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M OUNT C ARMEL C OLLEGE OF N URSING Non-Profit Org THE LAMP US Postage 793 W EST S TAT E S TREET PAID C OLUMBUS, O HIO 43222 Columbus, OH Permit No. 913 Send your e-mail and postal address updates A DDRESS S ERVICE R EQUESTED to Bonnie Fitzpatrick (contact information on page 1). Your personal information will be used for SPRING 2014 Mount Carmel College of Nursing business only. mount carmel college of nursing magazine Visit Us on Facebook and You Tube. ANN SCHIELE: Ardent ADVOCATE for Nursing A Message from the Mount SPRING 2 014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS COLLEGE CALENDAR 2014 2 ANN SCHIELE: ARDENT ADVOCATE FOR NURSING Aug 14 2014 Convocation 10 THE ANN E. SCHIELE PRESIDENTIAL ENDOWMENT FUND Aug 18 2014 MCCN Fall Semester begins 12 MEET JAN BURKEY Aug 24 2014 14 IT’S NOT YOUR PARENTS’ DORM ROOM Inauguration of Second President/Dean 16 AWARDS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HAPPENINGS AND HONORS By Ann Schiele, PhD, RN Sept 11 2014 COLLABORATING TO BENEFIT Mount Carmel College of Nursing President/Dean 20 Annual Scholarship Dinner, MCCN and ALUMNI & STUDENTS As you know, 2014 is a year of transition for me. As I ponder leadership of the College into the capable hands of Alumni Association scholarships awarded 24 A VISUAL TRIBUTE the meaning of transition, I nd that Mr. Webster says it’s Dr. Christine Wynd, I think about what’s next for me. Sept 15 2014 the process of changing from one condition to another – or One of the threads that runs through my life is my desire 28 ALUMNI PROFILE an alteration. Annual Golf Outing to see nurses practicing at ever higher levels. Another is Friends, transition describes my entire life – especially in the my interest in working with people who need access to Oct 11 2014 30 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS context of alteration. I think of my career as a whole cloth healthcare. An opportunity to twine these together exists Annual Alumni Association Homecoming 32 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATES that I’ve altered many times: As a team, we have collaborated in the Nursing Center for Family Health, a partnership of see page 32 for details on – and been a catalyst for – many positive and rewarding MCCN and Lower Lights Christian Health Center, where 34 MOUNT CARMEL CLASS NOTES changes over the decades. MCCN graduate students, who train as advanced practice nurses, will soon be joined by those entering our new DNP CONTACTS: 39 DONOR LISTING As I look back on my varied experiences and the strong, program. I want to help this endeavor make a dierence in Robin Hutchinson Bell Bonnie Fitzpatrick powerful women and men I’ve met along the way – students, IN MEMORIAM this community by working with Lower Lights and Mount Managing Editor Mailing List Coordinator 45 Sisters of the Holy Cross, faculty and sta, community Carmel to broaden the ability to oer better access to 614-234-1372 614-234-5726 members, health system leaders – I liken them to colorful [email protected] [email protected] THE LAMP healthcare for the uninsured. strands woven into the tapestry that is my life at Mount Carmel. Jan Burkey MANAGING EDITOR: ROBIN HUTCHINSON BELL But, as for me – I am just a tiny stitch in the multihued, COLLEGE ADDRESS: Some, like my dear mentor Eleanor Wilson, MSN, RN, stand Fund Development Editor WRITER/EDITOR: JARON TERRY, APR, 127 South Davis Avenue sturdy fabric of compassion and excellence that are interwoven 614-234-3837 JARON TERRY COMMUNICATIONS, LTD. out as tendrils of gold – shining reminders of how far I’ve Columbus, Ohio 43222-1504 throughout MCCN. I’m excited to see the wonderful changes [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITER: ELAINE KEHOE come; others are rich with pigment, reminding me of all the that will take place in the future of the College and I’m DESIGNER: SHEILA COONEY, COONEY DESIGN fun – and sheer joy – I’ve experienced along the way. But all Phylis Crook Visit our website at excited to turn my personal focus to what’s next. PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS STEEL, MEDIA PRODUCTION, are integral to the weave that denes the pattern of my Alumni Editor www. mccn.edu 614-234-5681 MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH journey – I cherish them all. And, as I prepare to relinquish [email protected] SUMMER 2 014 1 A Message from the Mount SPRING 2 014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS COLLEGE CALENDAR 2014 2 ANN SCHIELE: ARDENT ADVOCATE FOR NURSING Aug 14 2014 Convocation 10 THE ANN E. SCHIELE PRESIDENTIAL ENDOWMENT FUND Aug 18 2014 MCCN Fall Semester begins 12 MEET JAN BURKEY Aug 24 2014 14 IT’S NOT YOUR PARENTS’ DORM ROOM Inauguration of Second President/Dean 16 AWARDS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HAPPENINGS AND HONORS By Ann Schiele, PhD, RN Sept 11 2014 COLLABORATING TO BENEFIT Mount Carmel College of Nursing President/Dean 20 Annual Scholarship Dinner, MCCN and ALUMNI & STUDENTS As you know, 2014 is a year of transition for me. As I ponder leadership of the College into the capable hands of Alumni Association scholarships awarded 24 A VISUAL TRIBUTE the meaning of transition, I nd that Mr. Webster says it’s Dr. Christine Wynd, I think about what’s next for me. Sept 15 2014 the process of changing from one condition to another – or One of the threads that runs through my life is my desire 28 ALUMNI PROFILE an alteration. Annual Golf Outing to see nurses practicing at ever higher levels. Another is Friends, transition describes my entire life – especially in the my interest in working with people who need access to Oct 11 2014 30 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS context of alteration. I think of my career as a whole cloth healthcare. An opportunity to twine these together exists Annual Alumni Association Homecoming 32 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATES that I’ve altered many times: As a team, we have collaborated in the Nursing Center for Family Health, a partnership of see page 32 for details on – and been a catalyst for – many positive and rewarding MCCN and Lower Lights Christian Health Center, where 34 MOUNT CARMEL CLASS NOTES changes over the decades. MCCN graduate students, who train as advanced practice nurses, will soon be joined by those entering our new DNP CONTACTS: 39 DONOR LISTING As I look back on my varied experiences and the strong, program. I want to help this endeavor make a dierence in Robin Hutchinson Bell Bonnie Fitzpatrick powerful women and men I’ve met along the way – students, IN MEMORIAM this community by working with Lower Lights and Mount Managing Editor Mailing List Coordinator 45 Sisters of the Holy Cross, faculty and sta, community Carmel to broaden the ability to oer better access to 614-234-1372 614-234-5726 members, health system leaders – I liken them to colorful [email protected] [email protected] THE LAMP healthcare for the uninsured. strands woven into the tapestry that is my life at Mount Carmel. Jan Burkey MANAGING EDITOR: ROBIN HUTCHINSON BELL But, as for me – I am just a tiny stitch in the multihued, COLLEGE ADDRESS: Some, like my dear mentor Eleanor Wilson, MSN, RN, stand Fund Development Editor WRITER/EDITOR: JARON TERRY, APR, 127 South Davis Avenue sturdy fabric of compassion and excellence that are interwoven 614-234-3837 JARON TERRY COMMUNICATIONS, LTD. out as tendrils of gold – shining reminders of how far I’ve Columbus, Ohio 43222-1504 throughout MCCN. I’m excited to see the wonderful changes [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITER: ELAINE KEHOE come; others are rich with pigment, reminding me of all the that will take place in the future of the College and I’m DESIGNER: SHEILA COONEY, COONEY DESIGN fun – and sheer joy – I’ve experienced along the way. But all Phylis Crook Visit our website at excited to turn my personal focus to what’s next. PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS STEEL, MEDIA PRODUCTION, are integral to the weave that denes the pattern of my Alumni Editor www. mccn.edu 614-234-5681 MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH journey – I cherish them all. And, as I prepare to relinquish [email protected] SUMMER 2 014 1 With more than half a century of nursing experience at funeral home and provided the area’s only ambulance service. Mount Carmel – the last 42 in a leadership role in Ann recalls, “My mother was a nurse and I witnessed what ACY nursing education – Ann Schiele surely holds the record she did as a nursing professional – providing unparalleled A LEG DR.DR. for length and loyalty of service, which is matched by an care and compassion to those in need. It wasn’t unusual for equally impressive record in innovation and achieve- her to serve lunch to homeless men passing through on the ment. Ann’s commitment to Mount Carmel spans the railroad, or to be called to help nearby migrant workers breadth of the institution – from School to College – not who needed healthcare or help delivering a baby. My father, only inspiring and implementing the transformative of course, provided transport to the nearest hospital.” growth of programs and facilities over the years – but also setting the pace for others in advancing excellence in nursing education. here is no hiding it — Dr. Ann Schiele’s T HE I NSPIRATIONAL Y EARS “My parents’ generosity and kind enthusiasm for nursing and for Mount Carmel’s As a young sta nurse in the early 1960s, Ann quietly works confirmed that nursing was excellence in nursing education is apparent walked the night-dimmed corridors of then Mount Carmel the right path for me, and to all. Like a heart that symbolizes love, Hospital, attending to the needs of patients and feeling I’ve never looked back.