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Test of Skill, Test of Faith Emory nurses set the standard in caring for the first Ebola patients in the U.S.

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t doesn’t get any better than when the President of the Editor United States pays you a compliment. Last September, Pam Auchmutey Art Director President Obama came to Atlanta for a briefing on the I Linda Dobson Ebola crisis at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- Director of Photography Bryan Meltz tion (CDC,) where he also met with the Emory doctors and Photo Contributors nurses who successfully treated the first Ebola patients in Ann Borden the nation. Here’s what he said afterward: Steve Ellwood Matt Freret “I have got to commend everybody at Emory Kay Hinton University Hospital. I just had the opportunity to meet Jack Kearse 6 9 with Drs. [Bryce] Gartland and [Bruce] Ribner and Editorial Contributors members of their team and the nurses who—sorry Dana Goldman Marlene Goldman doctors, but having been in hospitals, I know they are Martha McKenzie IN THIS ISSUE the ones really doing the work—and I had a chance to Carol Pinto thank them for their extraordinary efforts in helping Lauren Musso Powers Production Manager Test of skill, test of faith “By simply to provide care for the first Americans who recently Carol Pinto Emory nurses set the standard in caring for 18 contracted the disease in Africa.” nursing students, including Michelle Dynes, a gradu- 2 including your Executive Director the first Ebola patients. President Obama was referring to the 21 critical care ate of our doctoral program who serves as an Epidemic Health Sciences Creative baby in everyday Services nurses who served on the Ebola team, some of whom are Intelligence Service officer at theCDC . Michelle spent Karon Schindler In the heart of the Ebola outbreak conversations and six weeks in Sierra Leone applying her skills in an Ebola graduates of the School of Nursing. You’ll meet three of Associate Vice President For EIS officer Michelle Dynes, the decision to talking with them treatment center there. When she later spoke at the 6 them in this issue—Crystal Johnson, Laura Mitchell, and Health Sciences serve in Sierra Leone came easily. The tough School of Nursing, the room was filled to capacity with Communications about everything, Jason Slabach—who stepped up quickly when asked to Vince Dollard part was telling her children why. work in Emory’s isolation unit. students and faculty eager to hear about her role in help- you can drastically ing address an unprecedented health crisis. Send correspondence to: improve their chances “Someone obviously trusted me enough to feel I Editor, Emory Nursing More than a disease Susan Grant, chief nurse executive for Emory Health- would be a good fit for the unit,” Jason later reflected. 1762 Clifton Road 9 The Ebola outbreak becomes a timely topic of academic success.” care, said it best in describing Emory’s commitment to Suite 1000 “When they asked, and I learned more about it, I was for a new course on Complex Humanitarian — Ashley Darcy-Mahoney helping Ebola patients in our country and thousands of Atlanta, GA 30322 100 percent all in. That’s a mindset that Emory promotes 404-712-9265 Emergencies. on Talk With Me Baby to its students. Do what you can to help. If you have an miles away in West Africa: “We can fear, or we can care.” [email protected] opportunity, go for it. Get more training, further your Taking stock education. It felt very normal for me to do that.” Linda A. McCauley 79MN PhD RN FAAN FAAOHN On the Cover: Alumnus 12 Nursing leaders reflect on Emory’s role We pride ourselves on instilling that mindset in our Dean and Professor Jason Slabach suits up in in the Ebola response. the Serious Communicable Disease Unit at Emory University Hospital. News Briefs 16 | Accolades 20 Photo by Jack Kearse Message from the Executive VP 22 Download our Emory Nursing is published by the Nell Hodgson Woodruff Class News 23 | In Memory 26 iPad app. School of Nursing (nursing. View Emory Nursing online emory.edu), a component of Look for Emory the Woodruff Health Sciences emorynursingmagazine.emory.edu. Center of Emory University. Emory University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer fully committed Health Magazines Copyright ©2015. to achieving a diverse workforce and complies with all federal and Georgia state laws, regulations, and executive orders regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative 12 in the App Store. 14-SON-DEAN-0060 action. Emory University does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Crystal Johnson

Test of Skill, Test of Faith Emory nurses set the standard in caring for the first Ebola patients

in the U.S. By Pam Auchmutey

HE IMAGE IS ICONIC. As news helicopters hover overhead, physician Kent Brantly, clad head to toe in white Tprotective gear, steps out of an ambulance and slowly enters Emory University Hospital to become the first patient treated for Ebola hemorrhagic fever on American soil. He contracted the Ebola virus while serving as a medical missionary in Liberia. Crystal Johnson 00N felt a sense of relief when she watched the news coverage on TV last August. The fact that Brantly could walk with assistance Jason Slabach into the hospital was a good sign, she thought. That night, when she began her shift in the hospital’s special isolation unit, she realized her patient’s condition was grave. “I could see he was really sick,” says Johnson, who suited up in full personal protection equipment (PPE) to care for Brantly in four-hour stints. “Every hour, we were all on edge because he was decompensating quickly.” Laura Mitchell

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would crack under pressure.” of this theory quickly became apparent. when their patients felt well enough to eat want them to worry. But the cat was out of Adds Mitchell, “That’s how our team “We had to look at what our patients a meal and take a shower. the bag when family members and friends became a family in one afternoon.” needed besides medication,” Johnson “Listening to Nancy made me a stron- spotted her on TV during a press conference explains. “We had to go back to the ger person,” says Mitchell. “She’s been a when Brantly was discharged from Emory. TAKING CARE OF ONE’S OWN nursing process to look at them as a missionary for over 20 years. Her family “You come from a good background Jason Slabach 13N learned the donning whole—mind, body, and spirit. We had to is amazing. They are unconditional in and a good foundation,” Mitchell’s fans and doffing procedure by heart like the evaluate their needs from all aspects and rest of his “kin.” The steps were familiar be everything to them.” to him, since he had worked with It also reminded nurses to think more different levels of PPE as a paramedic carefully about basic steps easily taken in Virginia before following his future for granted. wife to nursing school at Emory. “We take off our gloves 10,000 times a When Slabach joined Emory Hospital’s day or week. But now we think about how cardiovascular ICU in 2013, he had no we take off those gloves,” Mitchell says. idea he would help care for the first Ebola patients in the U.S., let alone be A FAMILY GROWS Suiting up: Jason Slabach dons the personal protection equipment vital to among the Ebola fighters named by Time When an Ebola patient is in the isolation keeping nurses safe as they care for Ebola patients in Emory’s isolation unit. magazine as its 2014 Person of the Year. unit, team members attend “family” meet- He was asked to join the SCDU to ramp ings every morning to review standard Though the situation was intense, the team of nurses and up the staffing needed for the Ebola patients’ care. operating protocols and discuss successes, physicians in Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit “I was very glad they brought Dr. Brantly to Emory,” says mistakes, and lessons learned. (SCDU) knew what to do. Their skills and training kicked in to Slabach. “He’s an American citizen, and I’m a believer in taking “It’s probably the healthiest environ- restore Brantly to health, as they would do for three more Ebola care of our own. And he’s a health care worker and a missionary. ment I’ve worked in where critique is patients, including an American from Sierra Leone and a nurse I wanted to support that.” encouraged because we are all in this to- from Dallas, Texas. The nurses and physicians in theSCDU bonded quickly with gether,” says Slabach. “Any mistake I make Eight years earlier, Johnson had volunteered to help staff the their patients, who had no physical contact with the outside not only affects me but also my co-workers Slabach and Johnson wear helmets containing fans that help keep them isolation unit while working in the cardiovascular surgery ICU at world. The unit comprises two ICU hospital rooms separated by and their loved ones. We also check our more comfortable while working in the isolation unit. Emory University Hospital Midtown. Built in 2002, the SCDU stood an anteroom. Generally, three nurses staff the unit at a time. One temperature and record our symptoms ready to isolate CDC staff exposed to highly contagious pathogens nurse is dedicated per patient, while a third nurse observes them twice a day. We make sure we all do that.” in the line of duty. from the anteroom. With staffing at a minimum to prevent con- The nurse-physician relationship grew their faith. I found that very inspiring.” told her afterward. “We don’t expect “All I could think of was the movie Outbreak. I wanted to dress tamination, each nurse must assume multiple roles. stronger as they learned from the process The Emory nurses formed a differ- anything less of you.” up in that white suit,” says Johnson of her decision to volunteer. “We had to be the physical therapist. We had to be the respi- of treating the first Ebola patients in the ent bond with their fourth patient, nurse Shortly before the press conference “The unit was at Emory Hospital, just down the street from the ratory therapist. We were housekeeping. We had to be every- Western Hemisphere. “Nurses are used to Amber Vinson, who contracted Ebola while began, Johnson watched Brantly step out CDC. I just wanted to get started. It was exciting.” thing for that patient,” says Johnson. doctors telling them what to do,” Johnson treating a patient from Liberia at Texas of the isolation unit for the first time and She convinced Laura Mitchell 95OX 97N to join her. “Crystal Most important, each nurse provided supportive care to says. “But sometimes people forget what Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. hug his wife, who placed his wedding said it was a great opportunity—give it a try,” recalls Mitchell, maintain vital functions that enable the patient’s immune sys- nurses really do. A patient might grab us, “Although she worked in a different state band back on his left ring finger. who staffs the same unit at Emory Midtown. “That’s the great tem to fight the virus and recover. As theSCDU team quickly hold onto us, or get things on us. We aren’t and under slightly different circumstances, “When they walked down the hall thing about nursing. You can try many different things.” learned, replacing fluids and electrolytes lost primarily through working in a controlled setting. We became I felt like she and her colleagues were one of together hand-in-hand, it was like they Since then, the two Emory nursing alumni have trained yearly vomiting and diarrhea was key to their patients’ recovery. Other more confident in telling the physicians our own,” says Johnson. “It made me think had gotten married all over again,” with other clinicians to work as needed in the SCDU. Last August, treatments such as blood transfusions and experimental drugs what did and didn’t work. They would listen about how I would handle it if someone Johnson says. “It was beautiful.” EN the unit was activated to receive its first Ebola patients—Brantly, were given in hopes of ensuring their survival. and say, ‘OK, let’s try this instead.’ ” from our team fell ill. We followed by fellow aid worker Nancy Writebol three days later. “Coming from the critical care environment, we’re used to Team members remained vigilant of were able to discuss and LEARN MORE: Things ratcheted up quickly the day before Brantly arrived. caring for very sick patients and constantly looking for changes, their patients’ morale. To buoy Writebol’s compare feelings about Unit clinicians received upgraded protective gear and more train- constantly watching our patients,” says Mitchell. “It was very spirits, Mitchell turned off the TV in her this crisis on a level that n Watch Crystal Johnson, Laura Mitchell, and Jason ing. Most important, they learned to carefully don and doff their easy to transfer those skills into this type of setting.” room to block out Ebola news coverage. only those who walk this Slabach talk about caring for Ebola patients at Emory full PPE to prevent exposure to the Ebola virus and watch out for Caring for the Ebola patients underscored the importance of As Brantly improved, Slabach played Nerf road would understand.” one another to prevent potentially deadly mistakes. following nursing protocols, both in the isolation unit and in the basketball with him and discussed their When Brantly and in the video at bit.ly/Ebola-nurses. “In nursing, we’re taught that patient and family come first,” regular units where Mitchell, Johnson, and Slabach work. Dur- faith and a mutual friend in Liberia. All Writebol arrived at Emo- n Also watch them during a recent panel discussion at the says Johnson, now a post-anesthesia care unit nurse at Emory ing nursing school, the course on the nursing process was John- of the nurses listened as their patients ry, Mitchell at first didn’t School of Nursing. Visit bit.ly/Ebola-alumni-panel. Midtown. “That day, the priority was our safety. The training son’s least favorite. “I’m never going to use this,” she thought at shared stories about family, work, and life tell her family where she was intense, like in the military. They tested us to see if we the time. But in the SCDU with an Ebola patient, the importance experiences. The nurses’ spirits soared was working. She didn’t

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For EIS officer Michelle Dynes, the decision to serve in Sierra Leone came easily. The tough part was telling her children why. By Dana Goldman

WHEN WILL IT END? ate last summer, nurse-mid- of confirmed cases in West Africa. But Dynes soon found ample opportunity Nurses and other health care Dynes knew she needed to go. to put her skills to work at an Ebola treat- wife Michelle Dynes 13PhD L “Anytime there’s an outbreak anywhere ment center at a government hospital in professionals still have an important MPH RN sat her three kids down in the world, it’s common for EIS officers Kenema, the third-largest city in Sierra role to play in halting the Ebola to tell them she was going on an to be sent to investigate,” she says. “Essen- Leone. The outbreak devastated the city. tially, they asked who was interested Businesses and schools were closed, the crisis in West Africa. According to extended business trip. That part in responding to the Ebola epidemic. I economy was stalled, and impoverished wasn’t so unusual. All were used definitely wanted to get involved. I had a citizens who already lived day-to-day the World Health Organization, certain set of skills that would allow me to struggled to survive, regardless of whether more than 24,000 cases and 10,000 to her travels as an Epidemic contribute to the CDC’s response.” they had Ebola. Hospital workers were Intelligence Service (EIS) officer Those skills include experience in global among those hardest hit by the virus. deaths have occurred in Sierra health and health promotion as well as “They had lost 20 nurses by the time with the Centers for Disease Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. The research expertise honed by her doctoral I arrived,” says Dynes, “and many more Control and Prevention (CDC). studies at Emory’s School of Nursing. died while I was there.” highest numbers are concentrated What was unusual was where their “My PhD was really important and Every day, Dynes looked out the hos- mother was headed: Sierra Leone, right connected my clinical background with pital’s window to get a view of the triage in Sierra Leone, where more than to the heart of the Ebola epidemic. my global health experience so I could see tent where health care workers evaluated 11,800 people have contracted the “I explained to them what type of work the situation from multiple angles,” Dynes people for Ebola. “You could get a sense I would be doing,” Dynes recalls. “The says. “A PhD opens your eyes to the types of how the epidemic was going based on virus and more than 3,700 have main thing they really wanted to know of questions people should ask. Those how many people were waiting in that tent about was the risk. It was as if they needed questions guide the type of information to be seen,” she says. She also could see died. Experts predict the epidemic to know how much they needed to worry.” you need to collect. Knowing how to the Ebola treatment center from her office will end later this year. After all, the Ebola virus was in the collect data and make it meaningful so it window. “The kids in the doorway would news on a daily basis with thousands can guide public health actions is critical.” wave to us if they were recovering.” Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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ready to step into an Ebola treatment center,” Dynes explains. “Their families often were not supportive, and yet many By Pam Auchmutey nurses were willing to help because they felt it was their professional obligation.” Knowing that stress, fatigue, and trauma would make it harder for the surviving nurses to perform their jobs effectively, Dynes created a counseling space in the hospital to provide ongoing psychosocial support for health care workers and Ebola survivors. More than a disease She also recognized two ancillary victims of the Ebola outbreak: routine health care services usually provided by The Ebola outbreak becomes a timely topic for a the hospital and patient trust in the health care system itself. Neither was insignificant. Sierra Leone already has one of the new course on Complex Humanitarian Emergencies highest maternal mortality rates in the world, and mothers and babies are at risk of dying without appropriate medical care. Dynes quickly learned the reasons why many people avoided the hospital. “There are common misconceptions that health care workers will give people Ebola or inject them with the virus,” she says. “If a woman is in labor with complications, she may decide not to come to the hospital. Infants may not be immunized and may die of preventable illnesses such as measles.” The Ebola outbreak further strained Sierra Leone’s already under-resourced health care infrastructure. “Health workers Children would stand in the doorway of the Ebola weren’t able to provide the types of services they usually provided because they had to focus on Ebola,” Dynes says. treatment center in Sierra Leone and wave, “So many services became out of reach.” signalling their recovery. “I described that to my After conducting interviews and focus group sessions with new mothers and health workers, Dynes and her colleagues children (bottom photo) so they would understand identified ways the hospital could continue to serve patients without Ebola—and figured out ways to spread the word that why I had to be gone.”—Michelle Dynes the hospital was safe for those without the virus. “The traditional birth attendants were more than happy to spread messages about coming to the hospital and sharing that it was safe,” she says. Dynes and her colleagues quickly got to work helping teach Throughout her six-week deployment in Sierra Leone, local health care professionals how to reduce the chances of Dynes stayed in close touch with her children to tell them about contracting and spreading Ebola. They began by training the her experiences. “I often called them while sitting on the steps of nurses working in the Ebola treatment center to pay methodical the office, facing the Ebola treatment center where the kids who attention to safety, some of which seemed counterintuitive. were recovering would stand in the doorway and wave,” she says. “In a regular hospital, if someone passed out in front of you, “I described that to my children so they would understand why a nurse normally would rush up and help them,” Dynes explains. I had to be gone, even though it meant being away from them.” “In an Ebola treatment unit, you can’t do that. It’s just not safe Now back at home, Dynes is spreading the word that the to rush in and take care of someone the way it is in a normal Ebola virus is still a large threat to Sierra Leone. To date, more hospital.” Instead, Dynes and her colleagues taught nurses to than 11,800 cases and 3,700 deaths have occurred in that nation. stop before every action and consider possible consequences. “The attention still needs to be in West Africa,” she says. “The They also spent considerable time figuring out strategies to sup- world can’t afford to back down from our response.” port local health care workers grappling not only with the outbreak With that in mind, she’s considering going back to Sierra but also with the loss of many colleagues and friends to Ebola. Leone this year. “I wouldn’t hesitate to do it,” Dynes says. EN

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8 Emory Nursing SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 Emory Nursing 9 s their December 2014 graduation date neared, MSN students Mary Micikas and Becky Schicker were making plans for a Adramatic career step. Both had been hired by the Boston-based agency Partners in Health to care for Ebola patients in West Africa. Both are now emergency nurse practitioners also trained to assist with complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs) around the world. The nurses came by theirCHE training via differ- ent paths. Schicker 14MN/14MPH earned a certificate in Global Complex Humanitarian Emergencies at the Rollins School of Public Health, while Micikas 13N 14MN, a Fuld Fellow in the School of Nursing, completed a new CHE course at the nursing school this past fall. Funded by the Helene Fuld Health Trust, Fuld Fellowships prepare second-career students like Micikas to serve vulnerable populations. She signed up for the three-day course last June, weeks before the world knew the full extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and before the first U.S. patients with the virus arrived from Liberia for treatment at Emory University Hospital. The timing of the course proved serendipitous for Micikas, who Tailored specifically for nursing students, the Complex Humanitarian Emergencies course prepares them to step up received a job offer from Partners in Health the day after theCHE course began. as leaders and fill any number of roles to help abate a crisis such as the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. “It’s a great model,” she says of the class. “It’s amazing how much we learned in three days.” In that short period, 21 students interacted with CHE experts from Emory, the CDC, Doctors Without Borders, the Carter Center, and CARE. They examined the global standards landmine victims in Mozambique, including amputees. She currently evacuation. Such details are spelled out the first day of class. “Integrating what we know from our advanced nursing train- that guide humanitarian practice such as Sphere Project guidelines, is an academic consultant for a Carter Center program in Liberia “It’s critical that you take care of yourself,” says Williams, who ing at Emory into another country’s context goes beyond our widely used by the humanitarian aid community, and the Minimum that trains nurses and physician assistants to diagnose and treat serves with the CDC’s Emergency Response and Recovery Branch traditional training in emergencies and necessitates incorporat- Initial Service Package for reproductive health in crisis situations. mental health disorders. The Ebola epidemic has further strained the (ERRB). “If you can’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of ing the skills we learned from the CHE classes,” says Schicker. They also collaborated on case studies illustrating the scope and nation’s fragile mental health system, which has one psychiatrist and others. Your judgment starts to fail and you make mistakes. That “Regardless of how damaged their current health care system is, challenges of humanitarian aid work during and after a crisis. one psychiatric hospital serving a population of 4.2 million people. can be deadly with diseases like Ebola.” we are there at their invitation, and it behooves us and everyone Students quickly learned that CHEs require nurses to be strong Of the 144 mental health clinicians trained by the Carter Center thus Williams is among the ERRB experts who teach students else to coordinate with the systems already in place.” leaders who can step into different roles as needed and understand far, one has died and one has survived Ebola. With Downes’ help, the in the Global Complex Humanitarian Emergencies certificate The new graduates also expect to experience heartbreak. cultural and other factors unique to each situation. The Ebola Emory International Student Nurses Association conducted a fund- program at Rollins. She proposed creating last fall’s CHE course “The thing I’ve thought about most is dealing with death—both epidemic exemplified in real time the complicated nature ofCHE s, raising drive to support the mental health clinicians. tailored just for nursing students. Williams also serves on the patients and staff members,” says Micikas, who founded a rural which are defined as manmade disasters that far surpass a country’s In the CHE course at the School of Nursing, Downes and advisory board of the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health health clinic in Guatemala before studying at Emory. “I think ability to abate a crisis. CHEs are rooted in conflict and poverty and co-leader Holly Williams PhD MN RN, a nurse anthropologist/epi- & Social Responsibility at the School of Nursing. that will be the hardest thing to cope with.” may be triggered by a natural disaster or health epidemic. demiologist with the CDC and a captain in the U.S. Public Health “CHE work isn’t for everyone,” she cautions. “It takes a per- Schicker is more accustomed to facing death, having worked “When you work in CHEs, you have to be aware of the social, po- Service, provide insight on the myriad roles that nurses play in sonal toll when you work in these settings. Nurses must use skills as an emergency room nurse in Michigan and New York, where litical, economic, epidemiologic, and cultural aspects of everything emergencies—managing a hospital or its staff, providing patient way beyond what we traditionally teach them. The reward comes she had ready access to modern health care tools like technology, that’s going on,” says course co-leader Elizabeth Downes 04MPH care, educating health care workers, caring for orphaned children, in seeing an immediate outcome by touching someone’s life in a medicines, equipment, and specialized expertise. DNP MSN RN CNE FAANP ANEF. “In West Africa, the impact of or running a pharmacy, nutrition center, or mental health facility. situation of extreme distress.” “When a patient died, I felt I had done everything in my power Ebola on direct patient care alone is huge. But it’s also taken a toll “Nurses have to be everywhere,” says Downes. Schicker and Micikas were mindful of the challenges as they to keep them alive or alleviate their suffering,” she says. “That’s more on health care workers who have lost colleagues and are exhausted.” The instructors also stress that nurses plan ahead to stay prepared for their assignments in West Africa. While there are difficult in resource-poor settings like West Africa. Doing the best Downes speaks from experience, having worked in Africa as a healthy. That includes finding a safe place to live, arranging for safe many unknowns, they are confident in their ability to partner you can with what you have for a patient is a hard thing to come to Peace Corps volunteer, family nurse practitioner, and nurse educa- food and water, paying attention to cultural norms and surround- with health care workers, community and government leaders, terms with when you’re used to taking care of patients with all of tor. Among her assignments: managing a project to assist war and ings to ensure their safety, and knowing what to do in case of and others to bolster health systems weakened by Ebola. the resources imaginable available to you.” EN

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Why did the first Ebola patients come to relationship with Rollins School of Public here at the school and Holly Williams at Emory? Why not the isolation unit at NIH? Health. Our students also get a good the CDC. Very few schools of nursing in SG: The CDC is right down the street. flavor of taking care of some of the sickest the United States offer this type of course. We have a biocontainment unit patients in the United States because of our Two of our faculty members, Dian Evans that has been up and running close ties to Emory Healthcare. and Kate Moore, worked with the CDC for several years and physicians to train military troops deployed to West and nurses specially trained in And how are alumni and students Africa to help contain the epidemic. infectious disease. So I would prepared to care for Ebola patients say, “Why wouldn’t patients in other countries? From day one, the nurses and physicians come here?” LM: Three of our students have gone to who cared for the Ebola patients at Emory West Africa to care for Ebola patients. Hospital regarded themselves as a family. In your op-ed for The Wash- They are very brave individuals who Is that unusual? ington Post, you addressed want to be out front as leaders. One thing SG: No. That’s how this team saw them- public concerns about treat- that distinguishes us from other nurs- selves, and it was such a great metaphor Taking Stock ing Ebola patients at Emory. ing schools is this multi-layered global because families tell you what you need Did the backlash from the exposure. Many schools focus on training to know whether you want to hear it or public surprise you? nurses to care for patients in the hospital. not. A lot of it revolved around safety for Nursing leaders reflect on Emory’s role SG: What surprised me most Ninety percent of the nursing dialogue everyone on the team. To hold each other was not that there was a backlash around Ebola in the United States has been accountable and keep each other safe, the in the Ebola response but what was fueling it—a lack of on preparing nurses to care for patients in hierarchy had to be left at the door. knowledge about what health care pro- the hospital. That’s not the case at Emory. If I miss a step in doffing my protec- Li nd fessionals do and what organizations like We’re preparing nurses to care for Ebola tive gear, and I don’t know it, then you a Mc Emory are here for. That was lost in the patients here and in West Africa. as a family member who cares about me By Pam Auchmutey Ca uley fear, and I was not alone in realizing this. Last fall, we introduced a course for and wants to keep me safe will say, “Hey, We had an obligation to educate people students on Complex Humanitarian Emer- you’ve missed a step, back up” and not be about what nurses and doctors are trained gencies (CHE), led by Elizabeth Downes afraid to speak up. for and what they are called to do. We’re Susan Grant MS RN NEA-BC FAAN, deployment to West Africa, writing he epidemiologist in her here to meet people’s needs. That’s why chief nurse executive for Emory Health- journal articles, and proposing research drives Emory nursing Emory is here; that’s our mission. It was T care, followed the Ebola outbreak on projects. Three students volunteered to important to remind people of that. Dean Linda McCauley to read the news. It never crossed her mind, at work in West Africa. least not directly, that Emory University In many respects, the Ebola epidemic Several School of Nursing alumni were on the news coming out of the Hospital would soon treat patients with exemplifies how Emory nurses see the the team that cared for the Ebola patients. Centers for Disease Control and the deadly disease­­ in its Serious Commu- world and respond to those in need dur- How did the school prepare them for such nicable Disease Unit. ing a crisis. McCauley and Grant reflect Prevention (CDC) almost every an important role? “I don’t think Emory is immune or off on this and more in the following Q&A. LM: That’s a really good question because day. So she naturally took notice the list for anything,” Grant says. “We’re I’m constantly asked, “What’s the Emory here for that reason, and we’re going to What were your thoughts when you when the number of cases of difference?” Nursing students come to Em- see patients that other hospitals don’t see. learned that Emory would admit the ory to study because of where we are and Ebola hemorrhagic fever in That’s our whole purpose.” first Ebola patients in the U.S.? our strong, rich history of educating nurs- But some in the general public didn’t LM: All positive. I knew that Emory West Africa spiked dramatically ing leaders. We talk about leadership from see it that way and used social media to had the capacity to handle this type of the first day students arrive and encourage last summer. voice concern that Emory risked spread- contagion. It was not a surprise to me them to be bold and explore and do new “A friend of mine does research in the ing Ebola in the United States. Grant that patients would be transported here. things. Many students come here with that Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR), countered by writing a Washington Post expectation already. They know that we are and I asked her if she was worried about op-ed on why treating Ebola patients SG: It’s what we do. We thought, “Let’s get located next to the CDC and have a close it spreading there,” says McCauley. “She benefits the nation. ready, let’s make sure we have what we reminded me that Ebola was first detected At the School of Nursing, faculty need and that staff have what they need.” there in 1976 and the DCR was able to responded in kind by incorporating We made sure things got done and that contain it. But Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Ebola into classroom discussions, we were prepared. We didn’t know how Liberia were unable to control it because of holding forums for students, helping sick our patients were going to be, but we the economic and social conditions there.” train members of the military for safe knew we were equipped to care for them. Su sa n G ran 12 Emory Nursing SPRING 2015 t SPRING 2015 Emory Nursing 13 When it came to the direct care of Emory set the standard of care for treating our patients, all voices had to be heard. Ebola patients. How is that information The team discussed the family rules being shared? every morning and every time they did SG: We post all of our protocols on a hand-off to the second shift, they went our website and update them as we over the family rules and recited them improve them. We have done countless every time. Calling themselves a family calls and emails with colleagues was very powerful. across the country and the world and held a number Was the media attention surrounding of webinars, conference the Ebola patients distracting? calls, presentations, and SG: There was a lot of media attention, training sessions. but the team stayed very focused on their For example, we patients and their needs. The untold partnered with the . story is the rest of the Emory Healthcare Georgia Hospital C D C staff who kept doing what they needed Association on a e h t to do to meet the needs of thousands of daylong seminar for o t it people in our clinics and hospitals every hospitals all over the is Pr v es is day. They maintained the same high state to review Ebola id h en ng preparedness and care t ri quality of care, the same focus on safety Ob du am m and service. That’s part of the culture of the Ebola patient. We a tea spe re aks lthca we’ve developed over many years. did a presentation for the with the Emory Hea University HealthSystem How would you characterize the relation- Consortium, which includes ship between nurses and physicians on 110 academic health centers the Ebola health care team? across the country. We led webinars

SG: It was collaboration at its best. for the American Nurses Association, the . s e They had to consider the science U.S. Department of Health and Human There is a tremendous difference in the how to prevent and rs u level of care available to Ebola patients in n behind what they were doing and the Services, the American Association of treat a deadly disease, is h precautions they were taking. And there Critical Care Nurses, and the Emergency our new CHE course in Nursing Outlook, the United States and in West Africa. How conducting research to ks an were physical and emotional comfort Nurses Association, with thousands of the journal of the American Academy of can nurses address this disparity? find an effective vaccine, th O tly n t an aspects in conjunction with the personal participants. We serve on the Georgia Nursing. Woodruff Professor Deborah SG: We can help by sharing our knowl- and educating others to he d t Br ay of e, Ken protection equipment they had to use. Ebola Task Force and the Emory Ebola Bruner serves on the Emory Ebola Task edge and doing the research. We learned prevent fear and stigma. There are his discharg There were other qualitative factors— Task Force. It just keeps going. Force and co-chairs a university-wide a lot from taking care of the four patients 48 medical centers in the United States things you can’t necessarily measure discussion series examining Ebola from here at Emory. We were able to study that have been designated as Ebola-ready. that are powerful. The nurses listened How has the Ebola epidemic influenced different perspectives. them in a controlled environment. That What we learn from Ebola will make us LEARN MORE: to their own instincts, listened to each nursing education and research? knowledge feeds scientific knowledge better equipped for the next big thing other, and created an extra level of LM: For the past five years, Susan Shapiro SG: Our experience has informed teaching around the world. So it actually helps us that happens. An epidemic in Africa Read Susan Grant’s op-ed in The Wash- safety. The physicians listened to that has led efforts in the School of Nursing in the nursing school. We are working with to improve the care for Ebola patients is no longer just an epidemic in Africa. ington Post at bit.ly/GRANT-OP-ED. as well. The art of nursing, the art of to strengthen our academic partnership faculty on a potential research study on everywhere, not just here. As other disasters have taught us, it medicine, the art of caring and science with Emory Healthcare, which leads the the experience of nurses caring for Ebola As nursing professionals and educators, requires a global response. Read articles on Ebola by Emory nursing all came together. nation in disseminating protocols and patients. The Ebola outbreak reminds we have a responsibility to educate others Emory is a special place because it faculty at nursingoutlook.org. Search information about the treatment of Ebola us about the importance of emergency to correct misinformation and dispel fears believes in that type of outreach as a global for individual authors Ann Connor and The fourth Ebola patient at Emory was a patients. There has been renewed interest preparedness and sharing what we know around Ebola. It’s our way of caring for the citizen. It attracts nursing students who are Elizabeth Downes and co-authors Susan hospital nurse from Dallas, Texas. Was it in Ann Connor’s work on “intentional about Ebola with faculty, students, and public. We sometimes forget how much committed to serving others and who want Shapiro, Kristy Martyn, Susan Grant, different having a nurse as a patient? comfort touch”—something that nurses others. It has energized people around the nurses can influence others. to learn how to provide the very best care. and Linda McCauley. SG: She wasn’t treated any differently. As at Emory and in West Africa have faced idea that the world is not large anymore. Our student applications are up for this fall, a chief nurse, I thought that could be one as they strive to provide compassionate When we have an outbreak in West Africa What has the Ebola epidemic taught us? and we attribute that in part to the inter- Access the Emory Healthcare of our nurses. It added another level of care from behind the protective gear of this magnitude, we are all affected by And what challenges lie ahead? est in Ebola. If you want to learn how to protocols on Ebola preparedness at thought and reflection for people on the they must wear. Just recently, our faculty it. So education, communication, and LM: There are many parallels between provide the best care to the sickest patients, emoryhealthcare.org/ebola-protocol. health care team. published articles on these topics and treatment fall under the same umbrella. AIDS and the Ebola epidemic—learning Emory is where you want to be. EN

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we’re so far down the road that we don’t know how to take care of these workers who are so crucial to the food BUNDLE program aims to increase supply system in this country.” nursing workforce diversity and “People need to understand more about heat stress,” adds McCauley. “Whether it’s young children or health care access pets in cars, the elderly in urban settings, or farmworkers in agriculture, there are groups of people who will suffer Twelve students from under-represented groups are being groomed the consequences of rising temperatures more than oth- as potential public health nurse leaders, with the hope that they ers, and this study is an important one in that regard. It’s will eventually return to their communities and educate people all about prevention.” about health issues, improve community health and safety, and increase access to care. EPIGENETICS AND PRETERM BIRTHS These students comprise the first cohort to enroll in the Building The School of Nursing also received a five-year, $1.9 mil- Undergraduate Nursing’s Diverse Leadership at Emory (BUNDLE) program, lion award from the National Institute of Minority and courtesy of a $970,000 Nursing Workforce Diversity grant from the Health Angela Amar Health Disparities to investigate risks and protective Resources and Services Administration. factors that contribute to high rates of preterm births in The grant to the School of Nursing is designed to build nursing leaders who are under-represented among registered nurses. African-American women. for underserved populations by increasing nursing education opportunities “With the changing demographics of the U.S., it’s important that the New Studies Target Farmworkers Preterm birth is the leading cause of African for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Emory is one of 12 nursing health care provider population mirror the general population and that all American infant mortality, and African American women schools in the country to receive this competitive nurse-training grant and providers are trained to provide culturally sensitive care,” says Angela Amar and African American Preemies are more than 1.5 times more likely to have a preterm will eventually recruit a total of 45 students into its BUNDLE program over PhD RN FAAN, program director and associate professor. birth than Caucasian women. the next three years. “Our program aims to address the increasing diversity and health Farmworkers who are prone to heat-related illnesses (HRIs) and The research team, led by A major focus of BUNDLE is reducing barriers to enrolling and retaining disparities in the populations we serve,” she adds. “This diversity increases African American women at high risk of preterm births will ultimately Anne Dunlop MD MPH, research students. It provides stipends, scholarships, and mentorship and networking the richness of the patient experience, not only for these students but also benefit from two major grants awarded to Emory nursing researchers. associate professor in the School opportunities for racial, ethnic, and economically disadvantaged minorities for every student who will have to interact in our diverse world.”—MG In the case of the former, emergency rooms are seeing more and more of Nursing, and Alicia Smith PhD, extreme cases of HRIs among agricultural workers. Unfortunately, many seek assistant professor of psychiatry help too late: the average annual heat-related death rate among farmwork- and behavioral sciences in Emory’s ers is nearly 20 times higher than for other occupations. School of Medicine, will determine The School of Nursing has stepped up efforts to document the physiolog- whether biobehavioral factors Emory joins ranks of ical changes that lead to heat stress among farmworkers in Central Florida. (biological, social, behavioral, and Scholarships fill growing need for nurse top 10 nursing schools Led by Dean Linda McCauley, Emory researchers and community partners environmental elements) influence practitioners and midwives from the Farmworkers Association of Florida are conducting the largest, most the expression of genes that con- The School of Nursing ranks in-depth study ever undertaken to look at heat stress in farmworkers. tribute to preterm births among As the health care landscape contin- 10th among its peers in U.S. This four-year study is supported by a $2.1 million grant from the National African American women. ues to change, the roles of nurse prac- News & World Report’s 2016 Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Researchers are using advanced “If we can define these risk titioners and midwives are becoming edition of “America’s Best biomonitoring equipment in the field—portable devices that capture body tem- factors for African American increasingly significant. To help meet Graduate Schools” guide. perature, heart rate, energy expenditure, and signs of dehydration in some 400 women, we can begin to identify important intervention strategies,” demand for these specialists, the The new ranking is the highest workers laboring in nurseries, ferneries, and fields in Central Florida. says Dunlop. School of Nursing will award 70 stu- in the school’s history and is based on new statistical The study will determine how to offer better guidance to farmworkers In this study, researchers will leverage data from an ongoing NIH-funded dents with $10,000 scholarships over and reputational data introduced this year by U.S. News. so they can protect themselves from heat hazards. During peak seasons, prospective cohort study of pregnant African American women from diverse the next two years. Previously, the magazine ranked master’s programs in many toil 12 hours a day, seven days a week, often in high humidity and sociodemographic backgrounds. They will assess women’s prenatal stress, Funded by a $700,000 award nursing every three years based solely on peer assess- temperatures in the 90s and 100s. The goal behind the research is to provide dietary intake, and health behaviors; microbiome composition; and birth from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Advanced Education Nursing ments. The school ranked No. 21 in 2012. workers with better information about how to protect themselves from outcomes. Their goal: to identify modifiable factors that influence the epigen- Traineeship program, the scholarships will help increase the number of advanced practice Three of the school’s advanced practice specialty extreme heat, including how much water to drink, how often to rest, and etic regulation of genes involved in preterm birth. nurses who can deliver primary care in high-need areas. Scholarship recipients will focus programs were also ranked for 2016—the nurse-mid- what kind of personal factors put them at highest risk for HRIs. Epigenetics is the investigation of the outside components, or biobehav- on adult care, pediatrics, geriatrics, family care, midwifery, and women’s health. wifery (9th), the family nurse practitioner (11th), and Innumerable research studies have characterized the hazardous work envi- ioral factors, influencing the carefully orchestrated chemical reactions that acti- “Nurse practitioners and midwives play vital roles in expanding access to care the adult/gerontology primary care (14th) programs. ronment for this vulnerable population, but this is the first study to do intensive vate and deactivate parts of the genome. Unlike DNA, the epigenome reacts to and improving health outcomes across specialty and primary care services,” says grant Other Emory schools were ranked as well, including physiological monitoring of farmworkers on the job, according to McCauley. biobehavioral factors and affects the expression of specific genes in response. program director Carolyn Clevenger 02MN DNP RN GNP-BC FAANP. “Training future Rollins School of Public Health (7th) and the School “The study is very relevant now, especially with climate change,” adds “Our study,” notes Dunlop, “is a vital step in promoting the understand- nurses in these specialized areas is critical to the future of health care.” of Medicine (23rd among research-oriented medical Valerie Mac 07N FNP 19PhD, who developed the grant pilot as part of her ing of the biological mechanisms involved in conditions that disproportion- Students interested in applying for scholarships through this program should schools and 42nd among primary care schools).—PA doctoral dissertation. “We need to anticipate how to handle HRIs before ately affect minority populations.”—Marlene Goldman complete the online form at bit.ly/AENT-form.—MG

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Ashley Darcy-Mahoney (far left) is helping train nurses to coach parents on how to Sarah Freeman retires develop their baby’s vocabulary skills. after 21 years

Letting go is tough for students and faculty when someone children read on grade level by the end of like Sarah Freeman PhD ARNP FAANP retires from the School third grade by increasing their vocabulary of Nursing, where she taught for 21 years. They will miss her and conversation skills. homemade cookies and muffins. And her sense of humor. Through a pilot program that targets the “Sarah is a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is truth-teller,” longtime largest birthing centers in 13 metro-Atlanta colleague Maureen Kelley PhD FACNM, Independence Chair and hospitals, Darcy-Mahoney’s team is training clinical professor, told guests at Freeman’s retirement celebration. nurses how to model TWMB concepts of To illustrate, Kelley quoted one of Freeman’s trademark lines: language nutrition as they demonstrate “You are about to exceed the limits of my medication.” other skills (such as diapering and bathing) All kidding aside, Freeman has made an indelible mark dur- that new parents need to know before taking ing her 47-year nursing career. A nurse practitioner since 1981, baby home from the hospital. Freeman led the way in women’s health and chronic disease man- Talking with a baby (not over or agement. She helped establish national accreditation for advanced around a child in third person) is far more practice nursing programs and served on the board of the National effective than radio, TV, or video games. Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 18 years. “Babies can hear all that, but it’s the active Tribute gifts honoring Sarah Freeman (seated above) may Freeman also coordinated the nursing school’s advanced engagement with a person that helps be made to the Emeritus Faculty Scholarship Fund. To learn practice programs in women’s health and women’s health/adult babies learn,” Darcy-Mahoney says, noting more, contact Margot Early, associate director of development, at health and was a founding member of the Emory Center for Ethics, Talk With Me Baby Campaign that the Georgia Department of Health 404-727-5291 or [email protected]. an extension of her passion for bioethics. She holds several Emory has developed TWMB videos for parents in honors for teaching, the University Scholar/Teacher Award and the English and Spanish. goes to the White House Emory Williams Teaching Award among them. In 2005, Freeman was FNP program. “I asked her to please take a chance on me and that I would not “Including your baby in conversations appointed as the first Betty Tigner Turner Clinical Professor, an endowed disappoint her,” Chausmer recalled during her mentor’s retirement celebration. and talking with them about everything can Talk with your baby about everything, says Atlanta Speech School, Get Georgia Reading, and professorship named for a 1953 alumna. She thrived in the program. “I graduated with highest honors,” added drastically improve their chances of academic Assistant Professor Ashley Darcy-Mahoney Georgia Institute of Technology. “We come at Jaimie Chausmer 02MN would not have become a family nurse Chausmer, now a mid-level provider at Northside Hospital Cardiovascular PhD RN NNP-BC. The payoff will be huge. this from different perspectives,” Darcy-Mahoney success,” she adds. “Our goal is for nurses to practitioner had it not been for Freeman. Chausmer did not perform well on Care. “I am a nurse practitioner, and I owe it all to Sarah Freeman.”—Pam Darcy-Mahoney and colleagues took that says, “but we all have the same idea in mind: to coach parents how to be baby’s first teacher. standardized tests and sought out Freeman to plead her case for entry into the Auchmutey message to the White House last fall when the maximize and optimize every child’s potential.” Nurses are in an incredibly powerful position School of Nursing and Emory’s School of Medicine Eighty-five percent of a baby’s neurons of trust to do that.” shared Georgia’s “Talk With Me Baby” (TWMB) are developed by age 3, so early language Learn more at talkwithmebaby.org.—MG initiative at a daylong workshop. It was part nutrition is key to helping bridge a 30-million of President Obama’s call to bridge the “word word gap between children from high- and Sibley shared the LEARN MORE: gap” among America’s youngest children and low-income families. Talking with babies from Coursera class is a first instructional duties of improve their chances for success in life. The event birth stimulates brain development and builds Watch Ashley Darcy-Mahoney discuss the her six-week course highlighted federal, state, and local best practices. language, literacy, and social emotional skills. benefits of Talk With Me Baby in the video Professor Lynn Sibley PhD RN CNM FAAN with five Emory faculty members, While the value of early word exposure has That’s important because children who do not at bit.ly/talk-baby. FACNM had more than 8,500 students in a including three from the School long been recognized, systematically spreading read at grade level by third grade are four to recent class. It helped that the class was in of Nursing—Research Professor the word that social and language interaction is six times more likely to be school dropouts. This the Cloud. Martha Rogers MD FAAP, Clinical important to babies’ development, both inside word gap can affect health outcomes, income, Virtual Connections Sibley’s class, “Childbirth, A Global Associate Professor Jenny Foster PhD and outside the womb, is Darcy-Mahoney’s and family stability for decades. Perspective,” was the School of Nursing’s first MPH CNM FACNM, and Assistant goal. To that end, she and the TWMB Coalition TWMB integrates language nutrition offering on Coursera, the online education platform Professor Sydney Spangler PhD of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, developed a training component and public coaching through presentations, webinars, that partners with top universities worldwide. CNM—and one adjunct—CDC senior nurse- relevant issues for the global health workforce, awareness campaign to help coach caregivers and printed materials for postpartum, labor Coursera classes are free and available to midwife Patricia Riley CNM. The course reviewed community-based interventions to improve Connect with the Emory and parents of all Georgia babies by 2017. and delivery, NICU, and newborn nursery anyone with a computer and Internet access. In challenges for maternal and newborn health in maternal and newborn health and survival, and nursing community and learn fact, people from 162 different countries signed on the developing world, where a great many women sociocultural dynamics surrounding birth. In addition to Emory’s nursing and medical nurses, as well as Women Infants and Children the latest news through our and babies suffer from complications during schools, the broad coalition of TWMB partners nutritionists and early education professionals social networking sites at to Sibley’s course last year. Students spanned all “It was a great experience for us,” says includes the Marcus Autism Center, the Georgia who see about 60 percent of all Georgia bit.ly/interactson. ages and educational backgrounds, with a fourth of pregnancy, childbirth, and the days following Sibley. “I think we all learned a lot from it.” departments of Public Health and Education, children. The goal is to help ensure that them in low-resource emerging economies. birth. Themes covered included the epidemiology —Martha McKenzie

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Nursing Journal and MEDSURG Nursing. and published more than 500 articles on University. Her dissertation sought to She is also a member of Sigma Theta nursing informatics. Additionally, he is understand the issues that complicate New Appointments Tau International, the National Kidney an honorary member of the International the health of veterans who returned Foundation, the American Nephrology Medical Informatics Association, a fellow home from serving in the Middle East Nurses’ Association, and the Southern of the New York Academy of Medicine and the strategies necessary to overcome FACULTY Nursing and Advances in Neonatal Care, obstetric care in Kenya. He also managed Nursing Research Society. and the American Academy of Nursing, these issues. among other publications. patients there with a complex array of a distinguished practitioner in the Clinical associ- chronic medical conditions, psychiatric Dorothy Jordan National Academy of Practice, and an Jessica Wells ate professor Sharron comorbidities, and limited economic 82MN DNP APRN honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau 12PhD RN, Terri Ades DNP Close PhD MS resources. Cranmer continues to promote PMHNP-BC, International. research assistant FNP-BC RN comes CPNP-PC is a clinic-community partnerships to reduce PMHCNS-BC, professor, is a to Emory from research assistant maternal mortality in western Kenya. clinical assistant Suzanne Staebler graduate of the the American professor and professor, has DNP APRN School of Nursing’s Cancer Society pediatric nurse Erin Poe Ferranti taught part-time NNP-BC is a doctoral program (ACS) National practitioner whose 96OX 98N 01MN/ at the School of clinical associ- and completed a Home Office, studies focus on 01MPH 13PhD is Nursing since ate professor and postdoctoral fel- where she oversaw dissemination of pediatric primary a research assis- 2011. Her clinical interests include early coordinator of lowship at Emory this year. Her overarch- cancer information to the public. Upon care, developmental pediatrics, and tant professor mental health screening, infant mental Emory’s neonatal ing research focus is cancer control and joining ACS, she brought with her 12 management of chronic genetic focusing on the health promotion, early intervention, the nurse practitioner prevention, specifically to improve cancer years of clinical oncology experience conditions. Formerly an audiologist, condition of diet universal prevention of psychiatric men- (NNP) program. outcomes in vulnerable populations with with adults and children. She served Close provides expertise in ear, nose, quality to preg- tal health disorders, and the integration of Staebler has held faculty appointments or at risk for cancer. She is particularly as coordinator of a National Cancer and throat pathophysiology and nancy outcomes in mental health into primary care. She also in nursing at the Medical University of interested in cancer prevention and control Institute-sponsored Community Clinical communication disorders throughout the postpartum time frame. Her research has a special interest in access to psychi- South Carolina and Baylor University. She among those at risk for HIV. Her research Oncology Program, an oncology clinician the lifespan. Prior to joining Emory, has been supported by the NIH and the atric mental health care for underserved is dedicated to guiding policy develop- has been funded by an NIH National at Indiana University Medical Center, she completed a postdoctoral research American Heart Association. Prior to and displaced youth and families. In ment and its implementation at the RN Research Service Award, the American and a pediatric oncology clinician at the program at Yale School of Nursing, where joining the Emory faculty, Ferranti served 1983, Jordan co-founded Camp Sunshine, and advanced practice nursing levels and Cancer Society, and Sigma Theta Tau Medical University of South Carolina. For she focused on family management as assistant chief nurse for the Georgia which offers year-round recreation, edu- provided a platform for NNPs to be des- International. Wells is the first graduate of the past three years, she taught part-time challenges associated with Klinefelter Division of Public Health. There, she cation, and support programming for ignated as an APRN specialty population. Emory’s BSN to PhD program. Her BSN is at the School of Nursing and practiced Syndrome and completed an intensive managed a nursing quality improvement children with cancer and their families Staebler has developed quality improve- from Howard University. at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute and genetics study program offered by the initiative throughout the state of Georgia throughout Georgia. ment and productivity measurement tools Grady Memorial Hospital. National Institute of Nursing Research. and participated in emergency prepared- to enhance NNP practice and improve Canhua Xiao PhD Close now teaches genetics and pediatric ness strategic planning following 9/11. Roy Simpson patient outcomes. She currently serves RN completed Brenda Baker primary care at the School of Nursing. DNP RN DPNAP as the director of advanced practice for a postdoctoral PhD RN, clinical Ann Horigan FAAN is a clinical the Georgia Nurses Association and as a fellowship at the assistant professor, Clinical assistant PhD RN, clini- professor with the member of its board of directors. School of Nursing is an expert professor John cal assistant new Doctorate of before joining in maternal, Cranmer DNP professor, comes Nursing Practice LisaMarie the faculty as a newborn, and ANP RN is a global to Emory from program. He is Wands PhD RN research assistant perinatal health. health scholar James Madison also vice presi- is a research professor. Her Her research and adult nurse University in dent, nursing, assistant professor research centers on cancer-related focuses on practitioner who Virginia. She with Cerner Corporation, with responsi- who studies the symptoms and the mechanisms of cancer- maternal competence and responsiveness designs solu- received her bility for strategic sales and relationships experiences of related fatigue. Prior to joining the School and the role of social support and social tions for health PhD in 2012 from Duke University, for the global patient care enterprise veterans coming of Nursing, Xiao received her PhD from media in the postpartum period. Baker problems among special populations where her dissertation explored the self- and representation at the industry level home from war the University of Pennsylvania School of is a clinical nurse specialist experienced through mixed-methods research and management of fatigue in end-stage renal for Cerner’s nurse practice. Simpson and the effects on Nursing. Her dissertation provided the in labor and delivery, postpartum, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Prior to patients on hemodialysis. Currently, she has more than 35 years of experience in their health. Wands comes to Emory from first published description of symptom neonatal intensive care. In 2013, she was joining Emory, Cranmer completed a is completing a pilot study to determine nursing informatics and senior executive Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, clusters in patients with head and neck named a March of Dimes Nurse of the Fogarty postdoctoral fellowship at the the feasibility and reliability of using the administration. He pioneered the devel- where she was a research associate and cancer. She has published more than 30 Year in the advanced practice category. University of Washington, where he used Lee Fatigue Scale in the hemodialysis opment and funding of the Werley and VA Quality Scholar with the Tennessee journal articles in leading journals such Her articles have appeared in the Journal mixed methods to promote a more cohe- population. Horigan has received writing Lang Nursing Minimum Data Set, has Valley Health System. She holds a as Cancer, Research in Nursing and of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal sive community-to-clinic continuum of awards for her articles in the Nephrology lectured extensively around the world, doctorate from Florida International Health, and Cancer Nursing.

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WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

Sharing What We Know Awards & Honors

Emory’s historic role in Jennifer Foster PhD MPH caring for Ebola patients CNM FACNM, clinical asso- in this country has been ciate professor, received a Fulbright Award to further well documented, with our her training and research Patricia L. Starck 60N 63MN Anne Bavier 73MN Christine Vourakis 76MN Suzie Blackwood Foote 78N clinicians sharing detailed efforts with the Midwifery treatment protocols as well School at the University of as one-on-one expertise Chile. The school is home to with colleagues around the Midwifery Collaboration in revenue and the first doctor two granddaughters, and Dr. Cornelia Beck Dewees programs for the National Center for the Americas, 1960s the globe. Our nurses and of nursing practice program in three great-grandchildren. 72MN is a fellow of the Institutes of Health’s Office sponsored by the World physicians continue this Texas. She also launched the American College of Nurse- of Research on Women’s Health Organization and Dr. Patricia L. Starck 60N work, publishing findings and conducting research with Accelerated PhD Program, de- Midwives. She teaches nurse- Health and the National the Pan American Health 63MN is transitioning to 1970s signed to grow the number of midwifery at East Carolina Cancer Institute. Bavier is the CDC to develop better treatments and vaccines. Organization. For the past several years, Foster has partnered a new career phase after nursing faculty, and oversaw Dr. Sandra Jones Campbell University College of Nursing president-elect of the Na- We are now under contract with the CDC to provide with community health workers and nurses in the Dominican serving for 30 years as dean fund-raising and construction 70MN received the John & and has taught at Emory. tional League for Nursing. training, educational resources, and consultation for Republic to improve maternal and newborn survival rates. of the University of Texas of the School of Nursing and Suanne Roueche Excellence Health Science Center at the 48 U.S. medical centers that have been designated Student Community Center, Award from the League of Dr. Anne Bavier 73MN Dr. Christine Vourakis Carolyn Clevenger 02MN DNP RN GNP-BC and Suzanne Houston (UTHealth) School of as Ebola treatment centers. Thus far, we have hosted open since 2004. Innovation in the Community joined the College of Nurs- 76MN was named to the Staebler DNP APRN NNP-BC, both clinical associate professors, Nursing. After completing a three Ebola preparedness conferences focused on College. She was honored for ing at the University of 2014 Class of Fellows of the were inducted as fellows of the American Association of Nurse sabbatical, Starck will return the management of hospital units created to care for June Mills Campbell co-creating a civility code of Texas at Arlington as dean. American Academy of Nurs- Practitioners. Clevenger is a geriatric nurse practitioner who to UTHealth as senior vice 67MN writes that she is conduct with a class of RN She formerly was dean of ing. Vourakis is a Sacramento patients diagnosed with Ebola virus disease. At these leads education and practice programs at the School of Nursing president for interprofessional grateful for her time at students at St. Petersburg nursing at the University of State professor of nursing conferences, physicians, nurses, and other experts and its clinical affiliate, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical education, a role she took on Emory and the learning op- College in Florida. Campbell Connecticut and Saint Xavier specializing in mental health discuss clinical care and patient management, staff and Center. Staebler is a neonatal nurse practitioner committed to in 2013. Among her many portunities she enjoyed. She is now a professor emeritus University in Chicago and and addictions. She co-edited advancing her field through education and national leadership. accomplishments as dean infrastructure development, donning and doffing of is now in assisted living, but there and president of Win- assistant dean of develop- a landmark textbook on She recently was tapped to participate in the 2015 Faculty Policy are a faculty practice that personal protection equipment, laboratory protocols, her daughter lives nearby. ning Within Inc., a seminar/ ment at Emory’s School of addictions, Substance Abuse: Intensive Program sponsored by the American Association of annually generates $3 million consideration of pediatric and OB/GYN patient Campbell has two grandsons, consulting firm. Nursing. She also directed Pharmacologic, Developmen- Colleges of Nursing. populations, occupational health management of tal and Clinical Perspectives, and is now editor of the Jour- clinical staff, spiritual support to families and staff, and Global health expert Elizabeth Downes 04MPH DNP RN CNE nal of Addictions Nursing. waste management. FAANP is a fellow of the National League for Nursing’s Academy Emory nursing through of Nursing Education. Downes is a clinical associate professor Our nurses and physicians continue to make site the generations Suzie Blackwood Foote and part-time family nurse practitioner for Minute Clinic. She visits to U.S. hospitals to advise them on setting up 78N established Healing works with nursing students to serve the local refugee commu- The late Patsy Getz 52D 54N 58MN would have been Ebola treatment units and share our protocols, many of Touch, a private energy nity and is an academic consultant to the Carter Center’s Mental proud when her granddaughter, Jessica Getz 12OX 14N, which were developed by the critical care nurses who medicine practice in Jackson, Health Program in Liberia. received her BSN last May. Jessica (top photo) is surrounded staff our Ebola unit. It’s our way of paying it forward so by members of Corpus Cordis Auream. These alumni, who Miss. Learn more about her practice at healingbeyond- that nurses and physicians everywhere can provide safe Nursing professors Elizabeth Corwin PhD RN FAAN and graduated 50-plus years ago, marched at commencement in borders.org. and effective treatment for their patients. Bonnie Jennings PhD RN FAAN were honored recently by honor of Patsy. Pictured with them are Jessica’s parents, Kathy the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS). Corwin, also (back row, far left) and Miller Getz (front row, far right), both San Harney Short 79N associate dean for research, received the 2015 Distinguished 89OX 91C, and Jessica’s aunt, Anna Getz (front row, far left). S. Wright Caughman MD received the Georgia Hospital Researcher Award for her studies of postpartum depression and Executive VP for Health Affairs, Emory University Association’s Lifetime Heroic symptom science. Jennings received the inaugural Research in Lillian Davis Byrd 53N (center, bottom photo) celebrated the Achievement Award in 2014. CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Nursing & Health Authorship Award for her article, “Turning graduation of her granddaughter, Graham Ellen Byrd 14N. Short is a nurse, diabetes Over Patient Turnover: An Ethnographic Study of Admissions, Graham is the daughter of Eve Byrd 86N 98MN/98MPH, educator, and patient satis- Discharges, and Transfers,” published in the SNRS journal president-elect of the Nurses’ Alumni Association. faction champion at Upson Research in Nursing & Health.

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Mary Jo Scribner-Howard 83N Mary Zellinger 85MN Marilyn Margolis 89MN Diane Padden 94MN Preston El’Jay, son Renee Bishop Giardina 02MN Natalia Townsend 05N Sidoney Mullings 14N of Bionca Sims 02OX 04N

Regional Medical Center in Dr. Maureen Vidrine 85N north metro Atlanta. She practice with the American Natalia Townsend 05N at the Hospital for Special Thomaston, Ga. earned her DNP from Brenau joined Johns Creek in 2011 Association of Nurse graduated from Georgia Surgery in New York City. L-R: Cathleen Shultz, Michelle Gray, Dean Linda McCauley, University in Gainesville, as vice president of patient Practitioners (AANP). Padden State University and is now Laura Layne, and Carole Jakeway. 1980s Ga., in 2013. Her cap- services and operations and was inducted as an AANP a certified pediatric nurse Dr. Kim Schippits 12PhD was stone project explored the chief nursing officer. Prior to fellow in 2010. practitioner. She works in appointed endowed director Dr. Mary Gullatte 81MN “Interprofessional education joining Johns Creek, she was the cardiac step-down unit for nursing education for the components and new processes for nurses to report was named corporate of community mental health director of nursing operations Nancy Curdy 96MN at Children’s Healthcare of University Hospital System in as they hand off patients during shift changes, all director of nursing innova- treatment team members at Emory University Hospital. received a master of sci- Atlanta at Egleston. Cleveland, Ohio. the while involving patients’ families in the process. tion and research for Emory on the neurodevelopmental She has been a nursing ence in health care qual- Gray received the Beacon Award from the American Healthcare. Gullatte formerly implications of childhood leader at Emory for more ity and patient safety at Sarah F. Mitchell 09N works MARRIED: The former Association of Critical-Care Nurses in 2010. was vice president of patient maltreatment and trauma.” than 30 years. Northwestern University. at Children’s Healthcare of Maybeth Marchman 14N services and chief nursing Vidrine provides equine-facil- She is director of patient Atlanta at Egleston and lives and Michael Erwood in June RECENT GRADUATE AWARD officer at Emory University itated psychotherapy with 1990s safety at DeKalb Medical in Covington, Ga. 2014. She now goes by Laura Layne 05N 06MN/06MPH coordinates primary Hospital Midtown. Horse Time Inc. in Covington, Center in Decatur, Ga. Graham Erwood. NAA salutes nursing leaders and specialty care for more than 26,000 patients a Ga,. and serves on the nurs- Dr. Mary Foster Cox Julia Brainin Smookler The Nurses’ Alumni Association (NAA) honored year as director of health services for Good Samaritan Anna Hollingsworth ing faculty at Brenau. 91MN joined Francis Tiffany Cheek Holland 99N 09MN is a nurse-midwife in Sidoney Ann-Marie Mullings four outstanding nurses during Homecoming Health Center in Atlanta. Layne also teaches as a Smith 82N 85MPH Marion University in is associate director of the the Decatur office of Atlanta 14N is a respiratory medical- 2014. NAA awards recognize alumni and friends clinical instructor for the nursing school’s Lillian Carter received a master of sci- Mary Zellinger 85MN Florence, S.C., as associate Atlanta International School. Gynecology & Obstetrics. She surgical nurse with Children’s who embody the School of Nursing’s key values of Center for Global Health & Social Responsibility’s ence degree in traditional rejoined the board of professor of nursing. She and her husband, Chris, has more than a decade of Healthcare of Atlanta at scholarship, leadership, and social responsibility. Migrant Farmworker Family Health Program in Oriental medicine in 2013. directors of the American live in Smyrna, Ga. experience as a labor and Scottish Rite. Moultrie, Ga. She has collaborated with state and Association of Critical-Care Dr. Donna Schminkey delivery nurse and midwife. DISTINGUISHED NURSING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD local partners to help plan and implement the Wanda G. Freeman 83N Nurses. She is a clinical 93MN/93MPH completed 2000s “No two moms, babies, or Dr. Cathleen Shultz PhD 76MN served as founding program since 2006. was certified as a nurse nurse specialist at Emory her PhD and is now an assis- births are the same, so it’s Share Your News dean of Carr College of Nursing at Harding University executive by the American University Hospital. tant professor in the School Renee Bishop Giardina important to me to individu- With Us in Little Rock, Ark., for 34 years. Under her leadership, DISTINGUISHED NURSING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Nurses Credentialing Center. of Nursing and School of 02MN works at the Scripps alize care for each mom,” the college was the first nursing program in Arkansas (NON-ALUMNI) She lives in Anderson, S.C. Elizabeth Morell Edel Medicine at the University of Clinic in San Diego, Calif. she writes. Please send your news to use computers as part of learning, introduce primary Carole Jakeway MPH BSN RN NEA-BC oversees 87MN was appointed vice Virginia. Her research studies care into the curriculum, initiate health screenings in nursing and pharmacy programs for the Georgia and latest contact Mary Jo Scribner-Howard president of perioperative focus on the psychoneuroim- BORN: To Bionca Deann Dr. Rose Murphree 11MN public schools, provide health information and services Department of Public Health (GDPH) as director of information to alumni@ 83N received the 2014 services at St. John’s Hospital munology of adverse birth Sims 02OX 04N and her received her DNP from for the elderly, and incorporate health missions into the district and county operations. Jakeway also leads nursing.emory.edu. Or Excellence in Professional in Springfield, Ill. She comes outcomes, specifically the husband, Lanier, a son, Georgia Regents University. curriculum. She will return as a full-time professor after the Good-to-Great initiative, designed to strengthen Development Collaborator/ to St. John’s from Houston, impact of intimate partner Preston El’Jay, on Sept. 24, Murphree directs the Wound, visit alumni.emory.edu/ completing her sabbatical. public health leadership throughout GDPH, and Advisor/Mentor Practice Texas, where she directed violence and substance abuse 2013. The family lives in Ostomy, and Continence updateinfo.php. serves on the executive committee of the Georgia Award from the Association surgical services for Texas on trophoblastic signaling Covington, Ga. Nursing Education Center, EXCELLENCE IN NURSING AWARD Nursing Leadership Coalition. Jakeway was chief for Nursing Professional Orthopedic Hospital. and pregnancy outcomes. a continuing education As nursing director of the Critical Care Unit at Emory nurse for the Georgia Division of Public Health under Development. She is a nurs- Tammy Renee Jones 05N program based at Emory’s University Hospital, Michelle Gray 89MN is helping the Department of Community Health for 20 years. ing education specialist Marilyn Margolis 89MN Dr. Diane Padden 94MN is is a staff nurse with Delta School of Nursing. the hospital become a national leader in patient- and She is a former president of the Association of Public with Palmetto Health in was named CEO of Emory vice president for research, Air Lines in Atlanta and family-centered care delivery. She also leads the Health Nurses (APHN) and currently represents the Columbia, S.C. Johns Creek Hospital in education, and professional lives in Fayetteville, Ga. Molly Stoddart 11N works development of a Bedside Shift Report Bundle of safety Southeastern region on the APHN board of directors.

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years to the Carter Center. premature intensive care nursery they liked each other so much that daughters, 10 grandchildren, and retired in August 1985. The next first Practical Nursing program for at Shands Teaching Hospital. they remained married until his several great-grandchildren. month, she married A/Captain the Marietta-Cobb Area Vocational Lucy M. Pierce 45N of Thompson pioneered the adoption death in 1994. Survivors include Sherwood Tidman and returned Technical School in 1963 and Nelsonville, Ohio, on Aug. of new methods of neonatal care, two daughters, a son, and five Norma D. Weidner 51N of Kent, to active service in Tallahassee taught the first class of practical 6, 2014, at age 90. She met including skin-to-skin contact grandchildren. Conn., on Nov. 2, 2013, at age 83. and Melbourne, Fla. They retired nursing students in Cobb County. her husband, Roland M. between mothers and infants, in 1992 and moved to Atlanta, Twenty years after earning her BSN, Pierce, while completing stimulation of neonates through Marjorie Peeples Gillon Pair (Lois) Carolyn Huggins 53N where they were involved in the Mash returned to Emory to become her nursing training in bathing, and teaching new mothers 49N of Union City, Ga., on Aug. of Crystal River, Fla., on May 23, growth of the Lawrenceville Corps. a Certified Enterostomal Therapy Memphis, Tenn. They to breastfeed. She was awarded 26, 2014, at age 85. Her nursing 2014, at age 83, under the loving Tidman was preceded in death nurse and subsequently developed Mary Anita Hill 48N Carolyn Huggins 53N married in Nelsonville, the first NIH grant for nursing career spanned 39 years—14 at care of her friend, Mary “Dolly” by her first husband in 1978 and the first ostomy and wound care where Lucy delivered research received by Shands and Emory University Hospital and 25 Schwalbert, and Hospice of Citrus her second husband in 2013. program at Kennestone Hospital. babies at home and co-authored the work, “The Effects at South Fulton Hospital in East County. Carolyn retired from Survivors include a daughter, two Regarded as an innovator in the assisted local physicians of Stimulation on the Neonate,” Point, Ga., as nurse supervisor and the Hillsborough County Health sons, four grandchildren, and four management of chronic wounds, several locations, both stateside 1930s in the community. In 1950, she first presented in 1969. assistant director of nursing. Her Department as assistant county stepchildren. she lectured and led seminars and overseas, as he continued helped establish Mount Saint She returned to school at age compassion and perseverance were nursing director. on wound care throughout the his military career. The couple Frances Ransmeier 39N of Mary Hospital and worked as an 55 and earned a bachelor of shown by six-plus years of home Joyce Poole Mour 55N of United States and Canada and eventually settled at Fort Stewart, Asheville, N.C, on Feb. 2, 2014, RN throughout her career. She health sciences degree from the nursing for her first husband, David Eunice Alfreda Ward Tidman Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 31, 2013, spoke at conferences in the UK and Ga., with their two sons in 1967. at age 96. She joined the Navy was the first school nurse in the University of Florida in 1980 Gillon, who developed early-onset 53N of Lawenceville, Ga., on Sept. at age 79. Mour was a dedicated New Zealand. Survivors include Peggy worked as a school nurse for in 1941 and was stationed in Nelsonville-York School District and a professional certificate in Alzheimer’s and died in 1985 at 9, 2014, at age 83. The daughter nurse for more than 30 years and her husband, Jim; two sons; a 18 years. After her husband Jess Pensacola, Fla., for four years. and started many programs that gerontology from the University of age 59. She continued to work of Salvation Army officers, “A/ a member of the Thomas Jefferson daughter; three granddaughters; died in 1978, she opened The Sew After the war, she worked at Emory benefitted the health of children Florida Center for Gerontological during this difficult time and in Captain” Alfreda Tidman served Unitarian Church. Known as and two step-grandchildren. Express in Hinesville. She later sold University Hospital, where she in the community. Pierce served on Studies in 1981. She is survived by 1988 married widower Horace in the Salvation Army most of “Swishes” to her grandchildren, the business and in 1985 married met Dr. John C. Ransmeier. They the Athens County Board of Health her husband, Buford; a daughter; Pair. They were happily married for her life. After completing her she was a constant force in the 1960s Olin Fraser Sr., who passed away married and lived in Washington, for 50 years. Survivors include three two sons; six grandchildren; and 25 years until his death in 2013. nursing degree, she moved with lives of her family members. in 2011. Her survivors include two D.C., for 13 years, where they had children, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Survivors include her five children, her parents to Richmond, Va., Survivors include sons David and Ann Stephens Austin 64N in sons, three grandchildren, two three children. In 1963, the family 14 great-grandchildren. two stepchildren, 14 grandchildren, where she worked at the Medical Tod, daughter Jennifer, and seven Panama City, Fla., on Feb. 3, 2014, great-grandchildren, two stepsons, moved to Asheville, where she Isabelle Graham Webb 47N of four great-grandchildren, and one College of Virginia. She and her grandchildren. after a long battle with melanoma. and two stepdaughters. volunteered for many years with Mary Ann Shaw Mathews 46N Chapel Hill, N.C., on June 14, 2014, great-great-grandchild. first husband, Bill Matthews, She was president of the community and church groups, of Palm Coast, Fla., on Feb. 21, at age 88. She was living at Carol entered the Salvation Army Training Jessie Emogene Davis 57N Sweetwater Swirls Women’s Shrine Charlotte Methvin Sublett including cancer patients following 2014. She married William Hugh Woods Retirement Community. 1950s College in Richmond. They were 66MN of Union City, Ga., on July 8, in Douglasville, Ga., president of 44N of Cookeville, Tenn., on Oct. her successful treatment for non- “Doc” Mathews of Jacksonville, commissioned in 1957 and served 2014, at age 97. the Douglas County 4-H Club for 13, 2012, at age 88. She was a Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Survivors Fla., in 1945. She stayed home to Mary Anita “Nita” T. Hill 48N Eliane M. Edens 50N of Athens, in various capacities in Texas, two years, and held the rank of registered nurse at Cookeville include two sons, a daughter, five raise three sons and worked in her of Jupiter, Fla., on May 9, 2014, at Ga., on Aug. 14, 2014, at age 92. Alabama, Oklahoma, and Florida. Norma Justus Mash 57N of lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol. Regional Medical Center and a grandchildren, and one great- husband’s office when his nurse age 86. She married Joseph B. Hill Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Edens After a stint in San Antonio, Texas, Kennesaw, Ga., on Feb. 2, 2014. Survivors include her husband of member of Cookeville First United grandson. was on vacation. Mathews was in 1951 and retired from nursing grew up in Brunoy, France, and Alfreda was appointed to the She began her career as a surgical 52 years, Jerry E. Austin; two sons; Methodist Church for many years. active in the community and her in 1978. Anita owned Hill House Atlanta. She had lived in Lexington, Army’s School for Officer Training nurse and served as an RN for more and two grandchildren. 1940s church and played golf with her antiques from 1976 to 1992. She Ga., and then Athens since 1950. for the next seven years. She than 40 years. Mash developed the E. Rowanne Ligon 45N 65MN husband. Survivors include three continued in the antique business Survivors include two sons, a of Decatur, Ga., on Sept. 15, 2014, Roxana Mitchell Fitzpatrick 42N sons, four grandchildren, and seven doing shows until her final months. daughter, a stepdaughter, two at age 90, from complications of of Morrow, Ga., on Oct. 30, 2014, great-grandchildren. Survivors include a daughter, two grandchildren, and two great- dementia. Ligon devoted her life at age 93. sons, three grandchildren, and five grandchildren. to nursing. At the end of WWII, Margaret Cody (Peg) Thompson great-grandchildren. Honor Your Classmates she was stationed in Germany as Betty B. Bass 44N of Mumford, 46N of Gainesville, Fla., on May Margaret McAllister Telford an Army nurse. After the war, she Tenn., on Dec. 26, 2013, at age 90. 15, 2014, at age 90. In 1944, she Carolyn North Scott 48N of 50N of Toccoa, Ga., on Feb. 12, Tribute gifts are an extraordinary way to honor your classmates. joined the reserves and attained married Buford Dale Thompson in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 16, 2014, 2014, at age 83. You can designate a gift for any occasion—a birthday, anniversary, the rank of colonel. Ligon worked Peggy Goodman Fraser 44N the Chapel at Emory. He served at age 87. A native of Brunswick, for the DeKalb County Public special achievement, or the passing of a loved one, colleague, or friend. of Hinesville, Ga., on Jan. 28, with the Army in Europe while Ga., she ministered to the sick Beverly Hossler Sigman 51N in Health Department for 30 years, 2014, at age 90. She served as Peg served with the Cadet Nurse throughout her life. In 1948, she Rock Hill, S.C., on Oct. 5, 2014, at To make a gift, please contact the Office of Development and Alumni retiring in 1983. She volunteered an Army nurse during WWII and Corps during WWII. After the war, married dentist Samuel T. Scott, age 86. She lived in Atlanta and for organizations such as Fernbank Relations at 404-727-6917. met her first husband, Army Capt. they settled in Gainesville, where whom she met on a blind double Madison, Ga., for many years. Science Center and devoted 20 Jess Goodman. They lived in she served as head nurse of the date. He was not her date, but Survivors include two sons, two

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Mary Thornton Boynton 64MN Hospital. She also worked for The care nursing from the University as an operating room nurse and of Knoxville, Tenn., on May 14, Coca-Cola Company and taught of Maryland. Moseley worked in then entered private practice. She 2014. She was a community nursing at Manatee Community the performance improvement found her true calling as a labor Rose Dilday pioneered mental health health nurse in Wytheville, Va., College and Abilene Christian department of the Chest Pain and delivery nurse at Northside for homebound TB patients and College. Stevens was a member Center at Gwinnett Medical Center. Hospital in Atlanta, where she taught nursing students at Grady of Save the Manatees and the She also practiced at Saint Joseph’s worked for 15 years. She received nursing in Georgia Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Cousteau Society. Survivors Hospital in Atlanta and at hospitals many letters and voicemails from She served as associate dean of include three sons, a stepson and in Denver, Colo., and Annapolis, young parents who loved her A loyal group of former students and friends made mental health or gerontology. Dilday received many honors nursing in community health at the stepdaughter, seven grandchildren, Md. A self-avowed soccer mom combination of compassion and sure that retired nursing professor Rose Dilday 79N in her lifetime, including the Award of Honor from the University of Tennesee–Knoxville and two great-grandchildren. and longtime Girl Scout leader, she sense of humor. Thompson spent (honorary) had a party to mark her 100th birthday, Nurses’ Alumni Association in 1988 and the Distinguished College of Nursing until she retired led camping trips and encouraged the last two years of her career in even though she was just 99. The group celebrated Emeritus Faculty Award in 2004. in 1991. Survivors include daughter Marbury Hall Stegall 78MN of her scouts to serve the community. the infusion oncology center, where around her Atlanta Hospice bedside the week before She continued to write poetry and pursue other inter- Amy Boyton 89C, son-in-law Randy, Atlanta on July 6, 2014, of ovarian Survivors include her husband, she continued to receive praise for she died on Dec. 13, 2014, three months shy of her ests while living near Emory at Clairmont Place, where and granddaughter Willow. cancer. Stegall was a clinical Rob; daughter Lily; her mother; two her extraordinary care. Survivors centennial birthday. several retired nursing faculty and alumni reside. She nurse specialist in psychiatric brothers; and a sister. include her parents and two sisters. There was much to celebrate about Dilday, Linda D. Dunaway 64N of Evans, nursing. She began her career as who pioneered community-based mental health Ga., on Oct. 26, 2014, at age 74. an operating room technician at Nancy H. Arden 82MN of College Ella Louise Hill 95N of Marietta, nursing in Georgia. During the early 1960s, Dunaway spent most of her career Grady Memorial Hospital while Station, Texas, on June 10, 2014, at Ga., on Jan. 28, 2014. She was 63. the Kennedy Administration awarded a mental as a nursing educator, having earning her associate nursing the Hospice Brazos Valley Inpatient health planning grant to the state, which needed a taught at University Hospital degree at DeKalb Community Facility in nearby Bryan. She was 63. Susan L. (Napiewocki) Baran nurse on its planning team. A colleague recom- School of Nursing in Augusta, College. She then earned her BSN 99MN of Pooler, Ga., on Sept. mended Dilday, who left her native New York Ga., Grady Memorial Hospital at Georgia State University and Linda Maher Williams 86MN of 13, 2013, at age 66. A native of State to join the team in 1964. A year later, Emory School of Nursing in Atlanta, and her MSN at Emory. She practiced Augusta, Ga., on Aug. 1, 2014, at Michigan, she was a retired nurse launched Georgia’s first graduate program in Augusta College. She later served mental health nursing in the age 61. Formerly of Atlanta, her practitioner. She enjoyed crocheting psychiatric mental health nursing, which Dil- as assistant director of nursing public and private sectors and nursing career spanned more than and spending time with family and day joined on an adjunct basis. At the time, she at Saint Joseph Hospital (now in the inpatient, outpatient, and 25 years. She served as director of friends, along with her grand-dogs. was part of an initiative to decentralize the state Trinity Hospital) in Augusta. Also nursing education settings. She rehabilitation at Northlake Medical Survivors include her son, a sister mental health hospital in Milledgeville and be- a licensed minister, she served was a psychotherapist in private Center from 1996 to 2006. In and sister-in-law, and several lieved that master’s-prepared psych nurses could in various positions at New Life practice and advocated for the 2007, Williams joined Children’s nieces and nephews. provide vital services in the community. Church for 19 years. Survivors nursing profession and the role Healthcare of Atlanta as a clinical In 1968, Dilday joined Emory full-time to include two daughters and two of advanced practice psychiatric informatics nurse on the Epic direct the graduate program in mental health grandchildren. nurses in Georgia. Stegall served on ambulatory team. She implemented nursing. She subsequently chaired the psychiatric/ Memorial gifts may be made to the Rose Dilday Scholarship Fund, the Georgia Board of Nursing from and supported the Epic electronic mental health program for all-level students and which supports graduate students specializing in mental health or Viola Kay (Schlagenhauf) Wilson 1997 to 2004 and was commended medical record system in was the first non-psychiatrist to teach a family gerontology. Gifts may be made online at bit.ly/give-SON or sent 64N of Clinton, Tenn., on June 14, for outstanding service by the rehabilitation services and the therapy course. She continued to advocate for men- to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Nell Hodgson 2000, at age 58. Georgia Secretary of State. In 2006, Marcus Autism Center. In 2012, she tal health services at the local, state, and national Woodruff School of Nursing, 1520 Clifton Road N.E., Atlanta, she retired from Grady Health was promoted to senior clinical levels and secured more than $2 million in training Georgia 30322. To learn more, contact Margot Early, associate System and joined the Southeast informatics nurse and received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health 1970s director of development, at 404-727-5291 or [email protected]. Pemanente Medical Group Inc. the Dr. Luke Geng Commitment to for the School of Nursing. Among other firsts, she Gwendolyn Alfonso Charles of Kaiser Permanente. Survivors Children’s Award for her dedication placed graduate nursing students in community 70MN of Chattanooga, Tenn., on include her husband, R. Hance and service. Survivors include her health centers for clinical experience and established a state maintained close ties with her former students, including Sept. 10, 2012, at age 78. Stegall; her son, Eldon; her mother; husband, Ed; three sisters; and nine program for nurses recovering from substance abuse, which Betty Daniels 51N 67MN, Sally Lehr 65N 76MN, and two sisters. nieces and nephews. became a national model. Claudia Crenshaw 72C 77N 79MN, Carol Bush 67MN Catherine D. Stevens 72MN Dilday welcomed students and colleagues into her 73MA 74PhD, and Nell Rodgers 65N 67MN 74PhD. of Bradenton, Fla., on Feb. 21, life by cooking Italian meals, singing along (or trying to), “She offered understanding and encouraged us to 1980s 1990s 2014, at age 90. A native of and writing poems for them. She was named an honorary follow our dreams,” said Rodgers in her eulogy for Dilday Poughkeepsie, N.Y., she moved Sara Howard Moseley 81N of Katherine Ives Thompson 93N alumnus in 1979 and appointed professor emeritus in 1984. this past January. “Dear Rose, we are grateful and the to Bradenton in 1952. She was a Atlanta on Jan. 26, 2014, of cancer of Atlanta on Oct. 22, 2014, after Upon her retirement, grateful students established the Rose better for having known you. We shall miss having you nurse with Dr. Willis Harris and an at age 54. She held a master’s battling a brain tumor. She was Dilday Scholarship for graduate students with an interest in in our lives.”—Pam Auchmutey ER nurse at Manatee Memorial degree in trauma and critical 47. Thompson began her career

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