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The Ohio State University College of Nursing Spring 2016 Largest philanthropic gift in college history! $6.5 million grant to establish and permanently endow the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare New EBP institute to be led by Bernadette Melnyk (seated) and Lynn Gallagher-Ford THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING The Ohio State University The Ohio State University College of Nursing Spring 2016 College of Nursing ACADEMY FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING Dean, Associate Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/ PMHNP, FNAAP, FNAP, FAAN DREAM. CREATE. INNOVATE. Vice Dean Margaret Graham, PhD, RN, FNP, PNP, FAAN Associate Dean for Academic Affairs FEATURES Do you dream of making an impact in healthcare? Are you ready to use and Educational Innovation Cindy Anderson, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN Cover story your healthcare skills in a new, innovative way? Whether you want to start a Associate Dean for Research 10 Fuld grant is largest in college’s history and Innovation By Jill Jess Phythyon business, own your own practice, transition your research-based innovation Mary Beth Happ, PhD, RN, FAAN A $6.5 million grant will establish and permanently endow the Helene Fuld Health Assistant Dean, Chief Nurse Executive, Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare. into a real-world solution, or become a more innovative leader... Health System Associate VP, Health Sciences CNO UH/Ross Hospitals 13 Nursing research: Breaking new ground Mary Nash, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACHE By Jill Jess Phythyon and Meggie Biss Assistant Dean for Prelicensure Programs The depth and breadth of nursing science research at Ohio State continues Join us for the: Linda Daley, PhD, RN to expand. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Equity and Inclusion 18 New associate dean for research and innovation appointed Innovation and Entrepreneur Workshop Ken Sigler, EdD By Melissa Weber Chief of Strategic Partnerships Mary Beth Happ wants to change the way the College of Nursing thinks of for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Laurel Van Dromme, MA research and innovation. 24 Nursing graduate volunteers aboard hospital ship in Africa How to Launch Practices and Businesses that Succeed Transformations in Nursing & Health is a By Meggie Biss publication of The Ohio State University A life-changing opportunity to work with patients in developing nations called to College of Nursing; all content © 2016. alumna Krystal Reynolds. September 22-23, 2016 | The Ohio Union Editor and design director Sanford Meisel 27 Nurse Athlete: Securing your own oxygen mask Contributing writer By Melissa Weber Melissa Weber Nurses and healthcare professionals must take care of themselves first. You’ll learn: Writers 29 New research faculty join college Meggie Biss, Colleen Pelasky, Jill Jess • Business plan development Phythyon, Tim Raderstorf, Lori Reeder, By Jill Jess Phythyon and Meggie Biss Katy Trobitas Introducing four professionals who bring high levels of expertise to the college’s • Strategies for raising capital Photography research mission. • Legal considerations for small business owners Troy Huffman, Sanford Meisel, A.J. Zanyk 31 Grayce Sills, 1926-2016 Remembering a legend of nursing. • Profit analysis skills Correspondence We welcome your comments and COLUMNS • Unique character-builders of healthcare regulation and compliance suggestions: Transformations in Nursing & Health 5 Dean’s messAGE 39 GIVING • And much more – everything you need to triumph in your own traditional The Ohio State University College of Nursing By Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk By Katie Trobitas 1585 Neil Ave. Dreams become reality with Donor loyalty can last for decades or non-traditional practice! Columbus OH 43210-1289, or patience and persistence [email protected] 41 ALUMNI (614) 292-8900 35 STUDENT AFFAIRS By Colleen Pelasky Send change of address to: By Natasha Stouffer Nursing Alumni Society sets Register today at accell.osu.edu/entrepreneur-innovation-workshop [email protected] College’s diversity and inclusion 2016 goals program evolves www.nursing.osu.edu DEPARTMENTS Transforming health, 6 In Brief 48 Class Notes Transforming lives 45 College News 49 Faculty Focus Cover: Photograph by A.J. Zanyk Transformations in Nursing & Health Spring 2016 3 dean’s messAGE BERNADETTE MAZUREK MELNYK Dreams become reality with patience and persistence New national EBP institute the result of a 10-year long effort t is with a heavy heart that * * * So often, people give up on thank and recognize Laurel Van A New Degree for a New Era in Healthcare: I, along with our college, It has been a long-time dream their dreams right before they Dromme, who stayed the course medical center, colleagues of mine to establish a national would have come to fruition and watered the dream with and friends throughout the institute for because they get impatient or me for over 10 years and Katy The Bachelor of Science in Health United States, mourn the evidence- start to believe they will never Trombitis, who was part of our passing of an incredible based prac- happen. I often tell our awesome terrific team in the last phase of woman, internationally tice (EBP), an students, faculty, staff and alums the journey. I also want to give and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare renowned leader and psychiatric entity that the story about an Asian bam- my most heartfelt thanks to the Inurse, former dean, and friend could be the boo tree in order to give them Helene Fuld Health Trust, which Grayce Sills. I had the privilege nation’s hub hope that, if they keep their believed in the dream enough to and blessing of getting to know for the best dreams alive in front of them substantially invest in it. The healthcare industry is changing — the focus shifting from Grayce well over the past 4 ½ Bern Melnyk and latest every day and persist through In Buckeye Nation, we years. She was one of the kind- evidence the “character-builders,” they teach everyone to dream big treating illness to promoting wellness and prevention. The Bachelor est, passionate and wisest peo- to improve healthcare quality, can be realized. The bamboo tree and accomplish the impossible ple I have ever known. Grayce safety and population health is planted as a hard seed in the to transform healthcare and of Science in Health and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare (BS told me several times over the outcomes. After a more than ground and has to be watered ev- transform lives. We also walk the past few years that she was so 10-year journey of sharing this ery day for 5 years, not missing talk. The Ohio State University HWIH) will prepare health promotion professionals to support health happy getting to see some of the dream and outlining the amaz- one day of watering. Then, after College of Nursing is indeed a dreams that she had for our col- ing outcomes that could be ac- five years of daily watering, the place where dreams become and wellness across the lifespan, in all states of health. lege for a very long time finally complished by such an institute, seed finally breaks ground and reality. Go Bucks! coming true. I believe that she the dream has finally come to grows 90 feet in 90 days. Then I would advise us to keep paying fruition with the largest gift in ask: did the tree grow 90 feet in Warm and well regards, This undergraduate, non-nursing major provides a strong academic and practical background for forward our talents and gifts our college’s history from the He- 90 days, or in five years and 90 entry into the health promotion field. Coursework involves classroom, laboratory experiences and without skipping a beat, and to lene Fuld Health Trust. This very days? Of course the answer is continue to pursue our dreams generous grant of $6.5 million five years and 90 days. It takes practicum experiences in worksites, health care settings and community-based settings. The major with patience and persistence. will establish and permanently five years of daily watering requires a minimum of four years, including a year of prerequisite coursework. Upon completion of the I have no doubt that we will endow the Helene Fuld Health before any growth is seen. all remember Grayce with the Trust National Institute for The watering of our Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, program, students are eligible to sit for certifications in the field of health promotion. fondest of memories. Let us be Evidence-based Practice in Nurs- national institute took twice as PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAAP, thankful for the times we had ing & Healthcare. It also will long to see it come to reality. FNAP, FAAN with her and celebrate the life endow the Helene Fuld Health What would have happened if Associate Vice President for To learn more about the Bachelor’s in Health and Wellness Innovation in Healthcare, of this extraordinary woman Trust Professor of Evidence- we had given up in years eight, Health Promotion; University visit nursing.osu.edu/hwih. and her landmark contributions based Practice and provide nine or 10? However, we kept the Chief Wellness Officer; Dean and to our profession. For more on operating funds to fuel our work dream alive, and persisted even Professor, College of Nursing; the amazing life of Grayce Sills, in EBP further and faster across though patience was not easy Professor of Pediatrics & please see page 31. the United States. throughout the journey. I want to Psychiatry, College of Medicine Transforming health Transforming lives Transformations in Nursing & Health Spring 2016 5 INBrief Compiled by Meggie Biss A look at the college’s breaking news Ohio State-India partnership formed Rankings rise again for degree programs October 27, 2015 was a transformational The College of Nursing’s and the Master of Applied Top 10 Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs day for the College of Nursing as online and traditional master’s Clinical and Preclinical U.S.