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The CONnection News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING
JUNE 2016
Note of Inspiration At least once a week, I receive an email, handwritten note, or KUDO from a student acknowledging a faculty member. I share these messages during our Faculty Council on a monthly basis. This month, I want to share with all of you an excerpt from a recent handwritten note from a student to a faculty teaching in our undergraduate programs.
Dean Jeannette Andrews
Inside This Issue Students Corner...............2-3 Alumni & Development...4-5
Dear Faculty, I want to thank you for all that you have done for me. I remember meeting with you during class with tears in my eyes and you looked at me and said that you believed in me. That meant so much to me. You are the professor who I learned to listen during lectures and you made learning come alive! You asked us to achieve great things, to study harder and longer, and to overcome what we didn’t realize we could do. That impact meant so much to me! I have not only been inspired to be the best student I can be, but have been inspired to believe in myself. You saw my potential and it helped me light a fire. I have so much respect for you and am so thankful for you. I will always ask the best of myself and set my dreams and goals high! Graduating BSN student This is a reminder to all of us to send notes of appreciation and gratitude to those that inspire you. These acknowledgements help to ignite sparks all around.
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Send Inquiries or Newsletter items to: Jan Johnson jnjohnso@mailbox.sc.edu
Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAAN Dean & Professor j.andrews@sc.edu
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Students Corner
Eboni Harris successfully defended
her dissertation proposal and passed the PhD Comprehensive Exam.
Student Spotlight: Martin Mrazeck, BSN Student Read it HERE.
Summer Externships
Anna Buford has an externship at Roper St. Francis in Charleston in the Neuro/ Spine unit.
Lanie Dreyer has an ex-
ternship at Palmetto Health Richland Hospital in women’s and NICU services.
Marisa Irons has an ex-
ternship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ICU.
Nursing Students Go Global
The College of Nursing is now on Instagram! Follow us and tag your photos #uofscnursing Several students in the College of Nursing spent time during the past semester working and studying across the globe. Read more HERE.
Welcome to upper division Class of December 2017.
Caroline Sloop has been awarded the USC Administrative Employees Club (AEC) scholarship.
VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development Carolina Nurses Go the Distance While Rochester, Minnesota, might not be the first place you think of when you think Carolina alumni, several of our young alumni now call it home. Why? The Mayo Clinic. Read more Here.
Cathy Landis, MSN (‘86) has
been named chief executive officer of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Columbia.
Read more Here.
Alumni Awards
Each fall, the College of Nursing recognizes excellence in our nursing graduates by awarding Outstanding Nurse Alumnus awards at our alumni celebration. If you wish to nominate an alumnus for one of these awards, use the nomination forms below. Nominations are due by August 31, 2016.
Kahlil
Demonbreun
DNP, BSN (‘94), MSN (‘98), has been selected to join the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP). View the forms HERE.
Save The Date October 7-8, 2016 Join us at the inaugural College of Nursing Alumni Weekend! Stacy Collier, BSN (‘97), MSN (‘00), is no stranger to hard work. As Chief Nursing Officer for KershawHealth Medical Center, Collier’s workday starts around 6:30 in the morning, if not earlier. Her days, filled with meetings, rounds in the hospital and nursing units and office time, end around 7:00 in the evening. Despite long 12-hour days, Collier exudes energy and passion in her work.
“My motto is to have good days and better days, and that there are no bad days!” she said. Read more HERE.
Events include: Viana McCown Lecture Presentations of 2016 Alumni Awards Sigma Theta Tau 50th Aniversary Celebration AND MORE!
All gifts and pledges to support Nursing can be sent to: USC College of Nursing 1027 Barnwell Street Columbia, SC 29208 Gift Processing Checks Made Payable to the USC Educational Foundation or at our website http://giving.sc.edu To learn how you can make a difference at USC College of Nursing
Craig Smith, BSN (‘05) featured in Lexington
Life Magazine’s “Celebrating Nurses: A True Calling”. Read it Here.
contact the Development Office at 803-777-3468.
Faculty and Staff Notes
Reaching across the continents
The College of Nursing is helping to build S.C.’s nursing workforce, but the college’s reach is also global, improving health care around the world. Deb McQuilkin, the college’s director of global initiatives, works with the USC Global Health Initiative, which includes faculty members from several schools and departments participating in various international educational, service and research programs. “Our mission is to identify and solve complex global health problems and disparities in a sustainable manner while training the next generation of global health leaders,” McQuilkin states. Read more Here.
Dr. Helen Mulhern Halasz’s article, “Advis-
ing Strategies for Graduate Student Degree Progression,” has been published on Academic Advising Today. Read it Here.
Cheryl Nelson joined the Nexus Tour with Cocky’s Reading Express to promote literacy.
The 2015-2016 Cockcroft Fellows project “Bridging the Transition to Practice: Identifying Qualities and Skills Necessary for New Nurses,” authored by Andrea Coyle, Joy Huntington, Robin Matutina, and Kari Mau, has been granted funding through Sigma Theta Tau Gamma Omicron At Large Chapter and has been accepted for poster presentation at the Lowcountry Nursing Research Conference.
Dr. Carolyn Harmon
has been elected to serve on the board of directors for the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) as the Education Director.
Dr. Kathrene Brendell’s abstract, “Neuro-
College of Nursing faculty participated in a CO awareness community event at the Lancaster Fire Department.
science & Psychotherapy: Implications for Practice,� has been accepted for podium presentation at American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) 30th Annual Conference this October in Hartford, Connecticut.
Research Spotlight: Beverly Baliko, PhD, RN Associate Professor Dr. Beverly Baliko is currently in the penultimate semester of a 3-year SAMHSA grant to train residents and graduate students to use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) as a strategy to reach patients in their practices who may use substances at risky levels. (SBIRT) is an evidence-based technique originally developed for use in primary care settings to a) identify persons who have, or who are at risk for, alcohol and substance use disorders, b) utilize motivational interviewing techniques to conduct brief interventions, and c) provide referral to ongoing treatment if needed. Faculty from medicine, nursing, social work and rehab counseling collaborated to develop online didactic training modules that students use to prepare for hands-on practice. In nursing, these modules are integrated into the graduate health assessment course. Dr. Baliko and Dr. Mary Boyd, an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, use virtual technology or on-campus meetings to provide opportunities for students to practice and demonstrate their competencies. As of Fall 2015, they had trained 112 NP students, and should reach around 200 by the end of the grant (45 students this semester). The training is well-received and NP student evaluation outcomes (knowledge, performance and satisfaction) are equal to or higher than those of other disciplines. As an extension of this project, Dr. Baliko and her team have submitted another grant to include clinical supervision and continue to expand training opportunities in the community.
Professor Lydia Zager and Dr. Karen Worthy
presented“Patient Safety Requires Concept Mastery” at the QSEN Forum 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. They won the “People’s Choice Award” for the poster which focused on incorporating a concept based curriculum as an innovative approach to assist students in moving from memorization of information to long-term retention to provide safe and effective patient care.
Dr. Sue Heiney’s article, “Fatalism Revisited: Further Psychometric Testing Across Two Studies,” has been published in the Journal of Religion and Health. Read it Here.
Service-Learning Faculty Spotlight
Are you looking for a change? Help shape the future of nursing Dr. Patrick Hickey is a
View our open faculty positions here
Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Nursing and the Faculty Principal for the Capstone Scholars Program where he oversees over 1500 freshmen/sophomores. Dr. Hickey regularly teaches service-learning courses and has been very involved in the community, both local and abroad.
Watch it HERE.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF NURSING No Limits to our Teaching • First and largest BSN and nursing graduate programs in the state of SC • NCLEX and Nurse Practitioner Board Pass Rates exceeding both state and national averages • New PhD student fellowships and stipends • National and Internationally recognized faculty • Online graduate programs ranked #1 in the country by US News and World Report No Limits to our Innovation • State-of-the-art Client Simulation Lab providing revolutionizing and quality education to students • Cutting edge research in health care delivery, cancer survivorship, health promotion, and vulnerable populations • 4th DNP program in the country, now provided online • Center for Nursing Leadership is leading state-wide action coalitions responsive to the national Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action No Limits to our Caring • The College of Nursing’s Children and Family Healthcare Center is the only nurse managed medical home in South Carolina • Our dedicated expert clinical faculty provide comprehensive healthcare to all ages of an underserved population • Over 90 scholarships provided each year to our students, with the generosity from our alumni and donors • Well established partnerships with health systems and stakeholders across the state No Limits to our Scholarship • National leaders in nursing research with 86% tenure track faculty have externally funded research, 5 new NIH awards in past two years • Diverse portfolio of research funding from NCI, NINR, NHLBI, NLM, CDC, HRSA, Duke Foundation, & others • Cancer Survivorship Research Center focuses on: Vulnerable Populations, Health Promotion/Risk Reduction, and Cancer Survivorship
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