Spring 2010, Vol

SPRING 2010, VOL. 8, NO. 2

A PUBLICATION OF THE COLLEGE OF NURSING AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Special Studies in Symptom Management Merges East and West PAGE 4 Second-Career Nursing Students Outsmart the Economy PAGE 6

Photo: The inaugural class of the College’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Save the Date

Monday, June 7, 2010 3:00 – 5:00 pm Exchanging Science and Culture through the Lens of the WHO Collaborating Center A symposium celebrating ﬁ ve years of WHO designation Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life

Saturday, October 23, 2010 NYU Alumni Day Join us on campus for a day of programs and special events featuring the best of NYU. College of Nursing Dean’s Luncheon Join Dean Terry Fulmer for lunch and a discussion of all that is happening at the College of Nursing. Enjoy dessert as you stay for the Vernice Ferguson Lecture. Vernice Ferguson Lecture on Contemporary Issues “Nursing, Public Health, and Global Health” 2 Greetings from the Dean 12 Celebrations

3 Men Entering Nursing A PUBLICATION OF Group’s Sense of Identity THE COLLEGE OF NURSING Counters Gender Disparity AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

SPRING 2010, VOL. 8, NO. 2

Dean Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN Editor Barbara Mellor Managing Editor / Writer Barbara Kancelbaum Design Susan Carabetta Cover Photo Leo Sorel

4 Joyce K. Anastasi, PhD, DrNP, FAAN, LAc, Merges East and West to Help Patients Manage Chronic 14 College and Faculty News Symptoms 19 Letter from Ann Marie 6 Second-Career Nursing Mauro, PhD, RN, CNL Students Stare Down the NYU College of Nursing Economy While Gaining Alumni Association President Satisfaction in Their New Careers 20 Alumni Achievements

22 January Intersession Cover Photo: Offers Unique Experiences First Class: DNP Program Begins Both Near and Far The inaugural class of the College’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program set out on their doctoral education journey in January 2010. The eight women and one man are accomplished clinical experts and leaders in the nurse-practitioner specialties of mental health, adult primary care, adult acute care, geriatrics, and pediatrics, and work in neurology, oncology, and student health. The launch of the program is the fulﬁ llment of a long-standing effort under the leadership of Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, BC, 9 Research Report FAAN, the Ursula Springer Leadership Professor NYU Nursing Faculty Adapt in Nursing and associate dean for graduate Research Methods to programs; and Jamesetta Newland, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, DPNAP, clinical associate professor and Community-Based Settings 23 Hartford Institute the founding director of the program. for Geriatric Nursing Pictured are (back row from left) Emily Schaab, NICHE Launches Kathy Gunkel, Beth Latimer, Gillian Palette; Leadership Program (middle row from left) Beverly Smith, Erin Hartnett, Janet Standard; (front row from left) Research Targets Kathleen Leonard, Robert Abel. Urinary-Tract Infections: Maintaining Function in the Hospital

24 Why I Give Penny Klatell

SPRING 2010 1 GREETINGS FROM THE DEAN

San Francisco, and her colleagues. She Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and argues in her book that nursing is at a the Institute of Medicine. It was a stel- pivotal moment — faced with a shortage lar opportunity to hear Donna Shalala, of practitioners; a chaotic health care the former U.S. secretary of health and system; profound changes in science, human services, who chairs this commit- technology, and patient activism; and tee, along with other visionaries in our economic pressures. Dr. Benner, who fi eld discuss pressing issues in nursing joined us at the College this past fall to and academia. speak with our faculty and students about Dr. Shalala, now president of the the report, proposes substantial changes University of Miami, is our keynote speaker in nursing education, many of which NYU on May 10, 2010, when we will graduate has long embraced. Those include a shift more than 350 nursing students. We will to a baccalaureate degree as the minimum also honor Vernice D. Ferguson, BS ’50, requirement for practice, opportunities as our 2010 Distinguished Alumna; for accelerated and graduate study, growth Wilhelmina Manzano, MA ’87, BS ’81, as of nursing educational programs, and a our Distinguished Clinician; and Barbara signifi cant increase in nursing faculty. and Donald Jonas, who will receive the Speaking of transformation, our new 2010 Humanitarian Award for their com- Dear Friends, Doctor of Nursing Practice program mitment to nursing at NYU through sup- opened in January and, as you can see port of scholarship and faculty practice. I write to you at a profound moment from our magazine cover, we have a Even in these challenging economic of change, as Congress has enacted the striking group of master’s-prepared NPs times, the Campaign for Nursing at NYU most far-reaching health care legislation poised to advance their careers as clinical is going strong and moving forward! in our history. With greater resources leaders. After a number of years in plan- Debra LaMorte, senior vice president for available to care for the population, the ning, I’m delighted to see this wonderful development and alumni relations for the nursing profession, more than ever new doctoral program come to fruition. University, spoke at our January Board of before, has the opportunity to be the With the addition of several new part- Advisors meeting about the challenges critical bridge to eff ective public health. nerships at the College, NYU is positioned of a campaign in uncertain times. She President Barack Obama has called to be the fl agship college of nursing for presented a very positive report that we nurses the “bedrock” of health care. New York State. We now have exciting are well on our way to making the new Last year, nurse practitioners conducted partnerships with three upstate institu- building for the College a reality. Through more than 600 million patient visits, tions: Skidmore College, Adirondack the generosity of our alumni and sup- and our registered nurses are meeting Medical Center, and Bassett Healthcare. port from the State of New York and New the daily demands of our increasingly This year, Skidmore College created a new York University, we can build a learning complex clinical settings, ranging from pre-nursing curriculum with our College environment that will meet the needs of home care to critical care. so that students can move seamlessly into our growing student population. Meeting the pressing health care needs our NYU programs. I invite other colleges of our nation requires nothing short of a to partner with us in these important pro- transformation of nursing education. grams that facilitate academic progress I am hopeful about the potential impact for our future nurses. of a new report published by The Carnegie In February, I took part in an exciting Foundation, Educating Nurses: A Call panel discussion in Houston through for Radical Transformation, by Patricia the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN Benner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN, profes- Education, part of the two-year Initiative The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor sor emerita at the University of California, on the Future of Nursing convened by the Dean, College of Nursing

2 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE Men Entering Nursing GROUP’S SENSE OF IDENTITY COUNTERS GENDER DISPARITY

“MEN ARE GENTLE, curious, courageous, “HAVING MORE MEN The students met with Professor committed, responsible, enthusiastic, spir- Emerson Ea, DNP, APRN, BC, CEN, who itual, and compassionate,” says Eric Lehrer IN THE PROFESSION WILL readily agreed to be their advisor. Clinical ’10, one of the founders of Men Entering MAKE A LARGE IMPACT Instructor Fidelindo Lim, MA, RN, also Nursing (M.E.N.), a student group at the serves as a faculty mentor. College of Nursing. The organization is ON MEN’S HEALTH.” “These men share a very strong sense of seeking to show that men have these char- identity and can feel the gender disparity acteristics and can impact the lives of their Eric ultimately received an apology from in nursing,” Dr. Ea says, adding that the patients just as much as women in nursing the doctor and the hospital, but his expe- perception of men in nursing is rapidly have over the past century. rience cemented his view that male nurs- changing, but there’s still work to be done. “For now, though, the challenges of ing students must fi nd ways to conquer M.E.N. has held several events, such as a being a male nurse are persistent,” says the stereotypes that still exist. He and his panel discussion in November 2009 featur- Eric, noting that male nurses have been roommate, John Campbell ’10, teamed ing male nursing leaders. The group also portrayed negatively in the media. up with Joshua Deal ’10 to start M.E.N., participated in “Movember,” a national If the men who make up M.E.N. suc- which includes undergraduate, accelerated eff ort to raise money for the Prostate Cancer ceed, those negative depictions will fade baccalaureate, and graduate students and Foundation and for Lance Armstrong’s into nursing history. Eric is quick to faculty. All three founders are students in LIVESTRONG foundation. Movember point out that the students and faculty at the 15-month accelerated program. challenges men to grow mustaches during the College of Nursing have been highly “There are some interesting obstacles November to raise awareness of prostate supportive of male students. Yet it was an for men in careers that have been domi- cancer. M.E.N. sold artifi cial moustaches unexpected encounter with discrimina- nated by women,” Joshua says. “We need on campus, raising $187, and many group tion that piqued his desire to discuss with to combat the stereotype that men can’t be members grew mustaches in support. other male students their unique place in compassionate and caring, that they must The participants in M.E.N. are aiming nursing. During Eric’s maternity rota- have jobs like bankers or construction to apply for campus club status, build ties tion in the summer of 2009, a medical workers. Having more men in the profes- with the American Assembly for Men resident in the midst of delivering a sion will also make a large impact on men’s in Nursing, and off er extracurricular baby made a crude and insulting com- health, because it’s easier for men to talk to activities such as intramural sports teams, ment to him, indicating that she did not other men about issues like sexual health.” barbeques, and hiking expeditions. feel comfortable with him observing the If the College of Nursing enrollment is “We need to unite with confi dence and procedure. Eric — a former paramedic any indication, men are catching on: While raise awareness that it’s best to have men who had delivered a baby himself in an men make up approximately 6 percent of and women working together to improve ambulance — was taken aback. the 2.6 million nurses in the United States, patient care and strengthen the structure Hearing about this incident, Gail they constitute 11 percent of the College’s of each health care team,” Eric says. Wolfmeyer, NYU College of Nursing student baccalaureate degree program, 7 percent aff airs coordinator, and other administra- of the master’s program, and 13 percent Above Student members of Men Entering Nursing wore artifi cial mustaches to support tive faculty encouraged him to pursue his of the doctoral program. NYU has made a “Movember,” a national effort to raise awareness wish to build a group for men in nursing. sustained eff ort to recruit male students. of prostate cancer.

SPRING 2010 3 Joyce K. Anastasi Merges East and West to Help Patients Manage Chronic Symptoms

AS A DOCTORAL STUDENT in the 1980s, College build its research infrastructure health care professionals and destigmatize Joyce K. Anastasi worked as a registered was very appealing, she says, and she the illness. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. nurse to support her graduate studies. She has brought on board Bernadette Capili, Everett Koop was quoted saying, “I’ve never was assigned to Tim, a banker in his late DNSc, an assistant professor who is a seen a better educational tool in my life.” 20s. She knew little about him, but an isola- coinvestigator in her current research, In thinking about the direction of her tion cart outside his room with a meal tray and an additional 12 research staff . research, Dr. Anastasi saw that many of announced that he had little human con- her patients — not only those with AIDS tact. Dr. Anastasi could not imagine what Fighting the Stigma and the but other chronic illnesses — were seeking his illness was, but it soon became clear. Symptoms of AIDS noninvasive ways to manage chronic symp- At the time, AIDS was not yet considered During the 1980s, as the AIDS crisis toms and medication side eff ects. Her fi rst an epidemic, but it was very much present grew, Dr. Anastasi worked as a clini- National Institutes of Health (NIH) – funded in New York City’s health care system. cal nurse specialist at Bellevue Hospital work was a study that used a combined According to Dr. Anastasi, Tim’s face ex- Center, which had one of the city’s fi rst dietary and behavioral intervention to man- pressed his fear: fear that he wouldn’t be AIDS units. Paramount among the nurses’ age chronic diarrhea in patients with HIV. visited, that he wouldn’t live, that he might duties was to work with a multidisci- The results of that study have led to care have to disclose to his family that he was gay. plinary team to ensure that patients who protocols that are used in hospitals today. “I became his confi dante,” she says, went home after suff ering serious oppor- Caring for hundreds of people with AIDS, “and I learned right away that, in addition tunistic infections like pneumocystis Dr. Anastasi increasingly heard reports to what we think of as nursing care, he carinii pneumonia (PCP) continued to that acupuncture had worked for them. needed emotional care, family support, receive the care they needed — whether “At fi rst I told them: As long as it’s work- advocacy, help coping with stigma.” it was housing, home care, or even help ing, you’re going to someone licensed, and Dr. Anastasi dedicated her dissertation talking to their landlords as they began it doesn’t interfere with your medication, to Tim, who died before his illness was receiving large shipments of medication. who am I to say no?” named “HIV.” His situation informed her “There was so much stigma — we some- But a turning point in her interest in belief that nurses need to lead the way in times lose sight of this now,” she says. alternative therapies came in 1994, when caring for people with AIDS and inspired From Bellevue, Dr. Anastasi was a friend took her to a Chinese-medicine her professional trajectory. recruited to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Medical practitioner. She was so intrigued by the Dr. Anastasi, an NYU alumna, joined the Center to help design a designated treatment methods used by the practi- College of Nursing faculty in 2009 as the AIDS center — one of the fi rst under the tioner and about the possibilities that Independence Foundation Professor of auspices of the AIDS Institute of the New Nursing. She came to NYU from Columbia York City Department of Health. In 1992, University, where she was a faculty mem- with her fi rst doctoral degree completed, ber for 17 years, teaching thousands of she was recruited by Columbia to develop nurses, serving on numerous committees a graduate nursing specialty program in and boards, and directing the Center for HIV — one of the fi rst in the country. AIDS Research. Although HIV care was improving rap- At NYU, Dr. Anastasi has established idly, many hospitals around the country did the new Division of Special Studies not have the fi nancial or human resources in Symptom Management (DS3M), a to handle their growing cases. With a grant comprehensive site for multidisciplinary from the Pfi zer Foundation, Dr. Anastasi Dr. Joyce Anastasi teaches students about herbs such as di long (earthworm lumbricus), scientifi c inquiry, clinical research, and developed an award-winning interac- dang shen (radix codonopsis), and lian qiao education. The opportunity to help the tive video that was used widely to educate (fructus forsythia).

4 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE traditional Chinese medicine could off er become a leading expert on integrating tra- to her patients, Dr. Anastasi immediately ditional Chinese medicine into AIDS care. enrolled in a three-year study of acupunc- She is currently recruiting subjects for two ture at the New York College of Health R01 studies funded by the NIH. One study, Professions, while carrying a full teaching funded through a $2.6 million grant, looks load and conducting research. at chronic nausea and HIV. The other, Immersed in her studies, Dr. Anastasi funded through a $2.7 million grant, is a continually sought out research on acu- randomized controlled trial for irritable puncture, but few gold-standard studies bowel syndrome, a condition that aff ects had been conducted, at least in the United almost 20 percent of North Americans. States. At one point, she hired a translator Dr. Anastasi’s research has also explored to translate Chinese studies into English. the challenges of studying Chinese medi- Yet her goal of testing the effi cacy, safety, cine in a Western research context — a and usage practices of traditional Chinese complicated process because in Chinese medicine (TCM) within the structure of medicine, each patient receives an indi- a randomized controlled clinical trial was vidualized type of treatment depending on signifi cantly hampered by a lack of funding an overall assessment of the body. for this kind of research. “Designing acupuncture research studies can be challenging because specifi c treat- Breaking Ground ment protocols, in terms of acupuncture In 1999, Dr. Anastasi received one of the point selection or number of treatment There are some 365 acupuncture points on the human body. This model shows acupuncture largest single-site research grants for sessions, may not be the best approach for meridians and point locations. acupuncture that had been granted by the all patients. In my current studies, my team NIH. She was awarded a $2.1 million R01 and I have tried to use a real-world approach patient decision-making around these grant to test acupuncture and moxibus- while maintaining the rigors of a random- substances. The curriculum was awarded tion for chronic diarrhea in persons with ized clinical trial,” Dr. Anastasi says. a $400,000 educational grant from the HIV in a randomized controlled trial. Integrating Eastern and Western health U.S. Department of Health Resources and (Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese care in teaching is also challenging, yet Services Administration, and the program treatment in which pulverized mugwort increasingly important as the line sepa- is now being implemented at NYU. leaf, or artemesia vulgaris, is compressed rating these very diff erent approaches is “It’s important for nurses today to into a cigar-shaped cylinder, lit, and held growing thinner. On a recent trip to Hong understand the impact of the substances over acupuncture points.) The knowl- Kong, Dr. Anastasi noticed that nurses their patients are already taking — to help edge and experience gained from this trial there typically integrate the two worlds at patients understand why they’re taking served as a model for her future research. the bedside. And even in the United States, them, the risks, the side eff ects, and To date, Dr. Anastasi’s most signifi cant the nursing profession is moving toward a potential benefi ts. For example, nurses fi ndings have been that acupuncture is a greater openness to studying Eastern ideas. need to be aware of supplements that can promising option for managing gastro- State nursing exams now include ques- aff ect bleeding time in terms of coagula- intestinal disorders such as nausea and tions about supplements, and thousands tion, especially for patients undergoing nonpathogenic diarrhea — that is, diarrhea of people are taking supplements such as surgical procedures,” Dr. Anastasi says. caused by side eff ects of medication rather ginko bilboa, glucosamine chondroitin, “We teach students to search for the than from a viral or bacterial source. In echinacea, or milk thistle. evidence, and the availability or lack of the past decade, the use of acupuncture for Recognizing the critical need to develop availability of evidence is great fodder for chemotherapy- and pregnancy-related an educational program focusing on herbs classroom discussion.” nausea has steadily increased. Dr. Anastasi and supplements for health care profes- Dr. Anastasi maintains a private practice is one of only a few scientists testing the sionals and students, Dr. Anastasi and her in women’s health, and many patients see effi cacy of moxibustion — which is often colleagues Dr. Capili and Faye Schenkman, her for infertility treatment. She is decid- combined with acupuncture. MA, conceived of and developed the Herbs, edly unique on the NYU faculty, having In the past decade, Dr. Anastasi has Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements© two doctoral degrees (a PhD and DrNP) received numerous grants to study the program in 2007. Its purpose is to equip and licensure in traditional Chinese impact of integrative therapies on diges- current and future providers with the medicine. Smiling, she says, “That’s the tive disorders for people with HIV and has skills necessary to discuss and guide yin and yang of my career.”

SPRING 2010 5 Second-Career Nursing Students Stare Down the Economy While Gaining Satisfaction in Their New Careers

FOR KATRINA MILLARD, the “aha” moment “I lost a sense of security, like so many Practitioner ranked fourth on Money’s list of came while she was driving home from the others,” she says. the Top 50 Best Jobs in America, published pharmacy, talking with her husband about Even during their most successful years in November 2009. the state of health care. “I think I’ll become as designers, Katrina and her husband Not surprisingly, applications to the a nurse,” Katrina recalls saying. agonized over the uncertainties of the College of Nursing’s 15-month accelerated In reality, the decision had been long economy and high cost of health insurance degree program have nearly tripled in four in coming. Katrina, formerly a graphic for a family of four. She missed the human years, according to Amy Knowles, assis- designer, had been seeking a greater sense contact and connection to science that she tant dean for student aff airs and admis- of career and fi nancial stability since 9/11. had found in her fi rst job out of college, as sions. Applications to all the College’s The collapse of the Twin Towers aff ected a park ranger in California and Utah. When undergraduate programs (both freshmen her both directly — she and her family a teenage niece was hospitalized with an and transfer applicants) doubled in the could not return to their soot- and glass- osteosarcoma — a malignant bone tumor — past four years, from 730 in fall 2005 strewn apartment for six weeks — and indi- Katrina found herself closely following her to 1,423 in fall 2009. Enrollment has rectly, as her design business hit a slump. niece’s treatment and was surprised by how also increased, from 511 undergraduate interested she was to learn all about the students in fall 2005 to 755 undergradu- condition. In fact, she fi nally felt that she ate students in fall 2009, in keeping with had found a career that motivated her. the College’s target for planned growth. Now, as a 15-month accelerated bach- Ms. Knowles notes that three open houses elor’s degree student and Hillman Scholar held in the fall of 2009 were packed, and at the College of Nursing, Katrina is the her offi ce is fi elding a strong increase in envy of her friends. “The fi rst thing inquiries from prospective students. people say is, ‘You’ll always have a job,’” “The groundswell of interest in our nurs- she says. Accelerated bachelor’s students ing program clearly refl ects not only the carry a heavy, full-time workload, but view of nursing as a career that can ride out Katrina — who does her homework fl uctuations in the economy but the excel- with her children — says it’s great to lence of the NYU College of Nursing,” says be back in school. Ms. Knowles. She notes that recent positive The College of Nursing’s 15-month accel- depictions of nursing on television have erated degree program was tailor-made for also added to nursing’s appeal. students like Katrina and many of her class- The growth of the 15-month degree pro- mates, who turned to nursing after careers gram has been aided by support from the that may have been successful but were not Alex Hillman Family Foundation and the as secure or satisfying. Nursing has been Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, both a notable standout as a career in demand of which established scholarships to help at a time when so many people have ease the nursing shortage. Supporting 10 become unemployed. The New York Times and 15 students a year, respectively, these recently noted that health care employment programs have gone a long way to enable Katrina Millard, circa 1998, as a graphic designer. increased during the recession, and Nurse the College to expand to meet the need.

6 NEW YYORKO RK UNIVERUNIVERSITYS ITY COCOLLEGELLEG E OOFF NURNURSINGS ING MAMAGAZINEG AZINE “NURSING HAS BEEN A NOTABLE STANDOUT AS A SAFE JOB IN A YEAR WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BECOME UNEMPLOYED.”

John Campbell was a white-water rafting guide and an architect before enrolling in the College of Nursing.

A Robert Wood Johnson Scholarship — To progress as a river guide, John had and to respond to their anxiety. That day, targeted toward underrepresented taken fi rst aid, CPR, swift-water rescue, John knew he had found his calling. groups in the nursing profession — is and wilderness emergency medical techni- While researching the nursing profes- helping John Campbell to embark on a cian courses. It isn’t hard for him to name sion, John worked on an ambulance as career in nursing just fi ve years out of the moment when he realized that he could an EMT, an experience that cemented his architecture school. After trying his hand be well suited for a career in health care. decision. Moreover, he strongly identi- at architecture, John quickly realized A raft had fl ipped over in a waterfall, and fi ed with nursing’s emphasis on treating that he was not cut out for a desk job and people, paddles, and other equipment each patient as a whole person, because returned to a prior career, as a white-water were scattered all over the river. While no it directly paralleled his training in rafting guide on the White Salmon River signifi cant injuries occurred, it was no architecture, which stressed an under- in Washington’s Columbia River Gorge. small eff ort to make sure everyone was safe standing of the overall context in every

SPRINGS PRING 2020101 0 7 “UNLIKE SITTING AT part, Neville enjoyed his work in fi nance eating, or accepting care. Those intensely as a stock-transfer analyst and bonds personal interactions have left no doubt A COMPUTER . . . OR service representative; yet he nurtured the that Neville made the right choice. dream of going to law school. As Neville “Unlike sitting at a computer and getting HAVING AN ANGRY came closer to making a change, he was a bond settled or having an angry client on increasingly concerned that a legal career the phone, I feel like I’m having a direct CLIENT ON THE PHONE, would mean more of the things he liked impact on people’s lives,” he says. least about fi nance: the rigid schedule, Glad to have left fi nance before the I FEEL LIKE I’M HAVING the cubicle culture, and less time with his meltdown, Neville has received his nurs- six-year-old son, Mekhi. ing licensure and is now job hunting A DIRECT IMPACT ON Neville’s “aha” moment came during and thinking about continuing on to his a long weekend in South Florida for the master’s degree. Most important, he says, PEOPLE’S LIVES.” annual West Indian Carnival with his he has realized that his aversion to seeing nephew and a friend who is a registered blood extended only to his own! nurse. The friend teased that, while For John Campbell, becoming a nurse Neville was burning up vacation days, has yielded numerous benefi ts, beginning he simply had days off as a result of a with the close friends he has made in the more fl exible schedule. 15-month program. “I feel like I’m part of a “It hit me that I hate the 9 to 5,” said new movement, as a guy, which is refresh- Neville, “and I love interacting with people. ing,” he says. “I feel a responsibility to do So, the question was, how could I have an my best and set a good example, making impact on people and make a diff erence.” sure I’m representing men in nursing.” Neville had to overcome a fi nal hurdle to Along with several fellow students, John is nursing: an aversion to seeing blood. But helping to start a new student organization his wife, also an RN, and his friend thought dedicated to men entering nursing (see psychiatric nursing might be the way to go. page 3 for a full report). Neville quickly realized that health care The Oklahoma native, who had never is about much more than blood. After his set foot in New York City before enrolling second semester at the College of Nursing, at NYU, says that the skills he learned on his father, who lived in Antigua, became ill. the river — like being self-suffi cient — are His right leg was amputated, and he died of useful in the urban environment, which Neville Lewis, pictured with his son, Mekhi, a stroke a month later. By communicating can be equally overwhelming. Still, he worked in fi nance before becoming a nurse. with the attending physician and nursing looks forward to taking full advantage of staff , Lewis saw fi rsthand the advantage to the Hudson Valley and Adirondack wilder- building project. John did not anticipate a patient of having a health care advocate ness in his time away from school. the recession when applying to nursing who can ask the right questions. Still, he For Katrina Millard, understanding school; nonetheless, he feels very fortu- has harbored the fear that his father might the philosophy and theory of nursing has nate to be studying to be a nurse today. not have received the most aggressive care been rewarding. “It has been so pleasant In the past year, he has seen friends laid because of his advanced age. to exercise my intellectual capacity, off , and architecture jobs have become “Since then, I’ve become even more especially after having kids. I’m a much very hard to come by. passionate about helping people who are better student than I was while working “Architecture is a profession that is in critical need,” he says. “Thankfully, toward my fi rst degree,” she says. Katrina, very susceptible to the ups and downs here in the United States, there is much who plans to complete her master’s of the construction industry,” John says. more of an eff ort made to give the elderly degree and nurse practitioner certifi ca- “The fact that health care will always be the care they need.” tion, has found that being able to help in demand is very attractive to me.” While progressing through his nursing a patient in a vulnerable situation is Like John, Neville Lewis ’09 has seen rotations, Neville has had a number of a very powerful thing. his former profession deeply scarred transformative experiences, establishing by the recession and friends trapped by bonds with patients who were hav- very limited job choices. For the most ing extreme diffi culty communicating,

8 NEW YYORKO RK UNIVERUNIVERSITYS ITY COCOLLEGELLEG E OOFF NURNURSINGS ING MAMAGAZINEG AZINE RESEARCH REPORT

FOUND IN TRANSLATION: NYU Nursing Faculty Adapt Research Methods to Community-Based Settings

VICTORIA VAUGHAN DICKSON HELPING HEART-FAILURE PATIENTS IN THE WORKFORCE

Throughout her to patient education are needed for diff er- balance, and multiple priorities make it career as a nurse, ent people. Among her fi ndings were that diffi cult for many of our patients to take Victoria Vaughan those with heart failure are inconsistent in care of themselves, little is known about Dickson, PhD, CRNP, self-care for a variety of reasons, including how workplace factors impede or facilitate has pondered poor cognition and lack of self-effi cacy. these behaviors,” she says. how to better help Surprisingly, she also found that self-care Dr. Dickson and her research team, her patients, espe- was even poorer among employed indi- including experts in heart failure at the cially those with viduals. Those fi ndings led to her current University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Stuart cardiovascular disease, to make healthy research, which focuses on optimizing the Katz, director of the NYU Langone Medical lifestyle choices. self-care behaviors of aging workers with Center Heart Failure Clinic, will pilot a “Most patients with heart disease, even chronic heart disease. heart-failure self-care intervention in the when faced with a life-threatening diag- Dr. Dickson, who joined the NYU nursing coming year. The innovative intervention nosis, struggle to keep up with the behav- faculty in 2008, brings a unique perspec- focuses on building skills and develop- iors — like taking medication, following tive to her program of research and her new ing self-effi cacy by practicing essential a diet, or exercising — that will help them role at the College. Prior to joining NYU, behaviors such as meal planning and maintain health,” Dr. Dickson says. “We she was the director of employee health ordering healthier food at restaurants. ask our patients to change lifelong behav- at a large Fortune 500 company, where she The intervention also engages family iors at a very stressful and uncertain time directed wellness programs and managed members and friends who can serve as in their lives.” several on-site nurse practitioner clinics resources to the patient. Dr. Dickson is As a doctoral student at the University that provided primary care to workers. using the results of her current study on of Pennsylvania, Dr. Dickson was able to the sociocultural infl uences of self-care pursue the question she had considered “We ask our patients to change among African-Americans with heart for many years: What are the factors that lifelong behaviors at a very failure — funded by a New York University infl uence heart patients’ ability to make Challenge Grant of $11,214 — to refi ne the behavioral changes they need to opti- stressful and uncertain time her forthcoming pilot to support the needs mize their health and quality of life? Dr. in their lives.” of the culturally diverse population of Dickson started by examining biobehav- New York City. ioral infl uences on self-care among heart- “America’s workforce is aging, and to At the College of Nursing, Dr. Dickson failure patients. To do so, she developed a remain healthy, workers with coronary teaches Philosophical and Theoretical typology of self-care, which has been cited heart disease must regularly practice self- Perspectives in Nursing to PhD students as a new way of looking at this issue. care, including adherence to medication, and Population-Focused Care to master’s Her fi ndings — published in several diet, and symptom management — even at degree students. landmark papers — have helped research- work. Although we suspect from clinical ers understand that diff erent approaches practice that job stress, lack of work/life [continued on next page]

SPRING 2010 9 RESEARCH REPORT

ALLISON SQUIRES UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN NURSING

instruments will not produce accurate results — and you would be surprised at the lack of rigor in translation processes involving survey instruments.” Now, through funding received from Sigma Theta Tau International, Dr. Squires is translating survey instruments for Latin American countries and working with evaluators in six countries to assess the instruments’ relevance in the region. She is hopeful that the instruments will help the blossoming of nursing research in Latin America and lead to policy changes that benefi t nursing workforce development. Dr. Allison Squires (right) with colleagues in On the other side of the world, Dr. Mexico. On the far left is Irma Ramirez, MSN, Few nurses conduct comparative health- RN, assistant director of nursing, and Leticia Squires is also providing assistance with services research, and even fewer do so Rodriguez, MSN, RN, director of nursing, for education and training in a rural mental on a global scale. Allison Squires, PhD, RN, the Hospital Metropolitano in Monterrey, in the health project in Pakistan. With funding fi rst became intrigued with variations in northeastern state of Nuevo León. from the Yale World Fellows program, the nursing practice while on an undergradu- outcomes and the nurses’ work environ- project is providing training in mental ate internship in Mexico. Observing the ments, but these variations receive little health counseling and assessment to up to work of local nurses, she was struck by how attention in research. 100 public-health nurses who will make their roles diff ered from those of nurses in Dr. Squires is also involved in the home visits in three rural areas on the the United States. That experience sent her RN4Cast Study, funded by the European Afghan border. Although she has yet to on the path of comparative international Commission, which aims to provide a travel to Pakistan, Dr. Squires communi- nursing — a trailblazing area of research for snapshot of working conditions for nurses cates regularly with partners at Aga Khan which there were few models. She began in 11 countries to give direction to nursing University and with Rosina Mistry, a com- to accept as many international opportu- human-resources development. The study, munity health physician, using Skype. nities as she could while working domes- being carried out in 30 hospitals in each Finally, a Mexican company hired Dr. tically as a nurse. Those experiences have country, uses a conglomeration of health- Squires to study the migration experiences paid off , and today Dr. Squires is involved service instruments to gather information of Mexican nurses whom they educate for with three exciting research projects that from nurses on subjects like nurse-patient work in the United States. The company, draw on her cross-cultural profi ciency and ratios and job satisfaction. Because the which largely recruits nurses who have fl uency in Spanish. language of these surveys does not always retired in their 40s, has given Dr. Squires Dr. Squires’ research addresses the fac- translate smoothly, Dr. Squires has permission to conduct a longitudinal study tors that infl uence the role of nursing in a developed a standard translation process of the nurses and their migration experi- given country, such as licensure, the pres- to allow researchers accurately to compare ences, something that has never before ence of a nursing organization, education, questions and responses among nations. been captured. She hopes the results and the settings where the nurses work. “Some items in established instruments will inform U.S. immigration policy with She notes that in Mexico, for example, in health-systems or workforce research regard to the hiring and recruitment of nurses do not do physical assessment, are use slang like, ‘I’m at the end of my rope,’” foreign educated nurses. not involved in surveillance, and tend to be Dr. Squires says. “It’s a big challenge to At NYU, Dr. Squires co-teaches Advanced very deferential to doctors. Consequently, accurately translate things like this for Pathophysiology, a core master’s-level these role variations can aff ect patient other countries to use. Poorly translated course, with Dr. Marilyn Hammer.

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KELLEY NEWLIN FIGHTING DIABETES THROUGH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

Diabetes has a disproportionate and with churches in three communities, growing eﬀ ect on minority groups. In two the Ministry of Health, and community studies, Kelley Newlin, DNSc, ARNP-C, CDE, members to address the main risk factors is bringing participatory-action research for the disease. principles to deliver diabetes-prevention Diabetes is on the rise in this part of and -management programs to populations Nicaragua for several reasons. Urbanization in the Harlem neighborhood of New York has brought changes in dietary patterns City and in Nicaragua. Dr. Newlin is a strong and a more sedentary lifestyle, particularly proponent of this type of research, which with the arrival of television and advertis- unites the skills of researchers and coming that promotes less-nutritious foods. munity members to solve local problems. Lack of knowledge about proper diet and

exercise has also contributed to the surge Dr. Kelley Newlin assesses a patient’s diabetes- “To successfully translate in diabetes, to which these ethnic minority related foot ulcer. She has taken part in consultations with local health professionals in Nicaragua. clinical research into real-world groups are particularly prone. Moreover, blood-glucose test kits are not always settings, you have to work available in the pharmacies because of during the trajectory of their illness. People with community stakeholders.” an underfunded health system, and even very much need and want this informa- when they are, the cost can be prohibitive. tion, Dr. Newlin says, but often when they After completing her doctoral degree, Likewise, the cost of healthy fruits and see a health care provider, their visit is less Dr. Newlin conducted research among vegetables is prohibitive in a diet that exists than 15 minutes long and they don’t get the African-Americans, Haitians, and mainly of cabbage. One component of Dr. information they need. Empowering local Nicaraguans. Her work with Nicaraguans Newlin’s research is a community agricul- health providers to educate the community in Florida led to an invitation to bring her ture program that teaches farming on land in non-health-care settings is one way to research to Nicaragua in 2008. that is available for community use. expand the reach of this information. Dr. Newlin, who joined the College of In March, Dr. Newlin’s team traveled The Harlem diabetes program will begin Nursing faculty in 2009, received funding to Nicaragua to educate parish nurses to in one large African-American church from the College to conduct research with deliver diabetes-prevention and treat- with training for nurse members — one English-speaking ethnic minority groups ment education in churches and outlying of whom is Tatiana Burgess, a master’s (Creoles and Miskito Indians) on the villages. Her study, with input from local student at the College of Nursing and a Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, where diabetes nurses, will look at the eﬃ cacy and feasi- recipient of the diabetes-focused Susan has become the third leading cause of bility of providing this type of education. D. Hibbard Scholarship. death. She and her team are collaborating Dr. Newlin is also developing a pro- “To make an impact on diabetes among gram with churches in Harlem where she minority groups, people must be empowered is combining the landmark Diabetes- with the knowledge and skills to address Prevention Program with diabetes self- this epidemic,” Dr. Newlin says. “That’s management education for use in a faith- what participatory-action research is about: based setting. She received the prestigious researchers working in collaboration with new Clinical and Translational Science community members, each bringing unique Institute KL2 scholar award in the amount skills to solve community problems.” of $268,250 from the National Institutes Dr. Newlin, who in March received the of Health, funded through NYU School of esteemed 2010 Eastern Nursing Research Medicine, to support this study. Society Rising Star Researcher Award, According to the Centers for Disease co-teaches Knowledge Appraisal and

Dr. Kelley Newlin and her research team with Control, fewer than 50 percent of people Development in the doctoral program with children in Nicaragua. with diabetes receive diabetes education Dr. Deborah Chyun.

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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk A October 18, 2009 American Academy of Nursing Induction November 7, 2009

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Women for Nursing Scholarship Beneﬁ t 19th Annual Estelle Osborne Ceremony American Academy of Nursing Induction A Broadcast journalist Paula Zahn (left) was the D From left: Bob Piemonte, spokesperson for The College of Nursing warmly congratulates our emcee at this beneﬁ t breakfast for NYU nursing the Campaign for Nursing at NYU, laughs with colleagues and alumnae on their induction into the scholarships held at Armani/Ristorante. She Tom Olson, executive associate dean; Edwidge American Academy of Nursing. interviewed actor and activist Matthew Modine Thomas, director of clinical practice affairs; F Inductee Karen Ballard, MA ’68 (right), with (right) about his life and career. and Yvonne Wesley PhD ’00, director of the Professor Madeline Naegle, MA ’67, PhD ’80. Leadership Institute for Black Nurses. B From left: Alicia Volk, Tamara Ross, Dean Terry G Former faculty member Susan Gennaro (left) Fulmer, and Eva Mallis Fisher were among the guests. E Guest speaker and honoree Barbara Guthrie, with inductee Barbara Krainovich-Miller, associate PhD ’87 (center), associate dean for academic dean, Academic and Clinical Affairs. Valedictory Breakfast affairs and associate professor at Yale School of Nursing, with former Yale colleagues H From left: Inductee Kathleen Wheeler, PhD ’86, C More than 115 baccalaureate graduates received Deborah Chyun (left) and Gail Melkus. MA ’78, with Judith Haber, PhD ’84, MA ’67, associate their nursing pins at the December breakfast, held at dean for graduate programs. the Metropolitan Pavilion. New graduate Jessica Lieder beams while she is pinned by her mother, Suzanne I Dean Terry Fulmer (left) with inductee Tara Cortes, Lieder, as her sister, Heather Lieder, looks on. PhD ’76, MA ’71, Mathy D. Mezey Visiting Professor of Geriatric Nursing. 12 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OFcelebr NURNURSINGS ING MAMAGAZINEG AZINE Valedictory Breakfast 19th Annual Estelle Osborne Ceremony December 22, 2009 February 18, 2010

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Nursing Student Leadership Awards Celebration of Nursing Excellence Public Forum and Awards Ceremony October 10, 2009 November 9, 2009

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Celebration of Nursing Excellence Rosemary Ludden Award for Innovative Practice; Public Forum and Awards Ceremony Julio Urbina, director, healthcare program, Fan Fox J Students, alumni, administrators, and staff braved & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., recipient of the the cold and rain at the annual American Cancer L Rudin Family Student Award recipients from Maes-MacInnes Award; Dr. Patricia Benner, professor Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk left: Sarah Holland (baccalaureate) and Carole emerita, UCSF College of Nursing and senior held in Central Park. Team NYU College of Nursing, Wind Mitchell (master’s); Dean Terry Fulmer; scholar, National Nursing Education Study, Carnegie led by Captain Gail Wolfmeyer, raised $10,347! Kimberly Glassman, PhD ’07, MA ’87, senior Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, guest vice president and CNO, NYU Langone Medical speaker and recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Nursing Student Leadership Awards Center, recipient of the Grace E. Davidson Award; in Nursing Award; Eloise Cathcart, clinical associate Rose Moran-Kelly, clinical nurse specialist, The K Francis Grampa ’10 and Julie Yeh ’11 were awarded professor and coordinator of the master’s program Visiting Nurse Service of New York, recipient 2009 Nursing Student Leadership Awards from in nursing administration at the College of Nursing; of the Agnes and Rosemary Ludden Award for the New York State Nurses Association on October Karen Roush, recipient of the Rudin Family Doctoral Innovative Practice; Shaké Keteﬁ an, professor 10, 2009, at the association’s annual convention in Student Award. (Missing from photo: New York State and director, Ofﬁ ce of International Affairs, Saratoga Springs. Professor Barbara Krainovich- Senator Thomas K. Duane, recipient of the Health University of Michigan School of Nursing, recipient Miller received the NYSNA Membership Award at the Policy and Legislation Award.) of the Rose and George Doval Education Award; same event. From left: Lydia Lopez, NYSNA director- Joan Chaya, director, college relations and staff M Dr. Patricia Benner addresses the audience. at-large; Francis Grampa, Barbara Krainovich-Miller, retention, VNSNY, recipient of the Agnes and Julie Yeh, and J. Howard Doughty, NYSNA treasurer. ations SPRING 2010 13 COLLEGE & FACULTY NEWS

News Briefs

patients together with the attending has been quite positive, and we expect this Attending Nurse Model hospitalist, residents, medical students, to be a popular career option.” Skidmore Bridges Academia pharmacists, pharmacy students, and staff will off er the prerequisite nursing courses nurses. They are also available for consul- so that students will be positioned to enter and Practice tation by telephone, e-mail, or in person. the NYU curriculum seamlessly. The On the 17th fl oor of Tisch Hospital, at Ms. Cathcart credits Dean Fulmer with program is also aligned with NYU’s goal to NYU Langone Medical Center, an inno- coming up with the Attending Nurse Model, increase enrollment in its accelerated bache- vative project is under way to increase which she does not believe has been tried lor’s degree programs, for students who have contact and knowledge transfer between elsewhere. The idea was fi rst published as already earned one undergraduate degree. academic or administrative nurses and an editorial by Dean Fulmer in 2000 in the bedside nurses. Called the Attending journal Applied Nursing Research. Nurse Model, the project was developed “The faculty and nurse administrators MEMORIAM at the College of Nursing to close the gap love it because it gives them an oppor- that can develop when expert nurses who tunity to get back to clinical practice and Virginia Pless become university faculty members do to remember all of the complexities and Virginia (Ginny) not maintain clinical practices. The proj- challenges that are involved in taking care Pless, a great friend ect is supported through a generous grant of patients,” she says, “The experience and benefactor of the of $25,000 from the Hugoton Foundation. also makes us better teachers.” College of Nursing, While some academic nurses maintain died December 4, joint appointments as clinicians, work in 2009, at the age of a faculty practice, or moonlight in a clini- Nursing and Skidmore 94. Ms. Pless was one cal setting, the profession of nursing has of two remarkable sisters who together long struggled with creative ways to keep Reunite at the College founded the Joseph and Violet Pless senior experts at the bedside and to infuse NYU and Skidmore College have entered Research Fund for Nursing, named for current research into practice. Unlike into an agreement to facilitate Skidmore their parents, and the Muriel and Virginia academic physicians, who see patients on students’ entrance into NYU’s nursing pro- Pless Center for Nursing Research at a regular basis, nursing faculty and nurse grams. The agreement was spearheaded NYU College of Nursing. Ms. Pless lived administrators may not. by Dean Terry Fulmer, a 1976 graduate of in West Islip, New York, with her sister, “The Attending Nurse Model holds the Skidmore nursing program, which Muriel, a 1943 graduate of the Steinhardt promise for impacting nurse satisfac- closed in 1984. It was enthusiastically sup- School of Culture, Education, and Human tion, improving knowledge transfer, and ported by Skidmore’s faculty and Board of Development. Together they shared a long increasing retention rates on acute-care Trustees, which recognized the desire of passion for nursing and public health. units,” says Dean Terry Fulmer. “It’s an many Skidmore students to pursue careers In 1995, the Pless sisters endowed the excellent way for senior nurses to stay in in nursing. Dr. Fulmer is a trustee and Joseph and Violet Pless Research Fund for practice and bring their expert knowledge longtime volunteer of Skidmore College, Nursing to support the Center for Nursing to the bedside.” in Saratoga Springs, New York. She says, Research at the College, which, from the Professor Eloise Cathcart, MSN, RN, “My passion to forge this link comes from start, has supported faculty research and coordinates the program for the College knowing the excellence of the Skidmore annual awards. In 1999, they endowed and was the fi rst faculty member to serve student body and the value of having the Muriel and Virginia Pless Center for as a nurse attending on the 17th fl oor. She Skidmore once again participate in prepar- Nursing Research to assist faculty and collaborates with Kim Glassman, PhD ’07, ing nurses for the future.” staff in pre-award development and post- MA ’87, RN, NEA-BC, chief nursing offi cer In a letter to Dean Fulmer, Skidmore award management. at NYU Langone Medical Center, who President Philip A. Glotzbach wrote, “This The Pless sisters made a gift to the has strongly championed the program. agreement comes at a moment when student Steinhardt School in 1995 to dedicate the Professors cover a unit for up to one month interest in the health professions is surging building at 82 Washington Square East as at a time, meeting fi ve mornings a week at Skidmore and, indeed, across the coun- the Joseph and Violet Pless Building and with the interdisciplinary team and visiting try. The initial response among students the fi rst fl oor lounge as the Pless Lounge.

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NYU Nursing Is Out in Force at Eastern Nursing Susan Kun Leddy Research Society Conference in March Memorial Scholarship The Eastern Nursing Research Society PhD Students Fund Established conference, held March 24–26, 2010, fea- Daniel Cline, MSN, RN, CRNP, “Integrative Review tured poster presentations and papers by of an Emerging Care Model: Telemedicine, Health In honor of Susan Information Technology, and the ICU” (poster) and an unprecedented 10 NYU nursing fac- “High-Quality Nursing: The Perspective of Hospital- Kun Leddy, who ulty members, 10 doctoral students, and Based Nurses” with Christine T. Kovner, PhD, RN, received her PhD 16 master’s students. In addition, Drs. FAAN, and Marie-Claire Rosenberg, PhD (paper) from NYU College of Wendy Budin and Maria Dolce have been Ranekka Dean, PhD, MPA, RN, “A Concept Nursing in 1968, her elected by member votes to the 2010 Analysis: Spirituality among African-Americans daughter Erin Leddy, and Its Impact on Health” (poster) Eastern Nursing Research Society lead- MSW, LSW, has very ership team. Dr. Budin has been elected Caroline Dorsen, MSN, FNP-BC, “Vulnerability in generously estab- to the Board of Directors as a member at Homeless Adolescents: A Concept Analysis” (poster) lished the Susan Kun Leddy Memorial large, and Dr. Dolce has been elected to the Margaret Eckert-Norton, MS, APRN, BC, “Patterns Scholarship Fund. Dr. Leddy was dedi- Organizational Development Committee. of Self-Care Decision Making in Women of African cated to helping nurses advance the Descent with Type 2 Diabetes Living in Urban Accepted to the conference were the America” (podium presentation) science of nursing through theory, following presentations. research, and teaching and was the author Aileen Ferrick, RN, ACNP-C, FHRS, “Catheter Ablation for Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation of multiple textbooks including Leddy and Faculty Improves General Health Perception” (paper) Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Wendy C. Budin, PhD, RN-BC, “Factors Nursing and Integrative Health Promotion: Associated with Exclusive Breastfeeding 2—4 Kimberly Hall, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, “Appraisal of Weeks Following Discharge from a Large Urban Cardiovascular Risk and Preventative Measures Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice. She Academic Medical Center Striving for Baby-Friendly in the Emergency Department: An Integrative made a lasting contribution to nursing Designation” (paper) Review” (poster) and to the Science of Unitary Human Victoria V. Dickson, PhD, CRNP, “Work, Adherence Adrian Juarez, MA, MSN, RN, “Stigma in the Beings founded in the 1960s by visionary and Health-Related Quality of Life among Workers Women of Mexican Ancestry” (poster) Martha E. Rogers. with Cardiovascular Disease” (paper) Margaret M. McCarthy, MS, RN, FNP-BC, “I wanted to create this scholarship to Maria Dolce, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, “Predictors of Physical Inactivity in Men and make sure that people will remember how “Experiences of Cancer Survivors with Healthcare Women with Type 2 Diabetes” (podium presen- brilliant and caring my mother was and Providers in the Context of the Internet as a Source tation) and “Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation in of Health Information” (paper) Women with Cardiovascular Disease” (poster) to ensure that her life and her legacy will not be forgotten,” Erin Leddy says. “She Tanyka Smith, MS, FNP-BC, “Concept Analysis of Donna Hallas, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, CPNP, truly cared about her students and loved “Social-Emotional Development of Teenagers Power: In Relation to Sexual Decision Making and Who Experienced the Loss of Their Mother: A HIV Risk in African-American Women” (poster) teaching. She also had a passion for nurs- Phenomenological Study” (paper) Miho Suzuki, MSN, RN, “Perceived Involvement ing research, as evidenced by her many Marilyn J. Hammer, PhD, CD, RN, “The Inﬂ uence in Treatment Decision-Making, Uncertainty, and papers and instruments.” of Glycemic Status in Patients with Cancer” (paper) Quality of Life in Patients with Head and Neck The Susan Kun Leddy Memorial Cancer” (paper) Mary T. Hickey, EdD, WHNP-BC, “Adjunct Faculty Scholarship is open to part-time and Development: Reported Needs and Innovative full-time students enrolled in the College Solutions” (paper) Master’s Students of Nursing PhD or DNP programs. The Gail D’Eramo Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN, “Changing Tashea Gallimore, Jessica Oppenheimer, Miriam awards, of up to $1,500, may be applied Physical Activity Behavior Using Problem-Solving Pudel, Ana Souto, Christine Verzosa, “HEAT to the cost of tuition, books, housing, Initiative: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Skills and Continuous Glucose Feedback in Women transportation, or other relevant doctoral with Type 2 Diabetes” (poster) Clinical Practice Guideline to Reduce Childhood Obesity” (poster) student expenses. Kelley Newlin, DNSc, ARNP-C, CDE; Gail D. Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN; Yolanda Mclean, RN, BSN; Rebecca Goldstein, Lori Kraljevic, Erin Lange, Emilio Mclean; Rita Dekker, MSN, ARNP-C; Grace Ning, Maria Paini, Katie Shaw, “Analysis Deborah Chyun, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, of PNP Use of the Hypercholesterolemia Practice “Participatory Action Research: Exploring Guideline in Children” (poster) Diabetes-Related Factors & Community Action Abby Boyer, Karyn Cherwinski, Jillian Davido, Strategies in Nicaragua” (poster) Dorothy Kleinert, Erin Leech, “Opt-Out Testing of Marie-Claire Rosenberg, PhD, RN, “Do Magnet the Adolescent Population: A Critical Analysis of Recognized Hospitals Provide Better Care?” (paper) Current CDC Recommendations” (poster)

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Faculty News Welcome, New Faculty! Tara Cortes, PhD ’76, Saribel Ceballos Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Dr. MA ’71, joins the Quinones, DNP, John W. Rowe Professor in Successful Aging College as the Mathy MSN, joins the and codirector of the Hartford Institute D. Mezey Visiting College as a for Geriatric Nursing, is a coinvestigator Professor of Geriatric clinical instruc- for a four-year $1,149,807 grant from Nursing. Dr. Cortes tor. She received the Agency for Healthcare Research and was most recently her bachelor and Quality, funded November 1, 2009, titled president and CEO master’s degrees “Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary of Lighthouse International. Dr. Cortes from the University of Miami and DNP Tract Infections in NICHE Hospitals.” is working with the Hartford Institute for from Columbia University. She was Geriatric Nursing and its NICHE program most recently a medical consultant for Maria C. Dolce, PhD, in their eff orts to achieve patient-centered the New York City Administration for RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, care for older adults. She is also teaching Children’s Services at NYU Langone clinical assistant Nurse-Client Therapeutic Interaction Medical Center and a pediatric nurse professor of nursing and assisting the dean in development practitioner at Carmel Pediatrics. and program coordi- activities for the College. nator of the Nursing Cheryl Nadeau, Education Master’s Anne Marie Mauro, PhD MSN, FNP, joins and Advanced ’98, MSN, joins the the College as a Certifi cate Programs, presented three College as a clinical clinical instruc- papers this past fall, including “Experi- associate professor of tor. She holds a ences of Cancer Patients, Survivors, and nursing. She holds master’s degree Caregivers with Healthcare Providers in bachelor and master’s from Wagner the Context of Online Health Information degrees from Seton College in Staten and Resources,” at the 40th Biennial Hall University and a Island. Ms. Nadeau has recently Convention of Sigma Theta Tau Interna- doctoral degree from NYU College of worked as a family nurse practitioner, tional in Indianapolis in November 2009. Nursing. She was most recently an assistant as director of nursing at Community professor at Seton Hall University College Health Center of Richmond in Staten Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean, was of Nursing and is president of the NYU Island, and as an adjunct professor at a panelist on “What We Should Teach” College of Nursing Alumni Association. Wagner College. at the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education, part of the Robert Wood Johnson Initiative on the Future of Christine Kovner, PhD, Barbara Krainovich-Miller, Nursing at the Institute of Medicine, RN, FAAN, professor EdD, APRN, BC, ANEF, held in Houston on February 22, 2010. of nursing, has been has been promoted to Dean Fulmer also has been appointed honored for author- associate dean for to the Committee on an Oral Health ing one of the top fi ve academic and clinical Initiative at the Institute of Medicine and research articles of aff airs at the College of took part in its fi rst workshop and meet- the year in the Robert Nursing. Dr. Krainovich- ing in Washington, D.C., March 31 to Wood Johnson Miller’s promotion is April 1, 2010. Foundation’s “The Year in Research: 2009” based on a remarkable expansion in the scope competition for her article “What Newly of her responsibilities over the past two years Nancy Jackson, PNP, EdD, MA, clinical Licensed Registered Nurses Have to Say as a result of the College’s 40 percent growth associate professor, is collaborating with about Their First Experiences,” published in student enrollment and 119 percent the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in the July/August 2009 edition of Nursing increase in faculty, along with related growth to teach the Child Abuse course in the Research. More than 900 people cast votes in the use of simulation and technology. She College of Dentistry. The course is a New on their top research articles from a list of was inducted as an American Academy of York state requirement for all mandated 21 nominated contenders. Nursing Fellow in November 2009. reporters of child abuse.

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Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, Ethel Mitty, EdD, RN, National Center on Addiction and professor and direc- associate research Substance Abuse at Columbia University tor of global health scientist, has and served as senior assistant vice initiatives, has coedited Assisted president for long-term care at the New received a National Living Nursing: A York City Health and Hospitals Institutes of Health Manual for Manage- Corporation. Challenge Grant to ment and Practice, study the eff ective- with Barbara Mary Rosedale, PhD ness of a computer counseling tool in Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, of ’07, ADCRT ’01, ensuring correct use of medication for the University of Maryland, published in APRN-BC, CNAA, people with HIV among a Latino popula- August 2009 by Springer Publishing Co. assistant professor, tion in New York City. Her two-year, The book is a comprehensive overview of received an associ- approximately $1 million grant is one management activities and clinical ated appointment to of seven that NYU received and the competencies for assisted-living nurses. the Department of only one awarded on the Washington Psychiatry at NYU Square campus. It is funded through the Kelley Newlin, DNSc, Langone Medical Center and was named American Recovery and Reinvestment ARNP-C, CDE, to the editorial board of the Journal of the Act stimulus funding. assistant professor, American Psychiatric Nurses Association. has received the Gail D’Eramo Melkus, prestigious new Shiela M. Strauss, EdD, C-NP, FAAN, the Clinical and PhD, has received Florence and William Translational exceptional press Downs Professor in Science Institute coverage of her Nursing Research, KL2 Scholar Award in the amount of article “The Dental has been named $268,250 from the National Institutes Offi ce Visit as a director of the Muriel of Health, funded through NYU School Potential Opportunity and Virginia Pless of Medicine. Dr. Newlin is one of two for Diabetes Center for Nursing Research. She is a NYU faculty members, and the only Screening: An Analysis Using NHANES nationally recognized expert in diabetes College of Nursing nurse scientist, 2003–2004 data,” published in November nursing care and research. to receive the award. Dr. Newlin will 2009 in the Journal of Public Health conduct the study “Translating the Dentistry. She was also interviewed Diabetes Prevention Program and by CBS News in January 2010. She and Diabetes Self-Management Education fellow researchers found that many into a Black American Faith-Based people at risk for periodontal disease Setting.” Dr. Newlin also received the would benefi t from diabetes screening 2010 Eastern Nursing Research Society at the dentist’s offi ce. Rising Star Researcher Award. Yvonne Wesley, PhD Hila Richardson, ’00, adjunct associate DrPH, RN, FAAN, professor, is the editor associate dean of of a new textbook, the undergraduate Black Women’s Health: Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, professor program, was Challenges and emerita, senior research scientist, and dir- inducted as a Fellow Opportunities, ector of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric into the New published by Nova Nursing, received the Doris Schwartz York Academy of Science Publishers, Inc. The book compiles Gerontological Nursing Research Award on Medicine on November 17, 2009. At the research of nine women in the health November 20, 2009, at the Gerontological NYU Dr. Richardson has served on the care fi eld, addressing cultural disparities Society of America meeting in Atlanta. From governing faculty for the Global MPH in research and practice. left: Dr. Cindy Beel-Bates, interest group program. Prior to NYU, she was deputy convener; Dr. Mezey; Dean Terry Fulmer. director for medical research at the

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Selected Faculty Scholarly Publications

Dr. Joyce Anastasi, director of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Experience for Breast Cancer Survivors” Division of Special Studies in Symptom October 2009, a study for which she was in Oncology Nursing Forum, January 2010; Management, is a coauthor with Dr. awarded the Tactile Systems Technology coauthor of “The Eff ects of Psycho- Bernadette Capili, the division’s associate Young Investigator Award at the 22nd Education and Telephone Counseling director, and Jenna S. Geiger, an NYU International Society of Lymphology on the Adjustment of Women with Early College of Nursing graduate student, of Congress in Sydney, Australia, in Stage Breast Cancer” in Applied Nursing “Evaluating Published Reports of Adverse September 2009. She is also a coauthor Research, December 2009; author of Events in Acupuncture Clinical Trials of “Symptom Clusters and Quality of Life “Evidence-Based Psychiatric and Mental Focusing on Pain” in the Clinical Journal in Korean Patients with Hepatocellular Health Nursing: Responsibilities and of Pain, January 2010. She is also a Carcinoma” in Cancer Nursing, January Their Distribution” in the Journal of the coauthor of “Symptom Management 2010, and of the American Lymphedema American Psychiatric Nurses Association, for Irritable Bowel Syndrome” in Framework Project (ALFP): Identifying December 2009; “Transcranial Magnetic Gastroenterology Nursing, July/August Issues in the Field of Lymphedema in the Stimulation (TMS): An Entirely Novel 2009, and of “Developing an Integrative United States: Report of the Stakeholder’s Form of Treatment in Psychiatry and Therapies in Primary Care Program” Meeting, Journal of Lymphedema. a Groundbreaking Opportunity for in Nurse Educator (also with Dr. Capili), Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing” in the November/December 2009. Dr. Judith Haber coauthored an article in Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses the December 2009 issue of Journal of the Association, October 2009; and coauthor of Eloise Cathcart is a coauthor of “The American Psychiatric Nurses Association “Research Brief: The Structure of the Lived Making of a Nurse Manager: The Role titled “The Inextricable Nature of Mental Experience for Persons Having Undergone of Experiential Learning in Leadership and Physical Health: Implications for rTMS for Depression Treatment” in the Development,” accepted for publication Integrative Care.” The article is available Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses in the May 2010 edition of Journal of through the NYU Library online: Association, October 2009. Nursing Management, an issue focused on http://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/458877. refl ective practice, published by Wiley- Dr. Allison Squires is a coauthor of “Health Blackwell in the United Kingdom. Drs. Donna Hallas and Donna Shelley are the System Reconstruction: Perspectives of coauthors of “Role of the Pediatric Nurse Iraqi Physicians” in Global Public Health, Dr. Terry Fulmer is a coeditor of Critical Practitioners in Oral Health Care” in published online February 10, 2010; and Care Nursing of Older Adults: Best Practices Academic Pediatrics, November/December “Role Development of Community Health (3rd ed.), and is coauthor of the chap- 2009. Dr. Hallas is also a coauthor of the Workers: An Examination of Selection and ter “Patient Safety for Older Patients in article “Nursing Strategies to Reduce the Training Processes in the Intervention the Intensive Care Setting” with Judy Incidence of Early Childhood Caries in Literature” in the American Journal of Dillworth, an NYU College of Nursing Culturally Diverse Populations,” which Preventive Medicine, December 2009. She is graduate student, published by Spring became available online in the Journal of the author of “Factores Extraprofessionales Publishing Co., 2010. Pediatric Nursing on December 17, 2009. y Enfermería en El Siglo XX” in El Ser Enfermero (Argentina), November 2009– Dr. Mei Fu is a coauthor with Dr. Judith Dr. Gail Melkus is a coauthor of January 2010; “A Valid Step in the Process: Haber of “The Eff ect of Providing “Depression, Depression Treatment and A Commentary on ‘Content Validity is Information about Lymphedema on the Insulin Sensitivity in People at Risk for Naught’” in the International Journal of Cognitive and Symptom Outcomes of Type 2 Diabetes, in Diabetes Research and Nursing Studies, September 2009; and sev- Breast Cancer Survivors,” e-published Clinical Practice, November 2009. eral additional articles. She also published ahead of print in Annals of Surgical the monograph “Strategic Investments Oncology, January 2010. She is a coau- Dr. Mary Rosedale is the coauthor with in Nursing Workforce Development in thor with Dr. Mary Rosedale of “Breast Dr. Mei Fu of “Confronting the Unexpected: Mexico,” Mexico, D.F., Centro de Diálogo Cancer Survivors’ Experience of Temporal, Situational, and Attributive del Ámerica del Norte. Lymphedema Related Symptoms” in Dimensions of Distressing Symptom

18 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE Letter from Ann Marie Mauro

NYU COLLEGE OF NURSING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Dear Fellow Alums: afternoon of events with a record atten- way for an electronic survey to go out to all dance from alumni and friends. alums to fi nd out about your interest and It has been an amazing year! I am so proud We showcased two documentaries this participation in this program. If you already of our current Executive Board members year at our Movie & Conversation nights. know that you want to participate, please for their enthusiasm and dedication, which The fi rst fi lm, Baghdad ER, was a day-in- contact me at [email protected]. has resulted in many signifi cant accom- the-life look at the 86th Combat Support I know you share my deep appreciation plishments for the Alumni Association. I for the education we received at NYU. want to extend a special thanks to Barbara “I hope you will continue to I hope you will continue to show your Mellor, assistant director of alumni rela- show your appreciation by appreciation by making a contribution to tions and special events. Barbara is leav- our fundraising eff orts for a lecture hall in making a contribution to our ing NYU after 15 years of dedicated service the new building. We need to do our share to the College of Nursing, and we will miss fundraising efforts for a lecture to make this new building for the College her immensely. We appreciate the signifi - hall in the new building.” a reality, and so I ask each and every one cant contributions Barbara has made to the of you to make a gift today. Alumni Association, and we wish her the Hospital in Iraq. On February 4, a small I look forward to greeting you at the very best in this next chapter in her profes- but enthusiastic group of alumni and upcoming events and welcome your input sional and personal life. current students attended our second about how we can respond to your needs. This past November we joined the College documentary, Sentimental Women Need We want to hear from all alums, whether in honoring many distinguished lead- Not Apply: A History of the American Nurse. near or far, and we especially welcome our ers in the profession at the 22nd Annual All agreed that the fi lm was as relevant newest grads. Stay in touch with us and Celebration of Nursing Scholarship. We today as when it was fi rst presented in mark you calendars for NYU Alumni Day had a most informative public forum on 1988. Alumna and moderator Jackie Hott, on Saturday, October 23, 2010. narrowing the practice-education gap PhD ’72, MA ’53, BS ’46, dean emerita of that included Dr. Patricia Benner, the Adelphi School of Nursing, was pleased Best wishes, 2009 Distinguished Scholar in Nursing; with the response, and the students were Ann Marie Mauro, PhD ’98, RN, CNL Joan Chaya, director of college relations very receptive to her professional experi- and staff retention for The Visiting Nurse ence. Dr. Hott is the mother and mother- Service of New York (VNSNY); Rose in-law of the fi lmmakers, Lawrence R. PLEASE DONATE TODAY to help create an Alumni Association Lecture Hall through Moran-Kelly, clinical nurse specialist over- Hott and Diane Garey. Also in February, we the College of Nursing Building Fund. You seeing the Distinguished Lecturer Program saluted the extraordinary lifetime accom- may donate online at nyu.edu/nursing. of the VNSNY; Dr. Shaké Ketefi an, profes- plishments of alumna Barbara Guthrie, Click on “Give to the College of Nursing,” and be sure to choose the College of sor and director of international aff airs PhD ’87, RN, at the Estelle Osborne Nursing Building Fund. Please fi ll in your at the University of Michigan School of Recognition Ceremony. All of these events graduation year when prompted. You may Nursing — a former NYU faculty mem- are ways for alumni to reconnect with NYU also donate by check to: ber; and our own alumna Kim Glassman, and the College of Nursing and visit with NYU College of Nursing PhD ’07, MA ’87, senior vice president classmates and old friends. c/o Meredith Miller of patient-care services and chief nurs- We continue to move forward with our Offi ce of Development & Alumni Relations ing offi cer of NYU Langone Medical mentoring program, and I encourage all 726 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10003 Center. Dr. Benner spoke on her fi ndings alumni to step up to the plate and be a from the Carnegie Foundation National mentor to a recent graduate. They need Thank you! Your contributions are deeply valued. Education Study. It was an extraordinary our guidance and support. Plans are under

SPRING 2010 19 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS

1967 1987 Phyllis Fitzgerald, translators. The FSIL is making plans Kim Glassman, PhD PhD ’67, was to get back to educating the students as ’07, MA ’87, RN, inducted into soon as possible and is seeking expe- NEA-BC, assumed the the Ohio Veterans rienced nurse faculty to volunteer to role of senior vice Hall of Fame in teach there in short compact courses president of patient November 2009. and /or online courses. The Haiti Nursing care services and chief Among many other Foundation will continue to raise funds nursing offi cer of NYU volunteer roles, and help see the college through the next Langone Medical she is chair of the Americanism phase, which promises to be very chal- Center on February 5, 2010. Selected after Committee in the American Legion lenging, fi nancially and logistically for a national search, Dr. Glassman succeeds Department of Ohio and part of the the enrolled nursing students. another College of Nursing alumna, Susan Faith in Action-Interfaith Caregivers, Bowar-Ferres, PhD ’87, who serves on the an organization that sends volunteers College of Nursing Advisory Board and who to visit the elderly and homebound. laid the foundation for world-class nursing at NYU Langone , including its back-to- back Magnet designation. 1973 Dr. Glassman has more than 30 years of Ruth Barnard, PhD ’73, a retired asso- experience in nursing and a deep under- ciate professor at the University of standing of the medical center. She joined Michigan School of Nursing, helped the staff in 1978 as a senior staff nurse start the Haiti Nursing Foundation in the Intensive Care Unit and was later in 2005 to provide fi nancial support promoted to head nurse of the MICU and to the school of nursing, Faculté des A wall of the FSIL nursing college in Haiti was CCU. Since then, she has held director Sciences Infi rmières at the Université destroyed in the earthquake. of nursing positions in several clinical Episcopale d’Haïti (Faculty of Nursing areas. Dr. Glassman was promoted to vice Science of the Episcopal University president for nursing operations in 2005 of Haiti, or FSIL), the fi rst four-year 1984 and vice president for patient care services baccalaureate nursing school in Haiti, MaryAnne Gallagher, in 2008. Dr. Glassman has conducted which graduated 26 nurses in 2009. BS ’84, received research on the patient experience in such When the earthquake struck Haiti in the 2009 Organiz- areas as medication self-management by January 2010, 90 percent of buildings ation Innovation older adults and has developed innova- in the vicinity of the college collapsed, Award for nurse tive interactive education programs for and tents were raised along the road in director from the both breast- and lung-cancer patients. front of FSIL. The dean of the school, AONE Institute She has written chapters for many students, and graduates started car- for Nursing Lead- nursing textbooks and several peer- ing for the injured right after the ership, Research and Education. She reviewed journal articles and serves as a earthquake. With very few supplies, is the president of the Greater New reviewer on the editorial boards of Applied they sutured, made splints, deliv- York Nassau Suff olk Organization of Nursing Research, Nursing Economics, and ered babies, and served as nurses and Nurse Executives. Qualitative Health Research.

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20 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS

1989 Annemarie Sipkes women to reduce HIV risk. She is engaged Donato, MSN, BS ’89, in a major study, funded by the National New York Academy FNP, is in her second Institute of Nursing Research at the semester of the National Institutes of Health, to study the of Medicine Inducts Medical University of eff ects of targeted soap-opera videos, which NYU Nursing Alumnae South Carolina DNP can be viewed on cell phones, in reducing program and had an young women’s HIV sexual risk behavior. Five College of Nursing alumnae were article published in inducted into the New York Academy of the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Medicine as Nurse Fellows on November Practitioners in November 2009: “Nurse 2003 17, 2009. Congratulations to Diana Practitioners in Holland: Defi nition, Aileen F. Tanafranca, Mason, PhD ’87, Barbara Glickstein, BS Preparation and Prescriptive Authority.” BS ’03, MA ’09, ’85, Catherine (Alicia) Georges, PhD ’73, She will conduct a DNP practice project received her master’s Donna Nickitas, MA ’80, and Kathleen in a college health clinic with a focus on degree in nursing Nokes, PhD ’85. Fellows “embody the reducing high-risk behaviors. administration and is highest levels of achievement and leader- working at Lenox Hill ship in the fi elds of medicine and health Hospital as a nurse as well as science, social work, nursing, 1996 manager in a vascular education, law, and research.” Deborah Sherman, surgical unit, where she oversees a 24-bed PhD ’96 and post- unit and 31 staff members. Recently, she masters certifi cate in was awarded a Shining Star Award from the MEMORIAM acute care nursing of hospital’s Reward and Recognition Program adults ’96, is the for outstanding leadership and going above Sally Miller Stadter coauthor of the third and beyond her duties. A Sigma Theta Tau edition of the member, Aileen plans to continue support- The College of Nursing textbook Palliative ing the profession of nursing. sadly acknowledges the Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, passing of Sally Miller published in 2010 by Springer Publishing Stadter, a former fac- Co. Dr. Sherman is a professor, assistant 2006 ulty member, friend, dean for research, and codirector of the Elizabeth Jones, BS and supporter of the Center for Excellence in Palliative Care ’06, received the College, on March 14, 2010, in Naples, Research at the University of Maryland. Spirit of Hillman Florida, after a brief illness. Formerly Award on December Sally Ruth Miller, Dr. Stadter received 9, 2009, presented by her MA in psychiatric mental health 2002 the Hillman Alumni nursing from NYU in 1963 and her PhD Rachel Jones, PhD ’02, Nursing Network to from NYU in 1974. Her doctoral disser- RN, associate profes- an individual who tation was titled “An Investigation of the sor of nursing at “expresses and demonstrates incredible Relationship Between Mother’s General Rutgers, the State enthusiasm for nursing and encourages Fearfulness, Their Daughters’ Locus of University of New other nurses to support the profession as Control, and General Fearfulness in the Jersey, College of well.” Nursing is a second career for Ms. Daughter.” Dr. Stadter served on the Nursing, was honored Jones, who is the nurse coordinator of the faculty in the Division of Nursing at NYU as an Esteemed Woman NYU College of Nursing mobile health van from September 1973 until the early in the Field of Women and HIV/AIDS by the initiative “Feeling Good in Your Neighbor- 1980s together with Drs. Carol Hoskins, New Jersey Women and AIDS Network in hood,” a community outreach program Erline McGriff , Joanne Griffi n, Pat November 2009. Dr. Jones has devoted her that focuses on combating health dispari- Hurley, John Phillips, Connie Vance, career to research and practice with urban ties among adolescents in Brooklyn. and Diana Mason.

SPRING 2010 21 January Intersession Offers Unique Experiences Both Near and Far

FOR STUDENTS like Cori Tolda ’10, the January 2010 Intersession course in Rural Winter 2009 – 2010 Nursing was a transformative experience. “It’s hard to even articulate what we in Buenos Aires learned; health care in the rural setting is By Daniel D. Cline, MSN, RN, CRNP a diff erent world,” Cori says. Touched by the friendly, personal THIS JANUARY, NYU nursing students had approach that nurses exude at the their fi rst opportunity to take Intersession Adirondack Medical Center, she hopes courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There to bring the same community feeling into were 11 students in Global Perspectives on Students toured the Hospital Comodoro Hugo her practice in a larger city. “At the same Cesar Meisner, a public maternity hospital in Child Health, taught by Wendy Budin, PhD, time,” Cori says, “I was struck by the Pilar near the Universidad Austral, Argentina. RN-BC, and Susan Vacca, MSN, RN, CPNP. hardships and lack of resources facing Twenty-three students enrolled in Nursing many rural patients. A nurse does not Across the globe, Deborah Chyun, PhD, Issues and Trends within the Health Care need to leave the United States to care for RN, FAHA, FAAN, associate profes- Delivery System, which I had the pleasure people who face profound disparities in sor, and Gail Melkus, EdD, C-NP, of teaching with Executive Associate Dean health resources.” FAAN, Florence and William Downs Tom Olson, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC. Cori was one of seven students who Professor in Nursing Research, taught The courses were taught with nursing attended the two-week course at the the Comparative Health Systems course faculty from Universidad Austral, Buenos Adirondack Medical Center (AMC). It to 16 students in Florence, Italy. Aires. Professors Bea Goodwin, PhD was led by Dean Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, Graduate students were also engaged ’70, MA ’60, RN, and Eliana Horta, MS, FAAN, and Professor Margaret Sorensen, in off -campus learning at Bassett MPH, RN, were instrumental, along with MS, FNP, chief nursing offi cer at AMC, Healthcare in Cooperstown, New York, Professor Madeline Naegle, PhD, APRN-BC, with the strong support of President John which serves 1,500 square miles of and Dean Olson, in establishing the program Mills of Paul Smiths College. upstate territory. Students of Clinical in Buenos Aires,where NYU Study Abroad Rural Nursing is one of several unique Instructor Caroline Dorsen, MSN, FNP, programs are located. and fascinating learning experiences in completed intensive clinical hours Students attended lectures from local health which NYU College of Nursing students precepted by nurse practitioners in that care professionals ranging from practicing took part in January. For the fi rst time, the area. Special thanks are due to Connie nurses and physicians to Ministry of Health College off ered two Intersession courses Jastremski, MS, RN, chief nursing offi - offi cials engaged in large-scale public health in Buenos Aires, Argentina (see sidebar). cer of Bassett, for allowing NYU students and policy initiatives. Students also visited this extraordinary opportunity. public and private hospitals to get a better Five undergraduate students enrolled in understanding of the Argentinean health the epidemiology course taught by Senior care system. Although there is free universal Research Scientist Holly Hagen, PhD, on health care, the public system lacks funding the Washington Square campus, where and is overburdened. they were introduced to epidemiologic Students gained an understanding of some methods for studying infectious diseases of the challenges Argentina faces in providing such as HIV, hepatitis C, and STIs in care to its population. These include dramatic hidden and marginalized populations. disparities in health outcomes among various This was the fi rst time this course had regions of the country, a shortage of quali- Seven NYU students participated in the Rural been taught at NYU, and, according to fi ed nurses, and a disconcerting ratio of one Nursing course at the Adirondack Medical Center. Dr. Hagen, the small group created ideal nurse for every fi ve physicians. Students were From left: Sarah Richey, Leah Feldman, Emily Fries, Vivian Lau, Margaret Sorensen, chief nursing offi cer, circumstances for piloting the course and immersed in Argentinean culture by staying John Campbell, Roisin McManus, and Cori Tolda. engaging students in the topic. with host families.

22 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing NEW PROJECTS PROMOTE CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS

NICHE Leadership Training Reducing Catheter-Associated Helping Older Adults Maintain Program Helps Hospitals Urinary-Tract Infections Function While in the Hospital Improve Geriatric Care Patients experience For older adults, it is The NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for more than 500,000 not unusual to lose Healthsystem Elders) program is now catheter-associated a degree of physical easier for hospitals to join thanks to a urinary-tract infec- function during a new online Leadership Training Program tions (CAUTIs) per hospital stay. The designed to immerse nurse leaders in the year in the United combination of philosophy and mechanics of the pro- States. These infec- spending time in bed gram. Based at the Hartford Institute, tions take a large toll and receiving help NICHE is a comprehensive approach to on patients and the health care system with routine activities, such as moving to a nursing care for hospitalized older adults. since they can lead to prolonged hospital chair or grooming, may inadvertently In joining, hospitals receive protocols, stays, bacteremia, prosthetic joint reduce patients’ muscle tone and ability tools, and evidence-based resources infection, and death. The best way to to care for themselves. to undertake system-wide changes to prevent these complications is to remove Marie Boltz, PhD ’07, RN, assistant improve care of older adults. Previously, these catheters when they are no longer professor of nursing and practice direc- hospitals that sought to join NICHE sent medically necessary. Yet surveillance of tor of NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for teams to a NICHE annual conference. CAUTIs at hospitals is limited, and Healthsystem Elders), has been awarded Since February, hospitals have been able documentation of catheter use is poor. a two-year $120,000 Claire Fagin Post- to participate in the fl exible, aff ordable, Elizabeth C. Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, Doctoral Fellowship funded by The John and rigorous six week Web-based pro- the Dr. John W. Rowe Professor in A. Hartford Foundation to study the gram at their own sites. Successful Aging, codirector of the factors contributing to the loss of physi- Participating hospitals must commit to Hartford Institute, and director of NICHE, cal function among older adults during enrolling a minimum of three staff mem- is coinvestigator on a large new study hospital stays. The long-range goal is to bers, who constitute the steering com- to reduce CAUTIs in NICHE hospitals. develop an intervention to prevent func- mittee for the NICHE initiative: a nurse She is working with principal investiga- tional decline that draws together factors clinician leader, a clinical educator, and tor Heidi Wald, MD, of the University such as nurse knowledge, routines, and an administrator or manager. In addition, of Colorado, on this project, funded by access to equipment and supplies. Dr. direct-care staff and staff of other disci- a $1,149,807 grant from the Agency for Boltz is working with Barbara Resnick, plines (including medical, rehabilitation, Healthcare Research and Quality. PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, of the social work, or pharmacy) may partici- The researchers are using a novel method University of Maryland School of Nursing pate. Participants earn 38 contact hours of employing health care information tech- and an expert in this area to develop a continuing-education credit. nology to improve surveillance of urinary measure of physical function. Educational components of the training catheter duration and CAUTIs. They Dr. Boltz recently completed a pilot include streamed media presentations by will develop and test an algorithm at the study of physical function among national leaders in geriatric care; interac- University of Colorado Hospital for track- 75 patients at New York Downtown tive learning modules addressing NICHE ing CAUTIs and then carry out a cluster Hospital and will begin another study models, staff development, clinical randomized trial at 16 NICHE hospitals, at NYU Langone Medical Center with practice, and evaluation; live webinars; looking at the relationship between cath- 165 patients. These pilot studies have and group discussions facilitated by eter duration and CAUTI rates. This kind received supplemental support from the expert NICHE faculty. For more informa- of surveillance is particularly important Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation and tion and registration requirements for the because new regulations from the Centers Sigma Theta Tau International. Leadership Training Program, write to for Medicaid and Medicare Services [email protected]. provide incentives for hospitals to monitor and reduce catheter use and duration.

SPRING 2010 23 WHY I GIVE

Penny Klatell

“I GIVE TO NYU COLLEGE OF NURSING FOR relationship that has been forged between Penny Klatell received her master’s three main reasons. The fi rst is my strong these two colleges. Dean Fulmer and I are degree in 1971 and doctoral degree belief in the importance of nursing as a very privileged to have graduated from an in 1975 from NYU College of Nursing. profession and its growing importance undergraduate nursing program that was in our turbulent world of health care. I one of the best in the country but that has She worked as a nurse in New York have always been concerned that peo- unfortunately closed. I think it’s fantastic City during the 1970s and then began ple go without wellness care or access to that students from Skidmore now can teaching at Columbia University and care because of escalating costs and lack directly enter NYU’s nursing program. City College. Dr. Klatell continued to of insurance. Nurses, who are taught to Dean Fulmer and I go so far back—she assess and evaluate, can be at the fore- was one of my nursing students when I teach as an adjunct instructor while front of providing primary and wellness returned to teach at Skidmore College, raising three sons in Connecticut. care—the preventative care, the well-baby and she once cared for my two-year-old Several years ago, she became care, the well-adult care, and the well- son when I had to bring him to class. certifi ed both in integrative nutri- senior care that we all need. When I look at my career, I am so grate- I support NYU in particular because it’s ful for the education I received at NYU. tion and as a life, health, and well- the provider of an extremely high level Like many students, I was particularly ness coach. Dr. Klatell now runs of education for nurses. More than that, infl uenced by the world view of Professor a coaching and consulting business I support the eff ort and willingness of Martha Rogers. Her perspective on the (LifeOdysseyConsulting.com), spe- NYU Nursing, spearheaded by Dean Terry interconnectedness of everything in cializing in helping people who need Fulmer, to present a professional image the universe—whether people to people of nursing to the world and to get things or people to the environment—and in to lose weight for medical reasons. done. Part of that eff ort is the creation the body makes it very clear that just Through her blog, socialdieter.com, of a new nursing building that will have looking at one component is never she shares information to help busy a presence not only intellectually but enough. Staying connected is what it’s people eat healthy meals when they physically within the university. The new all about, and I encourage all alumni to building will be an excellent space where support the College through your gifts eat out in restaurants and other nurses have the best tools to learn, with and your profession.” social settings, or when they take virtual classrooms, practice labs, and out. At the College, Dr. Klatell has everything that the College needs to be a given guest lectures on motivational leader into the future. There’s a third reason as well. As an interviewing — an approach using alumna of Skidmore College, like Dean techniques and language that can Fulmer, I’m so excited about the new help motivate patients to change behaviors. She is a donor to the Campaign for Nursing at NYU.

24 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MAGAZINE Dean’s Circle The NYU College of Nursing the College’s Annual Fund. Our goal this year is Dean’s Circle recognizes those During the College’s Building to double the number of who generously support the Campaign, all building-fund Dean’s Circle members. College in its commitment to gifts of $1,000 or more will also How can you help? being the leader in nursing place the donor into the Dean’s • Renew your membership if you have not done so this year. education and research. The Circle for the year in which • Become a member of this esteemed Dean’s Circle honors those they make this contribution. group, and invite a friend or colleague to do the same! who give $1,000 or more to For more information about the Dean’s Circle, please contact the Ofﬁ ce of Development and Alumni Relations at 212-998-5480.

Dean’s Circle Members* Karen A. Ballard Jocelyn A. Greenidge Naomi B. Levine Rachel Robinson Amy J. Berman Judith E. & Leonard Haber Li Hung Lin Paulette Robischon Regina S. Berman Stacey C. Harley Grace A. & Charles S. Lipson June Rothberg-Blackman Henrietta Blackman Eileen G. Hasselmeyer Barrie Loeks John W. & Valerie Rowe Rose Boroch Eliana Horta Eva Mallis Fisher Caroline S. Ruda Susan L. Bowar-Ferres Carol N. Hoskins Diane J. Mancino Jack Rudin Wendy Budin Jacqueline Rose Hott Pamela J. Maraldo Marie Schwartz Eloise Cathcart Patricia Morgan Hurley Gean M. Mathwig Cynthia D. & Thomas P. Sculco Tara A. & Luis Cortes Barbara D. & Donald Jonas Margaret L. McClure Nancy C. Sharts-Hopko Joannie & Nicholas Danielides Blanche T. Jordan Daisy Poole McFadden Patricia Small Janet Salerno D’Arcangelo Mildred Joyner Gail D’Eramo Melkus Valerie M. & Joseph P. Smokovich Joyce C. DeLucca Kenneth W.M. Judy Barbara Mellor Estelle Sotirhos Claire M. & Samuel L. Fagin Shake Keteﬁ an Mathy & Andrew P. Mezey Ursula Springer Geraldene Felton Pamela P. & Robert A. Kindler Madeline A. Naegle Joan K. Stout Vernice D. Ferguson Penelope Manegan & Josephine Nappi Neville E. Strumpf Catherine Taylor Foster Robert E. Klatell Donna M. Nickitas Linda M. Taylor Terry & Keith Fulmer Norma Ronson Koppel Kate S. & Robert H. Niehaus Edwidge J. Thomas Bertie M. Gilmore Christine & Anthony R. Kovner Patricia G. O’Brien Patricia L. Valoon Evelynn Clark Gioiella Barbara Krainovich-Miller Sarah B. Pasternack Norman H. & Alicia Volk Robert J. & Mary McAnena Giuffra Ian Laird Robert V. Piemonte Anastasia P. Vournas Elizabeth W. Gonzalez Erin Leddy Muriel Pless Rosanne L. Wille Beatrice Goodwin Lois G. & David W. Leeds Carol Raphael Geri Lo Biondo Wood Elaine & David Gould Anthony J. Leiker Joan Rechnitz Paula Zahn Valerie K. & James M. Grabicki Helanie Lerner Hila Richardson * As of March 2010

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