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GIVING LEADERSHIP 3 Why I give: Sean Clarke Executive Vice Dean 36 Leadership and Dean’s Circles Emerson Ea Assistant Dean for Clinical and Adjunct Faculty Affairs NEWS Kimberly Glassman 4 Faculty & staff achievements Associate Dean for Partnership Innovation Ellen Lyons 6 COVID-19: NYU Meyers cares 5 Associate Dean for Finance 7 Faculty notes and Administration Gail Melkus 8 Staff achievements Vice Dean for Research 8 Staff profile: Meet Jamie Chiappetta, James Pace Associate Director of Finance Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs 9 Staff profile: Meet Tamara Tobee, Eileen Sullivan-Marx Administrative Assistant for Dean Operations EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 10 Nurses sleep less before shifts, Meredith Barges imperiling patient safety and care Communications Coordinator

10 Through NICHE program, nearly EDITORS 3,000 nursing home residents in 6 Keith Olsen Washington State to see quality Director for Communication care improvements Hank Sherwood 11 Prof. Janet Van Cleave receives Associate Director for Communication Oncology Nursing Foundation grant to improve patient outcomes in DESIGN head and neck cancer Carabetta Hayden Design, Inc.

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28 Owing to the fast-moving and historic nature of COVID-19, the theme of this issue of NYU Nursing shifted in the middle of production to highlight the College’s efforts to combat the virus. We salute all of our faculty, alumni, students, and staff who are on the front lines and behind the scenes, whose selflessness abounds and care for NURSES ON THE COVID-19 FRONT LINES humanity is limitless.

FEATURES 12 COVID pandemic proves again “there is no single role of the nurse” 14 College course: Disaster nursing: Saving lives during outbreaks, floods, fires, & spills

12 14 15 Lataijah Beadle BS ’20: “I’m on Capitol Hill” 17 Popular new clinical simulation focuses on LGBTQ patients 18 Lim shows why everyone needs a role model 20 Seeing double? The Paradis sisters score the twin advantage 21 Inspired by nursing 22 Faculty Q & A: Meet Mary Brennan, Clinical Assoc. Prof. & Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP 18 20 Program Director 23 Faculty Q & A: Meet Donna Hallas, Clinical Prof. & Pediatrics NP Program Director 24 New prescriptions for a disease multiplier 22 23 26 Celebrating Estelle Massey Osborne: A nurse trailblazer

ALUMNI 32 Greetings from the Alumni Association President 26 32 24 33 Alumna profile: Robin Schafer, 33 35 DNP ’21, BS ’99 34 In memoriam: Kious Kelly BS ’12 34 Class notes 35 Grads on the job

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 1 Follow me on Twitter @EileenSullivanM for the latest news from the DEAN’S CORNER College and in nursing.

Dear all,

The COVID-19 public health crisis has families during one of the most unnerv- THE DEAN’S LIST upended our lives in quite literally every ing times in modern history. way possible in a very short amount For many of our students and young For this Dean’s List, I want to commend of time. With just a few days’ notice in alumni, this is the first time that a the entire Meyers community for its March, NYU Meyers moved to remote national or global emergency has dis- instruction and remote work as the virus rupted daily life in such a pervasive way. ability to adapt to uncertain conditions quickly spread through New York City As someone who has lived through a few with agility. I am proud to work and and NY State. NYU will continue to oper- of these traumatic events, I want to leave learn alongside all of you and cannot ate remotely through the summer. you all with a question to ruminate on wait until we can reunite in person. The virus has particularly affected New in the days, weeks, and months ahead. In particular, I want to commend our York City, with more than 142,000 cases Once the world ceases to be consumed clinicians who have treated COVID-19 and 15,000 deaths as this magazine by this virus’s rapid spread, Which future patients and/or volunteered during goes to press. Our city is the hallmark of will we choose for our loved ones, our this crisis: an NYU Meyers education, and when it patients, and, of course, ourselves? Life grieves, we grieve. We mourn the passing will almost certainly be different once of friends, neighbors, and loved ones. the pandemic abates, and that is okay. Ab Brody, Assoc. Prof. COVID-19 has robbed us of warm But we, the members of the Meyers embraces from family and friends, nights community, can make the world a better Theresa Bucco, Clinical Asst. Prof. at the movie theater to unwind, and visits place through knowledge, transparency, to favorite local restaurants and coffee and kindness. Leon Chen, Clinical Asst. Prof. shops for simple indulgences — all of which we likely took for granted before. Together, Maya Clark-Cutaia, Asst. Prof. Of course, being a nursing institution, so Jeff Day, Clinical Asst. Prof. many of our faculty, alumni, and graduate Dean Eileen students have been on the front lines of this crisis, including KP Mendoza BS ’18, Caroline Dorsen, Asst. Prof. whose face is on our cover, after a shift Brian Fasolka, Clinical Asst. Prof. from the Surgical & Transplant ICU at Mt. Sinai Hospital. We dedicate this issue to Selena Gilles, Clinical Asst. Prof. all of you who selflessly gave more than Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN most can imagine for patients and their Dean & Erline Perkins McGriff Professor John Merriman, Asst. Prof.

Jennifer Morrison-Nahum, Clinical Asst. Prof.

Jen Pettis, Assoc. Dir., Program Development, NICHE

Gina Robertiello, Asst. Dir., Simulation Center

Dorothy Wholihan, Clinical Assoc. Prof.

Fay Wright, Asst. Prof.

2 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 Did you know there are creative ways to support NYU Meyers in which the College, you, and your loved ones all benefit at the same time? GIVING

Are we already in your will, trust, or other estate plans? If you have named NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in your will, please let us know because it helps us plan for the future. It also allows us to thank you for your generosity and to honor your loyalty to the College. If you have already included NYU Meyers in your will, call or email Karen Wenderoff, director of development, and she will add WHYMA ’73I GIVE ALICIA GEORGES your name as a member of the Society of the Torch. The Society of the Torch is a special group of alumni, faculty, and friends HONORING A NURSING PIONEER THROUGH PHILANTHROPY of NYU who have recognized the impor- Nearly five decades have passed, but tance of planning their philanthropy by Alicia Georges can still recall how was able to succeed — and break down providing for the University and its schools inspired she was by Estelle Osborne. countless barriers for Black women and and colleges through their wills and estates. “Estelle and I were in the same sorority, Black nurses. Through bequests in wills, trusts, and other Alpha Alpha Kappa,” she says. “She By supporting the scholarship fund, arrangements, these donors have found was one of the stateliest, put-together Georges, who serves on the NYU Meyers a satisfying way to leave a meaningful women I have ever met. She had so Dean’s Council, is also giving back to the legacy. Or if you would like, your gift may much confidence — she knew she was as institution where she earned her Master’s remain anonymous. good as anyone else. As a Black nurse degree in nursing. Don’t have a will? and a fellow AAK, that motivated me.” “Meyers gave me a grounding that was You are not alone! Now is a great time to Georges went on to a distinguished more than how to care for sick people,” start planning. Please consider including career as a nurse, educator, and admin- she says. “I learned about the importance NYU Meyers in your will. Contact Karen for istrator. She currently serves as chair of of public health — of knowing what’s suggested bequest language and NYU’s tax the Department of Nursing at Lehman going on in the community. And while ID to share with your attorney. College of the City University of New it wasn’t easy getting a Master’s degree York and the national volunteer president as a Black woman in the early 1970s, Have you ever wished you of the American Association of Retired NYU was different. It was one of the first could do more for NYU Meyers? Persons. She is determined to extend institutions to embrace diversity. I met By including us in your long-term financial Osborne’s legacy to future generations faculty I really admired, like Claire Fagin, plans, you may be able to: by including NYU Meyers in her estate Martha Rogers, Erline McGriff, and Dee planning — and specifically, by allocating Krieger — leaders who never hesitated to • Create a gift that benefits you and your funds to the Estelle Osborne Scholarship reach out if they thought I needed help.” loved ones; Fund, which supports high-achieving Through her philanthropy, Georges • Provide immediate or tax-deferred tax Bachelor’s degree nursing students from hopes to help students “who would advantages to yourself and your heirs; underrepresented communities. never otherwise get the opportunity • Generously support future generations of “I wanted to have an effect on a legacy to take advantage of the world-class nursing professionals. that needs to remain at NYU forever,” education at NYU Meyers” while she explains. honoring a nursing pioneer who was her Osborne came of age when state- personal role model. sanctioned racial discrimination was “Too many people are not aware of pervasive in American society and what Estelle Osborne accomplished,” nursing was one of countless professions she says. “We can’t forget her role in the that severely restricted opportunities history of America and in the history of for African Americans. But through her Black America. I don’t want to let this To learn more about this giving talent, hard work, and determination, she legacy die.” opportunity, please contact Karen at 212-992-5924 or [email protected]. NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 3 Our faculty and students regularly attend elite confer- ences, travel abroad to con- FACULTY & STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS duct important research and collaborate with colleagues, and give back to our com- NEWS munity. Here is a snapshot of their latest work.

A Prof. Selena Gilles served in Ghana as part of the Annual Amazing Grace Children’s Foundation Medical Mission and Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium.

B Prof. Sally Cohen received the prestigious Lois Capp Policy Luminary Award, at the 2019 Academic Nursing Leadership Conference.

C Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx spoke at the NAHN Latino Leadership Institute, also attended by Profs. Michele Crespo-Fierro and Karla Rodriguez.

D Prof. Donna Hallas, an AANP board A member, went to Austin, TX, to celebrate the grand opening of the AANP’s new building.

E Sullivan-Marx with participants from Fudan University Stomatology Hospital/ Shanghai Stomatology Hospital attended a training program sponsored by the NYU Aging Incubator, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improve Oral Health.” B C D

F Faculty, students, and staff gathered at the 2019 United Hospital Fund Annual Gala to honor Sullivan-Marx, who received a special tribute award for promoting nursing through policy, education, and clinical excellence.

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G Many Meyers faculty were celebrated at an NYU Faculty Honors Reception.

H The Teaching Oral-Systemic Health program, a simulation and case study experience, brought together 780 NYU dental, medical, nurse practitioner, and midwifery students and Long Island J K University pharmacy students.

I Prof. Allison Squires moderated a session on the National Academy of Medicine’s Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, in Singapore.

J Meyers faculty attended a performance of “Novenas for a Lost Hospital.”

K Prof. Emerita Madeline Naegle was honored at the Nurses Educational Funds L L 2019 Gala Reception, where a scholarship M was established in her honor.

L Profs. Selena Gilles, Sandy Cayo, Larry Slater, Beth Latimer, and Judith Haber attended the NLN Education Summit.

M The College agreed to partner with Central South University, in China.

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 5 Here are some ways the Meyers NEWS community is helping.

COVID-19 NYU MEYERS

CARES A E Clinical Asst. Prof. Jennifer Morrison-Nahum Clinical Assoc. Prof. Mary Brennan, Clinical is a pediatric nurse practitioner in an ED at a Asst. Prof. Leon Chen, and Executive Director children’s hospital in the Bronx. She has treated of Clinical Simulation Natalya Pasklinsky COVID+ patients as young as 10 months old. developed online training modules about COVID-19 and acute-care nursing for Asst. Prof. Maya Clark-Cutaia wrote an opinion the United States Public Health Service piece for CNN about the sadly predictable Commissioned Corps nurses, which is helping higher COVID-19 disease burden in commu- to staff the temporary hospital in New York nities of color. She called on policymakers to City’s Javits Center.

B add plans and investments in these high-risk communities, such as delivering free prescrip- Asst. Prof. Tina Sadarangani developed a list tions and assuring access to affordable foods of tips for caring for older adults at higher A The College joined NYU Dentistry and risk during the pandemic. It emphasizes other NYU departments to donate over 9,500 for those on restricted diets. maintaining healthy habits, reducing stress, face masks, 70,000 gloves, 3,000 gowns, and After Assoc. Prof. Ab Brody was redeployed and general preparedness. 400 face shields to NYC hospitals. as a nurse practitioner at NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital in Manhattan, he shared Clinical Asst. Prof. Stacen Keating and B Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx was inter- Research Scientist participated in a viewed about COVID-19 on CNN, MSNBC, a moving account of the many difficult deci- Gary Yu podcast on Voice America about the need Yahoo! Finance, and Newsmax. sions that front line clinicians are grappling with in treating COVID patients. for nurses to have epidemiology content and C Clinical Asst. Prof. Leon Chen, Eunhye to work collaboratively with scientific inputs PhD ’18 co-wrote a piece in the Detroit Newman MS ’13, and Carol Leong MS ’14 have Jin Jun from both the East and West. been treating COVID-19 patients in the Critical Free Press thanking hospital clerks, cafeteria , Behavioral Science Training Care Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering. staff, and social workers on the front lines. David Frank Program post-doctoral research fellow, was More than 230 NYU Meyers nursing students D Clinical Asst. Prof. Theresa Bucco is quoted in Gizmodo about the pandemic educating nurses about the new IV flow in the Leadership & Management course turning daily methadone pick-up into an regulator extension tubing being introduced and 20 faculty, led by Clinical Asst. Prof. acute public health crisis. into practice during the pandemic, as a per Sandy Cayo, sprung into action to provide Alums joined Clinical Asst. Prof. diem ED clinical educator at Northwell Health COVID-19 tests results via phone and assist Robin Klar to explore lessons learned from nurses and Staten Island. with remotely monitoring patients. midwives in Sub-Saharan Africa during the The NYU Aging Incubator held a webinar titled Ebola outbreak, to inform nurses during the “International perspectives of the COVID-19 COVID pandemic. pandemic: Insights from China, England, and Korea,” moderated by Prof. Bei Wu.

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FACULTY NOTES

Clinical Asst. Prof. Karyn Boyar presented Asst. Prof. Caroline Dorsen received the Asst. Prof. Susan Malone co-authored an at the 2020 Carol Carfang Nursing & NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award op-ed in the New York Daily News urging Healthcare Ethics Conference on the integra- for “outstanding faculty who exemplify the lawmakers to end daylight saving time. tion of design thinking into contemporary spirit of Dr. King through teaching excel- healthcare issues. lence, leadership, social justice activism and Asst. Prof. Ann-Margaret Navarra community building.” She is the first Meyers was appointed to serve on the ENRS Assoc. Prof. Ab Brody was named one of professor to receive this award. Communications Committee. America’s Top NPs by Point of Care Network Clinical Asst. Prof. Linda Herrmann released Clinical Asst. Prof. Karla Rodriguez presented at Clinical Asst. Prof. Sandy Cayo will be a new pathophysiology book, Advanced NYU Faculty Urban Research Day on “Exploring recognized by the UN as a nurse with global Physiology and Pathophysiology: Essentials Healthcare Perceptions of a Plant-Based Diet.” impact on International Nurses Day 2021. E Clinical Asst. Prof. Jennifer Morrison-Nahum for Clinical Practice, which is intended for Asst. Prof. Tina Sadarangani presented on is a pediatric nurse practitioner in an ED at a future healthcare providers who will diag- Asst. Prof. Maya Clark-Cutaia was chosen the role of adult day services in improving children’s hospital in the Bronx. She has treated nose, manage, and prescribe. as a Multiple Chronic Conditions Scholar health and quality of life for persons with COVID+ patients as young as 10 months old. by the NIH-funded Health Care Systems Clinical Assoc. Prof. Fidel Lim became dementia at the National Institutes of Health Research Network and Older Americans National Research Summit on Care, Services, Asst. Prof. Maya Clark-Cutaia wrote an opinion a member of the interprofessional NYU Independence Centers. She also received and Supports for Persons with Dementia and piece for CNN about the sadly predictable Medical Humanities Working Group. the Outstanding Alumni Award from the their Caregivers. higher COVID-19 disease burden in commu- University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Prof. Audrey Lyndon’s study on maternal nities of color. She called on policymakers to complications during childbirth was selected Assoc. Prof. Allison Squires was appointed the add plans and investments in these high-risk Clinical Asst. Prof. Michele Crespo-Fierro from 64 submissions to compete in STAT 2020 Chair of the Global Health Nursing Expert communities, such as delivering free prescrip- was inducted as a fellow in the New York Madness 2020. Panel for the American Academy of Nursing. tions and assuring access to affordable foods A The College joined NYU Dentistry and Academy of Medicine. She also assumed the She also was reappointed as a research editor for those on restricted diets. other NYU departments to donate over 9,500 role of president for the National Association Asst. Prof. Chenjuan Ma presented a poster of the Journal of Nursing Regulation. face masks, 70,000 gloves, 3,000 gowns, and of Hispanic Nurses – New York Chapter. on “Patterns of Performance on Quality of After Assoc. Prof. Ab Brody was redeployed 400 face shields to NYC hospitals. Care in US Home Health Agencies, 2016- as a nurse practitioner at NYU Langone Vice Dean for Research Gail D’Eramo 2018” at the Gerontological Society of Orthopedic Hospital in Manhattan, he shared B Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx was inter- Melkus was honored with the 2020 ENRS America Annual Scientific Meeting. a moving account of the many difficult deci- viewed about COVID-19 on CNN, MSNBC, Distinguished Contributions to Nursing sions that front line clinicians are grappling Yahoo! Finance, and Newsmax. Research Award. with in treating COVID patients.

C Clinical Asst. Prof. Leon Chen, Eunhye C D E PhD ’18 co-wrote a piece in the Detroit Newman MS ’13, and Carol Leong MS ’14 have Jin Jun been treating COVID-19 patients in the Critical Free Press thanking hospital clerks, cafeteria Care Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering. staff, and social workers on the front lines.

More than 230 NYU Meyers nursing students D Clinical Asst. Prof. Theresa Bucco is educating nurses about the new IV flow in the Leadership & Management course regulator extension tubing being introduced and 20 faculty, led by Clinical Asst. Prof. into practice during the pandemic, as a per Sandy Cayo, sprung into action to provide diem ED clinical educator at Northwell Health COVID-19 tests results via phone and assist Staten Island. with remotely monitoring patients.

The NYU Aging Incubator held a webinar titled “International perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from China, England, and Korea,” moderated by Prof. Bei Wu.

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 7 NEWS STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS & PROFILES

A Undergraduate students took a tour of NYC.

B Ann Williams, director of Global Health Initiatives, was named an honorary professor at the Xiangya Nursing School at Central South University.

C Asst. Dean Amy Knowles appeared on Doctor Radio to A promote breast cancer awareness and the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk through Central Park.

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Meet Jamie Chiappetta | Associate Director of Finance by Meredith Barges

Jamie Chiappetta is when she was 12 years old to complete high program for NYU staff. “For our capstone, the associate director school. But she missed the city. “I always told we come up with ideas for how to generate of finance at NYU my parents, I’m going back to New York . . . So I more revenue or cost savings areas — like Meyers. “Anything came back when I was 17.” The next four years maybe having more people telecommute.” that involves money at Pace University were extremely busy: she When Chiappetta is not crunching num- goes through our juggled coursework, a job, an internship, and bers at the College, she, her husband, Luigi, office,” she explains. motherhood, welcoming her daughter, Crystal, and her 11-year-old son, Jeremy, can be “We pretty much her senior year. found cheering on the New York Red Bulls handle all of the financial transactions, reim- When she graduated, Chiappetta became the at Red Bull Arena, where they have sea- bursements . . . the annual budget submission first person in her family to earn a degree. Now son tickets. for the college, operating budgets, gift she has two: a BS and an MBA! “Both times I had Chiappetta is a celebrity in her own right. accounts, and endowments.” young kids, but the second time around I had a Last year, the NY Red Bulls announced they A math whiz and finance virtuoso, she was husband. That was a totally different experience.” were selecting one super fan to put on a hired from Langone Medical Center as a finan- Chiappetta has been part of several big initia- can of Red Bull, and she and Luigi were cial analyst back in 2008, when the College tives at the University. Through the APII Budget invited in for a photo shoot. “They put us was at its Greene Street location. Over the Management Improvement Group, she helped up in a suite and gave us free food, drinks. years, her title and the College’s facilities have develop new University-wide budget reports, We were introduced to their eMLS player. upgraded twice. “I just love my job. I love work- which show available balances more accurately. It was a really cool day . . . While we were ing with numbers — as crazy as that sounds.” “I use them all the time.” being interviewed, they handed us over the Born and raised in New York City, she moved In March, she will be one of the first gradu- can. When I looked at it, I screamed. My with her parents to the Dominican Republic ates of NYU’s Finance Academy, a new diploma husband and I are on the can!”

8 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 Drawing on the expertise of administrative, faculty, and student leaders from across the College, the NEWS Meyers COVID-19 Task Force was established to handle the many challenges the pandemic poses for our community.

D COVID-19 Task Force, from top left: Tanisha Johnson-Campbell, Keith Olsen, Amy Knowles, Susan Lippman, Cy Preposi MS ’20, Prof. Emerson Ea, Chair Kimberly Glassman, Thomas Freedman, Brittany Taam BS ’20, Profs. Larry Slater and Robin Klar, Ellen Lyons, Lance Irving, Natalie Hellmers PhD ’22, David Resto.

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Meet Tamara Tobee | Administrative Assistant for Operations by Meredith Barges

Flowers anoint her Even though she has building engineers and cli- The next big change for Tobee will be buy- workspace. Framed ent services on speed dial, Tobee makes it a point ing a new home with her fiancé, Shawn, in inspirational quotes to get to know all of her colleagues: “I feel like I Westchester, where she grew up and still hang beside her, know everyone in this building . . . I always build lives. “I’m just saving, saving, saving to get announcing to all, some kind of relationship with each person that our condo, so that next year we can focus on “Good vibes only” I encounter.” These connections come in handy getting married and we can start a family.” and “Be the change when she wears her many hats, like coordinating Quiet days spent at home in the calm, you want to see in the annual Thanksgiving potluck. tranquil oasis she has created in Ossining the world.” Tamara Tobee is the welcoming “People don’t just want to talk about work, are key to recharging her megawatt bat- face and operations dynamo of the sixth floor. because it helps us deal with the stress of it all, tery. “A lot of people don’t think this about As the administrative assistant for opera- to be human, to not be robots,” she says, wishing me because of their first impressions, but tions, Tobee helps with all of the daily opera- more staff took opportunities to get know each I actually really just enjoy being at home.” tions and facilities for the College. “It can range other. “Let’s just open up a bit. Let’s be a bit more Shopping for shoes with her mom and role from a light bulb being out to a leak in the free spirited. Life is too short and too serious.” model, Toni Matthews, helps too. bathroom to someone locked themselves out Joining NYU Meyers was a leap. Before this, The sparkling enthusiasm Tobee brings to of a room ,” she explains. “It’s really random.” Tobee was a professional makeup artist and retail work every morning makes her a sought- Tobee skillfully combines her flair for peo- manager working for famous brands like MAC and out friend and appreciated colleague: “There ple with operational know-how: “I like to help NARS. “I like the fact that you can express yourself may be a day when you’re not feeling great people solve their issues . . . Something went with makeup. It helps you feel good. And when and I’m in such a great mood, I might rub off wrong and they need to resolve it, that’s you look good, you feel good.” But what Tobee on you — and you’ll say, ‘You know what, I’m where I come in.” did not like were the long hours and missed birth- glad I ran into her.’” days and family events. She wanted a change.

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 9 A key component of the NYU Meyers mission is to generate new knowledge and demonstrate the NEWS highest standards of excellence in research and scholarship for a global society. Our faculty have expanded the scope and number of our research projects, earning us the distinction of 5th in funding from the NIH.

Nursing is dominated by shift work, with hours (497 minutes) prior to a non-work Nurses sleep less 12-hour shifts common. Add to that commute day — a difference of 83 minutes. “Average before shifts, imperiling times and day-to-day responsibilities, nurses sleep times only tell part of the story. We often have limited hours to sleep before or also found that 11.4% nurses slept a mere patient safety and care between shifts. Research shows this takes a five hours or fewer before work,” added toll on their circadian rhythms and can impair Witkoski Stimpfel. by Rachel Harrison | Associate work performance. According to the study, less sleep was Director, Research Communications Sleep deprivation, in general, lowers our associated with lower measures of patient ability to handle complex, stressful tasks and safety and quality of care, suggesting a link make us more prone to accidents. In health- between sleep, fatigue, and patient care. “It Nurses sleep almost an hour and a half less care, fatigued nurses may be at risk of making is in everyone’s interest to have nurses well before work days compared to days off, critical mistakes in duties from performing rested so they can perform their important which can hurt patient care and safety, finds diagnostics to administering medications. function and keep patients safe,” said a new study by researchers at NYU Rory To better understand nurses’ sleep behav- Christine Kovner, Mathey Mezey Professor of Meyers College of Nursing. iors and patient outcomes, Witkoski Stimpfel Geriatric Nursing and the study’s coauthor. “When nurses work long shifts, their sleep and her colleagues studied sleep duration The study, supported by the Robert opportunity shrinks considerably, espe- and work characteristics among registered Wood Johnson Foundation, called for more cially when shifts are consecutive,” said nurses using data from surveys of 1,568 nurses research on nurses’ sleep. In the interim, Amy Witkoski Stimpfel, assistant professor conducted in 2015 and 2016. healthcare leaders can take steps to help and the study’s lead author. “This can have The nurses had reported getting, on prevent human errors by ensuring nurses profound effects for behavior, health, and average, under 7 hours (414 minutes) of have adequate time off between shifts and work performance.” sleep prior to a work day and more than 8 fully staffing workplaces.

, “Nursing homes play an important role in The three-year NICHE project will specially Through NICHE program ensuring the health and safety of frail elders train nurses and certified nursing assistants in nearly 3,000 nursing home with complex needs,” said Jennifer Pettis, 30 nursing homes across the state to imple- residents in Washington associate director of the NICHE Long-Term ment evidence-based care for older adults. It Care Program. “We are thrilled to collaborate has the potential to reach more than 3,000 State to see quality care with the Washington State Department of Washingtonians living in nursing homes. improvements Social and Health Services to arm nurses with Through the grant, nurse leaders will complete evidence-based practices allowing them to an eight-week online leadership training, they provide the best possible care for the state’s will develop plans for quality improvement by Rachel Harrison | Associate aging population.” projects on two clinical areas for their nursing Director, Research Communications As Americans live longer and face more homes. NICHE’s mentors and faculty will then complicated medical issues that come with support teams in implementing their action aging, the number of residents in nursing plans. Nursing staff at all 30 nursing homes In December, NICHE received a $644,000 homes is projected to rise dramatically over will also complete specialized continuing grant from the Washington State Department the next decade. To keep up, nursing homes education courses on the care of older adults. of Social and Health Services to improve the need to provide more complex services. NICHE has partnered with Comagine quality of care for older adults living in nursing Yet, nurses working in long-term care Health, the Washington Quality Improvement homes in Washington State. Funded by the settings often lack the knowledge of evidence- Organization, to evaluate the resident Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Civil based care necessary to best meet the needs outcomes associated with this program. Money Penalty Reinvestment Program, the of older adults. For example, caring for older Research shows that NICHE organizations have project is part of a national effort to reduce adults requires specialized assessment skills to improved patient outcomes, decreased costs, adverse events, improve staffing quality, and differentiate normal changes related to aging and reduced hospital readmissions, leading to enhance dementia care in nursing homes. from signs of diseases like dementia. higher older adult and staff satisfaction.

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Prof. Janet Van Cleave receives Oncology Nursing Foundation grant to improve patient outcomes in head and neck cancer

by Rachel Harrison | Associate Director, Research Communications

Janet H. Van Cleave, assistant professor The Oncology Nursing Foundation award “We believe that the use of the ePVA at NYU Meyers, was awarded a $24,352 will support research to establish the value enhances patient-provider communication research grant from the Oncology Nursing of the ePVA as a communication tool to about symptoms and function limitations Foundation to fund a randomized study using improve clinical decisions in symptoms and for patients with head and neck cancer. This the Electronic Patient Visit Assessment (ePVA) function management in head and neck enhanced communication, in conjunction with to improve outcomes for patients with head cancer. Participants with head and neck the practitioner’s collection of data through and neck cancer. cancer undergoing radiation therapy with or history, physical exam, and patient’s electronic Patients with head and neck cancer expe- without chemotherapy will be randomized health record data, should lead to a higher rience painful, debilitating symptoms and to either the ePVA intervention or usual care. quality of evidence, improved clinical decision function limitations that can interrupt cancer Participants randomized to the ePVA inter- making, and improved patient outcomes in treatment or occur after treatment. These vention will complete the ePVA every other head and neck cancer,” said Van Cleave. symptoms and limitations can decrease week during radiation therapy, then 4, 12, and “Receiving the Oncology Nursing patients’ health-related quality of life. In an 24 weeks after they complete radiation. Foundation Research Grant is very important effort to better capture patient-reported The mHealth tool will generate automated and meaningful to me,” Van Cleave continued. symptoms and function limitations during reports of patient responses, including “In addition to providing support for my and after head and neck cancer treatment, assessment of pain severity and pain medi- research to establish the value of the ePVA for Van Cleave and her colleagues developed cation use that will be sent to the head and symptom management of patients with head the ePVA as a web-based clinical support neck cancer team to inform their clinical and neck cancer, the ONF Research Grant tool. Patients answer questions using touch decisions. For instance, reports may prompt also represents validation from my peers of screens—for instance, on an iPad—prior to referrals to palliative and rehabilitation the scientific merit of my work.” appointments, and the information is trans- services or changes in pain medications. mitted to their care team.

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PANDEMIC PROVES AGAIN, THERE IS NO

“ SINGLE ROLE OF THE NURSE ” By Ab Brody | Associate Professor, Nursing & Medicine

n March, I was redeployed as a is a huge shift in mindset when you are As we think of the nurse specifically and nurse practitioner at NYU Langone primarily responsible. I’m also working nights, our role during this pandemic, I’ve grown Orthopedic Hospital after the geriat- when there are fewer staff, because my wife to understand, there is no single role of the rics section of the NYU Department is also a clinician on the front line and one of nurse. Nurses, just like in other times, take Iof Medicine, where I am associated faculty, us has to be home with our kids. on many roles. In this case, we have our was tasked with hospitalist service. In a Almost everyone is playing a different ER and ICU nurses providing care to the short period of time, there have been so role than normal and handling it with grace hardest-hit patients, often in very trying many experiences in helping patients in their and professionalism — the cleaning and conditions. Our med-surg nurses have to healing, making difficult decisions about engineering staff, patient care technicians, monitor patients who are very labile and clinical care, and supporting each other in a nurses and other nurse practitioners, rehab one minute may look fine and the next are truly unparalleled time in recent history. therapists, respiratory therapists, physi- not. We have also seen nurses and nurse As part of our inpatient medicine team, I am cians, physician assistants, clerical staff, practitioners drafted into ER/ICU/Med-Surg instituting changes to patients’ plan of care, administrators, and otherwise. What is not settings or become outpatient COVID ensuring effective day-to-day management different, however, is that we are all working testers or telehealth screeners. and responding to physiologic changes. This as a team. It is amazing how everyone has There are so many ways for nurses to help, is a completely different role for me from pitched in, come together, and done their whether on the front line or in a supportive geriatric and palliative care consultant; there best to help each other and our patients. role. Given their front-row view of what is

12 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 Ab Brody is an associate pro- fessor, associate director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the founder of Aliviado FEATURE Health, and the pilot core lead of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory. His work focuses on the inter- section of geriatrics, palliative care, quality, and equity.

going on, we need nurses in all these places attack, and my rapid-response muscle “Given their to help advocate for our patients and the memory from when I was a bedside health system, to be on television, in the nurse kicked in, assessing and ordering newspaper, and on social media advocating labs — an ABG, EKG, and all the other front row view of for safe, effective care and caregiving. care that comes with a potential cardiac event pathway. But about five minutes in, what is going on, This novel virus I stepped back. This patient had “do not COVID-19 is unlike any other virus or flu we resuscitate/do not intubate” (DNR/DNI) have seen in the past century. It is so much orders, but the rest of their care goals had we need nurses more readily spread, with no vaccine, only not been fully established. treatments of unknown efficacy. That means I called the healthcare proxy who had in all these places we have limited avenues other than contain- already been discussing with her family ment and supportive interventions. what we should do in this type of situation, We are already seeing that in this country and they had an answer. Their loved one to help advocate Black and Brown people are having dispro- had always said that if they did not have portionately worse outcomes — and that the ability to be independent (which this for our patients men are far worse off with almost 50% patient was unlikely to achieve, given the higher hospitalization, ICU, and mortality complicated nature of their stay), they rates. Older adults are also disproportion- would not want a wheelchair or bedbound and the health ately affected, with reports of 50–90% life. Therefore, we pulled back and imple- dying if hospitalized and intubated. Also, mented a comfort care pathway. system, to be on fever does not seem to be the leading Within an hour the patient looked much indicator if patients are healing or not, it is more comfortable and we were able to oxygenation requirements. Of those who peacefully care for her symptoms without television, in do recover, many need long hospitaliza- extensive additional, potentially uncom- tions because they are debilitated as they fortable workup and procedures. If we had the newspaper, regain their lung function. The question continued down the cardiac event pathway, becomes, where do they get rehab? They the patient could have ended up with a can spend weeks in a “limbo” sort of state, lot of aggressive care, short of intubation, and on social healthy enough not to need full acute care, which would not have been congruent with yet not able to transition to rehab until her goals. Instead, she died peacefully and they have the oft-required two COVID-19 compassionately in inpatient hospice. In media advocating negative tests. the end, we were meeting the patient and family wishes and supporting a seriously for safe, effective Patients’ goals first ill individual at the end of their life to have What stands out for me the most, as a geri- their care match their goals. atric and palliative care NP by training, is Sometimes patient goals are around care and how we, in the thick of an emergent issue, maximal curative treatment, and it is automatically do the default, all-curative important to honor that just as it is caregiving. measures that may not be in the patient’s important to honor when it is somewhere goals or interest. I had a COVID+ patient in between or fully comfort care. What is who came back with a concerning lab value most important is to match those goals for cardiac damage and potential heart with the care we provide. ” NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 13 STUDENTS

COLLEGE COURSE: The COVID-19 crisis has provided a huge opportunity to harness the knowledge and skills we have learned throughout the semester and apply the information to real-life situations as they happen at hospitals just down the street. Our class has covered information on pan- Disaster demics, personal protective equipment (PPE), the phases of a disaster, and hospital emergency preparedness. Through a combination of dynamic lectures, guest speakers, and hands-on activities, Prof. Theresa Bucco nursing has designed the Disaster Nursing course to improve our level of comfort in making the tough decisions involved in treating victims of emergencies. Our class participated in activities like “Stop the Bleed,” which simulates a disaster scenario, such as a tornado or an earthquake, in which a patient has sustained a traumatic injury and is rapidly losing blood. This skill is vital in the early stages of an emergency response, with the potential to save many lives in a short amount of time. Just before we shifted to remote learning, our class SAVING had the opportunity to explore the different PPE levels and practice the process of safely donning and LIVES DURING doffing the gear. We learned about the PPE used when caring for a patient with Ebola as well as the equip- OUTBREAKS, ment utilized in a chemical disaster. I had the chance to demonstrate the use of a yellow hazmat suit for FLOODS, FIRES, chemical disasters, which included a self-containing breathing apparatus and respirator. The experience was & SPILLS surreal; the intensity of the equipment felt almost as if we were in the middle of a chemical war zone. by Mackenzie Stelljes BS ’20 Many members of the NYU community, including Prof. Bucco, are now on the front line caring for patients with COVID-19. During class, we heard from many guest fter finding out that NYU Meyers offers a Disaster speakers and fellow students about their personal experi- Management and Hospital Preparedness course, I ences of treating COVID-19 patients. Our discussions have enrolled as soon as registration opened. For years included the harsh reality that nurses cannot save every A patient in this pandemic. I have aspired to be an RN in the emergency department, The Disaster Nursing course has taught me about the with the knowledge and skills to treat patients in a time of work entailed in emergency nursing and the challenges crisis. The class incorporates both my love of nursing and surrounding healthcare administration during times of my passion for acute care. heightened physical and emotional stress. I now have a better understanding of the challenges that healthcare When we started the course this spring, we could professionals are facing day in and day out at hospitals never have imagined that we would be studying disease throughout New York City and around the world. There outbreak in the midst of a pandemic. COVID-19 has proven is no telling when or where the next disaster will strike, to be unlike anything medical professionals have ever seen but I know I will be capable and confident in my ability to administer nursing care when it does. before, as the death toll continues to climb worldwide by the day. We are witnessing events, research, and ethical Above, l to r: © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved; debates unfold before our eyes. Gerald Herbert/AP; Mark Wilson; Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

14 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 The BSNA’s mission is to foster NYU Meyers ideals through leadership, academic excellence, service, and partnership; while supporting the development of social and cultural awareness among Black nursing students. “We pride ourselves on engaging I’M ON CAPITOL HILL in community outreach while also building a “ by Lataijah Beadle BS ’20 | President, Black Student Nurses Association ” safe space for students to network and ensure that In early February 2020, eight NYU nursing students, including myself and two they feel a sense of ‘home’ other members of the Black Student Nurses Association (BSNA), were delighted while on campus.” Each to join the National Black Nurses Association’s Greater New York Chapter year BSNA aims to host (NBNAGNYC) on their annual “Trip to Capitol Hill.” For students involved in the three events: A Faculty of BSNA, events are a way for us to set our books aside for an hour or more and Color Round Table, Different reconnect with other students, faculty, and non-faculty nurses. Most importantly, Pathways of Nursing, and a they allow us to engage in conversation on topics and policies that are near and mental health event. dear to our hearts, affecting our local communities.

First stop, the Washington Court Second stop, Capitol Hill, for Last stop, Washington Court Hotel Hotel Grand Ballroom, for the a 10:30 am appointment with Grand Ballroom, for a debrief. National Black Nurses Association’s Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Each NBNA chapter spoke on their experience and “Day on Capitol Hill.” 8th District of New York. the topics they lobbied for. Chapters from across the States were all Our group divided into two. While Prof. Visiting Capitol Hill was amazing. I was able to dressed in red for National Wear Red Day Sandy Cayo and four students met with meet nurses and fellow nursing students from (February 7) for heart disease awareness. Jasmin Palomares, legislative aide to Sen. other states who are passionate about bringing We were greeted with breakfast and a Kirsten Gillibrand, my group — myself; two change to their communities. Prior to this trip, the welcome address by NBNA Board Member other BSNA members; Prof. Selena Gilles, the thought of speaking to government officials was and Chair Dr. Sheldon D. Fields and remarks NBNAGNYC community chair; and Dr. Julius terrifying. What do I say? How do I say it? Will they from NBNA President Dr. Martha A. Dawson. Johnson, president of the NBNAGNYC — met listen? And will they understand the message I am This year’s focus was on “Addressing the with Jeffries’s legislative assistant, Disha Banik. trying to get across? This trip helped me overcome Social Determinants of Health.” Such factors We spoke to Banik about the need to my fears. I am now more confident in advocating that disproportionately affect members of ban flavored tobacco products. E-cigarette for nurses and our community. the Black community include socioeconomic companies use strategic packaging to market In some Black communities, like my own, where status, where low-income families are not to minors. Still unaware of the current effects there is limited access to resources, we try hard able to afford quality meals, and education, of such products, we know the future effects to not become a product of our environment. As where children are not able to learn to are less likely to be positive. I have three I progress into starting my nursing career, one their best ability because they do not have younger sisters, and I understand what it’s of my goals is to spark change in our commu- nutritious meals to fuel the brain — or there like to be peer pressured and wanting to nities. We have the power, knowledge, and may be a lack of educational resources, fit in. But also, what child does not want a determination to create our own opportunities like after-school programs or libraries, in bubble-gum-, lemon-twist- or mint-flavored that will help us thrive; all it takes is for us to join the community. product they see in a store decorated with together and make that first step towards a better A panelist of speakers gave us in-depth bright colors, fruits, and cool lettering? tomorrow. As a soon-to-be nurse, there are so information and statistics on topics affecting Another student lobbied for better mental many different specialties I can go into. I have our communities, such as “Closing the Gap illness policies. She has a close friend who not figured mine out just yet, but with anything on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities” was affected by seeing a parent struggle with I do, helping to build my community will always and “The Need to Prohibit the Sale of All mental illness. Oftentimes the focus is only be a priority. You cannot choose where you come Flavored Tobacco Products.” on the individual battling the illness, which from, but you can choose to make it better. is expected; however, we should also involve I am thankful for the opportunity that the NBNA the family members who provide care for and Profs. Cayo and Gilles gave us students to that person and think about how this might know, feel, and witness what it is like to be a be affecting them. catalyst for change. The BSNA looks forward to hopefully joining the Day on Capitol Hill in 2021 and in many years to come.

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 15 STUDENTS SHUGHLA GHAFOOR BS ’21 One of the best things about studying at Meyers is the atmo- sphere with great professors and a diverse student body. Professors at Meyers are very engaging and care about their students and their education.

EMMA FINEGAN BS ’21 I am constantly surrounded by enthusiastic, empathetic, and globally engaged peers. As a group, we support each other to wake up early for clinicals or stay up late to study. It’s energizing to be around such interested, proactive, positive, and kind people. AARON COHEN BS ’21 One of my favorite things to do is to go to The best thing about NYU Meyers has museums and sometimes I imitate the art, been making such amazing friendships like I am doing in the photo from the MOMA. in such a short time.

MARTA ANAIS REYES BS ’21

ELEA DAVISON BS ‘21 A happy memory I have is piling into an Uber early in the morning with my first NAVI JOHAL BS ’20 sequence clinical group and smelling all The faculty by far are the best thing the Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwiches about NYU! They are always willing to on the way to Brooklyn. help students in the theoretical and clinical aspects of nursing and guide us towards a path to help us reach our MICHELLE ROSO MS ’20 goals. One cannot discount the esprit Since day one I’ve felt at home. Even just de corps of students who at times walking into the school, the security guards feel like friends made years ago. It’s welcome me and make me feel like family! definitely a special place!

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Popular new clinical simulation focuses on experts in the field of transgender healthcare. We also networked with members of New York City’s LGBTQ community to recruit for the role of patient in this scenario,” said Natalya LGBTQ PATIENTS Pasklinsky, executive director of simulation by Meredith Barges learning at NYU Meyers. “Then, that patient collaborated with us to make the simulation as hether it is a heart attack or marginalized groups, so it’s worth including real and meaningful as possible.” a bad reaction to a blood diverse patients in sim scenarios.” In the new scenario, a 30-year old patient transfusion, the NYU Meyers In response to the feedback, the simulation presents with acute pain and nausea related Clinical Simulation Learning experts at the CSLC reviewed and revised to a severe migraine headache in an urban WCenter (CSLC) has likely replicated it. The CSLC simulation materials to promote gender emergency room. The patient’s name does not uses state-of-the-art simulated healthcare equity and inclusion of LGBTQ patients and match the identifiers on the patient’s identifica- environments to train NYU Meyers students families. Knowing that well-designed simu- tion or insurance card. Throughout the scenario, on how to provide world-class nursing care in lation scenarios have the potential to initiate the amount of information the patient discloses fast-paced medical settings while being alert important shifts in students’ education and depends on their assessment of their “level of for important symptoms and health histo- practice, all simulation faculty also attended a safety” in the emergency room. ries — including ones they could overlook. training to promote equity in assigning gender There is an important second layer to the Normally the CSLC conducts more than identities to healthcare provider roles — and simulation learning process — for students and 100 simulations every week for nearly in patient and family roles, to express a wider CSLC staff. After students participate in the 1,000 baccalaureate and master’s degree variety of the community. LGBTQ Healthcare simulation and practice students. Under the College’s current curric- That same year, an LGBTQ simulation was their communication skills with a patient who ulum, undergrads typically spend half of created with the goal of creating a safer identifies as transgender, they meet as a group their clinical training hours at the CSLC doing healthcare environment for all patients, with CSLC instructors to reflect and debrief “on-campus clinicals.” irrespective of gender and sexual identity. the experience. As the CSLC has expanded over the years, so The scenario demonstrated the use of open “It’s often during these discussions that the have the different scenarios it offers, keeping and inclusive language with the patient and learning happens. In fact, sometimes we, as up with the healthcare field’s rapid changes and healthcare team — and in identifying factors instructors, learn during these discussions medical breakthroughs. It also develops special- that affect therapeutic communication and the too,” explains Pasklinsky. “Students have ized scenarios to close content gaps identified by health assessment of the patient, including the pointed out to us where we can change at the NYU Meyers nursing experts and students. presence of acute pain, prior experiences with CSLC, like updating our patient ID bands to In 2018, members of the LGBTQIA2 Nursing healthcare, and the patient’s ongoing experi- include chosen names as well as legal names, Student Association approached the CSLC ence of safety in the healthcare environment. including pronouns on the medical record, and regarding potential bias in simulations. Students “To develop the LGBTQ Healthcare scenario, improving our own communication skills in the were concerned that medical providers in CSLC staff worked with NYU Meyers under- vital area of LGBTQ healthcare.” simulations were typically male, while hospital graduate and graduate students, faculty, NYU The LGBTQ Simulation has been a huge success, staff were typically female. Students also recom- Langone staff, NYU’s LGBTQ+ Center staff, and offered six times at NYU Meyers, with full enroll- mended that LGBTQ patients and families be ment. According to the CSLC, it will continue included so that students could gain broader to be offered to students in coming semes- experience working with different populations. ters. This will help to grow a cohort of nurses “As the LGBTQIA2 NSA Board, we thought “We are being taught holistic nurs- skilled in interacting with LGBTQ patients and the Sim Center provided a really exciting ing. The faculty are adamant that families — and less likely to overlook important opportunity to create scenarios in which we take in all the patient’s aspects, aspects of patient health and wellbeing. students interact with queer and trans patients like race and ethnicity and the “NYU Meyers graduates hundreds of new and where clinicians use inclusive language communities they belong to, to give nurses per year. The way they’re trained and intentionally,” said Kaitlin Wheeler BS ’19, them the holistic care they deserve. the language they use really matters and former co-president of the LGBTQIA2 NSA, Sexual identity is one aspect of affects the way they care for their patients who helped raise the issue with the CSLC. and clients,” said Wheeler. “The fact that the the overall patient. So it’s really “Having a trans patient is likely to happen, College is doing something like this, and could important to have these especially in New York City. The potential potentially integrate it even more into the .” for harm is so high when working with types of simulations curriculum, is huge for our community.” ­— Nova Bernal-Portela, co-president, LGBTQIA2 NSA & vice president, LATINOS NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 17 STUDENTS

LIM SHOWS WHY EVERYONE NEEDS A ROLE MODEL by Meredith Barges

hether it is a mentor with underrepresented in nursing. Says Jew, “I try “When you sit in a classroom in the Philippines a knack for classroom to act in a way that aligns with [Lim’s] teach- and it’s 105 degrees Fahrenheit, and you keep discussion or an expert ings, vision, and scope of practice, because yourself awake because you’re so excited for who serves in a medical I really respect what he does and how he your learning, to me that is inspiration.” Wclinic in Ghana, role models are individuals embodies nursing.” In an online questionnaire about their expe- who demonstrate the qualities that we Most people tend to learn from a wide riences at NYU Meyers, students emphasized would like to have. They offer us a vision of range of individuals who they see as admi- over and over again that what makes a faculty what is possible and affect us in ways that rable in some way. They are inspired by how member a role model is their level of expertise make us want to be better at our jobs, our they demonstrate excellence. and passion for their field. relationships, and life in general. And on a deeper level, people choose role “There’s always a little affinity, there’s Jordon Jew BS ’21 met Prof. Fidelindo Lim models based on how they perceive them- an identity thing or a practice thing,” says while serving as the secretary of the Men selves — or at least what they hope to be Lim. “So you gravitate toward people who Entering Nursing (MEN) student group, someday. As Lim explains, “When our students do the same thing you would like to do or where Lim is a co-advisor. Jew was also in come to school, they are really hungry for this because they have the same gender or the Lim’s Adult and Elder II class this semester. type of modeling they can emulate.” same background. I am from The Philippines, “How passionate Lim is about nursing Most faculty become role models because and in my opinion, the Filipino-American has impacted my views on nursing and of the particular talents they demonstrate and Filipino immigrant students gravitate how I’ve taken my career. He helped pave and how they approach their working towards me. It’s a cultural thing.” a pathway for me and put out some bread lives. They help students to reflect on what Born and raised in the Philippines, crumbs,” says Jew, who was initially unsure characteristics they consider important in a Jorelle Mae Buenviaje BS ’20 first met of what area of nursing to follow. Now, on nurse and how they might strive to acquire Lim during her First-Year Orientation in Lim’s suggestion, he is trying out the role those characteristics. 2019. “I had a hunch, this man is a Filipino,” of nurse’s aide in the Oncology Department “When I was in nursing school, I was very she says. Lim has now taught four of her at NewYork-Presbyterian and volunteering impressed by two of my teachers. We didn’t courses — Pharmacology, Complex Health in the emergency department — all new have any male teachers at the time. One Topics, and Adult and Elder Care II & III. “I like career possibilities. taught mental health, and I wanted to be a him as a professor and the way he teaches. But Jew insists that Lim did not stand out mental health nurse because of her. I was He’s very passionate about what he’s as a role model because, like himself, he is very impressed by her breadth and depth teaching and about his students — and I love male and Asian, although both groups are of knowledge. She knew A LOT,” recalls Lim. his sense of humor.”

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Buenviaje is adamant about Lim’s universal VIVIAN LAM BS ’21 appeal, “Even if he wasn’t Filipino, he would still be a role model for me.” I am a fan of Prof. Slater. He is When Buenviaje graduates this spring, she “always so knowledgeable about any will take with her Lim’s memorable teaching topic when you ask a question. style, like when he invites students to step ” into the shoes of a patient or a nurse to help activate their learning: “He always says, Can you imagine . . .? Say yes.’” Some research suggests that because it is hard for individuals to believe that they can succeed in an area unless they see other people like themselves succeeding, having a role model with a similar group identity can be important for diversity. This can BOBBY SCHROEDER BS ’21 KATE MCGRATH BS ’21 help individuals from under-represented groups overcome limitations they may face, whether outwardly imposed or inwardly Prof. Crespo-Fierro is Margot Condon is the best perceived. No matter how easy our role “an amazing role model for me “professor. She is an idol for not models make it look, it is always difficult to because she completed her doc- only myself but everyone she be the first or only in a field. torate while two children were in teaches. She is genuine, calm, Research shows that having a mentor high school. That is so inspiring and so positive. She is what I of the same race or ethnicity can improve and amazing as someone who hope to be when I graduate. students’ confidence and support. is interested in pursuing further ” Seeing successful professionals from degrees after this program under-represented groups certainly helps to ” defy the stereotypes commonly associated with those groups. This is part of why seven years ago Lim They haven’t formulated their career life in co-founded the group NYC Men in Nursing, an their minds. However, when we go there and official chapter of the American Association represent that nursing is not just for females, for Men in Nursing (MIN), which has a year- it gives them the idea,” says Lim. “We’re opti- long mentorship program. MIN promotes the mistic that it’s moving the public, the young professional development of men in the field adults, that nursing is a viable option for men.” of nursing and works to increase the overall Lim also points to the personal rewards of YOSIAMIN ORTEGA BS ’20, number of male nurses. While their numbers being a role model: “I meet students who Harriet Heilbrunn Nursing Scholar have steadily risen in the United States to have such wonderful experiences that I would and vice president, LGBTQIA2 350,000, men continue to be a minority in never had experienced if I had never met Nursing Students Association nearly all practice settings, representing about them . . . Yesterday, a former student sent me a 10 percent of nurses in the United States. picture from the Florence Nightingale Museum Lim, along with Prof. Chin Park, is actively in London. I told him, ‘I’m so proud of you.’” “ Profs. Gilles and Cayo are my involved in the MEN group on campus. Each That former student, Engel Monsanto BS ’18, role models because they show semester members of MEN visit an all-boys who Lim mentored through the College’s how a person of color can break high school in Manhattan to teach wellness formal mentorship program and also MEN, barriers and be a leader — and practices — and demonstrate that men can be where he was president, is now working as a manage those leadership roles nurses too. For many of the teenagers, it is nurse in the Cardiothoracic Step Down Unit at very well. Their confidence their first time meeting a male nurse. Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. shines . . . I want to be like them “It’s hard to say what the impact of that is Explains Lim: “That’s the snowball effect. ‘when I grow up. yet. Ninth graders, when you ask them what You mentor someone, and then they mentor ” they want to be, they say a sports or rock star. somebody else. It expands as it rolls.”

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SEEING DOUBLE? The Paradis sisters score the twin advantage

BARBARA PARADIS, MS ’22, BS ’17 AND ELIANA PARADIS BS ’17

Barbara: We are not identical twins, we we would try to do our projects together. Not are fraternal! Some people see us and can until our last semester did we have community immediately tell we’re twins. We have different health nursing together! personalities, so it’s easy to tell us apart! Barbara: It was huge to have a live-in study Eliana: My sister and I look very similar buddy. The program is intense and having a despite being fraternal twins. While at NYU, support/study group is critical for success . . . we would get confused all the time by We didn’t always have the same instructors professors and some classmates. I remember for the same classes, so it was nice to have the one time when I was buying coffee and an different perspectives from other teachers. NYU professor came up to me and thought I Eliana: We developed a solid group of 4-5 was my sister. She had a full-blown conversa- friends right from the beginning. Together we tion with me and I could not bring myself to would study and we ultimately got through tell her that I was not Barbara. Barbara: NYU was the only program the program as best friends! we applied to. We both had plans to apply Barbara: Funny enough, this was the first Barbara: Our parents and older sister were elsewhere, but we heard from NYU first and time we were at the same school since 8th also very supportive throughout the program. decided to just go for it. grade. I’m a Bronx High School of Science From picking us up and dropping us off at the and Yale University alum. Eliana: Going to NYU as twins gave Long Island Railroad Station, making sure we Eliana: I went to Townsend Harris and us such an advantage when it came to had lunch or dinner to eat, respecting our study then Cornell University. We both did nursing studying. We would make study guides time, and just overall supporting us while we as a second degree. I have always been inter- individually and then test each other. We went through the program. We were very lucky ested in healthcare. It was a no-brainer that were also great practice patients for one to have such a great support system. NYU Meyers was where we wanted to go. another and would practice our head-to-toe We both passed the NCLEX on the first try and assessments constantly. Whenever possible two weeks later started our first jobs as RNs.

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INSPIRED BY NURSING

I was inspired seeing how nurses have helped my family through difficult times and seeing that At the end of every day, I want nurses are heroes. to go to sleep knowing I made Through these difficult times, a positive impact they are our population’s angels. on someone’s life. When my As a child I spent months in nana needed two heart valves the hospital and became very — Jaylin Suyen Jofat BS ’20 replaced, I firmly believe the close with my nurses. Their I wanted to combine my care and compassion of the kindness and passion for helping others with nurses on her unit gave her 10 nurturing science and I want to be more years with her family. inspired me to pursue nursing. leadership, the light in — Olivia O’Hare BS ’20 — Zaundra Antoine BS ’21 which led me to nursing . . . someone’s time I discovered the impact nurses can make not only on an of darkness. individual patient level, but Nurses are able to be that also on a larger scale through person, and I want to help as policy and education to many people as I can. improve public health. — Lataijah Beadle BS ’20 — Brittany Taam BS ’20

“ IT WAS SOMETHING I WANTED TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE DOING ” by Bobby Schroeder BS ’20

In early spring 2015, my aunt Red was diag- a parent as sick as my aunt. They served as accelerated nursing program upstate. She nosed with lung cancer that would spread educators, friends, and, most importantly, a has now been working for about a year in a throughout her body in the coming months. shoulder to cry on. cardiovascular unit. Unfortunately, the cancer was so severe, it When my aunt ultimately left the hospital This experience definitely played a role in my took her life in the beginning of the summer. to spend her final days at home, nurses from path to nursing. Seeing the way a nurse can Through her last trying months, nurses were the Wilson were the ones who provided daily impact a patient and their family is something ones providing most of her care in the hospital homecare. This was an extremely special that is difficult to put into words. However, I where she was a patient, UHS Wilson Medical interaction to witness. The nurses continued to knew that it was something I wanted to spend Center, in upstate New York. comfort my aunt and draw a smile occasion- the rest of my life doing. I was constantly told that the nurses always ally. The nurses, in a way, became like family We deal with people at their lowest in the put a smile on my aunt’s face and made her during those months. They were with her until hospital; yet, we, as nurses, have a special power more than comfortable every day. My cousin her final moments. within us to make those lowest moments just and uncle shared how important the nurses The nurses had such a strong impact on not a little better. In some cases, they become the were, not only to my aunt but to them as only myself but also my cousin. Ray left her highest moments in a person’s life. I truly hope well. They provided my cousin, Ray, with full-time job, went back to school to take her I can one day impact a patient and their family the comfort she needed while dealing with pre-requisites, and gained admittance to an the way the nurses at Wilson impacted mine.

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 21 FEATURE FACULTY Q & A

MEET MARY BRENNAN Clinical Associate Prof. & Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Program Director

What makes the NYU Meyers How does the virtual hospital to intervene and help to motivate patients Adult-Gerontology Acute Care prepare future nurses? with chronic diseases to adopt healthy life- NP Program stand out? After we started using the virtual hospital styles as they transition from the hospital Our program is a stand-out for so many about ten years ago I saw a confidence that I setting back home. reasons, but primarily it’s the innovative tech- hadn’t seen before. Students were confident nologies and pedagogies we use to engage enough to go out and obtain positions as Where do you see the program students in their learning, based on the acute care NPs. I think our students would in 5–10 years? evidence, guidelines, and some reports. For acknowledge that [problem-based learning] There are so many issues confronting health- example, the Institute of Medicine’s “To Err Is is very hard work, it’s difficult, it’s a transition. care providers today: antibiotic-resistant Human” report advocated teaching students But at the end of the program, it’s a wonderful infections, waning immunity and resurgence about how to make decisions, rather than just asset for them. It positions them well to be in of disease, and poor communication leading memorize information. the hospital setting, where on day one they’re to diagnostic and medication errors. Yet Based on that, we shifted the Adult- going to be analyzing cases, making diagnostic statistics suggest that it takes 10–17 years Gerontology Acute Care NP Program decisions, and developing a treatment plan. to integrate the best available evidence into from didactic lectures to developing a Students also participate in nearly 20 simu- practice. That is too much of a gap! problem-based learning curriculum, where lations by the time they graduate, including I like to visualize that in the future every students work together in small groups to eight rapid-response livestream simulations in acute care NP will go on to earn either a prac- inquire about the patient and determine the their last semester, giving them opportunities tice doctorate or research doctorate. We need best diagnosis and treatments. to practice their decision-making and apply practice experts who are going to be abreast This builds on so many of the future compe- what they’re learning. of the evidence, to integrate it, to think about tencies that we’re developing, communication, So, it really sets them up for lifelong learning creative ways to integrate it into their practice, collaboration, and belonging, which students and practice. to assess their outcomes, and report on those experience in the classroom. outcomes — and continually work to improve Given current healthcare trends, their patient outcomes. Where did you get the idea for why is studying adult-gerontology I also think educating nurses to have a the “Acute Care General Hospital,” acute care so important? strong voice in the healthcare system is crit- the virtual learning environment you In some ways, we have to make invisible ical. Cultivating a strong voice begins in the created? diseases visible, so patients understand what classroom, as we encourage students to speak I developed virtual cases where technology the risks are — and we help move them to up, think through difficult issues, and help lets students see and hear the patient and healthy living. solve increasingly complex problems. That is view their physical exam findings. This helps A great example is the epidemic of part of our problem-based learning curric- them to develop not only the cognitive Alzheimer’s disease, now the sixth-leading ulum. All the pedagogies we use are preparing intellect, but also to process sensory informa- cause of death in the United States. Very few students for the important competencies tion — all information that nurses can use to patients understand that at this point, 60% of the future. inform their decision making about diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is preventable by doing simple and treatment. things like exercising and following a healthy Bringing these patients to life was a collab- lifestyle. It turns out that all of those healthy orative effort among our Clinical Simulation lifestyle factors that are good for the heart are Learning Center, the faculty, and the actors. also good for the brain. The first student response on an online forum But we know many hospitals do not have was: “Wow! Mary Brennan General Hospital advanced practice nurses. Being in the has gone Hollywood!” I love that! hospital represents an important opportunity

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MEET DONNA HALLAS Clinical Associate Prof. & Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Program Director Clinical Prof. & Pediatrics NP Program Director

What makes the NYU Meyers Who’s getting it for you? Do you know the The book you edited, Behavioral Pediatric Nurse Practitioner harms of vaping? How can I help you?” Pediatric Healthcare for Nurse Program stand out? Likewise, we addressed the recent Measles Practitioners, was named a 2018 Our graduates are setting new directions outbreak, which had more than 700 cases Book of the Year. It calls for assessing and dimensions for the care of children in Brooklyn. and treating abnormal behaviors in and their families who most need our children in the primary care setting. attention and expertise. Students gain clinical Why do some parents hesitate to I was thrilled when the American Journal of opportunities in both primary care and specialty vaccinate their children? Nursing recognized our book in that way. care — cardiovascular, pulmonary, etc. Many In my practice, I had some parents who Nineteen of our students became published who want to specialize are able to combine adamantly refused to give their children authors by contributing to chapters. their expert skills with kindness while caring vaccines and some who automatically One of the conceptual models I developed for chronically ill children and their families, accepted them. The reasons were often and discuss in the book is “Intercepting including as palliative care experts. Some cultural. When I first started studying Behavioral Health.” The idea is that certain now hold positions at Seattle Children’s, vaccine hesitancy four years ago, it was a behaviors can be cared for in the office. LA Children’s, and right here at NYU relatively new area. We developed an online Behavioral problems should be identified as Langone Health. intervention that was survey based and early as possible, rather than waiting until the Students come to the program as expe- gave the responder resources and scientific child is displaying many adverse behaviors and rienced pediatric nurses from a variety of information given their responses, like a photo their behavior is out of control. areas, in-patient and out-patient hospital of a child with whooping cough or pertussis if When you identify one problematic behavior, units, including urgent care centers and they didn’t plan to vaccinate. like the child roaming around the room rather emergency departments, and intensive care We didn’t get 100% of the responders to than sitting down listening to a story, you units. They are highly motivated to step up choose vaccination, but we did get statistical recognize it as a problem and immediately to the next level and learn assessment, diag- significance for prenatal women. We helped provide an evidence-based intervention. nosis, and treatment to become high-level, our parents and adolescents understand caring PNPs who help families raise happy, that there’s good scientific information Where do you see the program healthy children. versus people just talking or being angry in 5–10 years? about vaccines. A few years ago, we started developing the How do you keep the In our next study, we plan to look at individuals Acute Care Pediatric NP Program. Because we curriculum current? who are vaccine resistant or vaccine refusers. already offer electives, we have an opportunity The uniqueness of New York City, with its five For example, the measles crisis in Brooklyn to train students to graduate not only as boroughs, provides opportunities to work with and Rockland County — and across the United primary care PNPs but acute care PNPs as well. many populations, especially the underserved. States — primarily affected children who had For future directions, I envision one curriculum Students are clinically paired with an expert never been vaccinated. The parents had refused that prepares our graduates to meet the total preceptor to learn ways to assess and care for vaccines. We need to investigate what we can pediatric needs of all of the children/adolescents children with complex medical problems. We do to help people better understand the scien- and families that we serve. There is a national also bring real-life situations into the classroom. tific evidence supporting vaccines, rather than trend to have more combined programs, and we The City’s current vaping crisis is an example. just refuse them for unfounded reasons. are at the forefront of that trend. Students learned to update their questions about tobacco use to include vaping, asking: “Do you have access to vaping materials? Are you buying it at the store or off the market?

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NEW PRESCRIPTIONS for a DISEASE MULTIPLIER Prof. Maya Clark-Cutaia studies chronic kidney disease. Termed a “disease multiplier,” it is linked with numerous other life-threatening chronic conditions. Almost half of kidney disease sufferers have diabetes and cardiovascular disease. “In all three disease processes, minorities are overrepresented,” Clark-Cutaia explains, “so the majority of my patients are African American.”

by Meredith Barges

ost of Clark-Cutaia’s work Changes in diet and lifestyle are universally With funding from an NIH/NINR-funded focuses on educating kidney recommended parts of end-stage renal disease career development award, Clark-Cutaia was patients so that they under- treatment. The National Kidney Foundation able to tease out that there is something stand their disease process recommends that those with kidney disease around the 2,000-mg-of-sodium-a-day Mand how to manage it. In particular, Clark- limit their sodium intake to 2,400 mgs per that seems to reduce fluid gains between Cutaia is examining how sodium intake day, and the American Heart Association dialysis sessions. impacts the amount of fluid that kidney recommends a lower limit of 1,500 mg per day. However, meeting these strict dietary recom- disease patients gain between dialysis — However, Clark-Cutaia points out that there is mendations can pose particular challenges for and how that translates into symptoms. actually no empirical evidence for the current Clark-Cutaia’s patient population, who often “The thought would be that if they gained sodium restrictions for dialysis patients. face multiple socioeconomic burdens. less water weight between dialysis sessions, “We know that [reducing sodium] works “It’s almost impossible for us to eat the then they’d be more likely to have less fluid in hypertensive patients, but we don’t know way that we’re supposed to eat with a pulled off and therefore be less uncomfort- what the prescription is for a dialysis patient,” certain amount of income and means. My able during dialysis and after,” she says. she explains. patients are typically people who live in

24 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 Flatten the COVID curve for Black and Brown communities low-socioeconomic neighborhoods that started questioning that scoring by Maya Clark-Cutaia | Assistant Professor don’t have grocery stores. They’re on system, which some say is contributing federal subsidies, so they can’t afford to poorer outcomes for Black and to do fresh fruits and fresh meat,” says mixed-race patients. ulnerable populations such as Black Clark-Cutaia. “There are a bunch of “People are saying, maybe we should and Brown Americans, who suffer mom-and-pop shops and gas stations just take this out and have everyone be higher rates of chronic conditions like that accept food stamps and EBT cards assessed with the same criteria,” says kidney disease and hypertension, are and things, so that’s where they go. Cutaia-Clark. Vmore likely to be hospitalized and die as a result That’s where they grocery shop.” For someone on dialysis, the ideal of COVID-19. This horrifying reality, unfolding For Clark-Cutaia, finding treatments situation would be organ transplant, throughout the United States, was, sadly, pre- that work is about meeting patients but African Americans and other dictable. To save lives, we need to ask important where they are. As she points out, not all minority patients are less likely to questions about high-risk patients of color, like people eat the same — which is an issue sign up for transplantation: “There is for those on dialysis: How are they receiving that physicians, nurses, and other care a lot of research that suggests that information and making decisions about their providers need to pay attention to when it’s related to lack of trust, religion, health when there is a lack of trust in the health- working with diverse patient populations. health literacy . . . There’s some research care system? How are they being transported “My parents are very southern. There’s coming out now that suggests that safely to and from their treatments when they a lot of sodium in what we eat,” Clark- it’s not even really being discussed are already immunocompromised? How are they Cutaia acknowledges. “I understand what with them.” following the recommended diet when many some of that psychosocial world is like, grocery stores have shifted to expensive online which makes the research process a bit Meeting patients ordering and many lack easy access to the inter- easier. But it also really makes me want where they are net and a credit card? to get an answer for them, because that Clark-Cutaia is also looking for larger As we take extraordinary measures to flatten could be my uncle, my brother, my mom, solutions to help patients manage their the COVID curve, these vulnerable, high-risk my cousin.” multiple and complex disease burdens. patients need to be part of our coordinated She is hoping to get a grant to both national and local response — or the death Health disparities and extra study the current sodium restric- rate will continue to rise, particularly in hurdles to kidney health tion for dialysis patients and test an Black communities. Studies show that African Americans alternative food-delivery system that are nearly four times more likely to would help patients lower their sodium develop end-stage renal disease than intake. As part of the study, patients 72% of individuals other groups. They also face additional would receive free, medically tailored who have died from barriers to accessing industry-standard, meals through their insurance. In a final COVID-19 in Chicago life-saving treatments, which could phase, patients may also be trained in were Black. help prevent heart attacks and how to prepare the specialized meals cardiovascular disease. they had received themselves. African Americans tend to be diag- “It needs to be bigger than me 78% of COVID+ patients nosed with kidney issues later in their just telling patients to reduce their admitted to the ICU in disease development, when symptoms sodium,” says Clark-Cutaia. “I can’t the United States had are more difficult to manage. This could imagine managing all of the appoint- one or more underlying be the result of several factors, including ments, dialysis, and medications. health conditions. lack of access to healthcare or even, as They have families. Some have jobs. some charge, a kidney scoring system It’s a lot . . . So what things can we do Black Americans are that is inherently discriminatory. to reduce their risk, while making it 3.5 times more likely For the past 20 years, the medical accessible in the community? How can 33..55xx to develop end-stage community has relied on different diag- we put fewer constraints and responsi- renal disease. nostic criteria for kidney disease in Black bilities on them?” patients than the rest of the population. * WBEZ Chicago (NPR), Centers for Disease Now, clinicians and researchers have Control, National Kidney Foundation

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 25 FEATURE CELEBRATING ESTELLE MASSEY OSBORNE

I think it goes without saying“ that she changed the trajectory for nursing. ” A NURSE TRAILBLAZER by Meredith Barges

Few Americans helped to To be the first at anything is an accomplish- 11 children, in the small town of Palestine, ment, but to have been, like Osborne, the first Texas. After two years of college, she change the face of nursing in in so many arenas is a testament to her vision, entered nursing school in St. Louis, where the 20th-century more than fearlessness, and strength of character. In a she developed a passion for bedside care relatively short span of time, from 1934, when and obstetrics. Estelle Massey Osborne. she became the 11th president of the National At that time, only 14 of the nation’s 1,300 A nurse administrator, educator, Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, to schools for nursing were open to Black appli- 1966, when she left her executive post at the cants. The American Nursing Association did and leader at a time when National League for Nursing to retire, she not accept Black nurses as members, and the racial lines prevented most made heroic steps toward eliminating racial US Navy categorically refused to enlist them. African American women from barriers and prejudice at the heart of our Yet for Osborne, racial barriers were only healthcare system. meant to be overcome. She received the holding top positions in their “Like those who have contributed to the first scholarship awarded to a Black nurse fields, she reached some of the building of this great nation, Estelle Osborne by the Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1928. She found a way to educate herself and make a was accepted to Columbia University, where highest ranks as she worked difference in the lives of many when being a she became the first Black nurse to receive a tirelessly to open up nursing woman of color in America meant its own chal- Master’s Degree in 1931. All the while, she was lenges and difficulties,” said Prof. Sandy Cayo, teaching at two local nursing schools, including to women of color. clinical assistant professor at NYU Meyers as the first African American instructor at the College and faculty advisor for the Black Harlem Hospital School of Nursing. Student Nurses Association. Osborne defied a system built on racism Osborne, who was known as “Stelle” to to help provide quality healthcare for her family, was born in 1901, the eighth of Black Americans. After she graduated, she

26 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 In 1940, Osborne became the first Black ESTELLE M. OSBORNE superintendent of nurses at the storied Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, the SCHOLARSHIP largest exclusively Black, city-operated NYU Meyers is proud to be Osborne received the 1959 general hospital in the world, which served at the forefront of efforts to Nurse of the Year Award from over 70,000 people. She was also the first open the nursing profession the NYU Department of Nurse Black woman director of its nursing school. With the country at war, Osborne was hired to the widest possible range Education, conferred by Dept. in 1943 as a consultant to the Coordinating of students and has actively Chair Martha E. Rogers. Committee on Negro Nursing for the recruited students from under- National Council for War Service. That year, represented communities. It is Congress passed the Bolton Act in response in that spirit that we are raising to the severe shortage of nurses at home funds in honor of Estelle went to work for the Rosenwald Fund as a and in the military overseas. Nurses could Massey Osborne, who broke researcher, studying rural life in the deep not be trained fast enough. Osborne helped down countless barriers in South and investigating ways to bring to ensure that Black nurses benefited from nursing education and practice better health education and service to rural the $160 million the bill provided for nursing Black communities. education and financial aid. Her work also over her extraordinary career. Her nephew Jack McGruder saw her impec- significantly expanded the number of nursing Aimed at high-achieving cable leadership skills up close. When he was schools that accepted Black students. undergraduate and graduate 11, he and his family moved from Texas to Osborne’s influence was pivotal to students from underrepre- New York City to live with Osborne in a large convincing the US Navy to lift its color ban in sented communities, these apartment building she had purchased on 1945. McGruder revealed that Osborne had scholarships will continue West 148th Street. He said of his remarkable had a strategic ally in her efforts, First Lady Osborne’s lifelong work of aunt: “Stelle was always doing something for Eleanor Roosevelt. opening doors to individuals of somebody, yet she never seemed to be tired After the war, Osborne returned to nursing merit who have been unfairly or irritable. Think of a female Obama. She education. In 1946, she became the first Black excluded. By ensuring the belonged to every worthwhile organization faculty member at NYU, teaching nursing resources to enable qualified in the world . . . She was also the most cour- courses at what is now NYU Rory Meyers teous person that I ever met . . . Her manners College of Nursing. students, regardless of their were always perfect, even when she was not Over the next 20 years, Osborne served economic need, to attend NYU pleased, and she was fearless.” mainly in national leadership roles. She was Meyers, you will be helping to In 1934, she took on the presidency of the the first African American member of the keep the doors of the college National Association of Colored Graduate ANA Board of Directors (1948–1952). She open to the widest possible mix Nurses, which was headquartered in New was also the assistant director of the National of students. York City. There, she forged strategic rela- League for Nursing, the first vice-president Your generous contribution tions with white-exclusive nursing institutions of the National Council of Negro Women, a will be of immeasurable like the American Nurses Association (ANA) member of the National Urban League, and help in our efforts to continue and intensely lobbied them to accept Black an honorary member of Chi Eta Phi Sorority this important and timely nurses, particularly Black RNs in the South, and the American Academy of Nursing. program — a fitting tribute to who were prevented from joining the ANA “[Osborne] showed how to question the due to racist membership policies at the state status quo and break down barriers for a distinguished educator and level. She also fostered programs to develop women, and women of color, and women of activist who worked to bring post-nursing school opportunities for nurses color who are nurses. So I think her impact about long-overdue changes of color. When she left the post in 1939, she is really threefold,” Cayo explained. “I think in the teaching and practice of had increased the association’s membership it goes without saying that she changed the nursing in this country. more than five-fold, from 175 to 947. trajectory for nursing.” McGruder recalls: “She was constantly In 1959 the NYU Department of Nursing recruiting nurses for the nurses’ association. named Osborne “Nurse of the Year.” In Sometimes on Thursdays or Friday night she 1984, three years after she died, Osborne would request that I join her . . . So, I would be was inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame, If you’re interested in carrying forms and documents, and we would in recognition of her outstanding achieve- contributing, please contact meet with typically from 15 to 30 nurses . . . Stelle ments. Both NYU Meyers and the Nurses Karen Wenderoff, was always calm, steady and polite, and almost Educational Fund have created scholarships director of development, at always they signed on the dotted line.” in her honor. [email protected].

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 27 NYU Meyers regularly holds panel discussions, gatherings, and celebrations for current and former students. Here are CELEBRATIONS some highlights.

ALUMNI WEEKEND SIM TOUR

A Maryann Vella leading the sim tour.

B Left to right: Carol Wetherbee MA ’76; Eymi Escobar; Prof. Beth Latimer, DNP ’11, MA ’93; Janet Griffin; Richard Lim BA ’63 (WSC); Addie Armstrong BA ’92 (SPS); Maryann Vella; Deborah Hyland MA ’76; Connie Shen; Roseann Pokoluk BS ’79; Cathy D’Amico PhD ’07; Gloria Goldberg BA ’67 (Steinhardt); Annette Cerrato PhD ’06, MA ’89

ALUMNI WEEKEND LECTURE

C Left to right: Pamela Galehouse, PhD ’03, MA ’69 and Jasmin Waterman MS ’10

D Faculty speakers: Linda Herrmann; Sandy Cayo; Fidel Lim MA ’96; Natalya Pasklinsky, DNP ’19, MS ’10

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ALUMNI WEEKEND LUNCH

E Alumni honorees: Lauren Arrigoni MS ’16; Anne Sansevero MA ’96; Prof. Tara Cortes, F PhD ’76, MA ’71; Prof. Beth Latimer, DNP ’11, MA ’93; Joyce Griffin-Sobel PhD ’88

F From the first row: Prof.Fidel Lim MA ’96; Edwin Kim BS ’16; Ellen Sooyon Kim; Steph Rosenblum; Second row: Minjae Kim MS ’17; Chris Kwak; Jiyhe Choi; Jordan Jew; Adam Hadas BS ’17; Frank Baez BS ’19; Susan Gador MA ’96

G Jamesetta Halley-Boyce MA ’73

DEAN’S COUNCIL HOLIDAY DINNER

H Left to right: Filmmaker Carolyn Jones; Alicia Volk; NYU Trustee Joe Landy MBA ’96 (STERN); Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx; Jacques Borris

I Left to right: Joan M. Stout; Ronald Glassman; Prof. Kimberly Glassman, PhD ’07, MA ’87; Jean Stout; Rebecca Callahan BS ’06

J Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx with Tony Shih H MD ’97 (MED), president of United I J Hospital Fund

K NYU trustee Howard Meyers BS ’64 (STERN) and Clinical Prof. Emerita Barbara Krainovich-Miller

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VALEDICTORY BREAKFAST

A A student received a nursing pin during the pinning ceremony. B C B Nursing graduates at Valedictory Breakfast

C NYU President Andy Hamilton (left) and his wife Jennie Hamilton (right) with Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx

CNO PANEL DISCUSSION

D Kimberly Glassman, PhD 07, MA ’87 with guests

E Frances Cartwright PhD ’05 and Irene Macyk

F Left to right: Frances Cartwright PhD ’05; Anna Distad MS ’15; Renee Sanchez MS ’13; Tom Smith; Irene Macyk; Glassman; Prof. Eloise Cathcart; Rosanne Raso; Nicole Kirchoffer MS ’18; Carrie Gerber MS ’13; Steven Tyler MS ’15

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES VISIT

G Dean Eileen Sullivan-Marx and NYU Trustee Brian Levine, MD ’08 (MED), MS ’03 (GSAS) with students and faculty in the Clinical Simulation Learning Center

H Levine and Natalya Pasklinsky, DNP ’19, MS ’10, executive director of the Clinical Simulation Learning Center

ESTELLE OSBORNE LEGACY CELEBRATION

I Past and present Estelle Osborne Award VALEDICTORY BREAKFAST recipients with Dean Sullivan-Marx. Left to A A student received a nursing pin during right: Tavoria Kellam BS ’98; Sylvia Williams the pinning ceremony. MA ’76; Dean Sullivan-Marx; Natalia Cineas, H MS ’09 (WAG), BS ’06; Jamesetta B Nursing graduates at Valedictory Breakfast Halley-Boyce MA ’73; Clinical Prof. Emerita C NYU President Andy Hamilton (left) and his Jamesetta Newland wife (right) with Dean Jennie Hamilton J Left to right: Dean Sullivan-Marx; Mimi Niles Eileen Sullivan-Marx PhD ’19; Helena Grant; Sylvia Williams MA ’76; Sascha James-Conterelli, DNP ’13, MA ’02; CNO PANEL DISCUSSION Roberta Holder-Mosley

D Kimberly Glassman, PhD 07, MA ’87 K Left to right: Marianne Roncoli PhD ’73; with guests Paula Edwards MA ’01; Desiree Smith MS ’20

E Frances Cartwright PhD ’05 and L Prof. Ashley Graham-Perel MS ’18 (left) with Irene Macyk Monefa Anderson, BS ’07, MPA ’96 (WAG), president of the Meyers Alumni Association F Left to right: Frances Cartwright PhD ’05; Anna Distad MS ’15; Renee Sanchez MS ’13; M Estelle Osborne’s family (left to right): Tom Smith; Irene Macyk; Glassman; Prof. Eloise Carol Osborne McGruder; David McGruder; Cathcart; Rosanne Raso; Nicole Kirchoffer Rene Morgan; Safiya Morgan MS ’18; Carrie Gerber MS ’13; Steven Tyler MS ’15

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Dear alumni, RECENT ALUMNI THANK YOU TO COUNCIL ALL VOLUNTEERS! As nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 health emergency, we are continuing to provide excellent patient NYU Meyers is looking for enthu- NYU Meyers would like to extend care under challenging circumstances. siastic alumni who graduated in a huge thank you to all alumni Our skills as critical thinkers, caregivers, the last ten years to join the Recent volunteers. This academic year, administrators, and educators have Alumni Council. The group will 53 alumni participated in the been put to the test. Through it all, I focus on increasing the engage- Nursing Alumni Program. More have leaned on the strong nursing foun- ment of recent alumni, promoting than 50 alumni spoke with stu- dation I received at NYU Meyers and volunteerism and philanthropic dents at small gatherings and support from the alumni community. support, and advising the Meyers in classrooms. This is my third and final year as pres- Alumni Association on ways to Students love hearing what ident of the Alumni Association Board. advance the interests of the recently life is like on the other side of It has been an honor to serve in this role graduated alumni community. graduation. We appreciate your and a great opportunity to get to know many of you. I’m so proud of the growth For more information, contact commitment to supporting current in the alumni community and plan to [email protected]. students. If you would like to stay involved at the College. join the growing group of NYU The Alumni Association Board is Meyers alumni volunteers, contact already looking ahead to when this [email protected]. crisis will be behind us. In the mean- time, I hope you will join me at a virtual alumni event or volunteer to mentor or speak with students. Stay safe and healthy. Alumni

Sincerely, contribute to Prof. Ea’s textbook Monefa M. Anderson BS ’07, MPA ’96 (WAG) Meyers alumni Joyce J Fitzpatrick PhD ’75, President, NYU Meyers Alumni Mary Joy Garcia-Dia MA ’02, and Association Board Joanna Seltzer Uribe, MS ’14, BS ’05 contributed to a new textbook co-edited by Clinical Assoc. Prof. Emerson Ea, Innovative Strategies in Teaching Nursing: Exemplars of Optimal Learning Outcomes.

32 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 ALUMNA PROFILE ALUMNI

ROBIN SCHAFER, DNP ’21, BS ’99 by Meredith Barges

Robin Schafer, DNP ’21, BS ’99 spends Bloomberg Financial Markets for three years. “I seven weeks each summer as the health was in finance, and then I decided that wasn’t director for two busy summer camps on my calling . . . Children often cannot express Lake Raquette, in New York — with sailboats, how they feel, so I felt that nursing was a good boat docks, log cabins, and mess halls pretty transition, both to medicine and to subjects enough for a postcard. While kids aged 6 to that can’t really express their pain or feelings. 15 enjoy swimming, archery, tennis, a western So I applied to the NYU nursing program.” night, campfires, and theatrical productions, At NYU, Schafer especially enjoyed her Schafer heads the infirmary, treating common science and geriatrics courses, graduating with summertime medical problems like poison a BS in 1999. “I really loved being on campus. ivy, bug bites, and sprained ankles as well as a The nursing school was a little older and homier rising number of mental health issues. than before it was renovated. There were a lot “Campers are still experiencing mental of interesting students to talk to.” health disorders even though they’re not in But Schafer quickly gravitated to a pedi- school,” explains Schafer. “I’ve seen a lot of atric focus: “I seem to be able to listen quite increase in mental health disorders, a lot of well to that population and really hear what kids who are on more medications these days, they’re saying, as opposed to what I’m and a lack of understanding of what a mental thinking. I like that population a lot . . . seeing health disorder is in the general population.” them through their lifespan and watching Schafer’s dual role at camp is to provide them grow.” healthcare and sensitize counselors and staff Schafer now holds both an MSN in pediatric to better understand campers in terms of any nursing from Columbia University and an mental health disorders and complaints they MSN in psychiatric nursing from Stony Brook may have. University — and she is working on her DNP at “An irritable 8-year-old might be sad or NYU Meyers. depressed, as opposed to just in a bad mood. Building on her 8 years at Raquette Lake [Mental health issues] really manifest them- Camps, Schafer has made this work the selves in different ways in younger kids. I think subject of her dissertation: “I’m trying to figure I like the pediatric that’s very important for counselors and staff out if an educational program for counselors to know,” says Schafer. and staff at a summer camp helps in improving “patient population a During the school year, Schafer is at Iona their knowledge of mental health disorders.” lot . . . seeing them through College, in New Rochelle, NY, serving as the Inspiration for Schafer is seeing her young director of health services and a psychiatric patients grow and blossom into their health- their lifespan and nurse practitioner. She also has a private iest, truest, best selves — with the personalized watching them grow. practice specializing in adolescent and young counseling and medical support they need. adult psychiatric issues. “I usually spend three “With each individual patient that I help, I ” days a week at health services and two days a know there is a big ripple effect. I’m changing week at counseling seeing patients. Definitely, this child’s life, so they will go on to do medical and psych go hand-in-hand.” something other than what they normally Pediatric nursing was not originally Schafer’s would have done — and maybe that’ll change top career choice. After college, she worked someone else’s life. It certainly changes the as a financial consultant at Bear Stearns and future, which makes a big difference.”

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 33 The College wants to keep in touch with its former students! Please ensure your current email address is on file by emailing ALUMNI [email protected].

IN MEMORIAM CLASS NOTES

1970s 2010s Amuerfina T. Castro MS ’77 was Stacy Bentil MS ’10 is a nurse appointed executive director of the administrator at an ambulatory Philippine Nurses Association of surgical center, married with two America Foundation, Inc. beautiful girls. Bentil expects to complete a leadership program at Jamesetta Halley-Boyce MS ’73 Quinnipiac University in 2021. was inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame. Ayelet Brenner, MS ’10, BS ’06 is working in the ER at University Ellen Reed BS ’72 is a certified Hospital, in Newark, NJ. psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and gestalt psychotherapist, Kristen Hansen BS ’19 landed a job after completing an MSN in 1983 in the SICU at the Cleveland Clinic, and MBA in 2001. When Cancer then moved back to NY to join appeared, Reed stopped working the cardiothoracic unit at Stony at age 70 and started writing a Brook Medicine. book, Someone to Watch over You: Finding Your Strength Kristine Houlihan BS ’10 has Within. Reed celebrates her worked at the Bergen Community husband of 38 years, two amazing College drive-through COVID-19 sons and daughters-in-law, and testing center. two grandchildren. NYU Meyers mourns the passing of Kious Kelly BS ’12, Diana Spalding, MS ’10, BS ’07 who was heroically treating COVID-19 patients as co-authored a book titled The an assistant nursing manager in the Mount Sinai 2000s Motherly Guide to Becoming West emergency room before fatally contracting the Melissa Guillen BS ’08 is a school Mama: Redefining the Pregnancy, Coronavirus himself. He died on March 24. nurse for the NYC Department Birth, and Postpartum Journey. Kelly graduated from NYU Meyers in 2012 with a of Education and Department of Wilfredo Yap, Jr. MS ’10 welcomed nursing degree and then pursued his passion for Health and Mental Hygiene — and a a son, Warner. nursing in New York City. Several professors and staff full-time mom. at the College fondly recall Kelly from his time here as a nursing student. Dara Herman BS ’06 just marked four years as a medical provider 2020s Just 48 years old when he passed, Kelly is remem- Dylan Watson BS ’20 started bered as a dedicated and much-respected nurse and at a school-based health clinic in the Bronx. a new job as an RN in the ED at beloved family member. He is believed to be the first Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, nurse in New York City to die as a result of COVID-19. Lisa Schmutter, MPA ’16, BS ’01 a Level 1 trauma center, and closed is working in quality and patient on a first house. safety at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

34 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 GRADS ON THE JOB ALUMNI

NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 35 We are grateful to the individuals who have included NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in their estate plans. By providing a legacy, these individuals are helping to GIVING further the education of nursing Donations as of March 2020 professionals into the future.

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $2,500 and above

American Academy of Nursing Margery (PhD ’83) and John Garbin Rory and Howard Meyers Family Jeff Rosedale Foundation American Association of Colleges C. Alicia Georges (MA ’73) The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation of Nursing Rory and Howard (STERN ’64) Meyers Kim (MA ’87, PhD ’07) and Sylvia and Stephen Schoenbaum, MD American Cancer Society Ronald Glassman Mathy and Andrew (MED ’60, Cynthia and Thomas Sculco WAG ’92) Mezey Anonymous The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. Sigma Theta Tau International Joseph Narus (BS ’96, MA ’99, DNP ’12) Arcora Foundation Maureen (MA ’76) and Philip Heasley and Charles Soriano Joan K. Stout Barbara (MA ’92) and Michael Heilbrunn Family Foundation National Council of State Boards Eileen Sullivan-Marx and Ken Marx Calabrese Helene Fuld Health Trust of Nursing Switzer Foundation Rebecca (BS ’06) and Robert Callahan The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation The New York Community Trust The Thomas P. Sculco & Cynthia D. Claudia and Leo Crowley Hugoton Foundation Sarah Pasternack (MA ’73) Sculco Foundation Julie and Glenn Davidson Jonas Philanthropies Susan and Anthony Penque Marguerite Barnish Troxel DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Carl Kirton (MA ’92) Muriel Pless (STEINHARDT ’43) Troxel Family Foundation, Inc. Health Advancement Helaine and Sidney Lerner Joan and Robert Rechnitz Maria Vezina (MA ’77) Garoline Gail Dorsen (BS ’97, PhD ’14) Geri LoBiondo-Wood (PhD ’85) Marianne Roncoli (PhD ’73) Alicia and Norman Volk Claire Fagin (PhD ’64) Margaret McClure Annette and Anthony Roscigno

DEAN’S CIRCLE $1,000 – $2,499

Monefa Anderson (WAG ’96, BS ’07) D’Amico Consulting Associates, LLC Judith (MA ’67, PhD ’84) and Madeline Naegle (MA ’67, PhD ’80) Leonard Haber Virginia August and Brian Zack Catherine (PhD ’07) and Louis David Resto (ENG ’72) D’Amico Beth Latimer (MA ’93, DNP ’11) Nellie Carter Bailey (MA ’80) Donna Rolin (PhD ’12) Victoria Vaughan Dickson Lois and David Leeds Amy Berman (BS ’06) Susan (STERN ’79) and Craig Dawn Fischer (BS ’01) LiHung Lin (MA ’86) (STEINHARDT ’74) Schoon Linda Burnes Bolton Pamela Galehouse (MA ’69, PhD ’03) Judith Lothian (MA ’81, PhD ’89) Suzette de Marigny Smith Susan Bowar-Ferres (PhD ’87) and Dean Ferres Mary Giuffra (MA ’68, PhD ’73) Audrey Lyndon and John Williams Nancy Steiger (BS ’76) Frances Cartwright (PhD ’05) and Valerie (MA ’84) and James Grabicki Diane J. Mancino (MA ’78) Suzette de Marigny Smith Peter Alcarese Family Foundation Kelly and Craig Meyers

NYU MEYERS LEGACY SOCIETY

Anonymous Judith (MA ’67, PhD ’84) and Leslie J. Nield-Anderson (PhD ’91) Arnold and Marie Schwartz* Leonard Haber Ellen Baer (MA ’73, PhD ’82) Roberta O’Grady (MA ’62) Mary E. Segall (PhD ’70) Barbara A. Hayes* (MA ’63) A. Christine Berger Sarah B. Pasternack (MA ’73) Ursula Springer* Eliana Horta Cynthia E. Degazon (STEINHARDT ’72, Jay R. Paul Neville E. Strumpf (PhD ’82) PhD ’87) Blanche T. Jordan* (BS ’45, MA ’50) Robert V. Piemonte Eileen Sullivan-Marx Jacqueline M. Fawcett (MA ’70, Barbara Krainovich-Miller and Muriel Pless (STEINHARDT ’43) Nadia Sultana PhD ’76) Russell Miller Hila Richardson Ruth Teitler* (STEINHARDT ’51) Geraldene Felton (EdD ’69) Fidelindo A. Lim (MA ’96) Paulette Robischon* (BS ’48, MA ’60, Patricia L. Valoon Vernice D. Ferguson* (BS ’50) Geri LoBiondo-Wood (PhD ’85) PhD ’70) Lauren Webster-Garcia (MA ’76) Catherine Taylor Foster (PhD ’74) Diane J. Mancino (MA ’78) Marianne Roncoli (PhD ’73) David M. Werdegar (ARTS ’60) Pearline D. Gilpin* (BS ’68) Diana J. Mason (PhD ’87) June Rothberg-Blackman (BS ’50, Mary J. Whipple (BS ’69) Beatrice Goodwin (MA ’60, PhD ’70) Margaret McClure MA ’60, PhD ’65) Jocelyn Greenidge* Frank E. McLaughlin* (MA ’61) Geraldene Schiavone*

* deceased

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