Yale Nursing Matters Spring 2009 / Fall 2009

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YSN Students Learn the Art of Observation at the Yale Center for British Art

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Looking Is Not Seeing

Take part in the observation lesson that YSN students participate in at the Yale Center for British Art. Directions are given to the viewer when first approaching the painting. This is meant to be a purely visual exercise, and no previous knowledge of art history or art in general is required. See the full article on page 11.

Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760 Repository title: The Sense of Touch c. 1744–47 Oil on canvas 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection B1974.3.20

directions: For a few minutes, study this picture in its entirety. When finished, describe the painting in as much detail as possible. Focus on what you see—not what you think or feel. Do not jump to interpreting the piece; rather, describe as objectively as possible your observations.

As the YSN students are instructed, here is where you should do a visual inventory of the artwork. Make note of your descriptions, then visit http://nursing.yale.edu/looking to see the responses from Linda Friedlaender, curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art, and Linda Pellico, Assistant Professor at YSN.

Yale Nursing Matters Dean: Margaret Grey ’76 Editor: John Powers Associate Editor: Zoe Keller Fall 2009 Yale Nursing Matters Editorial Board: Lisa Hottin Karla A. Knight ’77 Barbara Guthrie Lois Sadler ’79 Contributing Writers: Karla A. Knight ’77 Sherrie Page Najarian ’94 Luc R. Pelletier ’82 Stephanie Spangler Photography: Joy Bush Michael Marsland Harold Shapiro Yale ITS Media & Technology YSN Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumnae/i Design: Gregg Chase Yale University School of Nursing 100 Church Street South Post Office Box 9740 New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0740 203-785-2393 nursing.yale.edu This issue of Yale Nursing Matters covers the events that took place from spring 2009 through fall 2009.

We at Yale University School of Nursing share your commitment to preserving our natural world. YSN is reducing the use of paper products by making greater use of electronic communication whenever possible. We are also proud to announce that, as of the fall 2008 issue, Yale Nursing Matters is produced through a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified process.

FSC Chain of Custody Certification assures that production of this publication has been documented as environmentally responsible, from forest management to manufacturing and distribution to print production. FSC maintains the forest’s biodiversity, productivity, and ecological processes and supports the social concerns of local communities.

3 Letter from the Dean

4 YSN Spotlight News

6 Holly Kennedy Named First Varney Professor

7 Leaders in Nursing Education

8 The Possibilities Are Endless

11 Looking Is Not Seeing, Listening Is Not Hearing

14 Lifelong Learner Follows Path from Entry Nursing to PhD Program

16 Educating the Next Generation of Research Scientists

18 Truth of the Matter: Stephanie Spangler

19 Donor Profile: Herbert H. Pearce

20 Annual Report of Faculty Scholarship

Yale Nurse

29 I Am a Yale Nurse

32 What Does It Mean to Be a Yale Nurse?

33 On Mentoring: Dorothy Sexton’s Enduring Influence

33 In Memoriam

34 Class News

35 Alumnae/i Board News

36 Commencement

38 Reunion

39 Distinguished Alumna Award

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Yale Nursing Matters is a publication of Yale University School of Nursing and Yale University School of Nursing Alumnae/i Association.

Showcasing Clinical Excellence and Community Outreach

mat•ter n. Something that occupies space and can be perceived by one or more senses; a physical body, a physical substance, or the universe as a whole. A subject of concern, feeling, or action. Something printed or otherwise set down in writing. v. To be of importance or value. Signify.

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Providing the Very Best in Nursing Education A short two months ago, we welcomed 106 new students to YSN, the largest class of incoming students that I can remember. They enter YSN during tremendously tumultuous times for nursing, health care, and education. We are experiencing an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression, a staggering debt load carried by more and more students, and a serious debate in Washington, DC, about dramatic health care reform.

Despite the challenges, these students come to Yale with amazing life experiences and a passion for becoming advanced practice nurses and changing health care. The students come from all over the United States and several foreign countries. Our challenge, as educators, is to provide the very best education despite the financial downturn and the nurse faculty shortage.

Every decision we make about our educational programs is guided by our mission to provide better health care for all people, and our aspiration to continue to lead in the area of advanced practice nursing education. For example, this year, upon the recommendation of our nurse practitioner faculty, we combined the adult and geriatric nurse practitioner tracks into one combined track. This allowed us to achieve efficiencies while recognizing that all adult nurse practitioners need expertise in the care of the elderly.

We will continue to provide innovative, creative, challenging, down-to-earth, and practical education for each of our students. We will maintain our focus and emphasis on the personal connection between students and faculty, thereby preparing nurse practitioners, policy leaders, researchers, and scholars who will meet the challenges of today and of the future.

At the same time, reducing our graduates’ burden of debt is my highest priority.

I would be happy to talk with you about these efforts. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us in meeting our goals.

Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN Dean and Annie Goodrich Professor

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ysn spotlight news

Community Action Makes for Healthy Neighbors YSN’s Student Diversity Action Committee (SDAC) is taking action to improve the health of its neighbors at the Church Street South Apartments, a housing project located one block from YSN. In June, SDAC gathered 20 volunteers and 75 residents for a neighborhood cleanup, gardening, barbecue, and games.

Pictured: Krystal Davis ’11 does her part for the cleanup effort while Assistant Professor Angelina Chambers pulls weeds from the garden bed. Morgan Schopen ’11 and other students keep the kids entertained with face painting, sidewalk chalk, and games.

In February, SDAC student volunteers from across Yale put on a health fair. With volunteers from 15 health and community groups, 140 New Haven residents received screening exams and learned about issues like nutrition, disease prevention, and obtaining medical insurance.

Pictured at bottom: Brandon Ko ’10 engages a young attendee, contrasting healthy and diseased lungs.

Mark Lazenby ’09 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

During Commencement 2009, Mark Lazenby received the Milton and Anne Sidney Prize, awarded for commitment to evidence-based end-of-life care.

Recent MSN graduate Mark Lazenby ’09 has been awarded a Fulbright postdoctoral research scholarship, allowing him to spend six months in Jordan studying the spiritual well-being of cancer patients in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Lazenby stated that the role of religion and spirituality for people with cancer has been well documented, but Arab-speaking patients are hardly represented. He will look for a “common language” among religious cancer patients from all parts of the world.

Barbara Guthrie Appointed to National Advisory Council for Nursing Research

2009 Nightingale Awards Honor YSN Faculty and Student

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor Barbara J. Guthrie, PhD, RN, FAAN, is one of four new members of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, the principal advisory board for the National Institute of Nursing Research. Guthrie stated, “This is an honor and privilege. I look forward to working with my esteemed council colleagues over the next five years.”

She is a nationally recognized expert in culturally responsive healthrelated policies and programs.

Two YSN faculty members, Jessica Coviello, MSN, and Mikki Meadows-Oliver, MPH, PhD, RN, received the 2009 Nightingale Award for Nursing Excellence in Connecticut. This program, created by the VNA of South Central Connecticut, honors nurses who make special contributions to patient care. In addition, student Pennilee West ’09, pictured here with YSN Dean Margaret Grey, was awarded one of five Nightingale Scholarships in recognition of her potential as a practicing nurse upon graduation.

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Anna Quindlen Featured at YSN Creative Writing Awards Over 200 people attended the 2009 YSN Creative Writing Awards, where Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anna Quindlen gave a rousing address as the keynote speaker.

Congratulations to this year’s Creative Writing Award winners! View the slide show and listen to Quindlen’s talk and the winning entries: http://nursing.yale.edu /Students/CreativeWriting

Left to right: Rachel Newton ’13, Brandon Ko ’10, Anna Quindlen, YSN Dean Margaret Grey, and Elizabeth Holt ’11

Lawrence Scahill Finds Popular Autism Treatment Ineffective

Nancy Redeker Named Associate Editor of Heart & Lung

Professor Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, was part of a team of researchers at six academic centers whose study was the first to show that children with autism do not benefit from the popularly prescribed antidepressant citalopram.

Scahill was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, “Clinicians should be very careful about what they’re targeting if they’re using medications.” Such medicines may be useful in treating depression or anxiety, but “if you’re targeting for repetitive behaviors, this medication does not appear to be effective.”

Nancy Redeker, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs, has been named Associate Editor of Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, the journal of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses. Redeker stated, “The journal will provide a significant resource for interdisciplinary clinicians and scientists whose focus is improving outcomes for these patients.”

She is an accomplished speaker and researcher in cardiovascular nursing and sleep.

new faculty kathy j. booker, phd, rn, cne, has been appointed Director of the Adult Advanced Practice Nursing Specialty and Associate Professor. She comes to YSN from Millikin University, where she held the position of Dean of the College of Professional Studies. Her research is focused on critical care nursing practices, silent myocardial ischemia, cardiac monitoring, and sleepdisordered breathing.

holly powell kennedy, cnm, phd, facnm, faan is an internationally known midwifery researcher and leader. She is the first person to be appointed as the Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale. Read more about her appointment on page 6.

judith r. kunisch, mba, rn, a lecturer at YSN, has been appointed Co-Interim Director for the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership Specialty. She is a senior nurse executive with over twenty years’ experience building and implementing innovative solutions to improve medical quality and manage medical costs.

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“ To assume a post named for Helen Varney Burst is to sit on the shoulders of a pioneer in the profession.”

Holly Kennedy Named First Varney Professor Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN, has been named the inaugural Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale University School of Nursing. Her appointment began July 1, 2009.

A reception was held on September 17, 2009, at the President’s Room in Woolsey Hall. Attendees included Yale Provost Peter Salovey and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler, and 130 YSN faculty, students, and alumnae/i, including seven recipients of the Hattie Hemschemeyer Award, the highest honor in nurse-midwifery.

Dr. Kennedy comes to YSN from the University of California– San Francisco School of Nursing Department of Family Health Care Nursing and the UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital Interdepartmental Midwifery Education Program. Her research focuses on articulating and linking the work of midwives to health care outcomes.

She is President-Elect of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and Co-Chair of the International Confederation of Midwives Research Standing Committee, which connects midwife researchers around the world. As a 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Kennedy conducted research on England’s national commitment to normal birth. She received her certificate in nurse-midwifery from the Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing in 1985 and her PhD from the University of Rhode Island in 1999. Dr. Kennedy is also a retired colonel of the US Army Nurse Corps Reserve with 31 years of service.

“I am humbled, as I have known and worked with Helen over the years,” stated Dr. Kennedy. “To assume a post named for Helen Varney Burst is to sit on the shoulders of a pioneer in the profession.”

Dean Margaret Grey said at the reception, “I speak for the entire Yale community when I say that we are delighted to have Holly here to further midwifery education and research and to partner with our colleagues at the Medical School, at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and with providers throughout our communities to promote the health and well-being of women and infants.” One of Dr. Kennedy’s first tasks has been establishing a formal collaboration to create a birth center at the hospital.

The endowed Varney Chair honors Helen Varney Burst ’63, CNM, MSN, DHL (Hon.), FACNM, Professor Emeritus at YSN, whose contributions in nurse-midwifery education, practice, and scholarship have spanned more than 40 years. Professor Burst retired in 2004, having written the first textbook for nurse-midwives in the Western hemisphere, co-originated the curriculum design that has been used by all nurse-midwifery education programs, and served as the first two-term President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

“Helen is an inspiration to us all. This professorship recognizes her lifelong commitment to midwifery. Yale is proud to call her one of our own,” added Dean Grey.

At the reception, Burst said of Kennedy, “With her brilliance, her clarity of thought, scholarship, her professional leadership, and her humanity, she will add to the legacies and to the future of YSN, to the professions of nursing and of midwifery, and to the knowledgeable and compassionate care of women.”

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Clockwise from top left: Holly Powell Kennedy Helen Varney Burst presents Holly Kennedy with a bracelet commemorating the Varney Professorship campaign Helen Varney Burst, Holly Kennedy, YSN Dean Margaret Grey, and Yale Provost Peter Salovey Helen Varney Burst, YSN Professor Emeritus Yale Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler

Leaders in Nursing Education The Office of Academic Affairs serves as the hub of the Yale University School of Nursing’s academic endeavors. On a practical level, our staff oversees the curriculum, the educational pursuits of the faculty, and the timely progress of our students. All degree programs, from master’s through doctoral, are coordinated through this office. We connect students with other Yale programs and oversee credentialing, accreditation, and licensing.

Our role, however, goes well beyond these foundational responsibilities, to creating an environment that promotes YSN students’ self-growth and continuous life learning.

by barbara j. guthrie, phd, rn, faan, associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs, & lois s. sadler, phd, aprn-bc, pnp, associate professor and assistant dean for academic affairs

The Latin root educo, of the word education, means “to lead forth.” This is our goal: to take the lead in ensuring a high-quality education for our community of scholars.

YSN is committed to student-centered learning, acknowledging different learning styles and building upon the diverse backgrounds of our student body.

Our students come to YSN with a range of life experiences. Some of our master’s students enter with a nursing background, some have prior careers in scientific research, and still others are accomplished in the arts and humanities. Our office ensures that, no matter their previous experience, all students come to a collective understanding of the importance of evidence-based nursing knowledge as the basis for facilitating their leadership in providing better health care for all people.

Academic Affairs supports the talented members of YSN’s faculty who serve as navigators of nursing knowledge and who utilize innovative teaching strategies in helping our students grow to become the next generation of Yale Nurses. Our faculty members are experts not only in advanced nursing care and research, but also in the scholarship of teaching.

The pages that follow illustrate that, like all great educators, our faculty participate as co-learners, weaving together a variety of perspectives to form the foundation of an extraordinary educational experience for all students.

The Office of Academic Affairs includes (left to right) Program Manager Donna Epps, Assistant Dean Lois Sadler, Associate Dean Barbara Guthrie, and Senior Administrative Assistant Nancy DeMatteo.

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With a Yale Degree in Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership

The Possibilities Are Endless by zoe keller

Diane Vorio

“ With every course, I’ve been able to apply the lessons to my profession.”

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Many of the students enrolled in YSN’s Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership (NMPL) program are seasoned professionals who have already made an impact on the world of health care.

But they can still be surprised by their own potential.

The program’s students enter as nurses with proven abilities, and they graduate as leaders who are unlimited by geography or preconceived notions of a career track.

“The program has made me feel the possibilities are endless,” remarked student Diane Vorio, RN, MS, a 34-year employee and the Vice President of Patient Services at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH).

Because coursework occurs online, the program is ideal for professionals who want to enhance their careers without taking time off from work. Classes meet in person once a month, and advisers make themselves available at all hours to meet the needs of students, even for those who work overnight. “The program allows me to work long hours and still keep up with homework,” Vorio said.

The distance learning model enriches the program by drawing students from all over the country (and one from Canada) and from a range of backgrounds. “It’s been great to interact with students from all over the country,” said Vorio. “We have a student from a 25-bed rural hospital in Nebraska, while I’m at a 1,000-bed urban facility. The issues in hospital management—safety, quality of care, financial operations, remaining an employer of choice—are the same everywhere, no matter the size.”

Although a student herself, Vorio also works with YSN’s faculty on a professional level. In her role in hospital leadership, she was on the search committee for the YSN Varney Professor in Midwifery (see page 6) and has been instrumental in the development of a proposed birthing center at YNHH.

Vorio says that her classes seem to line up perfectly with events at work. “With every course, I’ve been able to apply the lessons to my profession,” she explained. “The program aligns curriculum with complex operations, to enhance both academic and professional goals.” This fall, she is busy preparing for magnet certification. “This is a time of unprecedented change requiring transformational leadership as we move units, change roles, and raise the bar to become a destination hospital,” Vorio added. This major undertaking will also serve as her focus of study for NMPL coursework in human resource transitions and policy.

Donna Diers, PhD, RN, FAAN, former YSN Dean and interim co-director of the NMPL program, said that this parallel stems from the faculty’s real-world experience. “The faculty are doing the work that we’re teaching—we work in human resource management, in data use, in leadership. Seeing this has a way of inspiring confidence in our students. They see that their goals, which may have seemed out of reach, are in fact achievable.”

So what does a woman who is responsible for thousands of staff have to gain from a management program? “Being able to take a step back from day-to-day tasks to learn, think, and reflect at a time of enormous demands is invaluable,” Vorio commented. “People usually don’t go back to school at this stage in their careers, but I’ve learned I can continue to strive to be a better leader. The program gives you a level of confidence to explore all the options, because anything is possible.”

NMPL student Melissa Kurtz, MA, RN, brings a decidedly uncommon perspective to nursing, as she is pursuing a unique joint degree from Yale’s Schools of Nursing and Divinity. She will graduate after three years with a master’s in nursing and a master’s in religion, with a concentration in ethics.

Before coming to Yale, Kurtz spent several years as a nurse in newborn intensive care and became interested in ethical situations that arise in bedside care. She first looked at programs that were theologically focused, but discovered she could study ethics with a nurse’s perspective.

As part of her NMPL studies, Kurtz interned at the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institute. She worked for researcher Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv, who is both Deputy Director of The Hastings Center and a lecturer in ethics for Yale’s NMPL program.

“Often in health care policy, the physician’s point of view is featured, and I feel the nurse’s opinion should also be heard,” Kurtz explained. “This program encourages nurses to advocate for perspectives that might differ from the medical model.”

She observed that while nurses often make recommendations on ethics committees, they should have more influence at the state and national levels, especially for children’s health care issues.

Berlinger added, “Nurses are close observers of problems in patient care. As individuals and as a profession, nurses should be prepared to contribute to research, critical thinking, and policy aimed at understanding and solving these problems.”

Melissa Kurtz

“ Often in health care policy, the physician’s point of view is featured, and I feel the nurse’s opinion should also be heard.”

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Bev Belton

“ My education and experience together will help me reach a position where I can make a significant difference.”

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Kurtz says the online class structure has allowed her to pursue the ambitious dual degree. She said, “I looked at other schools with the link between the nursing and divinity schools. Yale’s joint degree program was exemplary and also matched my interests.”

Bev Belton, RN, BSN, CNA-BC, heard about the NMPL program while collaborating with Diers on hospital data. Diers was quick to identify her talent for leading through difficult situations, but had to provide some encouragement. “Like anyone who has been out of school for a while but has risen professionally, she was intimidated by a return to academia,” Diers said. Despite Belton’s reservations, she was persuaded to apply.

Belton carries a passion for influencing policy because of her own early experiences. She says her father’s life was cut short as a result of the poor medical care given to African Americans in South Carolina. He died of a massive coronary at the age of 42, leaving her mother to raise the children alone. At his wish, Belton’s mother moved the family north to give the children greater opportunities.

Belton was raised “poorer than poor” in north Philadelphia, her mother imparting her with a strong religious faith and a focus on education, which led to scholarships at competitive schools. “Looking back on the types of care my parents received, and my mom’s experiences as a result, really fuels my devotion to eliminating health care disparities,” she reflected. “My education and experience together will help me reach a position where I can make a significant difference.”

Belton is set to graduate in May 2010, and she said the program has already changed the trajectory of her career, even after 20 years in hospital administration. “I saw the hospital management ladder as the primary way to directly impact the care of a population. Since starting at Yale, I have been exposed to opportunities to influence policy in a much broader fashion,” she explained.

In addition, she has become aware that organizations like government agencies, think tanks, and even divisions within large non-healthcare-related companies often determine health care policy. “A hospital’s regulations are guided by people who sit in very different areas,” she noted.

Belton’s career took a major shift shortly after starting at Yale, and she is now part of Yale New Haven Health’s Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response. Belton works on a nationwide team of experts with backgrounds in business, firefighting, education, engineering, radiation safety, and health care, all working together to impact readiness and disaster response. Clients range in size from private corporations to entire state governments. She helps to run drills to evaluate an organization’s ability to respond to major crises, and she oversaw the creation of a pandemic flu management plan before the world had any notion of H1N1.

Belton says that thanks to the NMPL program, her perspective has been broadened. “If you ask me today what I’ll do when I graduate, my answer will be very different from what I would have told you upon entering.” She added with a laugh, “By May, I’ll have all the answers.”

Looking Is Not Seeing, Listening Is Not Hearing YSN students take part in observation programs at Yale’s Center for British Art and School of Music by john powers

“ These people are having a party. The man pouring the wine looks inebriated.” “ Rather than beginning with a statement about what you think is happening, please begin by describing in detail what you see instead.” “ I see four people sitting around a table. One of the people is pouring liquid into a glass, and another is holding a container shaped like a wine bottle. The man is holding his cup sideways. His cheeks are flushed and he is leaning with his arm on the table.”

Observation skills are essential to nurses as they assess a patient, by drawing meaning from what they see. In fact, a common synonym for observation is examination, exactly what nurses do on a daily basis. What better place for nursing students to learn this vital expertise than at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), which houses the most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom? Or how about learning to study sound and improving their listening skills with top scholars at Yale School of Music?

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First-year GEPN students Kyle Chaplic, Amy Tatom, Viktoriya Pasechnik, Lauren Fiola, and Meghan Eaton hone their observation skills with the help of Linda Friedlaender, curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art.

First-year Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) students at Yale University School of Nursing, new to the field of nursing when they enter YSN, are offered the opportunity to take part in the “Looking Is Not Seeing and Listening Is Not Hearing” program at the YCBA and School of Music. At the YCBA, the aim is to help students develop and hone their observation, problem-solving, and assessment skills by working with original works of art with a strong narrative.

“We developed a unique program specific to YSN students using realistic paintings that tell a story,” commented Linda Friedlaender, curator of education at the YCBA. “Our hope is that they will enhance their observation skills not by coming to immediate conclusions about the painting, but by sticking with objective physical descriptions.”

The program was developed collaboratively between Friedlaender and YSN Assistant Professor Linda Pellico, PhD, APRN. “Our hope is that this exercise will forewarn nursing students of the danger of self-selecting observations, categorizing too quickly and easily, and ignoring conflicting clues,” Pellico said. “Basically, we are teaching students to pay attention to non-obvious evidence, to look for things that may be missed in the initial assessment.”

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The goal of the program is not to train YSN students in analyzing art, but instead to teach them the skill of verbalizing descriptions of what is seen, and not to accept the assumptions made with a first impression.

YSN students are brought to the YCBA and each assigned to a different, pre-selected painting in the gallery. They are given 15 minutes to observe their assigned painting, instructed only to study the painting and not read the label.

After this time, the group is brought around to each student’s painting. The student presents an initial assessment, then the group is asked to describe what is seen.

“Linda and I stop the student immediately if they state something subjective in the painting,” Friedlaender added.

“The first half of the assignment is describe what you see, not what you think or feel.” By the end of the lesson, students move from assumptions like “he looks sad” to specific observations such as “his eyes are glassy and his cheeks are red.”

“This skill set is directly transferable to the health care assessments these students undertake in nursing,” Pellico added. “Health care issues with a patient need to be determined through objective observation, not assumptions or preconceived determinations.”

Yale Music Professor Tom Duffy demonstrates heart sounds, here transposed as music, to YSN student Amma Darko ’12.

Listening Is Not Hearing Listening, another vitally important aspect of nursing, is emphasized in the “Listening Is Not Hearing” program at the Yale School of Music. Pellico made contact with Professor and Director of University Bands Thomas C. Duffy to develop a program that allows students to better “hear” the sounds they would encounter as nurses. Initially funded through a grant from the National League for Nursing, the program uses actual recorded heart, lung, and bowel sounds from a stethoscope that Duffy then transposed into musical rhythms.

“This is an invaluable process for these new nurses to learn the differences in sounds as they assess a patient, hearing subtle changes in frequency, pitch, and loudness, which may indicate a health problem,” Pellico commented.

Duffy was first approached by Pellico regarding this collaboration with YSN while he was acting dean of Yale School of Music. “This was a program that I was excited to do —I saw that skills considered very basic to our music students were foreign to nurses,” he stated. “We developed unique lessons to help YSN students learn to talk about sound.”

One “Listening Is Not Hearing” lesson features the standard template of a healthy beating heart, synthesized by Duffy to dramatize the rhythms and beat. A musical score is written to accompany the sounds so students not only hear but see how a healthy heartbeat would be represented. Students are then introduced to synthesized heart sounds that have an

abnormality—for example, a systolic or diastolic heart murmur.

“I found that it is really important for students to not only hear the different sounds of the human heart but also to see the actual notes. This enhances the experience of examining what is happening with the heart,” Duffy added.

After students complete the sessions at the YBAC and School of Music, they then move on to assessing images and sounds from actual patients. Pellico finds that the students are now much more objective in their observations, leading to better differential diagnoses.

YSN student Brandon Ko ’10 felt these innovative exercises were essential to his education as a GEPN student. “The visit to the British Art Center was one of the most powerful moments for me as a student,” he commented. “It really emphasized the importance of observation as a nurse. Standing back and taking in the whole painting is exactly what we need to do when assessing a patient. It is the whole idea of seeing the bigger picture, of seeing the forest for the trees.”

Pellico finds these exercises crucial in developing future clinicians who will look beyond their initial impressions of a patient. “Health care is extremely complex, and sometimes students coming into nursing with a liberal arts background find it easier to look at situations with a holistic view,” she said. “There are always uncertainties in health care, and students are learning to look for what is not obvious.”

Want to test your own observation skills? Check out the inside front and back covers.

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Lifelong Learner Follows Path from Entry Nursing to PhD Program by john powers

Yasemin Turkman entered YSN’s Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) three years ago, joining her fellow students on the journey from a non-nursing background to earning a certificate in nursing and eventually a master’s in nursing.

And Yasemin certainly took a circuitous path to nursing. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Delaware, a master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, DC, as well as two masters’ from Harvard University, in psychology and public health.

In addition, she has worked for organizations such as the Academy for Educational Development in DC, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and Harvard Medical School’s Health Care Policy Department. Specifically, these experiences gave her tremendous opportunities to work in improving cancer care through research and focus groups involving patients, families, insurers, and doctors.

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What would be next for this talented and motivated scholar?

“I always had in the back of my mind that I would someday want to work on a PhD in psychology,” Yasemin added.

Instead, friend Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing at Emory University, encouraged Yasemin to pursue nursing because more of her interests could be addressed. The light bulb clicked on, and she felt like she had finally found her niche with nursing. She applied and interviewed at YSN, and she entered as a GEPN student in August of 2006.

Not only did YSN provide Yasemin with tremendous intellectual challenges, but it also provided her with a community.

“I had studied and worked in various research and health care settings, and when I arrived at YSN, I felt like I found an intellectual home,” Yasemin commented. “There are so many things one can do with nursing from a scholarly and research perspective. One of the great things about YSN is the opportunity for students to be involved with both research and practice.”

This was reinforced during her initial clinical training, something that first-year GEPNs experience within the first few weeks of entering YSN, where she and her fellow students immediately experienced hands-on learning.

“The practical experience learned in those initial clinical sessions is so valuable,” Yasemin added. In addition, she made personal connections with the YSN family during her three years as a GEPN student. “I love the YSN community.

The professors are all very accessible, and the Student Affairs Office is so responsive to me. It had been hard for me to leave Harvard and Boston after 10 years, but I am having a wonderful experience at Yale.”

Yasemin graduated from YSN’s GEPN program in May of 2009 in the Psychiatric-Mental Health specialty (see Commencement on page 36), and decided to immediately seek her PhD at YSN by entering the program this fall, joining three other doctoral students in this year’s cohort.

She has received six years of funding through the Johnson & Johnson/AACN Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars program toward completion of the degree. As a first-year PhD student, Yasemin is in the process of narrowing down her dissertation topic, but she plans to study psychosocial oncology and how perceptions of illness may affect patients’ behavior and their outcomes.

“With her previous training in psychology, Yasemin was ideal in working with us to analyze data on survivors’ attributions of their cancer,” said Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, the Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing at Yale. “This experience sparked her commitment to doctoral studies, and she is destined to be successful.”

Since starting the PhD program, Yasemin has also had the opportunity to work with Professor Marjorie Funk, PhD, MSN, RN, FAHA, FAAN on the PULSE research project.

This $3.9 million project is testing the effects of implementing practice standards for ECG monitoring in hospitals.

Primarily, Yasemin will be part of the team evaluating whether educating nurses on the latest advances in ECG monitoring will improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients.

“Even though my career path may seem somewhat disjointed, I really feel that it has all come together with the PhD program at YSN,” Yasemin added. “This is the perfect fit for me; the coming together of all of my past experiences and opportunities. This really feels right.”

What does the future hold for this “lifelong learner”?

“My long-range goal after the PhD is to be based in a university setting, conducting research, teaching, and working in a clinical setting,” she stated. “I have a passion for intervention research and developing a model for patients to have better outcomes. Learning is something I really enjoy, and I want to put my studies into action so cancer patients will have the best quality of life possible,” Yasemin said. for info on ysn’s gepn program, see GEPN Program: YSN’s Second Career Launching Pad at http://nursing.yale.edu/News/Publications/YNM/9_2/6gepn_program_spring09.html. for info on the pulse research project, see ECG Monitoring: Nurses Have Their Finger on the PULSE at http://nursing.yale.edu/News/Publications/YNM/9_1/ECG_grant_fall08.html.

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Educating the Next Generation of Research Scientists by zoe keller

Gina Novick just completed her PhD work at YSN and is starting postdoctoral research this fall, continuing her work with YSN’s new Varney Professor Holly Kennedy.

Ever wonder where the best research faculty come from?

After all, the world has a good supply of intelligent, curious people, so who among them will become leaders in the pursuit of new knowledge? When it comes to nursing research, Yale University has always been at the forefront, but YSN’s postdoctoral fellowship program is launching a whole new set of future leaders.

Funded largely through a prestigious NIH T32 training grant begun in 2003, in addition to an array of individual grants, the postdoctoral fellows are afforded time and guidance to strengthen their grant writing skills, learn new research techniques, and build their research programs before taking on faculty positions. This select group of fellows gains two additional years of mentorship with senior faculty. “It provides an excellent segue from beginning to independent scientist,” said Professor Nancy Reynolds, PhD, RN, C-NP, FAAN, Director of YSN’s doctoral and postdoctoral programs.

At YSN, fellows are prepared for academic careers that address the prevention and management of illnesses such as cancer, HIV, and diabetes. Chronic illness is the world’s leading cause of death, disability, and rising health care costs. Some fellows are creating new interventions to improve patients’ lives, while others are working at the edges of research to better understand the experience of chronic illness.

“Nursing has a real shortage of faculty, especially research faculty who can build the science to improve patient care, inform health policy, and bring cutting-edge knowledge to their students,” Reynolds explained. “Postdoctoral fellowships are one way we prepare nurse scientists to become

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Karrie Hendrickson earned her PhD at YSN in 2008, and is continuing her research with support from YSN Professor Ruth McCorkle.

Sarah Jaser, a former YSN postdoc, now a faculty member, maintains her mentoring relationship with YSN Dean Margaret Grey.

leaders in research. After all, they will be training the next generation of nurses.”

Gina Novick is starting her postdoctoral research this fall, having just completed her PhD work at YSN. Novick earned her master’s in nursing from Yale in 1983. She credits YSN with sparking her interest in research and says she had it in the back of her mind to get a PhD. “As a clinician, I found myself asking a lot of questions about health services delivery, and thought it was finally time to set out answering them,” Novick said.

Novick’s primary doctoral mentor was Lois Sadler, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP. For the past several years, Novick has also received guidance from Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN, YSN’s new Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery (see page 6), as they share a research interest in group prenatal care. “Often the thought is that you need to go someplace else because you’ve exhausted the resources of that institution,” Novick said. “One of the reasons I decided to do the postdoc is that Holly is now at YSN, so I am working directly with someone with tremendous expertise in a number of areas that are of interest to me.”

Postdoctoral fellow Karrie Hendrickson joined the program after earning her PhD at YSN in 2008. A self-declared “science fair nerd” with several years’ experience as an oncology nurse, Hendrickson pursues a love of research with the goal of helping families get through a painful time in their lives.

Hendrickson’s adviser through both her PhD and postdoc has been YSN Professor Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, an international leader in palliative care, who says, “Karrie brings a wonderful balance of clinical and academic experience to her work.” In both arenas, Hendrickson is committed to end-of-life care.

“ Postdoctoral fellowships are one way we prepare nurse scientists to become leaders in research. After all, they will be training the next generation of nurses.” — nancy reynolds

“Dying is a universal experience, but it is difficult when someone young dies, particularly for a parent to lose a child,” McCorkle explained. “The focus of this research is on assisting families to help children have a quality life even if it ends prematurely.” An important way to help is to provide information about obtaining care, and McCorkle stated, “As difficult as it is to talk about the emotional cost of dying, it is even more difficult to talk about the financial cost.”

Hendrickson’s goal is to open up the topic of finances for families caring for a child with cancer, an area where little research has been done. She finds that parents are eager to share their stories, and she plans to come up with communication strategies to help them deal with this added pressure.

“Maintaining a mentoring relationship at YSN allows students like Karrie to strive for educational goals along a continuum, to develop a breadth and depth of research,” McCorkle added. “This is common in the larger research community, but unusual for nursing.”

For Sarah Jaser, a former YSN postdoc turned faculty member, the mentoring relationship she formed with Dean Margaret Grey still continues. A Yale College graduate, Jaser returned for an internship with the Medical School in 2005 to complete her PhD training as a clinical psychologist.

She was funded not through the training grant, but as a postdoctoral associate on Dean Grey’s diabetes coping skills study. Jaser led group meetings for adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and developed her body of research.

She continues that work, now moderating an online discussion group. Adolescents chat about the social pressures that come with treating T1D, even how to wear teen fashions while concealing an insulin pump. And when it comes to the youngest Jonas Brother, who was diagnosed with T1D at age 13, Jaser says, “The girls love Nick. He created a foundation, and he even wrote a song about living with diabetes.”

As Jaser’s postdoctoral mentor, Dean Grey shared her own data, which showed higher rates of depression among the mothers of children with diabetes. As a postdoc, Jaser piloted a study of teens and their mothers, looking at causes of stress and their coping strategies. That pilot has led to a number of outside awards, and Jaser now has full funding, allowing her to become a full-time faculty member at YSN. Jaser has expanded the diabetes study, and is now observing teens and their mothers interact in order to identify

the best communications and coping strategies. “I ask them to talk about common stressors, like forgetting to check blood sugar, remembering to bring supplies with them, watching their diet,” Jaser said. “In these sessions, I see everything from crying and yelling, to laughing and hugging.” Drawing on her experience as a psychologist, Jaser aims to develop an intervention to teach parents and adolescents how to plan and communicate. She hopes to help them work together to better manage the disease. Dean Grey continues to advise Jaser, commenting, “Sarah has great potential as a scientist.

It is a joy to mentor her and watch her grow.”

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truth of the matter

A Unique Perspective on the Excellence of YSN

Stephanie S. Spangler, MD, is Yale University’s Deputy

Provost for Health Affairs and Associate Vice President

for West Campus Planning and Development

I have had the privilege of working with the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and with Yale-trained nurses from a number of perspectives over the past three decades. As a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, I trained side by side with YSN midwifery students and benefited greatly from the wisdom of YSN faculty.

Then, as a clinician and later as Director of the Yale University Health Services, I came to value YSN-trained nurses and YSN students as critical partners in an integrated care delivery team.

Most recently, as Deputy Provost for Health Affairs, I have had both the opportunity to expand the scope of my interactions with YSN to include its educational and research activities—and the excitement of watching YSN’s academic excellence and distinction continue to soar.

Foremost among the pleasures of working with YSN are my many interactions with nursing leaders such as Margaret Grey, who has recently

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been reappointed for a second term as YSN’s Dean.

President Richard C. Levin commended Dean Grey, in his notice of her reappointment, for her superb record of leadership locally and internationally.

He also shared comments he received during his review from members and friends of the YSN community, who lauded Dean Grey as embodying “intellectual rigor and curiosity, hard work, and excellence in all that she does.”

Last spring, YSN underwent a review by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for its reaccreditation and was awarded the maximum ten-year reaccreditation this fall. When I read the self-study created by YSN in preparation for the CCNE site visit, I was once again—and not surprisingly—impressed by the quality of the School’s educational activities. What was striking, however, was the extremely high level of enthusiasm openly expressed by the CCNE team at the close of their visit. It was clear that the visitors admired the academic programs, the faculty, and the students, and recognized the essential leadership provided by the School’s Dean and her administrative team.

This issue of Yale Nursing Matters contains a number of articles highlighting the breadth and quality of YSN academic activities. I know that as you read them you will come to share my admiration for YSN’s accomplishments and my excitement for YSN’s future endeavors “to contribute to better health care for all people.”

donor profile: herbert h. pearce

“These are the people that are changing the world”

Portrait by New Haven artist Tony Falcone

Real estate is his occupation, but education is his passion.

Herb Pearce devoted more than 50 years to building one of the largest and most successful real estate companies in Connecticut. These days, H. Pearce Company is led by his daughter, Barbara Pearce, while Herb is focusing his efforts on helping students in the communities he is connected to.

“We need better-educated citizens to make this world a better place,” Herb believes. “And we need better-educated nurses to meet the challenging health care needs of our community. What better place to prepare for a professional career in nursing than Yale School of Nursing?”

Herb should know; he married a Yale Nurse. Herb met Margaret Mae Perry ’45 and they married in 1953. “Peggy was the Assistant Director of Nursing at Grace New Haven Hospital [now Yale-New Haven Hospital]. I was a patient and Peggy immediately caught my eye.” Peggy Perry had been accepted to Duke University’s School of Medicine in 1942, but was deferred a year because the class was full. Rather than wait, she decided to enroll at Yale’s School of Nursing for her master’s. She went on to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps with the Yale medical unit, and later earned a second master’s in nursing administration from Case Western Reserve.

After Peggy died in 1997, Herb decided to create a lasting legacy in her memory. In 2004, he made a second gift, doubling the Margaret Perry Pearce Scholarship Fund and inspiring other donors to support YSN students. Since that time, the fund has provided financial aid to many students.

Each year, Herb and his second wife, Martha Wood, get together with the new Margaret Perry Pearce Scholars to learn more about the students they are supporting. “I have been so impressed with these young people. All of them come to Yale with already impressive careers, and now here they are

ready to roll up their sleeves and commit themselves to caring for some of the most disadvantaged members of our communities. These are the people that are changing the world, and I couldn’t be happier to be able to help them along during their education.”

Service has been a hallmark of Herb’s long and remarkable career. He recognized that his company made its living from the community and that it had a responsibility to give something back. As an annual day of service, H. Pearce and Company closes all of its offices and encourages its employees to participate in the United Way’s Day of Caring. The rest of the year, Barbara Pearce encourages every employee to be involved with his or her community.

In 2001, Herb was a recipient of Yale University’s Elm-Ivy Award, which recognizes efforts made to strengthen ties between the University and the city of New Haven. Herb was honored for helping hundreds of Yale faculty, students, and staff obtain a home and for providing relocation services to the Yale community.

In 2009, Herb Pearce and Barbara Pearce received the John H. Filer Award from the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy for their civic commitment and their leadership through philanthropic endeavors.

“I have been very fortunate in my life and I am happy to be able to give back in a way that helps someone pursue their educational goals and memorializes Peggy,” adds Herb.

“She would be very pleased knowing that we are helping Yale Nurses to get a leg up.”

At 93, Herb is continuing to take an interest in the careers of the recipients of his eight endowed scholarships that he has set up throughout the greater New Haven community, including the Margaret Perry Pearce Scholarship at YSN. Herb says that graduates of YSN exemplify the highest standards for health care and community service, and that gives him great satisfaction.

Herb Pearce with three of the five 2008– 09 Margaret Perry Pearce Scholarship recipients (left to right) Krystal Davis ’11, Margaret Laragy ’10, and Courtney Jones ’10

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scholarship ysn faculty publications Ivy Marie Alexander Alexander, I. M., & Knight, K. (in press).

100 questions and answers about osteoporosis and osteopenia (2nd ed.).

Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Yang, M., Zhu, H., Liu, S., Alexander, I. M., Zhou, W., & Ren, X. (in press). Music therapy to relieve anxiety in pregnant women on bedrest: A randomized, controlled study. MCN: Maternal Child Nursing.

Alexander, I. M. (2009). Current and future trends in menopause therapy: An expert interview with Dr. Ivy Alexander.

Medscape, available at http://cme. medscape.com/viewarticle/701545 (Samander, E., editor).

Alexander, I. M. (2009). For patients: Osteoporosis and osteopenia [patient education companion to Pharmacotherapeutic management of osteoporosis and osteopenia]. Nurse Practitioner, 34(6), 49–50.

Alexander, I. M. (2009). Foreword. In PDR nurse’s drug handbook. Montvale, NJ: Thompson Healthcare.

Alexander, I. M. (2009). Pharmacotherapeutic management of osteoporosis and osteopenia. Nurse Practitioner, 34(6), 30–41.

Wysocki, S. J., Bachman, G. A., Freedman, M. A., Moore, A., & Alexander, I. M. (2009). Collaborating with your patient to manage atrophic vaginitis: Effective communication from diagnosis to treatment [online CME/CE program].

Medscape, available at http://cme .medscape.com/viewprogram/19189.

Wysocki, S., & Alexander, I. M. (2009).

Nurses for the care of menopausal women [Commentary]. Menopause Live, International Menopause Society Electronic Forum, www.imsociety.org.

Alexander, I. M., & Lewiecki, E. M. (2008).

Prevention, identification and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis [online CME/CE program]. Medscape, available at http://www.medscape.com/ viewprogram/17528.

Patricia Jackson Allen Allen, P. J. (in press). Dimensions of the NP role. In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Allen, P. J. (in press). Health care issues in the child. In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Allen, P. J. (in press). Infectious diseases.

In N. C. Banasiak, A. Moriarty-Daley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

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Allen, P. J. (in press). The primary care provider and children with chronic conditions. In P. L. Jackson, J. A. Vessey, & N. Schapiro (Eds.), Primary care of the child with a chronic condition (5th ed.).

St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Allen, P. J., & Rollison, N. (in press). Cardiovascular. In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Banasiak, N. C., Moriarty Daley, A., Jackson-Allen, P., & Mackey, W. (Eds.) (in press). In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Jalkut, M., & Allen, J. P. (in press). Transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with congenital heart disease: A review of the literature and clinical implications. Pediatric Nursing.

Lucas, S., & Allen, P. J. (in press). Pesticide exposure in children of Hispanic farm workers. Pediatric Nursing.

Allen, P. J. (2009). Quick care tips: Pediatric cough. Advance for Nurse Practitioners, 17(3), 47.

Helt-Cameron, J., & Allen, P. J. (2009).

Cisplatin ototoxicity in children: Implications for primary care providers.

Pediatric Nursing, 35(3), 121–127.

Allen, P. J., & Khaneja, S. (2008). Treatment options for managing cough and colds in children. Retail Clinician, 43–57.

Drugge, J., & Allen, P. J. (2008). A nurse practitioner guide to the management of herpes simplex-1 in children. Pediatric Nursing, 34(4), 310–317.

Lee, Y., & Allen, P. J. (2008). Infectious diseases in international adoptees from South Korea. Pediatric Nursing, 34(6), 480–485.

Thurman, S. E., & Allen, P. J. (2008).

Integrating lactation consultants into primary health care services: Are lactation consultants affecting breastfeeding success? Pediatric Nursing, 34(5), 419–425.

Angelo Alonzo Alonzo, A. A., & Simon, A. B. (2008). Have stethoscope, will travel: The demography, career pattern, motivation and satisfaction of locum tenens physician health care providers. Work, Employment and Society, 22(4), 635–654.

Laura Kierol Andrews Uzunpinar, A., Van Hoof, T. J., & Andrews, L. (2008). Acute care nurse practitioners’ teaching role in the intensive care unit setting. Critical Care Medicine, 36(12), A70.

Nancy Cantey Banasiak

Jessica Coviello

Banasiak, N. C. (in press). Dermatology.

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Coviello, J. (2009). Heart failure: An update. Home Healthcare Nurse, 27(6), 254–363.

Banasiak, N. C. (in press). Respiratory. In N. C. Banasiak, A. Moriarty-Daley, P. JacksonAllen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Banasiak, N. C., & Carbonella, J. (in press).

Hematology. In N. C. Banasiak, A. Moriarty-Daley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Banasiak, N. C., Moriarty Daley, A., Jackson-Allen, P., & Mackey, W. (Eds.) (in press). Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Review and Resource Manual (3rd ed.).

Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Gustafson, E., & Banasiak, N. C. (in press).

Musculoskeletal disorders. In N. C. Banasiak, A. Moriarty-Daley, P. JacksonAllen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Johnson, L., & Banasiak, N. C. (in press).

Neurology. In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Coviello, J., & Tadel, P. (2009). Palliative care in heart failure: A case study of collaborative practice. Home HealthCare Nurse, 27(1), 12–16.

Angela Crowley Crowley, A. A. (in press). Medication administration. In American Academy of Pediatrics (Ed.), Managing chronic health needs in child care and schools. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

Gross, D., & Crowley, A. A. (in press).

Health promotion and prevention in early childhood: The role of nursing research in shaping policy and practice.

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Hawkins-Walsh, E., Crowley, A. A., Melnyk, B. M., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., & O’Haver, J. (in press). Improving health care quality through an AFPNP national nursing education collaborative to strengthen PNP curriculum in mental/ behavioral health and EBP: Lessons learned from academic and clinical faculty preceptors. Journal of Professional Nursing.

Melnyk, B. M., Hawkins-Walsh, E., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., Crowley, A. A., Choi, M., & Greenburg, E. (in press).

Strengthening PNP curriculum in mental/behavioral health and evidencebased practice: Faculty and student outcomes from the AFPNP National Nursing Education Collaborative. Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Rosenthal, M., Crowley, A. A., & Curry, L. (2009). Promoting child development and behavioral health: Family child care providers’ perspective. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(5), 289–297.

Banasiak, N. C. (2009). Childhood asthma practice guideline part three: Update of the 2007 national guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma.

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(1), 59–61.

Rosenthal, M., Crowley, A. A., & Curry, L. (2008). Family child care providers’ experience in promoting children’s health. Family and Community Health, 31(4), 326–334.

Banasiak, N. C., & Bolster, A. B. (2008).

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Diers, D. (in press). Florence Wald: Before hospice. Illness, Crisis and Loss.

Kathy Booker Booker, K. J., & Hilgenberg, C. (in press).

Analysis of academic programs: Comparing nursing and other university majors in the application of a quality, potential, and cost (QPC) model. Journal of Professional Nursing.

Angelina Chambers Chambers, A. N. (in press). Impact of forced separation policy on incarcerated postpartum mothers. Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice.

Taylor, J. Y., & Chambers, A. N., Funnell, B., & Wu, C. Y. (2008). Effects of parity on blood pressure among African American women. Journal of the National Black Nurses Association, 19(2), 12–18.

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Roche, M., Diers, D., Duffield, C., & CatlingPaull, C. (in press). Violence toward nurses, the work environment and patient outcomes. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Duffield, C., Diers, D., Aisbett, C., & Roche, M. (2009). Churn: Patient turnover and case mix. Nursing Economics, 27(1), 185–191.

Jane Karpe Dixon Dixon, J. K., Hendrickson, K. C., Ercolano, E., Quackenbush, R., & Dixon, J. P. (in press).

Measuring what people think and do about environmental health. Public Health Nursing.

scholarship ysn faculty publications Jacelon, C. S., Dixon, J., & Knafl, K. (in press). Development of the Dignity Scale.

Research in Gerontological Nursing.

Knafl, K., Deatrick, J. A., Gallo, A., Dixon, J., Grey, M., Knafl, G., et al. (in press).

Development and testing of the Family Management Measure. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

Liu, S., Dixon, J., & McCorkle, R. (in press).

Using generalized estimating equations to analyze longitudinal data in nursing research. Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Schilling, L. S., Knafl, K. A., Grey, M., Lynn, M. R., Murphy, K., Dumser, S., et al. (in press). A new self-report measure of self-management of type 1 diabetes for adolescents. Nursing Research.

Funk, M., Sangkachand, P., Phung, J., Gaither, J., Mercurio, A., Jahrsdoerfer, et al.

(2009). ST-Map electrocardiographic software improves nurses’ use of and attitude toward ischemia monitoring and the quality of patient care. American Journal of Critical Care, 18(3), e14.

Margaret Grey Grey, M., Whittemore, R., Jaser, S. S., Ambrosino, J., Lindemann, E., Liberti, L., et al. (in press). Effects of coping skills training in school-age children with type 1 diabetes. Research in Nursing and Health.

Jaser, S. S., Holl, M. G., Jefferson, V., & Grey, M. (in press). Correlates of depressive symptoms in urban youth at risk for type 2 diabetes. Journal of School Health.

Dixon, J. K. (2009). [Review of the book Concept mapping for planning and evaluation, by M. Kane & W. M. K. Trochim]. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 3, 87–89.

Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Lindemann, E., Ambrosino, J., & Jaser, S. (in press). An Internet coping skills training program for teens with type 1 diabetes.

Computers, Informatics, and Nursing.

Knafl, G., Dixon, J. K., O’Malley, J. P., Grey, M., Deatrick, J. A., Gallo, A. M., et al. (2009).

Analysis of cross-sectional univariate measurements for family dyads using linear mixed modeling. Journal of Family Nursing, 15, 130–151.

Ambrosino, J. M., Weinzimer, S. A., Santacroce, S., Tamborlane, W. V., & Grey, M. (2009). Early trauma responses after child newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A477.

Ercolano, E., Hendrickson, K. C., Dixon, J. P., & Dixon, J. K. (2008). Talking with patients about environmental health: The “I talk” mnemonic. Holistic Nursing Practice, 22, 197–205.

Kris Paul Fennie Knafl, G. J., Bova, C. A., Fennie, K. P., O’Malley, J. P., Dieckhaus, K. D., & Williams, A. B. (in press). An analysis of electronically monitored adherence to antiretroviral medications. AIDS Education and Behavior.

Pellico, L., Friedlaender, L., & Fennie, K. P. (in press). Looking is not seeing: Using art to improve observational skills.

Journal of Nursing Education.

Dutton, L., Koenig, K., & Fennie K. (2008).

Gynecological care of the female-tomale transgender man. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 53(4), 338–344.

Greenwald, H. P., McCorkle, R., & Fennie, K. (2008). Health status and adaptation among long-term cervical cancer survivors. Gynecologic Oncology, 111(3), 449–54.

Knobf, M. T., Insogna, K., DiPietro, L., Fennie, K., & Thompson, A. S. (2008). An aerobic weight-loaded pilot exercise intervention for breast cancer survivors: Bone remodeling and body composition outcomes. Biological Research for Nursing, 10(1), 34–43.

Marjorie Funk Aherns, T., Branson, R., Funk, M., & Frank, J. (2009). Clinical alarms: Where are we today? What more can be done? Initiatives in Safe Patient Care. Available from www.initiatives-patientsafety.org.

Buckwalter, K. C., Grey, M., Bowers, B., McCarthy, A. M., Gross, D., Funk, M., & Beck, C. (2009). Intervention research in highly unstable environments. Research in Nursing and Health, 32, 110–121.

Buckwalter, K. C., Grey, M., Bowers, B., McCarthy, A. M., Gross, D., Funk, M., & Beck, C. (2009). Intervention research in highly unstable environments. Research in Nursing and Health, 32, 110–121.

Grey, M., Schreiner, B., & Pyle, L. (2009).

Development of a diabetes education program for youth with type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes Educator, 35, 108–116.

Jaser, S. S., Whittemore, R., Ambrosino, J. M., Lindemann, E., & Grey, M. (2009).

Coping and psychosocial adjustment in mothers of young children with type 1 diabetes. Children’s Health Care, 38, 91–106.

Knafl, G. K., Dixon, J. K., O’Malley, J. P., Grey, M., Deatrick, J. A., Gallo, A., et al. (2009).

Analysis of cross-sectionalunivariate measurements using linear mixed models. Journal of Family Nursing, 15, 130–151.

Knafl, K., Deatrick, J. A., Gallo, A., Dixon, J., Grey, M., Knafl, G., et al. (2009). Assessment of the psychometric properties of the Family Management Measure.

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(2009). A new self-report measure of self-management of type 1 diabetes for adolescents. Nursing Research, 58, 228–236.

Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Faulkner, M., Jaser, S., Delamater, A., & Murphy, K. (2009). Recruitment and participation of youth in an Internet psycho-educational intervention study. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A486.

Whittemore, R., Jeon, S., Jaser, S., Liberti, L., Cahill, J., & Grey, M. (2009). Quality of life and metabolic control in school-aged children with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A462.

Whittemore, R., Melkus, G., Wagner, J., Dziura, J., Northup, V., & Grey, M. (2009).

Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program to primary care. Nursing Research, 58, 2–12.

Deshefy-Longhi, T., Swartz, M., & Grey, M. (2008). Characterizing nurse practitioner practice by sampling patient encounters: An APRNet study. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 20, 281–287.

Jaser, S. S., Holl, M. G., Jefferson, V., & Grey, M. (2008). Correlates of depressive symptoms in youth at risk for type 2 diabetes.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35, s212.

Jenerette, C., Funk, M., Ruff, C., Grey, M., Adderly-Kelly, B., & McCorkle, R. (2008). Models of inter-institutional collaboration to build research capacity for reducing health disparities. Nursing Outlook, 56(1), 16–24.

Zisk, R. Y., Grey, M., Medoff-Cooper, B., MacLaren, J. E., & Kain, Z. N. (2008).

The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Pharmacological and non-pharmacological parental pain management of children treated for bone fractures.

Pediatric Emergency Care, 24(2), 89–96.

Barbara J. Guthrie Kao, A., Loveland, C., & Guthrie, B. (in press). Maternal influences on Asian American Pacific Islander adolescents’ perceived maternal sexual expectations and their first sexual initiation. Council of Family Relations.

Barbara Hackley Koslan-Petraco, M. B., & Hackley, B. (in press). Immunizations. In T. King & M. Brucker (Eds.), Principles and practice of pharmacology in women’s health.

Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Hackley, B., Applebaum, J., Wilcox, W., & Arevalo, S. (2009). Impact of two scheduling systems on early enrollment in a group prenatal care program. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 54(3), 168–175.

Vanya Hamrin Hamrin, V., & Magorno, M. (in press).

Assessment of adolescents for depression in the pediatric primary care setting. Pediatric Nursing.

Hamrin, V., Iennaco, J., & Olsen, D. (2009).

A review of ecological factors affecting inpatient psychiatric unit violence: Implications for relational and unit cultural improvements. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(4), 214–222.

Joanne DeSanto Iennaco Williams, E. C., Moriarty Daley, A., & Iennaco, J. (in press). Nurse practitioner assessment of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors in adolescents. American Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Hamrin, V., Iennaco, J., & Olsen, D. (2009).

A review of ecological factors affecting inpatient psychiatric unit violence: Implications for relational and unit cultural improvements. Issues in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 30(4), 214–226.

Redeker, N. S., & Iennaco, J. D. (2009). The client with a sleep disorder. In W. K. Mohr (Ed.), Psychiatric mental health nursing (7th ed., pp. 397–421). Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Sarah Jaser Grey, M., Whittemore, R., Jaser, S. S., Ambrosino, J., Lindemann, E., Liberti, L., et al. (in press). Effects of coping skills training in school-age children with type 1 diabetes. Research in Nursing and Health.

Jaser, S. S., Holl, M. G., Jefferson, V., & Grey, M. (in press). Correlates of depressive symptoms in urban youth at risk for type 2 diabetes. Journal of School Health.

Kaufman, J. S., Jaser, S. S., Vaughan, E. L., Reynolds, J., Di Donato, J., et al. (in press).

Patterns in office referral data by grade, race/ethnicity, and gender. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.

Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Lindemann, E., Ambrosino, J., & Jaser, S. (in press). An Internet coping skills training program for teens with type 1 diabetes. Computers, Informatics, and Nursing.

Champion, J. E., Jaser, S. S., Reeslund, K. L., Simmons, L., Potts, J. E., Shears, A. R., et al.

(2009). The cost of caring: Caretaking behaviors by children of mothers with and without a history of depression.

Journal of Family Psychology, 23, 156–166.

Jaser, S. S., Whittemore, R., Ambrosino, J. M., Lindemann, E., & Grey, M. (2009).

Coping and psychosocial adjustment in mothers of young children with type 1 diabetes. Children’s Health Care, 38, 91–106.

Compas, B. E., Jaser, S. S., & Benson, M. A. (2008). Coping and emotion regulation: Implications for understanding depression during adolescence. In S. NolenHoeksema & L. M. Hilt (Eds.), Handbook of depression in adolescents. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Jaser, S. S., Fear, J. M., Reeslund, K. L., Champion, J. E., Reising, M. M., & Compas, B. E. (2008). Maternal sadness and adolescents’ responses to stress in offspring of mothers with and without a history of depression. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37, 736–746.

Sangchoon Jeon Jeon, S., Given, C. W., Sikorskii, A., & Given, B. (in press). The utility of screening in the design of trials for symptom management in cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

Sikorskii, A., Given, C. W., Given, B., & Jeon, S. (in press). Differential symptom reporting by mode of administration of an instrument: Automated voice response system versus a live telephone interview. Medical Care.

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scholarship ysn faculty publications Jeon, S., Given, C. W., Given, B., & Sikorskii, A. (2009). Do interference-based cut-points differentiate mild, moderate, and severe levels of 16 cancer-related symptoms over time? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 37(2), 220–232.

Sikorskii, A., Given, C. W., You, M., & Jeon, S. (2009). Response analysis for multiple symptoms revealed differences between arms of a symptom management trial.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 62(7), 716–724.

Given, B., Given, C. W., Sikorskii, A., Jeon, S., McCorkle, R., Champion, V., et al. (2008).

Establishing mild, moderate, and severe scores for cancer-related symptoms: How consistent and clinically meaningful are interference-based severity cut-points? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 35(2), 126–135.

Restrepo, B. I., Fisher-Hoch, S. P., Smith, B., Jeon, S., Rahbar, M. H., & McCormick, J. B. (2008). Clearance of mycobacteria from sputum is delayed in the presence of diabetes during the first phase of treatment. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 79(4), 541–544.

Clair L. Kaplan Kaplan, C. (2009). Assessing and managing female sexual dysfunction [CE 2.0 contact hours]. Nurse Practitioner Journal, 34(1), 42–50.

Kaplan, C. (2009). Guide to care for patients: Female sexual dysfunction.

Nurse Practitioner Journal, 34(1), 51.

Kaplan, C. (2009). [Peer commentary on the paper “Behavioral counseling to prevent sexually transmitted infections: A systematic review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force,” by J. S. Lin, E. Whitlock, E. O’Connor, & V. Bauer].

Evidence-Based Nursing, 12(2), 46.

Kaplan, C. (2009). [Review of the book Born in the USA: How a broken maternity system must be fixed to put women and children first, by W. Marsden]. Nursing Ethics, 16(1), 138–139.

Kaplan, C. (2009). [Review of the book Bottlemania: How water went on sale and why we bought it, by E. Royte].

Nursing Ethics, 16(3), 380.

Kaplan, C. (2009). [Review of the book Everything conceivable: How assisted reproduction is changing men, women, and the world, by L. Mundy]. Nursing Ethics, 16(2), 256–257.

Kaplan, C. (2009). [Review of the book Overtreated: Why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer, by S. Brownlee]. Nursing Ethics, 16(2), 255–256.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Breast cancer in men. In J. A. Knight, W. White-Ryan, & L. Jackson-Grusby (Eds.), Salem Health: Cancer (Vol. 1, pp. 182–183). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Clinical breast exam (CBE). In J. A. Knight, W. White-Ryan, & L. Jackson-Grusby (Eds.), Salem Health: Cancer (Vol. 1, pp. 283–285). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Clinical pearls: More help with the vaginal ring. Clinician Reviews, 18(12), 15.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Contraceptives.

In M. W. Edmunds & M. S. Mayhew (Eds.), Pharmacology for the primary care provider (pp. 584–603). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Nipple discharge. In J. A. Knight, W. White-Ryan, & L. JacksonGrusby (Eds.), Salem Health: Cancer (Vol. 3, p. 854). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Kaplan, C. (2008). Pelvic examination.

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Kaplan, C. (2008). Penile cancer. In J. A. Knight, W. White-Ryan, & L. JacksonGrusby (Eds.), Salem Health: Cancer (Vol. 3, pp. 941–943). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

M. Tish Knobf Donovan, C., & Knobf, M. T. (in press).

An evidence-based project to advance oncology nursing practice. Oncology Nursing Forum.

Irwin, M., Alvarez-Reeves, M., Cadmus, L., Mierzejewski, E. Mayne, S., Yu, H., et al. (in press). Exercise improves body fat, lean mass and bone mass in breast cancer survivors. Obesity Research.

Berger, A., Barsevick, A., Cochrane, B., Knobf, M. T., McMillan, S., Northouse, L., et al. (2009). The 2009–2013 research agenda for oncology nursing. Oncology Nursing Forum 36(5), E274–E282. doi: 10.1188/09.ONF.E274–E282.

Knobf, M. T., Collins, J., Tam, K., Weidhass, J., Chung, J., & Fennie, K. (2009). A prospective longitudinal study of the experience of women with breast cancer treated with partial breast irradiation [Abstract #90]. Oncology Nursing Forum, 36(1), LXVII. doi: 10.1188/09.ONF.32.

Irwin, M. L., Cadmus, L., Alvarez-Reeves, M., O’Neil, M., Mierzejewski, E., Latka, R., et al. (2008). Recruiting and retaining breast cancer survivors into a randomized controlled exercise trial: The Yale Exercise and Survivor Study. Cancer, 112(1 suppl.), 2593–2606.

Sun, Y., & Knobf, M. T. (2008). Concept analysis of symptom disclosure in the context of cancer. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(4), 332–341.

Geraldine Marrocco Marrocco, G. (in press). [Review of the book Free market madness: Why human nature is at odds with economics— and why it matters, by P. A. Ubel].

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Ruth McCorkle Badger, T., Henry, B., & McCorkle, R. (in press). Education of nurses in psychooncology. In J. Holland, W. Breitbart, P. Jacobsen, M. Lederberg, M. Loscalzo, & R. McCorkle (Eds.), Psycho-oncology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Liu, S., Ercolano, E., Siefert, M., & McCorkle, R. (in press). Patterns of symptoms in women after gynecological surgery. Oncology Nursing Forum.

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Milone-Nuzzo, P., & McCorkle, R. (in press). Home care. In B. Ferrell & N. Coyle (Eds.), Textbook of palliative nursing.

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Northhouse, L., & McCorkle, R. (in press).

Spouse caregivers of cancer patients.

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Wagner, E., & McCorkle, R. (in press).

Self-management support. In J. Holland, W. Breitbart, P. Jacobsen, M. Lederberg, M. Loscalzo, & R. McCorkle (Eds.), Psychooncology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ferrucci, L., McCorkle, R., Smith, T., Stein, K., & Cartmel, B. (2009). Factors related to the use of dietary supplements by cancer survivors. Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 15(6), 673–680.

McCorkle, R., & Cooke, E. (2009). Psychological aspects of hematologic disorders.

In R. Hoffman, E. Benz, S. Shattil, B. Furie, L. Silberstein, P. McGlave, & H. Heslop (Eds.), Hematology: Basic principles and practice.

Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone.

Bowles, K. H., McCorkle, R., & Nuamah, I. F. (2008). Homecare referrals and 12-week outcomes following surgery for cancer.

Oncology Nursing Forum, 35(3), 377–383.

Clemmons, D., Knafl, K. A., Lev, E., & McCorkle, R. (2008). Cervical cancer: Patterns of long-term survival. Oncology Nursing Forum, 35(6), 897–903.

Given, B., Given, C. W., Sikorskii, A., Jeon, S., McCorkle, R., Champion, V., et al. (2008).

Establishing mild, moderate,and severe scores for cancer-related symptoms: How consistent and clinically meaningful are interference-based severity cutpoints? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 35(2), 126–135.

Given, C. W., Sikorskii, A., Tamkus, D., Given, B., You, M., McCorkle, R., et al. (2008).

Managing symptoms among patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy: Results of a two-arm behavioral trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 26(36), 5855–5862.

Greenwald, H. P., & McCorkle, R. (2008).

Sexuality and sexual function in longterm survivors of cervical cancer. Journal of Women’s Health, 17(6), 955–963.

Greenwald, H. P., McCorkle, R., & Fennie, K. (2008). Health status and adaptation among long-term cervical cancer survivors. Gynecologic Oncology, 111(3), 449–454.

Hendrickson, K., & McCorkle, R. (2008).

A dimensional analysis of the concept: Good death of a child with cancer.

Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 25(3), 127–138.

Jenerette, C., Funk, M., Ruff, C., Grey, M., Adderly-Kelly, B., & McCorkle, R. (2008). Models of inter-institutional collaboration to build research capacity for reducing health disparities. Nursing Outlook, 56(1), 16–24.

Pasacreta, J. V., Kenefick, A., & McCorkle, R. (2008). Managing distress in oncology patients: Description of an innovative on-line educational program. Cancer Nursing, 31(6), 485–490.

Schulman-Green, D., Ercolano, E., Dowd, M., Schwartz, P., & McCorkle, R. (2008).

Quality of life among women after surgery for ovarian cancer. Palliative and Supportive Care, 6(3), 239–247.

Siefert, M. L., Williams, A. L., Dowd, M. F., Chappel-Aiken, L., & McCorkle, R. (2008).

The caregiving experience in a racially diverse sample of cancer family caregivers. Cancer Nursing, 31(5), 399–407.

Mikki Meadows-Oliver Meadows-Oliver, M. (in press). Does qualitative research have a place in evidence-based nursing practice?

Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Meadows-Oliver, M. (in press). Lead poisoning. In N. C. Banasiak, A. MoriartyDaley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Meadows-Oliver, M. (in press). Pediatric physical assessment. In N. C. Banasiak, A. Moriarty-Daley, P. Jackson-Allen, & W. Mackey (Eds.), Pediatric nurse practitioner review and resource manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Meadows-Oliver, M., & Banasiak, N. (in press). The respiratory system.

In I. M. Alexander, K. Hood, V. JohnsonMallard, & E. Kostas-Polston (Eds.), Comprehensive women’s health care.

St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Meadows-Oliver, M. (2009). Pediatric health and physical assessment. Bridgewater, MA: Western Schools, MA. Meadows-Oliver, M., & Reid, V. (2009).

The use of probiotics in pediatrics. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 194–197.

Ryan-Krause, P., Meadows-Oliver, M., Sadler, L., & Swartz, M. (2009). Developmental status of children of teen mothers: Contrasting objective assessments with maternal reports. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 303–309.

Mary Moller Moller, M. D. (2009). Psychopharmacology. In W. K. Mohr (Ed.), Psychiatric-mental health nursing (7th ed., Ch. 16). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Moller, M. D. (2009). Side effects of antipsychotics: Understanding the variables.

Medscape CME. Access at http://cme. medscape.com/viewarticle/703934.

Moller, M. D., Rice, M. J., & Schwartz, M. E. (2009). Diagnostic dilemmas in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Continuing Education Monograph.

Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

Rice, M. J., & Moller, M. (2009). APRNPMH licensing manual. Available from American Psychiatric Nursing Association, http://www.apna.org/i4a/pages /index.cfm?pageID=3850.

scholarship ysn faculty publications Moller, M. D. (2008). Neurobiological responses and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. In G. Stuart (Ed.).

Principles and practices of psychiatric nursing (9th ed., Ch. 20). St. Louis, MO: CV Mosby.

Sheila Molony Molony, S. L. (in press). Qualitative metasynthesis: The meaning of home.

Research in Gerontological Nursing.

Molony, S. L. (2009). How to try this: Monitoring medication use in older adults. American Journal of Nursing, 109(1), 68–78.

Molony, S. L. (2008). Lived experiences of nursing home dwelling [Abstract].

Gerontologist, 48 (suppl.).

Molony, S. L. (2008). Metaphysical home [Abstract]. Gerontologist, 48 (suppl.).

Molony, S. L. (2008). Opportunities to support resilience in the nursing home [Abstract]. Gerontologist 48 (suppl.).

Molony, S. L. (2008). [Review of the book Aging, globalization and inequality: The new gerontology, by J. Baars, D. Dannefer, C. Phillipson, & A. Walker]. Nursing Ethics, 15, 703–704.

Alison Moriarty Daley Banasiak, N. C., Moriarty Daley, A., Jackson-Allen, P., & Mackey, W (Eds.) (in press).

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Review and Resource Manual (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing Center Institute for Credentialing Innovation.

Moriarty Daley, A., Sadler, L. S., & Reynolds, H. (in press). Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood. In I. M. Alexander, K. Hood, V. Johnson-Mallard, & E. KostasPolston (Eds.), Comprehensive women’s health care. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Williams, E. C., Moriarty Daley, A., & Iennaco, J. (in press). Nurse practitioner assessment of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors in adolescents. American Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Moriarty Daley, A. (2009). A call to action: Helping teens avoid unintended pregnancy contraception in school-based health centers: Questions and answers.

New Haven, CT: Mayor’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Council.

Leslie Neal-Boylan Neal-Boylan, L. J. (in press). The benefits to working for retired RNs. Geriatric Nursing.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (in press). Update on rheumatology: Part 2. Home Healthcare Nurse.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (in press). Wellness.

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Neal-Boylan, L. J. (Ed.). (2009). Home health nurses core curriculum: Concepts and models: Section two (2nd ed.).

Washington, DC: National Association for Home Care.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2009). Update on rheumatology: Part 1. Home Healthcare Nurse, 27(5), 286–296.

Reynolds, N. R. (in press). Cigarette smoking and HIV: More evidence for action.

AIDS Education and Prevention.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2008). [Review of the book Pain management: The resource guide for home health and hospice nurses, by Carol Long]. Home Healthcare Nurse, 26(7), 10.

Reynolds, N. R., Eller, L. S., Nicholas, P. K., Corless, I. B., Kirksey, K., Hamilton, M. J., et al. (2009). HIV illness representation as a predictor of self-care management and health outcomes: A multi-site, cross-cultural study. AIDS and Behavior, 13, 258–267.

Linda Honan Pellico Pellico, L. H., Brewer, C. S., & Kovner, C. T. (in press). What newly licensed registered nurses have to say about their first experiences. Nursing Outlook.

Pellico, L. H., Friedlaender, L., & Fennie, K. (in press). Using art to improve observational skills. Journal of Nursing Education.

Nancy S. Redeker Caldwell, B. A., & Redeker, N. S. (2009).

Sleep patterns and psychological distress in women living in an inner city. Research in Nursing and Health, 32, 177–190.

Redeker, N. S. (2009). Are objective and subjective sleep characteristics associated with depressive symptoms in people with stable heart failure? Eastern Nursing Research Society 21st Annual Scientific Sessions Proceedings, 98.

Willard, S., Holzemer, W. L., Wantland, D. J., Cuca, Y. P., Kirksey, K. M., Portillo, C. J., et al.

(2009). Does “asymptomatic” mean without symptoms for those living with HIV infection? AIDS Care, 2, 322–328.

Corless, I. B., Voss, J. G., Nicholas, P. K., Bunch, E. H., Bain, C. A., Coleman, C., et al.

(2008). Fatigue in HIV/AIDS patients with comorbidities. Applied Nursing Research, 21, 116–122.

Reynolds, N. R. (2008). Community-based interventions to improve health outcomes: Key measurement considerations. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Chia Health Conference, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China.

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Redeker, N. S., & Iennaco, J. D. (2009).

Sleep disorders. In W. K. Mohr (Ed.), Psychiatric mental health nursing (7th ed., pp. 397–421). Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Murray, J., & Ryan-Krause, P. (in press).

Obesity in children with Down syndrome: Background and recommendations for management. Pediatric Nursing.

Taub, L. F., & Redeker, N. S. (2009). Gender differences in self-reported sleep and sleepiness in people with type II diabetes. Eastern Nursing Research Society 21st Annual Scientific Sessions Proceedings, 96.

Murray, J., & Ryan-Krause, P. (2009). Bicycle attachments for children: Bicycle seats, trail-a-bikes, and trailers. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(1), 62–65.

Redeker, N. S., Berkowitz, R., Zucker, M., Gilbert, M., Blank, L., Walsleben, J., et al.

(2008). Does sleep disordered breathing explain symptoms and functional performance in people with stable heart failure? Proceedings of the 2008 National State of the Science Conference in Nursing Research.

Redeker, N. S., & Muensch, U. (2008).

Nocturia is associated with objective and subjective sleep characteristics, symptoms, and functional performance in stable heart failure [Abstract].

Circulation 118, S872.

Heather Dawn Reynolds Reynolds, H., Sadler, L., & A. Moriarty Daley (in press). Adolescent pregnancy.

In I. M. Alexander, K. Hood, V. JohnsonMallard, & E. Kostas-Polston (Eds.), Comprehensive women’s health care.

St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Nancy Reynolds Browning, K. K., Ferketich, A. K., Otterson, G. A., Reynolds, N. R., & Wewers, M. E. (in press). Quality of life in lung cancer patients who smoke. Lung Cancer.

Browning, K. K., Wewers, M. E., Ferketich, A. K., Otterson, G. A., & Reynolds, N. R. (in press). The self-regulation model of illness applied to smoking behavior in lung cancer. Cancer Nursing.

Nokes, K., Reynolds, N., Rivero, M., Sefcik, E., & Bunch, E. (in press). Correlates of body fat changes in persons with HIV/AIDS. Internet Journal of Advanced Practice.

Ryan-Krause, P. (2009). Galactorrhea in an adolescent girl. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(1), 54–58.

Ryan-Krause, P., Meadows-Oliver, M., Sadler, L. S., & Swartz, M. (2009). Developmental status of children of teen mothers: Contrasting objective assessments with maternal reports. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(10), 303–309.

Vierhile, A., Robb, A., & Ryan-Krause, P. (2009). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: Closing diagnostic, communication, and treatment gaps (CME), Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23(1), S5–S21.

Lois S. Sadler Moriarty Daley, A., Sadler, L. S., & Reynolds, H. (in press). Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood. In I. M. Alexander, K. Hood, V. Johnson-Mallard, & E. KostasPolston (Eds.), Comprehensive women’s health care. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Ryan-Krause, P., Swartz, M. K., MeadowsOliver, M., & Sadler, L. S. (in press). Developmental status of children of teen mothers: Contrasting objective assessments with maternal reports. Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Slade, A., Cohen, L. J., Sadler, L. S., & Miller, M. (in press). The psychology and psychopathology of pregnancy: Reorganization and transformation. In C. Zeanah (Ed.), The handbook of infant mental health (3rd ed.).

Sterling, S. P., & Sadler, L. S. (2009).

Contraceptive use among adolescent Latinas living in the United States: The impact of culture and acculturation.

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 19–28.

Lawrence D. Scahill Jahromi, L. B., Kasari, C. L., McCracken, J. T., Lee, L., Aman, M. G., McDougle, C. J., et al. (in press). Positive effects of methylphenidate on social communication and self-regulation in children with pervasive developmental disorders and hyperactivity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Scahill, L., Aman, M. G., McDougle, C. J., Arnold, L. E., McCracken, J. T., Handen, B., et al. (in press). Testing the combined effects of medication and behavioral intervention in children with pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Scahill, L., Kim, Y. S., & Lettinga, J. (in press). Assessment and pharmacological treatment of children with obsessivecompulsive disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Williams, S. K., Koenig, K., & Scahill, L. (in press). Toward the development of effective social skills intervention in children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Scahill, L., & Bearss, K. (2009). The rise in autism and the mercury myth.

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 22(1), 51–53.

Nikolov, R. N., Bearss, K. E., Lettinga, J., Erickson, C., Rodowski, M., Aman, M. G., et al. (2008). Gastrointestinal symptoms in a sample of children with pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(3), 405–413. doi: 10.1007/s10803-0080637-8.

Scahill, L. (2008). How do I decide whether or not to use medication for my child with autism? Should I try behavior therapy first? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38(6), 1197–1198.

Scahill, L., Aman, M. G., McCracken, J. T., McDougle, C. J., et al. (2008). Beware of over-interpreting negative trials. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38(9), 1609–1610.

Scahill, L., Aman, M. G., McDougle, C. J., Arnold, L. E., McCracken, J. T., Handen, B., . . . Vitiello, B. (2008). Trial design challenges when combining medication and parent training in children with pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(5), 720–729.

Dena Schulman-Green Schulman-Green, D., Cherlin, E., McCorkle, R., Carlson, M., Beckman Pace, K., Neigh, J., et al. (in press). Benefits and challenges in use of a standardized symptom assessment system in hospice. Journal of Palliative Medicine.

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scholarship ysn faculty publications Schulman-Green, D., McCorkle, R., & Bradley, E. H. (in press). Tailoring techniques for qualitative research with seriously ill patients about the end of life: A primer. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying.

Schulman-Green, D., Bradley, E. H., Beckman Pace, K., Cherlin, E., Hennessy, M., Johnson-Hurzeler, R., et al. (2008). Testing a standardized symptom assessment tool: Experiences from the NAHC QAPI Collaborative. Caring, 27(11), 14–18.

Juliette Shellman Shellman, J., & Mokel, M. (in press).

Overcoming barriers to conducting a depression study with an older African-American population. Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

Shellman, J. (2009). Ethical issues in home health care. Book Review in Nursing Ethics, 16, 383.

Shellman, J., Mokel, M., & Hewitt, N. (2009). The effects of integrative reminiscence on depressive symptoms in older African Americans. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 31(6), 772–786.

Shellman, J., Lacey, K., & Clemmens, D. (2008). CARELINK: Partners in caring model, a cardiac self-management program for homebound older adults.

Home Healthcare Nurse, 26(10), 582–588.

Martha K. Swartz Swartz, M. (in press). Social support in the family. In M. Craft-Rosenberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of family health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Swartz, M., & Joslin, S. (in press). Newborn nutrition. In I. M. Alexander, K. Hood, V. Johnson-Mallard, & E. Kostas-Polston (Eds.), Comprehensive women’s health care. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Ryan-Krause, P., Meadows-Oliver, M., Sadler, L., & Swartz, M. (2009). Developmental status of children of teen mothers: Contrasting objective assessments with maternal reports. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 303–309.

Swartz, M. (2009). Adolescent health care. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 1.

Swartz, M. (2009). Cyberbullying: An extension of the schoolyard. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 281–282.

Swartz, M. (2009). Focus on overweight and obesity prevention and management. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 205–206.

Swartz, M. (2009). In good company . . . now what about that impact factor?

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 23, 141–142.

Swartz, M. (2008). Parenting pre-term infants: A meta-synthesis. In D. Polit & C. Beck (Eds.), Resource manual to accompany Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (8th ed., pp. 297–303). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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Swartz, M. (2008). The peer review process. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 22, 333–334.

Sandra Lee Talley Weiss, S. J., & Talley, S. (2009). A comparison of the practices of psychiatric clinical specialists and nurse practitioners who are certified to provide mental health care for children and adolescents.

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 15(2), 111–119.

Jacquelyn Taylor Taylor, J. Y. (in press). Risks for hypertension among undiagnosed African American mothers and daughters.

Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Taylor, J. Y., & Wu, C. Y. (in press). Effects of genetic counseling for hypertension on changes in lifestyle behaviors among African American women. Journal of the National Black Nurses Association.

Taylor, J. Y. (2009). Recruitment of three generations of African American women into genetic research. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 20(2), 219–226.

Taylor, J. Y., Maddox, R., & Wu, C. Y. (2009).

Genetic and environmental risks for hypertension among African American girls and their mothers. Biological Research for Nursing, 11(1).

Washington, O. G. M., Moxley, D. P., & Taylor, J. Y. (2009). Enabling older homeless minority women to overcome homelessness by using a life management enhancement group intervention.

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(2), 86–97.

Taylor, J. Y., Chambers, A. N., Funnell, B., & Wu, C. Y. (2008). Effects of parity on blood pressure among African American women. Journal of the National Black Nurses Association, 19(2), 12–18.

Taylor, J. Y., Sun, Y., Chu, J., Mosley, T., & Kardia, S. (2008). Interactions between metallopeptidase 3 polymorphisms rs679620 and BMI in predicting blood pressure in African American women with hypertension. Journal of Hypertension, 26, 2312–2318.

Meredith Wallace Shea, J., Grossman, S., Wallace, M., & Lange, J. (in press). Assessment of knowledge and awareness of providing palliative care: Implications for educating nurse practitioner students. Journal of Nursing Education.

Wallace, M. (in press). Older adult. In C. Edelman & C. Mandle (Eds.), Health promotion throughout the lifespan (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Wallace, M., & Bailey, D. E. (in press). Out of the black box: Expansion of a theorybased intervention to self-manage the uncertainty associated with active surveillance [AS] for prostate cancer.

Research and Theory for Nursing Practice.

Wallace, M., & Bailey, D. E. (in press).

Prostate cancer update. Nurse Practitioner Journal.

Wallace, M., & Harmon, A. (in press).

Prostate cancer. In C. Yarbro, D. Wujcik, & B. H. Gobel (Eds.), Cancer nursing (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Melkus, G., Whittemore, R., & Mitchell, J. (2009). Urban Black and rural White women with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Educator, 35, 293–301.

Goncalves, S., & Wallace, M. (2009).

Preventing falls in acute care facilities.

ADVANCE for Nurses. Available at http: //nursing.advanceweb.com/editorial /content/printfriendly.aspx?CC=197582.

Wagner, J., Allen, N. A., Swalley, L., Melkus, G., & Whittemore, R. (2009). Depression, depression treatment, and insulin sensitivity in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A476.

Lange, J., Shea, J., Grossman, S., Wallace, M., & Ferrell, B. (2009), Psychometrics of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Knowledge Assessment Tool (ELNEC-KAT): An abbreviated version.

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 11(5).

Whittemore, R. (2009). Expert response: A multicomponent intervention improved diabetes care in primary care practices. Evidence-Based Nursing, 12, 89.

Lange, J., Wallace, M., Gerard, S., Lovanio, K., Fausty, N., & Rychlewicz, S. (2009).

Effect of an acute-care geriatric educational program on fall rates and nurse work satisfaction. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 40(8), 371–379.

Fitzpatrick, J., & Wallace, M. (2008). Clinical nurse leader and doctorate of nursing practice: Essentials of program development and implementation into clinical practice. New York: Springer.

Freed, K., & Wallace, M. (2008). Disclosing medical errors. Advance for Nurse Practitioners [Special issue], 25–28.

Wallace, M., & Ennis, E. (2008). Promoting the spiritual health of older nursing home residents. Vision: A publication of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains, 18(8), 17–19.

Robin Whittemore Guo, J., Whittemore, R., Alonzo, A. A., & He, G. (in press). Factors that influence the Health Quotient of Chinese college undergraduates. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Wagner, J., Allen, N. A., Swalley, L., Melkus, G. D., & Whittemore, R. (in press). Depression, depression treatment, and insulin sensitivity in people at risk for type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Lindemann, E., Ambrosino, J., & Jaser, S. (in press). An Internet coping skills training program for teens with type 1 diabetes. Computers, Informatics, and Nursing.

Whittemore, R., Melkus, G. D., Alexander, N., Zibel, S., Visone, E., Muench, et al. (in press). Implementation of a lifestyle program in primary care by nurse practitioners. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Grey, M., Whittemore, R., Jaser, S., Ambrosino, J., Lindemann, E., Liberti, L., et al. (2009). Effects of a coping skills training program for school-aged children. Research in Nursing and Health, 32, 405–418.

Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Faulkner, M., Jaser, S., Delamater, A., & Murphy, K. (2009). Recruitment and participation of youth in an Internet psycho-educational intervention study. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A486.

Whittemore, R., Jeon, S., Jaser, S., Liberti, L., Cahill, J., & Grey, M. (2009). Quality of life and metabolic control in school-aged children with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes, 58 (Suppl. 1), A462.

Whittemore, R., Melkus, G., Wagner, J., Dzuria, J., Northrup, V., & Grey, M. (2009).

Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program to primary care: A pilot study.

Nursing Research, 58, 2–12.

Ann B. Williams Li, X., He, G. P., Wang, H. H., & Williams, A. B. (in press). Consequences of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in China: Recommendations for integrated care of HIV-infected drug users. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. Wang, H., Zhou, J., Huang., L., Li, X., Fennie, K. P., & Williams, A. B. (in press). Effects of nurse-delivered home visits combined with telephone intervention on medication adherence and quality of life in HIV-infected heroin users in Hunan, China. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Williams, A. B. (in press). Ethical challenges in HIV research and clinical care.

In D. W. Swanepoel & B. Louw (Eds.), HIV/ AIDS: A clinical resource for communication, hearing and swallowing disorders.

San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.

Li, X., Wang, H., Williams, A. B., & He, G. (2009). Stigma reported by people living with HIV in south central China. Journal of Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 20(1), 22–30.

Wang, H., Zhou, J., He, G., Luo, Y., Li, X., Yang, A., et al. (2009). Consistent ART adherence is associated with improved quality of life, CD4 counts, and reduced hospital costs in central China.

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 25(8), 1–8.

Knafl, G. J., Bova, C. A., Fennie, K. P., O’Malley, J. P., Dieckhaus, K. D., Williams, A. B. (2008). An analysis of electronically monitored adherence to antiretroviral medications. AIDS and Behavior. Available from http://www.springerlink.com /content/j2g27028562r028r/fulltext .html.

Womack, J., & Williams, A. (2008).

Hormonal contraception in HIV positive women. AIDS Reader, 18(7), 372–381.

scholarship faculty presentations Patricia Jackson Allen Allen, P. J. (2008, December). Health implications of climate change. Plenary speech at the conference Caring for the Underserved: A Global Perspective, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Allen, P. J., Meadows-Oliver, M., & RyanKrause, P. (2008, December). Establishing a school-based health center in Managua, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the conference Caring for the Underserved: A Global Perspective, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Allen, P. J., Meadows-Oliver, M., & RyanKrause, P. (2008, November). Establishing a school-based health center in Managua, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Academy of Nursing, Scottsdale, AZ. Allen, P. J. (2008, September). Establishing a school-based health clinic in Nicaragua.

Poster presented at the International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Allen, P. J. (2008, August). Kids cough and colds. Invited speaker at the Retail Clinician Education Congress, Orlando, FL. Laura Kierol Andrews Andrews, L. K. (2009, May). Drop by drop: Pharmacology of vasoactives. Invited speaker at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Expo, New Orleans, LA. Andrews, L. K. (2009, April). A rapid response team: What it is and what it does. Invited speaker at Saint Joseph College, Department of Nursing, West Hartford, CT. Nancy Cantey Banasiak Banasiak, N., Codish, S., & Shiffman, R. (2008, October). The care of children with asthma through decision support systems. Poster presented at the National Nursing Conference, Hartford, CT. Angelina Chambers Chambers, A. N. (2009, April). International midwifery clinical experience in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Invited speaker at the New England Midwifery Education Consortium (NEMEC) Professional Issues Day, New Haven, CT. Pettigrew, J., & Chambers, A. N. (2009, April). Pica practices among parous Haitian women around La Romana, Dominican Republic. Poster presented at the Unite for Sight International Health Conference, New Haven, CT. Chambers, A. N. (2009, March). Antepartum and intrapartum fetal monitoring.

Invited speaker at the University of the West Indies–St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies.

Chambers, A. N. (2008, October). Maternal-infant bonding and attachment experiences of incarcerated postpartum women. Workshop conducted at the International Black Midwives Healers Conference, International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), New York, NY.

Longinotti, R., & Chambers, A. N. (2008, October). Microbicide acceptability among reproductive age women in Georgetown, Guyana. Poster presented at the Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowship Fall Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Pettigrew, J., & Chambers, A. N. (2008, October). Pica practices among parous Haitian women around La Romana, Dominican Republic. Poster presented at the Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowship Fall Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Jessica Coviello Coviello, J. (2008, November). How to organize and deliver homecare services for patients with heart failure. Panel participant at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA. Coviello, J. (2008, September). Chronic care clearinghouse of best practices: Heart failure, a Web-based resource on heart failure for homecare nurses. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nurses International Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Angela Crowley Rosenthal, M., Crowley, A., & Curry, L. (2009, May). Family child care providers’ role in obesity prevention. Poster presented at the meeting of the Pediatric Ambulatory Society, Baltimore, MD. Crowley, A., Whitney, G., Sandor, K., & Cotter-Garfield, D. (2009, April). Infant/ toddler social emotional wellness across care settings. Panel at the Building Blocks Conference, Westbrook, CT. Melnyk, B., Hawkins-Walsh, E., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., Crowley, A., Choi, M., et al. (2009, April). Faculty outcomes, student outcomes. Panel at the meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Portland, OR. Melnyk, B., Hawkins-Walsh, E., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., Crowley, A., Choi, M., et al. (2009, April). Improving health care quality through an AFPNP national nursing education collaborative to strengthen PNP curriculum in mental/ behavioral health and EBP. Panel at the meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Portland, OR. Melnyk, B., Hawkins-Walsh, E., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., Crowley, A., Choi, M., et al. (2009, April). Recommendations for national curricular change based on this project. Panel at the meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Portland, OR. Melnyk, B., Hawkins-Walsh, E., Beauchesne, M., Brandt, P., Crowley, A., Choi, M., et al. (2009, April). Translation of behavioral/developmental PNP curriculum to practice. Panel at the meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Portland, OR.

Donna Diers Diers, D. (2009, June). Finding nursing with data. Keynote speech presented at the Research School, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Diers, D. (2009, June). Finding nursing.

Special speaker at the conference Nurses in Research, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Diers, D. (2009, June). From practice to research. Endnote speech presented at the Research School, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Diers, D. (2009, June). From research to practice. Keynote speech presented at the Research School, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Diers, D. (2009, June). Writing for publication. Symposium conducted at the University of Technology–Sydney and Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.

Jane Karpe Dixon Caplan, S., Scahill, L., Desai, M., Paris, P., Whittemore, R., Alvidrez, J., et al. (2009, April). Causal beliefs about depression among Dominican, Ecuadorian and Colombian immigrants in primary care.

Poster presented at the Unite for Sight International Health Conference, New Haven, CT. Tocchi, C., Dixon, J. K., & Redeker, N. (2009, March). Creating infrastructure to facilitate collaborative secondary analysis in context of a funded research center.

Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Williams, A. L., Dixon, J. K., & McCorkle, R. (2009, March). Development of the determinants of meditation practice inventory.

Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Deshefy-Longhi, T., Dixon, J. K., & LaFrance, M. (2008, November). Nonverbal communication in couples living with Parkinson disease. Paper presented at the meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), New Harbor, MD. Deshefy-Longhi, T., Dixon, J. K., & LaFrance, M. (2008, October). Assessing non-verbal communication in Parkinson disease. Poster presented at the National State of the Science Congress in Nursing Research, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, Washington, DC. Dixon, J. K., Dixon, J. P., & North, T. (2008, October). Air monitoring workshop.

Workshop conducted at the conference of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice, Hartford, CT. Kris Paul Fennie Fennie, K., Dutton, L., & Koenig, K. (2009, June). Barriers to and concerns about seeking primary health care among transgender men and women. Poster presented at the Biennial Symposium of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), Oslo, Norway.

Thomas, J., Figueira, M., Fennie, K., Laufer, A., Pichichero, M., Pelton, S., et al. (2009, June). Tissue specific genes and genetic diversity of emerging clonal complex 199 of Streptococcus pneumonia. Presentation at the European Meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus, Oral Session C: Gene expression and regulation, Bern, Switzerland.

Fashjian, M., Funk, M., Fennie, K., & Drew, B. (2009, March). Nurses’ knowledge of electrocardiographic monitoring. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Knobf, M. T., Collins, J., Tam, K., Proto, A., Fennie, K., Weidhaas, J., et al. (2009, February). Symptoms, body image and quality of life in women with breast cancer treated with partial breast irradiation.

Poster presented at the Cancer Nursing Research Conference, Orlando, FL. Marjorie Funk Winkler, C., Funk, M., Drew, B., Schindler, D., Zegre-Hemsey, J., & O’Leary, J. (2009, April). Arrhythmias in patients with acute coronary syndromes in the first 24 hours of emergency department admission during the post-reperfusion era. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology, Panama City Beach, FL. Fashjian, M., Funk, M., Fennie, K., & Drew, B. (2009, March). Nurses’ knowledge of electrocardiographic monitoring. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Funk, M. (2009, March). Development of Internet-based ECG monitoring education program for hospital nurses. Oral presentation at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Parkosewich, J., Funk, M., Chyun, D., & Bradley, E. (2009, March). Factors associated with women’s perception of risk for having an acute myocardial infarction.

Oral presentation at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Winkler, C., Funk, M., Drew, B., Schindler, D., Zegre-Hemsey, J., & O’Leary, J. (2009, March). Arrhythmias in patients with acute coronary syndromes in the first 24 hours of emergency department admission during the post-reperfusion era. Oral presentation at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ERNS), Boston, MA. Meredith Goff Goff, M. (2009, April). Choices in childbirth: What does the evidence support?

Invited speaker at the meeting of La Leche League of Connecticut, Farmington, CT. Goff, M. (2008, November). What do research, theory, and practice reveal about dissemination of health messages to CNM’s? Invited speaker at the Congenital Cytomegalovirus Conference, Atlanta, GA.

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scholarship faculty presentations Margaret Grey

Barbara J. Guthrie

Grey, M. (2009, June). Promoting positive behavior in children/adolescents.

Invited speaker at the National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on the Science of Behavior Change, Bethesda, MD.

Guthrie, B. (2009, March). Breaking the cycle: Towards the development of an intergenerational health promotion intervention for women inmates and their adolescent daughters. Invited speaker at the conference of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations, Albuquerque, NM.

Whittemore, R., Jeon, S., Jaser, S., Liberti, L., Cahill, J., & Grey, M. (2009, June). Quality of life and metabolic control in schoolaged children with type 1 diabetes. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA. Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Faulkner, M., Jaser, S., Delamater, A., & Murphy, K. (2009, June). Recruitment and participation of youth in an Internet psychoeducational intervention study. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA. Grey, M. (2009, May). A community-based approach to preventing type 2 diabetes in youth. Keynote speech/Invited speaker at the Helen Denne Schulte Visiting Professor Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Grey, M. (2009, April). What do we know about self-management? Keynote speech presented at the Florence Cellar Conference, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Jaser, S., White, L., & Grey, M. (2009, April).

Observed parenting and adjustment in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Montreal, Canada.

Womack, J., Scherzer, R., Cole, S. R., Williams, A. B., Grey, M., Minkoff, H., et al.

(2009, March). The metabolic consequences of hormonal contraceptive use among HIV-positive and at-risk women.

Poster presented at the International Workshop of HIV Observational Databases, Lisbon, Portugal.

Grey, M. (2008, December). A community-based approach to preventing type 2 diabetes in high risk youth. Invited speaker at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation Scholars Program, New Haven, CT. Grey, M. (2008, November). The roadmap and translational research. Keynote speech presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA. Grey, M. (2008, October). Leadership for advancing nursing science and transforming care. Panel participant at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, Boston, MA. Womack, J., Grey, M., Williams, A., Cole, S. R., Schneider, M. F., Minkoff, H., et al.

(2008, August). Progestin-only contraception and metabolic outcomes in women with and at risk for HIV. Poster presented at the conference of the International AIDS Society, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Guthrie, B. (2009, February). Keeping the dream alive: The Josiah Macy’s Yale-Howard interdisciplinary health scholars program. Invited speaker at the meeting of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools and the meeting of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools, Norfolk, VA .

Guthrie, B. (2008, October). Being a leader when in the minority. Poster presented at the Leadership Training Institute, Career Path Planning, 2008 Career Advancement for Diverse Researchers, Bethesda, MD. Guthrie, B. (2008, October). Challenges and opportunities for women and persons of color. Panel participant at the Leadership Training Institute, 2008 Career Advancement for Diverse Researchers, Bethesda, MD. Guthrie, B. (2008, October). Developing and maintaining successful teams. Guest speaker at the Leadership Training Institute, 2008 Career Advancement for Diverse Researchers, Bethesda, MD. Guthrie, B. (2008, October). Peer coaching and mentorship at different career stages.

Panel participant at the Leadership Training Institute, 2008 Career Advancement for Diverse Researchers, Bethesda, MD. Guthrie, B. (2008, September). At the crossroads: Adolescent girls and substance use and abuse patterns. Invited speaker at the National Conference on Women, Addiction and Recovery, Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, Tallahassee, FL. Barbara Hackley Larkin, M., Applebaum, J., Goldsmith, S., Sarmiento, A., Hackley, B., & Shapiro, S. (2009, May). What do parents and teens in the South Bronx think about obesity and behavior change? Analysis presented at the meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD. Hackley, B., & Sharma, C. (2008, December). Lessons learned: Integrating mental health and primary care. Roundtable conducted at the Convocation of Practices of the New York City Research and Improvement Network Group (NYC RING), Bronx, NY. Hackley, B., Sreenivasan, S., Kedzior, A., & Sharma C. (2008, October). Incorporating mental health services into obstetrical and gynecology practices. Podium presentation at the meeting of the American Public Health Association, The Comprehensive Medical Home: Access to Child Development and Mental Health Services, San Diego, CA.

Hackley, B. (2008, September). Setting up for success: Effective recruitment and scheduling strategies. Workshop presented at the National Conference for Group Health Care, Indianapolis, IN. Vanya Hamrin Hamrin, V. (2009, March). The assessment and evidence based treatments of pediatric anxiety disorders. Abstract presented at the meeting of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), San Diego, CA. Hamrin, V., & Iennaco, J. (2008, October).

Virtue ethics and the relational approach to address the problem of psychiatric inpatient unit violence. Paper presented at the International Conference on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Joanne DeSanto Iennaco Hamrin, V., & Iennaco, J. (2008, October).

Virtue ethics and the relational approach: Violence and the response on psychiatry units. Paper presented at the International Conference on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sarah Jaser Whittemore, R., Jeon, S., Jaser, S., Liberti, L., Cahill, J., & Grey, M. (2009, June). Quality of life and metabolic control in schoolaged children with type 1 diabetes. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA. Whittemore, R., Grey, M., Faulkner, M., Jaser, S., Delamater, A., & Murphy, K. (2009, June). Recruitment and participation of youth in an Internet psychoeducational intervention study. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA. Jaser, S., White, L., & Grey, M. (2009, April).

Observed parenting and adjustment in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Montreal, Canada.

Jaser, S. (2009, February). Communication and coping in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their mothers. Oral presentation at the meeting of the Behavioral Research in Diabetes Group Exchange, Monterey, CA. Sangchoon Jeon Whittemore, R., Jeon, S., Jaser, S., Liberti, L., Cahill, J., & Grey, M. (2009, June).

Quality of life and metabolic control in school-aged children with type 1 diabetes.

Poster presented at the meeting of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA. Given, B., Given, C. W., Sikorskii, A., & Jeon, S. (2008, October). Understanding the mechanisms through which interventions produce symptom responses among cancer patients. Poster presented at the meeting of the Council for the Advancement of Nursing, Washington, DC.

Rahbar, M. H., Talebi, H., & Jeon, S. (2008, August). A nonparametric method for assessment of interactions in a multifactor design with censored data.

Poster presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Denver, CO. Clair L. Kaplan Kaplan, C. (2009, April). Microbicide clinical trials: A case study for ethical examination of international clinical trials in HIV/STI prevention. Invited speaker at the Unite for Sight International Health Conference, New Haven, CT. Kaplan, C. (2009, February). Advanced practice resident IUD insertion training workshop. Workshop presented at the Community Health Centers of Connecticut, Meriden, CT. Kaplan, C. (2008, October). Advanced practice resident contraception review. Invited speaker at the Community Health Centers of Connecticut, Meriden, CT. Kaplan, C., & Sylla, L. (2008, July). Ethical issues in microbicide clinical trials. Invited speaker at the International Centre for Nursing Ethics, International Nursing Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities, New Haven, CT. M. Tish Knobf Knobf, M. T. (2009, June). Health promotion interventions for women with cancer. Invited speaker at the Yale Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control, New Haven, CT. Knobf, M. T. (2009, March). A Web-based intervention for breast cancer survivors.

Invited speaker at the meeting of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Knobf, M. T. (2009, February). The symptom experience, cosmetic outcome and quality of life in women with early stage breast cancer undergoing partial breast irradiation. Poster presented at the Cancer Nursing Research Conference, Orlando, FL. Ruth McCorkle McCorkle, R. (2009, June). Lessons learned from three decades of psychosocial oncology research. Invited speaker for the Bernard Fox Memorial Lecture, International Psycho-Oncology Society, Vienna, Austria.

Schulman-Green, D., Bradley, E., Ercolano, E., & McCorkle, R. (2009, March).

Developing an educational support intervention to facilitate care management among women with cancer.

Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Siefert, M., Chan, K., Ercolano, E., & McCorkle, R. (2009, March). Effects of an APN intervention on QOL and health care utilization outcomes in women after cancer surgery. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA.

scholarship faculty presentations VanCleave, J., Bourbonniere, M., & McCorkle, R. (2008, November). Recruitment of older adults for cancer clinical trials.

Poster presented at the meeting of the Gerontological Society Association, Washington, DC. McCorkle, R. (2008, October). Effects of an advanced practice nurse intervention on health outcomes and costs after cancer surgery. Podium speech presented at the meeting of the Council on the Advancement of Nursing Science, Washington, DC. McCorkle, R. (2008, October). Helping patients and families enrich the quality of their lives during cancer. Guest speaker at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Mikki Meadows-Oliver Ryan-Krause, P., Allen, P. J., & MeadowsOliver, M. (2009, April). The development of school-based health services in Nicaragua. Oral presentation at the Unite for Sight International Health Conference, New Haven, CT. Allen, P. J., Meadows-Oliver, M., & RyanKrause, P. (2008, November). Establishing a school-based health center in Managua, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Academy of Nursing, Scottsdale, AZ. Allen, P. J., Meadows-Oliver, M., & RyanKrause, P. (2008, September). Establishing a school-based health clinic in Nicaragua.

Oral presentation at the International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Mary D. Moller Moller, M. D. (2009, June). From the couch, to the bus depot, to the mall, to work: The post-psychotic adjustment process. Training conducted at the Black Hills Workshop, Rapid City, SD. Moller, M. D. (2009, June). From the couch, to the bus depot, to the mall, to work: The post-psychotic adjustment process. Training conducted at meeting of Volunteers of America, Sioux Falls, SD. Moller, M. D. (2009, June). The MAPP recovery model: Milestones of adjustment post-psychosis. Training conducted at the Black Hills Workshop, Rapid City, SD. Moller, M. D. (2009, June). The MAPP recovery model: Milestones of adjustment post-psychosis. Training conducted at meeting of Volunteers of America, Sioux Falls, SD. Moller, M. D. (2009, June). The physiology of fear: Helping abused women find hope, health, and healing. Presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Nashville, TN. Moller, M. D. (2009, June). Those pesky personality disorders: Getting to the heart of the matter. Presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Nashville, TN.

Sheila L. Molony Molony, S. L. (2009, June). Enabling at-homeness away from home. Keynote speech presented at the Jewish Geriatric Services Research Conference, Longmeadow, MA. Molony, S. L. (2009, April). A theory of enabling at-homeness. Poster presented at Sigma Theta Tau (STT) Annual Collaborative Nursing Research Day, Hartford, CT. Molony, S. L. (2009, March). A theory of thriving in a residential context. Paper presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Molony, S. L. (2008, October). Comprehensive health assessment of the adult and older adult. Workshop conducted at the Connecticut Association for Home Care, Wallingford, CT. Molony, S. L. (2008, October). Developing a research program to enhance well-being in the nursing home. Keynote speech presented at Sigma Theta Tau Annual Research Day, Western Connecticut State University.

Alison Moriarty Daley Moriarty Daley, A. (2009, May). Real life real talk: Sex ed for parents. Invited speaker at Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. Moriarty Daley, A. (2009, March). Teen comprehensive adolescent reproductive education. Poster presented at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Conference on Pediatric Health Care, San Diego, CA. Moriarty Daley, M., & Sadler, L. (2009, March). Teen CARE, an evidence-based approach to prevention of unintended pregnancy and STIs among adolescents.

Poster presented at the conference of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), San Diego, CA. Moriarty Daley, A. (2008, October). Adolescent-friendly health education. Invited speaker at Community Health Educators, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Moriarty Daley, A. (2008, October). Real life real talk: Sex ed for parents. Invited speaker at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT. Moriarty Daley, A. (2008, October). Teen C.A.R.E. Invited speaker at the Pediatric Nursing Conference, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT. Moriarty Daley, A. (2008, September).

HPV in young women: Raising disease awareness and providing timely immunization. Invited speaker at the HPV Vaccine Continuing Education CD-ROM Program, Boston University and Haymarket Medical, Chicago, IL. Leslie Neal-Boylan Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2009, June). Work instability among nurses with sensory disabilities. Poster presented at the conference Achieving Excellence Through Research and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice, New York, NY.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2009, April). Work instability among nurses with sensory disabilities. Poster presented at Connecticut Collaborative Research Day, Rocky Hill, CT.

Redeker, N. S. (2009, January). Evidencebased practice: Strategies for success.

Keynote speech at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Mid-level Providers First Annual Grand Rounds, New Haven, CT.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2009, February).

Changing nursing education to retain RNs with disabilities. Poster presented at the International Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Redeker, N. S. (2009, January). Sleep and functional performance in stable heart failure. Seminar presented at the Yale Program on Aging, New Haven, CT.

Neal-Boylan, L. J. (2008, October). Registered nurses with physical disabilities.

Poster presented at the Connecticut Nurses Association, Farmington, CT. Linda Honan Pellico Pellico, L. (2009, May). Florence Nightingale tribute. Keynote speech presented at Yale Health Plan, New Haven, CT. Pellico, L. (2009, April). Looking is not seeing. Keynote speech presented at the Yale Club of Portland, Portland, OR. Pellico, L (2009, April). Nursing: Who are we? Why should you care? Invited speaker at the Rotary Club of Wallingford, Wallingford, CT. Pellico, L. (2009, April). Research on best teaching practices for accelerated generic masters students: Results from the learning collaborative for accelerated models of nursing education. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Portland, OR. Pellico, L. (2009, March). Paying tribute to care. Invited speaker at Osborn Prison, Somers, CT. Pellico, L. (2008, October). The use of artwork to improve observational skills.

Poster presented at the National State of the Science Congress in Nursing Research, Washington, DC. Pellico, L. (2008, September). Have bones... will travel: Getting creative with health teaching. Keynote speech presented at the Safe Kids Conference, Waterbury, CT. Pellico, L. (2008, September). Third person observant or first person present. Keynote speech presented at the meeting of the End of Life Coalition, Cromwell, CT. Nancy S. Redeker Redeker, N. S. (2009, April). Trajectory of a nurse scientist. Keynote speech presented at Reinkemeyer Research Day, Seton Hall University College of Nursing, South Orange, NJ. Redeker, N. S. (2009, March). Sleep and sleep disorders in adults with chronic conditions. Moderator at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Tocchi, C., Dixon, J., & Redeker, N. S. (2009, March). Infrastructure to facilitate collaborative secondary analysis in context of a funded research center. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA.

Redeker, N. S. (2008, November). Managing insomnia in the cardiac patient.

Invited speaker at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA. Redeker, N. S. (2008, November).

Managing sleep in the cardiac patient.

Moderator at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA. Heather Dawn Reynolds Dynes, M., & Reynolds, H. (2009, May).

Interviewing and counseling strategies for the gynecologic care of adolescent women. Presenter at the meeting of the American College of Nurse Midwives, Seattle, WA. Reynolds, H. (2008, October). Breaking the contraceptive barrier: Techniques for effective contraceptive consultations.

Invited speaker at the meeting of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP), New York, NY. Reynolds, H. (2008, July). Role of ambassador in an academic health center.

Invited speaker at the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Ambassadors Conference, Phoenix, AZ. Nancy R. Reynolds Reynolds, N. R. (2009, April). Improving HIV prevention and treatment in India: The IIAN and primary health care workforce redesign. Presentation at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Reynolds, N. R. (2009, April). Multi-site adherence collaboration in HIV among 14 institutions (mach14): Self-reported adherence. Oral presentation at the International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence, Miami, FL. Reynolds, N. R., & Cohn. S. E. (2008, December). Adherence to antiretroviral medications among underrepresented populations. Workshop conducted at the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, NIAID, Washington, DC. Browning, K., Ferketich, A., Reynolds, N., Otterson, G., & Wewers, M. E. (2008, October). Smoking behavior after a diagnosis of lung cancer. Symposium presented at the State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, Washington, DC. Reynolds, N. R. (2008, October). Community- based interventions to improve health outcomes: Key measurement considerations. Keynote speech presented at the Chia Conference, Changsha, China.

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scholarship faculty presentations

Reynolds, N. R. (2008, October). Faculty development: Mentoring and advising doctoral students. Invited speaker at the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, New York, NY. Reynolds, N. R., Alonzo, A. A., & Nagaraja, H. N. (2008, August). A telephone-delivered adherence intervention improves clinical outcomes [published abstract no. CDB0506]. Presentation at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

Reynolds, N. R. (2008, July). A theorybased intervention delivered by telephone: A promising approach for optimizing adherence to art and viral outcomes. Invited speaker at the NIMH/HANC Adherence Measurement Meeting, Washington, DC. Reynolds, N. R. (2008, July). Intervening to enhance adherence. Invited speaker at the meeting of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Washington, DC. Patricia Ryan-Krause Ryan-Krause, P., Allen, P. J., & MeadowsOliver, M. (2009, April). The development of school-based health services in Nicaragua. Oral presentation at the Unite for Sight International Health Conference, New Haven, CT. Ryan-Krause, P. (2009, March). Challenges in pediatric obesity. Invited speaker at the Childhood Conversations Conference, Windsor, CT. Meadows-Oliver, M., & Ryan-Krause, P. (2008, December). Establishing a school-based health center in Managua, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the conference Caring for the Underserved: A Global Perspective, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Slade, A., & Sadler, L. (2009, April). Maternal reflective functioning as a moderator of intervention effects in predicting infant attachment. Invited speaker at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. Moriarty Daley, M., & Sadler, L. (2009, March). Teen CARE, an evidence-based approach to prevention of unintended pregnancy and STIs among adolescents.

Poster presented at the conference of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), San Diego, CA. Novick, G., Sadler, L., Cohen, S., Knafl, K., Kennedy, H., & Groce, N. (2009, March).

Privacy and sharing during group prenatal care. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Roosa Ordway, M., & Sadler, L. (2009, March). Parental reflective functioning and child outcomes. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Roosa Ordway, M., Sadler, L., Slade, A., & Mayes, L. (2009, March). Parental reflective functioning and child outcomes.

Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Lawrence D. Scahill Scahill, L. (2009, May). New developments in behavioral treatment in Tourette syndrome. Invited speaker at the New York Chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association, New York, NY. Scahill, L. (2009, April). Psychopharmacology in children with pervasive developmental disorders. Invited speaker at the Presentation at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Allen, P. J., Meadows-Oliver, M., & RyanKrause, P. (2008, November). Establishing a school-based health center in Managua, Nicaragua. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Academy of Nursing, Scottsdale, AZ.

Scahill, L. (2009, February). Diagnosis and assessment of Tourette syndrome.

Invited speaker at the Tourette Syndrome Association–Grand Rounds, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX.

Lois S. Sadler

Scahill, L. (2008, December). Parent training in children with pervasive developmental disorder. Invited speaker at the Yale Child Study Center Lecture Series, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT.

Sadler, L., Webb, D., & Slade, A. (2009, June). A reflective parenting program for young families. Invited speaker at the International Family Nursing Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Sadler, L., Updegrove, S., & Hazuda, H. (2009, May). Ethical principles of community-university research partnerships.

Facilitator at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and Donaghue Foundation, New Haven, CT. Sadler, L., Webb, D., & Close, N. (2009, May). Minding the baby: Home visiting program-clinical and research outcomes.

Invited speaker at the Building Blocks Conference, Westbrook, CT.

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Scahill, L. (2008, November). Workshop on behavioral treatment in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome.

Workshop presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Chicago, IL. Scahill, L. (2008, November). New developments in behavioral treatments in children with Tourette syndrome.

Invited speaker at the Yale Club, New York City, NY. Scahill, L. (2008, October). New developments in behavioral treatments for Tourette syndrome. Invited speaker at the CT Chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT.

Scahill, L. (2008, October). Behavioral treatment in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome: Trial design and preliminary results. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chicago, IL. Scahill, L. (2008, October). Medication alone versus medication plus parent training in children with pervasive developmental disorders accompanied by serious behavioral problems. Panel presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chicago, IL. Scahill, L. (2008, September). Diagnosis and assessment of Tourette syndrome.

Workshop presented at the Tourette Syndrome Association—sponsored symposium for clinicians and educators, Long Island, NY. Dena Schulman-Green Cherlin, E., Carlson, M., Schulman-Green, D., McCorkle, R., Johnson-Hurzeler, R., & Bradley, E. H. (2009, June). Variation in the composition of hospice interdisciplinary staff. Poster presented at the meeting of Academy Health, Chicago, IL. Schulman-Green, D. (2009, March).

Developing an educational-support intervention to facilitate care management among women with cancer. Poster presented at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Schulman-Green, D. (2009, March).

Experiences of hospice staff using a standardized symptom assessment tool: Can one size fit all? Paper presented at Yale Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, New Haven, CT. Schulman-Green, D., LaCoursiere, S., Ercolano, E., Quinn, T., & McCorkle, R. (2008, October). Assessing the unmet needs of health care providers using a Web-based survey. Poster presented at the meeting of the Connecticut Nurses Association, Farmington, CT. Schulman-Green, D., LaCoursiere, S., Ercolano, E., Quinn, T., & McCorkle, R. (2008, September). Assessing the unmet needs of health care providers using a Web-based survey. Poster presented at the meeting of the Connecticut Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care, Middletown, CT. Martha K. Swartz Swartz, M. (2009, March). Writing for publication roundtable. Roundtable participant at the conference of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), San Diego, CA.

Swartz, M., Lindeke, L., & Mohr, L. (2008, July). Scope and standards of pediatric nursing practice: Creating a unified voice.

Podium presentation at the Advanced Practice Nursing Conference, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN. Jacquelyn Y. Taylor Brittain, K., Taylor, J. Y., & Wu, C. Y. (2009, March). Family adaptability, family cohesion and high blood pressure among urban African American women.

Poster presented at the meeting of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA), Albuquerque, NM. Taylor, J. Y., Sun, Y., Chu, J., Mosley, T., & Kardia, S. (2008, October). Interactions between the MMP3 gene and BMI in predicting high blood pressure in African American women. Poster presented at the National State of the Science Congress in Nursing Research, Washington, DC. Taylor, J. Y. (2008, July). Preliminary data for the Detroit three generation genetics study. Oral presentation at the YaleHoward Summer Program, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. Robin Whittemore Whittemore, R. (2009, March). Supporting self-management in chronic conditions. Invited speaker at the Diabetes Educators of Eastern Massachusetts Education Program, Framingham, MA. Whittemore, R. (2009, March). Development of health-related Internet interventions. Oral presentation at the Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS), Boston, MA. Whittemore, R. (2008, November). Putting the patient in charge. Invited speaker at the American Diabetes Association Annual Symposium on Diabetes for the Health Care Professional, Cromwell, CT. Ann B. Williams Williams, A. B. (2009, May). HIV in primary care: A case-based approach.

Invited speaker at the meeting of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Washington, DC. Womack, J., Scherzer, R., Cole, S. R., Williams, A. B., Grey, M., Minkoff, H., et al.

(2009, March). The metabolic consequences of hormonal contraceptive use among HIV-positive and at-risk women.

Poster presented at the International Workshop of HIV Observational Databases, Lisbon, Portugal.

Le, S., Williams, A. B., Burgess, J., Wu, C., Duong, H., Medland, N., et al. (2008, August). Developing a TOT network for a continuing nursing education program in Vietnam. Poster presented at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

Womack, J., Grey, M., Williams, A. B., Cole, S. R., Schneider, M. F., Minkoff, H., et al.

(2008, August). Progestin-only contraception and metabolic outcomes in women with and at risk for HIV. Poster presented at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

The theme of this issue of Yale Nurse complements the overall theme of Yale Nursing Matters—the depth and breadth of YSN’s academics. Yale Nurses never stop learning. “I Am a Yale Nurse” features Serena Cherry Flaherty ’99, YSN ’06,, who graduated from YSN and Yale College and continues to find ways to reinvent herself, using the skills she learned in both Yale settings.

The art of mentoring is entwined with the love of learning, and—in Dorothy Sexton’s case—with yellow sticky notes. The embodiment of mentoring was Dorothy Sexton, EdD, RN, a long-standing YSN professor who died several years ago. Her legacy is articulated by Luc Pelletier ’82 and several other alums in a moving tribute (pg. 33).

Creative writing among YSN students is nothing new, but it’s always exciting. The annual Creative Writing Awards are well known in the Yale community and attract writers of national note to judge the outstanding works by new student nurses. But what happens to these voices when the students graduate?

Do they stop writing? We hope not!

Sherrie Page Najarian ’94 invites YSN alumnae/i to join in the creative writing experience by contributing short stories of their nursing experiences for publication in Yale Nurse (pg. 32). We encourage you to find your own voice and put pen to paper. Send your personal essays to snajarian@comcast.net.

From Maine to Hawaii, Japan to Zambia, Italy to Guam, YSN alums are making their mark. The growing Class News section features some wonderful announcements about marriages, babies, revitalized careers, and new publications.

While you’re reading about your fellow alums, take the time to send your own news and photos to elizabeth.roscher@yale.edu.

In the Donor Profile (pg. 19), who better to feature than Herb Pearce? His contributions to the Margaret Perry Pearce ’45 Scholarship Fund support many talented YSN students, who, he believes, are doing nothing short of changing the world. He matches his confidence in these scholarship recipients with renewed commitment to supporting YSN every year.

What’s your connection with YSN? What keeps you interested—or not? YSN Alumnae/i Association President Bethany Golden ’03 invites you to open the dialogue and give her feedback about your experience as a YSN alum (pg. 35).

Contents I Am a Yale Nurse 29 What Does It Mean 32 to Be a Yale Nurse?

On Mentoring 33 In Memoriam 33 Class News 34 Alumnae/i Board News 35 Commencement 36 Reunion 38

YaleNurse an alumnae/i publication of yale university school of nursing

Serena Cherry Flaherty ’99, YSN ’06

i am a yale nurse

by karla a. knight ’77

(Yale)2 In more ways than one, Serena Cherry Flaherty is a Yale graduate and alumna. Not only did she graduate from YSN’s Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program in 2006, she also graduated from Yale College in 1999 with a degree in American Studies. In this interview, we asked Serena about being a “double” Yale grad. yale nurse: What made you decide to come back to Yale for your nursing education? serena cherry flaherty: When I was considering nursing programs, I limited my search to the East Coast for personal reasons. Honestly, I think it was my familiarity with Yale and with New Haven that in the end guided me to choose YSN over other programs. My positive experience as a college student at Yale was certainly a factor in choosing to return to New Haven. The reputation of the nursing school also was part of my decision. yn: How did you use your knowledge of Yale College and New Haven while you were at YSN? scf: Having already lived for four years in New Haven, I think it was easy for me to feel at

home when I returned to New Haven to go to YSN. Community service is a huge part of undergraduate life at Yale, so I had gotten to know New Haven beyond Yale, and that helped me a lot in terms of feeling comfortable very quickly getting out into the community.

On a practical note, it was easy to know where I wanted to live, and I was comfortable using Yale’s buildings, particularly the gym and the library. yn: Did you know about YSN when you attended Yale College or was it later that you discovered it? scf: Even though YSN is just down the street, I had no idea Yale had a nursing school.

When I decided to attend YSN and told my Yale College friends I was going back to Yale for nursing school, I was met repeatedly with, “I didn’t know Yale had a nursing school.” yn: What would you tell Yale College undergrads now about YSN? scf: I think that nursing needs to be part of the discourse not just at Yale College, but in any higher education environment. Among

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As an undergrad, Flaherty (pictured at front, in 1998) rowed in the Yale Crew Varsity boat.

Flaherty graduated from YSN as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 2006.

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graduating seniors who were thinking about next steps, on-campus recruiting for banking and consulting jobs and law, medical, or PhD graduate programs were the only areas that were talked about. As a result, when I decided I wanted to work in health care, I started out on a track to go to medical school by enrolling in a postbaccalaureate premedical program. It was only after I got away from Yale and into my own life that I found my way to the nursing field. yn: How did your friends and family respond to your decision to go to YSN? scf: It felt like a very lonely decision, and I can’t say I was met with a lot of encouragement from my friends. Among my peers from Yale College, nursing has a very narrow scope—it is hospital floor nursing, and floor nursing only.

There is no appreciation for the excitement around the diversity of the profession in terms of roles, scope of practice, and work environment. At the risk of being too truthful, most of my friends from college do not view nursing as a desirable or particularly exceptional professional choice. It is viewed, again in general, as second fiddle to the role of the doctor rather than as a complement in a dynamic health care environment.

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yn: How would you recommend that current YSN students become connected with the greater Yale community? scf: With respect to the larger Yale community, the experience at YSN can be isolating.

Geographically, it’s not quite on the medical campus, nor is it near any other graduate and professional schools. I would encourage YSN students not to limit their experiences to the YSN building, and to go to as many graduate school events as possible. They might even reciprocate as hosts so that the presence of YSN students will be felt at the university level, to make it easier to connect with and be a part of the Yale experience. Perhaps YSN could arrange an open house with Yale College career services.

YSN students and faculty could present at a master’s tea in one of the residential colleges in an effort not only to educate undergraduates about nursing, but also to give YSN a bit more of a presence on campus. yn: What have you done with your “double” Yale education? scf: After graduation from YSN, I worked at Fair Haven Community Health Center in New Haven as a pediatric nurse practitioner doing full-scope primary care pediatrics.

I relocated to New York for my husband’s job,

and I am now going through a bit of a transition period out of full-time clinical work and into more of a public health role. Currently, I am consulting for the New York City Department of Health in the Bureau of Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health in the Healthy Teens Initiative, a program that addresses teen pregnancy prevention and access to adolescent health services in low-income communities.

I am also working as a nurse practitioner at the Door Adolescent Health Center in New York, a clinic committed to providing confidential health care services to young people ages 12 to 21. We’ll see what’s next as I piece together work in adolescent health, but I have no doubt that both my Yale College and YSN experiences will lead to an exciting next step. yn: Have you stayed connected with Yale and YSN? scf: Yes. Since graduation from Yale College, I have been active in the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), and through people I met doing community service while at Yale, I am now working on a Yale alumni task force for Newark Mayor Booker’s office to address juvenile justice reform in Newark, NJ. The Yale alumni network has been a great opportunity to experience Yale in a more interdisciplinary way than I ever did when I was at Yale College or YSN. I try to get involved in as many alumni experiences as possible, and they are plentiful in NYC. And I also stay in touch with many friends and classmates from both Yale College and YSN. yn: How does saying “I am a Yale Nurse” resonate with you? scf: My recent transition out of direct clinical care has given me time to reflect about my role in nursing. In some ways I feel as though I am leaving behind nursing in the traditional sense.

However, I think what is really happening is that I am finding the courage to be the Yale Nurse that YSN faculty talked about during the very first day of orientation. Being a Yale Nurse is about finding experiences to make health care better for the population we focus on, whether that is in the clinical setting, academics, or the public health and policy fields. All of these opportunities are informed by my experience as a Yale Nurse. I am proud of my YSN education and experience, and I am excited to see what the future holds.

Karla A. Knight ’77 practiced as a PNP for many years. She is now a full-time writer and co-author of two books with YSN Associate Professor Ivy Alexander. She has advised on Yale Nursing Matters since 2005.

Spreading the Word About Nursing

Angela Kühne (left), YSN’s Director of Admissions, meeting with Kristin McJunkins, Director of the Health Professions Advisory Program for Yale College.

“What draws students to YSN is the focus on holistic, patient-centered care. Yes, they also want autonomy of practice and prescriptive authority, but most of all they want the freedom to spend time with their patients.”

Angela Kühne, Director of Admissions at YSN, loves to share the benefits of advanced practice nursing education with undergrads from Yale and other Ivies. “I have learned that people come to the advanced practice role after careful consideration,” Angela commented. “What draws students to YSN is the focus on holistic, patient-centered care. Yes, they also want autonomy of practice and prescriptive authority, but most of all they want the freedom to spend time with their patients.”

She reports a common thread among Ivy League applicants: most seeking a clinical career had planned to become an MD, and careers as nurse practitioners or midwives were never discussed on campus. Some were just days away from accepting a medical school admissions offer when they decided on graduate nursing.

For some, the decision is perplexing to their families.

“One student told me that her family asked her about going to medical school even after she completed her first year at YSN,” Angela added.

In recent years, Angela has made a concerted effort to spread the word about the value and benefit of a master’s in nursing. “Recently, I’ve been to Harvard and Brown, holding joint information sessions with the Yale School of Public Health. At Cornell, we hosted an information session comparing advanced practice nursing with their physician assistant department,” she reported. She also attended the New England Health Professions Fair for students of the Ivies and surrounding schools like Connecticut College, Wesleyan, and Trinity, hosted by Yale.

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what does it mean to be a yale nurse?

Lifelong Learning by sherrie page najarian, ysn ’94

Sherrie Page Najarian ’94 holds a six-week old infant brought to the health tent for a checkup during the Yale Alumni Association’s Service Trip to Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2009.

When I embarked on the spring 2009 Yale Alumni Association service trip to Mexico, it had been a long time since I thought of myself as a Yale Nurse.

I graduated from YSN in 1994, excited to be a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and help people with schizophrenia. However, at graduation I found myself five months pregnant, and four months later, when I held my perfect newborn in my arms, my focus changed.

For two years, my heart ached as I worked full-time at the VA to pay back a tuition scholarship. Every morning, I kissed my daughter’s soft forehead goodbye, gave her a push in the infant swing, and walked out the daycare’s door, my cheeks streaming with tears.

With the arrival of my son, I chose to stay at home with my kids. My family soon moved to Richmond, Virginia, where I used my Yale degree to breastfeed, change diapers, and read Goodnight Moon. Over the years, I added room parent, swim team mom, and expert carpooler to my resume. Often frustrated to imagine my colleagues out saving lives, I avoided YSN class reunions. It would take over twenty years of hindsight to realize that, during the times in my life when I thought I’d left nursing, nursing had never left me.

My love of writing began at Yale, where I learned from two professors emeriti: my thesis adviser, Donna Diers ’64, PhD, RN, FAAN, and psychiatrist John Strauss, MD, who organized an inspired writing group.

They represented two very different forms of writing: one meticulously researched and scientifically reported, the other based on the subjective experience of working with patients. I loved and appreciated both styles.

Although I went to Yale expecting to ride a ship of psychiatric clinical skills into my professional sea, it would be the experience of writing that would be my lifeboat, keeping me afloat.

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Throughout those rewarding but trying years of raising children, the love of writing I cultivated at YSN kept me from losing gray matter.

I joined a writing group as a social outlet and wrote during naptime. By the time I went back to work as a school nurse, I had published over 25 essays. School nurse/essayist wasn’t the career path I planned when I begged my husband to move to New Haven in 1992.

But I suppose that’s the point: lifelong learning isn’t always about what you’ve studied.

I am foremost a nurse. Everything I’ve ever written is seen through a nurse’s lens. The subjective/objective assessment, evaluation, plan— it’s all there. It just didn’t occur to me that I’d been practicing nursing while writing until two years ago, when I attended the YSN Creative Writing Awards. This annual event began in 2004 to celebrate student essays that articulate the privilege and art of nursing. I found nirvana!

The power of the narrative reconnected me with YSN, which then connected me to the university as a whole. I started reading Yale emails, which led me to this year’s alumni service trip. I traveled with my fourteen-yearold daughter to help a severely impoverished community in Mexico that lacked access to health care. In five days, our Yalie medical team treated 740 patients, including 279 children.

The satisfaction of this group effort made every cell in my body turn Bulldog.

Once home, I became active in my local Yale Alumni chapter and attended another YSN Creative Writing Awards, where I was again reminded how beautifully nursing’s humanto-human connection lends itself to creative expression.

This led me to an idea: to share our experiences in the pages of Yale Nursing Matters. Now I’ve come full circle, back to YSN to edit a new personal essay column. The student essays celebrated at the Creative Writing Awards represent our beginning as nurses. One can only imagine the richness of our tales after years of practice. Our stories help articulate what makes nursing significant, and remind us of the lifelong learning and diversity that is Yale Nursing.

Please submit personal essays to Sherrie Page Najarian ’94 at snajarian@comcast.net. There are no rules or preconceived notions of what it means to be a Yale Nurse, only an opportunity to share your experiences. Please type “YSN essay query” in the subject heading. Essays should be between 500 and 750 words.

in memoriam as of August 31, 2009

On Mentoring: Dorothy Sexton’s Enduring Influence

Eleanor Abell Hall (1914–2009)

luc r. pelletier ’82

There is no greater tribute to the enduring influence of a mentor than a student’s or colleague’s success. Dorothy Sexton, EdD, RN, served as a YSN faculty member and leader for more than 30 years. She passed away in September 2006. Throughout her career, Dorothy demonstrated a passion for and a commitment to her students and colleagues, mentoring and nurturing them.

Here we chronicle a few of those voices. “ Nurses are privileged to become acquainted with a number of extraordinary people as we travel along our professional journey.

Dorothy Sexton was one such person,” says Bernice Coleman ’83, PhD, ACNP-BC. “I can’t say I appreciated her greatness initially.

It sort of grew on me. As my second thesis chair, Dorothy always guided me along a path toward a vision that took me a bit longer to appreciate and even more coaxing to follow. What I saw was the command to retype thesis chapters many times over. What she saw was the outline of a worthy paper that just needed to manifest itself. Post graduation, Dorothy made good on ‘Listen, you call me if you need me.’ I often did. What I would give today for a yellow Post-it or her voice on the other end of the phone.

Now, I just sit still and listen.”

“Dorothy Sexton’s influence on me has been enormous,” says Erik Johansson ’99, MSN. “Her guidance during the writing of my thesis was invaluable. Our shared interest in the topic made the process rewarding and joyful.” Erik was greatly honored when Dorothy invited him to present his thesis at her retirement event at YSN. “In my present work I often rely on what I learned from her.”

Marjorie Funk PhD, ‘84 MSN, RN, FAHA, FAAN, was both a student and a faculty member during Dorothy’s tenure at Yale. “She was the most important mentor in my professional life,” says Marge, who profited from Dorothy’s willingness to open doors and push her to

accomplish more and more. After Marge graduated, Dorothy recommended she join the YSN faculty.

“She guided me every step along the way, and I have her to thank for just about everything.”

Donna Diers ’64, PhD, RN, FAAN, who worked with Dorothy as her dean, said, “Some people fall into mentoring or have it thrust upon them through the luck of student assignment or shared interest.

Not so Dorothy. She took every young faculty member, every new student as a mentoring challenge, and she had a ‘lesson plan,’ usually outlined on yellow lined paper with stick-em’s to capture stray thoughts.

For some, it would be exercises in teaching. For others, it would be writing assignments. For yet others, it would be a presentation at a national meeting or design of a poster project. There were no ‘teachable moments’ for Dorothy: every moment was for teaching, including teaching deans and professional colleagues. I know— I benefited from her generous and meticulous attention.”

A leader in nursing education

Eleanor Abell Hall, RN, MA, a leader in nursing education, died July 14, 2009, in Rochester, NY. She was 95.

Hall received a diploma in nursing from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in New York and a bachelor’s degree in nursing supervision from Teachers College at Columbia University. She held staff, head nurse, faculty, and administrative positions at the Department of Nursing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, the Women’s Medical College Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Hall then returned to Teachers College to earn her master’s degree in nursing administration.

In 1948, Hall accepted an appointment at Yale

University School of Nursing, where she served as nursing clinical coordinator, associate professor of nursing, and assistant dean of nursing for the next nine years.

In 1957, Hall was recruited by the University of Rochester, where she served as chair of the Department of Nursing Education of the School of Medicine and Dentistry until 1971. She is credited with paving the way for the university’s independent School of Nursing and for elevating the school’s educational standards and recognition to a level that matched those set for other academic departments.

She was a member of the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing.

Betty S. Hardenbergh ’38 2/3/2009

Priscilla B. Behnken ’47 6/5/2009

Marian Draper ’39 2/25/2009

Mary Pryor ’51 3/13/2009

Esther A. Savage ’39 4/11/2009

Marion Klein ’51 12/12/2007

Olga Louis Zagraniski ’42 7/11/2009

Lorraine M. McManus ’55 4/12/2009

Dorothy J. Cole ’43 3/5/2009

Ruby M. Jefferson ’56 5/23/2009

Patricia M. Curran ’46 4/12/2009

Martha E. Barden ’61 3/22/2009

Mary A. Burns ’46 4/13/2009

Barbara F. Sideleau ’70 4/30/2009

Mildred N. Peake ’46 6/30/2009

Joanne B. Parsons ’75 6/4/2009

Josephine Lutz ’46 7/16/2009

Carol Ann DiFazio ’95 8/27/2009

Luc R. Pelletier ’82, aprn, pmhcns-bc, faan, is a clinical nurse specialist at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital and core adjunct faculty with National University in San Diego, California. volume 10 number 1 YALE NURSING MATTERS

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Class News

Joan Edelstein ’75 moved to West Sacramento, CA, in July after starting work as a Senior Health Consultant to the California School Boards Association.

Peg Cushman ’76 received her PhD from UMass Boston in December, and has relocated to State College, PA, to join the faculty at the Penn State School of Nursing.

Dr. Cecilia Mukai ’76 is on the faculty of the University of Hawaii Nursing School. This year, one of her courses includes the challenge of getting RNs to obtain their BSN in her online class.

Cecilia is also very involved in her community, and was recently visited by friend and fellow alumna Carol Battin ’76.

A desire to serve low-income, uninsured, and underinsured people drew Margaret Flinter ’80 to join the 10-member staff of the Community Health Center in Middletown, CT, after graduating from YSN. Throughout her career at the Community Health Center, she has helped the center grow from a single location to 12 sites in central and southeastern Connecticut.

After graduating from YSN, Kathy Quigley ’80 went on to work in consultation liaison psychiatry for years, then developed and directed a psychosocial oncology department for a small cancer center in Rhode Island. After moving to Portland, OR, Kathy opened a small studio 10 years ago, Artspace, where she teaches process painting. Process painting is a vehicle to explore creativity, itself a healing force, which embodies mindfulness, moment-by-moment awareness of stories and beliefs that block our path. Kathy’s journey with process painting allows her to reimagine new ways of supporting people, and it has deepened her trust in her intuition and in each moment.

Kate Mitcheom ’81, Priscilla Jencks ’89, Sherry Rinell ’90, and Laura Sundstrom ’05, as part of the Fair Haven Midwifery Group, were given the 2009 Women’s Health Heroes Award from Our Bodies, Ourselves for tending to women’s healthcare needs.

Deb Chyun ’82 wrote the lead article in the April 15, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, entitled “Cardiac Outcomes After Screening for Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.”

Jocelyn Bessette Gorlin ’84 worked at Children’s Hospital Boston for 10 years, where she helped to start the Boston Hemophilia Center.

Six years ago, she moved with her husband, Jed Gorlin ’84 MED, and their three lovely daughters to Minneapolis, MN, and works part time at the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Program. Jocelyn has been very active in the World Federation of Hemophilia and has traveled extensively to help hemophilia programs around the world.

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Susan Fekety ’84 is the 2009 recipient of the Maine Association of Certified Nurse Midwives Excellence in Midwifery and Women’s Health Award. She was recognized for her outstanding professionalism and accomplishments in ensuring vital health care services are provided to the people of Maine. Susan has authored two books, The Pocket Midwife: Affirmations, and Thoughts for Healthy Pregnancy and Normal Birthing.

She assisted in pioneering the concept of group prenatal care known as Centering Pregnancy and is one of the founding practitioners of True North: Maine’s Center for Functional Medicine and the Healing Arts in Falmouth, ME. Dr. Susan Michaels-Strasser, MSN/MPH ’95 lives in Lusaka, Zambia, as technical adviser for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. She provides technical support to a PEPFAR-funded prevention of mother to child (PMTCT) and care and treatment program supporting children and families in 300 PMTCT and 68 care and treatment sites. She works to increase the number of children enrolled into life-saving care and treatment, improve early infant diagnosis strategies, and develop counseling services for children living positively.

Jim Schwendinger ’96 is the team leader of the Epi-X program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. The Epidemic Information Exchange System is a secure connection between CDC and state and local public health staff in order to communicate about developing events, and has been very active in the CDC’s response to the recent H1N1 outbreak.

Jim stays clinically active by working for the Emory Department of Emergency Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Michelle Bettigole ’98, Executive Director of the Watermark at East Hill, was the top honoree among the Watermark’s thirteen communities, receiving executive director of the year status for demonstrating leadership excellence. Michelle was influential in creating a successful model for East Hill’s Watermark University, a continuing education program designed to promote brain and body fitness in people as they age. She also teaches a course on Human Resources Management at YSN in the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership specialty.

Kate Plummer ’99 has recently returned to midwifery practice after a six-year hiatus, joining the Claire M. Lintilhac Nurse-Midwifery Service at Fletcher Allen Health Care, the academic medical center affiliated with UVM in Burlington, VT. Kate previously worked in psychiatric nursing at the Vermont State Hospital, and taught psych and maternity nursing for UVM. Find her on Facebook at katieplum – she would love to hear from classmates she’s lost touch with.

Jody Esselstyn ’00 and her husband, Jeff, celebrated the birth of son George Canfield Aten in March 2009. George joins big sisters Edie, 7, and Sarah, 5.

The family lives in Charlottesville, VA, where Jody works periodically as an RN and does health screenings at local businesses, but mostly works as a full-time mom. At a recent soccer game, she was surprised to run into Elaine Alpern ’99, who recently moved to Charlottesville with her family.

After a 2-year wait in the pre-publication queue, an article authored by Michael Greene ’02, entitled “Diagnosis and Management of HPV-Related Anal Dysplasia,” was published in the May 2009 issue of The Nurse Practitioner.

Emily Haozous ’03 , PhD ’09, was hired as a tenuretrack assistant professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, where she started July 1. Emily will continue her research examining cancer disparities in American Indians, while teaching nursing students.

Tracy Webber ’03 recently relocated to Bushkill, PA, in the beautiful Poconos, where she accepted a position as a certified nurse midwife with Pocono OB/GYN Associates/Pocono Medical Center.

As of March 2009, she became the first midwife to obtain hospital privileges at Pocono Medical Center and was proud to deliver two healthy babies on that same day; they became the first infants to be delivered by a midwife in that hospital’s history. Tracy lives with her 19-month-old daughter, Noni Sarai, and fiance, Raven Williams.

On December 29, 2008, Rory O’Brien Carr ’04 gave birth to a baby girl, Dylan Sommers Carr.

Courtney Tamburello Hilbert ’04 and her husband, Matt, welcomed their first children, twin daughters Anaïs Ella and Sophia Regina, into the world on February 17, 2009. They have also relocated from Connecticut to Grand Rapids, MI, and would love to connect with any alums in this area.

Marie Bakitas DNSc ’06 is the primary author for the lead article in the August 19, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Marie led a five-year randomized controlled trial to determine the effects of a nurse-led intervention on patients with advanced cancer.

Board News

Sayaka Ogata ’06 is helping Japan’s movement to establish nurse practitioners as a profession and to expand the role of nursing in general. Sayaka presented at the board meeting of the Japanese Nursing Association and the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare in June, and she will be a keynote speaker at the Japan Geriatric Nursing conference in September. Though resistance to the movement remains high from both doctors and nurses alike, Sayaka is committed, as she believes NPs will improve accessibility to quality health care for the aging population of Japan.

Janel Drugge ’08 and her husband, Jonathan, recently gave birth to their first child. Elsa Jean Drugge was born on June 27, 2009.

She weighed 8 pounds 4.5 oz, 19 inches long.

They are thrilled!

Allison Kenyon ’08 married Daniel Trombly on October 4, 2008, in Meredith, NH. Allison works as a family nurse practitioner in Willimantic, CT, and Daniel is a systems administrator at Mohegan Sun. The couple resides in Norwich, CT.

As the new YSN Alumnae/i Association (YSNAA) president, it is my pleasure to write to you. After serving on the Board of Directors the past three years, I am excited to share my personal interests and our current work with my fellow alumnae/i.

I am a practicing nurse-midwife and a member of the YSN Class of 2003. I spent my first years of practice working in a community health clinic in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood. Now in San Francisco, I split my time between private practice and ICAS/Juntos Adelante, a nonprofit organization I co-founded in 2002 with fellow alumna Angie Rogers ’03 that promotes the just distribution of health, financial, intellectual, and artistic resources to woman-owned and -operated organizations in the developing world.

Along with Angie, I have spent six years precepting YSN students in Esteli, Nicaragua, where they learned about the challenges of providing health care in low-resource settings. Students assisted local health leaders in promoting integrative public health solutions for cervical cancer, HIV, and maternal health complications, designed to best meet the needs of the community.

Lauren Dutton ’07, Jessica Densmore ’07, and Meredith Turner ’06 (pictured left to right) have published their first book. A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery grew out of the “blackbooks” created and used during midwifery school at Yale. It is an alphabetized reference for all aspects of midwifery practice that fits in your pocket or bag so that it can be with you at all times.

Jessica Pettigrew ’09 is practicing midwifery at a birthing center in Tamuning, Guam. The birthing center was opened to allow women in Tamuning to birth in a home-like environment where their families can be participants in the birth (a central part of Chamorro culture).

The birthing rooms are often filled with relatives, buckets of fried chicken, trays of rice, and lots of laughter. Jessica just caught baby number 50, and is happy as a clam going to the beach, snorkeling, and enjoying life on the beautiful island.

Laura Kelley ’07 married Michael Kos on November 7, 2008, in Gaeta, Italy. They met while living in Hawaii and now reside in Naples, Italy, where Lieutenant Kos is stationed with the US Navy.

Dear YSN Alumna/us:

Jillian Kannengieser ’09 recently became engaged to Gregory O’Mullan. A November 2009 wedding is planned. Jillian works as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Neonatal ICU at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at New York-Presbyterian.

The YSN Alumnae/i Board has served as a critical link for staying involved with the institution’s vibrant community of educators and students. Please let me know if you are interested in sharing your expertise, reconnecting with the school, or reaching out to other alums in your hometown.

As I begin my term as president, I invite your feedback and suggestions about what YSNAA can do for you. It was a pleasure to meet so many fellow alums at Reunion in October, and I look forward to meeting many more in the coming year.

Best wishes, Bethany Golden ’03 President, YSN Alumnae/i Association bngolden@yahoo.com

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Commencement 2009 Yale University School of Nursing celebrated its 83rd commencement on May 25 with 95 MSN, 1 DNSc, and 3 PhD graduates

Karen McKeown leads the YSN students with the School’s official banner

Sara Baldauf-Wagner showing pride in her Nurse-Midwifery specialty

Tanisha Gant

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Maryann Davidson, Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc) graduate

Left to right: Ruth Calderon, Katherine Bickel, and Fabian Alvarado

Christina Martinez (left) with Assistant Professor Angelina Chambers

Chelsea Hoffman and Zach Feingold pin each other with the YSN shield

Angelica Lewis

Associate Dean Barbara Guthrie won the Annie Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching

Left to right: Lindsay Neptune, Kate Manuel (and child), and Kun Lu

Left to right in forefront: Penni West, Jessica Pettigrew, Kandree Hicks, Amber Harris

Jessica Helt-Cameron, Master’s Student Marshal and winner of the Shannon E. Richards Award

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Alumnae/i Reunion Weekend October 1-3, 2009

Ideas into Action: New Visions from Yale Nurses

Tara Walsh Malbasa ’06 drew on a passion for service to create an outreach program for the siblings of children with cancer

Matthew Browning ’01 is helping to solve the nursing shortage through his online staffing site

Judith Chessin ’93

Brian Geyser ’96 launched a social networking Web site for nursing homes

Nina Adams ’77, Mary Colwell ’50, and Tinker Barrnett ’48

Elizabeth Letts ’95

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Linda Demas ’89, Margaret Garrison ’89, Anne Aquila ’89

(left to right) Lisa Summers ’83, Elizabeth Cusanelli-Raccuia ’94, Mary Pat Lamberti ’94, Wailua Brandman ’94, Janis Bozzo ’96

Speed Mentoring connected students and alumnae/i, who shared their time, advice, and New Haven–style pizza. Christy Wilson ’10 talks with Pat Ryan-Krause ’81.

Lois Siebert Sadler ’79 Honored as 2009 Distinguished Alumna Lois Sadler ’79, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP, was presented the award on October 3 at the annual Alumnae/i Banquet held at the Graduate Club in New Haven. Sadler is YSN’s Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor in the Pediatric Nursing Practitioner Specialty. The following is the text of the award citation.

Recipients of the Special Recognition Award included (top) Linda Pellico ’89, (left) Rima Jolivet ’99, and Marjorie Wessen ’49. Marjorie was honored for 60 years devoted to strengthening ties among the Class of 1949

Deb Brown ’08 and Asefeh Faraz ’08, president-elect of the Alumnae/i Association, at Saturday’s banquet

Anne Hutchinson, Sylvia Metzler, and Jocelyn Gorlin, all from the Class of 1984

Clinician. Scholar. Educator. Friend and colleague.

The consummate clinician, her career has been dedicated to improving the lives of teen mothers and their children. For 30 years, she has provided parenting education to teenage mothers throughout the Greater New Haven community. She was instrumental in the development and evaluation of the Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven. With colleagues, she has contributed to the creation of a successful pregnancy prevention program for teens with negative pregnancy tests.

Scholar. Her practice informs her research. Her work has led to the development of Minding the Baby, an intensive home visitation program that incorporates ongoing research with multidisciplinary supportive services for first-time young parents. With her unique gift of bringing together a coordinated, interdisciplinary team, her scholarship has helped to improve the health of teen mothers and provide developmental guidance to assist young parents in understanding their children’s feelings, thoughts, and needs at varying developmental stages. She has earned the admiration and national recognition for her research, including the Children’s Advocate Building Blocks award from the Board of Student, Parent, and Family Services, and the Excellence in Nursing Research Award from the Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Educator. Since 1979, she has taught legions of PNP students.

She served nine years as Specialty Director of YSN’s Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program, and since 2006, has contributed her administrative expertise as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs.

Her gentle leadership and professional competence have guided hundreds of students to discover their calling as pediatric nurse practitioners.

Friend and colleague. She embodies grace under pressure. She is a mentor to her students and her colleagues. She is sought for her unique ability to listen, assess, and offer cogent, thoughtful, professional counsel. Her integrity is unquestioned, and her caring nature informs everything she does.

Her singular dedication to the education of nurses and caring for young at-risk mothers has impacted countless lives and has distinguished her among her colleagues. Yale University School of Nursing Alumnae/i Association takes great pride in recognizing Lois Siebert Sadler of the Class of 1979 with the Yale University School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna/us Award for 2009. volume 10 number 1 YALE NURSING MATTERS

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Save the date!

2010 Creative Writing Awards Yale Nurses Writing Nursing

thursday, april 29, 2010

With special guest

Christopher Lemmon Star of stage productions, feature films, and television series

Author of A Twist of Lemmon, a memoir of his father, actor Jack Lemmon

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Listening Is Not Hearing

A sample of the presentation of visuals and sounds for normal heartbeat and systolic and diastolic murmurs, developed for “Listening Is Not Hearing� by Thomas C. Duffy, DMA, and Linda H. Pellico, PhD, APRN. See the full article on page 11. To hear the audio related to the score above, go to http://nursing.yale.edu/listening.

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