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A Two-Way Street A Partnership Improving Outcomes on Both Sides of Lombard

PLUS: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic Perks for Preceptors Bringing the Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty to Shady Grove

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How an UMSON faculty member finds balance in classroom and bedside roles

A School of Nursing alumna leads the University of Maryland Medical Center’s top-performing unit

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

Shady Grove Perspectives .......................... 18

Alumni Pulse ........................................... 46

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ON THE COVER: Joan M. Davenport, PhD ’00, RN, assistant professor, walks through the University of Maryland School of Nursing gates on her way back from her one-day-a-week faculty practice in the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU).

OPPOSITE: Kerry Sue Mueller, BSN ’90, RN, nurse manager, (left) and Davenport work closely together in the MICU. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE CIESCIELSKI

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INSIGHTS Winter 2017 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.

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This past fall, the School of Nursing was recognized by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) with its Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award. Our longstanding partnership with Paul’s Place in Southwest Baltimore has led to the creation of a unique educational and practice model that has increased opportunities for students and faculty to deliver community-based care, leveraged the power of interprofessional learning, and improved health outcomes. We were also recognized

by AACN and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for innovation in the baccalaureate population health curriculum; our curricular changes have expanded students’ understanding of the social and economic determinants of health while better preparing them for home visits and for addressing HIV/AIDS and childhood asthma— all important preparation for future practice.

We also celebrated the 50th anniversary of our Community/Public Health Nursing master’s program and the 10th anniversary of our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree—both part of our history of developing nurse leaders. The DNP program has grown from Dean Emerita Janet Allan’s forward-looking vision. As one of the first 20 programs in the United States, with an initial graduating class of seven, it is now a nationally ranked program with 366 students, further reflecting our ongoing response to the national need to increase the number of doctorally educated nurses.

As always, alumni and faculty of the School of Nursing are on the forefront of solving problems that impact patients, their families, and our communities. I hope that you will be inspired by the stories that you read in this issue. They speak to the ongoing vibrancy and impact of the School of Nursing and are a reminder that we are solidly grounded in our remarkable history while continually evolving to meet the demands of the future.

Although the challenges shift with each generation, the commitment to excellence and leadership remains constant. Thank you for being such an important part of our heritage and our future.

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Editor-in-Chief: Giordana Segneri Editorial Board: Susan G. Dorsey Erika Friedmann Laurette Hankins Karen Kauffman Jane Kirschling Kathleen Michael Kathryn Montgomery Deborah Prout Rebecca Wiseman

CHRIS HARTLOVE

s we begin 2017, it is truly an exhilarating and challenging time for the profession of nursing.

Across the spectrum of research, education, practice, and service, nurses are tackling a broad array of complex and important issues. Nurses are determining how best to deliver evidence-based health care to a diverse population across a range of settings. Nurses are conducting cutting-edge research in the laboratory, translating it to the bedside, and bringing the insights gained back to the bench. Nurses are addressing both the epidemic of opioid abuse and the need to better understand and mitigate chronic pain—urgent societal issues that impact millions of individuals each year.

Contributing Writers: Gregory J. Alexander Morgan Caplan Rich Dubroff David Ginsburg Steve Ginsburg Mark Hoeflich Nancy Menefee Jackson Sarah Karpovich Todd Karpovich Meredith Lidard Kleeman Jay A. Perman Terri Reuter Jeff Seidel Staff Contributors: Stacey Conrad Laurette Hankins Nan Mulqueen Kevin Nash Deborah Prout Giordana Segneri Cynthia Sikorski Rebecca Wiseman Photographers: Laura Guzman Aguilar Kirsten Beckerman Tracy Brown Larry Canner Mike Ciesielski Chris Hartlove Richard Lippenholz Christopher Myers Kevin Nash Mary Phelan Mike Ruddock Cynthia Sikorski Design and Editorial: Today Media Custom Communications 1014 W. 36th St. Baltimore, MD 21201 410-909-7820 todaymediacustom.com Chairman: Robert F. Martinelli President: Jonathan Witty Project Manager: Julie F. Lang Art Director: Randy Clark Senior Editor: Todd Karpovich nursing for um is published twice a year by the University of Maryland School of Nursing. We welcome comments, suggestions, and story ideas from alumni, partners, and friends.

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t’s one thing to teach. It’s quite another to teach teachers.

“I think preparing teachers is a somewhat different responsibility because you want them to be able to provide their students with the best learning experience possible,” says Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81, RN, FAHA, ANEF, professor and director of the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Institute for Educators.

For 16 years, she has focused on the changing role of technology in health professions education and on various aspects of addressing the nursing faculty shortage by preparing nurses for teaching roles in academic and clinical settings. In recognition of her work, she was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s 2016 Teacher of the Year during the University’s annual Founders Week celebration in early November.

In 2004, Jenkins co-founded the Institute for Educators, which under her leadership has received more than $7 million in grant funding and has contributed to a 63 percent increase in the number of new Maryland nursing school graduates sitting for boards and becoming licensed in the state. Jenkins also co-developed and leads the Teaching in

Nursing and Health Professions Certificate program, in which more than 800 students have taken graduate-level courses to develop essential skills for teaching current and future nurses.

“There’s an ongoing shortage of nursing faculty, and we’re facing another big one within the next five years-plus because of an anticipated large number of faculty retiring,” Jenkins says. “The recognition of the importance of preparing oneself as a teacher has really been brought to the attention of potential educators, and the institute does a lot of that.”

While Jenkins began her career as a clinical nurse, contributing to the development of one of the first in-patient cardiac rehabilitation programs, she came to the School of Nursing to earn her master’s and PhD degrees. Following a post-doctoral fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco, she held a named research chair at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before returning to UMSON in 1996 to direct the School’s PhD and master’s programs. Along the way, she also co-conceived and directed the Clinical Education and Evaluation Standardized Patient Laboratory, which

A Piece of the Pi News from UMSON’s Sigma Theta Tau International Pi Chapter KEVIN NASH

One of Pi Chapter’s strategic goals for 2016-17 is to increase outreach to community nurse leaders. On Oct. 26, Pi Chapter inducted 12 nurse leaders at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), and 10 inactive Sigma Theta

A few of the newest Pi Chapter inductees pose for a selfie following the induction ceremony in Baltimore on Nov. 14.

Tau International (STTI) members at AAMC renewed their memberships

Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN, associate

with the chapter. A spring professional

professor, chair of UMSON’s programs at

development program at AAMC will be

the Universities at Shady Grove (USG),

open to all Pi Chapter members.

and Pi Chapter president, presented a

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Teacher of the Year

offers students the opportunity to practice skills and receive feedback from faculty, standardized patients, and video recordings of their work in the lab. Now, Jenkins teaches online classes in the certificate program.

“I thought when I taught in the classroom that it was the best possible learning environment,” she says. “My classrooms have been in schools, in universities, even on an island teaching patients how to do their own hemodialysis, just a lot of different settings. But the core of what you’re doing always comes back to the essentials, and that’s what we really strive to emphasize in the institute.”

And as she continues to teach, she continues to experience the joy that fueled her Teacher of the Year honor. “The things that I’m receiving an award for are still going on,” she says. “Really, I feel like I’m still being honored. It’s been really fun— a wonderful experience!”

—Giordana Segneri

poster at STTI’s Leadership Connections conference in Indianapolis, Sept. 17-21.

While at the conference, she volunteered in the career center and consulted with membership services on chapter activities.

Fall and spring inductions have been scheduled earlier in the semesters to give new inductees opportunities to participate in chapter-sponsored activities prior to graduation. In November, 105 students and nurse leaders were inducted into the chapter at USG and in Baltimore.

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SPOTTED: Event Photos

SUMMER INSTITUTE IN NURSING INFORMATICS | JULY 20-22

ALUMNI LUNCHEON IN DENVER | JULY 28

WHITE COAT CEREMONY IN BALTIMORE | SEPT. 6

COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING MASTER’S SPECIALTY 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION | SEPT. 16-17

WHITE COAT CEREMONY AT THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE | OCT. 4 4 WINTER 2017

DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE

PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA GUZMAN AGUILAR, RICHARD LIPPENHOLZ, KEVIN NASH, CYNTHIA SIKORSKI

INSTITUTE FOR SIMULATION EDUCATORS | JULY 26-29

10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION | OCT. 6

STAFF NURSE ALUMNI SPEAKER PANEL | OCT. 31 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING 5

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Kudos: Recent Awards and Inductions Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, associate professor, was awarded the

Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03, RN, FAAN, professor and director,

Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award at the International Association

Nursing Informatics master’s specialty, has been selected as a 2016

for the Study of Pain’s 16th World Congress on Pain in September.

fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Barbara

The award honors those at the beginning of their careers who have

Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, professor and Sonya

achieved a level of independence as scholars in the field of pain.

Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, has begun her one-year

Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and associate dean of research, was the first person ever to be awarded the International Association of Human Animal Interaction Organizations’ Johannes Odendaal Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Distinguished Researcher Award at its triennial conference in July. The honor recognizes distinguished HAI descriptive or hypothesis-driven research involving data collection that has been published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or as a chapter in a book.

Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, associate

term as the organization’s president. The GSA fosters collaboration among biologists, health professionals, policymakers, and behavioral and social scientists and is the driving force behind the advancement of gerontology, both domestically and internationally.

Judy G. Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed professor emerita by University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay A. Perman, MD. Ozbolt served as professor and director of the Nursing Informatics master’s specialty beginning in 2006, and she retired in 2010. While at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Ozbolt tripled student

professor, and Joseph E. Pellegrini, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, associate

enrollment in the specialty while maintaining the diversity of the

professor and director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse

student body. She also chaired the program committee for the School’s

Anesthesia specialty, were inducted into the American Academy

renowned Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI) Conference

of Nursing as fellows in October. The academy and its members

and has continued to serve in leadership roles with the SINI program

create and execute knowledge-driving and policy-related initiatives

committee since her retirement.

—Kevin Nash MIKE RUDDOCK

to facilitate reform of America’s health system.

TWO SCHOOL OF NURSING GOVERNOR’S WELLMOBILES HAVE GOTTEN A FACELIFT. In July, two Wellmobiles were “wrapped” with colorful imagery that depicts the joint educational and community-service missions of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the Wellmobile program in an effort to garner interest from potential funders and community partners that will foster the program’s development and sustainability. The Wellmobiles, which the University of Maryland School of Nursing has managed since the program’s inception in 1994, provide primary and preventive health care to geographically underserved communities in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and to the uninsured. They also serve as clinical education sites for School of Nursing students to participate in interprofessional practice with students from the University of Maryland schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Social Work. These dual educational and service missions are funded by grants from the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration and the Maryland Higher Education Commission and by University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation donations.

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The Power of Interprofessional Education heights and weights at every visit, they could use it as a lead-in to difficult questions about diet and counsel patients accordingly. If they saw a rise in BMI, they could offer some dietary recommendations and refer patients back to their pediatricians. If Dr. Stines drew up a script for these conversations, providers would be more likely to start them.

These observations became the basis of her doctoral project, Evaluation of a Childhood Obesity Screening Program in a Pediatric Dental Clinic. And now, long after Perman congratulates Stines on earning her DNP in completing the project, Dr. May 2015.

Stines continues to work with the School of Dentistry. She One day in clinic, Dr. Stines was lectures twice a year at the school. She talking about the fact that all health brings colleagues with her, and they care providers—not just primary care role-play with students, acting as physicians—should be discussing providers and patients. And she’s found childhood obesity with patients and that dental students who previously families. A dental student said he wasn’t thought they had no part to play in confident in his ability to calculate reducing childhood obesity now believe childhood body mass index (BMI). they do.

He said he wasn’t sure how he would This is the power—and the promise— even start a conversation about obesity. of interprofessional education, and Dr. Dr. Stines realized that if she were Stines and I are privileged each week to able to educate dental providers and see it in action. students, they could be extraordinarily —Jay A. Perman, MD valuable in curbing the obesity epidemic.

President For instance, if dental providers checked University of Maryland, Baltimore

NURSING, DEFINED What is nursing informatics?

According to the American Nurses Association, it’s a “specialty

COURTESY OF JAY A. PERMAN

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very week, I’m privileged to step out of my role as University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) president and spend a few hours doing what I used to do every day: practice medicine.

Each Tuesday afternoon, I see patients in my pediatric clinic. With me are students from all six of the University’s professional schools: nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, and social work. For many, it’s their first practical exposure to interprofessional education, their first time working with colleagues across disciplines to provide the best care for patients and their families.

As you can imagine, the clinic gets rather crowded, but anyone who’s visited understands exactly who runs the show: Elsie Stines, DNP ’15, MS ’00, CRNP. Dr. Stines is a pediatric nurse practitioner who manages the President’s Clinic, sees patients at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and serves as associate vice president for special projects at UMB. I’ve been fortunate to work with her for many years.

Dr. Stines is a two-time alumna of the University of Maryland School of Nursing. In 2015, she earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the School. Her doctoral project was inspired by the President’s Clinic and the opportunities it provides for interprofessional education.

to achieve desired outcomes. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.”

—Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition, ANA 2015

that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. [It] supports nurses, consumers, patients, the interprofessional health care team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all roles and settings

The University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Nursing Informatics master’s specialty program is ranked No. 1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Learn more: nursing.umaryland.edu/nursinginformatics.

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COURTESY OF AACN

Community/Public Health Nursing: Still Innovating After 50 Years

above, l. to r.: Deborah Trautman, chief executive officer, AACN; Juliann Sebastian, chair, AACN Board of Directors; Doran; McLaine; Bill McLennan, executive director, Paul’s Place; John S. Morton III, former member, Paul’s Place Board of Directors; and Kirschling with UMSON’s Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category at the AACN semi-annual meeting in late October left, l. to r.: Trautman; Kirschling; McLaine; LaVonne Ortega, MD, MPH, lead for academic partnerships, Division for Scientific Education and Professional Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Sebastian with UMSON’s Innovations in Baccalaureate Population Health Award at the AACN semi-annual meeting

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n the same year that the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Community/Public Health (CPH) Nursing master’s specialty celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first graduating class in 1966 (see “Back Story,” Page 53), the program has been recognized for its forward-thinking initiatives to prepare students for the changing nature of health care delivery.

It received two 2016 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) awards: the Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category and the Innovations in Baccalaureate Population Health Award, conferred in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category While the partnership between UMSON and Paul’s Place, a community outreach center in Southwest Baltimore, began 30 years ago, UMSON has recently overhauled its model for working with the center. Through a formal agreement, the center supports a portion of a CPH faculty member’s time. In return, the faculty member, Kelly Doran, PhD ’11, MS ’08, RN, assistant professor, serves as the Paul’s Place director of health and wellness, leveraging a one-day-a-week faculty practice to manage student clinical placements while ensuring coordination and supervision of services year round.

Through this model, Paul’s Place has been able to more than double the services it provides, including a community-based, nurse-led clinic and faculty practice and a full array of interdisciplinary services through collaboration with the University of Maryland’s five other professional schools. Approximately 75 students from across the UMB campus participate in service-learning experiences at Paul’s Place.

“Recognition by AACN is a wonderful testament to our community/public health faculty and the innovative curriculum and experiential learning opportunities that they create,” says UMSON Dean Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN. “We are especially grateful to Paul’s Place; through our longstanding partnership, we have developed new approaches to addressing the

BY THE NUMBERS health needs of significantly underserved members of our community.”

This is the second time that UMSON has received the Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category, and it is the only school to have received the award more than once.

Innovations in Baccalaureate Population Health Award In 2014, UMSON significantly revised its undergraduate curriculum to integrate CPH nursing concepts throughout the four-semester program.

UMSON students are introduced to population health in their first term, and they build upon this knowledge via the classroom, learning labs, and community field placements in the greater Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro area during the remaining three semesters.

“Our students learn critical skills to address major health problems in our community, like asthma and HIV/ AIDS,” says Pat McLaine, DrPH, MPH,

RN, assistant professor and director of the CPH master’s specialty. “Our strong partnerships enable students to see with their own eyes the importance of community to the health of people living here.”

UMSON’s revised curriculum includes four other innovations that set it apart in its commitment to incorporating population health into baccalaureate nursing education, including: Q

home visit simulation and an emphasis on the principles of childhood asthma management

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interprofessional education and service-learning experiences to ensure basic competencies to address the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the area

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a focus on understanding social justice and the social determinants of health

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exposure to diverse communitybased clinical experiences.

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Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award

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MSON won a third AACN award this year, recognizing Susan L. Bindon, DNP ’11, RN-BC, CNE, assistant professor, for her excellence and innovation in teaching. Bindon, who has taught in various settings for 25 years and at UMSON for the past five, is known for collaborating with other faculty to address instructional challenges they may be facing and to help them identify the best teaching strategies for their particular classroom, online, or clinical setting.

Additionally, Bindon has helped to develop and deliver a workshop for new adjunct clinical nursing faculty that has been offered several times in the past year, reaching more than 80 educators throughout Maryland.

“I’m tremendously honored to receive this year’s AACN Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award. Helping others to become good teachers is both a professional privilege and a personal joy,” Bindon says.

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At the University of Maryland School of Nursing, we don’t take our research funding for, well, granted. Grant funding supports faculty and student initiatives in research, education, and service and involves UMSON community members not just as principal investigators on research grants but as other key investigators and as recipients of individual educational and training/ instructional program grants.

The upward trend in our funding seen in fiscal year 2016 continued into the first quarter of fy 2017.

$8.3 million total extramural funding in fy 16

9.6 percent increase in year-overyear funding, fy 15 to fy 16

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74 percent of new grants awarded in fy 16 as compared to 49 percent in fy 15

nearly 1 in 4 UMSON faculty members who received grant funding in fy 16

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Nurse Support Program II Grants Add Up to Success

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hese numbers speak volumes. Eleven University of Maryland School of Nursing faculty members have been awarded nine of 19 Nurse Support Program (NSP) II grants for fiscal year 2017, totaling more than $7.2 million. UMSON’s grants compose nearly 50 percent of those awarded statewide and more than 40 percent of the total dollars allocated.

Funded through the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), NSP II grants help increase Maryland’s nursing capacity by supporting initiatives that advance the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations in its report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

No. 1 Collaborative Nurse Practitioner Clinical Training ($945,866) Shannon Idzik, DNP, CRNP, FAANP, associate professor and associate dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program The School of Nursing and the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center have formed an academic-practice partnership allowing 10 advanced practice nursing students annually to learn from leading clinicians in a variety of specialty practice settings within the hospital system.

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No. 2 Faculty Mentorship Program II ($350,031)

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Q Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81, RN, FAHA, ANEF, professor and director, Institute for Educators Expanding upon a previous NSP II grant-funded project that focused on the development of a faculty mentorship program, this effort aims to retain

well-prepared faculty by inviting 100 of them, working in mentor/mentee pairs, to engage in individually determined learning experiences.

No. 3 Project Rush ($595,210) Meg Johantgen, PhD, RN, associate professor and associate dean for the PhD program Through this project, Johantgen aims to produce new faculty for Maryland nursing schools by supporting students’ more direct progress to master’s and research doctoral programs, allowing them to begin their teaching careers earlier. The project targets Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Clinical Nurse Leader, and RN-to-BSN students with superior academic performance, offering them mentored research experiences and support with the aim of promoting PhD applications.

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No. 4 Care Coordination Specialty ($255,198) Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03, RN, FAAN, professor and specialty director, Nursing Informatics master’s specialty Q Nina Trocky, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CNE, CCRA, assistant professor and associate dean for the baccalaureate program The School of Nursing has begun offering a three-course Care Coordination with Health IT focus area within the RN-to-BSN program this spring to train a new cadre of BSN-prepared nurses to apply advanced knowledge and skills in care coordination supported by health information technology and analytics—with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes and health care efficiency in Maryland hospitals.

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No. 5 Developing Nurse Educators to Teach Online ($80,970) Carol O’Neil, PhD, RN, CNE, associate professor Q

Trocky Named Associate Dean for the Baccalaureate Program

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ina Trocky, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CNE, assistant professor, was named the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s associate dean for the baccalaureate program in May after serving as the interim associate dean since October 2015.

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Trocky stays abreast of and advises the faculty on a wide array of academic issues and policies impacting baccalaureate education at UMSON, which includes the traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and RN-to-BSN programs.

FIRSTS To prepare nurses for roles as faculty and educators and to provide ongoing professional development for nurses already in those roles, this project offers workshops and webinars to nurse educators across Maryland to support them in becoming efficient and effective teachers in online learning environments.

No. 6 Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner ($168,924)

costs. With the help of care management experts from the Advisory Board of Maryland, Zimberg will team with Crystal DeVance-Wilson, MS ’06, MBA, BSN ’00, PHCNS-BC, clinical instructor, and Pat McLaine, DrPH, MPH, RN, assistant professor and director, Community/Public Health Nursing master’s specialty, to develop three new School of Nursing courses that focus on care coordination and case management.

Q Debra A. Scrandis, PhD, CRNP, BC, associate professor The School of Nursing will begin offering a post-doctoral psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) certificate this fall. The certificate will prepare advanced practice registered nurses or other doctorally prepared nurses to become nationally certified PMHNPs, practice as PMHNPs, and teach psychiatric nursing at all educational levels.

Bridget Gourley, DNP ’08, CRNP, assistant professor and director, Family Nurse Practitioner specialty See “A Growing Family,” Page 18, for more information about this grant.

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Care Coordination and Case Management ($113,701)

RN-to-BSN or MS Clinical Faculty ($3,120,506)

Q Patricia Zimberg, JD, MS ’00, RN, assistant professor Hospitals, health systems, and insurers recognize the importance of care coordination as a valuable strategy to improve quality, promote evidence-based practice, and contain

Q Mary Etta C. Mills, ScD, MS ’73, BSN ’71, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor Q Linda Hickman, PhD, MBA, RN, FACHE, assistant professor See “Teaching Nurses to Teach,” Page 22, for more information about this grant.

—K.N.

She also works to develop partnerships with other academic institutions and health care organizations to assist with the transition of transfer students and students who are graduates of Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) programs to UMSON’s BSN program in an effort to increase the number of baccalaureate degree-prepared nurses, supporting one of the goals in the

No. 8 Family Nurse Practitioner Expansion to the Universities Shady Grove ($1,586,781) Q

Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report.

Under Trocky’s leadership, the School has signed dual-admission agreements with a variety of community colleges throughout Maryland. The agreements offer a seamless transition from the college’s ADN program to UMSON’s RN-to-BSN program.

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he first cohort of six Montgomery College (MC) students has begun its journey toward earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing beginning this past fall.

In spring 2015, UMSON and MC in Rockville, Maryland, signed a dual-admission agreement— the first of its kind in UMSON’s history—to create a seamless transition from MC’s Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program to the BSN, offering nursing students simultaneous admission into both programs. Students receive transfer credits for completed MC coursework and can take UMSON courses while still working on their associate degrees; once they earn their ADN degrees, they officially become UMSON bachelor’s students.

The dual-admission agreement has laid the foundation for students enrolled in ADN programs throughout the state— including the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata; Cecil College in North East; and Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold—to progress to UMSON and earn their BSN degrees.

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Conway Spotlight: Karla Armijo, BSN ’16, RN

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arla Armijo, BSN ’16, RN, is well aware of the responsibility that comes with being the first in a family to earn a bachelor’s degree.

“I feel that I have that pressure of continuing with succeeding in my career,” she says. “I want my children to know that education is No. 1. My 5-year-old looks up to me a lot. I know that little by little, it’ll set a great example and set values and goals for them.”

When Armijo’s oldest daughter was 3, Armijo was working to earn her Associate Degree in Nursing at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland, managing life as a single parent while her husband, now a veteran, was stationed in Texas. Despite the demands on her schedule, she graduated with her associate degree in 2014, and a month later, she learned she was pregnant with her second daughter.

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She entered the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program as a part-time student in fall 2015, once her second daughter was born. But she realized that finishing her classes faster meant she’d be able to accelerate her career, too.

She applied for the School’s Conway Scholarship, which covers tuition, fees, and books for students who meet certain financial qualifications.

“I was really happy to get the scholarship to go full time,” she says.

“It’s helped out a lot financially. Having a family, two kids, everything we have to pay, it gave me the opportunity to go full time so I was able to finish quickly and not put my career on hold.”

And she got started even before earning her degree. Last February, she began working three consecutive 12-hour night shifts in the maternity ward at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland,

managing her time (and doing it well— she’s made the dean’s list and is a member of UMSON’s Pi Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International honor society) by taking her classes exclusively online.

“They were looking for new nurses without any experience, so I knew that was going to be a big help and big opportunity, especially for my family, with the new baby and only having one income from my husband,” she says.

As a recent graduate, she has continued working at Holy Cross but has plans for the future. “Later on, I’d like to advance my career even further,” she says, although she hasn’t yet decided how. The scholarship, she says, has made it all possible. “I would like to thank the Conways for everything they’ve done,” she continues. “Giving me the opportunity has been a true blessing.

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Paying It Forward UMSON partners with city schools to provide students with career direction

By Rich Dubroff

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anessa Fahie, PhD ’94, MS ’83, BSN ’76, RN, assistant professor, wants to give Baltimore high school students the help she never received.

A graduate of Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School, Fahie has taught at the University of Maryland School of Nursing for 22 years. Last spring, she received a $149,000 College Preparation Intervention Program grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

The grant provides funding to institutions involved with Baltimore city public high schools participating in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP),

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funded through a U.S. Department of Education competitive grant that aims to increase the number of low-income students prepared to enter and succeed in college. The College Preparation Intervention Program grant that Fahie received supports her work with low-income students attending her alma mater and Edmondson-Westside High School to do just that.

“I did not have any type of specific support,” she recalls of her own career decision-making. “When I was in high school, I remember thinking: ‘What am I going to do after high school?’ and my parents said, ‘Either you work or you go to school.’ I had no support other than

knowing that I wanted to be a nurse, and my parents always said, ‘You can do whatever you want to do.’”

Fahie’s funded project, Exploring Health Profession Careers, fosters career awareness and exploration, college readiness, financial literacy, and increased parental involvement, so a critical aspect of the project is working with parents. “More often than not, the students’ parents have not attended college,” Fahie says. “Some have not finished high school; some have GEDs. But more than likely, the student will be the first person in their family to attend college.

“We meet with parents to help them understand what it takes to get to college.

‘What is college? Is college really possible for my child?’ And, yes, it is possible for all children, whether they go to a trade school, a two-year college, community college, or a four-year college.”

After Fahie meets with the parents, they are better prepared to help their children make wise decisions to help them attain the academic background they need for college and eventual careers.

“The program focuses on helping the parent understand the choices that students make in high school: ‘Do I take earth science? Or do I take biology and chemistry if I want to be a nurse or a health care professional?’” Fahie says, explaining that certain courses will help pave the way for different career goals.

In the early phase of GEAR UP, which starts at two city middle schools—The Commodore John Rodgers School and Friendship Preparatory Academy at Calverton—students are encouraged to

start thinking about careers in the health professions, but the focus is on their high school careers. Fahie began working with these students last spring at the end of their eighth-grade year and continued working with them through a camp over the summer. Now in ninth grade, the students will remain involved in GEAR UP programming until they graduate.

Fahie has a bias. She loves nursing and wants others to follow the same path she did, but she’s realistic. “My preference is for everybody to become a nurse,” she says. “Not everyone wants to be a nurse, and sometimes stereotypes that they see on television or in print media is what they think nurses do.”

She tries to combat that by talking about the advantages of nursing, including the high demand for nurses that allows them to choose where and when they want to work and the

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About 100 students from Baltimore’s Edmondson-Westside High School attended the Nov. 9 launch of UMSON’s GEAR UP program; the day’s events included presentations and breakout sessions regarding the transition from high school to college, followed by lunch, which Fahie (in blue shirt, above) helped serve, and bubble blowing (opposite) in the School of Nursing courtyard. Fahie also mingled with students while they ate (right).

wide range of career options available. “Some say, ‘I can’t do blood and guts,’” Fahie says, and so she makes an effort to show them that “nursing is bigger than the emergency room, shock trauma and surgery.”

Fahie is cognizant that there are many more challenges for today’s students than there were for her.

Children who live in her old neighborhood are more likely to come from single-parent households and to experience higher levels of crime, she says.

“They’re very different than when I came up,” she says. “They have lifeand-death issues almost daily. I never had to contend with anything like that.”

Given these challenges, GEAR UP offers these students support and mentoring from successful professionals like Fahie

to help them plan their own paths to rewarding careers. In turn, it offers Fahie an opportunity to provide important perspective on how they can influence their own lives.

“It’s important to help them see they can succeed in spite of their environment and there are resources available,” Fahie says. “I made it. It worked for me. It can work for you. A little hard work and perseverance, it can happen for you like it happened for me.”

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Mathias cares for a neonatal abstinence syndrome patient at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore, where she’s worked for 25 years.

Tackling the Opioid Epidemic

By Gregory J. Alexander

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he statistics are staggering: From 1999-2014, more than 165,000 people died from overdoses related to opioid pain medication in the United States, with nearly 19,000 deaths in 2014 alone—a 369 percent increase over the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The frequency that health care providers have prescribed opioids for chronic pain relief has increased at an equally rapid rate. Since 1999, sales of prescription opioids nationwide have quadrupled, and in 2012, providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid pain medication, enough for every adult 16 WINTER 2017

in the country to have a bottle of pills, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

“As a certified addictions registered nurse who has been involved in the field since 1997, I have never seen anything of this magnitude before,” says Katherine Fornili, DNP ’16, MPH, RN, CARN, FIAAN, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

Fornili says she believes the United States hasn’t dedicated adequate attention or sufficient resources to this growing epidemic, although she has seen an uptick in efforts to combat the problem lately. “Once suburban, middleclass children began dying, individuals in power and politics started paying more

attention to the problem of opioid misuse and overdose deaths,” she says.

Unlike cocaine or other drugs that must be purchased from a drug dealer, “individuals can access prescription drugs, particularly opioids, from a primary care physician, a dentist, or even their grandmother’s medicine cabinet,” Fornili says. In an effort to combat prescription drug and opioid abuse, in April UMSON became one of the first nursing schools in the nation to commit to educating its advanced practice registered nursing students on the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, released in March. Also in April, Fornili represented the School of Nursing at the White House Champions of Change event on Advancing Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, honoring community members working to prevent substance abuse, improve access to treatment, and support recovery.

The new CDC guideline is mainly for primary care providers, who write nearly half of all opioid prescriptions; however, care of patients with chronic pain occurs in multiple settings, and efforts to improve prescribing safety and curtail harms associated with opioid use must occur at all levels of practice.

Therefore, Fornili recommends including the guideline in curricula for graduate and pre-professional programs, including undergraduate courses.

The guideline will help practitioners determine if and when to start prescribing opioids to treat chronic pain and offers information on opioid dosage and duration and how to reassess patient progress.

It also promotes the use of non-opioid therapy for chronic pain outside of active cancer, palliative, and end-of-life care.

“These guidelines provide dosage recommendations, which is critical,” Fornili says. “A patient who has undergone a root canal or other minor procedure should not be given a 30-day supply of OxyContin or Vicodin.” According to the guideline, a three-day supply is often sufficient for most acute pain, and more than seven days is rarely needed.

Fornili says one of the most important of the 12 recommendations in the guideline is the need for health care providers to involve patients in all decision-making and treatment goals, focusing on the known risks and realistic benefits of opioid therapy. Fornili is helping students prepare for this critical communication with patients, drawing on her own experiences in the field to inform those lessons.

Prior to coming to UMSON in 2005, Fornili had worked for more than 13 years in managerial, administrative, and consultative roles in city, state, and federal governments regarding the care of individuals with substance-use disorders.

She is also associate editor of and writes for the Journal of Addictions Nursing.

“All of these experiences help inform my teaching, especially in the addictions course and my community/public health clinical groups,” Fornili says.

The addictions course is NURS 418: Drug Addiction, Society, and the Role of the Nurse, which Fornili co-teaches and is designed to help undergraduate students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to ensure that nurses in all health settings meet a basic level of competency for screening and intervening with individuals with substance-use disorders.

Fornili also teaches two undergraduate community/public health nursing groups in a clinical practicum in downtown Baltimore. The practicum site is a residential job-training program for formerly homeless men, many of whom have histories of incarceration and are in the early stages of recovery from alcohol or drug dependence.

She works with master’s-level students on their papers and with doctoral students on their projects, especially when they relate to addictions. “Last spring, I mentored a student whose clinical nurse leader paper focused specifically on the use of naloxone [a medication used to block the effects of opioids] to prevent opioid overdose deaths,” she says. And UMSON’s

Students United for Policy, Education, and Research group has also been involved in school-sponsored sessions for students to learn more about naloxone administration.

Advanced practice nursing students, including nurse practitioners, get more than 500 hours of direct patient care under the supervision of an experienced master’s- or doctorally prepared practitioner regarding safe, effective prescribing practices consistent with the CDC guideline and other national standards.

“In certain situations, it is also important for clinicians to discuss the difference between immediate-release opioids and extended-release opioids, which take longer to be fully effective,” Fornili says. “If patients are unaware of this distinction, they may take more medication than prescribed to relieve pain.”

The CDC guideline notes that certain screening measures implemented by hospitals may have had unintended consequences. While states’ prescriptiondrug monitoring programs can notify a health care provider if an individual has been “doctor shopping” for prescription drugs, and urine tests can indicate whether a patient is also abusing other drugs or alcohol, the difficulty in obtaining prescribed opioids may turn some individuals to heroin, which has similar effects but is less expensive and, in some cases, easier for people to obtain.

According to NIDA, nearly half of young people who inject heroin reported using prescription opioids before the onset of heroin use.

Kay Mathias, BSN ’86, CRNP, a neonatal nurse practitioner at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore, has witnessed firsthand the effects of heroin and other opioid abuse. She says that with the majority of substance-exposed newborns she sees, the mother is in a methadone program because it is considered unsafe to withdraw women from opioids during pregnancy. Many became addicted to painkillers after

surgery. “They were given a 30-day supply and had no idea that they could become addicted,” says Mathias, indicating that opioid addiction is evident throughout Maryland, not just in Baltimore, and that some babies are born addicted to the methadone used to treat the opioid addiction. “I believe it’s important to have prenatal education for those in a methadone program so that they know what to expect when their baby goes through withdrawal.”

Mathias says that symptoms of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), the clinical term for the problems that occur in newborns exposed to addictive drugs while in the womb, include gastrointestinal complications, such as diarrhea, gas, and abdominal pain, and central nervous system components, including irritability, inability to sleep, a harsh pitch to the baby’s cry, fever, and a high respiratory rate. According to Mathias, the half-life for methadone withdrawal is longer than heroin’s, and exactly when a baby begins to withdraw can vary. Each infant responds differently, depending on when the mother last used the opioid, the amount the mother was taking, the size of the infant, how fast the baby excretes the drug, and other variables, so nurses like Mathias use a spectrum of care, depending on how the baby responds.

“We will initially try supportive measures, such as a dark, quiet room with decreased stimulation, soft music, swaddling, and a vibrating infant bed,” Mathias says. “If this does not prove to be effective, enough morphine will be administered to avoid serious withdrawal symptoms and seizures, and then the amount will be decreased.”

This can lead to lengthy, costly hospital stays for the babies. And the statistics related to NAS are as staggering as those related to nationwide opioid overdose deaths. According to the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, more than 21,000 infants were born in the United States with NAS in 2012. That’s equivalent to one baby born suffering from opiate withdrawal every 25 minutes.

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A Growing Family Expanding the Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty to the Universities at Shady Grove

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he University of Maryland School of Nursing is expanding its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, ranked fifth in the nation

by U.S. News & World Report, to the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) in Rockville, Maryland, next fall in an effort to draw diverse groups of students from a wider swath of the state.

Adding the DNP family nurse practitioner (FNP) specialty to USG will allow students who cannot make the trek to Baltimore—currently the only home of the program—to pursue the advanced-practice degree. Gina Rowe, PhD ’13, DNP ’10, MPH, FNPBC, PHCNS-BC, CNE, will coordinate the program at USG and says one goal of the expansion is to “recruit from underrepresented communities.”

“We’ve never been able to reach into Western Maryland too well,” she says.

“The distance was prohibitive to come from there to Baltimore. It’s much more feasible at the Rockville site. We know there is a lot of need—and not any programs—in that part of Maryland. We have a unique opportunity at the Shady Grove location because Montgomery County is extremely diverse. We’re excited. Our undergraduate nursing program there has really developed an outstanding reputation.”

The Baltimore FNP specialty graduates 20 students per year. According to Rowe, the USG program will start with 10 students when it launches, and the following year’s incoming class will likely have twice as many.

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The intensive primary care program, which consists of both classroom and in-the-field training with health care professionals, covers “the entire life cycle,” Rowe says, from patients “just a few days old to the elderly.”

Bridgitte Gourley, DNP ’08, FNP-BC, assistant professor and specialty director, has led the FNP specialty at UMSON’s Baltimore campus since 2009, and she will assume the same role at USG. The School of Nursing was awarded a five-year, $1.6 million Nurse Support II grant from the state to launch the new undertaking in Montgomery County.

“What I’ve learned is that they often don’t have nurse practitioners and health care providers in underserved areas,” Gourley says. “It’s often because of a lack of access to educational programs.

In Western Maryland, many of the communities have a shortage of health care professionals. Part of the reason is that there are not many advanced degree programs that are located nearby. And if there are, they may be private or forprofit programs that are not financially viable for many students.”

Gourley says she hopes students from more rural communities will return home after graduating from the program at USG and will remain there to provide the care that’s so needed. “Many times these communities have visiting nurse practitioners or physicians that go there for a certain amount of time, they pay back their loans, and then they leave to go start a practice somewhere else,” she says.

“Rarely do they stay because they’re not

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from that community. That’s a problem.

“People of color and in underserved communities really seek care from people that know, understand, and represent them. There’s no better way to bring about that connection than to have folks go back to their communities and

FNP student Catherine Hood, BSN, RN, (left) practices checking a patient’s hearing under Rowe’s observation.

provide much-needed care to families in places like Western Maryland.”

About 20 percent of the students in the Baltimore FNP specialty come from the Rockville area, so Rebecca Wiseman, PhD ’93, RN, associate professor and chair of UMSON’s programs at USG,

says the new project should gain traction right away. She also says recent market research analysis concluded that a nurse practitioner program was needed in the region.

“There’s a sense that this is an area that could support the program and that the

program would meet its needs,” she says.

Gourley says she looks forward to seeing students providing care in the field.

“It’s always great to go out and see your graduates practicing and providing a great service to a community,” she says. “It’s enormously rewarding.”

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New State Law Pays Preceptors Back Governor approves state income-tax credit in areas with health care workforce shortages

By Nancy Menefee Jackson

Lane Fodel, MS ’10, CRNP, senior nurse practioner, Adult Emergency Department, University of Maryland Medical Center (right), precepts Siham Sleiman, a School of Nursing visiting master’s scholar from Lebanon (center).

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or years, when it came to training the next generation, primary care practitioners paid it forward, dedicating time to precept future doctors and nurse practitioners. Now, thanks to Maryland Senate Bill (SB) 411, they’ll be paid back, in a way, by owing a little less in taxes.

SB 411, approved by Gov. Larry Hogan in May and effective as of last July 1, authorizes a state income-tax credit for anyone who serves as a preceptor in certain preceptorship programs in specified areas of Maryland that have health care workforce shortages.

Preceptors may claim a credit of $1,000 per student per rotation—or in the case of nurse practitioners, per semester—up to a maximum of $10,000. To help pay for the credit, the bill establishes the special, nonlapsing Nurse Practitioner Preceptorship Tax Credit Fund, requiring the Maryland Board of Nursing to assess a $15 fee for the renewal of a specified certification.

Richard Colgan, MD, professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and director of the school’s Maryland Area Health Education Centers program, led the initiative to pursue the preceptor tax-credit legislation, modeling it after a similar law in Georgia. Colgan met with Maryland Sen. Adelaide C. “Addie” Eckardt, MS ’81, BSN ’78, who represents the Eastern Shore and is a nurse, and she agreed to sponsor the legislation.

“This is a reasonable incentive to affirm what our practitioners are already doing,” Eckardt says. “It is a small token of our appreciation and a reinforcer to continue

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to grow our own nurse practitioners and physicians in this era of shortages in the rural areas.”

University of Maryland School of Nursing faculty assisted the process by reviewing past legislation, writing letters, meeting with legislators, and advocating in general. Shannon Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03, CRNP, FAANP, associate professor and associate dean of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, was one of those faculty. “The University of Maryland School of Nursing worked tirelessly to see this bill become a reality,” she says.

“We are committed to quality clinical experiences for our students and therefore committed to our long list of dedicated preceptors. We hope this, in some way, rewards them for their dedication to the future of Maryland.”

“This was really a grassroots effort,” Colgan explains. “We were very fortunate to have passed this on the first go-round.

I have appreciated the support of the University of Maryland School of Nursing faculty in these efforts.”

Nurse practitioners play a prominent role in delivering care to underserved communities, where primary care physicians are few and far between. This is where Colgan’s health education centers play a vital role, working to enhance health care access in underserved areas of the state. “Our main reason for being is to promote a health pipeline,” he says. “How do you get health care students interested in primary care on the Eastern Shore or in Western Maryland when all their training is in Baltimore?” One way is through the new preceptorship tax credit, which is available only in underserved areas.

Michelle Clark, MSW, MPH, executive director, Baltimore Area Health Education Center, a regional center within the larger purview of Colgan’s statewide program, says that it’s a huge incentive for preceptors and “a chance to thank them in a small way.”

“You fund these really good clinicians who see it as part of their responsibility to teach the next generation,” Clark says.

“The shortage of primary care in these regions is drastic. Rural practitioners have a different delivery of care; there’s not a lot of specialty care. You use your license to its fullest scope.”

Ideally, providers who choose to practice in rural areas are people who come from them, as they understand the environment, but it becomes critical to keep them connected once they’ve left those areas to pursue their education.

Nurse practitioners in rural areas find themselves managing everything from chronic medical conditions to acute care, which helps sharpen their skills in the field. “A lot of what they’re doing is problem-solving. You have a patient coming in with a complaint, and you have to get to the bottom of it,” says Kristy Novak, MS, assistant director of graduate clinical placements at UMSON. Urban regions can also qualify as underserved areas, even though they may be close to major medical centers.

The criteria for what constitutes “underserved” relates to the number of licensed physicians and nurse practitioners practicing in a specific area.

Novak notes that nurse practitioner students may spend clinical hours at a community center such as the Esperanza Center in Baltimore, where immigrants to

the United States are offered health and dental services in addition to educational and legal assistance. She points out that the diversity among the patients that the students see creates a rich learning experience and helps them to identify health trends within the community.

“For most students, it’s a phenomenal experience,” she says.

But all of this clinical experience for students is reliant on the availability and willingness of preceptors, and Novak says the new tax credit is an indication that Maryland’s government recognizes the importance of preceptor service.

“The state government is looking at this preceptorship as a valuable resource,” she says. “Preceptors don’t get paid for the time they spend with students. With a lot of nurses, it’s simple altruism; they want to give back, and they love what they do.”

But it requires a lot of time and energy, especially if preceptors take on more than one student. During a semester, nurse practitioner students are required to do a clinical rotation, which can run 90-225 hours.

“At any given point, we may need 200-300 preceptors to accommodate these students,” Novak says. “I’m reaching out to them every semester asking for their interest and availability to take a student. The tax credit is something that is a huge benefit to all involved.”

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Teaching Nurses to Teach UMSON’s Academic-Hospital Partnerships Address Maryland’s Nurse Shortage

By Terri Reuter

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hen Holly Sowko, MS ’15, BSN ’04, RN-BC, was looking to complete her master’s degree, her goal was to become a nurse manager. For Sowko, who was then serving as a clinical nursing director at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Parole, Maryland, the best fit was the Health Services Leadership and Management (HSLM) master’s specialty at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, which can be completed entirely online.

Through academic-hospital partnerships funded by the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s Nurse Support Program (NSP) II grant, UMSON has assisted 130 staff nurses

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at partner hospitals during the past decade to continue their education by earning a Master of Science degree through the HSLM program. The nurses receive focused mentorship to explore an expanded career trajectory, including individualized academic advising and support through graduation.

“Our program is designed to prepare hospital-based nurses as clinical instructors who can supervise or mentor undergraduate and graduate students needing clinical practice experience,” says Mary Etta Mills, ScD, MS ’73, BSN ’71, RN, FAAN, professor, who co-directs the initiative at UMSON with Linda Hickman, PhD ’98, MBA, RN, FACHE, assistant professor. “By virtue

of having increased clinical access for these experiences, it is anticipated that schools of nursing in Maryland may be able to increase nursing enrollments and graduate more nurses to alleviate the growing nursing shortage.”

This is the goal, as the Maryland Hospital Association has projected a shortage of 10,000 registered nurses this year, and the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation has forecasted more than 19,000 new openings for registered nurses through 2022.

The NSP II grant began funding UMSON’s unique, strategic academicservice partnerships with 13 acute-care hospitals in 2006. Now, continued NSP

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II grant funding has allowed UMSON to expand its reach by partnering with 18 hospitals throughout Maryland. The current five-year, $3.1 million NSP II continuation grant allows UMSON to recruit, support, and prepare nurses at seven partner hospitals identified through previous grants plus an additional 11 acute-care hospitals and also has expanded the initiative’s reach to UMSON’s RN-to-BSN program. The objective is to prepare 125 additional bachelor’s- and master’s-level nurses over the next five years to serve as hospitalbased clinical instructors, faculty, preceptors, or mentors.

According to Mills, she and Hickman provide “a concierge service to all of our students” to help them balance school and their work at the hospitals with which the School partners. Students are provided academic advising and assistance with their class schedules. And if a class is full and partnership students aren’t able to register for it, Mills and Hickman create a new section for them and secure an adjunct faculty member to teach it.

“These academic-hospital partnerships are the key to supporting working nurses to graduate and be successful,” Hickman says. “I regularly visit each hospital and provide on-site advisement, mentorship, and recruitment.”

Through the HSLM specialty’s Executive Practice or Education focus areas, students have as many as five years to complete the flexible master’s degree, which includes an online curriculum and a clinical practicum, in which Mills and Hickman assist, advise, and mentor students.

Executive Practice The HSLM Executive Practice focus includes upper-level leadership, organizational behavior, health services administration, health policy, finance, and other business courses. Sowko, now nurse manager for the Neurotrauma Critical Care Unit and intermediate care interim manager at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams

Cowley Shock Trauma Center, chose the Executive Practice focus because she wanted to move into a leadership position.

“The HSLM online program was perfect for me because I live in Annapolis, and I was working full time,” Sowko says.

“The master’s degree helped me advance my leadership and management career by obtaining a management position in a larger hospital organization.” Before she had even completed her degree, Sowko had earned her current position at Shock Trauma.

Another graduate of the HSLM Executive Practice focus area, Matthew Morris, MS ’10, BSN ’08, RN, NEA-BC, earned both his Bachelor of Science in Nursing and master’s degrees in UMSON’s accelerated RN-to-MS program, completing both degrees in four years as a part-time student while he worked as a nurse supervisor at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore.

“The HSLM program focuses on and prepares the student for real-world administrative responsibilities,” Morris says. “It also allows the student to easily move between a patient-centric focus and a systems and/or organizational focus to plan the care of patients across the health continuum.”

Now, as an assistant director of nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Wilmer Surgical Enterprise, Morris oversees surgical services, including nursing services for the outpatient surgery center on the main hospital campus and at two community-based ambulatory surgery centers.

“In my current role, the broad base of knowledge that I gained in the program supports daily decisions in care provision as well as future planning of budgets and programs,” he says.

Morris also lends his knowledge and experience to service on the HSLM program’s advisory board and as a guest lecturer, clinical preceptor, and part-time adjunct faculty member at Cecil College in North East, Maryland.

Education The HSLM Education focus area concentrates on the foundations and strategies of teaching and learning for nurses who wish to become clinical instructors and faculty members.

Gloria Lay, MS ’14, BSN ’99, RN, performance improvement and risk management coordinator in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Services at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, chose this focus area because it supported her efforts in the community, where she has partnered with area churches and inner-city schools to establish and maintain health programs.

A nurse for more than 40 years, Lay also teaches at Coppin State University and has served as a parish nurse coordinator at Mercy Medical Center, both in Baltimore, and mentors in the community. The background Lay gained through the HSLM Education focus area has enhanced her work with physicians and when she facilitates meetings.

“The program has given me confidence to implement strategies and write action plans,” she says. “For me, education is at the forefront. That is my passion.”

Although they work in different capacities, Sowko, Morris, and Lay all laud the role the HSLM program played in helping them achieve their career objectives.

HSLM graduates serve as staff educators, faculty members, and nurse leaders who support continuing education across the state and throughout the region. “Without hesitation, I provide my highest recommendation to this program in preparing leaders and educators,” Morris says.

“I encourage anyone to pursue this degree to further their career goals, especially if management or education is their focus,” Sowko says. “My eventual goal is to obtain a director of nursing position, and this degree has set me on the correct path.”

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hey sit across Lombard Street from each other, with the iconic iron gates of the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s courtyard flanking a view of the entrance to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s (UMMC) R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. This proximity nurtures the two longstanding institutions’ interdependence—a symbiosis of sorts and a model for the type of academic nursing-academic health center partnership that the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and

Manatt Health call for in their March 2016 report, Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing.

The School of Nursing and UMMC promote the report’s recommendations simply by encouraging their community members to cross the street. Through UMNursing, an academicpractice partnership founded in 2007 by UMSON Dean Emerita Janet Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN, in collaboration with Lisa Rowen, DNSc, MS ’86, RN, FAAN, system chief nurse executive, University of Maryland Medical System, and senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, UMMC, the two institutions foster a cycle of academic and career progression that mutually benefits School of Nursing students and faculty and UMMC nurses, and often the roles are blurred. Take, for instance, faculty like Joan M. Davenport, PhD ’00, RN, assistant professor, who practices at the Medical Center through a professional-service agreement (see “Practice Makes Perfect,” Page 26) or alumni like Kerry Sue Mueller, BSN ’90, RN, who leads a UMMC unit staffed with other UMSON alumni and students (see “Team Captain,” Page 30).

In addition, the Medical Center offers School of Nursing students priority placement for clinical and precepting experiences and is committed to hiring UMSON graduates, a win-win given that so many do their clinical rotations in UMMC units; in fact, the Medical Center hired 40 percent of UMSON’s entry-to-practice (Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Clinical Nurse Leader master’s option) graduates in fiscal year 2016. In turn, UMMC supports its nurses in advancing their education, and many choose to do so across the street at the School of Nursing.

All of this effort is further bolstered by advances in nursing research fueled through creative opportunities for collaborative work among UMSON faculty and the Medical Center’s practice partners; UMNursing-funded research requires a School of Nursing faculty member and a UMMC nurse to serve as co-principal investigators, and the partnership has supported research in such critical fields as pain, breastfeeding, and cardiac care.

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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

T

here’s really no such

in five or six other courses each semester,

thing as a typical

tapping into her 40 years of nursing

workday, Joan M.

experience and covering topics such as

Davenport, PhD ’00,

advanced pharmacology for Doctor of Nursing

RN, will tell you.

Practice students, a cardiovascular nursing

Davenport is an

elective, and obesity

assistant professor at

and mobility for first-

the University of Maryland School of Nursing

semester BSN students.

and a staff nurse in the Medical Intensive Care

But that’s still only part

Unit (MICU) at the University of Maryland

of her role as a faculty

Medical Center (UMMC). With these titles

member. As vice chair of

come great responsibilities—and the

UMSON’s Department

assurance that when Davenport wakes up

of Organizational

in the morning, there’s no telling what time

Systems and Adult

she might return home.

Health, she also has

Davenport teaches classes on Monday

administrative duties

mornings and on Friday afternoons, including

that include scheduling

a third-semester Bachelor of Science in

classes, making teaching assignments, and

Nursing (BSN) class, NURS 414: Complex

providing guidance and assistance to aspiring

Nursing Care of Comorbid Conditions,

nurses and new faculty.

which students affectionately call “co-mo.”

Davenport created the course as an elective several years ago, but it is now part of the core BSN curriculum.

“We’re trying to flesh out the complexities

“That’s my job on this side of the street,” she says.

Once a week, she ventures out through the iron gates in UMSON’s courtyard and across Lombard Street to her position in UMMC’s

students are going to see when they get into a

MICU. The School and the Medical Center are,

hospital and take care of patients,” Davenport

as Davenport puts it, “two distinct entities

says. “If I have diabetes, I probably also have

with a very strong partnership serving some

hypertension and renal conditions and

important goals.” While the hospital is a

I’m probably also going blind.”

private, nonprofit entity separate from the

Davenport also serves as a guest lecturer 26 WINTER 2017

university system to which UMSON belongs,

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How an UMSON Faculty Member Finds Balance in Classroom and Bedside Roles

clockwise from above: Davenport (left) working closely with nurse practitioner Kimberly Bowers, MS ’07, RN, ACNP-BC, at the MICU nurses station; conversing with nurse Cheryl Coale, MS, RN, (right) in the halls of the MICU; taking time out to catch up with Coale (left) and registered respiratory therapist Archana Patel, BS-RRT, ACCS, AE-C, (right) in the MICU when she arrives for her shift; with Dean Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, at UMSON

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the two institutions have a “very close

hospital caring for a patient with

relationship,” she says. “One of the draws of

sepsis and was able to put into practice

this place is the ability to have professional

my new knowledge.”

service agreements, which allow faculty to

Davenport’s students also benefit

continue to practice. … It’s convenient, and

from her MICU shifts, gaining hands-on

we’ve got a nice partnership.”

experience in the fast-paced and

The benefits of that partnership go both ways and along multiple paths. Davenport’s

challenging critical-care environment.

“I often have students with me getting

classes and curricula naturally reflect her

some clinical time, working with me as I take

real-world experiences—working with a

care of patients,” she says. “Just recently,

patient with severe liver disease awaiting a

I had a student with me until 7:30 [p.m.].

transplant, for instance, or a lung-transplant

She was with me for 12 hours. Working with

patient who has returned to the hospital

critically ill patients was brand new to her, so

with critical complications from the flu. “I

I stuck by her side for the whole shift. Then

can be in the MICU caring for a patient or

I stayed an extra two hours to finish up what

rounding with the multidisciplinary team

I couldn’t get to while I was working with the

and I’ll learn something new or see a new

student. … Making sure the students have

way of thinking about a clinical problem and

an opportunity to experience the nursing

be able to take that information back to the

care required for patients as sick as those

School and put it into action,” she says.

in the MICU is important. I never want to

Conversely, she often finds her MICU

minimize the intensity and wrongly convince

work benefiting from new information and

a student that it is just another day. Rather,

approaches she’s exposed to on the academic

I want them to understand that the intensity

side, such as a recent protocol shift for the

is a part of this kind of nursing, and the

care of severe infections, or sepsis. “New

rewards are different than those they may

guidelines came out last year to address the

look for in other types of nursing.”

care of these patients,” Davenport says. “I

After leaving the MICU on Thursday

took that information and updated my notes

night, Davenport transitions back to her

for class. Within a couple of days, I was in the

teaching role at UMSON on Friday. And the nonstop pace of her work doesn’t go unnoticed; sometimes, the people she’s closest to give her a hard time for the intense schedule. “I’m given some good-natured teasing by my colleagues and my family because I’m in charge of the assignments as vice chair of the department, and for some reason I keep assigning myself a Monday morning and a Friday afternoon class,” she says. “It upsets the people who think I should have long weekends every once in a while.”

But the variety and interconnectivity of it all, along with occasional cups of coffee, are enough to keep her going strong. “The various roles complement each other in such a way that I don’t feel overwhelmed by

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“I get very excited about working with

students who don’t know about nursing and helping them learn.”

Davenport reviews correct responses to an examination with students in her undergraduate NURS 414: Complex Nursing Care of Comorbid Conditions class.

the transition of one to another,” she says.

who don’t know about nursing and helping

the UMMC School of Nursing Colleague

“The excitement of caring for patients and

them learn, and I have an opportunity to

Award for excellence as a mentor

families, of being a part of a really fast-paced

work with nurses who have been at it for

and educator—and at the same awards

environment one day a week, is very fulfilling. …

a fairly long time and are working their

ceremony, the hospital’s MICU won

Being in the hospital, in the MICU, for part of

way through their doctoral education,” she

the coveted Chief Nursing Officer Award

my job allows me to stay in touch with what I

says. “I get to watch them as they mature

for Team Excellence. Perhaps knowing

love most about nursing: the patient care.” In

and reach new heights in their profession.

you’re appreciated takes the edge off

fact, Davenport says that “registered nurse”

It’s so incredibly rewarding.”

of the long hours and the sometimes grueling work.

is her favorite title; she includes it before

Even in her role at UMMC, Davenport

her PhD in her signature line because she

teaches. Her efforts range from what she

“It’s a privilege to still be able to

says she’s “putting my most important

calls “tap dances,” informal mini-lectures

take care of patients, but it’s incredibly

credential first.”

that might arise from a discussion about

physically challenging,” Davenport says.

a particular patient, to lectures for large

“I go home and my feet hurt, my back hurts,

great variety of background experiences

groups of recently hired MICU nurses.

I have a headache. I never know when I’m

she encounters in her students. “I get

And her colleagues have recognized her

getting lunch. And after all that, it’s still

very excited about working with students

effectiveness at doing so; in May, she won

the best gig in the world.”

Davenport says she also enjoys the

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BY JEFF SEIDEL

TEAM CAPTAIN UMSON Alumna Leads UMMC’s Top-Performing Unit

T

he Medical Intensive

and experienced nurses and encourage all

Care Unit (MICU)

of them to grow through our professional

at the University of

advancement model, and the nurses take

Maryland Medical

these opportunities to become leaders and

Center (UMMC)

better nurses.”

earned the Chief

Mueller has been in charge of the unit

Nursing Officer

since 2003 after working on the unit’s staff

(CNO) Award for Team Excellence last

for years. The staff includes 110 nurses,

spring, recognizing it as the top-performing

eight patient care technicians, nine unit

unit at the hospital. Kerry Sue Mueller,

secretaries, one inventory specialist,

BSN ’90, RN, the 29-bed intensive care unit’s

an administrative assistant, and a large

nurse manager, says there’s no complicated

team of attendees, critical care

formula for success; it’s simply a group of

fellows, residents, and nurse

nurses who work very hard and care a lot.

practitioners. The size of the

“I think the compassion of my staff and

team reflects the critical nature

their desire to be really engaged and do the

of the work that they do as

best they can for their patients led to this

they care mainly for patients

recognition,” she says.

facing transplant, oncology,

The CNO award is presented to a unit

and respiratory failure and

that has “consistently demonstrated

dealing with issues such as

excellence in teamwork to provide

sepsis, post-arrest, and chronic

extraordinary care to patients, families,

neurological illnesses.

and each other,” says Lisa Rowen, DNSc,

“We have to be prepared at all times for any situation.”

“My unit and I were very flattered,”

Mueller’s hours in the MICU vary

MS ’86, RN, CENP, FAAN, system CNO,

Mueller says of receiving the award.

depending on staff and patient needs and

University of Maryland Medical System,

“We were up against many units in the

often involve late nights. But Mueller and

and senior vice president of patient care

hospital. We are very proud of all the

her staff understand that this comes with

services and CNO, UMMC. The MICU team

accomplishments we have achieved in the

the territory, especially since they’re often

was honored for “exceptional collaboration

past couple of years. It is not our way to

caring for patients near the end of their lives.

and clinical excellence in care for some

walk around bragging about ourselves so

of the most critically ill patients in the

when we actually put together our list of

skilled and experienced in compassionate

hospital—and in the region,” she says,

accomplishments, it was very humbling. In

end-of-life care as they are in supportive

indicating that the mortality rate for unit

reality, every unit in the hospital deserves

care,” Rowen says. “Their expertise in

patients hovers between 20-24 percent.

recognition for their accomplishments.

end-of-life care is driven by a passion for

“One of the most exemplary achievements

Every day, when the staff comes to work,

providing closure for family members.”

of this unit is the culture of professional

they give an enormous part of themselves

advancement. Unit leaders mentor novice

to care for our patients and families.”

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“The MICU team members are just as

“We deal with some of the sickest patients here,” Mueller says. “There’s lots

Mueller (left) reviews an infection control Mueller reviews an infectionaudit control audit with nurse Tara Stockdale, with nurse Tara Stockdale, BSN ’14, BSN, RN, in the UMMC MICU RN, in the UMMC MICU.

of challenges … and we’re trying to make

working in the department much easier. She

hospital bed,” Mueller says. “This protocol

that experience the best we can. It is very

recalls how all information was on paper

was developed by two MICU nurses who

difficult because you don’t know the family

when she began her nursing career

reviewed the literature and collaborated

and how they’re going to react.”

in 1990. Now, the work is completely

with a multidisciplinary team to devise

paperless and web-based. Keeping up with

a simple method for the Medical Center.

when they arrive in the MICU, according

new technologies is just part of the job,

While this does not use any fancy machines,

to Mueller. Some families are quiet and

from dealing with a simple tool like an

it has provided a method to safely

withdrawn; others ask many questions; some

IV pump to a much more complex bedside

provide care to patients with severe

may be hysterical. “We have to be prepared

dialysis machine.

respiratory illnesses.”

Patients and families are often in crisis

at all times for any situation,” she says.

Even with the challenges the MICU team

Innovation extends to new approaches

As new protocols and technologies

to patient care. “One example is the

are developed, Mueller promises that her

must often address, Mueller says much has

development of a protocol to prone

award-winning staff “will continue to

changed over the past two decades to make

position critically ill patients in a regular

innovate to improve patient care.”

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TRACY BROWN

DISCOVERY

Dorsey

Exercise and chronic pain: Not everyone gets same benefit, but why?

By Mark Hoeflich

T

he benefits of exercise on managing chronic pain are well established, but why do people react differently to exercise as a form of treatment?

A $2.7-million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research awarded to three University of Maryland School of Nursing faculty will support research aimed at finding some answers. Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’98, RN, FAAN, professor and chair, Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science; Cynthia Renn, PhD, MS ’98, RN, associate professor; and Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, 32 WINTER 2017

RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, professor and Sonia Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, received the grant to fund the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Omics Associated with Self-management Interventions for Symptoms (OASIS) Center.

“We don’t know what genetic and genomics factors contribute to an individual’s motivation, resilience, and capacity to engage in physical activity and exercise or the dose and intensity of these self-management approaches,” Dorsey says. “What’s more, we don’t know in whom it works and how.”

“You can have 10 patients and give them all the same exercise regimen to follow, but all 10 may not respond the same way,” Renn adds. “We are trying to get at what is different about people that makes them more or less motivated to self-manage their pain.”

Pain is a public health epidemic, according to the Institute of Medicine report Relieving Pain in America.

Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million U.S. adults, reducing quality of life and costing $560 billion$635 billion annually in medical expenses and lost productivity.

those from the dental, pharmacy, and medical schools.

“What is most exciting is our incredible capacity to drive clinical findings back to the bedside,” Dorsey says. “We have the ability to make significant strides in both human and animal studies. Few schools of nursing have the capability we do.”

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to Advance Chronic Pain Research, a multidisciplinary research center, and those in UMSON’s organized research center Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan. What makes OASIS unique is its ability to do translational research— work that “translates” science research into health care, from the bench to the bedside and back—and to involve experts from across the UMB campus, including

Renn

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Despite advances in conventional pharmacological treatments, most people do not obtain adequate pain relief.

An important research focus has been to determine whether self-management interventions reduce pain. Various types of such interventions have been tested, including cognitive behavioral therapy, nonpharmacologic treatments (e.g., heat, cold, acupuncture) and exercise/physical activity.

Working toward a solution to this critical public health issue, OASIS Center scientists will focus on both animal and human studies using omics methods—for example, transcriptomics (involving RNA molecules), epigenomics (involving chemical compounds attached to DNA), metabolomics (involving the products of metabolism), and proteomics (involving proteins)—to identify how individual differences influence the effectiveness of exercise on managing chronic pain.

The School of Nursing will award three additional pilots over the five years of the grant, and UMSON faculty have the opportunity to apply for funding for one of these pilots. Sherrie Lessans, PhD, RN, assistant professor, and Jennifer Klinedinst, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor, are principal investigators on the first two pilot studies funded as part of the center. Lessans is using an animal model of chemotherapy-associated nerve pain to explore underlying biologic factors that impact how and why chemotherapy patients do or don’t adhere to exercise regimens as a strategy to self-manage treatment-related pain.

Klinedinst is looking at similar factors in how exercise is approached as a treatment mechanism in people age 55 and older dealing with arthritis/ joint pain.

“These studies are all about looking at the mechanisms that get people to exercise,” Resnick says. “We already know exercise helps pain. But how exercise is doing it, we never know enough.”

The OASIS Center is a collaborative effort between faculty in UMB’s Center

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HEALTHY DIALOGUE

Surgery with Anesthesia: Prepping Yourself or a Loved One Q&A with Michelle Gonzalez, MSN, MSOM, RN, CRNA, clinical instructor

By Todd Karpovich

M

ichelle Gonzalez has more than 18 years of experience practicing as a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) in both civilian and military facilities. She is a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has cared for service members at duty stations around the world—including those in Spain, Italy, South Korea, and Japan— and throughout the United States. At the University of Maryland School of Nursing, she teaches core content in and facilitates all simulation components of the Nurse Anesthesia specialty in UMSON’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and she was the recipient of a 2015 Nursing Educator Doctoral Grant for Practice and Dissertation Research from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

on when you can have your last oral intake, on medication guidance, and on preoperative testing, if needed.

Occasionally, labs are drawn the morning of surgery. Following the instructions of your providers in regard to preoperative do’s and don’ts is important for your health and safety during surgery. This is especially important if you have conditions that require you to take medications on a regular basis.

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GONZALEZ: There is no blanket answer

GONZALEZ: As a CRNA, I am asked this

question frequently. Many people will talk to their provider or visit a pre-op clinic prior to a procedure. If this is the case, you will be provided information 34 WINTER 2017

Q: What can I eat before and after a surgical procedure?

GONZALEZ: Traditionally, the accepted

Q: Should I take my normal medication before and after surgery?

Q: What should you do before a surgical procedure to ensure that it goes as well as possible?

with the body’s ability to form clots, which can diminish your body’s ability to stop bleeding during surgery or even after surgery is complete. If you are not certain about which medications to take or not take or if you are taking any supplements, contact the pre-op clinic, prescribing provider, and/or surgeon doing your procedure for guidance.

for this question. Many prescribed medications interact with anesthetic agents, but there are times when patients are on medications that we want to continue throughout their surgery.

On some occasions, we recommend reduced doses of certain medications.

Also, the current recommendation is to discontinue all over-the-counter supplements 10-14 days before surgery.

This will minimize interference with anesthetic agents, including pain medications. An additional concern is that some supplements can interfere

NPO (nil per os or “nothing by mouth”) is six to eight hours of no liquids or solids before surgery; this is often referred to as “nothing after midnight.” Eating instructions also depend on the time of day you are scheduled to have surgery, on the procedure being done, and if it’s an adult or a child or infant undergoing anesthesia. If your procedure is scheduled as the second or third case of the day, you may be able to eat and/or drink the morning of surgery. For example, if your procedure is scheduled at 2 p.m., you may be instructed to have a “light breakfast” or liquids until 6-8 a.m. This is something to discuss with your provider or with the pre-op clinic staff. Also, if you are taking medications, it is acceptable to take your morning medication (if instructed to do so) with a sip of water.

Q: Is there anything else I can do physically to prepare for the surgery, as far as exercise or extra rest?

GONZALEZ: Plan ahead to get things

out of the way so that you can focus on recovery once surgery is over. Often,

I have patients who expect to be able to go back to work the same afternoon when having an outpatient procedure.

I inform them that if you are having an anesthetic, you are considered “under the influence”—much like drinking and driving—and it is best not to plan any activities that require your full focus immediately after surgery. As far as exercise or rest, normal activities are encouraged up to the time of surgery, unless otherwise instructed.

Q: What typically happens on the day of a surgery?

GONZALEZ: You will arrive at the facility and be checked into a preoperative room. You’ll review and sign paperwork, including surgical/procedural consents. This may also be when you see your surgeon(s) and anesthesia provider(s). This is an opportunity to ask any last-minute questions and address any concerns you may have. You may have an IV line started and have blood drawn or additional lab work done. You might also have an electrocardiogram, if indicated, or other specified preoperative testing.

the use of an amnestic, a hypnotic, and pain medications that are regulated for your comfort and your vital signs, such as respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood pressure. Regional anesthetics, often called a “block,” include sedation and pain medication to facilitate the placement of the block with a local anesthetic. Regional anesthetics have the added benefit of providing anesthesia for the surgery and into the recovery period.

If your procedure requires a general anesthetic, meaning you will go to sleep completely, you will receive a variety of medications from a number of different categories to ensure your comfort during the procedure. Throughout all types of anesthetics, you will be continually monitored by your anesthesia provider.

Q: What steps can I take to improve rehabilitation after surgery?

GONZALEZ: Discussing realistic

expectations with your surgeon is an important aspect of advocating for yourself postoperatively. Following postoperative instructions is the most important thing you can do to aid your recovery. You will be given instructions on what you can and cannot do after surgery; pushing yourself beyond your limits may cause setbacks. This is not the time to take on additional tasks because you are “home recovering.”

Q: Is there a certain day/time I should schedule my surgery?

GONZALEZ: There are many variables

Q: What drugs will I be given during surgery?

GONZALEZ: This is dependent on the

type of procedure being done and can vary from sedation to a regional or general anesthetic. Sedation involves

that they are hungry or thirsty or have a headache because they didn’t have their morning caffeine. In these cases, make sure you eat and/or drink something right up to the time that you are told to stop. For example, if your procedure is at 2 p.m. and you have been instructed that you can have a light breakfast and liquids until 8 a.m. the morning of surgery (nothing by mouth for six hours), have some toast and drink your coffee; don’t skip it.

that impact this, many of which we cannot control. Often, we are provided a few options for scheduling procedures based on the availability of our surgeon.

Talk with your surgeon if you have a specific scheduling request. There are advantages and disadvantages of scheduling your procedure early versus late. The most common thing I hear from patients that have later procedures is

Q: What are possible complications of surgery with anesthesia?

GONZALEZ: Complications fall

into either surgical complications or anesthetic complications and can be classified as minor or major.

Complications are addressed during the consent process. If they haven’t been, you should ask this very question.

The most common complications of surgery include unanticipated bleeding, uncontrolled pain, and infection.

Anesthetic complications can include prolonged nausea and vomiting, allergic reactions to medications received intraoperatively, prolonged awakening, or unanticipated airway issues. Incidences of complications also depend on whether you have other medical conditions that make you a higher risk for surgery and anesthesia, such as cardiac disease or uncontrolled diabetes.

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PHILANTHROPY

Promises Kept

A

s we celebrate a new year, we often focus on our resolutions: Many of us may make a stalwart attempt to improve our health habits this year—to exercise more and to make wiser food choices. Others may vow to take more time to reach out to friends and family or to volunteer to help those in need. We take great strides to try to keep

these resolutions, and I think we should earn points for that! Inevitably, though, as January becomes February and then fades into March, many of our new year’s goals are pushed into the background. But it is our human nature to try and try again, keeping

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our eye on succeeding next year.

That sense of determination and optimism is inspiring, and nowhere is it more evident than in the nursing profession: “We can make things better and we will!” And unlike the vast majority of new year’s resolutions, this promise is kept. Nurses contribute in many ways, large and small, to the benefit of the many whose lives they touch.

Here at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, we have the extraordinary honor and responsibility of educating nurses at all stages of their careers, and we cannot do it alone.

We are, therefore, deeply grateful to all those who have supported UMSON’s students and programs.

The list that follows is our annual honor roll of donors, recognizing the alumni, students, faculty and staff, parents, and friends who have contributed to UMSON from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016.

Thank you, one and all!

With appreciation,

Laurette L. Hankins Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations

Stacey Conrad, MBA, returned to the University of Maryland School of Nursing in May after serving as director of major gifts at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. Conrad has taken on the new role of director of development in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, building on her prior seven years’ experience with the School. Her email address is sconrad@son.umaryland.edu.

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hankins@son.umaryland.edu

Honor Roll of Donors July 1, 2015-June 30, 2016

$1,000,000 and up The Bedford Falls Foundation Charitable Trust

$500,000-$999,999 University of Maryland Medical System

Harriet E. Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, BSN ’68

Sally F. Chow, BSN ’59

R. John Repique, MS ’99

Karen E. Doyle, MS ’91, BSN ’85

David Vlahov, MS ’80, BSN ’77

Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79†

William F. & Caroline Hilgenberg Foundation

Helen Endo Dorrie K. Fontaine, MS ’77†

$5,000-$9,999

$500-$999

Cecil J. Clark, MS ’90

Bradley T. and Barbara Foote Cynthia C. Franklin, BSN ’66

Patricia A. Abbott, MS ’92, BSN ’89 Clara L. Adams-Ender Kathleen M. Barlow, PhD ’13, MS ’92, BSN ’81 Shawn C. Becker, MS ’05, BSN ’93 Marita S. Bowden, BSN ’66 Bradley Chambers

Marjorie Stamler Bergemann

Judith A. Freitag, BSN ’77

$250,000-$499,999

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

Carolyn B. Frenkil

Richard G. and Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91†

Cherry S. Gering

Mary Catherine Bunting, MS ’72

Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79

Children’s National Health System

Bridgitte C. Gourley, DNP ’08

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Linda K. Diaconis, MS ’95, BSN ’92

Emily P. Deitrick, BSN ’68

Taryn Greene

Janice M. DiGrazia, BSN ’81

Barbara Sandler Friedman

Dinah L. Halopka-Ryson, BSN ’74†

Thomas E. Dudley, MS ’01, BSN ’85

Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association

Winifred S. Hayes, MS ’74, BSN ’71

Nancy Falchuk

Henrietta D. Hubbard, BSN ’73

Mary C. Feliciano, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Shannon K. Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03

M. Louise Fitzpatrick

James and Carolyn Frenkil Charitable Foundation

Mary A. Fullerton-Morgan, BSN ’74

$50,000-$99,999 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Wallace J. Hoff

Edward B. Gaynor

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

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

Francis D. and Carol Drake, BSN ’68

Jane M. Kirschling

Thomas K. Lee, MS ’95

Lawrence and Rosa R. Goldstein, BSN ’58

Michael S. Gering

John and Elizabeth S. Niemyer, BSN ’78

Wendy L. Lessler-Derechin, BSN ’93

Sonya G. Goodman, MS ’79, BSN ’73†

Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93

Patricia A. Grady, MS ’68

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

Sandra W. McLeskey

Claire P. Greenhouse, BSN ’66†

Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69†

Dorna P. Hairston, PhD ’05, MS ’88

James V. and Deborah L. O’Connor

Claudia M. Handley, MS ’08

Daniel J. O’Neal, III, BSN ’66

Laurette L. Hankins

Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77†

Donna S. Havens, PhD ’91

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

Healthy Housing Solutions

Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence Douglas K. Loizeaux Maryland Healthcare Education Institute Katharine S. Speers, BSN ’54†

Joyce A. Parks, DNP ’14, MS ’93† Alyson C. Ross, PhD ’12 Virginia K. Saba

$25,000-$49,999

Sandra A. Schoenfisch, MS ’76† Sylvan/Laureate Foundation

Janet D. Allan and Beverly Hall Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72† Commonwealth Charitable Fund

Judy A. Reitz, MSN ’76, BSN ’71

$2,500-$4,999 Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74†

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

John Bing

George and Christine A. Johnson

Charles R. and Kathleen A. Clark, BSN ’73

Peter and Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69

Renee N. Downey, BSN ’09

John H. and Doris Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59

Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81†

Virginia Lee Franklin Memorial Trust†

Maureen A. Robinson Lisa Rowen, MS ’86 Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68† Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73† Martha J. Shively, BSN ’72 Sigma Theta Tau International Pi Chapter†

Elizabeth E. Hill, PhD ’03 James L. and Malinda Hughes Wes and Tricia Irvin Suzanne M. Labansky, BSN ’68 Pamela A. Lentz, MS ’00, BSN ’84 Shirley J. Lentz, BSN ’56 Martin’s, Inc. Mary Lee S. Matthews, BSN ’50 Margaret K. Miles, BSN ’70

Alan J. and Kylanne Green Silverstone

Betty Jane Mincemoyer, DIN ’48†

Charlotte E. Naschinski, MS ’82

Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77†

William G. Smillie and Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92

American Association of Nurse Attorneys Foundation

Ruth J. Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’04

Harold W. Smith, MS ’77, BSN ’72†

MedStar Health

Sue Song

Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65†

Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71

Fairfield Community Foundation

Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93

Sandra J. Sundeen, MS ’68†

Frank E. & Miriam Loveman Foundation

Lesley A. Perry†

Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55†

Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

Sharon Phillips

Courtney A. Thomas, BSN ’66

Martin R. Resnick

Patricia T. Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69

Michelle M. Rivest, MS ’79, BSN ’75

$10,000-$24,999

Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70 Laerdal Medical Corp.

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

$1,000-$2,499

Richard E. and Julia A. Llewellyn

Charles Alston

Barbara R. Heller and Frederick J. Walsh

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71†

Nellie C. Bailey, MS ’93

Sandra B. Warner, BSN ’60

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

Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69

Florence Wolfel, BSN ’50†

Ann M. Cain†

Zukowski Family Foundation

Tracie L. Morgan, DNP ’10, MS ’00

John C. and Ellen S. Nicodemus Kathleen L. Pelch, BSN ’77 The Pfizer Foundation Mary Kay Ratigan, BSN ’82

Michael A. Romano W. Winslow and Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68† Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78 Howard Sollins and Barbara M. Resnick, PhD ’96

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PHILANTHROPY From Loyalty to Legacy: Doris Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59, and John Webb In each issue of nursing for um, we profile a member or members of the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Louisa Parsons Legacy Society, comprising donors who have made planned gifts to the School.

COURTESY OF JOHN AND DORIS BAUMGARDNER WEBB

D

oris Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59, has always felt a strong sense of loyalty to the University of Maryland School of Nursing because she values the experiences and knowledge she gained as an UMSON student. This year, along with her husband, John, she decided to express that gratitude in a meaningful way: with a charitable gift annuity that the School may spend in any way it sees fit. This gift makes the Webbs the newest members of the School’s Louisa Parsons Legacy Society.

The Webbs contributed to UMSON not only to help the School maintain the reputation of its nationally ranked programs, but also to help future nurses succeed by funding necessary resources and advanced equipment.

“It just seemed like a good cause,” Doris Webb says. “I believe in nursing and the profession, and the University of Maryland has always been an outstanding school

and has tried to keep a good reputation throughout many years. I am so proud of that. It seemed like the right thing to do.”

After graduating with her bachelor’s degree more than 55 years ago, Webb taught in Towson University’s nursing program as an adjunct faculty member in the simulation lab. She has remained involved with UMSON through the

alumni association, for which she served as assistant treasurer shortly after her graduation.

The family also has a personal connection with nurses who graduated from UMSON because they contributed to saving the lives of the Webbs’ son and a close friend.

“Our son had testicular cancer and came through that,” Doris Webb says. “One of our dear friends also had breast cancer and survived that, and I thought good nursing had gotten them through. … This gift was a wonderful way in our hearts to honor them, to maybe pay it forward, so that someone else can receive all those good things our son and our friend did through their illnesses.”

Although there are many aspects of the School that the Webbs admire, they decided to make their donation unrestricted so it can be used to benefit any area, providing the greatest impact possible.

—Morgan Caplan

The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society

T

he School of Nursing’s Legacy Society is named in honor of pioneering nurse and philanthropist Louisa Parsons, the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s first

Joining the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society allows you to make a significant difference to future nursing students without impacting your current lifestyle.

superintendent; she made the first planned gift to the School in 1916. The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society comprises people who,

To learn more about making a planned gift to UMSON,

like Parsons, are committed to supporting future generations

contact Laurette L. Hankins, associate dean for development

of students and nurses by providing funding for scholarships,

and alumni relations, at hankins@son.umaryland.edu or

research, faculty positions, and other critical needs.

410-706-7640.

Estate of Robert and Myrtle Ageton, DIN ’44

Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96

Estate of Dorothy C. Calafiore, BSN ’51

Estate of Bonnie L. Closson, BSN ’61

Janet D. Allan

Marjorie Stamler Bergemann

Shirley E. Callahan, DIN ’52

Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72

Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91

Stephen S. Cohen

Avon B. Chisholm

Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79

Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65

Estate of Mary Jane Custer

Anonymous Floraine B. Applefeld Estate of Carolyn V. Arnold Estate of Zabelle S. Howard Beard

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Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69

Jean L. Bloom, DIN ’46 Estate of Mary J. Brewer Estate of Clarence Q. and E.L. Bunderman, DIN ’31 Ann Ottney Cain

Estate of Gladys B. and Lansdale G. Clagett

Carol Distasio, MS ’73 Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98

Honor Roll of Donors Robin Varker, BSN ’75†

Ira L. Fedder

Salina Sarma, BSN ’15

Janet M Beebe, MS ’99

William Ward

Jean Fedder

Abbe R. Bendell, BSN ’74

Jo Gail Wenzel, BSN ’67†

Mary K. Fey, PhD ’14, MS ’01

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

Joyce Willens, PhD ’94

Margaret A. Franckhauser, MS ’82

Susan E. Scott, MS ’02

Edna J.K. Benware, BSN ’76

Gerald L. Wollman, BSN ’86

Nancy Fraser, MS ’88

Cynthia C. Sikorski

Eva K. Berkow, BSN ’59†

Debbie Gilbert Glassman, MS ’79, BSN ’75

Ann Marie Spellbring

Andrea C. Berndt, MS ’89

Debra A. Spencer, MS ’99

Roberta S. Billman, BSN ’74

Patricia Golembieski, BSN ’71

Bryan Szalwinski

Derryl E. Block, BSN ’75

Molly Allan

Randy Hallman

Anita J. Tarzian, PhD ’98, MS ’96

Janet E. Bochinski, BSN ’75

Anna C. Alt-White, PhD ’87†

Ann B. Hamric, PhD ’96

Fran Valle, DNP ’10, MS ’99

Barbara K. Boland, MS ’73

Mary Kay Arthur

Kathleen T. Villemi, BSN ’85

Gloria Boseman, MS ’78

Erwin S. Atillo, MS ’08

James A. and Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Georgia Boyer, BSN ’61†

Dianne Barkley

Sandra Jensen, MS ’70†

Carolyn A. Waltz, BSN ’63

Mary T. Bracken, MS ’97

Patricia K. Beneshan, BSN ’66

Lou Ann Race Kellner, BSN ’78

Joan I. Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88

Kathleen K. Boyd, BSN ’89

Sally A. Kaltreider, MS ’88†

Wells Fargo Foundation

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

Suzanne M. Grieve Brauer, MS ’74

Dorothy R. Kuhn, DIN ’46†

Sally D. Brown, BSN ’74

Nancy B. Lerner, DNP ’10, MSN ’74, BSN ’66

$250-$499

Natalie Bryson Jeffrey S. Cain Judith H. Carpenter, BSN ’66† Teckla Chude, MS ’13 Rita R. Colwell Linda K. Cook, PhD ’05, MS ’97 Sandra L. Cotton, MS ’95 Joanne F. Damon, BSN ’68 Joan M. Davenport, PhD ’00 Suzanne S. Davis, MS ’12 Marla J. De Jong, MS ’96

Nancy J. Madej Rita Malek, DIN ’49 Esther E. McCready, DR ’15, DIN ’53 Pat McLaine Karen A. McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81† Geraldine F. Mendelson, BSN ’66 Habeeba A. Park Margaret A. Pedersen, BSN ’74 Karen C. Poisker, MS ’81, BSN ’78 Jeffrey H. Rea

Susan M. Wilby, BSN ’73†

Joan R. Benfield, MS ’92, BSN ’89†

Anita N. Bragaw, MS ’95 Adam Brenner

$100-$249

Patricia D. Brooks, BSN ’56† Cecilia B. Abbott, BSN ’67†

Sami Brown

Beatrice V. Adderley-Kelly, MS ’71

Voncelia S. Brown, MS ’82, BSN ’78

Renee D. Alford, MS ’09

Constance S. Browning, BSN ’65†

Kay Allan

Carola Bruflat, BSN ’68

Lisa Allman, BSN ’93

Paul L. Brunson, BSN ’88

Beth K. Amstad, BSN ’00

Susan H. Brunssen, BSN ’71

Emma L. Arthur, MS ’13

JoAnne S. Bryan, BSN ’74

Betsy A. Bampton, MS ’65

Barbara J. Bungard, MS ’11

Sara K. Barger, BSN ’67

Colleen M. Burke, BSN ’77

Henry D. Barton, MS ’14

Rose M. Burke, BSN ’74

Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96

Pamela J. Burns, BSN ’69

Helen G. Dearborn, BSN ’61

Carol A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77

Sandra Dunnington, BSN ’76

Janet Rowan, MS ’63, BSN ’61

Donna C. Becker, BSN ’66

Mary Wolf Byrnes, BSN ’77

Shirley B. Edwards, MS ’80, BSN ’78†

Jill S. Sanko, MS ’03

Katharine A. Becker, BSN ’75

April A. Campbell, BSN ’91

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Estate of Anna Mae Slacum

Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77

Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73

Jack C. and Cynthia P. Lewis, BSN ’58

Daniel J. O’Neal III, BSN ’66

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

Harriet Palmer-Willis, BSN ’68

Jacquelyn Jones Stone, MS ’71

Estate of Ann Madison, BSN ’62

Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77

Nan V. Swisher, DIN ’49

Mildred Madsen, BSN ’73

Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93

Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55

Myrna Mamaril, MS ’93

Estate of Margaret Robinson

Estate of Lois Marriott

Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92

Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63

Joan Nicholason Martellotto, BSN ’66

Estate of Amelia Carol Sanders, DIN ’53

Sharon Hanopole, BSN ’66

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73

Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68

Estate of Norma C. Tinker, BSN ’48

Barbara R. Heller

Estate of Wealtha McGurn

Estate of Marie L. Hesselbach

Beverly Meadows, MS ’84, BSN ’69

Estate of William Donald Schaefer

Estate of Martha C. Trate, BSN ’48

Francis D. and Carol Drake, BSN ’68 Celeste A. Dye, BSN ’66 Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79 Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68 Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77 Mary H. Gilley, DIN ’44 Debbie Gilbert Glassman, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Judah Gudelsky

Estate of Kjerstine K. Hoffman, DIN ’47

Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69

Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90

Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62

Margaret H. Iles, DIN ’53

Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71

Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61 Estate of Mary McCotter Jackson

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Jeanette Jones, MS ’70

Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79

Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48

John and Marilyn S. Murphy, MS ’01

Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50

Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, BSN ’66 Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55

Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80

W. Winslow and Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68

Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64

Sandra Schoenfisch, MS ’76

Estate of Helen Parker Wear

Estate of Beverly Seeley

John H. and Doris Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59

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

Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Estate of Patricia Yow

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Carol W. Capozzoli, BSN ’67†

William Gaetjens

Dianne Keilholtz

Sarah L. Miller, MS ’10, BSN ’05

Shirley A. Carpenter, BSN ’74†

Elizabeth M. Galik, PhD ’07

Rosalind R. Kendellen, BSN ’68

Priscilla O. Mills, BSN ’69

Mary J. Carroll, MS ’96

Sharon L Gallaher, BSN ’11

Gail G. Kestler, BSN ’71†

Lori G. Mooney, MS ’09, BSN ’05

Roberta K. Casey, BSN ’66

Denise C. Geiger, BSN ’79

Patricia A. Kidd, BSN ’65

Vannesia D. Morgan-Smith, BSN ’80

Jennifer Chicca, MS ’14

Robin L. Getzendanner, BSN ’91

Katherine A. Kingsford, BSN ’75

Matthew C. Morris, MS ’10, BSN ’08

Patricia I. Christensen, DNP ’14

Allegra Mary Giardina

Beverly E. Kingsland, BSN ’94

Emily A. Clark, MS ’06

Kathryn M. Gift, DNP ’14

Katie L. Kinzie, BSN ’62

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

Robert E. Clarke

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

Carolyn C. Knight, BSN ’70

Annie M. Clavon, MS ’83, BSN ’79 Jane B. Clemmens, DIN ’50†

Helen E. Gilmer, BSN ’68†

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

Thomas R. Coe, MS ’94

T. Sue Gladhill

Susan M. Kremmer, BSN ’66

Dawn Mueller-Burke, PhD ’01, MS ’98

Steven S. Cohen

Patricia A. Goddard, MS ’83

Elizabeth A. Krug, MS ’10

Marilyn S. Murphy, MS ’01

Frona S. Colker, MS ’74

Andrew R. Goldberger, MS ’01, BSN ’95

Gaby Kuperman, BSN ’72

Linda A. Murray, DNP ’16, MS ’84

Justin Kurker, MS ’08

Tina J. Murry, BSN ’97

Diane T. Langford, BSN ’75

Marina V. Needham, MS ’06, BSN ’98

Patrice J. Laster, BSN ’07

Dortha E. Neil, BSN ’94

Launching College Success

Tracy M. Newhouse

Eve L. Layman, BSN ’73

Marilyn N. Ngundam, BSN ’13

Sheila E. Lee, BSN ’83

Yan Ni, BSN ’14

Carl U. and Susan Leverenz

Rosemary Noble, BSN ’66

Shirley E. Liberman, BSN ’55†

Karin T. Nudo, MS ’04, BSN ’93

Katherine N. Linden, BSN ’77

Barbara M. O’Connor, BSN ’71 Yolanda A. Ogbolu, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04

Sharon J. Comfort

Warrene J. Goldman, BSN ’66

Barbara L. Conrad, BSN ’73

Antoinette M. Gonzalez, BSN ’55

Stacey Conrad

Beverly C. Gordy, BSN ’57

Karen A. Cook-Henderson, BSN ’72 Maura P. Cornell, BSN ’80†

Grace United Methodist Church Helen Susan Grady, MS ’94

Cathy Craycraft

Leigh A. Grill, BSN ’86

Joan L. Creasia, PhD ’87 P. Dale Every Creighton, BSN ’58 Theresa M. Cuddy

Margaretta C. Grimm, MS ’86, BSN ’81 Susan E. Gutkin, MS ’99

Glenda B. Motta, BSN ’71 Michelle M. Moulton, MS ’09 Sondra M. Mroz, BSN ’66

Andrew Hartland

Nancy Lougheed, BSN ’61

Eric J. Davis, MS ’03

Michele D. Heacox, MS ’93

Alexandra Lowe

Amanda H. D’Erasmo, BSN ’95

Laura J. Hearson, MS ’11, BSN ’86

Laurice P. Lucas, BSN ’82

Marsha H. DeWeese, MS ’93

Rita C. Hendershot, BSN ’69

Patricia E. Lund, MS ’80

Valerie DeWeese, BSN ’81

Amanda Hermida

June Lunney, PhD ’87, MS ’79

Patricia L. Dorio, BSN ’95

Donna C. Herndon, BSN ’69

Marianne T. Lynch, BSN ’03

Jonathan Dowdle

Theresa T. Hommel, BSN ’63

Mary E. Lynch, BSN ’77

Barbara A. Dralnick, MS ’72

Ruth J. Honnas, BSN ’74†

Joan C. Lynn, BSN ’88

Karol R. Duffy, MS ’99

Jane M. Houck, MS ’84†

Connie Mackowiak, BSN ’69†

Bernadette R. Durkin, MS ’88, BSN ’84

Linda Carol Huffman, DNP ’14, BSN ’92

Lauren Madden

Marcia M. Dyer, BSN ’73

Kelly L. Hunt, BSN ’02

Denise G. Malinow, BSN ’78

Nancy Eason, BSN ’75

Dwight and Lydia Hutchinson

Patsy L. Maloney, BSN ’74

Nancy L. Eaton, MS ’93, BSN ’75

Matt Hyde

Julia A. Malson, BSN ’75

Kathleen Spicer Ecklund, BSN ’77

Teri L. Jackson, BSN ’80

Demetria Manandic, BSN ’54

Kathleen F. Edwards, BSN ’67

Susan L. Jalbert, MS ’91

Marianne E. Mansfield, BSN ’82

Rebekah Eikenberg

Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, BSN ’80

Jo Ellen Marek, BSN ’64

Eliasberg Family Foundation Ann Louise Ellenson, BSN ’70

Karen A. Jeffries, MS ’91

Amanda R. Fabian, BSN ’14

Elizabeth C. Jesada, MS ’78, BSN ’74

Imogene S. Fagley-Combs, BSN ’69†

Peggy A. Johnson, MS ’84, BSN ’79

Rebecca H. Fedder, MS ’11

William Jordan, BSN ’81

Marylouise K. Felhofer, MS ’91

Donna L. Kahn, MS ’89

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

Corinne Fender, BSN ’86

Sandra A. Kappus, BSN ’84

Mariah D. McCarthy, BSN ’72

Robin Prothro, BSN ’79

Grace Fill

Jane F. Kapustin, MS ’85†

Jean E. McCloskey, BSN ’05

Nan K. Pue, BSN ’66

Susan Finlayson

Pamela S. Kasemeyer

Constance M. McCrary, MS ’78

Monnette M. Quach, BSN ’14

C. Noelle Flaherty, MS ’10

Karen S. Kauffman

Renae C. McDermott, MS ’06

Benjamin V. Quintanilla, BSN ’11

Judith G. Flemmens, BSN ’67

Joseph D. Kavanagh

Elizabeth B. McGloon, BSN ’78

Minnie M. Raju, MS ’05, BSN ’02

Barbara A. Floyd, BSN ’62

Alison Kayworth

Joseph J. McKinney, BSN ’75

Suzanne R. Ranson, BSN ’76

Carol V. Forgione, MS ’00, BSN ’97

Joyce L. Kee, BSN ’54 Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48†

Beverly J. Meadows, PhD ’06, MS ’84, BSN ’69

Robin R. Ratermanis, BSN ’96

Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68† Lilymae Fountain, PhD ’16, BSN ’91

Bonnie E. Keene, BSN ’71

Pamela M. Miceli, BSN ’80

Karen K. Reichert, BSN ’66

Evelyn E. Fowler, DIN ’43

Delores G. Keene, BSN ’74

Jen Miller

Mary Lou Reilly, BSN ’59†

Patricia D. Franklin

Barbara Kehoe

Judith R. Miller, BSN ’66

James Reiter

Leslie W. Daugherty, BSN ’75

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Mary C. Mahon, MS ’88

Susan D. Markus, MS ’06, BSN ’74 Gregory Martin Gloria J. Mayfield, MS ’72 Anne E. McArdle, BSN ’74†

Shinsil Oh, BSN ’11 Patricia A. O’Hare, MS ’76† Ingrid D. O’Hearne, BSN ’55 Diane E. Olechna, MS ’00 Promise Olomo Samson A. Omotosho, PhD ’98 Vivian C. Onyeike, BSN ’04 Mary K. Pabst, MS ’79† Lauren Palmer Cynthia R. Paschal-Pulliam, BSN ’95 Jeanne W. Patten, DIN ’53† Austrania C. Patterson, BSN ’11 Beverly J. Paulk, BSN ’65 Terry S. Peck, BSN ’82 Laura P. Pendley, BSN ’87 Georgia L. Perdue, DNP ’10 Tyeara A. Phifer, BSN ’10 Carla J. Pickett, BSN ’05 Daniel E. Piper, BSN ’91 Suzanne E. Porter, MS ’90, BSN ’85 Andrew Porteus

Carol A. Rauen, MS ’91, BSN ’81

Bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Member | †Cornerstone Club Member: recognizing those who have donated to UMSON for 20 years or more

Barbara A. Reville, DNP ’11 Loretta M. Richardson, MS ’71, BSN ’68† Joyce K. Rosenblatt, MS ’73 Miriam G. Rothchild, MS ’60† Gina D. Rowe, PhD ’13, DNP ’10 Kathleen H. Sabatier, MS ’80 Dorothy L. Sabolsice, MS ’67† Kay F. Sauers, MS ’78, BSN ’72† Kelci Rose Schexnayder, BSN ’16 Barbara Schmitthenner, BSN ’57† Deborah Lynne Schofield, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BSN ’92 Charlotte Sebra, BSN ’57† Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi and Sarpomaa S. Nyantakyi, BSN ’97 Patricia P. Sengstack, MS ’88, BSN ’82 Phyllis W. Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70† Rebecca L. Shelley-Clouse, MS ’05 Beth R. Sherfy, MS ’09, BSN ’95 Marjorie A. Shipley, BSN ’66 Anne Shippen, MS ’10 Becky T. Simmons, BSN ’76 Susan E. Simms, BSN ’78 Joan E. Slavin, BSN ’57† Claudia M. Smith, BSN ’65† Elizabeth P. Smith, MS ’99 GeorgeAnna Smith, BSN ’55 Jami Smith Laura M. Sorkin, MS ’96, BSN ’91† Eula D. Spratley, BSN ’68 Jean P. Staples, BSN ’68† Meghan Starner Sarah Steinbaum Sheri B. Stern, MS ’91, BSN ’75 Mary M. Stevens, BSN ’78 Barbara J. Stevenson, BSN ’76 Madeline Stier, BSN ’68 William Sutton, Jr. Carol S. Swamidoss, BSN ’85 Zane Beller Szurgot, BSN ’75† Jane L. Talbott, BSN ’66 Barbara N. Terry, BSN ’71† Carol E. Tessman, BSN ’67 LeSean L. Thomas, BSN ’11 Roseanne K. Thompson, MS ’99, BSN ’72 Sheila T. Todd, BSN ’78 Cynthia J. Tollini, MS ’14 Tara L. Traczyk, MS ’14 Jane M. Trainis, MS ’90 Christine A. Treiber, BSN ’74 Angela Tsetsis Luis and Isabel Valencia Karen F. Vaughan, BSN ’79

Bolstering Community: Melissa Douglas, MS ’10

M

elissa Douglas, MS ’10, grew up watching her mother, a public health nurse, dedicate her time and energy to advocate for sickle cell anemia patients and their families. Witnessing her mother’s efforts for those communities is part of what led Douglas to her own career in public health nursing and informed her understanding of how patient lifestyles and community environments have a significant effect on individual health. She recognizes that assessing these environments is a crucial component in providing care. “I always knew the impact of nursing was better when you had a sense of the community the patient represented,” she says.

Douglas created the Melissa Douglas Annual Scholarship for students in the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Community/Public Health Nursing master’s specialty in an effort to support future students who choose the same career she has.

The scholarship is based on both merit and need and is awarded to a student who has completed the first year of the specialty with at least a 3.3 GPA. While Douglas currently works as a transplant research coordinator at New YorkPresbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, she started her public health career as a research nurse and clinical supervisor for two research studies at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. “I took on a role that was very new for me, and it was by far the best experience in my career,” she says. In that position, Douglas “covered every corner” of Washington, D.C., with home visits and mobile van services, connecting community members to the health care resources they needed, including laboratory testing, case management, and care referrals, developing relationships with

more than 300 clients. “This connection allowed me to have a greater appreciation of cultural competence, community outreach, and the role of research in the nursing profession,” Douglas says.

That same year, she began her studies in UMSON’s Community/Public Health Nursing master’s specialty. Douglas says an alumnus of the program nudged her in the direction of community/public health nursing when he recognized her desire to assess patients’ lifestyles and their community settings while providing them care.

Douglas says she is grateful for her own experiences and for the doors that have opened for her, and she is happy to give back to her alma mater. She also funds a scholarship at the institution from which she earned her undergraduate degree, WinstonSalem State University in North Carolina, and doing so was part of her motivation to create a scholarship for UMSON students.

“No donation is too small for your school,” Douglas reminds fellow graduates. She funded her UMSON scholarship through a monthly payment option. Once Douglas had contributed enough to reach her desired total, Joyce Wanjiku, a second-year student in the Community/Public Health Nursing program, was awarded the scholarship in December 2015.

“I encourage all graduates to consider this method of gifting. Your gift supports the success of a student, allows for the enrichment of programs in the School of Nursing, and transforms the academic experience,” Douglas says. “The creation of a scholarship is a wonderful way to leave a legacy at your institution and make your mark on community/public health nursing.”

—Sarah Karpovich COURTESY OF MELISSA DOUGLAS

Robin E. Remsburg, PhD ’94

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Myrna E. Clemenson Carpenter, MS ’77

Shelley I. Gysler, BSN ’69

Patricia K. Lovaas, BSN ’74

Madonna P. Vitarello, BSN ’84

Felion M. Hankerson, BSN ’07

Phyllis Lovito

Lorrie Voytek

Elizabeth L. Carter, BSN ’78

Maureen P. Hanold, BSN ’80

Juliana A. Luciano, BSN ’04

Joan Casey

Shadonna L. Hawkins, BSN ’02

Judith E. Maeda, MS ’85

Lillian C. Champion

Mindy B. Hayes, BSN ’73

Mary J. Maggio, BSN ’71

Karen Chan-Zuckerman, MS ’93

Katherine A. Heikes, BSN ’12

Carole A. Malinowski, BSN ’77†

Mary E. Chetelat, BSN ’73

Maxine Hermida

Richard G. Mann, BSN ’68

Ellen R. Clayton, MS ’85

Ellen M. Hilsheimer, MS ’73†

Richard G. Mannion

Sandra K. Cleaver, MS ’84

Andrea K. Hixon, MS ’86

Jane E. Mansfield, BSN ’76†

Anne H. Cole, BSN ’67†

Deana Lee Holler, MS ’10, BSN ’81

Maureen B. Maskarinec, BSN ’77†

Mary A. Conley, BSN ’75

Todette L. Holt, BSN ’65

Patricia A. Mayernik, MS ’81†

Kathleen A. Connors de Laguna, BSN ’81

Moling Hom, BSN ’77

Mary E. Mazza, BSN ’83

Juliet Hope, BSN ’13

Chikaodi K. Mba, MS ’14, BSN ’07

Carol M. Hosfeld, DIN ’50

Katherine K. Zama Mbuh, BSN ’12

Kathleen B. Hurley, MS ’91

Pamela S. McClean, BSN ’65

Charlotte Iacona, DIN ’48

Pamela W. McHenry, DIN ’52

Bernadine C. Ihediohanma, BSN ’05

P. Dale McMahon, MS ’78†

Nancy F. McCambridge Jack, BSN ’69

Ann B. Mech, MS ’78, BSN ’76

Estelle J. Miecznikoski, DIN ’51

Donna J. Villa, BSN ’84

Natasha Wade Mary Patricia Wall, PhD ’04 Dorothy Walls, DIN ’49† Doris E. Warrington, MS ’76, BSN ’72 Linda Elaine Wendt, PhD ’91† Mary L. Wetter, MS ’92 Margaret R. Widner-Kolberg, BSN ’75 Paula A. Wiegel-Thrasher, BSN ’73 Jennifer D. Wilson, BSN ’99 Barbara V. Wise, PhD ’99, MS ’82 Rebecca F. Wiseman, PhD ’93 Cynthia K. Wright, MS ’98

Cynthia W. Corbin, MS ’98 Ernestine Y. Cosby, MS ’96, BSN ’94 Ruth M. Craig, MS ’73†

Joan D. Wynn, BSN ’85

Nance A. Crockett, BSN ’73

Lee Anne Xippolitos

Bessie A. Davis, BSN ’75 Hershaw N. Davis, BSN ’09

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Patricia L. Davis, BSN ’78

Brenda M. Afzal, MS ’99, BSN ’98

Jill A. DeCesare, BSN ’69†

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

Elizabeth E. Agbetsiafa-Awuah, BSN ’00

Mary G. DeGrezia, PhD ’12, BSN ’87

Nadine A. Jacobs, BSN ’74

Ellen R. Deugwillo, BSN ’79

Itza C. James, BSN ’13

Bethany Aitken

Bonnie S. Di Pietro, MS ’85, BSN ’78

Susan R. Jarboe, BSN ’89

Bonnie M. Miles, BSN ’73

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Marilyn T. Digirol, MS ’72

Wendelyn D. Joynes, BSN ’85

Carol M. Miller, BSN ’86

Deedra D. Dowden, BSN ’81

Margaret Jumah, MS ’12, BSN ’10

Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73

Carol C. Amitin, MS ’60†

Sonny Downey

Hye W. Jun, MS ’11

Sherry J. Mills-Obert, MS ’84

Ella J. Angell, MS ’98

Renee Drew, BSN ’92

Julie Karner, BSN ’88

Jacqueline C. Mitchell, MS ’07

Joelle E. Archibald, BSN ’77

Gina M. Duncan, BSN ’93

Rose Ann Kassel, BSN ’73

Kathleen T. Mohn, BSN ’70

Sarah E. Arnett, MS ’13, BSN ’97

Brandon Dusick

Sarah B. Keating, BSN ’56

Kathryn L. Montgomery, PhD ’97

Jeffery R. Ash

Carol A. Kelley, BSN ’78

Sally Moore

Carolyn M. Baer, BSN ’53

Tamala S. Dykes-Paxton, MS ’88, BSN ’80

Kimberly Kernan

Michael A. Moran

Katie Bantz

Patricia B. Eagen, BSN ’63†

Karen R. Kidder, BSN ’75

Naomi Morgan, BSN ’83

Laura Barber

Lawrence J. Eberlin, BSN ’73

Jae H. Kim

Cheryl A. Barraco, MS ’92, BSN ’85

Teresa L. Elli, BSN ’85

Samantha R. Kite, MS ’06

Maureen A. Moriarty, MS ’85, BSN ’79

Mohamed S. Barry, MS ’14, BSN ’04

Mmachukwu B. Emuka, MS ’12

Jo Ann Klein, MS ’98, BSN ’77

Jawaid and Karen H. Bashir, MS ’10, BSN ’07

Tom Fahey

Mary Shelley Darling Knach, BSN ’79

Deborah A. Falls, BSN ’80

Shirlee Koons, BSN ’61

Georgene V. Batz, BSN ’72

Janice M. Farinelli, BSN ’74

Barbara G. Kormann, BSN ’66

Mark B., BSN ’89, and Monika E. Bauman, MS ’10, BSN ’90

Donna M. Feickert-Eichna, BSN ’73

Kate S. Kramer, MS ’95

Mary Reilly Fine, BSN ’79

R. Kathleen Kruse, BSN ’85

Laureen Firm

Nancy M. Kubasik, BSN ’86

Carolyn W. Fitzgerald, BSN ’78†

Theo Kuczarski

LaKeisha D. Beasley, MS ’07 Terri F. Biggins, BSN ’80 Susan Bindon, DNP ’11, MS ’96

Debra L. Mendelsohn, BSN ’76

Lillian A. Milburn, BSN ’04 Tara Milburn

Megan Morrison Caryl J. Moulder, MS ’97 Patricia Mueller, MS ’96 Patricia G. Mulkey, MS ’90, BSN ’75 Aislinn Murphy Gail S. Myers, BSN ’69 Lois H. Neuman, BSN ’63† Lorraine W. Newborn-Palmer, MS ’95 Diana M. Ng, MS ’96, BSN ’94

Rose M. Blakely, MS ’01

Barbara E. Fitzsimmons, MS ’85, BSN ’81

Diane M. Blattner, BSN ’74

Mary C. Fleury, BSN ’86

Helen A. Bozzo, MS ’76, BSN ’65†

Sharon S. Forlenza-Stevens, MS ’78

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

Maureen S. Bravo, BSN ’74†

E. Maxine Fritz, MS ’62

Henrietta H. Latimer, DIN ’44

Stephanie Smith Nordberg, BSN ’61

Michelle Brown

Patricia D. Furbay, BSN ’01

Rebecca L. Ledbetter, BSN ’84

Anne C. Ober, MS ’86, BSN ’74

Taylor C. Buchanan, MS ’15

Valda Garber-Weider, MS ’83

Jessica Lee, BSN ’11

Mary E. O’Brien, MS ’88

Charon M. Burda, DNP ’16, MS ’03

Ellen B. Gibby, BSN ’98

Romona V. Lewis, BSN ’76

Susan K. O’Connell, BSN ’77

Tara Byrd

Donna S. Gipner, BSN ’63

Carol A. Libonati, MS ’86, BSN ’68

Kathryn A. Cadwell, MS ’93, BSN ’75†

Jacquelyn J. Goodrich, BSN ’77†

Dorothy Liddel, BSN ’61†

Thomas J. and Joyce B. O’Toole, MS ’68

Gwendolyn Callahan, BSN ’62

Susan M. Gray, MS ’13, BSN ’10

Michele P. Cameron, BSN ’70

Penny Greene

Edward and Sharon C. Lindeman, BSN ’75

Bella P. Caplan, MS ’78, BSN ’73†

Colleen Griffith

Jane A. Lipscomb

Dana R. Palka, BSN ’93

Cynthia A. Carbo, BSN ’78

Ann E. Gunnett, BSN ’68

Amanda K. Little, BSN ’01

Sheeba O. Paranilam, PhD ’13

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Ellen D. Kwiatkowski, BSN ’51† Mary A. Lancaster, MS ’87

Teresa A. Niblett, MS ’10 Veronica P. Njie-Carr Gwendolyn M. Nolte, MS ’87, BSN ’65

Eugene and Jane Page Kristin L. Page, MS ’91

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Freda Parker, BSN ’56 Elizabeth F. Patton, MS ’95 Janice H. Pavlock, MS ’95

A Legacy of Compassion: Mike and Joyce Gering, MS ’92

Helen R. Peddicord, MS ’72

Monika Piccardi, BSN ’86 Marcia G. Postal-Ranney, BSN ’78† Jane E. Price Jacquelyn M. Ramsey, BSN ’73 Carol K. Randall, BSN ’79 Kristen E. Rawlett, PhD ’14 Roberta A. Raymond, PhD ’99 Joyce A. Reft, MS ’74 Laurel A. Renaud, BSN ’80 Cory M. Riley, MS ’10 Carrie E. Rizer, MS ’12 Gwen Rodney, BSN ’60 Winifred M. Rojas, BSN ’10 Natalie J. Rook, MS ’85, BSN ’72 Georgia H. Gleadall Rosenblatt, MS ’94 Rita L. Rubin, MS ’78, BSN ’74 Alexis L. Rychlec, BSN ’01 Anne V. Samuels, BSN ’84 Stephanie K. Sanders, BSN ’94 Sharon A. Saunders, BSN ’89† Gina D. Scarinzi, MS ’87 Carol A. Scavarda, BSN ’83 Susan M. Schap, BSN ’55 Carole Schauer, MS ’70† Chuck M. Schevitz, BSN ’81† Terri L. Schieder, MS ’84 Marilyn S. Schmitter, BSN ’64 Marie J. Schulman, BSN ’68 Carolyn W. Schweitzer, BSN ’64 Mary L. Searing, BSN ’81 Victoria L. Selby, MS ’09, BSN ’06 Joanne M. Shafik, MS ’82 Kathleen M. Shagena, MS ’95, BSN ’86 Joyce A. Shanty, MS ’88 Jane E. Shea, BSN ’75 Ruth Anne Sheetz, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Jennifer A. Sherwood, BSN ’12 Pamela L. Shumate, DNP ’12 Doretha G. Singley, MS ’93, BSN ’79 Jane L. Sinnott, BSN ’78 Cara L. Smith, BSN ’02 Donna M. Smith, BSN ’95 Norma Z. Smith, BSN ’72† Sally Jo Snader, BSN ’81 Tara L. Sofia, BSN ’82† Gary S. Sorock, MS ’10 Janet R. Southby, MS ’71† Diana F. Staley, MS ’78

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master’s program, oyce Gering, Mike Gering decided MS ’92, RN, the best way to honor always saw a her would be to create great deal of a scholarship so that potential in the young future students with women and teens that her same work ethic she worked with as and passion would a nurse practitioner have the means to specializing in women’s pursue a career health. According to in nursing. her husband, Mike For Mike Gering, Gering, Joyce Gering one of the most was determined for important aspects of those young women to Joyce Gering with her granddaughter being a nurse—and see that same potential one of the things he most admired about in themselves. Often, her patients found his wife—is the ability to connect with themselves in difficult circumstances, patients, he says, adding that he hopes from unplanned pregnancies to unhealthy recipients of the scholarship will show or even abusive relationships. Mike Gering the same level of care, compassion, and says it was his wife’s compassionate dedication that his wife did. He says she guidance that helped many of these young used to tell her young female patients, women make drastic changes to their lives.

“It’s up to you to make the choice about In January 2016, Joyce Gering passed how you want to live going forward.” away from complications related to He recalls that she encouraged them to pneumonia only months after a transplant take ownership of their lives, bodies, and helped her beat leukemia. After her death, futures, and patients often returned to Mike Gering wanted to do something in her with handmade bracelets, cards, or her honor that “would be there forever,” he other tokens of appreciation for her help says. To make it possible for someone else and advice. to carry on the work to which his wife had Mike Gering, who funded the dedicated herself, he established the Joyce scholarship with an initial gift of Noreen Gering Endowed Scholarship $50,000, says he has been very fortunate for Doctor of Nursing Practice students in his life, and he is glad to be able to focused on women’s health issues. Joyce make a contribution that he feels will Gering began her career as a labor and truly make an impact, not only for the delivery nurse, but after a back injury students who receive the scholarship but limited her ability to provide direct patient also for the patients they spend their care, she returned to school. She enrolled careers helping. He says that if even at the University of Maryland School of one of the scholarship recipients came Nursing to become a nurse practitioner, through his or her education with the taking night and weekend classes for same spirit of care and devotion that his several years until she earned her master’s wife had, it would be the greatest honor degree in 1992. he could give her.

Remembering how hard his wife had worked to pay her own way through her —Sarah Karpovich COURTESY OF MIKE GERING

Joseph Pellegrini

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PHILANTHROPY Honor Roll of Donors Gena Stiver Stanek, MS ’85, BSN ’80

Ellen B. Allin, MS ’85, BSN ’81 Kristin A. Altar, MS ’06

Frances D. Fosbroke Cox, BSN ’74

Robyn C. Gilden, PhD ’10, MS ’01

Kimberly Steele Kathleen P. Stevens, BSN ’75

Jill Archibald, BSN ’16

Claudette Craig, BSN ’55

Sandy S. Girton, BSN ’81

Mark Stiles

Jeffrey S. Ashley, MS ’99

U’Landers A. Craig, BSN ’02

Gary J. Glowac, BSN ’77†

Florence C. Strawser, BSN ’71

Linda L. Atkins, BSN ’61†

Theresa G. Crawford, BSN ’95

Ellen S. Goldstone, MS ’08, BSN ’81

Mary J. Suter, BSN ’93

Shereen Baghi

Wanda M. Crilly, BSN ’04

Sue Bishop Goodrich, BSN ’66

Cynthia Sweeney, BSN ’76

Catherine M. Bailey, BSN ’75

Susan M. Thompson, MS ’01

Christine L. Barclay, BSN ’77

Michael C. Tillman, MS ’83

Valerie E. Barkley, BSN ’65

Faye G. Trageser, BSN ’91

Katerina Barrientos, BSN ’16

Natalie L. Troup, MS ’97, BSN ’93

Beth M. Barrows, MS ’13, BSN ’05

Cecil L. Tucker, BSN ’03

Cheryl D. Baugham-Durant, BSN ’89

Joan L. Twigg, BSN ’85

Bonnie L. Baust, BSN ’02

Jane M. Vardaro, MS ’77†

Shirley Bernstein, DIN ’53

Crystal L. De Vance-Wilson, MS ’06, BSN ’00

Mary E. Vick, MS ’98

Patricia Bessette-Bryan, BSN ’00

Barbara Delano

Tracy L. Greenfield, BSN ’79

Kathryn T. Von Rueden

Jacqueline A. Bethel-Warner, MS ’11

Jean M. Delawa, BSN ’78

Kelly Gregory

Cheryl J. Vorhauer, BSN ’90

Ann L. Birch, MS ’90

Alice L. Demarais, BSN ’72

David A. Greiser, BSN ’16

Betty L. Wagner, BSN ’55

Jane L. Blash, MS ’94

Mary Joan Dennis, BSN ’73

Marlyn C. Guevara, BSN ’10 Veronica A. Gutchell, DNP ’13

Anne Robin Waldman, BSN ’58†

Dorothy E. Culb, BSN ’81 William M. IV and Barbara Dayhoff Curtis, BSN ’77 Judy A. Custer, MS ’94 Otill C. Dabbs, BSN ’71 Kelly Daneker Amy L. Daniels, MS ’12, BSN ’89

Joanne S. Ginley, BSN ’83

Halima J. Goodwin, DNP ’12 Jana Goodwin Reba E. Goslee, MS ’76 Anne J. Grafton, MS ’90, BSN ’81 Kira Graham, BSN ’16 Deborah M. Grau, BSN ’75 Kathleen W. Gray, BSN ’77 Sheila P. Green, MS ’77

Douglas Blazejewski, BSN ’14

Thomas E. Dewey, BSN ’78

Elaine M. Walizer, MS ’88†

Claire V. Bode, DNP ’15, MS ’10

Caroline L. Diehl, BSN ’71†

Shirley C. Guy, MS ’94, BSN ’73

Caroline S. Wallace, MS ’59

Allan and Steffi J. Bokser, BSN ’85

Carol A. Distasio, MS ’73

Katherine L. Haag, MS ’99, BSN ’97

Marybeth C. Bounds, MS ’94

Dawn P. Donohue, MS ’00

Frances E. Hacker, BSN ’81

Florence A. Bowen, BSN ’49

Dietlinde M. Doyle, BSN ’75

Pauline S. Hanich, BSN ’79

Lindsay R. Branham, BSN ’15

Christina M. Duetsch, MS ’74, BSN ’70

Gladys L. Happi, BSN ’00

Joyce A. Dunlap, BSN ’81

Susan G. Harris, BSN ’94

Jacqueline K. Dunn, MS ’92

Cheryl A. Harrow, DNP ’13, MS ’01

Teresa M. Dyer, MS ’99, BSN ’81

Colin C. Harryman, BSN ’72

Donna E. Ecker, BSN ’00

Natalie Hart, MS ’05, BSN ’88

Carly Eddleman

Lola Hartford

Rose Eisenbeiss, BSN ’09

Steve and Debra Hartland

Mazen I. El Ghaziri, PhD ’13

Kimberly S. Haus-McIltrot, MS ’96

Bonnie W. Ellis, BSN ’62†

Virginia Hedges, BSN ’80

Jane M. Fall-Dickson, BSN ’77

Sandra M. Heeley, BSN ’99

Christianah O. Farinloye, MS ’07

Viola S. Hibbard, BSN ’88

Rosemary A. Ferrara, BSN ’90

Jennifer V. Hill, BSN ’93

Joanne H. Ferrari, MS ’79

Ruth M. Hirsch, BSN ’72

Dixie B. Ferrell, BSN ’71

Martianee Holland, BSN ’15

Kathleen M. Ficco, BSN ’79†

Patricia Holland

Barbara A. Fisher, BSN ’78

Joan C. Hoover, DIN ’51

Timothy Fleming, MS ’02

Mary L. Houser, MS ’78

Janet T. Foreman, MS ’81, BSN ’76

Mary O. Howell, BSN ’77

Katherine Fornili

Mary M. Hryniewicz, MS ’95

Cynthia L. Fox, MS ’12, BSN ’82

Sara W. Chedester, BSN ’63

Maria T. Humphries, MS ’92, BSN ’85

Deneise C. Francis, BSN ’98

Carol M. Hyland, BSN ’58†

Lynn Chen

Pamela Frankel, MS ’86

Ann Isaacs, MS ’72

Shelly Choo

Danielle Franks

Dana B. Isaacson, BSN ’03

Dawn C. Clayton, MS ’05, BSN ’01

Erika Friedmann

Jacqueline G. Isola, MS ’93, BSN ’87

Sarah Cobaugh

Mary K. Fry, MS ’82

Susan M. Jaszemski, MS ’03

Elaine G. Collins, BSN ’60

Judy S. Fuhrmann, MS ’74

Bonita E. Jenkins, MS ’97

Linda E. Collins, BSN ’79

Paige Futch

Mary E. Johantgen

Liz Abts

Rachel R. Colquitt, MS ’02

Jessica Galang, BSN ’16

Barbara Johnson

Marilyn Adkins, BSN ’77

Deborah L. Connell, BSN ’94

Karmela Galla, BSN ’57

Cheryl D. Johnson, BSN ’88

Jennifer H. Aird, BSN ’92

Kathleen L. Conway, BSN ’91

Tawsha N. Gary, BSN ’00

Blessing O. Akinola, BSN ’15

Linda Costa, BSN ’76

Deborah A. Gavin, BSN ’86

Cynthia A. Johnson, MS ’92, BSN ’87†

Melodie R. Alchimowicz, BSN ’00

Gail Cowan, MS ’85†

Johnny C. Gayden, MS ’14, BSN ’10

Jane B. Johnson, DIN ’47

Bonnie Walters Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64 Martha C. Webb, MS ’85, BSN ’79 Susan T. Webb, MS ’00

Mary C. Brewster, MS ’88

Charlotte Weber

Terri C. Broemm, BSN ’83

Elizabeth D. Webster, MS ’93† Linda P. Weisburger, MS ’76, BSN ’72

Barbara Sue Brown, BSN ’62 Shawan A. Brown, MS ’00 Virginia Brown

Elinor W. Wells, DIN ’46†

Nicole W. Brynes, BSN ’11

Thomas Wells

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

Catherine E. Welsch, MS ’94 Nicole G. White, MS ’02

Michael S. Burke

Brenda L. Willia, MS, BSN ’93

Alice J. Burrow, MS ’89, BSN ’82

Berthlyn M. Williams-Scoulios, MS ’00

Deborah Busch

Janice L. Wilson, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BSN ’74

Christine L. Byerly, BSN ’89

Tiffany A. Wissinger, MS ’09, BSN ’07

Mary K. Capka, BSN ’75 Danielle M. Carroll-Rau, MS ’01

Betty G. Witherspoon, BSN ’80 Jeffrey K. Witt, MS ’04, BSN ’02 Emma Wohlgemuth

Verna J. Carson, MS ’73, BSN ’68 Yvonne L. Caruso, BSN ’77 Susan M. Cavey, BSN ’76

Christine M. Wong, BSN ’02

Lisa Miller Chan

Christine B. Woo, MS ’07 Jean E. Yancey, BSN ’53 Jean A. Yeakel, BSN ’56 Patricia S. Young, BSN ’90 Caryn S. Zolotorow, MS ’11, BSN ’78

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Cameron S. Campbell, MS ’14

Lou Ann Harman, BSN ’56†

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Lydia A. Johnson, MS ’94

Catherine N. Mbugua, BSN ’98

Richard Ricciardi, MS ’91

Mary A. Swann, BSN ’77

Starlene D. Jones, BSN ’88

Barbara E. McCarthy, BSN ’82

Stephen Rietschel, BSN ’16

Beth Sykes, MS ’12

Deborah L. Kavanagh, MS ’86, BSN ’79†

Mitchel A. McDonald, BSN ’73

Catherine A. Riley, BSN ’94

Rita E. Talley, BSN ’78

Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73†

Debbie Rini

Suzanne F. Tanhauser, BSN ’92

Lisa E. Keel, BSN ’80

Elaine McGary, BSN ’60

Priscilla V. Rivera, BSN ’77†

Arpad G. Kelemen

Sallie J. McKevitt, BSN ’69

Heidi L. Roberts, MS ’01

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

Barbara A. Kellam, MS ’80, BSN ’72†

Kathleen Michael

Valerie E. Rogers, PhD ’09, MS ’98

Dalvis Kennedy

Patricia C. Middleton, BSN ’61†

Leslie Rush

Thomas N. Kibuthu, BSN ’09

Sally R. Minardi, BSN ’74

Susan M. Rutherford, BSN ’94

Adrienne Kieliszak

Susan C. Minter, BSN ’70

Lisa Hartge Sabetti, BSN ’81

Benjamin S. Kim, BSN ’14

Miriam L. Moerbe, MS ’13

Nancy E. Safferman, BSN ’84

Eunjin Kim, BSN ’08

Margaret Mohler-Strahan, BSN ’59

N. Jennifer Klinedinst

Karen L. Moore, BSN ’87

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

Nancy A. Koontz, MS ’68

Joan M. Morris, BSN ’97

Julie M. Sandkuhler, BSN ’06

Dorothy Threadgill, MS ’67

Mary S. Kotch, BSN ’74

Rosemary E. Murphey, BSN ’79

Mary C. Sattler, BSN ’86

Jean Tress

Stacy Zweig Krakower, BSN ’99

Kelly Murray

Joshua Saunders

Nina M. Trocky

Mary E. Krovisky, BSN ’78

Mary A. Murray, MS ’11, BSN ’81

Stephanie D. Sayers, BSN ’07

Maria A. Trovato, BSN ’04

Joan E. Kub, MS ’76

Nancy L. Newman, BSN ’87

Barbara Schanbacher

Miriam D. Tucker, MSN ’63, BSN ’55

Mary Martha Kuhn, BSN ’71

Wing-nay Ng, BSN ’16

Chris Schantz

Daniel Tush

Stephanie A. Lamont, MS ’12

Faye Ann Poff Niner, BSN ’75

Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50†

Beverly R. Lang, BSN ’85

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

Susan Njenga, MS ’14

Karen E. Scheu, DNP ’12

Alyce Lipps Lazarevich, BSN ’75

Patricia A. O’Connor, BSN ’65

Matthew R. Schroebel

Ho Lim Lee, BSN ’15

Adena O’Keeffe, MS ’87

H. E. Sam Schuler, BSN ’01

Gail Schoen Lemaire, PhD ’96

Susanna M. Oley, MS ’16, BSN ’00

Ruth C. Schwalm, MS ’66†

Christopher Lennard, BSN ’16

Thayni Ortiz

Susan J. Seyala, BSN ’67†

Victoria R. Lentz, MS ’81, BSN ’76†

Cindy K. Osnos, MS ’92

Elisabeth Shelton

Amy Goldberg Lester, BSN ’79

Eve E. Ostrowski, MS ’13

Martha M. Shemin, BSN ’72

Ryan Richard Vogelpohl and Taylor W. Baesch, BSN ’10

Yulan Liang

Lynn M. Oswald

Glen Sherwin

Thien C. Vu, BSN ’15

Megan Licata

Renee C. Pabst, MS ’95, BSN ’88

Claudette K. Silberfein, MS ’71

Deborah Wallizer

Kelli S. Lingg, BSN ’78

Sallie Packham, BSN ’57

Ann Silvius, BSN ’72

Sandra L. Walter, BSN ’69

Linda A. Linton, BSN ’00

Lacie Simpson

Najeeba Wardak, BSN ’00

Caroline E. Lister, BSN ’56

Jeffrey M. and Jacqueline W. Pargament, BSN ’71

Nicole E. Smith, MS ’14

Norma J. Warner, BSN ’78

Sarah Pech Litman, BSN ’03

Joyce L. Parker, BSN ’96

Kim D. Webb, BSN ’95

Julia K. Locklin, BSN ’91 April L. Lockwood

Elizabeth C. Parkinson-Wyner, MS ’02

Susan S. Smith, PhD ’09, MS ’99, BSN ’98 Michaelyn M. Solomko, BSN ’76

Nancy Smith Westerberg, BSN ’58

Mary DeSales Lohr, BSN ’78

Angelia C. Parraway, BSN ’88

Nicole Sommers

Jessica L. Whitfield, BSN ’94

Lisa A. Lorden, MS ’08

Molly Parsons

Kimberly Sparklin, BSN ’83

Rebekah P. Wildman, BSN ’99

Diane M. Lowder, BSN ’81

Steven T. Parsons

Barbara J. Speller-Brown, DNP ’13

Kyle A. Wilhelm, MS ’95, BSN ’83

Victoria E. Lowe, BSN ’84

Janet M. Passley-Harp, MS ’02

Sarah Spikes

Deborah H. Wilson, MS ’89, BSN ’75

Nanyombi B. Lubimbi, BSN ’05

Diane K. Pastor, BSN ’79

Carolyn P. Sponn, MS ’07

Doris B. Wilson, BSN ’72

Asia Lynn, BSN ’13

Steven Pease

Kathleen Srsic-Stoehr, MS ’77

Elfreda M. Wilson, BSN ’99

Deborah A. Machiran, BSN ’73

Charlotte W. Pellicot, BSN ’92

Kelly M. St. Lewis, BSN ’98

Brenda F. Windemuth, DNP ’11

Nancy M. Magee, BSN ’91

Julie A. Pistorio, MS ’02, BSN ’98

Laura A. Stack, BSN ’12

Heather C. Winn, BSN ’79

Barbara J. Major, BSN ’74

Barbara Pittet, MS ’89

Mary Helen Staley, BSN ’54†

Christine J. Wisnom, BSN ’86

John L. Maningas, BSN ’01

Jean Plunkett

Anne R. Manley, BSN ’14

Ellen Poole, DIN ’51

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

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

Roberta M. Margot, BSN ’05

Martha A. Popovic, BSN ’61

Stacey M. Stanley, BSN ’91

Carmen M. Womack, DIN ’51

Joan N. Martellotto, BSN ’66†

Herb Prewill

Sharon L. Stecklein, BSN ’69

Rachael Wontrop

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

Deborah Prout

Elaine J. Steele, BSN ’79†

Mary Beth B. Wood, BSN ’80

Emily L. Ranger, BSN ’92

Linda L. Stegman, BSN ’72

Priscilla S. Worral, PhD ’86

Kelly R. Martin, BSN ’12

Kim M. Reck, MS ’83, BSN ’78

Julie A. Steidl, MS ’14

Mary M. Yancey, MS ’00, BSN ’96

Victoria May, BSN ’16

Elizabeth T. Rector, BSN ’77

Sharon Stiles, BSN ’16

Ellis Q. Youngkin, MS ’65

Karen L. Maylor, BSN ’76

Valerie L. Reihl

Dolora A. Stoffa, BSN ’90

Patricia Zachmann

Monica U. Mba, BSN ’04

Paula L. Reynolds, BSN ’94

Ashleigh Stronski

Constance R. Ziegfeld, MS ’80

Barbara Blackwell Thomas, BSN ’78 Barbara Koehne Thomas, BSN ’77 Caitlin L. Thomas, BSN ’13 Karmal Thomas Mary P. Thompson, BSN ’73 Pamela A. Thompson, BSN ’96 Kathleen G. Thorp, MS ’09

Linda W. Tyler, MS ’79 Darlene Augins Tyson, BSN ’74 Rashidah R. Uqdah, BSN ’79 Martha C. Valdez, MS ’88 Robin A. Villiard, MS ’00

Deanna Weiler

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Mary Patricia Howard, MS ’94, BSN ’73, RN, is the director of nursing at Genesis Healthcare in Towson, Maryland. She is certified in gerontology and is a certified dementia practitioner and a certified director of nursing-long-term care.

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Jean Humphreys, BSN ’74, RN, is a staff Ellen Kwiatkowski, DIN ’51, (left) attended her 65th reunion on April 27; she was the sole representative for her class. She is retired and enjoys spending time with her friends and family. Her daughter (right) accompanied her to this special milestone event.

Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, MS ’59, RNCS, FAAN, professor, Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, was designated a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), the academy’s highest honor, and was celebrated at the AAN conference in October.

Janet Rowan, MS, BSN ’61, RN, attended

Phyllis Sharp, PhD ’88, BSN ’70, RN, FAAN,

her 55th reunion on April 27 and was the sole representative for her class. She is retired from her work as a clinical research nurse at the National Institutes of Health and is enjoying this time to pursue other interests.

professor, associate dean for community programs and initiatives, and Elsie M. Lawler Chair at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Education and Research from the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in July. The award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to nursing and/or health care for African-Americans.

registered nurse at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. She received her Master of Science in Nursing in administration from Georgia Southern University in 1994 and has had a broad base of experience in management, education, and clinical practice.

Humphreys has been certified in adult critical care, progressive care, neuroscience, and nursing administration (advanced). She has

University of Maryland Medical Center Awards Alumni for Excellence Congratulations to the alumni whose excellence in their work at the University of Maryland Medical Center was recognized at the hospital’s awards ceremony in May. PERSONIFIES PROFESSIONALISM AWARD

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING COLLEAGUE AWARD

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP AWARD

Martina Patricio, BSN ’97, RN, CNRN, nurse coordinator, interventional radiology

Joan Davenport, PhD ’00, RN, assistant professor, UMSON; registered nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit

Karen Dizon, BSN ’12, RN, PCCN, clinical nurse II, Cardiac Surgery Step-down Unit

Cynthia O’Carroll, MS ’11, RN, nurse manager, UMMC Transplant Intermediate Care Unit and Transplant Transitional Care Center

EXCELLENCE IN PUBLICATION OR PRESENTATION AWARD

EXCELLENCE IN ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE Cheryl Cline, MS, BSN ’98, CRNA, manager, nursing anesthesia JoAnn Sikora, MS ’00, BSN ’98, CRNP, senior lead nurse practitioner for cardiac surgery and the cardiac surgery ICU/NP/PA teams 46 WINTER 2017

Jennifer Arrington, MS ’11, RN, CPN, CNL, senior clinical nurse I Susie Park, MS ’11, RN, clinical nurse II Katherine Spillman, MS ’13, RN, clinical nurse II

EXCELLENCE IN PRECEPTING, MENTORING, AND EDUCATION AWARD Ashley Hernandez, BSN ’12, BA, RN-BC, senior clinical nurse I, psychiatric emergency services

worked in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Georgia in both large tertiary teaching referral centers and mid-sized community hospitals. In early 2016, she returned to bedside nursing, where she began her career.

She has been practicing nursing for 42 years.

Sigma Theta Tau International; it received a 2015 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. She is also the co-author of Mosby’s Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, edition 12, and Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, edition 5. Almost 2 million copies of these books have sold worldwide with translations in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Korean, and Chinese.

Debra Vilendrer Ashcraft, BSN ’75 (WRAIN), RN, is a Kathleen Deska Pagana, PhD, BSN ’74, RN, has written the second edition of The Nurse’s Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Career, published by

retired Army major, Army aviator (helicopter pilot), Army registered nurse, and disabled veteran. She began as an Army nurse for 10 years and then attended the Army Rotary Program

at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where she was awarded her Aviator Wings.

Ashcraft had been a helicopter pilot for nine years when she was injured in a helicopter crash and had to leave aviation. She returned to the Army Nurse Corps in which she was promoted to the rank of major before retiring a short while later. Ashcraft was also a certified SCUBA diver. She studied real estate and obtained her license to sell ranches in Southern Colorado.

When she was not nursing in military facilities, she worked as a forensic nurse in a large prison, then in the Colorado State Mental Health Institute, and finished up as a psychiatric nurse in a local hospital. She found her nursing niche in psychiatric nursing.

Dolores Peters Davis, BSN ’75, RN, is a telephonic registered nurse at CareMetx in Bethesda, Maryland; she advises patients regarding specialty medications related to their health conditions.

She earned a Master of Science in Nursing in nursing education and administration from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Mary Flannery Nadolski, BSN ’75, RN, has been employed as a registered nurse for more than 10 years at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

Sharon McCaig Watts, BSN ’75, earned her Master of Education in Guidance and Counseling from Loyola University and is a certified childbirth educator and CPR instructor.

Barbara Parker, PhD ’86, MS ’76, RN, (left) presented a paper, “Promoting an atmosphere to support nursing research,” on Sept. 24 at Dalian University in Manchuria, China.

Claudette Jacobs, DNP, BSN ’77, RN-BC, clinical education and program manager, was featured in the 2015-16 Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring,” for Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) in Columbia, Maryland.

UMSON Alumni Association Elects New Members CONGRATULATIONS to Carmel

Anne McComiskey, DNP ’10, MS ’96, who was named president-

Congratulations, too, to the following UMSON Alumni Association members-at-large, who began serving two-year terms last July 1:

elect of the University of Maryland School of Nursing Alumni Association, effective July 1. McComiskey is the director of nurse practitioners and physicians assistants at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore.

Linda Jasek Dewberry, MS ’11, BSN ’84,

Malinda Peeples, MS ’97, RN, CDE,

Carrie Jacobs, MS ’09, RN, CNL, registered

nurse practitioner, UMMC-Midtown Surgical Vascular Center

vice president of clinical advocacy, WellDoc; adjunct assistant faculty, Division of Healthcare Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

nurse, University of Maryland, College Park University Health Center

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Annie Clavon, PhD, MS ’83, BSN ’79, RN, was named a 2016 Nurse.com GEM Award finalist in the Excellence in Education and Mentorship category.

She is a full-time nursing instructor at Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

California. From 1988-03, she served as a commander in the Naval Nurse Corps Reserve, retiring in 2003.

From 1988-98, she was a professor in the Emergency Medical Technician Program and from 19982003, she served as director of student health services at San Diego Miramar College. From 2003-15, she served in the U.S. Department of State as a foreign service medical provider, retiring in 2015 with duty stations including Abuja, Nigeria; Baghdad, Iraq; Managua, Nicaragua; Maputo, Mozambique; and Libreville, Gabon.

1980s Julie Baylor, MS, BSN ’80, RN, nurse manager, nursing administration, was featured in the 2015-16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”

Judy Harris, MSN, BSN ’80, RN, is the interim director, student health centers, at Palomar College in San Marcos, California.

From 1980-88, she was active duty with the Navy Nurse Corps and served at duty stations at the Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California; Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan; and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego,

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Sally Raphel, MS ’84, BSN ’80, RN, (center) who taught at UMSON from 2000-06, is the recipient of the 2016 International Society of PsychiatricMental Health Nurses Living Legends Award in recognition of her significant lifetime contributions to the profession of psychiatricmental health nursing. The award was presented at the awards ceremony on April 16 during the society’s 18th annual conference in Minneapolis.

James Dyson, BSN ’81, RN, is living in North Carolina and working as a clinical documentation improvement specialist. He previously managed the Emergency Department at Anne Arundel Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, for 24 years.

Jennifer Kalapaca, BSN ’84, RN, is a clinical research nurse at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Marla Oros, MS, BSN ’84, RN, received the 2016 Commitment to Community Award from Paul’s Place, a community organization in Baltimore, in recognition of her extensive support and longstanding commitment to the community.

Her leadership as a board member and chair of the last capital campaign has helped transform Paul’s Place into an organization that is helping individuals and families become self-sufficient.

Laura Adrian Taylor, PhD, MS ’90, BSN ’86, RN, FAAN, is an associate professor and director of clinical education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned her PhD at The Catholic University of America School of Nursing in 2006.

1990s Kerry Sue Mueller, MBA, BSN ’90, RN, CCRN, manager of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC),

and her team received the UMMC Chief Nursing Officer Award for Team Excellence in May 2016 for consistently demonstrating excellence in teamwork to provide extraordinary care to patients, families, and each other. Alumni members of Mueller’s team include: Kimberly Bowers, MS ’07; Chad Copeland, BSN ’13; Rachael Goucher, BSN ’13; Tara Stocksdale, BSN ’14; Christian Gragasin, BSN ’15; Lindsay Jones, BSN ’15; Martin Maier, BSN ’15; Kristin McAleer, MS ’15; Melanie D. Schutt, BSN ’15; Rebecca Stecher, MS ’15; and Melissa Wagner, MS ’15.

Read more about Mueller and her UMMC unit in “Team Captain,” Page 30.

Robert Church, MS ’94, MBA, RN, NE-BC, FACHE, worked as a staff nurse in UMMC’s Emergency Department and the Trauma Admitting Area of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 2012, he obtained his MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and became a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. In 2016, he was appointed as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at SBH Health System in the Bronx, New York.

Anne K. (Hummer) Massie, MSN, BSN ’94, RN, CIC, works as the infection prevention and control coordinator at Castle Medical Center in Kailua, Hawaii. In 2015, she presented the storyboard “Improving Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination” at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2015 annual forum. She also presented “Infection Prevention in the Preoperative

Setting” at the Hawaii Islands Perianesthesia Nurses Conference.

Ann Baile Hamric, PhD ’96, RN, FAAN, associate dean for academic programs and professor in the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, was a keynote speaker at the 9th International Council of Nurses International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference, Sept. 9-11 in Hong Kong, China.

Sarah Szanton, PhD, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, serves as a national advisor on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panel examining the gap between clinical care and community services.

REUNION 2017 Saturday, April 29

If you earned a DIN or BSN degree in a year ending in a 2 or 7, come reconnect with classmates and learn about the latest developments at the School.

Melissa Pasko, BSN ’05,

Jeanne Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN, was

Heather Gable, DNP ’14, MS ’04, BSN ’02, chair of

appointed as founding dean of Stevenson University’s new School of Health Professions, the University’s seventh academic school, and began her new role as dean and chief administrator of nursing on April 18.

Frostburg State University’s Department of Nursing and an associate professor, has been awarded the Regents’ Faculty Award in Teaching, the highest honor that the University System of Maryland Board of Regents bestows to recognize exemplary faculty achievement. She was honored at the April 15 meeting of the board.

Paige Schwartz, MSN, BSN ’02, RN, manager, 3 Pavilion/Telemetry Unit, was featured in the 201516 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”

Desireé Mullis Clement, MS ’03, BSN ’01, APRN, CNM, FNP-BC, (left) recently accepted a full-time academic appointment as faculty teaching in the Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner graduate programs at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. Clement earned a post-master’s certification as a family nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt University. She serves on the nominating committee of Midwives of Georgia, the Georgia affiliate of the American College of Nurse Midwives. pictured: Clement with Sen. Renee Unterman (R-Georgia), chair of the Georgia State Health and Human Services

Leslie Slifer Jackson, DNP, BSN ’03, RN, is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Nemours A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing in 2006 from the Georgetown University Nurse Anesthesia Program and a Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2015 from Villanova University.

Nickie O’Rourke, BSN ’03, RNC, C-EFM, manager, labor and delivery, was featured in the 2015-16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”

is a clinical manager responsible for clinical training and education for Bard Medical (Critical Care), a company that has been developing innovative medical devices that meet the needs of health care professionals and patients for more than 100 years.

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

RSVP at nursing.umaryland.edu/alumni/events.

Treza James, MS ’06, NNP-BC, CPES, RN, clinical practice and education specialist at UMMC, is part of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that received the Intelligent Health Association’s 2016 Improving Patient Care and Health Delivery Award and the 2016 IHA GRAND Award in March.

Kimberley Murray, MS ’07, has been working in internal medicine at the Naval Health Clinic in Hospital Point at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, since November 2015.

She also volunteers as a medic at athletic events. She worked on the medical team for two Crossfit Regionals events this year and served on the medical team for the Crossfit Games in Carson, California, broadcast on ESPN in July.

LARRY CANNER

2000s

Join us for a reunion celebration in Baltimore.

Committee, a registered nurse, and an advocate in Georgia for advanced practice nurses and nursing

The following class years will be celebrated: Class of 2012

Class of 1977

5th

40th

Class of 2007

Class of 1972

10th

45th

Class of 2002

Class of 1967

15th

50th

Class of 1997

Class of 1962

20th

Class of 1992 25th

Class of 1987 30th

55th

Class of 1957 60th

Class of 1952 65th

Class of 1982 35th

and all alumni who earned a master’s degree through the Clinical Nurse Leader option in 2007 or 2012

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Army of Two: Patricia Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69, and Karen Huss, MS ’75, BSN ’69

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ith nearly a century of combined nursing experience between the two of them, identical twin sisters Patricia Travis and Karen Huss have touched the lives of countless patients and aspiring nurses.

Upon graduating from Bad Kreuznach American High School in Germany (their father served in the military and was stationed there), the sisters both decided to pursue nursing careers. They each earned scholarships and enrolled in the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s two-year Army Student Nurse Program, a partnership between the School and the U.S. Department of the Army designed to increase the number of Army nurses during the Vietnam War era.

Huss, PhD, MS ’75, BSN ’69, CRNP, FAAAAI, FAHA, FAAN, spent three years working as an Army nurse, including an assignment in Ascom City, Korea, where she was appointed head nurse of a large medical surgical unit. She also served as head nurse of a medical unit at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Huss achieved the rank of captain before leaving the Army to pursue a civilian academic career, starting with a position as an assistant professor in the School of Nursing.

Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69, RN, CCRP, also joined the Army after graduation and served for 27 years. She traveled around the world, assigned to U.S. Army-run hospitals in numerous senior nursing and management leadership roles, including a stint as nurse research consultant to the Army surgeon general.

“My sister and I took different paths,”

above: the sisters (at right) in kindergarten; n;; right, l. to r.: Travis and Huss

“Nursing offers you thee o opportunity pportunity tto o assume whatever role you’d like. As long as you pursue education, you can develop the skills you need to make major contributions … .”

Huss says, “but we both received doctoral degrees in nursing and we both have had exciting leadership opportunities.”

Travis, now senior associate director of clinical research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, retired from the Army with the rank of colonel and turned her attention to mentorship

and service. As a dedicated member of professional organizations throughout her career, Travis has served the Maryland Nurses Association in many leadership roles, including president and first vice president of the board of directors. She’s the nurse co-lead of the Maryland Action Coalition and is

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promoting nursing at the national level as secretary of the American Nurses Association board of directors.

Through her work with student nursing associations, she encourages aspiring nurses to join professional organizations and advocate for their nursing practice. “Be a part of the force that can create a better future,” she says. “Talk with your elected officials about health care reform and issues related to nursing—it’s important for the nursing voice to be heard.”

Huss shares her sister’s dedication to supporting nursing students. In her role as a program director at the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health, Huss serves as a mentor and resource for investigatorinitiated research opportunities and provides guidance on training and careerdevelopment programs for students from across the country, including many associated with UMSON. When speaking with students considering nursing as a profession, Huss praises the School’s reputation and highlights its program offerings.

As an UMSON alumna and former faculty member, Huss says she strongly believes that nurses should seek out higher education. “Nursing offers you the opportunity to assume whatever role you’d like to,” she explains. “As long as you pursue education, you can develop the skills you need to make major contributions to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice.”

Huss encourages students to make learning a priority. “You’re a student forever,” she says.

—Meredith Lidard Kleeman

Benson Musau, BSN ’10, RN, worked in various

Carolyn Nganga-Good, MS ’07, RN, CPH, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Nurse Leader, delivered a presentation on “Building a Healthier Nation: Public Health Nurses Leading the Change” at UMSON’s 50th anniversary celebration of its Community/Public Health Nursing master’s specialty program on Sept. 17.

medical centers in Annapolis and Glen Burnie, Maryland, after graduation. He then joined Frederick Memorial Hospital’s Surgical Services. As a circulating nurse in the Operative Room, he renders pre-, intra-, and postoperative nursing service.

Brandon Buckingham, MS, BSN ’08, RN, CCRN, nurse manager, joint academy/surgery, was featured in the 2015-16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”

Jessica Yarger, BSN ’12, RN, (center) was honored as the Baltimore Washington Medical Center Registered Nurse of the Year-ED at the Glen Burnie, Maryland, hospital’s 2016 Nurses Week awards ceremonies.

Anastasia Valentino, BSN ’13, RN, was chosen Silvia I. Freyre, BSN ’11, RN, began her career as a clinical call center nurse at health care data analytics company Inovalon in Bowie, Maryland. She continues to work there as a clinical operations manager.

as Nurse of the Year 2016 from 4 East at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Vanzetta James, MS ’11, RN, CCRN,

Valerie Sabol, PhD ’09, AGACNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, was selected as a 2016 National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education Fellow.

She was inducted at the Summit Honors Convocation in Orlando, Florida, in September.

team manager; Samantha Dayberry, BSN ’08, RN, PCCN; and Jennifer Morle, BSN ’08, RN, PCCN, were part of the UMMC Multi-Trauma Intermediate Care-6 (MTIMCF-6) team that was awarded the highly regarded Silver-Level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in May 2015. The UMMC MTIMCF-6 team was the first shock trauma unit ever to be recognized with this award.

Justin Graves, MS ’14, RN, sustainability manager at UMMC, was honored by the Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment at its MD H2E Trailblazer event for his dedication to environmental health and sustainability. Graves chairs the hospital green team, spearheaded programs in waste reduction and healthy foods, and has identified opportunities to change hospital purchasing programs that save money and reduce environmental impact.

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Bu Kyung Park, PhD ’14, received a three-year research award from the National Research Foundation of Korea for a pediatric cancer longterm intervention program, “Development and evaluation of the SNS-based pediatric cancer patient long-term intervention program: Randomized controlled trial.” Park is an assistant professor at Chung-Ang University College of Nursing in Seoul, Korea.

Amy Vehar Maniatis, MS ’15, RN, is a registered

Victoria May, BSN ’16, RN, is a

nurse at UMMC. She recently became an American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) ambassador and a part of the upcoming AACN telemedicine evidence-based practice committee. She has been forging ahead in the telemedicine intensive care unit at UMMC, where they have begun the tele-stroke and tele-sitting safety program in the ICU setting. This work encompasses 11 ICUs in Maryland, including that on the main UMMC campus. She started in UMSON’s DNP program this past fall semester.

nurse resident at the Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland.

Jane Isabelle (Slick) Seegar, DIN ’37 Mary M. (Bussard) Kyne, DIN ’40 Mildred E. Foster, DIN ’41 Betty Mae (James) Ortega, DIN ’43 Sara Hollister Whiting, DIN ’43

Dianha Morrison, MS ’16, RN, is a

Virginia A. (Morgan) Speeg, DIN ’45

registered nurse I at UMMC in the Vascular Surgery Progressive Care Unit.

Patricia L. (Schindel) Renn, BSN ’47

Gabriel Sevalie, BSN ’16, RN, is a registered nurse at MedStar Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center.

Mary Jane Reichert, DIN ’47

Christine (Landis) Weber, DIN ’47 Carol M. Hosfeld, DIN ’50 Cary Glenn Barrows, DIN ’51 Jean Elmore Yancey, BSN ’53 Joan E. Slavin, BSN ’57 Mary Louise Gunning Young, BSN ’57 Ann Marie (Griesser) Cumor, BSN ’58 Charlotte Bowman Yingling, BSN ’58 Donna Chew Becker, BSN ’66 Amy Chang, BSN ’68 Deborah Whelan Piper, BSN ’70 Judith J. (Minderler) Gascoigne, BSN ’73 Sally L. Rafferty, MS ’74

Alumnae Inducted as 2016 American Academy of Nursing Fellows Congratulations to the eight University of Maryland School of Nursing alumnae inducted into the American Academy of Nursing’s (AAN) 2016 class of fellows.

Marie Monach Johnson, BSN ’75 Josephine Miller Crouch, BSN ’78 Mary Koster Pabst, MS ’79 Joan Blansfield Hines, BSN ’80 Mary Lou (Monakil) Mullen, MS ’87, BSN ’85 This list includes notices the School of Nursing received from April 1, 2016-Jan. 4, 2017.

JoAnne Silbert-Flagg, DNP, MS ’83, BSN ’79, CRNP, FAAN

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Patricia Sengstack, DNP, MS ’88, BSN ’82, RN-BC, FAAN

Let your fellow alumni know what’s happening in your life. Photos are welcome!

Laura A. Taylor, PhD, MS ’90, BSN ’86, RN, ANEF, FAAN Cara J. Krulewitch, PhD ’92, CNM, FACNM, FAAN

Submitting an update to Class News and Notes is easy:

Ting-Ting Lee, PhD ’98, MS ’93, RN, FAAN

• Visit nursing.umaryland.edu/classnotes.

Kristy Duffey, MS ’98, APRN, GNP-BC, FAAN

• Email alumni@son.umaryland.edu.

• Call 410-706-0674.

Murielle Beene, DNP, MBA, MPH, MS ’01, RN-BC, PMP, FAAN Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN

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BACK STORY

Community/Public Health Nursing It’s been 50 years since the University of

the last quarter of the 19th century with the

Maryland School of Nursing graduated the

concept of “district nurses.” An article in the

first class of 11 students—as Marlene Cianci,

American Journal of Public Health says that Lillian

PhD, MS ’66, BSN ’65, RN, recalls—from its

Wald coined the term “public health nurse” a

Community/Public Health Nursing master’s

couple of decades later, advancing the philosophy

specialty program, established three years

that nurses should treat social and economic

earlier in 1963. According to the World Health

problems in addition to health issues.

Organization, community/public health ommunity/pub blic hea alth nursing emerged d in England under Florence Nightingale in

Lillian Wald, 1867-1934, credited with establishing American community/ public health nursing

W you a member of or do you have memories Were off the first graduating community/public health nursing class at UMSON? We’d love to hear from nu you. Contact us at alumni@son.umaryland.edu or yo 410-706-0674.

41 Frances Wickham (right, standing), public health nurse and future coordinator of UMSON’s RN-to-BSN program

1960s lead poisoning clinic, Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD)

1960s public health nurses in summer uniform, Druid Health Center, BCHD

1930s PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARLENE CIANCI

first annual meeting of the National Organization of Public Health Nurses

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SAVE THE DATE Ann Ottney Cain Endowed Lecture in Psychiatric Nursing March 30, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/lectures

Home and Community Based Care Symposium April 24, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/homecare

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Alumni Reunion Celebration April 29, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/alumni/events

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Convocation May 19, 2017 Royal Farms Arena

Maryland Action Coalition Retreat & Leadership Summit: The Culture of Health

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May 22, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/mdac

Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics July 11-14, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/sini

Institute for Simulation Educators July 24-27, 2017 nursing.umaryland.edu/ise

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