ADVANCING MEN IN NURSING:
APPLICATION FOR 2018 BEST SCHOOLS AWARD DOCUMENTATION OF EVIDENCE ADVANCING MEN IN NURSING: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING APPLICATION FOR 2018 BEST SCHOOLS AWARD DOCUMENTATION OF EVIDENCE 2015-18 INTRODUCTION
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN), 1967 founded in 1908, has a distinguished history of DR. LUTHER Dean leadership. CHRISTMAN One of VUSNs most recognized Deans is WAS THE Luther Christman, PhD, FIRST MALE RN. Appointed in 1967, Dr. Christman was the first male DEAN OF A dean of a school of nursing in the United States. Dean SCHOOL OF Christman’s contributions NURSING to ensuring that nurses are well-educated and receive IN THE the respect they deserve are UNITED legendary. STATES To that end, in 1974 Dean Christman founded the National Male Nurses Association, which evolved into the American Assembly of Men in Nursing. The Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University is the repository of Dean Christman’s personal papers, correspondence, and photographs from 1967 to 1972. These preserved historical papers and Dean Luther Christman’s academic portrait is displayed in the School of Nursing. personal memoirs will long inform the scholarship of historians. the foundation for men, and This report provides In the spirit of Dean all students, to develop and evidence of VUSN’s Christman’s legacy, VUSN sustain successful career longstanding and strong students, faculty, staff, and trajectories in nursing commitment to helping men leadership have upheld a practice, research, and enter the nursing program and nursing program that sets education. succeed in nursing school.
1 ADVANCING MEN IN NURSING: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING APPLICATION FOR 2018 BEST SCHOOLS AWARD DOCUMENTATION OF EVIDENCE 2015-18 CONTENTS
SECTION I. SECTION VII.
3 VUSN METRICS 30 STATEGIC MARKETING
SECTION II. SECTION VIII.
11 SUMMATIVE NARRATIVE 37 ACADEMIC ENHANCEMENT
SECTION III. SECTION IX.
15 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 39 FACULTY ADVISEMENT
SECTION IV. SECTION X.
18 ACCOLADES 41 MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES
SECTION V. SECTION XI.
23 VOLUNTEERISM 48 CONCLUSION
SECTION VI. SECTION XII.
27 NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY 50 REFERENCES /ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2 VUSNSECTION I. METRICS MALES ENTERING AND COMPLETING THE PROGRAM, NCLEX-RN PASS RATE, SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION PASS-RATES FOR PAST THREE YEARS, NUMBERS OF MALE FACULTY AND STAFF
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS
(ConsistsMSN of pre-licensure, ASN - MSN, and entering BSN graduates)
VUSN has multiple points for students to enter the nursing program. The MSN program enrollment consists Training excersises in the VUSN Simulation Lab. of pre-licensure, ASN-MSN, and BSN applicants. For MSN PROGRAM METRICS applicants who have an MSN degree, there are various Entry Total Number Year Number Number Completion Male entry points including post- Year Number of Men Completed Graduated of Men Rate Completion master’s certificate, DNP, Enrolled Enrolled Graduated Rate and PhD programs. 2015 593 57 (11%) 2016 581 54 98% 95% 2016 631 67 (11%) 2017 624 65 99% 97% 2017 667 75 (11%) 2018 645 73 97% 97%
DATA DASHBOARD
NUMBER OF MEN ENROLLED 57 67 75 2015 2016 2017
NUMBER GRADUATED NUMBER OF MEN GRADUATED MALE COMPLETION RATE
800 700 600 95% 500 2015 400 97% 300 200 2016 65 73 100 54 97% 0 2015 2016 2017 2017
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS POST-MASTER’S CERTIFICATE
POST-MASTER’S CERTIFICATE METRICS
Entry Total Number Year Number Number Completion Male Year Number of Men Completed Graduated of Men Rate Completion Enrolled Enrolled Graduated Rate 2015 25 3 (17%) 2016 23 3 92% 100% 2016 34 6 (17%) 2017 33 6 97% 100% 2017 35 6 (17%) 2018 35 6 100% 100%
DATA DASHBOARD NUMBER OF MEN ENROLLED 6 6 3
2015 2016 2017
NUMBER GRADUATED NUMBER OF MEN GRADUATED MALE COMPLETION RATE
35
30
25 100% 2015 20 15 100% 10 6 6 2016 5 3 100% 0 2015 2016 2017 2017
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS DNP
DATA DASHBOARD
NUMBER OF MEN ENROLLED 10
2015
DNP PROGRAM METRICS
12 Entry Total Number Year Number Number Completion Male Year Number of Men Completed Graduated of Men Rate Completion Enrolled Enrolled Graduated Rate 2015 165 10 (6%) 2016 148 7 90% 70% 2016 177 12 (6%) 2017 167 12 94% 100% 2017 162 13 (8%) 2018 155 12 96% 93%
2016 NUMBER GRADUATED NUMBER OF MEN GRADUATED MALE COMPLETION RATE 13 200 150 70% 2015 100 100%
50 2016 7 12 12 93% 0 2017 2015 2016 2017 2017
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS PhD IN NURSING SCIENCE
The admissions committee PhD PROGRAM METRICS for the PhD program selects a small cohort of Entry Total Number Enrolled Number of Men Enrolled applicants each year, with Year admission numbers usually 2015 5 2 (40%) ranging between five and 2016 5 1 (20%) ten students. All students receive a 100% scholarship 2017 7 1 (14%) and additional stipends. The program has a high completion rate, including THREE DISSERTATION DEFENSE TITLES PRESENTED BY MEN WHO COMPLETED men. The program THE PhD PROGRAM WITHIN THE PAST THREE YEARS generally takes three to seven years to complete; therefore, metrics for Benjamin Schultze – Summer 2015 completion are not Dissertation Title: provided in the table. Inflammatory Cytokines, Cachexia, and Symptoms in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Robertson Nash – Summer 2016 Dissertation Title: Factors Associated with Safe-Sex Behavioral Intention in People Living with HIV I AIDS
Alvin Jeffery – Spring 2017 Dissertation Title: Statistical Modeling Approaches and User-Centered Design for Nursing Decision Support Tools Predicting In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS PERCENT OF MALE FACULTY/STAFF EMPLOYED
VUSN METRICS
STAFF (FTE) FACULTY (FTE)
Female (N = 74) Female (N = 143) Male (N = 12/14%) Male (N = 21/13%)
DATA DASHBOARD
STAFF (FTE) 80 74 70
60
50
40 30 14 20 %
10 12
0 FEMALE MALE
FACULTY (FTE)
150 143
120
90
60 13% 30 21
0 FEMALE MALE Christian Ketel, DNP, RN-BC, interacting with students in the clinical area.
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS VUSN NCLEX-RN PASS RATES
Year Pass Rate Male Pass Rate (first time) 2015 94% (N = 135) 100% 2016 97% (N = 136) 100% 2017 97% (N = 148) 100%
VUSN FACT 94%+ VUSN NCLEX- RN PASS RATES HAVE BEEN 94% OR GREATER FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS
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SECTION I. VUSN METRICS VUSN ADVANCED PRACTICE CERTIFICATION RATES
VUSN Advanced Practice Advance Practice Nurse certification rates Certification 2015 2016 2017 Certification Organization have been above national Designation percentage scores for the n % n % n % past three years for all VUSN 53 92.5 61 97 71 97.18 Adult Gerontology specialties. ANCC Acute Care NP National ---- 86 ---- 87 ---- 77
VUSN 28 93 32 96.88 30 90 ANCC National ---- 77 --- 79.5 --- 71.94 Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP VUSN 4 100 6 83 5 100 AANP National ---- 81 ---- 82 --- 82
VUSN 24 96 17 100 16 100 ANCC National --- 75 --- 81.7 --- 79.16 Family NP VUSN 68 94 60 95 74 93 AANP National --- 81 --- 79 --- 79
VUSN 21 100 22 95 25 87 Neonatal NP NCC National 88 84 Pending
VUSN 26 100 20 100 30 91 Nurse-Midwifery AMCB National --- 94 --- 94 --- Pending
VUSN 20 100 14 100 15 93 PNP Acute Care PNCB NP National --- 73 --- 71 --- 77
VUSN 44 100 43 98 52 100 PNP Primary Care PNCB NP National ---- 88 ---- 90 ---- 87
Psychiatric VUSN 35 100 51 98 48 95.83 Mental Health NP ANCC (across life span) National ---- 88 ---- 88.7 --- 84.63
VUSN is approved by the Tennessee VUSN 44 95 19 95 25 90 Board of Nursing and fully accredited Women’s Health NCC by the Commission on Collegiate National 87 89 Pending Nursing Education (CCNE).
10 SECTION II. SUMMATIVE NARRATIVE DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY CLIMATE SURVEY, VUSN STRATEGIC PLAN, VUSN AND CLIMATE SURVEY
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SECTION II. SUMMATIVE NARRATIVE
Vanderbilt University (VU) is committed to ensuring diversity, inclusivity, and equity among students staff and faculty. As a community of scholars and lifelong learners, we value diversity in its many forms and In 2017, aligning with the mission The committee membership is believe that a diverse and inclusive statement of Vanderbilt University diverse and includes male and community makes a better learning office of Equity, Diversity and female students, faculty and staff and working environment. Inclusivity, VUSN faculty voted representation. As part of its In August 2015, Vanderbilt to formally recognize the VUSN commitment to equity, diversity and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity inclusion, VUSN adopted the official announced that addressing issues Committee as a standing committee. position statement below: of diversity and inclusivity was his top priority. To that end, he appointed the Chancellor’s Diversity, Inclusion and Community Committee to study current university climate and efforts; gather input from students, faculty, VUSN HAS ADOPTED and staff across the university; and make recommendations. The THIS OFFICIAL committee submitted its report and recommendations to the Chancellor POSITION STATEMENT: in July 2016. At Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN), we Chancellor Zeppos affirms VU’s are intentional about and assume accountability for commitment values and principles fostering advancement and respect for equity, diversity, of diversity, inclusivity and fairness and inclusion for all students, faculty, and staff. We that define, guide, and unite us as a support our efforts with respect for the inherent dignity, university. VUSN, as outlined in the worth, and unique attributes of every person. To bring to school’s 2017 – 2020 Strategic Plan, life our vision of inclusive excellence, we seek to recruit, embraces these guiding principles to admit, hire, retain, promote, and support diverse and achieve and maintain: underrepresented groups of students, staff, and faculty. • Institutional commitment to We value social justice and human rights. We embrace diversity, inclusivity and equity the plurality of humanity that composes our community • An organizational climate that including, but not limited to, age, race, ethnic origin, fosters intergroup relations gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. We affirm the inherent worth of each individual in order to • Recruitment and retention success protect, promote, and optimize the health and abilities for all students of all people. As educators of advanced practice nurses, • Education, scholarship, and nurse scholars, nurse leaders, and nurse faculty, we research to improve the well- accept the responsibility to foster and graduate highly- being and quality of life for all educated, culturally-sensitive health care professionals populations who mirror the diverse populations they serve.
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SECTION II. SUMMATIVE NARRATIVE
The VUSN Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity Committee, along with the Program Evaluation Committee, submit annual reports to Dean Linda Norman and the VUSN Executive Committee. The report includes benchmarks of success such as enrollment numbers and graduate rates for minority students, including men, in nursing. In addition to the VUSN Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity Committee, there are several VUSN-sponsored committees where men, as minorities, find a sense of belongingness and support. These include the Black Student Nurses Association, the LGBTI Student Nurses Association, and the Asian Student Nurses Association. Asa Radix, MD, Director of Transgender Health, SPEAKERS OVER THE PAST Twice each year, VUSN In addition to the NYU, presenting at the THREE YEARS HAVE INCLUDED: Dean Linda Norman Dean’s lecture series, Chancellor’s and Dean sponsors the Dean’s Diversity May 2018 Norman’s support • Asa Radix, MD (Director of Lecture Series. The lecture and initiatives for Transgender Health, New series inspires a more diversity and inclusivity, Dr. Sarah Fogel (left) York University) profound consideration of and Dean Linda Norman Rolanda Johnson, varied cultures, perspectives, (right) with Dr. Asa Radix • Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, Jana Lauderdale, Peter and experiences of others. FAAN (President AARP) Buerhaus, Sarah Fogel, • Mulubrhan F. Mogos, PhD, and Tom Christenbery are MCS (Health disparities considered national experts in obstetrics, University of on diversity and inclusivity Illinois, Chicago) for minorities (e.g., African Americans, Native • Debra Barksdale, PhD, Americans, LGBTQI) and RN (Patient Centered men in nursing. Their Outcomes Research presence and involvement Institute) at VUSN help maintain an • Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, attentiveness toward a fair FAAN (Deputy Surgeon and unbiased climate for all General/Rear Admiral) VUSN participants.
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SECTION II. SUMMATIVE NARRATIVE
In keeping with the VU charge to foster diversity SAMPLE QUESTIONS FROM THE and inclusivity, VUSN is consistently engaged UNIVERSITY CLIMATE SURVEY INCLUDE: in creating a nursing workforce more reflective Q. 120 Q. 125 Q. 212 of the populations nurses Whether or not you have Please rate the effectiveness or Please rate your level of serve. Data from the VUSN received formal or informal ineffectiveness of the following agreement or disagreement Admissions Office and mentoring at your current for you: with the following statements: institution, please indicate the Program-Evaluation how important or unimportant A Mentoring from someone in A On the whole, my department Committee from the past each of the following is to your your department colleagues are committed to supporting and promoting three years indicate upward B Mentoring from someone success as a faculty member: diversity and inclusion in the outside your department at your admission trends and department. A Having a mentor or mentors in institution retention stability for male your department B There is visible leadership at C Mentoring from someone students in all programs. my institution for the support B Having a mentor or mentors outside your institution This report attests that outside your department at your and promotion of diversity on VUSN is using deliberate institution campus. and effective strategies to C Having a mentor or mentors recruit, mentor, and retain outside your institution men in its nursing program.
In 2015, a University Very important 5 Very effective 5 Strongly agree 5 Climate survey was conducted. The survey, Important 4 Somewhat effective 4 Somewhat agree 4 Collaborative on Academic Neither important nor Neither effective nor Careers in Higher 3 3 Neither agree nor disagree 3 Education, was developed unimportant ineffective at the Harvard School of Somewhat ineffective 2 Somewhat disagree 2 Education. The survey Unimportant 2 provided important Very unimportant 1 Very ineffective 1 Strongly disagree 1 discovery and insight into life at Vanderbilt University, including gender and mentor specific data. Even though the survey provided an Inclusivity Committee is developing a environment where nurses can receive interpretive analysis for school-specific climate survey based on the best possible education and be both the university and the University of Washington School of treated with equal respect. VUSN, it was determined Nursing climate survey. by the VUSN Diversity The remainder of this report will and Inclusivity Committee The VUSN climate survey will target describe many activities of the members that a more specific survey potential concerns (e.g., inclusion of of VUSN’S AAMN Chapter as well addressing concerns of men men’s heath in the curriculum) specific as men in general at VUSN. These and minorities at VUSN to male students and faculty. descriptions will provide evidence that would need to be conducted. In summary, the academic climate at VUSN is an excellent school of nursing choice for men. To achieve this goal, VUSN is dynamic and bends toward the VUSN Diversity and Dean Christman’s goal of creating an
14 SECTION III. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RECRUITMENT, PROFESSIONAL FORMATION, MENTORING THROUGH THE LOCAL AAMN CHAPTER, FACULTY/STUDENT IN-SERVICES
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SECTION III. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
At VUSN the term professional development refers, in part, to a wide variety of focused activities, including mentoring, that help students and faculty enhance their nursing knowledge, clinical competencies and skills, and effectiveness as leaders in health care. Following are select examples for professional development for men in nursing at VUSN:
January 2015: Dean In addition to socializing 1. Cortney Lyder (UCLA) opportunities at the school, presented the Martin Luther the AAMN local chapter also King address for Vanderbilt sponsors a tailgate party for University Medical Center. the Vandy Home Game on Dean Lyder met separately Homecoming weekend. At with the VUSN AAMN this event the male students chapter to discuss male have a booth to check and provide information about leadership in nursing. men’s health. September 2015: Jeremy AAMN chapter students 2. Neal, PhD, CNM, spoke have an annual Super Bowl to the VUSN AAMN chapter Party held at the home of about Nurse-Midwifery as a one of the AAMN members. are not nurses, but who work career option for men. Christian Ketel, DNP, The National Hockey League in various VUSN clinical sites RN-BC, speaking to http://news.vanderbilt. is big in Nashville and male about considering nursing elementary school members of VUSN-AAMN, edu/2014/10/new-faculty- students about nursing as a career choice. Chance neal-will-train-next- as a group, attend the home as a career. Allen, MSN, APN, PMHNP- generation-of-nurse- games of the Nashville BC, exemplifies this effort midwives/ Predators. during his clinical teaching in the PreSpecialty (pre- A primary focus of Mentoring and recruiting licensure) year. If the men are 3. our local AAMN is to men as they enter the interested, Professor Allen provide male students an nursing field are professional initiates an appointment for opportunity to socialize development functions of VUSN-AAMN. Male the clinical site personnel to with each other and with members have set up talk to another male faculty faculty. The monthly AAMN recruitment booths at member at the VUSN. This meetings are generally held the annual career day for man-to-man approach has at 7:00 a.m. on Mondays Maplewood High School proven to be an effective (during the academic year) in Nashville. We have way of recruiting students. so that all male students in also spoken to boys at the We have seen the spark that the pre-specialty program elementary school level, lights the fire of desire in may attend. Continental informing aspiring youth these candidates grow to breakfast is served at these of the possibility to become produce full-fledged male meetings through the VUSN male nurses. In addition, nurses, an outcome that office of the Assistant Dean male faculty members of fulfills the purpose of AAMN of Students. AAMN talk with men who recruitment goals.
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A VUSN male nursing Association of Colleges of perceive and respond to Tomas Grant, AGACNP, 4. student, Justin Hoyt, Nursing. The men from certain recruitment efforts student, Jeffrey Boon, created and presented an VUSN spoke about their at nursing schools. The PhD student, Andy interpretive art show at a Giffen, PMHNP student, perceptions of strategies for GNAP experiences gave local club to raise funds for a Professor Chance Allen, recruiting men into nursing. male faculty an opportunity transgender youth resiliency Rick Ramirez, DNP The aim of the presentation to help mentor male program. Members from the student, and Dr. Tom was to heighten recruitment students in the art and VUSN-AAMN chapter and Christenbery at GNAP officers’ awareness and science of presenting before student body set up a LGBTI conference, April 2018, sensitivities about how national organizations. health awareness booth at Nashville, TN. potential male students the club. The members of 5. the VUSN chapter of AAMN were invited speakers (2018) at the Professor Chance Allen, PMHNP student Abdul Graduate Nursing Aziz, PMHNP student Admission Professionals Todd Styles, and Dr. (GNAP) annual conference. Tom Christenbery GNAP is the national voice at fundraiser for of recruitment of graduate transgender youth students for the American health, April 2018.
17 SECTION IV. ACCOLADES NURSING PRACTICE, EDUCATION, AND SCHOLARSHIP
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SECTION IV. ACCOLADES ALTHOUGH OUTSIDE THE THREE-YEAR REQUIRED RANGE FOR THIS REPORT, THE FOLLOWING TWO HISTORICAL MATTERS ARE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO VUSN AND MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED:
1962: Roy Moncrief. 1. VUSN admitted men Roy Moncrief, BSN, on into the nursing program as the Vanderbilt University early as 1962. Roy Moncrief campus, 1966. was the School’s first male graduate and was awarded his BSN in 1966. 2006: Michael Gooch, 2. DNP, AC/F/ENP (currently assistant professor at VUSN) was the first male nursing graduate (MSN) to be awarded the Vanderbilt University Founder’s Honors Medal at graduation 2006.
Michael Gooch, DNP, AC/F/ENP instructing Acute Care Nurse Practitioner students.
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SECTION IV. ACCOLADES CURRENT ACCOLADES
Luther Christman Award: 2016 – 2018 Jonas Nurse The 2016 – 2018 Jonas 3. The Luther Christman 5. Scholars: Nurse Scholars. Award was established in Twelve doctoral students 1998. The award is presented were named Jonas Nurse annually to the student who Leader Scholars by the demonstrates excellence in Jonas Center for Nursing implementation of client- and Veterans Health care centered care that integrates at Vanderbilt University Dean Christman theoretical knowledge into present the award named in School of Nursing. Four of presenting the Luther clinical practice, sound his honor to the recipient. the 12 students are men: clinical judgment, effective Christman Award to J.T. Seaman (DNP student), communication and client 2015: Joseph Bailey Justin Boylin. C. Robert Bennett (PhD advocacy that is reflective 4. an AGPCNP student), Paul Ambrefe of professional nursing program student at VUSN, (PhD student) and Raymond throughout the student’s received the Julia Hereford Romano (PhD student). PreSpecialty clinical Scholarship Award. experiences. Until his death, https://www.youtube.com/ Dean Christman returned watch?v=NfKOmx_DYMg to Vanderbilt each spring to
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SECTION IV. ACCOLADES
2016: K23 Research 6. Award, Todd Monroe PhD, RN (VUSN Faculty) https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ vanderbiltnurse/2015/10/ vusn-grant-brain-activity- and-pain-in-people-with- alzheimers-disease/
2018: VUSN’s Iota Chapter, 7. founded in 1953, is the eighth oldest chapter in nursing’s honor society, Krzysztof Dworski, AGACNP student with Sigma Theta Tau. This Iota Chapter president spring 10 male students Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN, were inducted into the 2018. Iota Chapter. This year’s induction ceremony speaker was Alvin Jefferys, PhD, RN, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Informatics (pictured Todd Monroe, PhD, RN, above). Inductee Krzysztof FAAN, the principal Dworski, AGACNP is shown investigator, is exploring with Iota Chapter president, if older adults with Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN. Alzheimer’s disease have altered responses in sensory pain.
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Abdul Azis (PMHNP student) discussing his posters frequently address poster titled “Cultural relevant and timely men’s Considerations for health issues. Many of Afghan-Americans in the posters presented the U.S. Health Care by male students have System.” subsequently been presented at the Tennessee Nurses Association Annual Joseph Baily (WH/ Convention and Vanderbilt AGPCNP student) University Medical Center’s discusses his poster Nursing Research Day. topic: “Men in Nursing” with fellow students.
Cultural Diversity Day various cultures. Voluntary 8. Poster Presentations poster presentation is Phot Ho (FNP student) 2016, 2017 and 2018: an important activity of talks with fellow Annually, the VUSN Black VUSN Cultural Diversity students about his Student Nurses Association Day. Several male nursing poster titled: “Increasing HPV Vaccinations and sponsors Cultural Diversity students present posters Eliminating Barriers: each year to promote Day to engender a deeper Recommendations from intellectual, emotional, and cultural health awareness YMSM Population.” moral understanding of and understanding. Their
22 SECTION V. VOLUNTEERISM SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY
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1. COMMUNITY OUTREACH HOMELESS PROJECT
Room In The Inn client Emmett Crutcher and PreSpecialty student Nathan Johnson work together on an advance directive.
www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltnurse/2015/07/vusn-students-help-homeless/ Vanderbilt University two semesters of weekly Middle Tennessee that Cook, PhD, RN, and Room School of Nursing sessions with a population offers emergency services, In The Inn’s Quianna PreSpecialty students included those without transitional programs and Jimerson, the students in Enhancement shelter, homeless veterans, long-term solutions to help evaluated the aggregate of Community and and those homeless people who live on the health-care disparities Population Health helped recently discharged from streets of Nashville. During and needs. The students more than 85 members the hospital in need of extreme weather months then applied evidence- of Nashville’s transient respite care. in winter and summer, the based knowledge and population during a Room In The Inn is a group also provides shelter. best practices to achieve Room In The Inn health network of more than Working with VUSN reasonably sustainable event, the culmination of 180 congregations in Assistant Professor Tom outcomes.
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SECTION V. VOLUNTEERISM
2. GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM
Saman Perera, VUSN MSN 2017 graduate, is fighting health care inequality through Doctors Without Borders.
www.utdailybeacon.com/news/local_news/local-nurse-reminds-community-of-global-humanitarian-efforts/article_8a60ff16- 14e2-11e8-80d6-db604d5e2d6a.html#new_tab Local nurse Saman Perera “I wanted to go into sent to Haiti after the Republic, where Christian is fighting health care health care to work with earthquake in 2010 to help and Muslim groups were inequality through Doctors Doctors Without Borders,” with the cholera outbreak. having violent clashes. Without Borders. Perera said. “I can’t tell you The next year, he went to “I started out with He worked in a refugee exactly what it was; it was the Democratic Republic Doctors Without Borders camp hospital in Bentiu, just a feeling.” of the Congo to work in because I wanted to take South Sudan, made up of Shortly after getting his primary care. Perera also care of people medically,” 130,000 residents. The degree, Perera applied worked on the frontlines Perera said. “It’s just made camp was created after and was recruited to be a of Chad, where he treated me a happier person.” conflict broke out in the nurse for Doctors Without war-wounded victims, area due to civil war. Borders. He was first and in the Central African
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SECTION V. VOLUNTEERISM
ASTHMA PROJECT 3. AT NAPIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Curt Brown, AGACNP student and Steven Wood, FNP student, participate in the Asthma Project at Napier Elementary School.
Three of the six nursing was fortuitous because the community is an ongoing this population. Napier’s students who participated community leaders and need. Asthma is a disease asthma intervention in the Napier Elementary the school have shared of disparity, predominantly participants are primarily Group that implemented that male nursing student affecting African American African American males. the asthmaw project this involvement in the lives males and having higher year (2018) were men. This of the children in this morbidity and mortality in
26 SECTION VI. NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY HIGHLIGHTING MEN IN NURSING
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SECTION VI. NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY
Entering MSN Class 1. 2017: Among those students are 25-year-old Todd Baer and 27-year-old Kevin Baer, who may be the first pair of brothers in the VUSN program at the same time. The two brothers entered the PreSpecialty program together, with Todd choosing to become a family nurse practitioner and Kevin selecting the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program. “We have two older brothers who are nurses, one an RN and the other an FNP,” Kevin Baer said. “Our older brother who is an FNP came to this program a couple of years ago. He loved his experience here.” The two say they see definite advantages to be going through Vanderbilt together. “It’ll be nice to have a study partner right from the start. We can Brothers and VUSN help each other remember students, Kevin and assignments and tests, Todd Baer. and we can work through difficult concepts,” Kevin Baer said. Todd Baer agreed, saying, “I know I’ll get to know some wonderful people in the program, but I’ll never feel as open with them as I am with my own Tristan Strong, RN, brother in saying, ‘Hey, I’m FNP student. struggling with this.’ We can 2017: Vanderbilt University television advertisement encourage one another when 2. featuring Tristan Strong, a Vanderbilt University it starts to get hard.” football player and family nurse practitioner student. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=H- rncJmOTyQ
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Jeremy Neal, PhD, RN, CNM, Assistant Professor of Nursing.
2016: Todd Monroe, 2015: New faculty: 3. PhD, RN (Vanderbilt 4. Neal will train next Faculty). Study on pain generation of nurse-midwives. perception for people with https://news.vanderbilt. Alzheimer’s disease. edu/2014/10/13/new- https://news.vanderbilt. faculty-neal-will-train- edu/2016/07/12/vanderbilt- next-generation-of-nurse- study-shows-people-with- midwives alzheimers-have-lower- ability-to-perceive-pain
29 SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING NEWS RELEASES, PUBLIC RELATIONS EVENTS
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING
The VUSN registrar’s marketing visibilities attest staff and faculty engage in to our deliberate approach 1 an ongoing multi-faceted to create and deliver strategic plan of action marketing strategies that to positively recruit men help bring men into nursing MILLION into nursing over time. as part of the solution to THE REACH We specifically target complex and long-term recruitment of males and health care problems. OF THE VUSN evaluate our recruitment ADMISSIONS efforts and outcomes. Recently, as part of its Our successful marketing ongoing campaign to AD THAT requires a coordinated effort reach to potential male APPEARED among students, faculty, applicants, VUSN ran and VUSN leadership. We an admissions ad in the IN THE nation’s largest newspaper. are aware of the expansion June 22 USA Today special USA TODAY It also was distributed to the of health care positions in supplement, Empowering membership of the American nursing as well as the need Men in Nursing. The 1/4 page NEWSPAPER Association of Critical Care for nurses to care for aging color ad appeared in the New Nurses and at AACCN and populations and populations York, LA, DC, Baltimore, AAN conferences. The reach who lack access to adequate Pittsburgh, Houston and of the ad is approximately health care. The following Chicago editions of the 1 million readers.
Vanderbilt ran an ad in the supplement, but its alumni popped up in the editorial coverage, too. Alumni Alvin Jeffery, Chance Allen and G. Rumay Alexander were in articles. Michigan State University’s ad featured its dean, Randolph Rasch, another VUSN alum.
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING
VUSN has produced promotional videos that have appeared at the Nashville International Airport featuring current FNP student and former football player Tristan Strong: https://youtu.be/JQt_ hRWIyvs
VUSN also produced a commercial that was shown during the National Teaching Institute (NTI) meeting May 2018 in Boston: https://youtu.be/ K8bLxRlNbJU
Tristan Strong, RN, FNP student.
VUSN commercial shown at the National Teaching Institute meeting.
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING VUSN REGIONAL PROMOTIONAL PRINT ADVERTISEMENTS
VUSN actively advertises in (NBNA), NSNA/IMPRINT, these regional and specialty Oklahoma Nurse, South publications: Alabama Nurse, Carolina Nursing, Tennessee Florida Nurse, Georgia Nurse, Tennessee Nursing Board of Nursing, Indiana Extra, Texas Nursing, Texas Nurse, Kentucky Convention Nursing Voice and Virginia 2017 NSNA/IMPRINT Yearbook, Kentucky Nurse, Nurse amongst others. magazine advertisement Minority Nurse, National Black Nurses Association
2015 AANP 50 magazine advertisement
2015 Texas Nursing Extra magazine advertisement
2016 KANS magazine advertisement
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING
In addition to marketing The male faculty regularly Nurse Practitioner, Family materials, male faculty Meet and greet for the contributes to community Nurse Practitioner and members are frequently student organizations outreach. For example, Psychiatric Mental Health during PreSpecialty matched and participate in Christian Ketel, DNP, RN, Nurse Practitioner, and orientation face-to-face or telephone has talked to several classes Doctor of Nursing Practice interviews with applicants. of 4th graders about nursing. and PhD in Nursing Science Male students and Activities such as this this programs. faculty have a presence 21 plant an early seed that men VUSN NCLEX-RN and at recruitment events can be nurses! certification pass rates are such as Open House and CURRENT VUSN offers specialty advertised on the nursing at recruitment booths at NUMBER and degree programs that website: professional conferences men are often attracted https://nursing.vanderbilt. (e.g., Tennessee Nurses OF MALE to. Examples of VUSN edu/msn/exam_rates.php Association, Sigma Theta STUDENTS specialties and programs Tau, American Association that men frequently enter of Critical Care Nurses). ENROLLED IN include Adult Gerontology- Male faculty and students do THE PMHNP Acute Care Nurse presentations at community Practitioner, Emergency events. PROGRAM
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING LETTER CAMPAIGN
To complete the loop of successful marketing and 57 recruitment, each male student who is successfully WELCOME recruited and enrolled LETTERS at VUSN receives the WERE SENT following email letter: TO NEW MALE STUDENTS INVITING THEM TO AAMN CHAPTER SOCIAL EVENT DURING FALL 2018 ORIENTATION WEEK
Welcome to Vanderbilt University the VUSN chapter of the American event for male students and faculty. School of Nursing (VUSN). Members Assembly of Men in Nursing (AAMN). In the meantime, if you have any of the VUSN chapter of the American Our group supports men in nursing, questions about our AAMN chapter, Assembly Men in Nursing extend you encourages men to become nurses, and school, or just want to say “hey,” let an extra welcome and congratulations! advocates for the special health needs us hear from you. The number of men in nursing is of men. The AAMN was founded by Thanks for joining us at VUSN. steadily growing and we are pleased Luther Christman, PhD, RN, who was Again, we believe you have made a you made a commitment to join us the first male dean of a nursing school smart choice. in the United States. That school at VUSN. We know you will find the With much respect, academic challenges and goals of the happened to be VUSN in 1967. VUSN program to be exciting. The To join AAMN go to: Chance Allen, MSW, MSN, APN, rewards of interacting with people http://www.aamn.org/membership. LMSW, PMHNP (AAMN faculty and helping others are also some of Once you have joined the national advisor) robert.c.allen@vanderbilt. the most outstanding experiences organization, you are automatically a edu you will have here with us. We believe member of the Vanderbilt chapter. and you have made a wise career choice. We look forward to meeting you Tom Christenbery, PhD, RN, CNE In addition, we invite you to join during fall orientation at a special [email protected]
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SECTION VII. STRATEGIC MARKETING VUSN AAMN WEBPAGE
https://nursing.vanderbilt.edu/advantage/organizations/ aamn/index.php
The VUSN AAMN webpage has been immensely successful. From January 2016 to April 2018 the average per view time is almost 4 minutes per visit, which is about twice as long as other pages on the VUSN site.
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36 SECTION VIII. ACADEMIC ENHANCEMENT
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SECTION VIII. ACADEMIC ENHANCEMENT
Faculty at VUSN are aware It is anticipated the that minority students and upcoming VUSN climate AGACNP students in men in nursing sometimes survey will provide insights classroom lecture. face academic challenges. into both academic Male students converse To address those challenges, enhancement and advising during orientation. minority and male faculty needs of male students at meet individually with VUSN. students for academic The VUSN Diversity and enhancement. Inclusivity Committee will Additionally, faculty at have long-term oversite of VUSN sponsor ongoing the climate survey’s data, academic enhancement interpretation, analysis, and services such as brown bag recommendations related to lunches about key NCLEX- survey findings. RN topics and test-taking strategies.
38 SECTION IX. FACULTY ADVISEMENT
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SECTION IX. FACULTY ADVISEMENT
Advising is an integral part of the student experience at Vanderbilt. Far from being a passive exercise, advising is a collaborative process in which students are expected to assume primary responsibility for their academic planning while advisers provide expertise and support with the planning effort. Each student is assigned a faculty adviser who will assist with planning a program of study and will serve as a resource to students for academic matters, such Brian Widmar as advice concerning any discusses procedures difficulty with courses, with a student. testing, or paper writing. Deliberate efforts are made to match male students with male faculty for advisement, Rick Waters, associate professor of nursing, particularly when nursing meets with a Health Care specialty and content areas Leadership student. match.
40 SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES CURRICULUM, COURSE SYLLABI, AND EDUCATION, AAMN MEMBER SUPPORT
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SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES THE FOLLOWING SEGMENTS ARE DESCRIPTIONS AND SUMMATIONS OF HOW VUSN IS MEETING AAMN ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVES:
“Encourage men of all ages to become nurses and join together with all nurses in strengthening and humanizing health care.” We meet this objective, in recruitment and retention its ranks and in society part, through participation efforts for men in nursing. at large. In addition, we in elementary school On campus, we have active have male presence on all presentations about nursing recruitment activities, VUSN standing committees as a career and high school especially at open house and male student and career fairs. We have events. We work with other faculty representation on presented twice at a national minority groups of nurses the School’s Diversity and conference to Graduate (e.g., Black Student Nurses Inclusivity Committee. Male Nursing Admission Association, LGBTI) to VUSN faculty also serve Professional (GNAP). The present at VUSN Cultural on several key university aim of these presentations Diversity Day to emphasize committees (e.g. Faculty was to generate discussion that nursing is open and Senate). and ideas on how to have sensitive to the needs of the greatest impact on all minority groups within
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“Support men who are nurses to grow professionally and demonstrate to each other and to society the increasing contributions being made by men within the nursing profession.”
The VUSN AAMN chapter https://my.vanderbilt.edu/health careintheshadows/2015/04/ has made a rigorous effort the-clinic-at-mercury-courts-2 through email blasts and word-of-mouth to include men in its chapter events from many Middle Tennessee health care organizations (St. Thomas Hospital) and places of higher learning (Lipscomb University). This report has been a testament to the volunteerism of VUSN chapter members. Members volunteer at many agencies that care for the medically (Top): Administration underserved including and health care Oasis Center, Edge Hill personnel at Mercury Community, Siloam Center, Courts including Shade Tree Clinic, and Dr. Christian Ketel, elementary and secondary and Aaron Scott, FNP, schools. Each year men from VUSN alumni. VUSN AAMN volunteer for the Flulapalooza Influenza (Bottom): Christian vaccination project for all Ketel, DNP, RN-BC, VU and VUMC students consulting with APRN and employees. Importantly, students and staff at Mercury Courts. members of AAMN work and volunteer at Mercury Courts, a health care clinic male nurses to Nashville and Christian Ketel, DNP, and housing site that is the larger Middle Tennessee RN-BC, (VUSN faculty administered by two male area. Mercury Courts and alumnus) is the co- Family Nurse Practitioners received a $1,000,000.00 investigator for the grant from VUSN. HRSA grant to sustain and Aaron Scott MSN, The work at Mercury its services to medically RN (VUSN alum), is key Courts has solidified, by underserved populations in personnel for project itself, the importance of Middle Tennessee. implementation.
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SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES
“Support CURRICULUM AND COURSE SYLLABI men who are nurses to grow professionally and demonstrate to each other and to society the increasing contributions being made by men within the nursing profession.”
Michael Gooch (far right), DNP, AC/F/ENP, working To address health issues of psychiatric diagnosis, such related specifically to males with students. men who are often impacted as major depression. In and ethnicity. by social determinants of NURS 7215 students learn Another example of health, VUSN curricula and that males have different male health addressed syllabi specifically target presentation than females in the VUSN curriculum male populations with with regard to depression, occurs in Advanced curricular content aimed at as well as higher rates of Pharmacotherapeutics prevention, treatment, and suicide associated with (NURS 6103), taught by evaluation. For example, depression. APRN students Michael Gooch, DNP, RN, in a psychiatric mental learn to identify risk factors AC/F/ENP. In NURS 6103, health course (NURS for psychiatric conditions Dr. Gooch provides a course 7215, Psychiatric Mental among males and follow unit about pharmacotherapy Health Nursing Across the up with development of for men’s health conditions Lifespan), APRNs are taught differential diagnoses and including osteoporosis, interviewing techniques the psychopharmacologic erectile dysfunction, and lead to a formulation of a and other interventions gastroesophageal reflux.
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SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES
“Support CURRICULUM AND COURSE SYLLABI men who are nurses to grow In Advanced Health In NRSC 5101, Evidence- PhD (c), RN, ANP-BC, teaches professionally Assessment and Clinical Based Practice, Tom a class on pathophysiology of and demonstrate Reasoning (NURS 6101), Christenbery, PhD, RN, the male reproductive system. to each other CNE, teaches a section on Brian Widmar, PhD, RN, In this course, Professor and to society ACNP-BC, CCRN, FAANP, the contributions to nursing Dunlap helps students the increasing teaches course units on science that have been made contributions genitourinary assessment by men and minority nurses. analyze the effect and being made by in men and gay, bisexual, In the advanced progression of reproductive men within and transgender health pathophysiology course disease entities in populations the nursing assessment. (NURS 6010) Travis Dunlap, of men across the lifespan. profession.”
(Top to Bottom): Brian Widmar, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, FAANP, teaching AGACNP students advance health assessment in the CELA LAB.
VUSN Professor and Director of Program Evaluation Tom Christenbery, PhD, RN, CNE, teaches Theories of Science.
Travis Dunlap, PhD (c), RN, ANP-BC, working with students in the advanced pathophysiology lab.
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SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES
“Advocate for continued research, education and dissemination of information about men’s health issues, men in nursing, and nursing knowledge at the local and national levels.”
Currently, the VUSN chapter of AAMN is Center for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University participating in a multisite Vanderbilt Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center study with Duke and Emory universities. The title of the study is: Identifying Strategies for Addressing Perceived Barriers to Education for Male Nursing Students. Students from the VUSN chapter have presented their cultural day diversity posters about men in nursing at local (Nursing Research Day, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and regional conferences (Tennessee Nurses Association). Members of the chapter have been co- authors on the Tennessee Men’s Health Report card (download PDF) for the past six years. The report card is a collaborative interprofessional endeavor (e.g., medicine, ministry, social work, pharmacy). The report card on men’s health is https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ disseminated to practitioners crmh/2017TNMensHealthReportCard.pdf across the state so that they may better serve the needs of male clients and populations. The chapter participates men’s health at local college in the dissemination of football games, career days, educational materials about and VUSN open house.
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SECTION X. MEETING AAMN OBJECTIVES
“Support members’ full participation in the nursing profession and its organizations and use this Association for the limited objectives stated above.”
VUSN students enjoying the PreSpecialty The socialization efforts men-to-men socialization, accessible, meaningful, Orientation BBQ social event. of the VUSN AAMN students are more readily and realistic. Importantly, chapter are important and able to internalize and VUSN AAMN socialization the impact these efforts develop their lifelong and professional identify have on helping men to professional identities. Our formation provides men a feel a part of the larger AAMN chapter integrates sense of belongingness in nursing community is many related factors to make education, research, and nearly inestimable. Through this socialization easily practice.
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SECTION XI. CONCLUSION
For over a half a century, VUSN has welcomed men into the nursing program. We know that this has not always been an easy professional path for men who are committed to improving the quality of health for clients and populations. However, VUSN has made and continues to make its academic climate a more diverse and inclusive place for becoming the best nurses possible. This report provides abundant evidence of the progress VUSN has made in welcoming and developing male nurses into the university and preparing them to be expert practitioners, researchers, and scholars.
49 SECTION XII. REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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SECTION XII. REFERENCES /ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES
United States Census Bureau (2013). Male Nurses Becoming More Commonplace, Census Bureau Reports. United States Census Bureau, Release Number: CB13-32.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2013/cb13-32.html ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The primary authors for the AAMN report are:
Chance Allen, Tom Christenbery, MSW, MSN, APN, PMHNP-BC PhD, RN, CNE Instructor in Nursing Professor Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Director of Program Evaluation Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
The authors would like to recognize the following contributors to the report: Abdul Aziz, PMHNP student Rolanda Johnson, PhD, RN Kevin Baer, PMHNP student Larry E. Lancaster, PhD, RN The authors Todd Baer, FNP student (faculty emeritus) would like to Dina Bahan, MSIS Natasha McClure, DNP, RN, CPNP recognize Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN Cheryl McMurtry, BS Linda Norman, Jeffrey Boon, PhD student Paddy Peerman, MSN, RN Dean and Valere Rick Ramirez, DNP student Potter Menefee Megan Clancy, MSIS, BA Carolyn Schettler, MLAS Professor J. Travis Dunlap, PhD(c), ANP-BC Mavis Schorn, PhD, CNM, FACNM of Nursing Andy Giffen, PMHNP student Tristan Strong, FNP student at Vanderbilt University, for Michael Gooch, DNP, RN, AC/F/ENP Dawn Vanderhoef, PhD, DNP, her ongoing support and Tomas Grant, AGACNP student PMHNP-BC, FAANP contributions to assuring that Pam Harrison, Student Systems Mia Wells, MS all underserved groups within nursing feel respected and Analyst Brian Widmar, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, recognized as valued members Phot Ho, FNP student CCRN, FAANP of the School of Nursing. Justin Hoyt, PMHNP student Nancy Wise, MS Christian Ketel, DNP, RN-BC Keith Wood, BA
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