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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 SEPTEMBER 2015 Dean Jeannette Andrews Send Inquiries or Newsletter items to: Jan Johnson [email protected]www.sc.edu/nursing www.facebook.com/UofSCNursing - LIKE US! #UofSCNursing - FOLLOW US! Carolina Nursing Students are the BEST! As Dean, one of the highlights of my role is my interactions with students and observing their transformations while in our program. My first encounters are often meeting a potential nursing student still in high-school visiting the cam- pus with their parents. I am repeatedly told that after touring our campus, our simulation lab, and meeting our faculty and staff, the decision has been made--- “Carolina” all the way. Before long, we are immersed in move-in day, Freshman Tea, and then a heavy schedule with science courses, campus life, Student Nurses Association, Chi Eta Phi, Men in Nursing Club, and other extra-curricular ac- tivities. e freshmen representatives (in close competition with the Juniors) on my Dean’s Advisory Council are often the most wide-eyed, energetic, and inquisitive. In the first few weeks of Fall semester, the fresh “new” red scrubs and smiling faces of the junior students dot all around the College and campus full of antici- pation to enter their first clinical experiences. With their immersions in clinical practice, research/ scholarly activities, and community engagement work, our students begin to discover their own authentic voice as a future nurse leader. By the time our student’s reach “Senior” status, and finally graduation, one can easily see the confidence, competence, and professionalism of a Carolina nurse. It is so exciting to see our BSN alumni return home for graduate school. Perhaps a little more wise and experienced from their early career, they carry a different level of spark and inquisitiveness to improve healthcare delivery to their patients. Our graduate students are not only alumni from our program, but from nursing schools all over the US. Our graduate students “elevate the bar” with innova- tions in practice and discovery, and challenge all of us to lead in this dramatic change in health care before us. eir compassion, commitment, and desire to impact the nursing profession and patient care are quite infectious and inspiring. Yes, I may be biased, but I believe we have the best nursing students in the coun- try. e faculty, staff, alumni, and all of our stakeholders are behind you and your success. You are the future and we look forward to our collective journey. You make us proud! Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAAN 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/UofSCNursing - LIKE US!#UofSCNursing - FOLLOW US!
Carolina Nursing Students are the BEST!
As Dean, one of the highlights of my role is my interactions with students and observing their transformations while in our program. My first encounters are often meeting a potential nursing student still in high-school visiting the cam-pus with their parents. I am repeatedly told that after touring our campus, our simulation lab, and meeting our faculty and staff, the decision has been made---“Carolina” all the way. Before long, we are immersed in move-in day, Freshman Tea, and then a heavy schedule with science courses, campus life, Student Nurses Association, Chi Eta Phi, Men in Nursing Club, and other extra-curricular ac-tivities. The freshmen representatives (in close competition with the Juniors) on my Dean’s Advisory Council are often the most wide-eyed, energetic, and inquisitive.
In the first few weeks of Fall semester, the fresh “new” red scrubs and smiling faces of the junior students dot all around the College and campus full of antici-pation to enter their first clinical experiences. With their immersions in clinical practice, research/ scholarly activities, and community engagement work, our students begin to discover their own authentic voice as a future nurse leader. By the time our student’s reach “Senior” status, and finally graduation, one can easily see the confidence, competence, and professionalism of a Carolina nurse.
It is so exciting to see our BSN alumni return home for graduate school. Perhaps a little more wise and experienced from their early career, they carry a different level of spark and inquisitiveness to improve healthcare delivery to their patients. Our graduate students are not only alumni from our program, but from nursing schools all over the US. Our graduate students “elevate the bar” with innova-tions in practice and discovery, and challenge all of us to lead in this dramatic change in health care before us. Their compassion, commitment, and desire to impact the nursing profession and patient care are quite infectious and inspiring.
Yes, I may be biased, but I believe we have the best nursing students in the coun-try. The faculty, staff, alumni, and all of our stakeholders are behind you and your success. You are the future and we look forward to our collective journey. You make us proud!
Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAAN Dean & Professor [email protected]
The College of Nursing hosted a New Students and Parents Drop-In at the college to kick off the semester. Faculty and staff greeted excited new students as they toured the building. A huge thank you to everyone who made this event successful. Welcome Class of 2019!
Kelsey Thompson will receive the 2015-2016 IFS Smith Schol-arship Award. This award is for an under-graduate student who shows outstanding promise in becoming a helping professional for children and fami-lies in need.
Student Spotlight:Jackie Baer, DNP Student Read it HERE.
The following students completed an externship at SCDMH this summer The process is very competitive and USC students took 10 of the 16 spots.
Lauren Banton Carina Boyd Katelyn Broussard Chelsea Bullock Christopher Dills Inemesit Effiong Hannah Perry Lillian Rivers Sarah Robinson Jaleesa Williams
September 21st Healthcare Student Organization Fair
Greene Street 11:00am - 2:00pm
September 22nd Durell Hiller, MSF OBYGN
Russell House 7:00pm-9:00pm
September 25th – 27thParents Weekend
September 25th Commitment Ceremony WBB - Auditorium 231
3:30pm - 5:30pm
September 27th Sigma Theta Tau Induction Ceremony
WBB - Auditorium 231 2:00pm
October 2nd - 4th SNA State Convention
October 14th - 17th Homecoming Events
October 17th Homecoming Game
October 22rd - 23nd Fall Break
November 13th Viana McCown Lectureship
November 14th Cockaboose
We are steadily progressing in South Carolina to meet our goals in increasing the BSN nursing workforce. New updates from the 2014 licensure data indicate that 46% of actively licensed registered nurses in SC have a BSN or higher degree. A full report is coming soon from the USC CON Office of Healthcare Workforce Research in Nursing.
Cheryl Nelson, Director of Student Affairs, exhibited at the Vet Ready Resources and Ca-reer Fair.
Dr. Victoria Hollingsworth Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Rose Chevere Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Carolyn Harmon Clinical Assistant Professor
Joan Creed, MN Clinical Assistant Professor
Sherene Chavous Office of Student Affairs
Allison Toney, MEd Office of Student Affairs
Grants Submitted
Dr. DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PI (Submitted through Women’s and Gender Studies), “Providing a Second Chance for At-Risk Youth: Ongoing Sup-port for WWBI Initiatives in Lexington County,” Private Foundation, Lipscomb Family Foundation.
Dr. DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PI (Sub-mitted through Women’s and Gender Stud-ies), “Providing a Second Chance for At-Risk Youth: Ongoing Support for WWBI Initiatives,” Private Foundation, E. Craig Wall, Sr. Foundation.
Grants funded
Andrews, Jeannette O. (Magwood, G., PI) Subaward: “Novel Intervention Linking Public Housing with Primary Care to Prevent Diabetes – Year 2 Non-Competing Continuation.” Fed-eral/R34, NIH through a subaward with MUSC. Felder, Tisha. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Award (2015-2016).
Annie Lambert Director of Alumni Engagement
“I present my story,” says Dr. Karen Worthy, “which is quite unique — I was a single, teen mother from a low-in-come, underrepresented population in rural Chester County, South Carolina.”
Pinto, B.M., Stein, K. & Dunsiger, S (2015, Au-gust). Does a peer-led exercise intervention affect sedentary behavior among breast cancer survi-vors? Paper presented at the 2015 World Con-gress of Psycho-Oncology, Washington DC
Berger, K.C. & Kelchner, V.P. (2015). Relation-ship among High School Dropout Rate, Mental Health and Societal Competency [Presentation]. 9th World Congress on the Promotion of Mental Health, September 9-11, Columbia, South Caro-lina.
Tavakoli, A., & Boyd, M., (2015). Using SAS to Examine Health-Promoting Life Style Activi-ties of Upper Division Nursing Students one of the major University in South Eastern South Eastern SAS User Group (SESUG) September 27-29, Savanah GA.
Tavakoli, A., Custer, S. S., & Ni, M. K., (2015). Using SAS to Examine Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence among HIV+ Women. SAS User Group (SESUG) September 27-29, Sa-vanah GA.
Dr. Ronit Elk presented “Jews: Religion, Culture and Implications for Nurses” to the Blue Cross Blue Shield nurses for a Cross-cultural Training course.
Dr. Kathy LaSala has been chosen as one of USC’s 2015-16 PAL Fellows.
Dean Jeannette Andrews has been elected Chair of the USC Dean’s Advisory Council.
Dr. Laura Hein served on a grant review panel for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Dr. Sheryl Mitchell has been accepted into the AANP Leadership Program.
Erin McKinney and Kate Chappell (pictured with Jo A. Taylor, RN, MPH Care Improvement Specialist, The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence) participated in PART (Preventing Avoidable Readmissions Together) 2015 State-wide Meeting held at the Columbia Conference Center.
They provided a 2.5 hour session using stan-dard patient volunteers from the participants to simulate care of the patient with RDS (Respira-tory Distress Syndrome) and CHF (Congestive Heart Failure). The goal of this conference is to decrease hospital readmissions of patients living in facilities providing long term care. 350 people attended this year’s conference.
Research Spotlight: DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, PhD, RN, FAANProfessor and Director, PhD Program
Dr. Karen Worthy toured the Florence Nightin-gale Museum during “The Kiss of Light: Nursing and Light Therapy in Twentieth Century Britain” Exhibition and the St. Thomas’ Hospital in Lon-don, England.
DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, the newly appointed Em-ily Myrtle Smith Professor of Community Nursing at the College of Nursing, conducts community-engaged, community-based research with a focus on addressing health disparities among women and girls. One of her current projects is a 5-year, multi-million dollar NIH-funded R01 research initiative, the ENLACE project. The goal of the research is to evaluate a community-based promotora-delivered intervention aimed at increasing regular engagement in moderate to vigorous physical ac-tivity among Latina women in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border.
A current local project builds on Messias’ long-stand-ing community engagement and outreach through the Women’s Well-Being Initiative of the Women’s and Gen-der Studies Program. Funded by a USC ASPIRE II grant, Messias and her team are conducting an analysis of de-mographic, behavioral, and motivational characteristics of youth in the Lexington County Juvenile Arbitration program, including the 145 girls who have participated in WWBI-sponsored Arts-Based Community Interven-tion. The multiple data sources include existing Lexing-ton County JA databases, process evaluations from par-ticipants, and the artwork produced by the girls enrolled in the Juvenile Arbitration Program. Messias described this multi-level and multi-method analysis process as “in-volving comparing data on girls who successfully com-pleted the WWBI workshops with a random sample of youth enrolled in the Juvenile Arbitration Program who participated in other types of sanctions in the same time frame. Our assessment also includes analysis of other types of data, ranging from participants’ answers to open-ended questions on program evaluations and the content of participants’ creative works—poems, narratives, video productions, and graphic designs.” A secondary aim of the study is to assess the perspectives of educators, youth workers, law-enforcement personnel, and parents and their receptivity to implementing school or community-based ABEI programs for at-risk youth in South Caroli-na. The end goal of this research is to develop a replicable, evidence-based model focused on primary and secondary prevention among at-risk youth, both male and female, in South Carolina.
Faculty Publications
Dr. Tisher Felder contributed to the article “CP-CP’s S.C. Cancer Disparities Network publishes supplement in Progress in Community Health Part-nerships.” Read it here.
Dr. Laura Hein contributed to the the National League for Nursing (NLN) on Diversity and Cul-tural Competence for the NLN Report’s Summer Issue.
Dean Andrews and Dr. Cristy DeGregory participated in a year-long task force convened by the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health. Dean Andrews served on the Providers & Workforce Committee and Dr. DeGregory participated on the Access to Care Committee. A full report, Creating Direction: A Guide for Improving Long-Term Care in South Carolina, can be found at http://imph.org/
VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development
Save The Date Viana McCown Lectureship
November 13, 2015
Keynote Speaker: Marion E. Broome,
PhD, RN, FAAN Dean of the School of Nursing
Duke University
Celebrate 15 years of our Clinical Doctorate program:
From ND to DNP
Annie Lambert, ‘08Director of Alumni Engagement
Annie Lambert is the new director of alumni engagement for the University of South Carolina College of Nursing. She comes to the College of Nursing from the College of Information and Communications, where she worked as the alumni relations and development coordinator. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from USC in 2008 and worked as a freelance web and graphic de-signer and new media manager before return-ing to the university in 2012. In her free time, Annie enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, reading and spending time with her dog, Sadie. She can be reached at [email protected] or (803) 777-3752.
All Gifts and Pledges to support Nursing can be sent to:
USC College of Nursing1027 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.
Emily Collum Davenport, BSN (‘64) has passed away. She was amazing leader, great teacher and past presi-dent of the SCNA.
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
