Dorrie Fontaine
Dear Dorrie: A Leader's Legacy
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Historic Pavilion IX, begun in 1820, completed in 1823, and first occupied in 1825, has been the Fontaines’ home since 2011, and the site of countless classes, gatherings, and celebrations ever since. A favorite among architects for its simplicity and distinctive curved exedra, the 5,000-square-foot pavilion (the Lawn’s smallest) is the result of Thomas Jefferson’s partnership with noted British architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Fontaines are Pavilion IX’s 15th residents. For the last eight years, Pavilion IX and its surrounding gardens have provided a lush backdrop to hundreds of School of Nursing events with students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members, and a bricks-and-mortar reminder of nursing’s centrality to the University, its hospital, and community. Even inquisitive tourists, garden enthusiasts, and out-oftowners are welcomed.
“I know people are curious,” laughs Dean Dorrie Fontaine, “so we’ve always kept the blinds open.”
Richmond, Virginia based artist Loryn Brazier’s portrait of Dean Dorrie K. Fontaine—done this spring—will hang in UVA School of Nursing as a testament to Fontaine’s 11-year tenure as dean. More than 150 of Brazier’s paintings also hang in government, academic, corporate, and religious institutions across the country, and her work is part of permanent collections of both the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, both in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Barry Fontaine
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Dear Dorrie: A Leader's Legacy
Measuring Compassion's Might
Obesity: The Family Way?
Am Nurse, Will Travel
Class News & Notes
Was I Ready to Talk Race?
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SPRING 2019 magazine.nursing.virginia.edu SADIE HEATH CABANISS PROFESSOR & DEAN Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN EDITOR Christine Phelan Kueter CONTRIBUTORS Louisa Baker Elle Blevins Melissa Crawford (CNL ’15) Jessica Eustace Caroline Hirst Kelly Williams McCaskill Kenneth R. White, PhD, AGACNP, ACHCN, FACHE, FAAN PHOTOGRAPHY Dan Addison Jennifer Byrne Tom Cogill Barry Fontaine Christine Phelan Kueter Melody Robbins Coe Sweet Kay Taylor DESIGN Geoff Molinaro ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Shutterstock iStock ALUMNI COUNCIL COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Matt Lemieux (CNL ’11, PNP ’15) University of Virginia School of Nursing Established 1901 Virginia Nursing Legacy is published twice each year by the UVA School of Nursing and its Nursing Alumni Association using private funds.
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“ You are not leaving. Even as the light fades quickly now, you are arriving.” David Whyte (House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press, 1997)
Exit: How do I leave a place after 11 years as dean? started thinking about this a few years ago, knowing that leaving well is an art form. So I hired a legacy coach last summer to prepare me and our School for the transition. I found an expert in relationship-centered care in health care and appreciative inquiry who’s helped me see what is most important, what can be left behind, and what will never end. My coach—who called himself a “fellow traveler,” as he, too, nears retirement—is an award-winning professor with a powerful academic record and a gentle soul. When we met, he’d listen intently and ask probing questions I sometimes found difficult to answer. We each shared our triumphs and stories of sadness. Along the way, he shared wisdom: his own, from decades of bearing witness to the human condition, as well as insights from books, movies, photos, and family narratives. Our first meeting was a slow walk through exhibits at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, a place that tells the complex visual story of the indigenous people of North America, especially Native Americans—a perfect place to start a conversation about the journey from origin story to legacy. Across the arc of my deanship, I have been surrounded by delightful, overachieving staff, passionate faculty, and bright, devoted students, individuals who shaped our School with their resilience, compassion, grit, and humor—and expanded the power and reach of my deanship. And while I feel lucky to have received many accolades over the years, the reality is that everyone had a role in making our School amazing over the last decade, from the richness
of our clinical rotations to the importance of our research, the inclusivity of our curricula to the ways we teach, learn, and experience compassion and resilience. Truly, the best part of being dean is standing back in awe and appreciation; my sincere thanks to all those who made this job so gratifying. I might’ve taught and mentored others, but I, too, have learned and grown.
MORE THAN NICE WHAT DOES 10 YEARS OF THE COMPASSIONATE CARE INITIATIVE (CCI) LOOK LIKE?
What a beautiful journey it’s been!
Thousands of retreats, courses, lectures, film screenings, jam sessions, art classes, knitting lunches, t’ai chi movements, yoga and meditation classes, and writing celebrations. Regular classroom and clinic visits from Kenny the therapy dog. Workshops, classes, and new courses focused on wellbeing. Even a squeaky-wheeled cart that treads the halls of UVA Medical Center laden with poems, yoga schedules, healthy snacks, and sentimentally carved rocks (good for a palmed reminder in the dark of a nurse’s pocket).
Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor & Dean
Given the epidemic of burnout, attrition, substance abuse, and depression that plague modern clinicians, CCI has claimed an ever-more critical place in the lives of many during school, work, clinical practice, and beyond.
Receiving Sigma Nursing’s first-ever Healthy Work Environment Award earlier this winter was, as they say, icing on the cake. Thank you to alumni, and our team of staff, faculty, and students for making this place so grand. Together, we’ve accomplished much, which signals that my departure is less an end than a beginning.
P.S. I begin a sabbatical year starting this August, during which Tim Cunningham and I will complete a book, tentatively titled Compassionate Care as a Core Curriculum for Health Educators.
And if CCI was initially cast by many as “nice,” its tangible benefits and effects, says CCI Director Tim Cunningham, are increasingly action-oriented and measurable. In new research, Cunningham’s found that nurses who practice resilience activities like those taught through the CCI experience less burnout and are less likely to quit their jobs because of stress. He’s also learned that students who graduate from UVA’s nursing programs are statistically more likely to continue their resilience practices during their professional lives when compared to graduates from other nursing schools.
“We know that compassion takes time and it takes practice, it takes an open mind and courage,” explains Cunningham. “Our growing menu of free programs strengthens our clinicians’ selfcare which, in turn, supports their resilience that manifests as compassion.” CCI’s roots are modest. Begun in 2009 when newly appointed Dean Dorrie Fontaine and 10 other faculty and clinicians attended Upaya Institute and Zen Center’s “Being With Dying” program, CCI’s mission and focus has since morphed into an expansive thread that touches each part of the School, from its curricula and administrative practices to its clinical practice environments and advising. CCI initially gathered clinicians around resilience practices and workshops, but with the arrival of Kluge Professor Susan Bauer-Wu in 2013, its reach broadened to include students, faculty, staff, and even community members. A host of new courses focused on meaning-finding and flourishing have also flavored the School’s curriculum. Since Cunningham’s arrival in 2016, CCI’s vast programmatic offerings continue even as the science of resilience takes shape. Cunningham and post-doctoral research associate Ebru Çayir are currently studying the effect resilience activities have on clinicians’ sense of well-being after taking part in a high-octane simulation meant to cause them stress.
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// Senior nursing faculty and program directors began a three-month Institutional Equity Initiative, organized by Susan Kools, associate dean for diversity and inclusion. The courses were led by noted race scholar and USC professor Shaun Harper. In all, 20 nursing faculty took part in the institute.
Lourdes Carhuapoma
12.13 // INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine honors the School with its 2019 HEED Award, one of three-dozen American institutions honored for efforts in diversity and inclusion.
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// Clinical professor Ann Kellams, who teaches a Science of Lactation graduate course at the School with professor Emily Drake and directs the Well Newborn and Breast Feeding Medicine Services at UVA Medical Center, received a Salute to Service Award from the Medical Society of Virginia.
11.8 to 11.10 // UVA’s interprofessional “hub,” the Center for ASPIRE, hosted its fall Train-the-Trainer Faculty Development Program, which brought together teams from a half-dozen universities—including its first international group from Japan. 11.12 // An overflow crowd gathered to hear Bice Lecturer Lucy Kalanithi, who wrote the epilogue for her late husband Paul’s book, When Breath Becomes Air (Random House: 2016) and who shared the stage with associate dean Ken White to discuss her experience. 11.12 // PhD student Lourdes Carhuapoma was named an American Association of Colleges of Nursing Nurse Faculty Scholar. 12.6
// Professor Julie Haizlip, founder of the Center for Appreciative Practice and co-director of ASPIRE, was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academies of Practice in Medicine.
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History of Professional Nursing in the United States (Springer: 2018), written by professor emerita and American Association for the History of Nursing president Arlene Keeling (BSN ’74, MSN ’87, PhD ’92), earned the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year for 2019.
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// Nurse Mary Holmes and Bishop Sarah Kelley, UVA’s first African-American chaplain resident, shared their stories as “Women in the Movement,” part of UVA’s MLK Day festivities. PhD student Tori Tucker (BSN ’12) and 3rd year medical student Lois Davis moderated the panel, at which assistant dean and associate professor Ishan Williams received the 2019 MLK Award.
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// Associate professor Pamela DeGuzman (COLL ’92, BSN ’96, Darden ’00, MSN ’00, PhD ’12) was one of two nursing scholars chosen for the 2019 Clinical Nurse Leader Awards by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for “innovative work in practice and education” among individuals with CNL certification.
2.22 // Dean Dorrie Fontaine and associate professor Gina DeGennaro (MSN ’00, DNP ’11) accepted Sigma Nursing’s first-ever 2019 Healthy Work Environment Award at the group’s Creating Healthy Work Environments conference.
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// After several years of planning, School officials made a surprise announcement that a resilience garden honoring Dean Dorrie Fontaine would be built. With room for 40 to practice yoga, meditation, and t'ai chi, the garden will feature native plants and trees as well as a stone walkway emblazoned with the words hope, love, resilience, and kindness, providing a classroom and a place of respite and contemplation. Ground will be broken this summer, and the garden will be completed in early 2020.
3.3 // Clinical professor and co-lead nurse planner for the School's Continuing Education programs Jann Balmer was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice.
3.18 // After three years and more than 1,500 hours of study, associate professor and now Reverend Cathy Campbell was ordained at a Upaya Zen Center ceremony by “Being With Dying” program founder Roshi Joan Halifax as her mother, Betty Campbell, looked on.
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// Ken White (CERTI ’13), associate
dean for strategic partnerships and innovation, received the American College of Healthcare Executives’ Gold Medal Award for 2019 at the Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Chicago.
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// The 2020 edition of US News & World Report’s annual guide to Best Graduate Schools again praised several of the School’s programs, including a no. 2 ranking for its Clinical Nurse Leader program, up a spot from last year’s no. 3 position. The School remains Virginia’s only nursing program ranked among the nation’s top 25, and is tied for no. 10 among public institutions for both its master’s and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs.
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Halifax—founder of Upaya Zen Center’s “Being With Dying” course, now in its 17th year—delivered the 2019 Bice Lecture to a capacity crowd.
// Vickie Southall (MSN ’85), assistant professor, received the Provost’s first-ever Award for Excellence in Public Service for creating meaningful clinical and volunteer experiences that engage undergraduate nursing students in realworld community health nursing throughout her Louisa, Va. hometown. For decades, Southall—one of the School’s longest-serving faculty members—has organized a wealth of volunteer opportunities in schools, clinics, community centers, churches, at the food bank, and in partnership with emergency response personnel. She is also the driver of a new Louisa County dental voucher program that provides up to $300 a year to qualifying individuals, and which will, as a result of the award, receive $3,000 to expand its reach.
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// Dean Dorrie Fontaine was recognized with Sigma Nursing’s Beta Kappa chapter’s Distinguished Nurse Award at its annual banquet.
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// Dean Dorrie Fontaine received the 2019 Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in Orlando, Fla.
With support from their professor Vickie Southall, 3rd year Ryan Thomas and Eleni Lazarides learn hands-on community nursing skills at blood pressure and glucose screening events at a local grocery store and as health monitors for emergency personnel from Louisa Fire & Rescue taking part in a disaster drill.
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// More than one hundred gathered for the annual Haney Conference for Compassionate Care at the End-of-Life, which drew both clinicians and community members for topics about caring for chronically ill loved ones. School of Nursing officials unveiled plans for a resilience garden named in Dorrie Fontaine’s honor that will occupy the greenspace in front of McLeod Hall. Those behind the effort include Barry Fontaine, husband to Dean Dorrie Fontaine, Mind & Life Institute President Susan Bauer-Wu, and landscape architects from Richmond, Va.-based HG Design. School of Nursing planners are Tim Cunningham, CCI director; John Teahan, associate dean for administration; Kelly McCaskill, executive director of development; Rebecca Bowers, facilities coordinator; and Lili Powell, the Maria and John Kluge Endowed Chair in Compassionate Care.
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At UVA, that means hundreds of scrubs-clad students rotate through the School’s 10,000square-foot Clinical Simulation Learning Center (CSLC) each year. And with help from the Center’s nine “sims,” nearly two-dozen creative healthcare scenarios, and a faithful crew of human actors called “SPs” (standardized patients), these nurses-to-be cut their chops with drills that get them thinking on their feet.
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Gibson—noted nurse historian, associate director of the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and former president of the American Association for the History of Nursing—taught legions of nursing students over her nearly 20-year academic career, but most loved teaching obstetrics and “watching students recognize the monumental changes that birth imposes and mentoring them to provide competent and compassionate care.”
Hollen developed and assessed decision aids for individuals with chronic and life-limiting illnesses, mentored a host of nursing doctoral students during her career, and most recently was the recipient of a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a decision aid for patients with advanced lung cancer.
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AND T H ERE’S A LIGH T ON I N PAVI LION IX. Already dressed, Dorrie Fontaine slips down the stairs to the dimly lit kitchen, switches on the TV news, makes herself some Earl Grey and scans her emails. Twenty minutes later, she’s lacing up bright orange sneakers, pulling on a coat, and making the familiar trek through the dark across the Lawn to McLeod Hall where, for the past 10 years, she’s taken part in the longest running meditation on Grounds.
There’s a metaphor in Fontaine’s steadfast presence in this 6 a.m. class: Be the change you wish to see in the world, perhaps. Show, don’t tell. Or maybe: Lead by example. The weekly devotion also reflects every interwoven priority Fontaine’s had for the School of Nursing during her morethan-a-decade-long tenure. Show up. Be kind. Embrace resilience. Respect and champion difference. Participate fully, disagree frankly, but artfully. And always, build up those who surround you. They will rise because of it. For Jonathan Bartels, a palliative care nurse who’s led the early morning meditation class since 2009, Fontaine’s faithful presence is just authentically Dorrie. “Every person who succeeds has someone who believes in them,” says Bartels, who, with Fontaine, helped establish the Compassionate Care Initiative (CCI), wrote about and spread "The Pause," and ultimately earned the American
Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ Pioneering Spirit Award in 2018. “Dorrie’s helped me blossom because of her respect and the belief that I’m more than I thought I was. And she’s a mirror, too: all the great things I see in Dorrie are the things I hope to one day see in myself, too.” After more than a decade at the helm of the School of Nursing, Fontaine—UVA’s fifth nursing dean since its 1901 founding—is stepping down. While any leader’s departure signals change, much from the Fontaine era will remain, including the School’s future adherence to many of the tenets Fontaine laid out over her 11-year tenure: the importance of compassion, resilience, of self-care, of interprofessionalism, and the criticality of nurturing a healthy work environment.
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“It takes courageous leadership like hers to lend credibility to these important efforts to change our institution at the structural level.” – Susan Kools, associate dean for inclusion and diversity
Fontaine departs having accomplished much, inspired legions, having heard and been heard, and connected and collaborated across chasms that few others have bridged.
ther creations of the Fontaine era include robust continuing education programs, a suite of new palliative care courses, and rich partnerships around Grounds that have yielded collaborations with Darden School of Business, McIntire School of Commerce, Curry School of Education and School of Architecture faculty. Today, thousands attend the Compassionate Care Initiative’s growing array of drop-in classes in yoga, meditation, art therapy, t'ai chi, knitting, music, and writing each semester.
f course much has shifted and coalesced over the course of Fontaine’s deanship. The School enjoyed growth across an era of unprecedented interest in the nursing profession. Since her arrival, undergraduate nursing applications at UVA have more than tripled, peaking again in the last application cycle with the entering BSN class of 2023, which had 20 applicants for every spot. New programs—including a neonatal nurse practitioner and pediatric-acute care master’s programs—today attract a wider array of RNs looking to specialize, while other degree programs have been amplified, including the CNL program, which has doubled, the DNP program, which has grown by more than 130 percent and which now offers two additional pathways, and the PhD program, which, starting this fall, offers four years of free tuition and stipends to each and every admitted student. Programs like the RN to BSN—now available in hybrid format, with two-thirds of courses online—have been reformatted to meet the changing needs of students.
Faculty hiring has flourished during the Fontaine years. Retention has improved. With 12 endowed professorships, the School’s count of national academies fellows has grown to 47, and today nearly half of full-time faculty are Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing (32 of 65).
voices heard. Over the last five years, there’s been a 100 percent increase in the number of grant proposals submitted by research faculty, and the School is enjoying a period of external funding abundance, with nearly $5 million in currently funded projects.
Even amid a wave of expected retirements not uncommon in American nursing schools (nearly half of UVA’s nursing faculty departed over the last decade), the School’s next generation of emerging scholars is working hard to make their
And Fontaine’s vision also attracted nursing leaders. Today, six current and immediate past presidents of key regional and national nursing organizations make the School their academic home (including Virginia League for Nursing president Tomeka
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Dorrie K. Fontaine becomes UVA School of Nursing's fifth dean
Compassionate Care Initiative is established
Fontaine convenes an all-School summit and establishes its first Healthy Work Environment Committee
The Fontaines move into a newly renovated Pavilion IX
Fontaine and others take to the Rotunda steps in the Rally for Honor, in support of ousted president Teresa Sullivan
The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry is established
Fontaine joins His Holiness the Dalai Lama on stage in a talk about compassion and mindfulness
The Center for ASPIRE, UVA’s interprofessional “hub,” is established
As part of the UVA Campaign, the School of Nursing raises $55.4M—nearly two times its goal
Fontaine elected to give keynote at Fall Convocation
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Just as she did during former UVA
Association for the History of Nursing
near-ouster in 2012, Fontaine bravely
president elect Ishan Williams, American
President Teresa Sullivan’s controversial
president Arlene Keeling, American
stood tall for what she believed was right.
Nurses Association past president Pamela
During IEI, faculty again noted her solid
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leading nursing boards, initiatives, policy-
difference. Dorrie’s determined presence
focused roundtables, and think tanks.
lent the process weight, and helped others
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realize that everyone—leaders, professors,
across the United States have expanded, UVA’s
nursing programs held their own in the now-annual
U.S. News & World Report rankings under
Fontaine’s watch. UVA’s remains Virginia’s only graduate nursing program ranked among the nation’s top 25 and in the
latest rankings tied for no. 10 for both its master’s and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs among public universities (no.
21 and no. 19 overall), and again earned a no. 2-in-the-nation spot for its signature Clinical Nurse Leader program.
Then there are Fontaine’s signature
initiatives. Last fall, she and 19 fellow nursing faculty leaders and program managers took part in the first-ever
program directors—had to be part of this Institutional Equity Initiative (IEI), led by noted race scholar Shaun Harper. Reacting against the vitriol stirred at the Aug. 11-12, 2017, Unite the Right Rallies at UVA and in Charlottesville, Fontaine determined to wade into the messy, often fraught subject of race with colleagues and students, making inclusion and diversity, in her final year as dean, her focus and priority. The eight-week workshops organized and designed by Susan Kools, associate dean for inclusion and diversity, buoyed discussion, understanding, and faculty members’ facility in topics related to race, equity, implicit bias, and inclusivity in ways that few other diversity programs ever have.
important work.”
Then there are the many ways Fontaine just kind of showed up. In classrooms. In the Sim Lab. In McLeod Café, or
mingling with students after a lecture or
in the lounge areas. Popping into faculty
offices. Chatting in the hallways with staff. “You know, she’s not just always upstairs
here, in her office, directing and ordering,” explains Amy Boitnott (DNP ’08), an assistant professor of nursing and a
pediatric nurse practitioner. “She’s actually here with us. She’s in the classroom.
She’s in the clinics. She’s part of us, every single day.”
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Joanne and Bill Conway pledge $5M, a gift that doubles the size of the CNL program
Richmond Times Dispatch publishes Fontaine’s “Better Care: We all have an interest in empowered nurses,” with Associate Dean Ken White
McLeod Hall’s renovation— which included an overhaul of the Sim Lab, classrooms, common areas, and the creation of two new resilience rooms—complete
Huffington Post publishes “Nursing Diversity: Why Backstories Matter,” by Fontaine and Associate Dean Susan Kools
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"She's not just always upstairs here, in her office, directing and ordering. She's actually here with us. She's in the classroom. She's in the clinics. She's part of us, every single day." – Amy Boitnott, assistant professor
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ut Fontaine, never one to sit still, wasn’t always at home. When asked to speak, write, or opine, she rarely declined. More than 200 speeches spanning 11 years focused on self-care, compassion, and healthy work environments as she shared her compelling vision with audiences in the United States and abroad.
That’s meant teleprompter-led keynotes before thousands at major nursing and medical conferences. Advice to hospitals
and medical center leaders seeking counsel on improving nurse retention and mitigating clinician burnout. Penning opeds in newspapers, magazines, and journals, and offering commentary across TV and radio airwaves. She’s even shared the stage with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, given their twin interest in the purposeful teaching of compassion, along with other healthcare luminaries including filmmaker Carolyn Jones, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Susan Hassmiller, Upaya founder Joan Halifax, and writer and physician Lucy Kalanithi, to name a few.
But Fontaine’s familiar presence at UVA was consistent. She and her husband Barry opened their Pavilion IX home countless times for classes, student, parent and alumni events, faculty and staff functions. They kept a stash of yoga mats beside the breakfront. They threw parties for nursing students and fellow “Lawnie” neighbors at Halloween (with Barry’s famous jambalaya), for Lighting of the Lawn, near the winter holidays, for reunions, Homecoming, move-in weekend, Parent’s Weekend, you name it. They grew famous for the festive and intimate birthday
parties they hosted each month for School of Nursing employees—more than 100 in all across eight years—and allowed students and faculty alike to bask in their warmth. The effect, says 4th year Taylor O’Neal, made UVA feel like home. “As a first-year, one of my first encounters with the dean was when she opened up her house, offering cookies and lemonade, making us feel right at home,” recalls O’Neal, of Richmond, Va. “It set the tone for everything that she does. When she
sees you on Grounds, she recognizes you, says hello, smiles, just knows who we are. We feel like we’re safe, that we’re wanted here.” That inspired affection and loyalty are perhaps the most authentic markers of Fontaine’s success—something UVA President Jim Ryan noted shortly after his arrival. “One would be hard-pressed,” said Ryan, “to find anyone more beloved by this community.”
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lly Palmer (CNL ’09) was exhausted. Only two years out of nursing school, a precipitous rise in the ranks had her managing a team of 48 nurses at a major metropolitan hospital. It was a moment “when my leadership skills were more important than ever,” recalls Palmer, of Washington, D.C., “but I felt as though I still had a lot to learn.” Late one night, she dashed off an email to Fontaine—whom she’d admired while a student—seeking advice, not really thinking she’d hear back. The following morning, Palmer received a warm reply from Fontaine in her in-box, and an invitation to meet.
One would be hard-pressed, to find anyone more beloved by this community.
That moment, and their meeting later, she recalls, was enchanting. “I was always just struck that she could make me feel so special, like I was important,” explains Palmer. “Dorrie remembered details about my life, what I was doing, encouraged and supported me, said she was impressed by me.” During subsequent encounters at networking and alumni events, “Dorrie would build me up to others, too, which increased my confidence, and what I was doing with my career.” Fontaine’s small but regular doses of counsel and encouragement, says Palmer, helped her find her way. “I can only imagine how many people she keeps track of,” laughs Palmer. “It makes me think, ‘Wow, she’s probably able to do this for hundreds, maybe thousands of alumni.’ But that doesn’t make me feel like I’m just in a long list of alumni; it makes me realize that she’s pretty special.” WE THINK SO, TOO.
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On behalf of the School, Fontaine apologizes to Mavis Ford Claytor (MSN ’85, BSN ’70) for discrimination she endured as the School’s first AfricanAmerican nursing student
Fontaine receives the Gordon Rainey Jr. Award for dedication “to the student experience”
Center for Appreciative Practice established at the School of Nursing
The Conways pledge an additional $10M for nursing scholarships
American Journal of Critical Care publishes “No Time to be Nice in the Intensive Care Unit” by Fontaine, with Julie Haizlip, MD, and Ramon Lavandero
After a decade as dean, Fontaine has raised more than $53 million
Sigma Nursing applauds UVA Nursing with its firstever Healthy Work Environment Award
The Fontaine Garden for Compassionate Care plans are unveiled
Fontaine is presented with AACN’s Pioneering Spirit Award
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FAVORITE BOOK TO ASSIGN Atul Gawande’s Better—especially the last chapter on becoming a “positive deviant.” CNL’s love this.
Dorrie K. Fontaine PROFESSOR OF NURSING AND DEAN
BEST LEADERSHIP BOOK A tie between two: Composing a Life, by Mary Catherine Bateson, and Jill Ker Conway’s A Woman’s Education, about life as president of Smith College.
FOR FUN CURRENTLY READING I love reading a variety of books all at the same time—maybe it’s my short attention span? I re-read When Breath Becomes Air, by neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, before his wife Lucy delivered our Bice Lecture last winter, along with The Bright Hour, an amazing book about living and dying with breast cancer. Now I’m reading Joan Halifax’s Standing at the Edge, as well as Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover, on my Nook, a horrifying story about resilience that I can only take in tiny doses. It came recommended by my friend and legacy coach who is helping me focus on what’s important as I step down, and how to leave a lasting legacy. I also keep Wait, What? on my bedside table, by UVA President Jim Ryan—it has so much wisdom. I often wonder, “Which one of those questions is he really asking me today?”
Anything by Lianne Moriarty—her latest book is Nine Perfect Strangers—is great distraction therapy. I also got 30/30, a short story anthology, last summer at Chautauqua for winning a Hemingway trivia contest. I’d taken a week long course on Hemingway’s short stories with 15 other adults—all the men in the class looked just like Ernest Hemingway!
BOOK WITH THE BIGGEST PERSONAL IMPACT There are two, without a doubt: Sharon Salzberg’s Lovingkindness, and Real Happiness at Work.
WHILE SAILING I’ll spend a month this winter on a Semester at Sea ship that will go through the Panama Canal, and plan to read David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas, a book I’ve owned for 40 years, but never read. My lab puppy chewed the cover years ago, but it’s still readable.
Alcalá, H. E., Mitchell, E. M., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2018). Heterogenous impacts: Adverse childhood experiences and cancer screening. Cancer Causes & Control, 29(3), 343–351.
Debnam, K., Johnson, S. L., Colomé, S., Bran, J., & Upadhya, K. (2018). The impact of adolescent dating violence training for primary care providers. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 32(2), e19–e26.
Alhusen, J., Geller, R., Jellig, J., Budhathoki, C., & Decker, M. (2018). Intimate partner violence, small for gestational age birth and cigarette smoking in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. Journal of Women’s Health, 27, 458–465.
DeGuzman, P., Altrui, P., Doede A. L., Allen, M., Deagle, C., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2018). Using geospatial analysis to determine access gaps among children with special healthcare needs. Health Equity, 2(1), 1–4.
Berry, D., Hong, F., Blonquist, T., Halpenny, B., Filson, C., Master, V., Sanda, M., Chang, P., Chien, G., Jones, R., … & Somayaji, P. (2018). Decision support with the Personal Patient Profile-Prostate: A multi-center randomized trial. Journal of Urology, 199, 89–97.
Fontaine, D.K., Haizlip, J., & Lavandero, R. (2018). No time to be nice in the Intensive Care Unit. American Journal of Critical Care, 27(2), 153–156.
Burnett, C., Swanberg, M., Hudson, A., & Schminkey, D. (2018). Structural justice: A critical feminist framework exploring the intersection between justice, equity and structural reconciliation. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 11(4), 4. Cipriano, P. (2018, July 1). Stopping sexual harassment and violence against nurses: Column. American Nurse Today. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com. Costa, L. L., & Byon, H. D. (2018). Post–hospital medication discrepancies at home: Risk factor for 90-day return to emergency department. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 33(2), 180–186. Coyne, B. M., Kennedy, C., Self, A., & Bullock, L. (2018). A comprehensive approach to undergraduate nursing students' research experiences. Journal of Nursing Education, 57(1), 58–62. Cunningham, T., Catallozzi, M., & Rosenthal, D. (2018). Camaraderie and community: Buffers against compassion fatigue among expatriate healthcare workers during the Ebola epidemic of 2013-16. Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing, 5(1), 2–11.
Harmon, R. B., DeGennaro, R., Norling, M., Kennedy, C., & Fontaine, D. K. (2018). Implementing healthy work environment standards in an academic workplace: An update. Journal of Professional Nursing, 34(1), 20–24. Keim-Malpass, J., Kitzmiller, R. R., Skeeles-Worley, A., Lindberg, C., Clark, M. T., Tai, R., &Anderson, R. A. (2018). Advancing continuous predictive analytics monitoring: Moving from implementation to clinical action in a learning health system. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 30(2), 273–287. Krongyuth, P., Silpasuwan, P., Viwatwongkasem, C. & Campbell, C. (2018). Needs of patient with advanced stages of cancer in a Thai community: Mixed method approach. Journal of Health Research, 32(5), 342–351. Letzkus, L. C., Keim-Malpass, J., Anderson, J., Conaway, M., Patrick, P., & Kennedy, C. (2018). A retrospective analysis of paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity following severe pediatric brain injury. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 11(3), 153–160. Logan, J. G., Kang, H., Lobo, J. M., Sohn, M. W., Lin, G. M., Lima, J. A., & Kwon, Y. (2018). Actigraphybased sleep characteristics and aortic stiffness: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Journal of American Society of Hypertension, 12, 841–849.
Logan, J. G., Kim, S. S., Lee, M., Byon, H. D., & Yeo, S. (2018). Effects of static stretching exercise on lumbar flexibility and central arterial stiffness. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 33(4), 322–328. Martin, C. L., Vladutiu, C. J., Zikry. T. M., Grace, M. R., Siega-Riz, A. M. (2018). Maternal lipid levels during pregnancy and child weight status at 3 years of age. Pediatric Obesity. Advance online publication. Mattos, M., Nilsen, M. L., & Lingler, J. H. (2018). Experiences surrounding an early-stage cognitive diagnosis in rural-dwelling older adults. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 11(4), 181–189. Morton, P. G., & Fontaine, D. K. (2018). Critical care nursing: A holistic approach. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer. Moss, K. O., Deutsch, N., Hollen, P., Rovnyak, V., Williams, I., & Rose, K. (2018). End-of-life plans for African American older adults with dementia. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 35(10), 1314–1322. Romo, R. D., Cenzer, I. S, Williams, B. A., & Smith, A. K. (2018). Relationship between expectation of death and location of death varies by race/ ethnicity. American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, 35(10), 1323–1329. Toro, M., & Wall, B.M. (2018). “A complete meltdown of humanity”: The Aleppo disaster of 2016. Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing, 5(1), 60–64. Wihlborg, M., Friberg, E., Rose, K., & Eastham, L. (2018). Facilitating learning through an international virtual collaborative practice: A case study. Nursing Education Today, 61, 3–8. Williams, I., Clay, O., Ovalle, F., Atkinson, D. & Crowe, M. (2018). The role of perceived discrimination and other psychosocial factors in explaining diabetes distress among older African American and Caucasian adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Advance online publication.
A full list of faculty publications is available online: nursing.virginia.edu/research/faculty-publications
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“When I was still working,” says Ruegger, of Rye, N.Y., “I practiced yoga, and I noticed a difference in how I felt and what I was able to give back in work and in life, thanks to that self-care.”
MEASURING COMPASSION'S MIGHT BY LYNN WOODSON
When I was still working, I practiced yoga, and I noticed a difference in how I felt and what I was able to give back in work and in life, thanks to that self-care. Rebecca Ruegger (BSN ’73)
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nyone who has spent time in a hospital knows the difference a caring nurse can make, and how a warm smile or kind touch can turn frustration into calmness and shared understanding. But can compassion in the healthcare setting translate into better patient care? Might it lessen caregiver burnout and attrition, both of which plague the profession and annually cost millions? Do patients cared for by nursing and medical students who are taught and routinely practice self-care reap the benefit of that resilience? These questions lie at the heart of new research being led by faculty in the School’s Compassionate Care Initiative (CCI). Early efforts are focused on the effects of self-care, with opportunities for nursing students, faculty, and others to take part in yoga, meditation, and other practices as methods for diffusing stress and building internal capacity.
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“We know that self-care practices build resilience,” says Tim Cunningham (MSN ‘09), CCI director, “but they must be done consistently to maintain the benefits. Our students enjoy short-term benefits of resilience, given their close orbit to the School, proximity to self-care classes, and mentors who urge participation in these practices, but we really needed to study a large cohort over time to see what happens once our graduates leave us, and just how they sustain their practice and manage stress out in the real world.”
“If we put the research behind it, the Compassionate Care Initiative has the potential to change healthcare, resulting in better quality of care, less burnout, and more fulfilled providers,” she adds. “The School has an opportunity to become a national leader in this arena, thanks to Dean Fontaine’s vision for this work and to Tim Cunningham’s ongoing leadership.”
Already, Cunningham’s effort to quantify the effects of self-care is bringing in reams of data that underscore the criticality of CCI’s work and mission “Support from the Rueggers will affect hundreds, maybe thousands, of students and community members,” says Cunningham, “and it will give us something we can measure. What we never truly can measure, though, are the number of lives saved by our resilient, compassionate, focused health care graduates.”
THE ANATOMY OF A BLENDED GIFT To create their nursing research fund, the Rueggers are using a “blended” gift structure. That means that part of their gift is intended for current use, and part is a future commitment detailed in their estate plans. For the current funding, the Rueggers are using a qualified charitable distribution from an IRA that is paid directly to the School of Nursing, which may also offer tax advantages.
That study and others aim to provide scientific evidence of self-care’s link to compassion in healthcare. It’s a mission championed by Rebecca Ruegger (BSN ’73) and her husband Philip, who recently established the Rebecca H. and Philip T. Ruegger Endowed Nursing Fund to support CCI’s work—a mission, they say, that “resonates.”
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For Hispanic and Latina women, whose young children suffer from obesity at rates two to three times higher than non-Hispanic white children, the issue is particularly vexing. But a new $2.7 million grant will investigate how pre-pregnancy biomarkers and habits are linked to kids’ weight, eating and health issues, probing the unique contributions to early childhood obesity among the country’s second fastest growing population.
NIDDK Pre-conceptional health of Latinas and its association with child adiposity Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate dean for research and the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professor of Nursing
$350K
NIH Fogarty Exploring mHealth to improve the delivery of palliative care and cancer pain management in Nepal
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iven that half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, many fetuses are well-developed by the time women discover they’re pregnant. And while there’s an undeniable link between how a mother eats and exercises during pregnancy and her baby’s health outcomes at birth, the impact a women’s pre-conceptual health has on her child —her diet and activity level long before conceiving—is poorly understood.
$2.7M
Virginia LeBaron, assistant professor
“This study offers us a chance to peer into an association we don’t know much about,” explains Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a nutritionist and associate dean for research at UVA School of Nursing. “This is not about criticizing mothers; it’s about taking an open and honest look at how some parents may unknowingly contribute to their child’s health problems at a very early stage in life.” Because obesity in childhood sets kids up for a lifetime of ill health—from increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and early onset of dementia, to the social stigma related to being heavy and not able to participate in sports—the stakes are high and, as the problem expands, growing higher. Funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) will enable Siega-Riz and her colleagues to expand upon data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of
THREE TIMES AS MANY HISPANIC 2- TO 5 -YEAR- OLDS ARE OBESE AS NON - HISPANIC WHITE CHILDREN
Latinos, the largest study of Hispanic health ever done in the United States. Roughly 440 mothers and young children, age three to seven, will be recruited starting this spring. Mothers will be asked about their eating habits, the regularity of family meals, their breastfeeding habits, and perceptions about their own eating and willpower. Their children will be screened for height, weight, body fat mass, and sedentary behavior, and will be given a delayed gratification task to assess whether they can wait for a treat. Through a simple cheek swab, children will also be assessed for obesity as revealed by a genetic risk score. Mother-child dyads will be recruited from Miami, San Diego, Chicago, and the Bronx, N.Y. Results will scientifically inform behavioral interventions that may prevent childhood obesity, and its cascade of ill effects.
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Department of Justice Enhancing foundational validity of forensic findings in medico-legal strangulation examinations Kathryn Laughon, associate professor
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NINR Self-management characterization for children with medical complexity and their social networks Jessica Keim-Malpass, assistant professor
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Hillman Foundation & Virginia Department of Health PALL-HEART, a telehealth palliative care pilot project for rural heart failure patients Jill Howie-Esquivel, associate professor
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Heart Works By Christine Kueter
Heart failure—a condition in which the heart muscle can no longer pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs, and distinct from a heart attack—is the most common reason Americans age 65 and older are hospitalized. And while we spend nearly $31 billion annually dealing with it, more distressing are its symptoms: breathlessness, fatigue, an inability to lie down flat, and an uncomfortable swelling of the midsection and extremities. Without treatment, half of all heart failure patients will die within five years of diagnosis. After discharge from the hospital, these patients still face the daunting task of managing their condition. In addition to keeping up with their appointments, heart failure patients must closely monitor their medications, diet, fluid intake, and engage in regular exercise—mandates that are easier said than done, explains associate professor Jill Howie-Esquivel, given that many of patients “just don’t feel up to it.” And even if programs like UVA’s “Hospital to Home” aim to help, re-hospitalization of heart failure patients remains stubbornly high: 83 percent are hospitalized again at least once, while nearly half (43 percent) are hospitalized four times or more—metrics Howie-Esquivel is determined to change.
Enter PALL-HEART, a live, twice-weekly, 75-minute gentle stretching exercise and education class for stable heart failure patients around Virginia and Kentucky delivered via iPad. With $110,000 in funding from the Hillman Foundation, UVA’s Center for Telehealth, and the Virginia Department of Health, Howie-Esquivel’s PALL-HEART provides a bridge to wellness for heart failure patients who might otherwise be overwhelmed by the intensity of a gym or put off by the seemingly monumental task of exercise. The key, Howie-Esquivel insists, lies in PALLHEART’s ease and accessibility. It addresses a trifecta of problems that menace heart failure patients, including distance from care providers, a high symptom burden, and disengagement.
“Even gentle exercise is important for heart failure patients because it improves their overall physical and psychological function,” says Howie-Esquivel. “The trick is to find out how we can deliver services to provide support at home.” Starting this spring, Howie-Esquivel will enroll 60 stable heart failure patients and compare their outcomes with another group receiving regular care (printed materials by mail and weekly phone calls with a nurse). After eight weeks, she’ll assess both groups’ symptoms, quality of life, physical strength, resilience and heart rate variability, a biomarker indicating heart function. “It isn’t clear if gentle exercise helps people with heart failure live longer, but this study is focused on helping people feel better and supported at home,” says Howie-Esquivel. “You can’t reverse it, but you can control heart failure. It does require a lot of close follow-up and intense treatment, but heart failure patients can live well and feel well for a good long time.” Results—expected by fall 2020—will inform a larger study examining the effects of gentle stretching on heart failure patients’ symptoms, quality of life, and hospitalization rates.
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AM NURSE, WILL TRAVEL
Kathryn “Kit” Barger (CNS, MSN '19) is, by UVA standards, typically atypical. With 17 years of active duty service in the Navy, 13 of them as a nurse, she’s spent time honing skills across a smattering of environments, from obstetrics, to intensive care, to emergency medicine. ut if Barger’s professional experience has readied her for situations across the spectrum, it’s her broad geographic experience—from military hospitals stateside to field hospitals in war zones—that truly sets her nursing career apart. It’s the same depth and breadth she appreciates in her fellow UVA students, too. “An on-campus brick-and-mortar program engages you with students from different backgrounds, allowing you to see from their perspectives,” explains Barger, who’s been stationed in locales from Afghanistan to Mongolia. Students hail “from the education world, the business world,” and being around them, she says, helped lead her to “a greater understanding of the range of nurses’ work.”
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The fast and furious requirements of a military gig, says Barger, aren’t for the faint of heart. But the rigor required of a Navy nurse set Barger on a fast track as a nurse leader, a role she’s embraced even as she eschews the formalities that come with titles that elevate some over others.
BY MELISSA CRAWFORD (CNL ’15)
“In the civilian world, nurses often find a focus area where they develop a profound level of expertise,” explains Barger. “Military nurses, on the other hand, must learn to adjust to changing populations. We’re trained to rapidly acquire skills. We may take longer to develop specific knowledge, and cultivate specialties, but when it comes to having a wider view of the healthcare system and all the roles we need to be able to occupy, our blinders aren’t tethered quite so tightly.” No novice herself, Barger calls the depth of expertise she’s found among UVA nursing faculty “an inspiration.” “You’re blown away by the background and experience of the faculty here,” she says. “Their level of engagement is awe-inspiring. Finding out that your professor leads the professional organization you belong to is great motivation to get more involved yourself.” If Barger ultimately sees a Doctor of Nursing Practice in her future as she contemplates life after grad school, she’s also tucking into details for deployment to a West Coast Naval base, now that her children are grown, and has no plans to alter her military course just as the scope of her nursing skills has expanded.
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“IN THE CIVILIAN WORLD, NURSES OFTEN FIND A FOCUS AREA WHERE THEY DEVELOP A PROFOUND LEVEL OF EXPERTISE.
MILITARY NURSES, ON THE OTHER HAND, MUST LEARN TO ADJUST TO CHANGING POPULATIONS. WE’RE TRAINED TO RAPIDLY ACQUIRE SKILLS.”
Lead she must. “I’ve already started making plans to engage with professional policy development,” says Barger. “If you’re going to tell people to engage, you need to be the one who does it to lead by example.”
LISTEN TO BARGER'S AWARD-WINNING ESSAY "CARING FOR MRS. J"
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t is with a tremendous sense of gratitude that I begin this letter in honor of our beloved dean, Dorrie Fontaine, who has tirelessly served the School of Nursing and the University for the past 11 years. Her leadership reached far beyond the walls of the School of Nursing as she championed resiliency, compassion, healthy work environments, and interprofessional partnerships. Under her distinguished tenure, the applications to the School’s undergraduate program increased threefold, more than 60 new faculty members were hired, new specialty programs were established, and nurses throughout the state benefitted from the school’s Continuing Education programs. For many of you who know Dorrie, her kindness and ability to welcome all in her warm, sincere, and caring way come to mind. She and Barry hosted hundreds of events at Pavilion IX for students, faculty, staff, parents and, yes, alumni. I have been the grateful recipient of their hospitality on many occasions and appreciate her unwavering care and support of the Alumni Association. We would like to extend to her our sincere thanks for the countless lives she has touched and for the indelible mark she has left on the School of Nursing.
volunteer outreach coordinator, has served with distinction, most recently connecting our four wonderful new members to the Council. Matt Lemieux (CNL ’11, PNP ’15) has served as our communications coordinator and we thank him for his contributions to the Virginia Nursing Legacy and our online communications. We wish both of you all the best and look forward to reconnecting at alumni events! It is with great excitement and anticipation we welcome four new members to the council, whose terms will begin July 1. Our new president-elect, Sandra Reed-Bryant (BSN ’78, MSN ’86), previously served on the Council for six years, and has a firm grasp on and understanding of the work that we do. We are also so excited to welcome Thornton Beale (BSN ’10, MSN ’16), Jennifer Hutchinson (BSN ’97, MSN ’02, PhD ’16) and Tanita Woodson Adu (BSN ’97) to the Council. Please enjoy reading their profiles in the upcoming pages. We wish you a happy and healthy spring and hope to see you at our many upcoming alumni events! Sincerely,
Christa E. Hartch (BSN ’97) Greenwich, CT
REUNIONS 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, 55th, and 65th Reunion Classes and the Thomas Jefferson Society CLASSES OF 1984, 1979, 1974, 1969, 1964, AND 1959 CELEBRATING REUNIONS MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2019
5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, and 30th Reunion Classes CLASSES OF 2014, 2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, AND 1989 CELEBRATING REUNIONS JUNE 7–9, 2019
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Creating Healthy Work Environments through Compassionate Care: A Lecture by Dean Dorrie Fontaine 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Minor Hall, Room 125
School of Nursing Open House 2 – 3:30 p.m. McLeod Hall, Claude Moore Nursing Education Building
Join Dean Fontaine as she chronicles the 10-year story of the School of Nursing’s journey of creating an award-winning healthy work environment to an endowed Compassionate Care Initiative.
Meet in the McLeod Hall lobby for a selfguided tour of McLeod Hall and the Claude Moore Education Building. Stop by the Clinical Simulation Learning Center and the Resilience Rooms to talk with students and faculty.
Nursing Building Tours: McKim Hall, McLeod Hall, Claude Moore Nursing Education Building 2:30 – 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8
Meet in the McLeod Hall lobby at 2:30 p.m. Faculty and students will lead tours.
12 – 1:30 p.m. Pavilion IX Garden, West Lawn
Nursing Alumni Picnic Lunch
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 50th Reunion and Thomas Jefferson Society Luncheon 12 – 1:30 p.m. Newcomb Hall Ballroom Nursing Alumni Reception
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I would also like to highlight two Council members whose terms will end June 30. Sue Winslow (MSN ’87, DNP ’13), our
For information on nursing alumni events, contact the Alumni and Development Office: (434) 924-0138. To register for your reunion weekend, contact the UVA Alumni Association: (434) 243-9000, or visit:
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Four Alumnae Join Council
President Greenwich, CT
Amanda Faircloth, PhD, DNAP, CRNA (BSN ’00)
Vice President Richmond, VA
Kelley Anderson, PhD, FNP, CHFN-K (BSN ’88) Scholarship Coordinator Arlington, VA
Allyson Bakewell, BSN, MBA (BSN ’81) Finance Coordinator Birmingham, MI
Sara Covall, MSN, FNP (BSN ’09, MSN-FNP ’14) Awards Coordinator Stamford, CT
Carleen Kelley, MSN (BSN ’81)
At their February meeting, the Alumni Council nominated Jennifer Collie Hutchinson (BSN ’97, MSN ’02, PhD ’16), E. Thornton Beale (BSN ’10, MSN ’16), and Tanita Woodson Adu (BSN ’97) to officer positions.
Alumni Engagement Coordinator – Special Projects McLean, VA
Matthew Lemieux, CPNP-PC (MSN-CNL ’11, PNP ’15) Communications Coordinator Crozet, VA
Shannon McDonald (BSN ’16)
Alumni Engagement Coordinator – Young Alumni Charlottesville, VA
Susan Andresen Winslow, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
(MSN ’87, DNP ’13) Alumni Engagement Coordinator – Volunteer Outreach Williamsburg, VA
Michael Swanberg, PhD, RN (PhD ’17) Faculty Representative Charlottesville, VA
Taylor O’Neal (BSN ’19)
Jennifer Collie Hutchinson
E. Thornton Beale
Tanita Woodson Adu
A triple ’Hoo, Jennifer Hutchinson is associate professor of nursing at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Hutchinson spent the majority of her nursing career in pediatrics before transitioning to academia full-time in 2006. In addition to teaching, Hutchinson works in the pediatric unit at Centra’s Lynchburg General Hospital. Though she served on the Alumni Council years ago, this time, Hutchinson assumes the role of alumni engagement coordinator, volunteer outreach, and will connect with fellow alumni interested in serving on Council or on one of the ad hoc committees.
Thornton Beale is a pediatric nurse practitioner with RVA Pediatrics in Richmond, Va., who began her career at Sibley Memorial Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. before returning to UVA for her master’s degree. Beale will lead the Alumni Council communications committee, a group of alumni who advise the Alumni & Development office on the Virginia Nursing Legacy magazine, quarterly e-news communications, and the School’s social media presence
Tanita Woodson Adu is a research associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. In addition to studying communication between HIV patients and their clinicians with an eye to improving patient care, Adu performs research with The ALIVE study, a cohort of HIV patients and substance users that’s been followed for 30 years. She also works as a nurse practitioner and provides care to HIV-infected patients with substance use disorder at Johns Hopkins John G. Bartlett (HIV) Specialty Practice. Adu will serve as a member-at-large on Council.
Sandy Reed-Bryant Congratulations, new members! If you are interested in learning more about the Alumni Council and committees, please contact the Alumni & Development office: nursing-alumni@virginia.edu
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At the February meeting, the Council also selected Sandy ReedBryant (BSN ’78, MSN ’86) as the next president of the Alumni Council. Reed-Bryant will shadow current president Christa Hartch (BSN ’97) for one year prior to taking the helm July 1, 2020. An experienced director of nursing services, Reed-Bryant spent six years leading the Alumni Council’s finance committee.
Undergraduate Student Representative Mechanicsville, VA
Brooke Short (BA ’08, CNL ’19) Graduate Student Representative Charlottesville, VA
Financial Support for Nursing Alumni Returning to school? UVA nursing alumni who are returning to the classroom for an additional nursing degree or certification from any institution are eligible for the $3,000 Nursing Alumni Association Alumni Scholarship. Funding is made possible by generous donations to the Nursing Annual Fund. Apply by June 1, 2019; Awards will be made by August 2019. nursing.virginia.edu/alumni/resources/funding The Tabitha S. Grier Medical Assistance Fund provides financial support to nursing alumni facing medical expenses not covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. Apply by August 1, 2019; Funding will be distributed by fall 2019. nursing.virginia.edu/alumni/resources/grier-fund
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1980s We were thrilled to see Sue Winslow (MSN ’87, DNP ’13)
Dyan Althea Aretakis 1955-2018
at Sigma Nursing’s Creating Healthy Work Environments conference in New Orleans, LA, where she presented on creating and sustaining healthy work environments. Sue, who is Sentara Healthcare's system-wide director of professional practice, lives in Williamsburg, VA.
1990s Betty P. Roberts
1950s Betty P. Roberts (DIPLO ’53), of Madison, AL, self-published Midnight Chronicles: A Love Story, the tale of her husband’s journey through Alzheimer’s disease as told through the eyes of his nurse/caregiver/wife. Betty describes how her husband— once a member of the Apollo mission that put a man on the moon—forgets how to live like a man on Earth.
Rick Carpenter (BSN ’97, MSN ’13, DNP ’17) of Charlottesville, VA,
who retired after a career as a certified registered nurse anesthetist, enjoys returning to Charlottesville from her Jamison, PA, home to watch her niece, Meghan McCool (COL ’20), play on the UVA women’s soccer team.
Nancy Howell Agee (BSN ’79), of Salem, VA, was named one of the Top 25 Women Leaders of 2019 by Modern Healthcare. Nancy is president and CEO of Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA.
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Virginia Grace Williams
2000s Dawn Bourne (BSN ’04, MSN ’10, DNP ’16), of Arlington, VA, will receive the 2019 AANP Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence from Virginia at the 2019 AANP National Conference.
Sally K. Graham (BSN ’73),
Diane McCool Foos (BSN ’74),
wedding is set for May 31, 2019 in Nashville, TN, where the couple resides.
received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Excellence in Service at last fall’s convocation, the first nurse ever to earn this honor. Rick is a nurse manger in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at UVA Health System.
1970s of Manakin Sabot, VA, received the Outstanding Woman Award from the Richmond YWCA for her impact on the Greater Richmond community, her leadership, and her commitment to the YWCA’s mission to eliminate racism and empower women. Sally is the founder and executive director of Goochland Cares, a member of the Goochland Rotary, and a previous member of both the School’s Advisory Board and its Alumni Council.
Rick Carpenter
Sue Winslow
of Charlottesville, VA, received the Daisy Award in September 2018 after being nominated by the wife of a patient who lauded her “keen sense of humor and lighthearted jokes [that] made all of it bearable.” “We left the hospital late that afternoon feeling great because of Robin's humorous joking, mixed with so much knowledge and expertise,” wrote the patient’s wife. Robin is a clinician in the Cardiac Transition Unit at UVA Medical Center.
Elizabeth (Libby) Muldoon Williams (BSN ’07) and husband Doug Williams (COM ’07) welcomed their first child, Virginia Grace, on August 29, 2018. The family lives in Arlington, VA.
welcomed son James Chappell on August 16, 2018. The family lives in Atlanta, GA.
Mary Kay Goldschmidt (BSN ’99, MSN ’12, DNP ’14), a clinical assistant professor at the VCU School of Nursing, was named to the National Advisory Panel for the National Health Security Preparedness Index, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative that is establishing a scoring system for measuring health security and emergency preparedness at the local, state, and national levels. Mary Kay lives in Richmond, VA.
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Lockwood Family
Dorie Canipelli Ellis (BSN ’10) earned a doctorate of nursing practice in nurse anesthesia from the University of North Florida in December 2018. A resident of Bristow, VA, she practices at Novant Health UVA Prince William and Haymarket Medical Centers
Margaret Bickley (BSN ’14), a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Stem Cell Transplant and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, is engaged to Taylor Coston, an internal medicine resident at Vanderbilt. Their
flag flown in Syria to Woodard Professor of Nursing Richard Westphal (PHD ’04) in gratitude for his mentoring and service. The flag—which will be displayed in the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry—offers a poignant reminder of the many nurses who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, said Westphal. Megan is currently stationed in Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, VA.
Four alumni were among the new Fellows inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in November 2018, including: Mattia
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Josephine C. Garrett
(DIPLO ’66)
(BSNED ’43)
(DIPLO ’51, BSN ’55)
Roanoke, VA December 29, 2018
Smithfield, VA December 17, 2018
Brunswick, ME October 2, 2018
Anne Loving Lawler
Catherine B. Chiti
(DIPLO ’45)
(DIPLO ’54)
Luray, VA November 6, 2018
Winter Haven, FL September 7, 2018
Susie N. Menefee
Elan R. Cull
(DIPLO ’45)
(BSN ’57)
Patricia Kinser (PHD ’12),
Bridgewater, VA November 22, 2018
Malvern, PA December 21, 2018
an associate professor at VCU School of Nursing,
Julia L. Stone
and Melissa Sutherland (PHD ’08), a professor
Audrey Sanders Kardos
Pasadena, TX October 14, 2018
J. Gilmartin (PHD ’99),
Frances Vey (Sorgini) Lockwood (BSN ’08) and her husband Jay
Nancy Agee
Megan Matters (MSN ’15, DNP ’16) sent a special operations
Dorie Canipelli Ellis
Dyan Althea Aretakis (MSN ’83, CERTI-PNP ’83, CERTI-FNP ’86) died last December at 63 from cancer, leaving husband Stuart Berr and their three daughters. Aretakis, a nurse practitioner, clinical associate professor, and a devoted preceptor, founded UVA’s Teen Health Center in 1991. Though she was routinely tapped to serve on high level administrative committees and boards, Aretakis remained a Teen Center clinician, and saw patients until her death. She also mentored dozens of nursing students who did clinical rotations at the Teen Center. Among them was assistant professor of nursing Amy Boitnott (DNP ’08), who recalls Aretakis’ lessons to this day, including one she learned when giving a 15-year-old patient her first pelvic exam. “I called the adolescent ‘sweetie,’ thinking I was being kind,” says Boitnott, “but Dyan told me otherwise. She taught me to always display professionalism, respect, and dignity to our adolescent patients. I quote her to this day to my NP students.” Through the 1980s, Aretakis worked as a clinician for the Charlottesville/Albemarle Health Department, the Charlottesville Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, in family planning services at UVA Medical Center, and at the now-closed Blue Ridge Sanatorium. She was a fellow and president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine’s Virginia/ Carolinas chapter, part of the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners, a 2013 graduate of the Chamber of Commerce’s “Leadership Charlottesville,” and a Daily Progress “Distinguished Dozen” awardee in 2004. “Dyan was an NP with vision and chutzpah,” says professor Emily Drake, who routinely invited Aretakis to her classes to lecture on teen sexuality. “She embodied the patience of Job, the fierce protection of a mama bear, and the intelligence of Einstein,” adds Boitnott, “all in the most compassionate, empathetic, humble and kind woman I ever had the honor to learn from, work with, and know.”
executive director of the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders at NYU Meyers School of Nursing, Nancy Jallo (PHD ’07), an associate professor of nursing at VCU School of Nursing,
at the Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University, and a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice. Mattia lives in New York, NY; Nancy lives in Williamsburg, VA; Patricia lives in Richmond, VA; and Melissa lives in Binghamton, NY.
Evelyn M. Walke
(DIPLO ’45)
Virginia Hearn Whiting
(BSN ’57)
Charlottesville, VA March 2, 2019
Nancy H. Wilkins
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Susan Rives Stowe (BSN ’70)
Petersburg, VA February 2, 2019
Eleanor L. Green (BSN ’71)
Richmond, VA December 4, 2018
Susan E. Furey (BSN ’79, MSN ’82)
Geneva, NY October 19, 2018
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(BSNED ’45)
Jane L. Courtless
Fredericksburg, VA December 13, 2018
(BSN ’59)
Dyan Althea Aretakis
Houston, TX May 7, 2018
(MSN ’83, CERTI-PNP ’83, CERTI-FNP ’86)
Ann H. Foster (DIPLO ’48)
Iris Cundiff Powell
Kennewick, WA September 12, 2017
(BSN ’59)
Nancy Kyre Holland (DIPLO ’49)
Columbia, SC January 1, 2019
Lynchburg, VA December 28, 2018
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Ruth A. Allsbrook (DIPLO ’63)
Los Angeles, CA October 13, 2018
Crozet, VA December 9, 2018
Carolyn J. Schrock-Shenk (MSN ’83)
Goshen, IN February 6, 2019
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SUZIE WELSH FOUNDER AND CEO OF BINTO
and confusing,” Welsh says. “Women’s health is a huge market, but very few [supplement] companies are founded by licensed professionals—something that adds a layer of trust that people want.” BINTO, LAUNCHED IN 2016, aimed to meet women’s hunger for accessible, evidence-based health education and natural products. Serving women across all life stages—from the childbearing years into pregnancy and all the way through menopause—customers visit the website, answer questions (like, What symptoms do you need relief from? and, How would you describe your current lifestyle?), and sign up to receive a personalized regimen of supplements that are delivered to their door. BINTO’s beauty, says Welsh, is its personalized approach.
When it comes to women’s health, we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.
(RN)NOVATION … TO YOUR DOOR BY LOUISA BAKER
uzie Welsh (BSN ’11) knows that nursing and business go hand in hand. “I think nurses make great innovators, because you have to innovate on the floor every day,” she says. “You have to be quick, and you have to be smart.” Welsh is founder and CEO of BINTO, a Philadelphia-based subscription service for women that combines personalized over-thecounter vitamin supplements, fertility and wellness education from licensed clinicians, and a cutting-edge digital platform. And if BINTO is a relative newcomer to the evergrowing fertility and wellness marketplace for women, Welsh’s interest in women’s health goes way back.
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Welsh got her first glimpse at age 16 when she took part in a mission trip to Malawi and saw communities of women in particular shattered by the HIV/AIDS epidemic—an experience that led her to pursue a nursing degree at UVA. After graduation, while concurrently working at a fertility clinic and pursuing a master’s degree in health leadership at the University of Pennsylvania—she saw a common theme emerge: a dearth of credible resources related to fertility and wellness that left many of her patients ill-equipped and misinformed. “I was always fielding questions about the types of vitamins that prepare women for pregnancy, and I realized that all the information available was really segmented
“It’s about getting you just what you need and nothing you don’t,” she says. “When it comes to women’s health, we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.” The service, available for $35-50 a month, also offers subscribers access to BINTO’s licensed care team who are available to answer wellness and health questions via phone, video, email, or online chat. Education is a critical component of Welsh’s vision for BINTO—an idea she credits to her time at UVA. “I’ll never forget how [professor] Kathy Haugh taught us that while anyone can do a task, it’s our job as nurses to educate our patients,” Welsh says. “I’ve carried that with me throughout my career.” BINTO appears to be filling a need. The company enjoyed a 20 percent month-over-month compound growth during 2018, and into 2019, and Welsh has plans to expand the company’s digital presence and expand the brand around the world. Already, she’s developed partnerships with stores like Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters which already carry starter supplement packs. “If you look at healthcare today, we focus a lot on sick care and rely heavily on prescription drugs as the firstline treatment option,” Welsh says. “I believe we can improve communities and health outcomes if we change the delivery of care, and shift our thinking from sick care to preventative care by leveraging technology and using over-the-counter products as a first-line treatment.”
V I R G I N I A MO ME N T S
IN T HEI R OW N WORD S
WAS I READY TO TALK RACE? ISHAN C. WILLIAMS, PHD, FGSA Associate Professor & Assistant Dean
BELONGING. It was the first word that popped into my mind when, last fall, I heard that our School leaders would take part in a Race Equity Institute, led by University of Southern California (USC) scholars. I was intrigued. How would it look, and feel? Was I prepared to sit at the table with my peers of more than a dozen years to talk about these intensely difficult, if important issues? For most of my life, I have been having the “race talk.” With my parents, when I was a child. With my own son and daughters, now that I’m a parent. At UVA, I’ve spoken out against the injustices felt by students of color, and been a part of changes to make the School more inclusive. But an eight-week course somehow seemed more personal—intimate, even. The idea of purposefully steeping in dialogue about race with my colleagues after years of largely skirting around the issue gave me pause. But I was assistant dean of diversity and inclusion. So I took a deep breath and walked into the room knowing this was a step in the right direction, albeit a first step. Looking around that first day, it occurred to me that I wasn’t alone in my discomfort. First steps might be hardest for those who don’t deal with racial justice on a daily basis, as I have. As we introduced ourselves, I was one of very few people of color in the room—not a new experience for me—but today, it felt different. Musing later, I put my finger on it: I felt like I belonged. Something really worthwhile was happening here. I’d
Musing later, I put my finger on it: I felt like I belonged.
entered a room where we were talking about race, white fragility, and privilege, and I didn’t have to debate the white people in the room. I didn’t have to muster up energy or will power to respond to my peers’ unwitting unintentional bias, or lack of awareness, because the USC facilitators were there to guide us through hard topics that were our collective focus—the reason why we all were there. I wasn’t alone. And I could sit back and learn new ways to engage within a predominantly white organization as each of us sought to become anti-racist and more equitable. It struck me, too, that for some in that room, it was the very first time they’d ever had serious discussions about race and inequity. Our conversations might be risky, and messy, but we were each committed to the work, myself included. My ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion means that I must accept the constant fear that I may need to justify my “belonging” in a space, which can feel dehumanizing. But the moments I experienced during the institute—of openness, of dawning awareness, of grace, and a willingness to change one’s worldview—remind me that this work, though hard, is so totally worth it.
BELONG
Hidden Nurses
With support from the Jefferson Trust, the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry recently launched its “Hidden Nurses” project to shine light on the many contributions that underrepresented groups made to nursing—stories that, until now, have largely remained in the shadows.
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o that end, we’ve begun collecting oral histories of black licensed practice nurses (LPNs) in Charlottesville who, while not allowed entry into UVA because of their skin color, attended segregated affiliate programs from the 1950s to the early ‘70s. Driven by a critical nursing shortage after World War II, nursing department director Roy Carpenter Beazley established a yearlong LPN program with Charlottesville’s black vocational high school, Jackson P. Burley High, the main school for black students until integration in 1967. The LPN program continued at UVA Hospital at least until 1980, and possibly later.
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During its existence, about 150 black nurses earned LPN certification, individuals who went on to become nurse pioneers, helping desegregate UVA Hospital and professional nursing more broadly.
“You studied, trained, and became nurses at a time when African Americans were excluded from our School,” said Dean Dorrie Fontaine at an April 6 event at UVA honoring LPN graduates. “This was terribly wrong, and on behalf of the School, I humbly ask you to forgive us for closing our doors to you. It could not have been easy for you during the terrible times of segregation, but you paved the way for so many others to follow in your footsteps.”
EXPLORE THE HIDDEN NURSES COLLECTION
Twenty-five living LPN graduates attended the April 6 ceremony, including Clariece Coles Harris (▲ right, with Fontaine, below, far right, and above, from a 1958 Daily Progress article) of Charlottesville, part of the Burley High LPN class of 1956, while more than 100 LPN graduates who had died were honored. All LPN graduates were granted immediate admission into the UVA Alumni Association by President Jim Ryan, who called them “a valued part of the UVA family.”
“It’s an important moment in the history of the University of Virginia,” added Ryan, and one in which “we are actively reckoning with the darker parts of our history and trying to atone for our past sins. I am committed to working each day to repair broken relationships and build trust. This will take time and daily effort, but I am committed.”
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(left to right) Ruth White, Juanita T. Fleming, Jean Hill, Geneva H. Johnson, Mollie W. Terry, Chester O. Gray, Nellie Walker, Alzella C. Preston, Josephine Smith, Clariece Coles
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6-12 National Nurses Week 10 End of spring semester
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examinations
7-9 Reunions: Classes of 1989, 1994,
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School of Nursing pinning and hooding ceremonies
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Final Exercises
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Deadline to apply for Nursing Alumni Association Alumni Scholarship
5/30- Reunions: Classes of 1959, 6/2 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984 and the Thomas Jefferson Society
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Conference
2019 Conference of Liver Disease & Gastroenterology 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014
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OCTOBER 18-20 UVA Family Weekend 23-27 Virginia Film Festival
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UVA Homecomings: Nursing Alumni Celebration TBD
Fall 2019 semester begins
DECEMBER SEPTEMBER TBD
Advisory Board and Alumni Council fall meetings
OCTOBER 5-8 Fall Reading Days TBD Nursing History Forum with Michelle
Hehman: Caring for the Huddled Masses, Nursing on Ellis Island
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