InsidetheSchoolJuly09

Inside the School of Nursing:

June/ July 2009 e-news

PROFILES OF THE MONTH

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Which Faculty member took breaks from his academic career to become certified as a Major League Baseball Umpire and a bartender?

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/FacultyProfileoftheMonthJuly2009.asp

This staff member brings creativity to her jewelry business and her role as a life coach.

http://www.son.washington.edu/about/StaffProfileoftheMonthJuly2009.asp

Each month, Inside the School features profiles of a staff member and a faculty member. Do you know someone who should be featured? Please e-mail us at nscomm@u.washington.edu.

ADVANCEMENT UPDATE

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Helen Trez Buckland, a 2009 PhD graduate in nursing and program coordinator in BNHS, established the Mental Illness and Addiction Graduate Research Support Fund in honor of her doctoral committee, Karen Schepp, chair, and Frederica O'Connor, Ann Vander Stoep and Akira Horita, members, to support doctoral students (PhD or DNP) or master’s nursing students whose focal area of research is mental illness and/or addiction.

The School has received funds from a number of bequests from the estates of Hazel Hurst, Margaret Sucharski, Shirley Merril Warren and Stephanie Todak, resulting in about $77,000 for student scholarship support.

HONORS & AWARDS

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JUDY LAZARUS, senior lecturer, FCN, was awarded the American Council of Nurse Midwifery Foundation’s 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award. She was selected for her demonstrated excellence in academic and clinical education, research and clinical practice. The award will be given at the 54th ACNM annual meeting and exposition on May 22 in Seattle.

SoN IN THE NEWS

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“Student Nurses Learn Lessons in Community Health on Tribal Reservations”

Features UW nursing students DONNA NEAGLE, ANDREW MASON, and ROBIN EVANS-AGNEW

Nurse Zone, June 7, 2009

http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/more-features/Student-Nurses-Learn-Lessons-in-Community-Health-on-Tribal-Reservations_30064.aspx

“Some nursing students face 43% increase”

Features MARLA SALMON, dean

Seattle Times, June 6, 2009

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2009307255_nursing06m.html

Story also ran in: AARP bulletin today

http://bulletin.aarp.org/states/wa/2009/22/articles/some_uw_nursing_students_face_43_tuition_increase.html

“UNC Nominates Washington’s Swanson to be nursing school dean”

Features KRISTEN M. SWANSON, chair and prof., FCN

Triangle Business Journal, May 28, 2009

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/05/25/daily41.html

“Seattleite up for UNC Nursing Dean”

Features KRISTEN M. SWANSON, chair and prof., FCN

The News and Observer, May 29, 2009

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1546518.html

“Talking pill bottles aim to improve health, health literacy”

Features SETH WOLPIN, res. asst. prof., BNHS

U Week, May 14, 2009

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=49676

FACULTY

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LINDA TERI, prof. and formerly interim chair, PCH has been appointed as PCH department chair. Her appointment began June 1, 2009.

KRISTEN SWANSON, prof. and Chair, FCN, has accepted a position as Dean and Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Her appointment officially begins August 1. Dean Salmon has appointed PATTI BRANDT, prof., FCN, as Interim Chair until July 31.

DAVID HUGHES, information and software architect, TIER, and SETH WOLPIN, research assistant prof., BNHS, completed the Capital Peak 55k ultra-marathon Trail Run near Olympia on April 25.

A team from SON comprised of ARDITH DORENBOOS, assistant prof., BNHS, TERESA WARD, assistant prof, FCN, and JAMES OLIPHANT, former BNHS Budget Fiscal Analyst completed the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race (MOMAR) in Squamish British Columbia on May 23rd. The 30km course included Mountain Biking, Trail Running, Orienteering, Trekking and Bushwacking. It is the second year in a row a team from the SON has competed in a MOMAR race.

HILAIRE THOMPSON, asst. prof., BNHS along with two colleagues have been selected to present a session "Examining the Human-Technology Interface in Geriatric Health Care" at the RAND/Hartford CDI on June 17-19, 2009 in Washington, DC.

ACADEMIC SERVICES

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First Annual Nurse Camp
The SoN Diversity Awareness Group (DAwGs), along with UWMC, is holding its first annual Nurse Camp! Over 50 high schoolers applied for the 18 spots available. Nurse Camp is a day camp from July 20-24. It is geared toward providing low income and underrepresented high school sophomores and juniors an opportunity to learn about the profession of nursing. Students will be attending sessions at the SoN and will tour various facilities and meet with nurses at UWMC. Despite funding difficulties, DAwGs has managed to raise funds to run this camp, thanks to the many generous donations of SoN faculty, students, staff, and community members and organizations. For information about volunteering or participating, contact Carolyn Chow at egg@u.washington.edu.

School of Nursing students were honored on Friday, June 12, at 9:30 am in Meany Theater at the annual convocation ceremony with graduate student awards.

Award winners were:

ANDREW MASON, Distinguished BSN Achievement Award
Nominees included: JANE SILVER, SANDRA VOGEL

JULIE WARD, Masters Outstanding Student Award
Nominees included: MICHELLE MEAKO

CECILIA ROSCIGNO, Dissertation Award in Nursing Science
Nominees included: THONGSOUY SITANON, MARILYN HAMMER, LI-CHING LU, CHRISTINA JOHNSON-CONLEY, CHRISTINA CAPONE, LAURIE SOINE, TREZ BUCKLAND

TERRI WOLBER, DNP Outstanding Student Award

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

The school has welcomed several visiting scholars:

LIPING JIANG, dean of China’s Wenzhou Medical College (WMC) is hosted by ELEANOR BOND, the Susan and Michael Cummings Term Professor in Nursing. She is here through July to pursue research interests in wound care and health promotion through physical activity.

JING-JY WANG, returning visiting scholar from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University, is hosted by LINDA TERI, prof. and chair, PCH. Building upon work conducted here last summer, she is here until August to pursue her research interests in care and communication for elderly people with dementia and integrative therapies.

TING-TING LEE, visiting scholar from Taiwan’s National Taipei College of Nursing, is hosted by GEORGE DEMIRIS, assoc. prof., BNHS. She is here until September to pursue her interests in research methodologies for evaluating the outcomes of telehealth technologies implemented in long term care facilities.

Two visiting scholars from India’s Christian Medical College, Vellore (CMC), were hosted by ARDITH DOORENBOS, asst. prof., BNHS, for the month of May. BHARATHY JACOB, dean of CMC, consulted on educational audit systems and the integration of technology use into the curriculum. SUNDARI EDWIN, nursing superintendent at CMC, consulted on formalized preceptorship programs and electronic nursing documentation systems.

STUDENT AWARDS

DNP student ADA OTTER has been selected to receive the 2009 R. Hunter Simpson Global Service Learning Fellowship for her anticipated service learning project work in September in the Peruvian Amazon with the nonprofit Amazon Promise. She is sponsored by PHYLLIS ZIMMER, lecturer, PCH.

2009 CITIZENS OF THE WORLD SCHOLARS

Travel Awards were determined in a competitive selection process. Awards will go to KARA MOCHAN for the Citizen to Citizen Ambassador Program to Israel, sponsored by RANDY BEATON, research prof., PCH.; to three students participating in the Exploration Seminar to Guatemala led by CATHERINE CARR, assoc. prof., FCN: ERIN CUDNEY, sponsored by JANET CADY, senior lecturer, FCN; CAM HO, sponsored by MARTE HOFFMAN, senior lecturer, FCN; and REBECCA MARTINEZ, sponsored by MARY ANN DRAYE, asst. prof., PCH; and to three students participating in the Exploration Seminar to India led by ARDITH DOORENBOS, asst. prof., BNHS: ANN LIN, LISA SIEBERSON, and SIRI UNNELAND, all sponsored by ARDITH DOORENBOS.

STAFF

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SAC IS BACK! The Staff Advisory Council, or SAC, will host an annual summer event on Aug. 6, 2009, at Sylvan Theater (home of the UW Pillars!). This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow staff members and enjoy some summer sunshine. We will provide a BBQ (including meat and vegetarian options). This will be hosted as a potluck, so any and all dishes are welcomed. SAC will also provide field games, such as a three-legged race, the famous egg on a spoon race, and a water balloon toss to name a few. We will then end the evening with a big staff kickball game! More information will be provided within the coming month so stay tuned!

PROGRAM AND CENTER NEWS

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The de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Healthy Aging Scholarship recipients.

Scholarship recipients receive funds and support for research projects related to healthy aging and older adults. We look forward to hearing the results of their work at our Healthy Aging Scholars' Presentations and Reception in May 2010.

Please join us in congratulating these exceptional scholars and their faculty mentors:

HEALTHY AGING DOCTORAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP:

CHAO-YIN LI -- “Exercising for Health in Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease:

An Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews” (Faculty Mentors: BARBARA COCHRANE, assoc. prof., FCN and REBECCA LOGSDON, research prof, PCH)

HEALTHY AGING MASTER'S RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP:

DANIEL MOORE -- “Mindfulness on the Job and The Art of the 15 Minute Break: An Intervention for Older Hospital Nurses to Decrease Stress, Increase Retention, and Improve Patient Satisfaction” (Faculty Mentor: JANE CORNMAN, senior lecturer, FCN)

HEALTHY AGING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP:

ANN LIN -- “The Accessibility of Proper Vision Correction in Older Adults and Its Effect on Quality of Life” (Faculty Mentor: BARBARA COCHRANE, assoc. prof.)

ELIZABETH NELSON, research scientist, FCN, of the Center on Infant Mental Health, received a Royalty Research Grant. The grant looks at the development of the HPA axis, or “stress response system” in children who are entering foster care. A sub-group of 50 children enrolled in the NIH-funded Fostering Families study (PI's, Spieker, Kelly, Oxford) will be enrolled in this study as well.

CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION

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UPCOMING July 2009 CONFERENCES

JULY

July 16: Prescribing Scheduled Drugs: Honing Your Skills

http://www.uwcne.org/conf/PDFs/09149-C.pdf

July 30: Using Ethics as a Compass: A Model for Dealing with Complex Issues in Patient Care

http://www.uwcne.org/conf/PDFs/09124-C.pdf

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

DID YOU KNOW…?

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