The University of Tennessee Health Science Center URSING N FALL 2009 Annual Report Dean’s Message
Today’s economic news may In addition to the increased activity in our have you thinking not much is academic programs, faculty and students have also going on at the UTHSC College been ramping up their efforts in research, practice of Nursing, but you couldn’t and outreach. Research funding continues to grow as be more wrong! This year’s our PhD program begins its third decade, and faculty- annual report provides data that practice is experiencing expansion. clearly illustrate this point. Rather This past year also marked a new high in the than just maintaining the status involvement of students and faculty in extracurricular quo, the College of Nursing has activities. Whether it’s staffing community health responded to the challenge and is fairs, participating in fundraising events, or traveling more active and productive than ever before. to clinics in third-world countries, the contributions This past year we’ve undergone three accreditation of our students and faculty speak volumes about their visits, all with stellar results; our faculty, students personal commitments to make a difference in the and alumni have received national recognitions health of our local and global communities. for their accomplishments; we implemented the Challenge and change, can be a recipe for turmoil, region’s first Dedicated Education Unit (DEU); and uncertainty and stress; it can also provide a foundation welcomed the first cohort of second-degree Master’s for creativity and innovation. We have chosen to make RN-Entry students who will also be prepared to sit for it the latter. As we plan for the future, we do so with certification as a Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). the knowledge that we will be stronger and more vital As our student body pushes 400, we are enrolling than ever. and graduating more students than ever and expect to maintain enrollment despite significant budget cuts. True to our legacy of academic innovation, the College of Nursing is keeping an eye toward the future and preparing these graduates for excellence in their future careers. The college’s leadership in DNP education and this year’s implementation of the DEU Donna Hathaway, Dean and the MSN-CNL RN-entry program exemplifies our The University of Tennessee Health Science Center commitment and further enhances our reputation as a College of Nursing Letterschange-agent school.
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UT Health Science Center Alumni Board President’s Contents Message News 4 • Wall Steps Down as Now more than ever in today’s challenging Chancellor economy, the University of Tennessee Health • Faculty Receive Nearly Science Center and the College of Nursing need the involvement of alumni. Giving time to serve $3.5 Million in Grants on the alumni board, attending events that 7 benefit the school and financial support are all Data Report effective ways to support the college’s mission, A Look at the Numbers vision and goals. - Charts and Graphs I have truly enjoyed my time as the UTHSC College of Nursing Alumni President and am 10 encouraged by the dedication and commitment of the faculty to the Alumni preparation of nurse leaders for excellence today and in the future. • Golden Graduates The Alumni Association Board of Directors is actively working with • Alumni Award Winners the dean to generate ideas for strategic planning and ways in which all alumni can work with the faculty and students of the college. This annual report contains vital information about the future Development 13 of the college and the challenges and opportunities that arise as we • A Legacy of a Daughter’s strive to achieve our goals. This is a very exciting time as nursing roles Smile and Songs expand and become more autonomous. The College of Nursing will • Donor List continue to be on the cutting edge in the preparation of nurse leaders • Distinguished Visiting who will mold the future of nursing. Professors I would also like to take this opportunity to extend a personal 19 invitation for you to participate in the 2010 Alumni Day on May 21 at tudents the Hilton Memphis. This program presents a wonderful opportunity S • Scholarships Funded to network with peers, show support for the College of Nursing and its future nurse leaders, and take part in an informative program led for Second Year by our Mary L. Morris Distinguished Visiting Professor, Julie Morath, • Graduation 2009 RN, MS, chief quality and safety officer at Vanderbilt Medical Center, • 2009 Student Awards 23 who will address the topic “Ensuring Patient Safety in Health Care Organizations.” Faculty Let’s all remember to support our UTHSC College of Nursing! • Faculty Activities
Annual Report Editorial Team Madge Richbourg Saba, ’66, President Sheila Champlin UTHSC College of Nursing Alumni Association Karin Eggert Rebecca Ennis Thurman Hobson Ramona Jackson Susan Jacob Dena Owens
The University of Tennessee Nursing Annual Report is published in the fall each year for graduates of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing. Send all communications to Alumni Affairs at [email protected] or phone: (901) 448-5516 or (800) 733-0482 or fax: (901) 448-5906.
Fall 2009 Wall Steps Down as Chancellor, Schwab Named Interim Hershel P. Wall, MD, Dr. Schwab joined UTHSC as chancellor of the UT Health the first-ever executive dean for Science Center, stepped down the College of Medicine in July from his position on September 2006. In this role he has assumed 30. Dr. Wall has been a member all administrative responsibility of the Health Science Center team for the College of Medicine since he began medical school campus locations in Memphis, more than 52 years ago. Knoxville and Chattanooga. Steve J. Schwab, MD, was “I am honored to accept this named UTHSC interim chancellor Hershel P. Wall, MD appointment and I look forward Steve J. Schwab, MD by UT Interim President Jan to continued strong collaboration Simek. Dr. Schwab’s appointment became effective with the leadership, faculty and staff of this vital health on October 1. The search for the permanent UTHSC care institution,” said Dr. Schwab. chancellor will begin immediately. “Dr. Schwab has exhibited a serious commitment “Pat Wall is an incredibly dedicated member of to excellence, a sound ability to lead and an affinity the university family,” said President Simek. “We are for building symbiotic strategic partnerships. Those grateful for the many contributions he has made to the traits are pivotal to success in the chancellor’s office,” Memphis community and to our UT family in his roles said President Simek. as physician, teacher and administrator.” The search for a permanent UTHSC chancellor Having a long and distinguished tenure in the UT was suspended in January 2008. A new committee College of Medicine, Dr. Wall accepted the appointment will undertake the national search and make as interim chancellor in April 2007, with the interim recommendations to President Simek on possible designation being removed in January 2008. Dr. Wall candidates. The search committee will include leaders will continue to teach in the College of Medicine and from partner organizations in the Memphis health care serve UTHSC as a special assistant to the president community; UTHSC faculty, staff and students; and in support of Alumni Affairs and Development. team members who represent the other two major His responsibilities will include fundraising, capital UTHSC campuses in Knoxville and Chattanooga. development and alumni relations. News McKeon Given Permanent Title UTHSC Revises Mission Leslie McKeon, PhD, RN, who was serving as interim Statement assistant dean of student affairs, will now be taking on the position In June, the UT Board of Trustees permanently. approved a revised UTHSC mission “While holding this position statement. The new mission statement Dr. McKeon has demonstrated is in direct alignment with the UTHSC impressive leadership,” stated strategic plan. Dean Donna Hathaway, PhD. The mission of the University of Leslie McKeon, PhD, RN She continued, “Dr. McKeon’s Tennessee Health Science Center is to organizational and systems expertise, research and bring the benefits of the health sciences to the achievement and maintenance of grant experience, as well as her commitment to human health, with a focus on the citizens preparing students to excel in today’s complex health of Tennessee and the region, by pursuing care environment, provide an exceptional level of an integrated program of education, leadership for our Office of Student Affairs.” research, clinical care, and public service. With more than 25 years of nursing experience, Dr. McKeon joined the UTHSC in 2004. UT Health Science Center News
Faculty Members To Receive Nearly (DEU) at Methodist University Hospital, including the impact on personnel, performance and on UTHSC College $3.5 Million in Grant Awards of Nursing students who rotate through the unit. A DEU is an innovative academic-practice partnership that provides Seven faculty members in the College of Nursing have an optimal teaching-learning environment. been awarded a total of $3,481,286 in grant funding. Leslie McKeon, PhD, assistant The funds will be used to help develop young nurse professor of Acute and Chronic Care, researchers, evaluate the effectiveness of advanced nursing earned a total of $713,688 in a HRSA grant education initiatives, support improvements for care of the for Advanced Nursing Education, which mentally ill, prepare nurses to care for both crime victims runs from July 2009 through June 2012. and perpetrators, improve core nursing skills to better meet The award supports the development and the needs of the medically underserved, and increase the evaluation of the College of Nursing’s Leslie McKeon, PhD competencies of students and experienced nurses in use new Master’s Entry Clinical Nurse and application of information technology. Leader (CNL) program. “The receipt of these competitive national grants is Susan Patton, DNSc, associate further recognition of the outstanding academic programs professor of Primary Care and Public offered through the Health Science Center’s College of Health, will receive $167,000 through Nursing,” observed Dean Donna Hathaway, PhD. The HRSA in the sixth year of funding for college is the leading producer of graduate nurses and advanced practice forensic nursing nursing faculty in the region and is a nationally recognized education development. The one-of- change agent in nursing education. a-kind program prepares Doctor of Susan Patton, DNSc The following paragraphs provide a brief explanation Nursing Practice students to care for of the award recipients and their reaserach studies: victims of injury and violence, as well as perpetrators of crime. Ann Cashion, PhD, professor and Cynthia Russell, PhD, RN, chair in Acute and Chronic Care, will professor receive $35,527 in National Institutes of in Acute and Chronic Care, has been Health funding as part of the American awarded a $974,294 grant from HRSA to Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The fund the Learning Information Seeking funding, which runs from July 14, 2009, and Technology for Evidence-based to September 1, 2010, is a supplemental Nursing (LISTEN) Project. The project Ann Cashion, PhD began in July 2007 and will run through grant that will support summer research Cynthia Russell, experiences for students and science educators. June 2010. The LISTEN Project targets PhD, RN students and faculty at the UTHSC and Patricia Cunningham, DNSc, Baptist College of Health Sciences, as well as workforce associate professor of Primary Care nurses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis. and Public Health, will receive $770,651 The project is designed to improve students’ and nurses’ through HRSA, the Health Resources information technology, information seeking, and and Services Administration, an agency information application competencies. of the U.S. Department of Health and Patricia Speck, DNSc, Human Services. During the term of the assistant grant set from July 14, 2009, through June Patricia Cunningham, professor of Primary Care and Public DNSc 2012, Family Nurse Practitioners/DNP Health, will receive a total of $807,982 students and their preceptors will collaborate with in HRSA grant funding for Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health DNP faculty during clinical Nursing Education also over three years, rotations to improve the knowledge, clinical skills and July 2009 through June 2012. This project is designed to double the number of attitudes to support an effective nursing workforce. Patricia Speck, Public Health Nursing (PHN) Doctor DNSc Veronica Engle, PhD, professor of of Nursing Practice (DNP) graduates Primary Care and Public Health, will and enhance technical competencies by provision of an receive $12,144 from the Methodist annual technical assistance workshop. The curriculum Healthcare Foundation in a grant that will build PHN competency skills through advanced began May 1, 2009, and will run through nursing education, targeting graduate PHN faculty from April 2010. The project will identify the historically black colleges and universities, as well as PHNs effects of the Dedicated Education Unit Veronica Engle, PhD working in disadvantaged areas. Fall 2009 2008 - 2009 College of Nursing Faculty/Staff
University Distinguished Professor Michael A. Carter, DNSc, FNP, FAAN, FNP/GNP-BC Outstanding Preceptors Professor Ann Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN – Chair, Department of Acute and Chronic Care & Director, Students paid a high compliment to six undergraduate Center for Health Evaluation and Lifestyle Promotion Veronica F. Engle, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, AHN-BC, LADS, FGSA, FAAN clinical preceptors and one graduate clinical preceptor Margaret Thorman Hartig, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP – Chair, Department of Primary Care and last spring by nominating them as “Outstanding Public Health & Family Nurse Practitioner Option Coordinator Donna K. Hathaway, PhD, FAAN – Dean Preceptors.” Susan R. Jacob, PhD, RN – Executive Associate Dean Carol A. Lockhart, PhD, RN, FAAN The awards to these mentors were presented at Sheila D. Melander, RN, DSN, ACNP, FCCM, FAANP Nursing Alumni Day on May 8. Karen Olson, RN, FNP-BC, PhD, FAANP – Family Nurse Practitioner Option Coordinator Cynthia K. Russell, PhD, ANP Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer, PhD, APN, FNP-BC – Associate Dean for Academic Programs Outstanding Graduate Clinical Preceptor Carol L. Thompson, PhD, CCRN, ACNP, FNP, FCCM, FAANP – Acute Care Option Coordinator Peggy Ingram Veeser, EdD, FNP, APRN,BC – Director, University Health Services Mona Newsome Wicks, PhD, RN – Associate Dean for Research Stacey McClain, center, a board-certified family Associate Professor Jacqueline Burchum, DNSc, APRN,BC nurse practitioner, Patricia A. Cowan, PhD, RN accepts her award Patricia D. Cunningham, DNSc, APN, PMHNP/CNS-BC, FNP-BC – Psychiatry Option Coordinator from Dean Donna J. Carolyn Graff, PhD, RN – PhD Program Director Hathaway, right, and Wendy Likes, DNSc, APRN-BC Tommie Norris, DNS, RN – Director of Professional Entry Program Irma Jordan, CON Jill S. Detty Oswaks, CRNA, DNSc – Director of Nurse Anesthesia Option faculty member, left. Susan B. Patton, DNSc, PNP-BC – Forensic Nursing Option Coordinator
Assistant Professor Outstanding Undergraduate Clinical Preceptors Dwayne Accardo, DNP, CRNA – Associate Director of Nurse Anesthesia Option Bobby Bellflower, DNSc, NNP – Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Option Coordinator All of these nurses work in the 9 Tower Belinda Fleming, PhD, FNP-BC Neurosurgical Unit at Methodist University Hospital, Lynn Kirkland, DNSc, APRN-BC Kathleen McCoy, DNSc, APN, PMHNP/CS-BC, FNP-BC which is the home of UTHSC and Methodist Le Leslie McKeon, PhD, RN, NEC-BC – Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Bonheur Healthcare’s Dedicated Education Unit. Diane Pace, PhD, FNP-BC, APN, FAANP – Assistant Dean of Faculty Practice Zoila Sanchez, PhD, RN Patricia Speck, DNSc, APN, FNP-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN – Public Health Nursing Option Coordinator Sherry Webb, DNSc, RN, CNL, NEA-BC
Instructor Hallie Bensinger, MSN, FNP, RNC Teresa Britt, MSN, RN – Director of Learning Laboratory & Assessment Nancy Alise Farrell, MSN, CPN, RN Kathy Gaffney, MS, PMHCNS, PNP-BC Edward Phelps, CRNA, MSN Irma Jordan, MSN, FNP, APRN,BC Virginia Swartz, MSN, PNP, APRN-BC Sandra Madubuonwu, MSN, CNS, RN Loree Thompson, MSN, CRNA
College of Nursing Staff Tonya Brown-Jobarteh, AS Beth Kirby, BS – Assistant Dean for Administration Florine Burch Jones, BPS, CPS Belinda Loyd, CPS Connie Burgess, CPS Vikki Mercer Massey, MS Heather Carter-Templeton, MSN, RN Samantha Miles, MSN, RN Justin Casey, BA Ramona Jackson, BA Marsha Chorice Christinetta Shelton, BS Stacy Clayton, BA Kathy Stewart, CPS Helen Dotson Erwin Story, MBA Roylynn Germain Ruth Stickler Tutor Teresa Glaser, CPS Tammy Vaughn Jada Harding Julienne Watkins, MPA April Jones, BA Janet Wood, BPS
Research Programs Lois Bolden, PhD, CNS-BC Gail Spake, MA Renata Leimig Deborah Talley Dean Donna Hathaway The Center for Health Evaluation and Lifestyle Promotion Staff presents preceptor awards Monique Johnson-Dailey, MA to, beginning at top, left to Deborah Gibson Melody Norris right: Umeko Williams, BSN, RN; Amber Plass, BSN, RN; University Health Services Staff Judith Ammons, MSN, APRN,BC Leminda Rogers, LPN Marilyn Newsom, BSN; Christa Deiss, CMOM Vada Singleton Chantel Graham, RN; and Allesa English, MD Carolyn Springfield Harvey, MSN, APRN,BC Stephan Foster, PharmD Traci Thompson Amber Chiddick, BSN, RN. Lawrence Madlock, MD Julia Watson Sharon Martin Evelyn Wright-Lewis, RN (Regina Johnson is not pictured.) Practice Programs Arabella Mitchell, UTMSN, Health RN Science Center A Look at the Numbers The following charts and graphs provide a visual depiction of some of the College of Nursing’s latest statistics and rankings.
Applicant (only) Data
100% DNP Report data 90% 80% MSN 66% 70% 70%
60% 55% 47% 50% 42% 40% 27% 30%
20% 14% 14% 10% 0% Tennessee Residents Male Minority Accepted
College of Nursing Student Population Totals
450 390 360 368 375 348
300 279
225
150
75
0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Fall 2009 Certification Pass Rate by Option NCLEX Pass Rates An average from the past two years, 2007-2009.
ANES 100% 2006 2007 2008
Data Report Data ACNP 100% UT CON 96.7% 88.5% 96%
FNP 100% Tennessee 92.8% 91.8% 91.5%
PSYCH 80% National 89.1% 88.1% 87%
Grant Totals $2,500,000 2004-2009 CON Grant Totals FY09 $1,659,394
$2,000,000 FY08 $2,043,470
$1,500,000 FY07 $1,229,893
$1,000,000 FY06 $1,387,389 $500,000 FY05 $657,703
$0 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY04 $376,476
Scholarship Funding
Scholarship Traineeship Total $200000 Funds Funds Funds $180000 FY09 $51,107 $205,765 $256,872 $160000 $140000 FY08 $99,541 $119,494 $219,035 $120000 $100000 FY07 $85,563 $141,127 $226,690 $80000 $60000 FY06 $74,489 $71,108 $145,597 $40000 $20000 $0 FY05 $71,203 $69,332 $140,535 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09
Scholarship Funds Traineeship Funds FY04 $56,632 $59,281 $115,913
UT Health Science Center Data Report
Graduates from the UT CON UT CON Year Graduates 1958 to 2008 200 1958 57 1959 26 180 1960 22 160 1961 28 140 1962 25 1963 24 120 1964 20 100 1965 21 80 1966 34 1967 22 60 1968 48 40 1969 25 1970 48 20 1971 75 0 1972 75 1958 1968 1978 1988 1998 2008 1973 75 1974 101 1975 90 Student Enrollment by Programs Fall 2009 1976 75 BSN MSN 1977 91 72 Students 134 Students 1978 93 1979 77 1980 100 1981 119 1982 104 1983 109 1984 113 1985 119 1986 110 White 70% 62 Female 86% 53 White 74% 109 Female 81% 94 1987 103 Black 23% 10 Male 14% 16 Black 22% 25 Male 19% 30 1988 89 3 Hispanic 2% 1989 114 1 Asian 1% 4 Asian 3% 1990 82 2 Other 3% 1 Am. Indian >1% 1991 93 1 Under Rep. Asian >1% 1992 105 1993 160 1 Other >1% DNP 1994 145 PhD 1995 139 117 Students 24 Students 1996 151 1997 123 1998 53 1999 42 2000 22 2001 72 2002 50 2003 41 103 Female 88% 84 White 72% 21 Female 88% 20 White 83% 2004 41 14 Male 12% 26 Black 22% 3 Male 12% 4 Black 17% 2005 44 2 Hispanic 2% 2006 62 2007 138 Asian 2% 2 2008 180 2 Other 2% Fall 2009 UTAA President-Elect Golden Graduates Appoints Women’s Council Class of 1959 The newest members of the University of Tennessee Alumni Association Women’s Council are now in place. UTAA President-Elect Dan Brown appointed Elizabeth “Betsy” Brasher as 2009-2010 chair and named Anita Airee, Anne Fleming, Mary Hammock, and Joanne Walker to the Council Class of 2009-2012. Jennifer Holder, the 2008-2009 Women’s Council chair, will also join the group for an additional year serving as past chair. Airee, Fleming and Hammock are all graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Anita Airee is a graduate of UT Martin ’89 and the UT Health Science Center ‘98. She is a pharmacist and an assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy in Knoxville. Anne Fleming is a graduate of the UT Health Members of the Class of 1959 celebrated their 50th reunion Science Center ’74 and ’77. Mrs. Fleming is a and were honored as Golden Graduates at an Alumni Day registered nurse at UTMG in the Hamilton Eye luncheon on May 8. Institute. She has held multiple offices on the Memphis Medical Society Alliance, is a volunteer Class Notes with the RN Volunteer Church Health Center Lillian Davis Riddick, class of December 1974, and volunteers as a Germantown Baptist Church recently wrote that she retired from nursing and is tutor. She resides in Germantown. pursuing a degree in criminal justice. Mary Hammock is a graduate of UT Chattanooga ’77 and UTHSC ’81. She is a physician in internal medicine and resides in UTAA Public Service Award Rising Fawn, Ga., a suburb of Chattanooga. Alumni The UT Alumni Association presented its Public The appointments were effective June 20, Service Award to faculty member Carolyn Graff, PhD, 2009. RN, FAAIDD. We’re Turning 100! As UTHSC approaches its centennial year in 2011, the univer- sity is in the early stages of planning for this momentous occasion. Special events, a commemorative Web site, and coffee table book are just a few of the items slated for this year-long celebration. Be a part of this celebration by contributing any historical pho- tos, personal reflections, or artifacts that you may have from your time at UTHSC. Alumni are also needed as volunteers to search local library files for data pertinent to UTHSC history. Please contact Richard Nollan in the Health Sciences Historical Collections at (901) 448-6053, [email protected].
10 UT Health Science Center Alumni Board of Directors Alumni
President Madge Richbourg Saba (2010) ’66
Alumni Award Winners President-Elect Sam Maceri (2010) ’01, ’02
Vice President Alice Parham Nunnery (2010) ’71, ’95
Secretary Sari Bledsoe (2010) ’64
Tennessee Representatives West Michael Briley (2012) ’05 Madge Saba (left), president of Madge Saba (left), president of Sam Maceri (2012) ’01, ’02 the UTHSC College of Nursing the UTHSC College of Nursing Tammara H. Beard (2012) ’94, ’98, ’03 Alumni Association, presents Alumni Association, presents Suzanne Meeks, BSN, MA, MSN, Mona Newsome Wicks, PhD, Middle with the 2009 Most Supportive RN, with the 2009 Outstanding Alice Parham Nunnery (2010) ’71, ’95 Alumna Award during Alumni Alumna Award during Alumni Betty Witherspoon (2011) ’71 Day in May. Day in May. Janice Shelley Ledbetter (2011) ’71
East Cathy Hammons (2010) ’03 Reflections from a DNP Graduate Patti Ketterman (2010) ’06 M’Liss Darr Mather (2011) ’78 “My master’s degree taught me to climb mountains. My DNP taught me to move Out-of-State Representatives Sherry Barry (2010) ’73 - Tampa, Fla. mountains,” Sari Bledsoe (2012) ’64 - Marion, Ark. Donna Lynch-Smith, DNP graduate, Elizabeth Fuselier Ellis (2012) ’93, ’95, ’05 - Houston, Texas who recently joined the CON faculty. Mayola Rowser (2012) ’05 - Evansville, Ind. UTHSC Mourns Loss of Emeritus VC Representatives-at-Large William “Bill” Robinson, 79, Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Student Paula Spears (2012) ’84, ’02 Affairs at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis, died on April 29 at Charmin Thomas (2012) ’93, ’98, ’01 Baptist Memorial Hospital after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Johneene Whitmore (2012) ’93, ’01 James “Hutch” Hutcheson (2012) ‘07 Bill and Sylvia, his wife of 43 years, came to Memphis in 1962 when Claudia Patricia Neira (2012) ’06 Bill was hired by the UT Medical Units as assistant director of Student Welfare. That launched a 36-year career with the university which had Sigma Theta Tau numerous highlights including the six-year design, planning and building Dianne Greenhill (2011) ’62 of the Wassell Randolph Student-Alumni Center and Fitness Center, which Bill then had the responsibility for managing. Immediate Past President He was later appointed vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Rita Kimbro Miller, ’71 served in that capacity until his retirement in 1998. Upon his retirement, the university honored him by naming the school’s athletic facility Past Presidents (gymnasium, swimming pool, exercise facilities and racquetball courts) Irma Jordan, ’97, ’98 the “William C. Robinson Student Recreation Center.” Janet McMurray (Jan) Johnson, ’76 Carolyn Moran DePalma, ’56 “During his decades here, Bill was better known than any other Alice Upchurch Warren, ’65 member of the Health Science Center staff,” stated Chancellor Hershel Areti Tina Moskos Klein, ’86 P. Wall. “Naming the athletic building after him was a lasting and Carol Denise Graham, ’86 appropriate tribute for his many contributions to this university. For Patricia Fuqua Walker, ’56 years Bill was, for students in all of the colleges, the face of the university SuAnne Cobb, ’76 while they studied here.” Terri Boyd Jacobs, ’74 Jo Ann Kyle, ’54 Fall 2009 11 In Memoriam
Helen L. (Cook) Erikson, 92, years. Following retirement, she continued to use her nursing ’37 of Mankato, Minn., passed skills as a volunteer in the community. Her joy was serving her away on May 6. She was born church and community. She enjoyed spending her time with her Alumni on June 18, 1916, in Lexington, Miss. After beloved friends and family gathered around her dining table. graduating from UT, she specialized in the care of premature infants and newborns at Mary “Neen” Bowman Arnold, 87, formerly of the John T. Gaston Hospital and the Baptist ’45 Maryville, Tenn., died June 27 at Alois Alzheimer Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She met Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Arnold was Glenn T. Erikson of Cambridge, Minn., while preceded in death by her husband, Lee A. Arnold. Ms. Arnold was he was stationed in Memphis, where they a registered nurse for many years at Blount Memorial Hospital. were married in 1943. Eventually they moved to Mankato, She was a member of Broadway United Methodist Church and where Helen continued her nursing career and worked the Iva Moore Sunday school class in Maryville. in Mankato Clinic’s Internal Medicine Department until her retirement in 1976. She is survived by her husband, Frances Shepard Reid, 83, died July 31. A native daughters and son. ’47 of Maryville and resident of Athens for many years, she was a member of Trinity United Methodist Alma Bernice Godsey, 88, passed away Jan. Church. A graduate of the University of Tennessee School of ’41 20 at Morning Pointe, Greeneville, Tenn. Ms. Nursing where she received her RN, she assisted her late husband Godsey graduated from Bristol High School, Dr. James C. Reid, Jr., in his optometric practice in Athens for 25 the UT School of Nursing, and the University of North years. She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law; Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also did postgraduate studies at one son; three granddaughters; and three grandsons. East Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University. She was a veteran of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and Dr. Mary Lucille Moore, 78, of Friendswood, served in North Africa and Italy from 1941 to 1946. Later, ’52 Texas, passed away July 3 at Methodist Hospital she worked as a public health nurse for 34 years, 17 years in Houston. She was born May 10, 1931, in in Sullivan County and 17 years in Greene County. She Woodville, Texas. In addition to graduating from the UT School had been a resident of Greeneville since 1963. of Nursing, she received BS and MS degrees from the University of Alabama and a PhD from the University of Houston. She was a Pauline Eleam “Polly” Campbell, 91, of retired professor and chair at University of Texas Medical Branch ’42 Bowling Green, Va., died Dec. 2, 2008, at Mary in Galveston. Dr. Moore had a passion for research in child Washington Hospital. Born in Hamilton County, psychology and was able to have several programs implemented Tenn., she was a 1938 graduate of Horace Greeley School in at the national level. Dr. Moore is survived by her husband of 50 New York. After nursing school, Polly enlisted in the U.S. years, Harry Moore, a son, and daughter. Navy Nurse Corps in 1942 and served during World War II. She was the widow of Ray S. Campbell Sr., whom she Dr. Teresa Ann Free, 59, went to be with her Lord married December 1, 1944, in Pasco, Wash. After a 34-year ’73 and Savior, Jesus Christ on July 31 after a valiant, career, she retired in 1983 as supervisor of the Emergency uncomplaining struggle with cancer. Born and Room at Mary Washington Hospital. raised in Kingsport, Tenn., she lived many years in Memphis and the last 19 years in Versailles, Ky. She was a graduate of Holston Sylvia Norman Britt, 92, a resident of Cleveland, High School in Blountville, Tenn., received a BS at UTHSC, ’44 Tenn., passed away Jan. 17 at the family MSN degree from the University of California, San Francisco, residence. After working as a public health and PhD in nursing from the University of Texas, Austin. She nurse in Sumner and Monroe counties, she was sent to the was employed as an associate professor at the University of University of Michigan where she received her Bachelor Kentucky. of Science degree in public health nursing. She retired as director of public health nursing in the Knoxville office. Mildred Louise Gillihan Harvey, 80, of Lakeland, She also worked as a volunteer at the UT memorial office. ’85 Tenn., retired clinical nurse specialist for Baptist In 1989 she returned to Cleveland where she volunteered Memorial Hospital, died after a short illness on at Bradley Memorial Hospital for many years. Aug. 30. Mildred graduated from Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in 1951, after marrying Richard Booth Harvey in 1949. Mary Elizabeth “Babe” Cosby, 88, of Iuka, Miss., died July She received her BSN from Memphis State University in 1982 14, at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was and her MSN from UTHSC in 1985. Mrs. Harvey practiced a member of the Iuka Baptist Church. She worked with her and taught obstetric nursing for more than 50 years. She was husband, Dr. Harry Cosby, at the Cosby Medical Clinic for many preceded in death by her husband of 49 years. She leaves four daughters. 12 UT Health Science Center A research endowment has been established at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in loving memory of the daughter of June (UT Memphis ’92) and James Larrabee. Lauralee Kathryn, affectionately known as “Kathy,” died in a tragic car accident at the age of 17. The Lauralee Kathryn Larrabee Endowment focuses on improving the quality of human health in juveniles through research of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
A Legacy of a Daughter’s Smile and Songs development By Chandra Harris-McCray Fifteen years have passed, but June Larrabee can questions of ADHD, then Kathy’s life will continue still see the hues of autumn leaves on trees dotted to have a profound impact for generations to come.” along a Memphis road where her only daughter was Larrabee left her impression on the Health Sci- tragically killed in a car accident at the age of 17. ence Center’s College of Nursing as the first doctoral Time has been a healer but not an eraser of the graduate in 1992. While pursuing her educational memories of Kathy. Tears still stain Larrabee’s face endeavors, Larrabee continued working at the Mem- when she catches herself phis campus in a joint singing a song on the ra- “Kathy’s smile could light up a room, but appointment between dio she normally belted behind her smile was so much that was not the College of Nursing off key with her daughter understood. If our gift can be used to solve and the Regional Medi- or saying a phrase that those unanswered questions of ADHD, then cal Center at Memphis. would have come from her Kathy’s life will continue to have a profound “It is not only the daughter’s mouth. impact for generations to come.” place where I received “It is such a terrible my PhD,” she said. “It loss when you lose a child,” −June Larrabee (UTHSC CON ’92) is the place where the she said. “The pain is like people offered a great an elephant sitting on your chest.” deal of support and allowed me to tell the story of Planting a tree or placing a memorial wreath and remember Kathy. UT Memphis will always hold on the roadside where Kathy died did not seem like a dear place in my heart.” enough for Larrabee and her husband James, who now The soul of Larrabee’s scholarly pursuits has fo- reside in Florida. They have shared and connected oth- cused on quality health care. With more than 40 years ers to the intricate journey of Kathy, who suffered from of nursing and leadership experience as a staff nurse, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), by clinical nurse specialist, educator, director of nursing establishing a research endowment in her memory quality improvement, author, and researcher, Larrabee at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. currently serves in a joint appointment between West The Lauralee Kathryn Larrabee Endowment shines a Virginia University’s School of Nursing and West light on the unvarnished reality of ADHD, a chronic Virginia University Hospitals. disorder affecting millions of children who struggle She said at the core of the UT Health Science with poor school performance, troubled relationships, Center’s statewide academic health system is the and low self-esteem. determination to “improve lives through education, While there is no cure, “there is still so much to be research, clinical care, and public service.” learned about ADHD from Larrabee said, “My daughter’s legacy lives on which parents can benefit,” by helping to improve the lives of others. Kathy will said Larrabee. always live on in my heart,” and in the songs she “Kathy’s smile could quietly hums. light up a room, but be- For more information about how you can support hind her smile was so the College of Nursing through a planned gift, please much not understood. If contact Bethany Goolsby, JD, assistant vice chancellor our gift can be used to of planned giving, at (901) 448-4941. solve those unanswered Fall 2009 13 Donors to the College of Nursing January 2008 - June 30, 2009
As donors, you are truly our partners. Your support is vital to the College of Nursing and helps to provide an outstanding educational experience for our students, as well as support our efforts to attract and retain the best and the brightest faculty members. Your investment in the college advances groundbreaking basic, clini- cal and translational research on the most pressing health care issues we face today, leading us to better treat- ments that benefit untold thousands of people around the world. We thank you for your gifts and ask you to continue to support the college through your generous philanthropy. For more information on making a gift to the college, contact Gloria Greiner-Callihan, JD, assistant vice chancellor of development, at (901) 448-5516 or
Development [email protected]. For more information on deferred giving plans, contact Bethany Goolsby, JD, assistant vice chancellor of planned giving, at (901) 448-4941 or [email protected].
Leslie Ann Akins and Mark Akins Wilma P. Edds Cheryl C. Allen Dr. Elizabeth F. Ellis Dr. Edmond L. Alley and Vashti J. Alley Lisa L. Ellis and Matthew G. Ellis Elizabeth Ewing Bailey and Jason Bailey Joseph W. Emery and Marie K. Emery Dr. James P. Baldwin and Mary H. Baldwin Dr. Veronica F. Engle and Mr. Engle Charlotte H. Bankston Barbara F. Ensley Lynn Hosse Barcroft and Douglas Morgan Barcroft Deborah J. Esmon Judy B. Barker and D. Wayne Barker Elizabeth E. Fancher Carol Haynes Barraza Ellen M. Faribault Dr. Bill E. Barry and Sherry Barry Eleanor H. Faulk Dr. Tammara Harris Beard and Gary D. Beard Kathy A. Felts and Charles D. Felts Anne Coleen Bertsch and Lt. Col. Marvin L. Bertsch Cynthia Lynn Fish and Freddie Fish Virginia Trotter Betts Patricia S. Freels and Thomas E. Freels Dr. Claudia Jean Beverly Melanie Kay Gardner and David M. Gardner Jean Couts Bigger and William H. Bigger Suzanne T. Gentry and Dr. James H. Gentry, Jr. Lynn James Binkley and Joseph E. Binkley Deana O. Geraets and Dr. Douglas R. Geraets Sari S. Bledsoe Nancy Rainwater Gilliam and Ralph G. Gilliam Patricia A. Blissitt Joyce Grace Laura L. Boatman Joyce Carolyn Graff Frances A. Bower Patricia Anne Grayson Bratton, O’Neal & Thorp, P.C. Dr. E. Dianne Greenhill Dr. Robert Lincoln Brier and Ruth Brier, RN Dr. Daniel E. Griffin and Fay Crawford Griffin Dr. John Michael Briley Lynne L. Hamilton and W. R. Hamilton Linda Moore Bronfin and Philip H. Bronfin Mary J. Hamilton and Dr. Vincent D. Hamilton Marie E. Buckley Rex K. Hamm Tammy E. Calvasina and Jason Calvasina C. George Hanson, Jr. Patricia Presson Carlson and Michael G. Carlson Gladys G. Hanson and Clinton Hanson Yvonne M. Carroll Vanessa J. Harrington and Alvin F. Harrington Dr. Michael A. Carter and Dr. Sarah A. Carter Dr. Margaret Thorman Hartig Joyeleene Elwood Case and Robert C. Case Dr. Mary S. Hartwig and Dr. Charles W. Hartwig Dr. Ann Cashion and Ted Cashion Dr. Margaret B. Harvey Dr. Harry T. Chandler, III, and Kathy Chandler Mildred Louise Harvey Marsha S. Chorice Carol Harville and Jerry Harville Linda N. Coakley and Dennis E. Coakley Christine Cobb Hasselle Patricia Cotten and Victor B. Cotten Dr. Donna K. Hathaway and Tom Hathaway Patricia A. Cowan and Dwight Cowan Dr. Carol Motes Headley and Dr. Arthur Stacey Headley Dr. William R. Crom and Dr. Mary Deborah Crom Ann McDonald Herndon Delsa T. Davis Linda F. Herron Judith Ann Della Ripa and Michael Della Ripa Irene Burch Hervery Cynthia Renee Demonbreum Dr. Martha E. Highfield and Dr. Ronald C. Highfield Janet Elaine DePriest Mitzi B. Higley Dr. Jayant K. Deshpande and Dr. Patricia N. Scott Jane Wright Hill Dr. Sattaria Smith Dilks and Mr. Lawrence Dilks, III Theresa Marie Hogg and John Hogg 14 UT Health Science Center John C. Hollingsworth and Cindy Hollingsworth Sarah R. Moseley and Richard L. Moseley Development Brenda G. Holt and Malcolm H. Holt Glenda F. Moses and Michael Moses Tara C. Holt and Merrill R. Holt Nancy S. Moss and Mr. Moss Catherine L. Horobetz and Gerald K. Horobetz Janet Flynn Mulroy and Matthew M. Mulroy Sarah Elizabeth Hughes and Dr. G. Edward Hughes Louise S. Murphy and Larry Murphy Billye R. Hurlburt Dr. Sarah I. Mynatt and Robert Mynatt Sylvia M. Jackson Dr. Margaret A. Newman Dr. Susan R. Jacob Kathryn Elma Nickey Betty Cochran Jones and Budd Hopkins Dr. James A. Nunnery, Jr. and Dr. Alice P. Nunnery Dr. Gordon F. Jones and Dr. Susan Jones E. Wynell Orman Cindy Jones and Scott Kunkel Jane Snedeker Owen and Robert C. Owen Irma L. Jordan and Robert W. Jordan, Jr. Elizabeth Patterson Josephine Circle Inc Dr. Curt Patton Linda Douglas Joyner and Stan R. Joyner, Jr. Robin Belinda Pavcik and David Pavick Teruko Kawai and Waichi Kawai Lindaree L. Pearce, MSN Dr. Robert E. Keith and Virginia Ann Keith Nancy Elizabeth Pechacek and Dr. Alan Pechacek Keith A. Ketterman and Dr. Patricia P. Ketterman Lindy Pendergrast and Joseph C. Pendergrast, III Gertrude M. Killen Catherine L. Pfeiffer Tharon M. Kirk and Rev. Cecil E. Kirk Nancy H. Pierce Charlotte White Kirkland and John E. Kirkland, Jr. Billy N. Potter and Patsy Potter Mary Anne Koeppel and Scott R. Koeppel Dr. Stephanie A. Powelson and Tim Tucker Dr. Betty Hensley Lang and Mr. Lang Dr. Sylvia C. Price and Joseph W. Price Mary Kathryn Lawrence Theresa Winkler Proctor and Dennis Proctor Nancy Learned and Paul D. Learned Dr. Robert L. Pryor and Theresa Lenihan Pryor Janice Shelley Ledbetter M. Floreen Pullen and Dr. Wayne G. Pullen Lettie Pate Whitehead Fdn Incorporated Betty Ragle Shaunda Johnson Lewis and Ralph H. Lewis Dorothy F. Redden Dr. Hillary H. Ling and Stella Lin-Hing Ling Elinor F. Reed Mertie Long Dr. Richard K. Reed and Connie H. Reed Belinda K. Loyd and Mr. Loyd Dr. Sarah Jane Rhoads Reba Hare Lunney and Edward J. Lunney, Jr. Dr. Lillian D. Riddick Beth Hartman Maas Emma F. Roberson Dr. Samuel L. Maceri and Kay Maceri Kittye L. Roberts and Kenneth B. Roberts Dean J. Martin Susan Rossen and Richard G. Rossen Sandra K. Massey Nancy Kim Rudge M’Liss Darr Mather and Dr. Jon A. Mather Catherine Wade Rungee and Dr. James Lundin Rungee, Jr. Rebecca Lee Matthews Cynthia K. Russell Mary Kathleen Mayhew and Curtis Mayhew Fay F. Russell Emma P. McCain and Dr. Garland E. McCain Madge R. Saba Vicki D. McCall and Dr. John G. McCall Susan Elisabeth Sacco Deanne P. McCormick and Dr. William F. McCormick Dr. Zoila Vichot Sanchez Ila S. McDonald and Barry McDonald Barbara I. Sanders and Dr. John R. Sanders Wynema McGrew Vanda L. Scott and Ken Simpson Leslie M. McKeon Yetteva D. Sheffield and Freeman G. Sheffield Nancy J. McLemore and Peter McLemore Cheryl B. Shields and James J. Shields Suzanne Meeks Denese A. Shumaker Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery Barbara J. Silk and R. H. Silk Memphis Funeral Home (2230) Kathryn Skinner Helen Whitlow Meredith Charlotte W. Smalley Pat R. Mielke and Mel C. Mielke B. Leanne Smith Rita Kimbro Miller and Vollie T. Miller, Jr. Gale Robinson Smith and Jack Smith Sarah R. Miller Ruth M. Smith Dr. Kenneth R. Mills and Rena G. Mills Susan Riley Smith and Prentiss E. Smith Cecilia Beverly Mittmann and Lt. Col. Kurt Mittmann Leslie C. Snodgrass and Dr. Gregory W. Snodgrass Lucille R. Moore and H. R. Moore Janice Jones Spane and Carl Spane Robert Terrell Moran, Jr. Ada K. Carpenter Sparkman and J.M. Sparkman, Sr. Alice E. Morris Donors...continued on Page 17 Fall 2009 15 Campaign for Tennessee Celebration a Success
On May 30, Chancellor Hershel P. Wall and his wife Jean welcomed “American Idol” Top 10 contestant Lil Rounds (cen- ter) to the Memphis campus for the Campaign for Tennessee
Development Celebration. That evening the university announced that it has raised $99,585,662 or 77 percent of its $130 million goal. The funds are part of the five-year $1 Billion Campaign for Tennes- see. The UT system total when this issue went to press was approximately $876 million.
Distinguished Visiting Professors July 2008 to June 2009
July 2008 November 2008 Elinor F. Reed DVP William T. Cashdollar DVP Ms. Marjorie Wiggins, Dr. Elaine Meyer, associate vice president of nursing and professor of psychology in the chief nursing officer at Maine Department of Psychiatry at Medical Center, was the guest Harvard Medical School and the lecturer for the 2008 Elinor F. director of the Program to Enhance Reed Distinguished Visiting Relational & Communication Professorship, held July 24, Skills at Children’s Hospital, Marjorie S. Wiggins, RN, Elaine Meyer, PhD, RN MBA, DNP(c), NEA-BC 2008. Boston, was the featured speaker Ms. Wiggins’ topic was for the William T. Cashdollar Distinguished Visiting Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Professorship, held November 7, 2008. – Nursing Role for the Future. Dr. Meyer’s topic was “Making Good on Parent Priorities at End of Life.”
January 2009 May 2009 Beverly H. Bowns DVP Mary L. Morris DVP Dr. June Horowitz, professor Dr. Christine Curran, clinical in psychiatric/mental health at associate professor in the College Boston College, was the guest of Nursing at The Ohio State lecturer for the Beverly H. University and Senior Nurse Bowns Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Brigham & Women’s Professorship, held January 29, Hospital in Boston, was the 2009. speaker for the Mary L. Morris June Horowitz, PhD, Christine R. Curran, The purpose of the conference RNCS, FAAN DVP College of Nursing Alumni PhD, RN, CAN was to discuss the trajectory and Day, held May 8, 2009. major findings of Dr. Horowitz’s program of research Dr. Curran’s topic was “Best Practices in with emphasis on postpartum depression and Information Management to Ensure Quality and family mental health. The title of the program was Safety.” “Journeying Through a Program of Research with Depressed Mothers and Their Infants.”
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Donors...continued from Page 15 Karen Bryant Valk and Tony Valk Betty Vaughn and O. L. Vaughn Dr. Paula Spears and Harold Dennis Spears Dr. Ralph Jean Vogel Pam Speitel and Dr. William A. Speitel Carolyn F. Walker and Dr. Richard H. Walker Barbara L. Spencer Jo Ann West Margaret F. Spencer and Harold Spencer Suzanne S. Whisnant and Dr. John T. Daugherty Frances Reed Springall Heather D. Whitehead and Dr. Peter Whitehead Betty Smith Staub and John H. Staub Dr. Mona N. Wicks and Sammie Wicks Marie H. Street Barbara Brown Wilkey and Edward Benton Wilkey, Jr. Laritha Sweet and William Sweet Jane Williams and Quentin Williams Hermione Smith Swindoll Sandy Willmarth Dr. Carol L. Thompson Dr. C. L. Wilson and Virginia C. Wilson Patricia Cole Thurston and Dr. Timothy W. Thurston Frances M. Wise and Hugh Wise Janina L. Tiner and Dr. David E. Tiner Karen C. Wiseman and Len Wiseman Diane Y. Trent and Steven Trent Janice Ruth Young Deborah A. Usselman Judith A. Young and Wayne Young
DVP Endowment Income by Fiscal Year
$25,000 FY09 $21,851 FY08 $17,912 $20,000 FY07 $16,175 $15,000 FY06 $15,652 $10,000 FY05 $6,813 $5,000 $0 FY04 $6,906 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09
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Fall 2009 17 Plaque Unveiling Development At Alumni Day in May, a zinc plaque was unveiled in honor of Marie Buckley. The plaque commemorates the establishment of the Marie Buckley Scholarship Endowment. Golden Graduate Dr. Mary L. Shannon (right) assisted Dean Donna Hathaway with the unveiling. The plaque will now hang in the lobby area of the College of Nursing.
College of Nursing Giving Total Giving by Year by Allocation FY 2009 Endowed Funds: Brenda C. Mills Scholarship Endowment...... $7,172.35 Dorothy McCarley Martin Nursing Scholarship...... 375.00 $250000 Dr. Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer End. Scholar...... 5,300.00 Elinor F. Reed DVP Endowment...... 500.00 $223,180 Faculty Minority Scholarship Endowment...... 960.00
$200,128 Grace Spice Wallace Scholarship Endowment...... 300.00 $200000 Lauralee Kathryn Larrabee Endowment...... 100.00 Margaret Newman Endowment...... 2,000.00 Marie E. Buckley Scholarship Endowment...... 625.00 $153,006 $150000 Nursing Doctoral Endowment...... 50.00 $128,322 4 Ruth Neil Murry Endowed Chair...... 8,946.76 The Friends of the Help Center Endowment...... 1,000.08 $103,79 William T. Cashdollar Endowment...... 1,000.00 $100000 Total Endowment...... $28,329.19 ***************************************************************** $50000 Current Operations: College Fund for Nursing...... $7,755.00 College of Nursing Program Fund...... 20.00 $0 Fund for Nursing Education...... 12,179.89 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Josephine Circle Scholarship...... 3,000.00 UT Development - Nursing ...... 25,000.00 Whitehead Scholarship Fund...... 27,500.00
Total Current Operations...... $75,454.89 ***************************************************************** Total Endowed and Current Operations...... $103,794.08 18 UT Health Science Center Scholarships Funded through Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Second Year 2009 Award Winners
Taheera Copeland Shamitre Crudup Mang Ensell Benjamin Hargrove Trekima Henry Tashanta Hull Students Carissa Jamison Jenele Jones Michael Kopinski 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award recipients stand together. For a second year, the UTHSC College of Nursing has received the scholarship awards. The 2009 winners are listed to the right. Dynisha Lee Maya Madlock For the second year in a row, the UTHSC College of Nursing has received funding to award 20 scholarships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through Shani Maples the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program. Grants provided through this Crystal Martin competitive program will build upon the Health Science Center’s previous efforts to increase the number of students enrolled in its accelerated, entry-level master’s degree Aaron May Clinical Nurse Leader nursing program and to diversify its student base. Anitra Polk This significant national initiative, launched in 2008 by RWJF and the American Alam Sharifi Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), aims to help alleviate the nation’s nursing Mayuko Shintai shortage by dramatically expanding the pipeline of students in accelerated nursing programs. Amber Tarvin In addition to financial support provided by the RWJF scholarships, students Lauren Taylor participate in weekly mentoring, leadership and academic support activities to Lakisha Washington facilitate success in the program. Retention rates are 100 percent. Fifty percent of RWJF scholarship recipients serve in leadership roles within the college and university, and 90 percent of these students Expressions of Gratitude indicated a desire to go to graduate school within five years of completing the entry-level nursing program. Methodist Steven Link, a UTHSC BSN student and a Le Bonheur Healthcare Systems has provided clinical 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award faculty and collaborated on the development of a Dedicated recipient, expressed his gratitude for the Education Unit to provide quality clinical experiences and award, and his comments were featured on the facilitate increased enrollment in the accelerated, entry-level RWJF New Careers in Nursing Web page. nursing program. The RWJ Foundation requested feedback from recipients about how the award has Through the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship helped. Link wrote an essay about his beliefs Program, scholarships in the amount of $10,000 each will be in nursing and how the award has helped him distributed to entry-level, second-degree nursing students achieve his goals. The essay was selected in in accelerated programs during the 2009-2010 academic June to be featured on the Web site. year. Award preference is given to students from groups To view the essay and read what underrepresented in nursing or from disadvantaged Link wrote about nursing, go to http:// backgrounds. Grant funding will be used by schools to newcareersinnursing.org/SchoThis-6474.html help leverage support for new faculty resources and provide and then scroll down to the section labeled mentoring and leadership development resources to ensure “June.” successful program completion by scholarship recipients. Fall 2009 19 Students
Defining the Best in Health Care
On May 29th at the FedEx Forum, UTHSC held its Samuel E. Dagogo-Jack, MD – A.C. Mullins 98th graduation, with 614 students collecting their health Professorship in Translational Research care credentials. The commencement ceremonies were Matthew Ennis, PhD – Simon R. Bruesch Professorship conducted and degrees conferred by Chancellor Hershel in Anatomy P. Wall. Alongside the graduates being honored were nine of the university’s professors who were awarded James C. Fleming, MD, FACS – Philip M. Lewis endowments for various chairs and professorships. Professorship in Ophthalmology The ceremony also featured Methodist Healthcare Donna K. Hathaway, PhD – Ruth Neil Murry Chair in CEO Gary Shorb as the guest speaker. Commenting on the Nursing relationship between Methodist and UT, Shorb called the Natalie C. Kerr, MD, FACS – Roger L. Hiatt partnership “mutually beneficial and key to us achieving Professorship in Ophthalmology our vision of being the best.” In his speech he stressed Abbas E. Kitabchi, MD, PhD – Maston K. Callison Methodist Le Bonheur’s important link to UTHSC Professorship saying, “When you look at the top 25 hospitals in the country, every one is owned by, or affiliated with, a strong Giancarlo Mari, MD – Baptist Memorial Healthcare academic enterprise committed to research, education Clinical Professorship in Maternal/Fetal Medicine and clinical care.” Shorb described for the graduates the Guy L. Reed, MD – Lemuel W. Diggs Professorship in three features that he believes separate good health care Medicine professionals from great ones: collaboration, compassion and giving back to the community. “These are true Robert W. Williams, PhD – Governor’s Chair in regardless of what happens with health care reform, and Computational Genomics I am confident at this point no one knows what that will Each of the 614 graduates and the nine faculty look like. We will have reform but these traits will still members who crossed the stage to be recognized and to define the best.” shake hands with the leadership of the university has The nine UTHSC faculty members whose dedication made a commitment to being a resource – a commitment and diligence earned endowed professorships or chairs to improving the lives of others. And although the new received special hoods and certificates to commemorate graduates and faculty are in very different phases of their their honors. careers, that shared commitment to the well-being and health of others is the tie that binds.
The Student Government Association Executive Council presented Excellence in Teaching Awards to two faculty members in the College of Nursing, April 2009. The winners were Jill S. Oswaks, DNSc, and Patricia M. Speck, DNSc.
20 UT Health Science Center Students The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing — Class of May 2009
Doctor of Philosophy, Nursing
Diane Evans Dowling Wendy Likes Belinda Fleming Stella Enyichi Nwojkeji Queen Obiageli Henry-Okafor Rosemary McLaughlin Shirleatha Lee Bridgett K. Robinson
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Jo Ann C. Abegglen Lora Lee Jenkins-Lonidier Helen Elizabeth Brooks Luann Ryals Jones Michael Allen Carter Debbie Ann Koch +Ricketta Harrell Clark Janette Shuler McCrory Cynthia Lynn Coffelt Terri Jean McKown Richard Paul Diaz Susan T. Mitchell-Sanders Diana Kim Ennis Brandy Michele Moates Sandra Elizabeth Eubank Tina King Monlezun Kimberly Ramsey Ferguson Michael Uzoma Nnadozie Linda Sue Fontenot Amy Lee Plunkett Jacqueline Forti-La Verde Maritza Elizabeth Salgado Susan Apple Fuller Patricia Neel Scott Karen Jackson Fulwood Jaime Elmido Soria Debra Brossett Garner Eva Mae Stassen Cindy Renee Goshorn Sharon B. Stevenson Bradley Ray Harrell Cristy Glover Stumb +Zenobia E. Harris Sherita Deniece Swinton Wende Lyn Heckert Janice Louise Taylor Elizabeth Lynne Avery Ivey Dawn Marie Vanderhoef Maybelle F. Jackson Sandra Elizabeth Walters
2009 College of Nursing Student Awards
Alumni Award Sigma Theta Tau Presented by the Alumni Association of the UTHSC College of Membership in the UTHSC College of Nursing Beta Theta Nursing to a student who has displayed genuine enthusiasm for Chapter-at-Large of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor learning and nursing in addition to superior skill in providing Society is an honor conferred on students who demonstrate patient care and an outstanding ability to interact with peers, academic and clinical excellence in their nursing courses. patients and staff. Ricketta Harrell Clark Dawn Marie Vanderhoef Zenobia E. Harris
IMHOTEP Society IMHOTEP is a leadership recognition organization that honors students who have contributed to student government and student life. Heather Cumming Leslie Ware Fall 2009 21 CLARION Competition Nursing Student Government Association
President ...... Heather Cumming Vice-President ...... Leslie Ware Secretary/Treasurer ...... Anissa Evans Students Social Chair ...... Heather Perry Nursing Student Asst. Prg. Chairperson .... Stacy Hines-Dowell BSN Option Rep...... Tess Ginski MSN Option Rep...... Michael Wentzel DNP Option Rep...... Abigail Parish The UT Health Science Center team, Honor Council President ...... Lance Tabb represented (from left to right) by Bill Bayrd from the College of Pharmacy, Danielle Howard from the College of Nursing, and Andy Wooldridge Honor Council from the College of Medicine, competed in the National CLARION competition at the University President ...... Lance Tabb of Minnesota on April 4, 2009. Vice-President [BSN] Rep...... Steven Link In the competition, interprofessional student Secretary [MSN] Rep...... Amelia Jordan teams are given a case involving a sentinel event [DNP] Rep...... Pam Tabor in a health care setting and are charged with conducting a root cause analysis and presenting their recommendations to the system. CON Student Touts Nurse Practitioners on TV
By Peter Synk practitioners, Wallace was prepared when an invitation UTHSC College of Nursing student Teresa Wallace became available to “The Doctor Is In,” a weekly show on made an appearance on “The Doctor Is In” — a Covington, Covington Cable that addresses national health care issues Tenn., television show, to tout how nurse practitioners can and recent breakthroughs in medical science, and also help physicians meet primary medical needs. spotlights local physicians. Having known and worked alongside Dr. Crown for 18 years at Baptist Hospital in On June 30, Wallace, who is studying in the Family Covington where he was the medical director and she Nurse Practitioner Program, sat down with host Dr. Loren was the nurse director, Wallace was ready for the tough Crown to share the benefits nurse practitioners can bring question: What is the importance of nurse practitioners? to the health care system. After all, many physicians feel that if they are not available, The Covington native received a diploma from Baptist residents or medical students can better serve the patient Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and later a BSN and that nurse practitioners are not needed. degree. After 20 years of working as a nurse manager, she Before going on the show, Wallace looked up became interested in obtaining an advanced degree when information on professional Web sites and talked with she saw others joining the emergency department and fellow students and mentors. The answer she came up with providing great patient care. However, when her mother is that nurse practitioners are an added bonus to doctors died in the hospital after a broken hip she remembered and residents. why she wanted to be a nurse, to be at the bedside caring for patients. On the show, she explained that NPs are knowledgeable about health care and have time to forge good relationships The UTHSC CON Family Nurse Practitioner program with patients. Patients do not see NPs as rushed or too provided exactly what Wallace was looking for — continued busy to listen. NPs talk to patients about other ways that capabilities to work with local health care providers while they can improve their health. NPs also are very useful in studying online. As a student, Wallace is a dedicated, rural areas, collaborate with doctors, and reduce patient goal-oriented, professional, and very nice, described her waiting time. For these reasons, Wallace knows that she, professor, Dr. Karen Olson. as well as other nurse practitioners, will continue to be an Through the things she has already learned about nurse important addition to the health care system.
22 UT Health Science Center Faculty Activities (not review boards or funding) Service: Senior Olympics – 400+ participants – Non- 2008-2009 Faculty Information UT sponsored v Special Appointments or Roles: West Tennessee Representative-Simulation Alliance Dwayne Accardo, CRNA, DNP ------Annual Conference Planning Committee (Assistant Professor) v Certifications: Council on Recertification of Nurse Jacqueline L. Rosenjack Burchum, DNSc, Anesthetists; ACLS; PALS, BLS v FNP-BC, CNE ------Consultations: Chapter Review and (Associate Professor) v Certifications: editing for Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing American Nurses Credentialing Center 7th ed. for Prentice Hall v Organizations: Tennessee (Family Nurse Practitioner); National Nurses Association (Education Committee & District League for Nursing (Certified Nurse Educator) v One Director); American Nurses Association; Sigma Presentations: 1 National Refereed v Organizations: Theta Tau International v Special Appointments Tennessee Nurses Association; American Nurses or Roles: Evidence-Based Guideline Revision Team Association; National League for Nursing; National - AWHONN; Education Committee Tennessee Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties; Sigma Association of Nurse Anesthetists Theta Tau International (Distance Learning Committee peer reviewer); Transcultural Nursing Society v Faculty Bobbie Bellflower, DNSc, NNP------Community Service: National Health Service Corp (Assistant Professor and Neonatal Nursing Ambassador – 10 participants – Non-UT sponsored v Option Coordinator) Special Appointments or Roles: 2008-2009 NCSBN Expert Member for the NCLEX-RN Exam
Michael A. Carter, DNSc, DNP, FAAN, Hallie Bensinger, MSN, FNP, RNC ----- FNP/GNP-BC ------(Instructor) v Certifications: American (University Distinguished Professor) Nurses Credentialing Center; NCC v Certifications: American Nurses Reproductive Endocrinology and Credentialing Center; American Academy Infertility; BLS; STABLE; Neonatal of Nurse Practitioners v Presentations: 1 Local Resuscitation Program v Practice: Memphis OB/ Invited; 2 Regional Invited; 2 National Invited v GYN v Organizations: Zachariah Davies NSDAR Practice: Southridge Village Retirement Center, (Chapter 2nd Vice Regent); Tennessee Nurses Heber Springs, Ark.; Southridge Village Nursing Association; American Nurses Association; Domestic and Rehab Center, Heber Springs, Ark.; Christian Violence Council v Consultations: Constructed/ Health Center, Heber Springs, Ark. v Publications: delivered a two-day workshop for nurses entering the Journal for Healthcare Quality; Biological Research reproductive endocrine/infertility role for a physician for Nursing; The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in Chattanooga, Tenn. v Community Service: Georgia v Organizations: Arkansas Nurses Association; Elementary School Health Fair, – 300+ participants American Nurses Association; American Academy – Non-UT sponsored; Parish Church Health Fair of Nursing; Society of Primary Care Policy Fellows; – 75 participants – Non-UT sponsored; Airport American Association for the Advancement of Health Fair – 75 participants – Non-UT sponsored; Science; National Organization of Nurse Practitioner 2nd Airport Health Fair – 75 participants – Non-UT Faculties (Treasurer); Sigma Theta Tau International sponsored; American Association Heart Walk – 500+ v Consultations (Education): Reviewer of DePaul participants – Non-UT sponsored; TNA Fitness Walk University Nursing Department v Consultations – 10 participants – Non-UT sponsored; DVC Public (Practice): Reviewer of the Exam for the Council Awareness Day Volunteer – 200+ participants – Non- for the Advancement of Comprehensive Care v UT sponsored Community Service: Christian Health Center, Heber Springs, Ark. – 20 participants – Non-UT sponsored; Teresa Britt, MSN, RN ------Frontier Nursing Service Board of Governors – 15 (Instructor and Director of Learning participants – Non-UT sponsored; Frontier School of Laboratories and Assessment) v Midwifery and Family Nursing Board of Directors & Presentations: 1 International Refereed Academic Affairs Committee – 15 participants – Non- v Organizations: Tennessee Nurses UT sponsored; Mary Breckenridge Hospital Board of Association; American Nurses Association; Directors – 15 participants – Non-UT sponsored; International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation Frontier Nursing Health Board of Directors – 15 and Learning (Membership Board) v Community Fall 2009 23 participants – Non-UT sponsored; Frontier Nursing Church of God in Christ & St. George’s Church – 120 Service Real Estate Board of Directors – 15 participants – participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Germs/Handwashing Non-UT sponsored; Frontier Nursing Service Foundation – St George’s preschool – 30 participants – Non-UT Board of Directors – 15 participants – Non-UT sponsored Sponsored; Coordinate and participate in mission trip to Faculty v Special Appointments or Roles: Frontier Nursing Appalachian Mt. community – health promotions and Service, Inc. – Board of Governors – member, Executive home repairs – 50 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Committee; Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Feed the homeless “More Than a Meal” – 100 participants Nursing – Board of Directors & member, Academic – Non-UT Sponsored; Nutritional and hygiene “care Affairs Committee; Mary Breckenridge Hospital, Hyden, packages” to reservists serving in Iraq – 120 participants Ky. – Board of Directors; Frontier Nursing Healthcare, – Non-UT Sponsored; Parents Night Out – 60 participants Inc. – Board of Directors; Frontier Nursing Service Real – Non-UT Sponsored v Honors: Nominated for Estate, Inc. – Board of Directors; Frontier Nursing Service Outstanding Graduate Faculty Advisor – UTHSC College Foundation, Inc. – Board of Directors; Baptist College of of Graduate Health Sciences; Nominated for Outstanding Health Sciences – Board of Directors & member, Academic PhD Advisor – Southern Regional Educational Board; Affairs Committee; American Red Cross, National Nursing Nominated for Excellence in Nursing Research – Sigma Committee; Christian Health Center, Heber Springs, Ark. Theta Tau International – Board of Directors Patricia D. Cunningham, DNSc, APN, Ann Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN ------PMHNP/CNS-BC, FNP-BC ------(Professor and Director, Center for Health Evaluation (Associate Professor and Psychiatric/Mental & Lifestyle Promotion) v Presentations: 1 Health Nursing Option Coordinator) v National Refereed v Publications: The Certifications: Family Nurse Practitioner; Association of Black Nurse Faculty Journal Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatric and Mental v Organizations: Southern Regional Education Board Health Nursing; Family Psychiatric & Mental Health (SREB) (Executive Committee); Evaluation of Genomic Nurse Practitioner v Presentations: 1 Regional Refereed; Applications in Practice & Prevention Stakeholders 3 National Refereed; 1 International Refereed v Practice: Group (Co-Chair Communications Committee); Ad Hoc Help Center, Memphis v Publications: (2) Journal of Committee on Genetics; International Society of Nurses in the American Psychiatric Nurses Association; Nursing Genetics (Past President & Board of Directors) v Honors: Clinics of North America; Journal of Lower Genital Tract Presented at Terrance Keenan Leadership Lecture for Disease v Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association; National Student Nurses Association American Psychiatric Nurses Association (National Advanced Practice Council); Society for Simulation in Patricia A. Cowan, PhD, RN ------Healthcare v Community Service: Mental health official (Associate Professor) v Presentations: 5 for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Critical Regional Refereed; 3 National Refereed; Incident Stress Debriefing Team – 100 participants – Non- 2 International Refereed v Publications: UT Sponsored v Honors: Award for 15 years of service, Journal of School Health (in review); the University of Tennessee Health Science Center v Nutrition (in review); Journal of the American Academy Special Appointments or Roles: American Psychiatric of Nurse Practitioners; The American Journal for Nurse Nurses Association (APNA) to assist the National Practitioners; Journal of Nutrition, Health, & Aging; Cell Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Transplantation v Organizations: Sigma Theta Tau on the following position statement: Faculty Preparation, (Grants/Scholarships and Awards Committee); Southern Faculty Development and Program Evaluation Criteria for Nursing Research Society; American College of Sports Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Education Medicine; American Heart Association; American Nurses Association; Nephrology Nurses Association; Council Veronica F. Engle, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, AHN- on the Advancement of Nursing Science v Community BC, LADS, FGSA, FAAN ------Service: All About Women Info Tech Booth – several (Professor) v Certifications: Gerontological thousand – UT Sponsored; Shelby County High School Nursing Practitioner; Advanced Holistic Science Fair Reviewer – 300 participants – UT Sponsored; Nurse; End-of-Life Nursing Education Shelby County Elementary School Science Fair Reviewer Consortium Trainer; Tai Chi for Arthritis Instructor; Tai – 250 participants – UT Sponsored; Diabetes & Blood Chi for Back Pain Instructor; Reiki Master Practitioner and pressure screening – 80 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Teacher; Chi Gong Instructor v Presentations: 2 Local Judge for HOSA Regional Comp – 200 participants – Non- Invited; 2 Local Refereed; 5 National Refereed v Practice: UT Sponsored; Blood pressure screening Fellowship UT HELP Center & UTHSC-Methodist University 24 UT Health Science Center Faculty
Hospital DEU v Publications: Chinese Medicine Journal; Parent Liaison for NFED National Foundation for (2) The Gerontologist v Organizations: Tennessee Ectodermal Dysplasias – unknown participants – Non- Nurses Association; American Academy of Nursing; UT Sponsored; Alumni Resource List for University of American Holistic Nurses Association; American Nurses Pennsylvania School of Nursing – unknown participants Association; American Geriatrics Society; Gerontological – Non-UT Sponsored Society of America; Sigma Theta Tau International, Beta Theta Chapter-at-Large v Consultations: Consultant J. Carolyn Graff, PhD, RN ------on sitting Tai Chi with frail older adults for Dr. Paul (Associate Professor and PhD Program Director) Lam, Tai Chi for Health International, Australia v v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 1 National Community Service: All About Women, local conference Invited; 2 Local Refereed; 5 National Refereed; for women; two presentations on the activity stage, May 1 International Refereed v Publications: 2009 – 500+ participants – Non-UT Sponsored v Special Journal of Nursing in Intellectual and Developmental Appointments or Roles: Professional Advisor, Out On Disabilities; Pediatrics; Issues in Comprehensive A Limb – Limb Loss Support Group Pediatric Nursing; Nursing care of individuals with developmental disabilities: An integrated approach; N. Alise Farrell, MSN, CPN, RN ------Thicker than water: Essays by adult siblings of people (Instructor) v Certifications: Certified with disabilities; International review of research in mental Pediatric Nurse v Organizations: Tennessee retardation; Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Gatlinburg Nurses Association; Society of Pediatric Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Nurses; American Nurses Association v Developmental Disabilities v Organizations: Southern Community Service: Back to School Fair – 800 participants Nurses Research Society; Alliance of Nurses for Healthy – Non-UT Sponsored; Health Fair Calvary Rescue Mission Environments; American Nurses Association; Tennessee – 30 participants – UT Sponsored; First Aid – Redemption Nurses Association; Developmental Disabilities Nurses 2009 – 4,000 participants – Non-UT Sponsored Association; National Association for the Dually Diagnosed (NADD); West Tennessee Developmental Belinda Dougharty Fleming, PhD, FNP-BC Disabilities Nurses Network Society of Pediatric Nurses; (Assistant Professor) v Certifications: FNP American Association on Intellectual and Developmental (ANCC) v Publications: Nursing Clinics of Disabilities (AAIDD) (Awards and Fellowship Committee, North America v Organizations: Southern chair; Action Group on Environmental Disasters, Nurse Research Society; American Nurses member; Ad Hoc Committee on Fellow Criteria, member; Association; Tennessee Nurses Association; American Environmental Health Initiative’s Education, Outreach Academy of Nurse Practitioners; Uniform Nurse and Training Workgroup, member; Health and Wellness Practitioners Association; Sigma Theta Tau International; Action Group, member; Nursing Interests Action Group, Emergency Nurse Association v Community Service: member); International Society of Nurses in Genetics; Tipton County Athletics – 250+ participants – Non-UT Sigma Theta Tau International v Consultations: Assisted Sponsored; Habitat for Humanity – 40+ participants Program Planning Committee and Joanna Pierson (AAIDD – Non-UT Sponsored; Memphis Shelby County Science vice president) by recruiting the Louisiana Secretary of Fair judge – 200+ participants – UT Sponsored; Live From Health and Hospitals, Alan Levine, to speak on emergency Memphis-community volunteer – 1,000+ participants preparedness at the AAIDD Annual Conference in New – Non-UT Sponsored; Boy Scouts of America – 50+ Orleans v Community Service: Sibshop (sponsored by participants – Non-UT Sponsored the Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities and the Harwood Center, with support from Hope Presbyterian Kathleen C. Gaffney, MS, PMHCNS, PNP-BC Church) (six occurrences) – unknown participants – UT (Instructor) v Certifications: NAPNAP Sponsored; Presentation on nursing opportunities at v Practice: GTBHC, Trenton, N.J. v the Pediatric Oncology Education Program (POE) 2008 Organizations: NAPNAP; Sigma Theta at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – unknown Tau; ISPN v Consultations: 1 International participants – UT Sponsored v Honors: Excellence Refereed v Community Service: Chairperson of Grants in Teaching Award, Student Government Association Committee of Community Service Fund of Princeton Executive Council, UTHSC College of Graduate Health University – 75 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Parent Sciences; Public Service Award, University of Tennessee liaison for Foundation for FIRST Icthyosis Foundation National Alumni Association v Special Appointments or resource and support person for families of children Roles: Down Syndrome Association of Memphis and the with KID syndrome (Keratitis, Ichthyosis and Deafness Mid-South, Board Member; The Sibling Support Project, syndrome) – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Kindering Center of Seattle, Advisory Board, member; Fall 2009 25 Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, Department of Donna K. Hathaway, PhD, FAAN ------Special Education, National Sibling Research Consortium, (Dean and Professor) v Presentations: 1 member; Tennessee Division of Mental Retardation Regional Invited; 1 National Refereed v Behavior Services, West Tennessee Regional Office of Organizations: Beta Theta Chapter-at-Large, Faculty Mental Retardation, Human Rights Committee, member; Sigma Theta Tau International; Southern Tennessee Division of Mental Retardation, West Tennessee Nursing Research Society; Southern Regional Education Regional Office on Mental Retardation, Sexual Abuse Board; American Association of Colleges of Nursing Prevention Program Committee, member; Tennessee (Board of Directors, Program Committee – chair, Tennessee Adult Brothers and Sisters (TABS), Conference Planning Legislative Liaison, DNP Essential Task Force – chair); Committee, member American Nurses Association; American Academy of Nurses; Council for the Advancement of Nursing Margaret (Peg) Thorman Hartig, PhD, FNP- Science (board member); National Institutes of Health - BC, FAANP ------National Nursing Research Roundtable; North American (Professor and Chair, Primary Care and Public Transplant Coordinators Organization; Robert Wood Health Department) v Certifications: FNP Johnson Executive Nurse Leadership Association; State of (American National Credentialing Center) the Science Program Committee; International Transplant v Practice: Bobbitt Health Station, Memphis, Tenn. Nurses Society v Consultations (Education/Teaching): v Publications: Nursing Clinics of North America, Academic Review – Monmouth University, N.Y.; Academic Vulnerable Populations; Journal of the American Review – James Madison University, Va.; Academic Review Academy of Nurse Practitioners; Evidence-Based – Walsh University, Ohio; Academic Review – Ohio State Nursing v Organizations: AANP; Healthy Memphis University, Ohio; Academic Review – Florida Atlantic Common Table (Community Advisory Committee); University, Fla.; Academic Review – Maryville University, Tennessee Primary Care Association (SEARCH Advisory Mo.; Review Committee – University of Washington, Committee); Tennessee Nurses Association; Greater Wash. v Consultations (Practice/Professional Service): Memphis Area NP; National Org of NP Faculties; Reviewer – Promotion and Tenure Process, Indiana National Health Service Corps (faculty ambassador) v University; Reviewer – Promotion and Tenure Process, Consultations: DNP Program Planning – Mennonite University of Pittsburg; Reviewer – DNP Certification College of Nursing at Illinois State University; Beard- – National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, Handley Diagnostics, Memphis, Tenn., Development of Pa. v Community Service: Healthy Memphis Partners HIV-AIDS Testing Counseling and Educational Program; – 30 participants – UT Sponsored; AF4Q-Aligning Forces External Reviewer of practicing faculty for promotion at for Quality – 18 participants – UT Sponsored v Special two institutions v Community Service: Elder Abuse Appointments or Roles: Healthy Memphis Common Consultation with Memphis Police Department and Table; Nursing Institute of the Mid-South, chair Shelby County Prosecutor’s Office (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009) – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Susan R. Jacob, PhD, RN ------Domestic Violence Consultation with Memphis Police (Executive Associate Dean and Professor) Department and Shelby County Prosecutor’s Office – v Publications: Journal of Professional unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Community Nursing; Tennessee Nurse v Organizations: Health Fair – 100+ participants – UT Sponsored; Career Sigma Theta Tau International - Beta Theta Day Speaker – Memphis Health Careers Academy – 40 Chapter-at-Large; Sigma Theta Tau International – Epsilon participants – UT Sponsored; All About Women Health Chi Chapter; Nursing Institute of the Mid-South (assistant Fair – unknown participants – UT Sponsored; United treasurer); Tennessee Nurses Association District 1; Way Outcomes Evaluation – 100+ participants – Non-UT American Nurses Association; Tennessee Center for Sponsored; CON/UTHSC Representative - WREG-TV Nursing (vice president); Tennessee Deans and Directors; phone bank re: H1N1 flu virus concerns – unknown Tennessee Nurses Association; Faith Nurse Network; participants – UT Sponsored v Honors: Fellow, American Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (evaluator); Academy of Nurse Practitioners v Special Appointments Southern Region Coalition; American Association of or Roles: Elder Abuse Consultation with Memphis Police Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Organizational Leadership Department and Shelby County Prosecutor’s Office; Network; Comfort Care Coalition; Sigma Theta Tau Domestic Violence Consultation with Memphis Police International (writing mentor) v Community Service: Department and Shelby County Prosecutor’s Office; Chair, Professional Advisory Committee Methodist Home member, Planning Committee, Community Health Fairs Care and Hospice – Non-UT Sponsored; Southwest Tenn. Community College Advisory Board – Non-UT Sponsored;
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St Jude International Outreach Advisory Board – Non-UT of Women’s Sexual Health; International Society for the Sponsored; Facilitator of Grief Recovery Groups – Central Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (Psychosexual Committee); Church - 50 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Teach Sigma Theta Tau International - Beta Theta Chapter-at- Preparation for Marriage course – Central Church – 60 Large (vice president) v Special Appointments or Roles: participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Health Fair – Calvary assistant professor in College of Medicine – Department Rescue Mission – 30 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; of OB/Gyn All About Women Health Fair – 2,000 participants – UT Sponsored; Inner City Health Fair – 1,200 participants Carol A. Lockhart, PhD, RN, FAAN ------– Non-UT Sponsored; American Nurses Credentialing (Professor) v Organizations: Arizona Center Manual Revision Task Force; Advisory Board Public Health Association; American Nurses mentor, Emotional Fitness Centers; Chair, Methodist Association; Fellow, American Academy of Alliance Home Health and Hospice Advisory Council Nursing; Sigma Theta Tau International v Consultations: Primary Care Workgroup, Governor’s Irma L. Jordan, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC ----- Task Force, Fall 2008, Ariz.; St Luke’s Health Initiatives on (Instructor) v Certifications: FNP (American “Long-term Living” Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, Ariz. Nurse Credentialing Center) v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 1 National Refereed v Practice: Sandra Madubuonwu, MSN, CNS, RN ---- Professional Care Services, Covington, Tenn. (Instructor) v Certifications: N CC EFM v Community Service: Community Health Fairs Certification; AWHONN EFM certification; – 300 participants – UT Sponsored v Organizations: NALS; BLS v Organizations: Sigma GMAAPN; Tennessee Nurses Association; American Theta Tau International (faculty counselor); Nurses Association; NONPF (Psych Sig group); American Association of Women Health Obstetrics and Neonatal College of Nurse Practitioners; American Academy of Nursing (AWHONN) v Community Service: Health Fair Nurse Practitioners – Georgia Avenue Elementary School – 350+ participants – UT-Sponsored; Health Fair – Central Church – 200+ Lynn Kirkland, DNSc, WHNP, CNM ------participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Health Fair - Hickory (Assistant Professor) v Certifications: Hill – 150+ participants – Non-UT Sponsored v Honors: National Certification Corporation; American Excellence in Teaching Award 2008 (BSN Program) Midwifery Certification Board v Practice: Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Kathleen T. McCoy, DNSc, APN, PMHNP/CS- Association, P.C. v Organizations: Greater Memphis BC FNP-BC ------Area Advanced Practice Nurses; American Academy (Assistant Professor) v Certifications: Adult of Nurse Practitioners; American College of Nurse- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Clinical Midwives; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Nurse Specialist; Family Nurse Practitioner; v Consultations: Warner Chilcott Lecture Series October Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner 2008 and February 2009 “Benefits of Shortening the Pill- v Presentations: 1 International Invited; 1 Regional free Interval” v Community Service: Heart Walk 2008 Refereed; 4 National Refereed; 1 International Refereed - unknown participants – UT Sponsored v Publications: Long-Term Living v Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association (president Ch. 9, TNA Wendy M. Likes, PhD, DNSc, APRN-BC --- Public and Professional Relations Committee, & Board (Associate Professor) v Certifications: of Directors); American Nurses Association; American American Nurse Credentialing Center - Psychiatric Nurses Association (Scholarly Committee, FNP v Presentations: 4 National Invited; Awards Committee, Seclusion and Restraint Position Paper 2 International Invited; 2 National Refereed; Task Force); Tennessee Psychiatric Nurses Association; 3 International Refereed v Practice: UTMG, Memphis International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses; v Publications: Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic and International Society of Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Neonatal Nursing; The Nurse Practitioner; Journal of Nurses; American College of Nurse Practitioners; Sigma Lower Genital Tract Disease (2nd accepted); Social Work in Theta Tau International; Upper Cumberland NP PA Healthcare (accepted); Journal of Health Care for the Poor Organization v Consultations: ANCC Role Delineation and Underserved (accepted); Diagnostic Cytopathology Study/Chair Content Expert Panel Family Psychiatric (accepted) v Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Mental Health NP Exam/ Item Bank Reviewer; APNA Association; American Nurses Association; American Scholarly Committee Member; APNA Awards Committee Society of Colposcopy and Cervical pathology (Advanced member v Community Service: Tennessee Nurses Practice Committee); International Society for the Study Walk – 50 participants – Non-UT sponsored v Honors: Fall 2009 27 Nomination: American Psychiatric Nurses Association Nurse; (2) Journal of Professional Nursing; Journal - chair, Scholarly Committee; Nomination: member of Nursing Education v Organizations: Tennessee American Psychiatric Nurses Association - chair, Scholarly Deans and Directors; Tennessee Nurses Association Committee v Special Appointment: ANCC member and - Nominating Committee; Continuing Education Faculty chair: Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Committee; Editorial Board Tennessee Nurse, Education Content Expert Panel; ANCC Family Psychiatric Mental Committee (state); Executive Board (local), Vice-President Health Nurse Practitioner Role Delineation Study; ANCC State of Tennessee, chair, Scholarship Committee District Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Role 1; American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Item Bank Reviewer Study Organizational Leadership Network; American Nurses Association; Sigma Theta Tau International - Beta Theta Leslie M. McKeon, PhD, RN, NEC-BC ----- Chapter-at-Large – Board of Leadership Succession (Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of v Consultations: Test Construction Workshop for Student Affairs) v Certifications: American multidisciplinary faculty at NWCC; Test Construction Association of College of Nurses CNL; Workshop TSU v Community Service: 2009 Hot Issues American Association of College of Nurses, Conference Subcommittee/facilitator, Salt Lake City, Utah nurse administrator advanced; Six Sigma Blackbelt v – 165 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; QSEN Phase III Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 2 National Invited; 1 facilitator for faculty development initiatives – unknown Regional Refereed; 2 National Refereed v Publications: participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Clinical Nurse Leader, Journal of Nursing Education (2); Journal of Professional (CNL) item writer – unknown participants – Non-UT Nursing; Quality Management in Health Care (2); Journal Sponsored; CCNE Self Study Task Force – unknown of Nursing Administration; Journal of Nursing Care participants – UT Sponsored; STT Beta Theta Chapter-at- Quality; Pediatric Nursing; Simulation in Healthcare v Large BOD Succession Leadership – unknown participants Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association; American – Non-UT Sponsored; TNA Education Committee Nurses Association; Southern Nurses Research Society; – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; CCNE Academy of Healthcare Improvement; Society for Evaluator Training Participant – unknown participants Simulation in Healthcare; Sigma Theta Tau International, – Non-UT Sponsored; TNA Legislative Summit, Nashville, Beta Theta Chapter v Community Service: All About Tennessee faculty representative – unknown participants Women – 500 participants – UT Sponsored v Special – Non-UT Sponsored; ATI item writer, Kansas City, Mo. Appointments or Roles: AACN CNL Certification – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored v Honors: Simulator, exam writer Chosen for CCNE evaluator; facilitator for Phase III of RWJ Grant for Quality and Safety in Nursing Education; Sheila Melander, RN, DSN, ACNP, FCCM, 2009 Hot Issues Conference Subcommittee, Salt Lake City, FAANP ------Utah, for AACN and facilitator for conference v Special (Professor) v Certifications: American Appointments or Roles: AACN CNL Certification College of Cardiovascular Nurses Acute Simulator, exam writer Care Nurse Practitioner v Presentations: 1 National Invited v Practice: Kentuckiana Cardiovascular, Karen Koozer Olson, RN, FNP-BC, PhD, Owensboro, Ky. v Publications: Journal of the FAANP ------American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (in press) (Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner Option v Organizations: AACN (Advanced Practice Work Coordinator) v Certifications: Family Nurse Group); NONPF (co-chair, National Conference Planning Practitioner (AANP) v Presentations: 1 Committee); Society of Critical Care Medicine (chair Local Refereed; 3 National Refereed; 1 International membership, Acute Care Advanced Practice Group) Refereed v Practice: Memphis Airport/Methodist v Community Service: Free Clinic, board member, HELP Practice v Publications: The Journal for Nurse Owensboro, Ky. – 500+ participants – Non-UT Sponsored Practitioners; Journal of the American Academy of Nurse v Honors: Fellow, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners v Organizations: GMAAPN; AANP; Practitioners in Washington D.C., 2008 ACNP v Consultations: Logistics Inc – Debriefing post- deployment of U.S. military combat troops v Community Tommie L. Norris, DNS, RN ------Service: All about Women – 100+ participants – UT (Associate Professor and Director of Professional Sponsored Entry Program) v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 4 Regional Invited; 1 International Invited; 2 Local Refereed; 1 Regional Refereed; 2 International Refereed v Publications: (3) The Tennessee 28 UT Health Science Center Faculty
Jill S. Detty Oswaks, CRNA, DNSc ------of Practice; International Association of Forensic Nurses (Associate Professor and Director of Nurse (Forensic Nurse Certification Board, chair, Advanced Anesthesia Option) v Certifications: Council Practice Credentialing, Education Committee); Sigma on Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists Theta Tau International; Tennessee SIDS Advisory Panel v Presentations: 1 National Refereed v v Consultations: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association (Educational Arkansas Coroner’s Association; Kids for the Future Committee); American Nurses Association; Virginia Developmental Preschool v Community Service: Health Association of Nurse Anesthetists; AANA (Distance Policy Committee and Legislative Action ANA and TNA Ed Task Force; on-site reviewer); American Association (consultant) – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; for the History of Nursing; Society for Simulation in Neighborhood Christian Center – unknown participants Healthcare; Sigma Theta Tau International - Beta Theta – Non-UT Sponsored v Honors: Distinguished Service Chapter-at-Large; Sigma Theta Tau International – Epsilon Award 2008 Arkansas Nurses Association Chi Chapter v Honors: SGAEC - Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008-2009 Cynthia K. Russell, PhD, RN ------(Professor) v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; Diane Todd Pace, PhD, FNP-BC, NCMP, CCD, 1 Regional Invited; 2 National Invited; 3 FAANP ------Regional Refereed; 3 National Refereed; 2 (Assistant Dean of Faculty Practice and Assistant International Refereed v Organizations: Professor; Director, Health Evaluation and Southern Nursing Research Society; U.S. Distance Lifestyle Promotion Center) v Certifications: Learning Association; Sigma Theta Tau International; Family Nurse Practitioner (ANCC); NAMS Certified Tennessee Nurses Association; American Nurses Menopause Practitioner; Certified Clinical Densitometrist: Association; eLearning Guild; Professional Organizational ISCD; BCLS v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 1 Regional Development Association v Community Service: All Invited v Practice: Methodist University Teaching About Women event – 3,000 participants –UT Sponsored; Practice, Memphis v Organizations: AANP; Tennessee Memphis Animal Coalition – 30+; Good Dog Rescue group Nurses Association (Nursing Practice Committee); of Memphis – 30+; Best Friends Animal Society – volunteer American Nurses Association (International Panel of for database and Web site activities – unknown Nurse Experts in Women’s Health, Nursing Practice Committee for Information Infrastructure); GMAAPN Zoila Vichot Sánchez, PhD, RN ------(Board of Directors); STTI; North American Menopause (Assistant Professor) v Presentations: 1 Society (Board of Trustees; chair, Membership Committee; Regional Invited; 1 Local Refereed v member, Consumer Education Committee; 2009 Scientific Publications: Nephrology Nursing Journal Committee); NPWH; International Society of Clinical (in progress); Journal of Professional Nursing Densitometry v Community Service: All About v Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association Women Event – 3,000 participants – UT Sponsored; (president – District 6); American Nurses Association; Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Coalition – unknown Southern Nursing Research Society; National Association participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Tennessee Research of Hispanic Nurses; North American Association for Project – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored the Study of Obesity; Nu Lambda Chapter-Sigma Theta v Honors: 2008 Outstanding UTHSC/CON Graduate Tau International (vice president) v Consultations Preceptor Award v Special Appointments or Roles: (Education): DNP Public Health Nursing Advisory State eRx Steering Committee; Operations Committee Committee v Consultations (Practice): Tennessee for the MSeHA Center for Nursing – Research Committee; director, Tennessee Diabetes Advisory Committee v Community Susan B. Patton, DNSc, PNP-BC ------Service: Civil Air Patrol 1st Lieutenant health advisor – 12 (Associate Professor and Forensic Nursing Option participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Sacred Heart Catholic Coordinator) v Certifications: Pediatric Nurse Church activities with Hispanic congregation, advisor Practitioner ANCC; Sexual Assault Nurse – 100 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Health screening Examiner Adult and Adolescent FNCB; Sexual for rural Hispanics in Crockett County, advisor – 30 Assault Nurse Examiner Pediatrics FNCB v Presentations: participants – Non-UT Sponsored v Honors: Department 2 Local Invited; 8 Regional Invited; 5 International Refereed of Health & Human Services Health Resource and Services v Practice: East Arkansas Children’s Clinic, Forrest City, Administration – HRSA Minority Faculty Fellowship Ark. v Publications: Forensic Nursing Science (2nd v Special Appointments or Roles: Diabetes Advisory ed.) v Organizations: Arkansas Nurses Association Committee for the State of Tennessee, director; Board of (chair, Regulation 30 Task Force); National Academies Directors of the Tennessee Center for Nursing (TCN) and Fall 2009 29 serves on the Research Committee of the TCN; Network Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer, PhD, APN, of Minority Research Investigators (NMRI) established FNP-BC ------by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and (Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); National Partnership for Programs) v Certifications: American Nurses Faculty Action (NPA) an initiative of National Office of Minority Credentialing (ANNCC) v Presentations: Health to address health disparities 1 National Invited v Publications: The Doctor of Nursing Practice and Clinical Nurse Leader: Essentials of Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APN, FNP-BC, Program Development and Implementation for Clinical SANE-A, SANE-P, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN Practice; The Primary Care Companion to The Journal (Assistant Professor and Public Health Nursing of Clinical Psychiatry v Organizations: Tennessee Option Coordinator) v Certifications: ANCC Nurses Association; American Nurses Association; – FNP; IAFN – SANE-A; IAFN – SANE-P American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; Sigma v Presentations: 1 Local Invited; 8 Regional Invited; 2 Theta Tau International – Beta Theta Chapter-at-Large National Invited; 6 National Refereed; 4 International v Consultations: Consultation for Higher Education Invited; 2 International Refereed v Practice: Health Commission for external state approval of new DNP Evaluation and Lifestyle Promotion (HELP) Clinic v programs v Community Service: external consultation, Publications: Nursing Clinics of North America v DNP Program Approval – unknown participants Organizations: Tennessee Nurses Association; American – Non-UT Sponsored; chair, Tennessee Board of Nursing Academy of Nursing (Expert Panel on Violence & Calling – unknown participants – Non-UT Sponsored; volunteer, the Circle Project); American Public Health Association; Door of Hope, Memphis – unknown participants – Non- International Association of Forensic Nurses (content UT Sponsored v Honors: Tennessee Nurse Practitioner expert – SAFEta Grant, Research Committee & Government Advocate of the Year from the American Academy of Affairs Committee); Sigma Theta Tau - Beta Theta Chapter- Nurse Practitioners v Special Appointments or Roles: at-Large v Consultations: Statewide educators (SART chair, Tennessee Board of Nursing; member, Tennessee members), Gwinette, Ga.; Institute of Evidence-Based and Tamper-Resistant Task Force; member, Tennessee Best Practices (invited expert & advisory board member); Controlled Substance Data Base Taskforce Restorative Justice, Offender Treatment, Victim Services (Former Advocacy Center for Training & Treatment) Virginia L. Swartz, MSN, RN, PNP-BC ---- Miami, Fla.; National Sexual Violence Resource Center; (Instructor) v Certifications: P N P v National SANE Coordinator Council; SANE/SART.com, Organizations: Tennessee Nurses official technical assistance Web site of Sexual Assault Association; American Nurses Association; Resource Service, Minneapolis, Minn.; National Institute Greater Memphis Association of Advance of Justice, Technical Working Group; National Institute of Practice Nurses; Mid-South Chapter - Society of Pediatric Justice Annual Research Meeting v Community Service: Nurses v Community Service: Calvary Rescue Mission Exchange Club Family Center – 5,000 participants – Non- Health Fair – 15 participants – UT-Sponsored UT Sponsored; Memphis Exchange Club – 50 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; Shelby County Drug Court Support Carol Thompson, PhD, CCRN, ACNP, FNP, Foundation – 300 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; FCCM, FAANP ------Arkwings Foundation – 100 participants – Non-UT (Professor and Acute Care Option Coordinator) v Sponsored; Memphis/Shelby County Domestic Violence Certifications: Acute Care Nurse Practitioner; Council – 100 participants – Non-UT Sponsored; United Family Nurse Practitioner; Critical Care Way of Greater Memphis – 2,500 participants – Non- Registered Nurse; Basic Life Support; Advanced Cardiac UT Sponsored; Exchange Club Family Center Program Life Support; Fundamental Critical Care Support; Analysis (Led student activity.) – 25,000 participants – UT Advanced Pediatric Life Support v Presentations: 1 Sponsored; Memphis Airport Authority Healthy Program Local Invited; 1 National Invited; 3 National Refereed v Analysis (Led student activity.) – 5,000+ participants – UT Practice: Methodist University Emergency Department, Sponsored; United Way Logic Model development for six Memphis v Publications: American Journal of Critical targeted agencies in Shelby County and four in Tipton Care v Organizations: American Association of Critical County (Led student activity.) – 50,000 participants –UT Care Nurses; American Association of Nurse Practitioners; Sponsored v Honors: SGAEC - Excellence in Teaching American Nurses Association; American Thoracic Society Award, 2008-2009 (conference abstract reviewer); National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty; Sigma Theta Tau International; Sigma Xi; Society of Critical Care Medicine (council member); Society of Medical Simulation v Special 30 UT Health Science Center Faculty
Appointments or Roles: Appointment to Tennessee Board Mona Newsome Wicks, PhD, RN ------of Nursing continues; Appointed Task Force Mechanical (Professor & Associate Dean of Research) v Ventilation Tennessee Board of Respiratory Care Presentations: 4 Local Invited; 1 National Invited; 3 Regional Refereed; 3 National Lorena M. Thompson, MSN, CRNA ------Refereed v Publications: Journal of (Instructor) v Certifications: AANA v Transcultural Nursing; Heart and Lung: The Journal of Practice: Regional Medical Center v Acute and Critical Care; Archives of Psychiatric Nursing Organizations: American Association v Organizations: Greater Memphis Area Chapter of Nurse Anesthetists; Sigma Theta Tau of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; International Tennessee Nurses Association; Southern Nursing Research Society; American Nurses Association; Council for the Peggy Ingram Veeser, EdD, APRN, BC, Advancement of Nursing Science; Sigma Xi; University A B FAANPC ------D E F ofG Memphis SchoolH of NursingI Alumni Board;J Sigma K L M N O P (Professor and Director, University Health Theta Tau International v Community Service: Board Services) of Directors, Mustard Seed, Inc. – 200 participants – Non- Poplar Ave. UT Sponsored v Honors: Outstanding Alumnus, the Sherry Webb, DNSc, RN, CNL, NEA-BC ---- University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of v 1 (Assistant Professor) Certifications: CNL; Du Nursing; finalist, Memphis Business Journal Healthcare Veterans A airs 1 NEA-BC v Publications: Journal of nlap Heroes (non-physician) v Special Appointments or Medical Center
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Effect of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist on Glucose Metabolism Government and Private and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Young, Obese African-Americans with the Metabolic Syndrome Amylin Pharmaceutical Faculty Funding for Research Principal Investigator: Pedro Velásquez Co-Investigators: Claudia Neira, Henry Starks, and Education Patricia Cowan (Note: Alphabetical order by title of grant.) Effect of Glucose Intolerance on Heart Rate Variability and EKG measures of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Correct QT Beta Theta Chapter-at-Large, Sigma Theta Tau A Pilot Project to Assess the Efficacy of Vaginal Principal Investigator: S. Lee Dilation for the Maintenance or Improvement of Co-Investigator: Patricia Cowan Vaginal Patency and Sexual Function Among Cervical Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Efficacy of a Sitting Tai Chi Program for Assisted-Living Indiana University- School of HPER Residents Principal Investigators: Nadeem Zafar, Wendy Likes H. W. Durham Foundation Co-Investigators: Barbara Benstein, Leonard Bloom Principal Investigator: Lawrence W. Faulkner Co-Investigator: Veronica Engle Advanced Education Nursing Program Grant for Forensic Nursing Continuation Expansion of Doctoral Program in Public Health Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Nursing - Title VIII, Advanced Education Nursing Principal Investigator: Susan Patton Program Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Building Community-based Research Capacity for The Co-Investigators: R. Craig Stotts, Patricia Speck University of Tennessee Clinical and Translational Science Institute Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Use of Liquid-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Cytology with HPV Testing for Post-Treatment Principal Investigator: Mona Wicks Surveillance of Patients with Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia Cardiac Risk Profile of Obese African-American GCRC Adolescents Principal Investigators: Nadeem Zafar, Wendy Likes National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Co-Investigators: Barbara Benstein, Leonard Bloom Principal Investigator: Patricia Cowan Co-Investigators: Pedro Velásquez, Grant Somes, Genetics, Environment and Weight Gain Post- George Burghen transplant National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Comprehensive Advanced Education Psychiatric Nursing Research (NIH/NINR) Program Principal Investigator: Ann Cashion Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Co-Investigators: James Eason, Ramin Homayouni, R Li, Principal Investigator: Patricia Cunningham Yan Cui, Omaima Sabek, Carolyn Driscoll, Co-Investigator: Sarah Mynatt Patricia Cowan
Conditions Affecting Early Neurocognitive Development Healthy Feet for Persons with Diabetes: A Community and Learning in Early Childhood (CANDLE) Coalition Urban Child Institute CIGNA-Methodist Healthcare Foundation Principal Investigator: Owen Phillips Principal Investigator: Veronica Engle Co-Investigators: Grant Somes, Carolyn Graff Co-Investigator: Emily J. Fox-Hill
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Increasing Teaching Capacity and Decreasing Workload Race, Obesity and Enteroinsular Axis in Adolescents of Registered Nurses Serving as Clinical Teachers for National Institute of Health (NIH-NCRR K23) Undergraduate Nursing Students Through the Use of Principal Investigator: Pedro Velásquez Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Co-Investigators: Bruce Alpert (mentor), George Burghen Tennessee Nurses Foundation (mentor), Patricia Cowan (collaborating investigator), Principal Investigator: Tommie Norris Samuel Dagogo-Jack (mentor), Donna Hathaway (mentor), Perez (collaborating investigator), Fran Tylavsky I n d i v i d u a l i z e d I n f o r mat i o n L i t e r a c y S k i l l s (mentor) Improvement Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Protocol and Technical Co-Investigators: Cynthia Russell, Richard Nollan, Lin Assistance Initiative Wu, Pam Connor, Stacy Clayton, Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Office Heather Carter-Templeton Co-Investigators: Patricia Speck, D. Sheridan, S. Chasson INSIGHT for Black Female Caregivers National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Shelby County Drug Court: Enhanced Services Research (NIH/NINR) State of Tennessee Office of Justice Programs Principal Investigator: Mona Wicks Principal Investigator: Mayor A. C. Wharton Co-Investigators: Sarah Mynatt, Sergio Acchiardo, Co-Investigator: Patricia Speck Donna Hathaway Shelby County Relative Caregiver Program Leadership Activities for Students in the SUSTAIN State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services Program Principal Investigator: Carolyn Graff Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Co-Investigators: J. Williams, F. Palmer Principal Investigator: Patricia Cowan Socioeconomic Status and Post-Injury Quality of Life Nurse Practitioner Use of Telehealth for Transplant and Functional Ability Care National Institute of Health/National Institute of General National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Medical Science Research (NIH/NINR) Principal Investigator: Ben Zarzaur Principal Investigator: Rebecca Winsett Co-Investigator: Donna Hathaway Co-Investigator: Donna Hathaway SUSTAIN: Scholarships for Students Training in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement to Develop Accelerated Initial Nursing Programs Quality and Safety Competencies Among Pre-Licensure Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nursing Students Principal Investigator: Patricia Cowan Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) and Co-Investigators: Mona Wicks, Ann Cashion, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Tommie Norris Principal Investigators: Leslie McKeon, Tommie Norris Targeted Research and Academic Training of Nurses in Genomics Predictors of Quality of Life Following Vulvar National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Excision Research (NIH/NINR) UTHSC- CON Principal Investigator: Janice S. Dorman Principal Investigator: Wendy Likes Co-Investigator: Ann Cashion Co-Investigators: Donna Hathaway, Barbara Reed, Cindy Russell, Jim Wan
Predictors of Sexual Function and Quality of Life Following Vulvar Excision National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH/NINR) Principal Investigator: Wendy Likes Co-Investigators: Donna Hathaway, Barbara Reed, Cindy Russell, Jim Wan Fall 2009 33 Carol Thompson: American Journal of Critical Care; Manuscript & Chapter AACN Advanced Critical Care; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Faculty Reviewers, 2008-2009 Mona Wicks: The Journal of Nursing Education; The American Journal of Health Behavior; Nephrology Teresa Britt: Journal for Clinical Simulation and Nursing Journal; Southern Online Journal of Nursing Learning- Editorial Review Board Research
Jackie Burchum: Journal of Transcultural Nursing; Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Journal Editorial Boards Michael Carter: Nursing Science Quarterly; Journal of Professional Nursing; Annals of Family Medicine & Editor Roles,
Ann Cashion: Research in Nursing and Health 2008-2009
Patricia Cowan: Research in Nursing and Health; Nephrology Nursing Journal; Biological Nursing Teresa Britt Journal for Clinical Simulation and Learning (Editorial Patricia Cunningham: The Primary Care Companion Board) to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Michael Carter Nursing Science Quarterly (Editorial Board & Reviewer); Veronica Engle: Journals of Gerontology: Social Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences (Editorial Board & Sciences; The Gerontologist; Journal of Palliative Care Reviewer)
Carolyn Graff: Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Ann Cashion Nursing; Journal of Pediatric Nursing; The American Biological Research for Nurses (Editorial Board & Nurse Reviewer)
Donna Hathaway: Nephrology Nursing Journal; Veronica Engle Journal of Professional Nursing; Journal of Nursing Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Editorial Board Education; Nursing Research; Research in Nursing & & Reviewer); Journal of Health Management (Editorial Health Board & Reviewer)
Susan Jacob: Journal of Health Behavior; Journal of Carolyn Graff Cultural Diversity; Evidence-Based Nursing International Journal of Nursing in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Editorial Board & Reviewer) Wendy Likes: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing; Expert Review of Obstetrics and Donna Hathaway Gynecology Progress in Transplantation (Editorial Board & Reviewer)
Tommie Norris: Evidence-Based Nursing Sentinel Cynthia Russell Reader for (MORE EBN); Public Health Nurse Evidence-Based Nursing (Associate Editor); Academic Exchange Quarterly (Associate Editor) Diane Pace: Menopause Journal
Cynthia Russell: Journal of Transcultural Nursing; Journal of Nursing Education; Evidence-Based Nursing; Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research
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Donna Hathaway Research Review Panels NIH/NSAA Peer Review Panel; National Institutes of List, 2008-2009 Health Federal Advisory Committee Wendy Likes Ann Cashion International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual International Society of Nurses in Genetics; Health (abstracts) International Transplant Nurses Society; National Institute of Nursing Research Leslie McKeon Southern Nurses Research Society (abstracts); Academy Patricia Cowan for Healthcare Improvement SNRS, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Conference (Abstract Chair); NIH-PC-1 Tommie Norris grant reviewer Hot Topics Conference; Tennessee Nurses Association Annual Convention; Tennessee Nurse Editorial Board; Veronica Engle TNA CEU Approval Board Gerontological Society of America Karen Olson Carolyn Graff American Academy of Nurse practitioners (AANP) Southern Nursing Research Society (abstracts); (abstracts & scholarships) Ontario Ministries of Community and Social Services, Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care, Cynthia Russell and the University of Toronto Surrey Place Centre: Southern Nursing Research Society Developmental Disabilities Toolkit, Guidelines for Primary Care of Adults with Developmental Disabilities Mona Wicks Nursing Science: Adults and Older Adults Study Section (grant); Nursing Research Review Committee, American Nurses Foundation (grant); Southern Nursing Research Society (abstracts); Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (abstracts)
Gail Spake, Dr. Mona Wicks and Connie Burgess discuss research conducted in the College of Nursing.
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Cherry, B., Carter, M., Owen, D., & Lockhart, C. (2008). Faculty Publications, Factors affecting electronic health record adoption in long-term care facilities. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2008-2009 30(2), 37-47. Cunningham, P., Connor, P., Manning, J., Stegbauer, Articles: C., & Mynatt, S. (2009). Evaluation of mood disorder patients in a primary care practice: Measures of affective Arroyo-Novoa, C. M., Figueroa-Ramos, M. I., Puntillo, temperament, mental health risk factors, and functional K. A., Stanik-Hutt, J., Thompson, C. L., White, C., & health. The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Wild, L. R. (2008). Pain related to tracheal suctioning in Psychiatry, 11(2), 68-73. awake acutely and critically ill adults: a descriptive study. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 35(5), 781-95. Cunningham, J. L., Mulvihill, B., & Speck, P. M. (2009). Inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in the Branstetter, J. E., Domian, E. W., Williams, P. D., Graff, J. faith community: A ministry for nurses. Journal of Christian C., & Piamjariyakul, U. (2008). Communication themes Nursing, 26(3), 88-95. in families of children with chronic conditions. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 31, 171-184. Day, S., Dycus, P., Chismark, L., & McKeon, L. (2008). Improving the quality of nursing care at a Central Carter, M. (2009). Support for DNP’s taking the NBME American pediatric oncology partner site: Assessment examination. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 5(2), 106- process, findings, recommendations, and current 107. outcomes. Pediatric Nursing, 34(5), 367-373.
Fall 2009 37 Dycus, P. & McKeon, L. (2009). An international study Likes, W., Sideri, M., Heafner, H., Cunningham, P., & measuring quality and safety knowledge, skills, and Albani, F. (2008). Aesthetic practice of labial reduction. attitudes of experienced pediatric oncology nurses based Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, 12(3), 210-216. on QSEN Competencies. Quality Management in Health Faculty Care, 18(3). McKeon, L., Norris, T., Jacob, S., & Webb, S. (2009). Teaching clinical nurse leaders how to diagnose the Graff, J. C., Hall, H. R., & Nwokeji, S. (2009). The world microsystem. Journal of Professional Nursing, 25(5). health organization’s atlas-ID report: Evidence for nurses on global disparities in health care for persons with McKeon, L., Cunningham, P., & Oswaks, J. (2009). intellectual disabilities. International Journal of Nursing in Improving patient safety: Patient-focused high reliability Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 5(1), 1-20. team training. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 24(1), 76- 82. Hartig, M. T. (2009). Review: quality improvement interventions reduce unnecessary prescription of Neira, C. P., Velasquez-Mieyer, P. A., Hartig, M., & antibiotics for outpatients. Evidence-Based Nursing, 12(1), Cowan, P. A. (2009). The prevalence of impaired glucose 27. metabolism in Hispanics with two or more risk factors for metabolic syndrome in the primary care setting. Journal of Henry-Okafor, Q., Cowan, P. A., Zhao, D. X. M., & Khoo, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 21(3), 173-8. M. S. C. (2009). Racial differences in cardiac risk profiles in women undergoing cardiac catheterization. The American Nobel, A., Rom, M., Engelhardt, K., Newsome Wicks, Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 13(4), 49-54. M., & Wolski-Wruble, A. (2009). Jewish laws, delivery, and post-partum care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Hix, C., McKeon, L., & Walters, S. (2009). Clinical nurse Available at: http://tcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/ leader impact on clinical microsystems outcomes. Journal 1043659609334930v1 of Nursing Administration, 39(2), 71-76. *printed version will be available at a later date
Huntington, J., Dycus, P., Hix, C., West, R., McKeon, L., Norris, T. L. & McKeon, L. (2008). The clinical nurse Coleman, M., Hathaway, D., McCurren, C., & Ogrinc, G. leader: Transforming care in the microsystem. The (2009). A standardized curriculum to introduce novice Tennessee Nurse, 71(1), 6. health professional students to practice-based learning and improvement: A multi-institutional pilot study. Petersen, M. C., Kube, D. A., Whitaker, T. M., Graff, C., Quality Management in Health Care, 18(3). & Palmer, F. B. (2009). Prevalence of developmental and behavioral disorders in a pediatric hospital. Pediatrics, Jacob, S. R., Norris, T., & Sanchez, Z. (2009). UTHSC 123(3), e1-e6. college of nursing rises to the challenge of closing the diversity gap: Development of Hispanic nursing faculty Phillips, C., & McCoy, K. (2008). Finally: A seamless and a Spanish cultural and language acquisition course. geriatric outreach program that works. Long-Term Living, The Tennessee Nurse, 72(1), 5. 57(8), 36-37.
Likes, W. M. (2009). Vulvar cancer in the wake of Sabek, O., Cowan, P. A., Fraga, D., & Gaber, A. O. (2008). increasing incidence. The Nurse Practitioner, 34(2), 45-50. The effect of isolation methods and the use of different enzymes on islet yield. Cell Transplantation, 17(7), 785- Likes, W. M., Benstein, B., Bloom, L., & Zafar, N. (2008). 792. Home study course: Fall 2008: Vulva case study. Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, 12(4), 320-324. Speck, P. M., Connor, P. D., Hartig, M. T., Cunningham, P. D., & Fleming, B. (2008). Vulnerable populations: Drug Likes, W. M., Russell, C., & Tillmanns, T. (2008). Women’s court program clients. Nursing Clinics of North America, Experiences with Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia. Journal 43(3), 477-89. of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 37(6), 640- 646.
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Talley, C. & Wicks, M. N. (2009). A pilot study of the self- Graff, J. C., Neely-Barnes, S. & Smith, H. (2008). Theoretical reported quality of life for patients with COPD. Heart and and methodological issues in sibling research. In L. M. Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 38(2), 141-150. Glidden (Ed.), International review of research in mental retardation (Vol. 36, 233-280). San Diego, CA: Academic Talley, H., Wicks, M., Carter, M., & Roper, B. (2009). Press. Ascorbic acid does not influence consciousness recovery after anesthesia. Biological Research for Nursing, 10(3), 292- Stegbauer, C. C. (2008). Doctor of nursing practice clinical 298. experiences. In J. J. Fitzpatrick & M. Wallace, The Doctor of Nursing Practice and Clinical Nurse Leader: Essentials of Velasquez-Mieyer, P. A., Cowan, P. A., Neira, C. P., & program development and implementation for clinical practice. Tylavsky, F. (2008). Assessing the risk of impaired glucose New York: Springer Publishing Company. metabolism in adolescents with overweight in the clinical setting. Journal of Nutrition, Health, & Aging, 12(10), 750s- 7s. Other: Williams, S. H., & Cashion, A. (2008). Negative affectivity Cashion, A. Nurses Transforming Health Care Using and cardiovascular disease in African-American single Genetics and Genomics at http://www.aannet.org/i4a/ mothers. The ABNF Journal, 19(2), 64-7. pages/index.cfm?pageid=3308
Yan, J., Engle, V. F., He, Y., Jiao, Y. & Gu, W. (2009). Study Graff, J. C., Neely-Barnes, S., Hall, H., Hankins, J. & design in traditional Chinese medicine research: Lessons Roberts, R. (2009). Parent-sibling communication about learned from randomized controlled trials of Ginseng. genetic disorders: From dyad to community. Proceedings Chinese Medicine Journal, 4(3). of the 42nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. March 18, New Orleans, LA. (Abstract, p. 68).
Books and Chapters: Hall, H. R., Graff, J. C. & McGuiness, T. M. (2009). Adaptive Carter, M. (2009). The evolution of doctoral education behaviors of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, in nursing. In A. Barker (Ed.). Advanced practice nursing: family support networks, parental stress, and parental Essential knowledge for the profession (pp.31-41), Boston: coping: Maternal and paternal views. Proceedings of the Jones & Bartlett. 42nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Graff, J. C., & Davis, A. D. B. (2009). Disability and March 19, New Orleans, LA. (Abstract, p.133) secondary diseases. In D. A. Raines & E. Q. Youngkin (Eds.), Promoting health from preconception through maturity: Speck, P. M. (2009, Summer). Alphabet soup of credentials A unique nursing role. Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis. and sorting it all out. On The Edge: The Official Newsletter of the IAFN, 15:2. Graff, J. C. (2009). Growing up and growing with Harold. In D. Meyer (Ed.), Thicker than water: Essays by adult siblings of people with disabilities (pp. 211-217). Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House.
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