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2018-2019 Annual Report INDIANA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 SCHOOL OF NURSING EMPOWERING LEADERS This page has been intentionally left blank. 2 Annual Report INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING EMPOWERING IU School of Nursing: One curriculum backed by research, LEADERS three unique campus experiences Annual Report Since 2016, Indiana University School of Nursing had been comprised of two campus locations: IUPUI and IU Bloomington (IUB), which operate as one administrative unit to offer baccalaureate, 2018-2019 master’s, and doctoral degrees. Beginning July 1, 2018, this structure expanded to include the Indiana University Fort Wayne (IUFW) campus and nursing programs. The faculty, although physically located on three campuses, are one body with a single governance structure, one set of policies and procedures, and one academic dean. In addition, the programs are nationally accredited as one school. 3 ONE CURRICULUM THREE UNIQUE CAMP U S EXPERIENCES IUSON IUPUI IUSON BL Indiana University School of Nursing IUPUI Indiana University School of Nursing Bloomington Located in downtown Indianapolis on the IUPUI Located in Bloomington, Indiana, on Indiana campus, Indiana’s premier urban public research University’s beautiful flagship campus, which was university, and surrounded by Riley Children’s Health founded in 1820. Indiana University Health, IU Health Simon Cancer Center, and Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital. The School of Nursing on the Bloomington campus was established in 1957. For a period of time students The School was established in 1914 as the Indiana begin their education in Bloomington and completed University Training School for Nurses with the at IUPUI. This changed in 2002 when the entire BSN opening of Robert W. Long Hospital and launched program was offered in Bloomington. the establishment of IU School of Nursing across the state of Indiana. Construction has begun on the new Regional Academic Health Center, a partnership between As part of the School’s Master Space Plan, renovations Indiana University and Indiana University Health. have been completed to major portions of the building. This 700,000 square-foot complex will provide Future plans include renovating portions of the first greater opportunities for collaborative teaching with floor for additional student learning space and a more an expanded interactive learning facility, Nursing efficient and welcoming entrance to our Center for Learning Resource Center, and Simulation Center. Academic Affairs, the hub of student services here at the School. 2018-2019 ENROLLMENT 2018-2019 ENROLLMENT Undergraduate ....................................................280 Undergraduate .....................................................915 MSN....................................................................... 371 DNP..........................................................................18 PhD ......................................................................... 43 4 Annual Report INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING IUSON FW FORT WAYNE ONE EVIDENCE-BASED CURRICULUM, THREE UNIQUE CAMPUS EXPERIENCES. INDIANAPOLIS Indiana University School BLOOMINGTON of Nursing Fort Wayne Located in Indiana’s second largest city (by population), Fort Wayne, on the Indiana University Fort Wayne campus. IU School of Nursing Fort Wayne was established in 2018. Students began the Indiana University School of Nursing curriculum at that time and will graduate in 2021. The Purdue curriculum will be taught until the final Purdue Legacy BSN students graduate in 2020. TOTAL ENROLLMENT Plans are underway to update and expand the simulation facilities on the Fort Wayne campus over the coming year. 1,904 2018-2019 ENROLLMENT STUDENTS » Undergraduate .....................................................128 ALL CAMPUSES Purdue Legacy BSN Students............................149 » ALL PROGRAMS ACCREDITATION The bachelor’s, master’s, Doctor of Nursing Practice, and post-graduate APRN certificate programs in nursing at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202-887-6791. 5 ONE CURRIC ULUM THREE UNIQUE CAMPUS EXPERIENCES 2018-2019 HIGHLIGHTS Four Research Centers Indiana University School of Nursing’s chancellor’s professor emerita Diane Billings led the “Ready, Set, Write” workshop. The Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic The FINE Center collaborated with the Indiana University Illness (CEQL) Office of Research Compliance to host the Institutional Review Led by Susan Pressler, PhD, Board in Nursing Education Workshop. RN, FAAN, FAHA The Center exists to advance The National League for Nursing’s chief governance officer knowledge related to improving Linda Christensen led the workshop “Legal Issues in Nursing the health-related quality of Education: Academic Honesty, Student Civility, and Evaluation life of persons with chronic of Student Performance.” conditions across the life span. Indiana University School It was first funded by the National Institute of Nursing of Nursing Champion Center Research from 2000 to 2005 as a Center of Excellence for Cancer Control Research P30 grant. Several years after initial funding, the Center Led by Victoria Champion, PhD, RN, FAAN was endowed by the Sally Reahard family with a $1.9 million The Champion Center was founded gift to provide sustained funding. in 2016 and builds on the 20-year history of the Behavioral Cooperative 2018-2019 HIGHLIGHTS Oncology Group (BCOG) founded by Visiting scholars Dr. Victoria Dickson from New York University Dr. Champion and supported by the Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Dr. Lisa Kitko from Walther Cancer Institute from 1996-2016. Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing presented on their expertise to improve health outcomes and develop The Center supports cancer prevention and control research the next generation of nurse scientists to lead interdisciplinary and the training of nurse faculty and fellows who will create teams in conducting high impact quality of life research. and disseminate scientific knowledge of cancer control research. This research is closely aligned with the themes of Chen Xiao Chen received $50,000 in pilot funds to support the current Cancer Prevention and Control Program in the her proposal entitled, “Phenotypic Characterization of Indiana University Simon Cancer Center and will encourage Dysmenorrhea in Female Adolescents and Young Adults.” interdisciplinary science as a principal method for developing knowledge that will be imminently translatable to the patients Faculty Innovating for Nursing we serve. Education Excellence (FINE) 2018-2019 HIGHLIGHTS Center The Center sponsored Dr. Victoria Champion’s proposal Led by Meg Moorman, PhD, ‘Feasibility and Acceptability of HPV Self Sampling in Eldoret RN, WHNP-BC Kenya’ in partnership with Institute for Action Research in Launched in 2017, the Center creates Community Health. excellence locally and globally to invent the future of nursing education. This Emerita faculty Dr. Brenda Lyon presented her workshop is accomplished by equipping nursing ‘Conquering Stress, It Can Be Alleviated’ for IUSON faculty. faculty and development specialists to prepare learners for practice; by providing continuing education for preceptors and both adjunct and fulltime faculty; and by developing scholars and researchers to generate and translate educational science into practice. 6 Annual Report INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING IUPUI Research 2018-19 HIGHLIGHTS in Palliative In the fall of 2018 James Cleary, MD, PhD, professor at the and End-of-Life Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the Communication Walther Senior Chair in Supportive Oncology, presented at and Training the IU Health Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics’ lecture (RESPECT) and participated in one-on-one consultation meetings with Signature Center RESPECT Center faculty. Led by Greg Sachs, MD, Joan Haase PhD, RN, The 7th annual statewide RESPECT Center Conference was held FAAN, and Susan Hickman, PhD in the spring of 2019 and featured national expert and keynote The IUPUI RESPECT Signature Center is supported by the speaker, Dr. J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Nursing and the IU School of Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. University of Washington. Dr. Curtis’ visit was supported by the Kaye Woltman Endowed Lecture Series. Established in 2010, the Center has successfully built a statewide community of researchers and clinicians with a A daylong RESPECT Center pre-conference workshop enabled shared vision of improving palliative and end-of-life care. participants to complete Respecting Choices Advance Steps Advance Care Planning training. DEGREES OFFERED BY CAMPUS BSN RN TO BSN BSN ACCELERATED ONLINE DEGREE MSN 9 TRADITIONAL DNP PHD SECOND DEGREE COMPLETION TRACKS* TRACK TRACK PROGRAM IUPUI 9 BLOOMINGTON 1† FORT WAYNE BSN MSN DNP/PhD BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN NURSING IN NURSING SCIENCE AND DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE Three Tracks *Nine Tracks DNP PhD • Traditional • †Nursing Education • Adult-Gerontology (Distance accessible) Acute Care Nurse • Accelerated Second EXECUTIVE • Clincal Nursing Pracitioner LEADERSHIP Science Degree • Nursing Leadership TRACK in Health Systems • Adult-Gerontology • Health Systems • RN to BSN Online
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