THE BRIDGE
NURSING NEWS Volume 115, March 2016
Published for the alumni/ae, students, faculty, staff, and friends of the School of Nursing
Class of 2015 Honored at Recognition Ceremony On May 15, 2015, 163 BSN nursing graduates were recognized and honored for completing the bachelor of science in nursing degree program at Salem State University. This Annual Nursing Recognition Ceremony is an especially joyous occasion for the graduating seniors – one they have worked very hard to achieve and have looked forward to with great anticipation. They are proud to reach commencement and share this happy occasion with family and friends, along with faculty and administrators who are equally proud of their accomplishments.
Welcoming remarks were extended to the class of 2015 (pictured below) and guests by Patricia Maguire Meservey, PhD President, Neal DeChillo PhD, Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Health of Human Services, Victoria Morrison, PhD Interim Associate Dean, School of Nursing, Professor Charlene Campbell, Chairperson of the School of Nursing and Ashley Brouillette, President of the Student Nurses Association. The class selected Professor Leah Sak as this year’s faculty speaker.
She encouraged them to believe in themselves… and to go forward and help others, knowing that they can make a difference in people’s lives. On behalf of the entire Salem State Community we wish our graduates much happiness and continued success in their nursing careers. The Presentation of Awards followed: Academic Excellence: Wenge Clark Clinical Excellence Award: Andrew Visconti Mark Winders Peer Awards: Jennifer Sirois Abigale Bedard Scholarship Awards: Professor Mary Coppola Memorial Scholarship: Melissa Mahiouz Rachael Woodward Kristen Stromberg Memorial Award: Leanne McGuiness Nadine L Storie Memorial Scholarship: Tiffany Blaisdell
School of Nursing Class of 2015
A Note from the Dean
Neal DeChillo, Dean
There has been so much going on in the School of Nursing this past year that it’s hard to know where to begin. First and foremost, I would like to thank Vickie Morrison PhD for her tenure as Interim Associate Dean for the past two years. In the short time that Morrison was able to serve she accomplished a great deal on behalf of the School of Nursing and the College of Health and Human Services. Some key accomplishments include her work with Institutional Advancement and Alumni Relations on a number of initiatives, further development of regional partnerships, the development of policies and procedures essential to the School, and collaborating in the development and approval by the MA Board of Higher Education of the university’s new Bachelor of Healthcare Studies Program. Our administrative loss is the students gain as you will now find Morrison back in the classroom.
Beginning in fall 2015, our RN to BSN program is fully online. RNs who currently hold associates degrees can earn their BSN at their own pace, in their own time, without traveling to campus. It goes without saying how great a benefit this is for working RNs. Our Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program has been certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Upon completion of this program, our students can sit for the ANCC certification exam. In a constant state of continual improvement, the School of Nursing is dedicated to staying ahead of the trends and demands of the nursing profession. Toward these ends, we are moving forward this year with a strategic planning process and a comprehensive review of our bachelor’s curriculum. While each of these endeavors is an arduous undertaking, our faculty and staff remain committed to preparing highly qualified graduates and maintaining Salem State’s prominence in nursing education. I cannot thank the faculty and staff enough for their continued dedication to our students, the School and Salem State University. Finally, current students may have noticed a few new faces in the classrooms and hallways this year. Please join me in welcoming Professors Marie Candy, Courtney Orelup, Charlene Weber, and Cheryl Williams to their first year as Salem State faculty. Wishing you a wonderful academic year! Sincerely yours, Neal DeChillo, PhD Dean, College of Health and Human Services
Nursing faculty at Senior Recognition Ceremony with Salem State University President, Patricia Maguire Meservey (center).
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Message from the Chair I send you joyous greetings from the School of Nursing. Since the last edition of The Bridge I was elected to the position of chairperson and began my three year term in July 2014. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as the chair, working closely with a most dedicated, knowledgeable and passionate nursing faculty and a most enthusiastic and determined student body. As I read through this issue of The Bridge, I was impressed by the continued success of the School of the Nursing, and by the outstanding achievement of its faculty, students and alumni. Of note, I am proud to announce that not only has our Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program been certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) but that our first cohort of nurse practitioner students completed the program in Charlene A. Campbell, RN, MSN, MEd December 2015 and are prepared to sit for the ANCC certification exam. I offer our most sincere appreciation to the faculty for their expertise, and our enthusiastic congratulations to the students for their achievement. I am also pleased to announce that we will be offering a new Accelerated Second Degree Bachelor of Nursing (ASBN) program, with classes beginning in May 2016. With the discontinuance of the Direct Entry Program, this ASBN program was developed, to provide an opportunity for a baccalaureate graduate in another field to complete a bachelor degree in nursing in fifteen months. We look forward to its great success. Over the past two years there have been changes in our faculty. During 2014 and 2015 we wished several of our dear colleagues good health and happiness in their retirement. To Carol Cirone, Mary Farrell, Mary Ann McGovern, Maureen McMullen, Barbara Poremba, Cheryl Vincent, and Beverly White, I offer our most sincere gratitude for your many years of dedicated service in the expert instruction of our students, and to the success of the School of Nursing. With these retirements, we were fortunate to hire several new faculty. We eagerly welcomed Mary Aruda in fall 2013; Margaret Ackerman, Mercy Bashir and Hannah Fraley in fall 2014; and Marie Candy, Courtney Orelup, Charlene Moske-Weber, and Cheryl Williams in Fall 2015. I know they will be great assets to the School of Nursing. You can read more about them in the Faculty Profiles. The School of Nursing has increased its effort to reach out to our valued alumni. To that end, as part of Salem State University’s Alumni Weekend in May 2015, we sponsored an alumni event honoring the Class of 1975, and also including all the Classes of the 1970’s. It was an exciting and well attended event. It was not only an opportunity to meet old friends and share fond memories, but also an opportunity for networking. We are currently planning for this year’s alumni event, which is scheduled for June 3-5, 2016. This year we will be focusing on the Classes of 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006, and the Classes of 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011. The School of Nursing events will take place on Saturday, June 4, 2016, so please reserve the date. We look forward to seeing you all again. In closing, I send my sincere gratitude to all the faculty, administrators, and staff, not only in the School of Nursing, but throughout the entire university, for their tireless work in providing the expert instruction and support to prepare our graduates for a changing and challenging career as a professional nurse. I also offer my heartfelt gratitude to all of our alumni, who not only assist us with your financial support, but who support our efforts by mentoring our students in their clinical experiences and as new graduates. Thank you all! Peace, Charlene A. Campbell, RN, MSN, MEd
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Faculty Profiles Margaret Ackerman Peg Ackerman, DNP, APRN is a proud graduate of Salem State University. She has worked with vulnerable populations for over 35 years, 20 as a nurse practitioner. Ackerman returned to Salem State last fall to teach in the newly created adult-gerontology nurse practitioner program. She continues to practice as an adult-gerontological nurse practitioner at Commonwealth Care Alliance providing primary care for people with disabilities. Ackerman has published several essays describing her experiences with vulnerable patients she has cared for and is in the process of writing a book compiled of these essays. Mary Aruda Mary Aruda joined the SSU SON faculty in fall 2013 to implement the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program. She received her BSN from Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing, her MSN from Boston University and her PhD in Nursing/Health Promotion, from University of Massachusetts/Lowell. She was an Adolescent/Young Adult Nurse Practitioner for many years at Children’s Hospital, Boston, and nursing faculty for the interdisciplinary, Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB) funded, Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Training Grant. She has taught in the NP programs in several of Boston area schools. Mary has multiple publications, her latest study was on the Evolving Role of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, in JAANP, August 2015. She serves as a HRSA reviewer for the MCHB Title V Block Grants for the New England states, and for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). She also volunteers with Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), Boston Family Planning. Mary resides with her husband and family in Wilmington, MA. Mercy Bashir Mercy Bashir, DNP has accepted a fulltime position as an assistant professor in the school of nursing. Bashir is a practicing board certified adult and geriatric nurse practitioner and a proud Salem State University alumni. She attained both her master’s degree in nursing and a doctorate degree in nursing practice from the University of Massachusetts/Lowell. Bashir has extensive clinical background in various health care environments including service as a combat medic in the U.S.
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Army during the Operation Iraq Freedom. Her professional interests include; population health, global health/medical outreach, wellness, chronic disease management and quality measures. Her DNP capstone was an assessment on nurse practitioner practices with disease progression measures in the management of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Her capstone findings are due to be published in the Nurse Practitioner Perspective journal. Mercy was born and raised in Kenya and she enjoys traveling, music, reading, and running. Her favorite quote is “you must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Marie Candy (BSN 2010) Marie Candy accepted a position in fall 2015 as instructor in the School of Nursing teaching undergraduates in Health Assessment. She is also teaching NUR 105- freshmen, NUR 210 lab- sophomores, NUR 212 theory and clinical- sophomores, and NUR 424- seniors. She completed her MSN, FNP-C at UMass/Lowell in 2012, and worked as a family nurse practitioner in several nursing facilities and rehabilitation units on the North Shore. Charlene Moske-Weber Charlene Moske-Weber, PhD, professor of nursing. Originally from Newtown, CT, Charlene is a certified personal trainer and wellness coach who maintains a passion for health that has evolved into research interests surrounding wellness among nurses and nursing students. Her nursing career has included nursing care of mothers and babies, elementary school children, the community, and over the last nine years, teaching students as a professor in nursing education. An international presenter on the subjects of health and wellness, Weber also enjoys presenting health promotional initiatives among local community groups. She has written for several publications including Nurse.com, Wellcoaches International, Advance for Nurses, and The University of Phoenix. Her latest work, an online wellness website for nursing students, is in the making. Her belief is that to truly engage in health care, nursing students must be taught to not only talk the talk of health promotion, but walk the walk through fitness, nutrition, and stress management. She enjoys sharing her love of health and wellness with the local communities of Salem and Wellfleet, MA, participating in local fundraising events through running, swimming, and biking. However, her greatest accomplishment has been
her family, husband, three kids, and the lights of her life, granddaughter Camdyn and grandson, Chase. Currently residing in Salem and Wellfleet, MA, if not at the beach, she can be found working on ways to promote the health and wellness of nursing students, nurses, and communities.
Focus on the Faculty Kathy Adee, DNP completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2014 with a concentration in nursing education. Her thesis was titled, “Adults Who are Homeless and Their Perceptions of the Health Care Services Provided Through a Nurse-Managed Clinic at a Shelter for Homeless Adults.”Adee has been recognized as a nominee for the Salem State University Civic Engagement Hall of Fame, 2014. She also presented a poster presentation on her Capstone doctoral work: Community as Partner: A Clinical Service Learning Model of Education for undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students at the Salem State University Celebration of Service poster presentation session in April, 2014.
Courtney Orelup Courtney Orelup-Fitzgerald, MSN, RN, CPN, received her bachelor’s and master’s in nursing (master’s concentration in family primary care) from Simmons College. Her area of specialty is pediatrics, and she maintains a per-diem RN practice on the pediatric unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. She is currently completing her PhD in Nursing, concentration in health promotion, at the University of Massachusetts/Lowell, with a research interest in the health behaviors of acute care nurses while working shifts. Her masters research studied pediatric burn nurses’ coping and support mechanisms. Courtney enjoys educating teachers about pediatric health promotion and is a regular presenter at Spaulding Rehabilitation Network’s Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN) annual review course.
Joanne Carlson, PhD presented two posters at national nursing conferences in 2014: St. Anselm College 22nd Annual Conference for Nurse Educators, Falmouth Massachusetts, May 2014: Intent to Stay Among Part-Time Clinical Nursing Faculty. American Association of colleges of Nursing, 2014 Master’s Essentials, Scottsdale, Arizona, Feb. 2014: Linking Old with New: Revising MSN curriculum to comply with 2011 Master’s Essentials.
Cheryl Williams Professor Cheryl Williams has accepted a full-time tenure track teaching position in the SSU MSN Nursing Education specialty tract. She began her career at the New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH) School of Nursing graduating in 1979. In 1997, she was awarded her MSN from Simmons College with a specialty in primary care. As an Adult Nurse Practitioner, Professor Williams worked in many settings within greater Boston enjoying the nurse hospitalist role for its high acuity and need for evidence-based practice in real time. Over the years Williams has taught at UMASS Boston (UMB) and Labouré College as clinical and classroom faculty. While at UMB, Cheryl received the Theta Alpha Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, Pearl Rosendahl Excellence in Nursing Education Award and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers award.
Carlson also published two papers in 2015 in major nursing journals: Carlson, J.S. (2015). “Factors influencing retention among part-time clinical nursing faculty.” Nursing Education Perspectives, 36, (1), pp. 42-45. Carlson, J.S. (2015). “Orientation, evaluation, and integration of part-time nursing faculty.” International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 12 (1). Pp. 1-8. Pam Delis, PhD (c) completed all coursework and is finishing the dissertation phase of the PhD in nursing program at UMass/Lowell. Her doctoral dissertation study is titled, “Uncertainty in Illness and Health Related Quality of Life in Adults with SLE; 2014-2015.” She was also awarded the May Futrell Scholarship Fund Endowment for graduate nursing students for three successive years. She was the recipient of the Eta Tau Chapter- Sigma Theta Tau International Research Award in spring 2015. She also received the Eta Omega Chapter- Sigma Theta Tau International small grant award in summer 2015. Professor Delis was a presenter in July, 2015, at HOPE Summer Camp: Healthy Me-Healthy World Summer Enrichment Program. In addition, she presented at Sigma Theta Tau International Research Congress in San Juan, PR.
In order to learn how to teach more effectively in today’s digital age, Cheryl returned to Simmons College and enrolled in the Health Professions Education Degree (HPED) program and received her PhD in May 2015. Professor Williams’s research surrounds improving nursing education through a cognitive psychology model which increases academic ability and has closed the achievement gaps; especially in non-traditional students. She is eager to see how this model may offer benefits for students here at SSU. Professor Williams resides in Boston, and when not teaching, she enjoys oil painting, walks with her dog, and going to the beach.
Publications include: • Delis, P., Leger, R., Longton, F., Chandler, D.
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(October, 2015). “Camp Hope: Integrating Tai Chi and Humanbecoming in a Camp for Children.” Nursing Science Quarterly, 28 (4), 322-324. Doi:10.1177/089431841559921 • Delis, P. (August, 2014) Resilience. In Maheady, D. (Ed.) (2014) The Exceptional Nurse: Tales from the trenches of truly resilient nurses working with disabilities. Editor. • Delis, P. (August 2014). Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired. In Maheady, D. (Ed.) (2014) The Exceptional Nurse: Tales from the trenches of truly resilient nurses working with disabilities. Editor. • Robin Leger, PhD co-authored an article with Delis, P., Leger, R., Longton, F., Chandler, D. (October, 2015). “Camp Hope: Integrating Tai Chi and Humanbecoming in a Camp for Children.” Nursing Science Quarterly, 28 (4), 322-324. Doi:10.1177/089431841559921. Robin and Professor Pamela Delis presented at Sigma Theta Tau International’s 26th International Research Congress, “A Summer Camp Enrichment Program for Health promotion for at risk 6-12 year old children and were selected for oral presentation in Puerto Rico in July 2015. • MSN student, Amanda Shilo, along with Robin Leger, PhD and Paula Burnett, DNP presented a poster: The Impact of Intimate Touch Instruction in Male and Female Nursing Students at the Elsevier Nursing Education Conference in Las Vegas, in January, 2016.
In Memoriam Erin Gorman, Class of 2007 passed away suddenly on April 9, 2014 at age 29. She had a vibrant personality and a dynamic smile. Her patients greatly appreciated her compassionate nursing care- and how she loved to teach them to prevent illness- and how to care for themselves. She was a devoted young nurse who worked for seven years in telemetry at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Mass. Our hearts are saddened by our loss of Erin. May she rest in peace. A scholarship fund has been set up in Erin’s name through the Dedham Junior Women’s Club. If you wish to contribute to The Erin K. Gorman Scholarship Fund please send your donations to: Dedham Junior Women’s Club (DJWC), PO Box 1368, Dedham, MA 02027. The scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship each year for a Dedham student currently enrolled or will be enrolled in a nursing program.
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New Program– The Bachelor of Healthcare Studies Victoria J. Morrison, PhD, RN, CIC, CNE This program is part of the College of Health and Human Services and was approved by the Department of Higher Education in June 2015. The program is designed for students interested in the healthcare industry but choose to work in a non-licensed, non-clinical setting. The idea was conceived by Judy Parker Kent PhD who formerly taught in the OT department and was developed in conjunction with Victoria Morrison, PhD of Nursing. A minor in healthcare studies has already been approved by the Salem State University Curriculum Committee. The major will begin in fall, 2016. The Bureau of Health Statistics projects 2.6 percent growth in the healthcare and social assistance sector between 2012 and 2022- adding 5 million jobs. Healthcare support occupations are included as one of the big four for employment growth and is expected to see a 28 percent gain. Potential jobs for graduates of the healthcare studies program include: healthcare advocate or lobbyist, medical and health service managers, pharmaceutical or medical equipment marketing and sales, insurance sales and claim management, and wellness coordinators to name a few. This program may also serve as a useful undergraduate degree for those who go on to graduate programs that serve as an entry to practice. Students will be required to take a core group of classes in the major that will provide a foundation in understanding the healthcare industry. These courses include an introduction to healthcare, academic and professional writing, culture and diversity, technology, statistics, research, policy, health and disability, and leadership and management. Students will also have a choice of BHS electives from a variety of departments across the campus, such as- social work, criminal justice, sociology, music, world languages, psychology, business, political science, and sport and movement science. Students have additional free electives as well as general education requirements, along with a mandatory minor selected from the minors offered at Salem State. Students entering the program with an allied health degree from a community college will use this as their minor as well as some BHS and free electives. Plans are being made to include an internship. This is an exciting opportunity for students interested in nonclinical jobs in healthcare. There are also opportunities for faculty to teach within the program or develop new minors, or elective courses.
Sophomore Student Provides Aid to Hurricane Victims By Jessica Lampasona
on the houses in order to lower the cost significantly. In the one week we helped build, we were able to make a huge impact. We put up siding on the outside, insulated the entire house, put up drywall, installed all the ceilings, and even started painting. It was incredible to see how much a group of college students with no construction experience could accomplish when we worked together to problem solve and reconstruct.
SSU Nursing Student Jessica Lampasona on Spring Break in New Orleans (2015)
It has been 10 years since hurricane Katrina struck and the city of New Orleans is still in desperate need of repair. Salem State students had an opportunity to spend Spring Break 2015 helping residents of New Orleans rebuild their homes.
By the end of the week we were exhausted, itchy from insulation and very sun burned! However, we could physically see the difference we were making in someone’s life. The trip also gave us the opportunity to fully immerse ourselves in the culture of New Orleans—and provide us with a clearer understanding of the history and current situation in the city. So many residents approached members of our group who were wearing the Saint Bernard Project t-shirts and thanked us for our help. The Louisiana State Museum was very generous and
A group of twenty students, including myself, and two faculty chaperons went to volunteer. We lived in a church that was filled with bunk beds and fewer showers than you could imagine for the total number of volunteers that were staying there. We woke up at the crack of dawn every morning and went to the house we had been assigned to. It belonged to a woman who was fortunate enough to have enough savings to hire someone to rebuild her house. Unfortunately, like so many other victims, she hired a fraudulent company who ran off with all her money. The Saint Bernard Project, a non-profit organization, works with people in similar situations or who cannot afford to rebuild at all. They rely on volunteers, like us, to work
let our entire group into the museum without charge so we could learn more about Hurricane Katrina. Even the homeowner herself would come visit us while we worked every day and share her story with us. On the last day she cooked enough homemade southern food to feed all of us lunch as a thank you for helping to rebuild her house.
By the end of the week we were exhausted, itchy from insulation and very sun burned! However, we could physically see the difference we were making in someone’s life. As a nursing student in her sophomore year at Salem State, I am very grateful for this experience—and I will never forget it! I also hope to encourage other students to share similar experiences. As the current secretary of the Community Service Group at Salem State, I am helping to plan the 2016 Alternative Spring Break Trips to New Orleans along with a second trip to Kansas City. Running two simultaneous trips next spring will make it possible for more students to participate in helping those individuals who are truly in need. This March, 2016, Jessica will travel to Saint Joseph, Missouri, and once again volunteer with ten other SSU studentsalong with Bruce Perry, Director of Student Life. They will build and reconstruct homes in Saint Joseph with Habitat for Humanity.
Pictured left to right: Olivia Grinstead, Angie Krim, and Jessica Lampasona rebuilding a house that was destroyed after Hurricane Katrina.
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Twenty-two other SSU students, along with the Director of Residence Life, Neil Andrito, will travel to New Orleans and work with the Saint Bernard Project.
Salem State University –Tewksbury Hospital Partnership and Reciprocity: Transforming Mental Health Nursing Education Anne M. DeFelippo PhD, RN, Ellen M. Flowers PMH, CNS, Linda Frontiero DNP, and Janice King DNP Theoretical Framework
Introduction
“In 2001, Barbara Holland identified five foundational components that need to work together to “build and sustain an institutional culture in which community-engaged research, teaching, and public service are valued to the extent that they become fully infused within the academic fabric of a higher education institution” (Furco, 2009, p. 47).* These five foundational components include (1) a philosophy and mission that emphasizes engagement; (2) genuine faculty involvement and support for engaged research or teaching, or both; (3) a broad range of opportunities for students to access and involve themselves in high-quality engagement experiences; (4) an institutional infrastructure that supports engagement practice; and (5) mutually beneficial, sustained partnerships with community partners” (Ward, Buglione, Giles & Saltmarsh, 2011, p. 12)
In 2010, all of our mental health clinical nursing faculty met as they do each semester (the “Meeting of the Minds” group) and began to brainstorm about how to lessen undergraduate nursing students’ fear of mentally ill patients in this clinical experience. Our goal was to develop skill sets that could be applied to all nursing specialty areas. Linda Frontiero, Director of the Nursing Resource Center at Salem State University guided our early efforts to utilize the simulation lab to simulate physical responses to stress such as increased heart rate, increased blood pressure and increased respirations in panic attacks. Through those early simulation experiences, we began to envision creating scenarios where students could interact with real people and practice therapeutic communication skills, prior to their arrival on the inpatient mental health units. We wanted to include these simulation experiences as a gentle introduction to caring for patients on mental health units. We also sought to provide a one on one medication administration experience for each
* Furco, A. and Miller, A. (2009). Issues in Benchmarking and Assessing Institutional Engagement. New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Wiley Publications: San Francisco.
student in this clinical experience. We initially hired a theater graduate of Salem State University to role play a patient and ran groups where students actually interviewed him. The scenes were life-like and intriguing. Ellen Flowers raised the question, “What if we did this on a larger scale on a vacant inpatient unit? We have the unit and the staff to make this work in real time.” Voila! A partnership is born! Implementation of Simulations Medication Administration with staff role-playing a patient-medication knowledge is demonstrated and students administer candies that resemble psychotropic medications. Listening to Auditory Hallucinations that are on a CD created by a former patient. Students are asked to try to read and answer questions, but the voices overpower the ability to concentrate. Searching a room for contraband is challenging when students realize that patients may hide items above the door or under a bar of soap in a soap holder. Art Therapy is one way to express thoughts and feelings safely and facilitates distraction and instills calmness for some persons. Sensory motor simulations may calm one patient and facilitate speech in another patient. Drumming circles have become the favorite student activity here. Theoretical Framework Four academic leaders, Boyer, Lynton, Rice, and Schon “together and through their connections to
Drumming Circle with Victoria Buckley OT.
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Faculty and staff proudly wear our Salem State University sweatshirts.
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching considered the public purpose of higher education and thought through ways to bring about changes so colleges and universities would be more responsive to meeting public needs. They believe their concerns for the public purpose of higher education to be inseparable from their commitment to improving the undergraduate experience and their concerns for the nature of faculty work, roles and responsibilities” (Ward, Buglione, Giles, & Saltmarsh, 2011, p. 7).
Reciprocity: Tewksbury Hospital is Hiring Nursing
Community Engagement is framed as “the collaboration between higher education institutions and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity” (Ward, Buglione, Giles, & Saltmarsh, 2011, p.5).
Tewksbury Hospital is dedicated to the highest quality patient care and to serving the community through leadership and education about mental health, intervention into mental illness, support of patients and their families, and prevention of mental illness. We at Salem State University are very grateful for Tewksbury Hospital’s generosity and support of Salem State University students and their learning outcomes.
“Reciprocal relations between institutions of higher education and communities are two-way interchanges that involve collaboration and shared authority – it is shaping the relations and its outcomes - campuses work with communities” (Ward, Buglione, Giles, & Saltmarsh, 2011, p. 5).
For the past four years, the mental health nursing simulations have been held at Tewksbury Hospital during the first week of every mental health nursing rotation, for 16 hours every quarter or four times each academic year. Ellen Flowers and her nursing staff have partnered with Salem State University nursing faculty and have volunteered countless hours and expertise to the planning and implementation of this creative partnership.
Ellen Flowers is an adjunct faculty member at Salem State University. Since 2011, 30 percent of all nursing hires at Tewksbury Hospital have been Salem State University Nursing Graduates.
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Reference: Ward, E., Buglione, S., Giles, D. & Saltmarsh, J. (2011) “The Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement–Helping Create the ‘New Normal’ in American Higher Education,” in Benneworth, P. (ed.) University Engagement with Socially Excluded Communities towards the idea of ‘the engaged university.’ New York: Springer Publishers. Tewksbury Hospital Nursing Staff Ellen Flowers, PMH CNS-BC Director of Nursing Rick Kellerman, RN - Coordinator of Staff Education Candy Casey, RN - Staff Education Paula Jackson, RN Val Levitre, RNC - Nurse Manager D5 Jeff Stromberg, RN - Nurse Manager D5 Barbara Nicholas, RNC - Nurse Manager C4 Rich Roper, RNC - Nurse Manager C5 Beth Mulholland PMH CNS-BC
Graduate Nursing Program News Sigma Theta Tau News Joanne Carlson PhD, RN, CNE, President
MSN PROGRAM
Salem State University chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, an International Honor Society, is Eta Tau Chapter. Induction of new members was held in May 2015 and included SSU undergraduate, post licensure and graduate programs students and graduates.
There are three tracks: MSN in nursing education, MSN in leadership in healthcare systems, and Adult Gerontology primary care nurse practitioner. The nurse practitioner track was completed for students from the first cohort in December, 2015. This will Joanne Carlson, PhD, RN, CNE be the first graduating class MSN Program Coordinator in this track. These students will then be eligible to take a national certification exam to become a licensed nurse practitioner in adult/gerontology primary care nursing. The MSN program accepts students to start in either the fall or spring semesters. The majority of the courses are offered in a hybrid format to meet the needs of working professionals.
The Grace L. Nangle Award for Nursing Excellence was presented to Sonya Mason, Amanda Shilo and Tiffany Blaisdell. Eta Tau accepts applications for memberships from candidates from the community as well. Applicants must hold a RN license- have at least a baccalaureate degree in nursing or in another field and can demonstrate achievement in nursing. Please contact Joanne Carlson jcarlson@salemstate.edu for further information regarding membership. An Educational Program was held at South Campus on November 19, 2015 titled, “Leading with Quality.” Panel members included: Jean Ball: PT, Med, CPHQ – Chief Compliance Officer, Director Patient Experience, North Shore Medical Center Charlene Campbell: MSN, MEd, RN- Professor, Chairperson School of Nursing, Salem State University
Congratulations to the first graduating nurse practitioner students!
Cheryl Merrill: RN, MSN, NEA-BC, Interim Chief Nursing Officer, North Shore Medical Center Marybeth DiFilippo: MSN, DNP, RN, Vice President of Operations, Spaulding Network Lisa Heard: MSN, RN, CGRN CPHQ, Program Director, Patient Safety, CRICO, Risk Management of the Harvard Medical Institutions Joanne Carlson, President of Eta Tau and Linda Frontiero, Treasurer, attended the 43rd Biannual Sigma Theta Tau International Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in November, 2015.
(L to r) Oleksandr Barchuk, Sang Robbins, Paula White, Heather Stanger, Matthew Kiio, and Penina Marenge
The students completed the program in December 2015 and are eligible to sit for the adult and gerontological board certification exam as well as earn their master’s degree in nursing. Their commencement ceremony will be held in May 2016.
Enjoying an afternoon at the Retirement Celebration at Victoria Station in Salem. Pictured left to right: Prof. Sheila Perrault, Krystle Cobb, Prof. Carol Cirone, and Julie DeMaio.
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Simulation Center Staff
Nursing Resource Center News The School of Nursing continues to expand the use of simulation throughout the nursing program. Beginning with the nursing fundamentals course in sophomore year through their final capstone semester, students attend SIM Labs to develop competencies essential to providing safe Linda Frontiero, RN, DNP nursing care. Students are participating in multiple scenarios with computer simulations and actual hands-on practice in one of the nursing SIM Labs. The final semester students work as an interprofessional team to prioritize care for a four patient simulation assignment.
Kathleen Cliffe is a graduate of SSU and presently is employed full-time at North Shore Medical Center- Salem Hospital in ICU. She cares for patients post-cardiac arrest, acute respiratory arrest, sepsis and other acute illnesses. Kathleen is currently studying for her CCRN and plans to begin her graduate degree program in nursing soon.
Linda Frontiero presented at the MA Action Coalition Conference in October, 2015. The poster presentation was titled, “Redesigning Nursing Education, Creating Pathways for Academic Success: Facilitating Career Growth and Education, from and to the BSN.” The School of Nursing has partnered with North Shore Community College and their graduates to transition to the SSU, RN-BSN Program. Professor Tammi Magazzu has worked collaboratively with the NSCC transfer department and the School of Nursing to create a smooth transition for registered nurses seeking a bachelor’s degree from Salem State University.
Nicole Currier is a graduate of SSU and is presently employed full-time at North Shore Medical Center- Salem Hospital in cardiac surgery- ICU. Nicole works part-time in the SIM Lab and has plans to pursue her graduate degree in Nursing Education soon.
Megan Cole graduated from Endicott College in 2009 with a BSN. She completed a master’s in science degree in Nursing Education in 2013. She is employed full-time as a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital in the cardiac intensive care unit. Jayme Cormier is a graduate of SSU and is presently employed full-time at Lahey Medical Center. In addition, she works per diem at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital in Boston. She has been working in the SSU Sim Lab for several years.
Sarah Innocenti a graduate of SSU and presently employed full-time in a cardiac-surgical ICU. She has been teaching in the SIM Lab for several years. Alicia Parks is a graduate of Fitchburg University and is presently employed full-time at North Shore Medical Center in the cardiac-surgical center for the past eight years. She recently earned her CCRN Certification. She is beginning to apply to graduate nursing programs.
Frontiero is a member of the MA Action Coalition’s faculty team for Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN). She is a contributor to the recently published Nursing Faculty workload Survey 2015: Summary Report. The Nursing Faculty Workload Survey (NFW) survey was implemented online in May and June, 2015 and was intended to gather information on the characteristics of nursing faculty across the state, at both public and private institutions, for all certificate /degree levels and their workloads.
Mallory Powers is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and is presently employed full-time at North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital and works on a medical telemetry unit. She plans to continue her education in a master’s in nursing program soon.
Linda Frontiero and Darlene Bourgeois are conducting research at Lahey Medical Center with our senior nursing students and Tufts medical students. The focus of the research is using simulation to evaluate team training. Darlene Bourgeois is an adjunct clinical faculty member in the School of Nursing, and the director of simulation and professional development at Lahey Medical Center in Burlington, Mass.
Salem State Nursing students practicing in the SIM Lab.
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Alumni Spotlight 1980
Cindy M. Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN Cindy M. Anderson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Innovation at Ohio State University College of Nursing. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Salem State College, a Master of Science degree in parent-child nursing and a PhD in physiology from the University of North Dakota. Anderson is board certified as a women’s health nurse practitioner. The focus of her research is on the study of future cardiovascular consequences in mothers who experience hypertension during pregnancy and in their children. Anderson investigates how genetic factors in pregnancy contribute to maternal development of preeclampsia, and how the maternal intrauterine environment can influence the developing fetus, leading to future cardiovascular disease. Cindy Anderson has been recognized for her research, teaching and service excellence as a faculty member at the University of North Dakota. She serves on the American Academy of Nursing Maternal Infant and Genetic Expert Panels and is a board member for the Midwest Nursing Research Society. Her most recent publications are in Biological Research for Nursing, Nursing Outlook, PloS1, and the Journal of Midwifery and Woman’s Health.
practice. In 1995, she led the creation of a new system-wide data analysis and reporting department for the Medical Director’s office and later served as Director of Case Management. This work was the precursor to what we refer to today as population health management programs. In the past ten years Gardner led the business and network development efforts that expanded the number of medical groups and the scope of clinical services offered by Atrius Health, including VNA Care Network and Boston VNA becoming affiliate organizations. Her work has involved the development of strong inpatient programs in collaboration with the major tertiary and community hospital systems within the Atrius Health network. In 2012, Gardner was part the team that led Atrius Health to be selected as one of a small group of organizations named to participate in CMS Innovation Center project as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Kathy serves on the Salem State University Board of Overseers.
1988 Linda R. Moniz, PhD (1988-BSN) (1998-MSN) has been a Registered Nurse for over 25 years, spending the first 15 years in several areas of patient care before moving into the area of medical academia.
1982 Kathleen Gardner completed her BSN at Salem State College and after a few years of work as a hospital based staff nurse Gardner completed an MBA at Suffolk University. Her career represents an example of the important role nurses can play in the development of a successful health care delivery system. Gardner has recently started a year-long sabbatical after working for the past 30 years in senior roles at Atrius Health and its predecessor organizations. In Gardner’s most recent positions she served as Chief Administrative Officer and Interim Senior Vice President for the west region of the Atrius Health network. Her experience includes various clinical operations, management and business development roles within the Atrius Health family. She began her career with Atrius Health as a surgical staff nurse at what was then Harvard Community Health Plan Hospital and over the next twenty years Gardner worked in many different operational and management positions within the ambulatory clinical
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Moniz received her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with honors from Salem State College, 1998, before earning her PhD from Simmons College. Moniz is an associate professor of practice in nursing at Simmons College, located in Boston. Linda Moniz has taken her years of experience and expertise in the nursing areas of acute care, long-term care and home care and combined them with her public speaking, teaching and community outreach skills to set her apart as an exceptional associate professor on the higher education level. She is a highly qualified nursing educator and experienced gerontology nurse. Moniz is the founding sponsor and former board member of ANA Massachusetts; she is also a member of Sigma Theta Tau and Past President of the Theta at Large Chapter. She has been awarded the Partners in Excellence Award by Massachusetts General Hospital and has been recognized as Professional of the Year for her outstanding contributions and achievements in her field. She was presented the Award of Distinction by the International Association of Who’s Who.
1989 Gary DuFresne was a U.S. Army nurse for ten years. He deployed twice as a nurse to Iraq during Operation Desert Storm and also to Somalia. In 1999 Gary was accepted into medical school with a scholarship from the army, and he completed medical school at the New England University in Maine. After medical school, he and Tracy relocated to San Antonio, Texas, where he completed his residency in emergency medicine in 2003. Gary deployed two more times to Iraq (2006-2008) and again in 2010. His last position in the military was the assistant program director for emergency medicine resident training at San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam, Houston, Texas. Dr. DuFresne retired from the army in 2014 with close to 25 years of service. He is currently an equity partner at a private emergency medicine practice in San Antonio. Over the years he has received many awards both as a nurse and as a physician- including a Bronze Star in Iraq. Tracy Nixon DuFresne went to work as a new graduate at Yale University Medical Center and worked on the HIV-Infectious Disease Unit. She and Gary were married in September, 1990 and they relocated to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Tracy continued to work in medical-surgical nursing and then moved to home health care. In 1993, Tracy joined the army and was a nursing officer through 1997. During her time in Maine, she worked in gyn-oncology for four years.
1975 Patti Rabbett (BSN, 1975 and MSN, 1988) remains active in the nursing profession. Of late, Patti had the opportunity to participate in the planning and the celebration of the 40th reunion of the 1975 Salem State nursing class. A glorious spring night at the university was a wonderful setting to meet and greet classmates! Patti currently works part time in Nursing Professional Development at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital and spends time working to assist nurses to advance and expand their own careers. She remains active in critical care through her participation in the Greater Boston Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses as a member of the Board of Directors. In 2015, she received her certification as a Critical Care Registered Nurse ( CCRN-K). A longstanding career has allowed Patti to work at the bedside in Coronary and Medical Intensive Care Units, medical-surgical units, endoscopy suites. She has also spent time in a clinical faculty role and as a critical care clinical nurse specialist for coronary and medical intensive care units. Patti plans to be active in nursing for many years to come. She resides in Wellesley, Mass. with her husband and 14-yearold daughter.
1991
In 2003, after moving to San Antonio, Tracy worked as a research nurse in a phase 1 clinical oncology clinic at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center, and then at the Start Center for Cancer Care. In 2010, Tracy became a legal-nurse consultant. She is board certified in clinical oncology and research and is now a certified legal-nurse expert. She is an independent contractor and owns her business T.D. LegalNurse Consulting.
The DuFresne’s celebrate 25 years!
Alumni in the News
Tracy and Gary have a son, Alex, who is a freshman at Penn State studying history and languages with plans to go on to law school. Congratulations to Gary and Tracy on celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in September, 2015!
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Donald Grimes (MSN 1996) is employed in the MICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, for almost thirty years. Currently he works part-time and is enrolled at Indiana University of Penn. in the nursing education PhD program. He expects to graduate in 2018. In 2010 he completed the DNP education track at Regis College. His thesis was titled, “Professional Values of Traditional and Non-traditional Students.” Donald has a post master’s certification in informatics. He enjoys traveling throughout the country and Europe. He resides in Swampscott, Mass. Donald is a member of the SSU SON Alumni Reunion planning committee. He is looking forward to seeing many of his classmates from the graduating class of 1991 at the June 4th celebration!
1993 Peter D Charest has retired as Commander in the U.S. Navy, Nurse Corps, and is currently the nurse manager in the operating room at Mass. Eye and Ear Hospital in Boston. He resides in Peabody, Mass.
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2006
Virginia Heikkinen is a certified case manager, certified in OASIS Home Care- COS-C. She works at MGH as a clinical operations coordinator/appeals specialist. She also works for Winchester Home Care per diem.
Edwin Aroke (Dec.) Completed his BSN and took a position in the ICU at North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital. In January 2009 Edwin matriculated into an MSN Program with a concentration in Nurse Anesthesia. He graduated in May, 2011 from Duke University and assumed a full-time position as a staff CRNA at UMass Medical Center. In the summer of 2014, Edwin attended the Summer Genetic Institute Training, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institute of Health. He is currently a PhD candidate at UMass/Worcester Graduate School of Nursing, and will complete his degree in May 2016. His dissertation focuses on pharmacogenetics of anesthetics.
She resides in Haverhill, Mass. with her husband and two children. She is a member of the SSU SON Alumni Planning committee for the Nursing Reunion on June 4, 2016.
1997 Karen Peters, (2006 MSN) Graduate Research Study was published in JONA. In 2013 Karen presented a poster at a national conference for wound ostomy and continence (WOCN) nurses. Since graduation from SSU, Karen has been employed at SSU part-time as well as full-time for various semesters. She is currently employed at Winchester Hospital as a Clinical Practice Specialist. In this role, Karen supports nursing practice at the individual and system level in order to optimize patient outcomes. She participates and leads many teams, including Falls Prevention, NICHE, Med. Safety, and Nursing Practice Improvement. Karen is also President of the Academy of Medical-Surgical NursesGreater Boston Chapter, and holds certification. She recently completed a 21 credit post masters certificate program as a clinical nurse specialist at UMass/Boston- December 2015. She is currently awaiting clearance to sit for the ANCC national certification for adult-gerontological clinical nurse specialist (AG-CNS).
Edwin was the recipient of 2014 International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) Emerging Scholar Award. Edwin says, “as a staff CRNA, I enjoy delivering high quality anesthesia care for patients of all ages- for various procedures, from obstetric anesthesia to neuro-anesthesia.” In extra-curricular activities, Edwin is an active member of the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, and the Worcester Pipeline-Men in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Program. He was married in 2007 and has four children, Edwin 8, Ethan 6, Erin 3, Emily 20 months. Jennifer Valentine Baker worked in ICU in Worcester from 2007-2012. She then went back to graduate school and completed her MSN and Nurse Practitioner Program in Women’s Health.
Karen is a part-time clinical adjunct faculty for undergraduate nursing students at Salem State.
Jennifer currently works as an NP at an Ob-Gyn office, and per diem as a post- partum nurse. She is married and has two children.
2001 Lorri Ryan is employed at Beverly Hospital on a postop surgical unit. She is an Ambassador to the Alumni Association for SSU-SON.
2005 Gresilla Aroke Fondi is employed as the charge nurse at North Shore Medical Center/Salem Hospital on the oncology unit. She is a certified oncology nurse and is enrolled in the MSN-NP program in adult-gerontology at Salem State. She expects to complete this program in December, 2016. Gresilla recently started her clinical practicum at North Shore Physicians’ Group in Danvers, Mass. She is married and the mother of three children ages 7 years and twins 4 years old.
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Heather Fleming is employed at Beverly Hospital in the Critical Care Unit. This semester she is precepting a nursing student from Regis College. The student is in the NP Program but hasn’t completed the RN portion of the program as yet. In November 2015 Heather presented at The New England Organ Bank as part of a panel discussion about what we learned from working with NEOB and what they learned from us as well. The case was also presented at the hospital as part of Schwartz Rounds in December 2015. Heather is co-chair of her unit’s practice council and she is involved with CCU committee and nursing quality committee. Alicia Sevaggio is employed at Winchester Hospital as the charge nurse in day surgery. She is also a clinical adjunct faculty for Salem State teaching NUR 320- undergraduate junior nursing students at Winchester Hospital. She resides in Woburn, Mass.
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Laurie participated on many committees, work culture, EpicSupervisor Cysco phone –supervisor, Diabetes Committee and was on the magnet committee for Dukes Magnet Health Care system application.
Erin Misuraca Bunnell has been employed at Lawrence General Hospital since she graduated. She works on a medical-surgical floor from 11-7 pm.
The patients she cared for were lung transplants, heart transplants, left ventricular assist devices and a variety of lung sections, CABGs, valve replacements, aortic aneurysm – basically, anything in the chest cavity.
In October 2009 she was married to Adam Bunnell and Isabella was born in July 2014. They bought a home and reside in Newton, NH. They also have a border-collie named Sasha.
Laurie also worked per diem at UNC – Chapel Hill in the CTICU while in North Carolina. She gained excellent experience during her two years there.
2008
In March 2015, Laurie started a new position at MGH – Boston, working in the cardiac surgical ICU. She cares for post-op CABG patients as well as all other acute surgical patients that she cared for at Duke.
Julie Button Moulison is in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Endicott College and will graduate in May 2016. She also completed her MEd. She has been teaching clinical for several nursing programs and says she really loves it She teaches Fundamentals for Licensed Practical Nursing students, and pediatrics for RN students.
She currently resides in Braintree, Mass.
Julie resides with her husband in Haverhill, Mass. Jennifer Knox is employed as a clinical coordinator at an oncology, kidney dialysis facility in the Lakes Region in NH. Angeline Lemieux Waters is employed at Lawrence General Hospital on H-4, a post-op surgical unit. Jaime McLennan completed her MSN at Sacred Heart University in CT. in 2013. She is a full-time faculty member at Northern Essex Community College in Lawrence, Mass. She also does some per diem nursing at New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, Mass. Jaime is continuing her nursing education at North Eastern University where she is enrolled in the DNP program and plans to graduate in May 2017.
2009
Penny Marenge –After graduation she worked at Brooksby Village as a Registered nurse - a long term retirement community in Peabody, Mass. She currently works as a RN case Manager with Pathways Healthcare – a Home Care company whose main goal is to focus on the medically fragile who end up becoming “frequent flyers” into the ER for various conditions for which they can be treated at home by visiting nursing services. Penny completed the Adult-Gero NP program at Salem State in December 2015. “It has been a great program – a whole different way of thinking from nursing to a more diagnostic, systems model of health care delivery,” said Penny. “My ideal hope is to work in under served communities – I am still passionate about public and global health. I hope to someday go on a medical mission with the USS Mercy Naval Ship - which goes on medical missions around the world, or participate in Doctors without Borders.” Since graduation, Penny was married and lives with her husband in Weymouth, MA.
Kristen Freeman Backman is married to Matt Backman and is working at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, Maryland. They have a son, Brody, and live in LaPlata, Maryland.
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2011
Lauren Carrigan Gilani married classmate Sohael Gilani after graduation.
Maggie Wittbold is employed at Lahey Clinic on a medical-surgical-telemetry unit. She is also a supervisor for Privatuscare Solutions in Burlington, Mass.
Lauren began her first RN position at New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, working with the brain injured population. After that unit closed, Lauren was employed at Lawrence General Hospital on R4- a chronic, renal-dialysis floor where she gained more experience with challenging and complex patients.
2012 Laurie Goulding began her nursing career at Duke University Medical Center on the cardio-thoracic step down unit for a year. She then cross trained into CTICU.
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Nursing Senior Recognition Ceremony 2015
President Meservey and Associate Provost and Dean Neal DeChillo leading the procession.
Bryanna Burns and Prof. Sheila Perrault
Pictured left to right: Julie DeMaio, Prof. Tammi Magazzu, Prof. Marie Jensen, and Krystle Cobb
Student speaker Ashley Brouillette
Prof. Leah Sak
Nursing Students enjoying the ceremony.
Andrew Visconti and Taylor Crampton
Melissa Webb and Vanessa Avola
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2014
They moved back to Dalton, Mass., in Berkshire County, about 18 months ago, and they are happy to be located once again near family. Lauren recently accepted a position in the pediatric emergency department at Baystate Medical Center. She said she enjoyed her time in the adult emergency department at Berkshire Medical Center for the past year, and still works per diem there to maintain her skills, but she really wanted to plant her roots in pediatrics. “I love how resilient and positive children are,” said Lauren. “Working in a general ED made me realize that psychiatric nursing and detox was not my passion. It takes a special person to care for patients in those specialities,” said Lauren. Her goal is to work towards becoming a pediatric flex nurse which would allow her to float between pedi ED, NICU, special care nursery, and PICU.
Nichole Dunnebier is employed at Massachusetts General Hospital on the neuroscience floor. She remains committed to pediatrics and has her goal of eventually working at Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She cares for a young boy in his home, part-time, to maintain her pediatric experience. Khadija Jalloh is working for an agency at Arbour Hospital. She is also a school nurse at Roxbury Prep Charter School. She said she is still in search of a hospital nursing positionacute care.
Sohael is currently working on his MBA at Mass. College of Liberal Arts and plans to work in administration, eventually. He transferred from orthopedics to the emergency department last November. They are both certified in CP, ACLS, PALS, TNC, and are studying to get their CEN in February, 2016. They have a new little kitten named Catniss Keila Lora Soto is employed at North Shore Medical CenterSalem Hospital on Davenport 7- medical-surgical nursing. She was married in 2015. Their daughter, Kiana, is 9 months old. They reside in Salem, Mass. Keila is a member of the SSU SON Alumni Planning committee. SAVE THE DATE: June 4, 2016.
Rahimetou Mbouombouo (Dec. 2014) is employed at Tewksbury State Hospital where she had been employed as an LPN for nine years previously. She assumed her RN position in June 2015. In addition, she does home care with special needs children. Rehimetou resides in Dracut, Mass. Erica Tremblay (Dec.) is employed full-time on a medicalsurgical unit specializing in orthopedics and urology at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI. She has been at this hospital for 15 months, working both 8 and 12 hours shifts Supatchaya Tongtheng Sakyi is employed at New England Pediatric Care and also works part-time as a Homecare Nurse with PSA Healthcare. Mark Winders passed NCLEX in February 2015, and moved to Orlando, Florida in May, where he works at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. He is in the Graduate Nurse Residency program on an acute pediatric unit. This is a magnet hospital and Mark works the night shift.
2015
Samantha Murray is working on the mother-baby unit at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Students celebrating with family and friends.
Prof. Janice King and Moses Sunday
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Nursing Students Past and Present
Flu Clinic –Student Sarah Bruton administers the flu vaccine to her mother.
Pictured left to right: Nicole Forina, Kiwele Kassini, Peg Practicing dressing change in SIM Lab. Drummy RN Stoneham Public Health Nurse, Moses Kazibwe, Samson Osebor, Courtney Branscomb, Sarah Bruton
Professor Leah Sak assists with assessment.
SSU Nursing students Rhiannon Brockway Ford and Tatyana Borisyuk at the Lawrence High School Health Clinic.
Salem State Nursing Class of 1991
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Dear Alumni and Friends, We were very lucky to have had the wonderfully mild winter season we enjoyed this year. The good news is- spring is only 14 days away! Last spring, we graduated 163 new nurses at commencement- and in December, 2015, we congratulated six graduate level nurse practitioners who completed the adult-gerontological specialty track. This small group was the first cohort to be admitted, and they all succeeded in achieving their goal. Kudos to the first class of NPs at SSU! Their knowledge and expertise will be of great benefit to the community. We are in perpetual need of more baccalaureate nurses and advanced practice nurses who are well educated and trained to assume the challenging role and responsibilities of the registered nurse and nurse practitioner. SSU is moving forward every day. Achievements such as these make us all very proud! And the School of Nursing has earned a distinguished and well-deserved reputation for producing competent and compassionate nurses who provide safe, quality nursing care to patients in a myriad of areas in nursing/medicine. And, YOU, our impressive and talented alumni, are to be commended for creating and maintaining our positive and professional reputation amongst our nursing colleagues and institutions. SSU alumni are a great source of pride and satisfaction for the faculty and administration. We warmly welcome our alums participation in the SSU educational program by coming on board as adjunct clinical faculty. We sincerely appreciate your ongoing commitment to the School of Nursing in so many ways. We could not achieve all the missions of the School without the very generous gifts of our alumni donors! Please know that the gift you make will have an immediate and lasting impact on our students, and your generosity is more important now than it has ever been. Please consider a donation for 2016. Please make your check payable to: The Salem State University Foundation designating the School of Nursing as the recipient on the check- or by enclosing a note. This can be mailed to: The Salem State Foundation, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, Mass. 01970-5353. And please help us by sending along address changes that you know, and urge fellow alums to do likewise. (Include year of graduation and email address). Thank you, again, for all you do, and please stay in touch with us. Please remember to Save the Date–Reunion Weekend, Saturday, June 4. The alumni committee is actively planning something very special just for you. We welcome you to join our planning committee- please consider joining in the fun. If interested, please email mray@salemstate.edu. Mandy is the director of alumni relations at Salem State. You most likely will know faculty and/or friends on this committee. Don’t hesitate- email Mandy now. Thank you- we look forward to working together with you. Sincerely yours, Marie E. Jensen, Editor
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The Norman Knight Preceptor of Distinction Award
Penelope Herman, RN, Staff Nurse, Labor and Delivery Unit
This award recognizes clinical staff who consistently demonstrate excellence in educating, precepting, coaching, and mentoring other nurses. It was awarded to Penelope Herman, RN Staff nurse, Labor and Delivery. Herman is a staff nurse and clinical instructor at Salem State School of Nursing. In her letter of nomination, Heather Fraser, RN, wrote, “Penelope always strives to do more and better for her patients and students. She’s always there to lend a hand and offer advice. The beauty of her approach is that it allows new nurses every opportunity to build a solid foundation.” Says Herman, “For me learning and the transference of knowledge are accomplished through innate curiosity and a belief that there is joy in discovery.” Congratulations, Penelope (Reprinted with permission: Caring Headlines, Feb. 4, 2016, The Newsletter for Patient Care Services, MGH)
Alumni–We want to hear from you!
Nursing Faculty Retirements
Please tell us about yourselves Your career, professional development, presentations, scholarships, awards, promotions, volunteer service, continuing education, graduate programs, research, publications, career moves, address changes, marriage, children, marathons, travels and more. Our goal is to strengthen your Alumni Association for the benefit of all! Please help us by sending along address changes that you know and urge your fellow alums to do likewise. Please remind classmates who do not receive The Bridge to send us their address for our mailing list. Be sure to include your year of graduation and email address.
THANK YOU
Nursing faculty were honored at the Retirement Celebration, May 2015. (Above, l-r) Neal DeChillo, Maryann McGovern and President Meservey. (Below, l-r) Carol Cirone, Barbara Poremba and Cheryl Vincent.
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