase opportunities for research collaboration.

“Health sciences campuses in particular are very siloed institutions, but the community sees the university as one institution,” Lipscomb says. “We’re trying to make an impact from multiple perspectives.”

Ashley Valis, MSW, is the executive

director of community initiatives and engagement for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and she has spent the past few months in the new position assessing the university’s involvement.

“What I suspected was exactly the case,” she says. “We’re doing a tremendous amount in the community already, but while we’re doing a lot, it’s not as coordinated as it could be among the schools.”

Valis recalls her own days as a student in the School of Social Work, when she was working in a West Baltimore elementary school. She learned one child’s family had received an eviction notice. “I knew that

Students Encouraged to Make Most of Outreach Efforts

A PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY

Jane Lipscomb, professor and director of the Center for Community-Based Engagement and Learning 20 WINTER 2015

Clinical Nurse Leader student Ashley Morse reviews nutrition labels with Paul’s Place client Jeffrey Parker

Kelly Flannery, assistant professor and Director of Health and Wellness at Paul’s Place

there was a law school on campus, and someone would know more than I did about eviction rights, but I didn’t know how to connect with them,” she recalls. “How do we make sure students are aware of the resources other schools can bring? We need to create awareness of students on campus that there is a place where they can go, whether that’s CBEL or our Community Affairs Office.”

Another initiative of CBEL is to encourage community-based scholarship by both faculty and students. This year, it awarded grants of up to $20,000 each to seven teams involved in pilot projects, and an additional $5,000 was available for community organizations involved in the projects — an unusual step.

“To be truly in partnership with the community, it’s important that the community’s role be acknowledged,” says Lipscomb. “To be able to get some grant funding was really refreshing for those researchers and scholars who want to do this work; it’s hard to come by funding.”

CBEL is also involved in violence prevention work, but its most far-reaching effort is enriching students’ education. “We are

hoping this will be an opportunity for those who only think about the community in terms of health-service delivery — clinics and hospitals,” Lipscomb says.

A perfect example of how the School grows in what it can offer is Paul’s Place in southwest Baltimore.

Kelly Flannery, PhD, RN, an assistant professor at the School and director of health and wellness at Paul’s Place, points to a decades-long partnership. Paul’s Place originally started as a soup kitchen, but it has expanded to offer 22 programs for low-income and homeless people. The list of services it provides includes everything from smoking cessation and wellness programs to clinical health care services, food, and employment assistance. There is also an after-school program, attended by 75 children, aimed at making sure they’re healthy while providing mentoring and promoting academic success.

Graduate and undergraduate nursing students join medical and social work students in providing services while Flannery serves as a clinical instructor.

“It provides students with a prevention and community-based experience, and

an opportunity to interact with patients outside the hospital — where they live,” she says. “Students have an opportunity to look at common barriers patients face that lead to non-compliance. Students are then trained to help patients problem-solve these barriers and link them with the resources and services they need to promote health while also offering health promotion interventions.”

Paul’s Place provides research opportunities, too. It partners with researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park — in the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotions Research — to offer smoking cessation and behavioral programs.

Flannery also serves on the West Baltimore Health Enterprise Zone Board.

The state has funded three areas in Maryland with health disparities, including West Baltimore. The board helps make sure the community is receiving needed services while determining “the best way to utilize the resources,” Flannery says, noting that the board helps with planning and programming.

As Valis explains, “We benefit as an institution if the neighborhoods where our students, faculty, and staff live are better.”

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BY NANCY MENEFEE JACKSON

WHY

Alumni and Students Weigh In The reasons why people decide to attend classes at either the School of Nursing’s Baltimore campus or the School’s location at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville are as varied as the student body. One constant is the School’s reputation for providing a stellar education that truly prepares graduates for the reality of nursing. But what are the other circumstances that lead students to say, “I choose the University of Maryland School of Nursing”?

Meet four members of the School of Nursing family — two current students and two alumni — who talk about their own reasons.

‘DEPTH AND BREADTH OF EXPERTISE’ GINA ROWE, PhD ’13, DNP ’10, MPH, FNP-BC, PHCNS-BC, CNE, assistant professor at UMSON

Choosing the School of Nursing was easy for Gina Rowe, since she was working part-time at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the pediatric emergency department. She already had two master’s degrees, in community nursing and public health, from Johns Hopkins University.

She came to the School to inquire about the family nurse practitioner certification because she knew it was continually ranked among the nation’s best.

“They needed someone to teach community health — I came in to talk about being a student and left with a clinical instructor job,” she recalls. “They were flexible — they recognized that most students can’t afford to quit their jobs.”

After earning her family nurse practitioner certification, Rowe decided to pursue not one but two doctoral degrees, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) to focus on putting knowledge into practice, and a PhD for scientific inquiry.

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The idea for two degrees was born when Sue Ann Thomas, PhD, MS ’72, BSN ’69, RN, FAAN, who was assistant dean for the PhD program at the time, spoke to the DNP students and explained how electives could count toward both degrees. Since Rowe’s complicated capstone project really was more like a PhD dissertation, she scaled back the DNP capstone and used her original proposal for her PhD, becoming the first student to earn both degrees from the School of Nursing.

She praised the significant support she received from both her DNP and PhD committees. “It’s really kind of amazing, the depth and breadth of expertise that we have here,” Rowe says.

“Without guidance, what I would have done was spend five years completing my DNP instead of five years earning two degrees that emphasize different skills.”

‘TOP-GRADE EDUCATION AT A REASONABLE COST’ BRIAN LE, MS ’13 (Clinical Nurse Leader) and Robert Wood Johnson Scholar

Having earned undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology from University of Maryland, College Park by the age of 20, Brian Le worked for four years as a

counselor on the pediatric psychiatric unit at Children’s National Medical Center.

Impressed by the role of nurses, he decided to pursue the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master’s option because of its reputation, and now is an ICU nurse at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

“Most of us were a little older, we had a few more bills,” he says. “I think the School provided a top-grade education at a reasonable cost; it was a great value.”

According to Le, the faculty prepared him for the didactic part of being a nurse. “Where the faculty really shine,” he explains, “is when they’re away from the podium. They remind you that they, too, are still nurses.”

Le appreciated the support of his cohort, many members of whom also had answered the call of nursing later in life.

Upon pursuing the CNL master’s option, “you’re kind of set on a trajectory that doesn’t stop at bedside nursing,” he says. “You’re taught to keep an open mind, and that there’s always a better, safer, cheaper, more efficient way to do something to benefit your patient. From day one, we’re told that we can do it, that we are the change agents.”

UMSON? ‘EVEN MORE CONVENIENT’ GIANFRANCO VILLAR, RN-BSN student

A native of Peru, Gianfranco Villar started as a business major at Montgomery College, in Rockville, Md., even though his dad was an obstetrician/gynecologist and his mom was a nurse. But he realized business wasn’t for him, and he completed the Surgical Technologist program at Montgomery College. After watching the OR nurses, he knew he wanted to earn a BSN, preferably at a school close to home.

He was intrigued by the School of Nursing because of its high ranking, history, values, and implementation of technology.

“It was even more convenient when I found out that the School was offering the degree at the Universities at Shady Grove,” he says. A lack of prerequisites thwarted his first attempt at entering the BSN program, but he was encouraged to apply again. He ended up finishing his associate’s degree at Montgomery College and then headed for the School of Nursing, where he is now in the last semester of the RN-BSN program.

“The more your education grows in the field of nursing, the better care you’re going to provide your patients,” he says.

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BRIAN LE

He managed to work full time as an OR nurse at Suburban Hospital and participate in a clinical rotation at Mercy Clinic with underserved immigrants and the uninsured. Although he still loves the OR, during his rotations he became intrigued by critical care nursing.

“That’s still on my bucket list,” he says.

After graduation, Villar plans to apply to the acute care nurse practitioner specialty or perhaps the nurse anesthesia specialty. He’d also like to see the role of nurse practitioners increase in the OR. “Nursing is just growing so fast,” he says. “I never knew how much nurses could do.”

‘FACULTY MEMBERS ARE SO SUPPORTIVE’ TERESA MOTT, BSN, master’s student in the nurse anesthesia specialty

A tough job market for new BSN graduates led Teresa Mott toward a career that wasn’t on her radar.

Hailing from Philadelphia, Mott graduated with a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University, but found that local hospitals weren’t hiring. The dean from the school of nursing informed her of scholarship money available for the nurse

practitioner program at Thomas Jefferson, and she enrolled. While doing her clinicals, she realized she would benefit from bedside nursing experience before working as a nurse practitioner. Shortly before graduation, she began working in the Neurotrauma SICU at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The plan was to work between six months and one year as an RN, but once she began working with the anesthesia providers, she had a change of heart and opted to return to school again.

“I became really intrigued, and within a few months, I knew anesthesia was what I wanted to do,” she says. She was also accepted into a nurse anesthesia program in Philadelphia, but faced a two-year waiting list. Instead, because of its reputation, she chose to pay out-of-state tuition for the School of Nursing and start within the year.

“I really wanted to get the ball rolling,” she says. “A lot of courses from the nurse practitioner program transferred, so it wasn’t a wasted degree.”

She found the good things she had heard about the program to be true. “Our faculty members are so supportive of our growth, development, and success, that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else,” she explains.

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Giving Job Seekers A Competitive Edge

STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER EXPANDS CAREER SERVICES

BY GREGORY J. ALEXANDER

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ursing is one of the most competitive fields for job seekers, but thanks to new, innovative initiatives at the School of Nursing, current students and alumni have a leg up on the competition.

The School’s Student Success Center, which provides services to improve academic performance and increase retention and graduation rates, recently expanded its offerings in career services.

“Students receive career services assistance in their practicum courses in their last semester, but we wanted to offer professional development skills earlier and get students into the Student Success Center as soon as possible,” says Tiffany Murphy, the center’s assistant director. “For example, students are applying for student nurse positions in their second semester, and we want them to be prepared to interview for those jobs.”

According to Murphy, recent School of Nursing alumni also visit the Student Success Center to learn how to better market themselves for management positions.

Murphy explains that some of the career services offered include resume and cover letter writing workshops, interviewing skills workshops, and mock interviews. The annual career fair has also been expanded to help job seekers.

The mock interviews are conducted by nurse recruiters, allowing students to experience what an actual interview might be like. “We want them to be able to successfully articulate their skills and experiences during an interview,” Murphy notes. “Nursing is very competitive, and they must practice to improve their comfort level and confidence. Although a student’s academic and professional skills are highlighted on their resume, we work with them so they can articulate how the employer will benefit if they are selected for a certain position.”

It was this “real world” experience that Kathleen Kang, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing student, found so rewarding. “I signed up for the mock interview workshop because I had applied for a job and was turned down,” she says. “I was not sure what I may have done wrong in the interview process. During the mock interview, I received great advice on what to wear, what to say, and what to ask. It gave me the confidence and reassurance I needed. The fact that the mock interviews are specifically about nursing meant that I could use the knowledge gained immediately.”

Kang says she also took advantage of the “speed networking” event, a collaboration between the Student Success Center and the School’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations that connects

“ I actually landed my current job as a student nurse at the University of Maryland Medical Center through this network.”

groups of students and alumni.

Tiffany Murphy explains the new Job Board to Clinical Nurse Leader student Johnathan Phelps

Along with the speed networking events, the Office of Development and Alumni Relations also offers an Alumni Speaker Series where alumni share their career paths and offer students guidance on interviewing and landing their first professional nursing job.

One other tool available for job seekers is the School’s Job Board, which the Student Success Center launched in August, in partnership with the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. The software allows employers to post jobs while students and recent graduates post resumes at no cost.

According to Cynthia Sikorski, associate director of alumni relations at the School of Nursing, students entering professions such as law or business are taught the skills to make themselves more marketable, “but with a clinical field like nursing, traditionally there has not been as much emphasis on marketing yourself.” She adds, “Nurses need to learn how to market themselves and to network.”

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DISCOVERY

The Next Generation of Nurse Scientists NIH Service Awards Keep ResearchIntensive Projects Moving Forward

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n the past, nursing education was all about hospital-based training programs focused on preparing diploma nurses for the clinical setting. Today, nurse scientists are performing groundbreaking research at the pre- and postdoctoral level.

This research is often funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“Within the context of science, the NIH is the federal mechanism for funding new knowledge in health care,” explains Dean Jane Kirschling, “and the NIH recognizes that we need to invest in the pipeline of the next generation of nurse scientists.”

The NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) offers predoctoral funding (F31) and postdoctoral funding (F32). “The F31 allows for funding while nurses are still in a PhD program so they can utilize their practice expertise while doing research,” Kirschling says. “The F32 is important as it allows nurses to immerse themselves in their development and move their research forward.”

Kirschling adds that the NIH funding is important to the School of Nursing, as well. “We are research-intensive — the School is ranked 11th nationally in NIH funding in nursing — and doctoral students choose their study based on the expertise of the faculty and the opportunity to conduct research under this guidance,” she says.

You don’t have to look far for exciting examples of NRSA-funded research being conducted by School of Nursing students. >> PhD student Mari Griffieon, MS ’07, BSN ’04, RN, received F31 funding for her dissertation research on chronic pain 26 WINTER 2015

following traumatic injury. “As a nurse in the clinical setting, I often worked with patients experiencing both acute and chronic pain, but I was unaware of the long-term consequences of unrelieved pain until I reviewed the pain literature,” Griffieon says. “During this review, I also found that chronic pain is prevalent in patients that have experienced traumatic injuries.” As a result, Griffieon decided to focus more closely on the association of pain intensity at the time of injury and chronic pain, and whether patients experience any changes in sensory function.

Griffieon says that the funding allows her to focus on her research full time.

“Having this extra time allows me to work on my research, participate in journal clubs and seminars across the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) campus, and still have time for training,” she notes. “Looking to a future as a nurse scientist, it is important to establish a record of funding.” >> Karen Wickersham, PhD, RN, a postdoctoral fellow at UMB who previously had F31 funding, currently has F32 funding to research the genetic, clinical, and biomarker correlates of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor-related rash for those persons with non-small cell lung cancer.

Wickersham notes that her dissertation focused on medication adherence to oral cancer therapies, such as Erlotinib, and her F32 funded research is a direct outgrowth of that study.

“The basic psychosocial process, ‘Surviving with Lung Cancer,’ was framed by the participants within the

recognition of non-small cell lung cancer as a life-limiting illness without cure,” Wickersham says. “They indicated that side effects related to Erlotinib were burdensome. Participants described thresholds that could or did result in stopping Erlotinib: cost, side-effect severity, i.e., rash, diarrhea, and pain related to cancer.”

Two of the three participant-identified thresholds for therapy discontinuation — side-effect severity and pain related to cancer — led Wickersham to pursue an opportunity to work with her current mentor, Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, an associate professor

Karen Wickersham, Mari Griffieon, and Valerie Dernetz

“ The School is ranked 11th nationally in NIH funding in nursing — and doctoral students choose their study based on the expertise of the faculty and the opportunity to conduct research under this guidance. at the School of Nursing. As Wickersham explains, Dorsey “is an expert in genetics of symptoms.” >> Focusing on women’s health, Valerie Dernetz, MA, BSN ’02, RN, is drawing on her 10 years of clinical practice to explore the “complex, and often frustrating, nature of managing urogenital and pelvic pain syndromes.”

”

—Dean Jane Kirschling

Dernetz has discovered that many of these disorders are poorly understood and have no known etiology.” So, the thirdyear PhD student obtained F31 funding to focus on the biological mechanisms and genetic influences of chronic pain syndromes in women, specifically the neurophysiological underpinnings and psychological elements of vulvodynia, a

chronic urogenital pain syndrome with no known cause.

Now that she’s transitioned from being a nurse clinician, Dernetz says she feels she can “best serve women as a nurse scientist” helping to develop “targeted effective treatments” for pelvic, urogenital, and rectal disorders.

“My focus will always be on relieving the painful symptoms that patients experience,” Dernetz explains. “I will now be investigating the underlying mechanisms of pain so others will be able to provide patients with targeted and effective pain management.”

—Gregory J. Alexander

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DISCOVERY

Valerie Rogers is on-hand in the operating room to collect a fresh tonsil from a child undergoing a clinically indicated tonsillectomy

Tackling Childhood Asthma Study Attempts to Clear the Air Regarding the Condition’s Relationship to Sleep Apnea

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or Valerie E. Rogers, PhD ’09, MS ’98, RN, CPNP, a lifechanging opportunity presented itself a half decade ago. At the time, she was a School of Nursing doctoral student working as a research assistant for the faculty member who later became her advisor, Jeanne Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN. Geiger-Brown [the subject of our “Healthy Dialogue” on page 30] was just embarking on a research career 28 WINTER 2015

regarding sleep — a subject of great interest to Rogers. “I was captivated by its applicability to every age, to any chronic illness, and even to healthy individuals,” she recalls. “As a long-time maternal-child nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner, I adapted that interest to studying sleep in children.”

For her dissertation research, Rogers evaluated the effect of sleep apnea on the occurrence of pain crises in children with sickle cell disease. Her postdoctoral

research focused on another sleep disorder, periodic limb movement disorder, also in children with sickle cell disease. “I’m still involved with sickle cell research,” Rogers says, “but I am expanding to look at the influence of sleep disorders on health outcomes in other pediatric chronic diseases, including asthma.”

And that brings us to today: Rogers, an assistant professor in the School’s Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a Biomedical

Research Grant from the American Lung Association to study “Biomarkers of Airway Inflammation and Asthma Control in Children with Comorbid Sleep-Disordered Breathing.” Rogers is investigating the mechanisms that cause the symptoms of children’s asthma to worsen when coupled with sleep apnea.

Asthma Prevalence, United States, 2012 AGE

GENDER

Child 9.3%

Male 7.0%

Adult 8.0%

Female 9.5%

Source: National Health Interview Survey, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Sleep apnea in children is associated with poor asthma control, but the reason for this association is unclear,” Rogers says. “Our study will measure inflammation in the tonsils of asthmatic children who have a tonsillectomy for sleep apnea, so we can better understand the contribution of sleep apnea to upper airway inflammation and its association with asthma control.”

A chronic disease that affects nine percent of children nationwide, childhood asthma is a particularly urgent concern in Baltimore, where the pediatric hospitalization rate is two times higher than the national rate. Many factors could contribute to this statistic, including high levels of tobacco smoke exposure and the low socioeconomic status of some of the city’s population.

Many residents, according to Rogers, “lack the resources or the understanding of the importance of receiving regular primary health care, which could help the children stabilize their asthma and keep them out of the hospital.”

Furthermore, children with asthma have a much higher prevalence of sleep apnea (30 percent or more) than other children (about two-three percent).

Rogers’ grant work, currently funded for two years, is geared toward looking for a link between asthma and obstructive sleep apnea by following what she calls “the ‘One Airway’ hypothesis” — it’s an idea previously applied to allergic diseases in the nose and their association with asthma. “This theory suggests that the close proximity of the upper airway (including the nose and throat) to the lower airway (the small airways deep in the lungs) promotes the transfer of inflammatory substances between the two,” Rogers explains. “Therefore, inflammation in the upper airway can lead to lower airway inflammation and trigger an asthma exacerbation (and possibly the reverse). When you think about the short distance between the upper and lower airways in children, you can see how, at least theoretically, this connection makes sense.”

Rogers has been making important connections of her own during her career. In 2011, for instance, she took a postdoctoral fellowship in sleep at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology and also worked with renowned pediatric researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She explains, “By the time I left Penn, I felt well-prepared (as much as a new investigator could!) to carry on research in the field of sleep medicine.”

Rogers is now working with a research team that includes University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center Director Steven M. Scharf, MD, PhD; pediatric allergist/immunologist Mary E. Bollinger, DO; Jeffrey D. Hasday, MD, head of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) Pulmonary and Critical Care Division; and School of Nursing colleagues Shijun Zhu, PhD, assistant professor, and Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, associate professor.

For the “Biomarkers” study, the team is recruiting boys and girls, ages 5 to 11 and of all racial/ethnic backgrounds, from a UMMC pediatric otolaryngology practice.

The surgeons — Kevin D. Pereira, MBBS, and Victor M. Da Costa, MD — have been “very supportive of our study,” says Rogers, noting that “we come right into the surgical suite to collect the tonsils as they are removed.”

As the grant work progresses, Rogers sees it as part of her ongoing transition from the clinical side of nursing to the research side — but always with children at the core. “I loved caring for the children and their families, and in helping them to regain health or at least to maintain the best quality of life possible where cure was not an option,” she says.

“I take great pleasure now in contributing to the discovery of ways in which to improve the care of children. It’s a totally different path than my previous clinical nursing career, but in the end, I am still striving for the same goal: to improve the lives of children.”

—Blaise Willig

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HEALTHY DIALOGUE

Getting the Rest You Need Questions About the ABZzzzzzs of Sleep

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f you struggle to get to sleep no matter how tired you are, lie awake in the middle of the night anxiously watching the clock, or are drowsy in the daytime even after sleeping the night before, you’re not alone. The National Institutes of Health estimates that up to 70 million Americans are affected by chronic sleep disorders and intermittent sleep problems that can impact their health, alertness, and safety.

Associate Professor Jeanne Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN, acknowledges, “Almost everyone has an occasional sleepless night when they are worried about something.” The key is to prevent the sleeplessness from becoming a habit and instead get back to the recommended pattern of seven to eight hours of sleep per night.

Having earned her PhD from the School of Nursing in 2001, GeigerBrown became involved in research to determine the effects of work schedules on some health outcomes.

Along the way, she began to wonder if the results were related to the effects of the schedule or rather “to the sleep that these workers were able to obtain between shifts,” she recalls. “So, I shifted my interest to sleep. Once I made this change, there was no looking back. Sleep is a fascinating topic.”

Geiger-Brown frequently publishes scholarly articles and performs research regarding sleep deficiency and sleep disorders among nurses. One recent meta-analysis of studies of cognitive behavior therapy for patients with insomnia and a comorbid medical or psychiatric diagnosis was recently conducted with Assistant Professor 30 WINTER 2015

Valerie E. Rogers, PhD ’09, MS ’98, RN, CNRP; Wen Liu, a doctoral candidate at the School of Nursing; and other collaborators, and she sees insomnia patients one morning each week at the University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center.

We asked Geiger-Brown five questions about the impact of sleep disorders, especially on nursing personnel.

Q: What are the primary causes of inadequate sleep?

GEIGER-BROWN: Not spending enough

time in bed! Sleep time is often cut back to accomplish other family activities, or just for reading or watching TV. Also, for nurses, shift work is a common reason for not sleeping enough.

Early rise times are a source of shortened sleep, because when a worker has to be in at 7 a.m., they often get up at 5 a.m. or earlier to get ready and deal with commuting traffic or train schedules.

Q: What are the most common sleep disorders?

GEIGER-BROWN: Insomnia, which is

difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early, affects about 10 percent of the population. The treatment for this is cognitive behavioral therapy, which takes a few sessions with a trained sleep provider [largely aimed at changing sleep habits and scheduling factors]. It is extremely effective in reducing insomnia symptoms, and the effects are long lasting — better than sleeping pills.

Sleep-disordered breathing becomes more common as we age, although it also affects children. The patient stops breathing many times every night,

Jeanne Geiger-Brown

usually in response to a blockage of the airway (obstructive sleep apnea).

For children, the therapy is usually a tonsillectomy, and for adults there are a variety of treatments, including positive pressure breathing devices, oral appliances, or surgery. If not treated, sleep apnea can lead to high blood pressure, stroke, prediabetes or diabetes, and depression. Snoring is an important warning symptom that should not be ignored.

There are also a number of problems with circadian rhythms, which regulate our natural sleep and wake patterns.

These include jet lag and shift work sleep disorder, but the most common problems are waking too early and falling asleep early in the evening (advanced sleep phase), or not being able to fall asleep until the wee hours then not being able to get up in the morning (delayed sleep phase). The treatments for these problems are bright light therapy and a sleep schedule that is timed by a sleep professional.

Q: What have you learned regarding sleep deprivation in nursing personnel and health care professionals?

GEIGER-BROWN: Nurses who work

12-hour shifts often get only about five hours of sleep between shifts, with night nurses getting less than those working the day shift. This can go on for a career lasting 30 or more years, so the burden of disease in nurses can be attributed in part to a state of chronic partial sleep deprivation.

Although physicians have terrible sleep early in their careers, many move to jobs where they have more normal hours. But this does not happen for the majority of nurses in hospitals or other institutional settings.

Q: Based on your research, can napping make a difference?

GEIGER-BROWN: Napping during

the night shift is really restorative for nurses. A short 25-minute nap eliminated drowsy driving in most of the nurses that I studied. But implementing napping varied unit by unit. On some units, it went pretty well, while other units were not able to adopt this even though there was institutional support.

Q: When is it time to seek help for a sleep problem?

GEIGER-BROWN: If you have excessive

daytime sleepiness, wake feeling tired, or can’t fall asleep or stay asleep for more than three weeks, you should seek help.

If you have symptoms, it is best to see a sleep professional. Just like you wouldn’t go to a cardiologist to fix a broken leg, there is no reason to see a family doctor for a sleep problem. Most sleep disorders are easily treated and the quality of life will be greatly improved with better sleep.

Sleep Hygiene Tips The promotion of good sleep habits and regular sleep is known as sleep hygiene.

To get a better rest each night, the National Sleep Foundation recommends these sleep hygiene tips: Establish consistent sleep and wake schedules, even on weekends.

Create a regular, relaxing bedtime routine such as soaking in a hot bath or listening to soothing music — begin an hour or more before the time you expect to fall asleep.

Create a sleep-conducive environment that is dark, quiet, comfortable, and cool.

Keep “sleep stealers” out of the bedroom — avoid watching TV, using a computer, or reading in bed.

Finish eating at least two to three hours before your regular bedtime.

Exercise regularly.

Avoid caffeine and alcohol products close to bedtime and give up smoking.

Sleep on a comfortable mattress and pillows.

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PHILANTHROPY

Happy Birthday!

I

n December 1889, the University of Maryland School of Nursing opened its doors for the first time, under the

On Saturday, April 18, 2015, the School of Nursing community will gather for the official 125th Birthday Party — a gala event.

Dean Kirschling will present the inaugural Visionary Pioneer Awards to 25 alumni who have made a significant contribution

capable leadership of superintendent

to the field of nursing. We applaud them and each of you who

Louisa Parsons. As luck and Mother

bring pride to your alma mater through your professional

Nature would have it, it was one of

nursing careers.

the warmest Decembers in Baltimore history, with a recorded temperature of 67 degrees during the end of that month. The average nurse’s salary was $4 a week, a dozen eggs could be purchased for 20 cents, and a gallon of gas … well, there were very few automobiles around at that time, so perhaps the price of a sack of oats might be more relevant! Tuition cost $3 for those first eight students

We also want to take this opportunity to thank each of our donors — alumni and friends who provide much-needed financial support to the School of Nursing. Following, you will find our annual Honor Roll of Donors, recognizing those who made gifts, pledges, or pledge payments between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Special thanks to our esteemed Louisa Parsons Legacy Society and Cornerstone Club members.

to graduate in 1892.

Now, 125 years later, the School of Nursing has more than

With gratitude,

20,000 living alumni, and we graduated 595 students last year alone. It is amazing to reflect on the positive impact our alumni have had on patients’ lives over the span of more than

Laurette L. Hankins

12 decades!

Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations

Honor Roll of Donors

July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014

$50,000 to $99,999

Honorable Janet S. Owens

Anonymous

American Academy of Nursing

Howard L. Sollins and Barbara M. Resnick, PhD ’96

University of Maryland Medical System

Daran Dunnells

$500,000 to $999,999

Dana Flor Douglas K. Loizeaux

$250,000 to $499,999

Maryland Healthcare Education Institute

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$100,000 to $249,999

$25,000 to $49,999

Marjorie Stamler Bergemann G. Richard Dunnells

National Council on State Boards of Nursing

Alan J. Silverstone and Kylanne Green Silverstone

Sandra A. Schoenfisch, MS ’76†

$2,500 to $4,999 Teresa L. DeCaro, MS ’91

William F. & Caroline Hilgenberg Foundation

ESD

$5,000 to $9,999

Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81†

Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society

Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Jane M. Kirschling

John Bing

National 4-H Council

Joyce A. Parks, MS ’93

Estate of Clarence Q. Bunderman and E. L. Bunderman, DIN ’31

Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93

$10,000 to $24,999

Virginia Lee Franklin Memorial Trust

Oncology Nursing Foundation

Barbara and Charles Friedman

Daniel J. O’Neal, III, BSN ’66

Wallace J. Hoff

Sharon Phillips Courtney A. Thomas, BSN ’66

Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70

James and Carolyn Frenkil Charitable Foundation

Mary Etta C. Mills, MS ’73, BSN ’71†

John A. Hartford Foundation

Susan Dorsey Wilson, BSN ’66

Fairfield Community Foundation, Inc. Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90 and Michael F. Huebner

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Caleb A. Rogovin, MS ’92†

Gerontology Society of America

Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation

Virginia K. Saba Jeffrey A. Rivest and Michelle M. Rivest, MS ’79, BSN ’75

American Cancer Society Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65†

Anonymous

John S. Morton, III and Patricia G. Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79†

Rosemary Noble, BSN ’66

United Way of Central Maryland, Inc.

*Deceased | Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member

White House Nurse Also Fills Critical Care Role

D

eborah Beatty, MS ’96, RN, began her military career immediately after receiving her undergraduate degree in nursing in 1984. “When I looked at the various options, the U.S. Air Force seemed an exciting way of life,” says Beatty, who retired in 2008 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Midway through her career, while Beatty was stationed as one of six military nurses at the White House, she applied to the School of Nursing’s master’s program in the trauma/ critical care specialty.

“The School of Nursing had an outstanding reputation for its critical care program,” says Beatty, who served for three years under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and whose education was paid for by the Air Force.

After graduation, she utilized her master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist to serve as a clinical resource and educator for five critical care units at the U.S. Air Force Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The master’s degree was her entry into a leadership career path. “It provided opportunities such as chief nurse and squadron commander,” says Beatty, a widow and mother of two who lives in Colorado Springs, Col. Since her retirement, Beatty has focused on the next generation of nurses. She accomplishes that as a part-time instructor in the nursing program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and through gifts to the School of Nursing. She makes annual contributions and has bequeathed five percent of her estate in her will.

“It is important for alumni to give back,” she says. “The School relies heavily on alumni donations, and I want to ensure that my philanthropic focus is carried out.”

—Barbara Pash

Steven Gordon

Kathryn L. Montgomery, PhD ’97

University of Texas Medical Branch

Claire P. Greenhouse, BSN ’66†

Katharine W. Parris, MS ’95, BSN ’69†

Sandra B. Warner, BSN ’60

Elizabeth S. Greenhouse

Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77

Joyce Willens, PhD ’94

Judah S. Gudelsky Dinah L. Halopka, BSN ’74

Jane F. Preto and John M. Preto, MS ’82, BSN ’77

Laurette L. Hankins

Shashi Bala Ravindran, MS ’09

Holland and Knight Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Judy A. Reitz, MSN ’76, BSN ’71

Janet D. Allan and Beverly Hall

Ann Ottney Cain†

Kevin Rivest

Kellie Caldwell

Abigail Hooper, BSN ’64

Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93

Kathleen M. Barlow, PhD ’13, MS ’92 BSN ’81

Sally F. Chow, BSN ’59

Henrietta D. Hubbard, BSN ’73

Cecil J. Clark, Jr., MS ’90

Jane F. Kapustin, MS ’85†

Peter Clute

Mary C. Kelly and Joseph H. Kelly, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Lisa Rowen, MS ’86

William S. Kiser and Eugenia Kiser, DIN ’47

Brian and Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68†

John W. and Pamela J. Koday

George E. Schulz, Jr.

Bradley T. and Barbara Foote

Edward F. Koren

Martha J. Shively, BSN ’72

Mary A. Fullerton-Morgan, BSN ’74

Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93

Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78

Conrad Gordon, MS ’02, BSN ’96

MAR Incorporated

Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71

Dorna P. Hairston, PhD ’05, MS ’88

Victoria C. McAndrews

Sigma Theta Tau Inc., Pi Chapter

Raymond T. Harrison, Jr.

Anne E. McArdle, BSN ’74†

Harold W. Smith, MS ’77, BSN ’72†

Winifred S. Hayes, MS ’74, BSN ’71

Sandra W. McLeskey

Sandra J. Sundeen, MS ’68

Mary J. Helfers, BSN ’75

Geraldine F. Mendelson, BSN ’66

Neshat Tebyanian, MS ’08, BSN ’01

Elizabeth E. Hill, PhD ’03

$1,000 to $2,499 Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96, RN Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69 C. Hunter Boll Bruce and Ann Brookens, BSN ’66 Kathleen A. Clark, BSN ’73

Carla M. Cunningham, BSN ’71 William Dockser Jeanne Ascosi Dorsey, BSN ’74† Melissa D. Douglas, MS ’10 Richard O. Duvall Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79† Rob Walker Freer and Kathryn Patchen Freer, BSN ’74† Global Korean Nursing Foundation, Inc. Michelle Gonzalez

Estate of Margaret W. Robinson* Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92

$500 to $999

Shirley E. Callahan, BSN ’52† Lee Child Community Health Charities Linda K. Diaconis, MS ’95, BSN ’92 Sharon L. Dudley-Brown, PhD ’95

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors

Legacy Society

T

he School of Nursing’s Legacy Society is named in honor of nurse pioneer and philanthropist LOUISA PARSONS. Parsons was the first superintendent of the School, and also made the first planned gift to the School in 1916. This gift began a long tradition of philanthropy.

The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society is comprised of individuals who, like Parsons, have the desire to support future generations of students and nurses.

Mary C. Hirsch, BSN ’79

Suzanne M. Grieve Brauer, MS ’74

Amelia R. Jackson, MS ’78

Rita M. Haley, BSN ’79

Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, BSN ’80

Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Pamela A. Lentz, MS ’00, BSN ’84 Shirley J. Lentz, BSN ’56

Theresa T. Hommel, BSN ’63 Sandra Jensen, MS ’70†

Susan D. Markus, MS ’06, BSN ’74

Diane L. Krasner, PhD ’98, MS ’94 BSN ’79

Mary Lee S. Matthews, BSN ’50

Dorothy R. Kuhn, DIN ’46†

Katherine S. McCullough, MS ’79

Marilyn Poland Laken, BSN ’64

Bethanne Meledandri Mary E. Merolla, BSN ’64

Rose C. LaPlaca, BSN ’81† and Raymond G. LaPlaca

Margaret K. Miles, BSN ’70

Richard Lear

Judith R. Miller, BSN ’66

John M. Loizeaux

Diane E. Minear, BSN ’69

Connie Mackowiak, BSN ’69

Beverly A. Nelson, MS ’76

Nancy J. Madej

Elizabeth G. O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73†

Esther E. McCready, DIN ’53

Making a planned gift to UMSON doesn’t have to be complicated. Even better, these gifts have no immediate impact on your current lifestyle but will make a significant difference to future nursing students. Some popular types of planned gifts include:

Jerry F. Pelch, Jr. and Kathleen L. Pelch, BSN ’77

Betty Jane Mincemoyer, DIN ’48†

>>Bequests and Other Gifts After providing for your loved ones, you can designate a gift to the School of Nursing. Charitable bequests can include cash, securities, real estate, or other property. They may be for a specific percentage of your estate, a fixed dollar amount, or the part remaining after fulfilling other bequests.

Ronald Rosenfeld

Whether you wish to support scholarships, research, faculty positions, or other areas of need, there are several methods by which you can benefit the School of Nursing via your estate plans. A planned gift can be designed to achieve your financial and philanthropic goals, and also makes you eligible for membership in our Louisa Parsons Legacy Society.

>>Life Income Gifts These enable you to make a gift to the School of Nursing while receiving an income for life. Benefits also include federal income and state tax deductions, increased income from low-yield assets, and preferential capital gains tax treatment on gifts of long-term appreciated property.

As is evident by viewing the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society list, many of our alumni and friends have already discovered that a planned gift can be an invaluable component of their financial and charitable planning. Whether you are seeking to satisfy current income and estate tax needs, prepare for retirement, or make low yielding assets more productive, a carefully crafted planned gift may provide a solution that satisfies your needs.

To learn more about making a planned gift to the School, please contact:

Carol A. Prince, BSN ’64 Katherine J. Reichelt, BSN ’64 Maureen A. Robinson Carol A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Nan V. Swisher, DIN ’49 Rebecca F. Wiseman, PhD ’93

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Thomas F. Hofstetter, JD, LLM Senior Director of Planned Giving 877-706-4406 plannedgiving@umaryland.edu umbfplannedgiving.org

Kress Monarch Travis C. Moose Charlotte E. Naschinski, MS ’82 Robin Purdy Newhouse, PhD ’00, MS ’99, BSN ’87 Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi and Sarpomaa S. Nyantakyi, BSN ’97 Harriet E. Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, BSN ’68 Margaret A. Pedersen, BSN ’74

$250 to $499

Karen C. Poisker, MS ’81, BSN ’78 Miriam G. Rothchild, MS ’60†

Ruth P. Beauchamp, BSN ’57 Shawn C. Becker, MS ’05, BSN ’93

Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68

John W. Biasucci

Spencer R. Schron and Eleanor B. Schron, PhD ’08, MS ’79

Timothy J. Bloomfield

Cynthia C. Sikorski

Carol M. Blum, BSN ’74

Andrew Solberg

Marita S. Bowden, BSN ’66

Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80†

Kathleen K. Boyd, BSN ’89

Luis and Isabel Valencia

Maruta Brunins, MS ’72

Robin Varker, BSN ’75†

Jeffrey S. Cain

Joan I. Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88

Judith H. Carpenter, BSN ’66†

Linda Elaine Wendt, PhD ’91

Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91†

Jo Gail Wenzel, BSN ’67

Sandra L. Cotton, MS ’95

Edith P. Wheeler

Joanne F. Damon, BSN ’68 Deborah N. Dang, PhD ’06, MS ’78 BSN ’72

$100 to $249

Suzanne S. Davis, MS ’12

Patricia A. Abbott, MS ’92, BSN ’89

Colonel Marla J. De Jong, MS ’96

Christine L. Abelein, MS ’92

Emily P. Deitrick, BSN ’68

Beatrice V. Adderley-Kelly, MS ’71

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Kathleen E. Agnes, MS ’01, BSN ’95

Jan M. Disantostefano, MS ’93

Laurette L. Hankins Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations University of Maryland School of Nursing 410-706-7640 hankins@son.umaryland.edu

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71†

Shirley B. Edwards, MSN ’80, BSN ’78† Mary K. Fey, PhD ’14, MS ’01 Dorrie K. Fontaine, MS ’77 Lawrence Goldstein and Rosa R. Goldstein, BSN ’58 Patricia Golembieski, BSN ’71 Eleanor M. Greentree, MS ’72, BSN ’62 DIN ’49†

Marlon J. Alafriz, BSN ’78 Lisa Allman, BSN ’93 American Association of Critical Care Nurses Nancy P. Anderson, BSN ’54 Ruth Austin, DIN ’43† Mary K. Babylon, DIN ’49 Betsy A. Bampton, MS ’65 Mark A. Bassett, BSN ’85 Janet M. Beebe, MS ’99

*Deceased | Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member

The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society In gratitude to our members Abbe R. Bendell, BSN ’74

Leslie W. Daugherty, BSN ’75

Estate of Robert Ageton

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73

Marion J. Bendt, BSN ’78†

James Dausch

Janet D. Allan

Estate of Wealtha McGunn

Patricia K. Beneshan, BSN ’66

Charlotte E. Davies, MS ’68

Anonymous

Ann Madison, BSN ’62

Susannah A. Benjamin, BSN ’70

Janice E. Davis, MS ’02, BSN ’88

Edna J. K. Benware, BSN ’76

Linda L. Davis, PhD ’84

Floraine B. Applefeld

Myrna Mamaril, MS ’93

Estate of Carolyn V. Arnold

Estate of Lois Marriott

Estate of Zabelle S. Howard Beard

Beverly Meadows, MS ’84, BSN ’69 Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Eva K. Berkow, BSN ’59†

Emilie M. Deady, BSN ’72

Ellen R. Berlow

Stephanie Johnson Dean, BSN ’80

Andrea C. Berndt, MS ’89

Demand Justis Services, Inc.

Margaret F. Bevans, PhD ’05, MS ’94

Amanda H. D’Erasmo, BSN ’95

Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96

Roberta S. Billman, BSN ’74

Amy Deutschendorf, BSN ’77

Ann Bennett, MS ’69

Suzanne M. Blevins, MS ’81

Marsha H. DeWeese, MS ’93

Marjorie Stamler Bergemann

Janet E. Bochinski, BSN ’75

Donna M. Dorsey, MS ’75†

Barbara K. Boland, MS ’73

Barbara A. Dralnick, MS ’72

Stephanie Y. Borum, BSN ’94

Christina M. Duetsch, MS ’74, BSN ’70

Bowie Counseling Services V. Kevin Boyd Georgia Boyer, BSN ’61† Anita N. Bragaw, MS ’95 Erica L. Brown, MS ’11, BSN ’04 Sally D. Brown, BSN ’74 Carola Bruflat, BSN ’68 Elaine M. Bundy, DNP ’11, MS ’09, BSN ’75

Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79

Sandra Dunnington, BSN ’76

Estate of E. L. Bunderman, DIN ’31

Lyn Murphy, MS ’01 and John Murphy

Caroline T. Dwynter, BSN ’76

Ann Ottney Cain

Nancy Eason, BSN ’75

Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73

Connie Eastman, BSN ’63

Estate of Dorothy C. Calafiore, BSN ’51

Kathleen Spicer Ecklund, BSN ’77

Shirley E. Callahan, DIN ’52

Kathleen F. Edwards, BSN ’67

Avon B. Chisholm

Jane F. Ezimorah, MS ’06, BSN ’98 Imogene S. Fagley-Combs, BSN ’69† Julie M. Falk, BSN ’85

Rose M. Burke, BSN ’74

Jocelyn A. Farrar, DNP ’08, MS ’87, BSN ’74*

Kathryn A. Cadwell, MS ’93, BSN ’75† April A. Campbell, BSN ’91 L. Kinder Cannon, III Carol N. Caplan Carol W. Capozzoli, BSN ’67† Kathryn D. Capozzoli, MS ’80 Shirley A. Carpenter, BSN ’74† Mary J. Carroll, MS ’96 Karen Chan-Zuckerman, MS ’93 Constance E. Clark, BSN ’94 Annie M. Clavon, MS ’83, BSN ’79 Jane B. Clemmens, DIN ’50† Betty J. Clifford, MS ’79 Deeley A. Close, MS ’89 Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72† Thomas R. Coe, MS ’94 Frona S. Colker, MS ’74 Greta V. Collier, MS ’04, BSN ’97 Deborah J. C. Conner, BSN ’81 Barbara L. Conrad, BSN ’73 Controlled Demolition, Inc. Karen A. Cook-Henderson, BSN ’72 Catherine A. Cooper Frances D. Fosbroke Cox, BSN ’74 Susan D. Cox

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Estate of Mary J. Brewer

Colleen M. Burke, BSN ’77

Vicki L. Burt, BSN ’73

Jean L. Bloom, DIN ’46

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71

Estate of Gladys B. and Lansdale G. Clagett Estate of Bonnie L. Closson, BSN ’61 Claudette Clunan, BSN ’72

Daniel O’Neal, BSN ’66 Harriet Palmer-Willis, BSN ’68 Charlene Passmore, BSN ’77 Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93 Estate of Margaret Robinson Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92

Geraldine A. Feaster, MS ’89

Stephen Cohen

Estate of Amelia Carol Sanders, DIN ’53

Donna M. Feickert-Eichna, BSN ’73

Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79

Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68

Marylouise K. Felhofer, MS ’91

Estate of Mary Jane Custer

Estate of William Donald Schaefer

Marjorie Fass

Sherry D. Ferki, BSN ’71 Kathleen M. Ficco, BSN ’79†

Celeste A. Dye, BSN ’66 Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79

Raymond E. and Margaret E. Fisher C. Noelle Flaherty, MS ’10

Julie Fortier, MS ’68

Judith G. Flemmens, BSN ’67

Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77

Carol V. Forgione, MS ’00, BSN ’97

Mary H. Gilley, DIN ’44

Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68†

Judah Gudelsky

Bernice C. Foryoung, BSN ’11

Edward G. Frank and Adalyn G. Frank, MS ’95, BSN ’93 Karen M. Frank, MS ’97, BSN ’85 Emil H. Frankel Wanona S. Fritz, MS ’78 GE Foundation

Estate of Anna Mae Slacum

Barbara R. Heller

Estate of Marie V. Stimpson, MS ’89 BSN ’84

Estate of Marie L. Hesselbach Estate of Kjerstine K. Hoffman, DIN ’47 Margaret H. Iles, DIN ’53 Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61 Estate of Mary McCotter Jackson

Vicki L. Gillmore, PhD ’90, MS ’77, BSN ’76

P. Dale Every Creighton, BSN ’58

Helen E. Gilmer, BSN ’68

Thomas F. Crusse, MS ’11

Rachel B. Goeres, BSN ’77

Darlene J. Curley, MS ’82, BSN ’80

Sue A. Goldman, MS ’75

Carol A. Curran, MS ’83, BSN ’80

Antoinette M. Gonzalez, BSN ’55

Jacquelyn Jones Stone, MS ’71 Nan V. Swisher, DIN ’49 Shirley Teffeau, BSN ’55 Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, BSN ’66 Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55

June Jennings, BSN ’47 and E.R. Jennings

Lillian Gigliotti, BSN ’67

Joan L. Creasia, PhD ’87

Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78 and Louis Shpritz

Sharon Hanopole, BSN ’66

Audrey G. Gift, PhD ’84 Kathryn M. Gift, DNP ’14

Estate of Beverly Seeley

Estate of Betty Lou Shubkagel, BSN ’54

Robin L. Getzendanner, BSN ’91 Kathryn A. Gibson, MS ’67

Sandra Schoenfisch, MS ’76

Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Evelyn E. Fowler, DIN ’43 Margaret A. Franckhauser, MS ’82

Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50

Estate of Norma C. Tinker, BSN ’48

Jeanette Jones, MS ’70 Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48

Estate of Martha C. Trate, BSN ’48

Debbie G. Kramer, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80

Cynthia P. Lewis, BSN ’58 and Jack C. Lewis

Joella D. Warner, BSN ’64 Estate of Patricia Yow

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Beverly C. Gordy, BSN ’57

Anne M. Kim, BSN ’00

Marina V. Needham, MS ’06, BSN ’98

Sharon A. Saunders, BSN ’89

Mary J. Graham, MS ’80

Katie L. Kinzie, BSN ’62

Barbara Oakes

Perry J. Sayles, BSN ’00

Leigh A. Grill, BSN ’86

Carolyn C. Knight, BSN ’70

Debra P. Oelberg, BSN ’78

Rebecca H. Schenck, MS ’13, BSN ’10

Margaretta C. Grimm, MS ’86, BSN ’81

Rita M. Koenig, BSN ’95

Yolanda A. Ogbolu, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04

Chuck M. Schevitz, BSN ’81

Cecelia M. Grindel, PhD ’88 Virginia V. Grouby, BSN ’72 Bonnie M. Hagerty, MS ’77† Carole F. Hair, MS ’79 Marianne Hamlin Pauline S. Hanich, BSN ’79 Annie M. Hargett, MS ’69 Chelsea T. Harris, MS ’01 Janet R. Harris, PhD ’97 Diane K. Harvey, MS’87, BSN’81 Donna S. Havens, PhD ’91 Michele D. Heacox, MS ’93 Coleen L. Heckner, MS ’94, BSN ’90 Peggy E. Heffner, BSN ’64 Phyllis B. Heffron, BSN ’74† Doris Jean Hekman, BSN ’56 Barbara R. Heller Margaret V. Herbert, BSN ’50† Donna C. Herndon, BSN ’69 Mark W. Hodge, BSN ’00 Mary V. Hodges, BSN ’72 Beadie L. Holden, BSN ’77† Eileen B. Hollander, MS ’89, BSN ’83 Deana Lee Holler, MS ’10, BSN ’81 Patricia A. Hong, BSN ’72 Ruth J. Honnas, BSN ’74† Mary P. Howard, MS ’94, BSN ’73 Ann C. Hubbard, DIN ’47† Linda D. Humbert, BSN ’64 Kelly L. Hunt, BSN ’02 Shannon K. Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03 Teri L. Jackson, BSN ’80

Thomas W. Koenig, BSN ’84 Shirlee Koons, BSN ’61 Honorable Nancy K. Kopp Jasmine M. Kotomale, BSN ’11 Alan J. Kriegel Karen Kruesi Elizabeth A. Krug, MS ’10 R. Kathleen Kruse, BSN ’85 Sally G. Kweti, BSN ’99 Suzanne M. Labansky, BSN ’68 Mary Laclair Gary M. Lang, PhD ’07 Diane T. Langford, BSN ’75† Henrietta H. Latimer, DIN ’44 Eve L. Layman, BSN ’73 Kathleen A. Leach, BSN ’82 Patricia R. Liehr, PhD ’87 Nancy Lougheed, BSN ’61 Patricia E. Lund, MS ’80 June Lunney, PhD ’87, MS ’79 Joan C. Lynn, BSN ’88 Linda P. MacDonald, MS ’91, BSN ’78 Mildred E. Madsen, BSN ’73 Rita Malek, DIN ’49 Sandra B. Malone, PhD ’98

Clayton S. McCarl, Jr. and Lisa S. McCarl, MS ’84, BSN ’81

Sally A. Kaltreider, MS ’88†

Mary K. Pabst, MS ’79

Ruby L. Shadow, PhD ’87

Ann E. Page, BSN ’75

Mary Ruth Shafer, BSN ’73

Anna L. Parker, BSN ’68

Lisa M. Shank, MS ’12, BSN ’10

Susan C. Parks, MS ’98, BSN ’79

Phyllis W. Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70†

Beverly J. Paulk, BSN ’65

Beth R. Sherfy, MS ’09, BSN ’95

Terry S. Peck, BSN ’82

Louise M. Simmers, BSN ’64

Anne Griswold Peirce, PhD ’87

Susan E. Simms, BSN ’78

Laura P. Pendley, BSN ’87

Michael W. Skojec and Diane V. Skojec, DNP ’10, MS ’01, BSN ’00

Georgia L. Perdue, DNP ’10 Pfizer Foundation, Inc. Carol Y. Phillips, PhD ’90 Kathleen M. Pierce, MS ’96 Brenda J. Pittman, BSN ’92 Regina R. Porter, MS ’88 Suzanne E. Porter, MS ’90, BSN ’85 Jeanette L. Priest, BSN ’71† Robin Prothro, BSN ’79 Nan K. Pue, BSN ’66

Joyce H. Rasin, PhD ’88

Susan L. Jalbert, MS ’91

Kirk Justis

Patricia P. Sengstack, MS ’88, BSN ’82

Suzanne R. Ranson, BSN ’76

Julie H. McArthur, MS ’96

James Seay

Alice S. Ottavi, BSN ’71

Kathleen M. Martin, DNP ’08, MS ’97, BSN ’95

Patricia A. Mayernik, MS ’81†

Carolyn W. Schweitzer, BSN ’64

Charlotte Sebra, BSN ’57†

Jo Ellen Marek, BSN ’64

Jeanne A. Matthews, PhD ’91

Barbara Schmitthenner, BSN ’57†

Esther L. Oliver, BSN ’64

Whayne Quin

Grace E. Matthews, MS ’92

Marilyn S. Schmitter, BSN ’64

Diane E. Olechna, MS ’00

Demetria Manandic, BSN ’54

Lenore Jacoby

Helen B. Johnson, MS ’95, BSN ’75

Ingrid D. O’Hearne, BSN ’55

Linda C. Pugh, PhD ’90, MS ’76, BSN ’69†

Victoria D. McAdams, MS ’84

Cynthia Johnson, BSN ’64

Patricia A. O’Hare, MS ’76†

Patsy L. Maloney, BSN ’74

Maranda C. Jackson-Parkin, PhD ’13, MS ’06

Elizabeth C. Jesada, MS ’78, BSN ’74

Shinsil Oh, BSN ’11

Lola J. Rathbone, BSN ’75 Mary Kay Ratigan, BSN ’82 Carol A. Rauen, MS ’91, BSN ’81 Mary Lou Reilly, BSN ’59 Robin E. Remsburg, PhD ’94 R. John Repique, MS ’99 Jennifer W. Reymann, BSN ’79

Joan E. Slavin, BSN ’57† Connie L. Slewitzke, BSN ’71 Claudia M. Smith, BSN ’65† GeorgeAnna Smith, BSN ’55 Tara L. Sofia, BSN ’82† Jeanine Soliman, MS ’09 Laura M. Sorkin, MS ’96, BSN ’91† Janet R. Southby, MS ’71† Anne M. Sparks, BSN ’77 Katharine S. Speers, BSN ’54† Debra A. Spencer, MS ’99 Eula D. Spratley, BSN ’68 Rebecca S. Stanevich, BSN ’73 Audrey J. Stansbury, BSN ’91 Jean P. Staples, BSN ’68† Marilyn L. Steffel, MS ’70 Andrew Stephenson Sheri B. Stern, MS ’91, BSN ’75 Giselle Stevenson Josephine M. Strauss, BSN ’71† Edward H. Streyle, MS ’83

Mariah D. McCarthy, BSN ’72

Loretta M. Richardson, MS ’71, BSN ’68†

Carmel A. McComiskey, DNP ’10, MS ’96

Carole A. Ricker, BSN ’66

Jane L. Talbott, BSN ’66

Marilyn C. McGrath, MS ’72, BSN ’68

Kathleen M. Ripp, MS ’95

Emily Tamburo, BSN ’64

Stephanie W. McKennie, MS ’04

Lisa Robinson, MS ’65

April Tan, BSN ’96 Thomas W. Koenig and Margaret A. Tangires Koenig, BSN ’84

Janet Studley

Vicki Ann McMullen, BSN ’69

SSG Juan F. Rodriguez

Joseph D. Kavanagh

Gayle Miller, BSN ’66

Joan R. Benfield, MS ’92, BSN ’89

Joyce L. Kee, BSN ’54†

Priscilla O. Mills, BSN ’69

Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77

Bonnie E. Keene, BSN ’71†

Laurie H. Mindek, MS ’78

Jill W. Rosner, BSN ’83

Delores G. Keene, BSN ’74

Denis C. Mitchell

William D. Rountree, MS ’86

Abidogun B Kehinde, BSN ’99

Kathleen P. Mitchell, MS ’02

Kathleen H. Sabatier, MS ’80

Linda Keldsen

Dorothy L. Sabolsice, MS ’67†

Carol A. Kelley, BSN ’78

Patricia A. Moorhouse-Getz, MS ’99, BSN ’79

Rosalind R. Kendellen, BSN ’68

Vannesia D. Morgan-Smith, BSN ’80

Stephanie K. Sanders, BSN ’94

Regina Donovan Twigg, DNP ’10, MS ’95, BSN ’87

Tina M. Kennedy, MS ’14, BSN ’09

Kathleen T. Murphy, BSN ’87

Kathleen D. Sanford, BSN ’74

Nina K. Ungar, BSN ’83

Gail G. Kestler, BSN ’71

Christopher Myers

Kay F. Sauers, MS ’78, BSN ’72

Andrea S. Van Horn, BSN ’69†

Karen S. Kauffman,

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Kimberly S. Sadtler, BSN ’84

Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55† Barbara N. Terry, BSN ’71 Janice M. Thompson, BSN ’62 Anita Throwe, MS ’68 Jane M. Trainis, MS ’90

*Deceased | Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member

Madonna P. Vitarello, BSN ’84 Lorrie Voytek Elaine M. Walizer, MS ’88 Mary Patricia Wall, PhD ’04 Caroline S. Wallace, MS ’59 Dorothy Walls, DIN ’49† Suzanne D. Walton, MS ’87, BSN ’78† Carolyn A. Waltz, BSN ’63 Kate Walz Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64 Doris E. Warrington, MS ’76, BSN ’72 Erin M. Wenger, MS ’10 John B. Whittemore, MS ’91 Susan M. Wilby, BSN ’73 Bertha Williams

Michael and Carol Huebner

Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75 June L. Wilson, MS ’79 Adele Wilzack, MS ’66 Martha B. Wolf, BSN ’70 Lauri J. Woroniecki, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Former Army Colonel Makes Lasting Contributions to Health Care

Jean E. Yancey, BSN ’53† Joan Fraser Yeash, BSN ’77 Teresa S. Zemel, MS ’87, BSN ’77

$50 to $99 Jacqueline C. Abt, MS ’97, BSN ’80 Teresa Acquaviva Begg, BSN ’78 Deborah B. Adams, BSN ’91 Brenda M. Afzal, MS ’99, BSN ’98 Marguerite F. Alexander, BSN ’89 Richard Alexander Carol C. Amitin, MS ’60† Veronica Y. Amos, MS ’07, MS ’00, BSN ’99 Ella J. Angell, MS ’98 Mary T. Asplen, BSN ’63 Diane Atchinson, MS ’78 Janet C. Austen-Herman, MS ’07 Frances D. Austin, BSN ’68 Carolyn M. Baer, BSN ’53 Soudabeh K. Banankhah, PhD ’12, MS ’07 MS ’99 Diana J. Banzhoff, MS ’91 Robert E. Barnwell, BSN ’73 Molly W. Bartlett, MS ’95, BSN ’84 Brenda Johnson Barton, BSN ’64 Georgene V. Batz, BSN ’72 Cheryl D. Baugham-Durant, BSN ’89 Mark B. Bauman, BSN ’89 and Monika E. Bauman, MS ’10, BSN ’90 Kathleen A. Beck, BSN ’85 Karen L. Bergman, MS ’02 Alexandra Berweiler, BSN ’99 Mara Berzins, BSN ’81 Mary G. Bey, BSN ’75 Rose M. Blakely, MS ’01

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arol (Reineck) Huebner, PhD ’90, RN, retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel in 2001 after a career that spanned 31 years from the Vietnam Era through the Gulf War. Her career focus has been on scientific inquiry and nursing education, meaning she has always been concerned with “finding out about real problems in health care and nursing, and looking for interventions that work.”

Huebner was stationed in Washington, D.C., when she became interested in the School of Nursing’s doctoral program and what was then referred to as “indirect nursing” — in other words, nursing administration and research.

After earning her PhD, Huebner served as Chief of the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Research Section at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas. In conjunction with a professional nursing organization, her study of heparin flush, a commonly used but dangerous anti-coagulant that prevented clogs in intravenous tubing, was groundbreaking.

“We found a safer way to keep tubing functional for patients without using heparin — we were able to change nursing practice and save dollars,” says Huebner, who, since retirement from the military, has taught nursing students and served as a department chair at the University of Texas Health Science Center. The Idaho resident is now a volunteer-mentor with the International Council of Nursing.

Together with husband Michael Huebner, LTC (ret.) U.S. Army, Huebner took advantage of a School of Nursing matching program to create the Colonel Carol and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Huebner Endowed Doctoral Scholarship by gifting appreciated stock worth about $17,000. When combined with the matching funds from the University of Maryland, Baltimore Foundation, the resulting endowed scholarship of more than $25,000 will be funded by its yearly spendable income. The Huebners also plan to add to the scholarship total through a bequest in their wills.

“The PhD from the School of Nursing equipped me to make lasting contributions to health care,” says Huebner. Now, she says she wants future nursing students to have the same opportunity.

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Susan L. Booher, MS ’90

Frances H. Fleming, BSN ’59

Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48†

Nancy G. Mitchell

Helen A. Bozzo, MS ’76, BSN ’65†

Mary C. Fleury, BSN ’86

Carleen B. Kelley, MS ’90

Kathleen T. Mohn, BSN ’70

Mary T. Bracken, MS ’97

Barbara A. Floyd, BSN ’62

Patricia S. Kern, BSN ’67†

Sara H. Moseley, MS ’87

Margaret E. Brandt, DIN ’50

Lynn R. Foehrkolb, BSN ’78

Mary B. Kerney, BSN ’73

Patricia G. Mulkey, MS ’90, BSN ’75

Anne Bratt-Elliott, BSN ’73

Linda K. Ford, BSN ’94

Janis Kilmer, BSN ’57

Donna L. Nickelson, BSN ’87

Maureen S. Bravo, BSN ’74†

Lilymae Fountain, BSN ’91

Mary Margaret King, BSN ’78

Elfleta L. Nixon, DNP ’11

Mary C. Brewster, MS ’88

Jessica L. Fouse, BSN ’11

Mary A. Kisting, MS ’93

Gwendolyn M. Nolte, MS ’87, BSN ’65

Shirley Brooks, BSN ’78

Cynthia L. Fox, MS ’12, BSN ’82

Barbara G. Kormann, BSN ’66

Stephanie Smith Nordberg, BSN ’61

Lara Bruckmann

Sondra J. Fox, MS ’64

Mary Koutrelakos, BSN ’55†

Anne C. Ober, MS ’86, BSN ’74

Barbara J. Bungard, MS ’11

Michaelann Frate-Trinchetto, BSN ’77

Susan Kraeuter, BSN ’79

Mary E. O’Brien, MS ’88

Susan M. Kremmer, BSN ’66

Pamela A. Odle, MS ’06, BSN ’02

Gwendolyn M. Kurtz, MS ’76

James D. Odom, MS ’81

Loree S. La Chance, BSN ’89

Gbola J. Oladele, BSN ’03

Nancy S. Frohlich, BSN ’73 Denise C. Geiger, BSN ’79

Marie La Penta, BSN ’81

Linda George-Cruickshank, BSN ’92

Nancy Lacy, BSN ’54

Carol A. Gerson, MS ’87

Michelle L. Lagerstrom, BSN ’11

Ellen B. Gibby, BSN ’98

Barbara T. Lamb, DIN ’46

Carol M. Gifford, BSN ’79

Mary A. Lancaster, MS ’87

Janel C. Parham, MS ’02

Judith N. Glorioso, BSN ’77

Caterina E. Lasome, PhD ’08 Patricia A. Lavenstein, MS ’59†

Paul M. Patterson, DNP ’12, MS ’03, BSN ’01

Kathleen G. Charters, PhD ’98

Andrew R. Goldberger, MS ’01, BSN ’95

M. Chris Lee, BSN ’97

Doreen L. Paynter, MS ’99, BSN ’87

Alison S. Church

Jacquelyn J. Goodrich, BSN ’77†

Nancy C. Lerner, DNP ’10, BSN ’66

Mary B. Pearre, MS ’88

Nora C. Cincotta, MS ’97

Arlene R. Gordon, BSN ’77

Amy Goldberg Lester, BSN ’79

Corentheis Perry-Simon, BSN ’69

Dawn C. Clayton, MS ’05, BSN ’01

Frances C. Gordon, MS ’80, BSN ’73

Amy E. Lewis, MS ’09, BSN ’05

Charlene D. Peterson, BSN ’76

Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc.

Reba E. Goslee, MS ’76

Uva M. Lewis, BSN ’89

Patricia P. Petz, BSN ’91

Linda K. Cook, PhD ’05, MS ’97

Pamela E. Grimes, BSN ’92

Daniel E. Piper, BSN ’91

Jean A. Cooper, BSN ’73

Marc G. Gurvitch, BSN ’84

Dorothy Liddel, BSN ’61†

Yaa A. Pokuaa-Duodu, BSN ’04

Michele H. Cootauco, MS ’95

Shirley C. Guy, MS ’94, BSN ’73

Edward Lindeman and Sharon C. Lindeman, BSN ’75

Cynthia W. Corbin, MS ’98

Katherine L. Haag, MS ’99, BSN ’97

Vincent T. Liu, MS ’01, BSN ’97

Patricia J. Prichard, BSN ’74†

Maura P. Cornell, BSN ’80†

Anne Owings Hacker, BSN ’57

Mary DeSales Lohr, BSN ’78

Benjamin V. Quintanilla, BSN ’11

Ernestine Y. Cosby, MS ’96, BSN ’94

Patricia M. Haddad, BSN ’65†

Patricia K. Lovaas, BSN ’74

Elizabeth W. Ratrie, MS ’90, BSN ’82

Gail Cowan, MS ’85

Mary S. Hagan, BSN ’89

Roberta A. Raymond, PhD ’99

Jean S. Cox, BSN ’64

Maureen P. Hanold, BSN ’80

Denise T. Lowman-Kedzierski, BSN ’81

Ruth M. Craig, MS ’73

Donna H. Harden, BSN ’71

Barbara J. Lubejko, MS ’92

Laurel A. Renaud, BSN ’80

Nancy L. Molloy Crawford, BSN ’74

Harold R. Hardinger, BSN ’87

Marianne Lucot, BSN ’75

Susan M. Renda, MS ’89

Nancy J. Hartman, MS ’11, BSN ’09

Dianne L. Mackert, BSN ’72

Elizabeth K. Rhodes, MS ’00

Judith E. Maeda, MS ’85

Hjordis Richstein, BSN ’09

Walter J. Malecki

Sharon C. Rochon, MS ’00

Eleanor A. Martin, MS ’73

Sue M. Rock, MS ’88

Maureen B. Maskarinec, BSN ’77†

Eva P. Rodgers, MS ’99, BSN ’98

Karen L. Maylor, BSN ’76

Winifred M. Rojas, BSN ’10

Gail O. Mazzocco, MS ’74†

Natalie J. Rook, MS ’85, BSN ’72

Jean O. McConnell, BSN ’66

Imani-Angela A. Rose, BSN ’97

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73

Marion L. Royer, MS ’88

Kathleen M. McGrow, MS ’02, BSN ’86

Richard W. Sadlo

Dorcas M. Edge, BSN ’52

Gina D. Scarinzi, MS ’87

Cheryl L. McNerney, BSN ’87

Carole Schauer, MS ’70†

Rose Ann Meinecke, BSN ’79

Terri L. Schieder, MS ’84

Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69†

Ruth C. Schwalm, MS ’66†

Debra L. Mendelsohn, BSN ’76

Joanne M. Shafik, MS ’82

Jacqueline Ruth Mickley, PhD ’90

Brian C. Sharkey, MS ’00, BSN ’98

Estelle J. Miecznikoski, DIN ’51

Jane E. Shea, BSN ’75

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Carolyn Sheaffer, MS ’03, BSN ’00

Cathy Mitchell, BSN ’81

Martha M. Shemin, BSN ’72

Jacqueline C. Mitchell, MS ’07

Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73

Ann C. Burgess, MS ’59 Robert Y. Cahill, Sr. Sarah Bruce Cahill Margarethe Cammermeyer, BSN ’63 Bella P. Caplan, MS ’78, BSN ’73† Myra L. Carhart, BSN ’09 Berlyn S. Carlson, BSN ’73† Ruth M. Carroll, PhD ’90 Paula A. Carter, BSN ’01 Lisa M. Chamberlain, BSN ’83

Mary L. Critz, MS ’94, BSN ’79 John T. Cullen, BSN ’87 Bridget W. Davis, BSN ’74 Hershaw N. Davis, BSN ’09 Patricia L. Davis, BSN ’78 Valerie Davis, BSN ’94 Catharine W. DeBoy, MS ’07 Jill A. DeCesare, BSN ’69† Thomas E. Dewey, BSN ’78 Marilyn T. Digirol, MS ’72 Emmanuel Dominguez, MS ’95 Dietlinde M. Doyle, BSN ’75 Kevin R. Driscoll, BSN ’05 Lawrence J. Eberlin, BSN ’73 Kimberly J. Elenberg, MS ’04 Barbara C. Engh, MS ’80, BSN ’74 Badia Faddoul, DNP ’12 Janice M. Farinelli, BSN ’74 Dianne M. Feeney, MS ’90 Adriana Fessler, BSN ’90 Carolyn W. Fitzgerald, BSN ’78

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Causaunda B. French, MS ’77 E. Maxine Fritz, MS ’62

Marcia F. Haxall, BSN ’86 Mindy B. Hayes, BSN ’73 Carol Ann Helfrich, BSN ’67 Becky L. Hess, BSN ’95 Ellen M. Hilsheimer, MS ’73† Todette L. Holt, BSN ’65 Carol M. Hosfeld, DIN ’50 William O. Howie, BSN ’82 Debora M. Irish, BSN ’80 Nadine A. Jacobs, BSN ’74 Penny J. James, BSN ’91 Camilla I. Janiczek, BSN ’94 Lisa M. Johnson, BSN ’87 Elaine D. Jones, BSN ’59 Donna M. Joseph, BSN ’86 Joyce F. Kaetzel, BSN ’58 Mary R. Kalapaca, BSN ’90 Sandra A. Kappus, BSN ’84 Rose Ann Kassel, BSN ’73 Deborah L. Kavanagh, MS ’86, BSN ’79†

Vivian C. Onyeike, BSN ’04 Thomas J. O’Toole and Joyce B. O’Toole, MS ’68 Sallie Packham, BSN ’57 Kathleen A. Pagana, BSN ’74

Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD ’95

Ronald E. Rebuck, MS ’94

Anne V. Samuels, BSN ’84

*Deceased | Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member

Reunion Sparks Niemyer’s Desire to Create Endowment Fund

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Simple and Quick Medical Care LLC Jane L. Sinnott, BSN ’78 Barbara Kay Smerko Seidou N. Soweh, BSN ’09 Carla Speck Katharine K. Spiegel, BSN ’62 Dale R. Spielman, BSN ’95 Diana F. Staley, MS ’78 Mary Helen Staley, BSN ’54† Debra Haas Stavarski, MS ’83 Steelcase Foundation Inc Kathleen P. Stevens, BSN ’75 Linda L. Stevens, MS ’78, BSN ’76 Mary M. Stevens, BSN ’78 Barbara J. Stevenson, BSN ’76 Madeline Stier, BSN ’68 Dolora A. Stoffa, BSN ’90 Janie Stoll, BSN ’81 Marlyn J. Storch-Escott, BSN ’75 Elizabeth A. Streaker-Bush, BSN ’72 Donna L. Strong, BSN ’85 Laura A. Suchanek, BSN ’73 Nancy Sullivan, BSN ’67 Arla Sussman, BSN ’63 Claire Y. Svrcek, BSN ’72 Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69 Karin A. Taylor, MS ’87 Cherry Thun Charles Tiedemann

“ I am proud of my University of Maryland School of Nursing education, as it truly provided the foundation needed to

Linda W. Tyler, MS ’79 Leanne C. Ugarte, BSN ’84 Janice M. Ulmer, PhD ’91 Connie M. Ulrich, PhD ’01 Erin Unis Constance R. Uphold, PhD ’88 Rashidah R. Uqdah, BSN ’79 Robin L. Vocke, MS ’98 Chinh C. Vu Kayla N. Wagner Mary P. Wall, BSN ’84 Sandra L. Walter, BSN ’69 Mary P. Watkins, BSN ’78 Claire P. Watters, BSN ’74 Doris Webb, BSN ’59 Susan T. Webb, MS ’00 Elizabeth D. Webster, MS ’93 Elaine K. Weiner, BSN ’68 Wells Fargo Foundation Elinor W. Wells, DIN ’46† Sheila M. Werren Joseph B. Whitebread, Jr. Paula A. Wiegel-Thrasher, BSN ’73 Rebecca A. Wilkerson, BSN ’59 John W. Willis, Jr., BSN ’93 Steven M. Wilson, MS ’86 Dorothy M. Winner, MS ’85

succeed in the profession.

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hile attending her 35-year reunion at the School of Nursing, Elizabeth “Betsy” Niemyer, BSN ’78, RN, a member of the School’s Board of Visitors, got to tour the school and meet faculty leaders and current students.

This experience inspired her to contribute to the School’s ongoing efforts to extend financial support for today’s students. The recently retired Navy rear admiral created the RADM Elizabeth S. Niemyer, NC, USN (Ret.) Scholarship Endowment Fund to support undergraduate nursing students at the School of Nursing.

“Having served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps for 32 years, most recently as its 23rd director, I am well aware of the need to have well-qualified nurses entering both the military and civilian health care systems,” Niemyer says. “As a business leader today, I realize the competitive nature of recruiting highly qualified nurses, and I wanted

to play a small role in that recruitment effort.”

She says her Navy experience showed her that nurses come from all segments of society and from many backgrounds, and they all have their own special motivation for entering the field. Niemyer wants to assist “truly motivated” nursing students in achieving a high-quality nursing education while helping them to thoroughly understand the variety of opportunities available in today’s health care market.

Niemyer is currently chief program officer for United Healthcare, Military and Veterans, responsible for administrative oversight of a $21 billion TRICARE-Western Region managed-care support contract covering 2.9 million beneficiaries in 21 states.

“I am proud of my University of Maryland School of Nursing education, as it truly provided the foundation needed to succeed in the profession,” she says. “It is important for new nurses to not only achieve a strong clinical foundation, but also to explore the many areas of practice so they can have a complete picture of their selected nursing career path. I want them to see the possibilities of what they can accomplish in the profession and then have the opportunity to choose their path.”

Regarding the future of the endowment, Niemyer notes, “I believe if I devote myself to the success of the School of Nursing and, more specifically, to my duties on the Board of Visitors, the size of the endowment will continue to grow at a steady rate and provide exceptional support to our nursing students.”

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Betty G. Witherspoon, BSN ’80 Helen Jane Wobbeking, BSN ’72† Florence Wolfel, BSN ’50† Catherine A. Wolkow, BSN ’12 Vivian A. Wonisch, BSN ’61† Christine B. Woo, MS ’07 Donna J. Wooditch, BSN ’74 Eunice B. Woodus, MS ’05

Patricia D. Brooks, BSN ’56† and William M. Curtis, IV Rebecca A. Brotemarkle, PhD ’13 Barbara Sue Brown, BSN ’62 Nicole W. Brynes, BSN ’11 Ellen G. Buck, MS ’93 Kathleen M. Stilling Burkhart, BSN ’78

Dawn P. Donohue, MS ’00 Michelle M. Donovan, BSN ’95 Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98 Eileen F. Drake, BSN ’72 Linda S. Dubansky, BSN ’71 Linda S. Dugan, BSN ’79 Jacqueline K. Dunn, MS ’92

Elizabeth A. Hammett-Smith, BSN ’86 Cathleen S. Hamp Wagaman, BSN ’79 Christine K. Hanna-Ronald, BSN ’93 Lou Ann Harman, BSN ’56† Susan G. Harris, BSN ’94 Kimberly S. Haus-McIltrot, MS ’96

Alice J. Burrow, MS ’89, BSN ’82

Lillie P. Durney, DIN ’51†

Robin Butler, BSN ’96

Maria E. Eckart, BSN ’89

Eileen M. Wyant, BSN ’72

Miriam L. Cahill-Yeaton, MS ’89

Bonnie W. Ellis, BSN ’62†

Frances W. Xenakis, BSN ’65

Harriet L. Caplan, BSN ’89

Linda J. Epstein, MS ’79, BSN ’74†

Adele E. Young, PhD ’96, MS ’84

Sandra Cardinale, MS ’75, BSN ’59

Deborah L. Evans, BSN ’78

Debra S. Zawitoski, BSN ’78

Yvonne L. Caruso, BSN ’77

Teresa L. Fahlgren, MS ’01

Susan M. Cavey, BSN ’76

Deborah A. Falls, BSN ’80

Ameera A. Chakravarthy, BSN ’02

Christianah O. Farinloye, MS ’07

Tanya Y. Hodge, BSN ’87

Donald Joseph Charney and Rita K. Charney, BSN ’82

Maria Fedynsky, BSN ’02

Jane B. Hoffman, BSN ’82

Joanne H. Ferrari, MS ’79

Janice J. Hoffman, PhD ’06

Dixie B. Ferrell, BSN ’71

Dorothy N. Holley, MS ’88

Randolph G. Fine* and Mary Reilly Fine, BSN ’79

Lynne Holliday-Anonye, MS ’93

Priscilla S. Worral, PhD ’86

$1 to $49 Elizabeth E. Agbetsiafa-Awuah, BSN ’00 Denise M. Ahlgren, BSN ’72 Jacqueline A. Ahrens McCoy, MS ’77 Jennifer H. Aird, BSN ’92 Bimbola F. Akintade, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’03

Sara W. Chedester, BSN ’63 Ling-Yin Chen Myra Chichester, MS ’72 Judith C. Christian, MS ’04 Jane Chufar, BSN ’55

Melodie R. Alchimowicz, BSN ’00

Mary E. Clark, BSN ’00

Ellen R. Arnold

Suzanne L. Clark, BSN ’67

Linda L. Atkins, BSN ’61†

Suzanne M. Clark, MS ’88

Joyce E. Avery, DIN ’52

Stacie E. Cuthbertson Coburn, BSN ’00

Patricia K. Aydlett, BSN ’90 Catherine M. Bailey, BSN ’75 Mariam H. Bakir, MS ’05 Susan A. Baldwin, BSN ’84 Christine L. Barclay, BSN ’77 Jacqueline Lee Bardo, MS ’97, BSN ’94 Mohamed S. Barry, MS ’14, BSN ’04 Lilly S. Barton, BSN ’78 Jawaid Bashir and Karen H. Bashir, MS ’10, BSN ’07 Barbara Baumann, DIN ’50† Jean V. Beal, BSN ’89 LaKeisha D. Beasley, MS ’07 Brenda Bell, BSN ’09 Jody A. Bennett, MS ’70 Shirley Bernstein, DIN ’53 Norma H. Beyer, MS ’84, BSN ’74 Terri F. Biggins, BSN ’80 Fannie S. Birky, BSN ’81 Theresa C. Bittle, BSN ’83

Kathleen A. Fisher, BSN ’74 Martha A. Fisher, MS ’85, BSN ’83 Ray Ellen Fisher, BSN ’84 Janet T. Foreman, MS ’81 Christianne N. Fowler, MS ’97 Carolyn A. Francis, MS ’87

Virginia Hedges, BSN ’80 Eileen Heistand, BSN ’69 Patricia E. Helm, MS ’72, BSN ’68† Margaret M. Henry, DIN ’52 Alexander E. Hernandez Viola S. Hibbard, BSN ’88 Betty D. Hoatson, BSN ’54†

Nomi Horn-Uhr, MS ’81 Jane M. Houck, MS ’84† Karen U. Houle, BSN ’84 Mary O. Howell, BSN ’77 Mary M. Hryniewicz, MS ’95 Kathryn E. Huber, BSN ’14 Helen M. Huffard, BSN ’56

Kristin L. Cohen, BSN ’05

Kathryn J. Fritze, BSN ’81

Rachel R. Colquitt, MS ’02

Marguerite B. Froeb, MS ’67, BSN ’62, DIN ’53

Carol M. Hyland, BSN ’58†

Kathleen L. Conway, BSN ’91

Mary K. Fry, MS ’82

Nancy F. McCambridge Jack, BSN ’69

Mary K. Cook, BSN ’93

Georgia A. Galicki, BSN ’91

Carol A. Corbie, MS ’05

Karmela Galla, BSN ’57

Diane K. Corning, BSN ’81

Beth-Ann Gan, BSN ’77

Kathleen M. Costello, MS ’98, BSN ’80

Letitia R. Gantt, MS ’02, BSN ’00

Andrea M. Cottrell, MS ’97, BSN ’91

Doris Garrington, BSN ’52

Cynthia A. Johnson, MS ’92, BSN ’87

Katelyn E. Gerding

Jane B. Johnson, DIN ’47

Katharine M. Giancola, BSN ’06

Mary Ann Johnson, DIN ’45

Bonnie L. Gibson, BSN ’65

Maudie L. Jones, BSN ’78

Robyn C. Gilden, PhD ’10, MS ’01

Wendelyn D. Joynes, BSN ’85

Margaret A. Gillis, MS ’79, BSN ’74

Henriette Karekezi, BSN ’07

Donna L. Gillum, MS ’79, BSN ’77

Sherri Legum Kassimir, BSN ’85

Joanne S. Ginley, BSN ’83

Barbara A. Kellam, MS ’80, BSN ’72†

Gary J. Glowac, BSN ’77†

Anne M. Kelly, BSN ’85

Blanca R. Gomez, MS ’77

Elaine Bishop Kennedy, MS ’78†

Anne J. Grafton, MS ’90, BSN ’81

Phyllis D. Keys, BSN ’78

Marian S. Grant, DNP ’10

Beverly E. Kingsland, BSN ’94

Charlene M. Conners, BSN ’95

Wanda M. Crilly, BSN ’04 Nance A. Crockett, BSN ’73 Melissa K. Cross, BSN ’01 Josephine D. Croucher, BSN ’75 Nancy S. Crouse, BSN ’74 Danielle L. Cruz Barbara Dayhoff Curtis, BSN ’77 Joan M. Davenport, PhD ’00 Margaret Davies Mary Lynn Davis-Ajami

Valda Garber-Weider, MS ’83

Kathleen B. Hurley, MS ’91

Carrie A. Jacobs, MS ’09 Elise J. Janofsky, BSN ’84 Bonita E. Jenkins, MS ’97 Nkechi P. Jiabana, BSN ’05 Mary E. Johantgen

Loriane K. Black, BSN ’85

Beverly A. Dearing-Stuck, MS ’78, BSN ’69

Derryl E. Block, BSN ’75

Carolyn R. Decker, MS ’96, BSN ’94

Roberta A. Greber, MS ’95, BSN ’93

Tara D. Boland

Mary DeGrezia

Phyllis Green, BSN ’74

Thelma I. Kleckner, MS ’74, BSN ’72, DIN ’47†

Sandra M. Bolt, BSN ’74

Phoebe Delos Reyes

Tracy L. Greenfield, BSN ’79

Dawn C. Knebel, BSN ’83

Eloise T. Bonney, BSN ’96

Norma S. DeMarino, BSN ’49

Emily J. Griffith, BSN ’56†

Maria E. Knupp, BSN ’73

Florence A. Bowen, BSN ’49

Brian C. Denton

Charmaine M. Grizzle, BSN ’06

Andrea S. Kohn, MS ’07

Rusty G. Brandon, DIN ’47

Michelle V. Denton

Joann Jandro, DIN ’52

Doris F. Koman, BSN ’74†

Kristi B. Brennan, MS ’97, BSN ’83

Caroline L. Diehl, BSN ’71

Joyce A. Gun, MS ’90, BSN ’84

April C. Kopec, MS ’09, BSN ’03

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

Gloria N. Dill, MS ’83

Bronislaus L. Kosiorowski, MS ’72

Edythe E. Brooks, BSN ’88

Carol A. Distasio, MS ’73

William Gundersen and Barbara A. Gundersen, BSN ’54

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Stuart J. and Patrice S. Kramer

Mary E. Krovisky, BSN ’78

Barbara A. Moore, MS ’95

Eleanor Riordan, BSN ’47

Dorothy L. Sutch, MS ’86, BSN ’81

Joan E. Kub, MS ’76

Donna S. Gipner, BSN ’63

Priscilla V. Rivera, BSN ’77†

Cynthia Sweeney, BSN ’76

Gale B. Kurzweil, BSN ’95

Karen L. Moore, BSN ’87

Rasheeda Rivera

Nozomi Tahara

Ellen D. Kwiatkowski, BSN ’51†

Naomi Morgan, BSN ’83

Flora Ann Rodney, BSN ’77†

Rita E. Talley, BSN ’78

Barbara H. Lacher, BSN ’74

Joan M. Morris, BSN ’97

Donna L. Rolland, BSN ’81

Barbara M. Tawney, DIN ’50†

Ellen R. Lahman, MS ’89

Kathleen Morton, BSN ’69

Linda C. Rothfield, BSN ’74

Allison L. Taylor, BSN ’04

Martha C. Lamb, BSN ’86

Mina Mosaferi, BSN ’08

Judith Johnson, BSN ’64

Heather A. Taylor, MS ’01

Mindy J. Landau, MS ’95

Linda M. Moses, MS ’01, BSN ’82

Marilyn M. Teeter, MS ’78, BSN ’76

Beverly R. Lang, BSN ’85

Andrea J. Millman, BSN ’75

Mary E. Rouse, MSN ’81, MS ’80, BSN ’70

Kerstin C. Laur, BSN ’03

Marianne M. Moulet, BSN ’83

Mary C. Royer, BSN ’64

Marie B. Lavalle, BSN ’77

Joanne Muir, MS ’91

Rita L. Rubin, MS ’78, BSN ’74

Susan W. Layos, BSN ’73†

Patricia L. Mullaney, BSN ’74

Karen M. Rudnicki, BSN ’00

Janice L. Lazear, DNP ’11

Rosemary E. Murphey, BSN ’79

Laura Hull Ruiz, BSN ’92

Barbara Lee, MS ’01, BSN ’99

Ann H. Myers, BSN ’64

Kathleen G. Russell

Betty J. Lee, BSN ’79

Yvonne J. Narad, DIN ’45

Margaret L. Sachs, BSN ’04

Ginny H. Lee

Georgia L. Narsavage, BSN ’69

Victoria R. Lentz, MS ’81, BSN ’76†

Mary Ellen Neely, BSN ’77

Cynthia K. Salmond, DNP ’12, MS ’05, BSN ’99

Sherrie G. Lessans, PhD ’10

Ashley N. Neiderer

Shena M. Sanders, BSN ’99

Linda A. Linton, BSN ’00

Lois H. Neuman, BSN ’63†

Muibat A. Sanni, BSN ’94

Gilda Litrenta, DIN ’49

Diana M. Ng, MS ’96, BSN ’94

Linda M. Sayre, MS ’92

Maria S. Lobianco, MS ’96, BSN ’77

Teresa A. Niblett, MS ’10

Carol A. Scavarda, BSN ’83

Cozanne M. Logan, BSN ’06

Veronica P. Njie-Carr

Dawn M. Scherrer, BSN ’96

Dean R. Loss, MS ’85

Laura M. Nordberg, MS ’98

Julie Ann Schuetz, MS ’92, BSN ’85

Diane M. Lowder, BSN ’81

Patricia A. O’Connor, BSN ’65

Maureen P. Schultz, BSN ’79

Margaret C. Lynn, MS ’08, BSN ’04

Erin L. O’Grady, MS ’09

Susan Schutt, BSN ’80

Mary Mahon, BSN ’85

Adena O’Keeffe, MS ’87

Deborah G. Schwartz, BSN ’06

Pamela A. Mahoney, MS ’97, BSN ’81

Angelican C. Opara, BSN ’07

Linda M. Scott, BSN ’91

Carol A. Malinowski, BSN ’77†

Renee C. Pabst, MS ’95, BSN ’88

Celeste M. Seger, MS ’13, BSN ’10

Anne R. Manley

Jacqueline W. Pargament, BSN ’71

Mary Ann Serpi, MS ’85, BSN ’81

Rosemary E. Marquette, MS ’72

Jerome C. Park, BSN ’95

Susan J. Seyala, BSN ’67†

Penny L. Marschke, PhD ’00

Deanna J. Peckham, BSN ’65

Joyce A. Shanty, MS ’88

Joan Martellotto, BSN ’66†

Karen J. Pelote, MS ’05, BSN ’87

Betty J. Shepherd, BSN ’58

Charles S. Wehner and Emily Wehner, BSN ’54†

Marianne E. Martin, MS ’76

Wendy M. Perry, MS ’07

Pamela L. Shumate, DNP ’12

Nancy Smith Westerberg, BSN ’58

Katherine L. Matrakas, MS ’91, BSN ’80

Britta Phillips, BSN ’52

Rebecca S. Shuster, BSN ’74

Kathleen M. White, MS ’78

Scuth Pin, BSN ’10

Frances Sides, BSN ’55†

Linda F. White, BSN ’78†

Monica U. Mba, BSN ’04

Katheryn P. Pisciotta, BSN ’76

Leslie M. Siebert-Terner, MS ’93

Nancy S. White, BSN ’62

Judith C. McAdams, BSN ’55

Brittany A. Plummer

Teresa M. White, BSN ’96

Olivera E. McAphee, BSN ’81

Anna M. Poker, MS ’94

Bernadette L. Simmons, MS ’85, BSN ’78

Mary K. Waldron McBride, BSN ’84

Verna E. Pond, BSN ’88

Marcie L. Singer, BSN ’95

Donna H. McCann, BSN ’98

Martha A. Popovic, BSN ’61

Carett S. Smith, BSN ’97

Mitchel A. McDonald, BSN ’73

Keisha A. Potter, MS ’01

Norma Z. Smith, BSN ’72†

Susan F. McDonald, MS ’75

Socorro Pritchett, BSN ’71

Shirlisa A. Snowden, BSN ’92

M. Theresa McDonough

Angela M. Purcell-Patti, BSN ’80

Sara J. Soteropulos, DIN ’46

Clyde R. McDowell, BSN ’91

Rita T. Quarles, MS ’04, BSN ’74

Debra Y. Spencer, BSN ’77

Elaine McGary, BSN ’60

Mary K. Quinlan, BSN ’76

Daniel L. Spiker, BSN ’05

Diane S. McGregor, BSN ’74

Susan L. Rain, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Carolyn P. Sponn, MS ’07

Michelle R. McLeod

Kathryn A. Raley, BSN ’97

Kathleen Srsic-Stoehr, MS ’77

James R. Witte and Alison S. Witte, MS ’81, BSN ’75

P. Dale McMahon, MS ’78

Emily L. Ranger, BSN ’92

Sandra H. Stallings, BSN ’84

Diane C. Wolf, BSN ’80

Melanie C. Mendoza, BSN ’12

Maryellen Rechen, BSN ’75

Mary Beth B. Wood, BSN ’80

Kathleen Michael

Kim M. Reck, MS ’83, BSN ’78

Elizabeth L. Stambolis, MS ’93, BSN ’88

Patricia C. Middleton, BSN ’61†

Mary D. Rees, BSN ’81

Elaine E. Stashinko, MS ’79

Jean A. Yeakel, BSN ’56

Lillian A. Milburn, BSN ’04

Susan J. Reiman, BSN ’91

Sharon L. Stecklein, BSN ’69

Charlotte B. Yingling, BSN ’58

Susan C. Miles, MS ’04, BSN ’03

Paula L. Reynolds, BSN ’94

Elaine J. Steele, BSN ’79†

Patricia S. Young, BSN ’90

Mariah A. Miller

Sylvia A. Ridenour, BSN ’67

Joann Stevens, BSN ’69

Ellis Q. Youngkin, MS ’65

Patricia M. Miller, MS ’92

Donna J. Riley, BSN ’69

Eileen Sullivan, MS ’91, BSN ’84

Renee A. Milligan, PhD ’89

Sherrill L. Ringley, BSN ’69

Karen J. Sullivan, BSN ’83

Terry Daniels Ziegler, MS ’90, BSN ’79

*Deceased | Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member

Gwendolyn M. Thomas, BSN ’99 Eileen Curran Thompson, BSN ’78 Mary P. Thompson, BSN ’73 Pamela A. Thompson, BSN ’96 Nancy Tierney Kathy S. Tomaszewski, BSN ’85 Faye G. Trageser, BSN ’91 Natalie L. Troup, MS ’97, BSN ’93 Claudia K. Tufano, MS ’02, BSN ’87 Ernestine Turner, BSN ’67 Carol Ann Valentine, MS ’86, BSN ’83 Nia G. Valentine, MS ’09, BSN ’07 Kimberly K. Vaughn, BSN ’83 Kathryn T. Von Rueden Anne Robin Waldman, BSN ’58 Ginger S. Wallech, BSN ’81 Anna F. Walsh, MS ’05 Tia N. Waltemire, BSN ’06 Cheryl L. Warga, BSN ’11 Sheila K. Washington, MS ’96, BSN ’89 Glenn E. Watkins, BSN ’93

Jessica L. Whitfield, BSN ’94 Kyle A. Wilhelm, MS ’95, BSN ’83 Frances S. Williams, MS ’79 Kathleen A. Williams, BSN ’83 Marsha H. Williams, MS ’84 Brenda F. Windemuth, DNP ’11 Tiffany A. Wissinger, MS ’09, BSN ’07

Ann F. Woodall, BSN ’79

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Alumni Event Recaps

nursing.umaryland.edu/ alumni/events.

UMMC Alumni Appreciation Event The annual University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) Alumni Appreciation event was held June 9 at UMMC. School of Nursing alumni employed at UMMC were welcomed by Dean Jane Kirschling and Lisa Rowen, DNSc, MS ’86, RN, FAAN, senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at UMMC. Alumni enjoyed refreshments and fun prizes while mingling with fellow alumni colleagues.

Left to right: Marcia Assanah, MS ’11, BSN ’07; Linda Hickman, PhD ’98; and Glenda Magpantay, MS ’12

Eastern Shore Alumni Networking Event Dean Jane Kirschling; Laurette Hankins, associate dean for development and alumni relations, and Cynthia Sikorski, associate director for alumni relations, met Eastern Shore alumni at a networking event held June 19 at the Brew River Restaurant in Salisbury, Md. Seated, left to right: Phyllis Brodsky, MS ’79, BSN ’76; Karen Poisker, MS ’81, BSN ’78; Dean Jane Kirschling; Hon. Adelaide Eckardt, MS ’81, BSN ’78; and Reba Goslee, MS ’76 Standing, left to right: Laurette Hankins; Brenda Windemuth, DNP ’11; Katherine Hinderer, PhD ’10, BSN ’98; Rita Nutt, DNP ’09; Nancy Smith, CERT ’12; Connie Spencer, BSN ’79; Margaret Bradford, MS ’76, BSN ’74; Vonnie Brown, BSN ’78; Jackie Ruark-Smith, DNP ’12; and Mary DiBartolo, PhD ’01

Nursing Informatics Alumni Enjoy Luncheon at SINI 2014 More than 30 nursing informatics alumni gathered to network and interact with faculty, students, and fellow alumni at a luncheon held July 16 in conjunction with the 2014 Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI).

Current informatics master’s student Katie Brooks spoke passionately about the importance of the scholarship she received, and Dean Jane Kirschling updated the group on current developments at the School of Nursing.

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Front row, left to right: Dean Jane Kirschling; Mary Turok Paul, MS ’72; Ann Brookens, BSN ’66; Harriet Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, BSN ’68; Mary Beth Makic, MS ’92; and Kenly Goonan, BSN ’68 Middle row, left to right: Janice Farinelli, BSN ’74; Sharon Michael, BSN ’71; Courtney Thomas, BSN ’66; Deborah Beatty, MS ’96; and Linda Vanderhoof Pugh, MS ’89, BSN ’72 Back row, left to right: Jackie Dawson, BSN ’78; Christine Weber, MS ’00; and Laurette Hankins

Colorado Alumni Dinner Dean Jane Kirschling and Laurette Hankins, associate dean for development and alumni relations, visited with Colorado area alumni at a dinner held July 31 at the Holiday Inn-East Stapleton.

Western Maryland Alumni Networking Event Western Maryland alumni had the opportunity to meet Dean Kirschling at a networking event held August 21 at Frostburg University. Special thanks to Heather Gable, DNP ’14, MS ’04, BSN ’02, RN-to-BSN program coordinator or at Frostburg University’s Department of Nursing, who assisted with logistics for the event.

Front row, left to right: ight: Mary Margaret King, g, BSN ’78; Jean Seifarth, PhD, MS ’82; Amy Kiddy, BSN ’99; Heather Gable, DNP ’14, MS ’04, BSN ’02; and Anita Blauch, BSN ’78 Middle row, left to right: Dean Jane Kirschling; April Moreland, MS ’97, BSN ’92; and Neerja Rehani, MS ’11, BSN ’07 Back row, left to right: Liz Ness, MS ’93; Darlene Smith, MS ’95, BSN ’79; Shirley Brooks, BSN ’78; and Bea Lamm, EdD, MS ’81, BSN ’76 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 43

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Current nurse anesthesia students at the Sept. 14 alumni/student networking event

Alumni/Student Networking at AANA Annual Congress Held in Orlando UMSON nurse anesthesia faculty, students, and alumni gathered for a networking event at the American Association of Nurse Anesthesia Annual Congress, held September 14 in Orlando, Fla. Teckla Chude, MS ’13, who collaborated with the Office of Development and Alumni Relations to plan the event, is also spearheading a nurse anesthesia alumni chapter through the School of Nursing Alumni Association.

Teckla; Caleb Rogovin, MS ’92; and Marge Stamler Bergemann, CRNA, a member of the School of Nursing’s Board of Visitors, generously sponsored the event that was enjoyed by everyone who attended.

Richard Libutti, MS ’06, BSN ’01, and Matt Hemrick, MS ’07, alumni from the School of Nursing’s earliest nurse anesthesia classes

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Reu Reunion 2015 festivities, scheduled for Saturday, September 19, 2015, will honor undergraduate classes ending in “5” or “0” and all graduates who hon earned a master’s degree through the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master’s ear option in 2010. Come to Baltimore to reunite with classmates and opt

renew your pride in the University of Maryland School of Nursing! ren Look for your invitation in spring 2015.

Loo If yo you would like to volunteer on the reunion planning committee for your class, contact Cynthia Sikorski, associate director of alumni relations, you 410-706-0674, or alumni@son.umaryland.edu.

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The following class years will be celebrated:

Class of 2000 • 15th

Class of 1970 • 45th

Class of 1995 • 20th

Class of 1965 • 50th

Class of 1990 • 25th

Class of 1960 • 55th

Class of 1985 • 30th

Class of 1955 • 60th

Class of 2010 • 5th

Class of 1980 • 35th

Class of 1950 • 65th

Class of 2005 • 10th

Class of 1975 • 40th

Class of 1945 • 70th

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And . . . alumni who earned a master’s degree through the CNL master’s option in 2010

class news and notes Michelle “Mickie” Rivest, MS ’79, BSN ’75,

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has been elected as a UMSON Alumni Council member-at-large for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

Emily Deitrick, BSN ’68, has been elected as a UMSON Alumni Council member-at-large for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

Deborah R. Myers, MA, BSN ’76, RN, was married

Nancy Miller, MSN, BSN ’73, RN, FNP-BC,

1970s Kathryn Fiandt, PhD, BSN ’71, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, was appointed Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing.

Emilie Deady, MS, MGA, BSN ’72, RN, has been elected as a UMSON Alumni Council member-at-large for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

Ruth Rea, PhD, BSN ’72, RN, a graduate of the WRAIN Class of 1972 and associate professor at the University of Washington Tacoma Nursing Program and Healthcare Leadership Program, was inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Emergency Nursing.

Ruth has a long history of leadership, teaching, and research in emergency care and provided leadership for the Trauma Nursing Core Course, now disseminated to all 50 states and worldwide through the Emergency Nurses Association. She is a retired U.S. Army colonel with 27 years’ experience in the Army Nurse Corps.

performed her version of retired Ravens player Ray Lewis’ squirrel dance at a Ravens Draft Day party, and won an opportunity to participate in the fourth round of the draft at Radio City in New York City last spring.

to William Munz on May 24 at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Md. Prior to earning her BSN degree from UMSON in 1976, Debra graduated from Hagerstown Community College with an AA degree in nursing. She graduated

Chris Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73, RN, is presidentelect of the UMSON Alumni Association, commencing July 1, 2014.

Her term as president will begin July 1, 2015.

Patricia C. McMullen, PhD, JD, MS ’81, BSN ’75, CRNP, FAANP, was selected as an academic nursing leader to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing-Wharton program, held last August in Philadelphia, Pa.

from Hood College with a MA in nurse education, and from the Baltimore School of Massage Therapy. She is licensed in massage therapy in Maryland. Since 1972, Deborah has worked primarily in Med-Surg, ICU and ED. More recently, she has been employed in occupational health, school nursing, and as a delegating nurse.

Cynthia D. Sweeney, MSN, BSN ’76, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, was appointed

Patricia Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79, RN, ACNP, FAAN, dean,

by the Daisy Foundation as its first executive director.

Sweeney worked for the past eight years for the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s products and services team.

University of Utah College of Nursing, was selected as an academic nursing leader to participate in the AACN-Wharton program, held last August in Philadelphia, Pa.

Deborah I. Petzrick, MEd, BSN ’77, RN, was a member of the WRAIN Class of 1977. She, her husband, and two children moved around to many states and Germany while he was on active duty with the Army Corps of Engineers. Deborah worked as a nurse for many of those years but then returned to school to become a certified teacher. She earned a Master’s of Education degree and now works with students in grades K-5 as a reading specialist in a private Christian school.

She still uses her nursing skills, working part-time in the summer in an allergy office.

Linda H. Yoder, PhD, MBA, BSN ’78, RN, AOCN, FAAN, received the President’s Award from the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses.

Annie M. Clavon, PhD, MS ’83, BSN ’79, RN,

Patricia Balassone, MS ’76, BSN ’74, RN, married Dr. Thomas H. Coleman in February 2014. They met at Ohio State University’s Student Health Center, where she is employed as a nurse practitioner and he works as an allergist. Fellow UMSON alumni (left to right in photo) Patricia Winter, BSN ’74; Marye Kellerman, MS ’81, and Candis Morrison, MS ’81, BSN ’74, were in the bridal party. Her sister, Suzanne Durkin Friedman, MS ’91 (not pictured), was the Mistress of Ceremonies.

received a PhD in Educational Leadership from Keiser University (Florida) in June 2014. Her dissertation was titled, “The Teaching Style of Nurse Educators at Private and Public Universities in the Northern and Southern Regions of the United States.”

Robin Bailey Prothro, BSN ’79, was named as one of the Daily Record’s 2014 Most Admired CEOs. This recognition is based on demonstration of strong leadership, integrity, values, vision, commitment to excellence, financial performance, and ongoing commitment to diversity and one’s community. The award also recognized the significant partnership Komen Maryland has had with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, for more than 25 years.

Robin has been the CEO of Komen Maryland for 15 years.

1980s Marion Burns Tuck, PhD, MS ’80, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, has been elected vice president of the UMSON Alumni Association for a two-year term, which began in July 2014.

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ALUMNI PULSE class news and notes Beverly Lang, MS, BSN ’85, RN, CRNP, was one of 18 nurse practitioners selected to participate in the inaugural American Association of Nurse Practitioners Future Leaders Program.

Karen McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, FAAN, is president-elect of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She is the lead clinical nurse specialist at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center.

Debra Haas Stavarski, PhD, MS ’83, RN, earned a PhD with a focus in nursing science from Widener University in Pennsylvania. In addition, she received several awards from Widener in spring 2014: Dean’s Award for Dissertation Research; Sigma Theta Tau International Eta Beta Chapter’s Excellence in Research Award; and the Achievement Award, 2014 Graduate Student Research Symposium. Debra received the Excellence in Evidence-Based Practice Innovation and Leadership Award from the Reading Health System in May 2014; the Sigma Theta Tau International Upsilon Zeta Chapter’s Excellence in Nursing Research Award from the School of Nursing, Alvernia University in May 2014; and the Advance for Nurses 2014 Best Nursing Team Award presented to Berks Regional Nursing Research Alliance.

Lisa A. Plowfield, PhD, MS ’88, RN, was appointed Dean of the College of Health Professions at Towson University, effective July 2014. She previously served as Chancellor and Professor of Nursing at Penn State University’s York Campus.

elected a member of the board of the American Delirium Society. She is a certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, nurse psychotherapist in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is also certified in Nursing Professional Development, and is the nurse educator for the Department of Psychiatric Nursing and co-chair of the hospital’s Nursing Staff Education Committee. Joyce’s DNP Scholarly Project focused on education for neuroscience nurses to increase their knowledge of delirium and to recognize its symptoms in their patients. Her clinical practice focuses on treatment of mental illness for older adults and individuals managing chronic pain and co-occurring major depressive disorder.

Joan Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88, RN-BC, NEA-BC, was elected president of the Association for Nursing Professional Development.

Samson Omoshoto, PhD ’98, APRN, the first African-American male to earn a PhD from UMSON, delivered the keynote address at the Morgan State University School of Nursing Class of 2014 pinning ceremony in May 2014.

Julie Stanik-Hutt, PhD ’94, ACNP/ GNP-BC, CCNS, FAAN, received the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Flame of Excellence award as a national leader advocating for nurse practitioner practice, education, and certification.

She received the award in May 2014 at the National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, held in Denver, Colo. StanikHutt, an adult acute care nurse practitioner and critical care clinical nurse specialist, is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, where she has taught for more than 12 years. A veteran of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, she began her 40-year nursing career at the Naval Hospital in Annapolis, Md.

Catherine Haut, DNP ’10, MS ’93, RN, CRNP, PNP, was elected president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Liz Ness, MS ’93, RN,

a UMSON Alumni Council member-at-large for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

ve as will continue to serve SON president of the UMSON Alumni Association until June 30, 2015.

Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD ’91, RN, FAAN, has been appointed interim dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.

2000s Diane Skojec, DNP ’10, MS ’01, BSN ’00, CRNP, has been elected a UMSON Alumni Council member-at-large for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

LT Gail Francis Tarlton, MS ’02, BSN ’00, APRN-BC, has been the nurse practitioner for the Neurology Consult Service at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., since June 2011. She was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in June 2013.

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Linda Ellwood, BSN ’84, RN, has been elected as

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Joyce Parks, DNP ’14, MS ’93, RN-BC, PMHCNS-BC, was

Desiree Mullis Clement, MS ’03, BSN ’01, CNM, Linda Hickman, PhD ’98, MBA, RN, FACHE, was named an exceptional nurse as part of the American Red Cross Delmarva Region for National Nurses Week 2014.

began the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Vanderbilt University in fall 2014. She will also pursue a post-master’s Family Nurse Practitioner certificate.

alumni spotlight Loretta J. Colvin, MS ’02, APRN-BC, NP,

Heather Wilkerson, BSN ’06, RN, CCRN,

published an article, “Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Assistants in Sleep Centers and Clinics: A Survey of Current Roles and Educational Background” in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. The publication was an outcome of the work of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine APRN/ PA Task Force, which Loretta has chaired for the past two years. She is currently employed as a Clinical Consultant Nurse Practitioner at the Clayton Sleep Institute (CSI) in Maplewood, Mo., and is director of the CSI Knowledge Center.

is the recipient of a 2014 Nursing Excellence GEM award in the Volunteerism and Service category. She was recognized for her work as a nursing unit educator in the cardiac intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview campus, her volunteer work as a licensed pastor for the Assemblies of God International Fellowship, and her work with the A21 Campaign to fight human trafficking through awareness activities.

Amy C. Sharpe Bazuzi, BSN ’03, was certified in inpatient obstetrics after seven years of practice.

She recently relocated to the Madison, Wis., area and would like to network with any UMSON alumni in the area. Interested alumni may contact Amy at amybazuzi@gmail.com.

Marcy Stoots, DNP, MS ’05, RN-BC, completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, with a focus in nursing informatics, from Vanderbilt University in August 2014. Her capstone project was titled, “Medication Documentation and Downtime: Recommendations for Safe Practice.”

Alexandra Bambrick, BSN ’07, is living in Burtare, Rwanda, where she is also teaching ICU nursing. She created a blog to share her experiences. Visit: http://lllafrica.blogspot.com.

Hershaw Davis, MSN, BSN ’09, RN, has been elected communications liaison on the UMSON Alumni Council for a two-year term, which began July 1, 2014.

Kari Bunting, MS ’12, BSN ’10, RNC-OB, C-EFM, was selected for two distinguished nursing informatics honors at UMSON’s 2014 Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics.

Bunting, a clinical nurse specialist in Labor and Delivery at Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center (Baltimore), delivered a podium presentation on her research, “Successful IT Initiative to Reduce the Rate of Excessive Uterine Contractions During Labor,” which earned her the Sharon Coleman Memorial Award. Her abstract describing the research study will be published in an upcoming issue of the Computers, Informatics, Nursing (CIN) Journal.

Assuming a Leadership Role at Shock Trauma

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aren E. Doyle MBA, MS ’91, BSN ’85, RN, NEA-BC, says there’s no doubt that her basic and advanced education at the School of Nursing had a direct influence on her current success. Doyle is the first nurse to serve as both nurse-leader and administrator at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

At Shock Trauma, which is the Baltimorebased Primary Adult Resource Center for the State of Maryland, Doyle is directly accountable for the safe delivery of highly reliable patient care. She is also responsible for a dozen nursing units and more than 600 nurses and other patient care providers.

The School of Nursing, according to Doyle, encourages leadership in all aspects of its curriculum. Opportunities became available during her undergraduate courses through performance improvement/innovation projects or involvement in student government. In addition, she interacted with hospital administrators for her advanced degree as a clinical nurse specialist.

Doyle embraced two key concepts at the School of Nursing that have influenced her career: the delivery of safe, quality care to patients and families, and patient advocacy. “The curriculum and faculty truly taught me to focus on the most important values,” she says.

Doyle’s advocacy goes beyond patient care to the legislative process.

She has lobbied for and testified on behalf of the trauma center before the Maryland General Assembly.

She explains, “My role is far-reaching and hopefully influences the care of trauma patients and their families not only in Maryland, but nationally and globally.”

—Barbara Pash

in memoriam Marilyn J. Aten, PhD, MS ’67 Miriam Graf Beebe, BSN ’56 Zane Gray Beller, DIN ’45 Nancy Chapman Benton, BSN ’78 Anna F. Bittle, DIN ’43

Mary E. Hazzard, MS ’74 Eleanor M. Conniff Herink, MS ’76 Margaret C. Hicks, DIN ‘44 Janice L. Hoffman, BSN ’74

Ann F. Woodall Loftus, BSN ’79 Francine Rockwood Margolius, BSN ’73 Sally A. Muscalli, MS ’99 Sandra K. Packard, MS ’77 Patricia M. Rassa, BSN ’89

Dorothy Koerner Dicarlo, DIN ’49

Nellie G. Kimlin, BSN ’40

Lois J. Snook Schlimme, BSN ’63

Ruth Eger, BSN ’68

Patricia A. Lang King, BSN ’83

Diane O. Shaw, BSN ’61

Cheryl N. Hayward, BSN ’81

John T. Lippman, BSN ’73

Susan Cunningham Snyder, BSN ’95

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class news and notes Liz Krug, MS ’10, RN, and her husband, Colin, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Ava Luise, on August 17. They are thrilled to be parents and are so happy that their daughter has finally arrived!

CAPT Alicia Morton, DNP ’11, RN-BC, has been appointed Director of the Office of the National Coordinator Health IT Certification Program in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Howard, MS ’12, RN, is a registered nurse in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Surgical/Neurological Department at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Md.

Veronica Gutchell, DNP ’13, RN, CNS, CRNP, (left), an assistant professor at UMSON, was one of 18 nurse practitioners selected to participate in the inaugural American Association of Nurse Practitioners Future Leaders Program.

Rich James, BSN ’13, RN, is employed as an operating room nurse at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Gordon Han, BSN ’14, RN, is employed as a nurse clinician in the Neuroscience Critical Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, providing intensive nursing care to brain and spinal trauma patients, neurosurgery patients, and patients with neurological or neuroinfectious diseases.

ALUMNI, SHARE YOUR NEWS! If you have information to share about what’s happening in your life, please let us know so we can include it in the Class News & Notes section of nursing for um. Submit your updates at nursing.umaryland. edu/alumni/update, email your news to alumni@son. umaryland.edu, or mail to Cynthia Sikorski, associate director of alumni relations, 655 W. Lombard Street, Suite W-209, Baltimore, MD 21201.

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or Ruby LaVerne WesleyShadow, PhD ’88, RN, VHA-CM, leading has always been her mission. Helping her to accomplish that mission, she credits not only a long list of mentors and friends who supported her growth and development over the years, but also the School of Nursing and its “cutting-edge” instruction.

“My doctoral education at the School of Nursing provided a strong foundation of theoretical nursing and research,” recalls Wesley-Shadow, who earned her BSN and master’s in education from Wayne State University. “I was treading into unknown territory, having been a diploma grad from the east side of Detroit,” she notes, adding that the doctoral education she received at the School “opened doors that I was able to enter over the past 26 years.”

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positions, such as chief nurse executive at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit, and chief operating officer at the Detroit Institute for Children. She also published a Springhouse Notes book on “Nursing Theories and Models” that has been translated into Spanish and Japanese.

A “then and now” photo was created for Wesley-Shadow was drawn to UMSON Ruby Laverne Wesley-Shadow’s recent by its “national reputation in nursing VA Medical Center retirement party. education,” among other factors, and she received funding to support her doctoral coordinator. Both positions afforded her education through the Minority American the opportunity to “encourage employees Nurses Association Nursing Leadership to return to school, support their clinical Program. Upon earning her doctor of education and competence at work, and philosophy in nursing in January 1988, ignite the spirit of inquiry in staff,” she she became the School’s first Africansays. “It was exhilarating and self-fulfilling American PhD graduate. “It was truly an for me to witness the implementation of excellence in practice on each inpatient unit honor for me and my family to celebrate this accomplishment,” she says. and outpatient clinic.”

Wesley-Shadow is now pursuing an Wesley-Shadow has been teaching interest in consulting and sharing her nursing and other courses since 1977 at “wisdom and lessons learned” with various colleges and universities. Prior to students at a variety of universities. joining the VA Medical Center staff, she —Teiana Boyd also held a number of other leadership

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he School of Nursing is proudly marking 125 years of educating nursing students since the creation of the University of Maryland Training School for Nurses in December 1889.

Under the watchful eye of Louisa Parsons, founder and first superintendent of the School of Nursing (second nurse on the left, in dark clothes), students learned while they worked in a University Hospital Ward in 1890.

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Today’s students gain hands-on experience in the School of Nursing’s 24 clinical simulation labs — designed to replicate realistic practice environments — prior to working with real patients in a clinical setting.

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125th Anniversary Gala April 18, 2015 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel Information: 410-706-7640 nursing.umaryland.edu

Convocation May 15, 2015 Royal Farms Arena Information: 410-706-0501 nursing.umaryland.edu/events

Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics July 22–24, 2015 Information: 410-706-3768 nursing.umaryland.edu/sini

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