Knight Nurses
CHARGE ON AN ACADEMIC YEAR FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT.
THOUGHT LEADERS A Critical Time in Critical Care INNOVATORS Impacting Nursing’s Future SCIENTISTS Improving Health Across the Lifespan HIGH ACHIEVERS Noble Knight Nurses and the Class of 2020
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2020 U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings
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BEST ONLINE MASTER’S IN NURSING PROGRAMS
HIGH-ACHIEVING GRADUATES % %
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NCLEX-RN First-time Pass Rate of BSN Graduates
100
Nurse Practitioner Board Certification Exam Pass Rate
SURPASSING NATIONAL & STATE AVERAGES
ACCREDITED SIMULATION CENTER The college’s Simulation, Technology, Innovation & Modeling (STIM) Center has recently received accreditation in the area of Teaching/Education from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Council for Accreditation of Healthcare Simulation Programs.
CRITICAL RESEARCH
COVID-19, Mass Casualty & More Annette Bourgault / Critical Care Nursing Expert / Assistant Professor and Editor of Critical Care Nurse, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS: Using an electromagnetic bedside device, instead of blind insertion, for feeding tube placement can decrease complications, such as collapsed lung. – American Journal of Critical Care, January 2020 Assess current practices to determine if they are low value and can be de-implemented. By removing unnecessary and potentially harmful practices, clinicians may optimize time to focus on other patient care issues proven to improve outcomes and mitigate patient risk for harm. – Critical Care Nurse, December 2019
Jascinth Lindo / Public Health Expert / Associate Professor on UCF’s contact testing and tracing task force, coordinating with the Florida Department of Health to optimize university systems for COVID-19 testing, potential outbreak tracing, and early detection and safety measures
Frank Guido-Sanz / Trauma and Combat Researcher / Assistant Professor serving on the COVID-19 frontline in a surgical ICU in Miami, and lead nurse practitioner volunteer with Trauma Critical Care Team – South, National Disaster Medical System STRESS MANAGEMENT FROM AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) TO REAL LIFE:
2020 NONPF* Outstanding Researcher
With funding from the National Science Foundation, research being carried out jointly by the UCF College of Nursing and the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering is examining whether augmented reality simulations of mass casualty scenarios can trigger stress in trainees, and hence be used to help teach stress management techniques. * National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF)
“ Mass casualties are totally unexpected situations that involve large groups of citizens. Lessons learned from this training can be applied to other situations, including biological mass casualties like the current COVID-19 pandemic.” FRANK GUIDO-SANZ, LEAD NURSING RESEARCHER ON AR STUDY
I M PAC T I N G T H E F U T U R E
Innovative Ideas A New Patient Simulator Initial research results are in on the patented physical-virtual patient simulator. The innovation, which combines the tangible characteristics of a manikin with the flexibility and richness of a human patient, received encouraging results for perceived realism of visual, audio and tactile cues as well as ease of interaction.*
“ The technology isn’t highly complex – it’s the idea and the combination of things that have a powerful effect.” GREG WELCH COMPUTER SCIENTIST
DEVELOPED BY A TEAM OF INTERDISCIPLINARY UCF RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING: • Greg Welch / AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation / Multiple Patent Holder / 2020 Pegasus Professor – UCF’s highest academic faculty honor • Laura Gonzalez / Director of STIM Center / Certified Advanced Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE-A) / Clinical Associate Professor • Desiree Díaz / Associate Professor / CHSE-A • Mindi Anderson / Director of Healthcare Simulation Graduate Program / CHSE-A / Professor / Recently Appointed Board Member of International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) * The Journal of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare, April 2020
UCF ranks #29 among public universities in the U.S. and #65 of public and private universities worldwide for securing patents.
Training in Telehealth With a $1.5 million grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration, UCF is implementing telehealth simulations to train future primary care nurse practitioners to serve rural and disadvantaged communities. “This is especially important in our current healthcare climate with COVID-19, but also due to the fact that many underserved populations lack access to healthcare,” said Jacqueline LaManna, Advanced Nursing Education Workforce project director and assistant professor.
Creative Approach to Combat Stigmas With funding from the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation for innovation in arts and wellness, public health nurse scientist Christa Cook, associate professor, is leading a team using research and data to produce educational videos and comics to combat HIV stigma and discrimination among students and community healthcare providers.
GOLDEN EXAMPLES
Noble Knight Nurse Honorees Recognizing 40 extraordinary Knight Nurse alumni for our 40th anniversary, including: THE ENTREPRENEUR / Kenneth W. Dion ’91BSN / Assistant Dean for Business Innovation and Strategic Relationships, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing / President-Elect of Sigma, Nursing Honor Society / Founder of Decision Critical, Inc. and TurnPath, LLC THE COMIC CRUSADER / Blake Lynch ’13BSN (Nurse Blake) / An RN finding humor in healthcare with millions of social media followers / Creator of Banned4Life and Nurses Support Their Young campaigns THE LEADER / Cathleen Wheatley ’17DNP / President, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center / System Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations, Wake Forest Baptist Health THE RESEARCHER / Sigrid Ladores ’13PhD / Associate Professor of Nursing and Scientist, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
View the full list of honorees at nursing.ucf.edu
I M P R O V I N G H E A LT H
Experts Across the Lifespan Carmen Giurgescu / Women’s Health Crusader for the Disadvantaged / Associate Dean of Research and Chatlos Foundation Endowed Chair As a primary investigator on multiple National Institutes of Health grants, totaling more than $5.6 million, Giurgescu is examining the paternal role in adverse birth outcomes in Black families and how social stressors alter inflammation that can lead to preterm birth. Additionally, she is studying maternal distress effects on infants among Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
2020 Women’s Health and Childbearing Research Interest Group Senior Investigator Award
Ladda Thiamwong / Aging Expert / Assistant Professor and Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing In the World Health Organization’s Decade of Healthy Aging, Thiamwong is using her expertise to advise the City of Orlando on being a more age-friendly community by serving on the Mayor’s Committee on Livability and Healthy Aging. Additionally, as the lead nursing researcher on a new study, Thiamwong found using technology can help increase the success of fall risk screening, guide fall interventions, and help older adults be more successful in self-monitoring their own risk of falling.
E D U C AT I O N A L E X C E L L E N C E
Class of 2020 The graduating class was noteworthy beyond the nature of the graduation celebrations, held virtually due to COVID-19.
A Timely Look at PPE Relating to Footwear The Honors Undergraduate Thesis “Hospital Footwear as a Vector for Organism Transmission” by David Frederick ’20BSN has been downloaded in more than a dozen countries after the COVID-19 outbreak.
676 Total Graduates
591 BSN Degrees
51 Helping Underserved Children Grow Up Healthier For her Honors Undergraduate Thesis, Chantelle Garcia Medina ’20BSN evaluated the nutritional status of children in Peru during an interdisciplinary medical service trip with UCF. Her findings will guide future education in the community.
MSN Degrees + Graduate Certificates
34 Doctoral Degrees
72 University Academic Honors
Location Linked to Avoidable Preterm Births In her dissertation, certified nurse midwife Corinne Audette ’20PhD identified a higher rate of potentially avoidable preterm births among women living in areas with limited geographical access to OB care. Improving access to care could positively impact OB outcomes in Florida.
8 4.0 GPAs
20 Honors College Dual Graduates *Spring-Summer 2020
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AT-A- GLANCE
30,000 HOURS OF SERVICE IN 17 UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
11,000+ NURSING ALUMNI
2,800+ NURSING STUDENTS
10% OF FACULTY ARE CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE SIMULATION EDUCATORS, 3 ADVANCED (CHSE-A); 1 CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE SIMULATION OPERATIONS SPECIALIST ON STAFF
19 NATIONAL FELLOWS ON FACULTY
$2.6M IN RESEARCH FUNDING FOR 2019–20