Paula McNiel Assistant Professor UW Oshkosh College of Nursing Email: mcnielp@uwosh.edu FACULTY VITA EDUCATION (Major Area of Study) Degree Year Institution Clinical Functional DNP 2011 University of Minnesota Minneapolis Nursing MSN 1991 University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Nursing BSN 1981 Marquette University Nursing PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Year Position _ 2015-present International Clinical Coordinator UWO CON Undergraduate Program 2013-present Senior I Level Facilitator UWO CON Undergraduate Program 2011-present Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 2010-present Consultant, YMCA of the Fox Cities 2008-2011 Instructional Academic Instructor University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 2008-2011 Consultant, Innovation Edge 2008-2010 Consultant, Visiting Nurse Association Neenah-Menasha 2006-2008 Professional and Community Relations Manager, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 2003-2006 Sr. Professional Development Specialist, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 2001-2003 Professional Development Specialist, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 1997-2001 Product Manager, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 1991-1997 Occupational Health Nurse Specialist, Kimberly- Clark Corporation 1987-1991 Occupational Health Nurse, Kimberly-Clark Corporation 1986-1987 Director of Home Health Care, Visiting Nurse Association Neenah-Menasha, WI 1984-1986 Public Health Nurse, Green Lake County Wisconsin 1983-1984 Visiting Nurse Home Health, Visiting Nurse Association, Milwaukee, WI 1981-1983 Staff Nurse Pediatric Oncology, Children s Hospital, Milwaukee, WI CERTIFICATIONS Year Position 1981-present Registered Nurse Licensure State of Wisconsin 2012-2015 Certified Basic Life Support for Healthcare providers by American Heart Association 2014-present Advanced Public Health Nurse (APHN-BC) American Nurses Credentialing Center (AACN) 1991-2001 Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) American Nurses Credentialing Center (AACN)
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES Current Course # _ Title Credits Theory Clinical 416 Nursing: Communities 3 X 418 Family and Community Nursing 3 X 703 Clinical Prevention and Population 3 X Health Level Facilitator SR I 3 International Travel Coordinator Previous Course # _ Title Credits Theory Clinical 105 Introduction to Professional Nursing 3 X 200 Growth, Development and Health 3 X Across the Life Span 205 Long Term Care 3 X 328 Research 3 X 415 Comparative Health Care India 3 X BSN@Home End of Life 3 X SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Grants Cycling Without Age research and program expansion with Lutheran Homes 2015 Of Oshkosh ($80,000). State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Quality Assurance. Submitted November 2015. Helen Bader Foundation with Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh for Cycling Without 2015 Age program expansion ($10,000). Funded. Namaste Care Program Research and Expansion. State of Wisconsin 2014 Department of Health Services Division of Quality Assurance F-00176 ($80,000). Funded. Educating Women about Programs, Benefits, and Rights under the Affordable Care 2012 Act. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women s Health. ($1,500). Funded. Classroom to Community: Memory Screening. Faculty Development Teaching Grant, 2012 University of Wisconsin Oshkosh ($9,500). Funded. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Aging Client Clinical. Northeastern Wisconsin Area 2011 Health Education Center. ($6,000). Funded Honors & Awards 2014-2015 MidAmerica Regional Public Health Leadership Institute (MARPHLI) Fellow 2015 College of Nursing UWO Professorial Excellence Award
2013 Outstanding Teaching Excellence Award: Awarded by 2013 Student Graduates of UWO CON MidAmerica Regional Public Health Leadership Institute Fellow 2014-2015 Faculty Speaker at UWO CON Pinning Ceremony-Selected by 2013 Graduating Students Geriatric Nursing Scholar-Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric 2010-2011 Nursing Excellence, Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Learning About Geriatrics (FLAG) Fellow 2009-2010 Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence White House Conference on Aging appointed Delegate for Wisconsin 2005 Leadership Fox Cities Appleton Wisconsin: Community 2000 Leadership Award Publications Refereed Journals (includes manuscripts in review) McNiel, P. & Elertson, K. (2015). Reality Check: Preparing Nursing Students to Respond to Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases. Accepted August, 2015 Nursing Education Perspectives, publication date pending. McNiel, P. & McArthur, E. (2015). What's app-ropriate for your clinical practice? The Clinical Advisor, 18(6), 80-82, 85-88. McNiel, P. (2015). Expand Your Leadership to the Boardroom. Geriatric Nursing, 36(1), pp.75-77. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2014.12.006 McNiel, P. (2014). Brain Fitness: A Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Approach to Older Adult Cognitive Health with Nursing Students in the Community. Teaching Strategies website for the Association of Community Nurse Educators (ACHNE), August, 2014. https://www.resourcenter.net/scripts/4disapi8.dll/4dcgi/members/its_topicalareas.htm l Westphal, J. & McNiel. P. (2014). Learn to Lead in the Board Room. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 45(40), 162-170. Collier, J. & McNiel, P. (2012). Public Health Nursing Student Project Database Evaluation: Impact, Utility and Sustainability Linking Education and Practice for Excellence in Public Health Nursing. http://www.uwosh.edu/phnursingstudentprojects U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kimberly Clark Corporation (2008). Assuring Healthy Caregivers, a Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-Aim Framework (Contributor). http://www.cdc.gov/aging/pdf/caregiving_monograph.pdf Taylor, J., & McNiel, P. (1998). Infection Control in Home Healthcare (Part 1). Infection Control & Sterilization Technology, 4(9), 36-44.
Taylor, J. & McNiel, P. (1998). Using Clean and Sterile Techniques in the Home Setting (Part 2). Infection Control & Sterilization Technology, 4(10), 46-50. McNiel, P. (1999) Reaching Out To Caregivers: A Community Outreach Program. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI. McNiel, P. (1999) Caregiving: Family Resource. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI. McNiel, P. (1999) Incontinence Care. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI. McNiel, P. (1999) Wound Care in the Home. Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Neenah, WI. McNiel, P. (1999) Skin Care. Kimberly Clark Corporation. Neenah, WI. McNiel, P. (1985) Health Care is on its Way Home. FORWARD League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. 64(3). Non-Refereed Journals Books Book Chapters Book Reviews Other Manuscripts in progress Four manuscripts in progress Citations of Manuscript in other studies Reviewer Manuscripts: Clinical Advisor Books Abstracts Current Research Geriatrics: Namaste Care, Cycling Without Age, Presentations Paper Presentations International Lunch and Learn! Reaching Out to Caregivers: A Worksite Community Education 1999 Program, Third Biennial International Nursing Conference National Regional State
Taking the Classroom Out on Wheels: Community Ties Bike Ride 2015 American Public Health Association, November, 2015 Chicago, IL Podium Presentation A Fun Assignment: APPropriate Teaching - The Use of Mobile Apps with Patients 2015 and Families Education Activity, Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, June, 2015 Denver, CO, Podium Presentation What s APP-ropriate for your clinical practice? Introducing the Use of 2014 Mobile Apps with Your Patients, National Nurse Practitioner Symposium, July, 2014, Keystone, CO, Podium Presentation Opening Students Eyes to the Impact of Poverty on Vulnerable Populations 2014 Health Care, Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, June, 2014 San Antonio, TX, Symposium Presentation A Fun Assignment: APPropriate Teaching - The Use of Mobile Apps with Patients 2014 and Families, Midwest Geriatric Alliance Nursing Meeting, May, 2014, Minneapolis, MN, Poster Presentation Boost Your Brain Power with Brain Fitness: A Memory Enhancement Program, 2013 National Nurse Practitioner Symposium, July, 2013, Copper Mountain CO Podium Presentation Boost Your Memory with Brain Fitness, 38 th Annual National Wellness Conference, 2013 July, 2013, Stevens Point, WI, Symposium Presentation Brain Fitness: A Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Approach to Older Adults Cognitive 2013 Health with Nursing Students in the Community, Association of Community Health Nurse Educators/Association of Public Health Nurses, June, 2013 Cary, NC, Symposium Presentation Planting the Seeds for Good Health and Good Food in Your Community, Wisconsin 2013 Public Health Association Annual Meeting, May, 2013, Wisconsin Dells, WI Symposium Presentation Classroom to Community: Memory Screening, Upper Midwest Geriatric Nursing 2013 Meeting, May, 2013, Minneapolis, MN, Poster Presentation Symposium Podium Presentation Use it, Don t Lose it: Getting Started with Brain Fitness, 2013 Aging in America 2013 Conference, American Society on Aging, March, 2013 Chicago, IL Podium Presentation Community/Public Health Nursing Students Projects Website Evaluation, Wisconsin 2012 Public Health Conference, Poster Presentation Translating Evidence-Based Interventions for Caregivers into Public Health Practice 2008 Anderson, l., Burgio, L., McGuire, L. & McNiel, P. Aging in America 2008 Annual Conference of the National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging
Community Partnerships Overview, Annual Health Services Conference 2007 Kimberly-Clark Corporation Creating Partnerships to Advance Public Health Initiatives, Centers for Disease 2007 Control and Prevention Leaders to Leaders 2nd Annual Conference Health Seekers and Activate America, Pioneering Healthy Communities Conference 2006 YMCA of the USA Creating Health Solutions for Health Seekers, YMCA of the USA General Assembly 2006 Incontinence Care Home Care Products ITV San Diego, CA Public Television 2000 Show, The Art of Caregiving Doing It All Without Being All Done In Lunch and Learn: Reaching Out to Caregivers Worksite Outreach Program, 1999 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society 31 st Annual Conference Reaching Out to Caregivers A Community Outreach Program, Visiting Nurse Associations of America 17th Annual Conference Lunch and Learn: How to Reach Out to Caregivers, Pennsylvania 1999 Association of Home Health Agencies Spring Conference Incontinence Care, Future Show Medical Equipment Industries Exhibition 1999 And Annual Conference Caring for You Caring for Others, Maryland-National Capital Homecare 1998 Association, Annual Conference. Excellence in Incontinence Care, Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses 1998 Society 30 th Annual Conference Reaching Out to Caregivers, Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 24th 1998 Annual Educational Conference Reaching Out to Caregivers, Consumer Health Care Annual Meeting 1998 Kimberly-Clark Caregiving Education Programs, Visiting Nurse Associations of America 1998 16 th Annual Meeting Reaching Out to Caregivers, 23 rd National Primary Care Nurse 1998 Practitioner Symposium Poster Session Lunch and Learn: How to Reach Out to Caregivers, National Association 1998 for Home Care Caring for the Caregiver, Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups Annual 1998 Convention Case Management and the Occupational Health Nurse, American Occupational 1990 Health Nurse Conference
Poster Presentations Taking the classroom out on wheels: Community ties Bike Ride, Midwest Geriatric 2015 Alliance Nursing Meeting, May, 2015, Minneapolis, MN, Poster Presentation Community/Public Health Nursing Students Projects Website Evaluation, Wisconsin 2012 Public Health Conference, Poster Presentation Expanding the Aging Client Clinical to Incorporate a Community Focus, 5 th Annual 2012 Upper Midwest Geriatric Nursing Education Alliance Meeting, Poster Session Professional Development Conferences Attended: Available upon request Continuing Education: Available upon request INSTITUTIONAL AND EXTRA INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE System University University of WI Oshkosh University Studies Program, Member University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Advisory Council for Comprehensive Academic Advising 2015-current 2010-current College of Nursing UWO College of Nursing Dean Advisory Committee 2015-current UWO Undergraduate Program Committee 2014-current UWO Undergraduate Program Committee Chairperson 2013-2014 UWO Graduate Program Committee 2012-current UWO CON College Committee 2011-2013 UWO CON Bylaws Committee 2016 Community Partnership (Federal Qualified Health Care Clinic) Community Board of Directors Weight of the Fox Valley Committee 2015-current 2013-current Professional Nursing Affiliations Sigma Theta Tau International, President 2011-2014 Association of Community Health Educators: Program Planning 2013-current Committee, CEU Lead Sigma Theta tau Eta Pi Chapter President 2010-2015 Wisconsin Public Health Nurse Association, Planning Committee 2011-current Association of Community Health Educators, Current Member Gerontological Society of America- Member 2010-2012 Sigma Theta tau Eta Pi Chapter Vice-President 2008-2010
Activate Fox Cities Co-Chair Community Wide Event Kick-Off 2008-current Sigma Theta Tau International, Past President 2014-current Association of Community Health Nursing Educators 2011-current American Public Health Association 2011-current Wisconsin Public Health Association 2011-current Fox Valley Health Professionals 2008-current Fox Cities Leadership, Leadership Board 2000-2008 Wisconsin Alliance for Family Caregiving, Board of Directors 2000-2008 June Allyson Foundation Board of Directors 1999-2008 National Alliance for Caregiving, Corporate Board of Directors 1999-2008 National Health Council, Corporate Board of Directors 1998-2008 National Women s Health Research Center, Corporate Board of Directors 1998-2008 Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Board of Directors 1999-2008