FALL 2017 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING <——— TRIM FOR FOLD-IN COVER

The Changing Face of Nursing

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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING

FEATURES The Changing Today’s UMSON student body 18 Face of Nursing is 44 percent diverse – an important step in advancing health care underscored by cultural competence. Meet four students who contribute to UMSON’s TRIM FOR FOLD-IN COVER———> diversity in different ways.

An Urgent Need UMSON is answering the call 24 for advanced practice nurses to play a prominent role in primary care provision through precepting partnerships with urgent care facilities, which offer students exposure to a breadth of care experiences across the lifespan.

DEPARTMENTS Rwanda, Five Years Later The Pulse 3 News and Views By the Numbers Graduation/Convocation

Research: Pets and Aging Impact 14 Tips for Nurses Student Spotlight

HOW TO REDUCE FATIGUE AT WORK, PAGE 16

Class Notes In Touch 28 Alumni Profiles Events

Honor Roll 2017 COVER: Age, ethnicity, professional background, and so many more attributes Legacy Society Advance 40 contribute to the Changing Face of Nursing. photography by Christopher Myers

iii • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 iv • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 “Our faculty left family and From the Dean familiarity far behind and entered a new culture.… It was challenging, but they had to build a connection with our Rwandan counterparts.” MARIK MOEN

In 2013, I had the chance to hear Jordan J. Cohen, MD, FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM is published The the former president and chief executive officer of the by the University of Maryland Association of American Medical Colleges, speak at the School of Nursing. University of Maryland School of Medicine’s annual EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Celebrating Diversity dinner. In his talk, he reflected on the Giordana Segneri changing demographic of medical school student bodies, ASSOCIATE EDITORS Kevin Nash which were overwhelmingly male when he had attended but today include roughly Libby Zay Pulse equal numbers of men and women. I wondered when we would be able to say the EDITORIAL BOARD Curtain down on a successful five-year same thing about the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s student body. Amy Daniels Susan Dorsey partnership with Rwanda’s government While we are making progress in attracting more men into nursing careers, the Larry Fillian Rwanda, to develop a well-educated health care UMSON student body is only 12 percent male, so we still have a long way to go. Erika Friedmann Laurette Hankins workforce in the African nation. Where we have made considerable progress is in attracting minority students to Karen Kauffman Five Years Later the field. Today, minority students compose 44 percent of UMSON’s student body, Jane Kirschling Kathleen Michael BY KEVIN NASH Kelly Burke, MPH, consequently changing the face of nursing! Our students increasingly reflect the Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery BSN, UMSON clinical ethnic and cultural makeup of Marylanders and, as pointed out by University of Yolanda Ogbolu In 2012, Rwanda was fighting to train qualified health mentor, reviews safe Deborah Prout professionals to address critical global health issues of injection and needle Maryland, Baltimore President Jay Perman, MD, (see “Bridging the Demographic Cynthia Sikorski HIV/AIDS, malaria, chronic disease, and infant mortality. handling practices Divide,” Page 10) studies show that a provider workforce that is as diverse as its Rebecca Wiseman for medication and The Rwandan Ministry of Health’s solution was to develop vaccine administra- STAFF CONTRIBUTORS patients translates to a greater likelihood of high-quality care. a well-educated workforce to provide safe and effective tion with Rwandan Stacey Conrad students at a clinical Each UMSON nursing student brings a passion for caring for others, and each Nan Mulqueen health care. placement site. will make important and unique contributions in his or her nursing career. Just as Mary Phelan Led by the health ministry and supported by the Clinton Cynthia Sikorski Health Access Initiative, the Human Resources for Health our 23,000-plus alumni have done. The fact that there isn’t one road to follow as a Lorrie Voytek (HRH) program is Rwanda’s commitment by 2020 to professional nurse but multiple opportunities – including those that don’t even DESIGN meet its citizens’ health needs by building a health care Skelton Design exist today – makes nursing an attractive career decision for everyone. education and workforce infrastructure. Through the If we are going to meet the evolving health care needs in our country, in the We welcome comments, program, Rwanda partnered with a dozen U.S. colleges suggestions, and story ideas from region, and in Maryland, we have to continue our efforts to expand the number of alumni, partners, and friends. and universities, including UMSON, to bring their faculty to schools and hospitals throughout the country. well-educated nurses. We must nurture and support a strong pipeline of men and Send correspondence to women from all backgrounds who want to make a difference in the lives they touch. Giordana Segneri, Editor-in-Chief “Our faculty left family and familiarity far behind and University of Maryland School of Nursing entered a new culture with new food, language, and a I am proud that the four students showcased in this issue (see “The Changing Face 655 W. Lombard St., Suite 311D different worldview and experience,” says Marik Moen, of Nursing,” Page 18) – Kafayat Bello, Debbie Kirby, Tony Li, and Jasmine Noronha Baltimore, MD 21201 MPH, MS, RN, assistant professor, who traveled to Rwanda – have chosen UMSON to complete their first degree in nursing or to expand their Phone 410-706-4115 several times to supervise faculty. “It was challenging, Fax 410-706-5560 knowledge by obtaining a graduate degree. Collectively, they reflect the changing but they had to build a connection with our Rwandan [email protected] face of nursing, and I am proud that the demographic of the nursing student body counterparts to foster trust and strive to understand each has changed in my lifetime. other. Although our faculty left long-standing careers as clinical leaders or advanced academics to participate for a minimum of one year, but often stayed for two or even three years, it was an honor to be able to support the HRH Rwanda program.” Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN By the time UMSON’s participation in the program Dean and Professor ended in July, it had vetted and filled 36 faculty posi- tions, the most of any HRH-participating institution. The faculty’s efforts focused on expanding nurse capacity by

strengthening nursing education and clinical practice BRANDINE UWAMAHORO

2 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 3 THE PULSE “This program has been a Since 2015, the Conways groundbreaking endeavor have gifted more than $7 million to expand the capacity of in support of UMSON. health professionals.” YOLANDA OGBOLU

while improving the quality of health program in nursing, online teaching, UMSON’S TEAM RWANDA William “Bill” and Joanne Conway master’s, Doctor of Nursing Practice professional education, health care and simulation education at the Coordinating the Nursing Effort in Africa UMSON have given the University of Maryland (DNP), and PhD degrees and the infrastructure, and the management University of Rwanda. They enhanced • Beth Barrows, MS ’13, BSN ’05, RN, School of Nursing a second seven- post-master’s Certificate in Teaching of health facilities. They also provided scholarship capacity by training clinical instructor Receives $2M Gift figure gift, this time $2 million, through in Nursing and Health Professions. clinical mentorship in critical care, Rwandan nursing faculty to write for led the program and served as nurse their Bedford Falls Foundation to pro- “Our initial gift has proven so medical surgical, mental health, and publications and present internation- coordinator from 2015 from Conways vide scholarships to UMSON students successful in the development of the neonatal care training. ally. UMSON’s clinical nurse educators • Anne Brenner, coordinator in advanced degree programs. Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Additionally, UMSON faculty teamed also supported implementation of • Jeffrey Johnson, PhD, professor emeritus The Conways’ April 2015 commit- UMSON that we wanted to expand and founding director of the UMSON Rwandan students with representatives of HRH and the evidence-based practices to improve Office of Global Health ment of $5.24 million was the largest our scholarships to the master’s-and- demonstrate health ministry to support the develop- hand washing and palliative care and in UMSON history. The Conways’ above level,” Bill Conway said. emergency • Marik Moen newborn care. ment and implementation of a master’s to bolster infectious disease control. • Yolanda Ogbolu most recent donation, the third larg- The Conways’ gift provides an “The Rwandan HRH program has est philanthropic gift the School has opportunity to expand the pool of been a groundbreaking endeavor to Administrative Support received, will fund scholarships for master’s and doctorally prepared expand the capacity of health pro- • Randi Barclay, human resource manager UMSON students who are pursuing nurses who in turn can serve as clini- fessionals and to strengthen health • Steve Pease, assistant dean for research cal instructors and full-time faculty in and finance administration Kirschling (back row, systems,” says Yolanda Ogbolu, far left); Conway Maryland’s nursing programs. PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04, CRNP- (back row, fourth “We are deeply grateful to the from left); Zachary Neonatal, UMSON assistant professor Crowe, vice pres- Conways for their unwavering and director, Office of Global Health. ident, The Carlyle commitment to nurses and nursing “It has been wonderful to participate Group (back row, education,” said Dean Jane Kirschling, fourth from right); and impact nursing, the Rwandan and Laurette Hankins, PhD, RN, FAAN. “Their extraordinary health system, and the health of UMSON associate gift will allow students and nurses Rwandans. This program will serve as dean for development throughout Maryland to pursue and alumni relations an important framework and model (back row, far right), master’s and doctoral degrees, thereby

COURTESY OF HELEN EWING HELEN OF COURTESY for other countries.” with Conway Scholars helping us respond to the increasingly at the Universities complex nature of our health care at Shady Grove system and meet the changing needs LAURA AGUILAR GUZMAN LAURA of our diverse communities.” UMSON Offers Scholarship to at their posts worldwide. Fellows Program coordinator They are known for being Lori Edwards, DrPH, BSN ’80, Additionally, the $2 million gift is Returned Peace Corps Volunteers highly adept at integrating RN, PHCNS-BC, assistant being used to assist with the expan- international and global professor. sion of UMSON’s DNP Family Nurse perspectives into all they After serving in countries around the As part of their studies, Practitioner specialty, which launched do and have learned to world, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Coverdell Fellows will enroll in this fall at the Universities at Shady work collaboratively across (RPCVs) now have an opportunity to elective courses, offered through Grove in Rockville, Maryland, enabling cultures, communities, and bring their expertise to communities and the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMSON to provide the region with countries. This expertise aligns with neighborhoods in Baltimore while earning (UMB) Graduate School, focused on additional well-qualified primary their nursing degree at UMSON. Two stu- the increasingly global and cross- service learning and population health care providers. cultural focus of nursing and will afford dents each year will be selected to pursue in Baltimore. They will complete their Coverdell Fellows a wide variety of ­— K.N. either a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or required internship at UMB’s Community future career options. a Clinical Nurse Leader master’s degree Engagement Center, where they will work at UMSON with the help of a $10,000 “This program will bring more students directly with low-income and under- scholarship through the Peace Corps’ with global, community-based experi- served communities in West Baltimore, Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program. ence to the School of Nursing and into and at the Julie Community Center in RPCVs often find careers in health the profession of nursing, which will Southeast Baltimore. care to be a natural fit, as many have expose Baltimore communities to a ­— K.N. been involved in the field while serving worldwide view,” said UMSON’s Coverdell

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THE PULSE The ability to work effectively as The School of Nursing is participating Bringing It members of clinical teams is a in three interprofessional practice fundamental component of health initiatives with its sister schools on All Together care education. Working together to the University of Maryland, Baltimore coordinate and deliver high-quality (UMB) campus to provide students care through collaboration has with a real-world opportunity to work the potential to reduce costs and together across disciplines and with improve outcomes. faculty and practitioners to improve the lives of Marylanders.

PROJECT Expansion of Interprofessional Interprofessional Transition Governor’s Wellmobile Clinics to Vulnerable Populations of Care Clinic Four of a Kind

UMB PARTNERS Pharmacy and Social Work Law, Pharmacy, and Social Work Medicine, Pharmacy, and Social Work No, you’re not seeing double. These are four sets of twins in the UMSON Bachelor of Science in Nursing class that entered in fall 2016. A couple GRANT $50,000 $1.2 million $1 million sets of twins, sure. But four? What are from the National Center for from the Maryland Community from the U.S. Health Resources the odds? Interprofessional Practice and Health Resources Commission & Services Administration’s It may just up their chances at Education with a matching $50,000 Nursing Education, Practice, nursing school success; all of the grant from the UMB Center for Quality, and Retention Program pairs live and study together. They’re Interprofessional Education also all originally from Maryland and all have other siblings. But only LOCATION Montgomery County Prince George’s County Montgomery & Prince George’s counties Danielle and Haley Szoke and Emily and Kelli Streett are identical. Just to underscore how identical they are, GOALS expand student involvement in broaden health care services to offer interprofessional, team-based the Streetts responded to more than a two new Holy Cross Hospital- 3,800 underserved residents, match primary care on a mobile clinic, couple of our questions in stereo. “We BROOKE AND TAYLOR TAUBER DANIELLE AND HALEY SZOKE affiliated health centers; provide patients to primary care providers, enabling on-site management of do that a lot,” Kelli says. “It’s actually coordinated care for medically and reduce avoidable emergency complex patients and facilitating kind of embarrassing.” complex, uninsured, and visits and hospital readmissions arrangements with specialty care Here’s the scoop on our four pairs ethnically diverse patients through timely follow-up visits (from top, left to right): Brooke and Taylor Tauber STRATEGIES n educate students to provide n team up in a transition-of-care n employ team-based care principles Birthday: Oct. 30 coordinated care through the clinic and on the Governor’s and core competencies for Who’s older? Brooke, by a mastery of core competencies Wellmobile interprofessional practice in a whopping 15 minutes for interprofessional practice patient-centered care delivery model Danielle and Haley Szoke n comprehensively manage patients Birthday: May 15 n develop best practices for this by providing access to primary and n plan and assign follow-up on Who’s older? type of care in community settings, preventative care, medication care provided in clinic to Haley, by 30 seconds which can be expanded to other management, nursing care manage- enhance patient engagement Emily and Kelli Streett UMB clinical education sites ment, and social and legal services Birthday: Jan. 13 in the future n collect and share data with the Who’s older? Kelli, by 1 minute National Center for Interprofessional Carly and Danielle Puth Practice and Education Birthday: March 20 Who’s older? Carly, by 2 minutes PROVIDERS faculty and students from the Doctor nurse practitioners, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, care managers, ­— Giordana Segneri of Nursing Practice Family Nurse social workers, lawyers, and students social workers, pharmacists, Practitioner specialty, which recently from these disciplines physicians, bilingual outreach workers, expanded to the Universities at Shady and students from these disciplines Grove; the RN-to-BSN program; the UMB schools of Pharmacy and Social Work; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County undergraduate social work program — K.N.

EMILY AND KELLI STREETT CARLY AND DANIELLE PUTH

6 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY: CHRISTOPHER MYERS NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 7 THE PULSE Everyone in America can live a healthier life, News supported by a system in which nurses are essential partners in providing care and promoting health. VISION OF THE FUTURE OF NURSING: CAMPAIGN FOR ACTION

UMSON alumni will receive areas you might not expect: parks and “The IOM report is key to the A Piece of the Pi 4 Nurse Researcher Awards. Building a Culture recreation, education, transportation, health of the nation,” Hassmiller said. architecture, religious community, “The vision is everyone can lead a News from UMSON’s Sigma Theta Tau Elizabeth Sloand, PhD, MS ’86, U.S.NEWS and more. “Nurses have to be front healthier life. You can feel the impor- International Pi Chapter CPNP, FAAN, will receive the Audrey of Health and center,” she added. tance I’m placing on nurses being key Hepburn Award for Contributions to In health, too, it takes a village. “In Hassmiller spoke to more than 100 and central to this transformation.” UMSON faculty and alumni will be the Health and Welfare of Children. One of “America’s Best building a culture of health, I hope attendees, including faculty, nurse She lauded Maryland for being one honored at the Sigma Theta Tau Robin P. Newhouse, PhD ’00, MS ’99, Graduate Schools” you’ll begin to see that we have to leaders, hospital and academic admin- of 22 states in which nurse practi- International (STTI), the Honor Society BSN ’87, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, will be go way, way beyond the bounds of In the 2018 edition of U.S. News istrators, nurse practitioners, students, tioners have full practice authority of Nursing, 44th Biennial Convention, honored with the Dorothy Garrigus & World Report’s “America’s Best medicine, social work, pharmacy, etc.,” and professionals from various state and spoke about the importance of Oct. 28-Nov. 1, in Indianapolis. Adams Award for Excellence in Graduate Schools,” UMSON has eight said Susan B. Hassmiller, organizations. Co-chaired by Dean diversifying the nursing workforce. Fostering Professional Standards. master’s and DNP specialties, options, WATCH Hassmiller’s presentation PhD, RN, FAAN, senior Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, and She also said the IOM report’s recom- UMSON faculty members will Janice Hoffman, PhD ’06, RN, ANEF, or programs ranked in the top 10. to MDAC and more at adviser for nursing at the Patricia Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, BSN ’69, mendation that 80 percent of nurses receive special recognition at nursing.umaryland.edu/mdac. 2 and Nancy Sullivan, DNP, MS ’92, UMSON’s master’s-level Clinical Robert Wood Johnson RN, CCRP, senior associate director of hold Bachelor of Science in Nursing next month’s convention. BSN ’75, RN, will be given The Nurse Leader option and Nursing Foundation and director of clinical research, Johns Hopkins degrees by 2020 “really resonated with Dean Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, Capstone International Nursing Book Informatics specialty are ranked No. 1, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for University School of Medicine, MDAC people. For the first time in the history will receive the Melanie C. Dreher Award for their publication, Medical- and the Health Services Leadership Action, during her keynote address at has a membership of more than 150 of forever,” she continued, “we now Outstanding Dean Award for Surgical Nursing: Making Connections and Management master’s specialty the Maryland Action Coalition (MDAC) nurses and other key stakeholders have more baccalaureate-degree nurs- Excellence in Chapter Support. to Practice. rose to No. 3 in the Administration Retreat and Leadership Summit on from across the state, working togeth- es than associate-degree nurses.” That category. Its Master of Science and May 22 at UMSON. What she was er to implement the recommendations brought immense applause. Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and — K.N. Doctor of Nursing Practice programs implying is that fostering a nationwide in the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) ­— G.S. associate dean of research, will be are ranked 10th in the nation. culture of health, the summit’s focus, 2010 report The Future of Nursing: named an honorary member of STTI. — K.N. relies on all aspects of life and involves Leading Change, Advancing Health.

Where in the World? UMSON Website Gets a Makeover WHERE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Our website has a new look. The The changes reflect industry next time you visit, you might notice: standards and best practices and PhD ’11, MS ’05, BSN ’04, CRNP- STAYING CONNECTED FACULTY: Yolanda Ogbolu, take into account feedback from Neonatal, associate professor and director, Office of Global Health HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY • an updated homepage with news, events, and more surveyed community members. In July, Ogbolu and three Global Health Certificate students Keep up to date on the latest University of Maryland • an interactive program explorer Take a look for yourself at assessed Saúde Criança Association (ASC), which has improved School of Nursing news, events, and initiatives to help future students plan their nursing.umaryland.edu. quality of life for impoverished families by addressing the when you follow us on social media: academic path social determinants of health. Students examined how ASC • improved navigation, no has reduced poverty and enhanced social inclusion for families facebook.com/UMSON of critically ill children and explored strategies for culturally matter what device you’re using

COURTESY OF AACN OF COURTESY adapting ASC’s approach to help Baltimore families. twitter.com/marylandnursing • a cleaner, more contemporary design. ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR instagram.com/marylandnursing WHERE: Monrovia, Liberia Dean Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, (center) and FACULTY: Beth Barrows, MS ’13, BSN ’05, RN, clinical instructor linkedin.com/company/ Stephanie White, office manager, (left) accepted the In late May, Barrows, two School of Nursing students, and a university-of-maryland-school-of-nursing American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) 2017 Advocate of the Year Award, on behalf of the student from the University of Maryland School of Social Work examined the individual, social, and systematic barriers to Join the conversation using #UMSON. School, at AACN’s annual spring meeting in Washington, retention in HIV care and treatment at the client, provider, and D.C. AACN Government Affairs Committee Chair Anita organizational levels. They focused on Catholic health care Hufft, PhD, BSN ’70, RN, dean and professor of nursing, Texas Woman’s University, (right) presented the award. centers affiliated with Liberia’s Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, which has had a long-term partnership with UMSON’s Office of Global Health. — K.N.

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growing gap between the makeup of relationships by developing health Bridging the our health care workforce and the professionals who are culturally com- makeup of the patients they treat. petent – who understand the attitudes, Demographic Divide This demographic divide – in race, beliefs, values, and norms that shape By Jay A. Perman, MD ethnicity, age, gender, and back- each patient’s history and experience President, University of Maryland, Baltimore ground – is dangerous because it can with health care. And absolutely we and does interfere with the quality of must do this. Absolutely we must As we undertake an urgent dialogue in care our patients receive. ensure that providers have the training Bachelor of Science DNP student, Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) this state and this nation about dramat- The provider-patient relationship is and skills to deliver effective care to 3in Nursing (BSN) graduates 1Victoria Proctor, was honored with 63students have received scholarships ically increasing the number of nurses a personal one; it’s intimate, and it can highly diverse populations. (It’s worth from the Universities at Shady Grove an Excellence in Nursing award from from the Robert Wood Johnson we add to our health care workforce, make those we care for feel exposed, mentioning that health professions have returned to enroll in the Doctor of Baltimore magazine; four alumnae – Foundation’s New Careers in Nursing I’m encouraged that we’re equally vulnerable, maybe even judged. And students acquire these skills more Nursing Practice (DNP) Family Nurse Michele Cootauco, MS ’95; Jeannie Program over the past seven years. Gail focused on the kind of workforce we that’s why building trust in this rela- easily when surrounded by diverse Practitioner specialty that launched at Lee, BSN ’00; Sandra Toon, MS ’03, Schoen Lemaire, PhD ’96, PMHCNS, BC, CNL, was integral in securing funding, want to develop: one that is highly tionship is so important. Mutual trust classmates.) that location this fall. BSN ’97; and Regina Volz, BSN ’89 – and she was awarded honorable educated, one that is empowered to im- strengthens patient-provider collabo- However, achieving cultural also received the award. mention for the 2017 Clinical Nurse prove patient care, one that is equipped ration, and that collaboration yields competence in the health professions Leader Educator Vanguard Award by to lead high-performing health care higher patient satisfaction, better doesn’t relieve us of our duty to build the American Association of Colleges of teams, and, yes, one that is diverse. adherence to treatment regimens, a health care workforce that is, itself, Nursing and the Commission on Nurse The literature is filled with num- and improved health outcomes. diverse. Studies show that provid- Certification for her CNL-related efforts. bers illustrating the significant and Of course, we can nurture trusting ers of color are more likely to treat minority and medically underserved patients. They also show that patients and providers who share a race, ethnicity, or language enjoy a better rapport with one another and better communication – and that these comfortable relationships increase the likelihood that patients will accept students years businesses and organizations and receive high-quality care. 27in UMSON’s first-ever 12is how long Jeffrey Johnson, PhD, 35promoted their employment There’s another reason we need BSN-to-DNP cohort taught at UMSON; he was awarded opportunities to students and alumni at more diverse representation among our graduated in May. professor emeritus status in February. the UMSON Spring 2017 Career Fair. health care practitioners. The diverse corps of providers we educate and develop today will tomorrow be the leaders who will advance our effort to solve this country’s complex, persistent, $ 30,000 $ 90,700 and pernicious problem of grave health is the maximum award amount • Ameera Chakravarthy, in endowed scholarships disparities – this problem of a patient’s for the competitive statewide Nurse MS, BSN ’02, CRNP were announced in honor of demographic profile too often predicting Educator Doctoral Grant for Practice and • Ernest Opoku-Agyemang, UMSON Visionary Pioneers: her health. These leaders will undertake Dissertation Research, funded by the MA, MS ’12, BSN ’10, RN • Darlene J. Curley, the work not only with purpose and Health Services Cost Review Commission MS ’82, BSN ’80, RN, FAAN ($25,000) passion but with the rich perspectives and administered by the Maryland Higher • Mary Pat Ulicny, of those who’ve lived the experience Education Commission, and the amount MS ’11, MHA, RN, CNE • Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, and know personally – powerfully – three faculty were awarded this spring. MAS, BSN ’80, RN ($40,200) that we can do far better. • Lisa Rowen, COMPILED BY LIBBY ZAY DNSc, MS ’86, RN, CENP, FAAN ($25,500)

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“I hope that you will dream “There are endless opportunities Graduation and have an unlimited vision Convocation for joy in nursing; it will be a DECEMBER 2016 MAY 2017 about what can be.” matter of what we choose to SYLVIA TRENT-ADAMS consider when we think about how we changed the world, in a positive way, for someone else.” LISA ROWEN

On May 19, the 343-graduate-strong Class of 2017 celebrated their successes at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore. Keynote speaker Lisa Rowen, DNSc, MS ’86, RN, CENP, FAAN, chief nurse executive, University of Maryland

LAURA AGUILAR GUZMAN LAURA Medical System, and senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, clockwise from top left: graduates at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Universities at Shady Grove; spoke about taking advantage of the nursing keynote speaker Trent- profession’s many opportunities. Additionally, Adams; graduates at the Hippodrome in Baltimore the inaugural Dean’s Medal for Distinguished (two photos) Service was awarded to UMSON’s largest donors, William “Bill” and Joanne Conway (see “Bronze Medals,” Page 45).

clockwise from top left: graduates at Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena; keynote speaker Rowen; graduates and supporters gathered before the ceremony; William “Bill” Conway (center) wearing the Dean’s Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, MS ’99, Medal for Distinguished Service RN, FAAN, then deputy U.S. surgeon general, that he received from Dean Jane addressed a crowd in Baltimore’s Hippodrome Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, (right) Theater on Dec. 12, celebrating 282 summer and the medals’ creator, Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS, University and fall 2016 graduates. A similar ceremony of Maryland, Baltimore chief – featuring keynote speaker Cynthia Sweeney, academic and research officer MSN, BSN ’76, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, executive and senior vice president and director of the DAISY Foundation – was held dean, Graduate School, holding Joanne Conway’s medal Dec. 9 for UMSON students at the Universities at Shady Grove. “I never thought that when I graduated from nursing school that I would end up becoming the deputy surgeon general,” Trent-Adams said. Just four months later, she was named acting U.S. surgeon general.

12 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY: RICHARD LIPPENHOLZ NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 13 “ Pets can reduce stress, they can reduce depression and loneliness, and they can be beneficial in terms of getting people to exercise.” ERIKA FRIEDMANN

findings have provided rich data demonstrating how pet ownership can improve mental, social, and physiological health status with respect to cognitive functioning, depression, stress responses, anxiety, cardiovascular health, healthy aging, and more. “Pets can reduce stress, they can reduce depression and loneliness, and they can be beneficial in terms of getting people to exercise,” Friedmann explains. Last December, Friedmann and Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor and Sonya Ziporkin Impact Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, were awarded a three- year, $340,000 grant from WALTHAM and Mars Petcare to examine the role of pet ownership in maintaining both physical and mental function in healthy older adults. Ahead of the Pack As part of the project, the researchers designed a pet ownership questionnaire for participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), the longest-running BY LIBBY ZAY People have long asserted that animal companionship has scientific study of human aging in the world; it began in health benefits – even Florence Nightingale wrote about 1958. They will look at extensive data collected by the how pets are valuable for recovery – but there has not BLSA along with the pet ownership information collected always been evidence to support the claim. through the questionnaire to determine if there are any Widely regarded as a pioneer in the relatively links to changes in healthy aging over time. OUR RESEARCHER young field of anthrozoology, the scholarly investi- “Our idea is to look at trajectories of changes and com- Erika Friedmann, PhD, associate dean of research gation of human-animal interaction, Erika Friedmann, pare pet owners with non-pet owners,” Friedmann says. PhD, associate dean of research, was the first to “We ask them about the kinds of animals, their attach- publish a study on the cardiovascular health benefits of ment to the animals, the amount of contact they have pet ownership in a peer-reviewed journal. Friedmann is with their animals, and their pet ownership history. And also a founding member and third-time president of the then we can use the BLSA data to look at how it’s related International Society for Anthrozoology and was awarded to changes in health; for example, changes in depression the International Association of Human Animal Interaction or cognitive functioning over time.” Organizations’ Johannes Odendaal Human-Animal In the future, Friedmann hopes to connect the dots and Interaction Distinguished Researcher Award in 2016. understand exactly who will benefit from animal compan- Her research began in 1975, when Friedmann was a PhD ionship and in what ways. student at the University of Pennsylvania. She was inter- “There is research to show that people are more willing ested in whether people with heart disease lived longer to walk if they’re walking a dog rather than walking by depending on their social environments, including themselves,” she explains. “For people who live alone INSIDE THE RESEARCH pet ownership. After doing extensive interviews and don’t have much opportunity for contact with others, In some studies, Friedmann has employed a sophisti- with and follow-up on people in a coronary care walking a dog might be a way to meet others and have a cated robotic dog called an unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center, conversation. People who are anxious and afraid to leave AIBO as a variable, allowing she found that people with pets – which go beyond their home might gain confidence from having an animal her to compare differences just cats and dogs – were more likely to be alive one accompany them. Children with autism who can’t be in between subjects’ social year after a heart attack than those without pets. public places because they are bothered by the noise may interactions with another person, a dog, or a robotic That initial study inspired decades of further be able to face the world better with a dog by their side.” dog. She found that interac- investigations on the impact of the ownership of Though she’s found proof over the years of the ben- tion with real pets reaps the and interaction with companion animals on human efits of pet ownership, Friedmann notes that it isn’t for most positive health rewards. health and function across the lifespan. She con- everyone. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t other firmed that pet ownership is related to survival in ways to take advantage of the positive health outcomes patients with heart disease through two additional studies that come from pet companionship. “Go volunteer at an and has also researched other benefits of pet ownership, animal shelter or take your neighbor’s dog for a walk,” such as lowering blood pressure, decreasing stress respons- she says. “Those are good ways to get the benefits without es, and increasing social interaction. Overall, Friedmann’s owning a pet.”

14 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 15 IMPACT WANT MORE PROVEN INTERVENTIONS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT TO IMPROVE SLEEP AND FATIGUE? Take the free training course yourself at www.cdc.gov/niosh/ work-hour-training-for-nurses. For some nurses, it may be necessary to advocate for a more healthful schedule. If you find yourself in that situation, you may be able to utilize evidence from the training program to make your case.

7 Tips to Reduce Finding Fatigue at Work Something Missing “Much of the problem of nurse fatigue Rosiland Harper is a result of the long hours worked and shift rotation, which affects the Before enrolling in nursing school, amount and quality of sleep,” says Bachelor of Science in Nursing student Professor Alison M. Trinkoff, ScD, MPH, Rosiland Harper taught preschool, but RN, FAAN. In 2015, she and former she “felt something was missing.” UMSON faculty member Jeanne “I knew I wanted to do more Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN, beyond the classroom,” says Harper, co-authored an online, evidence-based who grew up around nurses because OUR EXPERT training program that aims to minimize her mother has been one for more Alison M. Trinkoff, the health and safety risks associated than 40 years. “I saw how she cared ScD, MPH, RN, FAAN with shift work, long work hours, and for her clients and treated them as related workplace fatigue issues for more than just her patients – they nurses. The program recently won became like family.” the 2017 Bullard-Sherwood Research to Practice Intervention Award from “Nursing is very similar to teaching. the National Institute of Occupational Both are acts of caregiving, in a way.” Safety and Health. ROSILAND HARPER Below are seven strategies culled from the program that you can use to Even as a teacher, Harper was

improve alertness at work. tuned into the well-being of those CIESIELSKI MIKE around her; she frequently informed Nap strategically. Take breaks during your shift. Wear blue-light-blocking sunglasses. But then Harper was awarded a If you can regularly squeeze in a parents if their children were getting Harper admits the same thoughts Consider stretching or taking a brisk After working night shifts, don these Conway Scholarship, which fully two-hour nap before night shifts or sick because she would notice chang- ran through her head after she ap- walk; both can help you relax and sunglasses (wraparound style is best) funds her bachelor’s degree, includ- a 20-minute nap during breaks, you es in their behaviors. “Nursing is very plied to UMSON. She wasn’t sure how reset. Some breaks should be taken to reduce the chance that your body ing text books. “I could not be more should feel more refreshed. Some similar to teaching,” she says. “Both she’d be able to balance school and outside of the unit you are working in clock resets to daytime, which makes grateful for this scholarship,” she health care workplaces even offer quiet are acts of caregiving, in a way.” two jobs, which would be financially to be most effective. it difficult to sleep. Keep them on until says. “It is truly a blessing, as it has spaces for uninterrupted naps. Just With her mind set on following in necessary for her. Nevertheless, she Eat small, healthy meals. you are in a dark room at home. allowed me to devote more time to remember that naps are not a replace- her mother’s footsteps into the nursing began taking evening classes to fulfill Make your bedroom dark. my studies to be successful.” ment for regular, long periods of sleep. Avoid sugar-rich products and profession and on becoming the first her prerequisites while continuing to low-fiber carbohydrates, as these can Whether you’re sleeping at night or in in her family to graduate with a bach- teach, and she also picked up a part- After graduation, Harper plans Rest on your days off, too. increase sleepiness. Instead, eat foods the daytime, your bedroom should be elor’s degree, Harper began applying time job as a receptionist at a private to pursue both of her passions by Rest on days off is essential to pro- such as vegetables, fruits, whole-grain very dark. Block light with opaque win- to nursing schools. She had previously military retirement home. working with children in a profession- mote healing from muscle strains and sandwiches, yogurt, eggs, and nuts. dow coverings – light-blocking shades attended college intermittently over Knowing that her UMSON courses al health care setting. She ultimately to help reduce the chance of injury. Drink caffeine. are inexpensive and available at most an eight-year period but “always had would be more rigorous than her hopes to become a pediatric nurse Ideally, you should rest for one or two practitioner. “The Conway Scholarship Judicious intake of caffeine during hardware stores – and prevent light trouble paying for school,” she says. prerequisites, she made the difficult full days following five consecutive has made it possible to pursue my your shift can aid alertness. Keep in from coming through under doorways. She had even declined an offer from decision last December to leave her eight-hour shifts or four 10-hour shifts You can also wear an eye mask. another school simply because she teaching job. She worried about how dream,” she says. and rest for two days after three con- mind that you should not drink coffee — L.Z. could not afford it. “It was a devastat- she would pay for school and if she — L.Z. secutive 12-hour shifts. near the end of your shift if you plan to go home and sleep. ing feeling,” she adds. would be able to make it through the program.

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KAFAYAT BELLO Age: 29 Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Program: Nurse Anesthesia Specialty

TONY LI Age: 36 Hometown: Medford, The New Jersey Program: Bachelor of Science in Nursing

DEBBIE KIRBY Age: 50 Hometown: Glen Burnie, Maryland Program: Master Changing of Science, Health Services Leadership and Management specialty

JASMINE NORONHA Age: 26 Hometown: Face of Bowie, Maryland Program: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner specialty NursingBY KEVIN NASH AND LIBBY ZAY Until the mid-20th century, white caps, white aprons, and white shoes weren’t the only similarities that made the students who roamed the halls at UMSON look uniform; they were also exclusively white and female. (See “The Class of 1915,” Page 28.) Today, our student body looks remarkably different: 44 percent of UMSON students are minorities, and 12 percent are men, both figures above the national averages. The shift began in 1950 when Esther McCready, BSN ’53, an 18-year- old African-American woman, sued the School after she was denied admission. With the help of attorney Thurgood Marshall, she won her case, opening the doors for future students from diverse backgrounds. Not long after, Hector Cardellino, BSN ’61, quietly became the first male student at the School. Officials solved the uniform dilemma by having him wear a white shirt, white pants, a black tie, and black shoes.

18 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 19 THE CHANGING FACE OF NURSING Tony Li MSPH, MLS, ASCP “The increasingly diverse patient population in Li never dreamed he would become our health care system a nurse; in fact, prior to serving reflects the need for a in the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific as a Peace Corps vol- more diverse workforce unteer, he didn’t know what nurses in the field of nursing.” did other than what he had seen TONY LI on television. He was impressed with how the Peace Corps nurse tasked with keeping the volun- lthough UMSON and other nursing schools have increasingly “Embracing diversity teers healthy during their two-year admitted students from diverse backgrounds over the years, the increases awareness and service experiences traveled to different in-country sites to offer health care workforce still does not reflect the rich diversity of acceptance of patients’ the United States. And that diversity is only expected to grow: care and services. As Li interacted cultural differences. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2060, racial minorities with that nurse, he realized that It is very important to nurses do more than measure will actually compose a majority of the country’s population. blood pressure and take patients’ “As nurses care for a progressively more diverse population, those who un- understand the values and temperatures. After witnessing the derstand the culture and customs of their patients will be better suited to provide beliefs of my patients to nurse’s professionalism and care quality care, improve patient satisfaction and health outcomes, and reduce health improve quality of care.” KAFAYAT BELLO as she carried out her duties, she disparities,” explains Jeffrey Ash, EdD, associate dean for diversity and inclusion became Li’s role model, inspiring and an assistant professor at UMSON. “Having a greater sense of cultural compe- his interest in nursing. tence will prove to make a significant impact in providing effective care.” But as he prepared to leave the “The beauty of diversity is that there’s a richness that comes from a variety of Kafayat Bello BSN, RN Peace Corps, Li felt he wasn’t ways of thinking,” Ash continues, adding that diversity “is not just about race A quite ready to go to nursing school. and gender.” It can also involve religious affiliation, ethnic heritage, age, socio- (pictured on previous page) Instead, he earned a Master of economic status, sexual orientation, disability, and too many other factors to list. As a junior at Trinity Washington Science in Public Health from the Numerous studies have shown that patients are more likely to receive quality University in Washington, D.C., Tulane University School of Public care and treatment when they share race, ethnicity, religion, language, or other Bello participated in a summer Health and Tropical Medicine in Future experiences with their provider. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 2010 externship at Fairfax Hospital in New Orleans. Following his grad- of Nursing report indicated that a diverse workforce contributes to enhanced Virginia, for which all students uation, Li worked as a technical communication, health care access, and patient satisfaction while decreasing were required to watch an open- advisor for the Carter Center, a health disparities. The report called upon nursing schools nationwide to increase heart surgery through a glass nongovernmental organization, in the diversity of the nursing workforce, and it urged academic nurse leaders to dome. As Bello watched the South Sudan, Africa, for two years collaborate with health care organizations, school systems, and community orga- procedure, she paid close atten- before returning to the United nizations to recruit and advance nursing students from all backgrounds. tion to the certified registered States to work as a medical lab “We are the health professionals making the most progress in terms of diver- nurse anesthetist and was in awe scientist. After six months, Li sity but we still don’t look like the people we serve,” Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, of her autonomy and confidence. realized he wanted to be in a field with more options, he says, and RN, FAAN, senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Bello knew that was what she remembered the Peace Corps said during her keynote address at the Maryland Action Coalition (MDAC) wanted, too. nurse. After speaking to friends in Retreat and Leadership Summit, May 22 at UMSON. (See “Building a Culture Originally from Nigeria, Bello the field, he adds, “I was sold.” of Health,” Page 9.) moved to the United States as MDAC was born out of the Campaign for Action, a national organization a teenager; she returns to her “Nursing has long been regarded working in every state to achieve goals based on the IOM’s report, including native country annually for two as a profession dominated by females, but diversifying the increasing diversity. Several other organizations – among them the American weeks to put into practice what workforce allows us to dispel this Hospital Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Joint she has been learning in school, volunteering as a nurse at stereotype,” he says. “We need Commission, and the Association of Academic Health Centers – have released clinics and hospitals. to advocate for more underrep- reports that point to minority student recruitment as a necessary step to resented groups working in the “Working with nurses from addressing the nursing shortage. nursing profession and serving as varied backgrounds facilitates So far, the numbers are steadily climbing. The National League for Nursing role models in our communities.” reported that the percent of students enrolled in RN programs who identify learning and delivery of care that as minorities doubled between 1995 and 2014. Furthermore, the American encompasses a broader spec- trum of views and considerations Association of Colleges of Nursing has data to show that diversity is increasing for patient needs,” she says. at both the baccalaureate and graduate levels. Here, students who are or who soon will be addressing the health care needs of our diverse communities talk about their role in changing the face of nursing.

20 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 21 THE CHANGING FACE OF NURSING Debbie Kirby BSN ’89, RN-OBC Jasmine Noronha BSN ’12, RN, CPN “ Your accent, nationality, or the color of your skin “Over the years, I have appreciated Growing up the oldest of three Noronha always knew she doesn’t matter. What being in a diverse environment. It children, Kirby says her siblings wanted to help people. As she matters at the end of each opens your eyes and exposes you to considered her bossy. But she contemplated potential career shift is that you were your things you would not normally be didn’t see herself that way; in- paths one night during her fresh- stead, she felt she was just taking man year in college, she had a patient’s advocate.” exposed to and lends the opportunity JASMINE NORONHA care of everyone. As an adult, conversation with her roommate’s to meet the most interesting people.” Kirby is still making sure people mother, a nurse. The woman DEBBIE KIRBY are cared for. She believes nursing promised that nursing would is an art that encompasses many provide countless opportunities characteristics and skills; nurses for career options and that as a are not only caring and nurtur- nurse, Noronha would never be ing, but they are also effective bored. After a few months on communicators, critical thinkers, her first nursing job on UMMC’s educators, and problem-solvers, pediatric progressive care unit in she says. These traits attracted 2012, she found herself regularly Kirby to nursing and have kept her advocating for her patients and engaged for nearly 30 years. decided she wanted to become a nurse practitioner. In Noronha’s She began her career as a staff mind, she says, becoming a nurse nurse in the University of Maryland practitioner would allow her to Medical Center’s (UMMC) labor have more autonomy while and delivery unit and later helped using evidence-based practice open a high-risk inpatient wing to guide care. to care for long-term obstetrical patients. She was also instru- In the spring, she did a clinical mental in opening UMMC’s Center rotation at a federally qualified for Advanced Fetal Care, where health center in Denton, she continues to work today. She Maryland, a rural area without recently decided that working in many providers and where management is the next logical patients are vulnerable to step, and although she had been economic and health disparities. out of school for 22 years, Kirby “Nursing is one of the most knew pursuing her master’s diverse professions,” she says. degree is necessary to advance “Something that is important in her career. one culture may be overlooked “Just the nature of an academic in another.” institution draws people from all walks of life together to learn and work,” she says. “Students, interns, and visiting professors all come from a variety of countries, religions, and cultures. Nursing is no different.”

22 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 23 FEATURE

BY MEREDITH LIDARD KLEEMAN

HOW UMSON’S PRECEPTOR PARTNERSHIPS ARE ADDRESSING THE NATION’S PRIMARY CARE GAPS

A N Patients with strains, sprains, and a variety of other pains are all part of a typical day for health care providers at University of Maryland (UM) Urgent Care, housed on the first floor of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, just inside the Penn Street entrance. Many of these patients will be seen by a nurse practitioner, often shadowed by a stu- dent in UMSON’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) specialty.

FNPs are poised to deliver increasingly more of the nation’s primary care services, supplementing the current physician-based primary care workforce, which is under enormous strain. Nearly 20 million Americans gained health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, URGENT which included provisions to bolster primary care provided by nurse practitioners.

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also reimburse nurse practitioners as primary care providers – a practice that has been in effect for two decades – which increases primary care and preven- tive services to older Americans and people with low incomes, those who are most in need of care.

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) are ideally positioned to coordinate care across the continuum, and they have been proven to provide outcomes on par or better than those of physicians, according to a 2013 study published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. They are being called on to take a larger role in America’s increasingly complex health care system, in part due to the Institute of NEEDMedicine’s landmark 2010 Future of Nursing report, which notes that APRNs should play a prominent role in providing care.

24 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS HARTLOVE NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 25 AN URGENT NEED “ We're getting students The Boom exposed to these concepts and The urgent care industry has experienced significant ideas and procedures early, growth in the last five years, with nearly 7,400 urgent then they have time to improve care centers operating in the United States, accord- them by the last semester.” ing to the Urgent Care Association of America. That growth is believed to be a confluence of several factors, ANDREA SMITH including increased access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, long wait times at emergency rooms, and a shortage of primary care physicians. Through their precepted experiences in urgent care, UMSON students learn that “what we’re trying to do is AT UM URGENT UMSON is answering that call by urgent care, they get exposure to the decrease the amount of inappropriate visits to the emer- 4 1 CARE preparing the next generation of lifespan of patients, so they may see a gency department,” Velez says. “If somebody comes in FNPs through its precepting partner- 2-year-old who fell down and needs 1 for a toothache, they don’t need to go to the ER; if it’s a ships with two urgent care facilities: sutures or an X-ray, or they may see FNP student Courtney simple infection, they can be referred to the urgent care UM-affiliated ChoiceOne Urgent Care somebody who’s pregnant and needs Crane, BSN ’12, RN, center. The nurse in triage calls over to us and says, ‘I’m (with locations throughout the state) help with an acute event.” Through CCRN, performs a sending over Joe Smith,’ and the patient gets seen within and UM Urgent Care, which opened in their clinical time in the urgent care microscopy exam of bodily fluid to assist five minutes rather than waiting five hours. October 2016. setting, students also witness and in diagnosis and “This improves outcomes because we’re preventing At both facilities, students in the treat patients who use these facilities management. unnecessary emergency room admissions, and the FNP specialty work with nurse precep- for their primary care needs. patient is having expedient treatment.” 2 tors, who play a key role in teaching, The partnership between ChoiceOne 2 mentoring, and supervising students and the School, which began in fall Velez (center) as they gain mastery of necessary 2016, developed after the company’s instructs FNP students in a AT CHOICEONE primary care and emergency medicine co-founder and medical director, clinical rotation on says. “You get a lot of experience, not URGENT CARE, skills, including eliciting patient histo- Scott Burger, DO, precepted an the correct placement just seeing different conditions, but DUNDALK ry, conducting a physical examination, UMSON student, Gourley recalls. As of a stethoscope with time management and learning to auscultate heart and developing a diagnosis. the company and its need for nurse 4 organizational skills.” She also spent sounds. Assistant Professor Roseann Velez, practitioners grew, Burger wanted to FNP students Mary time with a preceptor in a traditional DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, who also recruit the School’s alumni to his team 3 Grace “Molly” Renfrow, primary care practice, where she saw practices at UM Urgent Care, hosts of practitioners. Gourley had students MS, RN, (center) and fewer patients but was exposed to FNP student Erin Lewis (right) review clinical rotations and serves as a interested in receiving clinical urgent Donohue, BSN ’11, more chronic conditions. an X-ray and discuss 5 6 preceptor for students in her Diagnosis care training and proposed a collab- RN, practices an findings with an Andrea Smith, DNP ’15, MS ’10, eye exam using an X-ray technician. CRNP, FNP-BC, directs UM Urgent Care and Management 1 course. “I can see oration in which the School’s FNP ophthalmascope. students in clinical and tell them, students would become ChoiceOne’s and also precepts students in the FNP 5 ‘Remember in class when we were preferred student group to precept. previous spread specialty. Through the partnership Lewis takes a patient another view of with UMSON, first-semester FNP talking about peroneal tendonitis? “It’s a win-win from the standpoint history of an injury. This is it, and this is why we’re of the clinical agency,” Gourley says. Donohue practicing students complete clinical hours at UM an eye exam on fellow giving the patient a boot,’” she says. “ChoiceOne would like to help grow 6 Urgent Care and in the University of FNP student Laura “They’re learning in the clinical set- the next generation of their advanced Schultz, BSN, RN, Lewis and Renfrow Maryland Medical Center emergency ting what I taught them in class.” practice registered nurse workforce, during their clinical review laboratory department, where they’re exposed to 3 Urgent care facilities act as a and what better way to do that than rotation reports. a range of acute and life-threatening bridge between primary care offices to give students the opportunity to conditions. “We find that a lot of what and emergency medicine depart- train in their facilities, under the we do in emergency medicine is pri- ments, offering a unique learning guidance of their seasoned clinicians, mary care and the acute stabilization experience for students, explains with their Electronic Medical Record of the chronic problem,” Smith says. Bridgitte Gourley, DNP ’08, CRNP, system, with their patient population, “It’s tremendously impactful; we’re FNP-BC, assistant professor and direc- while learning the agency mission.” getting students exposed to these con- tor of the FNP specialty. Laura Lewis, BSN, RN, an FNP stu- cepts and ideas and procedures early, their practice standard is very high,” “There are many, many skill sets dent, was assigned to the ChoiceOne then they have time to improve them Gourley says. “The seasoned clinician that nurse practitioners need to clinic in Dundalk, Maryland, where by the last semester.” has to be able to explain things, and perform adequately and safely in she spent 70 clinical hours with a In addition to educating future nurse while they’re explaining things to primary care,” Gourley says. “One of preceptor and treated as many as 20 practitioners to treat the spectrum of the student, the patient’s there too, the best ways for us to ensure that patients a day. “Urgent care was one primary care needs, the preceptorships so it improves the patient education our students are exposed to those of my favorite clinicals so far. It was also have the potential to improve piece. Those patients will have great skill sets is to develop partnerships a great learning environment, and patient outcomes. “Any time you outcomes because the provider they’re with clinical agencies that we know I could really feel my level of confi- have a seasoned clinician who’s also seeing is exemplary.” perform those skill sets frequently. In dence grow with each patient,” Lewis functioning in the role of teaching,

26 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 27 In Touch The Class of 1915

They had names like Nettie, Mabel, Gertrude, Alpharetta, and, appropriately, Florence, and they were all white females; this is how UMSON classes looked until Esther McCready, BSN ’53, an African- American student, was granted admission in 1950. And while many of UMSON’s Class of 1915 hailed from Baltimore, they also came from as far away as West Virginia and Georgia. The 18 graduates pictured here (likely with a faculty member at left) wore the nursing uniform of the day: a white apron, white shoes, and a white “Flossie,” UMSON’s official graduation cap that served for decades as a symbol of professionalism and of the School’s connection to the founder of modern nursing. UMSON’s first superintendent, Louisa Parsons, designed the cap, modeling it after what her colleague Florence Nightingale wore. ­— G.S. FROM THE UMSON LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM ARCHIVES MUSEUM HISTORY LIVING UMSON THE FROM

28 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 29 IN TOUCH Taking the Helm UMMC Carmel A. Nursing Excellence Class Notes McComiskey, Awards DNP ’10, MS ’96, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, began serving Congratulations to the alumni whose excellence in as president of their work at UMMC was recognized at the hospital’s UMSON’s Alumni awards ceremony on May 11. Let your fellow alumni know what’s happening in your life. Submitting an Marilyn Cloud Adkins, BSN ’77, Association on July 1. Ann Hamric, PhD ’96, co-chair of the update to Class Notes is easy; just visit nursing.umaryland.edu/classnotes is an endoscopy staff nurse at McComiskey took the reins from AAN’s Bioethics Expert Panel, served as ART OF CARING or contact us at [email protected] or 410-706-7640. You can Peninsula Regional Health Center Christine Shippen, MS ’98, BSN ’73, editor of the Hastings Center Special • Edith Awuah, MS ’15 also send us mail courtesy of Cynthia Sikorski, senior associate director of in Salisbury, Maryland. immediate past president. McComiskey Report, Nurses at the Table: Nursing, Ethics, and Health Policy, alumni relations, 655 W. Lombard St., Suite 515C, Baltimore, MD 21201. is the director of nurse practitioners the first CNO AWARD FOR TEAM EXCELLENCE: Jo Deaton, MS ’82, BSN ’77, is the and physician assistants at UMMC and report of its kinds that sheds light on MOTHER/BABY UNIT As we are unable to confirm all alumni credentials, only UMSON degrees and senior director of nursing/mental holds faculty appointments as assistant the critical role of nurses in addressing • Caryn Zolotorow, MS ’11, BSN ’78 graduation years are included. health at Anne Arundel Medical Center professor at UMSON and instructor some of the complex ethics and health • Brenda Moore, MS ’99, BSN ’96 in Annapolis, Maryland. She also has a at the University of Maryland School policy challenges that health care • Leila Sicilia, BSN ’12 private practice in Columbia, Maryland, Alumni Association 2017 Excellence of Medicine. She is a pediatric nurse professionals face. • Gabrielle Laxamana, BSN ’14 specializing in LGBT clients and in Teaching Award for their continued practitioner who manages children • Laura Wellen, BSN ’14 1960s individuals, couples, and families with Tommy Stewart, MS ’97, retired in commitment to students and excellence with enuresis and serves as co-chair of • Jamie Hutcheson, BSN ’15 psychiatric and addiction issues. the Graduate Education and Practice January after 43 years of federal Claudia Smith, BSN ’65, helped edit in teaching. Committee of the UMNursing partner- service. He served 35 years in the U.S. Environmental Health in Nursing, an Joan Stanley, MS ’78, one of UMSON’s DAISY AWARD J. Taylor Harden, MS ’77, BSN ’72, has ship between UMSON and UMMC. Navy followed by eight years with the open-access electronic textbook for inaugural Visionary Pioneers, was • Diana Huertas, BSN ’14 been appointed by the former U.S. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs nurses and other health professionals recently appointed chief academic (VA), most recently as the director of Department of Health and Human EXCELLENCE IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING with chapter contributions by leading officer at the American Association clinical operations, Office of Specialty Services secretary to serve on the • Kristen Ward, MS ’12, BSN ’06 environmental health nursing experts. of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Anne Dearth Williams, DNP ’12, MS ’86, National Advisory Council on Aging, Care Services. recognition of her extensive work BSN ’82, director of Community Health Kathleen Edwards, which makes recommendations BSN ’67, served as shaping nursing education programs Improvement for the University of Sarah L. Szanton, MS ’98, professor at EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION THROUGH concerning grant applications to a public health nurse and supervisor over the last 25 years. Maryland Medical System and a the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: support biomedical research and and a public health administrator for faculty associate at UMSON, was was awarded the 2016 Senior Service PEDIATRIC PROGRESSIVE CARE UNIT research training activities. Harden 35 years, working in Prince George’s honored in March by the Baltimore America Senior Scholar Award for PRACTICE COUNCIL is executive director of the National • Erinn Davis, MS, BSN ’10 County, in Baltimore, in Frederick City Health Department with a Health Research Related to Disadvantaged Hartford Center of Gerontological 1980s • Sarah Kosmer, MS ’13 County, and at the Maryland state Equity Leadership Award for her Older Adults by the Gerontological health department. She was the first Nursing Excellence. She serves on • Ricki Linkoff, BSN ’13 Maureen Hanold, BSN ’80, senior work in reducing health disparities in Society of America (GSA) and Senior registered nurse chosen to be a local the American Academy of Nursing’s • Samantha Efford, BSN ’14 clinical nurse I, Department of cardiovascular disease in the city. Service America at the GSA Annual health officer in Maryland and was (AAN) Expert Panel on Aging and was • Kara Haggarty, MS ’15 Interventional Radiology, was selected Scientific Meeting in November 2016. also the first to lead the Maryland state inducted into the academy in 2000. Marla Oros, Andrea as the employee of the month at the BSN ’84, and AIDS administration. She served 15 Smith, DNP ’15, MS ’10, were Sandra L. Sullivan, MS ’08, BSN ’99, EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP Barbara Medoff-Cooper, MS ’72, University of Maryland Medical Center years as program director for health interviewed by WBAL-TV about their was appointed associate director • Vanzetta James, MS ’01 received the 2017 Eastern Nursing (UMMC) in February. She provides care administration in the University of work with recovering addicts for a story of patient-care services (nurse Research Society’s Distinguished direct patient care to a diverse group Maryland, University College graduate highlighting UMMC’s partnership with executive) by the VA Medical Center PERSONIFIES PROFESSIONALISM AWARD Contributions to Nursing Research of patients and undertakes numerous school, where she now serves as an the Mosaic Group to implement a peer in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in • Robert Glenn, MS ’13 Award. Her work focuses on infant roles within the department, such as adjunct professor in the Doctor of recovery program. February. Sullivan began her career temperament and feeding behaviors. change nurse and staff clinical resource. Management program. with the VA in 2012 as the associate EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION THROUGH RESEARCH A professor at the University of She is very proud of her daughter, Kate Robin Newhouse, PhD ’00, MS ’99, chief nurse of geriatrics and long- • Mary Ellen Connolly, DNP ’15 Pennsylvania School of Nursing and at Hanold, BSN ’15, who joined UMMC BSN ’87, dean of the Indiana University term care at the Martinsburg medical Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she as a nurse in the Cardiac Care Unit School of Nursing, was named a center. Her nursing career began EXCELLENCE IN QUALITY 1970s was inducted into the AAN in 1989. after graduation. distinguished professor, the highest following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist • Alicia Pritchard, MS ’14 academic rank the university bestows Phyllis Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70, Maj. Gen. Margaret Wilmoth, MS ’79, Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, BSN ’80, attacks, when she assumed the role upon faculty. received the President’s Award at the BSN ’75, retired in April after a career was appointed to the Southern Vermont of the first bioterrorism coordinator/ Friends of the National Institute of that spanned more than 30 years in Health Care Board of Trustees in public health emergency planner at Nursing Research Nightingala on the U.S. armed forces. She is the third January. the Washington County (Maryland) 2000s Oct. 19, 2016, in acknowledgment of nurse from the Army Reserve to be 1990s Health Department. her work as a nurse scientist leading Margaret Franckhauser, MS ’82, was promoted to major general. Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, Mary C. DiBartolo, PhD ’01, has taught the advancement of team science named CEO of the Next50 Initiative, a Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD ’91, one of MS ’99, in the undergraduate and graduate in the realm of maternal and child Vanessa Fahie, PhD ’94, BSN ’76, received grant-making foundation in Denver fo- UMSON’s inaugural Visionary Pioneers, received the 2016 AACN Lois nursing programs at Salisbury health nursing dedicated to a greater the Tubman & Sands Award and the cused on aging issues and healthy aging. was selected for the Sigma Theta Capps Policy Luminary Award at the University (SU) since 1995 and was understanding of the effects of intimate Leadership and Legacy Award at the Tau International Researcher Hall of association’s Fall Semiannual Meeting Karen Pelczar Hardingham, recently appointed the university’s partner violence on the physical and 19th Annual Black History Celebration BSN ’82, Fame. Her research is focused on the in October 2016 for her leadership to first Fulton Endowed Professorship emotional health of pregnant women, of Harriet R. Tubman’s Legacy in was interviewed live on WBAL-TV environment in which nurses practice, improve health care delivery in the in Geriatric Nursing in recognition of infants, and children. Nursing in recognition of 31 years of in March about how to safely store and she developed the Decisional public health sector. her extensive work in that field and dedicated support and commitment to medications out of children’s reach Involvement Scale used to measure in nursing education. In addition to Elizabeth “Ibby” Tanner, MS ’74, BSN ’70, transforming nursing education and at home. Hardingham is a clinical nurse involvement in workplace policy her work for the Integrace Institute at and Nancy Sullivan, MS ’92, BSN ’75, increasing workforce diversity. program coordinator in the UMMC and practice decisions. won the Johns Hopkins University Women’s and Children’s Department. continued on page 34 >>

30 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 31 ALUMNI PROFILE A Critical Role Karen McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81

BY PAULA NOVASH Dedicating the past three decades to Since she began at Shock Trauma Like Mother, critical-care nursing is an impressive in the mid-1980s, McQuillan has Like Daughter accomplishment. But for Karen witnessed many changes. “Improved McQuillan, MS ’86, BSN ’81, RN, CNS-BC, technologies mean we can support “My mother’s passion for nursing CCRN, CNRN, FAAN, the real reward nearly every body system now,” she was a model for my own passion is investing in nursing’s future. explains. “Injury repair is often less as a nurse,” says Megan Harmer, “It brings me a great deal of joy invasive or done in stages versus all at BSN ’13, RN, CPN, who recalls mak- to mentor future nurse leaders. By once so that patients recover faster.” ing regular visits to Shock Trauma helping them develop confidence and Other changes are a result of with her mother, Karen McQuillan. skills, I know they will make a differ- more sophisticated multidisciplinary Now Harmer is a nurse care coor- ence for many people going forward,” protocols and order sets, which allow dinator for the Chronic Pain Clinic explains McQuillan, who received nurses to implement interventions at Children’s Hospital Colorado. UMSON’s 2017 Distinguished Alumni based on specific criteria. “Today’s Her role involves care coordination Award, an annual honor in recognition regulatory landscape challenges nurses between inpatient and outpatient of dedication to excellence and excep- to ensure preventive interventions settings, as well as providing tional professional achievements. are in place,” she continues. “But the chronic pain education to patients, time and effort involved to document families, and the community. “We “Humor is invaluable, as is seeking compliance can impact the time we often meet our patients and families after long medical expe- support from family and colleagues. have to be with patients and families, which is vital to the delivery of com- riences,” she explains. “It is vital You need to take care of yourself so you passionate care. Family has become a to effectively communicate with can continue to care well for others.” more integral partner in decision- them to reassure and educate KAREN MCQUILLAN making – they can be at the bedside parents about what’s going on 24-7 and are even present during with their child.” McQuillan has made a positive resuscitation at some facilities.” Harmer previously worked in the impact on countless lives in her 30 The experience she’s gained during pediatric intensive care units at years as a trauma clinical nurse spe- her three decades in the field has the University of Maryland Medical cialist at the University of Maryland led to McQuillan’s roles as a prolific Center and Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s R Adams Cowley author, editor, and lecturer on trauma Colorado. “In whatever role, nurs- Shock Trauma Center, which she calls topics; she has also held numerous es have the autonomy to make “a fascinating place to work.” leadership positions, including lasting impacts on the nursing Dealing with a wide range of serving as president of the American profession,” she says. “You’re con- patient conditions and potential Association of Critical-Care Nurses in stantly using your brain to critically think, to benefit your patients and treatments has always been intrigu- 2015-16. What would she tell a nurse their families.” ing, McQuillan says. “I first became entering the profession today? enthralled with critical-care nursing “Ensure you find time for activities when I would pass the trauma center that are rejuvenating, and work to de- as an UMSON undergrad,” she recalls. velop resilience,” she advises. “Humor “Then, once I began working there, is invaluable, as is seeking support nurses and attending physicians from family and colleagues. You need would teach us all about trauma, to take care of yourself so you can its consequences, and treatment. I continue to care well for others.” learned so much.” GRANT GIBSON GRANT

32 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 33 CLASS NOTES A Respected Colleague ALUMNI PROFILE “Dr. Dorsey’s collabo- ration and mentorship has been of enormous benefit to many junior faculty in the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing,” Copper Ridge, where she serves part Laura Allen, MS ’15, BSN ’06, program reads the program time as a dementia educator, she has manager, Community and Public Health for the UMMC 2017 Nursing Excellence Heart H(app)y also completed the Edmond J. Safra Environmental Initiative at UMSON, Awards ceremony during Nurses Week. Lois Freeman, MS ’02, BSN ’01 Visiting Nurse Scholar program at the has been appointed to the statewide “She embodies the important role of Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, where Children’s Environmental Health a nursing leader in basic and applied she developed a formal education Protection and Advisory Council. research whose interprofessional BY KOREN Lois Freeman, DNP, MS ’02, BSN ’01, program for hospital nurses caring for practice, mentoring, and inclusion has WETMORE always wanted to be a nurse, Roderick Bowser, patients with the disease. She was also BSN ’06, is a major had positive widespread impact.” For but it was her volunteer work in in the U.S. Army and a student in the recognized with SU’s Distinguished these reasons and more, Susan Dorsey, the intensive care unit as an under- Uniformed Services University of the Faculty Award in August 2016. PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, professor, re- graduate that led to Freeman’s Health Sciences Psychiatric Mental ceived the University of Maryland School Nancy Glass, PhD ’01, received the Health Nurse Practitioner Program. specialty in cardiology. of Nursing Colleague award, presented Complex, critical-care patient cases 2017 International Achievement to a faculty member who “exemplifies Brenda Smith Nettles, MS ’06, is an “struck her fancy,” she says, and her Award from the International Council excellence as a mentor and educator.” of Nurses’ (ICN) Florence Nightingale acute care nurse practitioner at the mom’s death from heart failure in International Foundation at the ICN Johns Hopkins Hospital. She earned 1987 made the work personal. her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in May. compete again due to her own struggles in 2014 from Chatham University and with cancer; this year, she fired the Connie Ulrich, PhD ’01, has been named accepted an appointment at the Johns “ We as health care providers have failed starting pistol and cheered on more the Lillian S. Brunner Chair in Medical Hopkins School of Nursing as a clinical than 2,000 participants. at teaching patients about what heart and Surgical Nursing at the University instructor last fall. failure is and what they can do to manage of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; she Kurt Haspert, MS ’11, BSN ’09, received Rachel Hitt Onello, PhD ’15, MS ’07, it. Once patients know what they can do, is also associate professor of bioethics the Nurse Practitioner of the Year joined the University of South Carolina at the Perelman School of Medicine. award from the University of Maryland most are willing to try.”

College of Nursing as the director of its GIBSON GRANT She is recognized internationally for Baltimore Washington Medical Center, LOIS FREEMAN Clinical Simulation Lab in January. her expertise in bioethics, particularly where he has served as an addiction as it focuses on the conceptual Although we know more about or business practices. The app will practitioners. Her 17-year career has Nicole Hornbeak Ritzau, BSN ’07, medicine nurse practitioner for more development and design, measurement, heart failure today, hospitalizations educate patients about heart failure included serving as a heart failure is a clinical manager at the National than four years. analysis, and interpretation of the educator, a provider with the VA’s Institutes of Health in Bethesda, due to the condition have tripled, and – including what symptoms merit a impact ethical issues have on health Karen Swisher Kesten, DNP ’09, was Maryland. She is certified in blood and it still claims the lives of more than call to a provider – and enable them Home Telehealth program, and a care providers and outcomes of care. appointed senior associate dean for marrow transplant through Oncology 300,000 people a year. A key tactic in to track their weight, blood pressure, sub-investigator for clinical trials of academic affairs and associate professor Nursing Certification Corp. reducing these numbers is patient ed- activity, and sodium intake. It will cardiac devices and drugs – including of nursing at the George Washington Lifesaver ucation. “We as health care providers even remind them when to take their a study that led to better hyper- Paul Thurman, MS ’07, a clinical nurse University School of Nursing. Patti Jones, MS ’11, have failed at teaching patients about medications. The app will also inte- tension medications for African- specialist at UMMC’s R Adams Cowley was on vacation in what heart failure is and what they grate with MyHealtheVet, an online American patients. Shock Trauma Center, was one of 25 Omaha, Nebraska, can do to manage it,” says Freeman, portal that allows VA patients to send Freeman also serves as chair of nurses who received the American 2010s in summer 2016 a telehealth and primary care nurse secure messages to their provider. the VA Maryland Advanced Practice Association of Critical-Care Nurses when she saw a small Council, where she leads a group of Circle of Excellence Award in May in Stephan Davis, BSN ’11, director, practitioner and heart failure educa- “They can send messages about child floating face recognition of excellence in the care of academic partnerships, WellStar Health tor for the Veterans Administration any changes in their experience,” 76 advanced practice nurses, and down and lifeless in acutely and critically ill patients and System in Atlanta, Georgia, gave a (VA) Maryland Health Care System in Freeman says. “Their doctor, then, presents at national conferences a pool. She picked their families. presentation on March 8 to UMSON Baltimore. “Once patients know what may adjust their medication or take such as the Nurses Organization of her up and then saw students about career opportunities at they can do, most are willing to try.” other action that can keep these Veterans Affairs annual meeting. another small child Matthew Morris, MS ’10, BSN ’08, his organization. She encourages colleagues and floating nearby. She Freeman’s idea for a smartphone patients from having unnecessary was named director of nursing for the signaled a lifeguard, who pulled the app aims to put that knowledge and emergency room visits or admissions.” future nursing professionals to persist departments of Surgery and Physical Hannah Tolley, MS ’16, BSN ’11, is other victim out of the pool. Both Jones power in patients’ hands. Her project, Expected to be ready within two when presenting their ideas. Freeman Medicine and Rehabilitation at the a simulation training specialist at and the lifeguard began intensive CPR the Heart Failure Mobile App, was years, the app will be piloted first in entered the annual innovation contest Johns Hopkins Hospital. UMSON. She also works as a clinical on the two children. Due to their rapid nurse II in the labor and delivery unit one of 15 that won development the VA’s Maryland facilities and at three times – with three different response and clinical training, they were Denise Choiniere, MS ’09, was at UMMC. funding from approximately 4,000 rural sites in West Virginia. After that, ideas – before receiving an award. able to save the lives of two sisters, ages featured in an article in the Howard entries in the VA’s 2016 Employee it will be rolled out nationwide. “Nurses have made some significant 3 and 4, who had wandered into the County Times about the Maryland Half Christy Dryer, MS ’12, was appointed Innovation Contest, which awards The project is one of several contributions to health care,” she pool without their parents’ knowledge. Marathon & 5K, held May 13 to benefit acting vice president for academic up to $1 million to develop and pilot ways Freeman is doing her part to says. “If you have an idea, step out Both sisters were transported in stable the University of Maryland Marlene and programs at Cecil College in North programs to improve health care educate and empower patients and and follow it through.” condition to the Children’s Hospital and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive East, Maryland, where she previously Medical Center in Omaha. Cancer Center. Choiniere ran the half served as the dean of nursing and marathon in 2011 but was unable to health professions.

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In Memoriam Alumni Council Living History Museum Reunion Recap 2017 Nominate yourself or a fellow Volunteer as a docent and Cora Storey Webb, DIN ’44 alumnus for election to a position share the history of the Lenora Miller McKenzie, DIN ’45 On April 29, alumni who earned BSN, CNL, Agnes Valentine Zimmerman, DIN ’45 or DIN degrees returned to the University of on the Alumni Council, which School and the nursing Ann Cochran Hubbard, DIN ’47 Maryland School of Nursing to reunite with provides opportunities for you to profession with visitors on Thelma I. Kleckner, MS ’74, BSN ’72, classmates and friends from class years strengthen your relationship with Tuesdays and Wednesdays DIN ’47 ending in 2 or 7 and to renew their pride UMSON. You can also serve on from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Marilyn Collier Haddenhorst, DIN ’48 in their alma mater. The 76 alumni and a committee that matches your Jean Warfield Keenan,DIN ’48 guests in attendance included members of Ethel K. Chin, DIN ’50 interests and talents. the Class of 1967, (top right) celebrating Wanda G. Basarab, DIN ’51 their 50th reunion, who were inducted into Ann Riecks Davis, DIN ’52 UMSON’s Heritage Class. Additionally, two Miriam H. Dorey, BSN ’52 Open House Elaine Prince Gerlach, DIN ’53 alumnae, Rusty Brandon, DIN ’47, and Represent the program from Judith C. McAdams, BSN ’55 Jane Brown Johnson, DIN ’47, (bottom Alumni Speaker Series June Cole Hardesty, BSN ’56 right, left to right) came to celebrate an which you graduated at Helen Hergert Tesher, BSN ’56 impressive 70 years since graduating. Join a panel of alumni each spring and fall open houses Barbara Duvall Asplen, BSN ’57 Student speakers Dominque Duval, semester that speaks to students for prospective students. Mary Reynolds Turner, MS ’69, BSN ’59 BSN ’17, and Jessica Shapiro, Clinical about career development. Mary N. Kuntz, MS ’63 Nurse Leader Class of 2018, shared their Janis Orleans Brown, BSN ’66 inspiration for becoming nurses and their Ernestine Goodwin Turner, BSN ’67 appreciation for the scholarship support Linda L. Folsom, BSN ’69 they have received. Maria Helga Downes, MS ’71 Community Service Project Helen J. Sanford, MS ’72 Speed Networking Program Participate in community Mildred E. Klineyoung, MS ’74 Quick! Provide rapid advice service programs at Janice F. Rieve, MS ’76 and recommendations to My Sister’s Place and Margaret K. Peterson, BSN ’79 University of Maryland Edna M. Wolf Grimes, MS ’08, BSN ’80 entry-to-practice Bachelor of Paul’s Place in Baltimore. Mary Kay Ratigan, BSN ’82 Science in Nursing (BSN) School of Nursing volunteers Frances V. Black, MS ’10, BSN ’88 and Clinical Nurse Leader can share their time and talent Lori J. Kozlowski, MS ’88 (CNL) students about their Elizabeth K. Rhodes, MS ’00 how and when they choose. professional development. This list includes notices the We’ve highlighted some of Preceptor/Adjunct Faculty School of Nursing received from the ways in which you can get If you have a passion for Jan. 5 – May 19, 2017. involved and make a positive teaching, we’re looking for master’s- and doctoral-prepared Reunion impact on UMSON, but if you’re UMSON Alumni Association nurses to precept advanced Elects New Members If you earned a BSN or DIN not sure where to begin, degree students and to provide degree, you can assist with contact the Office of Development clinical instruction to BSN Congratulations to the following outreach to your classmates, and CNL students and UMSON Alumni Association members, and Alumni Relations at fundraising, and logistics teach select undergraduate who began their two-year terms on the [email protected] Alumni Council as of July 1: for your milestone reunion and graduate didactic (every five years). or 410-706-7640. courses as adjunct faculty. Carmel McComiskey, VIEW A GALLERY DNP ’10, MS ’96, President of 2017 Alumni Reunion Beth Ann Martucci, photos at www.flickr.com/ Want the scoop from UMSON? DNP ’10, MS ’99, BSN ’96, Vice President maryland-nursing Visit www.nursing.umaryland.edu/classnotes And members-at-large: to update your email address, PHOTOGRAPHY: LARRY CANNER Tamara Hill, DNP ’17, MS ’10 and we’ll send you e-for|um, Constance Rose, MS ’10 our monthly newsletter.

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Sigma Theta Tau Pi Home and Chapter Inductions Community Based Save the Dates   Care Symposium USG, April 4 The Essential Competencies of Preceptors: UMSON, April 24 A Focus on Working with Nursing Students Baltimore, April 3  ongoing (online, self-paced modules) nursing.umaryland.edu/onlineCE

Interprofessional Pharmacology Lecture Series Sept. 19, 2017: When Beliefs Make You Sick: What is the Nocebo Effect?

Maryland Action Nov. 14, 2017 Coalition Retreat Nocebo Effects: Preventing and Leadership Unintended and Harmful Side Effects White Coat Summit  Ceremonies nursing.umaryland.edu/pharmalectures UMSON, May 22 Baltimore,   National Nurse-Led Care Conference Jan. 31 Oct. 23-25, 2017 www.nncc.us

Fourth Annual Interprofessional Forum on Ethics and Religion in Health Care: Unravelling Substance Use Disorders Nov. 7, 2017 Donor USG, Feb. 21  nursing.umaryland.edu/professionaledevents Appreciation  the home of Janet S. A Special Evening for UMB Alumni with Owens, University of The New York Times Columnist Frank Bruni Maryland, Baltimore Nov. 9, 2017 Foundation trustee, www.umaryland.edu/special-alumni-event June 7 Third Annual CACPR Symposium:  Dean’s Lecture Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions & Stress and Reception Nov. 17, 2017 National Institutes umaryland.edu/cacpr of Health, April 4 12th Annual Nurse Practitioner and Living History Physician Assistant Clinical Conference  Interprofessional Museum Education Days Volunteer Docent Nov. 29, 2017 Appreciation  UMSON, April 5 December Graduations Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Dec. 15, 2017 (Universities at Shady Grove) Clock Tower, June 2 Dec. 18, 2017 (Baltimore) Summer Institute in nursing.umaryland.edu/graduation Nursing Informatics July 11-14  All-Alumni Reunion Celebration Alumni and Student  April 27-28, 2018 Speed Networking nursing.umaryland.edu/alumnievents USG, April 25 All alumni are invited to attend. A 50th-anniversary class lunch will be held April 27.

38 • NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA GUZMAN AGUILAR, JAY BAKER, RICHARD LIPPENHOLZ, KEVIN NASH, CYNTHIA SIKORSKI NURSING FOR/UM • FALL 2017 • 39 “The Shermans’ gift Alumni Couple Honor Roll of Donors bold: Louisa Parsons Legacy Society will build upon the † Cornerstone Club, recognizing Funds $1.5M JULY 1, 2016 – JUNE 30, 2017 those who have dontated to University’s ongoing work UMSON for 20 years or more in interdisciplinary and Innovation Center * deceased team-based health care As one of four students in UMSON’s delivery and research.” first graduating class of PhD students, JANE KIRSCHLING Jane Sherman, PhD ’85, knows well the The annual Honor Roll of Donors recognizes alumni, students, Elizabeth G. O’Connell, MS ’74, Douglas K. Loizeaux value of innovative research and inter- faculty, staff, parents, and friends who have contributed BSN ’73† Peggy Riddle Maher, BSN ’82 disciplinary learning to health care. $100 or more to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Joyce A. Parks, DNP ’14, MS ’93 Myrna E. Mamaril, MS ’93 In February, the University of July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017. A list of all donors is available online E. Albert Reece Carmel A. McComiskey, DNP ’10, Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) announced at nursing.umaryland.edu/honorroll. Sigma Theta Tau International MS ’96 Pi Chapter Sandra W. McLeskey a $1.5 million gift from Sherman and As we are unable to confirm all donors’ credentials, only UMSON degrees Howard L. Sollins and Barbara M. Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62 her husband, Richard Sherman, MD, and graduation years are included. Resnick, PhD ’96† John B. Montgomery and Kathryn L. an alumnus of the University of Montgomery, PhD ’97 Maryland School of Medicine, to $2,500-$4,999 Rosemary Noble, BSN ’66 establish the Richard and Jane Sherman Oral Health Nursing and $1,000,000 and up Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98 Melissa D. Douglas, MS ’10 Center for Health Care Innovation Education Practice Fairfield Community Foundation Jeanette Jones, MS ’70 Bedford Falls Foundation Jane F. Preto and John M. Preto, at UMB’s Health Sciences and Human Rob Walker Freer and Kathryn Mosaic Group Advance Services Library. Charitable Trust MS ’82, BSN ’77 Patchen Freer, BSN ’74† Elizabeth A. Ness, MS ’93 Elizabeth Boyer Reeder The couple saw a need for changes Judith A. Freitag, BSN ’77 John Niemyer and Elizabeth S. $500,000–$999,999 Judy A. Reitz, MSN ’76, BSN ’71 Recently, I faced a significant in a health care system that has William F. and Caroline Hilgenberg Niemyer, BSN ’78 Gina D. Rowe, PhD ’13, DNP ’10 health challenge that required been cluttered by a check-the-box University of Maryland Foundation Marla T. Oros, BSN ’84 Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68† surgery. I have worked for the Medical System Henrietta D. Hubbard, BSN ’73 Harriet E. Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, mentality that employs people who Christine K. Shippen, MS ’98, James L. Hughes and BSN ’68 University of Maryland School of get between doctor and patient. To BSN ’73† $250,000–$499,999 Malinda Hughes T. Rowe Price Foundation Nursing for almost 10 years, so combat this, the center is designed Martha J. Shively, BSN ’72 Richard Huss and Karen Huss, it did not come as a surprise to to be an environment in which Mary Catherine Bunting, MS ’72 Cynthia C. Sikorski MS ’75, BSN ’69 $1,000-$2,499 me that the nurses with whom Claudia M. Smith, BSN ’65 students, providers, and others can Bruce E. Jarrell $100,000-$249,999 Nellie C. Bailey, MS ’93 Harold W. Smith, MS ’77, BSN ’72† I came into contact during my come together to innovate means to William S. Kiser and Eugenia Kiser, Benevity Community Impact Fund Joan M. Stanley, MS ’78 treatment were amazing. improving patient-provider-focused Robert Wood Johnson Foundation DIN ’47 Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69 Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71 As I was wheeled into the health care. To facilitate, the center Brad H. Lamson-Scribner and Charon M. Burda, DNP ’16, MS ’03 Rodney E. Taylor operating room, I began to feel anxious, and I – as I am offers centralized resources, including $50,000–$99,999 Joyce Willens, PhD ’94 Ann Ottney Cain† Sandra B. Warner, BSN ’60 known to do in almost any health care setting – asked, Richard E. Llewellyn and software with sources of academic, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Donna Chambers Richard P. Wenzel and Jo Gail “Did anyone here graduate from Maryland?” There Julia A. Llewellyn corporate, and scientific material. for Childhood Cancer Patricia I. Christensen, DNP ’14 Wenzel, BSN ’67 Frank E. and Miriam Loveman were no more than four nurses in the room, and one of “The Shermans’ gift will build upon Shirley E. Callahan, BSN ’52* Cecil J. Clark Jr., MS ’90† Foundation them said she had graduated from UMSON in the ’70s. the University’s ongoing work in inter- Susan Gillette Maxine Clark $500-$999 Ann B. Mech, MS ’78, BSN ’76 She asked what I did there, and I said, “I’m in charge Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence Community Foundation of disciplinary and team-based health care Mary Etta C. Mills, MS ’73, BSN ’71† Kathleen M. Barlow, PhD ’13, of fundraising, but don’t worry, I’m off today!” The entire Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77† Frederick County delivery and research,” said Dean Jane Barbara J. Parker, PhD ’86, MS ’76 MS ’92, BSN ’81 Joan Carter Conway operating room team burst out laughing, and that Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, University Malinda M. Peeples, MS ’97 Shawn C. Becker, MS ’05, BSN ’93 $25,000-$49,999 Carla M. Cunningham, BSN ’71 made me relax. director, interprofessional education. “It Jay A. Perman Marita S. Bowden, BSN ’66 Emilie M. Deady, BSN ’72† Realizing that I was nervous, one of the nurses will provide significant new resources American Association of Lisa Rowen, MS ’86 Blanche R. Brown, DNP ’15 District 2 Maryland Nurses squeezed my shoulder. As I began to drift off to sleep, Colleges of Nursing Virginia K. Saba Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91† and tools to spur creative thinking and Association Michael S. Gering The Herman and Walter Samuelson Sally F. Chow, BSN ’59 she squeezed it again to comfort me. There was no doubt innovation. We are deeply grateful to Hyacinth M. Dunstan Mildred S. Kreider, MS ’68† Foundation Linda K. Cook, PhD ’05, MS ’97 in my mind that she was highly competent, yet it was the Shermans for their commitment to Richard L. Evans Jr., MS ’00 Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69† Spencer R. Schron and Eleanor B. Linda Costa, BSN ’76 her compassion, her human touch, that meant the world creating an environment where new Bradley T. Foote and Barbara Foote Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71† Schron, PhD ’08, MS ’79 Linda K. Diaconis, MS ’95, BSN ’92 to me at that moment. ideas will thrive.” Mary A. Fullerton-Morgan, BSN ’74 Thomas S. Paullin Sue Song Janice M. DiGrazia, BSN ’81 I continue to be in awe of the nursing profession and M. Chris Gibbons Jeffrey A. Rivest and Michelle M. Sandra J. Sundeen, MS ’68† Inez Haynie Dodson Sonya G. Goodman, MS ’79, am truly honored to raise much-needed funds for this Rivest, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, Helen Endo BSN ’73† extraordinary nursing school – one that contributes so Peter Tancredi and Susan L. BSN ’66 Mary C. Feliciano, MS ’79, BSN ’75 Judah S. Gudelsky much to the field. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69 Lawrence Goldstein and Dinah L. Halopka-Ryson, BSN ’74† $5,000-$9,999 Rosa R. Goldstein, BSN ’58 Donna S. Havens, PhD ’91 $10,000-$24,999 Bridgitte C. Gourley, DNP ’08 Estate of Clarence Q. Bunderman Joseph B. Haymore, DNP ’16 Patricia A. Grady, MS ’68 Janet D. Allan and Beverly Hall and E.L. Bunderman, DIN ’31 Sharon Haynie Caroline S. Hadley, MS ’97 Laurette L. Hankins Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74 CVS Health Foundation Carlessia A. Hussein Trudu Hall Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations Sara K. Barger, BSN ’67 Allison D. Davis, PhD ’06, MS ’03, Louise S. Jenkins, PhD ’85, MS ’81† Laurette L. Hankins [email protected] Marjorie Stamler Bergemann BSN ’02 Mary C. Kelly and Joseph H. Kelly, Karen A. Jeffries, MS ’91 John Bing Emily P. Deitrick, BSN ’68 MS ’85, BSN ’77 Beatrice J. Kalisch, MS ’67 Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, BSN ’65† Michelle Gonzalez Jo Anne E. King, MS ’03, BSN ’80 Pamela A. Lentz, MS ’00, BSN ’84 Charles R. Clark and Kathleen A. Jane M. Kirschling Ruth J. Lee, DNP ’10, MS ’04 Shirley J. 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Susan M. Wilby, BSN ’73† Sarpomaa S. Nyantakyi, BSN ’97 Andrea Caldwell Berndt, MS ’89 Patricia L. Dorio, BSN ’95 The School of Nursing’s Legacy Society is named in honor of Janice L. Wilson, DNP ’09, MS ’95, Killian M. O’Donnell, MS ’98, Alexandra Berweiler, BSN ’99 Donna M. Dorsey, MS ’75† pioneering nurse and philanthropist Louisa Parsons, the University BSN ’74 BSN ’95 Mary Griffin Bey, BSN ’75 Dorothy Douglas, BSN ’67 of Maryland School of Nursing’s first superintendent; she made the May C. Wong, MS ’74 Mildred D. Owens Susan H. Blevins, BSN ’71 Barbara A. Dralnick, MS ’72 first planned gift to the School in 1916. The Louisa Parsons Legacy Susan Wozenski Laura J. Owenson Derryl E. Block, BSN ’75 Christy V. Dryer, DNP ’12 Society comprises people who, like Parsons, are committed to Robert Pecoraro Janet E. Bochinski, BSN ’75 Ana C. Duarte, MS ’09, BSN ’06 $250-$499 Margaret A. Pedersen, BSN ’74 Barbara K. Boland, MS ’73 Michelle H. Duell, DNP ’11 supporting future generations of students and nurses by providing Mary Kay Ratigan, BSN ’82* Nancy M. Bonalumi, MS ’95 Patricia A. Dumler, BSN ’83 funding for scholarships, research, faculty positions, and other Cecilia B. Abbott, BSN ’67† Katherine J. Reichelt, BSN ’64 Zoe M. Bouchelle, BSN ’71 Bernadette R. Durkin, MS ’88, critical needs. Joining the Louisa Parsons Legacy Society allows Brenda M. Afzal, MS ’99, BSN ’98 Barbara A. Reville, DNP ’11 Deborah L. Bowers, BSN ’78 BSN ’84 you to make a significant difference to future nursing students “Supporting the School of Nursing is Kimberlie A. Biever, MS ’07, MS ’00 Miriam G. Rothchild, MS ’60† Bowie Counseling Services Nancy L. Eaton, MS ’93, BSN ’75 my way of expressing appreciation Carol M. Blum, BSN ’74 without impacting your current lifestyle. Salina Sarma, BSN ’15 Margaret A. Bradford, MS ’76, Kathleen F. Edwards, BSN ’67 for the education that has defined Kathleen K. Boyd, BSN ’89 To learn more about making a planned gift, contact Laurette Hankins, Karen E. Scheu, DNP ’12 BSN ’74† Eliasberg Family Foundation my career in nursing health policy. Georgia Boyer, BSN ’61† associate dean for development and alumni relations, Marilyn S. Schmitter, BSN ’64 Anita N. Bragaw, MS ’95 Ann Louise Ellenson, BSN ’70 As a registered nurse handling Suzanne M. Grieve Brauer, MS ’74 at [email protected] or 410-706-7640. Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi Sally D. Brown, BSN ’74 Imogene S. Fagley-Combs, BSN ’69† critically ill patients, to a BSN Mary M. Breach, MS ’72 Jane M. Shaab Ann Davidson Bruce, BSN ’63† Marjorie Fass performing a major role in patient Jeffrey S. Cain Louis A. Shpritz and Deborah K. Charles Bruns and Tanisha L. Bruns, Donna M. Feickert-Eichna, BSN ’73 safety efforts, to a master’s- George Collins Estate of Robert Ageton Debbie Gilbert Glassman, Charlene M. Passmore, BSN ’77 Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78 BSN ’07 Mary K. Fey, PhD ’14, MS ’01 prepared nurse with a global public Lynne M. Connelly, MS ’78, BSN ’76 and Myrtle Ageton, DIN ’44 MS ’79, BSN ’75 Thomas S. Paullin Tyrone Taborn Susan H. Brunssen, BSN ’71 Carolyn W. Fitzgerald, BSN ’78† health organization, I credit the Joanne F. Damon, BSN ’68 Janet D. Allan Judah Gudelsky Ann E. Roberts, BSN ’93 Donald M. Tilghman and Debra T. Barbara J. Bungard, MS ’11 Karen A. Flanagan, MS ’13 University of Maryland School of Suzanne S. Davis, MS ’12 Anonymous Carolyn Cook Handa, BSN ’63 Estate of Margaret Robinson Tilghman, MS ’94 Ann C. Burgess, MS ’59 Judith G. Flemmens, BSN ’67 Nursing for affording me educa- Mary Lynn Davis-Ajami Floraine B. Applefeld Sharon Hanopole, BSN ’66 Linda E. Rose, PhD ’92 Luis Valencia and Isabel Valencia Colleen M. Burke, BSN ’77 Dorrie K. Fontaine, MS ’77† tional opportunities for success.” Marla J. De Jong, MS ’96 Estate of Carolyn V. Arnold Barbara R. Heller Estate of Amelia Carol Sanders, Kathleen T. Villemi, BSN ’85 Rose M. Burke, BSN ’74 Jessica Fouse, BSN ’11 Crystal L. DeVance-Wilson, MS ’06, Estate of Zabelle S. Howard Beard Estate of Marie L. Hesselbach DIN ’53 Shawn Becker, MS ’05, BSN ’93 Joan I. Warren, PhD ’04, MS ’88† Vicki L. Burt, BSN ’73 Evelyn E. Fowler, DIN ’43 BSN ’00 Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96 Estate of Kjerstine K. Hoffman, Patricia A. Saunders, BSN ’68 Myron Weisfeldt Tara Byrd Edward G. Frank and Adalyn G. Lynda Dee Ann F. Bennett, MS ’69 DIN ’47 Estate of William Donald Schaefer Mary L. Wetter, MS ’92 April A. Campbell, BSN ’91† Frank, MS ’95, BSN ’93 Jan M. Disantostefano, MS ’93 Marjorie Stamler Bergemann Carol A. Huebner, PhD ’90 Phyllis J. Scharp, BSN ’50 Romona V. Lewis, BSN ’76 Katharine Wheaton, BSN ’15 Carol W. Capozzoli, BSN ’67† Pamela Frankel, MS ’86 Sharon L. Dudley-Brown, PhD ’95 Jean L. Bloom, DIN ’46 Margaret H. Iles, DIN ’53 Sandra Schoenfisch, MS ’76 Beth A. Martucci, DNP ’10, MS ’99, Joseph Whittaker Cynthia A. Carbo, BSN ’78 Joe T. Franklin Jr. and Sandra Dunnington, BSN ’76 Estate of Mary J. Brewer Catherine Ingle, BSN ’61 W. Winslow Schrank and BSN ’96 Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, Mildred M. Carpenter, BSN ’69 Patricia D. Franklin Nancy Eason, BSN ’75 Estate of Clarence Q. Bunderman Estate of Mary McCotter Jackson Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68 Mary Lee S. Matthews, BSN ’50† BSN ’75 Shirley A. Carpenter, BSN ’74† Nancy Fraser, MS ’88 Eastern Shore Dental Implant Center and E.L. Bunderman, DIN ’31 Jeanette Jones, MS ’70 Estate of Beverly Seeley Thomas P. Miles and Margaret K. Stephen J. Yermal, BSN ’81 Marco A. Chacon and Debbie Chacon Adelina B. Gage-Kelly, BSN ’79 Shirley B. Edwards, MSN ’80, Ann Ottney Cain Estate of Jean W. Keenan, DIN ’48 Louis A. Shpritz and Deborah K. Miles, BSN ’70 Donald Joseph Charney and Elizabeth M. Galik, PhD ’07 Estate of Dorothy C. Calafiore, Anita M. Langford, MS ’79, BSN ’77 Shpritz, MS ’82, BSN ’78 BSN ’78† $100-$249 Betty Jane Mincemoyer, DIN ’48† Rita K. Charney, BSN ’82 Denise C. Geiger, BSN ’79 Renee A. Franquiz, DNP ’16, MS ’90, BSN ’51 Jack C. Lewis and Estate of Betty Lou Shubkagel, Athol Morgan Priscilla Chatman Robin L. Getzendanner, BSN ’91 BSN ’86 Christine L. Abelein, MS ’92 Estate of Shirley E. Callahan, Cynthia P. Lewis, BSN ’58 BSN ’54 Basil Morgan Roger S. Clark Kathryn A. Gibson, MS ’67 Wanona S. Fritz, MS ’78 Teresa Acquaviva, BSN ’78 BSN ’52 Estate of Ann Madison, BSN ’62 Estate of Anna Mae Slacum John S. Morton III and Patricia G. Jane B. Clemmens, DIN ’50 Kathryn M. Gift, DNP ’14 Johnny C. Gayden, MS ’14, BSN ’10 Beatrice V. Adderley-Kelly, MS ’71 Sharon A. Childs, MS ’91 Mildred Madsen, BSN ’73 Estate of Marie V. Stimpson, Morton, PhD ’89, MS ’79† Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72† Robyn C. Gilden, PhD ’10, MS ’01 Traci L. Gore, MS ’11 Judith B. Akoh-Arrey, BSN ’99 Avon B. Chisholm Myrna Mamaril, MS ’93 MS ’89, BSN ’84 Donovan Murphy Anne H. Cole, BSN ’67† Josephine N. Gillen, BSN ’56 Ann B. Hamric, PhD ’96 Marlon J. Alafriz, BSN ’78 Marlene H. Cianci, MS ’66, Estate of Lois Marriott Jacquelyn M. Jones Stone, MS ’71 Charlotte E. Naschinski, MS ’82 Frona S. Colker, MS ’74 Vicki L. Gillmore, PhD ’90, MS ’77, James A. Handa and Carolyn Cook Laura L. Allen, MS ’15, BSN ’06 BSN ’65 Joan Nicholason Martellotto, Ginger V. Swisher, DIN ’49 Allan S. Noonan and Barbara L. Conrad, BSN ’73† BSN ’76† Handa, BSN ’63 Lisa Allman, BSN ’93 Estate of Gladys B. Clagett and BSN ’66 Shirley B. Teffeau, BSN ’55 Martha P. Noonan Karen A. Cook-Henderson, BSN ’72 Helen E. Gilmer, BSN ’68† Carol Ann Helfrich, BSN ’67 Cheryl A. Andrews, MS ’99, BSN ’77 Lansdale G. Clagett Margaret A. McEntee, MS ’73 Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas, Robert Patchen Maura P. Cornell, BSN ’80† Debbie Gilbert Glassman, MS ’79, Beadie L. Holden, BSN ’77 Albert Annan Estate of Bonnie L. Closson, Estate of Wealtha McGurn BSN ’66 Jerry F. Pelch Jr. and Kathleen Pelch, Ruth M. Craig, MS ’73† BSN ’75 Jay Jalisi Patricia D. Balassone, MS ’79, BSN ’61 Beverly J. Meadows, PhD ’06, Virginia D. Thorson, BSN ’55 BSN ’77 Joan L. Creasia, PhD ’87 Warrene J. Goldman, BSN ’66 Sandra Jensen, MS ’70 BSN ’74 Claudette C. Clunan, BSN ’72 MS ’84, BSN ’69 Estate of Norma C. Tinker, Annelle B. Primm P. Dale Every Creighton, BSN ’58 Antoinette M. Gonzalez, BSN ’55 Lou Ann Race Kellner, BSN ’78 Betsy A. Bampton, MS ’65 Steven S. Cohen Norma J. Melcolm, MS ’69 BSN ’48 Raymond James Charitable Mary Fran W. Crimone, MS ’77 Beverly C. Gordy, BSN ’57 Donald W. Krause and Jeanne B. Diana J. Banzhoff, MS ’91 Regina M. Cusson, MS ’79 Joan L. Meredith, BSN ’62 Estate of Martha C. Trate, Endowment Fund Darlene J. Curley, MS ’82, BSN ’80 Mary J. Graham, MS ’80† Krause, BSN ’68 Nancy Bateman Estate of Mary Jane Custer Sharon L. Michael, BSN ’71 BSN ’48 Jeffrey H. Rea Leslie W. Daugherty, BSN ’75 Claire P. Greenhouse, BSN ’66† Loree S. La Chance, BSN ’89 Georgene V. Batz, BSN ’72 Carol Distasio, MS ’73 Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73 Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80 Carol A. Romano, PhD ’93, MS ’85, Joan M. Davenport, PhD ’00 Leigh A. Grill, BSN ’86 Suzanne M. Labansky, BSN ’68 Barbara Baumann, DIN ’50† Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98 Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD ’89, Robin Varker, BSN ’75 BSN ’77 Charlotte E. Davies, MS ’68 Pamela E. Grimes, BSN ’92 Diane T. Langford, BSN ’75 Deborah S. Beatty, MS ’96 Francis D. Drake and MS ’79 Joella D. Warner, MS ’70, BSN ’64 Faye Royale-Larkins Janice E. Davis, MS ’02, BSN ’88 Cecelia M. Grindel, PhD ’88† Nancy B. Lerner, DNP ’10, MSN ’74, Janet M. Beebe, MS ’99 Carol Drake, BSN ’68 John Murphy and Marilyn S. Estate of Helen Parker Wear W. Winslow Schrank and Linda L. Davis, PhD ’84† Veronica A. Gutchell, DNP ’13 BSN ’66 Mary Bell Celeste A. Dye, BSN ’66 Murphy, MS ’01 John H. Webb and Doris Pamela Schrank, BSN ’68† Amanda H. D’Erasmo, BSN ’95 Anne Owings Hacker, BSN ’57 Lauri J. Lonberger, MS ’85, BSN ’77 Monica Belle Lura Jane Emery, MS ’79 Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, Baumgardner Webb, BSN ’59 Margaret E. Trimble, BSN ’67 Marsha H. DeWeese, MS ’93 Bonnie M. Hagerty, MS ’77† Nancy J. Madej Wanda Belle Julie C. Fortier, MS ’68 BSN ’73 Margaret C. Wilmoth, MS ’79, Marion Burns Tuck, MS ’80† Valerie DeWeese, BSN ’81† J. Taylor Harden, MSN ’77, BSN ’72 Pat McLaine Joyce Bellis Beth Ann Gan, BSN ’77 Daniel J. O’Neal III, BSN ’66 BSN ’75 Robin Varker, BSN ’75† Ellen P. Doctor, BSN ’59 Marcia C. Harton, DNP ’12 Karen A. McQuillan, MS ’86, Abbe R. Bendell, BSN ’74 Mary H. Gilley, DIN ’44 Harriet Palmer-Willis, MS ’70, Estate of Patricia Yow Wells Fargo Foundation Margaret A. Dooling, MS ’80 Michele D. Heacox, MS ’93† BSN ’81† Joan R. Benfield, MS ’92, BSN ’89† BSN ’68 Carol Wike, BSN ’66 Kelly Doran, PhD ’11, MS ’08 continued on page 44 >> Vannesia D. Morgan-Smith, BSN ’80† Edna J.K. Benware, BSN ’76†

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Gail G. Kestler, BSN ’71† Nancy J. Miller, BSN ’73 Phyllis W. Sharps, PhD ’88, BSN ’70† Janis Kilmer, BSN ’57 Ruby Mills Bernice Sigman Barbara J. Kinder, MS ’74 Laurie H. Mindek, MS ’78 Susan E. Simms, BSN ’78 Katherine A. Kingsford, BSN ’75 Diane E. Minear, BSN ’69 Michael W. Skojec and Diane V. Carolyn C. Knight, BSN ’70 Marik A. Moen Skojec, DNP ’10, MS ’01, BSN ’00 Margaret A. Tangires Koenig, Tracie L. Morgan, DNP ’10, MS ’00 Christina Smith, BSN ’13 BSN ’84 Kathi Morra GeorgeAnna Smith, BSN ’55 Rita M. Koenig, BSN ’95 Glenda B. Motta, BSN ’71 Timothy King Smith and Thomas W. Koenig, BSN ’84 Linda A. Murray, DNP ’16, MS ’84 Elizabeth P. Smith, MS ’99 “ During my studies, I learned strat- Shirlee Koons, BSN ’61 Gail S. Myers, BSN ’69 Jeanine Soliman, MS ’09 egies for using evidence and best John L. Kreiner IV Marina V. Needham, MS ’06, BSN ’98 Sharon Solomon practice to inform administrative Gaby Kuperman, BSN ’72 Carolyn Nganga-Good, MS ’07, Laura M. Sorkin, MS ’96, BSN ’91† and clinical decisions. I continue to Howard K. Kurman and BSN ’05 Janet R. Southby, MS ’71† use those skills in the professional Roslyn Kurman, BSN ’73 Yan Ni, BSN ’14 Anne M. Sparks, BSN ’77 practice environment. I am happy Gwendolyn M. Kurtz, MS ’76 Shalewa Noel-Thomas Barbara J. Speller-Brown, DNP ’13 to make a contribution to the DNP Nancy Lamb, MS ’98 Karin T. Nudo, MS ’04, BSN ’93 Eula D. Spratley, BSN ’68 scholarship fund as my small way Linda S. Lammeree, BSN ’94 Maidana K. Nunn, BSN ’63 Sawyer E. Spurry, MS ’16 of saying thank you for a wonderful Raymond G. LaPlaca* and Susan K. O’Connell, BSN ’77 Gena Stiver Stanek, MS ’85, BSN ’80 educational experience.” Rose C. LaPlaca, BSN ’81† Shinsil Oh, BSN ’11 Rebecca S. Stanevich, BSN ’73 Caterina E. Lasome, PhD ’08 Patricia A. O’Hare, MS ’76† Audrey J. Stansbury, BSN ’91 Patricia Christensen, DNP ’14 Eve L. Layman, BSN ’73 Diane E. Olechna, MS ’00 Jean P. Staples, BSN ’68† Alyce Lipps Lazarevich, BSN ’75 Clara Olivas, MS ’67 Martha E. Stauffer Angela L. Lee, MS ’93 Promise Olomo, DNP ’17 Marilyn L. Steffel, MS ’70 $100 to $249 (continued) Jennifer Lee Samson A. Omotosho, PhD ’98 Madeline Stier, BSN ’68 Gail Schoen Lemaire, PhD ’96 Archana D. Patel, MS ’01, BSN ’96 Josephine M. Strauss, BSN ’71† Rita C. Hendershot, BSN ’69 Milda Monteith Lewis, BSN ’80 Jeanne W. Patten, DIN ’53† Nancy Sullivan, BSN ’67 Donna C. Herndon, BSN ’69 Carol A. Libonati, MS ’86, BSN ’68 Beverly J. Paulk, BSN ’65 Zane Beller Szurgot, BSN ’75† Carole Ann Hill, MS ’81, BSN ’71 Maye L. Liebeck, MS ’66 Anne Griswold Peirce, PhD ’87 Jane L. Talbott, BSN ’66 Eileen B. Hollander, MS ’89, Katherine N. Linden, BSN ’77 Joseph Pellegrini Edward J. Tanner Jr.* and Elizabeth BSN ’83† Judith D. Lobis, BSN ’67 Laura P. Pendley, BSN ’87 K. Tanner, MS ’74, BSN ’70 Kristine R. Holmes, BSN ’74 Jennifer T. Loud, DNP ’08 Georgia L. Perdue, DNP ’10 Barbara N. Terry, BSN ’71† Ruth J. Honnas, BSN ’74† Nancy Lougheed, BSN ’61 Pfizer Foundation Carol E. Tessman, BSN ’67 Carol M. Hosfeld, DIN ’50* Marianne T. Lynch, BSN ’03 Regina Phillips, MS ’79 Sheila T. Todd, BSN ’78 Jane M. Houck, MS ’84† Dianne L. Mackert, BSN ’72 Charlene A. Pope, BSN ’74 Cynthia J. Tollini, MS ’14 Mary Lois Ichniowski, BSN ’78 Philip A. Mackowiak and Connie Regina R. Porter, MS ’88 Patricia T. Travis, PhD ’88, MS ’76, Shannon K. Idzik, DNP ’10, MS ’03 Mackowiak, BSN ’69† Suzanne E. Porter, MS ’90, BSN ’85 BSN ’69 Alice Jackson Dmitriy Makarevich, MS ’14, BSN ’05, Robin Prothro, BSN ’79 Natalie L. Troup, MS ’97, BSN ’93 Teri L. Jackson, BSN ’80 and Tatyana Makarevich, BSN ’09 Suzanne R. Ranson, BSN ’76† Mary E. Vick, MS ’98 BRONZE MEDALS Connie A. Jastremski, MS ’82, Sandra B. Malone, PhD ’98 Ronald E. Rebuck, MS ’94 Madonna P. Vitarello, BSN ’84 BSN ’80† For this year’s Convocation in May, Patsy L. Maloney, BSN ’74 Mary Lou Reilly, BSN ’59† Lorrie Voytek The bronze medals feature the Avril Johnson Jo Ellen Marek, BSN ’64 Loretta M. Richardson, MS ’71, Mary Patricia Wall, PhD ’04 Dean Jane Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, bowl of Hygeia, the Greek goddess Evan Johnson Susan D. Markus, MS ’06, BSN ’74 BSN ’68† Sandra L. Walter, BSN ’69 established the Dean’s Medal for of health, which also appears on Adrienne A. Jones Kathleen M. Martin, DNP ’08, Nicole M. Ritzau, BSN ’07 Doris E. Warrington, MS ’76, BSN ’72 Distinguished Service to recognize William Jordan, BSN ’81 the School of Nursing pin that MS ’97, BSN ’95 Joyce K. Rosenblatt, MS ’73 Susan T. Webb, MS ’00 those who “demonstrate an excep- Donna L. Kahn, MS ’89 graduates receive. The medals Jeanne A. Matthews, PhD ’91 Calvin Sadler Linda P. Weisburger, MSN ’76, tional commitment to advancing the Sally A. Kaltreider, MS ’88† were handcrafted by Bruce Jarrell, Gloria J. Mayfield, MS ’72 Conchita B. Sadler, BSN ’95 BSN ’72 School of Nursing and its mission,” Pamela S. Kasemeyer MD, FACS, University of Maryland, Gail O. Mazzocco, MS ’74† Kay F. Sauers, MS ’78, BSN ’72† Elinor W. Wells, DIN ’46† Karen S. Kauffman Kirschling said during the ceremony. Baltimore chief academic and Victoria D. McAdams, MS ’84 Sharon A. Saunders, BSN ’89 Margaret R. Widner-Kolberg, Joyce L. Kee, BSN ’54 The inaugural recipients are William research officer and senior vice Julie H. McArthur, MS ’96 John Sayre and Linda M. Sayre, BSN ’75 Fellisco Keeling “Bill” and Joanne Conway, UMSON’s president and Graduate School Clayton McCarl Jr. and Lisa McCarl, MS ’92 Paula A. Wiegel-Thrasher, BSN ’73 Patrick J. Keelty and largest donors, who have given two dean, who has forged numerous MS ’84, BSN ’81 Chuck M. Schevitz, BSN ’81† Adele Wilzack, MS ’66 Donna V. Keelty, BSN ’84 gifts totaling more than $7 million. other creations on campus, includ- Ruth McDermott-Levy Barbara Schmitthenner, BSN ’57† Rebecca F. Wiseman, PhD ’93 Bonnie E. Keene, BSN ’71† ing UMSON’s ceremonial mace. Beverly J. Meadows, PhD ’06, Charlotte Sebra, BSN ’57 Judith R. Wood, BSN ’71 Linda M. Keldsen, MS ’14 MS ’84, BSN ’69 Patricia P. Sengstack, MS ’88, BSN ’82 Emmaline T. Woodson, DNP ’10, Delores G. Kelley Gayle Miller, BSN ’66 Alimatu M. Sesay, MS ’16, BSN ’13 MS ’73 Rosalind R. Kendellen, BSN ’68 Marilyn J. Miller, PhD ’00, MS ’81, Margaret K. Seuss, MS ’96, BSN ’90 Teresa S. Zemel, MS ’87, BSN ’77 R. Dean Kenderdine and BSN ’79 Brian C. Sharkey, MS ’00, BSN ’98 Linda C. Kenderdine

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