Summer 2020

Faces oF courage Nurses Innovate and Inspire During the Pandemic Football Salutes You never know what other accomplished people you might see again from your Villanova Nursing pathophysiology class. On September 7, 2019, two former classmates were both greeted with cheers during football’s home opener against Lehigh University. Former Navy SEAL Joe Masalta (right, with game ball) was recognized by the Wildcats as its Military Salute honoree for his remarkable service and received a standing ovation. Running back and tri-captain Justin Covington also had the crowd on its feet as he rushed for 109 yards—including a 64-yard run—and a touchdown on eight carries in the 38-10 win for Villanova. Read more about Covington on page 9. VOL. 39 NO. 1 • Summer 2020

Departments Relevant CE Content, 2 • Perspectives Just in Time 11 3 • College Highlights Teaching strategy expert Dr. evelyn Lengetti National CHAmPS study assesses explains how this web-based program health of COVID-19 front-liners… prepares nurse leaders to develop their skills College re-accredited… and thrive. prioritizing inclusive excellence with the new associate dean… Dr. Patricia Grady honored… student research and innovation… awards for SNAP chapter… IBC intern… College leads in weight bias training… two new institutes… Faces of “Flat Florence”… GiG initiative… 12 Courage DNP innovator… a playmaker with In battling COVID-19, vision… new consultors Villanova nurses deploy 22 • Faculty Focus heart, mind and soul. Students as changemakers… new climate change course… national calls to action… Dr. Lesley Perry retires… College’s new grants support research Six Deans Who 30 • Supporting the Next Lead the Way 18 Generation Villanova alumni globally offer insights into their $15 million raised in memory of careers, their challenges and their hopes. Dean Fitzpatrick… Pitek Fellow… gifts advance important initiatives… thank you, generous donors Canine Therapy at 36 • Alumni Focus Grant to improve Guam’s health 41 Walter Reed Bethesda care…how you can guide the next A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner alumna generation of nurses… Boston supervises therapy dogs as part of her sendoff… Alpha Nu honorees role as chief experience officer.

Published by the Villanova university FiTzPATRiCk CoLLEGE oF NuRSiNG Naratil P ’18; ray Pitek P ’16, ’20, ’21; Brian reilly m. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, BoARD oF CoNSuLToRS: P ’15; George Shapiro P ’16, ’19; margaret Shull ’16 Driscoll Hall, Villanova, PA 19085-1690. Chairperson : Pam DeCampli ’88 mSN CLAS, ’17 BSN; Lisa Thiemann ’12 PhD; Daniel r. Vice Chair: Dorrie Fontaine ’72 BSN, PhD Tropeano ’92 CLAS; Amy Tucci P ’18; Sharon Contributing editor: Donna Shoemaker Members : Dee Silvers Adams ’86 BSN; William r. Patterson Turner ’82 VSB, P ’15; Joy Vroman ’90 BSN, Contributors: Carita Geib ’98 CLAS, Benvenuto ’87 CLAS; Joseph Cassidy ’79 VSB; P ’21; Kelly Ann Zazyczny ’94 BSN, ’11 mSN; Taylor Gray ’20 CLAS, Siobhan Arnold J.P. Connellan P ’18; martha B. Coyle P ’07, ’17; Emeriti Members: H.e. Dr. Ali mohammed Al-moosa; Design: art270 margaret “meg” Garrett ’72 BSN, P ’07, ’15, JD; Daniel Finnegan Nicole Blanche Guerin, esq., ’88 BSN; Tyonne FoLLoW uS oN: Hinson ’01 mSN, DrPH; edward T. Joel ’83 CLAS, EDiToRiAL BoARD: Facebook @VillanovaNursing P ’15, ’20, JD; Christina Larson Kelly ’74 BSN; Editor : Ann Barrow mcKenzie ’86 BSN, ’91 mSN, rN Instagram @villanovanursing edward F. Kicak ’77 VSB, P ’13; Gerard Larocca Members : Carita Geib ’98 CLAS; Donna S. Havens LinkedIn Villanovans in Nursing P ’14, ’20; John mastrocola ’87 VSB, P ’16, ’16, ’21; ’83 mSN, PhD, rN, FAAN, Ex officio ; Bette mariani Twitter @VuNursing Capt. (ret.) maryalice morro ’83 BSN; Thomas ’82 BSN, PhD, rN, ANeF, Ex officio

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 1 Perspectives

he new year launched like a bright star. A fresh decade…one starting with 2020 designated The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Organization and nurses planning events to showcase what we do and how we do it. Those events were cancelled because a pandemic arrived on our shores and—by its very nature—demanded that we fight relentlessly with laser focus, shoulder-to-shoulder with our health-care colleagues, to contain it. Many were lost, including fellow nurses, professional teammates, patients, family and friends. We mourned such losses in addition to those resulting from racial injustices in our country. Throughout these distressing times we continued to advocate and act for what is right and just. For the first time in my career, it is clear that people finally understand what nurses do: Nurses are the glue that holds the health-care system together. Let us not lose this momentum. Let 2020 not be something to run from but rather to learn from. Let us use it as a springboard to accomplish new goals and to inspire a diverse next generation of nurses to join us. In changing times, we maintain a clear vision to: • Complete our strategic planning and support innovation from freshmen through doctoral students and across our staff, faculty and programs. • Move forward with critical goals. At the top of the list, I am delighted to announce Dr. Patricia K. Bradley as our inaugural associate dean for Inclusive Excellence. She will ably lead this initiative that is vital for our college and our profession (see page 4). • Use both vision and action to right health disparities and protect and empower our most vulnerable. • Further create and embrace science to move nursing and health forward. • Keep collaborating across programs, specialties and disciplines. This is how new knowledge is formed and problems are solved. This is what nurses do. “Let 2020 not be • Continue to leverage the media as truth-tellers, health advocates and educators something to run representing the most trusted profession in this nation. from but rather to In this issue of Villanova Nursing , a retrospective of the last year, you will find stories of leadership and learning, of dreaming and daring. I could write reams about this year but learn from. Let us use will let the magazine speak for itself, especially the cover with our alumni and students. it as a springboard We are so proud of what they, representing an even larger number, have done for the health of our country. to accomplish new We hope you—our alumni, parents, friends and colleagues—will help us amplify goals and to inspire not only the story of Villanova Nursing but of all nurses, especially this year. This is a profound time for nursing. Let us continue to use our voices, courage a diverse next and talents to boldly advance health, and our profession, together. generation of nurses to join us.”

Donna S. Havens ’83 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN Connelly Endowed Dean and Professor

2 College Highlights

“We’re very worried about post-traumatic stress disorder,” National cHaMPs study observed Dean Havens in a May 9 front-page story in The Philadelphia Inquirer . “In many respects, some of these people assesses Health of may be very wounded after this experience.” CHAMPS is one of a few national studies designed to Pandemic’s Front-liners understand the immediate and long-term effects that caring for COVID-19 patients is having on the health, lives and careers of all front-line workers, including nurses. The study began with a brief survey, has been creating a registry and will gather longitudinal data for up to 20 years on those who wish to d r

a continue participating. CHAMPS will enable systems and u G l organizations to plan for the future health-care needs of front- a n o i

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t organization becoming a partner for CHAMPS, please e-mail r u o [email protected] . C • The impact on the people providing or supporting care during the pandemic is the focus of CHAmPS, the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing’s new research study. CHAMPS Caring about Health for All n the early weeks last winter as the novel coronavirus surfaced A study of the COVID-19 workforce in the United States, multiple scientists at the M. Louise IFitzpatrick College of Nursing knew what their role would be. Help share the science It was imperative that their research generate an understanding of the pandemic’s physical, social and behavioral health impact We believe our country has an obligation to front-line health- on the front-line workers who provide or support care for those care workers—in places such as hospitals, clinics, nursing with COVID-19. On May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday, homes, emergency settings and testing sites—to learn how their sacrifices have affected their lives. If you served or are the College launched its national study: Caring About Health serving as a health-care professional, first responder or for All Study (CHAMPS) (see sidebar). The research team service worker during the COVID-19 pandemic, you are invited continues to recruit and enroll participants from across the to participate in CHAmPS, a study initiated by Villanova nation. The study’s principal investigators are Donna S. Havens, Nursing. The survey takes less than 20 minutes to complete PhD RN, FAAN, Connelly Endowed Dean and Professor; and can be done on a smart phone. Share your experience Peter G. Kaufmann, PhD, FABMR, associate dean for Research with other health-care workers to make a greater impact. Learn more and participate by visiting and Innovation; and Janell Mensinger, PhD, FAED, associate villanova.edu/CHAMPS . research professor and biostatistician. •

College Reaccredited for 10 Years

The Fitzpatrick College of Nursing has again been reaccredited by the Washington, D.C.-based Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), which ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate, graduate and residency programs in nursing. Last October, CCNE notified Dean Havens that the College’s baccalaureate and Reaccreditation master’s degree programs in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice Program and post- “is the perfect prelude to the graduate APRN certificate program had been accredited for another 10 years, the strategic planning longest period granted. CCNE determined that the programs met all four accreditation work we have standards. It found no compliance concerns with respect to key program elements. started to envision,” noted The College’s PhD in Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia and Continuing Education Dean Havens. programs carry accreditations from other organizations. •

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Dr. Bradley Named associate

Dean for Inclusive excellence Patricia A. Grady, PhD, rN, FAAN is the second recipient of an award reflecting the values and mission of Villanova university and the Fitzpatrick n exceptional person and an experienced, insightful colleague to be College of Nursing. The award is named for Villanova Nursing’s first dean, the late m. Louise Fitzpatrick, ‘‘ at the helm, bringing us to our next level,” is how Dean Havens edD, rN, FAAN, ’15 DHL (Hon.). adescribed Associate Professor Patricia K. Bradley, PhD, RN, FAAN in announcing her appointment September 14 as the inaugural associate dean for Dr. Grady Honored Inclusive Excellence. In the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing’s new strategic plan, Inclusive Excellence is a key priority. for Her Transformative Dr. Bradley brings decades of experience as an educator, scientist, advocate and communicator to serving as lead diversity, equity and inclusion officer, Leadership reporting directly to the dean. A faculty member since 1997, she is an expert euroscientist and National Institute of in psychiatric-mental health nursing and health-care issues of the underserved, Nursing research (NINr) legend Patricia and developed several courses on culture, health and illness. This role aligns A. Grady, PhD, rN, FAAN is the second well with her experience, scholarship and national recognition. In June, N recipient of the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing’s Dr. Bradley was appointed to the American Association of Colleges of m. Louise Fitzpatrick Award for Transformative Nursing’s national Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. This fall, Leadership. Dean Havens presented the award she becomes chair of the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel on last November to this internationally recognized Cultural Competence and Health Equity. nurse researcher. Dr. Grady, named by Working closely with members of the College community to advance Washingtonian in 2017 one of the top 100 most an environment where all experience respect, equity and inclusiveness, Powerful Women in Washington, D.C., is director Dr. Bradley also will collaborate with related campus offices. “My commitment emeritus of NINr (she served for 23 years at this to Villanova University, the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing and the community National Institutes of Health institute), and is a is strong,” says Dr. Bradley. “I am excited about our future as we continue this Visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgetown important work.” university School of Nursing and Health Studies. An Inclusive Excellence Advisory Committee of faculty, staff, students The award celebrates Dr. Grady’s relentless and alumni representing various underrepresented communities will be formed pursuit of advancement in health care through to support and advise her work. nursing science, igniting change through Read more at villanova.edu/nursing . • interprofessional collaborations, galvanizing the next generation of leaders and inspiring action in nurse scientists around the globe. At the ceremony, Dean Havens challenged students, faculty, colleagues and nurse scientists “to be inspired by Dr. Grady and continue to ask those bold questions and innovate with new science to “I am excited improve care and the systems in which care is delivered.” about our future Dr. Grady in her lecture, “A Vision for the Future of Nursing research,” remarked, “If we as we continue can create inquiring minds and the habits of how to learn I think we have a chance to create the this important kind of person who is going to keep learning…. Before, you could be a lifelong learner and that work.” was a plus…. Now, it is going to be a requirement.” • —Patricia K. Bradley, PhD, RN, FAAN “If we can create inquiring minds and the habits of how to learn I think we have a chance to create the kind of person who is going to keep learning…”

—Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN

4 Students Research School Shootings and Diabetes

In September 2019, three Nursing seniors, now beginning their careers in the Washington, D.C., area, shared their summer research findings at the Villanova Student research Symposium in Connelly Center. They conducted their projects with faculty mentors.

• Erin Freitas ’20 BSN: “School Shooters: A Scoping media review of Social media and risk Behaviors.” She was mentored by elizabeth Dowdell, PhD, rN, FAAN, professor and coordinator of undergraduate research. Freitas also gave a virtual podium presentation at the College’s Annual research Symposium march 12. She begins her nursing career as a clinical research nurse resident at the National Institutes of Health. • Alyssa Danner ’20 BSN: “The Needs of Caregivers for Older Adults with Diabetes.” She was mentored by melissa O’Connor, PhD, mBS, rN, FGSA, associate professor and director of the campus-wide Erin Freitas ’20 BSN Alyssa Danner ’20 BSN Madeleine ottignon ’20 BSN Gerontology Interest Group (GiG). • Madeleine ottignon ’20 BSN: “Impact of Type 1 Diabetes mellitus (T1Dm) on the mental Health Status During Adolescence: A Qualitative Study.” She was mentored by Christina Whitehouse, PhD, CrNP, CDe, assistant professor. Danner, Ottignon and their mentors had posters based on their work accepted for the American Diabetes Association’s 80th Scientific Sessions: A Virtual experience, June 12-15, for which the students also recorded guided discussions. Both are launching their careers at medStar Georgetown university Hospital. •

PhD Graduate is interviewed by The Lancet and Publishes

Jennifer Thate ’18 PhD, RN, CNE was interviewed by The Lancet: Respiratory Medicine for the article “Information Overload and unsustainable Workloads in the era of electronic Health records,” published January 13. This was an outcome of publishing her dissertation. With co-authors ruth A. mcDermott-Levy ’96 mSN, ’08 PhD, mPH, rN, FAAN, associate professor and director of the Center for Global and Public Health; Helene moriarty ’77 BSN, PhD, SNAP Chapter Gains Awards and rN, FAAN, professor and the Diane L. and robert F. moritz Leadership Experience Jr. endowed Chair in Nursing research; and S.C. rossetti, ast November, Villanova’s chapter of the Student Nurses’ Association of Thate published “Identifying Best Practices Pennsylvania (SNAP) returned to campus with the state’s highest award for in electronic Health record Documentation LChapter excellence, among other honors and achievements. Vathana Oukan to Support Interprofessional Communication ’20 BSN (front, left), at the time a senior and 2019 chapter president, led the delegation for the Prevention of Central Line-associated of 32 Villanova Nursing students who participated in SNAP’s Annual Convention in Bloodstream Infections,” in the American Lancaster, Pa. With her is Carol Toussie Weingarten, PhD, rN, ANeF, longtime chapter Journal of Infection Control (online advisor and associate professor of Nursing. read more at villanova.edu/nursing . • October 9, 2019). •

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 5 College Highlights

IBc Intern advocates and Innovates for children and Families

s a rising senior, Christina Gallo ’20 BSN was pleased to push her boundaries in public health through her 2019 Independence Blue Cross a(IBC) Summer Internship. At IBC’s non-profit Nurse-Family Partnership, she recalls, “I learned that we as nurses are the advocate for patients with every issue that can affect their health.” She attended Philadelphia City Council meetings informing the public about the unsafe lead levels in homes throughout the city. In IBC’s leadership lab, her research led her to discover a connection between food deserts and safe playground deserts in underserved areas. She noted, “I proposed Last summer’s Independence Blue Cross (IBC) an ‘adopt a park’ program for companies to clean up a park periodically internship led Christine Gallo ’20 BSN (left, with throughout the year and plant healthy vegetables in a community garden to try a fellow IBC intern) to draw attention publicly to to aid in the creation of safe, healthy play and food options for residents.” • unsafe levels of lead in Philadelphia homes.

iNNovATioN iNSiGHTS FRoM STuDENTS

Three Nursing freshmen (from left, Sharon Ngunu, Jasmine Huang technology hobby with his Nursing education. Annor’s group was and Daniel Wala) last November delivered a pitch and won awarded third place for using blockchain to help consumers who Villanova’s Innovation, Creativity and entrepreneurship (ICe) go to one government aid agency to then share those requests Institute’s Idea Bounce® for their with other local and national government agencies, connecting concept of a biodegradable social services “umbrellas” and cutting through red tape. pill bottle. “As aspiring nurses, Alongside Villanova university graduate students in Law and our mission is to create Liberal Arts and Sciences, “We worked collectively,” she said, a better future for the and the experience encouraged her to “think more about ways health-care system that is I can help my community in Chicago and Ghana. The little I can more sustainable,” says Wala. contribute can make a big difference.” The winners receive $100 and are encouraged to work on embracing exactly what a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) their project with the support student can do, Kim Daniels ’19 DNP, ACNS-BC, rN-BC, CCrN of the institute. The event is (at top, wearing glasses) was on the winning team at the inaugural the next step following the SONSIeL (the Society of ICe Challenge, an opportunity Nurse Scientists Innovators for all Villanova university entrepreneurs & Leaders) freshmen to develop a creative Nurse Hackathon. It was entrepreneurial idea. sponsored and hosted by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) At Villanova’s three-day interdisciplinary Idea Hackathon to last November in New alleviate poverty and promote economic growth by leveraging Brunswick, N.J. Dr. Daniels, blockchain technology, junior Stephany Annor (left) and Gabriel a clinical nurse specialist at Ahern, a second-degree BSN student, participated with other Penn Presbyterian medical students from across campus to problem-solve creatively this Center in Philadelphia, was huge societal problem. Ahern’s group developed Nutri-coin to among 200 invited from incentivize healthy eating and prevent hackers from stealing around the world. Her group, health data. He enjoyed the opportunity to combine his Team Night Vision, won for its idea to mitigate errors on night shift. Not wanting to sacrifice safety for sleep, the team—inspired by military tools— developed the concept of a red and blue light device for nurses’ lanyards to enable care in limited light, according to the J&J website. Dr. Daniels notes, “The SONSIeL Hackathon has inspired me to empower and engage nurses in a whole new light…with innovation! I am building upon the idea of being able to support nurses at the bedside to bring their ideas to life and not let them disappear in the fog of ‘what if’s’ and ‘if only’s.’” • 6 College a New Institutes Focus on clinical Leader in Weight Bias Trials and simulation Training Building on core competencies and faculty expertise, the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing next year will be welcoming hrough a collaboration between the Fitzpatrick researchers and faculty for two new institutes. TCollege of Nursing and its macDonald Center for Obesity Randomized Clinical Trials (June 2021) Prevention and education (COPe), • The first of its kind in nursing and sponsored by CSL Behring Biotherapies for Life ™, this traditional BSN undergraduates four-day, intensive course on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) will emphasize FDA/ICH receive weight bias training as part good clinical practice standards, research design, conduct and execution, and the role of of their program. The College is clinical trials in informing clinical practice and creating treatment guidelines. the only nursing school in the country to offer such education, • It is designed for principal investigators, clinical trial coordinators, DNP and PhD students, according to Tracy L. Oliver, PhD, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students. A limited number of fellowships are available. rDN, LDN, associate professor. • Faculty include a national panel of eminent clinical trials specialists well-versed on all aspects It will be featured on George of design and implementation. The lead, Peter G. Kaufmann, PhD, FABMR, the College’s Washington university’s Strategies associate dean for Research and Innovation, gained extensive experience in clinical trials to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) during his career at the National Institutes of Health and has more than 30 years’ experience Obesity Alliance’s website in multi-site clinical trials and teaching clinical trials methodology. (stop.publichealth.gwu.edu), which showcases provider training and Simulation (May 2021) (a workshop, Friday Night at the ER ®, will be held after the institute) education on obesity at health • This three-day immersion experience is geared to simulation educators and faculty, professional programs across from novice to mid-career. Space is limited. the country. Villanova Nursing is one of nine colleges featured as • Participants will apply the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and exemplars in implementing this Learning (INACSL) Standards of Best Practice: Simulation as evidence-based guidelines type of curriculum. The other for their educational activities and learn to incorporate simulation into programs to advance schools include medicine, dietetics, education and improve patient outcomes. oral health, pharmacy and • To address patient care clinical issues, participants will use standards of practice to develop occupational therapy. According to an education intervention that connects with quality metrics as measurable outcomes. the alliance’s website, it is a diverse Participants are encouraged to focus on a learning gap or bring an idea to develop into coalition of consumer, provider, a simulation learning activity. government, labor, business, health insurer and quality-of-care • Institute faculty draw upon their decades of experience and innovation in simulation and organizations working “to drive related research and publications, evidence-based scenarios, interprofessional collaborations, innovative practical strategies pioneering work in disability simulation, international leadership and development of in obesity prevention, care and global standards. treatment.” • Learn more and register online at villanova.edu/nursing/ce . •

Take “Flat Florence” Along with You

ommemorating the Year of the Nurse and the midwife, the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing created “Flat Florence,” a portable portrait of Florence Nightingale that has its own hashtag ( #FlatFlorence ). cShe has already traveled home to London, presided over strategy meetings and watched faculty write research articles. If you weren’t in Driscoll Hall in February to get one, download it at www1.villanova.edu/villanova/nursing/newsevents/events/YON2020.html . Let “Flat Florence” help you tell your story. Take her along on your travels, bring her into your daily life to amplify the voice of nursing and display her to educate others about what nurses do. • “Flat Florence” commemorates the founder of modern nursing, the profession’s special year—and your own contributions to it.

7 College Highlights

gig Focuses on older adults DNP innovation in the oR n 2030, for the first time in U.S. history, older adults are projected to outnumber As a nurse anesthetist, Jillian children. In that year, all baby boomers will be older than 65. Moreover, the Guzzardo ’19 DNP, CrNA percentage of those 65-and-older is expected to nearly double in a five-decade I aunderstands that anesthesia period, from 13 percent in 2010 to 24 percent by 2060. Determining how to care for delivery plays a critical environmental role this growing population of older adults with multiple chronic conditions presents both “as all inhaled anesthetic agents are opportunities and challenges. The shift underscores the urgent need for educating and recognized greenhouse gases and preparing nurses and students of all disciplines who contribute to global warming,” she notes. are equipped to care for their complex social and As a student in the Doctor of Nursing health needs. Practice Program, she implemented an In response, a new group in service of older adults innovative idea to improve the is based in the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. The environment with “reducing Inhaled Gerontology Interest Group (GiG) is a campus-wide Anesthetic Waste Through utilization of collaboration of students, faculty and staff who engage Low Fresh Gas Flow [FGF].” in research, advocacy and workforce development to Dr. Guzzardo’s educational support the needs of the aging population. The GiG is directed by Melissa O’Connor, intervention for nurse anesthetists in her PhD, MBA, RN, FGSA, associate professor. It aligns with the College’s growing number workplace included a presentation on of faculty with the varied expertise necessary to build a reputation for innovation in health-care’s contribution to climate research and education across the care continuum related to older adults. change and related public health effects; a The GiG has created several initiatives critical to its goals: demonstration of inhalational anesthetics • “The Gerontology Nursing Excellence Externship: Transforming the Future as greenhouse Workforce is an innovative, first-of-its-kind, structured summer clinical experience gases and their designed to provide Nursing undergraduates with a 360-degree opportunity to work contribution to with older adults,” explains Dr. O’Connor. Students not only work as certified global warming; nursing assistants but also rotate through all aspects of a long-term care facility from and an explanation nursing leadership to facility management. The first partnership, launched this of the need and summer with three rising seniors, is with Generations Healthcare, a California-based feasibility of low organization. John Mastrocola ’87 VSB, director of its Regional Operations- FGF technique and Southern California, is a member of the College’s Board of Consultors and father recommendations of three Villanovans (see page 10). “This is a total win-win for Generations for practice and considerations for Healthcare and Villanova Nursing. The students are getting hands-on experience safety. Continued with older adults and immersion in the day-to-day operations of our facility. In her doctoral conversations, As Villanova alumni, Lois (’87 VSB, chief financial officer of Generations project at Villanova education and Healthcare) and I are extremely proud of offering this opportunity to ’Nova nurses.” Nursing, Jillian meetings engaged (See villanova.edu/nursing for student reflections on their externship.) Guzzardo ’19 DNP, CrNA explored a her colleagues. The • In May, GiG’s scientists, during the COVID-19 pandemic and related social way to reduce results were inhaled anesthetic lowered FGF rates isolation, launched Villanova ReachOut. It activated the campus community to waste by using low engage older adults through telephone or technology and make a positive difference fresh gas flow. that reduced in their mental and physical wellness. Research regarding older adults and loneliness inhaled anesthetic shows consistent evidence that social relationships are a major contributing factor use and purchasing costs considerably, in lowering morbidity and mortality. Nursing faculty trained Villanova University plus the overall reduction in inhaled student, staff and faculty volunteers who conduct meaningful conversations with anesthetic use led to a measurable older adults. They do not offer medical advice. Older adults themselves or their decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. caregivers can sign up. For more information, visit the website (search Villanova She gave a virtual podium ReachOut) or e-mail [email protected] . presentation at the College’s march 12 Annual research Symposium and • A unique course, “Innovations in Aging: The Power of Interprofessional presented a poster at the eastern Nursing Perspectives,” will be offered beginning next spring to undergraduate and graduate research Society’s 32nd Scientific students from any discipline. Developed by Dr. O’Connor and Meltem Izzetoglu, Sessions, held virtually march 26-27. As PhD, assistant professor of Engineering, it is the first across-campus course dedicated Dr. Guzzardo notes, “CrNA-driven quality to older adults. It will be an elective in Villanova Nursing’s Global Health minor improvement initiatives can shape the and interprofessionally taught. It was developed with $6,000 funding from the future of health-care delivery and Office of the Provost. • promote best practice.” •

8 Running back Justin Covington ’20 BSN, Wildcats team tri-captain last fall, devotes equal energy to his goal of becoming a nurse practitioner specializing in pediatric oncology.

Playmaker with Great vision Makes His Mark

ast and focused. That’s what life looks like for Justin better for his academic and athletic success. When he opened Covington ’20 BSN, who as a Nursing senior was star up to patients during his psychiatric rotation, he made Frunning back for the Wildcats and team tri-captain. With breakthroughs with them that seemed unlikely before he his average day starting at 6 a.m. and including weights, football stepped in. He ably handled post-game media interviews. practice, rigorous classes and often a clinical nursing rotation, One of Covington’s biggest plays to date? Lifting his leg just a fast pace is a must. His schedule is definitely not for every two days post-op for his torn ACL. student, but when the weight is balancing on Covington’s That lift bodes well for a continued positive outlook. Last fall shoulders, however, it looks easy. he spent the end of the season in full “captain mode,” actively In the five games the team captain played during the 2019 cheering on his teammates from the sidelines, marching up season before being sidelined by a torn ACL in game six, and down the field alongside them. He wrapped up classes this Covington rushed at least 100 yards each. He totaled 90 carries summer to earn his BSN and will enroll in Nursing graduate for 727 yards and three touchdowns. He remained the team’s classes (he redshirted his first year at Villanova) this fall as he leading rusher and at various times was top rusher in the studies for the nursing licensure exam. He is ready to up again conference and division. Those stats take skill or a sixth sense, if the Wildcats can play. and Covington has both. He says when he’s on the field, the clatter of shoulder pads, crowd cheers and plays called by Head Coach mark Ferrante worked together. It was in those “Sometimes you have to give more symphonic moments that he saw things his opponent did not. of yourself than you think you can to Covington pushed through holes before the defense could even realize he was gone. help others, make a big play when it The Bronx, N.Y., native is a lifelong athlete. Covington attributes his agility to his time in the dance studio, a rare seems like everything is against you.” experience that set him apart from his competitors. As a young —Justin Covington ’20 BSN man he performed tap, jazz and ballet before starting football in middle school. His strength of character though, comes from his mother, whom he calls his backbone. Covington hopes to pursue a career in pediatric oncology, Growing up with two strong women steered him toward looking toward earning a graduate degree to become a nurse nursing. When his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, practitioner. “I’m not just doing it for me,” he said thoughtfully, being part of her support system and seeing her nurses “but for the people at home… for other kids back in the Bronx providing care inspired his career choice. As a Nursing student, who need to look up to someone to see they can do it, too.” he continued to find that aspect of the profession tremendously Those youngsters may also notice his leadership off the field. rewarding. He was selected to address graduating student-athletes There have been only a handful of football-playing (virtually) and chosen for Athletics’ new unitas Leadership team. Nursing students in Villanova university’s history, which makes He is also a member of a new advocacy organization of Black Covington’s perspective revealing. Nursing, like football is athletes and of the university Police Oversight Committee. a team effort, he believes; collaborative care assures that To the young men looking to find a place where their passion patients get everything they need. In football and in nursing, for carrying a team and caring for others can meet, Covington “Sometimes you have to give more of yourself than you think encourages them not to be afraid. Nursing needs more men, you can to help others, make a big play when it seems like to provide a different perspective, Covington says, and he is everything is against you.” happy to set an example. Big plays show up everywhere for Covington. He chose If his Villanova career is any indication, this “supernova” Villanova over Yale because he believed the environment was has a fast-paced future ahead of him. • Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 9 College Highlights

New Consultors Share Expertise The Fitzpatrick College of Nursing welcomed the following new members to its Board of Consultors in 2019-2020.

Dee Silvers Adams ’86 BSN, of Gladwyne, John Mastrocola ’87 VSB, of Laguna Niguel, Pa., is a reiki master, founder of the Calif., is director of regional Operations- Integrative and regenerative Center Southern California, for Generations at Bryn mawr Hospital and advisor to Healthcare, which provides skilled nursing entrepreneurs in health care and life and rehabilitation services to older adults science. Previously she was in medical in California and Nevada. A retired naval rehabilitation, fitness and athletic training officer, he is a veteran of two Gulf wars. and launched her own company, From a family of Villanovans, he and his Yogasport. She and her husband, Nick, wife, Lois ’87 VSB, have three daughters have a son, Pierce, who is a senior in the who are Villanovans: Alexis ’16 VSB; Devin Villanova School of Business. ’16 BSN; and Victoria, a Nursing senior.

William R. Benvenuto ’87 CLAS, of Margaret Shull ’16 CLAS, ’17 BSN, of escondido, Calif., vice president, Legal Philadelphia, is a registered nurse in the Affairs, and chief compliance officer Neonatal Intensive Care unit at the for retrophin, Inc., has 20 years of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for pharmaceutical, medical device and Children in Wilmington, Del. She serves on diagnostic industry experience. Prior several committees and task forces there, to joining retrophin, he served in both including those related to informatics, corporate counsel and compliance infection prevention and employee officer roles with several companies. satisfaction. Her professional involvements He is a frequent speaker at health-care include Sigma Theta Tau, the National compliance conferences. Association of Neonatal Nurses and the Delaware Valley Association of Neonatal Nurses. Dorrie Fontaine ’72 BSN, of Washington, D.C., retired in summer 2019 after 11 years Daniel Tropeano ’92 CLAS, of as dean of the university of Virginia School Wayne, Pa., is chief executive officer of Nursing, which flourished under her for unitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania leadership. Now dean emerita, as dean she and Delaware and has more than 25 years was a strong proponent of mindfulness, of leadership experience in health and compassion—she founded the school’s employee benefits. Prior to joining the Compassionate Care Initiative—and health insurer in 2006, he served as promoting healthy work environments. She assistant vice president of sales with and her husband, Barry, have a son, Sumner empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and held ’12 CLAS, who graduated from Villanova. multiple leadership positions with Oxford Health Plans, now a unitedHealth Group subsidiary. He is active Margaret “Meg” Garrett ’72 BSN, in many local charitable and civic organizations. of Laurel, md., is president of Garrett Healthcare risk management Corp. Joy Vroman ’90 BSN, of Naples, Fla., is a in Baltimore, consulting with corporations part-time nurse at the Community School and health-care systems to mitigate their of Naples and serves as co-president of risk management and legal concerns. the Villanova Club of Naples. Her career A former Navy nurse, she retired in has included such areas as nursing summer 2019 as vice president of risk practice, education, quality assurance, management and chief legal counsel risk management and leadership positions for the Johns Hopkins Health System in in hospitals. She has also been a nurse Baltimore. Her daughter erin graduated from the Villanova School consultant for Hillenbrand Industry of Business in 2007 and earned an mBA there in 2015. (Hill-rom). Vroman has been a Villanova alumni recruiter in southwest Florida and for five years helped with college fairs and hosting Villanova freshmen send-off parties. She and her husband, mark, have a daughter Shannon, who is a senior in the Villanova School of Business. • 10 relevant Ce Content, Team members discuss the innovative approaches in design and platform being used in the Nurse manager Just in Time Certificate Program: (from left) mike Grossman, Dm, mSN, NeA-BC; Tyonne Hinson ’01 mSN, DrPH, Ne-BC; Teaching strategy expert Dr. evelyn Lengetti Capt. (ret.) maryalice morro ’83 BSN, mSN, mS, NeA-BC; Assistant Dean of explains how this web-based program prepares Continuing education evelyn Lengetti, nurse leaders to thrive. PhD, rN-BC; Andy-Guigiang Cui, PhD; Joe Barrow ’89 VSB; and Alysha meloche, mA.

ow do you re-envision the highly successful regional Nurse Manager Certificate Program after more than 15 years and 1,000-plus participants? You flip it on its head. “Let’s come at this traditional role in a nontraditional Meet Three Faculty way” is the approach taken by Evelyn Lengetti, PhD, RN-BC, assistant Members in the Nurse Hdean of Continuing Education (CE) and assistant professor at the M. Louise Fitzpatrick Manager Certificate College of Nursing. Her innovative approach to this leadership and management program Program involves teaching strategies and the impact on providing safe quality patient care by improving nurses’ clinical competence. With a goal of disruptive innovation as an Mike Grossman, DM, MSN, NEA-BC, underpinning throughout the six months, Dr. Lengetti looked not only at faculty and whose doctorate is in Organizational content but also the delivery and the rich experience of future participants to construct Leadership, has more than 35 years of leadership experience. Dr. Grossman the program’s next iteration. has been a director of nursing, nurse Dr. Lengetti’s new approach—the first of its kind—isn’t just another day at the office. manager, nephrology clinical nurse Nurse leaders face challenges in meeting their own learning needs while also managing specialist, psychiatric nurse and teams and moving health care forward. “We strategically integrated innovative teaching coordinator of nursing leadership strategies for this Web-based certificate program,” she notes. She infused the course with development at several of the nation’s leading academic health-care innovations including a flipped classroom model, micro-credentialing and principals of organizations. design thinking, as well as evidence-based adaptive learning. Tyonne Hinson ’01 MSN, DrPH, NE- “Creativity is not only seen as the skill of an artist but can be evident using imagination BC, who has more than 20 years of to problem-solve in any field,” Dr. Lengetti affirms. “We are fostering a learning experience, is the director of Nursing environment that encourages participants to imagine alternatives and new opportunities.” and director of Nursing Diversity She adds, “The micro-credentialing acknowledges the participants’ accomplishments but Initiatives at Boston Children’s also their knowledge and competencies for specific skills that are required for successful Hospital. Dr. Hinson leads and directs enterprise-level initiatives to nursing leaders in today’s dynamic health-care environment.” strengthen the hospital’s recruitment, Each month, the program addresses one of its six modules. Each module validates the retention, professional advancement learner’s credential in that specific topic, across such areas as leadership and management and inclusion of all members of the theories, decision-making and problem-solving, team-building, performance appraisal, and nursing workforce as a platform to finance and negotiation. promote diversity, health equity and reduce child health disparities. She is The program integrates the Clifton Strengths Assessment, which allows participants to a member of Villanova Nursing’s identify their top five Signature Themes, develop them into strengths during discussion and Board of Consultors. then apply those strengths to practice. The program’s faculty (see sidebar) are a diverse Capt. (Ret.) Maryalice Morro ’83 BSN, group of nurse leaders. MSN, MS, NEA-BC served in the Dr. Lengetti’s new approach honors the participants’ time and experience and provides u.S. Navy Nurse Corps for 29 years, a learning environment to propel them forward at the speed just right for them. Its seamless enjoying numerous assignments transition dovetails with Villanova Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program. in the united States and abroad. As a civilian she held several Those who successfully complete the certificate’s 34.5 contact hours receive credit for a executive-level roles in health care. DNP leadership course. That streamlines their degree education, which is just what they She serves on the College’s Board need to execute their leadership vision for their staffs and the communities they serve. • of Consultors. • Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 11 FAC ES OF COURAGE

he warnings about an outbreak of a new respiratory disease as the pandemic rapidly came, but its virus came more quickly. It spread efficiently dominated the Year of the and undetected as Americans went about their daily lives. TBut as the pandemic widened and intensified, the world Nurse and the Midwife, the slowed to a halt. Schools and many businesses went virtual (though sadly some were shuttered). Everywhere, there was a new normal meant coping singular focus on stopping the novel coronavirus first identified in with coVID-19’s unimaginable Wuhan, China, in late 2019. People everywhere—especially the elderly—were bombarded with messaging: “Don’t go out but if impact. Villanova nurses you must, wear your mask…wash your hands....stay six feet apart” to avoid catching the potentially lethal COVID-19 illness. are battling the disease By mid-September, there were more than 27.486 million and reaching out with heart, confirmed cases worldwide and more than 895,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. In the United mind and soul, exemplifying States, cases had topped 6.5 million and more than 193,700 people had died, according to Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 their value as leaders as they tracking. It was in every state, setting alarming records. adapt to an utterly changed Welcome to 2020. health-care arena. DISASTER MODE As the new decade dawned, nursing had been preparing for an exciting year. The World Health Organization had designated oN THe FroNT-LINes wITH our HuMBLe Heroes

Behind each coVID-19 statistic is a story of a person, a family, caregivers and those who support that care. every story usually involves at least one nurse, and often many more. They risk their lives to save others. The circle of caring widens to include essential workers such as truck drivers, grocery store employees and staff who pivot to support the health-care system. Villanova nurses are front and center during this pandemic. Their stories—their lived experience—describe vividly what it’s been like.

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2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife to contingencies. The goal was to have students safely and acknowledge their impact on health worldwide and to elevate appropriately meet their course goals and complete the academic nursing globally. It honors the 200th birthday of Florence year, with the seniors graduating on time. The College met that Nightingale, founder both of modern nursing and statistics. goal. Dean Havens also gathered deans from regional schools of Very quickly, the year focused on nursing in an even more nursing to collaborate on challenges and solutions. Faculty shared critical role. Between late January and March, the U.S. health- ideas and expertise with Margaret Hattori-Uchima ’13 PhD, RN, care system rapidly shifted to a mainly COVID-19 service dean of the University of Guam School of Health, and her faculty and braced for the tempest. As knowledge about coronavirus so they could ramp up to graduate students earlier to enter the and COVID-19 evolved, key organizations and experts had battle against COVID-19 on the island. to readjust their advice, which often confused providers The College’s contacts at local clinical sites were not sure how and the public. Hospital emergency departments were much longer they could accept students for rotations. Staff there overwhelmed. Personal protective equipment (PPE) was were concerned about not only the viral spread but the precious in dangerously short supply, generating disbelief, anger and PPE supply. Thus clinical rotations were pre-emptively canceled creativity. Urgent pleas went out for nursing help for the so the College could focus on the next steps. Villanova Nursing U.S. epicenter—New York City—and other areas preparing for donated its simulation lab PPE supply to the campus Student a surge. Many answered the call. Health Center, which was serving students who could not return Nurses are good at emergencies. COVID-19 propelled health home after Villanova University closed to the public on March 13. care into disaster mode, a space where nurses also excel. At the Communication is critical to an organized approach, so the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Donna S. Havens College instituted regular e-mails and town halls for students and ’83 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, Connelly Endowed Dean and faculty/staff. Faculty did media interviews to share their expertise Professor, led daily—and sometimes twice daily—administrative with the public. Those who needed additional training in online huddles to share timely information and prepare for all teaching were educated in the resources and techniques.

“I was called to go down to the “COVID-19 “Being in Nursing er and help transport patients to has affected Professional the ICus…the er nurses were too each one of Development overwhelmed. I was horrified by the us personally, during the sea of stretchers: every patient on and really pandemic was a a nonrebreather [mask], every changed how challenge to say patient gasping for air. It was an we do health the least…trying image I will never forget…. every day seemed like care. Yet, it has drawn to train the entire hospital to an endless loop of overhead announcements calling our strengths in working adult COVID ICu care, including ‘CAC’ [code] or ‘rapid response’ approximately together as a team with Or, PACu, med-Surg and my every 10 to 20 minutes. The mortality in the ICu was a clear focus.” own department of Pediatrics, astounding, and we were trying everything we knew Hellen Nyamu, BSN, RN, Family which had to change specialties how to do. One Sunday, I waited hours for a single Nurse Practitioner student and at the drop of a hat.” body bag because we had run out.” emergency room nurse, Johns Kerry Toal ’09 BSN, MSN, RNC-NIC, Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Maura Quinn ’15 BSN, RN, OCN, staff nurse, Medical IBCLC, nurse educator, NewYork- Intensive Care Unit, Montefiore Hospital, the Bronx, N.Y. Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Campus, She volunteered to take care of the first rule-out patient New York City because she was the youngest nurse on the unit that day.

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 13 “Zooming” became a verb that meant more than speed. In May, One of those answering Reilly’s call was Renee LaRosa the College began promoting two new programs (see page 17). Woodworth ’98 BSN, RN, NCSN, who took leave from her The College also pushed out calls for help from local health husband and children in Virginia and paused her business— systems as well as those in New York City. To capture the impact REACT emergency preparedness kits—to travel to Brooklyn on of nursing in this pandemic, Villanova Nursing solicited first- April 6. Woodworth, who became Reilly’s crisis staffing person accounts from alumni, faculty, staff and students who coordinator through May 8, noted: “We onboarded over 400 were supporting or providing care to COVID-19 patients in nurses in two and a half weeks to help support the rapidly a variety of settings. That request brought in more than 70 growing needs….” compelling stories, a few of which we’ve highlighted on these First responders like Evan Jenkins ’19 BA, ’20 BSN, at the pages. These accounts will be part of Villanova’s archives to time a Second-degree Accelerated BSN student and EMT with show future generations the impact of nurses. the Montclair (N.J.) Ambulance Unit, had to quickly pivot, just Whether from the Class of 2019 experiencing an like colleagues based in health-care facilities. He wrote: “…it unprecedented first year of their career or seasoned nurses seems near daily that the virus challenges us to jump over new dealing with situations they never thought possible, these hurtles and find balance on unfamiliar ground.” Jenkins will Villanovans appreciate the value of their education and their become a cardiac surgical ICU nurse in Baltimore at the bond with the larger Villanova community. The impact of University of Maryland Medical Center. these nurses and the sharing of their stories became amplified by social media, with supporters including Jay Wright, the William B. Finneran Endowed Head Coach of men’s basketball. IN MY owN worDs COVID-19 UNLEASHED The excerpts on these pages were submitted On March 28, from the battleground of Maimonides Medical by Villanova Nursing’s alumni, students, Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Kelly Reilly ’16 PhD, RN-BC, NEA-BC, faculty and staff. read their full accounts at a key nursing administrator, wrote: “It’s hard to imagine that as villanova.edu/nursingcovid19 . I am typing this we are trying to figure out how to care for a surge of patients in the next two weeks that will increase our census by 200 percent. Within the next few weeks it may be all COVID…. Having to work constantly in protective PPE is challenging The numbers of doctors, nurses and other members of the for already fatigued staffs. In Manhattan, Bellevue Hospital health-care teams exposed or confirmed COVID are increasing emergency nurse Amanda Cassidy ’18 BSN, RN described it well: exponentially.” Reilly is vice president, Patient Experience; vice “We’re hot. Our faces are dry and itchy from having to wear the president, Pediatric Nursing; and chief learning officer, Nursing. same mask for an entire shift. We’re breaking out under our face She lost no time in asking for help. shields that we’ve been using for the past week because the

“Despite the crisis, “everyone has been “All surgical APPs I am honored to asking me how I am [advanced practice work alongside the feeling and the best providers] got amazing health-care I can come up with is emergency workers I get to call overwhelmed. I am credentials for the my co-workers. overwhelmed with the Department of I am grateful to patients coming into the medicine. Now I am see first-hand how our community eD and knowing they are stripped away a nurse practitioner on a stepdown has come together to save those from their family and loved ones. But COVID-19 unit. I could never most vulnerable and lead with most importantly I am overwhelmed fathom the type of medical care we commitment and compassion. I can with the outpouring of love and support are giving now—escalating oxygen, confidently say, it wasn’t all dark.” from my family, friends and amazing discussions about wishes, seeing Rita Guarino ’20 BSN, CST (at the time a co-workers. Without their support, young people decline quickly. second-degree accelerated BSN student), I would not be able to do my job.” And pronouncing so many people.” surgical technologist, Main Operating Kathleen Michels ’15 BSN, RN, CCRN, Stephanie Manzella Rahaniotis ’91 BSN, Room, Level I Trauma, Nassau University clinical nurse, Emergency Department, MSN, ANP-BC, cardiothoracic nurse Medical Center, East Meadow, N.Y. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Campus, practitioner, NYU Winthrop Hospital, New York City Mineola, N.Y.

14 goggles they gave us are hurting our faces. We are tired. Many of pandemic. At least several Villanova nurses became ill with us are staying significantly longer than our scheduled shifts and COVID-19 and recovered, donating plasma so their antibodies coming in to work overtime because no amount of staff seems to could help someone else combat the disease. In the Philadelphia be enough staff. We are running mostly off of caffeine and region, Jennifer Gil ’13 BSN, RN began advocating on social adrenaline.” But, she promises: “This is our city and we won’t media for fellow nurses and for more PPE, as well as educating give up on you.” the public on COVID-19 through TV interviews with Univision. She soon developed symptoms of COVID-19. When she “IT HAS CHALLENGED MY PERSPECTIVE…” recovered, she returned to work as a staff nurse in the Emergency Health disparities were once again evident as COVID-19 Department at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. “I get to struck, noted Maura Quinn ’15 BSN, RN, OCN, staff nurse, put on my scrubs again and continue to do what I love most in Medical Intensive Care Unit, Montefiore Hospital in the this world: be a nurse,” she wrote. Bronx, N.Y. “It would be tone-deaf to ignore the way that this Gil began telling her story publicly. She was interviewed pandemic disproportionately affected minority communities on April 9 by Philadelphia’s CBS affiliate, among other outlets. in New York City. Many of the patients we serve face severe In a social media post, she was thankful for being able to raise socioeconomic challenges…. It has challenged my perspective awareness about the virus’ emotional impact on mental health and magnified disparities that call for urgent changes to our and well-being. She noted: “We must encourage open health-care delivery system.” communication for people to explore their emotions and share In Chicago, nurse practitioner Schuyler Perez de Salmeron their vulnerability to support healing and eliminate the stigma ’14 BSN, MSN, APRN, ACCNS-AG, in addition to working in about mental health. This is a crucial step in order to prevent the critical care, assisted the city’s Department of Public Health. negative long-term impacts of COVID-19.” This is one of the There, as part of the COVID-19 Response/Racial Equity Rapid reasons the College was compelled to launch quickly its Caring Response Team, she assessed COVID-positive patients in About Health for All Study (CHAMPS) (see pages 3 and 17). hospitals and the community to evaluate for eligibility for quarantine/isolation housing. She was reminded of her global INNOVATION AND INSPIRATION health trips as a Villanova Nursing student, when she first While living through this pandemic, the world has witnessed discovered her passion for public health. “These experiences hope, love and inspiration. There were stories of survival, of helped me to understand how truly multidisciplinary health and heroes from all walks of life, organizational barriers, professional health-care are,” observed de Salmeron. “I am using this thinking silos and inflexible rules that scattered like dust in the wind as when I assess my patients and help the processes we currently COVID-19 blew through the nation. Nurses with backgrounds have in place to evolve with the needs of our patients.” in research and innovation were creating hackathons and No one—including nurses—had immunity to this new joining study teams. They were sharing clinical information disease, and many health-care workers have died during the quickly and openly. They marshaled the talents of many from

“Never before has a “I worked the night “This COVID-19 case so deeply affected the [COVID-19] unit is unlike me. I was blessed to be reopened and we had 22 anything I’ve by the side of someone admissions…. Being a nurse seen in my who so clearly was able during this time has meant 23 years of to make her wishes so much to me…. It’s been nursing. The known and honored an honor to serve with my virus is so to be the substitute for the comforting co-workers and the critical-care teams invisible, and we don’t know hands of her family. As nurses we who are working trying to care for these who has it or who doesn’t…. should always know there is an patients…. It’s also been heartwarming to We just tackle each day…It opportunity to make a profound serve the community I was born into, and makes me very thankful to be difference in someone’s life.” seeing the acts of kindness from the local able to help—even if there are Stacey Ambrose, BSN, RN-BC, CHPN, businesses donating food and hearing the risks involved.” Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner student claps from New Yorkers when going into Jennifer Mondillo, PhD, MSN, MBA, and telemetry nurse, Paoli (Pa.) Hospital, my shifts makes me that much more CRNP, clinical instructor, Fitzpatrick Main Line Health, on aiding a patient in her determined to stay in this to beat this virus.” College of Nursing, and a per-diem 80s who likely contracted COVID-19 at her adult-gerontology nurse Emem Adanga ’16 BSN, RN, GI surgical nurse, husband’s funeral practitioner in nursing homes Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 15 diverse areas and perspectives to beat COVID-19 or at least push In New York City, at Mount Sinai Morningside, gerontology it back into Pandora’s box until herd immunity—or a vaccine— nurse practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice student could be achieved. Francisco Díaz, MSN, GNP-BC, CDCES switched from Villanova nurses and their colleagues worldwide have educating seniors in-person on diabetes care to using learned more than they ever thought they might need to. telemedicine. Then he was transferred to Mount Sinai West’s Michael Baladamenti ’18 BSN, RN, a Cardiac Intermediate Care Emergency Department, caring for about a dozen patients at nurse at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania (HUP) a time who might have COVID-19. He used his Spanish to bring in Philadelphia, sees the benefit: “During this fluid situation, we clarity to the Hispanic patients and families in his care. It is have all been tasked with roles we are not typically used to and “very important to offer them information about their loved we get to see the other side of patient care. This, truly, is making ones, in a language they can understand,” he noted in an me a better nurse and colleague.” April 17 Kaiser Health News post. “Thankfully, telemedicine Nurses. They smile even behind the mask. Always with a is allowing me and other APRNs to see and treat our diabetic holistic approach, they are thinking. Acting quickly. Giving and patients. The changes we are making now …are going to be the then giving more. They don and doff their cumbersome PPE, new way of caring for our patients in the future…. It is my hope expected now to reuse masks—unheard of before. They cope that the APRNs who were given full scope of practice due to valiantly with stress, fatigue and moral distress. Woven through COVID-19 will continue this practice after the pandemic.” that fabric of the pandemic experience are grit, courage, commitment, compassion and sacrifice. These ever-watchful “…STRONG ENOUGH FOR THIS JOB” sentinels gown up and go into the room. Every. Time. To encourage patients who recovered from COVID-19, Everywhere. hospitals have created special tributes. Baladamenti shared that In Seattle, Wash., after ICU doors closed to family members his favorite moment is when HUP plays part of the Beatles’ and smiles disappeared behind masks, Julie Suter ’15 BSN, RN- “Here Comes the Sun” every time a patient is discharged. “In the BC wanted to humanize the experience for her patients isolated beginning, we would hear many ‘Anesthesia STAT’ calls over the from their loved ones. “I wrote my name on my mask,” she hospital pager, but now we are hearing this song throughout the proclaimed. Suter is a clinical nurse II, Acute Care Resource day… I can’t help but smile.” Team, at the University of Washington Medical Center. Many For his colleagues who might be feeling distressed or fatigued, nurses and their colleagues used FaceTime or phones to connect Baladamenti noted, “I want to remind every nurse, across the their patients with family and friends. Nurses substituted for world, whether they are working with COVID-19 or not, they loved ones to hold the hands of strangers on ventilators, make are strong enough for this job; they were chosen to fulfill this role eye contact, encourage those struggling to recover to get up and and to be there for and with others.” He added, “Don’t doubt walk the halls. They went above and beyond to move the yourself; you’re making a difference every day.” • statistics needle favorably.

“We are working “As I walked onto the unit, I was “The virus closely with told I would be the nurse taking has hit Guam the hospital care of our first three COVID-19 hard and administration to patients in the hospital…. Those first our limited develop the role few weeks were very stressful and infrastructure for CrNAs and chaotic, as protocols were changing makes the anesthesiologists by the hour and patients were work more during our surge plan…. I am being admitted non-stop. Two weeks into having difficult. I have the support also helping to establish a COVID-19 patients on my unit, I was selected to be of the university to continue COVID anesthesia response up-trained as an ICu nurse within three days… training our [nursing] seniors team for the hospital.” I truly believe Villanova gave me the best education and prepare them as best we Jennifer Schieler String ’11 MSN, but more than that, it fortified my faith, which is can to enter the workforce.” CRNA, nurse anesthetist, something you truly need when you’re surrounded Margaret Hattori-Uchima ’13 PhD, Pennsylvania Hospital for Society Hill by dying patients every day with no end in sight RN, dean, University of Guam Anesthesia Consultants, Philadelphia of this horrible pandemic.” School of Health, Mangilao, Guam Tyler Connellan ’18 BSN, RN, staff nurse, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Orthopedics floor, Memorial 4, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City

16 THe coLLege’s PaNDeMIc INITIaTIVes n may, the Fitzpatrick College began promoting two new programs. As part of the new, campus-wide Gerontology Interest Group (GiG), Villanova reachOut supports older adults suffering from social isolation during “shelter in place” directives (see page 8). IThe Caring About Health for All Study (CHAmPS) examines data on those who serve the health-care system in support of COVID-19 care (see page 3). ruth A. mcDermott-Levy ’96 mSN, ’08 PhD, mPH, rN, FAAN, associate professor and director of the College’s Center for Global and Public Health, developed a six-episode webinar series, “Let’s Talk COVID-19,” to put factual information in the hands of caregivers. It is archived at the Center’s landing page. Dr. mcDermott-Levy uses her expertise in serving on Villanova’s Fall 2020 Planning Committee for COVID-19: return to Campus. The center has developed a racial Health Disparities committee, chaired by esther Laury, PhD, rN, assistant professor, to address COVID-19 and health policy issues with Philadelphia’s Black community. The committee includes representation from all of the colleges on campus. Teaming up with the College of engineering and other organizations, three Nurse Anesthesia graduate students quickly developed a prototype for a low-cost ventilator called NovaVent. There was an urgent need for it during the pandemic’s surge. The students are Shayla Davis, BSN, rN, CCrN; Lucas Halliday, BSN, rN, CCrN; and emily Hylton, BSN, rN, CCrN. Philadelphia officials asked Sandra “Sandy” Gomberg ’85 BSN, ’90 mSN, rN, adjunct faculty member in the Graduate students (from left) Shayla Davis, Lucas Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Halliday and Emily Hylton Program and president of SLG- reG, LLC, to be the CeO of the COVID Surge Facility being set up at Temple university for recovering patients. She and her quickly assembled team had 16 days to create this field hospital in the Liacouras Center, Temple’s basketball/events arena. It opened on time to orient 260 clinical staff and be ready for the 58 referrals that soon came. Gomberg handled press conferences and more. Why? She wanted to honor her DNP students who shared in her class their COVID-19 patient-care experiences. Assisting Gomberg were Dr. mcDermott-Levy; evelyn “evie” Lengetti, PhD, rN-BC, At Temple university’s Liacouras Center in assistant dean for Continuing education and assistant professor; and Catherine “Cathy” Philadelphia, Sandra “Sandy” Gomberg ’85 BSN, ’90 mSN, rN (right), adjunct faculty Curley, PhD, rN, clinical assistant professor, who volunteered to develop onboarding member in the Doctor of Nursing Practice materials and quality outcomes. Gretchen Bernatowicz ’19 DNP, CrNP, a nurse (DNP) Program and former president and practitioner in the Student Health Center, volunteered with the Philadelphia medical CeO of Temple Hospital, served as CeO of the COVID Surge Facility. Gretchen reserve Corps to serve at the facility. As part of the Infection Prevention and Control Bernatowicz ’19 DNP, CrNP, a nurse Team, she drafted policies and procedures and so much more. The field hospital closed practitioner in Villanova university’s when its patients had recovered. • Student Health Center, assisted Gomberg.

“Our hospital has been “Yes, we are scared “Amidst all this systematically cleared out, for ourselves, our uncertainty, only to be filled immediately families and our there is one with COVID-positive patients. patients; however, thing I am sure elective surgeries have been the true face of of now more canceled. I have seen nurses courage is doing than ever—the of all ages, experiences and what needs to be power of backgrounds come together as one unit. One done despite the fear.” kindness is healing in more team. This strong sense of community has —Michele McGarvey Connell ’86 BSN, ways than I have ever also extended beyond the hospital workplace. ’14 MSN, FNP-BC, CEN, CPEN, nurse understood. Be kind, love the The overflowing support and generosity from practitioner, Emergency Department, ones closest to you and spread the Villanova community as a whole has been Hospital of the University of positivity (it’s contagious).” so heartwarming. I am honored, humbled and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Doctor of Nursing Practice student Dana Bouwman ’17 BA, ’19 BSN, RN, proud to be a Villanova nurse.” staff nurse, Urgent Care Center, Britten Reilly ’15 BSN, RN, SCRN, senior nurse Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer clinician, Neuro ICU, NYU Langone Medical Center, Center, New York City New York City

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 17 sIx DeaNs wHo LeaD THe waY continuing with our series of leadership profiles, we present these pace-setting Villanovans who offer insights into their careers, their challenges and their hopes. read their full responses at villanova.edu/nursing .

Why is it important to you? Why are you enthusiastic about your work? HIHS is moving from an institute that provides a post-basic diploma to a higher institute that provides programs at the post-graduate diploma level. This transition stage is allowing me, as one of the leaders, to bring in positive “… bring in changes that can lead us to a better future. I enjoy working with people; therefore, working with a great team like the one in positive HIHS has tremendous impact on my work. Further, this role gives changes…” me a chance to maximize my potential and help others grow. What is your leadership philosophy? Leadership to me is all about leading by example. I believe in communicating openly with respect, maintaining integrity and authenticity. I strive to make a difference by working with my team and challenging their abilities, keeping in mind their individual differences. I ensure that I keep all whom l work with involved, informed and MANAL ABDUL MAJEED motivated to achieve the mission and vision of our institute. AL-ZADJALI ’02 BSN, PHD, MSN While doing so, I seek to continue exhibiting consistent moral, Dean of the Higher Institute of Health Specialties ethical and professional values. I continue to develop myself as (HIHS), Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman, a leader by seeking training opportunities and challenging my in Muscat (since 2018) own abilities to maximize my potential. How did you rise to this leadership position? I stayed Your hope for our profession? Nurses have achieved a lot so focused and educated myself by attending courses and trainings far. However, I think we still need to work more on eliminating in leadership and management. My direct supervisors trained me, the barriers to nurses’ full practice in their different roles, trusted my work and supported me in reaching where I am today. especially practicing independently. I also hope that we have more nurses in leadership positions.

18 What is your leadership philosophy? Put people first and prioritize relationships. Listen and speak up. Your hope for our profession? That we will continue to grow our ranks of thoughtful leaders who stand up for patients, families and the work setting for all nurses. “Listen and speak up.” MARY ELLEN GLASGOW ’87 MSN, PHD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN Dean and Professor, Duquesne University School of Nursing, in Pittsburgh (since 2012) How did you rise to this leadership position? Progressive academic administrator experience at Drexel University in DORRIE FONTAINE ’72 BSN, PHD, Philadelphia provided invaluable leadership experiences. I served RN, FAAN as director, assistant dean, chair and then associate dean. I was also fortunate to participate in two executive fellowships. Dean Emerita, University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing in Charlottesville Why are you enthusiastic? On a day-to-day basis I have an opportunity to impact the lives of nursing students and faculty Who influenced you? Dean Kathy Dracup, RN, PhD, FAAN and help them grow professionally. It is such a privilege. I know [now dean emerita] at the University of California San Francisco they are doing great work. In a larger sense, I am and always will School of Nursing hired me in 2002 to be the academic dean. be a nurse: My career is dedicated to improving the health and I knew her well from the American Association of Critical Care well-being of our communities. All of my work is in the pursuit Nurses (AACN) and I told her I hoped to be a dean one day. of that goal. She mentored me in all facets of the role, including development of faculty and philanthropy. I also had a superb clinical instructor Anything you wish you’d done differently? I wish I’d taken in the ICU at Villanova Nursing my senior year who certainly a few more risks by taking on things that I felt like I wasn’t quite helped me decide on a 47-year career as a critical care nurse! ready for and that would have really challenged me earlier in my path. Why are you enthusiastic? I was president of AACN and championed Healthy Work Environments (HWE) in critical- What’s your advice to someone who wants to be a leader? care settings as our most important initiative. As I became a Care about quality first no matter what your role is. Do your dean, I knew that the HWE initiative was imperative in homework. Do not bluff. Make data-informed decisions academia as well and so worked with faculty and staff at UVA considering equity and fairness of those involved and the to focus on creating an environment where all could flourish. outcomes you wish to achieve. If you do a good job, the UVA won the very first HWE award for an academic setting from Sigma in February 2019, validating our decade of work. What were the issues you dealt with and the biggest challenge? As dean, the key issue was recruiting faculty, especially a diverse faculty during a nursing and faculty shortage. HWE was critical to this effort. Keeping the focus on people and “Do your growing and developing leaders in the faculty, staff and students helped me be a successful dean. homework. How did innovation fit in? I believe it was innovative to Do not focus on creating the Compassionate Care Initiative, which enabled me to be a successful fundraiser for the school, raising bluff.” $55 million in 10 years.

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 19 accolades will follow. Do not search for them. And when they nursing workforce willing to provide the best care possible. I must come, own them as something you earned and deserve. be a part of the solution to the many problems affecting our island and region. Nursing leadership provides the means for me Your leadership philosophy? Be your authentic self. My to make impactful change at an individual, organizational and faculty trusts me to lead, which leaves them free to focus on our community level. Nursing is an amazing profession! students and their work, and I don’t do anything that would jeopardize that trust. In short, integrity is the foundation for that What is the biggest challenge? Trying to meet the myriad of trust, confidence and success. needs of our island community. The health disparities facing Guam and the Micronesian islands are daunting. The nursing What’s your hope for our profession? That nurses are given shortage feels insurmountable. But I have hope that our nursing more autonomy and can have a greater impact on health. I also education programs and our health-care infrastructure can hope that we become much more diverse as a profession and the improve to enable us to educate more nurses. public sees the intellectual rigor and thoughtfulness that we bring to health care. What’s critical to your success? Surrounding myself with people with a similar vision. How does innovation fit in? A leader should set goals and MARGARET HATTORI-UCHIMA work systematically to achieve those goals. The innovation lies ’13 PHD, RN in our sense of community and being responsive to the needs of our island and regional communities. Dean, University of Guam School of Health in Mangilao. Oversees the Nursing, Social Work and What’s your hope for our profession? That we will continue Health Science undergraduate degree programs to make changes in policy and practice that ultimately change (since 2014) the U.S. health-care system. This broken system needs the philosophy of caring and value of human dignity that is the heart Who influenced you? I was greatly influenced [at Villanova of the nursing profession. People need our help, and we can make Nursing] by Drs. Nancy Sharts-Hopko, Suzanne Smeltzer and a difference. Linda Copel. The PhD program opened my eyes to the vast opportunities in nursing and the importance of academia, research and nursing leadership while maintaining the strong values of community, caring and commitment. ANNE M. KROUSE ’81 BSN, PHD, Why is your position important to you? Guam suffers from MBA, RN-BC a huge nursing workforce shortage. We also have a crisis of non- Dean and Professor, Widener University School communicable diseases impacting our populations on Guam and of Nursing in Chester, Pa. (since 2018) in Micronesia. I am often asked why I returned, when there are many opportunities in the U.S. mainland. Our Pacific Island How did you rise to this leadership position? I worked peoples deserve opportunities, quality health care and a strong on my personal leadership development during my academic career and took on formal and informal leadership roles in academia. One that really changed my career trajectory was the elected role of faculty chair at Widener. Also, I took that risk and left Widener for two years to take on the role of “…make associate dean at the University of Delaware in Newark. impactful That gave me the opportunity to build a new skill set in change at an a different type of university. What’s the biggest challenge? Growing the enrollment individual, without compromising quality and student outcomes. This takes organizational a commitment to ensuring that the resources are in place. and community What’s critical to your success? Having a committed level.” leadership team, faculty, staff and administration that understand and support nursing. Innovation is part of my everyday role, whether developing a new program/delivery method or finding

20 now charged with the responsibility to provide the vision and dynamic leadership for its comprehensive community and global outreach strategies related to health-care services and education. What’s the biggest challenge? There remain significant barriers for advanced practice nurses to function at the top “Be reflective of their scope of practice and to receive equitable payor in everything reimbursement as autonomous practitioners. How does innovation fit in? In the not-too-distant future, you do.” most of health care will be delivered in cyberspace. It is imperative that we incorporate technological advances into the nursing curriculum, well beyond merely the electronic health record. I have spent the last two decades building virtual nurse- led clinics, which enable remote monitoring of patient biometric data across geographic boundaries, for which my work has been recognized by AARP, the American Academy of Nursing, the a way to fund something out of a flat budget. As a dean, it is Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Robert Wood Johnson important to be open to innovation from others and be ready to Foundation and others. support it when it fits with the mission and vision of the school. Anything you wish you’d done differently? Yes, I wish that Anything you wish you’d done differently? I would have early on I had allotted time to serve on National Institutes of sought a position external to Widener earlier—an external view Health review committees and on more national and helps a leader avoid groupthink. international health-care committees. What’s your advice to someone who wants to be a leader? What’s your advice to someone who wants to be a leader? Seek out opportunities through informal leadership opportunities Develop an area of passion within the health-care arena, pursue and leadership development programs. Be reflective in that passion, publish your findings, present at national and everything you do. Know what is important to you and be international forums, serve on professional nursing and health- committed to it. Be respectful, honest and of high integrity. care committees, and engage with elected officials to help Be curious and take chances. promote and advance your concepts. Your hope for our profession? That we come together Your hope for our profession? Both within the nation and without multiple entry pathways so we can build a strong worldwide, nursing needs to be viewed as a major contributor to profession with a strong voice in advocating for our patients the health-care arena, with all of the authority and responsibility and our profession. afforded to other disciplines, in leading interprofessional teams of collaboration. • GLORIA J. MCNEAL ’70 BSN, PHD, MSN, ACNS-BC, FAAN Associate Vice President (AVP) for Community Affairs in Health at National University (NU) in “… incorporate San Diego (one year). Previously: Founding Dean and Professor, Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing, technological Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles (three and a half years) and dean advances into of NU’s School of Health and Human Services the nursing (six years) Why are you enthusiastic? It is vitally important that nurses curriculum…” have a seat at the table. In my new position as AVP, I play a larger role in decision-making at the top of the university. I am

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 21 Faculty Focus

Students Become Changemakers and Advocates for Social Justice

n the first hour of their first “Cross Cultural Communication Desks arranged in a circle support the new course’s cross-cultural in Health Care” class, seniors in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick dialogue and the team atmosphere that faculty encourage. ICollege of Nursing take part in an exercise on perception. It’s the first of several Intergroup Relations (IGR) exercises “Our students want to know how to interact with patients, on how to create relationships of understanding among people but they don’t expect that—from their first class—we will be from different social, economic, racial and ethnic groups. looking at cultural differences through a social justice lens,” says “We teach our Nursing students to understand their future Dr. Bradley. “What we’re doing is teaching professional nursing patients, their patients’ families and their future colleagues in the values. Our goal is to help students learn advocacy and learn health-care field, and we do this by practicing careful listening and how to implement change.” by having meaningful dialogue,” observes Patricia K. Bradley, PhD, Students also discuss situations they see in the hospitals RN, FAAN, associate professor and associate dean for Inclusive regarding who on a staff has more power, and how people get Excellence. She co-teaches the course with Sherry Perlmutter power in society. They come to realize that many of these issues Bowen, PhD, an associate professor of communication who directs are rooted in society and that they themselves can be the ones the Villanova university-wide IGR program. to break away from the mold, identify what is going on and In this seven-week senior seminar, students reflect on issues acknowledge that these situations can be discussed. and trends in health-care relating to social justice and “If you realize something is going on, you have the power to oppression. Limited to 12 or fewer students, the class provides ask people if they’ve thought about it in a different way,” an intimate setting with desks in a circle. observes senior Anna Allocco. •

Pilot Course on Climate Change Draws international Students

nspired by conversations with colleagues at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), ruth mcDermott-Levy ’96 mSN, ’08 PhD, mPH, rN, FAAN last spring launched an innovative interdisciplinary (nursing, medicine and public health) course: “Global IPerspectives for Climate and Health.” An associate professor of Nursing and director of Villanova Nursing’s Center for Global and Public Health, Dr. mcDermott-Levy worked on this course while based at the university of eastern Finland as a Fulbright-Saastamoinen Scholar in fall 2018. PHFI faculty supported it by designing the test materials and consulting on topics. She also connected with a Nigerian faculty member who had earned his PhD in environmental Health in Finland. Dr. mcDermott-Levy The course, to be offered again this year, examines the impact of climate Honored for Leadership change on human health in Finland, India, Nigeria and the united States. The The 2020 Charlotte Brody Award has been given to class studied climate health science; strategies of mitigation and adaptation; Ruth McDermott-Levy ’96 MSN, ’08 PhD, MPH, RN, local, national and international policy; and real-time ground-level climate FAAN for her exemplary environmental nursing realities from each participating nation. leadership. The award was presented to her in June Designed as asynchronous classes with one live seminar, the course had by two organizations, Health Care Without Harm and “very positive feedback” from all the students. Twelve were from Villanova the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. (pre-health science), three from Finland (graduate nursing) and two from The organizations noted, “From educating Nigeria (medicine and public health). After eight other Nigerians were nursing students to civil disobedience at unaccustomed to an on-line platform, Dr. mcDermott-Levy says the faculty the nation’s capital, McDermott-Levy’s have learned ways to engage and support students who are new to it. bold environmental and climate “This is the first Villanova course to be taught with students and faculty advocacy epitomizes the ways nurses from other nations,” notes Dr. mcDermott-Levy. Faculty (including those can lead in the face of the climate from India) will be meeting virtually to consider “enhancements for the crisis.” The associate professor course and how we will build upon this work.” The ripple effects continue: of Nursing is also director of “Our Indian colleagues are working to share this type of on-line learning to Villanova Nursing’s Center for educate more health-care providers globally.” • Global and Public Health. •

22 National calls to action Villanova Nursing faculty—change agents all—continue to bring the voice of nursing to critical societal and health issues based on their years of research and advocacy. Here are several examples of their important initiatives.

On Gun Violence On Maternal Health “…invest in an active and engaged school nurse “Women should know they are not alone in their workforce that is well-positioned within school postpartum recovery…. For the sake of social justice environments to transform fear into courage and and decreasing the significant racial disparities in anticipation into action by implementing student- maternal mortality and morbidity, health-care focused strategies rooted in prevention.” providers must realize the importance of fourth- —Current Trauma Reports trimester care.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer That journal had invited papers from all disciplines to give a diverse perspective The headline on that op-ed published on school shootings and solutions to July 7, 2019, in the newspaper’s Sunday gun violence. Sunny G. Hallowell, PhD, edition was: “maternal Health matters PPCNP-BC, IBCLC, assistant professor, After Birth. We Need ‘Fourth Trimester’ was the invited senior scientist on the Care.” esther r. Laury, PhD, rN, assistant nursing paper, “School Nurses Share professor, based her op-ed on her call to Their Voices, Trauma, and Solutions by action co-authored with montgomery, Sounding the Alarm on Gun Violence,” T.m. in Nursing for Women’s Health , June with co-authors Cogan, r.; Nickitas, 1, 2019. Dr. Laury’s op-ed was picked up D.m.; and mazyck, D. The school nurses call for new strategies by Managed Care magazine. She is the regarding protection, preparation and prevention. The scholarly inaugural chair of the racial Health Disparities committee of the article, published online November 22, 2019, has generated College’s Center for Global and Public Health. media interviews and Twitter conversation. On Military Sexual Trauma On Preterm Birth “The VA’s national screening program in 2018 reported “Health-care providers can no longer relegate preterm that approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 100 men, birth to an irrelevant portion of a patient’s medical when screened by their VA provider, revealed that history.... They can and should provide care to they have experienced MST [military sexual trauma].” influence the future expression of these health risks.” —Nursing Outlook —Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners A nationally recognized expert on That observation by co-authors michelle military and veteran health issues, m. Kelly ’94 BSN, ’12 PhD, rN, CrNP, Helene moriarty ’77 BSN, PhD, rN, associate professor (right), and Patricia FAAN, the Diane L. and robert F. moritz, Griffith, mSN, CrNP, ACNP-BC, a PhD Jr. endowed Chair in Nursing research, student, is from their article, “The has contributed to the American Influence of Preterm Birth Beyond Academy of Nursing’s policy brief on Infancy, an umbrella review of military sexual trauma, “experiences of Outcomes of Adolescents and Adults Sexual Assault and/or Sexual Born Preterm,” published online Harassment During a Service member’s October 18, 2019. The authors call for military Career.” It represents the work of the Academy’s Violence curriculum and practice standards to advance and include this expert Panel and its military and Veterans Health expert Panel. new body of literature, noting, “Just as recognition of obesity Dr. moriarty is a member of the latter group. The brief, published as a significant risk for coronary artery disease began with by Nursing Outlook online June 18, 2019, includes multiple the 1998 proclamation by the American Heart Association, recommendations, such as access to adequate resources and it is time to make a similar proclamation for preterm birth. development of a culture of safety. In September 2019, she Health-care providers must recognize the lifelong risk began a three-year term on the VA Nursing research Field conferred by preterm birth.” Advisory Committee.

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 23 Faculty Focus

TRANSiTioNS Welcoming Talented Faculty Who Are Shaping Science and the Future

Bette A. Mariani Psychology at the university of Chicago, Ambulatory Clinical ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, with post-doctoral training in Neuroscience Operations and ANEF in January at Duke university. Community was promoted to Outreach, at Cooper Catherine P. vice dean for university Health Lovecchio ’85 BSN, Academic Affairs Care in Camden, N.J. ’08 PhD, RN in after serving as recently as an June became a faculty member adjunct faculty associate dean for since 2004. Her member at Villanova undergraduate scholarship focuses Nursing, she Programs. With 25 on advancing the taught population/ years’ experience in science of nursing community health. higher education, education, addressing educational She earned her BSN from LaSalle university, most recently pedagogy and simulation to improve her mSN from West Chester university and she chaired the patient safety and quality. Dr. mariani was her PhD from Widener university. Department of president of the International Nursing Nursing at the university of Scranton, where Association for Clinical Simulation and Gail E. Furman, EdD, she taught and was the director of its Learning and is a National League for MSN, RN joined the Center for Health and Wellness education. Nursing Center of excellence consultant and faculty in July as She is the founding director of Villanova a Sigma Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy clinical professor and university’s health center. She has published mentor. She consults in Australia and Asia executive director of and presented on a clinical nurse liaison to promote international collaboration on the Simulation and model and alcohol education for college simulation-based nursing education and Learning resource students. The Villanova BSN and PhD in standards of best practice. Center. most recently, Nursing alumna earned her master’s in she served as the Peter G. kaufmann, Adult Health and Nursing education at National Board of PhD, FABMR, who what is now misericordia university. medical examiners’ became the Heather Brom, PhD, director of inaugural associate RN, NP-C joined the educational Design and Development and dean for research College in August as at Drexel university College of medicine and Innovation the inaugural as an adjunct professor in the Department in August 2019, eastwood Family of Family, Community and Preventative is experienced in endowed Assistant medicine. Dr. Furman’s numerous the design of high- Professor and is publications and presentations focus on quality clinical teaching acute care simulation and clinical teaching. She research and medical-surgical received her BSN, mSN and edD from the observational subjects. She has Saint Louis university School of Nursing. studies. He holds a joint appointment in a great depth of Psychology at Villanova’s College of Liberal Janell Mensinger, experience in Arts and Sciences. During his 30-year career PhD, FAED, oncology nursing. Dr. Brom most recently at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appointed associate was a post-doctoral research fellow at he launched numerous research projects research professor the university of Pennsylvania School of on the influence of psychosocial factors in last October, was Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and health and created the renowned Summer formerly at Drexel Policy research and an associate fellow at Institute on Behavioral randomized university as an Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Controlled Trials. While at NIH’s National associate research economics. At Ohio State, she earned a BS Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, he professor and in Psychology, an mSN as a Family Nurse conducted numerous clinical trials and was director, Biostatistics Practitioner and a PhD in Nursing. instrumental in creating the Centers for Service Center in the Population Health and Health Disparities to Catherine Curley, PhD, RN joined the Dornsife School of find solutions for the health challenges of College in march as clinical assistant Public Health. Her impressive array of minorities. Dr. Kaufmann previously served professor, teaching in the Second-degree publications complements the College’s as associate dean of research, Innovation Accelerated BSN track. Her background research enterprise and faculty expertise. and entrepreneurship at the university of is in education, hospital administration, A quantitative health psychologist, South Florida College of Nursing. He earned business line strategy, and population Dr. mensinger provides expertise in a BS and mA in Psychology at Loyola and community health. Dr. Curley research methodology, study design and university (Chicago) and a PhD in previously was assistant vice president, biostatistics. Her research focuses on the

24 effect of weight stigma and discrimination experience mental on health outcomes and behaviors. She illness. He has earned a BA in Psychology from West teaching experience Chester university and a PhD in Psychology in mental and public with Health and Quantitative concentrations health and from the City university of New York. community nursing; psychological and Jaclyn Parkinson social factors ’11 MSN, RN, PCCN in health and joined the full-time wellness; and social faculty last January determinants of as clinical instructor health. He earned teaching under- a BA from rice university and at the graduates about university of Pennsylvania a BSN, mSed in adult health/critical Counseling and Psychological Services, care nursing, mPhil in Professional Counseling and PhD especially in the in Nursing Science. Second-degree Dr. Perry, Accelerated BSN Former interim track. Certified in progressive care nursing, she has clinical experience in trauma, Angelina Arcamone Dean, Retires surgical and home health nursing and an ’82 BSN, ’86 MSN, interest in moral distress in nursing students o celebrate a very special PhD, RN in June and new nurses. An adjunct faculty member transitioned to colleague and friend on her since 2014, she has taught clinical practica clinical assistant retirement—Lesley Perry, PhD, in medical-surgical, home health and T professor. She will rN, associate dean for Academic leadership rotations. She earned her BSN teach nursing from West Chester university and her mSN Affairs—well-wishers gathered on education in the from Villanova. November 25, 2019, in the Driscoll Hall Graduate Program Atrium. James vines, PhD, and “Introduction to The College recruited Dr. Perry in MEd, who in Professional Nursing” 2006 as associate dean and professor, August 2019 was to undergraduates. named Nursing As associate dean of the undergraduate benefiting from her wealth of Student Success Program (2011-2020), she oversaw the experience in academic administration and retention implementation of online exam technology at all levels. At the university of advisor, includes and a successful curriculum revision. She maryland School of Nursing for 29 years, among his research formed an ad-hoc committee to examine she oversaw academic and operations- interests bullying, the College’s strategies for NCLeX success, related activities. regardless of the cyberbullying, which in 2018-19 led to a 97 percent pass locale, Dr. Perry is held in high regard as public policy, and rate. a truly nice person who brings humor the recruitment and Tamara kear retention of minorities in higher education. and a collegial spirit to everything in ’09 PhD, RN, CNS, He is a journal reviewer, has published in which she is involved. CNN, FAAN in peer-reviewed journals and has presented Building on her service in academic January transitioned his work nationally and internationally. Dr. programs, daily operations, strategic to executive director Vines served as faculty advisor for the Act of the American planning, obtaining grant funding, 101/educational Opportunity Program to Nephrology Nurses chairing dissertation committees, and assist students in transitioning from high Association, which faculty recruitment and development, school to college at Bloomsburg university. she had recently led He received his BA in Political Science from Dr. Perry culminated her leadership in as president. She will St. mary’s College of maryland, his med in being named interim dean of Villanova remain as an adjunct Counselor education from Virginia State Nursing on September 18, 2017, professor. Dr. Kear in university and his PhD in educational following the death of m. Louise march received the 2020 medal of Leadership and Higher education from Fitzpatrick, edD, rN, FAAN, Connelly excellence in the Nursing category from the Clemson university. American Association of Kidney Patients. endowed Dean and Professor. Dr. Perry Guy M. Weissinger ii, BSN, MPhil, PhD, The award is one of this advocacy also was instrumental in the transition of RN, assistant professor, joined the faculty in organization’s highest honors for those at Dean Havens, generously sharing her August. His research focuses on using the forefront of advancements in kidney wise counsel. She plans to stay patient-centered approaches to understand care and patient empowerment. connected to the College for special and improve the health of people who projects. •

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SELECTED PuBLiCATioNS AND ACHiEvEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS Sherry Burrell ’15 PhD, RN, CNE, ACNS-BC, assistant professor, • with Agnes Cho ’18 BSN, “unintentional Gun Violence in the published two articles with Jennifer Gunberg Ross ’00 BSN, Home: A Survey of Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurses’ ’05 MSN, ’11 PhD, RN, CNE, associate professor; Mary Ann Heverly, Preventative measures” in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care , PhD, associate adjunct professor; Tina Menginie ’18 MSN ; 34 (1), 23-29; and Bette A. Mariani ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, ANEF, vice dean for • with senior Alexandra Cordom ; Gultekin, L.; Brush, B.L.; and Academic Affairs: Ginier, e., “Health risks and Outcomes of Homelessness in • “Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Nursing education School-age Children and Youth: A Scoping review of the research and Participation in Pedagogical research” in Literature” in the Journal of School Nursing , 36 (1), 10-18 (epub. Nurse Educator (epub. ahead of print, January 14); and ahead of print, September 15, 2019); and • “Psychometric evaluation of the Nursing Students’ Attitudes • with Julia Noel ’19 BSN, “risk Behaviors of High School Toward Nursing education research Questionnaire” in the Students Who report Knowing Someone Who Self-Harms” in Journal of Nursing Measurement , 28 (2) (epub. ahead of print, Issues in Mental Health , 41 (5), 415-420 (epub. ahead of print, march 30). January 16).

Mary Ann Cantrell ’89 MSN, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, Diane M. Ellis ’84 BSN, ’92 MSN, RN, CCRN, clinical assistant professor and director of the PhD in Nursing Program, published: professor, published with Shelly Hickey ’07 MSN; Vernon, G.; Addie Doyle ’19 BSN; Meghan Galvin ’19 BSN ; Patricia Prieto, • with PhD student Jessie Reich, MSN, RN, ANP-BC ; Nancy Wise MBA, BSN, RN, CHSE, nursing simulation operations specialist; and ’09 MSN, ’15 PhD, RN ; and Suzanne C. Smeltzer, EdD, RN, Melissa o’Connor, PhD, MBA, RN, FGSA, associate professor, the ANEF, FAAN, the richard and marianne Kreider endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations, “Sickle Cell article “medication Safety of Parkinson’s Disease Patients During Disease in the Young Adult Population: A Historical review Care Transitions: educating Nursing Students” in Nursing Education and Implications for Nurses” in Medical Surgical Nursing , 28 (4), Perspectives , 40 (6), e22-e24. 213-218; and Sunny G. Hallowell, PhD, PPCNP-BC, iBCLC, assistant professor, • with Dr. Wise, “effectiveness of recruitment and retention published: Strategies in a Pregnant Adolescent Nutrition Intervention • with Zou, P.; Sun, W.; Luo, Y.; Lee, C.; and Ge, L., “use of Guest Study,” in the Journal of Advanced Nursing , 75 (1), 215-223. Speakers in Nursing education: An Integrative review of Theresa M. Capriotti ’95 MSN, Do, CRNP, clinical professor, multi-disciplinary Literature” in Advances in Medical Education published: and Practice , April 10, 2019, 175–189 and • the book Pathophysiology: Introductory Concepts and Clinical • with Oerther, S.; rossiter, A.; and Gross, D., “The American Perspectives , 2nd edition; Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholars Program: mentoring Future Nurse Leaders to Advance Health Policy” in the Journal with senior Breanna Ashline, the article “Systolic Heart Failure: • of Advanced Nursing , 74 (10), 2253-2257. An update for Home Healthcare Clinicians” in Home Healthcare Now , 37 (6) 312-318; Donna S. Havens ’83 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, Connelly endowed • with senior Morgan Micari, the article “Chronic Heart Failure Dean and Professor, published her editorial, “The eyes of the Treatment with the Left Ventricular Assist Device” in Home World Are on Nurses,” for the American Nurses Association’s Healthcare Now , 37 (4), 190-197; myamericannurse.com , June 30. She wrote, “Nurses have limitless • with seniors Lynne kelley and Dana Galgano, the article opportunities to provide leadership. Let us cohesively and “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Fighting for each inclusively use this power to not only educate but to also impact Breath” in The Clinical Advisor (epub. ahead of print, July 12, policy and practice to build positive work environments and 2019); and effective and equitable health care systems in our diverse society.” • with juniors Tiffany Pearson and Lillian Dufour, the article Peter G. kaufmann, PhD, FABMR, associate dean for research and “Health Disparities in rural America: Challenges and Future Innovation, published with riesch S.K.; Liu J.; Doswell, W.m.; Cohen, Solutions” in The Clinical Advisor (epub. ahead of print, S.; and Vessey, J., the article “Preventing Adverse Health Behavior February 3). Among Children and Adolescents by Addressing Screen media Practices Concomitant to Sleep Disturbance” in Nursing Outlook , Linda Carman Copel, PhD, RN, CNS,BC, CNE, NCC, ANEF, FAPA, 67 (4), 492-496. professor, published: • with Sacco, T.L., the article “Compassion Satisfaction: A Concept Tamara M. kear ’09 PhD, RN, CNS, CNN, FAAN, adjunct associate Analysis in Nursing” in Nursing Forum , 53 (1), 76-83; and professor, published two articles in Nephrology Nursing Journal: • the op-ed “Domestic Violence Victims Need Crucial Support “Partnering with Kidney and Nursing Communities to Advance During the Coronavirus” in The Philadelphia Inquirer , April 6. Kidney Health” 46 (4), 373-374 and “every Nurse Is a Leader: Building on 50 Years of Nephrology Nursing Leadership” 46 (2), 101, 154. Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and coordinator of undergraduate research, published the articles: Michelle M. kelly ’94 BSN, ’12 PhD, RN, CRNP, assistant professor, published two articles: • with Lucy Andersen ’18 BSN, “Access to Clean Water and urinary Tract Infections in Haitian Women” in Public Health • with mcCarthy, A., “Ahead of the Curve: Pediatric Scoliosis” Nursing , 36 (6), 800-805; in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners , 16 (1), 34-40 (epub. ahead of print, September 23, 2019); and

26 • with PhD student Patricia Griffith, MSN, CRNP, ACNP-BC and Jennifer Gunberg Ross ’00 BSN, ’05 MSN, ’11 PhD, RN, CNE, Becker, D., “On-call Simulation for Adult Gerontology Acute Care associate professor, published: Nurse Practitioner Students: A Comparative Descriptive Study” • with Dunker, K.S. and Duprey, m., the article “Simulation in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Strategies used in the Transition from expert Clinician to Novice (epub. ahead of print, December 19, 2019). educator” in Nursing Education Perspectives (epub. ahead of print, June 19); Linda Maldonado, PhD, RN, assistant professor, published with Helene Moriarty ’77 BSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Diane L. and robert • with Sherry A. Burrell ’15 PhD, RN, CNE, ACNS-BC, assistant F. moritz, Jr. endowed Chair in Nursing research, the article professor, “Nursing Students’ Attitudes Towards research: An “engagement of urban, Pregnant Puerto rican Women in Health Integrative review” in Nurse Education Today , 82 (November Disparities research” in the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and 2019), 79-87 (epub. ahead of print, August 7, 2019); and Neonatal Nursing , 48 (6), 683-692. • with Silver Dunker, K., the article “New Clinical Faculty Orientation: A review of the Literature” in Nursing Education Ruth McDermott-Levy ’96 MSN, ’08 PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Perspective , 40 (4), 210-215. associate professor and director of the College’s Center for Global and Public Health, published with Kolanowski, A.m.; Fick, D.m.; and Suzanne C. Smeltzer, RN, EdD, ANEF, FAAN, the richard and mann, m.e. the article “Addressing Health risk of Climate Change in marianne Kreider endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Older Adults” in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing , 45 (11), 21-29; Populations, published with ryan, J.e. and Nancy Sharts-Hopko, and also with Fick “Advancing Gerontological Nursing Science in PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, CNE, professor, the article “Challenges to Climate Change” in Research in Gerontological Nursing , 13 (1), 6-12. Studying Illicit Drug users” in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship , Colleen Meakim ’84 MSN, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF, assistant professor 51 (4), 480-488. of the Practice and director of the Second-degree Accelerated BSN track, published with Bradley, C.S.; Johnson, B.K.; Dreifuerst, K.T.; Carol Toussie Weingarten, PhD, RN, ANEF, associate professor, White, P.; Conde, S.K.; Curry-Lourenco, K.; and Childress, r.m., the published with Linda Carman Copel, PhD, RN, CNS,BC, CNE, article “regulation of Simulation use in united States Prelicensure ANEF, NCC, FAPA, professor, and Schmidt, C.K., the article Nursing Programs” in Clinical Simulation in Nursing , 33 (C), 17-25. “The Nursing Process as a model for Supporting Student Attendance at State and National Student Nurses’ Association Janell Mensinger, PhD, FAED, associate research professor, Conferences” in the newsletter Dean’s Notes , National Student published with Granche, J.L.; Cox, S.A.; and Henretty, J.r. the article Nurses’ Association, 40 (4), 1-3. “Sexual and Gender minority Individuals report Higher rates of Abuse and more Severe eating Disorder Symptoms Than Cisgender Christina Whitehouse ’04 BSN, ’16 PhD, CRNP, CDE, assistant Heterosexual Individuals at Admission to eating Disorder professor, published: Treatment” in the International Journal of Eating Disorders , 53 (4) with Lamanna J.; Litchman m.L.; Dickinson J.K.; Todd, A.; Julius, (epub. ahead of print, march 13). • m.m.; Hyer, S.; and Kavookjian, J., the article “Diabetes education Helene Moriarty, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and the Diane L. Impact on Hypoglycemia Outcomes: A Systematic review of and robert F. moritz, Jr. endowed Chair in Nursing research, evidence and Gaps in the Literature” in The Diabetes Educator , published with Susan D. Birkhoff ’10 MSN, ’17 PhD “Challenges 45 (4), 349-369; in mobile Health App research: Strategies for Interprofessional • with Long, J.; maloney, L.; kim Daniels ’19 DNP, ACNS-BC, researchers” in the Journal of Interprofessional Education and RN-BC, CCRN; Horowitz, D.; and kathryn H. Bowles ’90 MSN, Practice , 19 (June), 100325. PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMi, the article “Feasibility of Diabetes Tracy L. oliver, PhD, RDN, LDN, associate professor; Amy E. Self-management Telehealth education for Older Adults During Mckeever ’08 PhD, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, associate professor; Transitions in Care” in Research in Gerontological Nursing , 13 (3), Rebecca Shenkman, MPH, RDN, LDN, director of the College’s 138-145; and macDonald Center for Obesity Prevention and education (COPe); • with Dr. Bowles; murtaugh, C.m.; Jordan, L.; Barron, Y.; and Lisa Diewald, MS, RD, LDN, program manager, COPe, mikkelsen, m.e.; Chase, J.D.; ryvicker, m.; and Feldman, P.H., the published “Barriers to Healthy eating in a Community that utilizes article “A Profile of Sepsis Survivors Transitioned to Home Health an emergency Food Pantry” in the Journal of Nutrition Education Care and early readmission risk Factors” in the Journal of the and Behavior , 52 (3), 299-306. American Medical Directors Association , 21 (1), 84-90.

College’s New Grants Support Research

The Fitzpatrick College of Nursing instituted in 2019-2020 a new research Development Grant Program to lay the groundwork for future full-scale research studies. The inaugural recipients are: • Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and coordinator of undergraduate research: $10,000 for “examining the Influence of Sleeping with Technology in a College Student Population.” She will survey 700 Nursing undergraduates on their use of technology after bedtime and the practice of sleep texting, which influences the quality of sleep and daytime performance. • Christina Whitehouse, PhD, CRNP, CDE, assistant professor: $13,500 for “Feasibility Study for the Provision of meals for Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes During Transitions of Care.” She and fellow scientists seek to determine whether providing home-delivered meals improves their HbA1C biomarker of diabetes. Her colleagues are Helene Moriarty ’77 BSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and the Diane L. and robert F. moritz, Jr. endowed Chair in Nursing research; Janell Mensinger, PhD, FAED, associate research professor; Tracy L. oliver, PhD, RDN, LDN, associate professor; Judith Long, mD; and kathryn H. Bowles ’90 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMi .

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Five Faculty Members Named AAN Fellows

ongratulations to our faculty members who have been selected in the last two classes of Fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Nursing—a recognition of their contributions to science and their advancement of health and the profession. Three c were inducted last fall: Tamara M. kear ’09 PhD, RN, CNS, CNN, FAAN, adjunct associate professor; Ruth McDermott-Levy ’96 MSN, ’08 PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, associate professor and director of the College’s Center for Global and Public Health; and Jennifer Yost ’00 BSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor. To be inducted this fall are Bette A. Mariani ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, ANEF, vice dean for Academic Affairs, and Melissa o’Connor, PhD, MBA, RN, FGSA, associate professor and director of Villanova Nursing’s Gerontology Interest Group. read more about their accomplishments at villanova.edu/nursing .

ACHIEVEMENTS

Sherry A. Burrell ’15 PhD, RN, CNE, ACNS-BC, assistant professor, patient safety gap. Her proof of concept pilot study, “Virtual reality presented with Jennifer Gunberg Ross ’00 BSN, ’05 MSN, ’11 PhD, Simulation for Teaching and evaluation of medication Safety,” was RN, CNE, “Psychometric evaluation of the Nursing Students’ a collaboration with Dr. edward Kim, a Drexel university computer Attitudes Towards Nursing education research Questionnaire” at scientist. The study was funded by the Pennsylvania Higher the Professional Nurse educator Group’s 46th annual conference, education Nursing Schools Association. held in Cleveland last October. Dr. Burrell received a $25,000 two-year grant from the Oncology Nursing Society for “Appraisal, Donna S. Havens ’83 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, Connelly endowed Burden, Needs, Depression and Quality of Life Among Caregivers Dean and Professor, notes she is “honored to be selected to serve” of Veterans with Cancer,” with Helene Moriarty ’77 BSN, PhD, RN, on the Board of Trustees at main Line Health, effective this FAAN, professor and the Diane L. and robert F. moritz, Jr. endowed September. “This is an opportunity for the Fitzpatrick College of Chair in Nursing research; J. Stefano, mSN; and T. Short. Nursing to add to our presence in the community, as well as to add Nursing’s voice to enhance the delivery and quality of health care.” Linda Carman Copel, PhD, RN, PMHCNS, BC, CNE, NCC, ANEF, main Line Health is a longtime clinical partner. Dean Havens has also FAPA, professor, presented: been selected as a 2021 Fellow in the AACN/Wharton executive • “DNPs as Nursing Faculty: Strategies to ensure their Success” Leadership Program at the university of Pennsylvania. at the National League for Nursing’s National Summit, held Peter G. kaufmann PhD, FABMR, associate dean for research and at National Harbor, md., in September 2019; and Innovation, in April 2019 was the inaugural recipient of the Society • “Parental Perceptions of Caring for Their Adult Children with of Behavioral medicine’s Service to Behavioral medicine Award. Chronic mental Illness” at Sigma Theta Tau International’s 30th He delivered three invited lectures: “unintended Consequences International Nursing research Conference, held in Calgary, of Participant engagement in Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Canada, in July 2019. Interventions” for the Society for Clinical Trials in New Orleans Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, PhD, in may 2019; and in July 2019 at the NIH Summer Institute on RN, FAAN, professor and randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials, held in Potomac, md., coordinator of undergraduate “From Pilot Studies to Clinically Important Differences in research, delivered a TeDxVillanova randomized Trials: Preparing the Search for a Signal” and talk on February 19, “Interrupted “Characteristics of the Study Population: moderators, mediators Sleep: College Students Sleeping and enrichment in randomized Trials.” with Technology,” based on her Michelle M. kelly ’96 BSN, ’12 PhD, RN, CRNP, assistant professor, research. She encouraged the received a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced training in nursing audience to take control of their science and developmental pediatrics focusing on adult outcomes cell phones and other technology of premature infants with the university of rhode Island College of that interferes with quality sleep. Nursing. Her research has focused on long-term outcomes of Anne M. Fink ’11 PhD, RN, CNE, assistant dean for College and preterm birth survivors using the National Survey of Children’s Student Services and assistant professor, last November began Health data. read more at villanova.edu/nursing . a two-year term as a grant reviewer for Sigma Theta Tau katherine Lucatorto, DNP, RN, clinical assistant professor, International Honor Society and in July 2019 became a reviewer presented a poster with Sue Ellen Alderman, MSN, RN, PMHCNS, for the Journal of Professional Nursing . She also serves as secretary clinical assistant professor; Patricia k. Bradley, PhD, RN, FAAN, for the National League for Nursing Certified Nurse educators associate professor and associate dean for Inclusive excellence; Board of Commissioners. Colleen Meakim ’84 MSN, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF, assistant professor Sunny G. Hallowell, PhD, PPCNP-BC, iBCLC, assistant professor, of the Practice and director of the Second-degree Accelerated BSN presented two papers last November: “Policy Development for track; and Jennifer Gunberg Ross ’00 BSN, ’05 MSN, ’11 PhD, RN, the use of Human milk and Breastfeeding in the united States” CNE, associate professor, “Inter-Professional Collaboration: at Sigma Theta Tau’s 45th Biennial, held in Washington, D.C.; and Implementing TeamSTePPS in a Psychiatric-mental Health in Wilmington, Del., “Immersive Vr for medication Administration Baccalaureate Didactic and Clinical Course” at the Annual Simulation” for the Philadelphia Area Simulation Consortium. Psychiatric Nurses Association convention, held in New Orleans last During her spring 2019 sabbatical, Dr. Hallowell developed an October. That month Dr. Lucatorto received the Gail Stern immersive virtual reality clinical environment to help students Scholarship Award from the American Psychiatric Nurses develop vital medication administration skills to bridge a critical Association-Pennsylvania Chapter.

28 Janell Mensinger, PhD, FAED, associate research professor, received a “Best Oral Presentations” award for her international Bien Hecho, Dr. Maldonado! conference presentation, with J. Granche, S. Cox and J.r. Henretty, Linda Maldonado, PhD, RN, assistant “unintended Consequences of the War on Obesity: Patients professor, in June 2019 was named one of Attributing Their eating Disorder Onset to Anti-Obesity messaging Telemundo’s “mujeres Imparables” enter Treatment with more Severe Symptoms,” last January at the (unstoppable women), who were featured on 27th International Congress on eating Disorders, held in Alpbach, its Instagram. She was honored for the work Austria. Last February Dr. mensinger was an expert panelist during she and her Team Latina do in Philadelphia’s a Facebook Live event hosted during eating Disorders Week by the Kensington community, where Nursing National eating Disorders Association. students help childbearing-age Puerto rican women learn complementary therapies to decrease stress and how to engage in kudos for Dr. o’Connor community building. In 2019 Dr. maldonado received an inaugural $5,000 Sigma/National Association of Hispanic Melissa o’Connor, PhD, MBA, RN, FGSA, Nurses research Grant for “use of Narrative Analysis to associate professor, is one of 11 nurse understand the Stories of resilience in urban, Childbearing scientists from across the nation accepted to Puerto rican Women.” She was awarded a $10,000 grant from the inaugural cohort of the Betty Irene moore the Pennsylvania Action Coalition ’s Promise of Nursing’s Small Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. This three-year fellowship, funded Grants Program and Foundation of the National Student by a $37.5 million grant from the Gordon and Nurses’ Association. Betty moore Foundation, recognizes early- to mid-career nursing scholars and innovators. Bette A. Mariani, PhD, RN, ANEF, vice dean for Academic Fellows receive $450,000 to conduct an innovative project or study. Dr. O’Connor’s project, “Home Affairs and the immediate past president of International Nursing Health Discharge Decision Support (HeADS-uP),” focuses on Association for Clinical Simulation (INACSL), joined fellow the health outcomes of vulnerable older adults. She is creating association leaders in accepting the Presidential Citation Award a clinical decision support system to determine readiness for from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) for their discharge, a critical decision for home health clinicians. collaboration among INACSL, SSH and the Association of In march 2019 Dr. O’Connor was elected member-at-large Standardized Patient educators. The award was presented at (Awards) to the executive Board of the eastern Nursing the SSH conference in San Diego last January. research Society and last October was elected chair of At the INACSL virtual conference last June, Dr. mariani was the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of honored with the Spirit of Simulation Leadership excellence Greater Philadelphia. Award. Patricia Prieto, MBA, BSN, RN, CHSE, nursing simulation operations specialist and then-acting director of the College’s Simulation and Learning resource Center, was recognized with Carol Toussie Weingarten, PhD, RN, ANEF, associate professor, the Frontline Simulation Champion excellence Award. in June 2019 was elected for a second three-year term as president In October 2019, Dr. mariani presented at the 2nd China meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of the National Student on Simulation in Healthcare, held in Guangzhou. In November 2019 Nurses’ Association. she presented with Suzanne C. Smeltzer, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, The richard and marianne Kreider endowed Professor in Nursing for Christina Whitehouse ’04 BSN, ’16 PhD, CRNP, CDE, assistant Vulnerable Populations; T.L. Horsley; Colleen Meakim ’84 MSN, RN, professor, was appointed in 2019 to the American Association CHSE-A, ANEF, assistant professor of the Practice and director of of Diabetes educators Program Committee to plan its 2020 the Second-degree Accelerated BSN track; and Jennifer Gunberg conference. Her papers include: Ross ’00 BSN, ’05 MSN, ’11 PhD, RN, CNE, associate professor, • with Lo, Y.; Lynch, S.F.; urbanowicz, r.J.; Olson, r.S.; ritter, A.Z.; “A multi-Site Simulation Study Comparing Attitudes and Comfort and kathryn H. Bowles ’90 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMi, Level of undergraduate Nursing Students Interacting with People “using machine Learning on Home Health Care Assessments with Disability” at The American Public Health Association’s to Predict Fall risk” at the 17th World Congress of medical and Annual meeting and expo in Philadelphia. Dr. mariani is the Health Informatics, held in August 2019 in Lyon, France; and “research Briefs” editor for Nursing Education Perspectives , • with Dr. Bowles; Jordan, L.; and murtaugh, C. “Profiling risk published by the National League for Nursing. Among Sepsis Survivors with Diabetes in Home Care,” at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions, held Ruth McDermott-Levy ’96 MSN, ’08 PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, in June 2019 in San Francisco. associate professor and director of the College’s Center for Global and Public Health, presented with I. Tiita “Promoting Climate and Dr. Whitehouse received a two-year National Institutes of Health education for Nurses in Finland” at the American Public Health Loan repayment Program (LrP) award through the National Health Association’s November 2019 meeting in Philadelphia. She Institute on Aging for her research study, “Optimizing Diabetes also presented there, with Bette A. Mariani ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, management Through a Nutrition and education Intervention.” It ANEF, vice dean for Academic Affairs, and P. Lupinacci, “Nursing includes telehealth delivery of diabetes self-management education Student Self-efficacy with an Immigrant Health Access Project.” and support plus medically-tailored meals for older adults experiencing food insecurity. The LrP program is “designed to Colleen Meakim ’84 MSN, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF, assistant professor recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into of the Practice and director of the Second-degree Accelerated BSN biomedical or biobehavioral research careers” and represents “an track, in fall 2019 was designated a Certified Simulation Healthcare important investment by NIH in the future of health discovery and educator-Advanced from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. the wellbeing of the Nation,” according to the program’s website.

Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 29 Supporting the Next Generation

The College is grateful to all those who supported this initiative $15 Million Raised in and would like to especially recognize the inspiring gift of $5 million Memory of Dean Fitzpatrick from Dee ’86 BSN and Nick Adams along with leadership gifts from the following: or nearly 40 years, until her death in 2017, Connelly Donna ’79 BSN and Joseph ’79 VSB Cassidy Endowed Dean and Professor M. Louise Fitzpatrick, EdD, Pam ’88 MSN and Dave DeCampli F RN, FAAN, ’15 DHL (Hon.) was the visionary leader Linda and Rear Adm. (Ret.) James W. Eastwood ’68 COE guiding Villanova University’s College of Nursing. Shortly after her Jennifer Mueller and Michael Faragalli ’58 VSB passing, the University announced it would name the College in her Ruth A. (Lapp) Frey ’81 BSN memory and address her goal of supporting its ability to enroll Sandy ’85 BSN, ’90 MSN and Robert Gomberg ’84 CLAS deserving students and further health care. Christina Larson Kelly ’74 BSN Following a two-year fundraising initiative—and through the A.P. Kirby, Jr. Foundation, Inc. support of generous alumni, parents and friends—the $15 million Marianne and Richard Kreider ’83 VSB goal was achieved. “The donations made in memory of Dean Jessie K. Lee Fitzpatrick are special as they recognize her impact on health care Theresa ’67 BSN and Michael Mruz ’67 CLAS and support priorities ranging from scholarships and professional Marie ’72 BSN and Tom Schaible development to endowed positions and research funds for faculty, Robin and George Shapiro all of which are strategic as we write our next chapter,” explains Sharon Patterson Turner ’82 VSB, P ’15 Donna S. Havens ’83 MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, Connelly Endowed Michael S. ’96 MBA and Carol Toussie Weingarten Dean and Professor. Colleen ’95 BSN and Greg Wilson ’95 VSB Kelly Ann ’94 BSN, ’11 MSN and Joel Zazyczny •

30 Pitek Fellow Helps Families Cope with Spina Bifida

ollowing the Graduate Nursing reception and Awards Ceremony last December in Driscoll Hall’s Atrium, F Linda (left) and ray Pitek had a chance to talk about critical, life-changing work with Joy Kerr ’19 DNP, CPNP-PC, CrNFA, an Ashley rose Pitek Nurse Scholars Fellow. The fellowship, funded by the Piteks in memory of their daughter, is designated for a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student committed to the care of children with spina bifida. Dr. Kerr, a DNP graduate, is a nurse practitioner in the Division of urology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her expertise is in pediatric neurogenic bladder and bowel. Her DNP scholarly project, “Development and Implementation of a Clinical Pathway for Bowel management in Pediatric Spina Bifida Population,” brings real solutions to the families who benefit from her experience and care. Inspired by a patient striving for independence with bowel management, she has also collaborated to develop an adaptive device that families will be excited to use once it is released. • Gifts Advance villanova Nursing’s important initiatives • The renovation of Driscoll Hall’s second-floor café and study • Pam ’88 mSN and Dave DeCampli made a bequest commitment lounge, renamed the recovery room, was funded primarily from to create an endowed scholarship for graduate students. gifts from margaret “meg” Garrett, esq., ’72 BSN; Dr. and mrs. She is the new chair of the College’s Board of Consultors. eugene J. mcmahon (parents of rosemary ’20 BSN); Brian and • John DeLuca ’52 CLAS established and fully funded Jeannette reilly (parents of Britten ’15 BSN); Daniel r. Tropeano an endowment in memory of his wife, Irene DeLuca. ’92 CLAS; michael and Amy Tucci (parents of rebecca ’18 BSN); The endowment will provide scholarships for one or more and mark and Joy Vroman ’90 BSN. The recovery room offers Second-degree Accelerated students each year. a well-lit, modern space for visitors to relax, recharge themselves • Fred Flynn made a gift in support of the Susan D. Flynn and their devices, visit with friends and engage in group work Oncology Nursing Fellowship Program. The program, which using configurable furniture. Garrett, Brian reilly, Tropeano, enables Villanova students to intern in oncology units at various Amy Tucci and Joy Vroman are members of the College’s Board hospitals, is co-sponsored by Dee ’86 BSN and Nick Adams. of Consultors. She is a member of the College’s Board of Consultors. • Jessie K. Lee provided support for the purchase of the Victoria birthing mannequin for Villanova Nursing’s Simulation and Learning resource Center. Her daughter is elizabeth ’17 BSN. • maureen ’83 CLAS and robert Heckler made a gift in support of students who are studying gerontology to advance the goals of the College’s Gerontology Interest Group (GiG). (See page 8). • Christina Larson Kelly ’74 BSN made a gift in support of two priorities heightened by the COVID-19 crisis: scholarships for Second-degree Accelerated students and software to enhance virtual learning simulations for clinical classes. This donation also served as a challenge gift for the College on 1842 Day. • meg Sheetz ’99 CLAS and the Bradley T. macDonald Family Foundation added a new gift to their longstanding support of the College’s macDonald Center for Obesity Prevention and education (COPe). • A crowdfunding campaign during National Nurses Week in • Hank Simms, mD established an endowment to provide may generated more than 300 gifts and $83,000 to support scholarships for Second-degree Accelerated students in priorities created or heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. memory of his wife, Paula michaud, PhD, who was an adjunct The campaign was boosted by a challenge gift from Sharon faculty member of Nursing (see In memoriam, page 40). Patterson Turner ’82 VSB, P ’15, chair emerita of the College’s • Board of Consultors, and a matching gift from Julia e. Lanouette ’11 BSN.

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Thank You, Generous Donors he Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is grateful for the Mr. and Mrs. Angelo M. Capuzzi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Connellan Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Carboni Mr. and Mrs. David N. Connolly contributions and support of our alumni, parents and Ms. Paula A. Cardello Ms. Kendall Grace Connolly friends over the years. We continue to welcome all gifts Mr. Christopher C. Cardinal Ms. Megan Catherine Conway T Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Cardone Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cook in support of ongoing and future initiatives to ensure the growth Ms. Jennifer L. Carillo Mr. and Mrs. Terrence J. Cooney of Nursing’s innovative and scholarly environment and the Ms. Amanda E. Cassidy Ms. Jacqueline H. Corbett Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cassidy Ms. Alexandra Demetra Cordom best education for undergraduate and graduate students. Mrs. Mary Kay Cassidy Drs. Tara S. and Luis Cortes This list reflects donations to the College and the College Ms. Kristen M. Cataldo Mrs. Janet V. Courtney of Nursing Fund in calendar year 2019. If you have questions Mr. William L. Cavanagh Mr. Mark E. Covey Dr. and Mrs. Francesco C. Cesareo Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cowan about giving or funding priorities, or find an omission or error Mrs. Valerie J. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Coyle in this list, please contact the director of Major Giving, Ms. Nicole Charpentier Mrs. Kathleen S. Craft Mr. Bob Chartrand Ms. Kathryn L. Crandley, RN Robert Hill, at (610) 519-7620 or [email protected] . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Chiarantona Ms. Michele M. Crane Ms. Deborah C. Chiarini Capt. Mary Ann Cronin Mrs. Eileen Feehan Choi Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cummings Ms. AnneMarie Betz Carolyn M. Chopko, Esq. Ms. Megan S. Cuneo A Ms. Mackenzie Ann Birely Mrs. Constance S. Chopko Mr. Robert S. Cunningham Mrs. Janet M. Abbas Mrs. Alysia M. Black Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Christie Mrs. Christine J. Curtis Mr. James R. Honochick and Dr. and Mrs. George F. Blackall Mrs. Carol A. Chwal CVS Health Foundation Mrs. Patricia A. Abel Mrs. Carol F. Blauth Ms. Holly N. Cicala Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Cyran Mrs. Alison Abernethy Mrs. Nancy R. Block Ms. Monica T. Cieplinski Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Adams Mr. and Mrs. John J. Bock Joseph M. Cincotta, Esq. and D Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Alcusky Ms. Angela Rose Bodine Dr. Helene J. Moriarty Mr. Anthony N. Alfano Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Bogan Mrs. Beatrice M. Cirillo Ms. Julie C. Dalby Ms. Devin M. Alfano Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Bogle, Jr. Mr. Douglas F. Clark Mr. Christopher Daly Ms. Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre Robert C. Bonser, CRNA, MSN Ms. Julie Beth Clark Mrs. Patricia S. Daly AllianceBernstein L.P. Mr. Joseph A. Borillo Mrs. Katherine A. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Marc A. Danner Mr. Robert Allison Mr. Robert F. Bosse Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Clark Ms. Gina Terese D’Antonio The Allstate Foundation Cmdr. Alice I. Bova, USN Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Clarke III Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. D’Antonio Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Altenburger, Jr. Ms. Martha L. Bova Banks Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cleary Mr. and Mrs. Michael D’Arcangelo III Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. Alvarado Mrs. Janet Ann Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Cleary Ms. Lindsey A. Daugherty Ms. Donna R. Ambrogi Dr. Patricia K. Bradley Mrs. Susan M. Clevenger Mrs. Lynn Davignon American Association of Colleges Mr. Richard J. Braemer Mr. and Mrs. James Cliggett Ms. Amanda Heather Davis of Nursing Dr. Bridgette M. Brawner Ms. Emily Paige Cliggett Mr. and Mrs. James E. Davis Mrs. Frances M. Amorim Lt. Cmdr. Elyse M. Braxton, USN Ms. Catherine M. Coakley Ms. Olivia Marie Davis Ms. Lucy Paige Andersen Mr. Jeffrey R. Breen Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Coats Ms. Sallie Davis Anonymous Ms. Margaret E. Brennan Ms. Caitlin R. Cocopardo Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Davison Ms. Taylor Christine Anzilotti Ms. Christine Brewer Ms. Caroline A. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Day Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Applegate Dr. and Mrs. Philip Brewer Mrs. Moira Ahearn Cohen Lt. Col. Janet Zimmerman De Caprio Ms. Faith B. Aquino Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bret Cohn Mrs. and Mr. Pamela ’88 MSN and Ms. Michele R. Aragno Mrs. Lorena P. Brock Ms. Erinn Reid Colbert David DeCampli Dr. Angelina C. Arcamone Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Brodnik Ms. Erin Marie Colden Ms. Marie Ellen Decatur Ms. Kirsten L. Arterburn Mr. and Mrs. James E. Brogan Mr. and Mrs. George W. Coleman Mrs. Linda M. Degothseir Ashley Rose Foundation Lisa A. Bronikowski, Esq. The George W. Coleman Charitable Trust Ms. Janice K. DelGiorno Ms. Breanna Pauline Ashline Mr. Timothy E. Brooks Ms. Margaret A. Coleman Ms. Casey Maureen Dell’Aera Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Ashton Miss Viviana Carolina Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Kieran J. Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. DeMatteis Ms. Irene C. Asken Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Brouard Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Connell, Jr. Ms. Bethany Ruth Demena AstraZeneca David Brown Dr. Eve Atkinson Mrs. Suzanne H. Brown Ms. Mary Jane Austin Mr. Gerard and Dr. Elizabeth Bruderle Cmdr. Katherine S. Auten Dr. Timothy M. Brunk Mr. Gian C. Bruno Rear Adm. (Ret.) Dr. Christine M. Bruzek- B Kohler and Mr. Michael C. Kohler Ms. Carolyn E. Bagley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Bubba Mr. and Mrs. Patrick R. Bajet Mrs. Louise N. Buccheri Mrs. Meghan K. Baker Mrs. Krysti Leigh Buchanan, RN Mrs. Jennifer S. Baldwin Ms. Giavanna M. Buffolino Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Banko Ms. Irene Buggy Cmdr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Barkdoll Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Burdge, Jr. Ms. Annella J. Barranco Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Barrett Mrs. Karen L. Burke Dr. John L. Batchelor Ms. Jacquelyn J. Burns Mrs. Mary P. Beebe Dr. Sherry A. Burrell Mrs. Allison M. Behette O’Brien Mr. Brandon Bush Mr. Michael Belfonti Mrs. Dolores Z. Buzby Mr. Aaron Edward Bell Mr. Kevin M. Byrne Christopher W. Bell, Esq. Ms. Patricia A. Benjamin C Ms. Brittany R. Bennett Mrs. Clare M. Bennett Dr. Pamela Z. Cacchione Mr. William R. Benvenuto Mrs. Kathryn S. Callaghan Mr. and Mrs. Larry I. Berman Mr. James A. Cannon Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Bernatowicz Ms. Amy Emhof Capodici

32 Ms. Kathleen M. Dempsey Ms. Laura A. Felice Ms. Kathleen A. Denis Mrs. Eileen W. Ferdinandsen Mr. and Mrs. Albert DeNunzio Ms. Pamela Y. Fernandez The College’s Funding Priorities Ms. Frances Kelly DeNunzio Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ferraro Ms. Grace DeNunzio Mr. William J. Filerino • Fund a new Office of Inclusive Excellence to develop Ms. Lillian DeNunzio Mrs. Janice M. Filicetti and implement programs for students, faculty and staff Mr. and Mrs. Dominick J. D’Eramo Dr. Anne M. Fink to promote Inclusive Excellence throughout the College Ms. Stephanie L. D’Eramo Ms. Suzanne Marjorie Finley Dr. Lynore Dutton DeSilets Ms. Mary Jane Finnegan • Support the Caring About Health for All Study Ms. Brianna Rose DeVincenzo Dr. and Mrs. David C. Fisher (CHAMPS) of the COVID-19 workforce Mrs. Reagan H. Devine Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Fitch Ms. Amelia M. DeVita Ms. Ashley M. Fitzpatrick • Invest in and improve Driscoll Hall’s learning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. DeVita Ms. Irene E. Fitzsimmons environment, including nursing simulation labs Mrs. Carol Ann Devlin John C. Flamma, Jr., MD Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. DiDomenico Ms. Ashley Fleming • Provide scholarship support, especially for second-degree Mrs. Barbara L. Dion Mr. William D. Fletcher and graduate students Mrs. Kristina L. Dipatri Ms. Emma Fogt Ms. Myriah N. DiPetrillo Suzanne F. Foley, PhD, RN • Recruit and retain faculty by creating new endowed Ms. Constance M. DiPietro Dr. Dorothy K. and Mr. Barry H. Fontaine professorships Mr. Robert Dixon and Ms. Mary Donahue Ms. Martha A. Fortune • Fund faculty research to improve nursing practice and Ms. Theresa Lynn Dobbin Ms. Meghan Jane Foster Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Dobbs Ms. Elizabeth Michaela Fox patient care Ms. Emily L. Doctor Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Fox • Support professional development programs and Mrs. Caroline L. Doherty Ms. Rosemary Fox Mrs. Jane M. Dolan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Fox initiatives for students. Mrs. Margaret Bonner Dolan Ms. Marita E. Frain Ms. Margaret M. Dolan Ms. Susan Frant Mrs. Ilona M. Dombrowiecki Mr. and Mrs. Bradford F. Freer Ms. Judith M. Domenico Mrs. Ruth A. Frey Ms. Rachel L. Grencavich Ms. Lisa C. Hughes Mrs. Linda C. Donoghue Ann Elizabeth Fronczek, PhD, RN Ms. Marie Barbara Griffin Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hulka Ms. Patricia Doolittle Mrs. Mary M. Fry Mrs. Kathleen S. Griffith Mrs. Louise Laufer Hummel Ms. Catherine M. D’Orazio Mrs. Suzanne S. Fudala Mrs. Betty A. Grozier Mrs. Karen B. Hurst Ms. Colleen M. Dougherty Mrs. Elise G. Furman Mr. Frank M. Paolucci and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Dougherty Mrs. Denise A. Gruccio-Paolucci i Ms. Kathleen M. Dougherty G Nicole Blanche Guerin, Esq. Mr. Christopher and Dr. Elizabeth Dowdell Mrs. Julie J. Guerra Mr. and Mrs. Chris Imperiale Ms. Katherine Rebecca Dowdle Mrs. Mary J. Gabrielson Ms. Maryanne M. Guinan Independence Blue Cross Foundation Ms. Mary Alice Dragone Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Gadren Mr. Ramon A. Guzman, Jr. Ms. Deborah L. Irwin Mrs. Barbara A. Drake Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gaffney Mrs. Cynthia H. Istvan Mary B. Dressler, EdD Ms. Kara R. Gallagher H Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Driscoll Capt. (Ret.) Colleen Kate Gallagher J Thomas Ms. Kelly M. Haggerty Ms. Elaine T. Duck Ms. Trinette Melita Jackson Mr. and Mrs. John J. Gallen, Jr. Ms. Bonnie N. Haines Mr. and Mrs. John R. DuFour Mr. and Mrs. Marcus P. Jacoboski Lt. Col. Beth Ann Gambill Mrs. Anne R. Hango-Costa Ms. Lillian Laws DuFour Mr. Frank G. Jacobs Mr. Antonio Luis Garcia Ms. Michele M. Hanifin Ms. Colette L. Dumais Ms. Joelle B. Jaicks Ms. Christa L. Gardner Ms. Margaret M. Hannan Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Dumais Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Janacek Ms. Erin Kelly Garrett Ms. Lelian Hanna-Siha Mr. and Mrs. William C. Dunleavy Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jenkins Margaret Robins Garrett, Esq. Mrs. Lindsay I. Hanno Mrs. Elaine B. Dunn JK Group, Inc. Mr. James H. Gately Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Hannon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Dunn III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Jobes Ms. Meagan L. Gatti Mrs. Della D. Harbourt Mrs. Kerry Durante Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Joel Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Gatti III Mr. and Mrs. William P. Harrington Mrs. Kerry T. Durante Johnson & Johnson Foundation GE Foundation Hatteras Press Inc. Ms. Hillary J. Dutton Mr. Marc D. Johnson Ms. Carita M. Geib Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Havard Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Benton Dyer Mrs. Sharon E. Johnson Mrs. Jeanne Gelman Dr. Donna S. Havens and Ms. Grace Christine Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Gelso Mr. John Wick Havens Ms. Stefanie T. Joho E Mr. Matthew J. Genesio Dr. Patricia M. Haynor Mr. Austen Chase Jones M. Suzanne Eash Ms. Gail J. Geraghty HCA Healthcare Mrs. Maryann Frances Jones Rear Adm. (Ret.) and Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Gerland Mrs. Carey E. Heck Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Jonnet Mrs. James W. Eastwood Mrs. Kimberly M. Giannattasio Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heckler Mrs. Donna M. Jordan Eastwood Family Foundation Ms. Lynn Gibbons Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Heintzelman Mr. and Mrs. William A. Eckenrode Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Gill Mrs. Kaitlyn Cassidy Hennessy Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Ehle Mrs. Janine Gillan Mrs. Kelly L. Henri k Ms. Catherine M. Ehrig Mr. John B. Gillece Mr. and Mrs. William P. Henry Mrs. Zefie Kanos Mr. Keegan Einspanier Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Giordano Drs. Christopher P. and Mary L. Hermann Dr. Peter G. Kaufmann Ms. Whitney R. Ellison Mr. and Mrs. John V. Giovinazzo Dr. Mary Ann Heverly Dr. Tamara Marie Kear Tracy Eraci Mr. Brendan J. Glackin and Mrs. Lillian T. Heyse Dr. Elizabeth K. Keech Ericsson, Inc. Stephanie Glackin, Esq. Mrs. Patricia J. Higgins Dr. M. Frances Keen Ms. Donna Eroh-Rothstein Glo-Tone Effect Foundation Inc. Ms. Lisa A. Hill Ms. Sharon A. Keeney Mr. Alan N. Escott Mrs. Sharon Lee Coury Goldgar Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hill Mrs. Lauren E. Kellen The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lisa S. Hilmi Mrs. Karen Dunn Kelley and F Dr. Michael Goldstoff and Tyonne D. Hinson, DrPH, MSN, RN, Dr. Joseph Kelley Mrs. Joan Thompson NE-BC Mrs. Christina Larson Kelly Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Fanelle Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gomberg Taban Hojjat Mrs. Joan G. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Farley Ms. Timisha Ruebina Gomez Mrs. Jacqueline L. Holland Dr. John J. Kelly Mrs. Ellen N. Farr Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Goodwin Ms. Mary F. Holt-Paolone Dr. Michelle M. Kelly and Ms. Emily Marie Farrell Ms. Cheryl A. Gorman Mrs. Deborah M. Horvath Mr. John C. Kelly Mr. Michael B. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Gownley Ms. Erin Patricia Houton Mr. George E. Kennedy Ms. Keeva Fay Mr. Albert Graham III Mr. and Mrs. James Houton Mr. and Dr. Richard A. Kennedy Mrs. Sheri L. Fegley Mr. Thomas Greco Capt. Joan M. Huber, NC, USN (Ret.) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Kenny Mrs. Victoria C. Feidt Mr. Dennis Greene Ms. Abigail Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keogh Mrs. Kaitlyn M. Felbaum Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Greene Ms. Emma Hughes Ms. Carol Kerstetter

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Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Kester Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Kettering Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Kicak Lt. Katherine M. Kidde Mr. Kyle J. Killoran Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kilroy Ms. Margaret M. Kinlan Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Kinslow Ms. Katherine Madigan Kinslow A.P. Kirby, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Ms. Colleen M. Kirkpatrick Mr. Kevin B. Kloeblen The Hon. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Kohlman Ms. Courtney Nicole Kojak Sherry Kostenbader Mark Kotapka Mr. and Mrs. Emil E. Kotschneff Mr. Donald Krasnick Ms. Kelly A. Kreider Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Kreider Mrs. Sylvia P. Kuritzky L Mr. Clement D. Lamarre Miss Kimberly Marie Lanfranca Mrs. Eleanor W. Langran Ms. Julia E. Lanouette Mr. and Mrs. George G. Lare Ms. Allison Catherine LaRocca Mrs. Regina B. Mastrangelo Ms. Eileen G. Micklin Mrs. Jane M. Nentwig Mr. and Mrs. Gerard S. LaRocca Ms. Devin R. Mastrocola Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mifsud Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Nobile Mrs. Karen Elaine Larsen Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mastrocola Ms. Celeste Marie Mifsud Ms. Taylor A. Noll Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Lattanzi Mr. James Mataras Gerald & Carole Miller Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Noller Ms. Nikole Lazor Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Maurer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Nuffort Mr. Kevin Leahy Ms. Maria McCann Ms. Lise A. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. LeBlanc Ms. Mary Ann McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miller o Dr. Maribeth S. LeBreton Mr. and Mrs. William P. McCarthy Mrs. Melinda R. Milliken Ms. Colleen A. Lee Ms. Gloria K. McClellan Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Mink Ms. Mary C. Oberc Ms. Jessie K. Lee Mrs. Judy A. McConnell Mrs. Christine Brualdi Mira Mrs. Monica Mary Oberlander Dr. Evelyn Lengetti Ms. Marguerite L. McCormick Dr. and Mrs. Paul F. Miraglia Mrs. Debra A. O’Brien Mrs. Stacey Lynam LeSage Mr. Michael T. McCullough Ms. Hannah Wilkins Mischler Ms. Erin E. O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. William E. Lessig Dr. Ruth A. McDermott-Levy Mr. and Mrs. Rick Modi Dr. Melissa O’Connor and Mr. Daniel J. Liberato Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. McDevitt Mrs. Anna Maria Mollitor Mr. Daniel F. O’Connor Ms. Maryanne V. Lieb Ms. Mikaela Frances McDevitt Ms. Madison Hope Montague Mrs. Nancy B. O’Connor Ms. Victoria A. Lieb Mr. Brian and Dr. Catherine McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Montegari O’Connor Plumbing & Fire Protection Mrs. Claire Baldwin Lindley Mrs. Susan M. McFarland Mrs. Anna M. Moody Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Connor Ms. Karen Liss Mrs. Barbara McGarvey Ms. Nancy J. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. O’Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. John K. Lloyd Mr. Daniel P. McGee Ms. Shirlene Moore Mrs. Katherine Quinto Olegario Mr. James C. Loper Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McGinnis-Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moran Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Olsen Loper Living Trust Mrs. Amy M. McGlynn Ms. Amanda M. Morello Ms. Claire Elizabeth O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lord Dr. Marycarol McGovern Mr. and Mrs. Scott T. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. John J. O’Neill Ms. Mary Ellen P. Lorenz Ms. Julia A. McGrath Ms. Martina T. Morrell Mrs. Maryann E. O’Neill Mrs. June R. 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Pariseault Ms. Rosemary B. McMahon Ms. Jane M. Murray Ms. Kelsey A. MacNaughton Mrs. Lauren Ashley Parks Mr. Christopher J. McMenemy Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Murtha Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Maglione Mrs. Tracy L. Parrinello Mrs. Linda T. McNerney Dr. Patricia A. Mynaugh Mr. and Mrs. David L. Mahaney Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Pasquale Mrs. Meagan E. McQuade Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Maher Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Pasquale The Rev. Patrick B. McStravog, OSA Ms. Caitlin Mary Manahan N George and Rita Patterson Foundation Mrs. Colleen M. Meakim Mr. and Mrs. John R. Manahan III Mrs. Patricia P. Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Gregory F. Megan Ms. Betty Elaine Naimoli Mr. and Mrs. John P. Mancini Ms. Maria C. Pavelsky Ms. Hope E. Megan Ms. Sharon W. Napoli Dr. Claire M. Manfredi Mrs. Joann M. Pawletko-Mathews Mrs. Patricia Meier Ms. Melanie Corinne Naratil Ms. Mary Kathryn Mangano Mr. Brian C. 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34 Dr. Lesley A. Perry Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Ruibal Mr. Doug Shonrock Ms. Erica J. Peters Ms. Mairead Ryan Mrs. Meredith J. Short u Dr. Elizabeth Petit de Mange Mr. Michael F. Ryan and Mrs. Lynn H. Shull UBS Investment Bank Mrs. Joan L. Pfaff Ms. Kathleen M. White-Ryan Ms. Margaret E. Shull Ms. Bridget Eileen Ulrich Kenneth J. Phelan, Esq. Mrs. Patricia L. Ryan Ms. Beth Silverberg Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Unanue Ms. Petrina M. Picerno Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Ryan, Jr. Hank Simms, MD UnitedHealth Group Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Pinto Mr. Terence Gerard Ryan Lori J. Simpkins Mr. Philip G. Urban Mr. Louis A. Pistilli Mrs. Tina Marie Ryan Ms. Kathryn A. Sinicropi Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Pitek Mrs. Mary P. Sirubi v Mrs. Jamie Plume S Mrs. Linda I. Sisack Ms. Concetta M. Poidomani Dr. Susan C. Slaninka Mrs. Margaret T. Vanarsdall Mr. and Mrs. E. Michael Pompizzi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Sabbia Dr. Suzanne Smeltzer Mrs. Marilyn J. VanBuren Capt. Kristy A. Porreca, USAF Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. 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Stowman Mrs. Faiza Elmir Wick Mrs. Mariel W. Rodgers Ms. Valerie Seijas Mrs. Joanne M. Strack Dr. James Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Rodgers Mrs. Melissa T. Sepe Mrs. Margaret Strickler Mrs. Jenny Egan Williams Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Sepulveda Mr. John W. Struzziery, CFA Ms. Kelly Lynne Williams Ms. Kaitlin Marie Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Sfida, Jr. Ms. Clare Stuempfig Mr. and Mrs. Greg R. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Rogers Parnian Shahin Mrs. Noel S. Stuhlman Mrs. Sue Stein Wilson Mr. and Mrs. James P. Rolston Leland E. Shalgos, Esq. and Mrs. Joan E. Sullivan Mrs. Deborah W. Wimmer Linda Grzyb Roney, EdD, RN Ms. Heather B. Brualdi Mrs. Loretta M. Surotchak Lt. Col. Gregory Wojtkun and Ms. Nancy Ronning Mrs. Sally Sharkey Sweet Bay Foundation Mrs. Patricia Wojtkun Ms. Maria Neu Rorer Dr. Nancy C. Sharts-Hopko and Mrs. Joan Flood Swetz Mrs. Patricia A. Wolfe Ms. Maria Rosato Mr. Joseph J. Hopko Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Woo Mrs. Joyce W. Roth Cmdr. Kim P. Shaughnessy Ms. Norma C. Woodside Ms. Sharon A. Roth-DeFulvio Debra Shearer, EdD T The Rev. Arthur E. Woolley, Jr., SSC Dr. Nancy L. Rothman Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sheetz, Jr. Mrs. Maria L. Talamo Dr. Daniel Wright Mr. Charles A. Rowland Ms. Kathleen R. Sheikh Ms. Susan L. Talbot Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wynne Ms. Nicoletta Ruffo Mrs. Sylvia A. Sheridan Mr. John Phillip Tedeschi Ms. Vanessa Ruffo Ms. Allison P. Sherwood Mr. and Mrs. John T. Terzakis X Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Ruibal Mrs. Jane S. Sholar Mrs. Colleen Hogan Tetzlaff Ms. Jian Xu Ms. Nicole S. Thatcher Lisa Joan Thiemann, PhD, CRNA Ms. Eileen Thompson Y Ms. Regina M. Thorp Ms. Jennifer Picard Yakupcin Ms. Christine M. Tierney Mr. and Mrs. David J. Yockel Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Tierney Kris Yoo Mr. Paul G. Tierney Ms. Sung C. Yoo Mrs. Jean D. Tilker Jennifer M. Yost, PhD, RN Ms. Siobhan Tobin Ms. Judith M. Young Ms. Tamyra A. Toole Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Yuan Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Torchen Mrs. Megan J. Touhey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tropea z Mr. Daniel R. Tropeano Mrs. Patricia M. Zawislak Ms. Christina A. Trunzo Ms. Margaret Ellen Zazo Ms. Laura L. Truskowsky Mr. and Mrs. Joel Zazyczny Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Tucci Ms. Ashley Nicole Zerener Sharon Patterson Turner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zimmer Ms. Michelle E. Turner Mrs. Helen E. Zimmerman Ms. Colleen Tuzio Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zullo • Villanova Nursing | Summer 2020 35 Alumni Focus

Grant Will Help improve Guam’s m

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y t uam and the Western Pacific region are facing a crisis due i s r e v to a shortage of nursing assistants and other health-care i n u

workers to care for the rising number of elderly and their y g s e t occurrences of dementias. Margaret Hattori-Uchima ’13 PhD, r u o RN, dean of the University of Guam School of Health, outlined C At the August 2019 ceremony announcing a $3.75-million grant to the crisis in an August 2019 announcement on the university’s fund the university of Guam Geriatrics Workforce enhancement website. The dean and a nursing instructor colleague, Veronica Program (from left) are Senior Vice President Anita enriquez; Nursing B. Alave, are co-directors of the Geriatrics Workforce Dean margaret Hattori-uchima ’13 PhD, rN; and Nursing Instructor Veronica Alave. Enhancement Program, funded by a $3.75-million grant awarded to the university by Guam’s Health Resources & Services of the university’s Nursing Assistant Program specifically related Administration. to Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Through 2024, the grant will fill gaps in care for the elderly “The vision of the grant is to transform the current health not only in Guam but in the Federated States of Micronesia and systems and practices serving our elderly, resulting in improved the Marshall Islands. It provides funds for health-care workforce quality of life,” noted Dean Hattori-Uchima. Read more about development, family and caregiver training and enhancement her leadership on page 20. •

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re you a Villanova nurse? If you practice in the tri-state a area as a nurse educator or nurse practitioner and wish to be a preceptor for our Nursing Education or Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (Family, Adult-Gerontology or Pediatric) students, you’ll find new benefits to working with and guiding the next generation, including program and library access. For more information, please contact Marguerite K. Schlag , EdD, RN, associate dean of the Graduate Nursing Program, at [email protected] . •

36 Boston Sendoff

elfies were in abundance in August 2019 at the Villanova Nursing student sendoff in Boston. Three s members of the Class of 2023 and their parents met the Nursing alumni who had contacted them before the event and who offered advice and encouragement to these incoming freshmen. (Front row, from left), emily Treveloni ’19 BSN, rN; Tyonne Hinson ’01 mSN, DrPH, rN, Ne-BC of Boston Children’s Hospital; and Christina Larson Kelly ’74 BSN, a member of the College’s Board of Consultors and a Villanova university trustee; (back row) Jane Stillwell, madison mullen and Julia Lamarre, now sophomores. Dr. Hinson chairs the Board of Consultors’ Alumni, Parents and Friends subcommittee, which engaged numerous Villanova nurses at events in New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania, with more to come. The College hopes to have more Nursing families attend these sendoffs being offered around the country and to see more Villanova nurses at alumni events once in-person can resume. many committee members volunteered to make Wildcat Welcome calls to the parents of Nursing’s Class of 2024. • Alumni Among Alpha Nu’s Honorees How to Connect n September 2019, Bette A. Mariani ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, ANEF, then-associate professor and president of Sigma’s Alpha Nu Chapter, and the chapter board inducted with villanova I30 Villanova Nursing undergraduate and graduate students into this international Nursing honor society. re you looking to become Alpha Nu also presented five awards: more involved with the • Excellence in Nursing Practice to Cherie Salamy ’88 BSN, RN, CPAN; a Fitzpatrick College of Nursing? If so, in addition to • Excellence in Nursing Education to Jennifer Cummins Muner ’00 MSN, RN; attending College events, connect • Excellence in Nursing Leadership to Jennifer Specht ’98 BSN, ’10 PhD, RN; with us at conferences, be a preceptor and send us your news. • the Theresa Christian Service Award to Veronica Sanchez ’14 MSN, FNP-BC; and Consider becoming an alumni • the M. Louise Fitzpatrick ambassador so future students can Mentorship Award to Patricia ask you about your employer or K. Bradley, PhD, RN, FAAN, specialty area. Attend the College’s associate professor and now Career Day and encourage your employer to join you there, also associate dean for whether the event is in-person Inclusive Excellence. or virtual. Help plan events to engage Mary Beth Appel ’81 BSN, MS, other Villanova nurses. RN, CFNP offered the keynote Feel free to share your ideas, interest and news by e-mailing address and congratulated the [email protected] . “nursing leaders of the future.” A • nurse practitioner, she co-founded Philadelphia’s Catholic Worker Free Editor’s Note The 31st Annual Clinic and House of Grace Catholic Bette A. Mariani ’82 BSN, PhD, RN, ANEF, then- mass and Alumni Awards Ceremony Worker Community, which serves associate professor and president of Sigma’s Alpha had to be postponed because of the Nu Chapter, inducts Gaypia “Saye” Norgbean COVID-19 pandemic. the city’s most vulnerable. • ’19 BSN, a Second-degree Accelerated graduate.

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Nursing Alumni Notes

Privacy and Digital Transformation this opportunities to 1970s spring. She and Susan vonNessen-Scanlin grow and clinically Dorrie Fontaine ’72 BSN, PhD, RN, FAAN, ’87 BSN, MBA, MSN, CRNP represented integrate across the now dean emerita of the university of Villanova Nursing. Triangle region,” she Virginia (uVA) School of Nursing, received noted in a message Theresa Brodrick ’87 MSN, PhD, RN, NE-BC the American Association of Critical-Care to colleagues. The in April 2019 was named executive vice Nurses (AACN) Pioneering Spirit Award 950-bed medical president and network chief nursing at the 2019 National Teaching Institute & center comprises executive at Hackensack meridian Health in Critical Care exposition, held in may 2019 N.C. memorial edison, N.J. Dr. Brodrick has more than 30 in Orlando, Fla. One of AACN’s Visionary Hospital, N.C. years of progressive health-care Leadership Awards, it recognizes her Children’s Hospital, management experience in large academic significant contributions that influence N.C. Neurosciences Hospital and N.C. and community institutions. high-acuity and critical-care nursing and Women’s Hospital. relate to the association’s mission, vision Colleen Mattioni ’87 BSN, DNP, MBA, RN, Jennifer Waldron and values. Dr. Fontaine, who retired in CNoR in 2019 was named chief nursing Marcellus ’93 BSN, summer 2019, had been a critical-care executive (CNe) at the Hospital of the RN, PCCN in and trauma nurse for more than 40 years. university of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, February was She served as the Sadie Heath Cabaniss where she previously served as interim CNe inducted into the Professor of Nursing and associate chief and associate chief nursing officer. She is Distinguished Nurse nursing officer at the uVA Health System. known nationally for her leadership in the Clinician Academy at Last fall, she became a member of Villanova perioperative space. Philadelphia’s Penn Nursing’s Board of Consultors and in Presbyterian medical April its vice chair. (See pages 10 and 19.) Susan vonNessen-Scanlin ’87 BSN, MBA, MSN, CRNP is CeO of the newly renovated Center, which honors Margaret “Meg” Garrett ’72 BSN, MEd, rutgers Community Health Center (rCHC). the “best direct care JD, CPHRM, DFASHRM in June 2019 It opened in Newark, N.J., in December nurses who inspire and motivate others.” retired as vice president, risk management, 2019 at the rutgers School of Nursing, She has worked there since 1993. Now a and chief legal counsel at the Johns where she is also an senior nurse in the Perioperative Care unit, Hopkins Health System in Baltimore. assistant professor she serves a wide range of patients’ surgical She has more than 30 years of experience and associate dean needs, including those of the large trauma in risk management, patient care, ethics, for Clinical Affairs. service. health law, regulatory, patient safety rCHC, a full-service Elizabeth Smith ’96 BSN in July was and medical staff legal issues. She played primary-care clinic, is promoted to chief nursing officer and vice a critical role in the design, implementation one of just a few president for patient care services at and oversight of all aspects of risk nurse-managed, Franciscan Children’s in Brighton, mass. management across Johns Hopkins federally qualified Jennifer Graebe ’97 BSN, MSN, RN, NEA-BC medicine. She is now president of Garrett health centers in the in may 2019 gave the opening keynote, Healthcare risk management Corp. nation, according to “Nursing Continuing Professional in Baltimore. A 1983 co-founder of The its website. The center uses an Development and Accreditation in the American Association of Nurse Attorneys, interdisciplinary, integrated model of u.S.,” at the Chinese Nurses Association she is president-elect of ASHrm (the primary and behavioral health care and also conference for professional development, American Society of Health Care risk addresses related issues like housing and held in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. At the management) and was named food insecurity. rCHC provides high- American Nurses Credentialing Center in a Distinguished Fellow. quality, primary-care services to patients Washington, D.C., she is director, Nursing regardless of ability to pay. VonNessen- Continuing Professional Development & Scanlin explained that “Ninety percent of Joint Accreditation Program. 1980s our patients are at or below the poverty Marguerite level. For many, their health-care Capt. kim P. Shaughnessy-Granger, NC, “Maggie” Swietlik experience has been less than equitable. uSN, ’97 BSN, ’17 DNP, CNM, FACNM, ’86 BSN, DNP, We wanted to create a space that was FACHE was selected from the Navy to NEA-BC, RN-BC, beautiful and treats patients with dignity.” receive a 2019 “military Health System CPHiMS in may military Nursing Leadership excellence 2019 became vice Award.” The award was presented in president, Nursing 1990s Washington, D.C., last December at the Informatics, and Janet Regan Hadar ’90 BSN, MSN, MBA, annual meeting of AmSuS. In the Nation’s chief nursing FACHE last fall was named president of Capital, Dr. Shaughnessy-Granger is informatics officer, uNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C. She Navy medicine liaison officer, Bureau of Professional has been with uNC Health Care for 17 years medicine and Surgery, and adjunct assistant Practice, at Inova Health System in Falls in a variety of administrative roles. “It is professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Church, Va. Dr. Swietlik was a member of an truly the highlight of my career to lead at the F. edward Hébert School of medicine, executive panel for the Villanovans in our academic medical center as we take uniformed Services university of the Healthcare Virtual Speaker Series on Data on a number of external challenges and Health Sciences.

38 Jennifer Specht ’98 BSN, ’10 PhD, RN is Inpatient memorial 12 at memorial Sloane the 2017 American Nephrology Nurses the founding director of Cabrini university’s Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Association research Grant and the 2017 Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program, in may 2019 received the Samuel and may International Transplant Nurses Society which will begin this fall in the School of rudin Award for excellence in Nursing research Grant. Dr. Koons was selected Natural Sciences and Allied Health in Practice. Her nomination from peers and as one of only three nationally to receive radnor, Pa. patients notes: “meagan’s bedside manner a rWJF Future of Nursing Postdoctoral is outstanding in every way and she research Fellow award. She was chosen Nada Hussain Al Moosa ’99 BSN, ’03 MSN, consistently prioritizes compassionate care as a Postdoctoral research Fellow at the ’14 PhD last fall participated in one of above all else. She serves as an important NewCourtland Center for Transitions and the Sultanate of Oman’s Implementation and vocal patient advocate informed by Health at the university of Pennsylvania Support and Follow-up units (IFSu) in incredibly sound clinical judgment and School of Nursing. the area of quality of education. The unit intuition.” assists in the planning and development Joseph J. Dovidio iii ’13 BSN, MSN, CRNP, of Tanfeedh, Oman’s National Program ACNPC-AG, CCRN in August 2019 earned for enhancing economic Diversification. 2010s his mSN from the university of This six-week, action-oriented program Emily Doctor ’10 BSN, DNP, FNP-BC in Pennsylvania. At Thomas Jefferson aims to contribute to the achievement may 2019 graduated with her Doctor of university Hospital in Philadelphia, he is of the Sultanate’s vision of economic Nursing Practice degree from Columbia a certified acute-care adult-gerontology diversification by addressing the challenges university. She previously practiced at New nurse practitioner with the Department and difficulties faced by public, private York university (NYu) as a nurse of Anesthesia in the Cardiovascular ICu. and civil institutions in achieving their practitioner in orthopedics/sports medicine Caroline Cohen ’16 BSN, MSN graduated developmental objectives. and has transitioned to medical weight last spring from Yale School of Nursing with management at NYu Langone Health. her mSN as a pediatric nurse practitioner. 2000s Brittany Stark She is pursuing opportunities in pediatric koons ’12 BSN, hematology and oncology in the New York Maria van Pelt ’04 MSN, ’15 PhD, CRNA, ’15 MSN, ’18 PhD, City area. FAAN last October was inducted into the RN in 2019 co- American Academy of Nursing. Also last Meghan Long ’16 BSN, RN in December published (with fall, Northeastern university in Boston 2019 was notified that the article she Helene Moriarty ’77 announced her appointment as associate co-authored with elizabeth Burgess BSN, PhD, RN, dean of its Bouvé College of Health Dowdell, PhD, rN, FAAN, professor of professor of Nursing Sciences and dean of its School of Nursing. Nursing, “Online and Health risk Behaviors and the Diane L. and At Bouvé, Dr. Van Pelt was formerly in High School Students: An examination robert F. moritz Jr. associate clinical professor, Nurse of Bullying,” had won Pediatric Nursing’s endowed Chair in Anesthesia Program director and project 2018 Donna Wong Writers’ Award. It was Nursing research; Tamara M. kear ’09 director of the u.S. Army Graduate published in Pediatric Nursing , 44 (5), PhD, RN, CNS, CNN, associate professor Program in Anesthesia. 223-228. Long’s data-gathering was of Nursing; A. Thomas; and m. Henderson) supported by a Davis Family Summer “Factors related to International Travel for Susan Berryman Scholar award. Moyer ’07 MSN, ’19 Transplantation Among u.S.-listed Kidney PhD, CNE presented Transplant Candidates” in Nephrology Amanda kirkpatrick ’18 PhD, RN is among a poster with faculty Nursing Journal , 46 (4), 397-405, 431. Their the nurses and physicians selected for the members Nancy article reports on Dr. Koons’ dissertation at ninth class of macy Faculty Scholars by Sharts-Hopko, PhD, Villanova Nursing, where she was a robert the Josiah macy Jr. Foundation, which rN, ANeF, FAAN, Wood Johnson Foundation (rWJF) Future advances public health through educating CNe, professor, and of Nursing Scholars Fellow and awarded health-care professionals. Dr. Kirkpatrick Tracy L. Oliver, PhD, rDN, LDN, associate professor, at last fall’s American Public Health Association annual DoN’T MiSS NEWS AND uPDATES meeting in Philadelphia. The poster, “Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable FRoM THE CoLLEGE Intake Behaviors of Young Adult Send us your address and e-mail. millennials,” included a portion of Dr. It’s quick and easy by any of these methods: moyer’s Villanova Nursing dissertation findings. She won second place in the student presentation category.

Michele “Micki” Ballister ’08 MSN, ’13 DNP, APRN, CRNA, CHSE in April 2019 was promoted to associate professor, Division of Anesthesia for Nurses, at the medical PHoNE E-MAiL oNLiNE university of South Carolina in Charleston. 1-800-VILLANOVA [email protected] update your Nova (1-800-845-5266) Network profile at Meagan Harrington McQuade ’09 BSN, alumni.villanova.edu MSN, RN, oCN, clinical nurse III on

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is an assistant professor at Creighton retired from Ku after 35 years of service FACULTY AND FRIENDS university’s College of Nursing. A Jonas including as an associate dean and the The Rev. Richard G. Cannuli, oSA, ’73 Scholar while earning her PhD in Nursing first executive director of Ku’s Center for CLAS, MFA, died August 6, 2019, at the at Villanova, she promotes interprofessional Health Informatics. age of 72 after a brief battle with cancer. competence development and relationship- Nancy Jane Coleman Mily ’65 BSN, of At Villanova university, he was a professor based caring among students and clinicians Worthington, Ohio, died July 4 at the age and curator of the Art Gallery and through Virtual Interprofessional of 78. She was a psychiatric nurse and an Collection. His special relationship with the Simulations (VISion). As a macy Faculty active volunteer in her community. Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is seen daily Scholar, she evaluates and disseminates in the “Christ raising the Daughter of VISion as a new clinical model. Linda A. Pazdan ’65 BSN, of Newtown, Pa., Jairus” sculpture in died January 21 at the age of 81. She front of Driscoll Hall, practiced as a school nurse for many years. in Memoriam for which he was Marijean McFalls Szep ’66 BSN, of a consultant, as ALUMNI Fort myers Beach, Fla., died June 12 at the well as the stained Rosemary Gaughan Sobolesky ’58 BSN, of age of 76. She was an officer in the Navy glass window in Wilmington, Del., died on may 15 at the age Nurse Corps and enjoyed a second career Driscoll Hall’s chapel of 88. She was a nursing professor at in real estate. highlighting four key Delaware Technical and Community College figures in nursing history. He designed the Sister Helen Marie kenny, MM, ’69 BSN for 15 years. She also practiced in many window at the kitchen table of a longtime died January 4 at the maryknoll Sisters hospitals in the Philadelphia and friend, the late m. Louise Fitzpatrick, edD, Center in Ossining, N.Y., at the age of 88. Wilmington areas. rN, FAAN, Connelly endowed Dean and Beginning in the 1950s, she served in Hong Professor. Marian Therese Barry ’59 BSN, of Haddon Kong at Our Lady of maryknoll Hospital, Heights, N.J., died June 21, 2019, at the age culminating as nursing service director from Paula Michaud, PhD, of Villanova, Pa., died of 84. She retired in 1999 after nearly four 1970 to 1984. She returned to launch a October 15, 2019, at the age of 65. With decades of nursing practice, which included hospice care unit, followed by extensive expertise in gerontology and community volunteering as a school nurse. volunteering in Hong Kong. She retired in health, she served as an adjunct clinical 2012 at maryknoll, where she had professed assistant professor for Villanova Nursing Marie kauffman Gallagher ’59 BSN, of final vows in 1955. and taught home health care to seniors. Haddonfield, N.J., died July 1 at the age of (See page 31.) 88. Over her career, she was a private duty, kathryn Ralph Brooks ’78 BSN, ’84 MSN, emergency department and school nurse. of Wayne, Pa., died August 26, 2019, at the Suzanne zamerowski, PhD, RN, of age of 63. She worked in home care and Newtown, Pa., died may 14 at the age of 74. Mildred Wesolowski ’59 BSN, EdD, of critical-care management and also directed An associate professor of Nursing who Buckingham, Pa., died February 13 at the the St. Thomas of Villanova monastery retired in 2015, she was an expert in age of 94. She was an assistant professor Health Care Center on campus. maternal-child health nursing and genetics. at Villanova Nursing, teaching pediatric She taught countless students during nursing for many years. In 1966 she was Nina v. kotarra ’78 BSN, of Bryn mawr, Pa., her 30 years at Villanova university. An one of the founding members of the died November 8, 2019, at the age of 64. A elegant woman with a sense of humor, Alpha Nu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. former hospice nurse, she played the cello. Dr. Zamerowski also was an advocate for Mary Constance “Connie” Lartigue Andrea Lair-kirby ’85 BSN, of Grapevine, those with disabilities. ’60 BSN, of Parkside, Pa., died September Texas, died September 21, 2019, at the On Facebook, many 24, 2019, at the age of 80. At Bryn mawr age of 56. She became an Academic former students noted Hospital, she practiced for 30 years and All-American softball pitcher while pursuing they pursued careers received the 2002 Dr. Gilman e. Heggestad her Nursing degree. in maternal-child Award for outstanding service in nursing. In health or went on to Sharon M. Guarino ’87 MSN, of Plymouth her retirement she served as a school nurse. become midwives meeting, Pa., died January 3 at the age of 61. because of her kathy Higgins Glass ’63 BSN, of Dobbs In addition to acute-care and school nursing influence. maura Ferry, N.Y., died may 18 at the age of 78. practice, she taught nursing at montgomery Quinn ’15 BSN She enjoyed a lifelong career in psychiatric County Community College’s Central commented, “I still nursing in New York. Donations in her Campus in Blue Bell, Pa. think about the influence she had on my memory may be made to the Villanova Nancy L. Heacock ’89 MSN, of upper Black nursing career, especially more recently. university m. Louise Fitzpatrick College eddy, Pa., died June 20, 2019, at the age I am currently a nurse in the medical of Nursing, 800 Lancaster Ave., of 64. During her career, she served as a Intensive Care unit in montefiore Hospital Villanova, PA 19085. manager, director and chief nursing officer. in the Bronx. During the pandemic, there Helen Bodkin Connors ’64 BSN, PhD, RN, have been several situations in which adults Evette Boutanos Simonsen ’90 MSN, of DrPS (Hon.), ANEF, FAAN, of Lee ’s with severe developmental disabilities Havertown, Pa., died September 19, 2019, Summit, mo., died September 23, 2019, have become critically ill and I have thought at the age of 58. She was a nurse who was at the age of 76. remembered for her about all of the disparities in their care active in her community. warmth and passion for Villanova basketball that Dr. Z worked tirelessly to identify as much as for her wide impact, she was Janise Lynne Searby Barkocy ’91 BSN, of and overcome. She is someone who truly a pioneer in information technologies in Nacogdoches, Texas, died October 9, 2019, motivated me to do better, to do well by education while at the university of Kansas at the age of 50. She is remembered for others, and made me proud to be a member (Ku) School of Nursing. Dr. Connors her care and her smile. of the Villanova Nursing community.” • 40 canine Therapy at walter reed Bethesda

he eyes of a Labrador retriever are deep, mellow pools of liquid chocolate and, oh, “The dogs are what those eyes have seen. Meet Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2) Sully, the yellow Labrador retriever who served George H.W. Bush during the six months before the a great asset former president’s death. In February 2019 Sully became a therapy dog, reporting to and truly boost wounded veterans, active duty personnel and staff at Walter Reed National Naval TMedical Center, the nation’s premier military academic health center. everyone’s morale.” Supervising Sully and six other highly trained canines in the Command’s Facility Dog Program is Cmdr. Katie Brennan Macapagal USN, NC, ’03 BSN, ’10 MSN, CPNP, IBCLC. The program is part of her duties as chief experience officer, a role she assumed in June 2019. Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, these seven therapy dogs were deployed throughout the Bethesda, Md., facility during the day and were available for patient and staff visits upon request. A certified pediatric nurse practitioner, Macapagal still sees patients two half-days a week, but her primary role focuses on the patient and staff experience. “I sit on the Board of Directors (BoD) and act as a liaison between the BoD and the patients and staff. In this role, I can have an impact on the decisions made at the executive level, and I can provide input on how those decisions will affect our patients and staff. My additional duties, including the supervision of the Staff Resiliency Office, the Patient Relations Department and the Facility Dog Program, help support our hospital’s mission of taking care of our patients and their families, as well as our 6,500 staff members,” she explains. “Our patients and staff look forward to seeing these four-legged members of our team. They report that the service dogs decrease anxiety, help with relaxation and put smiles on faces. The dogs are a great asset and truly boost everyone’s morale. I have wonderful staff members who run the Facility Dog Program for me, and I’m excited to be able to participate in events and visits and as well as the planning,” Macapagal relates, “It is a special part of what we do at Walter Reed Bethesda.” When COVID-19 restrictions halted the therapy dogs visits, Sully “was at home getting lots of exercise,” she notes. Even he took part in Zoom calls, and photos of him helped “support the staff.” •

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