OFFICE OF THE DEAN School of Nursing Rugers, The Sae Universiy of New Jersey 180 Universiy Avenue Newark, NJ 07102 Nonprofi Organizaion U.S. Posage P A I D Permi No. 5287 Newark, NJ 07102 R U T G E R S S C H O O L O F NURSING S P R I N G 2 0 1 8 Caring for Populaions: Transforming Undergraduae Educaion An innovaive, new curriculum focusing on populaion healh is preparing sudens in he baccalaureae nursing program for oday s rapidly evolving healh care environmen. This course of sudy reflecs he undersanding ha healh care misses he mark when i is cenered only on reaing illness. Caring for paiens is as complex as he paiens hemselves, says Susan W. Salmond, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, execuive vice dean and professor. The revamped curriculum offers ools for srenghening boh he profession of nursing and healh care. A paricularly imporan emphasis is ou-of-hospial nursing, as care is moved increasingly ino he home and communiy. Rugers undergraduaes learn how o rea illness and promoe healh in he conex of he varied aspecs of people s acual experiences, such as lifesyle, culure, communiy, and healh care access. Bes pracices are adoped o improve healh oucomes across populaions of paiens. A focus on leadership skills highlighs he nurse s role on he healh care eam, which includes all sakeholders from paien o insurer, explains Maria Torchia LoGrippo, PhD, RN, co-direcor of he RN o BS program. Nurses mus know how o lead a he bedside, or wherever he paien is. LoGrippo and several faculy colleagues are leading he way in ransforming he curriculum. Among hem are Wendy Budin, PhD, RN-BC, FACCE, FAAN, associae dean for enry o baccalaureae nursing pracice, whose vision and suppor have been criical. Ann Marie P. Mauro, PhD, RN, CNL, CNE, FAAN, assisan dean and direcor of he Cener for Educaional Research and Innovaion, and Debora L. Tracey, DNP, RN, CNE, direcor, Cener for Clinical Learning, obained funding o develop realisic paien scenarios involving unfolding cases ha represen common chronic condiions among argeed populaions. Their $200,000 gran from he Rober Wood Foundaion s New Jersey Nursing Iniiaive, Innovaive Use of Simulaion o Redesign he Baccalaureae Nursing Curriculum o Address Populaion Healh, was key o he successful curriculum redesign. Impac of he curriculum redesign exends far beyond Rugers as faculy disseminae projec findings in he U.S. and inernaionally. n
Message from he Dean Rugers School of Nursing Evolves I s someimes hard o believe on Sepember 1, 2017, I compleed my eighh year as dean. Over he pas year, Rugers School of Nursing coninued is upward rajecory, evolving as a prominen cener of excellence in educaion, research, and service. Naional Rankings-Naion s Top 20 for Graduae Programs Once again, we secured high raings for our graduae programs. Our DNP program was ranked 19h and our MSN program was ranked 20h in he naion by U.S. News & World Repor, Bes Graduae Schools, 2018. Successful Program Accrediaion Our BS, DNP, and MSN programs received 10-year reaccrediaion from he Commission on Collegiae Nursing Educaion (CCNE). We also successfully concluded a fall 2017 sie visi for reaccrediaion of our Nurse Aneshesia DNP program by he Council on Accrediaion of Nurse Aneshesia Educaional Programs. Expanded and Enhanced Faciliies 1 C O V E R P H O T O : Tahmina Mojumder, suden in he BS in Nursing program, akes a break from a populaion healh simulaion in pediaric care. P H O T O S F A R R I G H T : 1. Dedicaing he Rugers Biomedical and Healh Sciences (RBHS) Souh campus a Camden Couny College are (L-R) Dean William Holzemer, Rugers School of Nursing; Chancellor Brian Srom, RBHS; Presiden Donald A. Borden, Camden Couny College; and Dean Gwendolyn Mahon, Rugers School of Healh Professions. 2. New School of Nursing faciliies a 120 Albany Sree include wo 110-sea, fully equipped classrooms. 3. Transforming he curriculum. Ganga Maha, clinical professor; Maria Torchia LoGrippo, assisan professor and direcor, RN o BS program; Barbara Cannella; clinical associae professor and assisan dean for enry o baccalaureae pracice; and Janice Aloi, assisan professor (no shown), are among faculy leading he shif oward a focus on populaion healh. We are building new classrooms, simulaion and healh assessmen labs, and office space, in our faciliies across he sae. In New Brunswick, we cusom-fied wo floors of rened space 20,000 square fee o accommodae our growing undergraduae program. In Blackwood, we officially celebraed Rugers Biomedical and Healh Sciences (RBHS) Souh a dedicaed building for programs offered by Rugers schools of nursing and healh professions a Camden Communiy College. Curriculum Shif o Populaion Healh Our cover sory focuses on he imporan ransformaion of our undergraduae curriculum o focus on populaion healh and primary care. We applaud our faculy s phenomenal leadership in idenifying he need and implemening his approach hrough school-wide collaboraion, research on bes pracices in educaion, and innovaive use of simulaion and oher eaching and learning ools. Alumni Excellence Our school s alumni associaion is a vibran and commied organizaion working diligenly o suppor he fuure of nursing educaion. Congraulaions o he eam for receiving he Ousanding Philanhropy Award from Rugers universiy-wide alumni associaion. Looking Forward There are many more accomplishmens I would highligh, if space permied. I s an honor and a pleasure for me o work wih our school s dedicaed and alened faculy, saff, sudens, and alumni. Togeher we have achieved a grea deal. Togeher, we will look o coninue his work. Sincerely, 2 3 2 William L. Holzemer, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean and Disinguished Professor
Celebraing Nursing Alumni Excellence A B O V E : Nursing Alumni Board 2017-2019 and Parners: (L o R) Awards Even Commiee Chair Cheryl Panini, Suden Engagemen Commiee Chair Eleni Pellazgu, Presiden Mary Anne Marra, Secreary Amia Avadhani, Vice Presiden Shanda Johnson, Immediae Pas Presiden Judy Caruso, RBHS Alumni Relaions Direcor Lisa English, and Alumni Liaison Kofi G. Polley. R I G H T : Alumni Scholarship Recipiens 2017: (L o R, from back row) Ariel Chun, Kelli Ward, Dominique Flores, Remma Garibian, Chrisina Thieu, Sol Muniz, and Paricia Meringer. B E L O W : Acceping Rugers Universiy s 2017 award for excellence in alumni associaion philanhropy are Mary Anne Marra, presiden, and Gale Gage, reasurer, of he nursing alumni associaion. C rowning a year of excepional service o sudens, alumni, and alma maer, he Rugers Universiy School of Nursing Alumni Associaion (RSONAA) hosed is annual Scholarships and Awards Gala for 2017 a he elegan Primavera Regency in Sirling, NJ. The even presened scholarships o sudens who will shape nursing s fuure and salued hese exraordinary individuals for heir conribuions o he nursing profession: 2017 RSONAA Presiden s Award Andrea Higham, senior direcor of corporae equiy a Johnson & Johnson, oversees he Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing s Fuure, a muli-year, $50 million naional iniiaive launched in 2002 o enhance he image of nursing, and help recrui and reain nurses and nurse faculy. 2017 Ousanding Alumnus Award Felesia Bowen, PhD, RN, APN-BC (MS 96), assisan professor a Rugers School of Nursing, is he François Xavier Bagnoud Endowed Chair in Communiy Pediaric Nursing and direcor of he Cener for Urban Youh and Families. A naionally cerified pediaric nurse praciioner, she is widely recognized for her research and advocacy for eliminaing dispariies in childhood ashma and pediaric oral healh. 2017 Rising Sar Alumnus Award Larider Ruffin, DNP, APN, ANP-BC, GNP (BS 07, MS 11). An adul and geronological nurse praciioner and cerified obacco reamen specialis wih Clover Healh in Alanic Couny, NJ, he is an assisan professor a Sockon Universiy School of Healh Professions. His leadership aciviies include his curren service as presiden of he Norhern New Jersey Black Nurses Associaion. Las year also marked an exciing milesone for he nursing alumni associaion iself, as i received he 2017 Rugers Excellence in Alumni Leadership Award for Philanhropy. The award, which recognized he RSONAA for ousanding fundraising success in he previous year, was presened by Rugers universiy-wide alumni associaion a an awards ceremony held Ocober 20 in New Brunswick. Key accomplishmens in 2017 also included he launch of he RSONAA Alumni Menoring Program, which pairs new graduae menees wih seasoned alumni o foser career success. The launch was suppored by a $1,500 gran from he Rugers Universiy Alumni Foundaion. The RSONAA Annual Meeing held June 10 a he Spring Brook Counry Club in Morrisown, feaured a keynoe speech by Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior advisor for nursing, Rober Wood Johnson Foundaion. The meeing also celebraed he conribuions of he ougoing RSONAA board of direcors and insalled he board officers and commiee chairs for 2017-2019. To learn abou joining he RSONAA Menorship Program, and oher opporuniies o become involved, visi nursing.rugers.edu/alumni, or email rsonaa@rugers.edu n Save he Dae! Alumni Associaion Scholarship & Awards Gala Thursday, November 8, 2018 Primavera Regency Sirling, NJ nursing.rugers.edu/alumni 3
D I S T I N G U I S H E D P R O F E S S O R L U C I L L E A. J O E L P R O F E S S O R M A R Y K A M I E N S K I Profiles in Nursing D T H R E E N O TA B L E R U T G E R S FA C U LT Y L E A D E R S M A K I N G MISSIONS ALIGNED Lucille A. Joel, PhD, APN, EdD, FAAN n Disinguished Professor, Rugers Universiy n Specialy: Psychiaric Menal Healh n Docoral Degree: Teacher s College Columbia Universiy n Honorary Docoraes: Villanova, Georgeown, Thomas Jefferson and he Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann universiies n Pas-Presiden, American Nurses Associaion n Auhor of Psychiaric Nursing: Theory and Pracice, Dimensions of Professional Nursing, and Advanced Pracice Nursing, an AJN Book of he Year winner n Fellow, American Academy of Nursing n Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine n Who s Who in Healh Science Educaion Nursing was here for me. I has provided a naural ladder o a rewarding and successful career. healh care organizaions. The broad arm of her conribuions has reached around he world hrough her involvemen wih numerous inernaional organizaions, including he Unied Naions and UNICEF, where she endeavored o preven he sex rafficking of girls. Her commimen o nursing speaks o he very naure of he profession. Nursing is rooed in inerpersonal relaionships. Tha s where nursing has been ahead of he pack. THE CARING IN EMERGENCY CARE Mary Kamienski, PhD, APRN, FAEN, FAAN, CEN n Professor and Founding Specialy Direcor, Family Nurse Praciioner Emergency Care Focus n Specialy: Emergency Care n Docoral Degree: Rugers Universiy n Founding Member and Fellow, American Academy of Emergency Nursing n The Dr. Mary Kamienski Scholarship, Emergency Nurses Associaion Foundaion n Fellow, American Academy of Nursing n Family Nurse Praciioner, Rugers Communiy Healh Cener n Inspired o become a nurse by her experience as a voluneer EMT in her communiy Almos 40 years afer arriving a Rugers, Disinguished Professor Lucille A. Joel, APN, EdD, FAAN, sill remembers wha i was like o join he faculy a Rugers. I soon realized ha a no oher insiuion would I have he freedom o ac or each as I wished. Joel would come o have a hirs for he universiy s disincive academic environmen. The mission and vision of he School of Nursing and he life and imes of Joel have mirrored each oher in many ways. An educaor, scholar, clinician, nurse leader, innovaor, public servan a he local, sae and inernaional level, and unfailing advocae for nurses and paiens around he world, Joel has consisenly led he way o excellence for ohers as she fulfilled her own commimen o nursing. An advanced pracice nurse specializing in psychiaric menal healh, Joel has been a champion for pos-baccalaureae opporuniies in nursing and a devoed leader of many nursing and Nohing has defined me more han being par of he dynamic evoluion of emergency care in nursing pracice and educaion. Mary Kamienski, PhD, APRN, FAEN, FAAN, CEN, was he moher of wo young children when she sared classes a her local communiy college o become a regisered nurse. Earning her diploma in nursing in 1976 was he firs sep on a disinguished pah of a lifeime of achievemen in nursing. I never ges old, said Kaminski. I am as passionae abou nursing as I was he firs day ha I 4
C L I N I C A L P R O F E S S O R E D N A C A D M U S isincion K E Y C O N T R I B U T I O N S T O N U R S I N G sared. The professor s pracice has included 27 years as an emergency nurse, experience in saff and managemen posiions in various seings, ousanding service as a scholar and educaor, and recogniion by many professional organizaions. This nurse s nurse has winessed much change in emergency nursing, and embraced i. I s no jus abou he immediacy of he siuaion. The curren healh care landscape demands we are far more specialized, and commied o paiencenered care, paien saisfacion, and he bes qualiy care for each healh care dollar. Her desire o be par of emergency care is he foundaion for her exemplary dedicaion o nursing. Menoring and eaching nurses who wish o advance hemselves in he field of emergency nursing are aciviies near and dear o her hear. A pioneer in advanced pracice nursing and emergency nursing, Kamienski is he founder and specialy direcor of he Family Nurse Praciioner in Emergency Care program, only one of many posiions hrough which she has generously shared her experise, successfully preparing ohers for he field ha has been he cenerpiece of her pracice and career. FROM RISING STAR TO INSPIRING LEADER Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN n Clinical Professor and Specialy Direcor, Nursing Leadership program n Specialy: Nursing Workforce Developmen across he Healh Care Coninuum n Docoral Degree: Adelphi Universiy n Co-lead of he New Jersey Acion Coaliion, wih iniiaives including a long-erm care nurse residency pilo funded by $1.6 million for he Ceners for Medicare and Medicaid. n Principal Invesigaor, School Nurse Healh Leadership program gran funded by New Jersey Healh Iniiaives n Led Englewood Hospial and Medical Cener o receive ANCC Magne Recogniion TM hree imes n Chair, Commission on Pahway o Excellence, American Nurses Credenialing Cener n Lifeime Achievemen Award, Organizaion of Nurse Leaders, New Jersey I moved from acue care o academe for new challenges and new ways o conribue o paien care. More ime for research, scholarly pursuis, and eaching and menoring my fellow nurses is enriching my pracice as a nurse. If nursing is a sacred calling, hen Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, has lisened well. Drawn o he profession as a youngser, Cadmus iniially decided on a specialy in nursing educaion, bu her career ook an unexpeced urn. Wihin a shor ime afer becoming a nurse, Cadmus was offered her firs leadership posiion a a medical cener in New York Ciy. By he ime she lef hospial life in 2010 o esablish he School of Nursing s inaugural leadership rack program, his railblazer had risen o serve as vice presiden for paien care services and nursing a Englewood Hospial and Medical Cener, Englewood, New Jersey. As a saewide and naional leader, Cadmus has been influenial in myriad seings. She is widely recognized for her excepional abiliy o inspire nurses from he bedside o he boardroom o use heir capaciy for leadership o ransform healh care. I canno emphasize enough, especially o my sudens, one of he mos precious principles of nursing every nurse is a leader. Cadmus is execuive direcor of he New Jersey Collaboraing Cener for Nursing, he sae s leading auhoriy on nursing workforce issues. As co-lead of he New Jersey Acion Coaliion, she is implemening he direcives of he landmark Fuure of Nursing repor by he Insiue of Medicine, one of he mos prominen repors of is kind. A he forefron of he effor o advance ou-of-hospial nursing, Cadmus and Rugers faculy colleagues recenly auhored Developing a Residency in Pos-Acue Care, a far-reaching volume expeced o become a go-o book for nurse leaders naionwide. Her leadership a he naional level also includes her work wih he American Nurses Credenialing Cener s Commission on Pahway o Excellence, where she was eleced as chair for a wo-year erm beginning January 2018. n 5
L E F T : 1. They ve go each oher s backs lierally. Baccalaureae sudens Aasha Meha (fron) and Rebecca Colinco compee a parner aciviy a he Rugers School of Nursing Suden Leadership Rerea held spring 2017 a he Cook Campus Suden Cener, Rugers Universiy- New Brunswick. B E L O W : 2. From lef, Rebecca John, Jessie Wang, Ariel Chun, Jessica Vizcarra, and Pak Chau were among he more han 80 undergraduae and advanced degree sudens paricipaing in a Rugers School of Nursing Suden Leadership Rerea held fall 2017 a he Livingson Campus Cener, Rugers Universiy-New Brunswick. Fuure Nurses. Fu Engaging Sudens for Nursing Leadership 6 W ih heir demanding schedules of classroom, lab, and clinical experiences, and high academic achievemen goals, i s a wonder ha Rugers School of Nursing sudens have ime for anyhing else. Ye, many are acive in suden groups, serve as voluneers inside and ouside he universiy, and play key roles in communiy service programs benefiing some of New Jersey s mos vulnerable populaions. Our sudens are phenomenal, says Mehap Ferrazzano, MSW, assisan dean for suden engagemen. Their commimen o supporing heir peers, ousanding school spiri, and heir dedicaion o preparing hemselves for excellence in paien care bodes exremely well for he fuure of nursing. We are honored o work wih hese aspiring and accomplished nurse leaders. The Office of Suden Engagemen offers a wide range of opporuniies for sudens o boos heir leadership skills, srenghen heir connecions wih peers and faculy, and posiively conribue o he life of he school. We srive o provide our sudens and communiy wih memorable and ransformaive co-curricular experiences, which will suppor hem during and afer heir ime a Rugers, says Ferrazzano. Of course, fun imes are an imporan par of he equaion. Recenly implemened suden engagemen iniiaives include a Talks wih he Dean informal conversaion series and a Wellness Monh program feauring a full calendar of evens such as pe herapy sessions. In addiion o a career fair and resume criique sessions, Career Developmen Week offered free porrais o sudens for heir LinkedIn profiles. Annual leadership rereas unie undergraduae and advanced degree sudens from he School of Nursing s campuses in Blackwood, Newark, and New Brunswick for a full-day of eam-building aciviies and developmenfocused sessions. Effecive communicaion, conflic resoluion, and how o work wih advisors are among opics covered a he rereas. Games and physical exercises provide vivid demonsraions of he imporance of consensus-building, collaboraion, and clear communicaion. Suden-led governing bodies such as class councils, campus councils and he Rugers School of Nursing Suden Senae provide ongoing opporuniies for sudens o hone imporan leadership-focused skills. From planning professional developmen evens, o advocaing for sudens, o providing a variey of neworking and communiy oureach opporuniies, we do i all, says Pak Chau, suden senae presiden a-large for 2016-2018. Giving back is he focus of he suden senae s Communiy Oureach Commiee, whose iniiaives include fundraisers o help figh childhood cancer, cheering saions a evens like he AVON 39 Walk o End Breas Cancer, and voluneer crews for local Special Olympics games. Anoher leadership developmen offering is he Rugers School of Nursing Peer Menor Program, which maches small groups of new undergraduae sudens wih a more advanced peer leader o help ease he newcomers ransiion ino he school s academic and social life. Sudens are also encouraged o become acive members and o aend sae and naional conferences of organizaions such as he Rugers Suden Nurses Associaion, New Jersey Nursing Sudens Associaion, New Jersey Sae Nurses Associaion, and American Associaion of Men in Nursing. Engagemen in nursing school can posiively affec sudens socializaion and learning in school and can subsequenly enhance heir success, longeviy, and advancemen in heir nursing careers, says Ferrazzano. I s an imporan avenue for developing nurse leaders. n
From lef: Alexandra Zebrowski, undergraduae nursing suden, wih he Ou-of-Hospial Nurse Residency Program s Career Counseling Officer Ceceilia O Callaghan and Program Direcor Nancy Bohnarczyk. Career Counseling and Nurse Residency Program B eween now and 2026, an aging baby boomer populaion will drive a growing demand for more regisered nurses who can provide prevenive and ou-of-hospial care, according o he U.S. Bureau of Labor Saisics. Conribuing o effors o address his need, an innovaive new nurse residency and career counseling program is preparing Rugers School of Nursing bachelor s degree graduaes o work in seings oher han in-hospial, acue-care unis. re Nurse Leaders. Represening Rugers School of Nursing a he American Associaion of Men in Nursing Annual Convenion 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, are (L-R) sudens Alvin Magbag and Kevin Bayhon; Kofi Polley, senior execuive associae for adminisraion and suden services; William Holzemer, dean and disinguished professor; Kyle Warren, vice dean for adminisraion and suden services; and sudens Corey Wallace, Boris Boucicau, and Pak Chau. Launched wih suppor from a $4.7 million, four-year gran awarded in 2016 by he Helene Fuld Healh Trus, he Ou-of-Hospial Nurse Residency Program provides a comprehensive approach o increasing he pipeline of Rugers nurses wih advanced skills and raining o succeed in fields such as primary care, same-day surgery, acue rehabiliaion, subacue care, nursing home and assised living, and home care. This residency offers grea promise for increasing specialized experise, job saisfacion, and reenion raes for new regisered nurses, while improving paien care in diverse pracice environmens, says Nancy Bohnarczyk, MA, RN, CNE, clinical assisan professor and direcor of he program. Paricipaing healh care faciliies commi o employing new Rugers graduaes who have chosen non-hospial nursing as a primary career goal. Employers also agree o mach each residen wih an experienced co-worker who will serve as nurse precepor. Over he 12-monh residency, Rugers faculy work closely wih he nurse residen and he precepor, individually and as a pair, o increase heir knowledge and capaciy o work ogeher and provide excellen care for heir specific paien populaion. The firs cohor of residens were hired in 2017. Career counseling and awareness-building effors argeing sudens long before hey graduae from Rugers are major aspecs of he program. There s a whole realm of nursing career opporuniy ouside of hospials, says Career Counseling Officer Ceceilia O'Callaghan, MEd, who joined he nursing school in May 2017. We re idenifying hese opporuniies, sharing hem wih sudens, and helping sudens posiion hemselves as highlyqualified candidaes. Working closely wih he nursing school s Office of Suden Engagemen and oher school and universiy parners, O'Callaghan is building an exensive career developmen program including regularly scheduled resume criique sessions and workshops on opics such as resume wriing, applying o exernships, inerviewing skills, and neworking and social media. Career Developmen Week in February 2018 feaured a full-day Career Fair in Newark, career workshops and informaion sessions held a he school s four campus locaions, and opporuniies for sudens o receive free professional phoos for heir LinkedIn profiles. Career counseling spans he coninuum of he residency program, enhancing paricipans experiences as Rugers sudens, new-graduae jobseekers, and as new employees. We help idenify and develop relaionships wih poenial employers and help mach graduaes wih employers, O'Callaghan explains. Then, we educae and nurure he nurse residens as hey assimilae ino he workforce. We are deermined o help our graduaes achieve heir highes levels of career success. n 7
2 Minoriy Nurse Leadership Insiue Advances he Field N urses across he U.S. are increasingly being called upon o lead in a wide range of roles wihin and beyond he healh care sysem. One naional iniiaive, The Nurses on Boards Coaliion, aims o have 10,000 nurses on boards, commissions, and panels privae and public by he year 2020. As nurses sep forward o lead, i s criical ha a growing number of nurses from racial and ehnic minoriy backgrounds are among hose aking a sea a he able. In New Jersey, nurses of color have an imporan resource in he Minoriy Nurse Leadership Insiue (MNLI) a Rugers School of Nursing. This 10-monh, menored leadership developmen program provides an inensive enrichmen experience for aspiring nurse leaders who have a bachelor s degree in nursing and a leas wo year s nursing experience. Nursing is gradually becoming more diverse, bu we have a long way o go, noes David Tony Forreser, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, professor and co-direcor of he MNLI. Through his program, our MNLI fellows are gaining skills for leadership roles where hey can influence areas such as policy, governance, research, nursing educaion, and healh care delivery o address healh dispariies, while paving he way for increased diversiy in nursing. Menorship is a key MNLI componen, explains Valerie Smih Sephens, EdD, LCSW, assisan dean for academic suppor services, direcor of he Educaional Opporuniy Fund program, and co-direcor of he MNLI. In addiion o pairing each fellow wih a seasoned nurse menor for he duraion of he program, we encourage MNLI graduaes o pay i forward by becoming menors hemselves. Along wih aending Saurday seminars held monhly wih faculy and special guess, fellows complee independen assignmens and work wih heir menors on a final projec ha applies evidence-based pracice o address a specific minoriy healh challenge. MNLI fellows are seleced hrough a compeiive applicaion process and nursing conac hours are awarded. This was he bes program I ve ever aended. I was a sress-free learning environmen very ransformaive in naure, repors Rachel Koshy, DNP, ANP-C. Employed as supervisory advanced pracice nurse a Universiy Hospial in Newark, Koshy was one of nine fellows who compleed he mos recen MNLI session, held Sepember 2016 o June 2017. Her final projec was iled Performance Improvemen for Falls Reducion in he Hospial. The gues paneliss and neworking opporuniies were phenomenal, Koshy says. We had o work very hard hinking ouside he box wih our projecs and assignmens. We were enhusiasic in learning, assimilaing informaion, and supporing each oher s goals and objecives. The environmen was so conducive o learning. To learn more abou he MNLI, including applicaion deadlines and schedules for upcoming cohors, please visi nursing.rugers.edu/mnli n P H O T O S : 1. Sanding (L-R) are Valerie Smih Sephens, assisan dean for academic suppor services, direcor Educaional Opporuniy Fund program, and co-direcor of he MNLI; wih he 2017 MNLI Fellows: Nicole Farquharson, Ashley Aah-Mensah, Vida Painsil, Leslie Wrigh-Brown, Marine Louis-Jacques. Seaed (L-R) are MNLI Fellows Miledys Gonzalez, Basilia Akuwudike, and Rachel Koshy. (No shown: Valeria Cone and Bindu Jacobs). 2. Marine Louis-Jacques, Minoriy Nurse Leadership Insiue (MNLI) fellow. 3. Leslie Wrigh-Brown, MNLI fellow; Tony Forreser, professor and MNLI co-direcor; and Vida Painsi, MNLI fellow. 3 4 1 MNLI gues speakers include (L-R) Donna Founain, an associae professor of nursing; Madelyn Yu; a nurse manager and he 2016-2018 presiden of he Philippine Nurses Associaion of America; Ana Nogueira, a case managemen direcor and he 2018-2020 reasurer of he Naional Associaion of Hispanic Nurses-New Jersey Chaper; Norma Rodgers, a senior clinical research associae and he immediae pas presiden of he New Jersey Sae Nurses Associaion; Dorohy Carolina, an assisan professor and former execuive direcor of he New Jersey Board of Nursing; and Jackeline Shuler, a campus dean and pracicing aorney. 8
Spoligh on Nursing Research O L G A F. JARRÍN, PHD, RN R esearchers a Rugers are connecing he dos beween home care sandards and paien oucomes. Assisan professor and principal invesigaor Olga F. Jarrín, PhD, RN, leads he granfunded projec, iled Comparaive Effeciveness of Home Care Environmens for Diverse Elders Oucomes. The Agency for Healhcare Research and Qualiy awarded he hree-year gran for $746,998 in 2016.* In an early sudy conduced wih he Universiy of Pennsylvania and released in 2017, findings indicae ha nurses in poor work environmens are mos likely o miss required care. Organizaions wih beer-raed working condiions for nurses were associaed wih fewer hospializaions and beer paien and workforce oucomes, including less burnou and greaer nurse reenion. We are looking a comparing and undersanding bes oucomes in diverse populaions ha are among he mos challenging, such as rural paiens, hose affliced wih Alzheimer s, and paiens a he end of life, says Jarrín. A crucial aspec of our work is he developmen of sraegies for improvemen. Jarrín s 13-person Rugers research eam uses naional daa from Medicare, Medicaid and privae insurance companies, as well as supplemenal informaion such as a naional survey of home healh aides. Nursing organizaions, including he Visiing Nurse Associaion Healh Group, American Nurses Associaion, and American Nurses Credenialing Cener, are supporing he effor by dispersing he findings in prin and online. A naionally recognized nurse scienis, Jarrín brings o he endeavor her experience in direc paien care. I joined he voluneer ambulance squad in high school and worked as a nursing assisan, emergency care ech, medical assisan, and home healh aide o pu myself hrough school, she noes. I loved working in home care afer graduaion. Ulimaely, I decided ha being a researcher was he way I could make he bigges impac on he lives of he families in my care. n *Comparaive Effeciveness of Home Care Environmens for Diverse Elders' Oucomes is funded under gran number HS22406 from he Agency for Healhcare Research and Qualiy (AHRQ), U.S. Deparmen of Healh and Human Services. B E L O W : Olga F. Jarrín, assisan professor, leads a eam of suden and saff researchers working on improving qualiy and safey oucomes for an aging populaion. 9
The World of Rugers Nursing: Highlighs from he Cener for Global Healh W e re bringing Rugers Nursing o he world and he world o Rugers School of Nursing hrough he Cener for Global Healh, says Suzanne Willard, PhD, APN-c, FAAN. A professor and he associae dean for global healh, Willard spearheaded he cener s esablishmen a he nursing school in 2014. Our vision is a globally conneced school, wih sudens and faculy engaged in global healh work, using our nursing experise o improve healh oucomes around he world, Willard explains. We re building synergies o enhance exising global effors and develop exciing new iniiaives. In 2017 we saw significan progress, despie a challenging geopoliical environmen. We re quie proud of he work of Rugers faculy and sudens. Pracicum in Tanzania. This annual spring program feaures 12-days of field-based learning in collaboraion wih nursing faculy and sudens a he Universiy of Dodoma. The Global Healh Cener is developing addiional programs for Argenina, China, Mexico and India. Japanese Nurse Midwifery U.S. Sudy Program. Visiing from Nagasaki Universiy, nine nurse midwifery sudens, faculy and praciioners compleed a 10-day sudy program held a Rugers School of Nursing in Augus 2017. Togeher wih Rugers faculy, sudens, and alumni, he visiors paricipaed in presenaions and lecures, neworking evens, labor and delivery simulaions, a disaser raining seminar, and clinical observaions a Universiy Hospial in Newark. Global Faculy Projecs. Spending much of las summer a Imo Sae Universiy in Nigeria, Assisan Professor Emilia Iwu, PhD, APN-c, FWACN, worked wih Imo s nursing science deparmen o develop HIV care raining maerials and curricula for Nigerian precepors and nursing sudens. Conducing research on developing a Spanish-language mobile app for use in reaing depression, Assisan Professor Susan Caplan, PhD, APC-c, brough inerprofessional suden eams wih her on wo summer 2017 rips o he Dominican Republic. Karen D Alonzo, PhD, APN-c, FAAN, associae professor and associae dean for nursing science, is conducing communiy-based paricipaory research in Oaxaca, Mexico and New Brunswick, NJ aimed a decreasing obesiy raes. Ria Musani, PhD, APN-c, AOCNP, endowed professor of oncology nursing, is conducing research on physical exercise among cancer survivors in collaboraion wih scholars in Colombia and Cenral America. TOMODACHI J&J Disaser Nursing Training U.S. Sudy Tour. Eigh nursing sudens from Tohoku Japan and wo nursing sudens from Rugers paricipaed in his 16-day our held Augus 2017 in New Jersey, New York, and Washingon, DC. For he hird year in a row, he Global Healh Cener was a program hos, organizing lecures and simulaions a Rugers in New Brunswick and a rip o he Jersey shore where paricipans me wih Supersorm Sandy survivors and observed coninuing recovery effors. Global Trauma Nursing Workshop. Healh care professionals and graduae sudens from across he world are invied o his annual 5-day symposium. This is a collaboraion of Rugers schools and insiues including he School of Nursing and he global surgery deparmens a he universiy s wo medical schools. Nurse Scholars-in-Residence. The Global Healh Cener hosed hree visiing scholars a Rugers School of Nursing in 2017. Two were from China: Jing Huang, MD, RN, associae chief nurse in he urology deparmen, Capial Medical Universiy in Beijing; and Yang Liu, PhD, assisan professor in he nursing deparmen a Xiamen Universiy in Xiamen. The hird scholar, Huei-Jhen Sia, RN, works a Taipei Veerans General Hospial in Taiwan. Global Nursing Symposium. This annual, 1-day program, co-sponsored by he surgery deparmen a Rugers New Jersey Medical School, feaures naional and inernaionally renowned speakers focused on nursing pracice, he nursing workforce, and global healh policy. n R I G H T : Professor Suzanne Willard (cener), associae dean for global healh and direcor of Rugers School of Nursing s Advanced Pracice HIV Care Specializaion program, wih Jing Huang (lef) and Yang Liu, scholars-in-residence visiing Rugers from universiies in China. L E F T : Rowena Curva (lef), clinical lab faciliaor a Rugers School of Nursing, and Tara Heagele (seaed), a recen graduae of he PhD in Nursing program, lead a simulaion exercise a he school s New Brunswick campus for paricipans in he TOMODACHI J&J Disaser Nurse Training sudy our from Japan. 10
R I G H T : Svelana Kukhar, baccalaureae nursing suden (lef), and Clinical Lab Faciliaor Rowena Curva (cener), boh from Rugers School of Nursing, paricipae in a healh assessmen excercise held during he 2017 Global Healh Pracicum a he Universiy of Dodoma in Tanzania. L E F T : Marissa Hornacek, a Rugers baccalaureae nursing suden, visis he Village of Hope orphanage for children wih special healh care needs during he 2017 Global Healh Pracicum in Tanzania. B E L O W : Yoko Inada (cener), visiing Rugers School of Nursing wih a nurse midwifery sudy group from Nagasaki Universiy in Japan, paricipaes in a labor and delivery simulaion wih assisance from Inna Druker (righ), an alumna of Rugers nurse midwifery program. L E F T : Nurse midwifery sudens, faculy, and praciioners from Nagasaki Universiy, Japan, paricipaed in a wo-week sudy program held Augus 2017 a Rugers School of Nursing in Newark and New Brunswick, NJ. 11
Caring for Communiies Rugers Communiy Healh Cener Susan VonNessen-Scanlin A Rugers Communiy Healh Cener, we keep he care in healh care, says Susan VonNessen-Scanlin, MBA, MSN, CRNP, assisan professor and associae dean for clinical affairs a Rugers School of Nursing. A pediaric nurse praciioner wih exensive experience in clinical, operaional, and research leadership a major academic healh ceners, VonNessen-Scanlin oversees he school s clinical programs including Rugers Communiy Healh Cener (RCHC). One of he naion s few nurse-managed federally qualified healh ceners, RCHC unies a dedicaed eam of nurses and oher healh professionals in providing high-qualiy, affordable primary care in Newark, NJ. RCHC is an exraordinary enerprise working o improve healh and well-being in underserved communiies, she says. Nursing is helping lead he way o beer living. n School of Nursing L O C A T I O N S I N N E W A R K, N E W B R U N S W I C K, A N D B L A C K W O O D, N E W J E R S E Y n u r s i n g. r u g e r s. e d u Rugers, The Sae Universiy of New Jersey, does no discriminae on he basis of race, color, naional origin, sex, sexual orienaion, gender ideniy or expression, disabiliy, age, or any oher caegory covered by law in is admissions, programs, aciviies, or employmen maers. The following people have been designaed o handle inquiries regarding nondiscriminaion policies: Jackie Moran, Tile IX Coordinaor for Sudens and ADA/Secion 504 Compliance Officer, Office of Suden Affairs (848-932-8576, Jackie moran@rugers.edu); and Lisa Grosskreuz, Associae Direcor, Office of Employmen Equiy, Universiy Human Resources (848-932-3980, lisa.grosskreuz@rugers.edu). For furher informaion on he noice of nondiscriminaion, conac US Dep. of Educaion, Office for Civil Righs, a 646-428-3900 or OCRNewYork@ed.gov CREDITS DESIGN: ERIC MILLER & ASSOCIATES. PHOTOGRAPHY: PAK CHAU, JOHN EMERSON, ROBERT ESSELS, SHELLEY KUSNETZ, FRED STUCKER. EDITOR AND WRITER: LYNN MCFARLANE. WRITER: KATHLEEN MATHIEU. PRINTED BY GARRISON PRINTING CO