SPRING/SUMMER 2019
MINNESOTA
NURSING A publication of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Answering the call to ACTION
As evidence points to climate change’s impact on health, the school steps up its planetary health efforts
9 The gold standard for PAD exercise therapy
18 DNP project highlights alternatives to opiods
40 Alum advances health of older adults in Taiwan
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06 Advocating for change
Porta brings forensic nurse expertise to sexual assault policy deliberations
ON THE COVER
12 Answering the call to action As evidence points to climate change’s impact on health, the school steps up its planetary health efforts
16 Nursing abroad becomes reality for BSN students Students gain clinical experience in the health care system in Ireland
20 Improving health by driving transformation Partnership with Coursera produces new nursing informatics leadership specialization
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF NURSING OUR MISSION To generate knowledge and prepare nurse leaders who create, lead and participate in holistic efforts to improve the health of all people within the context of their environments. OUR VISION The School of Nursing envisions a world where nurses lead collaborative efforts to attain optimal health for all people.
Cuba, up close
DEAN Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP SENIOR EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FAAN DIRECTOR OF FACULTY PRACTICE AND PARTNERSHIPS Julie Dekker, MPH BOARD OF VISITORS Clara Adams-Ender, chief nurse executive, Army Nurse Corp. (ret.); Jeannine Bayard, United Health Group (ret.); Michael Bird, national consultant to AARP on Native American/ Alaska Native communities; Melanie Dreher, dean emeritus, Rush University College of Nursing; David Durenberger, former United States senator; Lawrence Massa, president and CEO, Minnesota Hospital Association; Richard Norling, senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Laura Reed, chief nurse executive and COO, Fairview Health Services; Jeannine Rivet, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group (ret.); Franklin Shaffer, president and chief executive officer, CGFNS; Dee Thibodeau, senior executive, Information Technology Industry; Peter H. Vlasses, executive director, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ret.); Charlotte Weaver, former senior vice president and chief clinical officer, Gentiva Home Health & Hospice; and Jonathan M. Zenilman, chief, Infectious Diseases Division, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS Steve Rudolph SENIOR EDITOR Brett Stursa PHOTOGRAPHERS Scott Streble, Tom Steffes
An interdisciplinary group of academic and practice partners, including leaders from the University of Minnesota Health, Fairview Health Services and the School of Nursing, visited Cuba to learn from its health care model and how it answers the call for health for all. It provided an example of what can be achieved through a community-based approach to health care, with nursing at the core.
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Celebrating the ‘educated spirit’ of nurses Dear Friends, This year, 2019, marks the 110th anniversary of an event that would forever change nursing education and the nursing profession. Richard Olding Beard, chair of the physiology program at the University of Minnesota, is credited with leading University of Minnesota efforts to birth nursing into institutions of higher learning with the Board of Regents approval to establish our nursing program in 1909. In the years that followed, Beard passionately advocated for the advancement of nursing believing that educating nurses, rather than training them in hospital-based apprenticeship programs as was the practice, would help society recognize the worth of human life, conserve human health and provide for social justice. His pioneering advocacy for lifting up the nursing profession was expressed in writings and speeches in which he espoused for “educating the spirit” of nurses. We continue to celebrate the “educated spirit” of nurses to drive us 110 years later. Our historic milestone will be celebrated on Wednesday, May 1 and we welcome retired Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho as our featured speaker. A recipient of an honorary degree from the school in 2014, Lt. Gen. Horoho was the first woman and first Nurse Corps Officer to hold the appointment of U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. She is currently CEO of OptumServe, which supports the health needs of federal agencies serving military members and
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their families, veterans and Medicare recipients. You can read more about our May 1 event at McNamara Alumni Center in this issue. In this issue we invite you to celebrate impactful examples of how the School of Nursing continues to lead 110 years after its historic founding. Our cover story examines how the school has taken a leadership position in educating students, staff and communities about planetary health and the role of nurses in dealing with the health impacts of human-caused disruptions to Earth’s natural systems. You’ll read about the leadership of Diane Treat-Jacobson and team in changing how peripheral artery disease (PAD) is treated along with a story on the physiology lab that has helped our faculty advance PAD research, efforts to slow the progression of dementia and more. The vital role of school nurses is front and center in the story about Nathan Grumdahl, a school nurse we’re proud to call an alum. This issue also examines how our acclaimed Nursing Collaboratory, a partnership with University of Minnesota Health Fairview, is shaping the creation of a new practice, care delivery model. We invite you to enjoy reading Minnesota Nursing and look forward to your thoughts and comments. Our commitment to leading the way will continue to drive us into the future.
Connie White Delaney Professor and Dean
The feeling is mutual by Meleah Maynard
She would also be the first person to tell you that she is not the leader of the Robbinsdale, Minnesota-based organization. That role, Van Vranken says, is embraced by nurses. “This is a very nurse-run clinic in my mind,” she said. “We have a whole-person model of care, and I really see that as coming from a nursing perspective. I feel very lucky to work here where it’s always a team effort.” While treating patients holistically is often viewed as beneficial, Van Vranken believes that approach is particularly important at the Annex Teen Clinic. Youth may come in looking for birth control or an STD test but taking the time to talk with them often reveals deeper and more complex challenges. That’s where nurse practitioners like Maria Ruud, DNP, APRN, WHNP, come in. Ruud, a clinical assistant professor with the School of Nursing, has been working two days a week at the Annex Teen Clinic for the past four years. Explaining
Photo: Scott Streble
Michele Van Vranken, MD, has been the medical director of the Annex Teen Clinic, which provides confidential sexual healthrelated education and services to young people, for nearly two decades.
Michele Van Vranken, MD, and Maria Ruud, DNP, APRN, WHNP, provide holistic care to youth at Annex Teen Clinic.
that she’s always “been drawn to working with youth,” Ruud calls the clinic staff a dream team and says she especially enjoys Tuesdays when she, and her students, often work alongside Van Vranken. “Dr. Michele is an amazing teacher, and she’s really good at interacting with youth,” Ruud said. “She’s calm and very supportive, and she models that for all of us. I couldn’t be luckier than to work with someone like her, and I’ve been able to teach what I’ve learned from her to my own students.”
Van Vranken sees Ruud as a “natural teacher” as well. “Maria has so much patience for spending time with kids and trying to figure out what their issues might be,” she said. “It’s hard enough for adults to put their issues into words, so it’s great that Maria, and this clinic in general, has such a strong commitment to caring for youth. And we do a good job of caring for each other too.”
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Advocating for
CHANGE
Porta brings forensic nurse expertise to sexual assault policy deliberations
by Brett Stursa
The calls for reform started coming in as soon as the Star Tribune began publishing its nine-part series exploring how Minnesota’s criminal justice system was failing sexual assault victims.
recommendations to the Legislature for action to address the shortcomings in state laws and policies.
The newspaper series, Denied Justice, showed that of the 1,000 sexual assault cases reviewed throughout the state, only about a quarter of the cases were forwarded to prosecutors for possible charges. Ultimately, 12 percent of cases led to a sexual assault charge and only 7 percent of the reports resulted in a conviction.
With both clinical and research expertise in forensic nursing, Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, was one of 10 experts named to the work group, which included leaders in the fields of victim advocacy, health care, law and law enforcement.
Photo: Scott Streble
On the heels of its publication, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced the formation of a sexual assault investigation work group, calling on it to make
“Sexual assault is a horrendous crime, and the survivors deserve justice and compassion. The goal is for this work group to develop legislative and policy recommendations for improvements to the criminal justice system’s response to these crimes,” said Swanson.
“I’ve cared for victims of sexual assault for 22 years as a sexual assault nurse examiner, and I have worked closely with advocates and officers to support the victim in every aspect – physically, emotionally, socially and legally,” said Porta, who currently serves as associate continued on page 8
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continued from page 7 editor for the Journal of Forensic Nursing. “The process of care and response has evolved in the last two decades and we know it can continue to improve.” RESEARCH ON SEXUAL HEALTH RESOURCES LEADS TO SEXUAL ASSAULT RESEARCH Porta’s early research focused on sexual health resources among college students. She was the qualitative lead investigator on a federally-funded, mixed-methods study examining how college students on five campuses across the state accessed sexual health resources. “We didn’t explicitly ask about sexual violence but it came up frequently,” said Porta, who then wrote papers examining sexual violence. Insights gained from that research led Porta to write a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant proposal with Katherine Lust, PhD, MPH, Boynton Health director of research, and colleagues, to examine sexual assaults and the experiences of sexual violence among college students using Boynton College Student Health Survey data. “What made our proposal unique is that we proposed looking at self-reported perpetration among college students still attending the university, whereas much research with perpetrators has only involved those who had been
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arrested or put into the criminal justice system,” said Porta. The research showed that self-reported perpetrators of sexual violence are more likely to be men, have been victim themselves and are more likely to have smoked marijuana in the past year. At the same time, there was momentum on campus to more effectively address sexual violence. Porta was consulted in the development of the public health awareness campaign as part of the University of Minnesota President’s Initiative to Prevent Sexual Misconduct and then invited to serve as a co-chair of the initiative’s research sub-committee. This sub-committee is strategically leveraging existing University data sources to better understand the problems, generate solutions and seek further funding to implement aggressive comprehensive interventions that shift the campus environment in terms of sexual misconduct and assaults. “I am really passionate about trying to find an effective intervention strategy that works with college students,” said Porta. “What we found, and what I think was really important for the broader university to recognize, was that the majority of students want to avoid problems and be safe.”
WORK GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS Back at the Capitol in St. Paul, the work group developed specific legislative and policy recommendations to improve the criminal justice system’s response to sexual assaults. The group called for police departments to adopt policies on sexual assault investigations, improve training and collect more robust data, and it called on the Legislature to create a statewide council focused on sex crimes, among other recommendations. “In general, the officers that I work with are amazing and I think that’s true across the state. I think people want to do right by victims,” said Porta. “I was happy with the recommendations given the constraints and given what can or should be legislated.”
RESEARCH
The GOLD STANDARD for PAD exercise therapy American Heart Association’s scientific statement serves as clinical evidence supporting exercise for PAD patients
by Brett Stursa
Professor Diane Treat-Jacobson
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a national coverage determination for supervised exercise therapy for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), it meant that for the first time, insurance would cover exercise therapy to treat PAD.
evidence supporting exercise for patients with PAD. It outlines the role of SET, as well as home-based walking programs and alternative exercise approaches.
The decision was a significant win for the more than 8 million Americans affected by PAD, which causes blockages in the arteries that supply blood to the legs. Those living with PAD experience pain in their leg muscles, which also limits physical activity. Supervised exercise therapy (SET) is one of the most effective therapies to improve symptoms of PAD. With the determination that insurance should cover the therapy, there was increased interest from centers across the country who were already providing exercise therapy for patients with cardiac and pulmonary disease to develop programs specifically for patients with PAD. To address the growing need, the American Heart Association published a scientific statement that summarizes how PAD should be treated through exercise therapy. This scientific statement, written by a committee chaired by Professor Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FAAN, serves as the comprehensive clinical resource regarding the
“Structured exercise therapy can significantly improve the symptoms of PAD, allowing patients to walk farther without discomfort and without having to stop,” said Treat-Jacobson, who is associate dean for research at the School of Nursing. “It is also a very cost-effective therapy and national patient care guidelines recommend it as a first-line therapy for patients with symptomatic PAD.” Treat-Jacobson’s research is focused on promoting awareness, timely identification and improved treatment for patients who experience PAD, including the development, implementation and assessment of exercise interventions. “For the first time, this scientific statement summarizes over 30 years of evidence that shows the effectiveness of exercise with PAD,” said TreatJacobson. “As someone who has invested a career in research to improve the lives of people with PAD, I am delighted that more people will be able to experience relief from symptoms and improve the quality of their lives.” Optimal Exercise Programs for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association was published in Circulation, Volume 139, Issue 4.
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Dereck Salisbury, lab director, talks with Becca Brown, while Kaitlyn Kelly reviews the procedures for cardiopulmonary exercise testing with a research participant. A MGA 1100 Mass Spectrometer analyzes gas exchange to quantify cardiorespiratory fitness and a 12-lead electrocardiogram monitors heart rate and rhythm.
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Physiology lab
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research capabilities Lab offers ‘every way that you would want or need to do aerobic exercise and test it’ by Steve Rudolph Its discreet location and understated signage don’t do justice to the oversized role the Laboratory of Clinical Physiology has on the school’s research capabilities and patient health. The lab supports a critical role in School of Nursing research ranging from examining how exercise can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s to studying peripheral artery disease, heart failure and metabolic conditions such as diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The facilities also are used in drug and smoking cessation studies, as it is available for use across the Academic Health Center as well as to researchers outside the University. “Any area of research related to cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular function fits our services really well,” said Assistant Professor Dereck Salisbury, PhD, who directs the Laboratory of Clinical Physiology. On any given day, a visitor to the lab could find a study participant exercising on a treadmill or arm bike as a team of researchers monitor and measure various outputs. “We have about every way that you would want or need to do aerobic exercise and test it,” said Salisbury. “We offer the capacity to perform cardiopulmonary testing, measure cardiorespiratory capacity, cardiovascular function, along with maximal oxygen consumption, among other things.” Salisbury noted the lab also has the capacity to noninvasively measure cardiac output, a unique
technique not found in many locations. Along with a wide range of exercise and testing equipment, the lab is supported by research assistants trained on guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine related to clinical exercise testing. LAB ALLOWS RESEARCHER TO ACCOMPLISH RESEARCH AIMS, IMPROVE HEALTH Assistant Professor Ryan Mays, PhD, MPH, utilizes the lab in his research on community-based exercise programs for patients with vascular disease. “My goal is to improve patients’ health. But you can’t adequately determine a patient derived benefit from an interventional program unless you have high quality outcomes assessments. That’s what the lab can provide,” said Mays, who cited the lab as a reason he chose Minnesota to further his research. “And you’re not breaking the bank to do it.” The lab bolsters the ability to compete for research grants as well as recruit and retain world-class faculty. “The NIH specifically asks for facilities and resources, so you have to outline explicitly and in a great level of detail what you have in place to accomplish what you say you’re going to accomplish,” said Mays. “If you don’t have the infrastructure we have because of the lab, you’re not in the environment with which to succeed.”
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Answering the call to ACTION
As evidence points to climate change’s impact on health, the school steps up its planetary health efforts
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Clinical Assistant Professor Nasra Giama, right, speaks with University of Nairobi One Health students in Nairobi National Park in Kenya.
by Steve Rudolph and Brett Stursa Just days after the U.S. Global Change Research Program delivered a report to Congress warning that effects of climate change, including damaging storms, droughts and wildfires, are worsening in the United States and are only expected to further disrupt life, the 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come was published, warning of the human health risks of climate change. The New York Times reported that these two studies, published in late 2018, represented the most serious warnings to date that climate change is posing a series of interconnected health risks for the global population.
The School of Nursing recognized the health risks caused by climate change when it joined the Planetary Health Alliance, which is a consortium of over 120 universities, NGOs, government entities and research institutes around the world committed to advancing planetary health. The alliance, which is based at Harvard University, works with a broad array of scientific disciplines to build an evidence base for informing policy solutions aimed at optimizing both human health and environmental stewardship objectives. “We are at an extraordinary moment in human history. Human activity is the dominant force determining biophysical conditions around the planet,” said
Myers, who will be giving the School of Nursing commencement address in May. “We need to understand the moment that we’re in and the implications of the decisions we’re making to fuel that fierce urgency of why what we do now is so important.” In that vein, faculty at the School of Nursing have taken the lead on several efforts to educate students, staff and communities about planetary health to leverage the unique role nurses play to call attention to this unprecedented time in history. INTERPLAY OF ANIMAL, HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH The University of Minnesota is in its final continued on page 14
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What is Planetary Health? The Planetary Health Alliance defines planetary health as a field focused on characterizing the human health impacts of human-caused disruptions of Earth’s natural systems.
Numerous nursing faculty at the University of Minnesota have supported multiple field attachments at demonstration sites in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda, where faculty focus on applied interprofessional learning experiences that teach students about One Health in the real world. Professor Cheryl Robertson, PhD, RN, FAAN, led in developing demonstration sites and sharing her expertise in field attachments. Read more about her work to support the health of people displaced by climate change on page 26. In addition, Clinical Professor Jeannie Pfeiffer, DNP, MPH, RN, CIC, FAPIC, FAAN, has provided leadership in program development in One Health Workforce’s newest expansion country, Cambodia.
continued from page 13 year of a $63 million award from the United States Agency for International Development to carry out the One Health Initiative, which focuses on creating a global workforce prepared to predict, detect and respond to infectious disease outbreaks within the intersection of human, animal and environmental health. In partnership with the College of Veterinary Medicine, School of Nursing faculty providing project leadership and supporting key project activities, including interprofessional field training. “One Health is a term that came out of the response to outbreaks at the intersection of animal, human and environmental cause-effect factors. They all interplay,” said Professor
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Carolyn Porta, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, who is the senior faculty adviser for Africa on the project and provides technical leadership on the initiative’s work. The One Health Workforce network includes 79 universities in eight African countries and five countries in Southeast Asia. “Nursing is core on the human health side of outbreaks because nurses make up 80 percent of the human health care workforce around the world. They’re the first responders when there’s a threat for outbreak,” said Porta. “When there are symptoms developing on the human side, nurses are more than likely going to see it before any other health care provider.”
CLIMATE CHANGE AS A HEALTH CARE CRISIS Clinical Professor Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, still recalls the day she joined more than 400,000 others in New York City for the People’s Climate March in 2014. “I carried a sign that said, ‘Minnesota nurses are fighting against climate change,’ and all along the route people excitedly kept saying, ‘The nurses are here! The nurses are here,” said Potter. “Nurses have a voice that people tend to listen to and trust. We can help people understand the connection between a healthy environment and healthy people.” Potter and Clinical Assistant Professor Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN-BC, PHN, have been leading an interprofessional effort across the University to develop and incorporate content on the health implications of climate change
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“ I believe that without a healthy planet to live on the rest of our jobs are futile” – Teddie Potter, clinical professor
into the curriculum. Developed in conjunction with climate champions from the Medical School, School of Public Health, College of Pharmacy and College of Veterinary Medicine, along with the Medical Laboratory Sciences and Occupational Therapy programs, the first phase of their efforts ensured more than 1,100 first-year students in 17 different health programs on five campuses were introduced to the topic in their Foundations for Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication course. Phase two, which was recently completed, created nine modules on the connection between climate change and health for instructors across the University to incorporate in their existing courses.
“Our pediatric or maternal and child health courses are a natural fit, as well as geriatric courses as climate change is affecting older individuals more,” said Demorest. The interprofessional content, which is housed at the Center for Global Health & Social Responsibility, is available for any university to use and has already been adopted internationally. The Academic Health Center Climate Champion Team is now in the third phase of the efforts, which aims to have students implementing sustainability, climate or planetary health projects in the community.
high degree of patient interaction and their trusted voice. “This is who we are. We think about the human relationships, communities, long-term health, prevention and the environment,” said Potter. “This is the sphere we have traveled since Lillian Wald developed public health nursing. This is our sphere.” For Potter, the focus on planetary health and efforts to incorporate climate change into the curriculum are also personal. “I would love to say that my grandchild who was born last fall will not have to worry about climate change,” she said.
Both Potter and Demorest see nurses as natural leaders on climate change because of their large numbers, their
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NURSING ABROAD becomes
reality for BSN students Students gain clinical experience in the health care system in Ireland by Steve Rudolph
As soon as Megan Cavanaugh, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing student, heard about the opportunity to study at the University of Limerick for a semester and gain clinical experiences in the Irish health care system, she knew she wanted to apply. Ultimately, Cavanaugh was one of 10 students participating in the School of Nursing’s first-ever semester abroad opportunity for BSN students. Based on the feedback she and her classmates have provided, countless more nursing students will be following a similar path. MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE Senior Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, knew students were increasingly seeking international experiences, yet she also knew that only a summer program was possible if students wanted to meet their graduation requirements in four years. The nature of nursing curricula, which includes purposefully-sequenced courses and clinical practicums, typically doesn’t afford the flexibility a student needs to experience a semester away from campus and still graduate as planned. That thinking began to change when the University’s Learning Abroad Center received a grant opportunity that made the international experience a reality. “I was new as associate dean, but I knew our BSN program well enough that for it to work it would have to be in the fall semester of senior year, so we just started from there on a plan to figure it out,” said Mueller.
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To solve the greatest challenge – replacing 180 hours of practicum the students would experience if they stayed in Minnesota with a comparable experience in Ireland – the school partnered with the University of Limerick. In addition, the two schools worked together to create a new course for Minnesota students in Ireland to meet a specific requirement, ensuring School of Nursing students in Ireland would stay current with their classmates at home. STUDENTS APPRECIATIVE OF OPPORTUNITIES IN IRELAND For Cavanaugh, her classmate Riley Tousignant and other classmates, the semester in Limerick offered an opportunity to not only learn about nursing in another country, but learn about themselves. “The similarities came across mostly in the practicum in that nursing at its core is about caring for someone,” said Tousignant. “The nurses do the same thing that we do here, but how that care is carried out, like with paper charts, is the difference. The public versus private health care comes out in nursing ratios and in the services they are able to offer to patients.”
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Megan Cavanaugh, left, and Riley Tousignant, below, participated in the school’s first-ever semester abroad opportunity for BSN students, in Ireland.
Both students spoke fondly of the relationships they formed with students from other countries and the bond that formed among the Minnesota students. And both rank the semester abroad as the highlight of their University experience and know the lessons learned will have lifelong impact. “It was something that encouraged me to go outside my comfort zone,” said Cavanaugh. “I’m really grateful for it because it helped me gain confidence in myself and grow new skills.” For Tousignant, the experience helped her become more reflective and develop personal skills she believes she will use throughout her nursing career. “I’m coming back more full than I anticipated; full of knowledge and full of love for my relationships that I grew and the people I got to know. I wish I could thank everyone responsible for this opportunity. It changed my life.”
SCHOOL EXPLORING ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES Mueller praises the University of Limerick and the University of Minnesota’s Study Abroad Center, with the leadership of Dean Meredith McQuaid, for making the unthinkable become a reality. She says the program will be offered again this fall and the school is exploring options to expand it as well as pursuing other partner universities. Mueller and Clinical Associate Professor Carol Flaten, DNP, RN, PHN, director of pre-licensure programs, were recognized with the 2018 C. Eugene Allen Award for Innovative International Initiatives by the University of Minnesota’s Global Programs & Strategy Alliance. In describing their efforts, the GPS Alliance wrote, “This initiative within the School of Nursing is another example of the University of Minnesota setting a trend for others to emulate.”
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Nurse anesthesia students, Hali Haukos, left, and Kathryn Kopel led a quality improvement project to relieve postoperative pain without using opioids.
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ALTERNATIVES
to opioids
DNP project demonstrates gabapentin’s effectiveness for pain relief By Meleah Maynard
In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that an average of 130 people died from opioid overdoses every day.
The effects were clear. One hundred percent of qualified patients received the preoperative dose of gabapentin and reported postoperative pain scores that decreased by half, despite receiving fewer opioids during and after surgery.
With studies showing that 1 in 15 patients prescribed opioids for postoperative pain become long-term users, clinicians have been urged to find alternative strategies to manage pain safely.
Kopel, who also graduated in 2018 and serves as a CRNA at Hennepin Health Care in Minneapolis, noted the project’s success and was grateful for the support she and Haukos received. “Hali and I were fortunate to work with a great team of CRNAs, surgeons and nurses in Hutchinson who were eager to implement well-documented research into practice to improve their patients’ surgical experience,” she said, adding their appreciation for project adviser Professor Dan Pesut, PhD, RN, FAAN. “Opioid addiction has been a tragic problem for many years.”
As students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice nurse anesthesia program, Hali Haukos and Kathryn Kopel teamed up on a quality improvement project that tackled the issue of opioid use. Discussion with their preceptors and community partners revealed that a community-access hospital in rural Hutchinson, Minnesota was seeking to find ways to relieve postoperative pain without using opioids. Practitioners in Hutchinson had already completed some research using Tylenol and Celebrex, so they suggested Haukos and Kopel create a quality improvement project assessing the effectiveness of gabapentin, which is most often used to control seizures. “Katie and I knew gabapentin had been used to decrease pain and opioid consumption, so we read several research articles that supported its use in general surgery. We worked with two surgeons and two nurse anesthetists in Hutchinson to develop a plan they supported,” said Haukos, who graduated in 2018 and is now a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. The result was a project aimed at decreasing opioid consumption for general surgery patients both during and after their procedures by giving them a single, 300-milligram preoperative dose of gabapentin.
Nurse Anesthesia Specialty Coordinator Dan Lovinaria, DNP, MBA, APRN, CRNA, who consulted with Haukos and Kopel on best practices for minimizing opioid use, sees projects like theirs as a timely part of a larger effort to combat the country’s opioid epidemic. “It’s very important that anesthesia providers practice opioid-sparing techniques as much as possible,” he said. “We want to be part of the solution to the opioid crisis problem.” In Hutchinson, Haukos and Kopel’s project is already having a positive impact on other specialties where practitioners are starting to use gabapentin preoperatively with their patients. “They were already doing a lot of work on pain management, but I think being able to see the results of our project for themselves was really beneficial,” Haukos said. “It’s exciting to see so much work being done to try to reduce narcotics use, and it was so important to the success of our project to have such a willing partner in the community.”
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Improving health by driving
TRANSFORMATION Partnership with Coursera produces new nursing informatics leadership specialization
by Steve Rudolph
Informatics has the potential to improve the quality of health care as well as control its costs. Nursing leaders, with clinical and informatics skills, are ideally positioned to drive this transformation. Driving transformation in improving health is why the School of Nursing has partnered with Coursera, the global leader in online learning, to offer a new specialization for nurses and interprofessional health care clinicians and leaders that provides the informatics leadership skills they need to be successful in complex organizations. The specialization, which consists of five courses and a capstone assignment, explores the principles of nursing informatics leadership and applications and enriches participants’
self-knowledge of their skills to promote stakeholder collaboration and achieve mutual goals. PEOPLE, RELATIONSHIPS CRITICAL IN INFORMATICS “Every nursing informatics leader interviewed at the 2018 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference told us it’s the people and it’s the relationships,” said Associate Professor Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FAAN, who led the effort to create the specialization and developed one of the University’s first Coursera courses in 2012. “As informaticians, we need to better understand the people side and realize there are a wide range of scenarios in which we have to employ informatics skills. That’s what these courses do.” Monsen and colleagues turned to leadership literature, models and principles in developing the courses. continued on page 24
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Associate Professor Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FAAN, developed one of the University of Minnesota’s first Coursera courses in 2012.
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“ Many of our future students will be in countries where health care informatics is just beginning to develop. These videos will bring to life a community of expert nursing informatics leaders as role models and key informants, sharing their experiences and wisdom .” – Karen Monsen, associate professor
continued from page 23 They discovered the importance of the competing values framework, which is the idea that, to be successful, nursing informatics leaders have to bring people with competing values together to solve high-profile, high-impact problems. Videos featuring national nursing informatics leaders are incorporated throughout the courses to bring informatics leadership theory to life and to showcase diversity of thought and scenarios leaders are likely to face. “We wanted to bring real-world perspective to this space,” said Monsen. “Many of our future students will be in countries where health care informatics is just beginning to develop. These videos will bring to life a community of expert nursing informatics leaders as role models and key informants, sharing their experiences and wisdom.” NEW INVENTORY SHOWS HOW LEADERS RESPOND Another component of the specialization was the development of the Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory (MNILI), a tool that describes how nursing informatics
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leaders respond with their leadership skills to different scenarios. “The MNILI is an open source tool that can share new ideas and new ways of thinking about service to the informatics community and improving health care,” said Monsen. “As we say in the specialization, nursing informatics leaders align people, process and purpose in service to the greater good.” Other School of Nursing faculty who participated in the development of the specialization and instruct the courses are Professor Daniel Pesut, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor Emeritus Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Clinical Professor Ad Honorem Thomas Clancy, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Professor and Dean Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP. The Nursing Informatics Leadership Specialization is part of a portfolio of health-related online offerings created by Coursera and 15 top-ranked universities to help address the global shortage of skilled workers in the health care industry.
“I’m excited to see Coursera and its partners coming together to help realize that potential by providing access to flexible and affordable education options that can help usher in the next generation of health care workers in high-demand fields like health informatics, health care management and public health,” said Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. “Empowering the triad of nursing clinical and education leadership, nursing informatics expertise and our commitment to health and quality of health care through this first-of-itskind Coursera offering is another bold strategy to transcend the challenge of leveraging information systems,” said Delaney. “The University of Minnesota School of Nursing celebrates lifting up big data science informatics experts and we celebrate offering the unique Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory to all.”
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ADVANCING HEALTH through academic, clinical partnership Recent practice, care delivery model revision showcased the Nursing Collaboratory in action by Brett Stursa
As the University of Minnesota Health Fairview’s joint clinical enterprise team of nursing leaders and staff began working more closely together, they initiated a process of reviewing its current practice and care delivery models and envisioning their future. To assist in that process, they tapped into the Nursing Collaboratory, a partnership between the School of Nursing and M Health Fairview formed in 2013 that advances health by engaging leaders in both academic and clinical environments. The Collaboratory enlisted in the expertise of Clinical Professor Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, who is the coordinator of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) health innovation and leadership specialty at the School of Nursing, and Professor Mary Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, director of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing and co-coordinator of the DNP integrative health and healing specialty. Potter and Kreitzer led a discussion with more than 40 M Health Fairview front line nurses, nurse leaders, educators and chief nursing officers representing the broad continuum of care. “For our future we know that care delivery will be simplified and diversified with only our most ill receiving care in our acute care sites,” said Laura Reed, DNP, MBA, RN, chief nursing executive and chief operating officer of Fairview Health Services. “So home care, ambulatory and post-acute care were represented in the discussion as well.” Kreitzer discussed integrative nursing, which is M Health Fairview’s current care delivery model, as a way of being-doing-knowing that advances the health and well-being of people, families and communities through caring and healing relationships.
Laura Reed, chief nursing executive and chief operating officer, Fairview Health Services
Potter talked about the professional practice model BASE, which describes being present, active caring and ways of knowing through stories and evidence from science. “The presentations were received with gratitude,” said Reed. “We have so much to look forward to and to have the authors of both our practice model and care delivery model with us for discussion was amazing.” Creating opportunities for full partnership between leaders in both academic and clinical environments was a key reason the School of Nursing and M Health/Fairview Health Services formed the Nursing Collaboratory six years ago. The Collaboratory serves as a forum for developing and attaining common goals for nursing education, research and patient care in both academic and practice areas. “This recent presentation was our academic and practice partnership in action,” said Reed. “I have been overwhelmed with what can be if we are willing to take risks and actively engage with our academic partners.”
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CENTER DIRECTOR: Kristine Talley, PhD, APRN, GNP-BC, FGSA
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AGING SCIENCE AND CARE INNOVATION
Exploring the intersection of dance, caregiving
The Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation is partnering with the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) to support the Program on Art and Health, a joint initiative by WAM and the Medical School that supports collaborative projects of artists and health care professionals. Anna Marie Shogren is a dance artist exploring how movement can be used to enhance connections between people who live in long-term care and their bedside caregivers. Shogren’s dance and installation work has been shown in Minneapolis, New York, along both coasts and in Iceland. In addition, Shogren has worked in long-term care settings providing exercise classes and daily care assistance to residents. Ultimately, she envisions creating a brief care ritual or microdance that bedside staff could use to enhance their interactions with residents. The collaboration began in September 2018 and the center has helped organize interviews and workshops for Shogren to collect information to inform her artistic process. The center has invited nursing students and faculty to attend her workshops and events. Our next step is to engage long-term care settings to facilitate an exchange with residents and bedside staff on what this care ritual might look like and how it could be implemented. Shogren will performatively present her observations and solicit further conversation on her care ritual during her next event called “Lifelong Choreographies.” All are welcome to attend the event on Wednesday, April 3 at 7 p.m. at the Weisman Art Museum. 24 | MINNESOTA NURSING
CENTER DIRECTOR: Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, FAAN
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Organizing for collective impact The Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership partnered with nursing organizations in the state of Minnesota to create a collective impact agenda for health issues in the state. A Steering Committee convened a group of nursing organizations in November to explore the concept of collective impact to organize and activate the power and influence of statewide nursing organizations. The purpose of the forum was to leverage the power of nurses across all areas of nursing to support legislative policies that advance the realization of the quadruple aim and improve health of Minnesotans. The forum was designed to enable grassroots organizing to activate nursing organizations membership to identify and discuss legislative issues related to statewide health care agendas. Following the meeting, the Steering Committee was charged to develop principles that considered the nursing organizational policy agendas discussed. The following five principles were created to embrace and support a collective impact agenda. Principle 1: Minnesotans should have access to affordable, high-quality health care. Principle 2: Access to high-quality health care should be supported and improved for Minnesotans living in rural communities. Principle 3: All students should have access to adequate health care screening and on-site school health services. Principle 4: Minnesota citizens deserve to live free of gun violence. Principle 5: Health care workers should be able to practice in settings that are safe and free from violence. As organizations use these principles in setting policy agendas, the group believes the collective impact of nursing influence will be realized. How might other professional organizations use these principles as they exercise leadership skills for collective nursing impact?
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CENTER DIRECTOR: Renee Sieving, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FAAN
CENTER DIRECTORS: KAREN MONSEN, PHD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA CONNIE WHITE DELANEY, PHD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP BONNIE WESTRA, PHD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
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Relationships key to transforming school climate
Improving health using informatics solutions
Can creating school environments that center learning as relational result in higher student achievement?
The Center for Nursing Informatics is home to experts committed to addressing health care policy to improve population health using technology and informatics solutions. The center recently addressed the critical need to reduce documentation burden for nursing and other health care professionals by leading a national initiative through the Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference led by Dean Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP, and Associate Professor Emeritus Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI. Center researchers addressed documentation burden problems from the perspective of big data research, using machine learning methods for identifying critical data elements in nursing documentation leveraging the center’s one of a kind resource, the Omaha System Data Collaborative (Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA, director). The Office of the National Coordinator and the American Nurses Association have built on these efforts to address the problem.
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St. Paul Public Schools and the St. Paul Federation of Educators, along with School of Nursing Associate Professor Barb McMorris, PhD, and Medical School Department of Pediatrics Senior Evaluator Kara Beckman, MA, want to answer this question by assessing restorative practices in schools.
Barb McMorris
Restorative practices are grounded in a mindset, common among indigenous cultures and communities of color, that views individuals as profoundly interconnected and inherently good. Emanating from this mindset are practices that build inclusive relationships between school staff and students, Kara Beckman create engaged learning environments, and repair or restore relationships when harm is caused. During the 2016-2017 school year, St. Paul Public Schools and St. Paul Federation of Educators began to pilot whole school restorative practices in 12 schools. As their partner, McMorris was able to secure 15 months of funding from the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs to begin evaluation of restorative practice activities. St. Paul Public Schools, McMorris and Beckman were recently awarded a $3.9 million grant from the US Department of Education for five years to support expansion and evaluation of whole school restorative practices. The project will collect implementation and outcomes data in eight new schools while continuing to evaluate outcomes at the original 12 pilot schools. “This funding provides an opportunity to evaluate the impact of a community-developed innovation that provides experiences and supports to help K-12 students gain key skills critical for their healthy development,” said McMorris.
Additionally, Assistant Professor Martin Michalowski, PhD, reused nursing data to reveal critical health inequities and propose informatics-related solutions to improve population health. Clinical Associate Professor Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC, leads an interprofessional research team to improve knowledge representation of integrative health interventions within clinical terminologies to advance population health. Center faculty are also partnering with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) on a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded initiative to establish the NASN database to track school nursing data across the country. Informatics students at all levels are actively engaged with faculty in these vital efforts to improve health care through these cutting-edge informatics research and policy initiatives. Together, the center members and national partners engage in improving health across the continuum of care.
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CENTER DIRECTORS: Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LMFT, LP, FAAN Wendy Looman, PhD, APRN, CPNP
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Supporting the health Improving care of climate-displaced transitions for children communities with medical complexity While contributing minimally to humaninduced climate change, Africa is geographically among the most vulnerable to its effects, while generally lacking adequate capacity to mitigate the impacts. Less prominent in the literature is the discussion Cheryl Robertson of ways communities engage in strategies to support the cultural, physical and psychosocial health of its members in the face of climate-related displacement. The internal processes of selfdetermination, identity preservation and healing will be critical to manage and strengthen communities in the face of the destabilizing effects of climate change, and, ultimately, to minimize inter-community conflict in the coming decades.
The transition from hospital to home is a stressful time for families of children with medical complexity. Providing care to more than 25,000 children with medical complexity, Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare is developing innovative strategies for improving care transitions for those with the highest complexity. Gillette nurse leaders Rhonda Cady, PhD, RN, and Kari Kubiatowicz, BSN, RN, have been collaborating with faculty and students in the center to improve systems of care for children and their families during hospitalization discharge.
Professor Cheryl Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, served as PI with Kenyan and Ugandan nursing and veterinary researchers Jacinta Waila, Shamilah Namusisi and Michael Mahero using ethnographic methods in Turkana County, Kenya to better understand the human experience of climate change, resource-driven conflict and displacement. Robertson, as co-PI, and team joined with Dominic Travis (co-PI, Veterinary Medicine) to build on the Turkana findings in the neighboring Karamoja District, Uganda. Pastoralist communities living in these semi-arid lands have already lost most of their livestock from drought, floods and violent raids. Analyses suggest a complex story of drought, violence, livelihood loss, migration, policy, emerging extractive industries, population pressures, ethnic and refugee tensions, hunger, opportunity, and, of course, resilience. The purpose of both studies is two-fold: first, to support East African research capacity and leadership; second, to grow our multicultural, multidisciplinary academic and multisectoral partnerships to develop a program that can ultimately improve the health and resilience of climate-displaced communities.
From left, Rhonda Cady, PhD, RN, Megan Antolick, BSN, RN, and Kari Kubiatowicz, BSN, RN.
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With Cady and Kubiatowicz, Doctor of Nursing Practice student Megan Antolick, BSN, RN, recently co-led a project to implement a tool during the inpatient stay that helps families identify goals for their child during the post-discharge period. The team implemented the Post-Hospitalization Action Grid, developed by Boston Children’s Hospital, and used this to standardize family involvement in goal-setting with the inpatient care manager during their stay. Following the project pilot, staff indicated that the tool helped them prioritize care and coordinate with Gillette outpatient specialists during the transition from hospital to home. Common themes in family goals included finding support in communicating new care needs to providers in primary care and school, and addressing home nursing support gaps. As the inpatient care manager who facilitated the goal planning with families in this project, Kubiatowicz noted that this project gave her the opportunity to pair the team’s goals with what matters most to patients. “The Action Grid brought care management from the background to the patients and families directly, which we loved,” she said. The project continues with ongoing evaluation and is being implemented in additional areas of the organization.
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Celebrating 110 YEARS of educating nurses In 1909, the first nursing program within a university was established at the University of Minnesota, forever changing the trajectory of nursing education and the profession. On May 1, the school will commemorate its history and celebrate its bright future of lifting the educated spirit of the nurse and nursing. The celebration will feature ret. Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, the first woman and first Nurse Corps Officer to hold the appointment of U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. She is currently CEO of OptumServe, which supports the health needs of federal agencies serving military members and their families, veterans and Medicare recipients. ‘EDUCATING THE SPIRIT’ OF NURSES Nursing and nursing education are what they are today in large part because of the actions of Richard Olding Beard, who chaired the physiology program at the University of Minnesota. He is credited with bringing nursing into the institution of higher learning with the Board of Regents when the nursing program at the University of Minnesota was established in 1909. Beard passionately advocated for the advancement of nursing believing that educating nurses, rather than training them as was the practice, would help society recognize the worth of human life, conserve human health and provide for social justice. His pioneering advocacy for lifting up the nursing profession was expressed in writings and speeches in which he espoused for “educating the spirit” of nurses. Historian Deborah MacLurg Jensen said Beard’s actions were “a step of the greatest consequence for nursing education,” adding that it was the final step in the creation of the nursing profession.
Ret. Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho
Celebrating 110 years of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing A night honoring the school’s history and lifting up its future Reception, dinner and program May 1, 2019 McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St., Minneapolis Tickets can be purchased at www.nursing.umn.edu/110.
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BRIEFLY CDC awards $1.3M to school nurse association for big data program The School of Nursing will develop the data platform for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) to educate and support school nurses so that they can use big data science to target chronic absenteeism and school withdrawals of students with chronic conditions. The NASN was awarded a threeyear, $1.3 million contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to educate and support the school nurse workforce. Initially, select states will pilot the school nurse led active surveillance program. Meanwhile, data champions in all 50 states will be trained to encourage frontline school nurses to collect and use their data. Lessons learned from the pilot sites will be used to expand the school nurse led active surveillance system nationwide.
School of Nursing commended for research culture The PhD in Nursing program underwent a routine academic program review, conducted in partnership with the Provost Office as a collaborative and comprehensive process. Reviewers, who were from the University of Iowa, University of Colorado, University of Michigan and University of Minnesota, commended the school for its research culture, noting faculty are actively engaged in research, attract students into their program of research and the strength of their multidisciplinary backgrounds. They added that full-time students being provided funding for the first two years to support 100 percent of tuition and fees including a guaranteed research assistantship is exceptional and should be more broadly publicized.
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School receives award for diversity excellence For the third consecutive year, the Health Professions school was recognized with the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine. The HEED Award honors U.S. Top Colleges for Diversity nursing, medical, dental, pharmacy, osteopathic, veterinary, and other health schools and centers that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. The school’s efforts to recruit and retain diverse and underrepresented students, its policies and strategies to train and mentor faculty, and its innovative diversity education programming including the Diversity Deep Dive focus on poverty contributed to the award selection. The school was one of only 11 nursing schools and 35 health schools from the nearly 175 schools reviewed.
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14 faculty finish year-long leadership program Fourteen faculty participated in Faculty Leads, a program developed by the University’s Office of Human Resources Leadership and Talent Development to assist faculty in developing leadership skills, capacity and readiness so they are positioned for larger leadership roles. Participants included both tenure track and clinical faculty members. They were Assistant Professor Sarah Hoffman, PhD, MPH, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor Samantha Sommerness, DNP, APRN, CNM, Clinical Associate Professor Carol Flaten, DNP, RN, Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, Clinical Professor Mary Benbenek, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CPNP, Assistant Professor Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, RN, Associate Professor Barb McMorris, PhD, Assistant Professor Rozina Bhimani, PhD, DNP, RN, CNP, CNE, Clinical Associate Professor Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RNBC, Assistant Professor Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN, Clinical Assistant Professor Mary Goering, PhD, RN-BC, Clinical Assistant Professor Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN, Professor Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Assistant Professor Anne McKechnie, PhD, RN.
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AWARDS AND HONORS Clinical Assistant Professor Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN-BC, PHN, received the Health and Well-Being Award from the Women’s Health Leadership Trust.
Clinical Assistant Professor Nasra Giama, DNP, RN, PHN, was selected for the 20182019 Internationalizing Teaching and Learning Faculty Cohort Program, which engages faculty in professional development aimed at internationalizing the curriculum. Professor Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, was named to the Academic Health Center’s Academy for Excellence for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Clinical Assistant Professor Dan Lovinaria, DNP, MBA, APRN, CRNA, was named to the Nurses on Boards Coalition, representing the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. In addition he was named an Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Social Media Ambassador.
Associate Professor Emeritus Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, received the Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award from the American Medical Informatics Association.
Clinical Assistant Professor Barbara Champlin, PhD, RN, Clinical Associate Professor Andra Fjone, DrPh, APRN, CPNP, Clinical Instructor Dawn Fredrich, MS, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor Raney Linck, DNP, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor Maria Ruud, DNP, APRN, WHNPBC, and Clinical Assistant Professor Mary Steffes, DNP, RN, ACNSBC, were selected to participate in the Academic Health Center Fellowship for Teaching in Active Learning Classrooms. The fellowship supports using effective pedagogical approaches in Active Learning Classrooms in the new Health Sciences Education Center.
Associate Professor Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA, and Clinical Associate Professor Sripriya Rajamani, PhD, MPH, MBBS, FAMIA, were named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, received the Leadership Award from the Women’s Health Leadership Trust.
Associate Professor Kris Talley, PhD, APRN, GNP-BC, FGSA, and Clinical Assistant Professor Mary Goering, PhD, RN-BC, were each named a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.
The University of Minnesota received the top two spots in the Best Student Poster competition at the Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health Premier Women’s Healthcare Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Madalyn Carlin, RN, BS, received first place for her poster Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Provider Toolkit with Clinical Assistant Professor Stephanie Delkoski, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC. Hanna Middlebrook, RN, BSN, received second place for Increasing the Rates of Pharyngeal and Rectal Site Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea at an Adolescent Sexual Health Clinics with Clinical Assistant Professor Maria Ruud, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC.
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EXTRAMURAL GRANT AWARDS FACULTY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CALENDAR YEAR 2018 The University of Minnesota School of Nursing is a research-intensive school of nursing. The school’s four research areas of focus are health promotion among vulnerable populations, prevention and management of chronic health conditions, symptom management, and health/nursing informatics and systems innovation. Avery, Melissa ACNM-ACOG Maternity Care Education and Practice Redesign American College of Nurse Midwives/ Josiah Macy Foundation Avery, Melissa National Improvement Challenge Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care Bliss, Donna Augmented Reality System for the Education of Clinical Caregivers of Older Adults (SBIR) Innovative Design Labs/ National Institutes of Health Bliss, Donna Skin Damage Severity Assessment Instrument: Voice-of-Customer to Product Development for Practice MN-Reach/National Institutes of Health/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Chi, Chih-Lin Predictive Optimal Anticlotting Treatment for Segmented Patient Populations (R01) University of Missouri/National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine Clancy, Thomas Workflow Study for Cardiac Implantable Devices Boston Scientific Delaney, Connie School Nurse Led Active Surveillance System for Students with Chronic Conditions National Association of School Nurses/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fulkerson, Jayne A Family Approach To Preventing Type II Diabetes Among Youth University of Minnesota Foundation/ Olafson Trust Fulkerson, Jayne Future of Nursing Scholars 2017-2021 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fulkerson, Jayne Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholarship Program 2016-2018 Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
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Fulkerson, Jayne Jonas Scholars 2018-2020 Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Fulkerson, Jayne New Ulm at HOME (NU-HOME) (R01) National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Fulkerson, Jayne School Nurse-Directed Secondary Obesity Prevention for Elementary School-Aged Children (R01) Temple University/National Institutes of Health/National Institute for Nursing Research Hoffman, Sarah Interrupting Trauma: Addressing the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma between Women Refugees who have Survived Torture and their Adolescent Children Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health/National Institutes of Health Hooke, Casey Phenotypic and Genotypic Associations with Symptom Clusters During Childhood Leukemia Treatment (R01) Duke University/National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Hooke, Casey Physical Activity in Children Completing Treatment for Leukemia: How Does it Relate to Other Symptoms? University of Minnesota Foundation/ Olafson Trust Horning, Melissa East Side Table Program Evaluation Partnership Stratis Health Horning, Melissa Twin Cities Mobile Market Expansion Amherst H. Wilder Foundation/US Department of Agriculture Kaas, Merrie Enhancing PMHNP and FNP DNP Student Readiness to Provide Integrated Care to Persons with Mental Illness and Complex Medical Needs Who are Typically Underserved in Urban and Rural Communities Health Resources and Services Administration/US Department of Health & Human Services Lovinaria, Danilo Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program Health Resources and Services Administration/US Department of Health & Human Services
McKechnie, Anne Preparing Heart and Mind: A Mobile and Web Application for Parents and Clinicians After Fetal/Infant Heart Disease Diagnosis MN-Reach/National Institutes of Health/ National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute McMahon, Siobhan Community-based Intervention Effects on Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Falls (R01) National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research McMahon, Siobhan STRIDE Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Strategy Brigham & Women’s Hospital/PCORI/ National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging McMorris, Barbara Whole School Implementation of Restorative Practices in Saint Paul Public Schools: Relationships as Key to Improvements in School Climate and Student Behavior St. Paul Public Schools/US Department of Education McMorris, Barbara Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center Core Research Project: Partnering for Healthy Student Outcomes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Michalowski, Martin BrainAware: Interactive Digital Psychoeduction for Adolescents and Young Adults with Substance Use Disorder (SBIR) Andamio/National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of General Medical Sciences Mueller, Christine Nurse Faculty Loan Program Health Resources and Services Administration/US Department of Health & Human Services Mueller, Christine VA Nursing Academic Partnership Minneapolis VA Healthcare System/US Deptment of Veterans Affairs Pechacek, Judith Jonas Scholars Veterans Healthcare 20182020 Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Porta, Carolyn A Kabul Medical University and University of Minnesota Collaborative Workforce Development Project FHI 360/US Agency for International Development
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Porta, Carolyn Reducing Stigma, Promoting Resilience: Population Health Interventions for LGBTQ Youth University of British Columbia/Canadian Institute of Health Research Potter, Teddie The National Implementation of Team STEPPS Health Research & Educational Trust/ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Pruinelli, Lisiane SCH: EXP: Collaborative Research: GroupSpecific Learning to Personalize EvidenceBased Medicine National Science Foundation Rajamani, Sripriya Electronic Case Reporting to Minnesota Electronic Disease Surveillance System Minnesota Department of Health/State of Minnesota Saftner, Melissa Exploring Adolescent Risk in Ugandan Fishing Communities Sigma Theta Tau International-Zeta Chapter
Sieving, Renee State Adolescent and Young Adult Health Capacity Building Program University of California San Francisco/ Health Resources and Services Administration/US Department of Health & Human Services Sieving, Renee Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Health Resources and Services Administration/US Department of Health & Human Services Treat-Jacobson, Diane Healthy Aging and Mobility Initiative Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Treat-Jacobson, Diane Low InTensity Exercise Intervention for Peripheral Artery Disease: The LITE Trial (R01) Northwestern University/National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Treat-Jacobson, Diane Patient Centered Home Exercise Program for Peripheral Artery Disease Northwestern University/PCORI
Saftner, Melissa Exploring Risk Behaviors in Ugandan Adolescents Living in Rural Fishing Communities Sigma Theta Tau International
Westra, Bonnie SCH: EXP: Collaborative Research: GroupSpecific Learning to Personalize EvidenceBased Medicine National Science Foundation
Sieving, Renee Confidential Adolescent Sexual Health Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Wyman, Jean Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholarship Program 2016-2018 Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
Sieving, Renee Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Wyman, Jean Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Sieving, Renee Minnesota Personal Responsibility Education Program (MN Prep) Minnesota Department of Health/State of Minnesota Sieving, Renee AEGP Professional Development Trainings Minnesota Department of Health/State of Minnesota
Yu, Fang Aerobic Exercise in Alzheimer’s Disease: Cognition and Hippocampal Volume Effects (R01) National Institutes of Health/National Insitute on Aging Yu, Fang Concurrent Aerobic Exercise and Cognitive Training to Prevent Alzheimer’s in At-Risk Older Adults (SBIR) Moai Technologies/National Institutes of Health Yu, Fang Efficacy and Mechanisms of Combined Aerobic Exercise and Cognitive Training in MCI (The ACT Trial) (R01) National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging Yu, Fang Memory Matters: A Mobile Aid to Stimulate Reminiscing in Persons with Memory Loss (SBIR) Moai Technologies/National Institutes of Health
Wyman, Jean University of Pennsylvania + PLUS Clinical Center (PENN + PLUS CC) University of Pennsylvania/National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Sieving, Renee Making Authentic Connections Evaluation Project Minnesota Department of Health/State of Minnesota Sieving, Renee Sexual Helath Consultancy Department of Health/City of Minneapolis
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR YEAR 2018 Abhyankar, S., Vreeman, D. J., Westra, B. L., & Delaney, C. W. (2018). Comments on the use of LOINC and SNOMED CT for representing nursing data. [Letter to the Editor] International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 29(2), 82–85.
Berger, A. C., Korkut, A., Kanchi, R. S., Hegde, A. M., Lenoir, W., Liu, W., … Giama, N., …Mariamidze, A. (2018). A comprehensive pan-cancer molecular study of gynecologic and breast cancers. Cancer Cell, 33(4), 690–705.e9.
Abrams, P., Anderson, K. E., Apostolidis, A., Birder, L., Bliss, D., & Brubaker, L., et al. (2018). Evaluation and treatment of urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and fecal incontinence. Report of the International Scientific Committee. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 37(7), 2271–2272.
Bhasin, S., Gill, T. M., Reuben, D. B., Latham, N. K., Gurwitz, J. H., Dykes, P., … McMahon, S., … Peduzzi, P. (2018). Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE): A cluster-randomized pragmatic trial of a multifactorial fall injury prevention strategy: Design and methods. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 73(8), 1053–1061.
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR YEAR 2018 Monsen, K. A. (2018). The Omaha system as an ontology and meta-model for nursing and healthcare in an era of Big Data. Kontakt, 20(2), e109–e110. Monsen, K. A., Kelechi, T. J., McRae, M. E., Mathiason, M. A., & Martin, K. S. (2018). Nursing theory, terminology, and Big Data: Data-driven discovery of novel patterns in archival randomized clinical trial data. Nursing Research, 67(2), 122–132. Monsen, K. A., Maganti, S., Giaquinto, R. A., Mathiason, M. A., Bjarnadottir, R. I., & Kreitzer, M. J. (2018). Use of the Omaha System for ontology-based text mining to discover meaning within CaringBridge social media journals. Kontakt, 20(3), e210– e216. Mueller, C., Duan, Y., Vogelsmeier, A., Anderson, R., McConnell, E., Corazzini, K. (2018). Interchangeability of licensed nurses in nursing homes: Perspectives of directors of nursing. Nursing Outlook, 66(6), 560–569.
O’Conner-Von, S. (2018). Integrative nursing management of grief. In M. J. Kreitzer & M. Koithan (Eds.), Integrative nursing (2nd ed., pp. 334–349). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. O’Conner-Von, S., & Heck, C. (2018). Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management. In M. M. Czarnecki & H. Turner (Eds.), Core curriculum for pain management nursing (3rd ed., pp. 505–532). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. Olsen, J. M., Horning, M. L., Thorson, D., & Monsen, K. A. (2018). Relationships between public health nurse-delivered physical activity interventions and client physical activity behavior. Applied Nursing Research, 40, 13–19. Ostaszkiewicz, J., Peden-McAlpine, C. J., Northwood, M., Eustice, S., Bliss, D. Z., & Nishimura, K. (2018). Advanced practice continence nursing. In D. Z. Bliss (Ed.), Management of fecal incontinence for the advanced practice nurse (pp. 15–48). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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in schools of nursing receiving National Institutes of Health research funding (FY 2018) Myers, M. L., Fulkerson, J. A., Friend, S. E., Horning, M. L., & Flattum, C. F. (2018). Case study: Behavior changes in the family-focused obesity prevention HOME Plus program. Public Health Nursing, 35(4), 299–306. Neerland, C. E. (2018). Maternal confidence for physiologic childbirth: A concept analysis. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 63(4), 425–435. Nomura, ATG, Pruinelli, L, da Silva, MB, Lucena, AF, & Almeida, MA (2018). Quality of electronic nursing records: The impact of educational interventions during a hospital accreditation process. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 36(3), 127–132. O’Conner-Von, S. (2018). Animal-assisted therapy. In R. Lindquist, M. F. Tracy, & M. Snyder (Eds.), Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing (8th ed., pp. 225–248). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
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Ovans, J. A., Hooke, M. C., Bendel, A. E., & Tanner, L. R. (2018). Physical therapist coaching to improve physical activity in children with brain tumors. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 30(4), 310–317. Park, J. I., Bliss, D. Z., Chi, C.L., Delaney, C. W., & Westra, B. L. (2018). Factors associated with healthcare-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Analysis using multiple data sources and data mining techniques. Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, 45(2), 168–173. Peden-McAlpine, C. J., Northwood, M., & Bliss, D. Z. (2018). Fecal incontinence: Definition and impact on quality of life. In D. Z. Bliss (Ed.), Management of fecal incontinence for the advanced practice nurse (pp. 1–14). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Peleg, M., Michalowski, W., Wilk, S., Parimbelli, E., Bonaccio, S., O’Sullivan, D., … Michalowski, M.,… Carrier, M. (2018). Ideating mobile health behavioral support for compliance to therapy for patients with chronic disease: A case study of atrial fibrillation management. Journal of Medical Systems, 42(11), 234. Peng, X., Chen, Z., Farshidfar, F., Xu, X., Lorenzi, P. L., Wang, Y., … Giama, N., … Liang, H. (2018). Molecular characterization and clinical relevance of metabolic expression subtypes in human cancers. Cell Reports, 23(1), 255–269.e4. Pesut, D. J., & Thompson, S. A. (2018). Nursing leadership in academic nursing: The wisdom of development and the development of wisdom. Journal of Professional Nursing, 34(2), 122–127. Peter, E., Simmonds, A., & Liaschenko, J. (2018). Nurses’ narratives of moral identity making a difference and reciprocal holding. Nursing Ethics, 25(3), 324–334. Peter., E. & Liaschenko, J. (2018). Practitioner perspectives: The case of nursing geographies. Routledge Handbook of Health Geography, 368–374. Peterson, B. L., Kristofersson, G. K., & Kaas, M. J. (2018). Integrative nursing management of depressed mood. In M. Kreitzer & M. Koithan (Eds.), Integrative nursing (2nd ed., pp. 258–272). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Pool, N., Koithan, M., & Ringdahl, D. (2018). Nursing as an integrative healthcare profession. In M. J. Kreitzer & M. Koithan (Eds.), Integrative nursing (2nd ed., pp. 350–364). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Porta, C. M., Bloomquist, M. L., GarciaHuidobro, D., Gutiérrez, R., Vega, L., Balch, R., … Cooper, D. K. (2018). Bi-national cross-validation of an evidence-based conduct problem prevention model. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(2), 231–241. Porta, C., Johnson, E., & Finn, C. (2018). Male help-seeking after sexual assault: A series of case studies informing sexual assault nurse examiner practice. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 14(2), 106–111. Porta, C., Watson, R., Doull, M., Eisenberg, M., Grumdahl, N., & Saewyc, E. (2018). Trend disparities in emotional distress and suicidality among sexual minority and heterosexual Minnesota adolescents from 1998 to 2010. Journal of School Health, 88(8), 605–614. Potter, T. (2018). Shifting the paradigm: Educating nurse administrators to be full partners. Journal of Nursing Administration, 48(1), 1–2.
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Pridham, K. F., Harrison, T., McKechnie, A. C., Krolikowski, M. & Brown, R. (2018). Motivations and features of co-parenting an infant with complex congenital heart disease. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 40(8), 1110–1130. Pruinelli, L., Simon, G. J., Monsen, K. A., Pruett, T., Gross, C. R., Radosevich, D. M., & Westra, B. L. (2018). A holistic clustering methodology for liver transplantation survival. Nursing Research, 67(4), 1. Pruinelli, L., Westra, B.L., Yadav, P., Hoff, A., Steinbach, M., Kumar, V., Delaney, C.W., & Simon, G. (2018). Delay within the 3-Hour surviving sepsis campaign guideline on mortality for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Critical Care Medicine, 46(4), 500–505. Rajamani, S., Chen, E. S., Lindemann, E., Aldekhyyel, R., Wang, Y., & Melton, G. B. (2018). Representation of occupational information across resources and validation of the occupational data for health model. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(2), 197–205. Rajamani, S., Kayser, A., Emerson, E., & Solarz, S. (2018). Evaluation of data exchange process for interoperability and impact on electronic labratory reporting quality to a state public health agency. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi. v10i2.9317 Raymond, N. C., Wyman, J. F., Dighe, S., Harwood, E. M., & Hang, M. (2018). Process evaluation for improving K12 program effectiveness: Case study of a National Institutes of Health Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Research Career development Program. Journal of Women’s Health, 27(6), 775–781. Ricketts, C. J., De Cubas, A. A., Fan, H., Smith, C. C., Lang, M., Reznik, E., … Giama, N.,… Linehan, W. M. (2018). The cancer genome atlas comprehensive molecular characterization of renal cell carcinoma. Cell Reports, 23(1), 313–326.e5. Rider, G. N., McMorris, B. J., Gower, A. L., Coleman, E., & Eisenberg, M. E. (2018). Health and care utilization of transgender and gender nonconforming youth: A population-based study. Pediatrics, 141(3), e20171683. Ringdahl, D. (2018). Graduate nursing education for integrative nursing. In M. J. Kreitzer & M. Koithan (Eds.), Integrative nursing (2nd ed., pp. 564–585). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Ringdahl, D. (2018). Reiki. In R. Lindquist, M. F. Tracy, & M. Snyder (Eds.), Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing (8th ed., pp. 411–430). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Ringdahl, D., Pool, N., & Koithan, M. (2018). Integrative nursing practice. In M. Kreitzer & M. Koithan (Eds.), Integrative nursing (2nd ed., pp. 167–184). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Ruud, M. (2018). Cultural humility in the care of individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Nursing for Women’s Health, 22(3), 255–263. Salisbury, D. L., Brown, R. J. L., Bronas, U. G., Kirk, L. N., & Treat-Jacobson, D. (2018). Measurement of peripheral blood flow in patients with peripheral artery disease: Methods and considerations. Vascular Medicine (United Kingdom), 23(2), 163–171. Salisbury, D. L., Treat-Jacobson, D. J., Bronas, U. G., & Mays, R. J. (2018). Exercise. In R. Lindquist, M. F. Tracy, & M. Snyder (Eds.), Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing (8th ed., pp. 289–318). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. Salisbury, D. L., Whipple, M. O., Burt, M., Brown, R. J. L., Hirsch, A., Foley, C., & Treat-Jacobson, D. (2018). Translation of an evidence-based therapeutic exercise program for patients with peripheral artery disease. Journal of Vascular Nursing, 36(1), 23–33. Saltz, J., Gupta, R., Hou, L., Kurc, T., Singh, P., Nguyen, V., … … Giama, N., ….Thorsson, V. (2018). Spatial organization and molecular correlation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes using deep learning on pathology images. Cell Reports, 23(1), 181–193.e7. Sanchez-Vega, F., Mina, M., Armenia, J., Chatila, W. K., Luna, A., La, K. C., … Giama, N., ….Schultz, N. (2018). Oncogenic signaling pathways in the cancer genome atlas. Cell, 173(2), 321–337.e10. Sandefer, R. H., Westra, B. L., Khairat, S. S., Pieczkiewicz, D. S., & Speedie, S. M. (2018). Assessment of personal health care management and chronic disease prevalence: Comparative analysis of demographic, socioeconomic, and health-related variables. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(10), e276. Schaub, F. X., Dhankani, V., Berger, A. C., Trivedi, M., Richardson, A. B., Shaw, R., … Giama, N., ….Mariamidze, A. (2018). Pancancer alterations of the MYC oncogene and its proximal network across the cancer genome atlas. Cell Systems, 6(3), 282–300. e2. Scheiner, N., & Liaschenko, J. (2018). “Buying-in” and “cashing-out”: Patients’ experience and the refusal of lifeprolonging treatment. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 29(1), 15–19.
Schenk, E., Schleyer, R., Jones, C. R., Fincham, S., Daratha, K. B., & Monsen, K. A. (2018). Impact of adoption of a comprehensive electronic health record on nursing work and caring efficacy. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 36(7), 331–339. Schleisman, K. B., Guzey, S., Lie, R., Michlin, M., Desjardins, C., Shackleton, H., … Michalowski, M. & Dubinsky, J. (2018). Learning neuroscience with technology: A scaffolded, active learning approach. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 27(6), 566–580. Seiler, M., Peng, S., Agrawal, A. A., Palacino, J., Teng, T., Zhu, P., … Giama, N., ….Yu, L. (2018). Somatic mutational landscape of splicing factor genes and their functional consequences across 33 cancer types. Cell Reports, 23(1), 282–296.e4. Shaban-Nejad, A., Michalowski, M., & Buckeridge, D. L. (2018). Health intelligence: How artificial intelligence transforms population and personalized health. Npj Digital Medicine, 1, 53. doi.org/10.1038/s41746-018-0058-9 Slipka, A. F., & Monsen, K. A. (2018). Toward improving quality of end-of-life care: Encoding clinical guidelines and standing orders using the Omaha System. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 15(1), 26–37. Smith, A. L., Brown, J., Wyman, J. F., Berry, A., Newman, D. K., & Stapleton, A. E. (2018). Treatment and prevention of recurrent lower urinary tract infections in women: A rapid review with practice recommendations. The Journal of Urology, 200(6), 1174–1191. Snyder, M., & Lindquist, R. (2018). Evolution and use of complementary therapies and integrative healthcare practices. In R. Lindquist, M. F. Tracy, & M. Snyder (Eds.), Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing (8th ed., pp. 3–18). New York, NY. Sommerness, S, Bangdiwala, A, Hirt, C, Gams, Rauk, P, Avery, M, Delkoski, S., Miller, K., & Landers, D. (2018). Birth outcomes after implementation of an evidence-based guideline for managing delayed-pushing in the second stage of labor in women with epidural analgesia. Research on Women’s Health, 1(1), 1. doi: 10.24983/scitemed.rwh.2018.00059 Song, Y., & Lindquist, R. (2018). Critical review of mindfulness-based stress reduction for anxiety and depression among patients with heart disease. Asia Life Sciences, 15(1), 1–8. Song, Y., Lee, S., & Lindquist, R. (2018). Perspective on future research. In R. Lindquist, M. F. Tracy, & M. Snyder (Eds.), Complementary and alternative therapies in nursing (8th ed., pp. 493–506). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
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Stewart, D., & Mueller, C. (2018). Substance use disorder among nurses: Quality improvement in pre-licensure nursing education. Nurse Educator, 43(3), 132–135. Sturdevant, D. L., Mueller, C.A., & Buckwalter, K. C. (2018). Measurement of nursing home culture change: Systematic review. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 11(2), 103–115. Svavarsdottir, E. K., Looman, W., Tryggvadottir, G. B., & Garwick, A. (2018). Psychometric testing of the Iceland health care practitioner illness beliefs questionnaire among school nurses. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 32(1), 261–269. Taliaferro, L. A., McMorris, B. J., & Eisenberg, M. E. (2018). Connections that moderate risk of non-suicidal self-injury among transgender and gender nonconforming youth. Psychiatry Research, 268, 65–67. Tanem, J., & McKechnie, A. C. (2018). A mobile application as a tool for guided participation. In Guided participation in pediatric nursing practice: Relationshipbased teaching and learning with parents, children, and adolescents (pp. 355–370). New York City, NY: Springer. Taylor, A. M., Shih, J., Ha, G., Gao, G. F., Zhang, X., Berger, A. C., … Giama, N., ….Meyerson, M. (2018). Genomic and functional approaches to understanding cancer aneuploidy. Cancer Cell, 33(4), 676–689.e3. Thorsson, V., Gibbs, D. L., Brown, S. D., Wolf, D., Bortone, D. S., Ou Yang, T.-H., … Giama, N., ….Shmulevich, L. (2018). The immune landscape of cancer. Immunity, 48(4), 812–830.e14. Tracy, M. F. (2018). Glycemic control. In V. S. Good & P. L. Kirkwood (Eds.), Advanced critical care nursing (2nd ed., 483-510). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. Travis, D., Alpern, J., Convertino, M., Craft, M., Gillespie, T., Robertson, C., … Stauffer, W. (2018). Biodiversity and health. In Y. Hermann, J.A. & Johnson-Walker (Eds.), Beyond One Health: From recognition to results (pp. 153–176). Hoboken, NJ: WileyBlackwell. Utter, J., Larson, N., Berge, J. M., Eisenberg, M. E., Fulkerson, J. A., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2018). Family meals among parents: Associations with nutritional, social and emotional wellbeing. Preventive Medicine, 113, 7–12. Vaughan, C. P., Markland, A. D., Smith, P. P., Burgio, K. L., Kuchel, G. A., Abadir, P. M., … Wyman, J. F. (2018). Report and research agenda of the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging bedside-to-bench conference on urinary incontinence in older adults: A translational research agenda for a complex geriatric syndrome. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66(4), 773–782.
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ON THE BOOKSTANDS The eighth edition of Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing won an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, placing third in the Adult Primary Care category. The book was edited by Professor Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAHA, FAAN, Associate Professor Mary Fran Tracy, PhD, RN, CCNS, and Professor Emeritus Mariah Snyder, PhD, RN. Fourteen faculty from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing contributed to the book, which is the only book about complementary and alternative therapies written specifically for nurses that focuses on essential evidence for practice. It published by Springer Publishing Co. in March 2018. The second edition of Integrative Nursing, edited by Professor Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Mary Koithan, PhD, RN, FAAN, was published by Oxford University Press.
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Kuei-Min Chen receives Distinguished Leadership Award by Brett Stursa
Kuei-Min Chen, PhD ’00, MS ‘96, an established gerontological health expert working to advance the health and well-being of older adults in Taiwan and around the world, received the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, awarded by the University of Minnesota Global Programs and Strategy Alliance (GPS Alliance) and the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. The award is conferred on international alumni who have attained unusual distinction as professionals in their careers and have demonstrated sustained outstanding achievement and leadership. In her 30 years as a gerontological clinical nurse specialist, Chen has made significant contributions that benefit aging populations. Recently
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named vice president for global affairs at Kaohsiung Medical University, she also holds a number of high-ranking positions at the Ministry of Science and Technology and Kaohsiung City Government. She has had more than 76 articles published in journals, established the first master’s program in long-term care and aging at Kaohsiung Medical University and was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2017. Chen began her career in 1992 when she graduated from Fooyin University with her associate degree in nursing. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of Dubuque in Iowa and a master’s and a PhD degree at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Chen’s dissertation focused on the use of tai chi with community dwelling elders. She has expanded on this research throughout her career, concentrating on the efficacy of other complementary therapies with elders in a variety of settings. We asked her about her maroon and gold spirit, what drew her to nursing research and how aging differs in Taiwan compared to the United States.
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hat were some of your favorite memories of being a Golden Gopher? As an international student, my professor and mentor Mariah Snyder knew that I was from another culture and that we didn’t have football or hockey. So she took me to those games and I learned about hockey, football, and, especially, the Gopher spirit. I always remember I’m one of the Gophers. Since I graduated in 2000, I haven’t had the chance to come back. My husband is a Gopher, too, so we reminisced since we’re back on campus. We walked across the campus and everything just came back, all those days. We still remember going to Village Wok for lunch, especially the sweet and sour chicken.
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hat drew you to nursing? Particularly, nursing research?
I was 16 when I started my nursing junior college program in Taiwan. At that time, I didn’t like business or mechanics, so I thought maybe nursing was suitable for me. It wasn’t until the second year, when I went through the crowning ceremony to get my nurses hat, that’s the moment I really got touched and influenced by Nightingale. That’s when I decided nursing was for me and I haven’t had any regret.
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“ Nursing is a great profession because you can take care of yourself, take care of your family, and then, you can take care of other people.”
Kuei-Min Chen, right, with her mentor Mariah Snyder
Nursing is a great profession because you can take care of yourself, take care of your family, and then, you can take care of other people. Now that I’m in the academic area, I’m not only teaching, but also doing research. I can provide the community services and also collaborate with the government. I have many, many things I can do, just based on my nursing foundation.
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ave you noticed any difference in healthy aging in the United States versus Taiwan? I think culture does make a difference in terms of healthy aging. In terms of food, there is a big difference. I think people in western culture consume more calories. In Taiwan it is more common to eat vegetables, fiber. In terms of exercise, I think in the United States older adults are more active and outgoing. Eastern culture, especially for older adults, is more conservative. So that’s something we really have to find a way to motivate them to exercise.
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ave you had any professional setbacks? How did you overcome them? That’s very important, how I overcame obstacles. After I graduated, I immediately got a grant from the government. While that was encouraging, after a year, my research findings were not what I expected. When I did a tai chi study with older adults in long-term care facilities, I expected that it would have effect on them. But after the study, the result was not significant and I was puzzled. At that time, I felt a non-significant result was equal to failing. I perceived that very wrongly, and now I know that.
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ou’re back in Minnesota to be honored for the GPS Alliance Distinguished Alumni Award. What does it mean to you to be recognized as a leader in the field of nursing? It definitely means a lot to me, especially from my second home and from the university that taught me what I know. In Taiwan, we have of this university, and the university should make you feel proud. After you graduate, you should make the university feel proud that you graduated from this university.” So this really means so much to me.
While I’ve been successful with grant applications, I’ve had a harder time getting published. For one very special paper, six journals rejected my paper, until the seventh one, which has a very high ranking. That paper ended up being the main paper for me to be promoted as a full professor. Now I use this story for my graduate students to encourage them to keep trying. www.nursing.umn.edu | 41
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SCHOOL NURSE Nathan Grumdahl’s work at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis requires more than Band-Aids and ice packs by Brett Stursa Five minutes into the first period at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis, the school nurse, Nathan Grumdahl, is contemplating calling 911. A teenage girl is in his office wheezing and complaining that she is dizzy. She tells Grumdahl that she was in the emergency room at 3 a.m. this morning with an asthma attack and she doesn’t have her rescue inhaler. He coaches her through breathing exercises, listens to her lungs and takes her vitals, jotting notes on his hand — an old habit from his days as an emergency room nurse. On his mind is another student’s death from unmanaged asthma at her home only days ago. Grumdahl calls the student’s mom, who is 45 minutes away and without a way to get to the school. Without other better options, he calls the paramedics. When the first responders and paramedics arrive — cramming into the nurse’s office, which still has a stovetop from its days as the teacher’s lounge – they give the girl a nebulizer treatment and take her back to the hospital she was at only hours ago. Most days don’t start this way, but it’s not uncommon either. “There are days where I don’t stop, I’m eating, charting, running, responding to calls, getting meds,” said Grumdahl. “It can be pretty intense.” A TEAM OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Grumdahl is just one of a team of health professionals working at the school. A dentist comes in once or twice a week and there are social workers, mental health therapists, medical assistants and paraprofessionals on hand daily. Given the number of American Indian students, about 10 percent, there is a mental health professional from the Indian Health Board and a social worker from the district’s Indian Education Program.
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Of the students attending Northeast, nearly half are African American students and about a fourth are white. The vast majority — 80 percent — qualify for free or reduced lunches and 20 percent of the students receive special education services. Grumdahl adds that many of the students are homeless or in transitional housing, including the teenager with the asthma attack. The school is equipped to address some of the challenges that can get in the way of learning. There is a room full of toiletries and clothes for students to take who need them, a washer and dryer, and a punching bag and yoga mat for de-escalation. PUNK ROCK DAYS Prior to becoming a school nurse, this isn’t what Grumdahl envisioned the work would look like and he didn’t see himself as one either. In fact, he spent a few years touring as a musician with the punk rock band Selby Tigers, which eventually led to opening for The Hives. He was selling vintage musical instruments when his son had to be delivered via an emergency C-section. That health scare reminded Grumdahl of an earlier interest in becoming a nurse. “I remember thinking if I’m ever going to do it, I’ve got to do it now,” said Grumdahl. So in his early 30s, he enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the University of Minnesota. Juggling the responsibilities of work, being a dad and full-time student was hard, but he thinks he got more out of the experience than he would have when he was younger. Although he doesn’t fit the typical profile, he said serving as a school nurse was an immediate fit. “You don’t see a ton of men working in any kind of pediatric field, especially as a school nurse, it’s pretty rare,” said Grumdahl. “But after the first pediatric
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rotation I did as a student nurse, I was like ‘This is it.’” He credits his initial interest in nursing to having a younger sister who is developmentally disabled, and he is also a child sexual assault survivor. “There is a piece of it for me that wants to be there for kids,” said Grumdahl. “That, for me, informs how I showed up to nursing.” NOT A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL ENVIRONMENT Grumdahl learned early on that as the school nurse at Northeast, there would be no one-size-fits-all answers. “It’s not as simple as recommending a parent take a kid to the doctor,” he said. “It’s the public health piece that can be difficult.” While difficult, he also finds the work meaningful. “The stuff that these kids are dealing with is profound,” he said. “I’m providing another layer of support in their lives, so when they’re at school there
is someone who is knowledgeable and who they know cares about them when they’re in a bad place.” Not long after the girl with the asthma attack was wheeled away on a stretcher, another student comes in complaining of a sore tooth. Grumdahl is quick to ask him when his last cleaning was and to remind him that he can see a dentist at the school. He also asks if he had breakfast and when the student said he hadn’t, Grumdahl reminds him he can have breakfast for free at the school and encourages him to have lunch. Later, when a student with Spina Bifida comes in, the banter is easy and light hearted. “Being a school nurse here means supporting a community of kids that are not getting a lot of support in this world and that’s pretty meaningful. You can throw yourself at it 150 percent and it will be like ‘give me some more,’” said Grumdahl. “So yeah, this is the kind of nursing I want to do.”
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CLASS NOTES Amber Herdzina Halverson, DNP ’18, accepted a position as a nurse practitioner at Consultative Health and Medicine, which serves assisted living facilities throughout the Twin Cities. Amy Hoelscher, DNP ’17, BSN ’08, was named an innovation fellow at the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center and is the first nurse to be selected for the fellows program. She has worked as a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Minnesota for more than 10 years.
Sarah Guzinski Cascino, DNP ’14, received the 2018 Northwestern Memorial Hospital Pinnacle Nurse Leader Award. She was one of two nurses recognized at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago. Anne LaFlamme, DNP ’13, received Innovation and Technology Award from the Women’s Health Leadership Trust.
Sheryl Ramstad, DNP ‘17, MN ‘13, spoke at a Board of Regents meeting in February about professional graduate education and the role her advanced degree played in her career trajectory.
Roxanna Gapstur, PhD ’10, MS ’97, was appointed president and CEO of WellSpan Health in Pennsylvania, which is the central Pennsylvania health system. Gapstur had been serving as president of Methodist Hospital and senior vice president of HealthPartners in Minnesota. She is the first female to be named president and CEO of WellSpan Health.
Kathryn Dopkins, DNP ’16, accepted a position as a hospice nurse at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Jodi Wieczorek, MS ’09, accepted the position as director of the Cancer Care & Infusion Center for Northfield Hospital and Clinics in Minnesota.
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Diane Thorson, MS ’01, was awarded the 2018 Barbara O’Grady Excellence in Public Health Nursing Leadership Award by the Local Public Health Association of Minnesota. Ann Lumbar Bendson, MS ’00, was named School Nurse of the Year by the School Nurse Organization of Minnesota. A longtime Minneapolis Public Schools nurse, she currently serves at Kenny Community School. Caroline Rosdahl, BSN ’60, wasn’t allowed to be in the U of M Marching Band back in the 1950s because women weren’t allowed to march. Twenty years later, when she returned to the University for her master’s degree, she marched in that band. Ten years after she marched, her son would join. Thirty years after that, her granddaughters are marching in the band. Her family’s story was highlighted at half time during the 2018 homecoming football game.
IN MEMORY Margaret Haselton Grundstrom, BSN ’39
Carol Larson Ekelund, BSN ’57
Christine Cramer Hogan, BSN ’01
Dolly Maas Kawczynski, BSN ’40 Elizabeth Danheim Martinka, BSN ’45
Yvonne (Bonnie) Courteau Vonter, BSN ’58
Cheri Langmade O’Shields, former DNP student
Dorothy Cochran Romson, BSN ’45
Ruth Hass, MS ‘59, BSN ‘50
Doris Derrington Ingraham, BSN ’46
Shirley V Connelly, BS ’60 Nursing Education
Mary Jane Weisser Olson, BSN ’46 Phelba Braff, BSN ’47 Lorraine Dahl Jenkins, BSN ’47 Yvonne Norquist Larson, BSN ’47 Sharon Hill Thal, BSN ‘52 Alice Foot Dettwiler, BS’53 Nursing Education Frances Hillstrom Morningstar, BSN ’54 Mary Fraser Uhl, BSN ’54 Betty Johnson, BSN ’55 Phyllis Halvorson Johnson, BSN ’55 Julia Cable Toperzer, BSN ‘55 Catharine Nyquist Campbell, BSN ’56
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Grace Frejlach McDonald, BS ’60 Nursing Education Elaine Davis, BSN ‘69 Karen Danielson, MS ’72 Joan Stenberg, MS ‘75, BSN ‘54 Darlene Engbarth Wheeler, MS ’79 Norma Jean Deedrick Krantz, MS ’81, BSN ‘78 Marilyn R Mihelcic Hays, MPH ’87, ME ’60, BSN ’53 Arlys Benjamin, MS ’89, BS ’51, BSN ’47 Kathryn Hoehn Anderson, PhD ’93, MS ’91
Remembering Jean Kintjen Andrews passed away on Jan. 11. Beginning in 1972, Andrews held various appointments with the School of Nursing and retired in 1990 as an associate professor. She specialized in curriculum evaluation and development, and led an Area Health Education Center (AHEC) project in northwestern Minnesota supporting rural nursing by establishing an academic progression in nursing curriculum that created educational steps for rural nurses to advance in their career. Additionally, she taught the education courses in the Master of Science program.
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Margaret Newman, early nurse theorist and faculty emeritus, passes Margaret Ann Newman, who served as a nurse theorist and professor at the University of Minnesota from 1984 to 1996, died Dec. 18 at the age of 85. She is widely known for her theory of health as expanding consciousness and published the earliest primer on developing nursing theory, Theory Development in Nursing. “Dr. Newman was indeed a visionary, introducing her theory of health over four decades ago,” said Dean Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP. “Her focus on the expanding consciousness, the patient as a whole, the impact of nurses’ transforming presence, designing nursing interventions that foster patients finding meaning in their care experience, and viewing disease as a meaningful part of health are as important in health and care transformation today as four decades ago.
We celebrate her contributions as a professor at the University of Minnesota and her commitment to working closely with doctoral students.” Newman earned bachelor’s degrees from Baylor University and the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, a master’s degree from University of California San Francisco and a PhD from New York University. She served as faculty at New York University, University of Tennessee and Penn State before coming to the University of Minnesota. In the 1980s, she served as a civilian consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General for Nursing Research. She retired from teaching in 1996 and was named professor emeritus by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. After her retirement, she remained active advancing nursing theory, education, research and practice through her presentations and publications, including her seventh book, Transforming Presence: the Difference that Nursing Makes.
School celebrates legacy of Cook-Lapidus, Foundation trustee, alum and psychiatric nurse June Cook-Lapidus, School of Nursing Foundation trustee, previous Foundation chair and Dean’s National Board of Visitors member emeritus, passed away Dec. 21. A “double Gopher,” Cook-Lapidus earned a master’s degree in nursing in 1978 and another master’s degree in psychiatric nursing in 1982. She worked in a private practice as a psychiatric nurse for several years, improving the lives of many with her therapy and counseling skills.
“June was incredibly committed to the School of Nursing. Not only did she grow philanthropic support for the school’s research efforts, she was the key leader in shaping and leading the school’s $45 million Empowering Health Campaign, the largest in school history,” said School of Nursing Development Director John Kilbride. “We are proud to count her as one of our most distinguished alums, for her contributions to mental health as a nurse practitioner, and for pushing the school to do it’s level best for the people and communities who were depending on us.”
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ALUMNI SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019 Marilyn Bach, MSN ’95, BSN ’74 Fairview Health Services, Organizational Development and Learning Consultant, Retired Anya Butzer, BSN ‘18 Fairview UMMC, Boynton Health Services, General Med/Surg, Public Health Nursing Anna A Munson Carpenter, MN ’16, BA Board Secretary Fairview Health Services, NICU Nurse Jean A Carraher, DNP ’16, MS ’03, BSN ’95, BS ’91 Board Chair Elect Fairview Health Services, Nursing Professional Practice Leader
Yumi Izumi, MN ’16, BA Children’s Hospital Minneapolis, Critical Care Nurse
Sheryl Ramstad, DNP ’17, JD, MN ’13, BA ’72, BASW ’67 Board Chair
Laura Kirk, PhD. ’08, MS ’97, BSN ’95 University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Assistant Professor
Alice Sanders, MSN ’09, BSN ’05 Medica, Director of Health Strategy and Consultation
Cheryl Lanigan, BSN ’73 Minnesota Visiting Nurses Association, Director of QI and Analysis
Nick Schuler, BSN ‘18 Fairview Health Services
Jaime Owens Levesque, MN ’16, BA Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Critical Care Nurse
Nicole Siddons, DNP ’16, BSN HealthEast, Family Practice Nurse Practitioner
Karen MacDonald, MSN ’87, BSN ’72 Past Chair Health Care and Leadership Consultant
Marc Skjervem, MSEd, BA University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Director, Office of Student & Career Advancement Services
Connie White Delaney, PhD, MA, BSN Professor and Dean
Shazia Mulla, MN ‘17 Children’s Minnesota, Neonatal ICU and Special Care Nursery
Stephanie Tismer, BSN ‘86 Allina Health, North Region Infection Prevention Manager
Shanda L Demorest, DNP ’17, BSN ’13 University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Clinical Assistant Professor
Barbara Mullikin, MS, BSDH ’78 University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Associate Development Officer
Julie Vanderboom, MSN ’88, BSN ANW/Allina Health System & Clinics/ Medica, Retired
Maureen J Fuchs, PHN, BSN ’92 Minnesota Department of Health, Maternal Child Health/Home Visiting Consultant, Retired
Marjorie Page, DNP ’09, MSN ’95, BS ’93 School of Nursing Foundation Board Liaison M Health, Nursing Vice President in Inpatient Adult Acute Care Services, Retired
Teri Verner, DNP ‘12 HealthEast System, Director of the Integrative Services
Ann Gershone, DNP ‘17 Mental Health Counseling, Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Sara Weingartner BSN Student Representative
Amy Priddy, DNP ’17, MSN ’03, BSN ’86 Park Nicollet Health Services, Senior Infection Preventionist
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
We are well on our way to reaching ambitious goal OVERALL CAMPAIGN
71%
raised Goal
$45M
PREPARING NURSE LEADERS
79%
raised Goal
$33M
ENSURING FORWARDTHINKING FACULTY
46%
We know that the health care crisis is real. Our aging population, with increasingly complex and chronic conditions, combined with an uncoordinated delivery system are driving health care costs up and patient access and satisfaction down. As members of one of the largest and the most trusted profession in the nation, nurses are leading changes that address these issues. I believe there is no greater investment in the health of our communities than supporting the courageous men and women prepared at the School of Nursing. When the School of Nursing launched the public phase of Empowering Health - The Campaign for the School of Nursing, it represented the school’s first campaign in nearly 15 years, with a goal of raising $45 million by June 30, 2021. Since then, thanks to dedicated benefactors, faculty, staff, foundation board members, alums and friends of the school, we are well on our way to reaching our ambitious goal, as more than $32 million has been raised. Through this campaign — the largest of its kind in our school’s history — we will transform the lives of future nurses, researchers, system executives and other leaders through greater access to innovative learning. This is the moment when we empower the next 110 years for the School of Nursing and future generations. Join us!
raised Goal
$6M
John Kilbride Director of Development kilbride@umn.edu
BY THE NUMBERS
3,241
benefactors have donated to the campaign
1,129
benefactors are new donors to the school
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benefactors have contributed to 90% of our progress so far *As of 1/18/19
TRANSFORMING RESEARCH
11%
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SCHOLARSHIP provides more than financial support Donor Alice Kuramoto inspires MN student Song Yang
by Brett Stursa After graduating with a sociology degree and service as an AmeriCorps member, Song Yang was accepted into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Associate Program. “That was where my love for public health developed and what led me to look into a career in nursing,” said Yang. As a public health adviser, she helped to implement a sexually transmitted disease intervention project in California, in an area that had some of the state’s highest rates of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea. Eventually, intervention efforts were hindered as the local health department’s priorities began to mirror the conservative environment around it. “Unwilling to wave the white flag, I collaborated with four nurses to find ways to prioritize the syphilis outbreak in the county,” said Yang. “From the nurses, I saw strong advocates and nurses who weren’t just nurturers, but also strong fighters in the areas of health promotion and prevention, and that is exactly what I want to be.” Yang sought out a program specifically focused on those looking to change their career paths to nursing and was accepted into the competitive Master of Nursing program at the University of Minnesota. When she learned she was a recipient of the Dr. Alice Kuramoto Nursing Scholarship, she knew her aspirations of becoming a nurse would become a reality.
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After receiving the Dr. Alice Kuramoto Nursing Scholarship, Song Yang knew her aspirations of becoming a nurse would become a reality.
“I immediately researched who Dr. Kuramoto was and was inspired by her achievements,” said Yang. “It makes me happy to see such an incredible nurse, who also is Asian, doing amazing things. Her path inspires me to become a role model for my own community.” The scholarship lightened her financial burden and allowed her to focus on learning. After graduating in December, she’s eager to pursue her career as a nurse. “I look forward to the endless opportunities a career in nursing will provide and the vital role I will have in transforming health care,” said Yang.
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“ Her path inspires me to become a role model for my own community.” – Song Yang, about Alice Kuramoto
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SCHOOL OF NURSING FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES SPRING 2019 Bernard Aldrich, MBA, BS CEO and President, Rimage Corporation (ret.) and Board Chair, Apogee Enterprises Jeannine Bayard, MPH, BSN Foundation Board Chair United Health Care (ret.) Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP Professor and Dean, University of Minnesota School of Nursing Kathleen Halverson, DHA, MHSA, BSN, RN, FACHE, CPXP Vital Health Links Cynthia Jurgensen, MSN, RN Clinical Review Director, UnitedHealth Group John S. Kilbride, MA Director of Development, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN Professor and Senior Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Interim Associate Vice President for Education, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center
Trustee Emeriti Sandra J. Anderson Dawn Bazarko, DNP, MPH, RN, FAAN Mary Lou Christensen, MPH, BSN Susan Forstrom, MSN Patricia Kane, MSN Marilee Miller, PhD Carolyn Schroeder, BSN
Nancy Olson, MPH, BSN Abbott Northwestern Hospital (ret.) David Rothenberger, MD Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School Jack Spillane Founder and Board Chair, National Purity Nancy Dezellar Walsh, DNP, RN Dezellar Walsh Consulting Ex-Officio Member Marjorie Page, DNP
Lisa Moon, PhD, RN Consultant, Advocate Consulting
Same-day and next-day appointments at our Nurse Practitioners Clinics With two convenient locations in the heart of Minneapolis, our Nurse Practitioners Clinics give you even more access to compassionate care for common conditions. U of M Campus Clinics and Surgery Center 909 Fulton St. SE, Floor 5, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Call: 612-676-4580 Visit: MHealth.org
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The School of Nursing celebrated the opening of its second Nurse Practitioners Clinic. The new clinic is located at the University of Minnesota Health Clinic and Surgery Center.
The newest inductees to the Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
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Dean Connie White Delaney traveled to Ethiopia in December to deepen the school’s relationship with several universities, including Jimma University, to grow advanced practice and doctoral preparation. She’s pictured with Jimma University director Samuel Abdu.
A trifecta of Living Legends, alumna Marie Manthey, Board of Visitor member Clara Adams-Ender, and Faculty ad Honorem Joanne Disch at the 2018 American Academy of Nursing reception, where Disch was named a Living Legend.
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