Hopkins “Just Feels Right”

“I like being with people, talking to people, and helping people. I like making a difference in their lives during hard times,” says Justin Bilik, a student in the traditional class of 2011. “Being a nurse is the best way to do that.” Growing up in the suburbs, Bilik had “always heard about Hopkins,” even researching the institution for a fifth grade social studies project. “I spent hours trying to accurately hand-draw the Hopkins dome,” he recalls. Today, he is learning and working under that same dome, thanks in part to the Dorothy P. and C. Emmerich Mears Scholarship. Coming to nursing school at Hopkins “just feels right,” he says. “Hopkins nurses are critical thinkers and that’s what I want to be.” Eventually, Bilik plans to become a nurse practitioner, perhaps in the Hopkins NP acute care master’s program. His specialty of choice? “Perhaps cardiac telemetry, research, geriatrics, or even gastroenterology,” says Bilik. “I’m interested in everything.”

Dorothy P. and C. Emmerich Mears Scholarship Dorothy Mears Ward established this scholarship— named for her parents—in appreciation of the nurses who cared for her at The Johns Hopkins and in recognition of the importance of nursing education for quality patient care. Will Kir k

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wedding cake and flower bouquet out Just Married “Everything was more than I could’ve of the department’s budget. “At least a Pre-term labor changed imagined. Everyone was wonderful half dozen employees were involved in wedding plans and so genuine. The nurses made some form or another,” says Christina Meekins, BSN, RNC, Obstetrics By Sarah Achenbach something special for a total stranger.” Perinatal Clinical Coordinator. yra Logan doesn’t believe in —Tyra Logan Sticklers for protocol, the nurses kept Tsuperstitions. She and fiancée Noel to the “something borrowed, something Carter had no qualms setting their The Obstetrics nurses kicked into blue, something old, something new” wedding date for Friday, November 13, gear. “They just took the idea and ran tradition. Blue, Logan’s favorite color, 2009. The Waldorf, Maryland couple had with it,” Logan says. “Until the actual was coincidentally the accent for big plans for the ceremony and reception wedding day, I had no idea what they had Meekins’ recent wedding. Meekins’ veil, at the Newtown Mansion in Upper done.” They spread the word, and offers dress and blue garter from her recent Marlboro, but their baby—Logan was of help poured in. “I knew this would be wedding doubled for “borrowed” and 33 weeks pregnant the “old” after a little surgery. week of her wedding— “We made a few quick, had other ideas. Saturday morning alterations On Tuesday, November to accommodate her cute 10, when her water baby bump,” chuckles broke, she went to a local Meekins, who believes this hospital. Two days later, was the first wedding in the she was transferred to Hopkins OB unit. The “new” (and also blue) and admitted with pre- was a blanket, a gift from term labor, premature the nurses that was both a rupture of membranes practical and sartorial choice. and an unsigned marriage Logan was transported via license. “I was thinking wheelchair to the chapel about the wedding a lot,” and reception—the doctors she admits. “I knew if I gave Logan permission to was in labor, the hospital stand during her vows—and wouldn’t let me leave. the blanket helped keep her When I got to Hopkins, warm. Because Logan arrived they told me that I was at Hopkins with only one not going home, so I pair of shoes—orange and cried.” The couple called blue flip-flops—the blanket family and friends to also covered the fashion clash notify them of the change between shoes and dress. in plans, and the vendors After the ceremony, the for the planned nuptials decorated wheelchair with rolled with the unplanned Tyra Logan and Noel Carter exchanged vows in the Hopkins OB unit. its “Just Married” sign and and agreed to a future (and blue baby bottles and ribbons still unset) date for another reception. so exciting if we could help arrange it,” trailing behind it, made its way with But Logan and Carter still wanted exclaims Trentacoste. “I love weddings.” a beaming and grateful bride to the to tie the knot before the arrival of She contacted the Hopkins chaplain, reception in the small classroom on the their child, a desire Logan shared with who in turn, agreed to officiate in the Obstetrics unit. Nearly a dozen friends Hopkins’ Cathy Trentacoste, RN. “We JHH Chapel. Hopkins nursing students and family and numerous nurses attended were talking, and I was upset,” Logan on the unit made computer-generated the traditional reception with its donated recalls. “I explained that we were still decorations. Perinatal Nurse Manager wedding essentials: cake, toasting glasses trying to get married.” Joan Diamond, MSN, RN, sprang for the for sparkling cider, cake topper, knife,

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server, feather pen and wedding favors made by Sharon Kanellopulos, RN. “Everything was more than I could’ve

imagined,” Logan says. “Everyone was Chri st oph e r My s wonderful and so genuine. The nurses made something special for a total stranger.” The next day, on November 15, son Logan Noel Carter arrived. After two weeks in the Hopkins NICU, his happily married parents took home their healthy son—and a great story to share about his birth. “Everything happens for a reason,” she reflects. “I shouldn’t have been in the hospital, but I have no regrets. I wouldn’t trade it.” n

The Angel Arrived How a Hopkins nurse helped my mother be at peace By Geneane Adams-Bazan n October 2005, we received the Ilife-altering news that my mom had Geneane Adams-Bazan (right) holds a photograph of her brother and mother, who was stage 4 ovarian cancer. I never knew treated at Hopkins for ovarian cancer. According to Adams-Bazan, Hopkins nurse Amy what that meant to my mother or to Brown (left) was an angel to their family. those who were about to take on the very difficult task of caretaking. Besides was. On other stays, when Amy was not cancer, she had other problems that only Mom couldn’t stop talking about there, I would always stay with Mom. complicated matters. Amy and how great she was… I knew During another visit, Amy popped Surgery ensued and within weeks, into the room. My mother was delighted she was beginning the first of many whenever mom was at the hospital to see her and asked, “What are you chemotherapy treatments. For two years, and Amy was there, I could go home doing here?” She told her that she had she was in and out of . While and sleep peacefully. decided Hopkins was the place she her primary hospital was Hopkins, during wanted to call home. Mom was thrilled! times of interventions she’d be taken to she would probably only be at Hopkins I knew whenever mom was at the hospitals nearest home. for a short time because her business was hospital and Amy was there, I could go As a caretaker, I would not leave her to travel around the country working in home and sleep peacefully. side. I spent many nights in hospitals different hospital departments. Both my Sadly, my mother’s condition helping her with whatever she needed. I mother and I had an instant connection worsened in January 2009, and her battle found that the nurses in many hospitals with Amy. She was empathetic, kind, and was coming to an end. We were called were so busy, they couldn’t always meet took the time to listen. When she said to the hospital to talk with her doctor. the patient’s needs efficiently, often that she would get you a drink of water Amy wasn’t on shift; however, there was affecting the patient’s care. I felt that right away, she came right back with the another nurse there who was amazingly need to be there constantly to assure her water. She took time to notice whether kind. In my hysteria, she took me aside needs were met with care. you might be cold, lonely, or scared and and talked with me. As we chatted, Then one day at Hopkins, an angel addressed those needs every time she Amy’s name came up. She told me what arrived—Amy Brown. entered the room. Mom couldn’t stop a blessing Amy had been to her. She had Amy was a floater. She told us that talking about Amy and how great she been a mentor and leader, and I could see

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this nurse. She spoke of her with Will Kir k such admiration. It was time for mom to come home on hospice, and our family was devastated. The phone rang. It was Amy asking if she could come visit. We were surprised, but welcomed her. She arrived with another nurse by her side. She went into my mom’s room and talked with her, touching her life again. She stayed and talked to the family. She told us she had spent time talking with mom on the day she learned the news. Because mom had a hard time expressing her feelings to the family, we found out from Amy that she was at peace. She had done everything she wanted to do in her life, and her only regret was that she would not be here to watch her grandchildren grow up. As she spoke to us, she held our hands and hugged us. It was only five days before mom passed away. Among the droves of people at her funeral appeared the face of an angel. Amy arrived with tears in her eyes and Oncology nurse MySha Allen, RN, knows that getting off the unit for an sadness for our family. Again, extending occasional break can help prevent nursing burn-out. compassion, a hand to hold, and a shoulder to cry on. Nursing doesn’t “We care for patients over a period inherent stress and sadness—and an often embrace this level of kindness of time and develop wonderful unspoken professional code not to and compassion, but Amy Brown is a relationships with them and their express grief—weigh heavy on nurses true giver of care. Healing is not always families.” says Krumm, the director of both personally and professionally. In physical, it’s often emotional, and Amy’s nursing admin­istration for the Sidney her 30-plus year career in oncology, ability to heal emotionally is a beacon Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Krumm has watched nurse after nurse that others should follow. She has at Johns Hopkins. A close bond between burn out. “Often, there’s no time for touched our family in a way no other nurse and cancer patient is critical to nurses to grieve the loss of a patient,” practitioner ever has and will always hold treatment and essential to any end-of-life she says. “In our culture, a ‘good’ nurse a special place in our hearts. n issues a patient might face. “As horrible never asks another nurse to care for as the disease and treatment can be, it patients or leaves the unit. So much of it is especially rewarding when you can is the professional identity nurses cloak contribute to a ‘good death’ for the themselves in, but we need to take time A Time to Grieve patient and family,” she notes. and process.” Oncology nurses need to care for Such necessary closeness, though, Five years ago, Krumm embarked on a themselves, too exacts an emotional toll. “We listen to study to find ways to reduce nurses’ stress By Sarah Achenbach their entire life, and we’re with them at and quell her profession’s high burn-out possibly the end of their life,” says MySha rate. Oncology nurses and ICU have the aregiver. Cheerleader. Confidant. Allen, RN, Weinberg 5A. “We share in highest turnover rates among all nurses; CSharon Krumm, PhD, RN, knows their most vulnerable moments. But we in fact, as her study was beginning, well how all-encompassing the job of feel we need to be this pillar of strength.” Hopkins oncology nurses experienced oncology nurse can be. The intensity of the work and its a 30.9% turnover rate compared to a

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13.3% turnover rate for all other Hopkins “It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen, “By being vulnerable, you realize how nurses. Today, through a $367,500 grant but it moved people out of their comfort from the Maryland’s Health Services Cost human you are. One day, we may be zone and gave them a safe place to take Review Committee, the Professional that person in the bed, and we would risks,” remarks Krumm. Bereavement & Resiliency Project is want the person standing over us to be The POAL program helped Weinberg helping to transform the field of oncology 5B nurse Michelle Morgan discover how just as vulnerable.” nursing at Hopkins. to better manage the stress so prevalent Krumm first gathered 34 pediatric, in her job: “The coaches helped me learn gynecological, and adult oncology patients. (In 2007, the Department of new ways to react to situations I face and nurses into focus groups to identify Oncology created its formal Palliative to ‘rewrite’ my script, to change the way the stressors that made resiliency more Care Program.) I normally express myself.” Throughout challenging. Krumm was hardly surprised Krumm kicked off the program in 2009, 60 percent of the oncology nurses by the answers. 2008 in an unexpected way: she invited participated in subsequent, voluntary “Nurses said that the pressures of the nurses to play. coaching sessions for which they set the work didn’t give them space to attend to Performance of a Lifetime (POAL), agenda and determined topics. personal grief,” she explains. Suggestions a New York-based theater training and The Professional Bereavement & ranged from the practical—getting off consulting company, led 248 oncology Resiliency Project has addressed work the unit for a meal break and consistent nurses in a mandatory session of improvi­ issues such as reducing shift rotations scheduling—to the personal, such as sation and performance. With a goal of and encouraging every nurse take a attending memorial services and sending individual and collective growth, the meal break off the unit, strategies that cards to a patient’s family. The most open-ended session focused on staff inter­ make it easier for nurses to find time validating response for Krumm was her actions. The exercises helped people feel to renew. And through an expanding colleagues’ number one suggestion: more confident to tackle hard conver­ “menu” of options offered by different create a palliative care program for sations and deal with petty frustrations. units—regular massage therapy sessions,

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unit retreats, and Chi Gong, to name a Will Kir k few—nurses can boost their resiliency skills and relax. “I honestly believe it’s changing the culture,” she says. “We’re building community and improving how we work together. We’re at 99% occupancy on my unit, yet when I make rounds, I see smiles. Most often, it has been the nurses’ support of one another that has proven most beneficial.” For a field that deeply supports a cancer patient’s need to be emotionally vulnerable, perhaps the most transfor­ mative aspect of the project is the recog­ nition it has given to the nurse’s emotions. “This program has made a richer, more open environment,” reflects Allen. “By being vulnerable, you realize how When she’s not working in the Johns Hopkins Radiology Department, Marianne Frederick, human you are. One day, we may be that MS, RN, manages her Fells Point store, Polish Treasures. person in the bed, and we would want the person standing over us to be just In 1987, Frederick opened Polish Committed Nurses as vulnerable.” n Treasures at 429 South Chester Street. To stock the store, she travels to Poland Help Hospital—and to choose items like wooden boxes Watch future issues of Johns and crystals, then has them shipped Patients—Win Hopkins Nursing for more to Baltimore. news on nurse bereavement he American Nurses Association Polish Treasures also functions as and resiliency. T(ANA), the largest nursing a sort of Welcome Center for Polish organization in the United States, has men and women who need help with recognized The Johns Hopkins Hospital immigration papers or translating for consistently yielding outstanding documents, or advice on bringing loved patient outcomes that are tied directly to Celebrating ones from Poland to the U.S. the high quality of nursing care. “We jokingly say [the store] is Little Poland’s Treasures Poland,” Frederick says. Hopkins nurses strive to deliver the Even with her dual career as a By Jennifer Walker highest quality of care, using the best nurse and store owner, Frederick is still hen Marianne Frederick, MS, RN, active in two of the city’s largest Polish evidence and latest data to make Wisn’t working in the Radiology celebrations: the Baltimore City Polish improvements at the patient’s bedside. Department at The Johns Hopkins Festival, held every summer since 1971, Hospital, she can be found celebrating her and East Baltimore Christmas, a caroling “As healthcare becomes more Polish heritage by caroling, dancing, or event that Frederick calls “one of complex and technical, Hopkins nursing managing her store in Upper Fells Point. Baltimore’s best-kept secrets.” philosophy has remained the same,” notes Frederick has lived in Baltimore all of These events are so popular that Patty Dawson, MSN, RN, the hospital’s her life—“I always joked that when my families who have left Baltimore come magnet program and clinical outcomes mother came from Poland, she landed at back to attend. Now that’s a tribute coordinator. “Hopkins nurses strive to the foot of Broadway and we just never to the strength of Baltimore’s Polish deliver the highest quality of care, using left,” she says—but her family continued community—and to Frederick for the best evidence and latest data to make to embrace Poland’s traditions. working so hard to support it. n improvements at the patient’s bedside.”

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For example, nurses like Tameria Joy, staff on the proper beds to return to the part of the Interdisciplinary Nursing RN, Clinical Resource Nurse, on Nelson units from storage. Moyer is passing along Quality Research Initiative series 3 have been working hard to reduce the secrets of her success to Darolyn commemorating the 10-year anniversary patient falls—and their efforts have paid Milburn, MS Ed, RN, to continue these of the IOM report, To Err is Human, off. “We keep fall prevention front and efforts in the future. which highlights the chilling story of center for the staff,” says Joy. “We’ve Hopkins is among the more than Ben Kolb, an 8-year-old Florida boy who helped develop and revise the Johns 1,500 hospitals—one in every four died in 1995 after he was injected with Hopkins Fall Risk Screening tool and nationwide—that participate in NDNQI, the wrong drug during a routine surgical are participating in a current research which allows individual nursing units procedure. Listen to the interview online study to further test the tool’s reliability to compare their performance to similar at http://inqri.blogspot.com. & validity.” Frequent rounding is also key units at other hospitals regionally, After completing a Robert Wood to this unit’s success: Nelson 3 has the statewide, and nationwide. Johnson health policy fellowship—where lowest rate of falls among Johns Hopkins For more information on NDNQI, visit she served as a senior health policy general medical units. www.ncnq.org. n advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi— ANA’s unique National Database of Deborah E. Trautman, PhD, RN, returns Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) to Johns Hopkins where she will lead the also noted improvement in the hospital Notable Nurses new Center for Health Policy. Before her acquired pressure ulcer rates. In the n her December interview, “How fellowship, Deb was director of nursing cardiac surgical intensive care units, ISafety Protocols Prevent Drug for emergency medicine at The Johns nurse manager Jennifer Moyer, RN , Mistakes,” Linda Costa, PhD, RN, Hopkins Hospital and most recently conducted case reviews, involved the explains how hospitals have gotten served as interim vice president of OR to order specialty beds in a timely much better at protecting patients from patient care services at Howard County manner, and helped educate facilities medical mistakes. The dialogue was General Hospital. n

Outstanding Nursing Quality excellence in the nursing-sensitive quality indicators tracked by the National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators By Ka r e n Ha l l e r , PhD, RN, FAAN (NDNQI®), which include hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, VP o f Nu r s i n g a nd Pa t i e nt Ca r e Se r v i c e s patient falls with injury, and infections related to the Jo h n s Ho p k i n s Ho s p i t a l hospitalization. For everyone who has screened patients at he American Nurses Association’s risk, made routine rounds to turn patients or accompany T2009 Award for Outstanding them to the bathroom, practiced scrupulous hand hygiene… Nursing Quality, given to Hopkins this award is yours! this past January, has pleased me I also credit the Nurse Managers and their teams for more than any other honor we’ve fostering a healthy workplace where staff can flourish and received. I am thrilled because this deliver top-notch care to patients. award is data-based and reflects In recognizing Hopkins nurses, ANA President Becky Patton, what happens at the bedside. We MSN, RN, CNOR, said: “The Johns Hopkins Hospital exemplifies didn’t apply for it. It didn’t come the commitment, leadership, data analysis, and efficient use down to a vote among nurse leaders of resources that are needed by nurse executives and bedside based on our reputation. As the nurses to produce the best possible outcomes. The NDNQI® oft-quoted adage says, “In God program is all about using evidence from the reporting of we trust, all others need data!” outcomes to improve nursing care practices, staffing and This award reflects that standard. systems for care delivery, and The Johns Hopkins Hospital has I credit our outstanding nursing staff with achieving sustained achieved that at a high level.”

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Institute, site of the country’s only other In addition, nurses no longer have to iCT scanner offers dual-room iCT. There, Godsey and break the sterile field to move a patient Walston got to see the scanner in use and to the radiology department for a CT sharper focus to troubleshoot with healthcare peers at and possibly back to the OR for further Nurses help bring new imaging the Tucson hospital. surgery, lowering the risk of complications. technology to the OR “That trip really helped us to actually see cases going on first hand, to see By Stephanie Shapiro Nurses no longer have to break the how they had their room set up, how to sterile field to move a patient, lowering efore the November launch of the position patients and to talk with staff Bintraoperative CT (iCT) at Johns members to know what issues they had,” the risk of complications. Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Godsey says. Allison Godsey, RN, CNOR, clinical By providing real-time imagery during From the start, Godsey and Walston coordinator for neurosurgery, and Brigida complex surgeries, the iCT brings a new have played an integral role in the Walston, RN, were well acquainted with level of treatment capability to the OR. installation and operation of the iCT, the sophisticated technology. Integrated with a surgical navigation which is mounted on rails so it can Months earlier, the two women system, the technology will help surgeons slide over patients in two adjacent traveled with a multidisciplinary team to pinpoint brain tumors or place screws operating rooms. Versed by their Tucson to St. Joe’s Carondelet Neurological into the spine with greater precision. experience, the two nurses reconfigured both ORs to make way for the new imaging technology.

Will Kir k After rearranging providers’ stations, supplies, monitors and other equipment, they also helped the neurosurgery team “get accustomed to where things are stored and to become comfortable with the new setup,” Godsey says. Particularly important is guarding against inadvertent damage to the iCT during surgery. “You have to be very cognizant of the tracks the iCT runs on,” Godsey says. “You can’t run equipment over those tracks, because the inner workings are right underneath.” Godsey also helped to coordinate four-hour iCT training sessions for twelve nurses, starting with the basics: “How to shut the whole system on and off and then how to have the room up and running for the morning.” As they gain expertise, from learning the best ways to position patients to honing their documentation, Hopkins Bayview’s neuro nurses will be able to make increasingly sophisticated use of the CT scanner, further improving patient care. For Godsey, who is helping to lead the ongoing training effort, that means staying ahead of the curve. “The more I learn,” she says, “the more I’m the one Brigida Walston (left) and Allison Godsey helped reconfigure the OR for a new iCT scanner. pushing the buttons.” n

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704 Infection-Free Will Kir k Days Bayview’s SICU nurses are fighting bloodstream infections by Stephanie Shapiro n the Surgical Intensive Care Unit I(SICU) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, the prevention of blood stream infections demands an arsenal of safety measures, from a unit- based safety officer and Chlorohexidine skin prep to timely line removal and full barrier precautions. But central to that multi-pronged effort is making nurses equal members of the healthcare team, says patient care manager Carol Miller, RN, CCRN. To prove her point, Miller points to a remarkable record: In 2008, her unit reported no central line catheter-related infections, a feat that came on the heels of the previous year’s average of 3.29 infections per 1,000 central line days. Ultimately, the unit’s infection- SICU team members (from left) Crystal Miller, Kenneth Scope, Sarah Ermer, free record extended to 704 days in Rob Gibson, Carol Miller, Laura Bankert, and Susan Hammond, are committed to an a row, giving Miller and Zeina Khouri- infection-free unit. Stevens, PhD, RN, bragging rights to “SICU Pride” during a poster presentation at last year’s Maryland procedure if they see something is not practices aren’t followed, Miller says. On Patient Safety Conference. going right,” she says. “That takes a lot occasion, she, too, has intervened in ways Miller also gives kudos to “our of work.” once thought unimaginable. “I’ve caught physician assistants and nurse practi­ The unit’s commitment to eliminating providers before they actually enter a tioners who place the majority of the central line infections “took a big room to assist with a sterile procedure push forward” when the SICU became and reminded them to put on a mask and You could have a checklist and make part of the Johns Hopkins program, other protective gear,” Miller says. the marks, but you also have to “Partnerships and Interventions to That’s a far cry from her early years empower the staff to stop a procedure Promote and Ensure Patient Safety,” on the SICU, when “nurses just followed says Miller. The alliance lends support orders and didn’t question,” she says. if they see something is not going right. and reaffirms the guiding principle of Today, “the culture truly is a team effort. the unit’s safety-first culture that she The physician may ultimately have the sums up as, “We all are accountable for final say, but the nurse or any member lines. They have been extremely vital to providing this higher level of safety for of the team can step out and say, ‘Let’s this whole process.” our patients.” talk about it.’ We work like that now, Over the years, Miller has witnessed In the Hopkins Bayview SICU, nurses and I think our infection-free success is a her unit’s shift to a culture that prizes are encouraged to think critically and reflection of that.” n safety over hierarchy. “You could have a make clinical decisions. They don’t checklist and make the marks, but you hesitate to stop a procedure if sterile also have to empower the staff to stop a

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The “411” for Oncology Patient Care By Jennifer Walker

hen Tina Evans was diagnosed with Wbreast cancer in 2001, she wished there was someone to guide her through the complicated treatment process. Now as an oncology nurse navigator, she is doing just that for her patients. A nurse for 23 years, Evans became an oncology nurse navigator when she developed The Center for Breast Care at Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Howard County General Hospital in 2002. She provides a range of support for her patients— Tina Evans founded a national organization for oncology nurse navigators. including scheduling appointments with their cancer care team, organizing support Oncology Nurse Navigators (NCONN), This level of support is necessary groups, and even holding hands during to give navigators a space to share for oncology nurse navigators, who are treatment—from diagnosis through information, network, and, in turn, in an emerging and complex field of treatment and even sometimes after the more effi­­ciently and effectively support nursing for which formal education is not cancer has gone into remission. their patients. currently available. “We need to convey “This gives patients the opportunity to Founded in partnership with four other knowledge to our patients of an entire feel that they have a go-to person at any navigators in January 2008, NCONN has treatment process,” Evans says. “The point in time, no matter which physician approximately 250 members nationally reason [NCONN] was founded is to begin they are working with, no matter what and in Canada. Members have access to to develop that sort of education…for phase of their cancer treatment they are a thriving listserv, where they can seek oncology nurse navigators.” in,” she explains. and offer advice with other navigators, For more information or to Evans is so passionate about her and can attend NCONN’s annual become a member of NCONN, visit career that she started a national nursing conference, the only event focused solely www.nconn.org. n organization, the National Coalition of on developing the nurse navigator’s role.

Three Essentials When Starting a Successful National Nursing Organization

Thinking of starting a national nursing Business Sense and/or Knowledgeable Networking Opportunities: Evans organization? Tina Evans shares three Friends: From the beginning, have says it can be a challenge to market necessary ingredients that can help some idea of the business aspects of a national nursing organization, but make that organization successful. starting an organization like managing it helps to grab on to opportunities finances and marketing, and fill in that arise. She has developed Passion: Evans and the other four the gaps with knowledgeable friends. relationships with pharmaceutical founding members started NCONN NCONN has received invaluable pro and medical device companies whose with their own money on their own bono support from an attorney who representatives spread the word time. For all of them, this was helped with its bylaws and 501(c)3 about NCONN across the country, and their second job. “Anything of this incorporation, and a web developer has attended national professional magnitude requires an enormous who created its website. meetings to speak and/or staff a amount of passion and faith,” conference table. Evans says.

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L iZ R oll Vascular Screening Program is A Hit When the idea first surfaced to promote a vascular screening, no one at Suburban Hospital could have predicted the overwhelming response. Nurses expected to screen 15 or 20 people at their first Vascular Outreach Program event in October, but by January, they had screened 120 patients, scheduled 150 more, and placed 300 on a spring waitlist. Vascular screening patients first attend a 30-minute education seminar, where they learn about vascular disease, its risks, and the screening process. Each screening takes approximately 15 minutes, and includes carotid and abdominal aorta scans, as well as ABI to screen for peripheral vascular disease. A physician interprets the results and counsels the patient. Richard David (center) is still alive today thanks to the efforts of (from left) Deb Dewald, cardiac All agree that it was the catheterization lab manager; Joan David, Richard’s wife; Melody Knapp, cardiovascular program committed team of nurses, doctors, administrator; and Karen Wieder, ultrasound service coordinator. and staff—working together to provide a service in the community that wasn’t previously available— aneurysm (the typical aorta is 1.8 cm that made it very worthwhile. Eluding the wide.) David recalls the doctor saying Interested in learning more about that one of the reasons vascular disease is how Suburban Hospital conducted its Silent Killer called the silent killer is because people screening? Contact Shilpa Gorfine at Nurse-Led Vascular Disease can be walking around “with a six- 301-896-7589. Screening Saves a Man’s Life centimeter time bomb in them and not know it.” By Jennifer Walker One of the reasons vascular disease is t was Richard David’s wife who called the silent killer is because people Isuggested the two of them visit the results to the doctor’s office. David Bethesda’s Suburban Hospital, a member can be walking around “with a six- says he got “Prince Charles, tailor-made of Johns Hopkins Medicine, for a vascular centimeter time bomb in them and service” at Suburban Hospital, from disease screening. She had read about not know it.” beginning to end. the event in the hospital’s community A few weeks after his surgery, David newsletter New Directions, and it was David didn’t even have the disease’s is feeling strong. “I want to remain free, after all. They decided to go. main risk factors—he has never smoked, active…I vacuumed the other day [for This was a decision that would land had diabetes, or hypertension. Even my wife]; I help her wash and fold the 83-year-old David in the hospital for the though his age puts him at greater risk, he clothes,” he says. first time in his life, having surgery to would never have known to get tested. “Finding Mr. David’s aneurysm is save his life. The physician who performed David’s why we all do this work,” said Melody David’s screening in October showed vascular screening immediately called Knapp, RN, administrator, cardiovascular that he had vascular disease in the form his primary care doctor, followed up with services at Suburban Hospital. “Thank of a 6.0 centimeter abdominal aortic a second call the next day, and faxed goodness we saw him when we did.” n

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Students Hoffmann—all students in Shari Lynn’s Diane Aschenbrenner, Shari Lynn, Adult Health class—walked through and Kathryn Kushto-Reese gave the Doctoral student Jessica Draughon and the rain to pick up flu shot supplies at pre-conference session on simulation postdoctoral fellows Shelly Eisbach and Hopkins. They continued through the at the 4th Annual National League for Veronica Njie-Carr presented posters pouring rain to deliver the supplies to the Nursing Technology Conference, hosted at the NINR Pre/Post-Doctoral 911 Clinic, where they administered flu by the SON October 29-November 1. Poster Session at the 2009 Special shots until the clinic closed that evening. Aschenbrenner, Lynn, and Kushto-Reese Topics Conference in Washington, also gave tours and demonstration DC in October. Faculty, department of sessions in the school’s research and acute and chronic care SIM labs during the conference. Anabella Aspiras (accel. ’10) and Rachael Diamond (accel. ’10) have Anne Belcher, PHD, RN, AOCN, CNE, been selected as recipients of the 2009 FAAN, presented the paper “Excellence Faculty, department of Association of periOperative Registered in Teaching and Learning—Obtaining community public health Nurses of Baltimore nursing scholarship. the Students’ Perspective” at the 39th Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Annual Meeting of the International was invited by Vice President Biden to Caitlin McIntyre (trad. ’11), Anna Martin Society for Exploring Teaching and attend the 15th Anniversary celebration (trad. ’11), and Helen Thomas delivered Learning in Philadelphia in October. She of the Violence Against Women Act in three short, impromptu presentations also served as the convocation speaker at Washington, DC last autumn. about the importance of handwashing to the West Virginia University School of parents and students at Back to School Nursing graduation in Morgantown, WV Jackie Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Night at Collington Square K-8, a public in December and was the keynote speaker and Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, CNE, school in East Baltimore. at the University of Maryland School of FAAN, and postdoctoral fellow Veronica Nursing’s Excellence in Teaching Nursing Njie-Carr, presented papers on intimate Courtney Barsotti, Jayoung Kim, conference in March. partner violence and HIV/AIDS at Candice Williams, Megan Flora, Kylie the 2nd Annual Health Disparities Taylor, Melissa Paterakis, and Amy Julie Stanik-Hutt, PhD, ACNP, CCNS, Conference in the U.S. Virgin Islands FAAN, was the keynote speaker at the in October. American College of Nurse Practitioners annual conference in Albuquerque, Betty Jordan, PhD, RN, CNE, NM; keynote speaker at the Nurse FAAN, spoke on “The Rising Rate of Practitioners Association of Maryland Prematurity” at a summit in Columbia, annual meeting in Ellicott City, MD; MD in November. and an invited panelist at the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s 13th Jodi Shaefer, PhD, RN, presented Magnet Conference in Louisville, KY “Fetal and Infant Mortality Review: in October. Community-Based Strategy for Maternal- Child Health Improvement” at the Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, CCM, has Faces of a Healthy Future: National received a joint appointment in oncology Conference to End Health Disparities II through the School of Medicine. conference in Winston-Salem, NC in November. Elizabeth Hill, PhD, RN, was named to the Editorial Board of Nursing Research Dan Sheridan, PhD, RN, FAAN, has for two years, effective January. been awarded a $29,854 grant from the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Deborah Gross, DNSC, RN, FAAN, Control & Prevention (GOCCP)to has been appointed to the Institute provide two, 40-hour, state-wide Forensic of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Nurse Examiner Training programs. Pediatric Health and Healthcare Quality Measures.

52 Jo h n s Ho p k i n s Nu r s i n g | Sp r i n g 2010 Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Faculty, department of health presented “Factors Influencing the Exile systems and outcomes Kim Receives $3.1 Million or Reintegration of Rape Survivors Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, BC, FACMI, to Study Diabetes in in Families and Communities in the FAAN, has been invited to serve on the Korean Americans Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)” International Program Committee for at a conference on Children & Armed Miyong Kim, PhD, RN, FAAN, has the IASTED International Conference been awarded a $3.1 million from Conflict: Risk, Resilience, and Mental on Health Informatics (AfricaHI 2010), Health in Washington, DC in December. the National Institutes of Health in Gaborone, Botswana in September. (NIH) to test In October, she was the plenary speaker Joan Kub, PhD, APHN, BC, was a community- at the Wolters/Kluwer 2009 AJN based glucose invited to be part of an Association of Nursing Conference in Chicago, IL, Community Health Nursing Educators control then participated in a technical expert intervention (ACHNE) task force to propose panel (TEP) to provide guidance to an recommendations for advanced public program effort to synthesize learning from the for Korean- health nursing clinical preparation for Agency for Healthcare Research and graduate programs and credentialing. American Quality’s (AHRQ) Health IT program immigrants in December. She also presented who have Nicole Warren, PhD, MPH, CNM, Envisioning a Strategy to Prepare for earned the Maryland Higher Education type-2 diabetes the Long-Term Burden of HIV/AIDS: mellitus. The Commissions (MHEC) New Nursing African Needs and U.S. Interests to the Faculty Fellowship of $20,000 over three five-year study, Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee which started in September, aims to years. She will work on a pilot study to in February. explore the childbearing experiences of increase Korean-American patients’ Somalia-born couples. ability to manage diabetes, which in Dean Martha Hill, PhD, RN, FAAN, was turn will prevent complications. recognized as a Pillar of Cardiovascular Throughout her career, Kim has At the Conference Nursing Science at the 2009 American conducted immigrant-community- Four Hopkins nurse researchers were Heart Association Council on based, culturally-sensitive research among the 117 presenters at the Cardiovascular Nursing Dinner in aimed at educating people on better Southern Nursing Research Society’s Orlando, FL in November. health and preventing disease. (SNRS) 2010 Annual Conference in Kim also directs the school’s Center February. Their presentations include: Laura Taylor, PhD, RN, received a for Excellence for Cardiovascular $450,000, two-year grant from the Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, CCM: Health in Vulnerable Populations, National Institutes of Health National Results of a Home-based Walking which works to reduce disparities in Institute of Nursing Research. The Intervention for Patients Undergoing care and treatment. The research grant will expand Taylor’s Living Donor Cancer Treatment center recently received a four-year, Information Network for Caregiving, a $1.9 million NIH grant. Hayley Mark, PhD, MPH, RN: Hopkins-based Web site for living kidney Reduced Vaginal Douching Following donors and their “informal caregivers,” An Educational Intervention: usually relatives. Preliminary Results at Session B3: Nursing Interventions to Improve Jo Walrath, PhD, MS, RN, received a Kathleen White, PhD, RN, CEA-BC, Health $35,000 grant to study how to improve FAAN, won the Maryland Nurses Deborah Jones, PhD, RN: Building interprofessional communication. Association Outstanding Leadership Partnerships in Urban Communities Funding is from Retooling for Quality Award at the 106th Annual Convention Through Focus Group Meetings and Safety: An Initiative of the Josiah in October. Macy Jr. Foundation and the IHI Open Elizabeth Hill, PhD, RN: Fall-Related School for Health Professions Institute Injuries in Older Adults: A Systematic for Health Improvement. Review of the Evidence

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response. The committee is charged with Washington. This is a great opportunity increasing involvement and membership to learn about the history of Hopkins through the formation of Regional Nursing. The date is Wednesday, May 19. Committees. There are many alumni who Many alumni have said how disap­ are interested and motivated to make this pointed they are that the alumni news is happen. Alumni are reaching out to the no longer in the magazine. The Board is alumni association seeking opportunities taking positive steps to once again publish to be involved. As we move through this the news of our alumni. Please continue time of significant change in healthcare to send us your updates. We want to and specifically nursing, we need your include alumni news from all the school’s expertise, wisdom, and support. If you are programs (BS, MSN, DNP and PhD). interested in being a part of the change I know there are a lot of alumni, process and feel you have ideas for like myself, whose primary degree was engagement, contact us and let us know. obtained at another university. But you We have incorporated conference need to remember that you also were calling into our committee structure. given great opportunities at the Johns Tina Cafeo, MSN ’97, RN President, JHNAA No longer do you need to be physically Hopkins University School of Nursing. present to participate. I challenge It is now time to help and give back to appy New Year! We continue all of you to reflect on the wonderful the students and the school. experiences and education you gained Many of you are members of the challenge of engaging our while at Hopkins and become involved Facebook. Please join the Johns Hopkins alumni classes. We search for H in the alumni and school. University School of Nursing Alumni page. the great ideas from present students as We’ve been diligently planning Again, it is a great way to network and well as alumni classes. How can we keep the 2010 Alumni weekend (formerly keep connected. Send us your e-mail you involved in the professional lives of Homecoming) which will be September addresses and an update of what you are our present students and the alumni 24 and 25. Please mark your calendars doing. Stay connected, pay dues, and be association? I have great news: we are and plan to join us. involved! We depend on you. making progress. We are reinstituting an old tradition If you have any questions, contact the The membership committee has been of having an Annual Spring Tea. It will Alumni office at [email protected] contacting alumni in a few cities around be at the Johns Hopkins Alan Mason or 525 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, the country, and we are pleased with the Chesney Medical Archives in Mt. MD 21205.

Please pay your Alumni dues and help us… n plan Regional Committee activities Become an “active” member of the Johns Send your check to: around the country Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association JHU Alumni at the San Martin Center, 3400 N. Charles Street n continue the tradition of the by paying your dues to Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD 21218 Pinning Ceremony University. Annual Membership is $50. or go online to: n hold Alumni Weekend to Recent Grad Membership is $25 www.alumni.jhu.edu/yourmembership celebrate reunions (Classes 2005–2009) n create networking and outreach Lifetime Membership is $1,000 activities for the students and alumni (pay in four annual payments)

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opkins Nursing alumni are in every corner of the USA and It will benefit all Hopkins Nursing alumni if we stay Hthe world. We want them to network, share information, connected throughout the country and the world. Every and mentor our new alumni. Join a regional committee of Hopkins nurse has something to offer. Alumni have started to Hopkins Nurses! form committees in Seattle, Boston, San Diego, Albuquerque, The foundation of the Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association and Chicago. Let us know if you will join us and help form is the strength, experience and knowledge of its membership. a committee in your area. Please become a part of this new Without its existence, new JHUSON graduates will not venture and contact Melinda Rose at [email protected]. benefit from the depth of the alumni networking as they seek The Membership Committee (Sue Verrillo, MSN ’03, Lisa connections, employment guidance and continuing education Kowal ’06, David Hunter ’08) throughout the country after graduation.

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Announcements Johns Hopkins and Church Home Join the Johns Hopkins University Buy through Amazon.com 2010 Alumni Weekend School of Nursing Alumni Facebook Visit http://alumni.jhu.edu/store, September 24 and 25 page. Alumni are networking and click on Amazon, and the alumni association Whether you graduated 50 years or helping students by interacting on will receive a small 5 years ago, from Hopkins or Facebook. A student was looking for portion of the Church Home, information regarding nursing positions proceeds. come join your nursing colleagues in Australia. There was an amazing response. Check it out! Robb Society Tea with Don’t forget to check Dean Martha Hill Call to Action: Update your professional information. Send your out the Jobsite at Sponsored by the nursing specialty and where you are www.nursing.jhu.edu/alumjobs. JHU School of Nursing working to [email protected] or E-mail [email protected] for for donors of $1,000 or more. mail it to the Johns Hopkins Nurses’ the password. September 24 from 3-5 p.m. Alumni Association, 525 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205

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For Johns Hopkins and Church Home nursing alumni In Memoriam

A Time to Connect & A Time to Reflect Margaret Caughman Cathcart ’41 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Norma George Hays ’41 3:00pm - 5:00pm Hazel King Aaberg ’45 Octagon House Vivian Landis Babin ’45 Mount Washington Marjorie Geiss Cramp ’45 Madeline R. Derminer ’45 $25.00 Mary Louise Porter Clementson ’46 Elizabeth Marie Jones ’46 Please join us for Tea and Tours of the Archives as we renew Ethel Bittel Sollogub ’46 the tradition of nurses enjoying afternoon tea and sharing Arlene M. Goodling ’47 special memories. Space is limited to 40 guests so rsvp now! Dorothy Brooks Stafford ’47

Doris Benjamin Carroll ’50 RSVP by May 12, 2010 Annette Theriault Preston ’50 Make Checks payable to: JHU Alumni Assn. Judith Daly O’Neill ’51 Mail Checks to: Alice M. Tyler ’52 Deb Kennedy Helen Sins Hurlbut ’53 1990 Gulfstream Court Patricia Pieretti Kelley ’57 Forest Hill, MD 21050 Edmee Kaye Loughlin Ryan ’57 Anna Kumpa Becker ’62 Call Deb Kennedy at 410-893-2421 or Betty Scher at 443-449-5934 Florence Theresa Dunne, Accel. ’92 if you have any questions. Marita Hoerauf, Accel. ’95

58 Jo h n s Ho p k i n s Nu r s i n g | Sp r i n g 2010 Church Notes Class Notes for alumni of the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing

By Deborah Corteggiano Kennedy, ’73

Freda Creutzburg In Memoriam Scholar The recipient of the Elizabeth Bassford, CHH ’59 Freda Creutzburg Mary Evelyn Delhamer, CHH ’42 Memorial Scholarship Daisy May Carr Gailey, CHH ’41 for 2010 is Virginia Nancy Roberts Rodden, CHH ’59 Rollins ’11, the daughter of a Union Memorial Hospital graduate. In her letter to the Alumni, Tidbits Virginia said, “I hope The CHH Cap can be obtained from that I can live up to the Kay’s Caps by requesting School #33. ideals of Miss Cretzburg Orders can be placed by phone (516-791- and the Church Home 8500) or by mail (Kay’s Caps, PO Box Alumni who have 818, Valley Stream, NY 11582). helped me complete CHH Pins and Rings are available my goal of a nursing from Vince Fino, 9650 Belair Road, Perry education through this Hall, MD 21236, 410-256-9555. Virginia Rollins ’11 (left) receives congratulations from Deborah Kennedy, scholarship. I am very Transcripts can be obtained from CHH ’73 upon receipt of the Freda Creutzburg Memorial Scholarship. grateful for this gift.” Aniese Gentry at Quinlan Storage (formerly Chart One Storage) in Jessup First Annual Alumni Tea In Memoriam & Gift at 888-416-5353 (ext. 7550 or 3907). Be sure to put Wednesday May 19, 2010 Jean Fehl Graves, CHH ’35 recently Send any address changes or notice on your calendar for the first Alumni Tea. passed away and left $47,000 in her estate of deceased members to: Deb Kennedy, See page 58 in this magazine for details to the alumni. This gift was separated 1990 Gulfstream Court, Forest Hill, MD and the invitation. Space is limited so to support the scholarship and the 21050; 410-893-2421, debkennedy29@ RSVP soon! preservation of our archives. hotmail.com.

CHH is on Facebook Barbara Zelenka Spink, CHH ’69 has set up a Facebook page called “Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing.” Go to “Groups” and follow the drop down menu for “Alumni/School Organizations.” Join now and enjoy the photos and messages from fellow alumnae. CHH Charm Now Available It’s a long story on how I found the jeweler that originally made the CHH Cap Charm, but I did. Available in sterling silver, 10K, and 14K. To order, call Leslie Tillman at Tillman Jewelers in Annapolis at 410-268-7855. Archives Donation Kudos to Joanne Satterfield Price, CHH ’71 for her recent donation of CHH newsletters, programs, pins, an otoscope, and even an orientation video! As always, we appreciate donations to the Church Home collection. 1969 40th Reunion. The Class of 1969 enjoyed a dinner in September. Recognize anyone?

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Walter D. (Wally) Pinkard, Jr.* (Chair) Leslie Mancuso, PhD, RN, FAAN Chairman and CEO President and CEO Colliers Pinkard Jhpiego

Marianne Andreach Gerry Peterson ’64, MA*** Senior Director, Business Development President The Medicines Company Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Edwin Avent President/CEO and Publisher Judy A. Reitz, ScD Heart & Soul Magazine Executive Vice President/COO The Johns Hopkins Hospital Deborah (Deb) Baker, BSN Accel ’92, CRNP Director of Nursing Wayne N. Schelle, A&S ’58** Department of Surgery Chairman The Johns Hopkins Hospital Wayne N. Schelle, Ltd.

Judith (Judy) Franklin Campbell ’60 Thomas (Timmy) Schweizer Jr. President Gail Cassell, PhD Brown Advisory Securities, LLC Vice President, Scientific Affairs Eli Lilly and Company Clair Zamoiski Segal President Bowers Espy Clair Zamoiski Segal, LLC Retired Managing Director Merrill Lynch Mary Jo Wagandt Representing The Women’s Board Steve Fanning The Johns Hopkins Hospital Chairman, President, and CEO Solta Medical, Inc. Mary Woolley President and CEO Maria Boyd Fazio ’87* Research!America

Brent A. Hanson Founder Honorary MemberS Healthcare Management Advisors Ernest A. Bates, MD** Chairman and CEO Deborah Kennedy, MS, RN American Shared Hospital Services, Inc. Past President Church Home & Hospital School of Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN Nursing Alumni Association Professor and Dean Emerita University of Pennsylvania SON E. Robert (Bob) Kent, Jr. Director Alex Brown Realty *University Trustee **University Trustee Emeritus Helen Kim ***Ex-officio Interim CEO TRF Pharma, Inc.

Susan Cooley King, PhD, RN, CRNP Founder Reach Out and Read Program

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Haiti, 1921: Va s h t i Ba r t l e t t , a 1906 Hopkins nursing graduate, joined a Red Cross mission to direct a Navy Nurse Corps nursing school at the City General Hospital in Port-au-Prince. Upon her arrival, disfiguring disease, such as syphilis and leprosy, were endemic. When smallpox broke out, Bartlett worked with 14 nurses and more than 600 patients to contain the spread of the epidemic. Bartlett spent more than 20 years caring for the sick and injured in countries all over the world—including Newfoundland, France, Belgium, Siberia, and the United States.

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