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One Hundred Years of Our Nursing Alumni Association

January January 28, 28, 2016 2016 Fourth-year Fourth-year nursing nursing student student Nicole Nicole Burkhardt, of Stafford, Va., teaches teaches Burkhardt, of Stafford, Va., a pressure at a youngster youngster about about blood blood pressure at Family Fitness Night in local Family Fitness Night in thea Louisa elementary school where Burkhardt County Public Schools, where is doing a mentored Burkhardt is doing a community mentored health rotation under assistant community health rotation under professor Vickie Southall. assistant professor Vickie Southall.

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Seven Stories to Celebrate Our Nursing Alumni Association’s Centennial

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About the front cover: The School of Nursing honors all of its alumni in this 100th anniversary year of its Alumni Association. The front cover includes names of about 10 percent of our 10,000+ alumni.

Class Notes & News Editor: Andrea Ceniceros Alumni Council Communications Coordinator: Christa Janowski Hartch (BSN ’97) Design: Communication Design Inc. Copyediting: Gail Hyder Wiley Photography: Peggy Harrison, Coe Sweet, Dan Addison, Christine Phelan Kueter, and others as credited

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What Do 100 Years Really Mean?

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s our Nursing Alumni Association’s centennial a nod to the nearly 11,000 alumni who’ve passed through our doors? Or to our widening array of programs catering to nurses at every professional stage? Is it a symbol of the eight deans who’ve served the School of Nursing, of the development of expansive scholarship that improves care at every level, or of our 48 Nursing Alumni Association presidents who have led the charge to keep the School connected to its progeny?

Or is this milestone really about you?

first research project, maybe even the first death. They, like you, recall the lessons of professors who, equal parts tough and tender, gave students their all. Like you, they remain an incredible part of an institution today celebrating its alumni association’s centennial.

All of us are incredibly proud of the alumni who make our Association—and our School—the strong and exceptional place it is: a place to support, to come back to, to rally around.

We are proud, too, of the precious gift of $100,000 from our Nursing Alumni Association that helps us ensure we’re able to attract the very best faculty to nurture our current students and future alumni (see p. 18).

This century of stories reminds me that even with seismic changes in healthcare and technology since 1916, when our Nursing Alumni Association began, nurses remain in a prime position to make a very human difference in a world that needs both care and compassion.

“All of us are incredibly proud of the alumni who make our Association—and our School— the strong and exceptional place it is.”

Your School of Nursing has many stories to tell—more than a century’s worth—each of them a bright point of light tethered by invisible threads to this place where, for many, their nursing began. In these pages, you’ll read about the exploits of a few intrepid fellow alumni who’ve become extraordinary nurses across specialty, place, and time. All of them, like you, feverishly took notes on anatomy, physiology, and disease process in class; sharpened their assessment skills in the lab; and practiced on their peers and through simulation before carrying what they learned into the world to help precisely where help was needed, and to make a difference with patients, families, and communities.

Here’s to the next hundred.

Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean

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They, like you, experienced this School as a place of many firsts: first patient, first unexpected diagnosis, first birth,

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executive vice president and provost, Thomas C. Katsouleas; and Faculty Senate.

The new programs—which would be the only of their kind in Virginia—fill an educational and professional void in the Commonwealth, where NNP and ACPNP positions can take up to a year to fill, according to associate dean for academics Christine M. Kennedy, herself a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) and pediatric professor.

“We’ve heard for years from our Medical Center colleagues that this is an area of need,” explains Kennedy. “That, coupled with large numbers of retirements and growing demand for a new generation of NPs ready for the rigor of a NICU or PICU, makes this the right time to expand what we offer.”

The School plans to nestle the two tracks within the framework of existing PNP curricula, developing 10 to 11 new courses specific to ACPNPs and NNPs, and tailoring existing courses to their focus. If approved, applications for the tracks could be taken as soon as fall 2016, with enrollees arriving in 2017. + SH UT TERSTOCK

ending approval at the University level, the School of Nursing is poised to add two new graduate tracks to its lineup: one for a neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) and another for an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner (ACPNP).

After affirmative votes from both the MSN-DNP Program Committee and the Faculty Organization at the School, plans for the two new tracks are now under consideration by UVA’s

A Nurse First: Barbra Mann Wall, New History Center Director

High Praise—Again

The torch is passed.

After 13 years at the helm of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Arlene Keeling (BSN ’74, MSN ’87, PhD ’92)—the much-beloved Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, triple Hoo, and longtime faculty member of the Department of Acute and Specialty Care—has passed the reins to the center’s third director, Barbra Mann Wall.

Wall, who holds a joint appointment as a professor of history and in the Department of Acute and Specialty Care, arrived at UVA in the summer of 2015. She will build on Keeling’s work—including continuing to offer lively and compelling lectures and events—but with a greater emphasis on collaboration with other University schools and departments. She’ll also focus on plans for the center’s succession, establishing a postdoctoral position at the center while also helping the next generation of PhD students ready themselves for tenure-track positions so “they can teach and lead nursing history centers.” +

The U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guide once again placed the UVA School of Nursing among the nation’s best, reserving particular applause for several of the School’s specialty tracks.

The mid-March release of the 2017 rankings put UVA in the top 3 percent nationwide among graduate nursing programs—18th overall and 9th among public institutions. The School’s Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program ranked 7th, the Family Nurse Practitioner program tied for 20th, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice program ranked 18th. The rankings again placed UVA’s first-in-Virginia Clinical Nurse Leader program at number two in the country.

U.S. News’ graduate nursing school rankings, released annually, are based on academic reputation (40 percent), student selectivity and size (11 percent), faculty resources (24 percent), and research grants and activity (25 percent). +

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In Brief 2015 Sept. 17 Nine UVA nursing faculty members, students, and graduates were among more than 100 attendees of the American Association for the History of Nursing’s 32nd Annual Nursing and Health Care History Conference in Dublin, Sept. 17–20.

Dean Dorrie Fontaine gave the keynote address, speaking on the history of compassionate care.

Sept. 28 Associate professor Emily Drake (BSN ’85, MSN ’03) [left] was elected president of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).

The professional organization and voice for more than 350,000 nurses, AWHONN promotes the health of women and newborns.

With Drake’s election, three national nursing organizations now have presidents who make the UVA School of Nursing their academic home; the other two are Clareen Wiencek [right], president of the American Association of CriticalCare Nurses, and Pamela F. Cipriano, president of the American Nurses Association.

Oct. 28 Assistant professor and Roberts Scholar Camille Burnett was one of 11 nursing academics chosen from across the United States to take part in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) new three-pronged strategy to better employ nursing academics to influence health policy on the national stage.

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Oct. 28 Author Marcus Engel—struck by a drunk driver at age 18, an accident that left him blind and in need of more than 300 surgeries—drew hundreds to his talk “From the Other End of the Stethoscope,” the annual Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture.

Nov. 5 PhD student, former Charlottesville City Councilor, and clinical instructor Holly Edwards received the John E. Baker Community Education Award, which honors an African-American educator who creates a “love of learning in students of all abilities and backgrounds.”

Nov. 7 Nursing honor society Sigma Theta Tau International lauded UVA’s Beta Kappa chapter for its scholarship, leadership, and service, bestowing a Key Award on it for the sixth time at its 43rd biennial meeting in Las Vegas.

Nov. 11 UVA’s interprofessional education (IPE) hub, the Center for ASPIRE, organized and hosted its first Train-the-Trainer Faculty Development program—aimed at helping academics and clinicians establish, amplify, and assess their own IPE programs. The four-day program featured workshops led by faculty members Valentina Brashers [below], John Owen, Julie Haizlip, and Karen Rose (PhD ’06).

Foundation’s annual gala, which drew nearly 1,000 from across the Commonwealth. Awardees included Tara Albrecht (BSN ’05, MSN ’09, PhD ’11), Rhode Baptiste (BSN ’12, MSN ’16), Rebecca Poston (BSN ’03, PhD ’12), Malinda Whitlow (BSN ’07, MSN ’11, DNP ’13), Erica Lewis (MSN ’08, PhD ’12), Alexander Wolf (DNP ’17), and faculty member Randy Jones (BSN ’00, MSN ’02, PhD ’05).

Dec. 1 Susan Bauer-Wu, the Tussi and John Kluge Professor of End-of-Life Care and director of the Compassionate Care Initiative (CCI), left the School to assume the presidency of the Dalai Lama’s Mind and Life Institute. The CCI “blossomed under Susan’s kind and capable leadership,” notes Dean Dorrie Fontaine, who will direct the CCI while the School recruits a new Kluge Chair.

Dec. 21 Professor Cathy L. Campbell was one of 25 nursing academics chosen to revise national palliative care competencies for nursing education, part of a joint effort between the AACN and the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium.

2016 Jan. 1 Jeanne L. Alhusen joined the School’s faculty as the assistant dean for research and an associate professor.

The winner of multiple teaching accolades, she previously taught at Johns Hopkins University. She studies intimate partner violence, maternal mental health, and family health (read more on p. 17).

Nov. 21 Seven UVA School of Nursing students, graduates, and a professor were honored with the “40 Under 40” award at the Virginia Nurses

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Jan. 18 Assistant professor Joel G. Anderson received the UVA Health System’s 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Award, given annually to a faculty or staff member who embodies Dr. King’s values.

What They Said “More than a decade after witnessing the decline of my greatgrandmother and watching my family deal with her dementia, those poignant memories propel my program of research.

I spend my days searching for strategies and tools to manage symptoms, and new and better ways to support those caring for loved ones with dementia. I pore over studies about the impact providing care for a loved one with dementia can have on families and individuals. While my family’s journey with this disease was unique in the sense that it was ours, and ours alone, our experiences with Granny are not uncommon. So the ache I feel each Thanksgiving is, as it is in many families, heightened during holidays when food and eating take center stage.”

Jan. 28 The first cohort of the new Leadership Partners in Healthcare Management Program—a partnership between Darden Executive Education and the UVA School of Nursing— brought eight RN-MD pairs to Grounds for three days, during which they focused on boosting collaboration and communication skills and upping clinical efficiencies and compassion.

The groups will meet monthly through July, when they’ll present their capstone projects to the Darden and Nursing School faculty members [pictured] who are leading the program.

Anderson, J. (2015, November 14). Butterscotch pie: The fine art of dining with dementia [Editorial]. Richmond Times-Dispatch.

“Expose nursing students to difference in school, and they become more capable and compassionate nurses.”

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Kools, S., & Fontaine, D. K. (2015, December 29). Nursing diversity: Why backstories matter [Editorial].

Huffington Post.

Jan. 30 The School of Nursing welcomed 270 nurse practitioners, including School alumni, from across the Commonwealth to the second annual NP.PharmFest, a pharmacology review for clinicians in Virginia.

March 16 Registered nurse Theresa Brown, author of The Shift, delivered the annual Catherine Strader McGehee Memorial Lecture, “Why I Write: How Reflection and Self-expression Make Me a Better Caregiver,” as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book and a Medical Center Hour Lecture.

“There is ample evidence that appropriate gun laws save women’s lives. We have a public health imperative to act on this evidence.”

“Through our teaching, scholarship, and advocacy, we can help transform our institutions into communities where far fewer students will experience the trauma of an assault and [where] those who do are met with respect and empathy.”

Laughon, K., & Campbell, J. C. (2015, November 12). Armed and fabulous?

What’s fabulous is unarming batterers and abusers [Column].

Huffington Post.

Laughon, K., Bullock, L. F. C., & Fontaine, D. K. (2015).

Violence on campus: We all have a role to play [Editorial].

Journal of Nursing Education, 54(5), 239–240.

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BY THE NUMBERS NURSING STUDENTS rotated through UVA Medical Center in 2015

Clinical Rotations

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CLINICAL SITES in Virginia available to UVA nursing students

linical rotations—which begin in the second semester of the second year for undergraduate students—are where the first real patient interactions take place in nursing school. Although many rotations are done in Charlottesville, others are a bit more far flung. Wherever they are, rotations enable students to learn on the job from diverse professionals across a plethora of specialties and geographies.

PRECEPTOR MENTORS around the state in 2015

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CLINICAL HOURS REQUIRED for BSNs and CNLs to graduate from UVA (54% more than the state’s 500-hour requirement)

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Crozet

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Glen Allen

Arrington

Madison Heights Bedford

New Church

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Salem

Montross

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Fredericksburg Ruckersville

Richmond

Powhatan Midlothian

New Kent

Franktown Nassawadox

Moneta Altavista

Petersburg Hampton

Gretna

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Portsmouth Stuart

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The Winding Road to Nurse Practitioner Ernõ Csatlós (FNP ’18)

PEGGY HARRISON

BY JENNY M. ABEL

“I particularly like the teaching and educational role, so I decided to advance and become a nurse practitioner.”

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rnõ Csatlós compares his career to “the serpentine roads of the Carpathian Mountains” where he was born, raised, and lived under communist rule until age 12.

Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that he ended up at the University of Virginia, with its signature Jeffersonian serpentine walls, for his master’s degree in nursing.

“I particularly like the teaching and educational role, so I decided to advance and become a nurse practitioner,” says Csatlós, who is currently enrolled in UVA’s Family Nurse Practitioner program. “I knew I wanted a face-to-face program with plenty of hands-on experience. So far, my first year has reaffirmed my choice [of UVA].”

“For a long time, it was not clear to me [what I should do], but now I know,” says Csatlós, a lifelong ice hockey player, who took his coach’s suggestion to move from Hungary to the United States after finishing high school in 1995. Soon after, he completed his bachelor’s degree at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and then made multiple interstate moves and job changes—including spending eight years as a high school French and Latin teacher, while coaching ice hockey on the side—before deciding to focus on nursing.

In his first semester, Csatlós enjoyed learning from practitioners across specialties as well as delving deep into nursing theory, lessons from which he’s already applying on the job.

“Nursing combines several elements that fit my personality: pop-up situations where you have to find ways to fix problems quickly, working and communicating with people, and education,” explains Csatlós, who vividly remembers shadowing his mother, an RN, growing up.

Although nursing was always in the back of his mind, it took a stint as a volunteer ambulance driver to reawaken his interest in healthcare about a decade ago. Around then, he and his wife relocated to Lynchburg, Va., and soon thereafter, he returned to school for his second bachelor’s degree, a BSN at Lynchburg College. Graduating in 2012, he joined Centra, a regional hospital system based in Lynchburg, as an RN; today, he is a charge nurse on the hospital’s medical-surgical floor, chair of its quality committee, and a “closet computer geek” assisting with technology issues.

“I could see myself working in a clinic or staying at a hospital— I’m keeping my options open,” says Csatlós, father of two and husband of 15 years to Mimi Kelly Csatlós (Curry ’08).

He also sees himself engaged in nursing on a broader scale, adding, “I think an important part of being a nurse is stepping outside the clinical setting, even though it’s a challenge because of how busy we are, and representing and rallying for the nursing community as a whole. I look forward to learning more about how to do that.” +

Ernõ Csatlós (FNP ’18) 2015–16 recipient of the Theresa A. Thomas Fellowship in Primary Care Created in 1992 through the generosity of the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation, the scholarship benefits graduate students with a demonstrated interest in primary care nursing.

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Compassion through latitude, K. Clark + Julie A. Clark + Monique C. Class + Sarah E. Clawson Brave, + Jenniferbold, H. Clifton + English Miller Clough + Sharon Topping Clowes + Megan M. Coe + Elizabeth A. Collins + Keri W. Collins + Sandra L. Colton + Margaret E. Colwell + Jennifer P. Combs + Lindsey N. Comer + Helen Potts Comet + Patricia S. Conklin + Corinne L. Conlon + Karen Whipp longitude, time.

For the pastM.115 years, School Connelly + Kelly E. Conron + Iris M. Cooke + Stephanie L. Cordier + Colleen L. and Corishacross + Concettina C. Cormio + Sharon Corry + Janie UVA Newsome Cortinaof + Alison F. Cory + Annemarie Nelson Couture + Charlotte F. Cowdry + Jo Ann L. Craemer + Catherine E. Craig + Joan F. Crews + Beverley M. Crickenberger + Lee Beth Crigler + Monika E. Criman + Gale G. Cromwell + Meghan Cronk + Patrick Crook + Anita W.Nursing Crowder + Louise G. Crowley + Allison L. Crute + Laila F. Cruz + Patricia M. Cullentalent, + Grace Darling Cumming + graduates have scattered to the wind, bringing Lillian J. Currie + Natalie D. Cutchin + Vilma J. D’Mello-Fernandes + Ingrid Plant Daily + Anne P. Daniel + Lori A. Daugherty-Switzer + Lisa A. Davenport + Elizabeth W. Davis + Gwen A. Davis + Kristen D. Davis + Paula Davis + Mary Senseney Deane + Lyn Deane-Harris + Mary T. K. Deardorff + Jean Sandusky Debrot + Faduma Sara DeGhill + Virginia compassion, energy to people systems around the world.

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Edwards + Kimberly A. Elgin + Martha F. Elias + Kimberly England Elliott + Lauren E. Elliott + James W. Emerson Jr. + Helen G. Enyeart + Susan K. Erkenbrack + Trudy L. Esparza + Janet Bond Evans + Caroline L. Exner + Sharon C. Fay + Jane A. Ferguson + Phyllis Ferguson + Sandra W. Ferguson + Adrienne N. Fields + Hayley E. Finch + Casey Weissenborn Finn + Anne M. Fitzhugh + Marcia J. Flagg + Valerie Flinn + Diane L. Fontana + Edwina Terry Forch + Stephanie Sizemore Franger + Beth B. Franklin + Laura A. To mark 100th anniversary the UVA of Nursing Franklin + Patricia A. Franko + Mary H. Frazer + Wanda L. Fuschino + Anna the D. Gainey + Karen Daley Gallivanof + Phyllis CarverSchool Galsky + Patricia Gangwer + K. Ashley Garcia + Danilo A. Garcia-Duenas + Martha E. Garner + Eleanor Hyman Garrett + Hayley H. Gaston-Enholm + Lilay A. Gebreselassie + Alexix Y. Gebron + Reva D. Geier + Kim Giles + Sandra A. Gililland + Irene Chodan Gilliland + Kathryn J. Glasgow + Lindsay Powell Glover + Brianne L. Goettlich + Stephanie M. Goh + Sally R. Golden E. Goodnight

BY CHRISTINE PHELAN KUETER Alumni Association in 2016, we introduce a small handful of+ Margaret the + Kristina J. Goodwyn + Phyllis L. Goyert + Elaine R. Graf + Patricia A. Graham + Dana M. Grant + Susan B. Graves + Judith Woody Gray + Karen Welling Gray + Susan S. Gray + Tammy D. Gray + Mary L. Grecco + Laurie Berry Grieves + Carol Burins Grigsby + Karen S. Gross + Carolyn A. Grovac + Doreen Faye Grzelak + Sarah T. Guerry + Jean Haynie many brightE.lights among the thousands of UVA nurses Hagen + Ida W. Hagenbacher + Donna Swink Hahn + Patty Joy Hale + Jacqueline Hall + Margaret L. Halladay + Sara C. Hallowell + Selena Forneyacross Halsey + Jessica F. Hamman + Sandra J. Hammer + Ann Rivers Hammond + Judy Sutton Hammond + Virginia Marco Hancock + Jeffery Patrick Hanes + Kenya D. Haney + Laura K. Hansen + Evelyn N. Hanson + Jaimie Mason Hardy + Crystal Hargrave + Jean H. Harper M. Harrell + Karen L. Harris + Brittany H. Harrison + Mary E. Harrison + Jamalethey— R. Hart + Lynn Alison the+ Sandra decades.

Separated by class, degree, specialty, and time, Hartman + Dorothy Connor Harvey + Cynthia M. Hatcher + Anna Beckwith Hawkes + Frances M. Hawkins + Deborah C. Hayes + Karen Hayes + Emily R. Heatwole + Kimberly H. Hedrick + Pauline A. Heizenroth + Rebecca R. Henderson + Kim C. Henry + Shirley M. Herring + Susan Ann Hess + Lorirose Hindman + Susan Ewing Hines + Janice L. Hinkle + you, as one of our 10,929 proud alumni—are bound forever by their Janice L. Hirschfield + Laura C. Hobeika + Johlyn F. Hock + Amanda W. Hodges + Dolores G. Hoffman + Rachel C. Holland + Allison D. Holloway + Kelly Bixby Hooper + Vicki L. Horn + Elizabeth R. Howard + Erica G. Howard + Charlotte D. Hubbard + Samantha L. Hudgins + Allison E. Huffman + Jennifer E. Huffman + Jennifer Bailey Humphrey + Anne profession and place of pedigree.

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From Common Grounds Seven Stories to Celebrate Our Nursing Alumni Association’s Centennial

Adu works at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as the senior research program manager of the Improving Outcomes with Respect and Trust (IMPORT) study.

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Tanita Woodson Adu BSN ’97

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“ I’m so glad I chose UVA, my number-one choice … I had an amazing time academically and socially, even though when my roommates were all playing spades, having fun, I was getting ready for clinic. I still managed to find that balance. … I’m honored to have gone there.”

broke appointments and were homeless, isolated, and mentally ill. The work was as eye opening as Uganda and readied Adu for what came next: research.

Now a nurse practitioner, researcher, and substance abuse program coordinator at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Adu studies effective elements of communication between HIV patients and clinicians—because when patients respect and trust their providers, “they’ll be more likely to make their visits and take their meds,” she says.

Adu also translates the disease to friends outside the HIV world who often misunderstand its people, processes, and challenges.

“There’s still a lot of stigma when it comes to HIV, even among the educated,” says Adu. “A lot of people say to me, ‘Wow, you’re doing a good thing,’ and then think to themselves, ‘Nobody would want to have that job.’”

But it’s gratifying work for Adu, who has seen many of her current patients for years, thanks to improvements in drug therapy.

“I love what I’m doing,” she says.

“You might see a patient who’s homeless, dealing with schizophrenia, alienated by family and friends, and I’m the only one who’s asked them how their day is, who lets them cry, who lets them get things out, who really listens.

“It makes me feel good that I’m really helping,” she adds. “It’s work I was meant to do.” +

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anita Woodson Adu (BSN ’97) has been a lot of things: A military brat. A critical care nurse. A hair model.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Africa that she discovered the role that would define her: a researcher and caregiver to people living with HIV and AIDS. The trip to Uganda took her through capital city Kampala’s hospitals, orphanages, and villages, where she saw what was behind the country’s remarkable HIV turnaround. The country’s rates, once explosive, had declined sharply, and many in the medical community wanted to know why. For Adu, it proved a turning point.

“I got back to the US,” she recalls, “and said, ‘I’m doing this.’”

Through a fellowship at the AIDS Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, she began seeing patients. Back then, the HIV population in the city’s Upper East Side was primarily African-American and Hispanic, many were substance abusers, and most were on a complex regimen of antiretroviral medications. Many

Adu during her student days at UVA.

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“ People just gravitated toward her.”

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Phyllis Steger DIPLO ’38

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mate on the steps of the Rotunda in the 1930s.

$100 tuition. Defying strict restrictions, the young Hamner wedded in secret to Thomas R. “Billy” Steger Sr. at age 17, even as she lived in McKim Hall under the watchful eye of then-superintendent Josephine McLeod, attended classes, and worked in the hospital. By graduation, the young couple finally moved together to 14th Street, and Steger worked as a nurse for a handful of years before

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lthough she never learned to drive, Phyllis Hamner Steger (DIPLO ’38)—or simply “Hamner,” as she was known—was “always ready to go, always ready to help, always game for fun,” daughter Mary Ann Conrad remembers. That meant trips to Branson, Nashville, the Bahamas, or Virginia’s Homestead. It meant an unpredictable tangle of friends and family encircling the holiday table. Epic Easter egg hunts. Casseroles on demand.

And tiny wrapped gifts for her peers at The Colonnades in Charlottesville, where she spent her final years.

“She loved people,” says granddaughter Crystal Steger-Smith, “and she was always thinking of others.”

If Steger, who died in 2015 at age 96, was the sun around which her family orbited, her gravitational pull extended much further. Bus drivers and mailmen knew her. Her three children’s friends, neighbors, and former patients adored her.

“She never knew a stranger,” says Steger-Smith.

Born July 3, 1918, in rural Albemarle County, Steger enrolled in UVA’s School of Nursing at age 16 at the urging of her aunt, also a nurse, who footed the

Steger [right] and a class-

Phyllis and Billy Steger wed in secret as students at UVA and were married nearly 60 years before he passed away in 1996.

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having children and moving to the Fry’s Spring neighborhood.

By the time Conrad was born, Steger had returned to work as a private duty nurse for prominent Charlottesville families, tending bedridden elderly at the end of life. It was work that informed the no-nonsense attitude she took during the last two months of her own life, when she astutely directed when she needed help, when to bring in a hospital bed, what medications she’d take, and what she needed for pain relief.

Her directives were gentle, assured, confident—never bossy.

Even in her final days, Steger, ever the caregiver, nurtured those around her.

And although her death left a big hole in her family, her influence persists.

“People just gravitated toward her,” says Conrad through tears. “She was our magnet.” +

Shetty working in the cardiac ICU at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.

Michelle Ellison Shetty BSN ’08 G ENIE LEMIEUX

NAVIGATOR

“ There’s something about UVA and about the School of Nursing that makes you proud to call yourself an alum.

There’s this level of pride and camaraderie you find among UVA grads—it’s just fun.”

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Shetty with her NCAA Championship plaque at the end of her first year at UVA; she was coxswain of the winning varsity crew.

ichelle Ellison Shetty (BSN ’08) doesn’t make a habit of yelling.

But her voice can be deafening.

Those pipes served her well as coxswain of the UVA women’s rowing team between 2004 and 2008. Being coxswain—the bow-facing leader and command center of the 57-foot, eight-person vessel— proved excellent preparation for nursing school, and everything else that lay shimmering beyond.

Nursing school would have been “intense even without the rowing,” laughs Shetty from the 15th floor of downtown Chicago’s Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, where she’s charge nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit.

“There were plenty of times that I was in (senior assistant dean for academic and student services) Theresa Carroll’s office asking, ‘How do I manage all this?’

But I never questioned my decision to go into nursing.”

Yet, it wasn’t always so clear. Shetty arrived at UVA as an undeclared major.

She took a lot of science and Spanish, and taught English to nonnative speakers.

It was only after her grandmother entered hospice, and she watched nurses deftly tend to her in her last days, that something clicked.

“Her death became a sort of beautiful thing,” Shetty recalls. “It was about people,” not process, and “what I realized I was really called to do.”

After graduation, Shetty headed to Washington, D.C., to work at Children’s National Medical Center, where she spent five years acclimating to the intricacies of kids’ congenital heart defects. That job led to an offer from Lurie in 2013— a challenge she has embraced.

Her role often means leaning into hard situations, and bearing witness to small victories: celebrating a parent changing a child’s tracheostomy for the first time; attending “heartaversary” parties marking kids’ transplant dates; and receiving cards stuffed with pictures of former patients who are now healthy, against incredible odds.

Coxswain. Nurse. Navigator.

“You’re the leader, the one people come to with all the questions,” says Shetty, “not just someone with good clinical skills, but someone who’s able to change the tone of a work environment or the room of an incredibly sick child with struggling parents, and be a light.

“I want to give other people that space to share, because I think our lives are more universal than we think they are.” + Spring 2016

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Ranson at Roanoke’s Good Samaritan Hospice, where she is president and CEO.

Sue Ranson MSN ’86 MIKE WIL SON

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“ My UVA Nursing advisor, Jeanne Fox [BSN ’68], was incredible … she worked with my schedule, made sure all my courses were on Mondays, helped me with child care—she made it happen for me. And the basis for my master’s has served me incredibly well, and in so many ways.”

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ue Ranson (MSN ’86) never liked the “guts part of nursing.” But working with the grieving and the dying was right in her comfort zone.

After she earned a nursing degree from the University of Maryland and held a smattering of healthcare jobs, Ranson’s mentor urged her to get a master’s degree. “It’ll open doors,” she told Ranson, who soon garnered admission to UVA, took a deep breath, and leapt.

Thus began Ranson’s three-year process to complete her MSN in gerontological psychology. By graduation, the mother of two was working full time at Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital and had been asked to lead a new grief support program.

“I went in having read every piece of knowledge I could get my hands on,” recalls Ranson, “and within 5 or 10 minutes of being in the presence of people so palpably hurting, I knew: It wasn’t mine to control. They were going to teach me.”

And how they did. Members talked, sat silently, wrote letters to their deceased

Ranson and son Jeremy in the fall of 1982—the year she entered UVA—at what was then known as Community Hospice of the Roanoke Valley (CHRV), where she worked in the staff development office.

loved ones, and shared their possessions.

They even laughed sometimes.

Not therapy. But exceptionally therapeutic.

When the chance came a few years later to help start Roanoke’s first Medicare-certified hospice program, Ranson realized the fit was perfect.

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serves hundreds of patients each year.

Its 60-member clinical staff—from nurses and physicians to chaplains and bereavement counselors—answer calls, manage pain, organize family meetings, and help make funeral arrangements alongside the infinite details of end-of-life care. Two-thirds of the patients live at home, a majority have non-cancer diagnoses, and roughly 95 percent are Medicare recipients.

All have had enough of treatment.

To Ranson, the hospice’s president and chief executive officer, tending the patients’ deaths is as natural a process as birth.

“At one point, being born and dying were natural events, and people knew what to do,” explains Ranson. “Today, a woman wouldn’t have a baby without somebody there, perhaps a midwife, who knew what was happening, and the same is true for the end of life. We’re the midwives at the end of life.

“We’re normalizing a very natural part of life,” she adds. “A couple of generations ago, we took dying out of the home. Today, we’re returning it.” +

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Lemieux’s interest in medicine was sparked during his training as a US Army medic.

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othing in his suburban Colorado upbringing could have prepared Matt Lemieux for what lay ahead. And if a logic formed after his deployment to Afghanistan in 2005— ultimately bringing him through two UVA nursing master’s degree programs—his earlier trajectory felt more random.

“Less choice, more circumstance,” says Lemieux (CNL ’11, PNP ’15).

After dropping out of college, joining the US Army, and deploying to the Middle East, Lemieux taught

Lemieux is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Richmond, Va.

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“ When I first started thinking about my NP, I knew I’d come back to UVA in a heartbeat.”

reconnaissance strategy to Afghani soldiers. It was a lot of practical work— “Go down road A; avoid B. Don’t camp in this place, and note the potential threats here”—and eye opening to a 22-year-old who, until then, had never traveled farther than Mexico.

But, he says, it was “the best thing” he’s ever done.

When Lemieux returned to the United States in 2006, he trained as an Army medic. And although he loved the work—starting IVs, charting, assisting with dressing changes—the skills made him a likely candidate for redeployment and a path that didn’t suit.

“I was tired of chronic sinus infections from dust, tired of 110-degree afternoons and less-than-30-degree nights,” he says. “The hospital was a place where I could do the medical thing without the discomfort of sleeping in the dirt.”

Leaving the Army, he reenrolled in college, earned a history degree, and was pondering medicine until a former professor urged him to consider nursing. He enrolled in UVA’s Clinical Nurse Leader program the next year and

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Matt Lemieux CNL ’11, PNP ’15

discovered he loved tending to kids— work that he says felt “like a puzzle piece clicking into place.”

After his 2011 graduation, Lemieux worked in the emergency room of Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va., before enrolling in UVA’s Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) program in 2013.

Between classes, clinicals, and a full-time job in UVA Medical Center’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lemieux also found time to marry fellow alumna Brooke Bosselman (CNL ’11) and begin a family (son Meade is one year old).

Now a PNP in the pediatric emergency department of Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Lemieux’s work finally fits—more choice, less circumstance— informed by all that came before.

And it probably couldn’t have happened any other way.

“Afghanistan opened me up to the idea that we as a human race occupy a lot of different environments, have a lot of different beliefs,” says Lemieux. “It’s important for me to remember that.” +

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“ Virginia started me on the path of a profession that has brought me nothing but joy. No matter what my position, because of the foundation I received in nursing, I had confidence that I could do what was required of me.”

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eanne Bieren Gué (DIPLO ’63) recalls sitting at the nurses’ station at the old UVA Hospital (“the old, old hospital, not the new, old hospital,” she clarifies) looking out across the open ward’s sea of beds.

It was white women only. The separate ward for black men and women lay below among the basement’s heating vents and pipes, far beneath the white men’s ward.

“A different time,” Gué says, not wanting to philosophize, save this: “People are people.”

It’s the same no-nonsense attitude that has informed a lengthy, varied career in nursing, first at the bedside, then in the classroom and community, and later, after retirement, as cofounder of the Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic in South Carolina.

Forty miles east of Columbia, Orangeburg County—where Gué has lived since marrying physician Bert Gué in 1963—is among the state’s largest counties geographically. It’s also home to many poor, unemployed, and uninsured people who often go without routine

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Jeanne Gué DIPLO ’63

healthcare. Mortality from treatable diseases is high. The gap, the Gués knew, was clear.

With a University of South Carolina (USC) College of Nursing colleague, the couple mapped out plans for the clinic, secured volunteer help from clinician friends and local nursing programs, and established referral protocols with local hospitals. A $150,000 startup grant from the Duke Endowment provided

Gué [standing] and classmates practice their clinical skills as students at the School of Nursing in the early 1960s.

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Gué at the Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic, which she and her husband cofounded in South Carolina in 2009.

initial funding. The trio rented an empty doctor’s office and fixed it up, painting it from top to bottom. Even then, Gué was “not sure how long the clinic would stay open,” with so many moving parts and crushing need from patients, who began arriving immediately.

That was 2009. Today, the clinic provides routine care to more than 600 people. Although no longer a staff nurse, Gué (who went on to earn BS and MSN degrees from USC) responds to every donation with a thank-you letter, coordinates fundraisers, writes grant requests, and oversees publication of the clinic’s newsletter.

As the clinic’s unofficial storytellerin-chief, she translates the portrait of need to those who will listen.

“The biggest shock to me was that clients who applied for help were the same people who served us in businesses around the city, people whom I dealt with regularly, like the woman at the dry cleaner’s,” says Gué. “They were the people who needed our help. It’s been very eye opening.” +

Hall in the Global Health & Clinical Sciences Building (also known as Mission Hall) at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is an assistant professor and a PhD student.

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Emily Hall BSN ’03

TEACHER

“ Being at UVA was a great way to be exposed to academic nursing, and because of that, I knew early on that there were a lot of options for work.”

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[were] living outside in the wake of disaster ... every single one of them traumatized by it. The Haitian tradition is that, upon death, the women wail. I was close to and heard a lot of wailing.”

The work took its toll. Hall, who returned to the United States with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, assumed a job at a Boston clinic that primarily served immigrants, many of whom had never seen a doctor, were traumatized by their passage, or had fled from political unrest. With Haiti, Rwanda, and Malawi in her rearview, Hall was struck by the parallels between her international and domestic work, and a growing understanding that, at times, her biggest function lay in listening.

“It’s a powerful thing for me to be a witness to others’ suffering,” says Hall, now an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she oversees students’ global placements and recently began pursuing a doctorate in Global Health Sciences.

“I had no part in being born in America, and it’s important to me to know that.

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orking jobs that don’t suit sometimes puts you on paths that do.

That was true for Emily Hall (BSN ’03), who worked several years in an urban Philadelphia trauma center before feeling the tug of community-based nursing.

After becoming a family nurse practitioner and earning a second master’s degree in public health, Hall traveled to Rwanda in 2006 and studied HIV and AIDS in Malawi in 2007, work that left her “itching to work clinically in global health.”

If trauma and acute care nursing was decidedly not her thing, a position with Boston-based Partners In Health (PIH) fit perfectly. For the next two years, the nongovernmental agency stationed Hall at Rwanda’s 70-bed Rwinkwavu Hospital, where she taught nurses everything from chemotherapy administration to critical thinking and assessment skills.

If Rwanda offered calm, bucolic rurality, Hall’s next PIH assignment— working in a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, hospital just weeks after that country’s catastrophic earthquake in 2010—was a 180-degree pivot. Sleeping on a cot in a

Emily Hall in the town of Reforma in Chiapas, Mexico, in August 2015.

hot, crowded anteroom, Hall worked four months as a nursing supervisor, mostly overnight, filling gaps to support Haitian staff members who had gone missing, couldn’t work, or died in the calamity.

“A 100 percent sensory experience,” Hall says. “These people were exponentially more desperate and poorer; people

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IMPACT: NURSING RESEARCH

New Faculty Research

BY CHRISTINE PHELAN KUETER

Bright, diverse, and driven, a handful of new professors are bringing fresh energy and momentum to the School of Nursing, deepening its breadth of research and exposing students to new models and ideas.

LeBaron Logan

The Mechanics of Hypertension Jeongok Logan Assistant Professor and Roberts Scholar

“Everyone’s arteries become stiffer as they age,” explains assistant professor of nursing Jeongok Logan, “but for a long time, we thought arterial stiffness was the result of hypertension and not, as we know now, one of its causes. It made me wonder: What’s the process? And how might psychological stress be related?”

The physical stiffening of the large arteries is often recognized as a precursor to cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, heart failure, and coronary artery disease, and a leading cause of death around the world. If the biological mechanisms underlying that stiffening are better understood, reasons Logan, then lifestyle and drug interventions might follow suit.

Logan plans to measure arterial stiffness and the blood profiles of 80 women, ages 30 to 55, who will be purposefully exposed to anxiety and stress. Measuring subjects’ carotid and femoral arteries’ pulse wave velocity—a far more sensitive measure of blood pressure than the familiar cuff—before and after the stress, Logan will also analyze subjects’ blood for the presence of certain proteins both before and after the stressor.

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Her hypothesis is that, under stress, the sympathetic nervous system’s ascent— the “fight or flight” mechanism—coupled with the dramatic, simultaneous drop in the parasympathetic system—the “feed and breed” mechanism—causes a cascade of biological events that directly contribute to arterial stiffness. The data, Logan believes, will foster greater understanding of how psychological stress contributes to cardiovascular disease.

A Balanced Approach to Pain Relief in Southwest Virginia Virginia LeBaron Assistant Professor and Roberts Scholar

It’s a paradox in the Commonwealth and around the country: Although abuse of prescription opioids poses a serious health problem, so, too, does untreated pain from advanced cancer. These dual challenges are particularly pronounced in far-southwest Virginia, where a higher-than-average cancer incidence coexists with dramatic rates of opioid abuse, and between 60 percent and 80 percent of patients with advanced cancer experience moderate to severe pain.

“It’s grim,” says assistant professor of nursing Virginia LeBaron (BSN ’96), who first witnessed the ravages of untreated cancer while working as a nurse practitioner in Nepal and India in the early 2000s. “And with the medications we have that can offer relief to people in agony, it [untreated pain] is also unnecessary.”

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LeBaron’s hunch is that opioid abuse in Southwest Virginia makes accessing such drugs for the relief of cancer pain more difficult there. She will create the first state map to describe both sides of this coin—access to pain relief and indicators of abuse of prescription opioid medication—using data from the state’s Medicare and Medicaid claims and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database, among other sources. The results will help regulators, policymakers, and clinicians “meet in the middle,” making it easier for patients who need pain relief to get it—while keeping prescription opioids out of the hands of those who don’t.

A Decision Aid for Patients with Heart Failure Maureen Metzger Assistant Professor and Roberts Scholar

There’s nothing easy about making life-altering decisions at any stage. But healthcare decisions can be particularly agonizing when combined with the stress of illness, the pressure to act, and the incredible complexity of medical technology—not to mention the fact that no clear “right” answer exists.

These difficulties are precisely why decision aids are so critical, says assistant professor of nursing Maureen Metzger. Building on the success of tools developed at the School for people

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with breast, lung, and prostate cancers, Metzger plans to fill a similar gap for heart failure patients who are candidates for left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).

LVADs, once offered only to patients waiting for heart transplants, have more recently become an end in themselves (“destination therapy”). Implanted in the chest cavity during open-heart surgery, the device pumps blood through the heart, alleviating fatigue and shortness of breath.

But while LVADs may extend life, they also come with difficulties: infection potential, greater likelihood of stroke and bleeding, and logistical concerns among them. All costs must be shared upfront so patients and caregivers can “make plans for what’s coming,” says Metzger.

The Impact of Maternal Mental Health on Children Jeanne Alhusen Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Research

When mothers-to-be are abused, stressed, depressed, and living in poverty, their babies suffer, too. They’re more likely to be born small, have learning and social problems, and enter a world where stress and poverty often persist across generations and time.

“A nurturing environment in the early years has incredible, lifelong benefits,” says associate professor of nursing and assistant dean for research

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Jeanne Alhusen, “and stress—whether it’s because of abuse, depression, joblessness, or isolation—interferes with a mother’s sensitivity, which is a key indicator of a young child’s socio-emotional development.”

As a nurse practitioner, Alhusen cared for many mothers who, though wanting desperately to do right by their children, often lacked the capacity to bond. Their children, in turn, exhibited a cascade of physical, social, and behavioral issues rooted in the absence of healthy maternal-child attachment. How, Alhusen wondered, can we help these women be the mothers they want to be?

Now the principal investigator on four grants, Alhusen’s research continues to identify the physiological markers of maternal attachment. One study compares cortisol levels in mothers and children living in high-stress environments. Another—inspired by a former patient living with Down syndrome who suffered the ill effects of inadequate healthcare and never-detected sexually transmitted diseases—focuses on the reproductive healthcare needs of women living with disabilities.

“In the US, we like to paint the picture that pregnancy is the happiest time,” says Alhusen, “but for many women, that’s simply not the case.” Nurses, she adds, are in the perfect position to implement changes that can help.

Mindfulness Interventions at the End of Life Yasemin Turkman Assistant Professor and Roberts Scholar

It stands to reason that patients with advanced cancers might experience more depression, anxiety, and stress than others. But could a nursing intervention using resilience and mindfulness techniques offer relief to these types of patients as well as their loved ones?

Building on previous research focused on the experiences of survivors of triple-negative breast cancer—an aggressive cancer that largely strikes young African-American women and has a high probability of recurrence five years post-treatment—assistant professor of nursing Yasemin Turkman is examining the role mindfulness might play in the quality of life of those with chronic illness or nearing the end of their lives.

Turkman plans to conduct a communitybased participatory research study on the mental health needs of people with stage III and IV cancers, with a goal of developing an intervention to improve their quality of life. By widening her focus to people with advanced cancer, she explains, she’ll better understand what helps patients at different points along the cancer trajectory.

“Sometimes when people are caught in the maze of illness and treatment,” she says, “they can’t see the forest for the trees. Mindfulness interventions might be deceptively simple, but the point is to have a range of possibilities to tap that are clear, accessible, and may offer relief.” + Spring 2016

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A Game-Changing Gift from the Nursing Alumni Association to Support the School’s Faculty

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ooming shortages of both nurses and nursing educators have gotten a lot of press in recent years, and for good reason: Tens of thousands of would-be nursing students are turned away each year due to space constraints and an increasingly short supply of nursing faculty to teach them.

“This gift will enable us to seal the deal more effectively as we compete against deep-pocketed private institutions for the nation’s best professors and researchers.”

Dorrie Fontaine, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean

At UVA, the situation is even more critical, with older-thanaverage professors and the hemorrhage of one-third of the faculty over the past eight years due to retirements and relocations, with at least a half-dozen more retirements expected in the next two years. Couple that with the need for incentives to attract the highest-caliber teachers, who are also being recruited by other top nursing schools, and it’s the perfect storm.

The School of Nursing Alumni Association (SONAA) understands help is needed—and soon. So to honor its centennial, the Nursing Alumni Council recently committed the largest gift in SONAA history: $100,000 for faculty startup packages, payable over three years.

“This is a game-changing gift,” beams Dean Dorrie K. Fontaine.

“In a time of great transition for nursing academics—when their scarcity makes them so highly sought after—we’re not only hanging on to the exceptional people we have, we’re attracting more of them. We simply couldn’t do that without this money and support.”

The SONAA has a history, almost as old as itself, of making transformative gifts to the School’s faculty. The Association’s $3,000 gift in 1927—equivalent to more than $40,000 today— helped the Virginia Graduate Nurses Association establish the Sadie Heath Cabaniss School of Nursing at UVA, the first BSN program in the South. A year later, thanks to support from many alumni and nurses, the School became home to the first endowed nursing professorship in the United States.

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The SONAA’s gift to faculty startup packages will help bring outstanding professors like Jeongok Logan, a Roberts Scholar and assistant professor, to UVA, supporting them in their research programs and professional development. Here, Logan demonstrates a pulse wave velocity instrument, which she uses in her research on arterial stiffness (see p. 16).

$3 per day,” notes SONAA President Judy Bilicki (BSN ’81). “One of the most impactful ways we can continue this support today is to ensure our dean has what she needs to recruit and retain the very best faculty for the School of Nursing. We feel this gift will help accomplish that goal.”

Newer faculty members like Jeongok Logan, Maureen Metzger, and Yasemin Turkman confirm the key role of startup packages, seed research funding, and other professional support in drawing them to the School—calling similar funds “a huge enticement” and “one of the reasons” they chose UVA. The best part of the SONAA gift is that the funds can be put to use right away in attracting new faculty members. And the Nursing Alumni Council hopes this milestone gift will inspire others to give with similar generosity to the School and its faculty—this year and in years to come. +

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From the President

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his is an exciting year for the School of Nursing Alumni Association (SONAA) as we celebrate our centennial!

We are pleased to recognize our achievements over the past 100 years and to plan strategically for the future.

Philanthropy has played an important role in our history. In a centennial planning meeting last fall, professor emerita Barbara Brodie shared that the SONAA made a $3,000 gift in 1927 to help establish a professorship in the School of Nursing—during an era when nurses made only $3 a day. We are pleased, in 2016, to pledge a gift of $100,000 to the School (read more on the adjacent page). This unprecedented gift will help recruit and retain the very best faculty for the coming years. Thank you for your ongoing support that makes this gift possible.

The SONAA’s 100th anniversary also provides a time for us to reflect on our history and recognize our accomplishments as students, nurses, and alumni. Congratulations to each of you for the contributions you’ve made to the patients we serve, our profession, and the communities where you live. Our collective impact as School of Nursing alumni is significant and far-reaching!

Please stay tuned for information on our centennial celebration through our various publications, e-mails, and social media.

We hope to see you at Homecomings this fall!

Sincerely,

Judy Etheridge Bilicki (BSN ’81) President, School of Nursing Alumni Association, Alexandria, Virginia

The SONAA Celebrates 100 Years Fifteen years after the University of Virginia School of Nursing started in 1901, a group of nursing alumni joined together to form the School of Nursing Alumni Association (SONAA). Since then, the Association has served as a resource for UVA nursing alumni, students, and faculty, providing organizational Send us (nursing-alumni@ support that virginia.edu) your promotes the answers to any or all of professional and the following questions social bonds among and join us in celebrating its members. All this milestone occasion graduates of the in 2016!

School’s diploma, • What is your favorite undergraduate, memory as a nursing graduate, and student? certificate programs are automatically • As an alumna or alumnus, lifetime members. how do you want to stay connected to the School of Nursing?

We want to hear from you!

• What advice do you have for new nursing graduates and nurses returning for an advanced degree?

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Connect with nearly 1,000 (and counting) UVA nursing alumni classmates, friends, and faculty members; find out about upcoming events; view event photos; and read the latest articles from Dean Dorrie Fontaine and other faculty members when you join our Facebook and Instagram communities: www.facebook.com/UVAnursingAlumni Instagram: UVANURSINGALUMNI

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Alumni-Student Networking Lunch

Nancy Norman (BSN ’12)—Hematology Oncology unit, Children’s National Medical Center

Andrea King (BSN ’14)—MedStar Washington Hospital Center MICU; University of Maryland BSN to DNP family nurse practitioner student

Victoria Tucker (BSN ’12, PhD ’19)— Palliative Care, Virginia Commonwealth University; UVA School of Nursing PhD student

Elizabeth Bradshaw Mikula (BSN ’05)— director of quality management, HCA Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital

Interested in sharing your experience with students?

E-mail nursing-alumni@virginia.edu.

Wassel, Faircloth Elected to Leadership Roles on Alumni Council

As Awards Committee chair, Wassel will focus on recognizing extraordinary School of Nursing alumni and faculty members through the SONAA awards Sara Wassel program. She succeeds Elizabeth “Betty” Sydrock Dunning (BSN ’74, DNP ’14), who served two three-year terms on the Council, coordinating the awards program and chairing a committee of alumni that evaluates nominees for each award.

Dunning practices at Virginia Heart in Northern Virginia.

At its annual winter retreat, the Nursing Alumni Council elected Sara Wassel (BSN ’09, MSN-FNP ’14), of Arlington, Va., as the next Awards Committee chair.

Wassel has served on the Awards Committee since 2011. As a student, she participated in Nursing Students Without Borders and was a member of the Graduate Nursing Student Organization.

After graduation, Wassel worked at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Inova Fairfax Hospital and the Medical Oncology and Hematology Associates of Northern Virginia. She currently practices at Old Dominion Medical Center (in McLean, Va.), specializing in health promotion and women’s health.

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Also at the retreat, Amanda C. Faircloth (BSN ’00), of Richmond, Va., was elected to serve as the Alumni Council’s next vice president. Faircloth has served on the Council since 2014 as the alumni

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Megan Boehling (BSN ’12)—UVA Medical Center Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU); UVA School of Nursing BSN to DNP student

New Awards Committee Chair and Vice President Positions Effective July 1

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The Nursing Student Council and Alumni Council cosponsored a networking event for third- and fourth-year students on February 6, 2016. Students had an opportunity to ask alumni about their careers, decision making related to pursuing advanced degrees, staying resilient and mindful in tough situations, and acclimating to a new city. Many thanks to Alumni Council members and the following alumni for joining us to connect with students!

engagement coordinator, volunteer outreach. In addition to working as a certified registered nurse anesthetist, Faircloth recently founded Faircloth Consultants LLC, a medical legal consulting firm in Amanda C. Faircloth Richmond. Faircloth succeeds Martha Coupe Schneider (BSN ’04, MSN ’08, DNP ’13), of Charlottesville, who served two three-year terms as Alumni Council vice president. Schneider is the Magnet Program director at Shands Hospital, University of Florida.

Wassel and Faircloth assume their new roles on July 1, 2016. + Want to get involved with the Nursing Alumni Association?

E-mail nursing-alumni@virginia.edu.

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Homecomings: Celebrate with Us October 15!

Nursing Alumni Service Trip: UVA Cavalier Travels Cosponsored by the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Travels and School of Nursing Alumni Association, the fourth annual Nursing Service Trip to Burma is set for September 23–30, 2016. Nursing alumni and other travelers will conduct healthcare clinics in local orphanages, clinics, and a UVA alumni–supported school. The group will train local nurses and nursing school students, teach basic hygiene classes, and deliver much-needed medical supplies. Nursing alumni traveling with the group also will have an opportunity to focus on their specialty areas. UVA Cavalier Travels is seeking an ophthalmologist who can perform cataract surgery.

Save the date!

Stop by Pavilion IX to visit with nursing alumni, students, faculty, and friends before the UVA vs.

Pittsburgh football game on Saturday, October 15, 2016.

Learn more: (866) 765-2646/ cavaliertravels@virginia.edu

Financial Support Available to Alumni Returning to school? UVA nursing alumni returning for an additional nursing degree or certification at any institution are eligible to apply for the annual Nursing Alumni Association Alumni Scholarship. Funding is made possible by your generous gifts to the Nursing Annual Fund. Apply by June 1, 2016, using the form at www .nursing.virginia.edu/alumni/resources/ funding. This $3,000 scholarship will be distributed in August 2016.

Photos from Homecomings 2015

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, 2016, using the form at www.nursing.virginia.edu/ alumni/resources/grier-fund. Funding will be distributed in early fall 2016.

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Thursday, June 9– Sunday, June 12, 2016 Waking Up to Wellness and Well-Being Friday, June 10 1:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Minor Hall, Room 125

Members of the Thomas Jefferson Society connected during 2015 Reunions.

Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, and 1981, and the Thomas Jefferson Society Thursday, June 2– Sunday, June 5, 2016 School of Nursing Building Tours Friday, June 3 2:30–4 p.m.

Sylvanus Mensah (BSN ’15) and Elizabeth Holohan (BSN ’15) volunteered during 2015 Reunions.

Meet in the McLeod Hall lobby for faculty- and student-led tours of McKim Hall, McLeod Hall, and the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building, including a stop in the Clinical Simulation Learning Center.

for the School of Nursing.

All Thomas Jefferson Society members are invited to join as well.

Your Story: Live It, Tell It, Leave It Saturday, June 4 1:45 p.m.–2:45 p.m.

Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room Join Dottie Kluttz (BSN ’66), founder of Hospice Savannah’s (Ga.) Story Keeping program, for an interactive hour that will empower you to share your family stories.

Nursing Alumni Reception Saturday, June 4 4 p.m.–6 p.m.

Pavilion IX Dean Fontaine welcomes all nursing alumni and their families to her home on the historic West Lawn to celebrate reunions. Join us for drinks and hors d’oeuvres before your class dinner!

Join School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine for a panel discussion with other faculty members from the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center.

School of Nursing Building Tours Saturday, June 11 9 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Meet in the McLeod Hall lobby for student-led tours of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building and McLeod Hall, including a stop in the Clinical Simulation Learning Center.

Nursing Alumni Reception Saturday, June 11 4 p.m.–6 p.m.

Pavilion IX Dean Fontaine welcomes all nursing alumni and their families to her home on the historic West Lawn. Join us for drinks and hors d’oeuvres before your class dinner!

50-Year Reunion and Thomas Jefferson Society Luncheon Saturday, June 4 noon–1:30 p.m.

Newcomb Hall Ballroom The BSN and diploma classes of 1966 will celebrate their 50-year reunion—and the classes of 1961 (55-year reunion) and 1956 (60-year reunion) will also be honored—as Dean Dorrie Fontaine shares her priorities

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Classes of 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011

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Members of the Class of 2000 celebrating their 15-year reunion.

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Connecting across Time Victoria Tucker (BSN ’12, PhD ’19) Meets Trailblazer Mavis Claytor (BSN ’70, MSN ’85)

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routine class assignment recently turned into a memorable encounter for PhD student Victoria Tucker (BSN ’12). During her Historical Inquiry in Nursing course with professor Arlene Keeling (BSN ’74, MSN ’87, PhD ’92), Tucker explored the journey of Mavis Claytor (BSN ’70, MSN ’85), the first African-American to earn a degree from the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing.

COU RTESY OF VIC TORIA TUCKER

BY ANNA BROWN MILLSAPS

PhD student and 2012 BSN graduate Victoria Tucker [left] visits with fellow alumna Mavis Claytor, the first African-American student to attend the UVA School of Nursing.

What she discovered both surprised and inspired her.

To complete her research, Tucker went straight to the source, meeting with Claytor in her hometown in Franklin County, Va. There she learned of Claytor’s upbringing and entry into nursing, a move strongly influenced by her experience caring for her ailing grandmother at age 16.

Claytor embarked on her career by first entering a licensed practical nurse program in Roanoke, Va. Encouraged to continue her education, she then earned her registered nurse (RN) license at Helene Fuld Provident Hospital’s School of Nursing (Baltimore). However, her determination to earn a bachelor’s degree from an accredited school eventually landed her at UVA in the fall of 1966.

“Ms. Claytor’s story is a celebration of the strides that have been made and a blueprint for more changes that must come.”

Victoria Tucker (BSN ’12, PhD ’19)

At that time, no African-American student had been admitted to the University’s nursing program. When Claytor tried to register at her student dorm, the surprised staff told her no beds were available. Claytor was given a list of nearby hotels and set out to find her own lodging. Turned away by multiple establishments, she finally found a room at the Holiday Inn, where she stayed for several weeks.

But her savings dwindled, and when she could no longer afford the hotel, Claytor approached Dean Mary Lohr (BSN ’62) to notify her of her intention to withdraw. Dean Lohr, who knew nothing of Claytor’s plight, immediately secured a dorm room for her.

“I was so focused on getting my education that I did not let it deter me that I was the only African-American student,” Claytor recalls. “I had positive experiences with my instructors and fellow classmates. With my previous experience in nursing, I felt very confident and comfortable in my abilities to complete the program.”

Claytor went on to complete both her BSN and an MSN in mental health at the School. She spent the bulk of her accomplished career at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Va., where she retired as the service line chief nurse for geriatrics and extended care after 30 years of service.

As she considers Claytor’s experience in light of her own, Tucker reflects: “I’m still a minority student in a majoritywhite university. … However, [UVA] is the first place where I met African-American professors. My reality as a PhD student is the recognition of educators who look like me, combined with the understanding that I, too, could pursue a dream career in academia. It is my hope that future minority students and faculty members of the University will experience an atmosphere that both is inclusive and reflects expansive diversity that extends beyond the numbers.

“Ms. Claytor’s story is a celebration of the strides that have been made,” Tuckers adds, “and a blueprint for more changes that must come.” +

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CLASS NOTES & NEWS

Class Notes

Virginia LeBaron (BSN ’96) joined the UVA School of Nursing as an assistant professor and a Roberts Scholar in 2015. She previously completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and, as a Fulbright Scholar in India, studied access to pain relief for patients with cancer.

1960s Kathryn Wood Chamberlin (BSN ’64) authored From Shame to Glory: Your Pathway to Freedom (Xulon Press, 2014), a practical discussion of the negative impact that shame can have on relationships, joy, and creativity. Kathryn is a clinical social worker in private practice in Bethesda, MD, where she counsels clients toward freedom and healing through private sessions and seminars.

1970s Sharon Cumby Fay (BSN ’76, MSN ’80) is the project lead in the Department of Health Systems Engineering at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. Sharon was most recently the chief operating officer for Health Connect IPA (a primary care physician network) in Fairfax, VA.

1980s Heidi Schichl DuPree (BSN ’80) has published an alternative-medicine book, Awaken Your Greater Health: How Energy Medicine Opens the Way to Healing (CreateSpace, 2015), which was a 2015 finalist for both the International Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Her first book, The Other Medicine That Really Works: How Energy Medicine Can Help You Heal in Body, Mind, and Spirit (CreateSpace, 2013), also won a number of awards.

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assuming her new post in January 2016, she was a professor and the director of the DNP program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Debra is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nursing.

1990s Rita H. Pickler (PhD ’90) has joined the Ohio State University College of Nursing as its first FloAnn Sowers Easton Endowed Professor of Child and Adolescent Health.

She also was tapped to direct the college’s PhD and MSN programs. Rita received the 2016 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame award from Sigma Theta Tau International.

Andrew Baxter (BSN ’94) became the fire chief for the city of Charlottesville in September 2015. His wife, Barbara [middle], is a current MSN student, and their daughter, Katherine [left], is a first-year student, both at the UVA School of Nursing.

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Stacy N. Hines-Bentley (BSN ’97) and husband Forrest Bentley welcomed a daughter, Carlee Elizabeth, on July 13, 2015. The family resides in Nathalie, VA, and Stacy is director of the Practical Nursing program at Southside Virginia Community College, Farmville. They are looking forward to Carlee being a “fellow Wahoo!”

2000s Randy Jones (BSN ’00, MSN ’02, PhD ’05) and his wife, Naomi Gorton (MSN-CNL ’07), welcomed a baby girl on September 3, 2015.

Nursing alumni, we want to hear from you! Submit your class notes and news items to nursing-alumni@ virginia.edu.

Richard Ridge (PhD ’01) has been named director of nursing innovation and outcomes for Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He is responsible for efforts on nursing outcomes improvement, facilitating the design and implementation of innovative patient care programs, and guiding the development and dissemination of nursing inquiry and research. He also is an assistant professor in academic general pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and was elected an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Family Health at the University of Texas Health School of Nursing.

Rebecca Brocato Holbrook (BSN ’05) and Anthony Holbrook (Commerce ’01) welcomed twins, Patrick Miles

Dean Dorrie Fontaine [middle] cheered on the Hoos with a number of School of Nursing alumni, including Sylvia Totten Carlson (BSN ’74) [left] and Carolyn Cordtz (BSN ’08) [right], during the UVA vs. University of California, Los Angeles, football game in September 2015 as part of Western Wahoo Weekend.

and Emma Kate, on January 13, 2015. They join big brother Ben, 7, and big sister Claire, 5. The family lives in Temecula, CA.

delivery unit at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, VA. Stephen is an instructional designer. The couple resides in Herndon, VA.

2010s

Danilo Garcia-Duenas (MSN ’13) was selected from a group of highly talented Nurse Corps officers to be a Specialty Leader in Emergency/Trauma.

Stirling Douglas McDavid (BSN ’10) and her husband, Clem McDavid, welcomed a daughter, Palmer Caton, on June 11, 2015.

Amanda Panholzer (BSN ’12) and Stephen Hammack were married June 20, 2015, in Williamsburg, VA, in the Wren Chapel at the College of William and Mary. Amanda is an RN in the labor and

Elizabeth Irvine Guss (DIPLO ’35) Staunton, VA MARCH 17, 2013

Mildred Brown Mawyer (DIPLO ’40) Port Republic, MD JULY 7, 2015

Maxine E. Mahone (DIPLO ’44) Panama City, FL SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Isabelle Gray Schaake (DIPLO ’44) Lawrence, KS AUGUST 31, 2015

Hope Watkins Price (DIPLO ’44) Norfolk, VA NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Linden Bass Buell (DIPLO ’46) Rexford, NY

New Hampshire. I leave work exhausted every day. But I also feel extremely fulfilled.

I could not imagine doing anything else.”

Crystal Chu (BSN ’15), a nurse at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, received one of three poster awards given by the Virginia Nurses Association at its November 2015 gala in Richmond.

Ashley Carol Allen (MSN ’15) passed her adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner boards.

Rachel Tripp (BSN ’14) ran the Dallas Marathon on behalf of the International Justice Mission, an

In Memoriam

international charity that seeks to bring justice to the world’s oppressed, including victims of sex trafficking and slavery. She finished in 4:18.40. Rachel also partnered with a Dallas-based Chipotle restaurant in January; for every mention of the charity or cause, the restaurant donated half of the proceeds toward ending sex trafficking and slavery.

Kensie Blodgett (BSN ’15) moved in the summer of 2015 to begin her career as a nurse at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She works in the medical hematology/oncology unit.

She writes: “I love everything about living and working in

Doris Chrisley Hildreth (DIPLO ’48) Northport, AL

Mary Frances Linkenhoker (DIPLO ’53) Bluefield, VA

Anne W. Thompson (DIPLO ’58) Palmetto, FL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

DECEMBER 11, 2015

AUGUST 10, 2015

Elizabeth Kennedy Bennett (DIPLO ’49) Alpharetta, GA

Frances Riley Ewing (DIPLO ’55) Niceville, FL

Betty Williams Fiske (DIPLO ’59) Leesburg, VA

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Anne B. C. (Groton) Currie (DIPLO ’50) Lovingston, VA

Carol Cannon Richardson (DIPLO ’55) Bonita Springs, FL

Ruth M. Lee (DIPLO ’60) Silver Spring, MD

AUGUST 30, 2015

OCTOBER 6, 2015

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Sharon Sutherland Catlett (DIPLO ’50) Richmond, VA

Jane Utterback Grinnell (DIPLO ’56) Charlottesville, VA

Jana B. Apgar (BSN ’72) Purlear, NC

JANUARY 5, 2016

AUGUST 28, 2015

APRIL 3, 2015

Marion B. Hunter (DIPLO ’51) Berlin, MD

Merrie Hodges Bishop (DIPLO ’57) Williamston, NC

S. Lynn Broadfield Huffman (BSN ’77) Spotsylvania, VA

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

AUGUST 31, 2008

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Dorothy Pettice Crute (DIPLO ’52) New Bern, NC

Dorothy Fisher Noonberg (DIPLO ’58) Saddle Brook, NJ

Allene Shipley Brighton (BSN ’90, MSN ’91) Charlottesville, VA

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

AUGUST 11, 2015

DECEMBER 16, 2015

OCTOBER 19, 2015

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FACULTY PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS

2015 Faculty Publication Highlights The following publications are a sampling of the robust list of research and publications produced by the UVA School of Nursing faculty in 2015.

For more, visit www.nursing.virginia .edu/faculty-publications.

BOOKS Friberg, E. E., & Creasia, J. L. (Eds.).

(2015). Conceptual foundations: The bridge to professional nursing practice (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.

Keeling, A. W., & Wall, B. M. (2015).

Nurses and disasters: Global, historical case studies. New York, NY: Springer.

Wall, B. M. (2015). Into Africa: A transnational history of Catholic medical missions and social change. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

White, K. R., & Griffith, J. R. (2015). The well-managed healthcare organization (8th ed.). Chicago, IL: Healthcare Administration Press.

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White, K. R., & Lindsey, J. S. (2015). Take charge of your healthcare management career: 50 lessons that drive success.

Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS Anderson, J. G., Suchicital, L., Lang, M., Kukic, A., Mangione, L., Swengros, D., …

Friesen, M. A. (2015). The effects of healing touch on pain, nausea, and anxiety following bariatric surgery: A pilot study. Explore, 11(3), 208–216.

Baernholdt, M., Campbell, C. L., Hinton, I. D., Yan, G., & Lewis, E. (2015). Quality of hospice care: A comparison between rural and urban residents. Journal of Health Care Quality, 30(3), 247–253.

Bauer-Wu, S., & Fontaine, D. (2015).

Prioritizing clinician wellbeing: The University of Virginia’s Compassionate Care Initiative. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(5), 16–22.

Brashers, V., Owen, J., & Haizlip, J. (2015). Interprofessional education and practice guide no. 2: Developing and implementing a center for interprofessional education. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29(2), 95–99.

Burnett, C., & Bacchus, L. (2015).

Women find safety planning more useful than referrals in a maternal and child health IPV intervention [Commentary on “Maternal and child health nurse screening and care for mothers experiencing domestic violence (MOVE): A cluster randomized trial” by A. J. Taft, L. Hooker, C. Humphreys, K. Hegarty, R. Walter, C. Adams, … R. Small].

Evidence-Based Nursing. Advance online publication.

Hollen, P. J., Msaouel, P., & Gralla, R. J. (2015). Determining issues of importance for the evaluation of quality of life and patient-reported outcomes in breast cancer: Results of a survey of 1072 patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 151(3), 679–686.

McNichol, L., Watts, C., Mackey, D., Beitz, J. M., & Gray, M. (2015). Identifying the right surface for the right patient at the right time: Generation and content validation of an algorithm for support surface selection. Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing, 42(1), 19–37.

Kastello, J. C., Jacobsen, K. H., Gaffney, K. F., Kodadek, M. P., Bullock, L. F. C., & Sharps, P. W. (2015). Self-rated mental health: Screening for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among women exposed to perinatal intimate partner violence. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 53(11), 32–38.

Pearson, G. S., Hines-Martin, V. P., Evans, L. K., York, J. A., Kane, C. F., & Yearwood, E. L. (2015). Addressing gaps in mental health needs of diverse, atrisk, underserved, and disenfranchised populations: A call for nursing action.

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 29(1), 14–18.

Keim-Malpass, J., Mitchell, E. M., Blackhall, L., & DeGuzman, P. B. (2015).

Evaluating stakeholder-identified barriers in accessing palliative care at an NCI-designated cancer center with a rural catchment area. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 18(7), 634–637.

Peterson, N. E., Sirard, J., Kulbok, P. A., DeBoer, M. D., & Erickson, J. M. (2015).

Validation of accelerometer thresholds and inclinometry for measurement of sedentary behavior in young adult university students. Research in Nursing and Health, 38(6), 492–499.

DeGuzman, P. B., Sheffield, C., Hauser, L. R., Sherman, J., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2015). Identifying barriers to navigation needs of cancer survivors in rural areas.

Journal of Oncology Navigation and Survivorship, 6(5), 34–40.

Keim-Malpass, J., Stegenga, K., Loudin, B., Kennedy, C., & Kools, S. (2015).

“It’s back! My remission is over”: Online communication of disease progression among adolescents with cancer. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 32(5), 1–9.

Shelton, M. M., Schminkey, D. L., & Groer, M. W. (2015). Relationships among prenatal depression, plasma cortisol, and inflammatory cytokines. Biological Research for Nursing, 17(3), 295–302.

Epstein, E. G., Sherman, J., Blackman, A., & Sinkin, R. A. (2015). Testing the feasibility of Skype and FaceTime updates with parents in the neonatal intensive care unit. American Journal of Critical Care, 24(4), 290–296.

Kools, S., Chimwaza, A., & Macha, S. (2015). Cultural humility and working with marginalized populations in developing countries. Global Health Promotion, 22(1), 52–59.

Gong, J., Rose, K. M., Emi, I. A., Specht, J. P., Hoque, E., Fan, D., … Stankovic, J. A. (2015). Home wireless sensing system for monitoring nighttime agitation and incontinence in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Wireless Health, 1, 1–8.

Harmon, R. B., & Hills, R. L. (2015).

Transforming psychiatric mental health nursing education with team based learning. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 29(6), 413–418.

Henley, N., Quatrara, B. D., & Conaway, M. (2015). A pilot study: Comparison of arm versus ankle noninvasive blood pressure measurement at 2 different levels of backrest elevation. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 34(4), 232–235.

Turkman, Y. E., Sakibia Opong, A., Harris, L. N., & Knobf, M. T. (2015). Biologic, demographic, and social factors affecting triple negative breast cancer outcomes. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 19(1), 62–67.

LeBaron, V. T., Blonquist, T. M., Hong, F., Halpenny, B., & Berry, D. L. (2015).

Screening for pain in the ambulatory cancer setting: Is 0–10 enough? Journal of Oncology Practice, 11(6), 435–441.

Westphal, R. J., & Convoy, S. P. (2015).

Military culture implications for mental health and nursing care. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 20(1), 4.

Wiencek, C. (2015). The advanced practice registered nurse. In B. R. Ferrell, N. Coyle, & J. Paice (Eds.), Oxford textbook of palliative nursing (4th ed.) (pp. 961–968). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Logan, J. G., Engler, M. B., & Kim, H. (2015). Genetic determinants of arterial stiffness. Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, 8(1), 23–43.

Martin, S. E., Drake, E., Yoder, L., Gibson, M., & Litke, C. A. (2015). Active duty women’s perceptions of breastfeeding support in the military setting. Military Medicine, 180(11), 1154–1160.

Wilson, P. R., & Laughon, K. (2015).

House to house, shelter to shelter: Experiences of black women seeking housing after leaving abusive relationships. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 11(2), 77–83.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Pearls of Wisdom from a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

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Joy Miller (PNP ’11) works in pediatric palliative care as an advanced practice nurse at UVA Children’s Hospital and is a Compassionate Care Initiative clinical ambassador. On November 30, 2015, she addressed School of Nursing students and faculty during the annual Rotunda Dinner sponsored by the Nursing Student Council. Below is an excerpt from her speech.

When asked how I chose my job in pediatric palliative care, I always say, “It chose me.” It’s true—and I am so grateful it did.

I’ve been able to “walk the journey” alongside some of the most incredible children and families facing life-threatening illness and a great deal of uncertainty. …

[Here are] some “pearls” I’ve so graciously learned … from my patients. …

In every encounter, do what will serve. Meet your patients and families where they are, wherever that is. You will come

to know your patients best, sometimes better than you know some of your dearest friends and family members. Respect that relationship.

Remember the human piece, that your patient is more than just a list of “comorbidities” or diagnoses or lab values; that they’re someone’s partner, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a father, a son, a brother, a grandchild; that they are loved and have loved. As a wife, daughter, sister, and now mother, I find myself asking, “What would I want for my loved one?” rather than, “What would I do if in their given situation?”

Realize that you are not alone and that you don’t have to have all the answers; rely on your peers, on their knowledge and support. When your nursing paths have peaks and valleys, twists and turns, be present and take each experience as it comes. You are your own special self and have so much to offer. Never forget the privilege it is to add value to the patient experience. No gesture is too small, no act of kindness and caring overlooked.

Every day you come to work, how will you show up? As nurses, we essentially ask others to borrow strength from us; we bear witness sometimes to a great deal of suffering. Be good to yourself and trust your instincts. Resiliency is born from such trust and care. Out of some of the most difficult experiences, much can be learned, gained, and then given.

And perhaps the most important pearl I’ve learned is that your life will enrich your practice, and your practice will enrich your life. Caring for another is the greatest gift. When you’ve had a hard day and are close to tears, be grateful. When you are scared or unsure, be grateful. When you make a difference, be grateful. +

DAN ADDISON

“In every encounter, do what will serve.”

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Nursing Uniforms, Then and Now In the 1910s, when the UVA School of Nursing Alumni Association formed, students wore pink ankle-length, long-sleeved cotton dresses, each covered with a full white apron.

American nurses have not always worn uniforms. But since they were adopted in the 1870s (for economy and neatness), uniforms have given nurses identity. Caps, in particular, served as a symbol of service to humanity—and caught dust as nurses cleaned! Soon, caps and uniforms became associated with the hospital schools where students trained, and each had a different pattern. Initially, hospitals furnished the uniforms, but eventually students were in charge of buying their own. In the 1960s and 1970s, many nursing schools discarded the cap and even allowed pantsuits.

Historically, uniforms have also provided nurses with legitimacy— for example, facilitating entry into disaster settings and other sites where those in plain clothes were turned away. Uniforms symbolize professional status and education to the public. Today, UVA student nurses are equally proud of their blue scrubs. +

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Calendar of Events MAY 2016 5

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Nursing Alumni Reception: Arlington, VA

6–12 National Nurses Week End of spring semester examinations

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School of Nursing Pinning and Hooding ceremonies

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Final Exercises

JUNE 1

Deadline for applying for Nursing Alumni Association Alumni Scholarship

2–5 Reunions: Classes of 1956, 1961,

1966, 1971, 1976, and 1981,

and Thomas Jefferson Society 9–12 Reunions: Classes of 1986, 1991,

1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011 10–11 CNE opportunity: 11th UVA

Annual Conference of Liver Disease

and Gastroenterology 30

CNE opportunity: Kidney Donation and Transplantation: Optimizing the Patient Experience

AUGUST 23

Fall 2016 semester begins

SEPTEMBER 17

Third Melton D. and Muriel Haney Interprofessional Conference on Compassionate Care at the End of Life

Nursing History Forum: Nursing Dreams of Empire: US Nurses in the American Occupied Territories, presented by Winifred C. Connerton, 2016 Brodie Fellow

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Zula Mae Baber Bice Lecture by Cortney Davis, poet and nurse

NOVEMBER

G ENIE LEMIEUX

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Nursing History Forum: Nursing Reflections on 9/11: A View from Across the River, presented by Franklin Hickey

TBD Nursing Alumni Reception:

Richmond, VA 22

Nursing Alumni Reception: Chicago, IL

OCTOBER 4

Nursing History Forum: Policy and the Reformation of Hospice: Lessons from the Past for the Future of Palliative Care, presented by Joy Buck

7–8 Advisory Board and Alumni

Council fall meetings 15

Homecomings: Nursing Alumni Celebration Pavilion IX, West Lawn

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UVA Family Weekend and the Virginia Film Festival

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Nursing History Forum: Through the Eyes of Nursing: Nursing Education at the University of Texas, 1890–1990, presented by Barbra Mann Wall

DECEMBER 16

End of fall semester examinations

THE LATEST EVENTS INFORMATION: Main School of Nursing Calendar: www.nursing.virginia.edu/calendar Admissions Information Sessions: www.nursing.virginia.edu/admissions /information_sessions Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry: www.nursing.virginia.edu/research/cnhi Continuing Education: www.nursing .virginia.edu/continuing-education Compassionate Care Initiative: http://compassion.nursing.virginia.edu