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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING

Engaging Body and Mind Functional Activities Improve Lives of Dementia Patients

Plus: Health Care in the Heart of the Chesapeake Nurse Residencies Boost Quality of Care

in this issue feature

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Tending Hearts and Health on Smith Island Brenda Windemuth takes health care to the people

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

> Welcome New Faculty .............................. 4 > Firsts ..................................................... 7 > By the Numbers ...................................... 9

Change Agent ........................................... 10 Change Agent ........................................... 12

Partnerships ............................................. 18

20 Discovery ................................................ 26 Healthy Dialogue ..................................... 28 Philanthropy ............................................ 30 Honor Roll of Donors ............................... 30 Alumni Pulse ........................................... 42 Partnerships ............................................

Innovation ................................................. 14

Back Story ........................... Inside Back Cover

Shady Grove Perspectives .......................... 16

Save the Date ................................ Back Cover

ON THE COVER: Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, RN, CRNP, FAANP, associate professor, works with a dementia patient. Her research team is studying how increasing dementia patients’ involvement in functional and physical activities can benefit their well-being.

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INSIGHTS Winter 2016

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

—Florence Nightingale

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hat an exciting time it is for the School of Nursing! As we prepare to say farewell to 2015, this year will stand out as a period in which we witnessed much of the groundwork we laid in previous years finally come to fruition.

One of our most gratifying moments happened on October 1, when the Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority Act of 2015 took effect in the state of Maryland. Thanks to all of our faculty members and alumni, as well as the members of the Maryland Action Coalition (MDAC), for their tireless efforts in championing this piece of legislation. (Read more on p. 12.)

This accomplishment, like many others we achieved in 2015, aligns closely with the recommendations outlined in the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Over the last five years, we’ve worked diligently to incorporate these recommendations across our mission. In addition to partnering with the MDAC to remove scope of practice barriers, the School of Nursing has: Increased the proportion of baccalaureate-prepared nurses through our RN-to-BSN program and by expanding access to Associate Degree in Nursing-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing education at College of Southern Maryland, Montgomery College, and the Laurel College Center Stipulated that all full-time nurse faculty positions require a doctorate, which has increased the percentage of nurse faculty who possess a terminal degree Encouraged and supported doctoral studies for master’s-prepared faculty Revised curricula simultaneously across four programs to facilitate seamless academic progression Established the Clinical Nurse Leader option as a free-standing program Actively engaged in the University’s interprofessional education efforts Centralized data collection efforts and used new technologies to track and store information Received 10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Throughout this issue of nursing for um, there are several more examples of initiatives that demonstrate our ongoing commitment to fulfilling the recommendations of The Future of Nursing report. I encourage you to take time to read about these efforts.

As I look ahead to the new year and beyond, I remain committed to my goal of making the School of Nursing a better place to work and learn.

Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean and Professor 2 WINTER 2016

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.

Editorial Board: Patricia Adams, Editorial Director Susan G. Dorsey Erika Friedmann Laurette Hankins Karen Kauffman Kathryn Montgomery Rebecca Wiseman Contributors: Patricia Adams Gregory J. Alexander Stacey Conrad Patricia Fanning David Ginsburg John P. Evans, III Laurette Hankins Nancy Menefee Jackson Jane M. Kirschling Kevin Nash Barbara Pash Jay A. Perman Terri Reuter Jeff Seidel Cynthia Sikorski Jessica Wilson Design and Editorial: Today Media Custom Communications 1014 W. 36th Street Baltimore, MD 21201 410-909-7820 http://todaymediacustom.com/ Chairman: Robert F. Martinelli President: Jonathan Witty Project Manager: Julie F. Lang Art Director: Randy Clark Senior Editor: Todd Karpovich 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.

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NEWS

Students Receive White Coats at Fall Ceremonies

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ncoming Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) students received their white coats at ceremonies held this fall at the School of Nursing in Baltimore and at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG).

During the Baltimore ceremony, held September 22, 94 BSN and 54 CNL

students received their white coats. Anne Belcher, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, associate professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, served as the distinguished speaker for the occasion.

Forty-five BSN students received their white coats at the USG event, held October 6. Pamela Shumate, DNP ’12, RN, CCRN-CMC, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, was the distinguished speaker.

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

White Coat Ceremony, Baltimore

School off N Nursing i Programs Receive 10-Year Accreditation from CCNE

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he School of Nursing’s baccalaureate, master’s, Doctor of Nursing Practice, and postgraduate advanced practice registered nurse certificate programs have been granted a 10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). During the accreditation process, CCNE visitors examined the quality and integrity of the School’s nursing programs.

Throughout its evaluation, CCNE focused on four standards of program quality and effectiveness: mission and governance, resources, curriculum, and program outcomes. CCNE found the School to be compliant on all standards reviewed. Highlights from their findings include extensive representation and participation of faculty, students, and staff in program governance; exemplary resources available to faculty and students; the use of a variety of teaching-learning practices with an environment to support the needs of diverse learners in an educational learning environment; and a comprehensive evaluation plan consistent with the mission, identified standards of practice, and program goals and expected program outcomes.

“CCNE’s accreditation is an important method of validating the School’s ongoing quality of education and shows its commitment to faculty and student success,” said Associate Professor Kathleen M. Buckley, PhD, MS ’76, BSN ’73, RN, IBCLC, who served as the School’s lead coordinator of the CCNE review. “This evaluation also confirms that there is oversight over the nursing program, which shows our students, alumni, and community partners that the School has accountability and integrity.”

White Coat Ceremony, Shady Grove

—Kevin Nash UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 3

NEWS

Dorsey and Resnick Inducted Into International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

Susan Dorsey and Barbara Resnick with their awards.

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usan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, professor and chair, Department of Pain and Translational Symptom

Science, and Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor and Sonia Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, have been inducted into

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

Kathleen Martin

Ronald Piscotty

DNP ’08, MS ’97, BSN ’95, RN, CNE Assistant Professor

PhD, RN-BC Assistant Professor

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the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. They were among 19 nurse researchers inducted at the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nursing’s 26th International Nursing Research Congress, held last July in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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.

Dorsey’s research examines the molecular, cellular, and genetic factors associated with the development and persistence of chronic pain. More people suffer from chronic pain than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined, making this a research study of great importance. Although people who suffer from chronic pain cost the U.S. more than $600 billion annually, there are few effective treatments that can reduce or eliminate chronic pain without significantly disrupting a person’s quality of life. Dorsey’s team seeks to remedy this problem.

Resnick’s research has exclusively focused on caring for older adults.

She examines methods of optimizing function and physical activity among older adults and their caregivers in longterm care settings. Additionally, Resnick and her team have been investigating techniques to motivate older adults in their recovery from acute medical events.

Her Function-Focused Care approach has been disseminated nationally through publications and presentations.

—Kevin Nash

25th Anniversary of SINI Celebrated at Annual Conference

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ore than 300 nursing informatics professionals were on hand to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the School of Nursing’s Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI), held July 22–24. The theme of the 2015 conference was, Realizing the Benefits: Health Care and Information Technology.

“SINI has evolved in concert with the development of communications and information technology, and has both reflected and anticipated informatics innovations, enabling the use of information to improve patient care practice and health systems across the life span,” said SINI Co-chair Mary Etta Mills, ScD, MS ’73, BSN ’71, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor.

Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, alumni professor of nursing and professor of biomedical informatics, Columbia University, kicked off the conference with her keynote address, Informatics Supporting the Health of the Underserved. Bakken explained that informatics can promote the health of

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW and plan to attend SINI 2016, Informatics at the Crossroads of Care Coordination. The conference will be held July 20–22 at the School of Nursing.

For information, visit: nursing.umaryland.edu/sini.

Suzanne Bakken

There are key social, political, and technical drivers that provide outstanding opportunities for nursing informatics professionals, who offer a unique perspective on the intersection of informatics and health equity for the underserved. the underserved and advance health equity. Currently, there are key social, political, and technical drivers that provide outstanding opportunities for nursing informatics professionals, who offer a unique perspective on the intersection of informatics and health equity for the underserved, to show their support for this population.

Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI, president and CEO, American Medical Informatics Association, closed out SINI with his endnote address, Informatics 2015: How Do We Get from Meaningful Use to Precision Medicine? Fridsma spoke about understanding the characteristics of the learning health system and how to frame large, complex problems effectively; defining interoperability by breaking it down into two parts — the

four scales of engagement and the five technical building blocks needed for health IT systems; and anticipating future trends and their potential impact on clinical informatics.

“It has been a great pleasure to participate in the growth of nursing informatics and of SINI through the decades,” said SINI Co-chair Judy Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FAIMBE, visiting professor. “Twenty-five years ago, there was just one nursing informatics graduate program in the world, and it was here at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Now there are many throughout the world. For the quality of its presentations and for its networking opportunities, SINI continues to be unmatched as a source of professional development in nursing informatics.”

—Patricia Fanning and Kevin Nash

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Two Students Selected for Prestigious Future of Nursing Scholars Program

Stacey Iobst and Alisha Hackney

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tudents Alisha Hackney, BSN ’13, RN, and Stacey Iobst, BSN ’07, RNC-OB, C-EFM, were among 46 nurses to receive the prestigious Future of Nursing Scholars program award to support their PhD study. Their scholarships are being funded by Johnson & Johnson and were awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

A multi-funder leadership program spearheaded by RWJF, the Future of Nursing Scholars program aims to increase the

number of nurses holding PhDs in Maryland and across the country. The Institute of Medicine has recommended that there be more PhD-prepared nurses, resulting in an increase in the number of nurse leaders, nurse-led science and discovery, and high-quality educators preparing the next generation of nurses. Less than one percent of the nation’s more than 3 million nurses have PhDs in nursing or a related field. In addition, the average age at which nurses get their PhDs in the United States is 46,

which is 13 years older than PhD earners in other fields. This program will provide an incentive for nurses to start PhD programs earlier so that they can have long leadership careers after earning their degrees.

Hackney intends to focus her research on the pathophysiology of labor and delivery, an interest that she developed during her senior year in the BSN program. Prior to beginning the PhD program, Hackney was a clinical nurse in the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Adult Emergency Department.

Iobst will focus her research on improving maternity care through strategies such as quality measurement, patient education, and provider education. Iobst was a nurse on the Labor and Delivery Unit at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., prior to beginning the PhD program.

The Future of Nursing Scholars program provides grants to schools of nursing, so they can provide scholarships to PhD candidates who will commit to completing the program in three years. Hackney and Iobst will each receive an award of $75,000, as well as mentoring and leadership development over the course of the PhD program.

—Kevin Nash

Ogbolu is New Director for Office of Global Health

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ssistant Professor Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04, CRNP-Neonatal, has been named director of the School of Nursing’s Office of Global Health (OGH). She previously served as deputy director of OGH. During her tenure at the School of Nursing, Ogbolu has led the School’s efforts in West Africa and has

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been instrumental in its global health efforts with local and international stakeholders. She routinely engages with international regulatory agencies, universities, and ministries of health. In her new role, Ogbolu is responsible for expanding established relationships, programs, and partnerships, and ensuring that the OGH’s activities are aligned with the School’s strategic goals.

FIRSTS Four Faculty Members Awarded Nurse Support Program II Grants

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our School of Nursing faculty members were awarded Nurse Support Program II (NSP II) grants through the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC). Vanessa Fahie, PhD ’94, Vanessa Fahie Patricia Franklin BSN ’76, RN, assistant professor; Patricia Franklin, PhD, RN, assistant professor and director of professional education; Shannon Idzik, DNP ’10, MS, ’03, CRNP, CCRN, associate professor and associate dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program; and Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, Shannon Idzik Louise S. Jenkins MS ’81, RN, FAHA, ANEF, professor and director of the Institute for Educators in Nursing and Health Professions, all received grants to assist with the funding of various programs.

NSP II grants aid in increasing the capacity of nurses in Maryland by implementing statewide initiatives to grow the number of nurses prepared to function effectively in faculty roles. MHEC offers a number of educational grant programs funded by state general funds, special funds, and federal funds. The programs are designed to address Maryland’s economic and workforce development needs, campus reform initiatives, student preparation for post-secondary education, faculty and student diversity goals, and teacher professional development objectives.

—Kevin Nash

Ogbolu’s research focuses on newborn health disparities across the globe, cultural competencies for health professionals and organizations, and building nursing capacities through partnerships with schools of nursing. Additionally, she has led the development of partnerships with multiple universities in Africa through collective engagement, and has served as an expert reviewer for the World Health Organization in developing a curriculum for implementing science research for health professionals in developing countries.

—Kevin Nash

1 Clinical Nurse Leader Option — Now Ranked No. 1 in the Nation

by U.S. News & World Report

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he University of Maryland School of Nursing launched the state of Maryland’s first Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master’s option in 2005. Now ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the CNL option is intended for students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a field other than nursing. Graduates are prepared to provide direct patient care and clinical nursing leadership in hospitals, communities, long-term care facilities, private homes, and other settings A special event is being planned for spring 2016 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the program.

For updated information, go to: http://www.nursing.umaryland. edu/news-events/.

For more information about the Clinical Nurse Leader master’s option, or to apply, go to: http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/ academics/grad/cnl/

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NEWS Lessans Appointed Director of Clinical Nurse Leader Option

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herrie Lessans, PhD ’10, RN,

has been appointed director of the School of Nursing’s Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master’s option. She has been a faculty member at the School since 2008.

Lessans, currently an assistant professor in the Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science, has an active program of research that focuses on the mechanism underlying the development and persistence of neuropathic pain. In her new role, she is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the CNL option’s policies and procedures. She also provides leadership in program coordination; curriculum planning; student recruitment, retention, and advisement; and didactic instruction.

“This is such an exciting time to assume this important role. I have a strong passion for entry-level education and the Clinical Nurse Leader option,” Lessans said. “It is a privilege to work with this amazing faculty and staff, diligently working to prepare future nurses to shape a culture of safety and best outcomes for patients.”

Antol Awarded Grant for Interprofessional Practice Project

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usan Antol, MS ’79, RN, assistant professor and director of the Governor’s Wellmobile and School-based Wellness Programs, was awarded a $1,007,076 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The three-year grant is funding the project, Bridging Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Education with Integrated Care through a Medical Neighborhood.

In collaboration with the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Social Work, Antol and her School of Nursing team are implementing an interprofessional collaborative practice that will serve as a clinical education site for students in the University of Maryland health professional schools and examine improved methods for providing care to residents served by the Governor’s Wellmobile Program.

The Wellmobile is a nurse-managed, mobile-health clinic that provides primary care to thousands of the state’s most vulnerable residents. It delivers mobile nurse-managed, primary care services to the medically underserved and ethnically diverse populations in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties. Members of this population are often foreign-born, Latino, non-English speaking, and/or uninsured.

Approximately 60 percent of these patients suffer from one or more chronic illnesses, which include hypertension, Type II diabetes, or obesity. Antol’s team aims to better serve these patients by establishing an advanced primary care, interprofessional collaborative practice in the Wellmobile clinic that integrates a family medicine physician, clinical pharmacist, and bilingual outreach worker into the existing nurse-managed faculty practice.

“Implementing a nurse-managed interprofessional collaborative practice team on the Wellmobile enables us to travel to our patients to meet their needs, in conjunction with community-collaborative partnerships,” Antol said. “This great opportunity focuses on a team effort that will allow the Wellmobile program to accomplish what we’ve needed and wanted to do for a long time. Our long-range goal is to positively impact health care experiences, improve health outcomes, and reduce costs, which is consistent with the Affordable Care Act’s Triple Aim. We now stand ready to deliver this promise.”

—Kevin Nash

—Kevin Nash

Daniels Named Director of Clinical Simulation Laboratories

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my Daniels,

for interprofessional simulation experiences

nursing students’ abilities to critically reflect

MS ’12,

at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

on practice. She has also been named a

BSN ’89, RN, has

“I consider it a privilege and honor to be appointed to this position. I am reminded

tor of the School of

daily of the wealth of resources in these

Nursing’s Clinical

labs, and I realize what an amazing oppor-

preparation as a simulation educator to this

Simulation Labora-

tunity this is to provide our students and

position. While serving as assistant director,

tories in Baltimore.

community with rich learning experiences,”

she gained extensive working knowledge of

Daniels, a certified

Daniels said.

the labs that will serve her well in providing

health care simulation educator, had served as assistant director of the labs since 2012.

In her new role, Daniels oversees the School’s simulation program and is responsible for its curriculum; expansion of interpro-

Daniels received her formal training in sim-

and a New Nurse Faculty Fellow.

“Amy brings valuable experience and

leadership for the clinical simulation labs

ulation and debriefing at the instructor and

in her new role as director,” said Kathryn

advanced instructor levels from the Center

Montgomery, PhD ’97, RN, NEA-BC, associ-

for Medical Simulation, Harvard University.

ate professor and chair of the Department

Her research focuses on psychologically

fessional faculty development, simulation,

safe learning environments within the

and debriefing; and increasing opportunities

context of debriefing and their impact on

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National League for Nursing LEAD Scholar

been named direc-

of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice at the School of Nursing.

—Kevin Nash

UMB’s Role in Restoring a City

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t’s been nearly a year since Baltimore was rocked by violence following the death of Freddie Gray. The country’s preoccupation with our city — so intense during the unrest — now comes and goes. But here in Baltimore, the struggle to rebuild remains. And so does the suffering of our West Baltimore neighbors. Many of us who live, work, and study in the city are focusing our attention on the poverty and injustice endemic in the communities beset by violence — conditions that have held generations of Baltimoreans hostage to crumbling neighborhoods, scarce services, poor health, high crime, and widespread incarceration.

Anchor institutions like the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have a critical role to play in lifting populations out of poverty.

And I’m proud of the work we’re undertaking to do exactly that. The UMB Community Engagement Center, opened in the fall in West Baltimore, puts the University’s people, assets, and expertise within easier reach of our neighbors. It’s where we provide services to residents “ I’m grateful for the — health screenings and referrals, low-cost School’s long-term legal advice, tutoring and GED test preparation, leadership in improving and workshops in community organizing. Our human resources department has space in the population health, the center to show neighbors the jobs available at bedrock on which economic UMB, to prepare them for the work, and to help security and social them apply.

We’re studying our nascent programs connection are built.” to determine which ones merit scaling — a mentoring program that prepares students for high-paying jobs in the health sciences; a program that connects West Baltimore parents to the job market; a training program that helps local businesses compete for millions of dollars in UMB spending. We’re engaging our neighbors in shared problem-solving, exploring the complex issues that underpin inequity and helping residents advocate for policies that will end it for good.

In the days following the spring unrest, the School of Nursing was where it often is, in the streets of West Baltimore, providing services and supplies to neighbors in need. But the need is more than immediate; it’s entrenched. And so I’m grateful for the School’s long-term leadership in improving population health, the bedrock on which economic security and social connection are built. I’m grateful for its work in fixing problems of health care access that afflict our poorest neighborhoods and for its efforts to create conditions in West Baltimore that advance community well-being.

And I thank all of our alumni and friends who’ve asked to join UMB and the School of Nursing in this work. Your partnership is critical, because I know that the problems of poor health and poverty, inequality and injustice — seemingly intractable given individual effort — can be turned around under our collective strength.

BY THE NUMBERS The University of Maryland School of Nursing has produced many leaders in its 125 years of educating nurses.

We are very proud to report that 11 School of Nursing alumni are currently serving as deans in schools of nursing across the nation.

REGINA CUSSON PhD, MS ’79, NNP-BC, APRN, FAAN University of Connecticut School of Nursing ANITA G. HUFFT PhD, BSN ’70 Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing DORRIE K. FONTAINE PhD, MS ’77, RN, FAAN University of Virginia School of Nursing PATRICIA MCMULLEN PhD, MS ’81, BSN ’75, JD, CNS, CRNP, FAAN Catholic University of America School of Nursing PATRICIA GONCE MORTON PhD ’89, MS ’79, RN, FAAN University of Utah College of Nursing ROBIN NEWHOUSE PhD ’00, MS ’99, BSN ’87, NEA-BC, FAAN Indiana University School of Nursing LAURA CIANELLI PRESTON MS ’91, BSN ’77 Harford Community College Nursing and Allied Health Professions ROBIN REMSBURG PhD ’94, APRN FNGNA, FGSA, FAAN University of North Carolina Greensburg School of Nursing CAROL ROMANO PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77, RN, FAAN Uniformed Services University, Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing GAIL W. STUART PhD, MS ’73, RN, FAAN Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing DAVID VLAHOV PhD, MS ’80, BSN ’77, RN, FAAN University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing

—Jay A. Perman, MD President UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 9

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Protecting Our Children McLaine Focuses on Lead Poisoning Prevention

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at McLaine, DrPH, MPH, RN, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health and Specialty Director, Community Public Health, has devoted her career to the issue of health and the environment.

For more than two decades, her focus has been on lead poisoning, particularly as it affects children.

“Lead poisoning is entirely preventable. It is not acceptable to expose children to dangerous levels of lead-based paint and dust in their own homes or to products with high levels of leads. It is important that we take steps to protect children and to improve children’s opportunities to be welleducated, productive adults,” she said.

McLaine managed Maryland’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Program from 1988

to 1993. Most recently, she participated in the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Educational Interventions for LeadExposed Children Workgroup that issued a report in spring 2015. It summarized the evidence of lead’s effect on educational outcomes and the federal laws that can be used to ensure that lead-exposed children receive appropriate education in school.

Perhaps McLaine’s most visible public role, though, is with the Governor’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission. It was established in 1994 by the Maryland General Assembly to help oversee a new law requiring that owners of older rental housing reduce the risks of lead paint in their units by meeting a housing standard of care. She has been a member since 2002 and chair since 2012.

The commission is an advisory body that studies and collects information

on the lead paint program and current abatement practices, treatment, and liability. Its 19 members include representatives from state agencies, property owners, the Maryland Insurance Commission, health care providers, parents, and advocates.

“We look closely at what is being done around the state to prevent lead poisoning, including compliance with state lead laws for older rental housing, training of contractors, and screening of children,” said McLaine.

Every year, the Commission reviews bills pertaining to lead that are submitted to the General Assembly. It may take a position for or against, by letter or testimony. McLaine has often testified on behalf of the Commission. After most federal funding to CDC’s lead program was eliminated, the Commission urged

Making a Difference in Children’s Lives

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n 2007, Charlotte Wallace, MS ’15, BSN ’98, RN, then a

throughout the campus, which includes a 406-bed, not-

pediatric nurse at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC),

for-profit hospital and substance abuse treatment center.

a regional health center headquartered in Annapolis, Md.,

occupants and the local community,” she said of initiatives like

difference in children’s lives.

switching the baby wash used in the neonatal unit because

“I was exhausted from seeing children suffering from diseases

of concerns about chemical content. This also reduced the

like asthma that we as a society could prevent. I asked if our

amount of garbage burned in an incinerator from nearly 100

hospital could be a leader in creating a healthier building,”

percent in 2007 to 12 percent in 2014.

said Wallace, who received a PHOTO COURTESY OF ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER

“Our mission is to protect the health of the building’s

wrote a letter to the head of AAMC. She wanted to make a

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Last spring, Wallace

of Nursing, in the science of

was invited to participate in a Howard University School of

nursing, in the Community Public

Medicine-sponsored meeting on climate change and its impact

Health specialty in December.

on human health. President Barack Obama attended.

AAMC responded by

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Wallace’s advocacy extends beyond AAMC, notably with

master’s degree from the School

“My focus was how the national incidence of asthma has

creating a committee and

doubled since 1980. Climate change brings higher temperatures,

naming Wallace its chair. As

which causes prolonged allergy season, rising ozone levels, and

Sustainability Coordinator,

worsening smog pollution. Climate change is not causing asthma,

she leads a 12-member, multi-

but the results of it are increasing asthma triggers,” said Wallace.

disciplinary team that operates

—Barbara Pash

Pat McLaine points out lead paint on an abandoned house in West Baltimore.

Maryland’s Congressional Delegation to support reinstatement of federal funding for state and local lead poisoning prevention efforts.

“My goal for my work on the Commission is to continue to improve what we do to keep Marylanders safe from lead exposure. We have made a lot of progress, but there is more to do,” said McLaine.

In the 2015 General Assembly, McLaine testified on a bill dealing with another health issue, but this time on behalf of the Maryland Nurses Association. The bill was sponsored by Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, MAS, BSN ’80, RN, a Democrat who spent 20 years representing District 10 in the House of Delegates before being elected to the Senate for District 44 in 2015.

During her long tenure as a state legislator, Nathan-Pulliam has introduced

and/or backed numerous bills relating to a healthy environment and to access to quality health care. Her 2015 Senate Bill 470 prohibited the administration of antibiotics to food-producing animals without a clinical sign of disease.

“I believe 100 percent that the environment has an impact on health.

We are losing lives because people are developing resistance to antibiotics,” said Nathan-Pulliam, who has consulted with McLaine on other bills in the past.

McLaine said that as a nurse, the issue of antibiotic resistance concerns her. “We have had a large increase in infections that are resistant to antibiotics. It’s a huge problem for our country, with more than two million Americans infected every year and more than 23,000 deaths annually,” she said.

Also testifying in support of the bill was Cara Zalewski, BSN, RN, a master’s

degree student in the School of Nursing’s Community Public Health Nursing specialty. “This was my first time testifying before the legislature, and my first time involved in any sort of policy.

It was exciting and interesting to educate the public on why the use of antibiotics is harmful,” said Zalewski, who works in the ICU at the University of Maryland Medical Center while attending the master’s program. Another Community Public Health Nursing student, Anastasia Trent, since graduated (MS ’14), also testified on the bill and met with legislators.

The Community Public Health Nursing master’s specialty requires students to complete 315 practicum hours with a community health organization. McLaine oversees all practicum assignments.

Zalewski is assigned to the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, to which McLaine and other faculty members belong.

“I moved to Baltimore for this program,” said Zalewski, formerly of Rochester, N.Y. “I love the nursing aspect of public health.”

As it turned out, Nathan-Pulliam’s bill was merged with a similar bill, Senate Bill 463. Ultimately, the bill failed to pass the General Assembly. “From a political standpoint, we couldn’t get it passed,” said Nathan-Pulliam, who nonetheless intends to reintroduce her bill in the 2016 General Assembly. And when she does, she will have McLaine’s full support. “I am happy to be in a position to make a difference,” McLaine said. Her years of service illustrate her effectiveness at doing just that.

—Barbara Pash

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CHANGE AGENT

Unified, Hard Work Helps Pass Nurse Practitioner Bill Legislation Recognizes High Quality Care Provided in State

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urse practitioners in Maryland now have full practice authority thanks to a concerted effort by the Nurse Practitioner Association of Maryland, Maryland Academy of Advanced Practice Clinicians, Maryland Nurses Association, and Maryland Action Coalition. The Certified Nurse Practitioners - Authority to Practice Act, passed earlier this year, repeals some of the obstacles nurse practitioners have faced in the past, most importantly the attestation requirement.

With this recent legislation, Maryland became the 21st state to allow full practice authority for nurse practitioners.

Shannon Idzik, DNP ’10, CRNP, FAANP, associate professor and associate dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the School of Nursing, believes the passage of this bill will prove helpful to nurse practitioners in many ways and is an important step in this state. “It is finally recognition of the high quality independent care that nurse practitioners have provided in the state for many years,” she said.

“Maryland serves as a role model for other states who need to remove practice barriers for nurse practitioners so they are able to improve health outcomes.”

Idzik also explained the passage of the bill now removes the “unnecessary paper burden” of an attestation, which required nurse practitioners to give the name of a physician with whom they would collaborate. That could be difficult in some situations, especially for nurse practitioners in rural settings where there aren’t as many physicians available, or possibly willing, to take on that task. She and other advocates felt the attestation served little purpose other than adding another barrier to practice and limiting business opportunities for nurse practitioners.

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Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (front row, center) signing the Authority to Practice Act. He is surrounded by other state officials and nurse practitioners, including School of Nursing Assistant Professor Veronica Gutchell (second row, to Gov. Hogan’s right) and Associate Professor Shannon Idzik (back row, center).

The attestation came about in 2010 as a compromise between nurse practitioners and MedChi, the state medical society.

This compromise resulted in a onepage agreement that replaced a 15page document listing medications a nurse practitioner would prescribe and treatments and procedures they would perform, among other things. Every nurse practitioner needed to submit the attestation to the Maryland Board of Nursing to be licensed to practice (as a nurse practitioner) in the state.

Now that nurse practitioners have full practice authority, they can see patients independently, based upon certification.

This will help nurse practitioners obtain and move to different positions more easily, according to Idzik. They now can do so without worrying about losing a collaborating physician. Veronica Gutchell, DNP ’13, RN, CNS, CRNP,

an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, said that nurse practitioners will continue to collaborate with physicians and other members of the health care team — something that won’t ever change — but are not required to sign the attestation that says they will do so.

A nurse practitioner directly out of school will need to name a mentor, with whom he/she will communicate any questions — and the mentor can be a nurse practitioner or a doctor, Gutchell explained. That mentor needs to be in place for the first 18 months of the new nurse practitioner’s practice. In the end, Idzik said this bill wouldn’t have much of an impact on patients already being seen by a nurse practitioner. But she believes it could increase the number of practices with nurse practitioners in Maryland — and also access to care, which is a positive.

“ Having increased access to nurse practitioner providers could improve population health outcomes.”

—Shannon Idzik

“Nurse practitioners provide high quality care based on a nursing model, and patients may now have more opportunity to choose that provider type,” Idzik said. “Having increased access to nurse practitioner providers could improve population health outcomes.

In addition, patients who see nurse practitioners can continue to see them without fear that their provider might have to close their practice due to a physician pulling their attestation to collaborate.”

—Jeff Seidel

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INNOVATION

Grant Allows Nurses to Participate in Leadership Program Goal is to Provide Lifelong Learning, Faculty Development

Kathryn Montgomery and Patricia Franklin welcome attendees to the Nurse Leadership Institute.

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hrough a Maryland Health Care Cost Review Commission (HCCRC) grant awarded to the School of Nursing, nurses from both academic and clinical settings are participating in a new, statewide Nurse Leadership Institute.

The Institute is designed in response to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Nurses completing

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this program will be prepared to be full partners, with other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in Maryland.

This fall’s leadership class was the first under the new funding. Previously, a similar two-year program was conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing for emerging nurse faculty leaders in five Maryland schools of nursing.

Initial reports encouraged the HCCRC

to expand the program to include nurse leaders from all Maryland schools of nursing and clinical practice settings.

Participants will be chosen annually from both the academic and clinical areas selected from a pool of nominees from all of the Maryland schools of nursing, hospitals, and health care organizations. Each participant will work with a nurse mentor during the leadership development program.

Participants in the Institute will collaborate in developing strategies that will prepare the nurses — from pre- to post-licensure — for assuming a variety of roles across the continuum of care.

The ultimate goal is to improve patient outcomes and efficiencies in care. “We have reached out to individuals from all the schools of nursing and health care facilitates in the state,” said Patricia Franklin, PhD, RN, assistant professor and director of professional education, who directs the program, along with Kathryn Montgomery, PhD ’97, RN, NEA-BC, associate professor and chair of the School of Nursing’s Department of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice.

To be considered for the program, applicants must provide significant professional background information,

including a narrative highlighting their personal development to date, their career goals, and how they plan to use the expertise they gain from the program. In addition, their application must include a letter of commitment from the mentor who will support them during the program. Franklin said the partnership between nurse and mentor is a critical feature of this plan.

“The mentor’s role provides the knowledge, insight, and counsel as the mentee works toward his or her professional goals. Mentors will also facilitate mentees’ professional development by expanding their networks of professional contacts, identifying opportunities, and promoting their mentees’ contributions to the field,” said Franklin.

The first class began on October 14, with a full-day orientation. In addition

to the orientation, selected readings and self-evaluation activities during the fall will prepare participants for a five-day intensive leadership training program, scheduled in January 2016.

During the five-day session, the nurse leader participants will focus on assessment of leadership style, organizational complexity, thinking and acting systematically, coaching, and peer learning. After the training program, ongoing coaching and facilitated learning experiences will continue.

At the completion of the program, each participant will prepare a summative report on their work.

“This program is important in the development of nurse leaders who will lead change in Maryland’s health care system to provide quality care for its residents,” said Franklin.

—John P. Evans III

Mentees Tracey Long (left) and Harolda Hedd-Kanu (third from left) review their work with their mentors Deborah Dang (second from left) and Deborah Smith (right) as part of the statewide initiative.

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SHADY GROVE PERSPECTIVES

Producing Proactive Nurses Shady Grove Medical Center Launches New Program

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he highest compliment Benedict Tolbert, BSN ’15, RN, can bestow is to call something, or someone, “thorough.” His education at the School of Nursing was “very thorough.” Hyun Jun Ju, his preceptor at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center, where he started working in July, is “very thorough,” Tolbert said. “That’s one thing I really love about him.”

For this reason, Tolbert is grateful that he will have Ju [pronounced Yu] as a resource for five months as opposed to the three months a novice nurse usually has a preceptor. Tolbert has this benefit because he is in the first cohort — which consists of 22 nurses — of the Nurse Residency Program recently established at Shady Grove Medical Center. “Everything he does, I follow him, because he’s an excellent nurse. There are certain habits he has that I’m also trying to pick up and learn,” Tolbert said.

The establishment of the Nurse Residency Program at Shady Grove Medical Center sprung from a “commitment of Adventist HealthCare to grow its nursing program and to really walk with these new nurses on their journey into their professional careers, to promote longevity in their careers,

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and to keep them here with us,” said Tina Bergeron Sheesley, manager of public relations and marketing at the hospital.

The Nurse Residency Program has features designed to offer both academic and emotional support to novice nurses, as well as to inspire proactive behavior in the unit. Besides participating in the fivemonth preceptor/mentee partnerships, the nurse residents attend classes every month for 12 months and are required to do evidence-based projects.

“In this unit [the Progressive Care Unit], I will find something that I believe can be changed by implementing a set of actions. I will have to do a presentation on that and then try to put it into action on the floor to see whether it works,” Tolbert explained.

Latasha Baxter, RN, CRNP, nurse manager of the unit, particularly loves the idea of the evidence-based project.

“I believe it helps them think outside the box. There’s always an area for performance improvement. No matter where you go, you’re going to see a process and think, ‘That could probably be done better’ or question why it was done that way,” Baxter said.

The Nurse Residency Program also allows novice nurses to develop bigpicture perspectives of their patients.

“I think that any new graduate that’s never gone through a residency, that’s done it the old-fashioned t way, w could say the first 12 weeks of orientation are excellent,” Baxter said. “I had my mentor or my preceptor, me was available during my whomever w shift, and I could aask questions. But after [orientation], you’re on your own. that [orientation]

You’re expected to work independently.”

Through the residency program model, the orientation phase is extended and a nurse resident has more time to develop a system-level view rather than just focusing on what’s happening in his or her unit.

Eursula David-Sherman, MSN, RN, Nurse Residency coordinator for Shady Grove Medical Center, explained that one of the main focuses of the program is nurturing novice nurses. “We want people right out of nursing school. We want them to be Shady Grove natives,” said David-Sherman. “We’re looking for nurses who are motivated, willing to learn, and passionate about the profession.”

The genesis of the program occurred at the end of 2014, when the executive team of Adventist HealthCare recommended the establishment of a system-wide Nurse Residency Program. The program follows the University HealthSystem Consortium/American Association of Colleges of Nursing Nurse Residency curriculum, which focuses on leadership, patient and safety outcomes, professional development, and which requires the completion of an evidence-based project.

Back on the Progressive Care Unit at Shady Grove Medical Center, Tolbert explained that the purpose of hourly rounding is, “to let our patients know we’re here. And during that time, if there’s something needed, we can do it.” In room 11B, Tolbert takes out his stethoscope to listen to his patient’s lungs as Ju stands silently on the other side of the bed.

After the visit, in the hall outside the patient’s room, Ju explains that Tolbert had done very well. “It was almost

IOM Report Drives Creation of Nurse Residencies

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n 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report titled The Future of Nursing: Leading

Change, Advancing Health. The report has spurred major initiatives in the field of nursing, according to Rebecca Wiseman, PhD ’93, RN, associate professor and chair, University of Maryland School of Nursing at the Universities at Shady Grove. Creating nurse residency programs is one such initiative that emerged from this groundbreaking document. The authors based their recommendation on evidence from a nurse residency program established in March 2000 by the University HealthSystem Consortium and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

“It is extremely challenging for schools of nursing to prepare new graduates to work in today’s acute care health settings because of the high patient acuity,” said Wiseman.

Benedict Tolbert checks a patient’s IV bag under the watchful eye of Hyun Jun Ju.

Novice nurses have a greater responsibility for care much earlier in

perfect,” Ju said. “I would do the same thing as he did. If there was anything he should have done, then I would tell him now.”

“I listen to him,” Tolbert said. “To certain questions that I notice he asks.

Then, the next time I go and see the patient I tend to remember. Sometimes I ask him why he asked that question, if I didn’t know why he asked it.”

It is clear he has a great deal of respect for Ju, who was asked to become a preceptor because of compliments he had received from patients and co-workers.

The admiration is mutual. “Just by looking at Benedict — how he does a physical assessment, I can see there must have been good preparation [at the School of Nursing],” Ju said.

“I enjoyed nursing school. I enjoyed the preparation. It made me lose a lot of sleep, but it was fun. I loved the challenge,” Tolbert said. And the Nurse Residency Program at Shady Grove? “So far, so good.

So far, I love it. It’s fast-paced. Sometimes, I get so tired at the end of the day, but I look forward to coming back.”

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their careers than did nurses in the past, according to Wiseman.

“The additional support for new graduates that is offered through nurse residency programs will improve job satisfaction, reduce turnover, reinforce critical skills, and build the confidence of new graduates,” said Wiseman. “And, more importantly, a nurse residency program will enhance a new graduate’s ability to provide a higher quality of patient care and ensure patient safety and satisfaction.”

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PARTNERSHIPS

Simulation Learning Through Collaboration Interactive Forum and Mentorship Program Spotlight Simulation Labs

Veronica Amos (right) demonstrates a mask ventilation at the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program.

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he School of Nursing has pioneered many educational advances; one has been simulation learning. In the 1980s, Patricia Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN, former associate dean for academic affairs, used tasktraining manikins in labs before simulation was used in nursing education or practice, according to Amy Daniels, MS ’12, BSN ’89, RN, CHSE, clinical instructor and 18 WINTER 2016

director of the School of Nursing’s clinical simulation laboratories in Baltimore.

“Debra Spunt, DNP ’08, MS ’83, BSN ’79, RN, FAAN, carried on and expanded Morton’s vision to incorporate hi-fidelity simulation for education, assessment, and evaluation.

Her work, in collaboration with other

national simulation pioneers, began the first professional organization for simulation in the nursing profession, the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation in Nursing,” said Daniels.

The School now has 24 simulation labs at its Baltimore location that are accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Accreditation. In addition, there are 10 simulation labs for nursing students at the Universities at Shady Grove. Daniels adds that Georgetown University School of Nursing utilizes the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s human and physical resources in simulation, standardized patients, and skills training experiences for the three-day, oncampus intensives portion of its nurse practitioner online degree program.

“In the learning process, formative simulation is used to provide a safe place to begin linking theoretical knowledge to experiential application, with the benefit of receiving timely feedback guiding performance improvement.

There is strong anecdotal, qualitative, and quantitative data supporting the positive impact of simulation on nursing students’ ability to care for their patients with increased confidence,” Daniels said.

In July, a collaborative partnership between the National League for Nursing’s Center for Innovation in Simulation and Technology and the School of Nursing resulted in the Institute for Simulation Educators, a three-day instructive and interactive forum designed for faculty members beginning work in simulation.

“The National League for Nursing (NLN) believes that partnerships are essential to our mission to promote excellence in nursing education for building a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our national and global communities,” said Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN, chief program officer for the NLN. “Collaboration with the School of Nursing offered the NLN the opportunity to deliver quality faculty development for nurse educators who are enhancing their expertise in simulation. The School’s simulation program is recognized for its national leadership in simulation education.”

Tagliareni said that attendees were exposed to best practices in the pedagogy of simulation. “The small group size contributed to interactive teachinglearning opportunities and to networking connections among faculty members from across the U.S. who share a passion for simulation,” she said.

As a new nurse educator, Shari Tenner, MSN, RN, director of campus learning resources at Wesley College in Dover, Del., said that she attended the Institute for Simulation Educators to add new tools and skills to her teaching methods. “I am always impressed by the information and research that comes out of the School of Nursing, and as a new educator with 36 years of nursing under my belt, attending this forum allowed me to see how the experts conduct simulations,” Tenner said. “While participating in simulation was nerve wracking, this actually reinforced how unnerving it can be to our students.”

In August, the simulation labs were also utilized for the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program held at the School of Nursing. The program began in 2006 to address the lack of diversity — especially in regards to African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans — in the field of nurse anesthesia.

“Our first workshop had 40 attendees, but this year’s was our largest one, with more than 100 attendees,” said Joseph Pellegrini, PhD, CRNA, associate professor and director of the nurse anesthesia specialty at the School of Nursing. “Both low-fidelity and hi-fidelity labs were incorporated into the workshop. Today’s students are the technology generation, so our simulation labs are a way to attract students to our program. In the clinical arena, our graduates are prepared for the first day on the job because of what they learned in the School of Nursing’s simulation labs.”

—Gregory J. Alexander

Joseph Pellegrini explains some basic principles of ultrasoundography and highlights the structures found in the neck, including the inferior vena cava and the brachial plexus nerve bundle, at the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program.

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PARTNERSHIPS

Providing Dental Care for Those In Need Screenings Available for Children and Adults in a Psychiatric Day Program the grants with Shannon Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03, RN, CRNP, associate professor and associate dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the School of Nursing, and David Williams, DDS, MPH, clinical assistant professor at the School of Dentistry.

Fried and Idzik, in conjunction with the Maryland Dental Action Coalition, prepared a survey of oral health education in health care curricula in the state. “The simulations went very well, and the students learned a lot from each other,” Idzik says. “Our hope is to use the data to support the improvement of curricular resources and implementation.”

Shannon Idzik, David Williams, and Jackie Fried

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tudents from the University of Maryland Schools of Nursing and Dentistry have collaborated through simulations and real world experiences to demonstrate the link between oral and systemic health through shared learning. From emergency department clinical scenarios to actual community-based care, nurse practitioner and dental students partnered through the Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE), which was funded by the IPE Center and University grants.

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students worked together on oral health simulations. Within the OHNEP program, students collaborated on scenarios of Emergency Department (ED) cases, says Jackie Fried, RDH, MS, an associate professor at the School of Dentistry.

“Then, the students went to the ED with the faculty, with the hope of seeing a real patient,” she says.

For example, students learned about each other’s professions. Non-oral health students learned how to conduct head and neck examinations, according to Fried.

For the simulated activities, students interviewed ED patients about their health issues in a small interprofessional group.

They then collaborated on a care plan and subsequently met with the patients to review the plan. Fried partnered on

Real World Collaboration During a community-based program, which began in 2014, students joined forces to provide dental screenings to children in areas of Cecil County and adults in an adult psychiatric day program in Anne Arundel County. The partnership focused on oral health prevention services to underserved populations with high rates of oral disease and low levels of oral health literacy.

The program, “Clinical Partnerships for Interprofessional Education of Family Nurse Practitioner and Dental Hygiene Students,” was co-coordinated

by Lisa Bress, RDH, MS, clinical assistant professor at the School of Dentistry and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Hygiene at the School of Dentistry, and Bridgitte Gourley, DNP ’08, CRNP, assistant professor and director, Family Nurse Practitioner specialty, at the School of Nursing.

“The program began because both Lisa and I recognized a huge need for dental services in our clinical practice sites that was not being met,” Gourley says. “We wanted to pilot an interprofessional learning opportunity for our students to see how they would work together and to let them observe special populations with unique health and oral care needs.”

Through the program, Bress and Gourley developed a clinical practica and didactic curriculum for the family nurse practitioner and dental hygiene students.

They worked with the community so children and adults could be treated.

“All of these years, dental care has been separated from medical care,” Bress says. “However, there is a link with oral health to the rest of the body.”

Bress and Gourley were each awarded a $2,000 teaching grant from the University’s Center for Interprofessional Education. Gourley also received an additional $5,000 through the Dean’s Teaching Scholar’s Award. “This allowed us to expand the scope of the project to

include more pediatric screenings, and it threaded more dental and oral health care teaching throughout the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty, in specific courses such as Health Assessment and Health Promotion,” Gourley says.

Within the community, the nurse practitioner and dental hygiene students worked side by side to provide oral health screenings to more than 380 children and 85 adults. They examined for oral lesions and checked overall oral health. They triaged the patients, which included identifying urgent needs (abscess and pain).

The students promoted oral health and taught their patients about routine oral care, including flossing and brushing, Gourley says. “When the patients, adults usually, had chronic health conditions, the students related how oral health affects their other health conditions — like diabetes, for example,” she says.

The children were screened throughout the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters at a variety of elementary schools and Head Start facilities. They varied in ages, up through the fifth grade. From the

Dental Hygiene student Glenda Caceres and nursing student Lindsey Cuddeback conduct an oral health exam on a mannequin head.

screenings, 227 children needed routine care. Of the 227, 111 children required early dental care and 46 required urgent care.

The pediatric patients were linked to providers for follow-up care. “We hope this will provide them with great oral care strategies for their lifetime,” Gourley says.

The program for the adults occurred in July 2014 at the Arundel Lodge, a facility that provides outpatient and inpatient mental health services for adults with chronic mental illness. “Most of the patients have no dental insurance and have few financial resources to pay for care out of pocket,” Gourley says.

The adults varied in age from 20 to 70.

Only 10 of the patients needed routine care, with more than 65 requiring early care, and about eight requiring urgent care. Dentists, who volunteer at the Stanton Center Dental office in Annapolis, treated the patients with urgent dental needs, free of charge.

“At Arundel Lodge most of the patients were excited to have the opportunity to see the students and talk with them,” Gourley says. “Some were nervous about being seen initially, but the students won them over because they were kind and patient and really met the patient at their comfort level.”

Overall, the collaboration opened the eyes of both groups of students.

“The dental hygiene and family nurse practitioner students loved working together and now have a better understanding of each other and the roles they play in the care of patients,” she says.

Both Bress and Gourley have been invited to extend the program and revisit the schools and Arundel Lodge and are currently working on details to return next spring. “We are also working to secure additional funds, based on the data from our original work, to expand our impact,” Gourley says.

—Terri Reuter

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By Jessica Wilson

Tending Hearts and Health on Smith Island Neither rain, nor sleet, nor open water keeps Brenda Windemuth from her patients

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efore boarding a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) boat to take her to Smith Island for a day of tending to patients, Brenda Windemuth, DNP ’11, RN, CRNP, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, chats with one

of the men milling around the boat. He’s recently retired Natural Resources police officer who used to transport her to the island. “It’s good to see you,” Brenda tells him. “Tell your family we say hi. We do miss you.” Brenda’s authenticity and sincere interest in the officer are key characteristics that make her an effective — and beloved — presence on Smith Island.

She is the primary health care provider for the approximately 200 residents of Smith Island, which actually consists of three landmasses — Ewell, Rhodes Point, and Tylerton — off the coast of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

At least once a month, Brenda boards a DNR boat bound for the Island, where she meets with her patients, who have now become “almost like family” to her.

“When I originally started coming here 18 years ago, people didn’t take as much care of their health. Now that I’ve been coming on a regular basis, people have really taken an interest because I’ve taken an interest,” she says. “I’ve encouraged

them to do healthier things that they hadn’t been taught to do before.”

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While Brenda enjoys her relationship with the people of Smith Island, she doesn’t mind the commute, either.

“It is unique. How beautiful is this?” she says, gesturing to the blue sky and the sunlight glinting on the gentle waves. “You can’t beat this.”

After about 40 minutes spent speeding on the water in the bright sunshine, the boat pulls up to Ruke’s dock at 10:50 a.m. Within minutes of stepping off the boat, Brenda heads straight for the Sunday School building, where several people are already waiting in the hallway. They sit patiently and chat as she unlocks a door decorated with a brass nameplate engraved with the word, “Nurse.”

Providing health care in the local Sunday School building next to one of the churches on the Island may seem unique, however, Brenda says this is a place of “small islands with big churches.” When Brenda first began visiting Smith Island to address the health care needs of the population, she had to earn her position in the community. “I had to sit with the church council because they’re basically the government. And I had to meet with them to accept me, and it took them awhile,” she says. “It wasn’t the religion. It was more about being an outsider. They didn’t know who I was.”

Times have changed, though, because throughout the day people express nothing but love and gratitude for her.

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renda begins her day meeting with Leslie Marsh, a young

of you,” Brenda says, holding her hand up for a congratulatory

woman who has lost 22 pounds in the past year, thanks in

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part to a program Brenda developed in her scholarly project

After Leslie leaves, Brenda explains that Leslie and Donnie began

for her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Brenda was in the second

to turn their health around because, “I really jumped on them, and,

graduating class of the DNP program at the School of Nursing. She

actually threw a temper tantrum.” She becomes thoughtful and

conducted research on diet, exercise, and preventive education.

then says, “He even called me after I was here and thanked me.

Residents of Smith Island served as her subjects. Brenda asks if

He said, ‘You had to care to yell at me like you did.’ And I said, ‘Yes,

Leslie and her husband Donnie have been exercising and eating

if you are doing something I know is harmful to you, it’s my job to

healthy together. Leslie answers affirmatively. “You know I’m proud

tell you — whether you want to hear it or not.’”

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renda greets Smith Island resident, Max Cline, with a kiss on the cheek. “I love her to death,” he says. “I see her about every time she comes. I get a blood test and she takes care of all that.”

Throughout the day, different Smith Island residents echo

this sentiment. Elsie Tyler, waiting with her husband outside the exam room, was born on the Island and knows “everybody on all three parts.”

She describes Brenda as “a friend.” She pauses and then says, “You might as well say family.”

Brenda says this rapport helps with her job. When people feel comfortable, they listen to her health care advice. Besides, she says, “I really don’t think of this as work because they’re so much like family. These people are the sweetest, the kindest people you are ever going to meet.”

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e don’t even have Sunday School here anymore because they’re no kids,” Max Cline says. When Brenda first began visiting

Smith Island, she would come once a week. Because the population has fallen so drastically, she now visits monthly.

Janet Tyler is one who stayed, although her twentysomething daughter has left. “I don’t know what we would do without Brenda. She come to save everyone’s life because our community is aging,” she says. “I would say probably 80 percent is 55 and above. So a lot of them are in their 80s and 70s and it’s hard for them to get on the boat and go to the mainland, especially if they have any kind of difficulties.”

In order to get on or off the Island for anything but an emergency — which is when the helicopter comes — everyone must take a boat. The boat costs money, both ways, and when Smith Islanders get to the mainland, they either need to arrange for rides or take cabs, which also costs money.

For people with mobility challenges, these are more than minor annoyances.

“She makes it easy on the Island by coming here,” Darlene Harrison says. “You don’t have to go off for every little thing — unless it’s something that she can’t tend to. Then, she’ll tell them to go.” And Brenda has to be firm when she tells people it’s time to visit the mainland because, Janet Tyler explains, “Over here you have to be [firm]. They’re kind of stubborn people. So you have to say, ‘Look, you’ve got to go. It’s not going to get better.’”

Through Brenda’s work, the people who have chosen to remain on the Island have access to high quality, convenient and regular health care with an emphasis on preventive care. This contributes to keeping people where they want to be — at home on Smith Island. People like Elsie Tyler, who says, “I love

I call this place ‘Next to Heaven.’ ”

it here. This is my hometown.

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DISCOVERY

Helping Those with Dementia Galik Focused on Improving Lives

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atients with dementia in nursing homes often battle a variety of issues as they struggle with life.

But Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, RN, CRNP, FAANP, associate professor, and her research team have just completed the second year of a five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging that’s studying how these patients can be helped and even taught to do things — however small — that can improve their lives.

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The grant is allowing Galik and her team to conduct studies at 12 nursing homes in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area during this time period. They’ve already done work with six nursing homes and began with the seventh in September.

Their goals focus on two areas. First, they’re trying to optimize physical activity and patients’ involvement in functional activities, doing things like having patients help brush their own hair

or even feed themselves. “If you can get them to do things, they tend to do better,” Galik said.

Second, the study aims to aid patients in moving around more.

Galik said that in long-term care facilities, patients can become restless, and caregivers are worried about people falling. So her team will be helping patients do simple tasks like standing up, stretching, and/or taking

Galik and her team want to engage the mind and the body. It’s just something that will help those fighting dementia to do more in life and possibly enjoy it a bit more.

Beth Galik gets a patient involved in exercise using hand weights, and right, encourages a patient to comb her own hair to maintain functional abilities.

utensils was proving to be a daunting task for him at times, so they decided to give him chopsticks and a teacup to use — tapping into his older memory — and that proved successful.

The team also has accomplished similar goals with music and dance.

Galik noted that patients battling dementia seem to recognize music and songs more than they’ll understand some speech, and her team has worked with that also.

Galik said they also did a pilot study with four facilities prior to working on this larger grant. They used their findings as preliminary data and discovered they were able to improve functions of people in the treatment group. There was increased time spent doing physical activity and a decrease in falls for those in the function-focus group.

In addition, they found during the pilot work that patients seemed much less resistant to care. The pushing away and turning from caregivers decreased, which would help patients in several ways.

Galik is leading a team of about 15 people in this work. Her coinvestigators are Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor and Sonia Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and Shijun Zhu, PhD, assistant professor, from the School of Nursing, and Ann Gruber-Baldini, PhD, professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Galik said what they anticipate finding — when it’s all done — is that people who engage in this type of care will experience less decline in their function, more opportunities for physical activity, and less resistance to care.

They’re also looking at the impact on falls to see whether patients who do more physical activity have a tendency to fall less. The bottom line is they want to engage the mind and the body. It’s just something that will help those fighting dementia to do more in life and possibly enjoy it a bit more. “We’re not trying to extend life,” Galik said. “We’re trying to maximize somebody’s quality of life.”

—Jeff Seidel

a short walk — before going back to sitting down.

“What this approach really does, it’s really a philosophy of care that people with dementia, even people who are very severely impaired, can still be engaged in something,” Galik said. “That something may be different, depending upon where they are in the disease process . . . but they can still do something, and to use that involvement in physical activity and functional activities can help.”

Different patients can be reached in different ways. Galik gave an example of how they were working with a Chinese man who had been losing weight. Using UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 27

HEALTHY DIALOGUE

Promoting a Healthier Lifestyle Brotemarkle Supports Importance of Good Nutrition and Exercise

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ebecca Brotemarkle, PhD ’13, RN, CCM, ACRN, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, knows plenty about the importance of good nutrition and exercise. Brotemarkle became interested in a healthier lifestyle because she wanted to help herself and others. To learn more, she conducted a Facebook exercise and worked with nutrition groups. Brotemarkle is also a Beachbody LLC coach and participated in a research study at the School of Nursing on exercise and nutrition in HIV patients. She recently took the time to answer some questions about her experiences.

Q: How do nutrition and exercise complement each other?

Rebecca Brotemarkle

Q: When and how did you become interested in fitness and nutrition?

Q: What are some good tips for eating right?

BROTEMARKLE: I think my interest in

BROTEMARKLE: The biggest tip for eating right is that people have to find what works for them. There is no one solution for all people. So here are some more specific tips: Do not overly deprive yourself because that sets you up for a binge. Eat a wide variety of foods to make sure you get all necessary nutrients. Eat whole foods that you can find around the perimeter of the grocery store — avoid the processed foods in the center of the grocery store.

Eat a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day — more is better. Eat smaller portions — it helps to use smaller plates. Remember the phrase “Everything in moderation.” Eat adequate protein each day — about one gram for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight. Eat enough fiber — somewhere between 21-38 grams a day.

Limit sugar, salt, artificial sweeteners, fried food.

nutrition started when I was 8 or 9 years old. My father was a research biochemist who was working on a project in Peru to help bring malnourished babies back to health. I remember being amazed when I would visit my dad at work and see the babies looking like little skeletons with big bellies and then several months later looking like they were the healthiest babies in the world. It was then that I began to believe that proper nutrition can lead to optimal health. The interest in fitness came a little later when I was in the 6th grade and was laid up with a knee problem. After a couple of months of lying around, I was surprised at how weak I had become and how long it took to get back to my “usual” self. I also tended to be overweight, even as a kid, and tried very hard to stay active playing sports to try to help control the weight.

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BROTEMARKLE: Nutrition provides the building blocks of your body and the energy to perform activities.

So, without adequate nutrition and calories, it would be difficult to perform even the simple activity of walking, without becoming fatigued.

On the other hand, if someone consumes too many calories, exercise helps burn some of the excess calories.

But remember, it takes quite a few minutes of exercise to burn off calories — for one chocolate chip cookie it takes about 26 minutes of intense weightlifting, 16 minutes of cycling at 14-16 mph, or 12 minutes of running at 8 mph. So, there needs to be a balance of calories consumed to calories burned in order to maintain a healthy weight.

Q: How important is nutrition before and after exercising for a busy professional looking to get leaner?

BROTEMARKLE: There are quite a few tips you might hear about, but the best one is that nutrition before a workout (not too close to the workout) should be a light meal that is low in fat, has a moderate amount of lean protein and complex carbohydrates, is low in fiber, and contains plenty of fluids.

Post workout nutrition should contain some protein (about 10–20 grams) to help your muscles recover and minimally processed carbohydrates to restore glycogen. And, of course, plenty of fluids during a workout should be the rule. If weight is an issue, calories should be limited.

Q: What are some good tips for effective time management when it comes to exercise?

Q: What are some of the challenges for HIV patients to eat a healthy diet?

BROTEMARKLE: The best answer is to do what works for the individual.

Many people like to exercise first thing in the morning before life gets in the way. For others, exercising right after work helps them unwind from the day’s stresses and get in the exercise before they go home and relax. Then there are people like me, who do not fully wake up until noon, and exercising in the morning is almost impossible because of morning stiffness. So for me, working out later in the evening seems to work.

To be consistent with exercise it needs to become a habit, like brushing teeth.

Or, schedule it on the calendar like an appointment that must be kept.

BROTEMARKLE: HIV positive patients have the same challenges as everyone else — they have problems with motivation and finding time to exercise and cook healthy meals.

Special challenges often occur for those whose disease is a little further progressed, as they often suffer from various symptoms that may interfere with the ability to eat and exercise.

Nausea, abdominal pain, and bloating can happen to those with HIV infection, which can affect the desire to eat as well as the physical ability to eat. One of the more common symptoms is fatigue, which can affect both the initiation of exercise and the ability to sustain exercise for any length of time. Any time the challenges to eat healthy and exercise outweigh the motivation and ability to exercise, then lifestyle changes will not occur.

Q: What have been the positive impacts of exercise and nutrition in HIV patients in your research?

BROTEMARKLE: Fortunately, now that we have antiretroviral medications and HIV has become a chronic disease for many people who are HIV positive, they experience the same benefits as everyone else when they eat right and exercise: increased energy, increased strength, and generally overall improved health.

However, sometimes the antiretrovirals have side effects, such as lipodystrophy (a redistribution of body fat and an increase in blood lipids), nausea, and diarrhea.

We have seen that lipodystrophy can be improved through a low fat diet and regular exercise. It is also important to take care of side effects such as nausea and diarrhea to encourage adequate nutrition. Depression is another common symptom experienced by people who are HIV positive, and regular exercise has been shown to decrease depression almost to the extent of taking antidepressants.

Q: How effective is social media with promoting a healthy lifestyle?

BROTEMARKLE: Social media can be an option for people who need support from others in their journey to wellness.

There are various websites that offer online tools (a food and exercise log), information (recipes, videos,

general health information), and social interaction (discussion boards, groups).

Some examples of these websites are Sparkpeople.com and MyFitnessPal, which also have phone apps. In addition, there are various groups on Facebook that someone can join based on their interests and needs — an example is Curvy Yoga Community where those folks who are challenged with doing yoga because of excess weight can find tips on how to modify poses and get support from others like them. There are also Facebook groups that issue challenges every month — one of my favorites is a plank challenge where you start out holding a plank for 20 seconds and in 30 days work up to holding it for five minutes. Other Facebook groups are led by coaches who provide nutrition and exercise information and can motivate you to stay on track.

Q: Are people more receptive to improving their eating habits and exercising more when they are part of a social media group?

BROTEMARKLE: It depends on the person and if social media is part of a person’s life. There are some people who do not have a Facebook account or who are too shy/busy/not tech savvy to engage in social media. For those who enjoy interacting through social media, the tools available are numerous and varied enough that people can find a group that fits their needs.

—Todd Karpovich

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PHILANTHROPY

A Year to Remember

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s we usher in a new year, it seems appropriate to look back at and celebrate the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s highlights of 2015.

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10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education

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125th anniversary and gala honoring 25 Visionary Pioneers

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Rise to #6 in the nation in U.S. News and World Report rankings, with eight specialties ranked in the top 10

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Historic $5.24 million gift from William and Joanne Conway, the largest in the School of Nursing’s history

The Conways made this transformational gift through their Bedford Falls Foundation, named for the fictional town in the classic film, It’s A Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart played the leading role of George Bailey, a man of simple, steadfast integrity, who sacrificed his own dreams of traveling the

Honor Roll of Donors $1,000,000 and up The Bedford Falls Foundation Charitable Trust

Francis D. Drake and Carol Drake, BSN ’68 Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

W. Winslow Schrank and Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68†

Beverly B. Seeley* University of Maryland Medical System

Sincerely,

Laurette Hankins Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations

July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015

Maryland Healthcare Education Institute

$500,000 to $999,999

globe to ensure that his hometown of Bedford Falls would remain a place where neighbors helped each other and could afford to live with dignity. As a huge fan of this wonderful movie, I cannot help but think that Clarence (the somewhat bedraggled angel), would be grinning from ear to ear, upon learning that the Conways’ gift will provide full tuition for 157 nursing students. It is extraordinary to ponder the impact that this gift will have for decades to come.

While not all gifts are historic in proportion, each one contributes to the School’s continued success and excellence.

Therefore, we are pleased to formally recognize all donors who made contributions to the School during fiscal year ’15 — gifts and pledges made from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.

On behalf of UMSON’s students, faculty, and staff, I extend heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for your thoughtful support.

William F. and Caroline Hilgenberg Foundation

Emily P. Deitrick, BSN ’68

Frank E. & Miriam Loveman Foundation, Inc.

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71† National Council on State Boards of Nursing

$25,000 to $49,999 Clarence Q. Bunderman and the Estate of E. L. Bunderman, DIN ’31 Douglas K. Loizeaux

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mildred E. Madsen, BSN ’73 Courtney A. Thomas, BSN ’66 United Healthcare, Inc.

$50,000 to $99,999

$10,000 to $24,999

John Bing Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65†

Gerontology Society of America

Barbara Sandler Friedman and

M & T Bank

Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93

Charles K. Friedman Wallace J. Hoff Jane M. Kirschling

Frank Newhouse and Robin Purdy Newhouse, PhD ’00, MS ’99, BSN ’87

Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93

John Niemyer and Elizabeth S. Niemyer, BSN ’78

R. John Repique, MS ’99

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

Joyce A. Parks, DNP ’14, MS ’93

Caleb A. Rogovin, MS ’92† Virginia K. Saba

Howard L. Sollins and Barbara M. Resnick, PhD ’96 Sandra A. Schoenfisch, MS ’76†

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Janet D. Allan and Beverly Hall

Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71

American Heart Association

Commonweal Foundation, Inc.

Joyce Willens, PhD ’94

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Marjorie A. Bergemann

Rob Walker Freer and Kathryn Patchen Freer, BSN ’74†

MedStar Health, Inc.

$100,000 to $249,999

$5,000 to $9,999

Fairfield Community Foundation, Inc.

Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving

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

$2,500 to $4,999 Adventist HealthCare Arnold P. Gold Foundation Mary Catherine Bunting, MS ’72 CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Charles R. Clark and Kathleen A. Clark, BSN ’73 Teresa L. DeCaro, MS ’91 Virginia Lee Franklin Memorial Trust† Gilchrist Hospice Care Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81† Johns Hopkins Health System Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70 Mary C. Kelly and Joseph H. Kelly, MS ’85, BSN ’77 Laerdal Medical Corporation Kathryn L. Montgomery, PhD ’97 Barbara J. Parker, PhD ’86, MS ’76 Sigma Theta Tau Int’l., Pi Chapter Sinai Hospital UnitedHealthcare Military & Veterans Services, LLC University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc.

$1,000 to $2,499 Anne Arundel Medical Center Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74† Baltimore Washington Medical Center Shawn C. Becker, MS ’05, BSN ’93 Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69 Christopher F. Callaghan Chesapeake Nurse Attorneys, Inc. Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79† Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Dorrie K. Fontaine, MS ’77 Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association Warrene J. Goldman, BSN ’66 Michelle Gonzalez Sonya G. Goodman, MS ’79, BSN ’73† Grace United Methodist Church Renee Greene Judah S. Gudelsky Dinah L. Halopka-Ryson, BSN ’74 Pamela V. Hammond, MS ’79 Laurette L. Hankins HSC Pediatric Center Inova Health System

Teffeau Paying It Forward for Students In Need

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hen Shirley Teffeau graduated from the School of Nursing in 1955, she wasn’t quite sure how best to utilize a diploma that provided plenty of options. “You could do anything with it,” she recalled. “At any time, you could get a job wherever you wanted — whatever fit in with your own life.”

Over the next 50 years, Teffeau taught the trade and worked at hospitals, doctors’ offices, and even at the Maryland Department of Corrections. She loved every minute of it. “It was a good experience all the way around,” Teffeau said.

At every stop, Teffeau provided medical care and sound advice to her students and patients. Though she retired more than 10 years ago, Teffeau is still very much a giving person.

Each year, she makes a gift to the School of Nursing to fund a scholarship for an undergraduate student. Teffeau can only hope each of those prospective nurses derive as much enjoyment and fulfillment from the School as she did. Back then, Teffeau recalls, the School was just “getting the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program going.”

Teffeau is also including the School in her will to support future School of Nursing students. “I’m not financially rich by any means,” she said, “but a planned gift is one way I can give back to my school and leave a lasting legacy. I feel like there might be some students who need some help to get through.”

Beyond the education she received, Teffeau savored the life lessons that came from working as an undergrad at the

University of Maryland Hospital. She valued the diverse courses.

“Our school was great because we were exposed to so many different kinds of nursing,” she said. “But also, the experiences at the hospital enriched my life. Most kids are protected at that age.

It certainly enlightened my brain as to what was going on in the world, how other people lived, and how to cope with it.

It made me grow up, quite frankly.”

Teffeau toyed with the idea of being a nurse while growing up. Then, one day in high school, she heard an announcement on the loud speaker that would set the course of her vocational life.

“They said over the intercom, ‘Anyone interested in nursing, head for the auditorium,’” Teffeau explained. “So I went, and there was this lovely lady in a white nurse’s uniform with a beautiful cap on her head, and I knew right then that this is what I wanted.”

The education she received at the School of Nursing provided Teffeau with a fulfilling career that spanned more than five decades, and she wants to be sure she shows her appreciation.

Her annual scholarship donation helps current School of Nursing students, and her planned gift will provide assistance to students for generations to come.

“I do it because I’d like to pay back to my school what they did for me,” she said. “Going there was the most important decision I ever made.”

—David Ginsburg

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors

Legacy Society

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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.

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 the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society.

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:

>>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. >>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: Laurette L. Hankins Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations University of Maryland School of Nursing 410-706-7640 hankins@son.umaryland.edu 32 WINTER 2015 2016

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

Institute for Jewish Continuity

Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91†

Mary E. Johantgen

Teckla Chude, MS ’13

Jo Anne E. King, MS ’03, BSN ’80

Sharon J. Comfort

William S. Kiser and Eugenia Kiser, DIN ’47

Darlene J. Curley, MS ’82, BSN ’80

Mildred S. Kreider, MS ’68†

Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79

John M. Loizeaux

Dickey Memorial Presbyterian Church

Mia Loizeaux*

Karen E. Doyle, MS ’91, BSN ’85

Ann B. Mech, MS ’78, BSN ’76

Sharon L. Dudley-Brown, PhD ’95

Mercy Health Services

Jane F. Ezimorah, MS ’06, BSN ’98

Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Mary C. Feliciano, MS ’79, BSN ’75

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

Bradley T. Foote and Barbara Foote Melisa A. Gantt, BSN ’93

Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03

Lawrence Goldstein and Rosa R. Goldstein, BSN ’58

Michael W. Noble and Rosemary Noble, BSN ’66

W. Conrad Gordon, MS ’02, BSN ’96

Daniel J. O’Neal, III, BSN ’66 Orion Health Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77 Lesley A. Perry† Danielle M. Raymond and Gregory D. Raymond, MS ’10, BSN ’05 William G. Smillie and Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92 Lisa Rowen, MS ’86 Rosetta F. Sands, MS ’70, BSN ’66 Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68† Thomas M. Scalea Phyllis W. Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70† Martha J. Shively, BSN ’72 Alan J. Silverstone and Kylanne Green Silverstone

Patricia A. Grady, MS ’68 Elizabeth S. Greenhouse Suzanne M. Grieve Brauer, MS ’74 Dorna P. Hairston, PhD ’05, MS ’88 Ann B. Hamric, PhD ’96 Winifred S. Hayes, MS ’74, BSN ’71† Barbara R. Heller Duncan Hodge Martha S. Klima Ruth J. Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’04 Shirley J. Lentz, BSN ’56 Wendy L. Lessler, BSN ’93 Karen M. Mack, MS ’01, BSN ’83 Mary Lee S. Matthews, BSN ’50 Victoria C. McAndrews Sandra W. McLeskey

William C. Stratton

Margaret K. Miles, BSN ’70

Billie S. Strecker

Betty Jane Mincemoyer, DIN ’48†

Sandra J. Sundeen, MS ’68† T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Denis C. Mitchell and Kathleen P. Mitchell, MS ’02

Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55†

Charlotte E. Naschinski, MS ’82

Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80 †

Samson A. Omotosho, PhD ’98

United Way of Central Maryland, Inc.

Thomas P. O’Neill

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Marla T. Oros, BSN ’84

Sandra B. Warner, BSN ’60

Gale S. Pollock, BSN ’76

Susan Dorsey Wilson, BSN ’66

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

$500 to $999

Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

Nellie C. Bailey, MS ’93 Kathleen M. Barlow, PhD ’13, MS ’92, BSN ’81 Ruth P. Beauchamp, BSN ’57 Patricia K. Beneshan, BSN ’66 Marita S. Bowden, BSN ’66 Bruce R. Brookens and Ann Riutort Brookens, BSN ’66

Margaret A. Pedersen, BSN ’74

Judy A. Reitz, MSN ’76, BSN ’71 Maureen A. Robinson Michael A. Romano Harold W. Smith, MS ’77, BSN ’72† Jeanine Soliman, MS ’09 Sue Song Maxine L. Stitzer

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

The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society ety In gratitude to our members Katherine J. Reiche, BSN ’64

Estate of Robert Ageton

Estate of Ann Madison, BSN ’62

Miriam G. Rothchild, MS ’60†

Janet D. Allan

Mildred Madsen, BSN ’73

Anonymous

Myrna Mamaril, MS ’93

Joan I. Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88

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

Floraine B. Applefeld

Estate of Lois Marriott

Wells Fargo Foundation

Cynthia C. Sikorski

Estate of Carolyn V. Arnold

Joan Martellotto, BSN ’66

Jo Gail Wenzel, BSN ’67

Anita Throwe, MS ’68 Kathleen T. Villemi, BSN ’85

Estate of Zabelle S. Howard Beard

Beverly Meadows, MS ’84, BSN ’69

Susan M. Wilby, BSN ’73

Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96

Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Adele Wilzack, MS ’66

Ann Bennett, MS ’69

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71

Rebecca F. Wiseman, PhD ’93

Marjorie Stamler Bergemann

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Lauri J. Woroniecki, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Jean L. Bloom, DIN ’46

James W. Wright and Cynthia K. Wright, MS ’98

Estate of Mary J. Brewer

Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79

Estate of E. L. Bunderman, DIN ’31

Lyn Murphy, MS ’01 and John Murphy

$100 to $249

Ann Ottney Cain

Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73

Marla J. De Jong, MS ’96

Cecilia B. Abbott, BSN ’67

Estate of Dorothy C. Calafiore, BSN ’51

Daniel O’Neal, BSN ’66

Emilie M. Deady, BSN ’72

Teresa Acquaviva, BSN ’78

Shirley E. Callahan, DIN ’52

Harriet Palmer-Willis, BSN ’68

Linda K. Diaconis, MS ’95, BSN ’92

Patricia D. Adams

Avon B. Chisholm

Charlene Passmore, BSN ’77

Jan M. Disantostefano, MS ’93

Beatrice V. Adderley-Kelly, MS ’71 Dave A. Adeleye, BSN ’10

Estate of Gladys B. and Lansdale G. Clagett

Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93

Ellen P. Doctor, BSN ’59 Michael B. Dowdy

Hope D. Adkins, BSN ’11

Nancy Eason, BSN ’75 Shirley B. Edwards, MSN ’80, BSN ’78†

University of Maryland Physicians, P.A. Robin Varker, BSN ’75†

Patricia C. Woltz, PhD ’14, MS ’06

$250 to $499 Erwin S. Atillo, MS ’08 Anna C. Alt-White, PhD ’87 Bill Becker Jeffrey S. Cain Lynne M. Connelly, MS ’78, BSN ’76 Suzanne S. Davis, MS ’12

Mary K. Fey, PhD ’14, MS ’01 Evelyn E. Fowler, DIN ’43 Kathryn A. Gibson, MS ’67 Patricia Golembieski, BSN ’71 Judith M. Grebla, BSN ’73 Claire P. Greenhouse, BSN ’66† Evelyn Heckman, BSN ’56 Theresa T. Hommel, BSN ’63 Leigh Schuyler Houck Sandra Jensen, MS ’70† Helen B. Johnson, MS ’95, BSN ’75 Jane F. Kapustin, MS ’85†

Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92

Oluwaseun M. Aladeseyi, BSN ’10 Marlon J. Alafriz, BSN ’78

Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72

Estate of Amelia Carol Sanders, DIN ’53

Renee D. Alford, MS ’09

Stephen Cohen

Heidi Allen

Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79

Michael W. Allison and Susan Allison

Estate of Mary Jane Custer

Estate of William Donald Schaefer

Nneka U. Amadiume, BSN ’08

Carol Distasio, MS ’73

Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50

Anju Aniyan, MS ’13

Celeste A. Dye, BSN ’66

Fatmata Bah, BSN ’04

Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79

Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68 and W. Winslow Schrank

Betsy A. Bampton, MS ’65

Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68

Karen E. Barb, MS ’92, BSN ’88

Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77

Curtis S. Basso, BSN ’95

Mary H. Gilley, DIN ’44

Barbara Baumann, DIN ’50†

Debbie Gilbert Glassman, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Janet M. Beebe, MS ’99 Joan R. Benfield, MS ’92, BSN ’89 Susannah Benjamin, BSN ’70

Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78 and Louis Shpritz Estate of Betty Lou Shubkagel, BSN ’54 Estate of Anna Mae Slacum

Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Barbara Heller-Walsh

Jacquelyn Jones Stone, MS ’71

Margaret F. Bevans, PhD ’05, MS ’94

Estate of Marie L. Hesselbach

Ginger V. Swisher, DIN ’49

Teresa J. Billet, BSN ’85

Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90

Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55

Roberta S. Billman, BSN ’74

Estate of Kjerstine K. Hoffman, DIN ’47

Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, BSN ’66

Margaret H. Iles, DIN ’53

Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55

Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61

Estate of Norma C. Tinker, BSN ’48

Karen S. Kauffman Lou Ann Race Kellner, BSN ’78 Jeanne B. Krause, BSN ’68

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

Estate of Beverly Seeley

Andrea C. Berndt, MS ’89

Pamela S. Kasemeyer

Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77

Sandra Schoenfisch, MS ’76

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

Eva K. Berkow, BSN ’59†

Gwendolyn M. Kurtz, MS ’76

Judah Gudelsky

Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68

Sharon Hanopole, BSN ’66

Sally A. Kareider, MS ’88

Dorothy R. Kuhn, DIN ’46†

Estate of Margaret Robinson

Estate of Bonnie L. Closson, BSN ’61

Angela A. Billups, MS ’08 M. Jane T. Birnn, BSN ’69 Derryl E. Block, BSN ’75 Janet E. Bochinski, BSN ’75

Estate of Mary McCotter Jackson

Nancy J. Madej

Barbara K. Boland, MS ’73

Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70

Estate of Martha C. Trate, BSN ’48

Anne E. McArdle, BSN ’74†

Susan Bosworth

Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48

Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80

Marik A. Moen

Zoe M. Bouchelle, BSN ’71 Deborah L. Bowers, BSN ’78

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

Joella D. Warner, BSN ’64

Promise Olomo Laura J. Owenson

Megan D Bowlding, MS ’11

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73

Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Robin E. Remsburg, PhD ’94

Kathleen K. Boyd, BSN ’89

Estate of Wealtha McGunn

Estate of Patricia Yow

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Vicki L. Gillmore, PhD ’90, MS ’77, BSN ’76†

Elizabeth G. Joyal, BSN ’84

Georgia Boyer, BSN ’61†

Thomas F. Crusse, MS ’11

Margaret A. Bradford, MS ’76, BSN ’74†

Deborah N. Dang, PhD ’06, MS ’78, BSN ’72

Anne Bratt-Elliott, BSN ’73

Leslie W. Daugherty, BSN ’75

Antoinette M. Gonzalez, BSN ’55

Mary M. Breach, MS ’72

Charlotte E. Davies, MS ’68

Beverly C. Gordy, BSN ’57

Janis O. Brown, BSN ’66

Janice E. Davis, MS ’02, BSN ’88

Traci L. Gore, MS ’11

Bonnie E. Keene, BSN ’71†

Sally D. Brown, BSN ’74

Linda L. Davis, PhD ’84

Mary J. Graham, MS ’80†

Delores G. Keene, BSN ’74

Carola Bruflat, BSN ’68

Vonetta A. Davis, MS ’12

Leslie Greenwald

Abidogun B. Kehinde, BSN ’99

Paul L. Brunson, BSN ’88

Helen G. Dearborn, BSN ’61

Patricia M. Griffith, MS ’85

Linda M. Keldsen, MS ’14

Susan H. Brunssen, BSN ’71

Jill A. DeCesare, BSN ’69

Leigh A. Grill, BSN ’86

Elizabeth D. Keller, MS ’82

Barbara J. Bungard, MS ’11

Phoebe Gene B. Delos Reyes, BSN ’14

Margaretta C. Grimm, MS ’86, BSN ’81

Carol A. Kelley, BSN ’78

Concetta R. Lamonica Groves, BSN ’75

Rosalind R. Kendellen, BSN ’68

Lijun Guan, BSN ’05

Gail G. Kestler, BSN ’71†

Anne Owings Hacker, BSN ’57

Katherine A. Kingsford, BSN ’75

Bonnie M. Hagerty, MS ’77†

Carolyn C. Knight, BSN ’70

Rita M. Haley, BSN ’79

Margaret L. Koehler, MS ’93, BSN ’81

Tina Hall, MS ’14

Rita M. Koenig, BSN ’95 Shirlee Koons, BSN ’61

James Perry and Lisette K. Bunting-Perry, BSN ’83

Amanda H. D’Erasmo, BSN ’95

Helen E. Gilmer, BSN ’68†

Maria C. Jurlano, MS ’12 Donna L. Kahn, MS ’89 Sherri Legum Kassimir, BSN ’85 Joyce L. Kee, BSN ’54†

Ann C. Burgess, MS ’59

Wondaye T. Deressa, MS ’04

Colleen M. Burke, BSN ’77

Amy Deutschendorf, BSN ’77

Rose M. Burke, BSN ’74

Marsha H. DeWeese, MS ’93

Louise C. Burns, MS ’96, BSN ’94

Dorothy K. Dicarlo, DIN ’49

Pamela J. Burns, BSN ’69

Janice M. DiGrazia, BSN ’81

Mary Wolf Byrnes, BSN ’77

Marcia K. Donald

Margaret B. Hammersla, MS ’05, BSN ’95

Kathryn A. Cadwell, MS ’93, BSN ’75 †

Margaret A. Dooling, MS ’80

Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Patricia L. Dorio, BSN ’95

Ruth M. Harris, MS ’81, BSN ’79†

Donna M. Dorsey, MS ’75†

John W. Havens

C. Barbara A. Dralnick, MS ’72

Patricia R. Hawthorne

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

Patricia A. Dumler, BSN ’83

Phyllis B. Heffron, BSN ’74†

Elizabeth C. Krauss, MS ’08, BSN ’02

Pamela Dunn-Obriecht, BSN ’81

Rita C. Hendershot, BSN ’69

John L. Kreiner

Bernadette R. Durkin, MS ’88, BSN ’84

Margaret V. Herbert, BSN ’50†

Elizabeth A. Krug, MS ’10

Marcia M. Dyer, BSN ’73

Donna C. Herndon, BSN ’69

R. Kathleen Kruse, BSN ’85

Nancy L. Eaton, MS ’93, BSN ’75

Sarah P. Herring, BSN ’79

Gaby Kuperman, BSN ’72

Lawrence J. Eberlin, BSN ’73

Hurst Hessey

Kathleen Spicer Ecklund, BSN ’77

Carole Ann Hill, MS ’81, BSN ’71

Howard K. Kurman and Roslyn Kurman, BSN ’73

Kathleen F. Edwards, BSN ’67

Ellen M. Hilsheimer, MS ’73†

Leslie C. Eleghasim, BSN ’99

Janice J. Hoffman, PhD ’06

Imogene S. Fagley-Combs, BSN ’69†

Eileen B. Hollander, MS ’89, BSN ’83

Julie M. Falk, BSN ’85

Kristine R. Holmes, BSN ’74

Janet Farinholt, BSN ’61

Patricia A. Hong, BSN ’72

Donna M. Feickert-Eichna, BSN ’73

Ruth J. Honnas, BSN ’74†

Marylouise K. Felhofer, MS ’91

Judith L. Horensky, MS ’78

Karen A. Flanagan, MS ’13

Ann C. Hubbard, DIN ’47†

Judith G. Flemmens, BSN ’67 Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68†

Michael F. Huebner and Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90

Patricia R. Liehr, PhD ’87

Lilymae Fountain, BSN ’91

Timothy J. Hynes, III

Gloria Lighthizer

Jessica L. Fouse, BSN ’11

Shannon K. Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03

Sharon C. Lindeman, BSN ’75

Margaret A. Franckhauser, MS ’82

Pamela Isip, BSN ’12

Katherine N. Linden, BSN ’77

Edward G. Frank and Adalyn G. Frank, MS ’95, BSN ’93

Brenda S. Jackson, MS ’77

Alyce K. Lazarevich, BSN ’75

Priscilla M. Coomson, MS ’11

Teri L. Jackson, BSN ’80

Gilda Litrenta, DIN ’49

Linda K. Cook, PhD ’05, MS ’97

Karen M. Frank, MS ’97, BSN ’85

Nancy Lougheed, BSN ’61

Karen A. Cook-Henderson, BSN ’72

Erika Friedmann

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

Doris J. Cooper, BSN ’62

Elizabeth M. Galik, PhD ’07

Ada K. Jacox

Joan C. Lynn, BSN ’88

Maura P. Cornell, BSN ’80

Sharon L. Gallaher, BSN ’11

Carolee T. Jakes, BSN ’83

Nancy P. Mack, BSN ’08

Ruth M. Craig, MS ’73

Tonii A. Gedin, DNP ’14, MS ’11

Susan L. Jalbert, MS ’91

Connie Mackowiak, BSN ’69

P. Dale Every Creighton, BSN ’58

Austin George

Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, BSN ’80

Delores L. Maddox, BSN ’80

Mary Fran W. Crimone, MS ’77

Robin L. Getzendanner, BSN ’91

William Jordan, BSN ’81

Ann S. Madison, BSN ’62*

Miriam L. Cahill-Yeaton, MS ’89 Ann M. Cain† April A. Campbell, BSN ’91 S. Jennifer Campbell, BSN ’73 Carol W. Capozzoli, BSN ’67† Kathryn D. Capozzoli, MS ’80 Barbara A. Cardinale, BSN ’78 Mildred M. Carpenter, BSN ’69 Shirley A. Carpenter, BSN ’74† Elizabeth L. Carter, BSN ’78 Karen Chan-Zuckerman, MS ’93 Kathleen G. Charters, PhD ’98 Lynn Chen Nora C. Cincotta, MS ’97 Annie M. Clavon, MS ’83, BSN ’79 Betty J. Clifford, MS ’79 Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72† Thomas R. Coe, MS ’94 Allison Kay Coles-Johnson, BSN ’83 Frona S. Colker, MS ’74 Clarice E. Comissiong, MS ’75 Barbara L. Conrad, BSN ’73 Stacey Conrad

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Miata Koroma, BSN ’11 Mary Koutrelakos, BSN ’55† Susan Kraeuter, BSN ’79

Beverly J. La Madrid, MS ’10 Georgie Conoly Labadie, MS ’66 Diane T. Langford, BSN ’75† Alyce K. Lazarevich, BSN ’75 Gail Schoen Lemaire, PhD ’96 Victoria R. Lentz, MS ’81, BSN ’76† Nancy B. Lerner, DNP ’10, BSN ’66 Susan Seiler Lerner, BSN ’62 Maye L. Liebeck, MS ’66

Kathleen T. Lucke, PhD ’96

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

Working Together to Help Future Nurses Rita Malek, DIN ’49 Sandra B. Malone, PhD ’98 Patsy L. Maloney, BSN ’74 Kaitlin M. Marchi, BSN ’12 Jo Ellen Marek, BSN ’64 Wendy P. Margolis, BSN ’76 Kathleen S. Markovs, MS ’02 Susan D. Markus, MS ’06, BSN ’74 Sarah R. Masek, BSN ’11 Kristina M. Massey, MS ’11 Katherine J. Matteson, BSN ’86 Gloria J. Mayfield, MS ’72 Gail O. Mazzocco, MS ’74† Clayton S. McCarl, Jr. and Lisa S. McCarl, MS ’84, BSN ’81 Lois R. McDonald, MS ’88, BSN ’79 Pat McLaine William J. McLennan Margaret M. McNeill, PhD ’07, MS ’93 Robert V. McQuillan, III and Karen A. McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81 Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69† Bisrat Mesfin, MS ’14 Barbara E. Miller, MS ’63 Gayle Miller, BSN ’66 Judith R. Miller, BSN ’66 Priscilla O. Mills, BSN ’69 Cathy Mitchell, BSN ’81 Lisa M. Mitchell, MS ’14, BSN ’09 Rachel A. Mochan, MS ’11 Vannesia D. Morgan-Smith, BSN ’80 Glenda B. Motta, BSN ’71 Sondra M. Mroz, BSN ’66 Kathleen T. Murphy, BSN ’87 Marilyn S. Murphy, MS ’01 Linda A. Murray, MS ’84 Marina V. Needham, MS ’06, BSN ’98 Dortha E. Neil, BSN ’94 Carl Noble Mary L. Nowland, BSN ’55 Maidana K. Nunn, BSN ’63 Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi and Sarpomaa S. Nyantakyi, BSN ’97 Debra P. Oelberg, BSN ’78 Yolanda A. Ogbolu, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04 Shinsil Oh, BSN ’11 Patricia A. O’Hare, MS ’76 Ingrid D. O’Hearne, BSN ’55 Oladipo O. Olaleye, MS ’13, BSN ’10 Diane E. Olechna, MS ’00 Lynn M. Oswald

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efore there was Facebook and Twitter, there were dorm mothers, curfews, and campus dress codes (the Dean of Women had to grant permission for coeds to wear pants) as the Class of 1966 entered their freshmen year at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1962. Rosemary Elliott Noble, BSN ’66, arrived at the Somerset dorm because her aunt (an RN) insisted on a baccalaureate education for Noble.

“I had no idea where this would lead,” she says. “I was always surprised I didn’t return home after the 9-hour, inperson registration process my freshman year.”

Two years later, the Class of 1966 moved to Baltimore to “ We continue to be continue their nursing education and begin clinicals. “Most of our class of 56 students lived in the nursing dormitory, proud graduates Parsons Hall, on Lombard Street and bonded during the of the University next two years,” Noble remembers.

Since graduation, many have managed to get together of Maryland every five years. When plans began for their 45th reunion, School of Nursing class representatives considered giving a gift to the and are grateful School of Nursing to honor their families and careers and to express gratitude to the School. They learned an for the education endowed scholarship required $25,000. “Many of us back we received.” in the ’60s were able to attend college because of available scholarships,” Noble says. They wondered if their small class could accomplish raising the funds for an endowed scholarship over the next five years. Claire Payne Greenhouse, Geri Mendelson, and Sue Dorsey Wilson collaborated with Noble to spearhead this effort with their classmates.

“It just took on a life of its own,” says Noble, who is retired after a career in community and women’s health nursing and now enjoys gardening, volunteer activities, and spending time with her two grandchildren and family. “Individually we would not be able to create a scholarship, but collectively we have exceeded our goal.”

They urged family members to commemorate milestones, like turning 70, with a donation. When one classmate required ongoing medical treatment, and friends wanted to help, she asked them to make a donation. Another classmate asked that in lieu of retirement gifts, donations be made.

“It’s not one thing, it’s all of these things,” Noble says. She jokes that the effort is part of “ensuring a high quality of nursing staff who may someday be taking care of us.”

Meanwhile, the University of Maryland, Baltimore Foundation offered a match to each of the professional schools, boosting the scholarship by about $8,000. To date, the class has raised $53,000.

“We continue to be proud graduates of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and are grateful for the education we received,” Noble says. “Hopefully, this collaborative effort will inspire other classes or groups to do the same or more. Several of my classmates have offered generous gifts to the School while also supporting this scholarship. It’s rewarding to know the Class of ’66 will always have an impact at the School of Nursing.”

—Nancy Menefee Jackson UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 35

PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Janet S. Owens

Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78

Jill Volkerding

Loriane K. Black, BSN ’85

Mary K. Pabst, MS ’79

Susan E. Simms, BSN ’78

Kathryn T. Von Rueden

Marian E. Blair, MS ’85, BSN ’79

Kelly W. Painter

Joan F. Sinclair, MS ’11, BSN ’10

Lorrie Voytek

Rose M. Blakely, MS ’01

Stephen S. Painter

Doretha G. Singley, MS ’93, BSN ’79

Mary Patricia Wall, PhD ’04

Diane M. Blattner, BSN ’74

Cassandra Andrews Pasley, BSN ’93

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

Carolyn A. Waltz, BSN ’63

Suzanne M. Blevins, MS ’81

Doris E. Warrington, MS ’76, BSN ’72

Helen A. Bozzo, MS ’76, BSN ’65†

Joan E. Slavin, BSN ’57†

Dianne R. Wash, BSN ’76

Cynthia A. Truitt Brady, BSN ’73

Katie E Slavin, DNP ’11

Mary P. Watkins, BSN ’78

Damian N. Brant, MS ’08

Claudia M. Smith, BSN ’65†

Linda Elaine Wendt, PhD ’91†

Maureen S. Bravo, BSN ’74†

Elizabeth P. Smith, MS ’99

Erin M. Wenger, MS ’10

Wanda L. Brethauer, MS ’96

Susan H. Smythers, BSN ’72

Catherine A. West, MS ’01, BSN ’00

Carole B. Brokos, MS ’09, BSN ’00

So Yi Song, BSN ’11

Ouida E. Westney, MS ’65

Angelique G. Brooks, MS ’12

Laura M. Sorkin, MS ’96, BSN ’91†

Katharine Wheaton, BSN ’15

Leslie D. Brousseau, BSN ’75

Janet R. Southby, MS ’71†

Amanda F. White, MS ’14

Barbara Sue Brown, BSN ’62

Barbara J. Speller-Brown, DNP ’13

John B. Whittemore, MS ’91

Charon M. Burda, MS ’03

Debra A. Spencer, MS ’99

Michelle C. Wike, BSN ’98

Gwendolyn Callahan, BSN ’62

Gena Stiver Stanek, MS ’85, BSN ’80

Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Cathleen L. Campbell, BSN ’77

Rebecca S. Stanevich, BSN ’73

June L. Wilson, MS ’79

Joan M. Stanley, MS ’78

Judith R. Wood, BSN ’71

Sharon A. Stanley, BSN ’77

Eugene R. Wooden, MS ’94

Jean P. Staples, BSN ’68†

Priscilla S. Worral, PhD ’86

Kathleen P. Stevens, BSN ’75

Joan D. Wynn, BSN ’85

Mary M. Stevens, BSN ’78

Jean E. Yancey, BSN ’53†

Marlyn J. Storch-Escott, BSN ’75

Joan Fraser Yeash, BSN ’77

Josephine M. Strauss, BSN ’71†

Dama R. Yekeson-Koffa, MS ’13

Jeanne W. Patten, DIN ’53† Bonnie L. Patterson, MS ’11, BSN ’82 Beverly J. Paulk, BSN ’65 Terry S. Peck, BSN ’82 Anne Griswold Peirce, PhD ’87 Laura P. Pendley, BSN ’87 Pfizer Foundation, Inc. Jeanne M. Picariello, BSN ’75 Lynelle Baba Pierce, MS ’86 Jeanette L. Priest, BSN ’71† Joseph R. Proulx Jeffrey N. Purvis, PhD ’13, MS ’98 Minnie M. Raju, MS ’05, BSN ’02 Suzanne R. Ranson, BSN ’76 Lola J. Rathbone, BSN ’75 Mary Kay Ratigan, BSN ’82 Ronald E. Rebuck, MS ’94 Mary Lou Reilly, BSN ’59 Loretta M. Richardson, MS ’71, BSN ’68 Matt Rietschel Joyce Ritchie Sedelle Y. Roberts, MS ’11, BSN ’07 Shielda G. Rodgers, PhD ’92, MS ’82 Cassandra N. Rodriguez, BSN ’14

Mary A. Styka, MS ’87 Glenda J. Sutton, MS ’87 Claire Y. Svrcek, BSN ’72 Nan V. Swisher, DIN ’49

$50 to $99 Beth K. Amstad, BSN ’00 Jacqueline C. Abt, MS ’97, BSN ’80

Bella P. Caplan, MS ’78, BSN ’73† Berlyn S. Carlson, BSN ’73† Barbara A. Ceplenski, BSN ’74 Lisa M. Chamberlain, BSN ’83 Janice M. Chance, BSN ’75 Carolyn R. Chandler, BSN ’08 Josephine R. Cimino, MS ’08, BSN ’05 Anne H. Cole, BSN ’67† Stephanie S. Comer-Concordia, MS ’03, BSN ’01 Nancy S. Connor, DIN ’52 Carol A. Corbie, MS ’05

Constance A. Rose, MS ’10

Edward J. Tanner, Jr. and Elizabeth K. Tanner, MS ’74, BSN ’70

Marjorie V. Ross, MS ’67

Gail F. Taron, MS ’02, BSN ’00

Quinn T. Alexopulos, MS ’12

Janet Rowan, MS ’63, BSN ’61

Kyle P. Terrell, MS ’00, BSN ’95

Lori Schroeder Allen, BSN ’83

Marion L. Royer, MS ’88

Barbara N. Terry, BSN ’71†

Aasya Amatus-Salaam, MS ’01

Elizabeth Ruff-Sfekas

Carol E. Tessman, BSN ’67

Wesley J. Amistad, MS ’11

Jeanne A. Decosmo, BSN ’79

Dorothy L. Sabolsice, MS ’67†

Janice M. Thompson, BSN ’62

Carol C. Amitin, MS ’60†

Valerie DeWeese, BSN ’81

Barbara Schmitthenner, BSN ’57†

Jane M. Trainis, MS ’90

Ella J. Angell, MS ’98

Melissa D. Douglas, MS ’10

Kari L. Schoening, BSN ’53

Aubrie A. Trussell, BSN ’81

Susan M. Antol, MS ’79

Karen M. Dowdy, BSN ’77

Deborah Lynne Schofield, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BSN ’92

Jamie A. Tumuy, MS ’02, BSN ’95

Grace A. Anyadike, BSN ’99

Dietlinde M. Doyle, BSN ’75 Elizabeth S. Duda, BSN ’69

Judith M. Schuyler

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

Jamal D. Armstrong, BSN ’09 Mary T. Asplen, BSN ’63

Christina M. Duetsch, MS ’74, BSN ’70

Charlotte Sebra, BSN ’57†

Janice M. Ulmer, PhD ’91

Diane Atchinson, MS ’78

Michelle Dunn, MS ’06

LuAnne M. Seipp

Connie M. Ulrich, PhD ’01

Alexandra M. Baila, MS ’13

Patricia B. Eagen, BSN ’63

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

Nina K. Ungar, BSN ’83

Andrea M. Baldwin, MS ’08

Dorcas M. Edge, BSN ’52†

Stephen J. Sfekas

Evelyn F. Unger, MS ’66

Robert E. Barnwell, BSN ’73

Mercy O. Ejlkemeh, BSN ’02

Mary Ruth Shafer, BSN ’73

Ijeoma C. Uzoho, BSN ’06

Cheryl C. Battee, BSN ’72

Teresa L. Elli, BSN ’85

Lisa M. Shank, MS ’12, BSN ’10

Isabel Valencia and Luis Valencia

Mary Benedetti

Elizabeth A. Elliott, MS ’02, BSN ’95

Brian C. Sharkey, MS ’00, BSN ’98

Andrea S. Van Horn, BSN ’69†

Karen L. Bergman, MS ’02

Amy L. Engelmann, MS ’12, BSN ’88

Lynne F. Sharpe

Kathleen Vanderhorst

Daria A. Berman, MS ’03, BSN ’79

C. Paula M. Ephraim, BSN ’75

Zuhira H. Shifa, BSN ’13

Jane M. Vardaro, MS ’77†

Mara Berzins, BSN ’81

Ozioma Erondu, BSN ’14

Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73†

Cyd Charisse Villalba, MS ’14

Judeth M. Beverly, MS ’12, BSN ’04

Badia Faddoul, DNP ’12

Valerie E. Rogers, PhD ’09, MS ’98

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Deborah B. Adams, BSN ’91 Idris Ajiboye, MS ’13

Cynthia W. Corbin, MS ’98 Heather L. Cornwell, MS ’98 Gail Cowan, MS ’85 Anna W. Dahl Bessie A. Davis, BSN ’75

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

Health Care Runs in the Family for Deitrick Deborah A. Falls, BSN ’80 Susan B. Farnandis Sherry D. Ferki, BSN ’71 Joanne H. Ferrari, MS ’79 Adriana Fessler, BSN ’90 Kathleen M. Ficco, BSN ’79† Mary Reilly Fine, BSN ’79 Carolyn W. Fitzgerald, BSN ’78† Linda J. Fitzgerald, BSN ’76 Mary Jane Fitzpatrick Barbara A. Floyd, BSN ’62 Carole Fordham, BSN ’67 Sharon S. Forlenza-Stevens, MS ’78 Bernice C. Foryoung, BSN ’11 Vicki A. Freedenberg, PhD ’13, BSN ’80 E. Maxine Fritz, MS ’62 Wanona S. Fritz, MS ’78 Terri A. Fuchs, MS ’07 Renee Gahm, BSN ’11 Charlotte A. Gallagher, BSN ’67 Amanda S. Garner, BSN ’00 Phillip D. Garrette, BSN ’09 Denise C. Geiger, BSN ’79 Ellen B. Gibby, BSN ’98 Audrey G. Gift, PhD ’84 Rachel B. Goeres, BSN ’77 Tiffany S. Goins, BSN ’13 Mariluz Gonzalez, MS ’01 Jacquelyn J. Goodrich, BSN ’77† Reba E. Goslee, MS ’76 Anne J. Grafton, MS ’90, BSN ’81 Leslie J. Gray, BSN ’75 Susan Gray, MS ’13, BSN ’10 Marc G. Gurvitch, BSN ’84 Susan E. Gutkin, MS ’99 Katherine L. Haag, MS ’99, BSN ’97 Patricia M. Haddad, BSN ’65† Patty J. Hale, PhD ’94 Elizabeth A. Hammett-Smith, BSN ’86 Felion M. Hankerson, BSN ’07 Maureen P. Hanold, BSN ’80 Nancy J. Hartman, MS ’11, BSN ’09 Kurt S. Haspert, MS ’11, BSN ’09 Lisa Hayes Jennifer Hayes-Klosteridis Doris Jean Hekman, BSN ’56 Carol Ann Helfrich, BSN ’67 Cynthia M. Henry, BSN ’84 Jessica L. Hepner, MS ’12, BSN ’06 Colleen M. Herera, BSN ’78

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mily Deitrick, BSN ’68 came from a medical family — her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all earned medical degrees at the University of Maryland. Her interest in nursing was inspired by a children’s classic biography of Florence Nightingale.

“The book made a big impression on me — here was a woman who had courage and the strength of her convictions,” she says. For nursing school, Deitrick chose the same university that had educated her family. But urban Baltimore in the 1960s was a bit of shock to the young woman from Lancaster, Pa., although “ I want others to have the same she quickly embraced a city full of new and different ideas and people. opportunities I had.” That’s “I want others to have the same opportunities I had,” she says. That’s why Deitrick has endowed why she has endowed the Emily Posey Deitrick Community Health Nursing the Emily Posey Deitrick Scholarship, which will provide Community Health Nursing support for students enrolled in the Community Health Nursing specialty Scholarship. at the School of Nursing. “I really do view this as an investment — it benefits nurses and it benefits communities. I think my nursing education prepared me for real life. For example, I’ve had experiences many of my friends have never had. I’ve done CPR on an airplane and the Heimlich maneuver at a benefit gala. My quick responses resulted in two lives saved.”

While at the School of Nursing, Emily met her future husband, a Johns Hopkins University student, and, after time as a public health nurse in Virginia, she moved with him to Chicago, where she earned a master’s in medical-surgical nursing from Loyola University. Her career included many kinds of nursing, from pediatrics to geriatrics, from critical care to public health nursing, while raising three children, “who are all now respected middle-aged adults.”

But it was public health nursing and teaching that really caught her heart. As a student, she was fascinated by the ideas of Lillian Wald, the founder of public health nursing in the 1890s in New York City. She also enjoyed studying the science of epidemiology.

“I’ve always been fascinated by communities — how they work and how they’re built.” She taught public health nursing at Loyola of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. “I really love teaching,” she says, “I always learn more than I teach.”

She believes many public health problems are still prevalent today, and that it will take clever minds and nurses with conviction to solve them. This is why she’s endowing the scholarship. “I would like to think there are nursing students who have some new and creative ideas,” she says, and then adds, “I will be excited to meet them.”

—Nancy Menefee Jackson UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 37

PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Mahlon W. Hessey

Vivian A. Mathews, MS ’05, BSN ’98

Patricia J. Prichard, BSN ’74†

Audrey J. Stansbury, BSN ’91

Virginia C. Hittner, MS ’71

Edwin A. Matthews, BSN ’99

Judith Quick, BSN ’71

Sharon L. Stecklein, BSN ’69

Todette L. Holt, BSN ’65

Victoria D. McAdams, MS ’84

Jacquelyn M. Ramsey, BSN ’73

Sheri B. Stern, MS ’91, BSN ’75

Roderic Hooks, BSN ’15

Rosanne M. McAuliffe, BSN ’73

Joan R. Ralph, BSN ’54

Linda L. Stevens, MS ’78, BSN ’76

Jane M. Houck, MS ’84†

Marie C. McCarthy, MS ’79

Roberta A. Raymond, PhD ’99

Madeline Stier, BSN ’68

Deborah J. Howes, MS ’94, BSN ’91

Jacqueline A. Ahrens McCoy, MS ’77

Paula L. Reynolds, BSN ’94

Cheryl B. Stillman, BSN ’83

Ruth Ann Ibach

Doris McDaniel, DIN ’51

Elizabeth K. Rhodes, MS ’00

Karen J. Sullivan, BSN ’83

Barbara J. Jared, BSN ’68

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73†

Virginia Rinker

Nancy Sullivan, BSN ’67

Mary Anne Jayman, BSN ’72

Kathleen M. McGrow, DNP ’14, MS ’02, BSN ’86

Eleanor Riordan, BSN ’47

Mary J. Suter, BSN ’93

Kathleen M. Ripp, MS ’95

Mary S. Swan, BSN ’53

Teresa V. Robison, MS ’88, BSN ’80

Michelle J. Swinney, BSN ’95

Sharon C. Rochon, MS ’00

Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69

Natalie J. Rook, MS ’85, BSN ’72

Marie C. Tassia, MS ’77

Gina D. Rowe, PhD ’13, DNP ’10

Barbara M. Tawney, DIN ’50†

Susan E. Rusnak, BSN ’14

Margaret A. Terry, PhD ’04

Anne V. Samuels, BSN ’84

Caitlin L. Thomas, BSN ’13

Jill S. Sanko, MS ’03

Karmal Thomas

Aminata Sarjoh, BSN ’09

Susan M. Thompson, MS ’01

Salina Sarma, BSN ’15

Eugenia D. Thorne, BSN ’07

Sharon A. Saunders, BSN ’89†

Michael C. Tillman, MS ’83

Elizabeth A. Sausville, MS ’12

Deborah M. Tsunoda, MS ’98, BSN ’81

Perry J. Sayles, BSN ’00

Basirat T. Uthman, BSN ’09

Linda M. Sayre, MS ’92

Ruby M. Van Croft, MS ’70

Carol A. Scavarda, BSN ’83

Nancy A. Vanblargan, BSN ’79

Carole Schauer, MS ’70†

Mary E. Vick, MS ’98

Rebecca H. Schenck, MS ’13, BSN ’10

Jennifer L. Villa, MS ’08

Chuck M. Schevitz, BSN ’81

Cheryl J. Vorhauer, BSN ’90

Terri L. Schieder, MS ’84

Chinh C. Vu

Anna T. Schubert, BSN ’71

Carol R. Wade, DNP ’14, MS ’00, BSN ’97

Megan L. Jendrossek, BSN ’13 Kathryn A. Jewett, BSN ’89 Elizabeth K. Johnson, MS ’08 Rose Ann Kassel, BSN ’73 Sharon L. Kauffman Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48†

Pamela W. McHenry, DIN ’52 P. Dale McMahon, MS ’78† Rose Ann Meinecke, BSN ’79 Lucia C. Melham Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk Joseph Albert O. Mendiola, BSN ’13

Susan W. Kemp, MS ’98, BSN ’92

Estelle J. Miecznikoski, DIN ’51

Elaine Bishop Kennedy, MS ’78†

Carol M. Miller, BSN ’86

Sue J. Kim-Saechao, BSN ’99

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Sherry L. Kirchner, BSN ’83 Christine K. Koly, BSN ’11 Barbara G. Kormann, BSN ’66

Patricia M. Miller, MS ’92 Mary Etta C. Mills, MS ’73, BSN ’71† Sherry J. Mills-Obert, MS ’84

Sarah B. Kosmer, MS ’13

Miriam L. Moerbe, MS ’13

Eleanor Kramer, DIN ’47

Laurel P. Moody, BSN ’82

Karen C. Kraus, BSN ’71

Naomi Morgan, BSN ’83

Nancy Lacy, BSN ’54 Nancy Lamb, MS ’98 Mary A. Lancaster, MS ’87

Adonaca Morris, MS ’03, BSN ’02 Ian Morton, BSN ’15 Michelle M. Moulton, MS ’09

Trudy A. Land, MS ’09, BSN ’77

Melissa A. Murdock, BSN ’89

Henrietta H. Latimer, DIN ’44

Marian H. Muth, MS ’96

Eve L. Layman, BSN ’73

Joan Chambers Myer, BSN ’62

Harriet Leap, BSN ’62

Gail S. Myers, BSN ’69

Rebecca L. Ledbetter, BSN ’84

Terri Napier

Angela L. Lee, MS ’93

Michael Naugle

Amy Goldberg Lester, BSN ’79 Dorothy Liddel, BSN ’61 Karen M. Long, BSN ’94 Phyllis Lovito Marianne Lucot, BSN ’75 Kati C. Machtley, BSN ’72 Dianne L. Mackert, BSN ’72

Maurisa P. Nawd, MS ’08 Lois H. Neuman, BSN ’63 Diana M. Ng, MS ’96, BSN ’94 Gladys L. Ngatchou, BSN ’00 Cynthia M. Nicolaus, BSN ’13 Helen J. Nowack, BSN ’61 Dennis L. Oakes, MS ’92 Jeanne M. O’Donnell, BSN ’97

Judith E. Maeda, MS ’85 Paula N. Ofoh, BSN ’10 Dmitriy Makarevich, MS ’14, BSN ’05

Marie J. Schulman, BSN ’68 Connie M. Schuz, BSN ’73 Maureen P. Schuz, BSN ’79 Ruth C. Schwalm, MS ’66† Deborah G. Schwartz, BSN ’06 Margaret E. Smith, BSN ’70 Genet Z. Seyoum, BSN ’07 Ruby L. Shadow, PhD ’87 Joanne M. Shafik, MS ’82 Frances Sides, BSN ’55† C. Susan Signore, BSN ’91 Connie L. Slewitzke, BSN ’71 Andrea L. Smith, MS ’83 Christina Smith, BSN ’13

Emma C. Mangano, MS ’13

Ernest Opoku-Agyemang, MS ’12, BSN ’10

Richard G. Mannion

Sallie Packham, BSN ’57

Tara L. Sofia, BSN ’82†

Jane E. Mansfield, BSN ’76†

Sheeba O. Paranilam, PhD ’13

Seidou N. Soweh, BSN ’09

Michele Marsh, BSN ’87

Philip Parson

Carol D. Spence, PhD ’08, MS ’98

Eleanor A. Martin, MS ’73

Helen R. Peddicord, MS ’72

Sandra F. Stabingas, BSN ’68

Barbara F. Masenior, BSN ’74

Sharon L. Ponce, BSN ’75

Carrie Staines Tilley, MS ’08

Maureen B. Maskarinec, BSN ’77†

Marcia G. Postal-Ranney, BSN ’78†

Diana F. Staley, MS ’78

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Darlene C. Smith, MS ’95, BSN ’79

Anne Robin Waldman, BSN ’58† Elaine M. Walizer, MS ’88 Mary P. Wall, BSN ’84 Mary C. Wallace, BSN ’85 Suzanne D. Walton, MS ’87, BSN ’78† Kristin E. Ward, MS ’12, BSN ’06 Madeline Ward, BSN ’63 Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64 Lawrence C. Washington, BSN ’69 Susan T. Webb, MS ’00 Elizabeth D. Webster, MS ’93† Linda P. Weisburger, MSN ’76, BSN ’72 Elinor W. Wells, DIN ’46† Nancy Smith Westerberg, BSN ’58 Steen G. Westerberg Steven E. Wildasin, BSN ’86 Morris E. Wilder, BSN ’93 Kathleen A. Williams, MS, BSN ’83 Janice L. Wilson, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BSN ’74

Palma Wilson

Kristi B. Brennan, MS ’97, BSN ’83

Tracey L. Cunningham, MS ’14

Carolyn A. Francis, MS ’87

Robert F. Wilson

Mary C. Brewster, MS ’88

Victoria Freshley, BSN ’85

Sandra L. Wilson, MS ’01

Wendy J. Bridges

William M. Curtis, IV and Barbara Dayhoff Curtis, BSN ’77

Brenda F. Windemuth, DNP ’11

Linda A. Briggs, BSN ’78

Dara K. Winfield, BSN ’05

Phyllis L. Brodsky, MS ’79, BSN ’76

Theresa D. Winnacott, BSN ’74

Gaylord Brooks, III and Shirley Brooks, BSN ’78

Barbara V. Wise, PhD ’99, MS ’82

Judy A. Custer, MS ’94 Donna D. Damico, MS ’99, BSN ’93 Karen J. Daniels, MS ’07 Lucy Davidoff, BSN ’15

Brittany L. Galladora, BSN ’14 Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77 Doris Garrington, BSN ’52 Joanne C. Genevish, BSN ’74 Jennifer E. Genos, BSN ’15

Sonia P. Brown, MS ’99

Alicia A Davis, MS ’11

Voncelia S. Brown, MS ’82, BSN ’78

Luann Day, BSN ’85

Constance S. Browning, BSN ’65†

Dana J. De Shon, MS ’98

Donald H. Yerger

Darlene M. Brownlee, MS ’00

Gabriela Deanda, BSN ’15

Robbin M. Young, BSN ’02

Kathleen M. Buckley, MS ’76, BSN ’73

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

Sharon L. Zandman-Zeman, BSN ’95

Elaine M. Bundy, DNP ’11, MS ’09, BSN ’75

Catharine W. DeBoy, MS ’07

Alice J. Burrow, MS ’89, BSN ’82

Riki Decklebaum, BSN ’75

Tara Byrd

Theresa J. Delavan, BSN ’75

Michelle R. Cadenhead-Zulick, BSN ’04

Alice L. Demarais, BSN ’72

Nancy S. Goldstein, DNP ’10, MS ’86, BSN ’80

Jasmine S. Demos, MS ’88, BSN ’84

Mary Gormley, BSN ’56

Kathleen Campbell, MS ’80, BSN ’73

Laurie K. Dickerson, BSN ’82

Marsha Graham

Elizabeth M. Capaldi, BSN ’09

Caroline L. Diehl, BSN ’71

Deborah M. Grau, BSN ’75

Harriet L. Caplan, BSN ’89

Sarah N. Dilling, BSN ’13

Amanda R. Greathouse, MS ’09

Myra L. Carhart, BSN ’09

Elizabeth S. Dixon, BSN ’45

Linda L. Atkins, BSN ’61†

Judith H. Carpenter, BSN ’66

Bradley Dodson, BSN ’15

Taylor W. Baesch, BSN ’10

Christine Carter, BSN ’12

Adair H. Dooley, BSN ’89

Isatu N. Bah, MS ’12, BSN ’99

Susan M. Cavey, BSN ’76

Eileen F. Drake, BSN ’72

Jenise P. Baker, BSN ’83

Chiedzo Chaduka, BSN ’15

Bonny L. Dudash, BSN ’81

Kimberly S. Baker, MS ’90

Jennifer Chappius, BSN ’15

Linda S. Dugan, BSN ’79

William Gundersen and Barbara A. Gundersen, BSN ’54

Christine L. Barclay, BSN ’77

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

Jacqueline K. Dunn, MS ’92

Beatrice Njweng Gwena, BSN ’15

Lillie P. Durney, DIN ’51*

Ida L. Luma Haddison, BSN ’15

Justin M. Dusza, MS ’08

Betelhem T. Hailemariam, BSN ’15

Teresa M. Dyer, MS ’99, BSN ’81

Blerta Hamza, BSN ’15

Pamela S. Chrisman, BSN ’02 Jawaid Bashir and Karen H. Bashir, MS ’10, BSN ’07

Susan M. Ecke, MS ’07, BSN ’03

Mary Ann Hanson, BSN ’02

Bryan O. Chung, BSN ’15

Donna E. Ecker, BSN ’00

Harold R. Hardinger, BSN ’87

LaKeisha D. Beasley, MS ’07

Edith G. Clagett, BSN ’73

Lori A. Edwards, BSN ’80

Donna L. Hargett, MS ’86

Amy Beckhardt, BSN ’97

Karin L. Clancy Clagett, BSN ’89

Linda G. Eisenstadt, BSN ’74

Lou Ann Harman, BSN ’56†

Andrea Beckman, BSN ’15

Mary E. Clark, BSN ’00

Mazen I. El Ghaziri, PhD ’13

Kathleen Hasse, BSN ’72

Brenda Bell, BSN ’09

Sue Ellin Clarke, BSN ’80

Natichia Ellis, BSN ’10

Virginia Hedges, BSN ’80

Shirley Bernstein, DIN ’53

Desiree M. Clement, MS ’03, BSN ’01

Mmachukwu B. Emuka, MS ’12

Jacqueline A. Bethel-Warner, MS ’11

Kristin L. Cohen, BSN ’05

Donna L. Esposito, MS ’00

Allison Paige Heinrichs-Sweeney, BSN ’07

Cheryl A. Beversdorf, BSN ’75

Sherry E. Guralnick Cohen, MS ’79

Angela L. Evans-Morales, MS ’13

Patricia E. Helm, MS ’72, BSN ’68†

Helen A. Bills, BSN ’63

Linda E. Collins, BSN ’79

Tom Fahey

Alexander E. Hernandez, BSN ’14

Bonnie Bissonette

Luana Colloca

Kidest Fasika, BSN ’15

Laura A. Heytens, MS ’07

Vivian G. Blackburn, BSN ’83

Desiree Colvin, BSN ’15

Brian R. Faulkner, BSN ’13

Viola S. Hibbard, BSN ’88

Heather L. Blizzard, BSN ’09

Mary A. Conley, BSN ’75

Denise C. Feller, BSN ’69

Gail E. Hill, BSN ’69

Mary L. Bodt, BSN ’83

Dwayne L. Connor, BSN ’89

Sharyn Q. Figgins, BSN ’69

Shannon S. Hill, MS ’03

Lauren Bosak, BSN ’15

Kathleen L. Conway, BSN ’91

Martha A. Fisher, MS ’85, BSN ’83

Joan B. Hines, BSN ’80

Juliana Boston-Clarke, BSN ’15

Mary K. Cook, BSN ’93

Mary C. Fleury, BSN ’86

Lawrence E. Hines, MS ’74

Betsy W. Bowen, DIN ’47

Robyn Cooke, BSN ’00

Janet T. Foreman, MS ’81, BSN ’76

Tierra M. Hinton, MS ’12, BSN ’07

Dawn E. Boyce, BSN ’71

Marsha A. Cory, BSN ’73

Michael D. Foust, BSN ’05

Betty D. Hoatson, BSN ’54†

Mary Ann Bradshaw

Kristy A. Cosme, BSN ’13

Amy Fox, MS ’10

Jane B. Hoffman, BSN ’82

Karen M. Bream, BSN ’00

Candice M. Cottle, MS ’11, BSN ’05

Sondra J. Fox, MS ’64

Cynthia L. Hollis

Florence Wolfel, BSN ’50† Susan H. Wood, DIN ’53 Eileen M. Wyant, BSN ’72

$1 to $49 Kristin A. Altar, MS ’06 Jerry Anthony M. Abcede, BSN ’13 Barbara J. Alexander, BSN ’77 Kitty Allen Tamika E. Allen, MS ’10, BSN ’99 Constance P. Anele, MS ’03, BSN ’00

Dorian M. Barocca, BSN ’08 Angeline C. Chasten, BSN ’83 Molly W. Bartlett, MS ’95, BSN ’84 Sara W. Chedester, BSN ’63 Lilly S. Barton, BSN ’78

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

Andrea M. Geraci, BSN ’11 Mary Gergis Robyn C. Gilden, PhD ’10, MS ’01 Carol E. Ginsberg, BSN ’80 Susan R. Giscombe-Brown, MS ’10, BSN ’06 Gary J. Glowac, BSN ’77 Lynn L. Goldberg, BSN ’74

Angella D. Green, MS ’06, BSN ’02 Phyllis Green, BSN ’74 Ronald T. Green, BSN ’68 Emily J. Griffith, BSN ’56†

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Joan C. Hoover, DIN ’51

Willard J. Lennox

Joanne Muir, MS ’91

Elizabeth M. Reid, BSN ’70

Lea S. Huaman, BSN ’14

Jennifer N. T. Lieu, MS ’01

Ann H. Myers, BSN ’64†

Sara Reihl, BSN ’15

Kathleen B. Hurley, MS ’91

Linda A. Linton, BSN ’00

Wendy L. Myers, BSN ’92

Richard Ricciardi, MS ’91

Carol M. Hyland, BSN ’58†

Valerie J. Lithotomos

Donna J. Riley, BSN ’69

Ann Isaacs, MS ’72

Mary DeSales Lohr, BSN ’78

Joseph A. Nadolski and Mary C. Nadolski, BSN ’75

Cathy A. Jamaris-Stauts, MS ’97, BSN ’94

Dianne A. London, MS ’08

Elise J. Janofsky, BSN ’84 Sara S. Jarrett, BSN ’66 Cynthia Jennette, BSN ’63 Yong N. Jeon, BSN ’13 Constance Moon Johnson, BSN ’81

Marjorie Lotz Carolyn C. Lower, BSN ’51 Hannah L. Madej, BSN ’13 Nancy M. Magee, BSN ’91 Shova Mahat, BSN ’14 Barbara J. Major, BSN ’74

Lynda J. Nelson-Raleigh, BSN ’84 Nancy L. Newman, BSN ’87 Teresa A. Niblett, MS ’10 Jo Ann L. Nicoteri, PhD ’07 Dolores P. Niedzwiecki, BSN ’71 Anita A. Nolan, MS ’14 Stephanie Smith Nordberg, BSN ’61

Priscilla V. Rivera, BSN ’77† Ruth R. Rivera, BSN ’06 Sandra Roads Kia L. Robinson, BSN ’93 Michael Rohrer, BSN ’15 Donna L. Rolland, BSN ’81 Yvonne Rowe, MS ’10, BSN ’06 Rita L. Rubin, MS ’78, BSN ’74

Cynthia A. Johnson, MS ’92, BSN ’87

Carole A. Malinowski, BSN ’77†

Jean L. Nortrup, BSN ’83

Ellen Johnson, BSN ’15

Maryanne Mancuso, MS ’91

Judy D. Novak-Steward, MS ’74

Jane B. Johnson, DIN ’47

Ruth M. Manis-Dixon, BSN ’78

Cynthia L. O’Brien, BSN ’86

Lisa M. Johnson, MS ’07

Anne R. Manley, BSN ’14

Omolola O. Ogungbile, BSN ’14

Lydia A. Johnson, MS ’94

Christa Marshall, BSN ’15

Adena O’Keeffe, MS ’87

Matthew Johnston, BSN ’15

Joan Martellotto, BSN ’66†

Robin C. O’Larte, BSN ’58

Alexandra Jones, BSN ’11

Alva A. Martin, BSN ’68

Amy L. Ornelas, BSN ’04

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

Marie M. Jones, BSN ’83

Anna Mae S. Rudloff, DIN ’52 Sheila Marie Ruiz, BSN ’15 Donna S. Ryan, BSN ’81 Barbara L. Saia, MS ’10, BSN ’04 Margaret K. Sakyiama, BSN ’04

Colleen M. Mason, MS ’00

Cindy K. Osnos, MS ’92

Judith Brown Sanders, MS ’68

Joyce F. Kaetzel, BSN ’58

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

Eve E. Ostrowski, MS ’13

Shena M. Sanders, BSN ’99

Ruth A. Kamara, BSN ’04

Karen L. Maylor, BSN ’76

Amanda Palmer, BSN ’15

Jennifer L. Saylor, PhD ’11

Deborah L. Kavanagh, MS ’86, BSN ’79†

Katherine K. Zama Mbuh, BSN ’12

Kathi Paradiso

Dorothy E. Schmidt, DIN ’51

Judith C. McAdams, BSN ’55

Quentin G. Parker and Ruth R. Parker, PhD ’00

Diana M. Schuler, BSN ’69

Carolyn A. Kawecki, BSN ’04 Carin McCabe, MS ’10 Laurette D. Keiser, BSN ’78 Barbara E. McCarthy, BSN ’82 Barbara A. Kellam, MS ’80, BSN ’72† John D. McCarthy, MS ’03, BSN ’00

Elizabeth C. Parkinson-Wyner, MS ’02

H. E. Sam Schuler, BSN ’01 Barbara L. Schulman, BSN ’78 Susan F. Schutt, BSN ’85

Mitchel A. McDonald, BSN ’73

Maureen Pawlikowski, MS ’08, BSN ’02

Susan F. McDonald, MS ’75

Eleanor Peck, DIN ’48

Mary L. Searing, BSN ’81

Aisha McFarland-Dyer, BSN ’14

Joseph Pellegrini

Patti A. Seman-Amsel

Megan A. McQuillan, BSN ’13

Nancy N. Perry, MS ’95

Susan J. Seyala, BSN ’67†

Suzanne F. Merna, BSN ’59

Constance J. Peters, BSN ’99

Carol B. Shafer, MS ’85

Kerry E. Meyer, PhD ’90

Allyson L. Petrone, BSN ’04

Kathleen M. Shagena, MS ’95, BSN ’86

Jacqueline Ruth Mickley, PhD ’90

Joanne E. Pinna

Joyce A. Shanty, MS ’88

Patricia C. Middleton, BSN ’61†

Daniel E. Piper, BSN ’91

Jane E. Shea, BSN ’75

Bronislaus L. Kosiorowski, MS ’72

Donna Knode Miedusiewski, BSN ’81

Barbara Pittet, MS ’89

Martha M. Shemin, BSN ’72

Mary S. Kotch, BSN ’74

Kathryn A. Mikulsky, BSN ’02

David L. Plaut, MS ’93, BSN ’84

Elizabeth M. Sheon, BSN ’72

Irina Koyfman, MS ’09

Amanda C. Miller, MS ’13

Anna M. Poker, MS ’94

Mulikat A. Shuaib, BSN ’15

Carol J. Miller, BSN ’97

Roslyn B. Polk, BSN ’77

Diana L. Bowersock Shuff, BSN ’70

Sally R. Minardi, BSN ’74

Martha A. Popovic, BSN ’61

Leila Sicilia, BSN ’12

Susan C. Minter, BSN ’70

Todd A. Porter, BSN ’86

Leslie M. Siebert-Terner, MS ’93

Matthew P. Misiewicz, BSN ’12

Darlene C. Potter, BSN ’75†

Claudette K. Silberfein, MS ’71

Dianne M. Miskinis, BSN ’92

Kelly L. Powers, MS ’13

Gina A. Sim, BSN ’14

Margaret Mohler-Strahan, BSN ’59

Elizabeth Preston, DIN ’44

Kelli L. Simms, MS ’99

Raquel D. Moody, BSN ’14

Evelyn J. Preston, MS ’71

Carol Sinclair, BSN ’66

Lori G. Mooney, MS ’09, BSN ’05

Mary K. Quinlan, BSN ’76

Jane L. Sinnott, BSN ’78

Patricia A. Lavenstein, MS ’59†

Donna S. Gipner, BSN ’63

Jeraldine J. Ragan, BSN ’72

Ciara M. Smith, BSN ’12

Susan W. Layos, BSN ’73†

Karen L. Moore, BSN ’87

Sarah M. Raphel, MS ’84, BSN ’78

Darlene M. Smith, MS ’14

Baekcheol Lee, BSN ’13

Joan M. Morris, BSN ’97

Barbara J. Ray, MS ’74

Norma Z. Smith, BSN ’72†

Pamela A. Lehman, BSN ’90

Sarah C. Mroczkowski, BSN ’13

Kim M. Reck, MS ’83, BSN ’78

Michaelyn M. Solomko, BSN ’76

Catherine Kelleher Anne M. Kelly, BSN ’85 Denise M. Kelly, BSN ’01 D. D. Kenney, BSN ’89 Rae Y. Kim, BSN ’14 Beverly E. Kingsland, BSN ’94 Hope H. Kirk, MS ’03, BSN ’01 Thelma I. Kleckner, MS ’74, BSN ’72, DIN ’47†

Stacy Zweig Krakower, BSN ’99 Joan E. Kub, MS ’76 Ellen D. Kwiatkowski, BSN ’51† Tamara E. Lacey, BSN ’80 Lori Landsburg Sophie Lorin Landsburg, PhD ’99, MS ’93, BSN ’88 Susana B. Larnyoh, BSN ’15

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

Kimberly Sparklin, BSN ’83

Eileen Sullivan, MS ’91, BSN ’84

Sandra J. Vegh, BSN ’07

Kyle A. Wilhelm, MS ’95, BSN ’83

Wendy J. Spey, BSN ’15

Dorothy L. Sutch, MS ’86, BSN ’81

David G. Vlahov, MS ’80, BSN ’77

Bertha Williams, MS ’99

Daniel L. Spiker, BSN ’05

Mary A. Swann, BSN ’77

Robin L. Vocke, MS ’98

Lennox A. Wilson, BSN ’03

Carolyn P. Sponn, MS ’07

Shailendra Swarup, BSN ’09

Anna F. Walsh, MS ’05

Christine J. Wisnom, BSN ’86

Amy J. Swoboda, BSN ’15

Gladys K. Wambaa, MS ’13

Eva F. Squibb, BSN ’13 Kathleen Srsic-Stoehr, MS ’77 Kathleen A. St. Lawrence, BSN ’74 Mary Helen Staley, BSN ’54†

Anita J. Tarzian, PhD ’98, MS ’96 Karen R. Tate, BSN ’78 Hortense B. Tegler, DIN ’48

Gexin Wang, MS ’11

Rosemary Wolfe, BSN ’92

Carol D. Watkins, MS ’10

Carmen M. Womack, DIN ’51

Barbara Koehne Thomas, BSN ’77 Doris Webb, BSN ’59

Elaine J. Steele, BSN ’79 Gregory Thomas, BSN ’15

Linda L. Stegman, BSN ’72 Lori L. Stern, MS ’12

Vivian A. Wonisch, BSN ’61† Mary Beth B. Wood, BSN ’80

Karen J. Weber, BSN ’88

Sandra P. Steele, BSN ’81 Marilyn L. Steffel, MS ’70

MS ’81, BSN ’75

Norma J. Warner, BSN ’78

Cynthia A. Watson, BSN ’97

Sandra H. Stallings, BSN ’84

James R. Witte and Alison S. Witte,

Faye G. Trageser, BSN ’91

Miriam N. Woodfield, BSN ’99 Phyllis Weitzel, DIN ’49 † Craig E. Woodside, MS ’12

Bradley Tubesing

Jane Anne J. West, MS ’11

Claudia K. Tufano, MS ’02, BSN ’87

Linda F. White, BSN ’78

Linda Wright-Sepulveda Jean A. Yeakel, BSN ’56

Anna L. Stevenson, MS ’12

Marsha A. Turner, BSN ’10

Sheila R. Whitener, BSN ’85

Megan E. Stitely-Brenneman, BSN ’14

Darlene Augins Tyson, BSN ’74

Jessica L. Whitfield, BSN ’94

Dawn M. Yeitrakis, MS ’12, BSN ’01

Kimberly Strachan, BSN ’15

Joy L. Tyson, MS ’88, BSN ’82

Briana M. Wiecek, BSN ’13

Carolyn Yocom

Jaime A. Striplin, BSN ’06

Leanne C. Ugarte, BSN ’84

Maria L. Wieners, BSN ’04

Patricia S. Young, BSN ’90

Dolly N. Sullivan, MS ’05

Constance R. Uphold, PhD ’88

Rebekah P. Wildman, BSN ’99

Ellis Q. Youngkin, MS ’65

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2015 Alumni Reunion Celebration

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ore than 75 alumni, faculty, and guests returned to

what inspired them to pursue a career in nursing and

the School of Nursing on Saturday, September 19,

the importance of the scholarships they received from

to celebrate class years ending in “5” or “0,” reunite

the School. Jeanne Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN,

with classmates, and reminisce about their days as nursing

an associate professor at the School of Nursing, delivered

students. Members of the Class of 1965, who celebrated their

the Millicent Geare Edmunds Lecture, “Sleep, Sleepiness,

50th anniversary, were inducted into the Heritage Class.

and Fatigue in Nurses: How Organizations and Nurses

Current students Jessica Galang, BSN Class of 2016, and

Themselves Can Solve This Problem.”

Mustafa Albaruiee, MS Class of 2016, spoke movingly about

class of 1950

Mary McDonough and Barbara “Muzzy” Tawney 42 WINTER 2016

class of 1955

Mary Koutrelakos, Shirley Liberman, Toni Gonzalez, Shirley Teffeau, Dean Jane Kirschling

class of 1965

class of 1975

Front row: Claudia Smith, Marlene Cianci, Valerie Barkley, Kay Kellerman Elmer, Dean Jane Kirschling. Back row: Pat Sheyka Kidd, Ellen Rothfelder, Dianne Matheny Carofino, Karen Seaman Brauner

class of 1980

Front row: Phyllis Vendemia, Margaret Widner-Kolberg, Mary Deborah Hauf Wilson, Sherri Blatt Stern, Catherine Bailey, Kathy Paul, Debbie Gilbert Glassman, Dean Jane Kirschling. Back row: Katharine Becker, Connie Lamonica Groves, Peggy Wilmoth, Elaine Bundy, Mary Ann Melo Conley

class of 1985

Front row: Gena Stiver Stanek, Laurel Ann Renaud, Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, Tamala Dykes-Paxton. Back row: Dean Jane Kirschling, Nancy Goldstein, Regina Rawson Smith, Vannesia Morgan-Smith, Diane Coopwood Wolf, Karen Cromwell, Connie Jastremski, Laurie Wittelsberger Miller

class of 2000

Margaret Matula, Carol Swamidoss, Angela Cooper, Joan Twigg, Loriane Black

class of 2005

Theresa Hynes, Gladys Ngatchou-Happi, Joyce McMahon

Greg Raymond, Sarah Miller, Lori Mooney

New Alumni Directory Scheduled for 2016

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chool of Nursing alumni are

graduates. Plus, the publication will include

multi-channel solutions for non-profit

scattered across the country,

a “Through the Years” photo gallery of

organizations.

and even around the world. But no

alumni. Feel free to participate by submit-

matter where their lives have led

ting your photos and personal stories. A

full of the latest

them, our alumni all share a common bond

special section about the school will help

information about

— and that’s the place they started out.

you reminisce as you read about our past

you and your fellow

and learn what’s in store for the future.

alumni. It will be

That’s why we are working on a new publication designed to help bring our

To make sure our data is as up-to-date as

Please help us make this publication

a fun and useful

alumni back together. This new Alumni

possible, our provider, Harris Connect, will

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Today publication will include compre-

contact alumni to verify that the informa-

as helpful in keeping

hensive biographical listings with contact,

tion we will print is accurate and complete.

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New Alumni Council Members Announced

Seated: Tracie Morgan, DNP ’10; Beth Ann Martucci, DNP ’10, MS ’99, BSN ’96; Sophia Henry, MS ’13; Hermi Nudo, BSN ’63 Standing: Liz Ness, MS ’93; Chris Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73; Greg Raymond, MS ’10, BSN ’05; Marion Tuck, MS ’80; Ruth Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’04; Carmel McComiskey, DNP ’10, BSN ’96; Beth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73; Diane Skojec, DNP ’10, MS ’01, BSN ’00; Emilie Deady, BSN ’72; Ann Bennett, MS ’69; Steve Rietschel, BSN Class of 2016; Hershaw Davis, BSN ’09

CONGRATULATIONS to the new

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Alumni Council members-at-large, who will serve a two-year term until June 30, 2017.

1970s

Karol Duffy, MS ’99, RN, pre-service expert, Peace Corps Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

coach to assist new nursing graduates with their NCLEX preparations. In addition, she was granted a per diem position as a standardized patient or standardized patient’s visitor.

Administration’s National Advisory Committee.

Johnny Gayden, MS ’14, BSN ’10, RN, staff CRNA, Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Sophia Walker Henry, MS ’13, Emergency Department Shift Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Hospital Kathleen Kang, BSN ’15, RN, staff nurse, University of Maryland Medical Center Regina Leonard, MA, BSN ’11, MAT, RN, clinical nurse, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States, Clinical Decision Unit Department Tracie Schwoyer-Morgan, DNP ’10, MS ’00, ANP-BC, lead Nurse Practitioner for Palliative Services, Gilchrest Services, Greater Baltimore Medical Center Fran Valle, DNP ’10, MS ’99, CRNP, WCC, assistant professor, and director, post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, University of Maryland School of Nursing

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Ann Scanlon McGinity, PhD, MS ’74, RN, FAAN,

Anita G. Hufft, PhD, BSN ’70, was appointed Dean of the Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences for Valdosta State University, Ga.

Martha Shemin, BSN ’72, retired from the teaching position she held for the past 27 years. She was hired as a part-time virtual

was inducted as a Woman of Distinction in the Texas

Gail W. Stuart, PhD, MS ’73, dean and professor

Medical Center’s Women’s

in the College of Nursing and professor in the College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing, has been appointed as the only nurse to serve on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

was recognized for her

History Project. McGinity significant contributions to the health care field in the Texas Medical Center.

She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of Houston Methodist Global Healthcare Services.

alumni spotlight

After Venerable Career, Shippen Takes Over As President of UMSON Alumni Association

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hristine Shippen, MS ’99, BSN ’73, RNC-OB, IBCLC, RLC, the new president of the University of Maryland School of Nursing Alumni Association, has some exciting ideas about how the association can support alumni and the School of Nursing. Council members will develop an alumni survey “that will determine what members need and want so we can be of value to them,” she said.

“The results will drive our endeavors.”

She knows she wants to focus on retaining and engaging all alumni.

Another goal is to use the association’s online presence to promote visibility of the 25 elected alumni council members.

“We would like to reach new alumni through career advisory and recent graduate committees,” she said, noting that events for upcoming grads will feature workshops in designing and writing resumes and portfolios, given by Elizabeth Ness, immediate past president of the Alumni Association. Shippen also plans to emphasize the roles of the six committees that serve the association, and she wants members to know that they can be on a committee without being elected to the Alumni Council.

Full participation in the annual fund is another goal for her. “I think it’s very important for us to set an example for others,” she said, adding that she wants to reach some 22,000 alumni worldwide.

Shippen’s journey to being one of those alumni started as a child with a love of reading — specifically the Cherry Ames novels featuring a nurse. She also was inspired by a biography of Clara Barton and began volunteering in a hospital when she was 13 — by 14 she was a

Full participation in the annual fund is another goal for her.

“I think it’s very important for us to set an example for others.” paid nursing assistant. She chose the University of Maryland School of Nursing because she wanted to attend a large school with an excellent reputation.

From the start, Shippen was drawn to obstetrical nursing and women’s health.

She co-founded the Childbirth Education Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in 1976, and in 1978, she co-founded the Perinatal Bereavement Program at UMMC. She coordinated Lactation Support and

Perinatal Bereavement Services at UMMC from 1996–2006.

“I’ve stayed in that specialty in various branches throughout my career,” she said, noting that she spent 20 years in labor and delivery, including 12 as a nurse manager, and 22 years in a mother-baby unit. In 1996, Shippen was certified as a lactation consultant. But it was that love of reading and sharing ideas that prompted her to return to school for her master’s degree when she wanted to increase her skills and knowledge.

“I really missed the interaction with faculty members and the face-to-face with students,” she said. “The focus is so different in academia.” In addition to nursing administration, she also studied policy, traveling to University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore County to take courses so she could better serve her lowincome patients. “Policy courses helped me understand the laws concerning pregnant women,” she said.

As a clinical instructor at the School of Nursing, she taught maternal, newborn, and women’s health nursing. Shippen is also an artist and jewelry maker, and in 2006 she designed and created a memorial wall-hanging for UMMC for grieving parents. She’s looking forward to devoting more time to making jewelry and creating art in retirement, but she’ll still spend plenty of time at the School of Nursing.

“I still want to be involved in the School, and the way I can best do that in a broad range is to be involved in the alumni association,” she said. “I want to give back to the school that nurtured me.”

—Nancy Menefee Jackson

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ALUMNI PULSE alumni spotlight

Evans Committed to Helping Injured Soldiers

U.S.

Army Col. Richard Evans Jr., MS ’00, is a key part of a system that ensures soldiers injured in combat can find themselves in his Level I trauma center within 36 hours from the point of injury. He recently completed an assignment as the Deputy Commander for Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer at the San Antonio Military Medical Center Joint Base in Texas, where he oversaw 2,800 nurses, who staff the 24 inpatient units — nine of them intensive care units — and 425 beds.

Because it is a global referral center, soldiers and their families come from around the world for specialty care, from trauma and burn care to hematology, oncology, and women’s health. But as a Level I trauma center, the medical center also accepts civilian trauma patients from 21 counties in south Texas.

In November, Evans became the Deputy Chief of the Army Nurse Corps assigned to the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Va. He has received numerous military awards and recognitions, including the Legion of Merit and a Bronze Star.

The battlefield health care system is a synchronized system based on capabilities ranging from point of injury care and transportation to tertiary care and rehabilitation. Combat casualties are rapidly moved through the tiers in the system, from damage control resuscitation within 30 minutes at forward surgical teams, to more definitive surgical care at Combat Support Hospitals and ultimately into the Air Force Medical Evacuation system through hubs in Europe and on to Walter Reed National Eur Military Medical Center in Washington, Mili D.C., or the San Antonio Military Medical D.C

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The Army has a health education program that allows personnel to be stationed at a university and pursue an advanced degree full time, and Evans chose the University of Maryland School of Nursing. “The University of Maryland appealed to me because of the diversity of the program and the reputation of the program,” he says. “After I got there, I realized it was the perfect choice.”

He earned his master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist in adult medical/ surgical nursing and completed the hospital administration program. “I realized I could do a little more,” he says.

“I’m used to working long hours.” He is also a graduate of the Army War College Center, depending on the needs of the patient and proximity of family.

Col. Evans is well acquainted with the chain of care because he served in Operation Desert Storm and three years ago was deployed to Afghanistan where, as the deputy commander for nursing, he was responsible for care delivered in the battlefield health care systems nursing practice in all of southwestern Afghanistan. His path to nursing started in high school, when he realized he wanted to help people and volunteered in a nursing home. He attended the local University of Rhode Island, Kingston, where he joined the ROTC program and earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant.

“My goal was to do my four years in the Army and then head back home to do nursing with my friends,” he says. “Here I am, 27 years later, still doing it and still having fun.”

in Pennsylvania, where he earned a Master of Science in Strategic Studies with a focus on intergovernmental and defense policy development.

In February 2014, he gave a tour of the Center for the Intrepid, a rehabilitation center for burn victims and amputees in San Antonio, for Dean Jane Kirschling and other faculty members. Although his career has afforded him experiences from clinical staff, to leadership roles, to nontraditional roles such as crafting health policy at the Pentagon, Evans still prefers to interact with patients. In San Antonio, he instituted a “suits to scrubs” program in which senior nurse leaders work a shift in an inpatient ward once a month, ensuring that they share the perspectives and experiences of the nurses at the bedside and look for ways to return valuable nursing time to patient-centered care and improve the patient and family experience.

—Nancy Menefee Jackson

class news and notes 2016 Kathleen D. Sanford, DBA, BSN ’74, RN, FACHE, FAAN, senior vice

Mary Deborah Hauf Wilson, MSN, BSN ’75, RN, is employed at Rosen

Kathleen White, PhD, MS ’78, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, spoke at Koc Uni-

president and chief nursing officer, Catholic Health Initiatives, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

& Hoffberg Rehabilitation and Pain Management, PA, in Towson, Md. She is currently enrolled in the Accelerated Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

versity School of Nursing in Istanbul, Turkey, for a Nurses Week celebration program last May.

Betsy Ross Bradford, BSN ’75, RN, earned a master’s degree in Health Care Administration and is retired from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She is working part time as a nurse surveyor for The Joint Commission.

Mary Anne Melo Conley, BSN ’75, RN, CPAN, has been employed at Kaiser Permanente since 1977, working two years in Urgent Care and the rest of time in the Ambulatory Surgery Center, Pre-Op, and PACU.

Patricia Flanagan Piringer, MSN, BSN ’75, RN, has been affiliated with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center during her entire nursing career. She began as a staff nurse on an adult endocrine research unit, and then served as head nurse on the research unit.

Piringer later joined the Office of the Director at the Clinical Center, where she has served as special assistant to the director for the past 18 years.

Robin Prothro, BSN ’79, RN, founding CEO of

Joan Kub, PhD, MS ’76, MA, RN, PHCNS, BC, FAAN, is serving as president of the American Association of Community Health Nurse Educators until 2016.

Mary Jo Huber, BSN ’77, RN, PCCN, nurse manager, University of Maryland St. Joseph’s Medical Center, was honored with Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award.

Art Wallace, MSN, BSN ’78 (WRAIN), RN,

MaryLou Watson, MS, BSN ’75, RN, chief nurse executive at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital, was appointed president of the Maryland Board of Nursing.

Komen Maryland, received a Circle of Excellence Award and was honored at the 20th Anniversary of the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women Awards.

is Special Assistant for Asia-Pacific Affairs for Navy Medicine West, San Diego. He is the regional liaison for telehealth initiatives; the TRICARE Overseas Program Contract with International SOS; and Navy hospital programs on Guam, Okinawa, and Japan.

APRIL 16

REUNION 2016 Saturday, April 16 Reunion 2016 festivities, scheduled for Saturday, April 16, 2016, will honor undergraduate classes ending in “1” or “6” and all graduates who earned a master’s degree through the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) option. As part of this year’s reunion, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the School of Nursing’s CNL option. Come to Baltimore to reunite with classmates and renew your pride in your alma mater! If you would like to volunteer for the reunion planning committee for your class, contact Cynthia Sikorski, associate director of alumni relations, 410-706-0674, or alumni@son.umaryland.edu.

Visit http://nursing.umaryland.edu/alumni for more information.

Linda Ward Tyler, MS ’79, RN, retired from the Wake Tech Community College Associate Degree Nursing Program after 35 years of service.

She began her teaching career at Peninsula General Hospital School of Nursing, Salisbury, Md. in 1971 and was one of four instructors hired

by Salisbury University to develop their BSN program. She taught at Salisbury University until moving to North Carolina in 1980.

The following class years will be celebrated: Class of 2011

Class of 1976

5th

40th

Class of 2006

Class of 1971

10th

45th

Class of 2001

Class of 1966

15th

50th

Class of 1996

Class of 1961

20th

55th

Class of 1991

Class of 1956

25th

60th

Class of 1986

Class of 1951

30th

65th

Class of 1981

Class of 1946

35th

70th

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

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ALUMNI PULSE class news and notes

Major General Margaret C. Wilmoth, PhD, MS ’79, BSN ’75, MSS, RN, FAAN,

Harrisburg, Pa. She serves as the interface between legal, medical, and health issues for clients. Foreman has more than 35 years’ experience in nursing and health care, including executive roles in home health and hospice, academia, consulting, and clinical experience as a CRNP. She is a member of the Pennsylvania nurse practitioner coalition group.

delivered the 2015 Commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Charlene C. Quinn, PhD, MS ’80, RN, FAAN, had

women’s and children’s services at the Robin E. Pascal Women’s Center, University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, published an article, “Safe Sleeping a Must for Baby,” in the Capital Gazette.

a study published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology to determine whether the impact of mobile phone interventions is dependent on age.

Quinn and her colleagues assessed differences in the impact of a mobile intervention among adults younger than 55 and those aged 55 to 64.

Patricia Cathleen McMullen, PhD, JD, MS ’81, BSN ’75, RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN,

ebrated her 5th anniversary as director of care management with ScarlatosZonarich Law firm in

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Excellence in Nursing Practice Award at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards ceremony in May.

Deborah C. Kennedy, MS ’84, BSN ’79, RN, hospital operations administrator of Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, received a Circle of Excellence Award and was honored at the 20th Anniversary of the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women Awards.

at Georgetown University Medical Center as a dialysis nurse; in oncology at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, Calif.; and in an outpatient oncology clinic at Sharp Hospital in San Diego, Calif. She is currently at home raising her teenage daughter.

Angela Mason Cooper, MS, BSN ’85, RN, earned a master’s degree in nursing education, with a subspecialty in critical care nursing, and a post-master’s as an adult nurse practitioner.

She is employed as a nurse practitioner at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

dean, The Catholic University of America School of Nursing, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Mary Agnes Ostick, DNP, BSN ’82, RN,

Janet T. Foreman, MS ’80, BS ’76, CRNP, RN, cel-

Arlene Davis, BSN ’90, RN, OCN, received an

Karen McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, FAAN, assumed the role of president of the American Association of CriticalCare Nurses in May.

Steffi Pollin Bokser, BSN ’85, RN, has worked

1980s

Kathe Campbell, MS ’80, BSN ’73, RN, director of

1990s

earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Villanova University College of Nursing.

Tara Carlson, MS ’91, BSN ’85, RN, business

Lisa Rowen, DNSc, MS ’86, RN, CENP, FAAN, senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center, was honored with Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award.

Tamala Dykes Paxton, MS ’88, BSN ’80, RNBC, CNE, is an assistant professor in the Bachelor of Science Nursing program at Wesley College in Dover, Del. She has been accepted to the DNP Program at American Sentinel University for the spring 2016 semester.

Eileen Dimond, MS ’91, RN, collaborated with Andrea Denicoff, MS ’95, BSN ’85, RN; Diane St. Germain, MS ’95, RN; and other researchers on an article, “Creating a ‘Culture of Research’ in a Community Hospital: Strategies and Tools from the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program.” in the 2015 Journal of Clinical Trials and Research.

Karen Elizabeth Doyle, MBA, MS ’91, BSN ’85, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN,

Carol Swamidoss, PhD, MPH, BSN ’85, RN, is a clinical research coordinator in GYN oncology research at the Women’s Health Integrated Research Center, INOVA Health System. She earned an MPH from George Washington University and a PhD from George Mason University.

development manager and director, Center for Injury Prevention and Policy, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, received a 2015 Nursing Excellence GEM award in the category Home, Community, and Ambulatory Care.

Patty Sengstack, DNP, MS ’88, BSN ’82, RN, was honored as one of the Top 10 Nurse Executives at the Top of their Game in the May 2015 issue of Healthcare IT News.

vice president of nursing and operations, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

alumni spotlight

Moore Has a Passion for Helping People, Developing Programs for Families

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alvert Moore, DNP, MS ’11, RN, APHN-BC, was named a Baltimore magazine Top Nurse for 2015 in the School Health category. It was quite an honor considering Moore didn’t always want to be a nurse.

“During my freshmen and sophomore years of high school, I thought I wanted to be a cosmetologist until I had a chance to become an apprentice at a hair salon, and I realized I didn’t want to wash hair all day,” Dr. Moore says. “When I was a junior in high school, I realized that I had a passion for helping people who were not able to help themselves. I realized I wanted to be a nurse.”

She earned an associate’s degree in nursing from Baltimore City Community College in 2006. Then, Moore received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Notre Dame of Maryland University in 2009, a Master of Science in community public health from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 2011, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Chatham University in 2013.

A board-certified advanced public health nurse, Moore had the opportunity to become the School Health Resource Coordinator for MedStar Harbor Hospital’s Healthy Schools Healthy Families program during its inception. The program helps students and families in schools in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill community and has received national recognition by the American Hospital Association.

When Moore started the Healthy Schools Healthy Families program in 2011, all she had was a write-up of how it was supposed to look and permission to go into the schools. “Since that time I

have really had an opportunity to utilize what I learned from my master’s degree program at the School of Nursing and make the program my own,” she said.

She develops programs, which are in three elementary-middle schools, aimed at three populations — students, parents, and faculty and staff — and creates partnerships to address topics such as financial literacy. Topics for students include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, healthy eating, and sex education.

For parents, she tackles issues such as stress management, anger management, healthy eating, and financial literacy, and conducts a class for parents on how to talk to their kids about sex. For the faculty and staff, she focuses on stress management and classroom wellness, especially during the cold and flu season.

Moore has developed asthma programs for all three populations, and makes sure everyone understands the medical terminology. For the past three years, she has served as a preceptor for School of Nursing students.

She credits her four years as a recovery room nurse at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital for helping her respond to whatever is needed. “I wear the hat that’s pertaining to whatever situation I’m dealing with at the time,” she says.

Moore’s family is from Cherry Hill, and she spent a couple of summers there as a child, an involvement that continues today by working with community groups. “I know what’s going on not just in the schools, but in the community,” she says. “It’s all about building trust and relationships. I love being out in the community and working with community members.”

—Nancy Menefee Jackson

When Moore started the Healthy Schools Healthy Families program in 2011, all she had was a write-up of how it was supposed to look. . . .

“Since that time I have really had an opportunity to utilize what I learned from my master’s degree program at the School of Nursing.”

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ALUMNI PULSE class news and notes Daniel Piper, BSN ’91, RN, received an Excel-

Cynthia Arnold, MS ’95, RN, was honored with

Jean Myrick Anastasi, MS ’97, BSN ’85, RN,

lence in Nursing Practice Award at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards ceremony in May.

Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award.

is employed as an RN III at Howard County General Hospital.

Catherine M. Willford, BSN ’95, RN, employee

Mary Ann Cantrell, PhD ’98, RN, CNE,

health coordinator with Specialty Hospital of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fla., was named one of the 100 Great Nurses of Northeast Florida/Class of 2015.

associate professor, Villanova University College of Nursing, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Carol A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77, RN, NEA, FAAN, FACMI,

Nellie C. Bailey, MS ’93, RN, received a special citation from Brooklyn, New York Borough President Eric L. Adam in recognition of her work in educating nurses and nursing students at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and for the extraordinary care she has provided to her patients and their families in the Brooklyn community.

Linda Haddad, PhD ’93, RN, associate dean for academic affairs, University of Florida College of Nursing, attended the AACN Leadership for Nursing Program in July.

The five-day workshop, held in Albuquerque, N.M., included intensive classes related to successful academic leadership.

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Rear Admiral, USPHS (Ret), dean and professor of the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, completed the AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program, designed exclusively for top academic leaders in schools of nursing. She was one of 40 academic nursing leaders selected to participate in the competitive program.

Robin Remsburg, PhD ’94, RN, FNGNA, FGSA, FAAN, dean and professor, community practice nursing, University of North Carolina Greensboro, completed the AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program, designed exclusively for top academic leaders in schools of nursing. She was one of 40 academic nursing leaders selected to participate in the competitive program.

Joan Davenport, PhD ’00, RN, assistant professor and vice-chair, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health at the School of Nursing, attended the AACN Leadership for Nursing Program in July.

JoAnne S. Reifsnyder, PhD ’00, RN, FAAN,

Diane Breckenridge, PhD ’96, RN, is department chair and professor, Nursing, School of Health and Human Services, at National University in San Diego, Calif. She oversees the BSN program, MSN programs, and is initiating a DNP program.

She attended the AACN Leadership for Nursing Program in July, a five-day workshop in Albuquerque, N.M., and participated in intensive classes related to successful academic leadership.

Vicky Kent, PhD ’96, MS ’87, RN, was honored with Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award.

Carla Tolbert, JD, MS ’96, RN, graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2010 with JD degree and a certificate in Health Law. She is currently working as an associate with the law firm of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard in St. Louis, Mo., in the Health Practice Group, medical malpractice law.

RADM Sylvia TrentAdams, DNP, MS ’99, RN, was recommended

by Vivek H. Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General, to serve as the next Deputy Surgeon General of the United States, beginning in October 2015. TrentAdams most recently served as Chief Nurse Officer in the United States Public Health Service.

senior vice president, clinical operations and chief nursing officer, Genesis HealthCare, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, MS ’00, RN, CCM, FAAN, associate professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

2000s Elizabeth AgbetsiafaAwuah, MPH, BSN ’00, CNRN, earned an MPH from Morgan State University in 2014. She is an environmental health advocate and volunteers for the Sierra Club of Baltimore, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. She has given expert testimony before the EPA; the Maryland Senate Committee on Education, Health, and the Environment; and the Maryland Department of the Environment.

Lyn Murphy, PhD, MBA, MS ’01, RN, associate professor and program director, Health Services and Leadership Management specialty, at the School of Nursing, received the University of Maryland School of Nursing Colleague Award at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards.

Suzanna Fitzpatrick, MS ’10, CRNP, division of transplant surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, co-authored an article with UMB Carey School of Law Visiting Law Professor Georgia Sorenson. The article, “The Leaderful Nurse” was published in the Journal of Professional Nursing.

Stefanie Glenn, MS ’02, BSN ’00 RN, Commander, US Public Health Service, is an active duty officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service who served at the forefront of the U.S. Government’s Ebola Response Mission in West Africa. CDR Glenn served as the Chief of Operations for a team of specialized officers deployed to Liberia to manage and staff the Monrovia Medical Unit.

Their mission was to care for health care workers suspected of or diagnosed with the Ebola virus.

Joan Insalaco Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88, RN-BC, NEA-BC, FAAN, director of nursing research and magnet, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, was honored with Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award. Warren was also inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Major General Gale S. Pollock (retired), PhD ’05 (honorary), BSN ’76, RN, MHA, CRNA, FACHE, FAAN, was named to the CereScan Corporation Medical Advisory Board, where she will use her extensive experience and military leadership to provide CereScan with insight into the unique health care challenges facing military personnel and veterans.

Amanda Elder Robertson, BSN ’05, RN, is employed as an RNC at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, Md. She earned her certification in Maternal Newborn Nursing in 2011.

Deborah Chapa, PhD ’06, RN, FAANP, assistant professor and director of the DNP Program at George Washington University, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Carolyn Nganga-Good, MS ’07, BSN ’05, RN, health programs bureau administrator, Baltimore City Health Department, and PRN Registered Nurse, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, has been selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Nurse Leaders program.

LTC Wendy M. Perry, MS ’07, RN, Army Nurse Corps, retired from the United States Army in July at a ceremony held at the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga.

Carrie A. Jacobs, MS ’09, RN, began a new

clinical educator, CHUB University Teaching Hospital, Rwanda Human Resources for Health, received textbooks for nursing students in Rwanda from the School of Nursing faculty member,

Carmel McComiskey, DNP ’10, MS ’96, PPCNPBC, CPNP-AC, FAANP, FAAN, director, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, University of Maryland Medical Center, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

position as an RN in the University of Maryland, College Park Health Center, where she will assist students with health related issues and concerns.

Joan Davenport ’00.

Deborah Schofield, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BSN ’92, RN, FAANP, senior program manager for nurse practitioner specialty areas at University of Maryland Medical Center, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

nurse practitioner and clinical program manager, women’s and children’s services, University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), received an Excellence in Innovation Through Research Award at UMMC’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards.

Christy S. West, BSN ’11, RN, was

Gregory D. Raymond, MS ’10, MBA, BSN ’05, RN, director of nursing

Alexandra Bambrick, MPH, BSN ’07, RN, ICU

Shari Simone, DNP ’11, MS ’96, CPNP-AC, APRN-BC, FCCM, FAANP, senior

and patient care services for clinical practice, professional development, neuroscience, and behavioral health at the University of Maryland Medical Center, was appointed to the Maryland State Board of Nursing. Raymond is currently the only nurse from UMMC or the University of Maryland School of Nursing on the state board, and the first UMMC nurse in at least 10 years to be appointed.

selected as an award winner for Excela Health, Westmoreland Hospital, and was honored in November at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing’s 17th Annual Cameos of Caring Awards Gala.

Anne Williams, DNP ’12, MS ’86, BSN ’82, RN, director of community health improvement for the University of Maryland Medical Center and its Midtown Campus, helped coordinate the “Spring into a Healthy Summer” health fair at Mondawmin Mall in West Baltimore.

The event benefitted more than 400 people.

Christina Boord, BSN ’13, RN; Faith Jimenez, BSN ’12, RN; and Gabrielle Laxamana, BSN ’14, RN, received Rising Star Awards at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards ceremony.

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with Baltimore magazine’s 2015 Excellence in Nursing Award.

Christina Cafeo, DNP ’13, RN, director

Amanda Choflet, MS ’13, BSN ’10, RN, received a

Angela Ross, DNP ’14, MS ’98, RN, has joined the

of nursing and patient care services for medical, surgical, and cardiac services, University of Maryland Medical Center, received a 2015 Nursing Excellence GEM award in the category “Advancing and Leading the Profession.” She was recognized for her role as a visionary, innovative leader and change agent.

$10,000 DNP EvidenceBased Project Grant through the AACN/CDC Academic Partnership Project. Choflet is nurse manager in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital.

School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, as an assistant professor.

She retired from the U.S. Army, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, after a 20-year career. Dr. Ross worked as Chief Medical Information Officer with the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center, following retirement.

David Glenn, MS ’13, RN, received the Excellence in Publication or Presentation Award at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards ceremony.

Lisa Lister Adkins, MS ’14, RN, CRNP, joined the clinical team of Compass Regional Hospice in Centreville, Md. as a nurse practitioner.

Batsheva Lapidus, MS ’14, RN, co-authored an article, “Promoting Hydrotherapy During Labor” published in the August, September, October 2015 issue of The Maryland Nurse.

Margie G. Stickles, DNP ’14, BSN ’02, RN, has been promoted to Vice President of Perioperative and Procedural Services at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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Submit your updates at: nursing.umaryland. edu/alumni/update, email your news to: alumni@son. umaryland.edu, or mail to: Cynthia Sikorski, senior associate director of alumni relations, 655 W. Lombard Street, Suite W-209, Baltimore, MD 21201.

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in memoriam Ruth Austin DIN ’43

Elizabeth Bennett Gladstone BSN ’60

Susan Porter BSN ’65

Rachel Z. Booth BSN ’68

Janet L. Hanson MS ’84

Evelyn J. Preston MS ’71

Shirley E. Callahan BSN ’52

Kevin S. Kezer BSN ’77

Eleanor Canton Reese DIN ’47

Suzanne M. Theis Limric BSN ’60

Gloria McCrumb Roth DIN ’50

Ann Seymour Madison BSN ’62

Linda F. White BSN ’78

Bonnie J. Middleton MS ’93

June Vincent Wilson MS ’79

Nellie Connelly BSN ’55 Wendy E. Dail BSN ’81 Frances H. Dennis BSN ’56 Dorothea F. Fraleigh BSN ’53

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Uniform History Rooted in nursing’s religious and military heritage,

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tailored uniforms became standard student dress during the 1890s.

In 1944, citing wartime material shortages, School of Nursing leaders shortened the sleeves of student uniforms.

The student uniform of the 1960s and 1970s reflected the contemporary casual fashion, the emergence of new

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nursing roles, and growing female consciousness fostered by the women’s movement of the 1960s.

Many of today’s nursing students wear scrubs, a trend started by male nurses in the 1970s. Current University of Maryland School of Nursing students wear white tops and khaki pants to distinguish them from other learners and health care providers.

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