Dean's Monthly Communication: July 2008

Message From Dean Woods

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This year, we celebrate another innovation: the graduation of our first group of students enrolled in our new Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Recognizing the increasing complexity of health care and the aging and growing diversity of our population, our faculty committed to create a program that would prepare advanced practice nurses with an emphasis on clinical practice, leadership skills and practice inquiry. UW School of Nursing faculty are among the first to offer this new degree, and the curriculum we developed is a model for schools across the nation. Our first graduates are true pioneers! In 2007, we admitted our first students who already had earned a master’s degree and were advanced practice nurses. We congratulate our first two DNP graduates, CHRISTINE HOYLE and SHELLEY D. MIKSIS.

They join the pioneers on our faculty who helped develop this program. Before we had named a formal curriculum group, the family nurse practitioner faculty had begun envisioning this program, led by MARY ANN DRAYE, asst. prof., PCH, and PHYLLIS ZIMMER, lecturer, PCH. Pioneer nurse practitioner MARIE-ANNETTE BROWN, the Group Health Endowed Nursing Professor in Chronic Illness Care, FCN, agreed to lead the formal task force to develop this program in 2003 and has continued to lead the DNP curriculum committee. SUE WOODS, associate dean for academic services, provided invaluable support for the DNP program approval, including presenting to a HEC board meeting. Marie-Annette will continue to chair the DNP coordinating committee through the accreditation process and will continue to be the PI of the DNP grant until it ends next year. SUSAN FLAGLER, assoc. prof., FCN, will write the renewal on the DNP grant.

It takes an amazing effort to launch a program that is new from beginning to end. My thanks to Mary Ann, Phyllis, Marie-Annette, Sue, Susan and all the faculty who have participated in the development of the DNP program.

-- Nancy Woods

Campaign UW: Creating Futures Update

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Betty (BSN ’49) and James (’45) McCurdy recently made a gift of $50,000 as a tribute to DEAN NANCY WOODS and generated an additional $75,000 in matching funds toward their endowed fellowship. The Betty and James McCurdy Endowed Fellowship was selected to receive a match though The Graduate School for $25,000 on top of the $50,000 match as part of the Students First initiative.

The family of former faculty member Pauline Bruno, who passed away June 7, has established the Pauline Bruno Scholarship Fund in her memory to benefit students at the School of Nursing. Bruno had a 20-year teaching career at the school, leading medical-surgical and clinical nursing courses.

SoN in the News

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Editor’s Note:

“In the News” is on the Web

Check out our new “In the News” page on the SoN Web site, with frequently updated links to media coverage of SoN faculty, staff and students: http://www.son.washington.edu/about/IntheNews.asp

“Working Dad: Back to basic training”

Seattle P-I, June 26, 2008:

Features PAMELA L. JORDAN, assoc. prof., FCN.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/368565_dad27.html?source=rss

“Pauline Mary Bruno, 1922-2008: Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at age 77”

Seattle P-I, June 16, 2008:

Obituary on former SoN professor.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/367239_obitbruno17.html

“UC Davis appoints Heather Young as associate vice chancellor for nursing”

June 16, 2008:

Young, who will lead a new school of nursing at UC Davis, received her master’s in nursing and her doctorate in nursing science from the UW.

http://media-newswire.com/release_1067933.html

“Good parents, bad results: 8 ways science shows that Mom and Dad go wrong when disciplining their kids”

U.S. News & World Report, June 12, 2008:

Includes JAMILA REID, co-director of the UW Parenting Clinic, and a mention of work by CAROLYN WEBSTER-STRATTON, prof., FCN.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/06/12/good-parents-bad-results_print.htm

“Program helps parents bond with baby”

KING-5 TV, June 9, 2008:

Features JEAN KELLY, prof., FCN

http://www.king5.com/education/stories/NW_060908EDB_firstrelationships_SW.16e8bc14.html

“Redesign flawed health care system”

Seattle P-I, June 9, 2008:

Commentary features Dean NANCY WOODS on the contributions of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and others in solving the primary-care shortage.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/366363_nursepract10.html

“Show, not tell”

Yale Nursing Matters, Spring 2008:

Profile of Yale alum CAROLYN WEBSTER-STRATTON, prof., FCN http://nursing.yale.edu/News/Publications/YNM/8_2/V8_2_pg24-25.pdf

“New study shows significant gaps in availability of hospice care”

AHC Media, June 2008:

Features GEORGE DEMIRIS, assoc. prof., BNHS, on the use of technology, including videophones, to better serve patients in rural areas.

http://ahcpub.com/hot_topics/?htid=1&httid=1923

Faculty

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KRISTEN M. SWANSON, UWMC Term Professor in Nursing Leadership, and chair, FCN, gave the keynote address at the International Association for Human Caring meeting in Chapel Hill, N.C., this spring.

CYNTHIA PRICE, research asst. prof., BNHS, served as an invited panel reviewer for proposals solicited by the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury in the area of complementary and alternative medicine.

New Grant Awards

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TERRI SIMPSON, assoc. prof., BNHS

Title: Nurse Educator Preparation for Academic and Clinical Settings

Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Administration

Abstract: http://www.son.washington.edu/research/grants/ShowAbstract.asp?ProjectID=1215&Refer=BNHS

GEORGE DEMIRIS, assoc. prof., BNHS

Title: Technology Enhanced Nursing Interventions for Hospice Care

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health

Abstract: http://www.son.washington.edu/research/grants/ShowAbstract.asp?ProjectID=1294&Refer=BNHS

CYNTHIA PRICE, research asst. prof., BNHS

Title: Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy for Women's Substance Abuse Treatment: A Feasibility Study

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health

Abstract:  http://www.son.washington.edu/research/grants/ShowAbstract.asp?ProjectID=1094

TIER

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TOM BAER has joined TIER’s web team. Tom’s many years of experience in instructional design, training and education will be a valuable addition to the SoN’s technology-enhanced and distance-learning efforts. Tom is a PhD candidate at the UW College of Education.

TIER deployed Office 2007 to all SONNET computers the weekend of July 4th. There are some “look and feel” differences between prior versions of Office and Office 2007. To help with the transition, we’ve prepared a website to get folks up to speed: http://www.son.washington.edu/computing/training/office2007/

TIER also will host twice-daily drop-in training sessions (10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m.) in T437A through July 18th.

Academic Services

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INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS

Please welcome JING-JY WANG, visiting scholar from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine, School of Nursing, who arrived in late June. She is hosted by NOEL CHRISMAN and LINDA TERI, profs., PCH. Wang is here until late August to pursue interests in transcultural nursing and alternative care for elders with dementia.

STUDENTS

The following students were honored with awards at Convocation on June 13th:

Outstanding BSN student: ANTHONY RICARDI (other nominees: Kirsti Boyd and Michael Nicholls) Outstanding master’s student: SHIRLEY TAYLOR (other nominees: Elisa Roth, Angela Mathis, Kristine Lavin and Elizabeth Perpetua) Outstanding dissertation: SHAO-YU TSAI (other nominee: Mabel Ezeonwu)

Summer quarter began June 23. Please welcome our new GEPN cohort of 48 students, plus 30 BSN students who already have begun their programs with an early summer start.

Orientation for new students will be held Sept. 22-24, 2008.

Mark Your Calendars

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The UW will host the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Clinical and Translational Research Boot Camp, from Sept. 15-19, 2008. The boot camp will offer workshops focused on transforming how clinical and translational research is conducted at academic health centers across the country.

Among the SoN faculty involved with ITHS are: CATHRYN BOOTH-LAFORCE, acting executive associate dean and the Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing; PEG HEITKEMPER, Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Chair, BNHS; MONICA JARRETT, assoc. prof., BNHS; and PAMELA MITCHELL, associate dean for research.

Continuing Nursing Education

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July 10: Advancing Gerontological Nursing — Innovative Approaches in Practice & Academic Settings http://www.son.washington.edu/cne/secure/display3.asp?SKU=08121-C

Aug. 1: Ethical Approaches to Disclosing Medical Errors: To Err is Human...

http://www.son.washington.edu/cne/secure/display3.asp?SKU=08124-C

For more information, go to uwcne.org or call 206-543-1047.