Ohio State Hosts First National Summit on Building Healthy Academic Communities
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Autumn 2013 The Ohio State University College of Nursing Ohio State hosts first national summit on Building Healthy Academic Communities Ohio State University Associate Vice President for Health Promotion, Chief Wellness Officer and Dean of the College of Nursing Bernadette Melnyk addresses the opening session of the BHAC summit, attended by more than 300 participants from 93 institutions of higher learning Transformati ns IN NURSING & HEALTH AUTUMN 2013 FEatuRES Save The Date! March 29, 2014 7 Melnyk elected to IOM | By Kathryn Kelley The only nurse from Ohio State chosen to join the Institute of Medicine. 8 Cover story Ohio State creates and hosts the Building Healthy Academic Communities Inaugural National Summit | By Kathryn Kelley Education and health professionals from across the nation met to improve health and wellness outcomes in their academic communities. Centennial 14 Making a difference in one neighborhood | By Kathy Baird The college has created a successful partnership in a Columbus community to help stem key illnesses that disproportionately affect area residents. 19 CTEP a global EBP pioneer | By Kathy Baird The Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice is leading the way to advance EBP nationally and internationally. Gala COLUMNS 23 College strengthened by new leadership and faculty | By Taylor Humphrey Anderson and Arcoleo are named associate deans, four new key faculty are 3 Dean’s messaGE The College of Nursing’s Centennial Gala will be By Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk profiled. Health and wellness: Usually not held March 29, 2014, at The Ohio Union—on the appreciated until it’s gone campus of The Ohio State University. 26 One Health Summer Institute: Ohio State’s Health Sciences faculty teach, learn in Ethiopia | By Kathryn Kelley and Christine O’Malley 39 CENTENNIAL By Diane Sheets and Laurel Van Dromme Last summer, four College of Nursing faculty members joined colleagues from Our valued keepsakes Join former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other health sciences colleges in Ethiopia to collaborate in the areas of teaching, research and outreach. 43 STUDENT AFFAIRS Captain Mark Kelly, US Navy (ret) as our special By Lisa Mowery guests at the Centennial Gala. We will also celebrate 30 LAPP goes national | By Taylor Humphrey Living and learning together The Leadership Academy for Peak Performance and the American Nurses our 100 Alumni Transformers in Nursing & Healthcare! 47 GIVING Association join forces to provide leadership development. By Pamela Lowe Online reservations will be available in early January at Easton and Mourad gifts help 32 Faculty research projects receive worldwide coverage | By Taylor Humphrey students, faculty nursing100.osu.edu. In addition, mailed invitations will Two recent research projects by Dean Bernadette Melnyk and faculty member Linda Chlan have been covered by media outlets from all over the globe. 49 ALUMNI be sent to College of Nursing alumni, donors and By Megan Denison $1 million raised for scholarships friends in January. Hotel information is now available 35 Ellen Rudy awarded Ohio State honorary doctorate | By Kathy Baird at nursing100.osu.edu. For questions, please e-mail “I couldn’t believe it was happening to me. It was just wonderful.” The recognition is a first for an alumnus or nurse at Ohio State. DEpaRTMENTS [email protected]. 37 College receives first T32 grant from NIH/NINR | By Kim Arcoleo 55 College News $1.2 million grant to fund pre-doctoral fellows. 61 Class Notes 62 Faculty Focus Cover: The opening session of the Building Healthy Academic Communities Inaugural National Summit. Photograph by Sanford Meisel. 2 The Ohio State University College of Nursing Transformations in Nursing & Health Autumn 2013 3 The Ohio State University College of Nursing Dean’s messaGE BERNADETTE MAZUREK MELNYK New DNP option at Ohio State Dean, Associate Vice President for Health Promotion, Chief Wellness Officer Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/ PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN ANNOuNCiNG Vice Dean Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN Health and wellness: Usually not Associate Dean for Academic Affairs innovation and Leadership and Educational Innovation Cindy Anderson PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN Development for the Associate Dean for Research and appreciated until it’s gone Transdisciplinary Scholarship Kimberly Arcoleo PhD, RN, MPH Associate Dean for Advanced Practice and Community Partnerships It’s time to make just one healthy lifestyle change Nurse Executive Margaret Graham, PhD, FNP, PNP, FAAN Assistant Dean, Chief Nurse Executive, Health System Associate VP, Health Sciences CNO UH/Ross Hospitals The new online DNP Nurse Executive option Mary Nash, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACHE he health of the I wish these startling Academic Communities Na- women and two drinks a joins our DNP Clinical Expert option in Assistant Dean for Prelicensure Programs American people is in figures were enough to ur- tional Summit that brought day for men—result in 66% offering two pathways to a doctor of nursing Linda Daley, PhD, RN crisis. This is the first gently motivate every person some of the country’s best less diabetes, 45% less heart practice degree. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs time in our history in America to make just one wellness experts together disease, 43% less back pain, Sandra Cody, MS that our children are healthy lifestyle change, but with more than 300 leaders 74% less stress and 93% less Tpredicted to have a shorter information alone unfortu- from over 90 universities and depression, in addition to less With the DNP Nurse Executive option you can: Transformations in Nursing & Health is a lifespan than their parents. nately does not usually result colleges across the country to absenteeism and higher pre- • Create your own vision for the executive DNP role to rise to the top publication of The Ohio State University Seventy-five percent of our in a change in behavior. Most share best practices on how to senteeism at work. Won’t you College of Nursing; all content © 2013. levels of healthcare administration, become a trailblazer and achieve youth are not physically fit individuals do not change improve population health in make just one of these healthy the highest respect as an innovation leader in the healthcare field Editor and designer for military service. Approxi- their behavior until a crisis institutions of higher learning lifestyle behavior changes Sanford Meisel • Learn from national expert leaders in nursing and healthcare who mately one out of four chil- happens or their emotions and their surrounding com- today for you and your family, will who will facilitate top-notch knowledge and skills in innovation Contributing writers dren, adolescents and adults are raised. Unfortunately, munities. In this edition of who want to have you around and leadership development Kathy Baird Emily Caldwell has a mental health problem, most people do not appre- Transformations, you will read for a very long time? If you • Gain knowledge of how to create and sustain evidence-based Christine O’Malley yet less ciate their health until it’s about this landmark sum- are currently blessed with practice cultures and environments that improve healthcare quality, Writers than 25% gone—and wait until then to mit along with the launching great health and wellness, reliability, patient outcomes and costs Kim Arcoleo, Megan Denison, Taylor receive any make changes in their lifestyle of the new Building Healthy appreciate it now, and don’t Humphrey, Kathryn Kelley, Pamela Lowe, Lisa treatment. behaviors. Academic Communities wait until it’s gone to make Mowery, Diane Sheets, Laurel Van Dromme Americans At Ohio State, we have National Consortium, which another behavior change that For more Photography average 21 committed to becoming the is determined to improve can result in you leading a information Sanford Meisel, Robb McCormick, Jodi Miller hours a day healthiest university in the population health outcomes long, high-quality and healthy about Ohio leading a world and have initiated across the nation. You also life. State’s online Bern Melnyk Correspondence sedentary many strategic tactics to see will read about how we have DNP Nurse We welcome your comments and suggestions: lifestyle, and the Centers for that vision come to fruition, engaged the local and global Warm and well regards, Executive Transformations in Nursing & Health Disease Control and Preven- including creating a culture community in major initia- option, please The Ohio State University tion predict that one out of and environment that makes tives to improve health and visit nursing. College of Nursing, 1585 Neil Ave. three Americans will have it easy and fun for our faculty, wellness outcomes for the osu.edu/dnp Columbus OH 43210-1289, or [email protected] diabetes by 2050. Further, staff and students to engage in most vulnerable populations. Tim Porter-O’Grady Mary Nash PhD, RN, Kathy Malloch PhD, (614) 292-8900 nurses have higher obesity, healthy lifestyle behaviors. We Research has shown that Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, DM, EdD, ScD(h), APRN, FAAN FAAN, FACHE MBA, RN, FAAN Senior partner, Tim Chief Nurse Executive, President, KMLS, LLC, Send change of address to: hypertension and depression also are dedicated to teaching just four behaviors—i.e., not PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, Porter-O’Grady Associates, Ohio State’s Health clinical professor, The [email protected] rates than physicians, and our students how to take great smoking, eating five fruits and FNAP, FAAN Inc.; Leadership Scholar, System; Assistant Dean, Ohio State University The Ohio State University The Ohio State College of Nursing. www.nursing.osu.edu nine out of 10 Americans die care of themselves and to live vegetables per day, engag- Associate Vice President for College of Nursing. University College of DNP Nurse Executive from preventable diseases. well in addition to providing ing in 30 minutes of physical Health Promotion; University DNP Nurse Executive Nursing. DNP Nurse Co-Director Co-Director Executive Co-Director Despite the fact that we spend the best evidence-based care activity five days per week, Chief Wellness Officer; Dean trillions of dollars on health- to others.