Nursing For/um: Fall 2021

FALL 2021

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING

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Embrace differences and be dedicated to listening to others’ stories and experiences openly.

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Recognize our shared humanity and commonalities across cultures and identities.

Acknowledge sometimes uncomfortable realities and understand our place within these truths.

Raise awareness to identify our own biases and prejudices so that we may modify our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Together We Commit, Together We Act Demonstrate respect for all people by using inclusive language, acknowledging the value of every member of our community, and inviting collaboration and true partnership.

Be courageous and speak up when witnessing microaggressions and other forms of offensive speech or behavior.

Challenge and work to change policies and practices that discriminate against or negatively impact groups of people.

After ratification by the School of Nursing’s shared governance, UMSON introduced its antioppression position statement, “In UniSON: Together We Commit, Together We Act,” in late summer, formally signaling the School community’s commitment to dismantling structural racism

and other forms of structural oppression. UMSON’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion has planned an in-person celebration of the statement’s introduction this fall and is working to advance efforts that weave the statement’s sentiments into the fabric of daily life at the School.

Read the entire statement, a brief excerpt of which appears at right in red, at nursing.umaryland.edu/unison.

Create authentic ways to share and promote inclusivity and equity in the workplace and in social and personal environments.

Hold the School, colleagues, and ourselves accountable for creating change.

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The Gen Z Nurse

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The Human Touch

The Pulse

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Impact

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InTouch

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Meet the youngest nurses entering the workforce. They are members of the most diverse, welleducated, and politically active generation in human history.

Many of the most pressing nursing research questions require human subjects. UMSON excels in its support of researchers working with humans to ensure the work is compliant, ethical, and safe.

Combating COVID-19 Vaccination Opposition News and Views New Substance Use and Addictions Nursing Certificate Construction Update Getting Physical as We Age Worksite Wellness Student Spotlight

Class Notes Alumni Profiles Events

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Donor Profile Legacy Society Honor Roll of Donors

cover photography: Christopher Myers

From the Dean As I write this, the University of Maryland School of Nursing has returned to in-person learning, although we are again donning masks indoors given the uncertainties surrounding the course of the pandemic and the Delta variant. For now, masks are a small price to pay for classrooms and hallways once again alive with the rhythm of teaching, learning, collaboration, and collegiality.

As we return in full force, we are all conscious that we are not the same people who left in March 2020 – too much has transpired in our individual and collective lives. For nursing, the call to lead improvements in the health of populations has gained new urgency in light of the disparate impact of COVID-19 on segments of the population and of the revealed inequities in the health care system. Nursing’s role is outlined in the recently released report from the National Academy of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Future of Nursing 2020 - 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. It is further referenced in the revisions to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Essentials for nursing education, which will drive curricular changes to address the health care needs of an increasingly diverse patient population and a global society.

Within the School of Nursing, a recently issued position statement, “In UniSON: Together We Commit, Together We Act,” was developed in response to the events and conversations of the past 18 months (see the inside front cover). It challenges us as a School to address issues of structural racism and oppression, to eliminate bias in our policies and procedures, and to work with members of our larger community to advocate for equity in education, housing, and health care.

The School of Nursing is ideally positioned to respond to these multiple calls for change.

We have a legacy of leadership in community and public health; understanding and insights that that can be gathered from a racially and ethnically diverse group of students, faculty, and staff; a desire for social justice especially among our Gen Z students and alumni (see “The Gen Z Nurse,” Page 18); and a deep commitment within the School and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to the core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (see “Creating a More Inclusive UMB,” Page 12).

In many ways, the new opportunities for nursing to take action in the face of great and growing societal need recall the Lillian Wald model for nursing in the early 20th century. It was a time when nursing joined forces with social work and went “upstream” The vaccination clinic at the to address the root causes of poor health UMB Southern Management Corporation Campus Center closed and health inequities. Although progress on July 17, having operated for 7+ was cut short by the emergence of a months, the first 3+ in partnership hospital-based focus on medical cures, with the University of Maryland Medical Center and the final 4 run perhaps this time, nursing will succeed solely by UMB under the direction in engendering the lasting improvements of Kirschling (left), as executive to the health of populations that those leader. Ann Mech, JD, MS ’78, BSN ’76, RN (right), assistant dedicated nurses of a century ago so professor and director of legal valiantly sought to achieve.

FALL 2021 NURSING FOR/UM is published by the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Giordana Segneri ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Jillian Dreicer Laura Hager Libby Zay EDITORIAL BOARD

Nancy Bolan Amy Daniels Susan Dorsey Larry Fillian Erika Friedmann Laurette Hankins Jane M. Kirschling Kathleen Michael Yolanda Ogbolu Deborah Prout Cynthia Sikorski Rebecca Wiseman Susan Wozenski CONTRIBUTORS

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Send correspondence to Giordana Segneri, Editor-in-Chief, at nrscommunications@ umaryland.edu or 410-706-4115.

affairs, served as a supervisor of students. Its success during the 4 months that UMB oversaw the operation, by the numbers:

Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN The Bill and Joanne Conway Dean

• 5,784 individuals fully vaccinated • 9,917 vaccine doses administered • 466 nursing students provided 3,799 vaccination hours • 30 nursing faculty and staff volunteered for 354 hours

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The Pulse

“ I think as nurses, we need to take every opportunity that we possibly can to talk about why it’s so important to get the vaccine.”

ANNE WILLIAMS

Combating COVID-19 Vaccine Opposition

JENA FRICK/UMB

BY JENA FRICK AND LAURA HAGER

As of Sept. 12, more than 63% of Americans had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 49% were fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But with COVID-19 cases again on the rise and the Delta variant spreading rapidly, health care professionals cannot become complacent, says Anne Williams, DNP ’12, MS ’86, BSN ’82, RN, senior director of community and population health, University of Maryland Medical System, and a member of the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Vaccine Hesitancy workgroup.

When facing opposition to and skepticism about the vaccine, it is important for nurses to take the time to answer all their patients’ questions and to get to the root of their concerns, explains Williams, who served as planning section chief and clinical operations lead at the M&T Bank Stadium Mass Vaccination Site in Baltimore from December to July. “We had some people come in who were hesitant right up to the time that they sat down to be vaccinated,” she recalls.

Nurses can also play a large part in encouraging vaccination simply by spreading the word. “I think as nurses, we need to take every opportunity that we possibly can to talk about why it’s so important to get the vaccine,” Williams says. In March, the mass vaccination site staff helped facilitate such conversations by welcoming faith leaders to tour the facility, some of

whom had already received the vaccine and some who were vaccinated while there for the tour. “They then became champions back in their own communities to say, ‘I got the vaccine, I’m still OK, I’m standing here, I’m not sick, and I feel protected,’” Williams says.

In early April, when the mass vaccination site peaked at 6,000 vaccinations daily, four UMSON students, as a part of their community/public health clinical rotation, were canvassing in neighboring West Baltimore to schedule vaccine appointments for community members.

Hayley Carper, RN, an RN-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing student, engages with a community resident to answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

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“ There’s no better way to reach people than contact with a living and breathing human. They know that we’re part of the University community, so they know that we’re giving them good information, and that establishes trust.”

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photo at right: Mitchell assists a community member with scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine appointment.

The students worked with members of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Community Engagement Center (CEC) to schedule appointments at nearby vaccination sites, including UMB’s Southern Management Corporation Campus Center vaccine clinic.

This allowed community members to have one-on-one interactions with health care professionals to learn more about the vaccine. “There’s no better way to reach people than contact with a living and breathing human,” says Nneka Mitchell, RN, an RN-to-Master of Science in Nursing student. “They know that we’re part of the University community, so they know that we’re giving them good information, and that establishes trust.” The participating UMSON students and the CEC team scheduled more than 170 vaccination appointments from March to June. The CEC team expanded these efforts by collaborating with “The Family COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Project: A National Intervention to Support Special Needs Youth and Their Families” at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to hire and train community outreach workers to build relationships with neighbors and have vaccine conversations aimed at reducing barriers to obtaining the COVID-19 vaccine.

Once the CDC approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children 12 and older in May, Amy Hoffer, DNP ’21, CPNP-PC, clinical instructor, said it was important for health care providers to talk to parents/guardians of pediatric patients about the vaccine. “We’re finding that parents who get their questions answered from a knowledgeable source are much more likely to

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NNEKA MITCHELL

be comfortable with vaccinating their children,” she says.

Hoffer, who teaches pediatric courses and completed a DNP project on influenza vaccine hesitancy with pediatric patients, says providers should emphasize the risk of not getting the vaccine. As a result of COVID-19, children can experience long-haul COVID-19, which can include shortness of breath, fatigue, chronic cough, and headaches that persist for months after the initial onset of COVID-19, in addition to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, a condition in which different body parts can become inflamed, she says.

She also recommends referring to expert organizations. “Nurses can cite that the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends

anyone eligible, which is everyone 12 and older as of right now, get the vaccine,” Hoffer suggests. It’s also critical that providers take advantage of any patient contact time to recommend vaccines, and the CDC has approved the COVID-19 vaccine to be co-administered with other routine vaccinations. “When a teenager is getting their physical, providers can say, ‘Let’s do the COVID-19 vaccine while we’re here,’” she adds.

“As nurses, we need to be role models,” Williams says. “We need to spread the word and then work within our own professional organizations to do whatever we can to increase the vaccination rate. Nursing is the most trusted profession; we have to use that to our advantage.”

UMSON Appoints New Department Chair and New Specialty Director Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP Chair, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, and Professor UMSON appointed Galik as chair of the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health (OSAH) in March. OSAH comprises faculty members with expertise in health services leadership and management, nursing informatics, nurse anesthesia, and adult health, including primary, acute, emergent, and critical care.

In her new role, Galik is responsible for hiring, developing, and ensuring the ongoing success of more than 60 faculty members, leading them in UMSON’s tripartite mission of education, research, and practice.

She joined UMSON in 2006 and teaches in the Doctor of Nursing

Practice Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty while conducting research to optimize function and physical activity and to manage effectively behavioral symptoms among older adults with dementia.

She succeeds Kathleen Michael, PhD, RN, CRRN, associate professor, who retired in March after nearly 20 years at UMSON, the past five as OSAH chair.

Veronica Y. Amos, PhD, MS ’07, MS ’00, BSN ’99, CRNA, PHCNS-BC Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Anesthesia Specialty, and Assistant Professor In July, Amos was named director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program’s Nurse Anesthesia specialty, which prepares students to provide

anesthesia services to a diverse diagnostic and surgical population.

As specialty director, Amos is responsible for the overall curricular leadership of the specialty, for maintaining accreditation, and for students’ academic success. She joined UMSON in 2011 as an assistant professor and the assistant director of the Nurse Anesthesia specialty.

She is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, where she precepts students and is a DNP project advisor. She conducts research on patient safety and anesthesia for HIV-positive patients.

Amos succeeds Joseph Pellegrini, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, who began serving in the role in 2011.

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— L.H.

Faculty Leaders in Diversity Bimbola F. Akintade, PhD ’11, MS ’05, MBA, MHA, BSN ’03, ACNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, associate professor and associate dean for the Master of Science in Nursing program, and Vanessa P. Fahie, PhD ’94, BSN ’76, assistant professor, participated in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s inaugural Diversity Leadership Institute, from January to June.

The virtual program explored diversity and inclusion efforts and the role of diversity officers in academic nursing and nursing practice, and it presented high-involvement diversity practices for teams and leaders. Participants developed a diversity plan specifically tailored to their organizations.

At UMSON, where diversity is a source of strength and innovation, 53% of UMSON students identify as members of minority ethnic/racial groups, while nationally, nurses from minority backgrounds represent just 19% of the registered nurse workforce.

Akintade

— L.H.

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“ This program was not only built on facts and evidence, but also on the idea that nurses touch lives and can make a difference.”

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News

VICTORIA L. SELBY

UMSON Launches Substance Use and Addictions Nursing Certificate Substance use disorders remain a leading cause of death in the United States and in Maryland, which ranked No. 4 in the nation for drug overdose death rates in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the issue, with Maryland experiencing a 16.6% increase in unintentional intoxication deaths involving all types of drugs and alcohol from 2019 - 20, according to the Maryland Opioid Operational Command Center 2020 Annual Report.

To serve the community’s need for nurses who know how to address addictions, this fall UMSON introduced a specialized post-bachelor’s Substance Use and Addictions Nursing Certificate. The 12-credit

program, for registered and advanced practice registered nurses, is offered online with a 90-hour clinical practicum in the student’s location.

“My vision for this program started when I worked in the emergency room, early in the opioid epidemic, and later in behavioral health, where I experienced firsthand the need for nurses to know how to address addictions,” said Victoria L. Selby, PhD ’17, MS ’09, BSN ’06, CRNPPMH, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, assistant professor and director of the certificate program. “These patients were someone’s child, parent, their best friend – people with lives, dreams, and families. This program was not only built on facts and evidence, but also on the idea that nurses touch lives and can make a difference.”

The certificate prepares nurses to care for individuals, families, and communities affected by addictions across all practice settings; to take on leadership roles in addictions nursing; and to develop professionally.

It also facilitates their certification as addictions nurses and offers specialized, focused education to address the complexities related to substance use and addictions. The certificate was developed with assistance from a Nurse Support Program II grant, funded through the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Learn more at nursing.umaryland.edu/ addictionsnursing.

— L.H.

Back ... And Stronger Than Ever March 5, 2020

Jan. 6, 2021

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Gov. Larry Hogan declared COVID-19 State of Emergency in Maryland

Southern Management Corporation (SMC) Campus Center COVID19 vaccination clinic opened (see caption, Page 2)

Most employees returned to UMB campus at up to 50% capacity

Approximately 150 students participated in in-person learning on Baltimore campus for summer 2021 session

Hogan ended Maryland COVID-19 State of Emergency; more than 95% of UMSON employees had received their first vaccine dose

March 16 All UMB in-person learning halted, and most employees began telework

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UMB = University of Maryland, Baltimore USG = Universities at Shady Grove

A Piece of the Pi News from Sigma’s Pi-at Large Chapter at UMSON Pi at-Large Chapter will have a prominent presence at Sigma’s upcoming 46th Biennial Convention, “Honor the Past, Remember the Present, Create the Future” in Indianapolis, Nov. 6 - 10, where more than 2,000 members will celebrate Sigma’s heritage over the past 100 years.

CLAIRE BODE

As a Silver Sponsor in partnership with UMSON, the chapter will support the Poster Hall and have a booth in the Exhibit Hall. In addition, Rachael Stein, BSN ’19, RN, a student in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Family Nurse Practitioner specialty and a chapter board member, and Cynthia Sweeney, DNP, MSN, BSN ’76, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN, chapter president, will present, “An Unconventional Journey from Patient to Chapter Nurse Leader: A Journey of Mentorship and Excellence.”

Stitching It Together After a lecture on the subject last May, students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Family Nurse Practitioner specialty at the Universities at Shady Grove learned how to suture using four different techniques and practiced by using training pads with a range of incisions and wounds of various depths. They also learned to incise and drain an abscess using a clementine and a combination of baby foods injected under the fruit’s skin.

Six chapter members will attend the convention, and Stein and Sweeney will represent the chapter at the Sigma Governance Meeting, at which delegates from around the world gather to determine the organization’s board of directors and establish bylaws. Learn more about the convention at sigmanursing.org and about the chapter at nursing.umaryland.edu/pichapter.

— Cynthia Sweeney Pi at-Large Chapter President

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At USG, normal campus activities authorized to resume at up to 50% capacity

At USG, normal campus activities authorized to resume at full capacity

Employees and students required to have received their final vaccine dose, unless a medical or religious exemption request was approved

Maryland COVID-19 State of Emergency fully ended, following a 45-day administrative grace period

Employees returned to UMB campus at 80% capacity

Fall 2021 semester started; normal operations resumed

July 17 SMC Campus Center vaccination clinic closed

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“ Every crisis has its heroes. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Soldiers and police officers place themselves in the line of fire.

During times of fear and uncertainty, the world called, and nursing answered.”

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HENRY INEGBENOSUN, DNP ’21, BSN ’15, STUDENT SPEAKER

Playing Both Parts Four UMSON faculty members who are recent or soon-to-be UMSON doctoral graduates share their thoughts on balancing faculty and student responsibilities.

Malissa da Graça, DNP ’21, MS ’07, RNC, FNP-C Assistant Professor “ Finding balance is always a work in progress, but I’ve learned to accept that my best has to be good enough.

And I’ve learned to prioritize myself as well – that going for a walk or having a lazy Sunday afternoon is OK.” Amy Hoffer, DNP ’21, MS ’12, CPNP-PC Assistant Professor

Virtual Degree Conferral above: Academic administrators, a BSN Class of 2021 representative, and the Alumni Council president celebrated on screen during the virtual degree conferral. at right, top: Kirschling (left) presented Bill Conway with honorary degrees at the Conways’ home. at right, bottom: Kirschling (right) presented NathanPulliam with the Dean’s Medal for Distinguished Service.

“Although each graduation ceremony is momentous, this is now the third virtual conferral of degrees in our 132year history,” said Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean, as she welcomed graduates and their families to a May 20 virtual ceremony. “I am certain that we will always remember how we gathered to recognize the many accomplishments and achievements of our spring 2021 graduates.”

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, University of Maryland, Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, conferred 447 nursing degrees and certificates at the spring ceremony: 212 Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees, 92 master’s degrees, 131 Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees, and 12 certificates.

During the ceremony, Kirschling presented the Dean’s Medal for Distinguished Service to former Maryland Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, MAS, BSN ’80, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, for her many contributions to the School, to nurses throughout Maryland, and to the “countless

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“ In addition to support from my family, I found that faculty and leadership at UMSON place a high value on continuing your education, so I had the flexibility and support to manage both at the same time.”

patients, families, and communities that we all serve,” Kirschling said. In addition, Jarrell conferred Honorary Doctor of Public Service degrees to spouses William “Bill” Conway and Joanne Conway. Through their Bedford Falls Foundation, the couple has gifted nearly $30 million to UMSON over the past six years and, by fall 2027, will have funded more than 830 Conway Scholarships.

— Mary T. Phelan

Elizabeth “Betsy” Johnson, MSN ’08, CPNP-PC Clinical Instructor and Current Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Student “ Once in the DNP courses, I found myself regarding nursing and advanced practice under a national and global lens. The new, broader knowledge helped me become a better teacher and a more involved practitioner.”

Ernest Opoku-Agyemang, PhD ’20, MA, RN Assistant Professor “ I was able to double as a student and faculty by staying focused, organized, and maintaining self-discipline.”

“ We need policy reform to unleash our potential.

We have built the capacity of this workforce to expand high-quality care to more Americans.”

SUSAN HASSMILLER

Maryland Action Coalition Focuses on Meeting Post-Pandemic Challenges

BY MARY T. PHELAN AND GIORDANA SEGNERI

Nurses play a key role in applying lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating the impacts caused by social determinants of health, according to keynote speakers at the 2021 Maryland Action Coalition (MDAC) Virtual Leadership Summit, “Meeting Challenges Head On: Maryland Nurses Respond,” which UMSON hosted on May 24.

decades, if not past 400 years, that really impacted how COVID played out in the United States,” Castrucci said. Most of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented, he asserted, because they had more to do with the social determinants of health than the virus itself.

MDAC, the state’s arm of the national Campaign for Action, is

“People always ask, ‘Why is COVID so much worse in the United States than it is elsewhere?’ I suggest that COVID was the match, and we provided a whole lot of kindling for it with our decisions,” Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH, MA, president and chief executive officer of the de Beaumont Foundation, said in his keynote address.

“There are policy decisions that we’ve made over the past at least two

co-chaired by Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean, and Patricia Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69, RN, CCRP, senior associate director of clinical research, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The action coalition strives to improve health care by implementing recommendations set forth in the landmark report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, released in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine, now

the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). This year’s summit was held less than a month after the NAM released a new report to drive efforts over the next decade, The Future of Nursing 2020 - 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.

Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior adviser for nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who since January 2019 has served as a key member of the leadership team for the Future of Nursing report, provided the summit’s endnote. It was her first presentation on the report to an action coalition.

“This report is being released during a critical time in our nation’s history and in nursing,” she said.

“We need policy reform to unleash our potential. You have been such a key part of our efforts to strengthen education and advanced practice and promote nursing leadership and increase workforce diversity.

We have built the capacity of this workforce to expand high-quality care to more Americans. The new report builds on the gains that we’ve made and seeks to leverage this capacity to advance health equity.”

Katie Wunderlich, MPP, executive director, Health Services Cost Review Commission, also presented on the state’s experience in implementing value-based health care reform. She expressed gratitude to the nurses who endured the pandemic on the front lines. “I want to extend a very heartfelt thank you to all the nurses out there. I know your work and dedication over the last 16 months has been a huge undertaking,” she said. “I know it’s taken a toll on your families, on your health, and on your mental health.”

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Breathing New Life into UMSON’s Baltimore Building

BY GIORDANA SEGNERI

UMSON anticipates that within a few months, its nearly yearlong renovation of the first floor and basement on the north side of the School’s home on Lombard Street in Baltimore will be complete.

The $8.7 million project by Kinsley Construction to renovate the nearly 12,000-foot space is intended to “modernize, update, and enliven” the 50-year-old building, said Bill Gardiner, MBA, associate dean for administration and finance, who has been overseeing the project in collaboration with Jeff Crabtree, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, senior project manager, University of Maryland, Baltimore Design and Construction.

The renovation includes a twostory addition to the current building, expanding the footprint north toward Lombard Street and creating study and collaboration space. The basement, previously reserved for storage and printing facilities, will become accessible to students, faculty, and staff via an open stairway that will “bring daylight and a visual connection between the basement and first floor lobbies,” Crabtree explained.

The project will also modernize and maximize the workspace for the School’s Office of Student and Academic Services and will incorporate a two-story, living “green wall” with a balcony to overlook the plant life. The

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space will be entirely glass enclosed, modeled after the lobby in the south building, completed in 1998.

On the exterior, two names – those of UMSON’s first African-American student Esther McCready, DPS ’15 (Hon.), DIN ’53, and of former Maryland Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, MAS, BSN ’80, RN – will join those of seven other prominent nurses adorning the south building.

The renovation includes energyefficient upgrades, including new windows on all five floors of the north building, and meets International Green Construction Code standards.

“The project has always been first and foremost about providing much-needed space for students,” Gardiner said.

left and below left: Construction progresses on the extension of the building’s footprint north toward Lombard Street.

below: A photo of Parsons Hall shows the medallion (circled) that will be installed as a sculptural element in the courtyard.

FROM THE UMSON ARCHIVES

Construction Update

CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS: KINSLEY CONSTRUCTION

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As finishing touches, landscaping will be installed between the expanded building’s exterior and the brick wall along Lombard Street, and a cement medallion that once hung on Parsons Hall, the former nursing students’ residence, will be installed as a sculptural element in the courtyard.

MATTHEW D’AGOSTINO/UMB

The $8.7 million project to renovate the nearly 12,000foot space will “modernize, update, and enliven” the 50-year-old building.

New Curator Aims to Bring UMSON Stories to Life

KINSLEY CONSTRUCTION

In March, UMSON welcomed Kirsten Hammerstrom, MFA, as the curator of the Living History Museum. She joined the School from the National Woman’s Party in Washington, D.C., where she served as collections manager for a year and a half. Previously, she served as the director of collections at the Rhode Island Historical Society for 17 years, where she managed a collection spanning four centuries.

Renderings show the renovated exterior with the two-story addition (top) and the first-floor study and collaboration space (bottom).

As the museum’s first full-time curator in 12 years, Hammerstrom is charged with formalizing, cataloging, and managing the collection and, with the assistance of the 12 alumni volunteer docents, presenting the stories the collection relays. As she learns more about the history of UMSON, she plans to develop engaging and interactive online content to tell the School’s story beyond the physical walls of the museum.

— L.H.

Interested in serving as a volunteer docent? Email Hammerstrom at khammerstrom@umaryland.edu.

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G U E S T AU T H O R

Creating a More Inclusive UMB MATTHEW D’AGOSTINO/UMB

BY BRUCE E. JARRELL, MD, FACS PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE

The mission of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is to improve the human condition and serve the public good of Maryland and society at-large through education, research, clinical care, and service.

To be true to that mission, UMB has to address issues of structural racism and inequality directly through our educational programs, our community engagement work, and our academic pursuits.

UMB is fortunate to have dedicated staff, faculty, students, and alumni who have worked to effect change around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In fact, UMSON was the first school at UMB to devote a fulltime associate dean to diversity and inclusion, naming Jeffrey Ash, EdD, to the position in 2016. UMSON has received the INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine annual Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for the past three years. And the School’s Booked for Lunch book club was named an inaugural recipient of the magazine’s 2020 Inspiring Affinity Group Award.

I’m pleased to share that UMB’s leadership team now includes our first chief DEI officer and vice president to help guide UMB in creating transformative positive change toward its goal of addressing structural racism and inequality. On July 1, after an extensive nationwide search, Diane Forbes Berthoud, PhD, MA, joined UMB and serves as an

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above: BSN students Timothy Yang (left) and Diane Yourougou converse in the UMSON courtyard this past summer.

Forbes Berthoud

UMB is committed to a culture that is enriched by diversity and inclusion in the broadest sense, in thoughts, actions, and leadership. advisor, leader, and catalyst for change focused on DEI at the institutional level. I know she will help us continue to advance DEI as we aspire to be an anti-racist institution.

Dr. Forbes Berthoud has more than 25 years of experience working in higher education, nonprofits, and government. She is returning to Maryland from the University of California, San Diego, where she served most recently as associate vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion. She has served as a faculty member and lecturer at George Washington and Howard universities

in Washington, D.C.; George Mason University in Virginia; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Trinity Washington University, also in D.C., where she chaired the Department of Communication. She also has worked as an organizational development consultant with the Montgomery County (Maryland) government and an ombudsperson at the U.S. Capitol.

Dr. Forbes Berthoud earned MA and PhD degrees in Organizational Communication and Social Psychology from Howard University, and a BA in Communications from Barry University in Florida. I know that she will be an asset to UMB. UMB is committed to a culture that is enriched by diversity and inclusion in the broadest sense, in thoughts, actions, and leadership. Each of us has a role to play in creating a more inclusive University and in understanding how we can root out and address inequities to create opportunities for others where they might not have existed before. This work requires all of UMB, and I am very glad to have Dr. Forbes Berthoud here to help lead the way.

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“ It’s wonderful to think of nurses as heroes, and, in many ways, I love seeing the recognition not just as people, but of the essential role they play in the health care system. But you have to recognize even heroes are human.”

Alison M. Trinkoff, ScD, MPH, RN, FAAN, professor Baltimore magazine, May 2021

U.S. News & World Report ranked UMSON among the top 10 schools in the nation in its first-ever Best Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs listing; additionally, the Doctor of Nursing Practice Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Family NP specialties ranked No. 2 among public schools of nursing in its 2022 Best Graduate Schools listing.

Juneteenth, June 19, was officially observed for the 1st time at UMB this year with a virtual commemoration and day of administrative leave; the holiday celebrates when news that the enslaved had been freed reached Galveston, Texas – more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Since March 2017, 483 advanced practice nurses (APRNs) have completed UMSON’s APRN Preceptor Development Program, a seven-module online course designed for clinicians who precept APRN students in a variety of settings.

Over the past 15 years, 294 nurses have earned their BSN or MSN degrees through UMSON’s Academic-Hospital Partnership, which allows them to continue their education online and receive advising and other benefits at the hospital or health system where they work.

— Compiled by Libby Zay

In May, 10 faculty members received Academic Nurse Educator Certification Awards through the Nurse Support Program (NSP) II, a statewide initiative funded by the Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

UMSON faculty were awarded $3.5M, more than half of the $6.7M awarded statewide in NSP II grant funding for Fiscal Year 2022.

Mary “Meg” Johantgen, PhD, RN, was named associate professor emerita on April 8; she served at UMSON for 22 years, including as associate dean for the PhD program from 2014 - 19, until her retirement on Sept. 1, 2020.

The number of grant submissions

by UMSON faculty increased by 31% between FY 2020 and 2021.

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Resnick suggests that clinicians encourage individuals to exercise to their highest capacity so they will build more muscle strength. “Nurses have fears about causing a fall. In reality the best way to prevent a fall is to stay as strong as possible,” she says.

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involve walking to the bathroom versus using a bedpan. In a 2021 study published in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, Resnick and colleagues showed that in assistedliving settings, among other known beneficial outcomes, FFC could decrease resident falls, hospitalizations, and transfers to nursing homes. Despite the known benefits of FFC supported by more than 20 studies, physical activity still is not widely encouraged across all care settings among older patients, who spend the majority of their time sedentary.

In a current project, Resnick designed an implementation strategy to optimize function and physical activity and control behavioral symptoms in acute care (AC) settings.

This strategy uses the evidence integration triangle (EIT) and a four-step approach in which nurses teach, prompt, help, and motivate older individuals to incorporate physical The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts activity into routine activities and increase the overall time that by 2050, 40% of all patients treated for nonfatal they spend on physical activity. This could include having injuries will be age 65 or older. This has much to do the individual feed themself rather than being fed by a with strength loss, says researcher and clinician Barbara caregiver. With $2.3 million awarded from the National Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor, Institutes of Health in 2020 for use over five years, Resnick Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and will test the effectiveness by comparing hospital units educo-director, Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan cated in this FFC-AC-EIT strategy versus those exposed to Organized Research Center, who has dedicated her career to optimizing function and physical activity among FFC education alone.

“We’ve been able to show we can help maintain function older adults and to facilitating healthy behaviors for this in assisted living and other aging care environments,” says population across care settings.

Resnick, who has worked with aging individuals to encourResnick’s research recognizes that older adults in assisted-living settings and nursing homes are particularly age movement since her teens. As a 16-year-old nursing assistant, she removed physical restraints placed on patients at risk for decreased function and physical health, as who had wandered or fallen and assisted them in getting are older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related up and walking, spurring a decades-long career focused on dementias who are hospitalized. Maintaining physical improving older adults’ motivation to stay mobile. activity (e.g., mobility, bathing, dressing) has a positive Resnick formerly served as the president of both the impact on older adults, including prevention of functional Gerontological Society of America and the American decline, less pain, less delirium, fewer behavioral symptoms, fewer falls, shorter lengths of stay, and reduced Geriatrics Society and is no stranger to lending her voice as an expert source in the media, having spoken unplanned hospital readmissions.

As someone who has contributed significantly to building about the importance of exercising after age 40, easing arthritis with movement, and other topics for AARP, patients’ resilience through activity and advocating for HealthDay.com, Healthline.com, Physician’s Weekly, older patients to help themselves, Resnick says she’d like and others. About herself and her research colleagues, providers to treat not just the health condition but the she says, “We’ve been thrilled to see nurses and others lack of motivation for physical activity. To address this, who provide care to older adults encouraging these she developed the Function-Focused Care (FFC) approach more than 20 years ago, aimed at overcoming the tendency individuals to optimize function and increase time spent on physical activity.” for caregivers simply to provide care to older adults versus helping them to engage optimally in the activity. This might

Getting Physical as We Age

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In a four-step approach, nurses teach, prompt, help, and motivate older individuals to incorporate physical activity into routine activities.

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Doran has expanded her project to include a total worker health program that incorporates smoking cessation, stress management, sleep hygiene, and worksite organizational changes that reduce job stress.

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Worksite Wellness

Setting and Sticking to a Plan

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With the significant need for longterm care workers due to the aging population, “we need to be able to keep these individuals healthy and happy,” says Kelly Doran, PhD, RN, associate professor. “The two biggest reasons long-term care staff leave the workforce is they’re stressed at work or they have chronic health conditions that force them out. It’s a win-win for everybody if we can get them to be healthier.”

“How can we create worksite wellness programs that are built into the lives of long-term care workers?” Doran asked herself as she created the Worksite Heart Health Improvement

Project (WHHIP), funded by a $154,000, three-year grant from the American Heart Association (AHA). Her research is aimed at creating effective worksite wellness programs for long-term care staff who experience health disparities, with the goal of improving cardiovascular health outcomes.

Doran initially focused on the effects of diet, exercise, and stress reduction and has since expanded her research with an additional $300,000, threeyear grant from the AHA. She is adapting WHHIP into WHHIP-PLUS, a total worker health program that also incorporates smoking cessation, sleep hygiene, and employer organizational changes that reduce job stress based on input from worksite stakeholders.

The study is exploring interventions to improve staff quality of life and health outcomes within long-term care. As Doran’s research progresses, she will explore how worksite health promotion programs in long-term care facilities may have positive benefits and spillover effects that impact residents.

Through her research and her work in long-term care facilities, Doran has identified four guiding principles that can be utilized in any health care organization or even in nurses’ personal lives to implement an effective wellness plan.

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about your long-term vision and then the first step to getting there.

Start small and build over time.

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Think about how you can schedule wellness activities into your daily routine and habits. Consider parking your car a couple of blocks farther away, engaging in a short mindfulness activity before you leave work each day, or taking a few minutes in the morning to savor your coffee and focus on some things you are grateful for.

Include your friends, family, and co-workers in your wellness efforts.

Let your network know your goals and ask them to join you. They can provide motivation, help keep you accountable, and help you maintain your efforts. For example, start a healthy lunch rotation with co-workers in which each person provides lunch for everyone on the team. You’ll try new, healthy recipes – and you only need to cook once.

Remember that wellness is a lifelong journey – everybody slips, what works for you changes, and sometimes you don’t meet your goals.

When this happens, it’s important to readjust and learn. Keep in mind that nobody’s perfect all the time, and you can start again.

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From Patient to Provider

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Junga Kim, MS, RN, always had an affinity for health care and had the intention of becoming a physician; however, after finishing high school, she wasn’t sure medical school was the right path for her.

Kim studied biology instead and began working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), first as a data analyst contractor and then as a full-time staff scientist. After seven years, Kim says, she longed for a career that involved more human interaction and left NIH in search of something that fulfilled that desire.

“ My only regret is that I didn’t do it earlier.

For anyone thinking about changing careers into nursing, I would encourage them to go for it.”

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“I felt like I had checked all the boxes: I’d gotten a great education, achieved my master’s, and had a family,” she says. “I needed to finally do something for myself.”

Encouraged by friends who were also going through mid-career shifts, Kim decided to pursue nursing and began taking prerequisite classes at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. “Nursing was perfect,” she beams. “I love the one-on-one interaction of bedside nursing. It’s so incredibly rewarding for me.”

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Shortly thereafter, Kim went in for a routine mammogram and was told she was at high risk for developing breast cancer. Within a couple of years, the cancer had developed, but because of the early detection, Kim was able to undergo a lumpectomy and has since been cancer free. “I feel so fortunate,” she says. “If it had been found a little later, who knows how fast it could have developed?”

The experience caused her interest in oncology to blossom, she says. A few months later, at the age of 50, Kim continued her nursing education at Montgomery College, taking advantage of UMSON’s DualAdmission Partnership program to earn her Associate Degree in Nursing and accelerate her path to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree in UMSON’s RN-to-BSN program.

Concerned about the financial hardship of continuing her education, Kim applied for and was awarded UMSON’s full Conway Scholarship.

“The Conway Scholarship made me feel like I could finish my program without undue stress for my family

and for myself,” says Kim, who anticipates graduating in December.

Kim has returned to NIH, but instead of analyzing data as she did two decades ago, she is part of a small cohort of recent nursing graduates in NIH’s competitive residency program.

There, she works as a clinical research nurse on the hematology oncology bone marrow transplant unit, providing clinical trial patient care and supporting research teams.

Upon graduation, Kim plans to stay within oncology. “It’s a big investment to train a nurse in the hematology oncology bone marrow transplant unit,” Kim explains. “I plan to give back to the Nursing Department in the NIH Clinical Center by being active in my unit and within the shared governance committees.” Kim also hopes to earn a graduate degree so she can teach part time while still practicing.

“My only regret is that I didn’t do it earlier,” she reflects. “For anyone thinking about changing careers into nursing, I would encourage them to go for it.”

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Generation Z (Gen Z), also known as iGen, Digital Natives, or Zoomers, includes anyone born from 1997 - 2012, according to the Pew Research Center. In the same way that the widespread emergence of the internet, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Great Recession influenced Millennials born in the United States, the youngest generation of nurses has been shaped by the ubiquity of smartphones and social media, the looming climate crisis, and witnessing the financial hardships of their parents – not to mention how a global pandemic is reshaping the country’s social, political, and economic landscape.

“The generation as a whole is very diverse and open minded. They are super tech savvy. They are well educated, and they are information seekers who care very deeply about the world,” explains Susan Bindon, DNP ’11, MS ’96, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, CNE-cl, associate professor and associate dean for faculty development. As part of her role, Bindon guides faculty on evidence-based practices for transforming classroom, clinical, and online learning experiences to best suit Gen Z needs.

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Bindon believes that UMSON will see a “great influx of students” because several core generational characteristics align with the nursing profession. This includes Gen Z’s overall sense of pragmatism after having seen the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on their parents, as well as its prioritization of social responsibility and a desire to make an impact on the world, she says.

And so far, the COVID-19 pandemic seems only to have amplified that passion: There was a 5% increase in enrollment at the School between fall 2019 and fall 2020.

“For these incoming classes, we can notice trends and commonalities and prepare ourselves to be welcoming,” says Bindon, who points out that characteristics of generations are not absolutes. “Our job is to help them become nurses. We need to understand how to engage them, how to stimulate their thinking, how to develop rapport and trust, and how to help them step into the professional world.”

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When Karina Rozenberg, BSN ’19, RN, was in nursing school, she often spotted a very familiar face on campus: her father, Ilya, PhD ’20, MS ’01, BSN ’99, CRNP. The elder Rozenberg was admitted into UMSON’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program shortly before Karina was born in 1997, and he was back on campus working toward his PhD while Karina was just starting her nursing education.

“The field of nursing and the respect for the profession evolved tremendously over those 20 years,” Ilya says. Very little of his BSN education had an online component. “You read the book, took notes, and there was a lecture,” he recalls, adding that clinical skills were mostly learned in the field rather than practiced in a simulated environment before seeing patients.

When the National League for Nursing described UMSON’s Debra L. Spunt Clinical Simulation Labs, which opened when Ilya was a student in 1998, as “the preeminent nursing student learning labs in the world,”

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PLUGGED IN pay the bills, Gen Zers generally place “We are a technology-based generation,” says Karina, 9 hours of screen time daily compensation and benefits first and are who believes simulation had a “big impact” on her 71% watch 3+ hours of often motivated by job stability, reports confidence as a nurse, a field she chose because she saw online videos daily XYZ University, a company that educates it as the “best way to be at the forefront and to be really organizations on generational differences. hands on with patients.” Though she was originally an FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED 44% measure success This sense of pragmatism is a aspiring ballerina until an injury forced her to reevaluate by their salary widely cited characteristic of Gen Z, her path, she had watched her dad go from bedside which tends to be cautious when it 89% attempt to avoid higher nursing to earning an advanced degree to starting his education debt comes to their emotional, physical, own psychiatric nursing practice. “Watching him grow and financial security due to having through that was motivating,” says Karina, who now MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS grown up in uncertain times. But this works in the cardiac surgery intensive care unit at the 31% expect employers to offer will not dissuade Muritala’s generation University of Maryland Medical Center. paid mental health days from wanting to make a difference, he Both Ilya and Karina agree that despite any future 37% have received help from explains. “We are motivated to change technological advancements, nursing will never lose its a mental health professional the world,” he says, adding that he sees human touch. “No matter where you work as a nurse, SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS technology as a tool that his generation the ability to connect and empathize is crucial. It is what 60% have taken action can use to effect change, including clearly separates nursing from other fields,” Ilya says. in the past year sharing information on social media.

68% feel stressed about THE GEN Z PERSPECTIVE Social justice issues are top of mind our nation’s future Though Gen Z is often characterized as being too tuned for most Gen Zers, and social media is in to their digital devices – and according to research by Sources: American Psychological overwhelmingly where conversations Association, Forbes, Global Web Index, Global Web Index, the majority are online for about nine happen. As the most diverse generation Pew Research Center, Workforce hours a day – research shows that Gen Z values face-toin American history, Gen Z perceives Institute, and World Economic Forum face interaction over screen time. positively the country’s growing ethnic That human connection was one of nursing’s main and racial diversity and tends to be politically progressive, draws for Fatai Muritala, RN, an RN-to-BSN student and reports Pew Research Center. Members of this generation a nurse at Sheppard Pratt Health System. “As a nurse, you have lauded the legalization of same-sex marriage and are in contact with the patient more often than in any bolstered the Black Lives Matter movement, and they have other health care field,” he explains. been vocal on issues important to them such as climate Before he decided to go into nursing, Muritala was change, gun violence, immigration, police brutality, considering a gap year between high school and college. transgender rights, and religious freedom, as their passion “Financial freedom is a big issue for me,” Muritala for positive change often turns to online activism. says, noting that he wanted to have a solid plan for his Online information sharing is second nature for this education to avoid accruing debt. Before beginning his generation, and it can also be helpful when it comes studies at UMSON, he applied and was accepted as a to finding answers to their nursing-related questions.

Conway Scholar, covering the cost of his in-state tuition, Anika Zamurd, a BSN student and Conway Scholar, says fees, and books. that she uses YouTube videos to supplement classroom learning. “Videos can help break things down and

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After encouragement from UMSON faculty, Zamurd recently completed an externship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

“It’s been really helpful to me in terms of my bedside manners and talking to patients. I lost a lot of that because we were online,” she says.

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summarize everything you need to know or help test your knowledge,” she says. A Business Insider survey found that 62% of people between the ages of 13 and 21 are daily YouTube users. “Gen Z grew up around technology, and because of our access to it, we’re learning every day,” Zamurd continues.

Of course, YouTube and other social media platforms have faced criticism for spreading false information – including dangerous medical advice. Zamurd says that her UMSON professors have taught information literacy skills so students can identify what is and is not credible.

“We have access to so much information. It’s exciting, but sometimes it can be overwhelming,” she says.

Zamurd is far from the only one in her generation who feels overwhelmed. Anxiety and stress levels are higher for Gen Z than for other generations, with 27% reporting that their mental health is fair or poor and 91% reporting that they have experienced at least one physical or emotional symptom of stress in the past month, according to data from the American Psychological Association (APA). The stressors are wide ranging and include anxiety about the future of the country and the world, as well as intense feelings of isolation and loneliness, factors that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that the APA also reports Gen Z is more likely to receive treatment or therapy than any other generation.

For Zamurd and other nursing students, another source of anxiety is transitioning into practice during the pandemic after spending the bulk of their time learning online. “It does make me nervous about when I

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Bindon says that while the School demonstrated during the pandemic that some educational components can be effective online, nursing education as a whole simply can’t be replicated virtually. In addition to the techniques that need to be practiced via simulation labs and clinical practicums, it is especially important for Gen Z nursing students to develop their social and relational skills, she explains. “They have talked much of their life electronically, so face-to-face interactions and personal interactions are very high stakes for them,” she explains.

To help bridge that gap, UMSON employs another kind of experiential learning. Through the Standardized Patient Program, students refine their clinical and communication skills by practicing scenarios with actors who portray patients. These interactions allow students to understand how to provide compassionate care and to work through difficult emotional situations in a simulated clinical environment.

New nurse graduates are also supported by the Maryland Nurse Residency Collaborative, a program spearheaded by the Maryland Organization of Nurse Leaders. As of 2019, all 40 of the state’s acute care hospitals fund and require 12-month residency programs for newly licensed nurses, providing them with a structured transition into clinical practice. Maryland is the first state in the nation to meet this recommendation outlined in the National Academy of Medicine’s 2010 Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report.

UMSON’s curriculum is also undergoing a revamp after the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), which sets the national curriculum standards for nursing education, endorsed new Essentials for nursing

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based education, a move that will significantly alter how nurses are prepared for entry-level and advanced roles. According to the organization, this approach involves students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge, attitudes, motivations, selfperceptions, and skills expected of them as they progress through their program of study. For example, instead of being evaluated based on an objective test, a student may be asked to create a viable dietary plan for a heart failure patient or draft a policy brief about nurse practitioners ordering cardiac rehab as if presenting to a legislator.

At the same time, the ways that students are evaluated is shifting to a competency-based model as well. Students beginning entry-level programs this fall will be the first to experience the new Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, which administers the NCLEX, is introducing new types of questions that assess clinical judgment and decision-making in nursing practice. For example, in lieu of a multiple choice item, a test taker may be given a list of six actions and have to put them in the correct order, or they may be asked to click their mouse on the spot where someone would listen for specific heart sounds.

“The goal is to teach students to think like a nurse,” Bindon explains.

“Clinical judgment is this beautiful, intuitive knowledge and wisdom that nurses have. It takes a lot of practice to look at the cues, analyze the cues, and prioritize the actions.”

To prepare nurse educators in Maryland for these changes, Rebecca Wiseman, PhD ’93, RN, associate professor and chair, UMSON at the Universities at Shady Grove, has been leading statewide faculty development workshops through the Maryland Nursing Workforce Center, housed at UMSON

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“The students are changing, course delivery is changing, and the NCLEX is changing,” Bindon explains. “By 2040, the workplace will mostly be composed of Gen Z and Millennials, so the implications for us to understand them and get this right are enormous.”

TIPS FOR WORKING WITH GEN Z NURSES Bindon shares ideas for aligning your teaching strategies or workplace culture to Gen Z needs.

PROVIDE LOTS OF FEEDBACK

Specific, frequent feedback is important, and it’s best to deliver it privately in a supportive manner to build confidence.

ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION

This risk-averse generation may be less likely to engage with others, so actively involve them in decision-making and invite them to participate in committees and on projects.

INCORPORATE INTERACTIVITY AND VISUALS

Using videos, infographics, gamification, and electronic polling are simple but effective ways to engage this technology-driven generation.

GIVE THEM OPTIONS

Gen Z prefers individualistic experiences and seeks flexibility, so give them more than one way to apply information and to evaluate them.

BREAK LEARNING INTO BITE SIZES

Make your objectives clear, and give them milestones to complete. For example, if a class or session is an hour long, break it up into four or more chunks.

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Can virtual reality alleviate pain?

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Revelations of human subjects’ exploitation in the United States culminated in the 1972 public disclosure of the 30-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which 300 Black men were left untreated for diagnosed syphilis, prompting a report that became the basis for federal regulations. Now, these and other ethical regulations ensure that study participants and researchers are well protected.

UMSON is the only University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) school with a staff member dedicated to assisting principal investigators with compliance and quality assurance for human subjects research. The School was ranked 11th nationwide among public schools of nursing in receipt of research funding from the National Institutes of Health during federal fiscal year 2020, and as of late July, UMSON faculty and students were conducting 49 studies using human subjects.

Any research study that gathers information, or data, provided by people is considered human subjects research, explains Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and associate dean for research. Most UMSON nurse researchers conduct social behavioral research, which examines attitudes, perceptions, feelings, and behaviors, including how they change under different conditions and circumstances.

Data gathered from human subjects gives researchers real-time measures, unlike other types of research, such as observational studies that examine large datasets.

UMSON researchers are studying a variety of critical health considerations, including chronic pain (Can placebos and virtual reality reduce the need for opiates?) and sleep (Can sleep education help nurses with workrelated sleep loss?), as well as interventions that promote and sustain health across the lifespan. Some nurse researchers bridge laboratory science and clinical human subjects research by examining how genetic or epigenetic characteristics (how your behaviors and environment can cause changes in the way your genes work) are related to disease symptoms and pain.

“A lot of nursing questions can only be answered by doing research with people, but that doesn’t mean everyone is doing something invasive,” Friedmann adds. “Even talking to people or asking people to answer survey questionnaires needs to be conducted ethically to make sure we’re respecting everyone who’s involved in the research.”

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“ A lot of nursing questions can only be answered by doing research with people, but that doesn’t mean everyone is doing something invasive.

Even talking to people needs to be conducted ethically to make sure we’re respecting everyone who’s involved in the research.”

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The Backbone of Research Casey Jackson, MS, CCRP, is the research quality manager in the UMSON Office of Research and Scholarship, the only position of its kind at UMB. She assists nurse researchers in navigating the many steps involved in conducting human subjects research, such as quality assurance assessments, regulatory processes, and requirements of the institutional review board (IRB), the UMB committee regulated by the federal Office for Human Research Protections that approves, monitors, and reviews biomedical and behavioral research involving humans.

The School of Nursing is unparalleled in its support of junior researchers, Jackson explains. While there are other research support groups on campus, they don’t share the purpose of Jackson’s position, which is to ensure that researchers fully understand and are compliant with the various regulations. Jackson frequently fields phone calls from junior researchers seeking advice on how to find compliance materials or interpret questions from the IRB. “The School of Nursing’s IRB submissions are so clean because of the thorough vetting and assistance provided by our office, which leads to reduced IRB queries and quicker approvals,” Jackson says.

In addition to providing individualized support for researchers, Jackson also hosts a University-wide monthly seminar series on topics related to human subjects research. “We have high standards for human subjects research ethics, and we take great pride in setting up our researchers for a successful career,” she notes.

Strict policies regarding human subjects research are imperative, not only because of ethical concerns, but to ensure that data are being collected properly. “Now more than ever, we need to have belief in science,” Jackson says.

“One of the best ways to strengthen our belief in science is to uphold a positive relationship between researchers and humans volunteering as research subjects.”

That relationship is monitored through a required regulatory binder, a file that contains documents showing proof of compliance and appropriate conduct. For the research conducted at UMSON, nurse researchers must create their own regulatory binders from the ground up.

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Human subjects research at UMSON includes exploration of the mechanisms of pain and pain reduction, particularly related to placebos and nocebos, as conducted at left by Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, professor.

Jackson (left) reviews a regulatory binder with Jasmine Newman, BS, research project manager.

Jackson sought to simplify that process by creating a web-based research toolkit with all the elements and documents necessary to create the binder. “Once this resource became available, everyone was hungry for it,” Jackson says. She spent nearly a year developing the toolkit and binder resources.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered human subjects research at UMSON. Many of the School’s active research studies involve interviews and data collection conducted during in-person sessions, including with vulnerable populations in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. During the state’s lockdown phase in spring 2020, all research except that directly related to COVID-19 was paused. As restrictions eased during summer 2020, a

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“ We’ve seen all over the news how much we appreciate our front-line workers. Saying that is one thing, but to create change and provide more resources you need data.”

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University-wide research resumption committee developed new protocols for research projects.

All researchers had to pivot and redesign their studies to comply with new safety measures outlined by the research resumption committee, including altering interview techniques and data collection methods. Those redesigned studies were then submitted to the IRB for review. Despite these challenges, most studies were able to continue in a revised capacity by this past June. As of late July, in-person research at UMSON had resumed, and some researchers are allowed to visit off-campus research sites.

COVID-19 has inexorably altered society as well as the design of future research studies. Even post-pandemic, “we’ll still be thinking about how to do research with as little in-person contact as possible,” Friedmann predicts, indicating that transitioning to digital processes facilitates the work and keeps researchers and subjects safer. Secure software makes it feasible for research subjects to give informed consent digitally and to participate in remote meetings and interviews.

Researchers conducting studies with vulnerable populations may continue to face recruiting challenges. “Moving forward in terms of community-based settings, we’re going to have to be prepared for future outbreaks,” says Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor and chair, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, who has conducted human subjects research with older adults and advises doctoral students. “Unfortunately, we’re likely to see less research done with vulnerable populations and less well-designed studies with those populations because of access issues to sites.”

The School’s dedicated researchers are forging ahead despite the ongoing pandemic and the possibility of future outbreaks. During the pandemic, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, FPCN, assistant professor, has had to redesign a clinical trial testing a palliative care intervention for nursing home residents receiving postacute care. As part of the intervention, nurse practitioners assess and manage symptoms, conduct goals of care discussions, and assist with decision-making, to measure the effectiveness of the intervention on residents’ quality of life. The nurse practitioners then communicate the

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MPOWERING FUTURE RESEARCHERS This past summer, four undergraduate students from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) were selected as UM Scholars to serve as interns for UMSON faculty conducting human subjects research. The UM Scholars program is part of a collaboration between UMB and UMCP, the state’s two most powerful public research engines, dubbed the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (or MPower).

“The program exposes students to research and to faculty at UMB – it gives them an understanding of things that are going on at our different institutions,” explains Adrianne Arthur, executive director and assistant vice provost for MPower initiatives at UMB. This year’s UMSON UM Scholars (the program also provides opportunities for UMCP undergraduates at the University of Maryland School of Medicine) assisted researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, pain, and palliative care with human subjects. Luana Colloca,

MD, PhD, MS, professor, hosted two students who assisted with monitoring patient compliance, data collection and analyses, and literature reading for pain modulation induced by virtual reality and placebo effects, examining the perception and mechanisms of pain and pain reduction. “The goal is to let them become familiar with basic aspects of human research conduct in pain and pain-related fields,” Colloca says.

Early exposure to nursing research is not only an enriching educational experience but can open students’ eyes to various career paths, Arthur adds. Fifteen out of the 16 students who have participated as UM Scholars at UMSON since 2016, when the School began participating, have matriculated into UMSON’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program or are planning to do so.

“The earlier we can expose students to research careers and what the work of a doctoral-prepared nurse scientist entails, the better off we are going to be in making sure our profession has highly qualified nurse researchers,” Carpenter says.

findings and care recommendations to nursing home staff and primary care providers. Carpenter’s team now conducts all study procedures (e.g., screening, enrollment, data collection) virtually.

“COVID-19 has changed everything with our study,” she explains. “There were 12 nursing homes we were conducting the study in prior to the pandemic, but we’ve only been able to start back up in one. Because we changed so many procedures, we wanted to make sure we were setting nursing home staff, research participants, and research team staff up for success.”

Studies focused on the well-being of nurses, especially those affected by COVID-19, are also a priority among some UMSON researchers. They’re asking how COVID-19 has changed the work environment by gathering data on

JOHN DAVIS

In one of UMSON’s research labs, human subjects are involved in research to support new implementations related to heart health.

In her human subjects research, Galik (right) explores the beauty in the process of aging.

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nurses’ quality of life before and during the pandemic and exploring the impact of stress on their mental health. “We’ve seen all over the news how much we appreciate our frontline workers,” Jackson says. “Saying that is one thing, but to create change and provide more resources you need data.”

The School’s researchers are committed to improving health care locally, nationally, and globally. Rigorous education behind the research bench and at the bedside uniquely positions nurse researchers as leaders in the advancement of nursing science and patient care.

“Nurses are the front line, they see things through a much more engaged lens than other clinicians,” Jackson says. “At UMSON, a great deal of social-behavioral research is being conducted – we could all use more of that to understand the impacts of a whole array of clinical outcomes.”

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SINI Turns 30 In July, UMSON hosted its 30th annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI). Over 200 informatics professionals attended the first fully virtual SINI, “RealWorld Evidence and the Changing Landscape of Health Informatics,” exploring how the field has grown over the last three decades and what is in store for the future.

The evolution of nursing informatics and SINI are closely intertwined. In 1989, UMSON was the first school in the world to launch a master’s specialty in nursing informatics before introducing the nation’s first PhD program with a nursing informatics concentration in 1991. SINI debuted later that same year.

Mary Etta C. Mills, ScD, MS ’73, BSN ’71, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor, co-founded SINI with then-colleague Carole A. Gassert, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI. “When we started, there was very little going on in information systems in a clinical environment anywhere,” Mills says. “We put participants on buses and took them out to different hospitals that were just in the beginning stages of looking at how to set up something like an information system.”

The emphasis has now shifted to examining the interoperability between developed information systems and using advancing technology and practices to address social determinants of health and disparities in health care, a major theme in the National Academy of Medicine’s report The Future of Nursing 2020 - 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.

The photo at left captures attendees at the second annual SINI in 1992, including Mills (front row, second from left) and Gassert (front row, center, behind woman in white).

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1970s Phyllis Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, was interviewed in May on the podcast, “How Can We Serve Pregnant Survivors,” by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, discussing the effects of intimate partner violence on pregnant women, infants, and young children. Sharps recently retired as associate dean for community programs and initiatives and Elsie M. Lawler Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Elizabeth Tanner, MS ’74, BSN ’70, who held joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins schools of Nursing and Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and who was a core faculty member in the Center for Innovative Care in Aging, recently retired.

Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, was honored in May by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing with the 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award for her varied contributions to the profession and to the health care of citizens of our nation and around the world.

Jerilyn Allen, MS ’76, recently retired as the M. Adelaide Nutting Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Charee Reckner, BSN ’77, a 30-year member of the Oakland, Maryland, Youghiogheny Glades Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), received the Maryland State DAR Service to Veterans Award for 2021.

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health officer for Luminis Health, where she is responsible for patient safety, infection control, patient experience, and accreditation services.

Joan Stanley, MS ’78, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, was presented in April with a National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) 2021 Friends of NONPF Award for her strong support of the organization and her advocacy for quality nurse practitioner education.

Kathleen White, MS ’78, who maintained a joint appointment as a clinical nurse specialist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital while serving as a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, recently retired.

Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, was interviewed by HealthJob in May about her more than 40-year career, her nursing journey, and her thoughts about the future of nursing.

1980s Shirley Ann Nathan-Pulliam, BSN ’80, an UMSON Visionary Pioneer, received the First Citizen’s Award from the Maryland General Assembly in March.

Marian Currens, BSN ’81, received the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Nyswander/Dole “Marie” Award at the organization’s annual conference in April for outstanding contributions to opioid treatment.

Karen McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81, received the American Journal of Nursing 2020 Trauma/Critical Care Book of the Year, First Place, for her publication Trauma Nursing: From (continued on page 33)

Congratulations to Malinda Peeples, MS ’97, who was elected president of the UMSON Alumni Association, effective July 1. Peeples is senior vice president for clinical services, programs, and research at Welldoc, a digital health platform for chronic care, in Columbia, Maryland. Peeples also serves as adjunct assistant faculty, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Peeples was president of the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists from 2005 - 06; in that role, she advanced the strategic direction of the organization to incorporate behavior change as a key outcome of education practice and research. She served as a member-at-large on the UMSON Alumni Council for three years and as the communications liaison for one year, and she has volunteered for UMSON’s Alumni Speaker Series and Student/Alumni Speed Networking events. She is also a member of the University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

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Anne Williams, DNP ’12, MS ’86, BSN ’82, director of community health, University of Maryland Medical System, was interviewed in April by Baltimore’s FOX45 News and in May by WJLA-TV, the Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate, about nurses working at the M&T Bank Stadium Mass Vaccination Site in Baltimore, where Williams served as planning section chief and later clinical operations lead.

Monika Bauman, MS ’10, BSN ’90, director of patient care services women’s and children’s health at UMMC, was interviewed by WJZ-TV, Baltimore’s CBS affiliate, and WJLA-TV, the Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate, about a COVID-19-positive mother who delivered a healthy baby in May.

Kristin Bussell, PhD ’19, MS ’98, BSN ’84, UMSON assistant professor, co-authored “Dietary Consumption Among Youth with AntipsychoticInduced Weight Gain and Changes Following Healthy Lifestyle Education” in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology in June.

Karen Doyle, DNP ’20, MS ’91, BSN ’85, was named the University of Maryland Medical Center’s (UMMC) senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer in September. In her previous position as senior vice president of nursing and operations at UMMC’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, she was interviewed in April on WBAL-TV, Baltimore’s NBC affiliate, about the center’s virtual celebration to honor trauma medicine and emergency medical services heroes.

Billie Hamilton-Powell, BSN ’88, director of midwifery services and mobile health at University of Maryland Capital Region Health, was featured in March in a WTOP News Story, “Maryland Midwife’s Success is a Family Tradition.”

Joan Insalaco Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88, co-authored the manuscript, “Expanding Nurse Residency Programs Through Regional and Statewide Collaborative Partnerships,” that was published in the March 2021 issue of Nurse Leader, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership journal.

Renay Tyler, BSN ’89, was selected as a 2021 Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition at the organization’s international meeting in March.

Gwendolyn Foster, BSN ’95, commander, 60th Medical Group, 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, California, was inducted as a 2021 Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Carmel McComiskey, DNP ’10, MS ’96, was honored in October 2020 by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation’s Nurse Leaders Honoring Nurse Leaders program, which allows nurses to recognize the previous generation of nurse leaders who have provided the mentorship, training, or education that has shaped their nursing careers.

Kimberley McIltrot, MS ’96, and Brigit Van Graffeiland, DNP ’08, discussed the ethical considerations of visitor restrictions when a child is hospitalized with cancer during COVID-19 in an op-ed in the April 2021 issue of American Nurse.

Sarah Szanton, MS ’96, was appointed the fifth dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in August. She also was featured in TIME magazine’s June 15 Live Well article, “COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America’s Elder Care System.

This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them,” and shared three key areas of her research in a Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Dean’s Podcast, “Aging, Finance, and Resilience,” on June 8.

Virginia LeBaron, MS ’97, was interviewed for UVA Today about her research into pain management using technology and compassionate care to reduce suffering for those affected by cancer; her work was also cited in the April 14 issue of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing AACN News Watch Weekly Edition newsletter.

ACROSS THE STREET AT UMMC Moving On Up Congratulations to the following alumni, who have recently received promotions at UMMC: SENIOR CLINICAL NURSE I

SENIOR CLINICAL NURSE II

Hellen Abraham, BSN ’13 Susie Williams, Christine Raymer, BSN ’14 MS ’15 Samantha Kirk, BSN ’17 Renee Salla, BSN ’17

Great Stories A great story has the power to inspire deeply, embrace and uplift, transform organizations, bridge gaps, and awaken our humanity. UMMC’s Great Stories recognition events honor those who generate these stories.

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Great Compassion Honorees: Tracey Wilson, DNP ’20, MS ’05 Kim Bowers, MS ’07 Anne Weichold, MS ’11, BSN ’09 Kelly Marsh, BSN ’16

Great Connection Honoree: Kerry Sue Mueller, BSN ’90 Great Experience Honoree: Yemi Olalekan, MS ’09, BSN ’01

We’re Big FAANs Congratulations to the six alumni, including one UMSON faculty member, who recently were inducted as 2021 Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). They join a community of approximately 2,900 fellows worldwide.

Linda Costa, BSN ’76, associate professor, UMSON Laura J. Wood, MS ’83, executive vice president, patient care operations, system chief nursing officer, Boston Children’s Hospital Mei-Ling Yeh, PhD ’97, MS ’93, professor, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Diane M. Breckenridge, PhD ’96, dean, Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Rebecca (Suzie) Miltner, PhD ’01, associate professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Virginia LeBaron, MS ’02, associate professor, University of Virginia School of Nursing

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Veronica Y. Amos, MS ’07, MS ’00, BSN ’99, UMSON assistant professor and director, Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Anesthesia specialty, was inducted as an inaugural Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in August.

2000s Ruth Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’00, was presented with the Healthcare Council’s 2020 Employee of the Year Award in June 2020.

Hae-Ra Han, PhD ’01, was named the Elsie M. Lawler Endowed Chair and assumed the role of associate dean for community programs and initiatives at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in July.

Kristen Liberto, MS ’07; Elizabeth Krug, MS ’10; and Sarah Stanley, MS ’14, members of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) team at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, in February received an Honorable Mention for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Vanguard Award, which recognizes a certified CNL for innovative and outstanding professional performance and advocacy of the CNL skill set.

2010s Suzanna Fitzpatrick, DNP ’20, MS ’10, senior nurse practitioner at UMMC, is quoted in a June Clinical Advisor article, “Mobile Care Unit Helps Triage Emergency Calls in Baltimore,” highlighting UMMC and the Baltimore City Fire Department’s Minor Definitive Care Now program.

Suzannah Stivison, MS ’11, was interviewed in March by WYPR, Baltimore’s National Public Radio affiliate, on the topic of “How Parents Can Address Kids’ Pandemic Weight Gain.”

Nicole E. Smith, MS ’14, UMSON clinical instructor, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Measurement of intrinsic cognitive load and mental

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INNOVATOR AND PARTNER

Celebrating Nursing Excellence

Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03, UMSON professor and director, Nursing Informatics master’s specialty and certificate, was honored with the University of Maryland School of Nursing Colleague Award during UMMC’s virtual Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony, May 6. The award recognizes an UMSON faculty member who “exemplifies excellence as a mentor and educator.”

Nahm was recognized for being a “tireless innovator and committed partner” to UMMC nurse leaders. She conceived of and leads an educationpractice model, the UMNursing Care Coordination Implementation Collaborative, with nurse collaborators from UMSON and UMMC to educate both nurses and nursing students about care coordination and population health. This model uniquely integrates education, practice, and research, with the ultimate goal of improving patient care outcomes.

Congratulations to the following alumni who received Excellence in Nursing awards from Baltimore magazine at a virtual ceremony, May 6.

effort in pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing students: A focus on instructional design in the synchronous online classroom,” and graduated from the PhD in Nursing Education program at Mercer University in Atlanta in August.

2020s Claire Regan, DNP ’20, assistant professor, was featured in a video released in February, “Passion to Learn.

Power to Heal,” about Veterans Administration partnerships with more than 1,800 medical schools, colleges, and universities across the country.

Marjorie Schmier, BSN ’72, Hospice/Home Health/Palliative Care Sharon M. Rossi, MS ’90, BSN ’83, MedicalSurgical Nursing

Brian Avaritt, BSN ’14, Intensive Care Steve Benko, BSN ’15, Management/ Nurse Executives

Maureen Klein, BSN ’85, Oncology

Henry E. Inegbenosun, DNP ’21, BSN ’15, Emergency Department

Lora L. Clawson, BSN ’86, Neurology/Psychology/ Behavioral Health

Gina Shelley, MS ’15, Management/ Nurse Executives

Margaret Owoeye, MS ’99, Christina M. BSN ’98, Case Management Kontogeorgos, DNP ’20, MS ’17, Management/ Carrie Lee Bealefeld, Nurse Executives BSN ’01, Pediatrics: Non-Neonatal Louie Lee, BSN ’05, Intensive Care

Cesar Jesus Visurraga, DNP ’18, Intensive Care

Natalie Coleman, MS ’06, Senior Services

Karen Lyons, MSN ’19, Community Care/ Ambulatory Care

Hannah A. Bloom, MS ’07, Neurology/Psychology/ Behavioral Health

Kristy A. Wheeler, MSN ’19, MedicalSurgical Nursing

Rebecca Stover, MS ’10, Management/ Nurse Executives

Back to Their Alma Mater The following alumni have returned to UMSON in faculty or staff positions, shaping the next generation of nurses: Ngozi E. Osuagwu, DNP ’19, MS ’08, BSN ’03, assistant professor Ciara Smith, DNP ’20, BSN ’12, assistant professor Marisa Astiz-Martinez, MS ’13, clinical instructor Patricia Christensen, DNP ’14, assistant professor

Martine Kirwin, MS ’17, program manager Amy Nahley, MS ’17, program manager Catherine Hood, DNP ’18, assistant professor Claire Regan, DNP ’20, assistant professor Gary Kaplan, MSN ’21, simulation training specialist

UMSON HOSTED VIRTUAL ALL-ALUMNI REUNION 2021 More than 160 alumni registered for the second virtual All-Alumni Reunion, held April 24. Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean, presented an update about UMSON’s building expansion and response to COVID-19; J Taylor Harden, PhD, MS ’77, BSN ’72, FGSA, FAAN, the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, shared remarks about her nursing career (see “Advancing Equity,” Page 36); BSN Class of 2021 graduate Sharla Chinniah thanked alumni for their contributions to student scholarships; and the Class of 1971 celebrated its 50th anniversary. Attendees chose from four compelling alumni lectures related to COVID-19 and the challenges it has created for nursing.

Watch a recording of the event and see Harden receive her award at nursing.umaryland.edu/reunion.

Save the date for our next All-Alumni Reunion: Saturday, April 30, 2022

Alumni Speaker Series Join a panel of alumni to speak with current students about career development.

In Memoriam Marion Yvonne Ramsey Daue, DIN ’46 Elinor Wilson Wells, DIN ’46 Charlotte Iacona, DIN ’48 Eleanor Gorke Peck, DIN ’48 Evelyn Baxter Robertson O’Connor, BSN ’51 Alta Fay Schuster, BSN ’54 Sally Joanne Strott Dempster, BSN ’56 Anne Owings Hacker, BSN ’57 Nancy Heister Campbell, BSN ’62 Nancy S. Freyman, BSN ’62 Betsy A. Bampton, MS ’65 Judith Rees McMillen, BSN ’65 Sara M. Boyles, BSN ’68 Claudette K. Silberfein, MS ’71 Norma Zeigler Smith, BSN ’72

Alumni Council Get involved at a leadership level. Nominate yourself or a fellow alum for an Alumni Council position.

Nance A. Crockett, BSN ’73 Linda I. Gottsagen, BSN ’73 Elizabeth A. McCoy Hayes, BSN ’75 Mary Ann McCormley Manly, BSN ’75 Phyllis Anne Luers Naumann, BSN ’77 Elizabeth T. Rector, BSN ’77 Elaine Antwarg Benesh, BSN ’87 Nancy Hermann Fraser, MS ’88 Patricia Holmes Kettle, BSN ’91 Jennifer Ann Englerth Stoops, MS ’95 Jennifer Ngoc-Tram Lieu, MS ’01 This list includes notices the School of Nursing received from March 12 - Aug. 17, 2021.

UMSON Connect Ambassador Encourage your classmates and alumni colleagues to join our online alumni platform.

Speed Networking Program Quick! Share advice with entry-into-practice students about their professional development.

Living History Museum Volunteer as a docent and share the history of UMSON and the nursing profession with visitors.

Preceptor/Adjunct Faculty We are seeking nurses to precept students, provide clinical instruction, and teach select didactic courses.

Reunion Volunteer to assist with outreach to your classmates, fundraising, and logistics for the annual All-Alumni Reunion.

Volunteer to share your time and talent how and when you choose. For more information, contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at alumni.nursing@umaryland.edu or 410-706-7640.

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ALUMNI PROFILE

J TAYLOR HARDEN

Advancing Equity J Taylor Harden, MS ’77, BSN ’72 The lessons J Taylor Harden, PhD, MS ’77, BSN ’72, FGSA, FAAN, UMSON’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni honoree, learned in the back of a C-130 military transport airplane as a U.S. Air Force Reserve flight nurse proved beneficial for her entire career. In that role for a decade beginning in the mid-1970s, she learned how to be as precise and prepared as possible for any event. That included what to do when an aircraft lands on water, which she practiced in a swimming pool – and never, thankfully, experienced during an actual flight. “That sense of being

developing one’s character as a nurse, being able to communicate effectively about patient communications, about patient status and changes, and the absolutely critical need for documentation,” Harden says.

The more she taught, the more she learned about herself, she says, and she was motivated to continue her own formal education, capping it off with a PhD in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin in 1989.

After Harden was invited to be an external reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she assessed proposals submitted for government funding, she then joined NIH in the mid-1990s, first at the National Institute of Nursing

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in a preparatory mode has stuck with me over time,” Harden says.

She wanted to help prepare other health care professionals, too. From the time she was commissioned as a U.S. Army second lieutenant in the basement of UMSON’s Parsons Hall in 1971 to her work at the National Institute of Aging beginning in 1997, she has never stopped learning and sharing her knowledge with others.

Harden began teaching medicalsurgical nursing part time in 1977 at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio and eventually became a tenured associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. “I really enjoy the experience of sharing knowledge about our profession of nursing, about

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Harden received UMSON’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award during the All-School Reunion in April.

Research and then at the National Institute on Aging, where she remained for 14 years, serving as acting deputy director. She later was invited to serve as a member of the National Council on Aging.

Her interest in aging stems from her experiences with her own family, in particular a close relationship with one of her uncles. “As he aged, I was privileged to provide some support and care for him,” she says.

This experience prompted an earlycareer focus on long-term care in nursing homes, an area she believes deserves more support and resources, including better workforce education to ensure aging populations receive the best care. This is particularly true for minority and underserved populations, she says; disparities related to these populations have been a focus of her research throughout her career, and advancing equity in health care remains an area of interest for her.

She continues to coach new leaders in gerontology and works as a consultant for projects on aging.

Harden, a Virginia native, says she adopted the unofficial Maryland state motto (found on the state’s seal), “Strong deeds, gentle words,” as a guiding ethos: strong deeds for the people you care about, and gentle words for those needing support, she explains. For Harden, they are aging populations, and particularly those who are minorities, vulnerable, or underrepresented. “We want people who care for us to be competent in deeds, gentle, kind, and invested in our well-being,” she says.

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photo near right: Lee in the sterile cockpit of the helicopter; far right: Lee says his preceptor taught him to write doses of emergency drugs on his leg to limit errors when having to do med math in highadrenaline situations.

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Taking Flight Stephen Lee, BSN ’17

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“I fell in love with taking care of really sick patients in unstable environments,” Stephen Lee, BSN ’17, RN, CEN, TCRN, CFRN, CCRN, NRP, says about his days as an EMT, long before he ever became a nurse.

For every trauma, intensive care, emergency care, and critical care turn his career has taken since, he will tell you passionately how much he loved the role and how he wanted to push himself to do even more.

Lee started his career in banking while “volunteering as an EMT on the side,” he says. “I was able to recognize that I was only having a snapshot into these patients’ care.

I saw the nurses were really able to do so much more.” So he earned his Associate Degree in Nursing in 2016 at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and entered the RN-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at UMSON at the Universities at Shady Grove, also in Rockville, as a Conway Scholar.

“I felt like the scholarship really validated all the hard work that I had already put into shifting my life and dedicating myself to this profession, but also it was an introduction to people who genuinely cared about how I was doing, how well I was progressing,” he says.

Upon graduation with his BSN, he says, “I was ready to really push myself clinically.” He asked colleagues where he could find the most challenging trauma situations, and they said New Orleans. “I booked the first flight down that I could,” he adds.

Lee spent a couple of years there, working in trauma in a large public hospital’s emergency department, in cardiac and medical intensive care at

big transplant centers, and in forensic nursing, working with trafficked youths, at the same public hospital.

“I was ready to say, OK, I’ve tried it all,” he says. “Now I’m going to pick and choose what I love of each of the areas I’ve worked in and put them together. And that was flight nursing.” So Lee moved to rural northern Louisiana and worked for a private company that provided prehospital and interfacility transport.

expecting and was very eye opening because a significant percentage of the population doesn’t have access to reliable health care.”

While he adored his job, Lee says, he recognized how taxing it was on his body, especially after years in an EMT role. “You’re in 110-degree weather and three layers of clothes and a Nomex flight suit,” he explains.

“I was really scared of one day my body breaking down. I didn’t want to

“ It’s the best job in the world. You have to care for the sickest patients, and you’re basically in a tiny closet.

You have no idea what’s going to happen from one second to the next, and it’s just you and a partner. It’s two people working as one in the craziest situations.”

STEPHEN LEE

“The closest trauma center, coronary intervention center, and stroke center were three and a half hours by ground, so whenever there was an immediate life threat or cardiac arrest, they would have to be flown,” he says.

Lee explains that the flight team consists of two people in addition to the pilot: a nurse and a paramedic. “And since I’m both a nurse and a paramedic, then I could fill either role,” he adds.

“I absolutely loved it. It’s the best job in the world. You have to care for the sickest patients, and you’re basically in a tiny closet. You have no idea what’s going to happen from one second to the next, and it’s just you and a partner. It’s two people working as one in the craziest situations.”

But what left the greatest impression on Lee were the disparities in care he witnessed. “What surprised me was how broken rural health care is,” he says. “That was something I was not

all of sudden not be able to work, so I needed to start preparing for what I can do for the rest of my life. I started thinking about what the job would be that would fill the role that flight nursing was for me but still start preparing me for school, being back in a hospital.”

After about two years as a flight nurse, Lee found the role he was looking for as a Critical Care Resuscitation Unit nurse at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and has begun a master’s-level acute care nurse practitioner program.

“This is going to allow me to care for the most critical patients at the highest level of care, which is really what I’m looking for,” he says.

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This return to normalcy would not have been possible without the extraordinary dedication of heroic health care workers and scientists.

Advance On March 16, 2020, nearly all School of Nursing faculty and staff began working from home. At that time, we could not have foreseen that we would be teleworking for more than a year.

It was an unnerving time, for many reasons. Aside from our very real fears about contracting COVID-19, we had to discover how to work effectively from home, which presented myriad challenges. We missed the face-to-face interactions we had come to take for granted, but we learned to connect in other ways: emails, phone calls, and video conference meetings.

Dean Kirschling initiated weekly virtual faculty and staff town halls, which helped us maintain a sense of community.

This past summer, when it was deemed safe to do so, we began the process of re-entering our workspaces. This return to normalcy would not have been possible without the extraordinary dedication of heroic health care workers and scientists. The pandemic brought to the forefront the pivotal role that nurses continue to play in the fight against COVID-19 and other devastating diseases.

For my team and me, this experience has crystallized why we do what we do. In our own small way, we strive to help nurses make a positive difference in the world – by raising money for scholarships, the Student Emergency Fund, and a variety of UMSON projects and programs.

Our Honor Roll of Donors (see Page 41) recognizes the alumni, faculty, staff, and friends who have supported these initiatives. We are deeply grateful!

Thank you for everything, and please stay well.

Laurette L. Hankins Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations hankins@umaryland.edu 410-706-4008

Conversation Starter How many success stories do you know that start in a public restroom? “You hear a lot in the ladies’ room,” says Jeanne Ascosi, MSN, BSN ’74.

This particular conversation took place during the Vietnam War, in 1968, at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where 16-yearold Ascosi worked in the hospital mail room during the summer. “There were a lot of injured sailors and marines in the hospital,” she says. “There were two young Navy nurses who were talking about how much they enjoyed working with the families of the injured sailors, dealing with the sailors’ injuries. I thought that sounded pretty cool.”

Raised from the time she was very young by a single mother who told her “it was very important to have a career to fall back on,” Ascosi says, she opted to pursue her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at UMSON after completing her first two years at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Following graduation, she returned to Bethesda Naval Hospital as a bedside nurse for a couple of years. She then worked on a medical unit and the ICU at Walter Reed Army Medical Center before becoming the assistant director of the hospital’s critical care course. In the mid-1980s, she joined Tri-Service Medical Information System (TRIMIS-Army) as a nurse educator, then later became the chief of acquisition support when a merger occurred and, later still, chief of marketing and requirements. In the mid-2000s, she landed in the Army’s Office of the Surgeon General, in the Directorate of Information Management, before retiring from government service in 2007.

That same government service allowed her to forgive some of her nursing school loans. “I had about $12,000 in loans by the time I graduated, and my annual salary was $9,200, and of course I needed a car, and I was struggling,” she recalls. To help other aspiring nurses, Ascosi has endowed a scholarship in her name that supports undergraduate students. In addition to this outright support, she has also included the scholarship in her estate plans, making her a member of the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society. “I think it’s important to give back, and it’s always important to give people a leg up,” she says.

— G.S.

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Honor Roll of Donors

bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society † Cornerstone Club, recognizing

J U LY 1 , 2020 – J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 2 1

those who have dontated to UMSON for 20 years or more

* deceased

The annual Honor Roll of Donors recognizes alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, and friends who have contributed $100 or more to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021. A list of all donors is available online at nursing.umaryland.edu/honorroll.

As it is impossible to confirm all donors’ credentials, only UMSON degrees and graduation years are included.

The Alicia and Yaya Foundation Estate of Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79 PNC Charitable Trust Salisbury University Samueli Foundation

Bruce E. Jarrell and Leslie S. Robinson Carol A. Kelley, BSN ’78, and David E. Kelley Jane M. Kirschling Mary Etta C. Mills, MS ’73, BSN ’71† Rosemary Noble, BSN ’66, and Michael W. Noble Marla T. Oros, BSN ’84 Joyce A. Parks, DNP ’14, MS ’93, and Kevin Parks Estate of Eva M. Popp, BSN ’46 Michelle M. Rivest, MS ’79, BSN ’75, and Jeffrey A. Rivest Virginia K. Saba Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69, and Peter Tancredi Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, BSN ’66 Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55 Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80† David Vlahov, MS ’80, BSN ’77, and Robin Gershon Joyce Willens, PhD ’94, and Bradford H. Lamson-Scribner William F. & Caroline Hilgenberg Foundation†

$25,000 - $49,999

$5,000 - $9,999

Janet D. Allan and Beverly Hall Francis D. Drake Charlene G. Gooch, BSN ’71 Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Richard E.* and Julia A. Llewellyn Louis and Phyllis Friedman Foundation Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

Carolyn J. Brownell, BSN ’86 Estate of E.L. Bunderman, DIN ’31 Judith A. Freitag, BSN ’77 Deborah Greenspan Winifred S. Hayes, MS ’74, BSN ’71† Wallace J. Hoff Henrietta D. Hubbard, BSN ’73 Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70† Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77† Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93 Merritt Properties Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71† Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92, and William G. Smillie Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68† Sandra A. Schoenfisch, MS ’76† Eleanor B. Schron, PhD ’08, MS ’79, and Spencer R. Schron Alan J. and Kylanne G. Silverstone Sue Song

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

$500,000 - $999,999 Estate of Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation University of Maryland Medical System†

$100,000 - $249,999 American Heart Association Marjorie Stamler Bergemann Mary Catherine Bunting, MS ’72† National Council on State Boards of Nursing

$50,000 - $99,999

$10,000 - $24,999 Frank E. & Miriam Loveman Foundation Virginia Lee Franklin Memorial Trust† Kathryn Patchen Freer, BSN ’74, and Rob Walker Freer† Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90, and Michael F. Huebner

$2,500 - $4,999 Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74† Sara K. Barger, BSN ’67 Cecil J. Clark Jr., MS ’90† Kathleen A. Clark, BSN ’73 CVS Health Foundation Jill A. DeCesare, BSN ’69† Emily P. Deitrick, BSN ’68 Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98 Barbara A. Dralnick, MS ’72 James L. and Malinda Hughes Karen Huss, MS ’75, BSN ’69, and Richard Huss Karen A. McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81, and Robert V. McQuillan III† Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69† Glenda B. Motta, BSN ’71 Elizabeth S. Niemyer, BSN ’78, and John Niemyer Elizabeth G. O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73† Pennsylvania State University Kevin and Sherry B. Perkins Martha J. Shively, BSN ’72 Sigma Theta Tau Inc. Pi Chapter†

$1,000 - $2,499 Maxine H. Counihan Aldridge, BSN ’02 Archdiocese of Baltimore Nellie C. Bailey, MS ’93 Shawn C. Becker, MS ’05† John Bing Deborah L. Bowers, BSN ’78 Kim A. Burks, BSN ’01, and Robert Burks Jr. Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65† Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72† Community Foundation of Frederick Co. Lynne M. Connelly, MS ’78, BSN ’76 Linda K. Cook, PhD ’05, MS ’97 Corel Corp.

Carla M. Cunningham, BSN ’71 Marla J. De Jong, MS ’96 Janice M. DiGrazia, BSN ’81 Bradley T. and Barbara K. Foote Norma K. Francis, BSN ’62 Friends of Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association Rosa R. Goldstein, BSN ’58, and Lawrence Goldstein John D. Guberski Dinah L. Halopka, BSN ’74† J Taylor Harden, MSN ’77, BSN ’72 Barbara R. Heller and Fred Walsh† Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81† Elizabeth K. Johnson, MS ’08, and Richard N. Johnson

George and Christine A. Johnson Jean M. Jones, BSN ’72 Joseph H. Kelly, MS ’85, BSN ’77, and Mary C. Kelly Joanne E. King, MS ’03, BSN ’80 Loree S. La Chance, BSN ’89 Ruth J. Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’04 Nancy B. Lerner, DNP ’10, MSN ’74, BSN ’66 Wendy L. Lessler-Derechin, BSN ’93 Connie Mackowiak, BSN ’69† Ann B. Mech, MS ’78, BSN ’76 Philip T. and Brenda Gay Mercer Ann N. Merkel, BSN ’56 Margot Kelley Miles, BSN ’70† Betty Jane Mincemoyer, DIN ’48† Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery, PhD ’97, and John B. Montgomery Roxanne Moran, MS ’79, BSN ’71 Charlotte E. Naschinski, MS ’82† Barbara M. O’Connor, BSN ’71 Thomas S. Paullin Malinda M. Peeples, MS ’97 John M. Preto, BSN ’77, and Jane F. Preto Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund Elizabeth Boyer Reeder Carol A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, BSN ’77† Pamela Reik Schrank, BSN ’68, and W. Winslow Schrank† Susan E. Simms, BSN ’78 Galen J. Smith Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71 Janice M. Thompson, BSN ’62, and Phillip E. Thompson Jo Gail Wenzel, BSN ’67

$500 - $999 American Endowment Foundation Minjeong An, PhD ’13 Linda Daley Atila Janet C. Austen, MS ’07 Noranne M. Basham, BSN ’83 Kimberlie A. Biever, MS ’07, MS ’00 Barbara K. Boland, MS ’73† Marita S. Bowden, BSN ’66 Mary M. Breach, MS ’72 Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91† Linda Costa, BSN ’76 Linda K. Diaconis, MS ’95 Nancy Eason, BSN ’75, and Alan D. Eason Shirley B. Edwards, MS ’80, BSN ’78† Mary C. Feliciano, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68† Mary A. Fullerton-Morgan, BSN ’74, and Curt Morgan Bridgitte C. Gourley, DNP ’08

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“ My master’s degree opened up many opportunities for me.

Since I have the financial resources available, I feel obligated to help others to also have those opportunities. I’m confident UMSON will continue to produce highly educated nurses who will meet the health care needs of the future.”

Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96

$500 - $999​​​​ (continued) Patricia A. Grady, MS ’68 Susan E. Gutkin, MS ’99 Dorna P. Hairston, PhD ’05, MS ’88 Pamela V. Hammond, MS ’79 Laurette L. Hankins Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD ’91 Elizabeth E. Hill, PhD ’03 Maeve Howett Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61 Jo A. Irving, MSN ’70 Teri L. Jackson, BSN ’80† Juliette S. Jenkins, MS ’78 Anne M. Kim, BSN ’00 Barbara G. Kormann, BSN ’66† Shirley J. Lentz, BSN ’56† Sherrie G. Lessans, PhD ’10 Marianne T. Lynch, BSN ’03 Esther E. McCready, DPS (Hon.) ’15* Sandra W. McLeskey Yan Ni, BSN ’14 Yolanda A. Ogbolu, PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04 Karen C. Poisker, MS ’81, BSN ’78† Harold W. Smith, MS ’77, BSN ’72† Rebecca S. Stanevich, BSN ’73† Sue A. Thomas, MS ’73, BSN ’69† Robin Varker, BSN ’75† Susan M. Wilby, BSN ’73† Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Rebecca F. Wiseman, PhD ’93 May C. Wong, MS ’74 Ray Wulff Jr. George A. Zangaro, PhD ’05, MS ’98

$250 - $499 Beatrice V. Adderley-Kelly, MS ’71 Anna C. Alt-White, PhD ’87† American Nurses Foundation Susan M. Antol, MS ’79 Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96 Steffi J. Bokser, BSN ’85, and Allan Bokser Karen A. Boliek, MS ’93 Marie Boltz Zoe M. Bouchelle, BSN ’71

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Georgia Boyer, BSN ’61† Blanche R. Brown, DNP ’15 Colleen M. Burke, BSN ’77† Vicki L. Burt, BSN ’73 Jeffrey S. Cain† Honora E. Caldwell, BSN ’72 Cathleen L. Campbell, BSN ’77 Judith H. Carpenter, BSN ’66† Mary J. Carroll, MS ’96 Barbara J. Chapman-Nellis, BSN ’77 Patricia I. Christensen, DNP ’14 Robin B. Cohen, MS ’73† Kirsten Corazzini Sandra L. Cotton, MS ’95 Joanne F. Damon, BSN ’68 Thomas B. and Donna N. Day Robbin B. De Witt, BSN ’84 Emilie M. Deady, BSN ’72† Jan M. DiSantostefano, MS ’93† Donna M. Dorsey, MS ’75† Jean B. Dotson, MS ’73 Sandra Dunnington, BSN ’76, and Kenneth R. Dunnington John W. and Linda P. Foreman Patricia Golembieski, BSN ’71† Alexander Good Sonya Z. Goodman, MS ’79, BSN ’73† Claire P. Greenhouse, BSN ’66† Veronica A. Gutchell, DNP ’13 Rita M. Haley, BSN ’79 Carol Ann Helfrich, BSN ’67 Kristine R. Holmes, BSN ’74 Gail Jackson Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, BSN ’80† Sandra Jensen, MS ’70† Donna L. Kahn, MS ’89, and Eric M. Kahn Sally A. Kaltreider, MS ’88† Jane F. Kapustin, MS ’85† Lynda A. King, BSN ’69 Carolyn C. Knight, BSN ’70 Suzanne M. Labansky, BSN ’68 Gary M. Lang, PhD ’07 Pamela A. Lentz, MS ’00, BSN ’84 Kathleen M. Martin, DNP ’08, MS ’97 Carolyn J. Means, BSN ’81 Beverly Miller Mark and Beverly Nadel Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93† Nteligen LLC Patricia B. O’Donnell, MS ’76, BSN ’70 Samson A. Omotosho, PhD ’98 Lillian A. O’Neill, BSN ’81 Margaret A. Pedersen, BSN ’74 Robin Prothro, BSN ’79 Katherine J. Reichelt, BSN ’64 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. Barbara A. Reville, DNP ’11 Patricia Schaefer Marilyn S. Schmitter, BSN ’64

Kari L. Schoening, BSN ’53 Deborah Lynne Schofield, DNP ’09, MS ’95 Richard J. and Cynthia C. Sikorski Elizabeth P. Smith, MS ’99 Debra A. Spencer, MS ’99 Joan M. Stanley, MS ’78 Barbara A. Stepura, MS ’85 Sheri B. Stern, MS ’91, BSN ’75† Elsie M. Stines, DNP ’15, MS ’00 Wienshet Teklu, BSN ’99 Bernadette R. Thomas, BSN ’04 Margaret E. Trimble, BSN ’67 Renay D. Tyler, BSN ’89 Sandra B. Warner, BSN ’60 Mary L. Wetter, MS ’92 John W. Willis Jr., BSN ’93

$100 - $249 Deborah B. Adams, BSN ’91 Brenda M. Afzal, MS ’99, BSN ’98 Nancy R. Alga, BSN ’76 Laura L. Allen, MS ’15, BSN ’06 Lisa Allman, BSN ’93 Maureen S. Anderson, MS ’09, BSN ’01 Ella J. Angell, MS ’98 Cathy L. Attanasio, BSN ’73 Barbara A. Avery, BSN ’70 Oluchi J. Ayichi ’17, DNP ’17, MS ’11 Isatu Negeh Bah, MS ’12, BSN ’99 Janis L. Bahner, BSN ’71 Christine L. Barclay, BSN ’77 Kathy D. Barnes Barbara A. Barrett, MS ’78 Robin Barthlow-Busan, BSN ’81 LaKeisha D. Beasley, MS ’07 Cecile M. Behneman, BSN ’69 Abbe R. Bendell, BSN ’74 Patricia K. Beneshan, BSN ’66 Joan R. Benfield, MS ’92† Eva K. Berkow, BSN ’59† Andrea Caldwell Berndt, MS ’89 Suzanne J. Best, MS ’06, BSN ’01 Mary Griffin Bey, BSN ’75 Sabrina L. Bielefeldt, MS ’15 Pamela J. Biernacki, BSN ’83 Roberta S. Billman, BSN ’74 Mary L. Bodt, BSN ’83 Kathleen K. Boyd, BSN ’89† Katy Kreitzer Boyd Estate of Margaret E. Brandt, DIN ’50 Andrea Brassard Kristi B. Brennan, MS ’97, BSN ’83 Wanda L. Brethauer, MS ’96 Voncelia S. Brown, MS ’82, BSN ’78 Constance S. Browning, BSN ’65† Carola Bruflat, BSN ’68 Nicole W. Brynes, BSN ’11 Elaine M. Bundy, DNP ’11, MS ’09, BSN ’75, and Mark Bundy Barbara J. Bungard, MS ’11

Lisette K. Bunting-Perry, BSN ’83, and James Perry Brooke K. Buppert, BSN ’06, and William G. Buppert Charon M. Burda, DNP ’16, MS ’03 Ann W. Burgess, MS ’59 Rose M. Burke, BSN ’74 Pamela J. Burns, BSN ’69 David S. Bush, MS ’09 Michelle Butler, MS ’01 Mary Wolf Byrnes, BSN ’77, and Kevin M. Byrnes Kathryn A. Cadwell, MS ’93, BSN ’75† Rosanne T. Calure, MS ’96, BSN ’91 April A. Campbell, BSN ’91† Kathryn D. Capozzoli, MS ’80 Nadine Earl Carey Artur Caridha, BSN ’07 Berlyn S. Carlson, BSN ’73† Erika Carlson-Hiles Cory T. Carpenter Ruth M. Carroll, PhD ’90 Kathleen G. Charters, PhD ’98 Ling-Yin Chen Sharla Chinniah, BSN ’21 Jane B. Clemmens, DIN ’50† Frona S. Colker, MS ’74† Imogene S. Combs, BSN ’69† Barbara L. Conrad, BSN ’73† Stacey Conrad Karen A. Cook-Henderson, BSN ’72 Maura P. Cornell, BSN ’80† Gail Cowan, MS ’85† Joan L. Creasia, PhD ’87 P. Dale Every Creighton, BSN ’58 Georgia E. Cusack, MS ’99, BSN ’84 Mai A. Dahmas, BSN ’05 Amy L. Daniels, PhD ’18, MS ’12, BSN ’89 Renee R. Dash, MS ’04 Leslie W. Daugherty, BSN ’75† Charlotte E. Davies, MS ’68 Bertha L. Davis, MS ’77 Linda Lindsey Davis, PhD ’84† Mary E. De Salvo, MS ’93 Hazel G. Deneane, BSN ’61 Amanda H. D’Erasmo, BSN ’95 Sarah M. DeRossi, BSN ’66 Katherine Krone Dever Marsha H. DeWeese, MS ’93 Valerie DeWeese, BSN ’81,† and Dale K. DeWeese Charlotte C. Diedrich, BSN ’57 Inez Haynie Dodson Margaret A. Dooling, MS ’80 Patricia L. Dorio, BSN ’95 Carol Swamidoss Douglas, BSN ’85 Ana C. Duarte, PhD ’18, MS ’09, BSN ’06 Elizabeth S. Duda, BSN ’69 Patricia A. Dumler, BSN ’83

The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society Kay F. Edwards, BSN ’67 Adedayo A. Ekundayo, PhD ’96 Ann Louise Ellenson, BSN ’70† Shane P. Ellis, MS ’11 Barbara Engh, MS ’80, BSN ’74† Donna M. Feickert-Eichna, BSN ’73 Marylouise K. Felhofer, MS ’91 Sherry D. Ferki, BSN ’71 Adriana Fessler, BSN ’90 Judith G. Flemmens, BSN ’67 Julius A. Fomengia, BSN ’05 Lark A. Ford, BSN ’76 Katherine Fornili, DNP ’16 Margaret A. Franckhauser, MS ’82 Erika Friedmann Corinne Friend, BSN ’86 Wanona S. Fritz, MS ’78 Elizabeth M. Galik, PhD ’07 Alexandra A. Garcia, MS ’95 William J. Gardiner Doris Garrington, BSN ’52 Denise C. Geiger, BSN ’79† Audrey G. Gift, PhD ’84 Judith K. Gilbert, BSN ’84 Robyn C. Gilden, PhD ’10, MS ’01 Vicki L. Gillmore, PhD ’90, MS ’77, BSN ’76† Diana M. Gomez-Barden, MS ’07, BSN ’90 Antoinette M. Gonzalez, BSN ’55 Ellen J. Gorman, MS ’93† Mary J. Graham, MS ’80† Margaretta C. Grimm, MS ’86, BSN ’81 Patricia A. Grinnell, MS ’65 Anne O. Hacker, BSN ’57 Mary S. Hagan, BSN ’89 Bonnie M. Hagerty, MS ’77† Carole F. Hair, MS ’79 Ruth M. Harris, MS ’81, BSN ’79† Joseph B. Haymore, DNP ’16 Joan N. Hebden, MS ’85, BSN ’75 Phyllis B. Heffron, BSN ’74† Rita C. Hendershot, BSN ’69 Frances E. Henderson, MS ’80 Donna C. Herndon, BSN ’69 Viola S. Hibbard, BSN ’88 Ellen M. Hilsheimer, MS ’73† Ann G. Hoffman, MS ’11 Samuel Hoffman Jr., BSN ’98 Beadie L. Holden, BSN ’77† Eileen B. Hollander, MS ’89, BSN ’83, and Craig Hollander Patricia A. Hong, BSN ’72 Jane M. Houck, MS ’84† Jennifer N. Hrabowski, BSN ’99 Kathleen B. Hurley, MS ’91 Shannon K. Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03 Iris F. Ingber, BSN ’71 Maranda C. Jackson-Parkin, PhD ’13, MS ’06 (continued on page 44)

The 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 superintendent; she made the first planned gift to the School in 1916. The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society comprises people who, like Parsons, are committed to supporting future generations of students and nurses by providing funding for scholarships, research, faculty positions, and other critical needs. Joining the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society allows you to make a significant difference to future nursing students without impacting your current lifestyle.

To learn more about making a planned gift, contact Laurette Hankins, associate dean for development and alumni relations, at hankins@umaryland.edu or 410-706-4008.

Estate of Myrtle Ageton, DIN ’44, and Robert Ageton Janet D. Allan Anonymous Floraine B. Applefeld Estate of Carolyn V. Arnold Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74 Estate of Zabelle S. Howard Beard Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96 Abbe R. Bendell, BSN ’74 Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69 Marjorie Stamler Bergemann Estate of Jean L. Bloom, DIN ’46 Estate of Margaret E. Brandt, DIN ’50 Estate of Mary J. Brewer Estate of E.L. Bunderman, DIN ’31, and Clarence Q. Bunderman Estate of Ann Ottney Cain Estate of Dorothy C. Calafiore, BSN ’51 Estate of Shirley E. Callahan, BSN ’52 Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91 Estate of Avon B. Chisholm Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65 Estate of Gladys B. Clagett and Lansdale G. Clagett Estate of Bonnie L. Closson, BSN ’61 Jon B. Closson Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72 Steven S. Cohen Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79 Estate of Mary Jane Custer Jill A. DeCesare, BSN ’69 Carol Distasio, MS ’73, BSN ’71 Nancy Donovan, BSN ’76 Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98 Carol Drake, BSN ’68*, and Francis D. Drake Celeste A. Dye, BSN ’66 Kay F. Edwards, BSN ’67 Estate of Barbara Elgin, BSN ’54, and Lee Elgin Estate of Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79 Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68 Judith A. Freitag, BSN ’77 Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77 Estate of Mary H. Gilley, DIN ’44

*deceased

Debbie Gilbert Glassman, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Estate of Judah Gudelsky Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63* Laurette L. Hankins Sharon Hanopole, BSN ’66 Phyllis B. Heffron, BSN ’74 Barbara R. Heller Estate of K. Cornelia Hesselbach Estate of Marie L. Hesselbach Estate of Kjerstine K. Hoffman, DIN ’47 Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90 Margaret H. Iles, DIN ’53 Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61 Estate of Mary McCotter Jackson Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70 Estate of Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48 Jane M. Kirschling and Robert Flick* Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77 Cynthia P. Lewis, BSN ’58, and Jack C. Lewis Estate of Ann Madison, BSN ’62 Estate of Mildred Madsen, BSN ’73 Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93 Estate of Demetria Manandic, BSN ’54 Estate of Lois Marriott Joan Nicholason Martellotto, BSN ’66 Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73 Estate of Wealtha McGurn Beverly J. Meadows, PhD ’06, MS ’84, BSN ’69 Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69 Estate of Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62 Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71 Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73 Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79 Sondra M. Mroz, BSN ’66 Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93 Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73 Daniel J. O’Neal III, BSN ’66 Harriet Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, BSN ’68 Barbara J. Parker, PhD ’86, MS ’76 Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77 Thomas S. Paullin Estate of Eva M. Popp, BSN ’46 Margot A. Regen, MS ’79

Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93 Estate of Margaret Robinson Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92, and William G. Smillie Estate of Amelia Carol Sanders, DIN ’53 Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68 Estate of William Donald Schaefer Estate of Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50 Sandra A. Schoenfisch, MS ’76 Eleanor B. Schron, PhD ’08, MS ’79, and Spencer R. Schron Estate of Beverly Seeley Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73 Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78, and Louis A. Shpritz Estate of Betty Lou Shubkagel, BSN ’54 Estate of Anna Mae Slacum Estate of Connie Slewitzke, BSN ’71 Rebecca S. Stanevich, BSN ’73 Barbara A. Stepura, MS ’85 Estate of Marie V. Stimpson, MS ’89, BSN ’84 Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71 Estate of Sandra Sundeen, MS ’68 Estate of Ginger V. Swisher, DIN ’49 Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69, and Peter Tancredi Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, BSN ’66 Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55 Estate of Norma C. Tinker, BSN ’48 Estate of Martha C. Trate, BSN ’48 Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80 Robin Varker, BSN ’75 Elena V. Virts, PhD ’15, BSN ’00 Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64 Estate of Helen Parker Wear Doris Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59, and John H. Webb* Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Susan Dorsey Wilson, BSN ’66 Estate of Patricia Yow As we are unable to confirm all alumni credentials, only UMSON degrees and graduation years are included.

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“ I could never give back to UMSON as much as it has given to me throughout my professional and personal life. I can only hope that what I am able to give will in some small way help students achieve their goals.”

Pamela V. Hammond, MS ’79

$100 - $249 (continued) Nadine M. Jacobson, MS ’01, BSN ’82 Anne L. Jeffcott, MS ’04 Karen A. Jeffries, MS ’91 Patricia M. Jess, MS ’92 Jane B. Johnson, DIN ’47* Lisa M. Johnson, BSN ’87 Kayley Jones, BSN ’19 Daryl E. Jordan Wendelyn D. Joynes, BSN ’85 Bonnie E. Keene, BSN ’71† Abidogun B. Kehinde, BSN ’99 Linda M. Keldsen, MS ’14 Sandra L. Kendall Rita A. Kerrick, BSN ’71 Gail G. Kestler, BSN ’71† Barbara J. Kinder, MS ’74 Grace Harlow Klein, MS ’68 Mary Shelley Darling Knach, BSN ’79 Margaret A. Tangires Koenig, BSN ’84, and Thomas W. Koenig Ann Kolanowski Miata Koroma, MS ’18, BSN ’11 Bronislaus L. Kosiorowski, MS ’72 Mary Jean Kotch, BSN ’74 Elizabeth A. Krug, MS ’10 William K. Kumodzi, BSN ’14 Nancy Lacy, BSN ’54 Vivian A. Lane, MS ’85, BSN ’80 Gail Schoen Lemaire, PhD ’96 Patricia A. Lewis, BSN ’80 Shirley Eppel Liberman, BSN ’55† Dorothy Liddel, BSN ’61† Katherine N. Linden, BSN ’77† Judith D. Lobis, BSN ’67 Nancy Lougheed, BSN ’61 Denise T. Lowman-Kedzierski, BSN ’81 Laurice P. Lucas, BSN ’82 Kathleen T. Lucke, PhD ’96 Tim and Bobbie Mace Karen M. Mack, MS ’01, BSN ’83 Dianne L. Mackert, BSN ’72 Barbara J. Major, BSN ’74 Carole A. Malinowski, BSN ’77† Vivian T. Jenkins Malloy, BSN ’77 Sandra B. Malone, PhD ’98 Jane E. Mansfield, BSN ’76† Jo Ellen Marek, BSN ’64† Katherine L. Matrakas, MS ’91, BSN ’80 Jeanne A. Matthews, PhD ’91

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Gloria J. Mayfield, MS ’72 Anne E. McArdle, BSN ’74† Donna Behler McArthur, PhD ’98, BSN ’76 Noel V. McCaman Lisa S. McCarl, MS ’84, BSN ’81, and Clayton S. McCarl Jr. Marie C. McCarthy, MS ’79 Carmel A. McComiskey, DNP ’10, MS ’96 Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73† Debra S. McFadyen, BSN ’87 Elizabeth Burke McGinn, BSN ’82 Beverly J. Meadows, PhD ’06, MS ’84, BSN ’69 Pamela M. Miceli, BSN ’80 Michele A. Michael, MS ’74 Christine C. Miller, MS ’92, BSN ’89 Gayle Sharon Miller, BSN ’66 Marilyn J. Miller, PhD ’00, MS ’81, BSN ’79 Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73 Audrey Miller-Sydney Priscilla O. Mills, BSN ’69 Marik A. Moen, PhD ’18 Carol Moore Charles Moore Athol Morgan Vannesia D. Morgan-Smith, BSN ’80† Cristina B. Mullenix, DNP ’19, BSN ’08 Melissa A. Murdock, BSN ’89 Rosemary E. Murphey, BSN ’79 Bonnie M. Murphy, BSN ’82 Cheryl Murphy Linda A. Murray, DNP ’16, MS ’84 Marina V. Needham, MS ’06, BSN ’98 Gina D. Negri, MS ’03 Lois H. Neuman, BSN ’63† Laurie Newitz Myra N. Njapau-Dove, DNP ’20 Veronica P. Njie-Carr Allan S. and Martha P. Noonan Herminia G. Nudo, BSN ’63† Raymond M. Nudo, MS ’04, and Karin T. Nudo, MS ’04, BSN ’93 Maidana K. Nunn, MS ’63 Simone M. Odwin-Jenkins, DNP ’19 Patricia A. O’Hare, MS ’76† Diane E. Olechna, MS ’00 Clara Arehart Olivas, MS ’67 One Heart LLC Daniel J. O’Neal III, BSN ’66 Lynn M. Oswald Janet M. Ottney Onyi Ozoji Yunie G. Pak, BSN ’20 Janel C. Parham, MS ’02 Anna L. Parker, BSN ’68 Brenda Pat, BSN ’73 Linda T. Patterson, BSN ’72 Steven Pease

Robert A. and Nancy M. Peavy Terry S. Peck, BSN ’82 Laura P. Pendley, BSN ’87† Leslie A. Phillips, DNP ’16, MSN ’96 Regina Phillips, MS ’79 Jemima Pierre-Jacques, DNP ’20 Daniel E. Piper, BSN ’91 Gale S. Pollock, DPS (Hon.) ’05, BSN ’76 Sharon L. Ponce, BSN ’75 Charlene A. Pope, BSN ’74 Jeanette Barnes Priest, BSN ’71† Mary Ann Pryor Nan K. Pue, BSN ’66 Madonna Putz-Vitarello, BSN ’84 Julie K. Qashu, MS ’10 Suzanne R. Ranson, BSN ’76† Lola J. Rathbone, BSN ’75 Kristen E. Rawlett, PhD ’14 DeVontee Rayford, DNP ’20 Camelle S. Redding, MS ’10 Karen K. Reichert, BSN ’66 Joan A. Reider, BSN ’65 Mary Lou Reilly, BSN ’59 Laurel A. Renaud, BSN ’80† Marianne E. Rhodes, BSN ’69 Loretta M. Richardson, MS ’71, BSN ’68† Hjordis Richstein, BSN ’09 Eleanor M. Riordan, BSN ’47† Kathleen M. Ripp, MS ’95 Nicole M. Ritzau, BSN ’07 Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93 Teresa V. Robison, MS ’88, BSN ’80 Caleb A. Rogovin, MS ’92† Natalie J. Rook, MS ’85, BSN ’72† Joyce Elaine Ross, BSN ’62 Janet Rowan, MS ’63, BSN ’61† Hannah Rupard, BSN ’19 Kathleen H. Sabatier, MS ’80 Dorothy L. Sabolsice, MS ’67† Sharon A. Saunders, BSN ’89† Barbara B. Scharf, PhD ’09 Chuck M. Schevitz, BSN ’81† Madeline H. Schmitt Barbara Schmitthenner, BSN ’57† Barbara L. Schulman, BSN ’78 Patricia P. Sengstack, MS ’88, BSN ’82 Margaret K. Seuss, MS ’96 Sarah J. Shaefer, PhD ’96, MS ’80, BSN ’74 Mary Ruth Shafer, BSN ’73† Janet L. Shapiro, BSN ’70 Brian C. Sharkey, MS ’00, BSN ’98 Phyllis W. Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70† Suzanne F. Sherwood, MS ’93, BSN ’87 Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73† Deborah K. Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78, and Louis A. Shpritz Mulikat Abiola Shuaib, BSN ’15 Patricia A. Skelton, MS ’93

Sharon A. Skozilas, BSN ’76 Claudia M. Smith, BSN ’65† Sarah Snarski, BSN ’19 Jeanine Soliman, MS ’09 Laura M. Sorkin, MS ’96† Janet R. Southby, MS ’71† Katharine S. Speers, BSN ’54 Gena Stiver Stanek, MS ’85, BSN ’80† Mary E. Stewart, BSN ’81 Thomas C. Stewart, MS ’97 Susan R. Stone, MS ’87, BSN ’82 Josephine M. Strauss, BSN ’71† Richard Sundeen Gail F. Tarlton, MS ’02, BSN ’00 Barbara N. Terry, BSN ’71† Margaret A. Terry, PhD ’04 Carol E. Tessman, BSN ’67 Arnaud Timamo, MS ’15 Rita H. Tonner, MS ’98, BSN ’71 Patricia T. Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69 Natalie L. Troup, MS ’97 Nina K. Ungar, BSN ’83 Ronnie Ursin, MS ’07, BSN ’05 Jane M. Vardaro, MS ’77, and Joseph E. Vardaro Visiting Angels of Baltimore East Lorrie Voytek Duy Vu, BSN ’13 Elaine M. Walizer, MS ’88† Mary Patricia Wall, PhD ’04 Lesley A. Walther, BSN ’17 Suzanne D. Walton, MS ’87, BSN ’78† Jessie Wang, BSN ’00 Carol D. Watkins, MS ’10 Linda Elaine Wendt, PhD ’91† Robert W. West, BSN ’14 Ouida E. Westney, MS ’65 Paula A. Wiegel-Thrasher, BSN ’73 Linda L. Williams, MS ’70 Adele Wilzack, MS ’66† Barbara V. Wise, PhD ’99, MS ’82 Susanne M. Wisniewski, BSN ’77 Gerald L. Wollman, BSN ’86 Judith R. Wood, BSN ’71 Donna J. Wooditch, BSN ’74 Eileen M. Wyant, BSN ’72 Gina Ng Yap Sherry L. Zane, BSN ’69 Marie-Aline Zappia-Kuzmack, MS ’95

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U N S TO P PA B L E In May, UMSON graduated what we hope will be the final “pandemic class” of graduates as we look toward a post-pandemic future, one defined by the persistence, compassion, commitment, grit, and fortitude of the nurses who have entered or advanced in the workforce over the past 18

months. Teresa Graves, MSN ’21, RN, a graduate of the Master of Science in Nursing Community/ Public Health Nursing specialty and a current Global Health Certificate student, captures the spirit of these graduates, those tied together unwittingly by history, with a message emblazoned on her T-shirt.

Graves, nurse manager, Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health in Washington, D.C., explains that the pandemic has led to a significant decline in childhood vaccination rates. To address the issue, she utilized the MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track) framework she learned in the master’s specialty to lead the launch of a mobile

medical program to reach children in their communities. “I was provided professional fulfillment by engaging in the community as well as addressing childhood vaccination rates,” she says.

Classes of 2020 and 2021, we salute you. You are unstoppable.

— G.S.

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“ The impacts of the pandemic on my work as a nurse and on my personal life have made focusing on studies more difficult than ever. With the help of this scholarship, I am able to balance paying our bills, staying on track with my doctoral studies, and being a good mom to my son.”

Keisha N. Indenbaum-Bates, MS ’17 Doctor of Nursing Practice Student

In 2016, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of UMSON’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, alumni endowed a scholarship to support DNP students. The scholarship continues to provide necessary financial support to DNP students like Keisha, shown here with her 13-month-old son, Odis.

To make a gift to the scholarship fund in honor of the DNP program’s 15th anniversary this year, visit nursing.umaryland.edu/give/ DNPscholarship.

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