A Publication of New York University college of Nursing Autumn 2013 | vOl. 12 | No. 1

3 College of Nursing Building Is on the Rise

4 Helping Families Manage Type 1 Diabetes

10 Accelerated Students Find Unexpected Research Opportunities

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thank you for your generosity. 2 Greetings from the Dean 18 Donor Spotlight: College Receives $960,000 Helene Fuld Health Trust A Publication of Grant for Student Scholarships new york university 3 Nursing Is on the Rise: college of nursing A New Home for the College Autumn 2013, Vol. 12, No. 1 19 Donor Spotlight: Muriel and Virginia Pless, Champions of Nursing, Education, and the Arts

20 Celebrations

22 SARET Advances Substance-Abuse Research

4 Type 1 Diabetes: Helping 23 College and Faculty News Dean Families Meet Tough Demands Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, of Pediatric Diagnosis PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Director 6 Special Programs at the College for Communications Make Waves in Nursing Research Dean Mudgett

Assistant Director for Alumni Relations and Development Nadège Roc

Managing Editor / Writer Barbara Kancelbaum

Writer Cecilia Malm 28 College Launches Interactive Design Susan Carabetta New-Student Orientation Model

Editorial Board 32 Alumna Profile: Joyce Fitzpatrick Deborah Chyun, 10 Unexpected Opportunities: PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN Accelerated Nursing Students Get Judith Haber, a Jump on Research Careers 33 Alumna Profile: Sarah David PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN

Amy Knowles, MSEd 14 The Affordable Care Act and 34 Letter from Donna McCabe, Barbara Krainovich-Miller, EdD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN Nursing: What Lies Ahead? Alumni Association President

Ellen Lyons, MPA 35 Gail D’Eramo Melkus, 16 Beatrice Goodwin and Eliana Alumni News and Achievements EdD, C-NP, FAAN Horta: Four Decades of Support James Pace, to Nursing Education in 37 In Memoriam: Jocelyn Greenidge DSN, MDiv, ANP-BC, FAANP Latin America 39 Why We Give: Barbara and

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Autumn 2013 1 Greetings From Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx

global health environment — and many NYUCN faculty are leading in other ways of our students will do so literally, as the as well, and I’d like to congratulate this international opportunities afforded by esteemed group on the establishment of the College and by the nursing profes- the first elected nursing faculty council in sion continue to expand. the history of nursing at NYU. The coun- Growing interest in nursing is evident cil’s role is to advise the University admin- from our fall master’s degree class — which istration on a variety of matters related to has risen to 635 from 617 last year. When I mission, curriculum, and strategies. This asked a gathering of the new master’s stu- new development will enable nursing fac- dents who was from outside of New York ulty to raise the visibility of our College by City, more than half of the room raised sitting on University-wide committees and their hands. These students are respond- in other ways, and I’m very proud of the ing to the need for more advanced prac- faculty for accomplishing this goal. Dear Friends, tice nurses to lead our profession and help The College’s new home, under construc- to close the serious nurse-faculty short- tion on First Avenue, is a potent symbol of n September, I had the pleasure age that we face. They have chosen NYU our own evolution into a highly respected of meeting our wonderful new stu- because they want to take advantage of the College of Nursing at a major research uni- dents. Speaking with our incoming many opportunities in New York City to versity. I am so excited about the progress undergraduates, I told them, “You work in a diverse, challenging environ- of construction on this gorgeous building areI the future! You will be the nurses who ment, as well as for the mentorship they where all of our aspirations for collabora- will advance knowledge and practice in our will receive from our top-notch faculty and tive, interprofessional education, practice, profession, changing the culture of health the global learning and research opportu- and research will soon come together in care as you go forward into the workforce.” nities we offer. one fabulous space. Our magazine’s cover, showcasing The chance to conduct research early I recently had the opportunity to walk Men Entering Nursing (M.E.N.) — one on is not just the province of our graduate through the first floor of the building under of our fabulous student interest groups — students, but is increasingly enjoyed by construction. It was inspiring to look up at is just one example of the evolution of students in all of our degree programs, 10 stories of steel construction and imag- our College and of nursing itself, and of as you’ll read in this issue. Through the ine the future of NYU Nursing where fac- how our commitment to drawing under- encouragement of our inspiring faculty, ulty and students will mingle and innovate. represented groups into the nursing students are recognizing the importance I felt the power of our past history and our profession is succeeding. of research to the development of new alumni bolstering our efforts and encour- Today, our College of Nursing students knowledge — and are enthusiastically aging our sustained success! We will be have unprecedented opportunities to seeking out ways to participate in it. I am there in just over a year! My thanks to our engage in cutting-edge research, to particularly excited about some of the exceptional working group, our extremely travel and explore international health research projects embarked on by our generous donors, and all who have devoted issues, and to learn about innovations in accelerated baccalaureate students, which themselves to this complex but extremely health care at the College of Nursing. As a we address on p. 10. These experiences important endeavor. NYU College of result, they will be well prepared to enter are leading our students toward careers Nursing is, at its heart, about our students, the workforce at a pivotal moment, when that will bring innovations in treat- and our new building is a gift to them and the evolution of health care is taking ment and care to the next generation of to nursing for generations to come. place at a very local, personal level as well patients. Moreover, many of them involve as at a global level. In a few short years, interprofessional collaboration — a result they will be ushering in the changes that of the fact that much of the interprofes- are coming about through the Affordable sional research taking place at NYU is Care Act (discussed on p. 14). It is they emerging from the passion, creativity, and Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN who will practice in an increasingly foresight of our own faculty. Dean & Erline Perkins McGriff Professor

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A Modern, Interprofessional Home for the College

rom the light-filled interdis- room. The large third-floor Learning experience designing classroom environ- ciplinary Learning Commons Commons, visible from the street, brings ments, particularly in medical-education inside the building to the high- all students into one space for studying and scientific-research institutions around performance exterior, the new and group work, and the three schools the country, from Stanford to the NYU FCollege of Nursing, College of Dentistry, share an 11th-floor conference center Genomics building. KPF also specializes and NYU Polytechnic Bioengineering with views of the East River, outfitted for in innovative learning environments for Institute building announces an attitude global communications. In addition, higher education, having designed Furman of openness and collaboration. NYU Poly and Dentistry will share bioen- Hall for NYU Law School, and is responsible At 11 stories, the building — under con- gineering and biomaterials labs. for the building’s external appearance and struction on 26th Street and First the interior public space design. Avenue — is proceeding rapidly, “The overarching vision of the with the its steel structure in place building is to create a student- and the designs of each floor in the centered space that encourages all final stages. The projected move-in aspiring health care professionals date is January 1, 2015. to learn together,” Thomas says. “We could not be more pleased “Those who enter the building will at the progress of construction,” immediately perceive a sense of says College of Nursing Dean Eileen openness and easy accessibility to Sullivan-Marx. “It will be the first shared spaces.” true home for NYUCN, and thanks The design is notable for the to NYU and to our many donors and The light-filled third-floor Learning Commons will bring students variety of teaching environments supporters, it will be a high-caliber from the College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and Polytechnic that the building will offer: small, Institute of NYU into one space for studying and group work. structure that proclaims the impor- medium, and large group rooms, tance of nursing to the University as well as open study spaces and and to our society.” “All of our expertise in academic plan- casual areas for informal conversation and This unique building was conceived not ning and design of science and technology collaboration. The nursing conference room just to give nursing, dentistry, and engi- space comes together in this building,” on the first floor “responds to several types neering a shared space but to actively pro- says David Thomas, senior project direc- of scenarios,” says Thomas, including con- mote interprofessional collaboration. tor with EYP architecture firm, which venings, conferences, and group work. The On the first floor, the College of Dentistry is collaborating with the firm Kohn, larger nursing classrooms also foster col- has its admissions office and Nursing has Pederson, Fox Associates (KPF) to design laboration: In tiered rows of movable chairs, a state-of-the-art classroom/conference and build the space. EYP has extensive students may spend time directed at the continued on page 38

Autumn 2013 3 diabetesType 1 Helping Families Meet Tough Demands of Pediatric Diagnosis

uring the 1970s, one ofS usan the mid-1990s, she was mentored by Sullivan-Bolyai’s first patients Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, now the on a pediatric unit at the dean of Yale School of Nursing and a well- University of Illinois–Chicago known nurse scientist in management of HospitalD was a young boy, newly diagnosed T1D in adolescents. Grey pointed out that with diabetes, who was discharged to his the number of children under age five grandparents. Sullivan-Bolyai and her col- with T1D was growing (a view confirmed leagues were concerned about whether the by recent research by Lipman et al. at the elderly relatives could manage this six- University of Pennsylvania, showing a 70% year-old boy’s care. Tragically, about eight increase in T1D incidence among children months later, the boy had a fatal seizure. aged zero to four in a 2000–2004 cohort Not only does she remember that trag- compared to the study’s original 1985– edy vividly, she says that it contrib- 1989 cohort). S usan Sullivan-Bolyai, uted significantly to her research into DNSc, CNS, RN, Scientists have put forth a number of family caregiving for children with joined the College of Nursing hypotheses for this rise in diagnoses chronic conditions. faculty in the fall of 2013. among young children, including environ- The average age of type I diabetes (T1D) mental factors such as pollution, excess onset is 12 to 14, but the number of young weight gain, vitamin D deficiency, and children being diagnosed has been increas- insufficient exposure to pathogens. ing since the 1990s. In 2010, 215,000 peo- Grey suggested that Sullivan-Bolyai ple under 20 years had either type 1 or combine her passion for these children type 2 diabetes, according to the National My first finding was with her clinical experience to focus Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. her research on diabetes management Caring for these children is a difficult how all-consuming with this special age group. As a novice and complex task, according to Sullivan- the parenting work was, researcher, Sullivan-Bolyai observed the Bolyai, particularly because it requires tremendous energy that parents devoted close monitoring of blood-glucose levels and how few resources to their children’s diabetes care and began through a finger-prick test administered looking into how they coped with the six to eight times a day. these parents had. demands and adapted to them. Drawing “Parents juggle this continual monitor- on the maternal-child communication ing along with children’s nutritional intake research of Kathryn Barnard, PhD, FAAN, and activity levels throughout the day. Sullivan-Bolyai began looking into the Tight control is necessary for fewer com- New technology, such as the continuous ways in which parents identified young plications to arise in the long run,” says subcutaneous insulin pump, has allowed children’s behavioral cues related to their Sullivan-Bolyai, who joined the College of for regulation of children’s hormonal bal- diabetes symptoms. Nursing faculty in September 2013. ance, but the ongoing daily monitoring Observing parents and children interact Poorly controlled diabetes can have both continues, according to Sullivan-Bolyai. during either a meal or teaching activity, cognitive and behavioral effects, she says. After 20 years of caring for children Sullivan-Bolyai found that the mothers It can cause tremors and seizures, which with a variety of serious challenges, she of those with T1D were much more in can impact children’s developing brains, began to study the ways in which families tune with their children’s subtle behav- and long-term complications may include manage and adapt to the chronic condi- ioral cues compared with existing data on vascular and eyesight problems, kidney tions of their young children. As a stu- mothers whose children did not have a disease, and neuropathy. dent in the DNSc program at Yale during chronic condition.

4 New York University College of Nursing Magazine In interviews, she found that these parents receive support, education, mothers were constantly vigilant, and anticipatory guidance about slept with one eye open, and did a lot managing their children’s diabetes of “invisible” work that was impos- through the teen years. This sup- sible to quantify because it was con- port and education is provided by stant. Sullivan-Bolyai’s first study a parent mentor and psychologist reported that many of the mothers in preparation for the transition to switched their full-time jobs outside interdependent care. the home to part-time, or secured “Some children will say, ‘I’ve had work they could do at home. diabetes my whole life; I know what “Every time their child was away to do.’ But while the ideal is for par- from them, they were thinking about ents to transfer responsibility to the when the child had eaten, their child, they need to stay involved, activity level, and how much insu- because teens are not ready to take it lin had been given. My first finding over completely. was how all-consuming the parent- “I see it as a teeter-totter, from the ing work was, and how few resources parents being in control, to shared these parents had,” she says. management, to the young person Compared to mothers whose being in control. The teen always young children did not have a must feel like there’s a parent who is Dr. Susan Sullivan-Bolyai (left) and Dr. Mary chronic condition, the majority of Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist, are studying involved,” she says. these moms could not leave their child the use of a child-sized patient simulator to This fall at NYU College of Nursing, with a babysitter, and some mothers did help parents learn to care for their children Sullivan-Bolyai will begin coaching PhD not even feel comfortable letting a grand- with new diagnoses of diabetes. students in the research methods that she parent help out. has mastered over the course of her career. Sullivan-Bolyai also studied fathers and impact of parent diabetes education, She is looking forward to joining a grow- found that, although many were actively using a child-sized patient simulator, on ing group of diabetes-focused researchers involved, they often diminished their own their children’s diabetes management. at the College, including Gail Melkus, EdD, importance in their children’s care. Some For three months following a child’s C-NP, FAAN. Melkus and Deborah Chyun, remained close to their children by get- diagnosis, parents in the study attend PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, were Sullivan- ting involved in after-school activities and three educational sessions focused first Bolyai’s professors and mentors at Yale coaching sports — where they could closely on basic survival skills and then on a more before they moved to NYU. monitor them. complex understanding of management One chief message that Sullivan-Bolyai In Sullivan-Bolyai’s parent interviews of the disease. hopes to convey to nursing students at with both mothers and fathers, all were Bringing the simulator out of the lab and NYU is to approach all patients (young and very receptive to the idea of having access into the clinic, Sullivan-Bolyai’s team is old) with a family view as opposed to an to parent mentors who were experienced helping parents visualize what needs to individualistic perspective. “Listen closely in diabetes management immediately be done, such as checking blood-glucose to families of children with diabetes and after a child’s diagnosis. Because of her levels and problem-solving based on the other chronic conditions and ask them research, clinicians at the University of reading; recognizing severe episodes how they are managing,” she says. Massachusetts-Worcester are now working of hypoglycemia (such as tremors) and She adds, “Many families tell me that informally with parent mentors to support treating them; and controlling their emo- they feel like they’re going to the princi- parents of newly diagnosed children. tional responses. The fact that the simula- pal’s office when they take their children One of the things that attracted Sullivan- tor can “respond” verbally allows parents to the health clinic. They’re nervous about Bolyai to NYU College of Nursing was the to think through how they would respond their children’s glucose levels and worry sophistication of the College’s patient to cues from their own children. that the staff will reprimand them. Let simulation technology. Her current inter- Sullivan-Bolyai is also pilot testing the them know that you understand how much vention study, a randomized controlled use of child-sized patient simulators with work this care takes. Ask the child how trial at the University of Massachusetts– teen educator-mentors to reeducate pre- school is going and what they are doing for Worcester and Rhode Island Hasbro teens (9 to 12 years old) about their dia- fun. They need to see that someone cares Children’s Hospital, examines the betes. At the same time, the children’s about them.” K

Autumn 2013 5 NYU College of Nursing Special and William Downs Professor is home to a number of col- in Nursing Research and associ- laborative research units Programs ate dean of research, who directs that support, broaden, and the Pless Center for Nursing deepen the College’s research at the Research at the College of Nursing. enterprise in the four pil- The collective work of these lar areas that it has estab- College groups has helped boost the lished — health systems, global M ake WaVES IN College’s National Institutes of health, HIV/AIDS and infec- Health funding ranking from tious diseases, and aging and Nursing Research No. 46 in 2005 to No. 5 in 2012, chronic-disease management. leading to its designation as a “If you look at these areas individually and col- research-intensive college of nursing. lectively, you’ll see that they all address health care “All of the centers and programs, and the people issues of vulnerable populations across the lifespan, who lead them, have drawn both emerging and senior with a particular focus on workforce and health-sys- researchers to NYUCN. That collective synergy has tem issues and on care interventions nationally and resulted in a meteroic rise in the College’s research globally,” says Gail Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN, Florence capacity,” Melkus says.

Pless Center for Nursing Research

Founded: 1995 “The Pless Center has been a invited lecture series. The center is particularly cornerstone for research facilitation focused on developing more interprofessional Who Is Involved? collaborative teams, bringing together nurse at the College.” — Gail Melkus Gail Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN, director; researchers with those from NYU’s schools of Lanelle Alexander, administrative assistant; Medicine, Dentistry, and Social Work and the and Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN, chair Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and of the Scientific Review Committee for the “an excellent return on our investment,” says Public Health in the Steinhardt School. Pless pilot grant award program. Melkus. These newly funded investigators, What’s Next? What Need Does the Center Fill? including Drs. Mei Fu, Marie Boltz, Ab Brody, and Mary Rosedale, have brought to light As the Pless Center focuses increasingly on The Pless Center creates an environment at important insights in areas as diverse as the innovation and technology research, it is broad- the College in which young scientists receive home care workforce, generic underpinnings ening its funding base to explore small business mentoring and constructive input on their of lymphedema, transitional care for elders, and technology grant mechanisms for faculty. research concepts as well as assistance with and transcranial magnetic stimulation. grant writing, the peer review process (essen- What’s in It for Students? tial for any faculty within seven years of receiv- What Is Happening Now? The Pless Center facilitates student research ing a PhD), and grant submission. Created with The Pless Center maintains a robust sched- submissions to the Eastern Nursing Research funding from Muriel Pless and her late sister, ule of grant submission and, in keeping with Society to help develop the next generation Virginia, the Center also provides two annual the intention of the Pless endowment, offers of nurse researchers. Students receive alerts $10,000 grants to faculty for pilot studies to monthly events for faculty to share their that help match them with investigators who start new areas of research or to take their current research proposals and monthly are looking for research assistants on their inquiries in a new direction. projects. Contact: Lanelle Alexander, [email protected]. K How Has the Center Influenced the Field? The Pless Center and Grants A significant portion of funding Administration team, from (approximately $2.8 million) left to right (rear), William recently awarded to College McCormack, LaNelle Alexander, Mary Boulos, Mary Lou faculty members has gone to Atkinson, Zach Kaado; (front) several emerging researchers Dr. Gail Melkus, Ellen Lyons. nurtured by the Pless Center — Not pictured: John Capalbo.

6 New York University College of Nursing Magazine Center for Drug Use and HIV Research

Founded: 1998 at the National “Our research has evolved as Development and Research Institutes, Inc.; the epidemic has changed. moved to the College of Nursing in 2009 As new treatments and biomedical Who Is Involved? interventions have developed, Sherry Deren, PhD, directs the Center for it’s important to keep in mind that Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), and biological interventions all have a Some members of the CDUHR team, from left, the following College of Nursing faculty behavioral component. For example, Drs. Marya Gwadz, Noelle Leonard, Holly Hagan, members are involved: Drs. Chuck Cleland, you can’t just make HIV-related and Sherry Deren. Marya Gwadz, Holly Hagan, Noelle Leonard, Ann Kurth, Shiela Strauss, Madeline Naegle, medications available to people; substances (alcohol and smoking). The themes and Michele Shedlin. you have to motivate them to take of the renewal period include addressing the What Need Does the Center Fill? the medications and look at other National HIV/AIDS Strategy (which includes identifying new infections and engaging people Approximately 10.7% of the 1.5 million people influences on their adherence.” in care) and assisting investigators in adapting who use injection drugs in the United States — Sherry Deren research questions to the changing economic were estimated to have been diagnosed with and health care environment. HIV as of 2007. CDUHR is the only federally funded center focused on behavioral research publications on drug use and HIV and served What’s Next? related to HIV and drug use. With a P30 infra- on local, national, and international advisory Although extensive research on the HIV/ structure center grant from the NIH National groups. Center researchers were instrumental drug-use epidemic has been conducted over Institute on Drug Abuse, this center works with in showing the importance of providing access the past 30 years, findings have not always more than 50 affiliated investigators from four to sterile syringes for people who inject drugs. been implemented in practice. In its next New York City institutions. It facilitates new In recent years, they have demonstrated that, phase, CDUHR will facilitate the more rapid and innovative projects, enhances existing while the incidence and prevalence of HIV movement of findings into practice through research programs, and helps to disseminate among injection drug users in the U.S. has multiple dissemination methods. It has research findings. It does so by funding pilot declined, non-injection drug use remains an established a new policy advisory group to projects and providing seminars, training, and important factor in HIV transmission (in part assist in this effort. consultation, as well as by encouraging devel- because it influences sexual risk behaviors). What’s in It for Students? opment of interdisciplinary research. What’s Happening Now? All CDUHR seminars are open to the College’s How Has It Influenced the Field? The Center recently received funding from faculty and students. In addition, many CDUHR’s researchers have contributed pro- the National Institute on Drug Abuse through students have worked with CDUHR-affiliated foundly to increasing knowledge about HIV December 2017, in the amount of $6.7 mil- investigators at the College, either in summer prevention and treatment and to influenc- lion. In this renewal period, the Center internships or throughout the year. Contact: ing policy, having produced more than 1,000 has expanded its purview to include other Dorline Yee, [email protected]. K

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

Founded: 1996 “Every day, 10,000 people turn 65, What Need Does the Institute Fill? Who Is Involved? so this is a very exciting time About 15% of the U.S. population is 65 and The Institute is led by Tara Cortes, PhD, for us. These demographics, along older, a percentage that is expected to rise RN, FAAN, executive director. Mathy with the lack of a prepared health to 20% by 2030. As the only organization of Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, the founding care work force that understands its kind, HIGN is helping to prepare the work- force to meet the unique health care needs director, continues to contribute to its how to care for an aging population, and enhance the quality of life of older adults work. Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, create a unique opportunity directs the Nurses Improving Care for by educating health professionals in primary for the work of the Hartford Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) program. care, home care, hospitals, and long-term- Additional faculty hold positions as fellows Institute to impact the quality care settings. It also provides resources on or senior fellows at HIGN. of life for older adults.” health care for older adults to college faculty — Tara Cortes continued on next page

Autumn 2013 7 and students as well as to nurs- What Is Next? ing administrators in all settings. HIGN continually seeks How Has the Institute to expand the audi- Influenced the Field? ence for its resources HIGN recognized early on the and consultation, help- need for education in older-adult ing health care facilities care to meet the requirements care for their older-adult of a rapidly aging population. It patients, particularly is the “go-to” site nationally and as they are managing The Hartford Institute team — from left, internationally for authorita- patients with multiple Kimberly Chang, Malvina Kluger, Dr. Tara Cortes, chronic conditions and keeping people safe tive, evidence-based resources for nursing care and Yamilee Bazile — is working to prepare the with a good quality of life in the community. of older adults. The institute’s consultgeri.org health care workforce for an aging population. e-learning website has more than 45,000 vis- What’s in It for Students? its every month. It is accessed by faculty who What’s Happening Now? Each year, five graduate students are want to know more about teaching geriatrics HIGN’s outreach focus is shifting to include not named Hartford Institute Primary Care of to undergraduate and graduate students, by only hospital-based nursing care, but commu- Older Adults Scholars and are supported nursing students, and by practicing nurses in nity-based interprofessional practice in primary through a HRSA grant to develop skills to all settings to help them provide age-sensitive care, home care, and long-term care. This shift care for frail, underserved older adults liv- care to older adults. comes amid growing realization that, as more ing in the community. The Hartford Institute HIGN is also renowned for having launched people are aging, they will age at home and Geriatric Undergraduate Scholars program the national NICHE program, whose 450 need to be maintained at their highest level provides mentoring and special educational member hospitals are making systemwide of physical and cognitive function by teams of experiences to students interested in the changes to enhance the care of older adults. health care professionals in the community. care of older adults. K

NYUCN Global

Founded: 2011 “There is increasing recognition health, infectious disease, and aging and chronic-disease management, with a partic- Who Is Involved? that you can’t just address individual diseases within and across countries; ular focus on strengthening health systems Under the direction of Ann Kurth, PhD, and health care workforces in low- and mid- you have to address entire CNM, FAAN, NYUCN Global expands on and dle-income countries as well as in under- supports the work of NYU nursing faculty health systems and explore how served areas of the United States. engaged in global research and education. nurses and larger health care How Has It Influenced the Field? These programs include the WHO Collaborat- communities can respond to these ing Center for Geriatric Nursing Education, NYUCN Global aims to do internationally issues over the long term.” directed by Dr. Madeline Naegle at the College what NYU Nursing is best known for: mov- — Ann Kurth ing evidence-based models of care into prac- tice, in a culturally appropriate context. A key of Nursing; Health Resources for Rwanda, emphasis is to help nurture nursing capac- directed by Dr. Deborah Chyun; and the work ity in developing countries, which is happen- of other faculty, including Drs. Gail Melkus, ing today in Rwanda, Ghana, the Republic of Michele Shedlin, Allison Squires, Tia Gilmartin, Georgia, and other countries. and affiliated colleagues across NYU. What’s Happening Now? What Need Does the Program Fill? NYUCN Global is contributing to new scien- As NYU College of Nursing faculty have tific understanding through numerous stud- become increasingly involved in work ies, including several that introduce technol- around the world, NYUCN Global was ogy to expand the capacity of health care started in 2011 to consolidate and expand workers in low-resource settings. Ann Kurth all of these research, education, and prac- and her team are focused on HIV/AIDS pre- Nkiru Azikiwe, assistant research tice projects. Its expertise mirrors the pillars vention, testing, and treatment in low- scientist and global projects director of the College faculty itself, including global resource areas, particularly in East Africa. for NYUCN Global, manages a study of a computer-based HIV counseling tool. continued on next page

8 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine The groundbreaking Human Resources for What’s Next? What’s in It for Students? Health project in Rwanda and Ghana Wins! Empowering nurses with scientific tools to Students can get involved as research both focus on expanding the leadership scale up evidence-based practice is key to assistants and volunteer interns, and as and capacity of nurse workforces. Research improving health care worldwide, accord- study-abroad participants in countries capacity-building projects are under way ing to Kurth, who notes that 50% of morbid- with active projects taking place. They in the Republic of Georgia and Mexico as ity and premature mortality globally is pre- can also join the new College student well. The College is also the home of the ventable with existing approaches. Since interest group, Nursing Students for WHO Collaborating Center in Gerontological nurses provide 85% of care in most coun- Global Health. Contact: Kerry Stalonas, Nursing Education, whose team is completing tries, NYUCN Global is looking to increase [email protected]. K a Competencies Resource Guide for the Pan their scope of practice and promote appropri- American Health Organization and helping ate education for nurses in all settings. participant countries plan education on care of older adults.

Division of Special Studies in Symptom Management

Founded: 2009 “Every day, millions of people Who Is Involved? struggle to manage chronic The DS3M, as it is known, is directed by symptoms that affect their ability Joyce K. Anastasi, PhD, DrNP, FAAN, to function. The symptoms LAc, Independence Foundation Professor, can be caused by side effects with Bernadette Capili, PhD, NP-C, assis- of medical treatments or the tant professor and associate director, and actual condition. Our goal is to involves numerous investigators in nursing, develop treatment approaches medicine, and other disciplines from institu- tions around the country. to help individuals live more comfortably and symptom-free.” What Need Does the Division Fill? — Joyce K. Anastasi Through clinical trials, the division aims to understand and develop interventions aimed at reducing or eliminating distressing symp- The investigators have published exten- toms related to disease and pharmacologi- sively in the areas of nutraceuticals, herbs, cal side effects. Through multilayered stud- acupuncture, moxibustion, and other non- ies, Anastasi, Capili, and their partners are invasive symptom therapies. Through the developing and testing noninvasive interven- development of rigorous research control tions, such as nutraceuticals, diets combined conditions (including unique placebo and Drs. Joyce K. Anastasi (left) and Bernadette with cognitive behavioral methods, acupunc- Capili review data from a randomly controlled sham controlled trials), they have advanced ture, herbs, and other approaches that reduce symptom-management trial. the science in this area. symptoms, prevent disease, and improve overall health and quality of life. Populations What’s Happening Now? It also aims to develop comparative effec- under study include those with gastrointesti- The team is conducting clinical trials tiveness studies and continue to advance nal or neurological conditions and HIV/AIDS. focusing on the symptom management of evidence-based models of symptom-man- How Has the Division’s Work gastrointestinal conditions, nausea, irritable agement care into practice to enhance qual- Influenced the Field? bowel syndrome, and pain syndromes. Over ity of life for patients. the last four years, Anastasi and Capili have The team has conducted numerous feder- What’s in It for Students? worked on three NIH-funded R01 research ally funded “gold standard” randomly With the increasing use of nutraceuticals projects totaling $7,773,000. controlled trials in symptom management and dietary supplements by patients, the associated with GI, neurologic, and cardio- What’s Next? team’s elective program on herbs, nutraceu- vascular conditions. Their research has In its next phase, the division aims to ticals, and supplements provides students demonstrated the importance of nutrition expand its findings to populations such as with a solid foundation in this evolving in the management of chronic diarrhea in cancer survivors and people with diabetes field. Research assistantships and volunteer HIV, and of pain management in clinical who have symptoms, such as pain and neu- experiences are available. Contact: Joyce K. care of peripheral neuropathy in HIV. ropathy, similar to those previously studied. Anastasi, [email protected]. K

Autumn 2013 9 Unexpected Opportunities A cCELERATED Nursing Students Get a Jump on Research Careers

s an undergraduate biology for people with diabetes. Melkus, a type 2 Johnson Foundation, have made it a major and research intern at diabetes researcher, liked the presenta- priority to support — and fast track — the SUNY Stony Brook, Julieta tion so much that she gave Yue her business preparation of nurse researchers. Hsieh-Shan, BS ’13, had card and invited the students to come to her “At the College of Nursing, we address spentA hours poring over spreadsheets, research at every turn, in the context of our counting South American bird species. academic mission,” Melkus says, adding Her classmate, R ay Yue, BS ’13 — who At the College of that — often to the undergraduate students’ raised and dissected mosquitos for an surprise — the College provides opportu- entomology research lab at UC Davis — Nursing, we nities for them to work as research assis- had come home with bites on her arms. address research tants (including paid positions), to partic- When they started nursing school, both at every turn. ipate in the Summer Research Experience viewed their new career as one in which with the College of Dentistry, and to get research would not play a part. — Dr. Gail Melkus engaged in other ways. Their perspectives changed in June 2012, It is frequently the accelerated when Professor Gail Melkus, EdD, C-NP, 15-month baccalaureate students, who FAAN, strolled past a poster presenta- office to discuss the possibility of collabo- are both academically seasoned and pas- tion that Hsieh-Shan, Yue, and a third rating with her and expanding their project. sionate about nursing, such as Hsieh- classmate, Yoon Hee Cho, BS ’13, had cre- In light of the national nursing faculty Shan, Yue, and Cho — who jump at the ated for their Introduction to Research: shortage — a consequence of the ongoing Foundations for Evidence-Based Clinical nursing shortage — many professional A bove From left, student researchers Julieta Practice class. The trio had conducted a lit- nursing organizations and foundations, Hsieh-Shan, Yoon Hee Cho, and Ray Yue, with Dr. Gail Melkus, present their award-winning erature search on the impact of a text mes- such as the American Association of literature review at the Eastern Nursing saging intervention on glycemic control Colleges of Nursing and the Robert Wood Research Society.

10 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine chance. When Yue emailed Melkus to take her up on her offer, it was the start of a yearlong mentoring relationship that led to a much larger research project than Accelerated Students’ Diverse any of them had anticipated. “These students had taken a very pro- Backgrounds Enhance Research gressive approach to patient educa- Experiences tion, looking at the impact of technol- ogy. I thought this was a very timely idea Julieta Hsieh-Shan, BS ’13 so asked them if they wanted to expand on it, look at more of the literature, and see From: Queens, New York Julieta Hsieh-Shan, Yoon Hee Cho, and Ray whether they could submit their research Undergraduate degree: Yue celebrate with Dr. Ann Marie Mauro, clinical Biology, SUNY Stonybrook to a journal and become candidates for the associate professor, upon winning second place Eastern Nursing Research Society Poster in the bachelor’s-level poster competition at the Between degrees: competition,” Melkus says. Eastern Nursing Research Society conference. Medical assistant to a doctor For their class poster presentation, the students had searched the global literature at the start of the interventions, so this R aY Yue, BS ’13 for randomized controlled studies of tex- decline represents a significant change. ting interventions for people with diabetes. Based on an abstract describing their From: Cupertino, California Melkus pushed them to do a more advanced research, Hsieh-Shan, Yue, and Cho Undergraduate degree: were selected to represent NYU College Neurobiology, Physiology, and of Nursing at the Eastern Nursing Behavior, UC Davis I didn’t realize the Research Society annual conference. Between degrees: Emergency room medical scribe importance of research Next, they created a poster, which not only was accepted to the regional con- until I came to NYU. ference but won second place in the Yoon Hee Cho, BS ’13 — Julieta Hsieh-Shan bachelor’s-level poster competition. Now, the students are preparing an arti- From: Wayne, New Jersey cle for submission to a nursing journal. Undergraduate degree: search, and when they looked only at Hsieh-Shan says that the opportunity to Psychology, Fairfield University research conducted in the United States, engage in this type of systematic litera- Between degrees: they found merely five research articles. ture review was unexpected. Assistant in a doctor’s office “The results for the U.S. were similar “I didn’t realize the importance of to the global results — that texting is an research until I came to NYU,” she says. effective strategy to help people control “Now I realize that you have to know how to Luis Sanchez-Vera, BS ’13 diabetes. But there had been no litera- find the evidence for what you are doing.” From: Hubbard, Oregon ture review on U.S. studies of texting for Yue had become interested in nurs- Undergraduate degree: diabetes control,” says Hsieh-Shan. “To ing while working as a medical scribe Public Health, Portland State translate the research findings to prac- in a San Jose level II trauma center after University tice, someone needs to pull the research earning her first bachelor’s degree in Between degrees: together and draw some conclusions neurobiology, physiology, and behavior Volunteer Spanish interpreter about those studies.” from UC Davis. Scribes — more common The most significant finding was that on the West Coast — are paired with phy- those who participated in texting inter- sicians, nurse practitioners, and physi- Andrea Dietz Wagner ’14 ventions had an average decline of 2.03 cian’s assistants to document real-time From: Long Island, New York percentage points in their hemoglobin physical exam assessments and medi- Undergraduate degree: A1C levels — a measure of blood sugar cal decision-making notes. On the over- Marketing, Loyola College, Maryland over two to three months. An A1C level night shift, where she saw gunshot Between degrees: of above 6.5% or higher indicates diabe- wounds, car accidents, and gang vio- Retail clothing buyer tes, and the subjects in the studies under lence, she was impressed with the excel- review generally had levels around 8.5% lent care that the nurses provided. continued on next page

Autumn 2013 11 “Being in college the second time Medical Center and the 2013 Eastern around, I was more focused,” Yue says. Nursing Research Society conference “I really pushed myself to pay attention in Boston. in class and ask questions, so that I could During his first semester at the College understand everything. I was build- of Nursing, Sanchez-Vera attended an ing on the basics I had learned about extracurricular seminar on the subject of physiology from UC Davis and apply- heart failure and diabetes led by Professor ing it to my nursing studies and my V ictoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN. clinical experiences.” Luis Sanchez-Vera, an RWJF New Careers “By the end of the seminar, I was She adds that, because of Dr. Melkus’s in Nursing scholar, has pursued several sold on the power of nursing research encouragement, another dimension was research opportunities. and how fascinating it is,” he says. added to her nursing education — beyond “Dr. Dickson had such a well-pre- the classroom and clinicals. the area. The unexpected bonus for him sented study. It was packed with sta- “Dr. Melkus opened my eyes to the was being named a Robert Wood Johnson tistics, but I could tell she really cared world of nursing research and showed Foundation (RWJF) New Careers in about reaching out to the population she me what it really means,” Yue says. Nursing scholar. was discussing.” “Working with her has shown me there The RWJF scholarship was established Coincidentally, Dickson was looking for is more to nursing and helping people at the College to encourage students from research assistants — particularly those than just giving medications in a hospi- underrepresented groups (including who spoke Spanish — and Sanchez-Vera tal every day. It is exciting to think that stepped up. “I was essentially hired that maybe one day, I can create a text-mes- day,” he says. saging program that will help people Sanchez-Vera was soon tasked with control their diabetes so that they don’t Dr. Dickson had such screening Spanish-speaking heart fail- have to go to the hospital. She is always a well-presented study. ure patients for a study of community- encouraging us to go one step further and It was packed with based education to manage their con- become experts in our career.” dition and avoid hospitalization. By the statistics, but I could end of his second semester, he was hired Discovering the tell she really cared by Dickson as a health educator, teaching about reaching the educational intervention weekly to Power of Research Latino study participants. out to the population “I feel privileged to have been given fter earning a bachelor’s she was discussing. so much responsibility and to have the degree in public health from chance to grow into a health educator Portland State University, — Luis Sanchez-Vera while studying nursing,” he says, adding, Luis Sanchez-Vera, BS ’13, “My NYU experience has been incred- spentA two years volunteering as a Span- ible. It’s the combination of my peers, ish interpreter for physicians on two men) to enter the nursing profession. supportive faculty like Dr. Dickson, and medical missions in Honduras and in a RWJF scholars receive not only finan- other faculty that’s been so rich.” hemotology and oncology department in cial assistance but leadership-develop- Sanchez-Vera is looking forward to a pediatric hospital in Portland before ment support and intensive mentoring returning for his master’s degree after enrolling in the College of Nursing accel- from faculty. For Sanchez-Vera, the two- gaining nursing experience. But now erated baccalaureate program. semester scholarship was the reassur- there is another side of the nursing pro- Through those experiences, Sanchez- ance he needed that he would have the fession that lies ahead. Vera observed that nurses are “very resources to complete his degree. “I had recognized research as some- dynamic, flexible, and hands-on,” he “The scholarship definitely set me up thing I might do because of my pub- says. “When I saw that patients spend for success in the program,” Sanchez lic health background,” he says. “But most of their time with them, I was con- says. “I got to network with faculty mem- I thought that nursing was about bed- vinced to become a nurse.” bers, who in turn led me to more oppor- side care and health policy. It’s blown my Sanchez-Vera chose NYU for its reputa- tunities” — such as a chance to attend mind to learn about the history of nurs- tion, location, and the opportunities that the 2012 Evidence-Based Practice ing research and to think that it will be could emerge from the many hospitals in Research Conference at NYU Langone part of my life.”

12 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine Following a Observing the nurses’ interactions with Her research experience, she says, has her grandmother — “how much they helped not only in the classroom but in Meaningful Path knew and how they always knew what to the clinical setting. do” — led her to consider nursing for the “Having talked with research partici- s a buyer for Macy’s Home, first time, she says. pants about their personal battles has Andrea Dietz Wagner ’14 was As soon as Wagner was accepted to eased the transition for me into the hospi- on the road to a successful the College of Nursing, she learned about tal setting,” Wagner says. “It has also made business career. After having the College’s Summer Research Program, me much more comfortable in the clinical Abeen accepted to the corporation’s highly held in conjunction with the College setting when it comes to assessing patients competitive training program, she was of Dentistry. and discussing their care with them.” promoted five times in as many years. Wagner says that studying nursing has Still, in the back of her mind lingered been both more intense and more inter- a childhood dream: “I could have been esting than she ever expected. “The first a nurse. I could have been a doctor.” Having talked with time I walked into a hospital, I said, Wagner is just slightly embarrassed to research participants ‘You’re in it now — this is a very different admit that the 1995 movie Outbreak — about their personal setting from a store!’” she recalls. about an Ebola-like epidemic and the lab Wagner continues to work with Gwadz technicians who decoded the virus — had battles has on another study, looking at the rea- sparked her interest in science. More eased the transition sons that some people with HIV do not recently, a series of family health care for me into the take their prescribed medications. She struggles—including her grandmother’s explores with the study subjects issues hospital setting. illness from pancreatic cancer — con- such as whether side effects, cost, or vinced Wagner to follow her instincts. — Andrea Dietz Wagner health care access impede their ability to “I went home every weekend and tried take their medicines. to help out with my grandmother, but The research questions, she says, are if something went wrong, I didn’t know extremely interesting, because they what to do. It was then that my work “I just knew it was something I had to point to policy dimensions of the dis- started to feel trivial,” she says. When apply to,” she says. ease, and often lead to more questions. Wagner returned to work, she says, Accepted to the program, Wagner was She is also glad to be part of a study that she felt helpless picking between two assigned to work with Marya Gwadz, PhD, could translate soon into improvements shades of blue towels while her family a senior research scientist at the Center for in patient care. members were sick. Drug Use and HIV Research based at the Wagner is now certain that wherever she College of Nursing. She was put to work on works as a nurse, she will want to pursue Andrea Dietz Wagner presents a final an effort to recruit African Americans and research in some capacity. poster of the research she conducted with Latinos into AIDS clinical trials, in which “This is not something I thought I’d be Dr. Marya Gwadz through the Summer Research Experience. they are underrepresented. doing in nursing school, and I love it. I Gwadz had conducted an earlier study love hearing about how people are deal- aimed at understanding the scarcity and ing with having AIDS. It’s a great learning increasing the involvement of minor- experience on so many levels.” ity group members in AIDS clini- To Professor Gail Melkus, these acceler- cal trials. Wagner’s job was to research ated nursing students are meeting the call which AIDS clinical trials were taking of the nation in pursuing nursing research, place and then to contact nearly 300 of and she fully expects them to contribute Gwadz’s original research participants during their careers to improvements in who had expressed interest in being evidence-based patient care. informed of these trials. “These students were interested enough A two-time recipient of the Louis to step out, raise their hands, and say that and Rachel Rudin Foundation Nursing they were interested in research. It’s our Scholarship as well as of a scholar- responsibility as faculty to mentor them. ship from the College of Nursing itself, For me, it’s the reason I do the work that Wagner is in her third semester of the I do — it is so rewarding.” K four-semester accelerated program.

Autumn 2013 13 The Affordable Care Act and Nursing:

How will the new payment systems affect the way nurses provide care? Lies Ahead? JT: For a whole generation, the thinking has been about how to pay physicians. Now, we’re To help our readers understand changes that are under way — or thinking about how to pay a practice that Whatanticipated — as the nation implements the Affordable Care Act, the includes a team of professionals, how to bun- College of Nursing addressed a series of questions to three top health dle payments away from individual encounters and toward the totality of care. The ACA pro- policy leaders — two of our faculty members and an outside expert. vides incentives to organize care differently, to provide less siloed care, to enable professionals Would you summarize the to integrate care and share responsibilities and implications of the June 27, 2013, Three Perspectives roles. So, rather than charging a fee for each Supreme Court ruling on the visit and for every single unit of service such as terms of the Affordable Care Act? testing, which inherently drives up costs, pay- Jim Tallon, a nationally recognized ments may cover a spectrum of interventions. thought leader in health care Christine Kovner: The Supreme Court ruling financing and service delivery, is had two major portions. One of the questions CK: I expect that there will be expanded roles the president of the United Hospital addressed whether the government could for nurses in these settings when the insur- Fund. He served for 19 years in the require people to obtain health insurance, or ance companies do bundle care. We are going New York State Assembly, where he if they did not, whether it could require some to say, “We have to provide A, B, and C. Who can focused on improving Medicaid and type of penalty. That was upheld by the court. do what?” There are a lot of registered nurses health care financing. He chairs Another major part of the ruling was about who are working in ambulatory care who are not The Commonwealth Fund and the the expansion of Medicaid by the states. working up to the level of their education and Kaiser Commission on Medicaid Medicaid rules differ state by state, and that skills. The increased volume of patients will move and the Uninsured and serves on requirement was rejected by the court, which them into providing a more skilled level of care. the advisory board for the Jonas essentially said that the federal government Eileen Sullivan-Marx: The ACA also mandates Center for Nursing Excellence. cannot make states expand their Medicaid programs. However, the government has pro- coverage for prevention and wellness care, such as counseling about nutrition and exercise. Eileen Sullivan-Marx is dean and vided many incentives for states to do so, and Nurses have always done these things when they Erline Perkins McGriff Professor at I am hopeful that in time most of the states had time, but too often it was icing on the cake. the College of Nursing. She served will expand Medicaid. The ACA explicitly covers these services. In addi- as a Health & Aging Policy Fellow tion, both the ACA and the Centers for Medicaid with the American Political Science What are some of the key and Medicare Services stipulate that hospitals Congressional Fellowship and was changes that we’re going to see won’t be reimbursed if patients are readmitted senior advisor to the Centers for when the Affordable Care Act within 30 days for certain avoidable complica- Medicare and Medicaid Services in is fully implemented? tions. Therefore, hospitals have a huge incentive 2010–12. She is a fellow in the New Jim Tallon: The expansion of Medicaid, for to avoid these complications, and nurses will York Academy of Medicine and lower-income people, is the most visible and be part of teams that will be held accountable board member of the American important part of the ACA. In addition, the for unnecessary readmissions and ER visits. So, Academy of Nursing. ACA expands insurance coverage through if you have a patient who is being discharged federal and state-based exchanges that peo- for heart failure, you’ll be part of the team that Christine Kovner is a professor at ple who are currently uncovered can join. follows up and makes sure she follows her medi- the College of Nursing and principal cation regimen, and so on. investigator on a Robert Wood Christine Kovner: Fifty million more peo- Johnson Foundation–funded study ple will be newly covered, so those beneficia- How will the ACA impact of the career trajectories of newly ries will finally have access to primary care ser- nursing education? licensed registered nurses. For nine vices. People will get the care they need earlier, years she was a member of the before they have a problem that is more costly. ESM: Here is one example. Traditionally, Medicare New York State Hospital Review In addition, under the current regulations, has provided funds for graduate medical edu- and Planning Council and is on the Medicare beneficiaries’ checkups by physi- cation and hospital-based nursing diploma pro- steering committee of New York’s cians or nurses are not reimbursable. Now grams. Now, there are funds in the ACA to pilot Nursing Workforce Center. they will be reimbursable. There will be no test the transfer of Medicare dollars to help to copayments for many people, and we think increase the preparation of nurse practitioners in this will mean a substantial demand for pri- training programs and through health care orga- mary care providers. nizations and hospitals.

14 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine Do you think the ACA will improve people who go to the doctor with simple ail- Will the ACA’s emphasis care coordination? ments that nurses could handle! I anticipate on primary care deepen the pressure on the states to change these laws. nursing shortage? ESM: One of the keys to preventive ESM: As the Institute of Medicine indicated care — which is a fundamental component CK: In 2008 there were great reports of a a few years ago in its report on the future of of the Affordable Care Act — is in the area of future crisis in nursing. Between the great nursing, nurses need to be able to practice to care coordination. The ACA’s expansion of recession and maybe the last year, we saw a the full extent of their education and training Medicaid is intended to address this. number of nurses come back to nursing — and remove barriers to practice. We’re going perhaps a partner or another family member CK: Bundled payments will motivate better to need more nurses at the advanced prac- lost his or her job. Many nurses who worked care coordination — a change that insurance tice level to coordinate higher volumes of part-time increased their hours to full-time, companies are already starting to imple- care in the ACOs. and others delayed retirement. ment. You might have groups of one or two Nursing continues to be the most popu- physicians or a couple of nurse practitio- You’ve mentioned that the lar health occupation, but the nurse popu- ners working together who will network with revolution in information lation has aged dramatically. There is still larger groups so that patients can benefit technology will help provide an expectation that we will need 3.4 or 3.5 from a shared diabetes educator or physi- more organized patient care. million registered nurses by 2020, and we cal therapist. How will that come about? have about 3.2 million now. But this does JT: Through the ACA, the Centers for Medi- JT: I think the whole health care system not mean that we will just need an extra care and Medicaid Innovation is devoting $10 will work better because there’s an informa- 250,000. Because of retirements, we may billion to create Accountable Care Organiza- tion flow that didn’t exist before — and that need another 450,000 nurses to be pro- tions. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, is partly due to the huge investment through duced between now and 2020. and other health care providers who come the federal stimulus bill to do this. We’re together voluntarily to ensure that their not just talking about the electronic health From the start of the debate Medicare patients — particularly the chroni- record. Every provider of a patient should about the ACA, there has been cally ill — get the right care at the right time, have access to all of the information about a lot of concern that it could while avoiding unnecessary duplication of that patient, so that care can be provided negatively affect patient care services and preventing medical errors. in a much more coordinated fashion than in and choices. New York has a tradition of providing the past. And, there is the potential for more JT: The big picture of the ACA is: We’ll benefits to people with complex multiple patient engagement in their own care, but provide services in a better-organized chronic illnesses, those with behavioral we’re at the early stages. health issues, developmental disabilities, fashion. We’ll pay according to rational and long-term care needs. That concept will It’s been said that a culture incentives as opposed to fee-for-service. be enhanced — and create opportunities for change needs to happen. We’ll engage patients in their own care nurses — through “Health Homes,” which are Can you say more? and their health. And we’ll have real-time care-coordination arrangements for people information flow. with complex conditions. When we envision ESM: Workers and professionals need to move The ACA has been attacked by some as a more connected health care system, the away from individually feeling like they are the a train wreck, but the current system doesn’t skills, training, and orientation of the nurse is only person responsible for the care of their exactly feel like a train running on schedule. critical to the team. patients to what I call the ‘esprit de corps’ We’ve all seen the difficulties with the current that we are all in this together and we’ve got fragmented and inefficient fee-for-service Will the ACA impact nurses’ to work together. That is not how we’ve been medicine system. Our current system is very scope of practice? educating nurses, physicians, or dentists, but costly — and by the way, we don’t cover 50 we have got to get people working differently. million people. We can do better. CK: The short answer is no, not directly. Only In addition, we cannot keep practicing the Nursing has enormous opportunity in the state legislatures can change nurses’ same old way. Take waiting rooms, for exam- this evolving system because it’s at the scope of practice, and right now what nurse ple: You should be able to take a number and nexus of clinical skill, clinical knowledge, practitioners are allowed to do in the various then go about your business. Take individ- human interaction, leadership management, states varies quite dramatically. ual discipline rounds: Patients wait endlessly and coordination. You can’t think of a team- However, there are a number of changes for social workers, doctors, nurses, and phys- based care system, in which care is delivered that are not spelled out in the ACA but that ical therapists to confer with one another. by professionals who are more connected the ACA may help usher in with the growing They should round together. The hierarchical rather than more siloed, that doesn’t have volume of patients. Right now, nurses can’t nature of doctors’ orders needs to change: an enhanced role for nursing. K legally prescribe medicines in most states; Patients shouldn’t have to wait for one per- they can’t order x-rays. In England, nurses can son to make a decision that another member take about a 40-hour class about medications of the team could be making. and prescribe common ones. Imagine all the

Autumn 2013 15 Beatrice Goodwin and Eliana Horta

NursingFour Decad eEducations of Support to in Latin America

B eatrice Goodwin, PhD ’70, MA ’60, and Eliana Horta, MS, MPH, RN, were global before global was cool. Out of their love for nursing, the two-woman team has battled high winds in Patagonia, effects of high altitude of the Andes, and occasional lack of potable water. They’ve skirted drug- related violence and streets patrolled by tanks and soldiers to reach their destinations, where they assist Latin American nursing faculty in developing their curricula.

Braving the elements and political strife Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, to do international work as a PAHO con- is only part of the challenge involved in she was charged with developing Chile’s sultant to Pontificia Universidad Católica effective consultation in multiple are- first master’s degree program in nurs- in Santiago, where Horta was teaching. A nas of the world, say Goodwin and Horta. ing. The legendary Claire Fagin, PhD ’64, product of Goodwin’s consultation was the Both emphasize that to help nurse educa- RN, FAAN, consulted to the program, development of the first nurse-midwifery tors in Latin America improve their cur- in response to a request by PAHO. With program in Chile. She was then invited ricula requires them to continue studying Fagin’s mentorship, Horta nurtured the to consult to the Chilean Association of to keep abreast of changes in health care, innovative program, but it was abruptly Nursing Education (ACHIEEN) — the start nursing education, and practice. closed along with many public-health pro- of a long and fruitful relationship. Eliana Horta was one of a small num- grams by the military junta. Horta soon Just as Goodwin was retiring from Lehman ber of nurses who received Pan American was able to move to New York City, where College, Diane McGivern, PhD ’72, MA ’64, Health Organization (PAHO) funding for she practiced for 25 years as a psychiatric RN, FAAN, the former head of the Division master’s degree study in nursing at the clinical nurse specialist. of Nursing at NYU, learned of the work that Universidad Valle de Cali in Colombia in Dr. Beatrice Goodwin taught in and later she and Horta were doing in Latin America 1971. Then, as a professor at Pontificia directed the Parent-Child Nursing Master’s and invited them to come to NYU. Goodwin Program in the NYU Division of Nursing in returned to NYU in 1998 as an adjunct A Obove n a coffee estate in the tropical, the 1960s. Moving to Lehman College in the professor and director of Latin American mountainous area of Bucaramanga, Colombia, ’70s, she honed her curriculum-develop- Projects. Horta joined in that effort as an Dr. Beatrice Goodwin (foreground left) meets ment expertise in the first nursing program adjunct clinical professor. with nursing faculty, organized by Myriam Duran (foreground right), the president of the to emphasize primary care, which Fagin had Since the start of their collaboration, Colombian Association of Faculties of Nursing. founded. While at Lehman, Goodwin began Goodwin and Horta have been invited to

16 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine consult or make presentations on nursing proudly that the nursing program had been “These faculties energize us with their curriculum development in nine Central accredited with commendation. enthusiasm,” says Goodwin. and South American countries. During Goodwin and Horta spend approximately For her work toward the development of the their consultations, they allow specific five months of the year traveling through- International Center for Nursing Research in needs of faculty and other university leaders Chile, she was named an honorary founder, to emerge over days of meetings rather than and the group has established an annual presenting a preestablished curriculum. The warmth and “Goodwin” award for nursing research. Many of their consulting engagements have appreciation of their The impact of Goodwin and Horta’s con- come about through contact with the presi- Latin American hosts sultation and mentoring has been substan- dents of national associations of university tial. It has paved the way for some nursing nursing faculties, who help to set priorities. keep Goodwin programs to be the first in their univer- Speaking in Spanish — which Goodwin and Horta traveling sity to be accredited, and several program taught herself — the team does, however, virtually nonstop. directors have attained higher positions freely share their views about respect for within their universities. human life and human rights — concepts “When nurses have the opportunity to that are crucial to nursing and not always out Latin America, usually meeting for one broaden their view of education, they become well understood. “We also emphasize week at a time with bachelor’s and mas- resources to the university,” Horta says. women’s rights,” Horta says. ter’s degree faculty. They have also worked Their influence is also felt at NYU. Through Increasing access for Latin American with two nascent doctoral programs. Their their work at Chile’s University of Valparaiso, nursing faculty to resources on nursing work is a purely volunteer effort, with only they formed relationships that laid the theory and use of evidence is a paramount in-country expenses borne by universi- groundwork for a January intersession goal for this team. Goodwin emphasizes ties or nursing education associations. The study-abroad program that operated until that access to master’s and doctoral nursing warmth and appreciation of their Latin NYU opened its Buenos Aires, Argentina, education is also important but not always American hosts keep Goodwin and Horta campus. In Buenos Aires, they worked with available for nursing faculty. As in the traveling virtually nonstop. the Universidad Austral to develop a course, United States, Latin America is struggling taught collaboratively by NYU and Austral with a shortage of nurses who have the aca- A bove From left, a faculty member at Fundacion faculty, that NYU master’s and acceler- demic preparation to teach nursing. With Universitaria de Ciencias de Salud in Bogotá, ated undergraduate nursing students take the exception of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Colombia; Yolanda Vallejo, vice president of the through NYU’s five-year-old January inter- and Mexico, there are few master’s degree Colombian Association of Faculties of Nursing; and session there. They have also facilitated the Dr. Beatrice Goodwin enjoy a Sunday afternoon programs in nursing and a scant number of after six days of work with nursing faculty. attendance of emerging nurse researchers doctoral programs. Below Dr. Beatrice Goodwin (center) and Eliana from Colombia and Mexico to participate in In 2005, the president of Colombia’s Horta (right) in Brazil, with Dr. Milca Severino the Hartford Institute’s Summer Research nursing education association attended Pereira, coordinator of graduate studies in health Scholars program. a ceremony in which Goodwin was rec- at Pontificia Universidad Católica deG oiás. The two visit metropolitan areas as well ognized as an honorary member of as remote towns that educational consul- ACHIEEN (the Chilean nursing education tants rarely reach. They have traveled from association) — and asked Goodwin to help Argentina’s Patagonia region — where it is with curriculum issues in Colombia. This so windy it takes two people to open a car encounter led to their largest consulta- door — to the sugar-cane farms of Colombia’s tion effort to date. At first, the association Caribbean coast. In one university there, asked them to conduct a three-day cur- Universidad de Córdoba, in Monteria, dur- riculum workshop for faculty from three ing a conference with the university presi- universities, but interest was so great that dent, attention was called to a 12-foot iguana nine universities sent representatives. looking down from a tree outside his office. Returning to Colombia numerous times, More than 40 years after beginning their the duo has consulted in 26 universities all international consultation, Goodwin and over the country. In July 2013, the dean of Horta have nurtured nursing curricula at nursing at the Universidad Libre de Pereira, 50 universities. They are true ambassadors in Colombia’s coffee belt, which Goodwin for nurses and nursing faculty to bring and Horta had visited twice, called to report about change in health care. K

Autumn 2013 17 Donor Spotlight Helene Fuld

College Receives $960,000 Helene Fuld Health Trust Grant for Student Scholarships

n May 2013, NYU College of Each Fuld Scholar will receive $10,000 Financing a nursing education after one Nursing received an unprec- over the course of the four-semester has studied or worked in another field can edented three-year grant of degree program. A portion of the grant be challenging. Because of the rigorous $960,000 from the Helene Fuld demands of the 15-month program, HealthI Trust to establish a scholarship students are discouraged from holding fund for students enrolled in the acceler- full-time jobs. In addition, because stu- ated second degree baccalaureate nursing The need for nurses dents who enter the program have already program. The trust is the nation’s largest earned baccalaureate degrees in other private funder devoted exclusively to in the United States has fields, they are not eligible for certain nursing students and nursing education. financial aid awards, such as federal Pell Its mission is to support and promote the never been greater, grants, which are available to traditional health, welfare, and education of student so increasing the four-year baccalaureate students. nurses. The grant represents one of the “The need for nurses in the United largest single gifts in support of scholar- workforce pipeline of RNs, States has never been greater, so ships for undergraduate students in the and especially of increasing the workforce pipeline of College’s history. RNs, and especially of baccalaureate- The Helene Fuld Health Trust was baccalaureate-prepared prepared RNs, is of paramount impor- founded by Leonhard Felix Fuld who, RNs, is of paramount tance,” says James Pace, DSN, MDiv, together with his sister, Florentine, ANP-BC, FAANP, the College of Nursing created the foundation in 1935 to honor importance. associate dean for undergraduate pro- their mother, Helene. Fuld was a self- grams. “Unless this goal is met, access to made millionaire who built his fortune all levels of health care will be compro- through real-estate investments and mised because the demand for RNs will the stock market. In addition to being also establishes a permanent endow- not meet the workforce supply.” a private investor, Fuld was a lawyer, ment, which will enable the College to Pace notes that one important strategy economist, and expert in police admin- provide this aid in perpetuity. for meeting this demand is to facilitate istration who was instrumental in Accelerated second degree nursing the movement of talented, highly moti- the planning of the New York Police students, who represent about 80% of vated individuals from other professions Academy. His special interest in nursing approximately 900 baccalaureate stu- into the nursing profession. students derived from a sense that dents enrolled at the College, com- “This wonderful new partnership nurses were often exposed to disease mit to an intensive 15-month bachelor with the Helene Fuld Health Trust will and overwork, and he traveled during of science program that prepares them enable the College to recruit and retain his lifetime to numerous hospitals to to take the National Council Licensure a greater number of such individuals — observe the conditions under which Examination for Registered Nurses students who represent the future of nurses provided care to patients. (NCLEX). They typically have prior our health care environment, and who Fuld Scholarships will be awarded to degrees and work experience in other will in large part be the ones to help cohorts of eight accelerated baccalau- fields, and enter the program because create greater access to care and con- reate students entering the College in of a strong desire to change careers tinuous quality improvement for many the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters. to nursing. years to come.” K

18 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine Donor Spotlight Muriel and Virginia pless Cmpionsha of Nursing, Education, and the Arts

Virginia made a major gift commitment College’s greatest strengths, which is in 1995 to nursing at NYU, to establish our expertise in nursing research.” the Muriel and Virginia Pless Center Two Pless Fund pilot grants are for Nursing Research. awarded each year to faculty researchers “Nursing is the noblest of all the pro- who are working to gather data in a new fessions,” Muriel Pless remarks. “A area. Monthly forums and an annual lec- Virginia Pless nurse is the one who is around when ture series developed by the Center also the family isn’t, and you cannot calcu- highlight current research activities. late how wonderful it is to have such a In addition to creating the Pless Center Muriel Pless comforting hand in a time of need. I feel for Nursing Research, Muriel and Virginia strongly, as my sister did, that nurses named a conference room in the College’s should be appropriately rewarded for new building, as well as two buildings “Enthusiasts.” their work and that the profession should on Washington Square: Joseph and be held in the highest regard.” Violet Pless Hall, which is home to the This is the word Muriel Pless, Steinhardt The Pless sisters’ generous gift created Steinhardt School, and the Virginia and MA ’43, uses to describe herself and her a new hub for nursing research at NYU, Muriel Pless Building, which houses the late sister, Virginia Pless, who together which helped launch an era of increasing 80 WSE art galleries and dorm rooms. created a remarkable legacy for nursing excellence and productivity in nursing Beyond Washington Square, the sisters research at NYU College of Nursing. “As research throughout the College. established the Muriel and Virginia Pless children we were never bored because The Pless Center’s goal is to provide a Center for the Performing Arts at St. we were always doing something: riding strong infrastructure and resources to Joseph’s College, and they donated to that bikes, swimming like fishes, or reading support faculty research and scholarship college a collection of images of the Virgin everything we could get our hands on. in a collaborative environment. It also Mary they collected from all over Europe, Ginny and I were enthusiasts!” she says. provides grants for pilot studies through Asia, and beyond. In addition, Muriel The sisters grew up together on Long the Joseph and Violet Pless Nursing recently contributed generously to the Island, raised, in Muriel’s words, by “two Research Fund. restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in truly remarkable parents, the late Joseph “The Pless Center is a focal point for New York City. and Violet Pless, whose mission was to the research enterprise at NYU College From riding their bikes around the make a better world.” Muriel attended St. of Nursing,” says Gail Melkus, EdD, neighborhood together to traveling Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, majoring C-NP, FAAN, associate dean of research, the world, Muriel and Virginia Pless’s in speech and English. She later contin- Florence Downs Professor, and director unbounded enthusiasm for life is per- ued her studies in speech by pursuing a of the Muriel and Virginia Pless Center haps their greatest legacy. graduate degree at NYU in the School of for Nursing Research. “It is symbolically “When people ask me which parts of Education, and obtained her MA in 1943. very important as it is the physical the globe were my favorites, I tell them Long supporters of NYU and the former and spiritual home for so many of our that there wasn’t a place I didn’t love,” School of Education, Health, Nursing research endeavors. The center enables Muriel says. Then she adds, with a char- and Arts Professions (now called the us to support promising faculty, bring acteristic sparkle of humor in her voice, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, together faculty and students working “The only place I haven’t been yet is to and Human Development), Muriel and in varied areas, and showcase one of the the moon.” K

Autumn 2013 19 B C 23rd Annual Estelle Osborne Recognition Ceremony

A celebrations Vernice Ferguson Memorial Service

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Alumni Association Job Search Workshop Nursing Student Awards Reception

Vernice Ferguson Memorial Service Alumni Association Nursing Student Awards Reception March 9, 2013 Job Search Workshop March 28, 2013 A Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx and Associate Dean April 11, 2013 F Jonas Scholarship recipients: PhD candidate James Pace join with the family and friends of D Janet Williams, nurse recruiter at Maimonides Kristen Weaver (far left) and DNP candidate Vernice Ferguson, BS ’50, to reflect on her life Medical Center (left), speaks with students about Tulsi Patel (third from left) with Darlene Curley, at the memorial service in her honor. the job search. executive director of the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, and Dean Eileen B Shirley Chater, former commissioner of the E Alumni Association board member Melissa Sullivan-Marx. United States Social Security Administration, Marrero, BS ’07, college relations specialist for speaks at the service. the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, gives a G Michael Strange of Rubbermaid Medical Solutions presentation about online job applications. (left) with College of Nursing Development 23rd Annual Estelle Osborne Director Larry Siegel and Rubbermaid Recognition Ceremony Scholarship recipient Yvonne Hoover, BS ’13. February 13, 2013 H Rudin Scholarship recipients Sandra Montest- Hoff, MS ’13 (left), and Edward Meyer, MS ’13 C From left, Maureen Saint-Jean ’14; Professor (right), with Professor Nadia Sultana and Mark Jamie Newland; Estelle Osborne honoree Bobbie Perdue, PhD ’93; and Kellie Bryant, director of Bodden, vice president of the Rudin Foundation. the Clinical Simulation Learning Center.

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5th Annual Norman and Alicia Volk Lecture on Geriatric Nursing College of Nursing Graduation

Alumni Summer Happy Hour Dean’s Circle Reception College of Nursing Graduation June 20, 2013 June 11, 2013 May 22, 2013 I From left: Alumni Laraine Chiu, BS ’11; Dan K From left, Nadège Roc; Alumni Association N Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx introduces keynote Chong, BS ’13; Tim Shi, BS ’12; and Phyu Soe, board members Ann Marie Mauro, PhD ’98; Aura speaker William T. Bester, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, BS ’10, celebrate summer at the Hard Rock Miranda-Agosto, MS ’11; Wendy Budin, PhD ’96; Brigadier General (Ret.), who received the Agnes Café Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx; Association board and Rosemary Ludden Award for Innovative in Times Square. members Pamela Galehouse, PhD ’03, MA ’69; Nursing Practice. Madeline Naegle, PhD ’80, MA ’67; and Penelope O The Davidson family in New York City to celebrate, Klatell, PhD ’75, MA ’71. 5th Annual Norman and Alicia Volk from left: grandmother Barbara, brother John, Lecture on Geriatric Nursing L Kimberly Glassman, PhD ’07, MA ’87, accepts an graduate Grace, BS ’13, sister Emily, mother Julie, April 24, 2013 award from Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx on behalf grandfather Doug, and father Glenn. of all NYU Langone Medical Center nurses for J Alumni, students, and guests mingle before their heroic actions during Hurricane Sandy. the start of the 5th Annual Norman and Alicia Volk Lecture. M Parent Richard Santa Ana, Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx, and parents Patricia and John Bradley enjoy cocktails at the reception.

Autumn 2013 21 SARET Advances Substance-Abuse Research Project (SARET). Since the program inquiry to Grossman, who encouraged her began in 2006, Project SARET – funded to develop a research question that could by the National Institute on Drug Abuse be added to the screening tool. Sower con- of the National Institutes of Health – has ducted a literature review, developed a engaged students from three NYU series of questions, and submitted them schools. Sower was one of 12 fellows for Institutional Review Board approval, selected in 2011. which was granted. Marc Dr. Madeline Naegle (left) is raising interest SARET principal investigator In August 2013, Sower’s research was among nursing students, like Emily Sower, Gourevitch, MD, MPH, director of selected to be presented at an Association in studying substance-abuse prevention, Population Health at NYU School of for Medical Education and Research con- treatment, and research. Medicine, and leading researchers like ference. Her experience also informs Naegle work closely with fellows, who her work at Mount Sinai Medical Center, complete an eight-week interprofes- where palliative care patients who have hen Emily Sower’s nurse sional research seminar coinciding with a had addictions to drugs like heroin, meth- colleagues learn that she 35-hour weekly research experience. They adone, or prescription pain medications has begun a program are mentored by researchers from NYU’s have different medication requirements of substance-abuse schools of medicine, dentistry, social work, than other patients. According to Sower, Wresearch, they are often surprised. and nursing. One or two NYU students these patients — even those who have “I think a lot of nurses are afraid of receive year-round research fellowships. stopped using drugs — may require more research,” says E mily Sower, MS ’12, NP, The fellowship has been completed by 13 medication, because their bodies have ACHNP, who works with palliative care NYU nursing graduate students, who have developed a tolerance. On the other hand, patients at Mount Sinai Medical Center studied issues including the role of spiri- patients who are successfully recovering and was a teaching assistant in a mas- tuality in alcoholism recovery, the medica- from an addiction may not want an addic- ter’s-level statistics class. tion buprenorphine for opioid addiction, tive, psychoactive drug to treat their pain. “When they see how easily research evi- and drug use in men exposed to HIV. It is this kind of substance-abuse compe- dence can be integrated into clinical prac- Sower’s work on a study of pain and tence that is critical for nurses to have, says tice, it becomes less intimidating.” smoking cessation led to a full-year SARET Naegle, who is working to integrate more of One statistic that is hard for Sower to fellowship for 2011–12 at Bellevue Hospital this content into primary care curricula. accept is that, in the United States, one Center, where she was mentored by Ellie “Nurses ask patients about drinking and person dies every 19 minutes from a drug Grossman, MD, PhD, a co-investigator of a smoking in primary care, but we need to overdose. Abuse of prescription painkill- large, NIH-funded study of smoking ces- integrate more screening for substance- ers, like Oxycontin, is driving up these sation following hospitalization. abuse disorders and offer treatment and unintentional deaths.* The subjects in the study — who will referrals in all care settings,” she says. According to Professor Madeline Naegle, eventually number 3,000 — are acute- SARET’s positive outcomes — including PhD ’80, MA ’67, CNS-PMH-BC, FAAN, care patients who have been identified as four publications, six web-based mod- about 12.5% of the U.S. population strug- smokers through their electronic medical ules, a newly established advisory board, gles with drug abuse or addiction, yet this records. The study is evaluating whether and positive student appraisals of the pro- subject is dramatically under-researched. telephone calls from smoking-cessation gram — contributed to the recent refund- “There are very few nurse research- counselors after hospitalization can help ing of the program for five more years. ers working in this area and many schools them quit, and Sower’s job was to screen Says Sower: “SARET offers nursing stu- of nursing do not address it even in their and collect baseline data from randomly dents a good opportunity to get involved psychiatric nursing curricula,” she says. selected patients for the study. with interdisciplinary colleagues and To gain a better understanding of sub- Sower found the patient interviews fas- collaborate on research projects. Because stance abuse, its causes, and treatment, cinating, but they left her wondering how it combines compassion with scientific Sower applied to the NYU Substance quitting rates related to patients’ experi- understanding, it’s the type of research Abuse Research Education and Training ence with chronic pain. She brought her that nurses are well suited to do.” K

*Source: Centers for Disease Control. (2012). CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic, 1st Ed., 61(1), 10–13.

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Alumna Diana Mason to Head American Academy of Nursing F aCULTY, Alumni, and Donors Inducted

We’re so proud of alumna Diana Mason, Congratulations also to this year’s ADCRT ’97, RN, NEA-BC; Janine Kay PhD ’87, RN, FAAN, who will assume the inductees, including College of Nursing Cataldo, PhD ’89, RN, and Margaret M. presidency of the American Academy faculty members James Pace, DSN, MDiv, McNeill, PhD, BS ’84, RN, CCRN, CCNS, of Nursing in October 2013 at the AAN ANP-BC, FAANP, associate dean of the NE-BC, CIP (see story page 35). Annual Meeting. Mason is the Rudin Pro- undergraduate program; S usan Sullivan- The inductees were joined by the College’s fessor of Nursing at the Hunter College– Bolyai, DNSc, CNS, RN, visiting associ- ardent supporters Donald and Barbara Bellevue School of Nursing of the City ate professor; and alumni Joyce Griffin- Jonas, founders of the Jonas Center for University of New York, where she directs Sobel, PhD ’88, RN; Lily Thomas, PhD, Nursing Excellence, who were inducted as the Center for Health, Media, and Policy. MA ’83, RN; R eynaldo R. Rivera, DNP, honorary fellows, a great honor. K

CDUHR Receives Spring into Good Health: Nursing Students $6.7 Million Grant from National Institute n April 20, 2013, ten NYU nurs- ing students helped the Park on Drug Abuse O Hill community of Staten Island spring into good health by participating Sherry Deren, PhD, director of the Center in a community health fair organized by for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) clinical instructor Cheryl Nadeau, Rugiatu at the College of Nursing, was awarded Bahr of the Sierra Leone Nurses Associa- a five-year, $6.7 million grant from the tion, and Morlai Kamara, president of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the United States Sierra Leonean Association. A bove Members of the Pediatric Nursing National Institutes of Health to continue “This was a great success,” Nadeau says. Student Association, Community Health Nursing the center’s work for five years. Now in its “Nine community members were enrolled students, and members of the Center for Healthful Behavior Change at NYU Medical Center lent a 16th year, CDUHR is the first center for on the spot for primary care at the Beacon hand at a community health fair on Staten Island. the sociobehavioral study of HIV and sub- Community Health Center, and one was Left Nursing student Tina Milani made hand- stance use in the United States. enrolled in Fidelis health insurance.” washing fun at the health fair. CDUHR provides a research infrastruc- ture, supporting the work of approxi- Park Hill is an underserved community mately 50 investigators from four insti- rich in ethnic diversity, with a large popula- tutions. Its theme over the next five years tion of West Africans. Chronic illness, lack will be “Discovery to Implementation and of insurance, and lack of “medical homes” Back: Research Translation for the HIV/ are pervasive problems. NYU nursing stu- Substance Use Epidemic.” CDUHR efforts dents offered screenings and referrals for will focus on enhancing the translation high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and and implementation of investigators’ HIV. Through a generous donation by NYU research findings to maximize their pub- College of Dentistry of toothbrushes, den- lic-health impact. In addition, the Center tal floss, toothpaste, and literature, nursing will continue to address the emerging students were able to provide comprehen- challenges of the epidemic. K sive oral-health education. Nursing students also led children in planting a community vegetable garden and taught them fun techniques for proper hand washing. K

Autumn 2013 23 college & faculty news Do you have a favorite professor or mentor who made a difference in your life? Hartford Summer Research Institute Welcomes Latin American Scholar

This summer, the a seminar on evidence-based practice Hartford Institute with B eatrice Goodwin, PhD ’70, MA ’60, for Geriatric RN, FAAN, from whom she heard of the Nursing welcomed summer program. the second Latin Cruz, whose research addresses the American scholar physical function of older adults, says that, to participate in its like in the United States, the Mexican pop-

Juana Edith Cruz-Quevedo prestigious Summer ulation will age significantly over the next Research Scholars 15 years, and by 2030 there will be more program. The scholars program helps people older than age 15 than younger. emerging, doctorally prepared nurse “In Mexico, much federal financial sup- researchers to fine-tune their research port goes to doctors and other kinds of programs and to prepare funding pro- health professionals, because the nurs- posals. Last year, Alba Lucero Lopez Dias, ing discipline is not always associated PhD, RN, a faculty member at Universidad with research. We have just one doctoral Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, joined program in nursing. The program at NYU the seminar. This year, Juana Edith College of Nursing is a wonderful oppor- Cruz-Quevedo, DNS, MNS, a professor tunity to develop my research skills, such at Universidad Veracruzana on Mexico’s as writing proposals.” Gulf Coast — who was among the first Cruz is putting her learning to use in generation of Mexican nurses to earn a Veracruz, where her university is starting PhD — joins the program. Cruz had taken a master’s program in nursing. K You can honor him or her by naming a faculty office in Nursing Student Global Health Group Formed the future home of Nursing Students for Global Health is exercise program for about 20 chil- NYU College of Nursing. the newest addition to the College’s dren who attend the United States Sierra student organizations. The group’s 25 Leonean Association summer program In these offices, faculty members will founding members — both undergradu- in Park Hill, Staten Island. In September, mentor students, conduct research, ates and graduate students — are inter- the group will work with NYUCN Global, and write their next publications. ested in improving health care delivery which has invited a group of nurses from Honor the role they played in your life and reducing health disparities at the Ghana to shadow Ghanaian nurse lead- by naming a space in the new building local, national, and international levels, ers working in New York City hospitals. of NYU College of Nursing. through education, research, advocacy, Students will help the Ghanaian nurses and action at NYU and throughout the get oriented and find their way around For more information, please contact larger community. the city. For more information about Larry Siegel at 212-998-6794 On August 2, the group held its first Nursing Students for Global Health, or [email protected]. event in conjunction with the Pediatric email Euridice Resende, public relations Student Interest Group: a nutrition and coordinator, at [email protected]. K

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Nursing leaders gathered in June 2013 at the Nursing Oral Health Summit in Washington, D.C. From left, Dr. Erin Hartnett, OHNEP program director; Tracy Garland, program director of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health; Dr. Judith Haber, co-director of OHNEP; and Ralph Fuccillo, president of the DentaQuest Foundation. OHNEP Summit Hails Accomplishments of First Two Years

he second national Nursing Oral the DentaQuest, Washington Dental the College’s Nursing Faculty Practice. Health summit was held June Service, and Connecticut Health Affiliated faculty and clinicians have pub- 5, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Foundations — supporters that also fund lished 26 papers, and OHNEP has reached showcasing two years of excit- a backbone organization, the National out to targeted stakeholders such as the ingT progress in a groundbreaking initiative Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health, American College of Nurse Midwives, based at the College of Nursing. Leaders which promotes oral health competency where its presentation “Nurse-Midwives from major nursing organizations involved among all of the health professions. as Frontline Providers of Oral Health in licensure, accreditation, certification, Recognizing the limitations in access Care for Pregnant Women and Newborns” education, and practice gathered to address to oral health care in the United States, attracted 300 audience members. two-year outcomes related to advancing a OHNEP aims to build oral-health compe- The June summit featured presenta- national nursing oral health agenda. tencies of registered and advanced prac- tions on many aspects of oral health. The Oral Health Nursing Education and tice nurses. To that end, the initiative is Erin Hartnett ’11, DNP, APRN, BC, CPNP, Practice (OHNEP) initiative was begun in working toward educating faculty, inte- OHNEP’s program director, discussed 2011 to seize a moment of recognition of the grating oral health into undergraduate implementation of a pediatric oral health importance of oral health to overall health and graduate nursing curricula through- program in a pediatric oncology center — as well as growing momentum toward out the country, and promoting clini- just one example of the ways in which interprofessional health care collaboration. cal best practices. OHNEP has consulted interest in oral health is gaining steam. K “The OHNEP initiative grew from the with 10 universities seeking to institute emphasis on patient safety and patient- programs that address the oral-systemic centered care, which in turn points to the health connection. College Receives RWJF need for greater interprofessional team- “With 130 million U.S. adults and chil- Scholarship Funding building and relationships,” says Judith dren lacking dental coverage, there is a Haber, PhD ’84, MA ’67, APRN-BC, FAAN, great deal that nurses, nurse practitio- NYU College of Nursing has been awarded the Ursula Springer Leadership Professor ners, and nurse-midwives can do in pri- $100,000 for 10 RWJF New Careers in in Nursing and associate dean of graduate mary and acute-care settings to advance Nursing (NCIN) Scholars in 2013–14, the programs, who directs the program with oral health,” she says, adding that early sixth round of funding. Over the past sev- Donna Shelley, MD, MPH, of NYU School childhood caries are the most common eral years, the College has provided NCIN of Medicine. chronic childhood health problem. scholarships to 25 accelerated baccalaure- “Adding fuel to the fire are two Institute In its first two years, OHNEP provided ate nursing students. of Medicine reports, published in 2011, seed grants for nurse-led interprofes- One RWJF NCIN Scholar, L uis that called for an expansion of the oral sional academic curriculum and clini- Sanchez-Vera, BS ’13 (whose research health workforce,” Haber says. She notes cal projects that focus on oral-systemic is profiled on p. 12), was featured in the that NYU College of Nursing, because of health. An oral health “best practice” RWJF Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge May its unique alliance with NYU College of model for nurse practitioners, based 2013 online newsletter, and another Dentistry, is well suited to lead this effort. on the HRSA Core Interprofessional graduating student, Peter Vuckovaz, The initiative has received more Oral Health Competencies for Primary BS ’13, was featured on CBS This Morning than $1 million over three years from Care Providers, is being pilot tested at for National Nurses Week. K

Autumn 2013 25 college & faculty news

In Kigali, NYU faculty member April Ricotta stands to the left of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. To his right is President Bill Clinton, who, with his daughter, Chelsea, visited and expressed his support for the Human Resources for Health project in August 2013. Bill Clinton Visits Human Resources for Health Rebuilding Rwanda’s health Care system

n August 5, 2013, President the opportunity to meet President Clinton 11 new nurses to the program, including Bill Clinton visited the ambi- and Rwandan President Paul Kagame. faculty recruited from Canada, Ireland, tious program in Rwanda that “President Clinton expressed his excite- and Australia. The College is the only par- the Clinton Health Access ment for the upcoming year of this inno- ticipating nursing school to have hired Initiative helped to bring vative medical and nursing education international nurses to the program. Oto fruition: Human Resources for Health. program,” Rebecca Fry says. Says Chyun, reports from Rwandan fac- The program, begun one year ago, aims to The first year of the project was a ulty have been very positive in terms of the rebuild and greatly expand the country’s resounding success, according to Deborah program’s effect on both nursing educa- health care infrastructure with the assis- Chyun, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, executive tion and practice. Originally working with tance of several major educational institu- associate dean and professor at the College. Rwandan nurses and students in hospitals, tions, including NYU College of Nursing. In September 2013, the New England Journal the NYU faculty are now tied more closely to Visiting the project site in Kigali, the of Medicine published an article by Rwandan schools of nursing, where they are mentor- capital, Bill and Chelsea Clinton par- Minister of Health Agnes Binagwaho that ing clinical instructors at the schools. The ticipated in a nursing simulation exer- acknowledged the role of universities par- mentors particularly have helped to insti- cise with Rwandan nursing students and ticipating in HRH, including NYU. tute better coordination of student place- HRH clinicians. NYU faculty members Three nurse faculty members are staying ments in clinical settings and have devel- Rebecca Fry, Unarose Hogan, Kim Fawcett, on for a second year, and over the coming oped a hospital orientation for new critical Christine Daneau, and April Ricotta had year NYU College of Nursing will dispatch care nurses, which was much needed. K

Kibungo, Rwanda: A Year to Remember by Melissa Martelly, RN, Faculty Member, Human Resources for Health

can distinctly about traveling so far by myself. That ini- I was once again floored at how much remember the tial two-and-a-half-week trip was one construction had engulfed the city. This eerie silence of the motivators that inspired me to time I found myself residing two hours as the plane pursue a career in international health east of the capital, in Ngoma District, Ilanded on my first visit and development. working as a clinical nurse mentor with to Rwanda as part of a I briefly visited Kigali, the capital, again this groundbreaking program. human rights delega- in 2009 and was astounded by the devel- Kibungo, the capital of Ngoma District, tion in 2006. It was my opment that had taken place. So, it was is a small rural town with minimal devel- first solo international trip and I was no surprise when I returned in 2012, as opment. Its picturesque hills, access excited with anticipation but nervous part of Human Resources for Health, that to an abundance of fresh fruits and

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college & faculty news vegetables, and favorable weather made it an enjoyable place to live. As a clinical nurse mentor I’ve served in a multitude of roles: teaching and reviewing class content at the local school of nurs- Student Groups Take Lead in ing, mentoring nursing colleagues, provid- ing in-service sessions aimed at improv- Off-Campus ing nursing practice, and running monthly skills labs for students together with my NYU colleagues Gail Stearman and Cory Experiences Melaugh. The work environment was chal- lenging, trying to provide high-quality his past spring and summer, health care with limited resources, though NYU College of Nursing students it taught me a great deal about what my T hit the streets, participating in Rwandan counterparts face every day. This a variety of social-action, cultural, and past year exemplified the trials and oppor- A bove Men in Nursing (M.E.N), a College competitive activities led, in large part, tunities of working on the front lines, of Nursing student interest group, undertook by student organizations. K especially when trying to implement sus- a 12-mile bike ride along the Hudson River tainable change — with Rwandan colleagues on July 11 and faced off in a basketball game on August 1 at NYU’s Jerome S. Cole and not just as a Western outsider — to Sports Center. nursing practice and nursing education. Right The College’s Asian/Pacific Islander In addition to my daily activities in Nursing Students Association celebrated Kibungo, I visited other schools and hos- Korean Night with a demonstration of pitals to exchange ideas and assess the cooking and discussions of health issues in Korea on April 17. work environment of my colleagues. It Below The College’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi, was during a visit to Kanombe Military Transgender, Queer — Faculty, Alumni, Hospital that I saw my Rwandan nurs- Nursing Students, and Staff group organized ing colleagues in the neonatal intensive a College of Nursing team to participate in care unit and the adult intensive care the June 30 Gay Pride Parade. unit raising the bar for Rwandan nurs- ing and providing a shining example that against all odds, nursing can and will be improved in the country to provide bet- ter care for its citizens. K

Melissa Martelly (back row, second from right) with the nursing and medical staff of the internal medicine and pediatric wards of Kibungo Hospital, where she spent a year as a Human Resources for Health faculty member.

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College Launches Interactive New-Student Orientation Model Havian Nicholas

Havian Nicholas ’14 did not want to feel like convenient — and fun. By all accounts, choice, and the orientation process at the a number. “My main concern, entering a they have succeeded. College really helped me,” she says. large university, was that I never wanted to Now, orientation largely can be under- Additional components of the orienta- blend into hundreds of students,” she says. taken virtually, on the students’ own tion include a new-student website with The College of Nursing’s new student time. New students receive links to a set a checklist of everything that must be orientation process was conceived with of short videos that welcome them to done before beginning school. The final students like Havian in mind. various aspects of the College. An inspir- part is the in-person Meet & Greet and “The orientation videos and especially ing Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx provides resource fair, where students meet fac- the Meet-and-Greet, where I met many a warm overview, and Associate Deans ulty over hors d’oeuvres, and represen- of the administrators whom I saw on the James Pace and Judith Haber welcome tatives of many NYUCN and university video, made me feel like I knew them the students. Associate Dean Barbara offices, from Career Development to the already, and the faculty I met put my mind Krainovich-Miller introduces students Wellness Exchange, present their ser- at rest. I was a bit intimidated at first, but to the College’s cutting-edge Clinical vices at informational tables. because everyone was so welcoming, I Simulation Learning Center and to the Nicholas was thrilled to discover that the knew that this was exactly where I needed prestigious medical centers and com- nearly 200 accelerated students had very to be,” she says. munity agencies where they will spend diverse backgrounds. “To meet other peo- Online videos are just one part of the their clinical learning time. Other video ple in my same situation was really reas- new orientation package for incom- clips feature current students speaking suring. By the time I left, all my questions ing four-year, accelerated baccalaureate, of their experiences at the College. were answered. And I had been worried and master’s students conceived by the “The videos are designed to help students about being the only old person – at 23!” College’s Office of Academic Advising & feel more comfortable before they even set For Nicholas, being treated as an indi- Learning Development. foot on campus,” says Krainovich-Miller. vidual at the College has been a good The office’s staff recognized, from stu- “That is particularly important for acceler- model for the caring and compassion she dent feedback, that a two-day, in-person ated students — who must jump quickly into hopes to bring to her patients. orientation program was not working as a very intense four-semester nursing cur- She says, “When I arrived on campus, well as it could. For example, subjects like riculum sequence.” everyone was so nice, from the Office of getting an NYU student ID and purchasing For Havian Nicholas, that sense of com- Financial Aid to Academic Advising. I books did not need to be delivered in lec- fort was critical. Her enrollment at the never felt like a number. I truly felt that ture form. Moreover, orientation histori- College of Nursing represented a drastic everyone cared not only about my per- cally took place on campus in July — which change of direction for the 2012 Howard sonal success, but also my well-being, and was a hardship for some incoming students University graduate, who had been that was so important to me.” K who traveled from across the country and accepted to law school before making the abroad two months in advance of the start switch to nursing. of classes in September. “I had a lot of anxiety over whether Drawing on evidence that students learn I’d made the right and remember best through interactive resources that they can access and review when needed, the Office of Academic Advising & Learning Development team in late spring 2012 created an interactive Dean Sullivan-Marx delivers a warm online orientation model that would be relevant, welcome to new students as part of a new orientation video series.

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Stern MBA, MPH, Icahn School of Elizabeth A. Capezuti, PhD, RN, Emerson Ea, DNP, RN, CNE, Faculty News Medicine at Mount Sinai). He also FAAN, Dr. John W. Rowe Profes- became certified in nursing edu- received funding as a co-investi- sor in Successful Aging, received cation by the National League for gator for a four-year, $1.1 million the 2012–13 Distinguished Teach- Nursing in May 2013. Marie Boltz, PhD ’07, RN, VA Health Services Research and ing Award from NYU. She is GNP-BC, assistant professor and Mei Fu, PhD, RN, APRN-BC, Development–funded investiga- the third nursing faculty mem- associate director for research FAAN, associate professor, will be tor-initiated grant titled “Anal- ber to have received this presti- of Nurses Improving Care for named a fellow of the New York gesic Safety and Effectiveness gious award. Capezuti also gave Healthsystem Elders (NICHE), Academy of Medicine on Novem- in Older Veterans with Arthri- the keynote address, “NICHE­— will be awarded Fellowship status ber 7, 2013. She was the keynote tis” (PI: Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, A Model for Optimizing the Geri- from the Gerontological Society speaker for the web-based Con- James J. Peters VA Medical Cen- atric Nursing Practice Environ- of America on November 21, versation in Nursing Research ter, Geriatric Research Educa- ment,” at the Interprofessional 2013, in New Orleans. conference on March 20, 2013, tion and Clinical Centers). In addi- Guest Colloquium at The John organized by the Universidad El Ab Brody, PhD, CAS BA ’02, tion, he was awarded a one-year A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Bosque, Colombia. Fu received RN, GNP-BC, assistant professor, NIH National Institute on Aging Nursing Excellence at Penn State P60 grant funding from the NIH is a co-investigator on a four-year, grant in the amount of $40,000 University on February 7, 2013. National Institute on Minority $1.1 million R01 grant from the for “Promoting Independence Deborah Chyun, PhD, RN, Health and Health Disparities in NIH National Institute of Nurs- through Pain and Symptom Man- FAHA, FAAN, executive asso- the amount of $72,630 over two ing Research for “The Impact of agement” through the Claude D. ciate dean, has been promoted years for “Lymphedema Risk Hospice Preferred Practices on Pepper Older Americans Indepen- from associate professor to pro- Reduction for Chinese Breast Patient Outcomes and Hospice dence Center at the Icahn School fessor. She and Ann Kurth, PhD, Cancer Survivors.” Fu and her Costs” (PI: Melissa Carlson, PhD, of Medicine at Mount Sinai. CNM, FAAN, professor and team will implement and evalu- director of NYUCN Global, were ate the Chinese language version honored on October 5 at the of a patient-centered educational on her exemplary career and Yale University School of Nursing and behavioral intervention to the future of the nursing pro- anniversary kickoff and 90 Yale enhance lymphedema risk reduc- fession. Cortes has recently Nurses Banquet. They are among tion among limited-English-profi- received two grants from the 90 outstanding alumni whom the cient Chinese women. U.S. Health Resources and Ser- Yale School of Nursing Alumni Holly Hagan, PhD, professor, vices Administration: “The Col- Association has identified to recently received tenure from laborative, Continuous Care showcase the 90 years since the the College of Nursing. She was Model (3C’s) for Community school’s founding. awarded a $2,558,000 grant Based Primary Care” ($1.5 mil- Sherry Deren, PhD, senior from the National Institute on lion) and “Interprofessional Pri- research scientist, is a co-investi- Drug Abuse for a new four-year mary Care of Older Adults: A gator on an NIH R01 grant, “Cor- R01 grant entitled “Address- Post Master’s Certificate Pro- relates and Consequences of ing HCV-related Hepatocellu- gram” ($1.2 million). In addi- Increased Immune Activation lar Carcinoma: The Current and tion, Cortes received funding for in HIV+ and HIV- Injection Drug Future Epidemics.” She was also T ara Cortes, PhD ’76, MA ’71, “Chronic Disease Management Users,” a five-year project (PI: awarded $28,653 in funding from RN, FAAN, professor and exec- for Older Dually Eligible Adults” Marty Markowitz, Aaron Diamond the National Development and utive director of the Hartford from the New York Commu- AIDS Research Center). Research Institute for “HIV/HCV Institute for Geriatric Nursing nity Trust ($110,000). Cortes Risk Associated with Nonmedical at the College, was featured on has been selected as a 2013–14 Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, Use of Prescription Opioids.” the cover of the February 2013 Health and Aging Policy Fellow. RN, assistant professor, was the issue of Nurse Leader, a publi- This prestigious fellowship is guest editor for a special issue Fidel Lim, MA ’96, RN, clinical cation of the American Organi- offered in partnership with the on self-care and chronic dis- instructor, was awarded a National zation of Nurse Executives. An American Political Science Con- ease published in the October League for Nursing Foundation interview with Cortes focuses gressional Fellows Program. 2013 edition of Nursing Research Nursing Education Scholarship and Practice. grant of $5,000 in support of his DNP capstone project.

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Ann Marie P. Mauro, PhD ’98, Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, RN, CNL, CNE, clinical associate professor, has just completed a Faculty & Research professor and project director of semester as a Senior Fulbright the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholar at the College of Scientist Publications Scholarship, was accepted to serve Dentistry, University of Szeged, on National Council of State Boards Hungary, where she now has of Nursing NCLEX examination an appointment as visiting pro- Marie Boltz Maja Djukic item-development panels. She was fessor and was honored with a Boltz, M., Parke, B., Shuluk, J., Djukic, M., Kovner, C. T., Brewer, C. S., also invited by the Robert Wood University Professorship. Capezuti, E., & Galvin, J. (2013). Care Fatehi, F., Bernstein, I., & Aidarus, N. Johnson Foundation to post on of the older adult in the emergency (2013). Improvements in educational Larry Slater, PhD, RN-BC, its Human Capital Blog on May 12, department: Nurses’ views of the preparedness for quality and safety. CCRN, clinical assistant 2013, for the final day of National pressing issues. The Gerontologist, Journal of Nursing Regulation, 4(2), professor, received the Novice Nurses Week. Her post addressed 53(3), 441–453. 15–21. Faculty Excellence in Didactic the benefits of clinical simulation Boltz, M., Capezuti, E., Shuluk, J., Djukic, M., Kovner, C. T., Brewer, C. Teaching Award from the learning: http://www.rwjf.org/en/ Brouwer, J., Carolan, D., Conway, S., S., Fatehi, F., & Bernstein, I. (2013). American Association of Colleges et al. (2013). Implementation of Early-career registered nurses’ blogs/human-capital-blog/2013/05/ of Nursing in August 2013. geriatric acute care best practices: participation in hospital quality simulation_a_powerf.html Initial results of NICHE sites self- improvement activities. Journal Allison Squires, PhD, RN, evaluation. Nursing & Health of Nursing Care Quality, 28(3), Gail Melkus, PhD, RN, FAAN, assistant professor, is co- Sciences. Published online May 9, 198–207. associate dean for research principal investigator on an doi: 10.1111/nhs.12067. and Florence & William Downs NYU School of Medicine HRSA Professor in Nursing Research, is a Emerson Ea training grant for “Academic co-principal investigator on a five- Ab Brody Administrative Units in Primary Itzhaki, M., Ea, E., Ehrenfeld, M., & year, $1,174,784 NIH National Heart, Brody, A. A., & Galvin, J. E. (2013). Fitzpatrick, J. (March, 2013). Job Care,” in which her role is to Lung, and Blood Institute grant A review of interprofessional satisfaction among immigrant focus on interprofessional educa- for “Diabetes Self-Management & dissemination and education nurses in Israel and the United tion research in primary care. interventions for recognizing and States. International Nursing Review, Support LIVE (Learning in Virtual managing dementia. Gerontology 60(1), 122–128. Environments)” (co-PIs: Constance Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, and Geriatrics Education. Published Cajulis, C., & Ea, E. (2013). Assessment. Margaret Johnson, PhD, and RN, FAAN, dean of the online May 23, doi:10.1080/02701960 In Glembocki, M., & Fitzpatrick, J. .2013.801342. Allison Amend Vorderstrasse, College of Nursing, will be J. (Eds.), Advancing professional DNSc, at Duke University School awarded Fellowship status in nursing practice: Relationship-based of Nursing). In addition, Melkus the Gerontological Society of Chuck Cleland care and the ANA standards (pp. was appointed to a two-year America in November. She is also 75–88). Minneapolis, MN: Creative Health Care Management. term on the Medicare Evidence being honored by the society as Magura, S., Cleland, C. M., & Tonigan, J. S. (2013). Evaluating Alcoholics Development & Coverage Advisory the recipient of the 2013 Doris Anonymous’s effect on drinking in Committee of the Centers for Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Project MATCH using cross-lagged Mei Fu Medicaid and Medicare Services. Research Award for her distin- regression panel analysis. Journal of Lu, Q., Liu, Y., Lin, F., & Fu, M. R. (2013). guished research contributions to Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74(3), Noreen Nelson, PhD, RN, was Breast cancer related lymphedema: gerontological nursing. The award 378–385. promoted from clinical instructor risk factors, assessment and will be presented at the 2013 GSA Ryu, E., Kim, K., Choi, S. Y., Cleland, C. management [乳腺癌术后淋巴水肿 to assistant clinical professor. Annual Scientific Meeting on M., & Fu, M. R. (2013). The Korean 的 风险因素、评估与管理] Chinese version of the Symptom Experience Language. Chinese Journal of James C. Pace, DSN, MDiv, ANP, November 21 in New Orleans. Index: A psychometric study. Surgery [中华外科杂志] (published BC, FAANP, presented the key- Nancy VanDevanter, DrPH, RN, International Journal of Nursing by the Chinese Medical Association) note address “Love and Forgive- Studies, 50(8), 1098–1107. 51(5), 458–460. associate professor, is a co-inves- ness in Palliative Care: Interdis- tigator on a P60 grant from the ciplinary Approaches to Caring NIH National Institute on Minority Practices,” at the annual Baptist Health and Health Disparities in Health System Integrative Care the amount of $88,795 for “NYU Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Center for the Study of Asian- April 12, 2013. Pace will be inducted American Health-Research Center into the American Academy of of Excellence.” Nursing in October 2013.

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Marya Gwadz Reilly, K. H., Neaigus, A., Jenness, S. Fidel Lim Michele Shedlin M., Wendel, T., Marshall, D. M., & Friedman, S. R., Sandoval, M., Hagan, H. (2013). Factors associated Lim, F. A. (2012). Nursing as an art and Shedlin, M., Amastae, J., Potter, J. Mateu-Gelabert, P., Rossi, D., Gwadz, with recent HIV testing among men a science. Minority Nurse. Fall. E., Hopkins, K., & Grossman, D. M., Dombrowski, K., Smyrnov, (2013). Knowledge and beliefs who have sex with men in New York Lim, F. A., & Sanchez-Vera, L. (2013). P., Vasylyeva, T., Pouget, E. R., about reproductive anatomy and City. AIDS and Behavior, published The nurse in the man: Lifting up & Perlman, D. C. (2013). Theory, physiology among Mexican-origin online April 20, doi: 10.1007/ nursing or lifting himself? Nursing measurement and hard times: Some women in the U.S.: implications for s10461-013-0483-3. Management, 44(6), 12–14. issues for HIV/AIDS research. AIDS & effective oral contraceptive use. Behavior, 17, 1915–1925. Lim, F. A. (2013). Lesbian, gay, TCHS Culture, Health & Sexuality, bisexual, and transgender health: 15(4), 466–479. Gwadz, M. V., Cleland, C. M., Leonard, Ann Kurth Disparities we can change. Nurse N. R., Ritchie, A. S., Banfield, A., Mills, J., Burton, N., Schmidt, N., Curran, K., Mugo, N. R., Kurth, A., Educator, 38(3), 92–93. Riedel, M., Colon, P., & Mildvan, D. Ngure, K., Heffron, R., Donnell, D., Salinas, O., Hembling, J., Aran, A., (2013). Predictors of screening for Celum, C., & Baeten, J.M. (2013). Lim, F. A. & Shi, T. (2013). Florence Shedlin, M., & Kissinger, P. (2013). AIDS clinical trials among African- Daily short message service surveys Nightingale: A pioneer of self- Sex and drug risk behavior pre- Americans and Latino/Hispanics to measure sexual behavior and pre- reflection. Nursing 2013, 43(5), 1–3. and post-emigration among Latino enrolled in an efficacious peer- migrant men in post-Hurricane exposure prophylaxis use among Lim, F. A., Brown, D. V., & Jones, driven intervention: Uncovering Katrina New Orleans. Journal of Kenyan men and women. AIDS and H. (2013). Lesbian, gay, bisexual socio-demographic, health, and Immigrant and Minority Health, 5(3), Behavior, published online May 22, and transgender (LGBT) health: substance use-related factors that 606–613. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0510-4. Fundamentals for nursing education. promote or impede screening. AIDS Journal of Nursing Education, 52(4), and Behavior, 17(2), 801–812. Kurth, A.E., Severynen, A., Spielberg, F. (2013). Addressing unmet need 198–203. Shiela Strauss for HIV testing in emergency care Holly Hagan settings: A role for computer- Strauss, S. M., Singh, G., Tuthill, J., facilitated rapid HIV testing? AIDS Madeline Naegle Brodsky, A., Rosedale, M., Bytyci, Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., A., Drayluk, I., Llambiri, A., Savice, Education and Prevention, 25(4), Naegle, M., Himmel, J., & Ellis, P. McKnight, C., Perlman, D. C., Cooper, K., & Russell, S. (2013). Diabetes- 287–301. (2013). SBIRT goes to College: H. L., & Hagan, H. (2013). HSV-2 related knowledge and sources of Interdisciplinary screening for infection as a cause of female/male Masese, L., McClelland, R. S., Gitau, information among periodontal alcohol use. Journal of Addictions and racial/ethnic disparities in HIV R., Wanje, G., Shafi, J., Kashonga, patients: Is there a role for dental Nursing, 24(1), 45–49. infection. PLOS ONE, 8(6), e66874. F., Ndinya-Achola, J. O., Lester, hygienists? Journal of Dental R., Richardson, B. A., & Kurth, A. Naegle, M., Finnell, D., & Adams, S. Hygiene, 87, 82–89. Des Jarlais, D. C., Pinkerton, S., Hagan, (2013). A pilot study of the feasibility (September 26, 2012). American H., Guardino, V., Feelemyer, J., of a vaginal washing cessation Psychiatric Nurses Association. Cooper, H., Hatzatkis, A., & Uuskula, intervention among Kenyan female Position paper: The adoption of A. (2013). 30 years on selected Janet Van Cleave sex workers. Sexually Transmitted SBIRT in psychiatric-mental health issues in the prevention of HIV Van Cleave, J. H., Trotta, R. L., Infections, 89(3), 217–222. nursing practice. among persons who inject drugs. Lysaght, S., Steis, M. R., Lorenz, R. A., Advances in Preventive Medicine, & Naylor, M. D. (2013). Comorbidities published online June 12, doi: Noelle Leonard Noreen Nelson in the context of care transitions. 10.1155/2013/3463722013: 346372. ANS: Advances in Nursing Science, Leonard, N., Banfield, A., Riedel, M., Nelson, N. (2013). A death with 46(2), E1–E13. Larney, S., Kopinski, H., Beckwith, Ritchie, A., Mildvan, D., Arredondo, dignity: A nurse’s story of the end of C. G., Zaller, N. D., Des Jarlais, D. Bellot, J., Carthron, D. L., O’Connor, G., Cleland, C., & Gwadz, M. (2013). life of her mother. Nursing Forum. C., Hagan, H., Rich, J. D., van den M., Rose, K., Shillam, C., Van Cleave, Description of an efficacious 48(2), 134–138. Bergh, B. J., & Degenhardt, L. (2013). behavioral peer-driven intervention J. H., & Vogelsmeier, A. (2013). The incidence and prevalence of to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in Advancing the future of nursing: hepatitis C in prisons and other AIDS clinical trials. Health Education A report by the Building Academic closed settings: Results of a Research, 28(4), 574–590. Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) systematic review and meta-analysis. Alumni Policy and Leadership Hepatology, published online March Pantin, M., Leonard, N. R., & Hagan, H. Committee. Nursing Outlook, 61, 15, doi: 10.1002/hep.26387. (2013). Sexual HIV/HSV-2 risk among 55–57. drug users in New York City: An HIV Neaigus, A., Reilly, K. H., Jenness, testing and counseling intervention. S. M., Hagan, H., Wendel, T., & Substance Use & Misuse, 48(6), Gelpi-Acosta, C. (2013). Dual HIV 438–445. risk: Receptive syringe sharing and unprotected sex among HIV- negative injection drug users in New York City. AIDS and Behavior, 17(7), 2501–2509.

Autumn 2013 31 Alumna Profile joyce Fitzpatrick, PHD ’75

C reATING a Legacy in Nursing

“Martha Rogers was a very strong influ- elevating the scholarship of nursing.” By Stephanie Susnjara ence on me when I was at NYU,” Fitzpatrick Few nurse scholars have achieved as much says. “She challenged all of us to make a as Fitzpatrick. She edits the journals Applied everal decades ago, Joyce difference in nursing and health care.” Nursing Research and Archives of Psychiatric Fitzpatrick, PhD ’75, MBA, When Fitzpatrick learned in 2008 that Nursing, as well as Nursing Education RN, FAAN, entered the field NYU College of Nursing would be expand- Perspectives — the official journal of the of academic nursing with a ing and moving into its own building for the National League for Nursing. She has writ- remarkably clear vision: first time, she was delighted that the nurs- ten or edited more than 70 books, including “I knew as a young student ing program that Martha Rogers helped to Giving through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Sthat I wanted to help change the world of create would become even more visible. Are Changing the World and Problem Solving academic nursing and also make a differ- Like Rogers, Fitzpatrick has been a for Better Health: A Global Perspective. ence in care delivery,” she says. pioneer in nursing scholarship. With a Moreover, at the Bolton School, Nearly 40 years later, Fitzpatrick can clinical background in psychiatric nursing, Fitzpatrick led fundraising campaigns that claim a legacy of immeasurable contribu- she has carried out research on health sys- resulted in the growth of the endowment tions to nursing. She is an internation- tems as well as on geriatric mental health from $8 million to more than $50 million ally recognized leader with a reputation as issues, especially depression and suicide. and still growing. an outstanding teacher, scholar, mentor, She recently served as a lead investigator Fitzpatrick believes that her biggest and researcher. She has received numer- on a global study of nurses’ views on end- contributions to the nursing profession ous honors and awards and has more than of-life-care. She, along with colleagues have been as a mentor to other nurses 300 publications to her name. from Ireland, Italy, Hong Kong, Israel, and students, and as a fundraiser. Two Fitzpatrick is the Elizabeth Ford Professor and the United States, concluded that years ago she was named chairman of the of Nursing in the Frances Payne Bolton nurses will use extreme measures to save Board of Trustees of the American Nurses School of Nursing at Case Western patients and their own parents. However Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, they’d prefer less aggressive life-preserv- American Nurses Association. Ohio, where she was dean from 1982 to ing methods for themselves. “I took this role on because I really 1997 — the longest-running tenure in that According to Sarah Hall Gueldner, believe we have a twofold mission within school’s history. She also holds an adjunct DSN, RN, FAAN, a former professor the nursing community at large,” says position as a professor in the Department in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Fitzpatrick. “We need to continue to raise of Geriatrics at the Icahn Mount Sinai Nursing who met Fitzpatrick more than the visibility of nursing as a valued profes- School of Medicine in New York City. 20 years ago, Fitzpatrick has an unusual sion, and we need to have support from the Like many of her peers who studied capacity for leadership. public for all of our activities and projects.” nursing at NYU during the 1970s, “When I first met Joyce Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick has done much to raise nurs- Fitzpatrick points to the profound impact through my connection with the Society of ing’s visibility in the United States and of Dr. Martha Rogers on her career and way Rogerian Scholars, she was already a star internationally. At CWRU, she founded of thinking. Rogers, the legendary head of in the Rogerian circles. Early on she had and led the Bolton School’s World Health the Division of Nursing at NYU from 1954 a remarkable vision and ability to think Organization Collaborating Center for to 1986, was one of the first nursing the- outside the box,” Gueldner says. “In my Nursing. She has consulted for universi- orists, known for having developed the opinion, Joyce Fitzpatrick is the Martha ties and health ministries on every conti- Science of Unitary Human Beings. Rogers of this generation in terms of nent — a highlight of which was her work continued on page 38

32 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine Alumna Profile sarah David

Sarah David Builds an International Nursing Sarah David (center) with the nursing staff in the Sierra Leonean hospital where she and several Volunteer Organization classmates volunteered after graduation.

s a student in the Community a baby, they found that they were trusted “It is like a dream come true to be able Health Nursing course at the solely because they were Americans. to travel to this hospital and serve. Edna A College of Nursing, S arah David, “We were new nurses and didn’t know is like a celebrity to me!” Sarah says. BS ’11, worked in the Liberian commu- much about the diseases the nurses were She was nervous about working in nity of Park Hill, Staten Island, where the dealing with or experiences like deliver- Somaliland, knowing that the U.S. students provided screenings and health ing stillborn babies,” she says. “But we Embassy discourages travel to this post- assessments to a largely refugee popula- were able to provide some helpful educa- conflict region of Somalia, but Adan tion. Knowing of Sarah’s interest in inter- tion around basic standards such as hand- reassured her that the hospital compound national health, her instructor, Cheryl washing and reading vital signs. There was safe, and on August 25, 2013, Sarah Nadaeu, MPH ’07, Wagner MS ’98, RN, really was mutual education happening.” and three colleagues flew to Hargeisa. FNP-C, connected her and several class- Sarah also encountered misery in the To raise money for this and future trips, mates with a Sierra Leonean colleague who hospital, such as surgery without anesthe- and for supplies for the hospital, Sarah offered to arrange a journey to Sierra Leone sia for those who could not afford it and started a campaign called Nurses for after graduation, to provide health care to frequent injuries from motor vehicle acci- Edna. Adan, in turn, provided the group an underserved population. dents — the result of roads in disrepair. with a set of goals. Sarah’s initial reaction was “I don’t even Sarah returned home from Sierra Leone “Their biggest need is for educated know where in Africa that is.” She knew only with the aim of obtaining more nursing nurses to staff the floors and guide the of the country’s bloody civil war that ended experience before her next international midwives,” says Sarah. “There is a cur- in 2002, but within a day, she realized that assignment. She has since worked in riculum for staff education, but it needs the opportunity was too good to pass up. the emergency department at Lincoln teachers. Edna especially needs nurses Sarah’s only prior international expe- Hospital in the Bronx and at a hospital who can teach wound care, pre- and post- rience was teaching English in the in San Mateo, California. op care, and physical assessment skills.” Dominican Republic for two weeks. It was Looking for an organization with which Sarah’s hope is that Nurses for Edna will while reading the book Half the Sky, by to volunteer, Sarah found the group One enable a steady stream of nurses to go on Cheryl Wu Dunn and Nicholas Kristof, that Nurse at a Time, which connects nurses life-changing missions and make a posi- her eyes were opened to the vast health care to international opportunities. One of the tive, sustainable impact on the patients needs as well as the great opportunities for a group’s founders offered to connect Sarah and staff there. nurse working in a resource-poor setting. and her peers with the only maternal health On May 31, 2013, Sarah published a Sarah was struck particularly by the fact hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland — the personal essay in the Huffington Post, that — despite decreases in child mor- Edna Maternity Hospital — which was describing the founding of Nurses for tality — maternal mortality rates remain described in Half the Sky. Edna and the need for health care volun- extremely high around the world. Edna Maternity Hospital was named for teers in the developing world. Working in a Sierra Leonean hospi- Edna Adan, a courageous nurse-midwife “Our vision for Nurses for Edna,” she tal without running water was both fasci- and former foreign minister of Somaliland wrote, “is to create a pathway for other nating and humbling for Sarah. She and who became an ambassador to the United nurses to get involved and become ‘agents her fellow nurses were divided among the Nations after working to end female genital of change’”— the term used in Half the Sky. emergency room, healthy delivery floor, mutilation. Adan has devoted her life sav- “The time is ripe for a new liberation move- and sick delivery floor. Although none ings to the hospital, which has dramatically ment to empower women worldwide.” K of the young women had ever delivered reduced maternal and infant mortality. For more information on Nurses for Edna, visit nursesforedna.org.

Autumn 2013 33 from Donna McCabe, Greetings Alumni Association President

alumni and current students access the who made a difference in your life, or just many resources available at the College for yourself. The seat will carry the name as they maneuver the paths of our chosen you choose forever. If you would like more profession – nursing. information, please contact Nadège Roc at I would like to thank outgoing president 212-992-8580 or [email protected]. Dear Fellow Alumni and Friends, Ann Marie Mauro, PhD ’98, for her many Please come to events, send in your years of service and dedication to the news to our magazine, visit the College’s I am thrilled to start my term as president Alumni Association. Ann Marie, you are a website, get involved with the Alumni of the NYU College of Nursing Alumni role model of what a true alumna is and I Association, and stay in touch with NYU Association. After graduating in 2002 hope to have your guidance in the next two College of Nursing. There are many ways to with a master’s in Advanced Practice years. I would also like to thank student stay connected! I welcome you to contact Nursing-Geriatrics, I went on to earn a organization representatives Ashley Quick me at [email protected] and look DNP in 2009 from Case Western Reserve MS ’13, and Luis Sanchez-Vera, BS ’13, forward to seeing or hearing from you. University. I returned home to NYU, who graduated this past May. Ashley and where I am on the faculty as a clinical Luis, even with your heavy academic With warm regards, assistant professor. I have been involved load, you made time to help our cause, with the Alumni Association since 2010, and we are grateful. previously as a member of the Nomina- In addition, I’d like to extend a special Donna McCabe tions Committee. I have felt privileged to thanks to Madeline Naegle, PhD ’80, DNP, MA ’02, APRN-BC, GNP, CWCN be able to collaborate with a group of ded- MA ’67, for her seven years of service as icated and loyal alumni and students and faculty liaison to the Alumni Association. help contribute toward the Alumni Asso- I’m thrilled that she has agreed to stay ciation’s mission of helping our alumni on as co-chair of the Alumni Lecture NYUCN Alumni stay connected with each other and with Hall fundraising committee. Thanks also Board Members 2013-2014 the College, as well as assist the College to all of our members who will continue to grow. I am also fortunate to be able to their service in the coming year. Vice President call all of our members friends, since we October 19 is NYU Alumni Day. I encour- Maja Djukic, PhD ’09, MS ’06 share a common thread: our alma mater, age you to come back to Washington Secretary NYU College of Nursing. Square and help us celebrate 50 years Pamela Galehouse, PhD ’03, MA ’69 My goal is to continue to improve upon with the Class of 1963. What a milestone! the excellent work of past presidents and This day is an opportunity to visit with Nominations Committee board members and bring in new pro- old friends and professors, connect with Sumers Beverage, MS ’12 Melissa Lowden Marrero, BS ’07 grams that will foster even greater con- nurses in the profession, have a great day Aura Miranda-Agosto, MS ’11 nections with our alumni and current stu- reminiscing, and make new friends. Your dents. The job search workshops that have NYU family would love to see you! Past Presidents been held for several years by the Alumni I cannot end this letter without mention- Ann Marie Mauro, PhD ’98 Maria Dolce, PhD ’09, MA ’85, BS ’79 Association have met with extremely pos- ing the new building for our College. I can’t Wendy Budin, PhD ’96 itive feedback. This past year, the asso- wait until that day, in about 16 months, ciation hosted three happy hours at local when I will be moving into our brand Alumni Advisor bars. Alumni and students have expressed new facility. As you know, the Alumni Ilya Bernstein, BS ’12 an overwhelming appreciation for our Association is raising funds to name a Student Organization efforts to help them stay connected lecture hall in our future home. We have Representatives with classmates and make new friends raised $135,745 so far and have $64,255 left Nordia Morrison, BS ’15, UNSO Advisor and connections. This is what the NYU to reach our goal! I am asking you to con- Mary Sweeney, ADCRT ’15, ANSO Advisor Kenneth Faulkner, PhD ’16, DSO Advisor College of Nursing Alumni Association sider naming a seat in honor of your family, is all about. We are here to help fellow a colleague or friend, a professor or mentor

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Diana Mason Janine Kay Cataldo Joyce Griffin-Sobel Margaret M. McNeill Reynaldo Rivera Lily Thomas College of Nursing Stars Shine at FAAN Induction!

The College of Nursing In addition, no fewer than five Joyce Griffin-Sobel, PhD ’88, Reynaldo Rivera, DNP, congratulates Diana Mason, of our graduates will be inducted is dean and professor in the ADCRT ’97, RN, NEA-BC, is PhD ’87, RN, FAAN, who will as fellows this year! College of Nursing at SUNY director of nursing at New be named president of the Upstate Medical University. York-Presbyterian Hospital. Janine Kay Cataldo, PhD ’89, American Academy of Nurses RN, is an assistant professor in Margaret M. McNeill, PhD, BS Lily Thomas, PhD, MA ’83, RN, during the academy’s annual the Department of Physiological ’84, RN, CCRN, CCNS, NE-BC, is vice president of system nurs- meeting October 17 — 19, 2013. Nursing–Gerontology, at the Center CIP, practices nursing at Shady ing research at North Shore-LIJ Diana is the Rudin Professor for Tobacco Control Research and Grove Adventist Hospital in Health System. of Nursing at Hunter-Bellevue Education at the University of Rockville, Maryland. School of Nursing. California, San Francisco.

1946 1958 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. Technologies & Treatments for This award, established by the Diabetes conference in Paris. She Society for Education and also published several continuing Research in Psychiatric Nursing, nursing education (CNE) articles. recognizes contributions to Steber

the profession. 1983

Maggie Martha Raile Alligood, PhD ’83, Happy birthday to Jeane Carl O. Helvie, BS ’58, has 1976 RN, ANEF, was appointed profes- Stockheim, BS ’46, who turned been publicizing his latest book sor emeritus at East Carolina 100 on August 1, 2013. Jeane You Can Beat Lung Cancer: University College of Nursing was an American Red Cross Using Alternative/Integrative upon her July 2013 retirement. nurse during the World Wars and Interventions, published in a public health nurse for the November 2012. He has com- New York City Department of pleted 50 radio shows and 4 Health, U.S. government, and television programs about it. New York City Board of Jane Jeffrie Seley, DNP, Education. When she began 1969 Steinhardt MPH ’92, BS ’76, teaching child care and home BC-ADM, CDE, CDTC, received nursing to high school girls, she certification as a diabetes tech- observed that a number of them nology clinician in May 2013. This Elisabeth K. Weber, MA ’87, RN, were having babies, and there spring she gave the presentations CEN, the projects administrator was no sex education available. “Blood Glucose Monitoring & in the Hospital Preparedness Pro- Jeane met with a variety of Interpreting A1C Values: The gram of the Chicago Department groups, including the teacher’s Technology” at the Diabetes of Public Health, presented at the union and Planned Parenthood, Pamela Galehouse, PhD ’03, MA Technology Clinician Credential- 18th World Congress on Disaster and became a pioneer, introduc- ’69, PMHCNS-BC, an associate ing Program in Atlanta and and Emergency Medicine in ing sex education to the public professor at Seton Hall University “Using Comprehensive Electronic Manchester, U.K., on May 29, 2013. schools for the first time. New College of Nursing, was awarded Insulin Order Sets to Improve Her talk was “Emergency Nursing York Magazine published an the SERPN Jeannette Chamber- Glycemic Control and Reduce Beyond the Walls of the Hospital: interview with her in honor of lain Award on April 19, 2013, by Clinical Inertia in the Hospital Plan, Prepare, and Respond to a her birthday on April 5, 2013. the International Society of Setting” at the Advanced Major Event.”

Autumn 2013 35 alumni Alumni news & Achievements

Sandra Chang, BS ’12 (second from left), received the Rookie Nurse of the Year 1991 2000 award from New York Downtown Hospital. With her, from left, areG race Lioue, BS ’12, A.A. General Studies ’10; Wilhelmina Manzano, MA ’87, BS ’81, senior vice Ellen Essig, BS ’00, president and chief nursing officer of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and FNP-BC, has a new position HealthCare System, and Fidel Lim, MA ’96, RN, clinical instructor at the College. as an NP in pediatric neurology at North Shore-LIJ Health 2006 System’s Cohen Children’s at Stony Brook University School Medical Center. of Nursing on April 29, 2013. She also received a post-master’s Leo-Felix M. Jurado, PhD, MA 2002 advanced certificate in neonatal ’91, completed his PhD in Urban health at Stony Brook. Health Systems, a joint degree offered by Rutgers, the State Uni- Christine McMorrow, MS, versity of New Jersey, University BS ’09, received her MS from Amy Berman, BS ’06, RN, of Medicine and Dentistry in New Columbia University School of received a Lifetime Achievement Jersey, and New Jersey Institute Nursing in the Adult Gerontology Award from the National Geronto- of Technology, in May 2013. Nurse Practitioner program. logical Nursing Association on Leo-Felix also recently completed She is working at New York City’s R othlyn (Rorry) Zahourek, October 4. Amy also provided his term as president of the Hospital for Special Surgery. PhD ’02, PMHCNS-BC, expert testimony for a new Insti- Philippine Nurses Association of AHN-BC, was named Holistic tute of Medicine report, Delivering America and as president of the Nurse of the Year by the High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting 2011 New Jersey Board of Nursing. Nancy Roecklein, MS ’11, OCN, American Holistic Nurses a New Course for a System in a clinical coordinator in the Association on June 5, 2013. Crisis, which reframes cancer care Department of Genetics and 1996 and makes recommendations to Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai improve cost and quality. School of Medicine, was inter- viewed for the May 6, 2013, edition 2008 of Nurses.com in a story about Krysti Buchanan, MS ’08, is the 100th birthday of the Nurses the co-author of “Cardiac Device Educational Funds. Nancy was Interrogation for Safer Care of an NEF scholarship awardee dur- Wendy Budin, PhD ’96, adjunct Mary Elaine Southard, MSN, Surgical Wound Patients,” pub- ing her MS studies at the College nursing professor and director of ADCRT ’02, APHN-BC, lished in Advances in Skin and of Nursing. nursing research at NYU Langone HWNC-BC, RN, is the owner of Wound Care, 24(11), 507–514. Integrative Health Consulting Medical Center, has been named Lillian Hofer Scott, MS ’13, BS and Coaching, LLC, in Scranton, president of the Eastern Nursing ’08, received the 2013 scholarship Pennsylvania. She is co-author Research Society. from NYC Midwives, a chapter of of The Art and Science of the American College of Nurse- Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s 1998 Midwives. It is the first time an NYU Guide to Coaching Scope and student has won this scholarship. Competencies, published by the ANA. She is also co-author of S tefanie Zisholtz, BS ’11, RN, “A Systematic Review of the 2009 was the winner of the 2013 Nov- Literature on Health and ice Nurse Award at the 1199SEIU/ Wellness Coaching: Defining League’s 10th annual Nurse of a Key Behavioral Intervention Distinction Awards ceremony on L isa Lewis, PhD, MA ’98, RN, in Healthcare,” published in May 13, 2013. Stefanie is a staff FAAN, was promoted to associ- July in Global Advances in nurse in the Beth Israel Medical ate professor of nursing and Health and Medicine. Mary is Center Petrie Division. She also a DNP candidate at the received the Beatrice Renfield Africana Studies with tenure at Cecilia Uy Grino, MS ’09, RN, University of Minnesota. Circle of Excellence Novice Nurse the University of Pennsylvania CPNP, NNP, received an Academic Award at Beth Israel’s celebration School of Nursing. Excellence Award in Advanced of Nurses Week. K Practice Nursing in Neonatal Health

36 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine Alumni news & Achievements alumni In Memoriam Jocelyn Greenidge News from Sigma Theta Tau he College community is mourning the International, the Upsilon Chapter loss of Jocelyn Greenidge, MA ’75, NP, By Gloria Chan, President a longtime friend and supporter of the College of Nursing and former member In spring 2013, Upsilon inducted program, on “Interdisciplinary of the Board of Advisors, who died on 228 new members — its largest Strategies to Reduce the Risk of June 21, 2013. Jocelyn’s particular interest and passion class to date. Included were 3 doc- Early Childhood Caries: Implemen- T toral students, 46 master’s stu- tation of a Postnatal Educational was to make scholarship support available for deserv- dents, 2 nurse leaders, and 177 Program and Follow-up Interven- ing nursing students. undergraduate students. Our tions to Establish a Dental Home She received her bachelor’s degree from Hunter induction ceremony was held in the First Year of Life”; Gloria College and an MA in nursing education from NYU. April 3, 2013, in the beautiful Chan, BS ’08, Upsilon president, A career nursing profes- Rosenthal Pavilion in the Kimmel on “Curious Cardiac Cases”; and sional with a strong Student Center. Dr. James Pace, Fidelindo Lim, MA ’96, RN, clini- commitment to advanc- associate dean of the undergrad- cal instructor, on “Faculty Assess- ing the field, Jocelyn was uate program, was our keynote ment of LGBT Health.” awarded both the Estelle speaker. Upsilon awarded scholar- Our most recent Journal Club, Osborne Award and the ships to new members Evgeniya which is held at alternating board Distinguished Alumna Muzhetskaya, SCPS BA ’10, BS meetings, was led by Dr. Mary Award from the College ’13, and master’s degree student Brennan, clinical associate pro- of Nursing, in 2003 and Abigail Hasan, and the Research fessor, and focused on teaching Award was presented to Caroline in 2006, respectively. attendees how to critically eval- Dorsen, MSN, BS ’97, FNP-BC, uate and appraise articles and She also received the clinical instructor and coordinator apply their knowledge to every- Distinguished Nurse of the family nurse practitioner day evidence-based practice. Our Practitioner Award in master’s program. focus this spring was on apprais- 1973 from the New York Upsilon continued its health ing research articles to deter- State Nurses Association. care lecture series, which takes mine the best available evi- Jocelyn was deeply place at every other monthly dence on the nutritional care of committed to assisting talented nurses who will board meeting. Featured speakers diabetic patients. be the profession’s future leaders. In 1974, she have included Caroline Dorsen on This summer, Upsilon elected coauthored the book Independent Nurse Practitioner, “Caring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisex- four new members to our board: published by Trainex Press. ual and Transgender Patients in Kim Zafra, BS ’13, recording sec- When Jocelyn was not involved with nursing, she the 21st Century”; Donna Hal- retary; Sung Min Kim, BS ’13, las, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, CPNP, was an active stock trader who did very well in the fundraising chair; Madgalena FAANP, clinical professor and Del Angel, BS ’13, archivist; and market and ultimately donated more than $2.2 million coordinator of the Advanced Sabina Ellentuck, BS ’12, leader- to the College. These funds included a gift to the new Practice Nursing—Pediatrics ship succession. K building. She also established three scholarship funds: the Pauline Greenidge Scholarship, named for her mother, which provides annual support to outstanding Stay up to date with STTI Upsilon Chapter by visiting: doctoral students; the Charles W. Greenidge, FRCS nursing.nyu.edu/students/upsilon-chapter-stti Scholarship Fund, named for her brother, which sup- upsilon.nursingsociety.org/UpsilonChapter/Home ports advancement of cardiovascular nursing; and the Upsilon’s Facebook page Greenidge Endowed Fund for International Education Email us at [email protected] with any questions or suggestions Scholarship, which provides study-abroad support. for future events. Jocelyn was laid to rest in Barbados, West Indies, where she was born in 1935. K

Autumn 2013 37 Nursing Is on the Rise The working group at the College of “The College of Nursing will continue continued from page 3 Nursing also reviewed ideas for colors and to have a presence on the Square for con- furniture. “Although decisions are still ferences, retreats, and special meetings. instructor and then break up into smaller in progress, the design will be forward- Washington Square is also my home and groups to collaborate with their peers. thinking and modern, reflecting nursing where, as a member of the University The most complicated piece both to as it is today,” Lyons says. Leadership Team, I meet regularly with design and construct is the Clinical The building is easy on the environ- colleagues. Our forthcoming move will Simulation Learning Center (CSLC), on the ment, and EYP is pursuing a LEED “silver not separate us from this beautiful and fourth and fifth floors of the building. This rating,” which demonstrates energy con- historic part of our past but will truly center will replicate an actual hospital and servation and responsible resource use enable our students to make the most of provide simulated space for mental health in the building design, construction, and all of NYU’s exceptional resources.” K and community home care. According use. Building features such as the highly to E llen Lyons, MPA, assistant dean for insulated façade and efficient mechanical administration, finance, and planning at systems make it 31% more efficient than the College of Nursing, “The technology is required by the building code. so advanced that it requires close coordina- “One of the real successes is that we Joyce Fitzpatrick tion among the architects, the nursing fac- express on the outside of the building what continued from page 32 ulty and staff of the College’s current CSLC, is going on inside,” Thomas says, noting that and NYU’s IT and facilities staff.” one can see from the street large communal in Uganda in 2002, where, with the CWRU The audiovisual and simulation tech- spaces spiraling up the building, culminat- School of Medicine, she designed a series nology in the new CSLC will enable stu- ing on the 11th-floor conference center. of educational interventions on HIV/AIDS dents to be videotaped and to have remote Charles Bertolami, DDS, DMedSc, dean prevention for health care providers. access to their performance during simu- of the College of Dentistry, is delighted When looking toward the future of nurs- lation learning sessions so that they can that three professions will be educated ing, Fitzpatrick sees a wealth of opportu- self-identify areas for improvement. under one roof, where “we’re develop- nity. At the Bolton School, she teaches a Thomas says that it has been very excit- ing synergies for collaboration, research, course on entrepreneurship and is seeing ing to respond to the way nursing stu- teaching, and service to our community. more and more students who are inter- dents learn in the CSLC, because “NYU “The most exciting part of the project is ested in pursuing atypical careers. For is on the forefront of nursing teaching in to bring together the programs in nursing, instance, some advanced practice nurses terms of simulation.” dentistry, and bioengineering in a col- now have the opportunity to start their The architects spent months meeting laborative interprofessional educational own continuing education businesses, with working groups from the three schools. model. It’s a unique new way of educating create staffing agencies, or consult in Together, they toured the current College health professionals, and, for future aca- special niches such as geriatric care. of Nursing space as well as NYU’s Bobst demic health centers, a model that others “With the advent of the Affordable Library (after whose learning commons might want to follow,” Bertolami says. Health Care Act, we have the chance to the new College of Nursing commons is Sullivan-Marx adds, “I’m thrilled that position nurses as the frontline provid- modeled) and new buildings at Columbia the new home for the College of Nursing ers, particularly in primary health care,” University and Hunter College. will have significant space dedicated to says Fitzpatrick. “It really is a wonder- “We interviewed nursing and dental promoting synergies within the building ful occasion for all of us, especially those students and watched how people con- for nursing, dentistry, and bioengineer- well-prepared nurses from NYU who will gregate and move in and out of spaces, ing, as well as greater opportunities for go forth and make a difference in the lives including other new buildings on NYU’s faculty and students to collaborate inter- of people, the health care community, and campus, such as the Genomics Center professionally through our neighborhood the institutions in which they work.” and the Center for Spiritual Life build- proximity to the College of Dentistry and As to her own future, Fitzpatrick plans ing,” Lyons says. “Nursing students like School of Medicine.” to continue mentoring, publishing, fun- to work in groups, and we saw great uses She is quick to point out that as the College draising, and doing whatever she feels of smaller study rooms, which can hold moves its classrooms uptown, it will remain needs to be done to change the world 6 to 10 people at Bobst. These rooms will connected to Washington Square in many of nursing for the better. “I have a real be equipped with video technology to ways, and students will continue to take passion for nursing,” says Fitzpatrick. allow for presentations.” pre-nursing courses on the Square. “That’s what I do.” K

38 New York U niversity College of N ursing Magazine WHY We Give B arbARA AND Donald Jonas

In 2006, Barbara and Donald Jonas established the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, a model philanthropic program dedicated to advancing the nursing profession in New York City. Barbara, a psychiatric social worker, and Donald, a leader in retail, funded their vision through the sale of 15 abstract expressionist artworks. The Jonases transformed their treasured art collection into hen we made the deci- backbone of health care in America and sion to enter the world of that nurses do truly heroic work. At the a meticulously researched philanthropic giving, we same time, through our research, we program of philanthropy aimed had no idea it would be found that there was a lot that needed to Wsuch a tremendous ride! In the years since be done to address the growing shortage at developing outstanding establishing the Jonas Center, we have met of nurses and nursing faculty, and that nursing faculty, advancing many fascinating and highly motivated on a national scale there was a lack of people, have learned a great deal about the resources to effectively promote leader- nursing scholarship, and world of health care, and have experienced ship and exemplary practice in nursing. supporting innovative nursing the joy of receiving a letter from a student We also have strong feelings about practices. Now, with an that reads, “Thank you … you’ve made my our city, New York City, and have been dreams possible … your support will help involved with New York University and expanded mission, the Jonas me become a nurse leader who will work to its nursing programs for a number of Center has supported more improve patient care.” years. We were delighted to see how Dr. We like to say that we don’t just write a Terry Fulmer elevated nursing at NYU to than 250 scholars at 88 check, we do our homework, we consult the much-deserved status of a College, schools in all 50 states to date, leaders and stakeholders, and we really and we are excited to see a new era get to know the people and institutions beginning as Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx with plans to add an additional we support. Our friends think we are a takes over the reins with a top-notch 250 scholars in 2014. Most bit of an anomaly for throwing ourselves faculty and a new state-of-the-art into this work, but the rewards for us building. We give to NYU College of recently, the Jonases created have been immeasurable. Nursing because we care deeply about the a Veterans Healthcare Program A question we often are asked is, Why future of nursing in New York City, and nursing? There are certainly so many because we see the College making an providing scholarships for worthy causes to support, but as we important difference — locally, nationally nurses trained at the doctoral thought very deliberately about where to and globally — in the quality of nursing direct the majority of our giving, nurs- faculty, the diversity of students, and the level on veteran-specific health ing as a profession was at the top of both continued movement toward excellence care needs. of our lists. We feel that nurses are the in the profession. K

Autumn 2013 39 Dean’s Circle Members as of September 1, 2013

Anonymous Jocelyn Greenidge National Council of State Access Nursing Services Andrew Haber Boards of Nursing American Heart Association Judith and Leonard Haber National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing NYU College of Nursing Arnold & Marie Schwartz Marilyn Hammer Fund for Education and Excellence would like to thank the Health Research Eileen Hasselmeyer Jamesetta Newland Atlantic Philanthropies Helene Fuld Health Trust New Tamarind Foundation members of the Dean’s Circle, Nellie Carter Bailey Margaret and Peter Hoagland Donna Nickitas who generously support the Terry and Richard Bennett Joanne Salvi Hoffmann Oncology Nursing Society Amy Berman Eliana Horta Foundation College in its commitment Estate of Henrietta Blackman Jacqueline Rose Hott James Pace to excellence in nursing Susan Bowar-Ferres Independence Blue Sarah Pasternack Cross Foundation Patricia and John Bradley Robert Piemonte research, education, and Rosanne Wille Jacobs Mary Brennan Muriel Pless Jewish Foundation for Carol Raphael practice with annual gifts Brookdale Foundation Group Education of Women Joan and Robert Rechnitz of $1,000 or more. Wendy Budin John A. Hartford Foundation Sarah Greene Burger Rita and Alex Hillman Johnson & Johnson Foundation Barbara Calabrese These gifts provide financial Jonas Center for Robert Wood Johnson Marilyn Cane Nursing Excellence assistance for students, enable the Foundation College to recruit distinguished Deborah Chyun Barbara and Donald Jonas Paulette Robischon faculty, and allow us to develop Commonwealth Fund Kenneth Judy June Rothberg-Blackman innovative solutions to emerging Colleen Conway-Welch Patricia Kizilay Rubbermaid Medical Solutions needs in health care. Tara Cortes Penelope and Robert Klatell Jack Rudin Julie and Glenn Davidson Christine and Anthony Kovner Carolyn Rummel DentaQuest Foundation Barbara Krainovich-Miller Margie and Richard Santa Ana and Russell Miller Sherry Deren and Susan and Craig Schoon Douglas Lipton Lois and David Leeds Marie Schwartz Maja Djukic Helaine Lerner Cynthia and Thomas Sculco Norman Dorsen Yuzhen Xie and Liping Liao Christine Shuman Claire and Samuel Fagin Lihung Lin Beverly Smith Fan Fox and Leslie R. Grace and Charles Lipson David Smith Samuels Foundation Judith and James Lothian Gerard Smith Gordon Faux, III Louis and Rachel Rudin Harriet Ruth Feldman Foundation Suzette de Marigny Smith Geraldene Felton Ellen Lyons Thomas Smith Dawn Fischer Suzanne Mados Sovereign/Santander Anne Fontaine Diane Mancino Neville Strumpf Catherine Taylor Foster Melissa Lowden Marrero Nadia Sultana Terry and Keith Fulmer Diana Mason Linda Taylor Pamela Galehouse Gean Mathwig Edwidge Thomas Bertie Gilmore Ann Marie and Tony Mauro Warrenita Tibbs Evelynn Clark Gioiella Donna McCabe and Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Michael Regan Theta Tau To join Mary Giuffra and Patricia Valoon the Dean’s Circle Robert Giuffra, Jr. Margaret McClure or for more information, Judith and Rudolph Giuliani Gail D’Eramo Melkus and Ann Vanderberg please contact Nadège Roc Kimberly Glassman Carl Melkus Kathryn Van Sciver at 212-992-8580, or visit thank you thank Laurie Haber-Goldberg and Yael Meridan-Schori Alicia and Norman Volk nursing.nyu.edu Robert Goldberg Mathy and Andrew Mezey Louise Weadock to make a donation online. Elizabeth Gonzalez Aura Miranda-Agosto Joan Madden Wilson Beatrice Goodwin Carole Wind Mitchell Geri Lo Biondo Wood Valerie and James Grabicki Madeline Naegle Zodiac Fund

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