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Volume X, Issue I Spring 2012 1. Remove scope-of- Discover Johns Hopkins practice barriers. Nursing’s Blueprint 2. Expand doctoral nursing education opportunities for for the nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative Future improvement efforts. 3. Implement nurse residency programs. 4. Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020. 5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020. The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) for research leaders. 6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning. Advance the science of nursing and healthcare. 7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) for clinical leaders. change to advance health. Advance the practice of nursing and improve health outcomes. 8. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional healthcare workforce data. Choose your path at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing—a place where exceptional people discover possibilities that forever change their lives www.nursing.jhu.edu/doctoral and the world. Inside: 26 Doubling the Number of 32 Interprofessional Education Nurses with Doctorates Initiatives at Hopkins JOHNS HOPKINSVolume X, Issue I Spring 2012 A publication of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, the Johns Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association, and the nursing departments of the Johns Hopkins-affiliated hospitals Features 26 Higher Education by Jennifer Walker The data is compelling. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing predicts the country will lose 260,000 nurses by 2025, including thousands of nursing faculty needed to educate new nurses. In response, the Institute of Medicine recommends universities double the number of doctoral-prepared nurses. How are nursing schools and doctoral programs across the county— including many led by Johns Hopkins alumni—mobilizing to attract and prepare tomorrow’s nurse educators, practitioners, and researchers? Interprofessional Education—Today Nursing student Lauren McGivern, Accelerated ’12 (right), and 32 From Silos to Synergy: medical student Emily Miller (center), join pediatric resident Interprofessional Education Stephanie Chin-Sang, MD, on rounds at the Harriet Lane Clinic. Initiatives Find Warm Welcome at Hopkins As part of the Doctor-Nurse Alliance, a student interest group at by Rebecca Proch Johns Hopkins University, students from the Schools of Nursing and Medicine shadow nurses and doctors to learn how healthcare Eye-opening. Important. Exciting. professionals from different disciplines provide care. Innovative. Barrier-breaking. “A-ha!” [Photo by Christopher Myers] moments. When the Hopkins community talks about interprofessional education, enthusiasm and energy pour forth. This is no dry mandate; this is synchronicity, Departments ideas cropping up across campuses and departments and blooming in the fertile 4 Hill’s Side 18 Bench to Bedside 22 Jhpiego New! 36 Hopkins Nurse soil of emerging alliances and innovative Dean Martha Hill invites Susan Nursing research article is AHA Jhpiego assists Lesotho to strengthen Preparation pays off for JHH nurses, partnerships. Throughout the School of Hassmiller, Robert Wood Johnson journal editor’s pick, saliva testing nursing education. Suburban Hospital takes big steps to Nursing and the School of Medicine, new Foundation senior adviser for nursing, helps identify patients at risk, and best avert patient falls, and other news from and expanding initiatives are bringing to share her thoughts on the top practices can lower “multiplier risks.” 25 Live from 525 the Johns Hopkins Hospitals. fruitful transformation to Hopkins priorities facing nursing today. Gina Colaizzo’s art offers an outlet for healthcare education. 20 Global Nursing creation and healing. 50 Vigilando 8 On the Pulse Volunteerism opens eyes and text4baby News from the Johns Hopkins Nurses Amazing nurse receives honor, spit messages moms around the world. Alumni Association. sampling gets easier, Sandra Angell says goodbye, and more. J OHNS H OPKINS N URSING | MAGAZINE . NURSING . J HU . EDU 1 Contributors A recovering health-policy wonk turned Editor Robert Rosseter freelance science and medical writer, Teddi Pamela McComas Director of Public Affairs Fine still harbors a childhood dream to be a American Association of Managing Editor Colleges of Nursing simultaneous translator. But today, instead of Lynn Schultz-Writsel studying Urdu or Kanji, she’s opted to be a Sharon Sopp not-very-simultaneous translator of science, Art Director Sr. Communications Manager as seen in “Bench to Bedside” (page 18). Pam Li Howard County General Hospital When she’s not poring over nursing research Editorial and Design Staff Editorial Mission (as some read a good mystery novel) or Jacquelin Gray Johns Hopkins Nursing is a crafting press releases about Hopkins nurses, Vigilando Editorial Assistant publication of the Johns Hopkins she keeps her creative engine humming by David Biglari University School of Nursing, designing and fabricating fanciful art jewelry. Online Editor the Johns Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association, and the Mfonobong Umana nursing departments of the Johns With more than a decade of experience Graphic Review Hopkins-affiliated hospitals. The magazine tracks Johns Hopkins in healthcare, Whitney L.J. Howell is Advisory Board a freelance reporter who writes about all nurses and tells the story of Terry Bennett their endeavors in the areas of aspects of the industry, from policy to Director of Nurse Recruitment education, practice, scholarship, practice to research. She enjoys writing Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center research, and national leadership. about the interplay among all providers, JoAnn Coleman For advertising, contact: highlighting how each contributes to and Postmaster’s, CRNP ’95 bolsters patient care. It’s always satisfying, Jon Eichberger she says, to inform audiences, in both Deborah Dang 410.614.4695 [email protected] trade and mainstream publications, about Director of Nursing Practice, Education, and Research new advancements or system changes that The Johns Hopkins Hospital Send correspondence to: will affect both scope of practice and how Editor Marian Grant, BSN ’00, MSN ’05 services are provided. Johns Hopkins University Karen Haller School of Nursing VP for Nursing and Patient Care 525 N. Wolfe Street Rebecca Proch is a freelance writer and Services Baltimore, MD 21205 regular contributor to Johns Hopkins Nursing. The Johns Hopkins Hospital 410.614.4695 As a writer, her two specialties have been Sandy Reckert-Reusing Fax: 410.502.1043 healthcare and the arts. The best thing Director of Communications [email protected] about both, in her opinion, is that she gets and Public Affairs to talk to passionate people who love what Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center For general inquiries, call: 410.955.4788 they do. Proch also manages technology Leslie Kemp, BSN ’95 and multimedia resource projects for the arts education programs at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. ECO BOX Jennifer Walker loves writing stories Paper Requirements: 54,039 pounds about inspiring people. For this issue’s Using this combination of papers saves the following each year: “Higher Education” feature (page 26), she Wood Use: 6 tons had the privilege of talking to doctoral Total Energy: 21 million BTUs nursing students who will educate the next Greenhouse Gases: 7,235 lbs generation of nurses. They are incredibly Wastewater: 17,225 gallons passionate people who, as researchers, Solid Waste: 1,915 pounds are also poised to make a tremendous impact on patient care in their respective specialties, she says. As a Baltimore-based The spring 2012 issue of Johns Hopkins Nursing is printed on Sterling Matte paper. freelance writer, Walker specializes in health, business, and lifestyle topics. Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense Paper Calculator at www.papercalculator.org. 2 J OHNS H OPKINS N URSING | S PRING 2012 Hill’sSide Education, Leadership, and Collaboration Three components that will help transform nursing and improve patient care OY R t’s not easy to improve healthcare and calling upon our faculty, students, urses play such a critical role Nursing Leadership: Nurses bring an T N O outcomes for patients and families. But alumni, staff, fellow nurses, partners, in improving the health and important voice and point of view to AR I N A as nurses, our knowledge, resiliency, and and friends—and show how nursing is healthcare for all Americans. With this management and policy discussions. We avid D experience on the front lines of providing implementing the recommendations understanding the Robert Wood Johnson need to prepare more nurses to help lead care position us well to evaluate what and working toward transforming Foundation (RWJF) was proud to have improvements in healthcare quality, is working, what isn’t, and to make the our profession. sponsored the Institute of Medicine’s safety, access, and value, whether at the changes needed to achieve this goal. To start, I reached out to Robert (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: bedside, in the community, or in the As we tackle transforming healthcare, Wood Johnson Foundation senior Leading Change, Advancing Health. boardroom. RWJF has long promoted we also need to transform nursing. The advisor for nursing, Susan Hassmiller, Though all of the recommendations need nursing leadership through our Executive recent Institute of Medicine report, PhD, RN, FAAN, and asked what she to be advanced to transform