Hopkins Nurses Creating Knowledge for the World
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Hopkins Nurses Creating Knowledge for the World The School of Nursing raised $55.2 million during the seven-year Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World Campaign. These funds went toward: New building addition $15.3 million Student scholarships and PhD fellowships $16.7 million Faculty and program support $19.2 million Unrestricted support $ 4.0 million Blaustein Fellow Seeks to Help Traumatized Children Gurtler Scholar Will K “Pay it Forward” WILL KIR In 2005, the Morton K. and Jane K “The two years I spent in the Peace Blaustein Foundation endowed a two- WILL KIR year postdoctoral fellowship that will Corps in Turkmenistan solidified “go a long way toward training the next my commitment to working for the generation of mental health nurses,” public good,” says Marguerite Baty according to Deborah Gross, DNSc, ’04, MSN/MPH ’06. “I later had the RN, FAAN, the JHUSON Leonard and opportunity to work with AIDS orphans Helen R. Stulman Professor in Mental in Kenya and Tanzania, and that shifted Health and Psychiatric Nursing. my career interest to nursing.” The second Blaustein Fellow, Shelly Baty received funding for her Eisbach, PhD, MSN, RN has just begun nursing education from the John R. her work at Hopkins, working closely and Ruth Ward Gurtler Scholarship, with Gross to pursue a course of study established in memory of alumna and research on the effects of childhood Ruth Ward Gurtler ’29. She has since traumas, such as maltreatment, disaster, earned her baccalaureate and master’s or death of a parent, on the child’s degrees and is working on her PhD. future development. With advanced She plans to continue working in the coursework at the School of Public area of women’s health, both in research Health and an interdisciplinary cadre and practice. of mentors, Eisbach plans to develop Says Baty: “I look forward to nursing intervention strategies to help contributing to the community as a way children cope with such distress. to ‘pay forward’ the generosity shown “I hope that my work will lead to me by the Foundation.” practical steps that nurses could use in schools or primary care settings,” says Eisbach. “I want to help these children deal with past trauma.” 44 J OHNS H OPKINS N URSING | S PRING 2009 Kidney Donors Find Support with Lyne Funding K WILL KIR Donating a kidney can be the biggest for Caregivers (LINC), a web-based decision of a person’s life,” says assistant discussion board that provides a forum professor and transplant nurse Laura where caregivers, using pseudonyms to Taylor, PhD, RN. “It’s so important protect their identity, can exchange for donors and their families to practical tips on ways to make the have the information and emotional donor, usually a spouse or relative, more support they need both before and comfortable. after the procedure.” Taylor says the project has provided With funding from the Dorothy an unprecedented resource for living Evans Lyne Fund, given in late 2001 kidney donors and helped launch by a grateful Hopkins patient to support the next phase of her career as well. pilot studies by Hopkins nurses, Taylor Thanks to her successful pilot study, is collaborating with Pamela Walker, she is now applying for larger research RN, Living Donor Transplant Nurse grants to continue her research. Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Together, they created the Living Donor Information Network K CareFirst Scholarship Ensures WILL KIR Educators for Nursing’s Future “Nursing and teaching are not mutually to influence the world is to equip the exclusive,” says Virginia Baker. “In next generation of nurses to be critical fact, I believe these two passions are thinkers, ministers of mercy, and inherently dependent on each other.” professional caregivers.” With a CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Project RN Scholarship, Baker is earning her master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. As part of the CareFirst Commitment Campaign, the scholarship is provided to nursing students committed to teaching, in an effort to increase the number of nurse educators and therefore address the nation’s growing nursing shortage. “I want to teach, inspire, and challenge others,” says Baker. “I am convinced that the best way for me These and other achievements were made possible because of the generous support of our alumni, friends, and corporate partners during the Knowledge for the World Campaign. Thank you. www.jhu.edu/impact J OHNS H OPKINS N URSING | WWW . NURSING . J HU . EDU 45 Vigilando FOREVER WATCH F UL NEWS FROM THE JOH N S H OPKI N S NURSES’ ALUM N I A S S O C I A TIO N has been supportive of the other networking events. As and the world. Be a resource School of Nursing from you see, the minimal amount for new alumni relocating to its beginning. It was the of money asked in dues goes your area. persistence of the alumni a long way in preserving Alumni in surrounding association that persuaded the legacy of the alumni hospitals have already started the University to agree to association’s involvement with the mentoring process make nursing a division of the the present students. through organizing share University. If the association We have mailed a postcard time for nursing students in is to continue, we need your to our alumni asking for not specified areas of interest. If support. The Johns Hopkins only your financial assistance, you are local and want to be Nurses’ Alumni Association’s but to gain updated personal a mentor for share time and only income is from the information and ask if you questions, email Melinda alumni dues paid to the JHU are willing to be a resource Rose at [email protected]. Tina Cafeo, MSN ’97, RN Alumni Association. We and a mentor to students. I ask you to be involved. President, JHNAA cannot function without The response so far has been Join social networks— s we continue your support. Please become wonderful. Alumni are JHUInCircle, Facebook the challenge an active alumni member agreeing to be available to (there is a ‘JHUSON alumni’ of engaging by paying $40 to the JHU our students. If you have not page), or LinkedIn and our alumni Alumni ($20 for graduates responded to the postcard start networking with other classes, we from ’04 to ’08). yet, please consider getting Hopkins nursing alumni. Asearch for the great ideas of These funds let us sponsor involved. Hopkins nursing Check out the School of present students as well as Homecoming and the Pinning students have interests and Nursing website, www.nursing. alumni classes. How can Ceremony for graduating career plans that extend jhu.edu. Send us your e-mail we keep you involved in students. They also fund the beyond Baltimore. Being address and an update of what the professional lives of our Vigilando section of the maga- available to students through you are doing. We want to present students and the zine, the preservation of our the alumni association will communicate through email alumni association? nursing history at the archives enable students to reach out when we can. Stay connected! The alumni association project, student projects and to nurses all over the country We depend on you. CLASSNews ’28 Reported by Betty Kolodny, a neurosurgeon. She summer house, to live with (her her mother frequently reminds Borenstein Scher ’50. came back to nursing after her daughter). Mother was with me her when discussing a medical Ellen Plass Kolodny had husband’s premature death, until last year when she suffered issue that she is a nurse… “about her daughter respond to our working as a senior health a stroke. At that time, now 102 that she is dogmatic.” She will request for her nursing history advisor at the International years old, she entered a local be 104 years old in March 2009 and current activities. After House, which housed foreign nursing home.” Her daughter and thinks she may be the last of graduating from Hopkins, she students in New York City. “The sees her frequently and reports her class still alive. We think she stayed on for a year in the next segment of her life was that she is now physically sound probably is right. operating room, where she met leaving NYC and coming to and enjoys her Nursing magazine. and later married Dr. Anatole Rhinebeck, NY, where she had a Her daughter also reports that 46 J OHNS H OPKINS N URSING | S PRING 2009 Nurse, Activist, and Politician: Alumna Brings the Change We Need f a general referendum was held Ito determine the most popular buzzword of 2008, chances are that “change” would win by a landslide victory. But for a nurse like Irma Silverstein Rochlin ‘45, who has been a first-hand witness to some of the most important events in recent American history, change is the only thing you can rely on over a lifetime. Rochlin came to Johns Hopkins ’31 Reported by Betty ’34 Reported by Betty as a nursing student in the midst of World War II. She recalls the Borenstein Scher ’50. Borenstein Scher ’50. class of 1945 as “idealistic. We all expected to help with the war Thelma Replogle Isakson typed Louise Jefferys Morse writes effort.” After graduating, Rochlin went directly into the Army her response to our request. Here that after graduation she was a Nurse Corps. She served in Alabama and North Carolina, caring it is practically verbatim: “We head nurse in Phipps for a year, for returned servicemen too ill to be discharged. celebrated my 100th birthday then a head nurse in Osler for Conservation was a vital part of the war effort and played on 1/26/08.