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SpriNg 2011, VoL. 9, No. 2 a PuBlicatIoN oF New york UnIversity ColleGe oF Nursing Students Promote wellness across the City Page 5 College’s International Presence Grows Page 9 Faculty research on the Nurse workforce advances the Profession Page 13 0.9045 in Save the Date Wednesday, May 25, 2011 NYU Langone Medical Center Alumni Lunch 11:30 a.m.— 1:00 p.m. Murphy Conference Room 550 First Avenue Dean Terry Fulmer will host a casual lunch for College of Nursing alumni. Saturday, September 24, 2011 NYU Alumni Day College of Nursing Dean’s Luncheon Join us for lunch and a discussion of all that is happening at the College. Vernice Ferguson Lecture on Contemporary Issues in Nursing and Health Care For updated information, please call 212-998-5305. Greetings from the Dean Celebrations A PUBLICATION OF 2 18 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING 3 Institute of Medicine Issues Groundbreaking Report on SPRING 2011, VOL. 9, NO. 2 the Future of Nursing Seeks Broad Changes in Nursing Education and Practice Dean Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN Managing Editor / Writer Barbara Kancelbaum Writer Cecilia Malm 5 NYU Nursing Students: Assistant Editors Meredith Miller, Steven Tipton Promoting Wellness Design Susan Carabetta Across the City Cover Photo Mathieu Asselin Editorial Board Deborah Chyun, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN 20 Remembering Florence Downs Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN A Leader in Nursing Research Amy Knowles, MsEd Barbara Krainovich-Miller, EdD, APRN, BC, ANEF, FAAN Ellen Lyons, MPA 21 Health Care on Wheels Gail D’Eramo Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN Major Grant Expands College’s Tom Olson, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC Mobile Health Services Hila Richardson, DrPH, RN, FAAN NYU College of Nursing 726 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10003-9502 212-998-5300 www.nyu.edu/nursing 22 College and Faculty News 9 Meeting Urgent Health Care Needs in a Global Community NYU College of Nursing International Presence Grows 13 Research Report NYU Faculty Research on the Nurse Workforce is Driving the Conversation 30 Letter from D r. Ann Marie Mauro NYU College of Nursing Alumni Association President 30 Alumni Achievements Cover: College of Nursing students in purple scrubs, from left, Natacha Joseph ’11, Nirali 32 Why I Give Thakker ’11, and Lucy Choy-Xiong ’12 talk with Codi-Ann Dyer alumna Stephanie Katz, BS ’10, about her experiences as a new nurse at NYU Langone Medical Center. 32 Dean’s Circle SPRING 2011 1 e6857text_CS4.indd 1 3/15/11 11:58 AM GREETINGS FROM THE DEAN communities. This semester we wel- covered by changes in health care policy. comed Gustav Moyo, chief executive offi- I am particularly proud of the leadership cer of the Tanzanian Nurses and Midwives role the College of Nursing is taking in Council, as our first NYU College of Regional Action Committees to imple- Nursing Global Health Scholar. ment the important goals set forth in this We are on the move in the community. landmark report, and I look forward to Around New York City, our nurs- reporting to you on our progress. ing students are working with diverse We are leading the way into a new era of populations, including older adults who nursing excellence. Our doctoral program, are “aging in place” in lower Manhattan, so essential to addressing the shortage of Liberian refugees on Staten Island, and faculty in research-intensive universities, underserved minority groups in Brooklyn was recognized by the National Research who are gaining vital access to health Council with a rank of 7th among the services and health literacy through our nursing programs evaluated. With more Dear Friends, “Feeling Good in Your Neighborhood” than 1,400 nursing students and con- mobile health van. tinuing success for our graduates in the If I were to assign a theme to this issue Collectively, NYU nursing students careers they choose, we are confident that of NYU Nursing, it would be NYU nurses practice and learn in over 120 agencies the momentum for the profession is on a are on the move! throughout the city and the surrounding very positive course. First, we are on the move across the globe. metropolitan area. In addition, our Winter Most important, plans are moving ahead Extraordinary events that have taken place Session continues to provide exceptional for a new home for our College of Nursing. around the world have underscored the experiences for our students in com- With a location in the heart of NYU’s health necessity of preparing our graduates to be munities around New York State. Courses corridor, and with our College of Dentistry well versed in a wide variety of cultures in Saranac Lake, Saratoga Springs, and also based in the new building, we look and communities. As a global network Cooperstown help us continue to build forward to dynamic interdisciplinary col- university, NYU offers its students far- our momentum as the flagship college of laborations and a state-of-the-art home ranging opportunities for studies in New nursing in the state. Our efforts to explore that will support the growing needs of our York, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and 10 addi- rural experiences, as well as community students and faculty. tional international study sites. Under hospital-based experiences, are more I feel very fortunate to be witness to this the leadership of President John Sexton, examples of how we distinguish ourselves exciting time in our College’s history. We this expanding international network has with programs crafted for the benefit of the at the College of Nursing invite you to visit enabled our students to advance their patients our students will serve. our campus or to attend one of the many studies in new and creative ways that will We are moving forward to meet the chal- NYU events held throughout the year, help build the next generation of leader- lenges of the future. Another recent high- which include opportunities to meet and ship in global health care. light at the College was the presentation share ideas with friends, alumni, col- As you’ll read in this issue, the College on campus in October by John W. Rowe, leagues, and nursing professionals. Have of Nursing plays an important role in MD, of the much-anticipated report a wonderful summer! this global enterprise. Our faculty are The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, undertaking important research projects Advancing Health. This report, produced Sincerely, around the world, from helping chronic- by a committee of leaders in health care disease patients manage their conditions under the auspices of the Robert Wood in rural Nicaragua to developing strate- Johnson Foundation Initiative on the gies to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission in Future of Nursing at the Institute of Kenya and Uganda. We have also begun a Medicine, has provided a blueprint for new Global Health Scholars Program to nursing over the next several decades. Terry Fulmer foster international exchange and assist The report emphasizes that nurses will be The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor health leaders across the world in bring- central in providing care to the estimated Dean, College of Nursing ing evidence-based practices to their 32 million additional individuals to be 2 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE r1_e6857text_CS4.indd 2 3/22/11 1:43 PM INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE ISSUES GROUNDBREAKING REPORT The Future of Nursing Seeks Broad Changes in Nursing Education and Practice ore than 200 NYU faculty, associate professor in the College of the capacity of nurses to practice to the full students, and community Nursing and assistant professor in NYU extent of their education, training, and members gathered at NYU School of Medicine. competence,” Dr. Rowe told the audience. on October 12, 2010, to The IOM, an independent nonprofit orga- The usual objection to expanding the scope Mhear John “Jack” W. Rowe, MD (above), nization that provides unbiased, evidence- of advanced practice nurses’ practice is present a landmark report, The Future of based guidance to government agencies and that physicians have more training. Dr. Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, other policymakers, has long been con- Rowe acknowledged that physicians do released by the Institute of Medicine cerned with health care workforce issues. have more hours of education and more (IOM). The report is the result of a com- “When the IOM takes on a topic, others expertise than nurses do on certain issues. prehensive two-year study from the Com- take serious note,” said Dean Fulmer, who “What we are saying is that there is no evi- mittee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foun- was elected to the Institute in October dence that physicians provide better basic dation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, 2010. “This report will have a profound primary care than nurses, and in fact, there at the Institute of Medicine. It proposes sig- effect on us all.” are some 200 papers in the literature that nificant changes in nurses’ roles, respon- Dr. Rowe noted, “Nursing has three mil- indicate that nurses provide as good, or in sibilities, and education to improve patient lion members, it’s the largest sector of the some cases better, care than physicians.” care and meet the demands of the health health care workforce, and surveys show An expansion in nurses’ scope of care system as it is transformed in the com- it’s the most respected.” Yet, the committee practice would require nothing less than ing years by the Affordable Care Act. found that a number of barriers prevent the actions by Congress, state legislatures, Dr. Rowe, a national health care leader, profession from responding most effec- the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare is a gerontologist and professor of health tively to the changing health care system.