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The CON nection GAMECOCK News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING Inside This Issue Students Corner ..............2-3 Alumni & Development...4-5 Faculty & Staff Notes.....6-8 NO LIMITS........................9 AUGUST 2015 Dean Jeannette Andrews Send Inquiries or Newsletter items to: Jan Johnson [email protected]www.sc.edu/nursing www.facebook.com/USCNursing - LIKE US! #UofSCNursing The Backbone of our College and Clinic Operations: Our Staff e USC College of Nursing continues to grow in our size, quality, national prominence, and stellar reputation. In our communications, our stakeholders often hear about faculty achievements, student news, and alumni updates. How- ever, this month, I would like to dedicate my message to our incredible 30 full- time and 35+ part-time support staff. Our staff are truly the backbone for our operations in the College of Nursing and the Family and Children Healthcare Center. While we typically have fewer fac- ulty and students during the summer months on campus, our staff are here every day. e staff are often the first to arrive in the building and the last to leave each day. During our very busy graduate orientation week in mid-July, several academ- ic staff stayed very late in the evening over several days to ensure a successful event for our incoming students. is is just one example of their spirit and allegiance. Our staff in our research and post-awards office, IT department, clinic, simulation lab, online learning, faculty support, communications, and business operations/ Dean’s office do the same during their “peak times.” Staff members in our College are innovative, bright, excellent problem solvers, and exceptional customer service providers. Our staff’s commitment and loyalty to our mission are truly inspiring! Were you aware that the majority of our full-time staff have worked at the College for at least 5 years? We have at least 7 staff who have worked here for more than 15 years, and one staff who has been at the College for 31 years. We have also hired several new staff in the last two years, and as we expand programs and initiatives, will be welcoming additional members to our team over the next few months. On August 4, I will further recognize our staff at our annual Staff Appreciation Luncheon. In the meantime, I ask everyone to please take a few moments and acknowledge our steadfast and committed staff! It genuinely takes a village, and we are honored to have a great team! Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAA Dean & Professor [email protected]
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The CONnectionGAMECOCK
News and Views from the University of South Carolina COLLEGE OF NURSING
www.sc.edu/nursingwww.facebook.com/USCNursing - LIKE US!#UofSCNursing
The Backbone of our College and Clinic Operations: Our Staff The USC College of Nursing continues to grow in our size, quality, national prominence, and stellar reputation. In our communications, our stakeholders often hear about faculty achievements, student news, and alumni updates. How-ever, this month, I would like to dedicate my message to our incredible 30 full-time and 35+ part-time support staff.
Our staff are truly the backbone for our operations in the College of Nursing and the Family and Children Healthcare Center. While we typically have fewer fac-ulty and students during the summer months on campus, our staff are here every day. The staff are often the first to arrive in the building and the last to leave each day. During our very busy graduate orientation week in mid-July, several academ-ic staff stayed very late in the evening over several days to ensure a successful event for our incoming students. This is just one example of their spirit and allegiance. Our staff in our research and post-awards office, IT department, clinic, simulation lab, online learning, faculty support, communications, and business operations/Dean’s office do the same during their “peak times.” Staff members in our College are innovative, bright, excellent problem solvers, and exceptional customer service providers. Our staff’s commitment and loyalty to our mission are truly inspiring!
Were you aware that the majority of our full-time staff have worked at the College for at least 5 years? We have at least 7 staff who have worked here for more than 15 years, and one staff who has been at the College for 31 years. We have also hired several new staff in the last two years, and as we expand programs and initiatives, will be welcoming additional members to our team over the next few months.
On August 4, I will further recognize our staff at our annual Staff Appreciation Luncheon. In the meantime, I ask everyone to please take a few moments and acknowledge our steadfast and committed staff! It genuinely takes a village, and we are honored to have a great team!
Over 250 new graduate students attended orienta-tion throughout the month of July. A special thank you to the stars of the Office of Student Services: Larialmy Allen, Cheryl Nelson, Gail Vereen and Heidi Waltz.
The Board of Directors of the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation has awarded a grant to the USC College of Nursing in the amount of $405,000 for support of Leveraging Mental Health Provider Access in Underserved Counties in South Car-olina.
Read THE STATE story and more HERE.
BlueCross BlueShield Foundation
Funds Scholarships
Dr. Tena McKinney discusses the need for more psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners in SC.
• WLTX STORY
• SC RADIO NETWORK
• USC VIDEOS: - UofSC nurses have ability to teleconference mental health services
- SC has poor rural mental health access - BCBS Foundation funds rural mental health program
Student Spotlight:Pearman Hayne, PhD Student Read it HERE.
The class of 2015 – 2016 Amy V. Cockcroft fellows met in June for their 2nd session. Dr. Joby Robinson of Joby Robinson Consulting, LLC engaged the fellows to explore their strengths and challenges as leader to help them build effective and efficient teams from colleagues that could complement the team. The discussion was very lively as Dr. Janet Krejci, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Illinois State University and for-mer Dean of the College of Nursing, explored and illus-trated through real life examples of how to use systems thinking to examine personal and system problems by in-depth “Why” questions about the current situation.
The application process will be open for the Amy V. Cockcroft 2016-2017 class in August. Please see the Amy V. Cockcroft website for more information or email [email protected] for questions about the application process.
The Office of Healthcare Workforce Research for Nursing at the USC Col-lege of Nursing and the Office for Healthcare Workforce Analysis and Planning in the South Carolina AHEC program office, recently com-pleted a study of the nursing workforce in South Carolina hospitals. The full study report can be found on the Office of Healthcare Workforce Research for Nursing website.
Read more HERE.
Graduate students in suture class in the Clinical Simulation Lab.
VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development
Capital Campaign Update
On behalf of Dean Andrews, Marilyn and Chuck Sonnenberg (Campaign Chair), Faculty and Staff, Partnership Board and CON students, Thank you!
Thank you to each one of you for your gracious support to the College of Nursing during this exciting, eight year capital campaign which ended June 30, 2015.
You have supported each of the Dean’s initiatives with your giv-ing: Scholarship and Fellowships, Faculty Development, The Clinical Simulation Lab and The Children and Family Health Center.
The diversity and amount of your giving has made an immedi-ate, positive impact on the CON students. With your generos-ity, we surpassed our FY 15 goals.
For the FY 15, the College of Nursing raised approximately $1.3 Million and the overall total raised in the campaign was approxi-mately $6 Million.
As we continue to announce and celebrate our achievements over the next few months, we ask you to continue your annual support.
We appreciate you! Thank you again for your support! We wouldn’t be successful without you! Visit https://giving.sc.edu/#thanks for more information on the campaign.
Director of Development
College of Nursing memora-bilia, a 1960s era uniform, a 1950s era cape, and a 1980s era cap are currently displayed at the McKissick Museum. The exhibit, You: Collecting What Matters, will run through September 5th.
Do you know an outstanding
College of Nursing Alumnus?
2015 NOMINATION FORMS
Application Deadline: August 31, 2015
I am Advocacy: Carole CatoImagine growing up with someone telling you what you can and can’t learn. Telling you what they want you to hear, even if it’s not the truth. Telling you to fear someone or something that really isn’t dan-gerous at all.
Such was the life of Carole Cato, and according to her, such is the life we’re all still living.
2015 BSN graduates, Senna Desjardins, Lauren Alexander, Allie Kraybill, have begun their careers in the Mayo Clinic New Graduate Nurse Residency Program, in Rochester, MN. These new nurses were leaders and burgeoning scholars while in our program and are continuing to take the lead by being part of this program. The residency is a nationally competitive program with opportunities to participate in excellent practice, leadership, and research oppor-tunities. USC graduates are establishing a reputation as frequent invitees to the program in recent years; with these new graduates, there are now five Gamecock nurse alumni calling this prestigious hospital home.
All Gifts and Pledges to support Nursing
can be sent to:
USC College of Nursing
1027 Barnwell Street
Columbia, SC 29208
Gift Processing
Checks Made Payable to the USC
Educational Foundation or at
our website
http://giving.sc.edu/
To learn how you can make
a difference at
USC College
of Nursing
contact
the Development Office
at 803-777-3468.
Save The Date Viana McCown Lectureship
November 13, 2015
Celebrate 15 years of our Clinical Doctorate program:
Dr. Sheryl Mitchell (with Senator Tim Scott) attended the American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly in Washington, DC from July 22-July 25. She participated in ANA Lobby Day on Capitol Hill where she met with members of Congress to discuss issues and challenges for nurses in South Carolina. Dr. Mitchell is President-Elect of the South Carolina Nurses Association, and the Assistant Director of USC CON Family Nurse Practitioner Program.
Are you or someone you know looking
for new employment?
View our open positions HERE. Ashley Maciaszek
Business Director
Welcome to the CON
John SuggProgram Coordinator,
Online Programs
Linda Wells, MA, RN, FAAN Post-Award Program Coordinator for the College of Nursing, received the Duckprint Award from the Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital/AFLAC. She was recognized for her signifi-cant contributions and support for the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital and co-founding CAMP KEMO.
Sigma Theta Tau International’s 26th International Nursing Research Congress San Juan, Puerto Rico July 23-27, 2015
PhD student and Sigma Theta Tau Rising STAR, Kay Lawrence, MSN, RN, CCRN, with her poster “An Inquiry into the Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Development of Clinical Judgement.”
Dr. Karen McDonnell present-ed “Living with Lung Cancer: Receptivity and Preferences for Risk-Reducing Behavior Change among African-American Fami-lies.”
Dr. Amber Williams presented “How transformational leadership is address-ing the rural nursing workforce.”
Dr. Amber Williams and Ann Scott presented “Challenges associat-ed with bringing a high fidelity simu-lation lab to a rural campus.”
Faculty Publications
Green CR, Cowan P, Elk R, O’Neil KM, Rasmussen AL. National Insti-tutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Advancing the Research on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fa-tigue Syndrome. Annals Internal Medi-cine 2015;162:860-865.
Felder, TM, Braun, KL, Brandt, HM, Khan, S, Tanjasiri, S, Friedman, DB, Armstead, C, Okuyemi, K, Hébert, JR. Mentoring and Training of Cancer-Related Health Disparities Researchers Committed to Community-Based Par-ticipatory Research. Progress in Com-munity Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 9.2(2015):97-108. Project MUSE. Web. 3 Aug. 2015.
Grants Submitted
Joan Culley, PI “Year 2 - Noncompet-ing Continuation - Validating Triage for Chemical Mass Casualty Incidents-A First Step.” R01 Non-Competing Con-tinuation from NIH/NLM.
DeAnne Messias, PI (Submitted through Women’s and Gender Stud-ies) “Women’s Well Being Initiative Arts-Based Community Intervention.” from Bonner Family Private Foundation
Grants funded
Kathy LaSala, PI “Nurse Faculty Loan Program 2015,” from HRSA.
Dr. DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias presented “The Navegantes para la Salud Primary Care Access and Naviga-tion Intervention: Role Conceptualiza-tion, Implementation, and Assessment.”
Research Spotlight: Joan Culley, PhD, MS, MPH, RN, CWOCN
Validating Triage for Chemical Mass Casualty
Dr. Joan Culley’s $2.5 million NIH/NLM-funded grant entitled “Validating Triage for Chemical Mass Casualty Incidents - A First Step” is designed to improve the triage process during chemical mass casualty incidents (MCI). Data from her previous NIH/NLM-funded grant indi-cated that there are currently no informatics tools to rap-idly identify the early stages of a chemical incident, pro-cess victims efficiently, nor make triage recommendations for victims of MCIs. The current four-year grant has been operational for a little less than a year and Dr. Culley has assembled a multi-disciplinary team that includes a bio-informatics computer engineer, a human computer inter-action scientist, an industrial hygienist, an expert in the development and use of complex database management systems, an expert in public health emergency prepared-ness, a chronic disease/environmental epidemiologist and a biostatistician.
Chemical MCIs are devastating due to the number of victims involved and the urgent need to assess how best to process and evaluate those patients needing immedi-ate care. To this aim, Dr. Culley and her team propose to use computer-based informatics tools to improve early chemical identification and to enhance patient processing and triage in the Emergency Department (ED) follow-ing a chemical MCI. The research team has compiled a comprehensive database that will identify victim signs/symptoms to develop a new triage process that more ac-curately and efficiently processes and triages patients in the ED following a chemical MCI.
The research team works with a community advisory committee and community informants to guide and pro-vide input into the design and testing of a new Emergency Department Informatics Computational Tool (EDICT) to accurately represent the integration of technology into the proposed triage process. Goals for the upcoming year include the development of the prototype version of the EDICT. Testing of the EDICT will take place in year three using a large scale mass casualty drill to simulate triage of ED patients treated immediately following the 2005 Graniteville chlorine incident.
Dr. Cristy De Gregory and Dr. Sheryl Mitchell participated in the Indiana Center for Evidence Based Nursing Practice’s systematic review training June 22nd - 26th. The train-ing prepared them to develop protocols, as well as conduct quantitative and qualitative system-atic reviews. They are now certified to conduct systematic reviews using Joanna Briggs Institute methods.
Congraulations to these faculty members on their promotion:
Kate Chappell to Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Tena Hunt McKinney to Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Karen Worthy to Clinical Assistant Professor
No Limits to our Teaching• First and largest BSN and nursing graduate programs in the state of SC • NCLEX and Nurse Practitioner Board Pass Rates exceeding both state and national averages • New PhD student fellowships and stipends• National and Internationally recognized faculty• Online graduate programs ranked #3 in the country by US News and World Report
No Limits to our Innovation • State-of-the-art Client Simulation Lab providing revolutionizing and quality education to students• Cutting edge research in health care delivery, cancer survivorship, health promotion, and vulnerable populations• 4th DNP program in the country, now provided online• Center for Nursing Leadership is leading state-wide action coalitions responsive to the national Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
No Limits to our Caring • The College of Nursing’s Children and Family Healthcare Center is the only nurse managed medical home in South Carolina• Our dedicated expert clinical faculty provide comprehensive healthcare to all ages of an underserved population• Over 90 scholarships provided each year to our students, with the generosity from our alumni and donors• Well established partnerships with health systems and stakeholders across the state
No Limits to our Scholarship• National leaders in nursing research with 86% tenure track faculty have externally funded research, 5 new NIH awards in past two years• Diverse portfolio of research funding from NCI, NINR, NHLBI, NLM, CDC, HRSA, Duke Foundation, & others• Two Research Centers: Healthcare Process and Redesign Center and Cancer Survivorship Center
