Winter 2010 Duke Volume 5, No. 1 magazine 12 DNP and MSN Student Innovators 1 4 Educational Institute Retools for a New Generation 17 Honoring Alumni Excellence in Science and Service

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Duke Nurses Bring Innovation to Bedside, Classroom, and Community The colored lines of this ultra high-field MRI indicate the neural pathways in the brain. 09 Duke Nursing Alumni 14 Institute for Educational 12 DNP student drives a in Haiti Excellence helps faculty big rig to deliver care in develop teaching skills eastern N.C. for a new generation Duke Nursing of students magazine

Winter ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 2010 Volume 5, No. 1 08 Growing the Global Experience for Future Nurses

DukeNursing Magazine 10 McConnell Wins Fulbright Specialists Grant is published by the Duke 11 Translational Institute Puts Research Into Practice Nursing Alumni Association. Issues are available online at 13 MSN Student Invents a New Nursing Tool nursealum.duke.edu. Your comments, ideas, and letters 17 Nursing Alumni Association Honors Three to the editor are welcome. 23 Harris, BSN’72, Leads Healthy Durham Initiatives Please contact us at: DukeNursing Magazine 24 Standard, ABSN’05, Raffles Home to Raise Money 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 Durham, NC 27701-3973 for Rare Birth Defect [email protected]

Duke Nursing IN EVERY ISSUE Alumni Affairs Staff 02 New Faculty Members Fran Mauney, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Executive Director, 04 In the News and People Development and Alumni Relations New Professorships for Gilliss and Champagne Sallie Ellinwood, Director of Development Sowers Named Duke Hospital President Amelia Howle, Director, Alumni Relations and Annual Programs Scott Gets CCNE Post Ginger Griffin, Staff Assistant Wilson is a AAN Living Legend

Editor Alumni Website Gets Redesign Marty Fisher Duke Expands Medical Campus Copy Editor Stefanie Conrad Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants Boost Diversity Contributing Writers Nursing Men Plant Daffodils Jim Rogalski, Bernadette Gillis Graphic Designer ABSN Program Expands Jennifer Sweeting 20 Message from Nursing Alumni Association President Photography Steve Ellwood, Jared Lazarus, 21 Class Notes Les Todd

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Nursing Board of Advisors Susan B. Meister, PhD, RN, FAAN (Chair), Hampton, N.H. Christy W. Bell Newark, N.J. Mary Martin D. Bowen, MA’59 Decatur, Ga. The Honorable Wanda G. Bryant, Dear Friends, T’77, Raleigh, N.C. In this issue of Duke Nursing we offer you a glimpse Christopher A. (Chris) Downey Foothill Ranch, Calif. of our work in rethinking global education and Martha Ann Harrell service, care delivery, patient care innovations, and Fayetteville, N.C. teaching and learning. Michael C. Howe , Minn. Increasingly students are fulfilling testing and demonstrating new and Thomas D. Jones their clinical requirements and more comprehensive models of patient Menlo Park, Calif. residency hours in service learning- care, collecting evidence for best Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, DHL (Hon.), New York, N.Y. cultural immersion experiences practices, documenting that knowledge Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, T’73 abroad. As a result, graduates are to fill in the gaps, and translating their Rochester, N.Y. demonstrating with great success their findings into practice—for the benefit Charles C. (Charlie) McIlvaine, T’87 clinical capabilities and adaptability to of all health care professions and the Darien, Conn. the needs of underserved populations health of the community. Nursing Alumni Council in diverse community health care Duke nurses are contributing to the July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 settings as well as disaster situations. art, science, and profession of teaching. Officers Duke nursing faculty, students, and They are studying, evaluating, and Constance C. Kendall, BSN’84 alumni are working in collaboration incorporating the latest educational President with health care professionals in other technologies in classroom, laboratory, Kathleen E. V. Gallagher, BSN’75 countries to increase the health care and clinical settings. As they do so, President-Elect delivery capacity of systems within and they are gathering data and sharing Carol F. Wynne, BSN’73 Secretary beyond the U.S. They are introduc- that information within and beyond Connie B. Bishop, BSN’75 ing advanced levels of clinical and the nursing profession. Past President academic nursing and sharing the latest Throughout the history of nursing Councilors improvements in nursing practice and at Duke, the thinking nurses of Duke Sally B. Addison, BSN’60 education. Their work, in turn, will have been rethinking their roles. They Spence H. Anderson, MSN’05 inform future endeavors. are pioneers developing community Vanessa D. Cain, MSN’03 Elizabeth H. Carver, MSN’02 Duke nurses are partnering with partnerships, conducting nursing Nancy Swan Coll, N’68 university and health system colleagues research, and expanding their contribu- Margaret M. Edwards, BSN’70 and service providers in the community tions to education and patient care. Yvonne R. Ford, MSN’00 to support interdisciplinary and With ever more work to be done, the Susan M. Glover, BSN’70 inter-professional research at the point Duke nursing tradition of innovation Gayle B. Harris, BSN’72 Ashley J. Hase, BSN’82 of care. They are developing innovative and experimentation continues. Carole A. Klove, BSN’80 approaches to patient care delivery, Lynda G. Mansfield, BSN’69 2010 Rod C. Moore, A’78 Christine S. Pearson, BSN’84 Melissa T. Peters, ABSN’07 Susan J. Rainey, BSN’70 Catherine Lynch Gilliss, BSN’71, DNSc, RN, FAAN Martha C. Romney, BSN’77 Dean and Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Nursing Joan M.Stanley, BSN’71 Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University Anne E. Walters, BSN’83 Student Representative Ann E. Horigan, MSN’05, PhD Student DUKE NURSING WINTER 01

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Bradi Granger, MSN’91, Isaac Lipkus, PhD Susan G. Silva, PhD Terry D. Ward, PhD, RN Michael Zychowicz, PhD, RN, FAAN DNP, RN, ANP-C, FAANP

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Bradi Granger, MSN’91, PhD, Isaac Lipkus, PhD, has been ap- Susan G. Silva, PhD, has been RN, FAAN, has been appointed associ- pointed professor. He is the principle appointed associate research professor ate director of the Duke Translational investigator on two National Institutes of and statistician. She teaches design and Nursing Institute. She will also teach Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute analysis courses in the PhD and DNP research utilization and be involved in grants: one to explore how providing programs. She has statistical expertise in the DNP capstone and PhD dissertation genetic risk information affects college longitudinal data analysis, hierarchical projects. Her experience includes serving smokers’ perceptions of lung cancer risk mixed-effects models, moderator and as director of the Duke University and motivation to quit; and the other mediator analyses, and randomized Health System Heart Center Nursing to explore the relationships and conse- clinical trial methods. Silva’s experience Research Program and as a clinical pro- quences between what smokers think they includes serving as a faculty member fessor at the School of Nursing, where know and what they actually know about in the Department of Psychiatry and she taught applied statistics, research the harms of smoking. He is also the Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Trials utilization, directed research, and the principle investigator of an NIH/National Statistics Group at the Duke Clinical critical care clinical nurse specialist Human Genome Research Institute grant Research Institute since 1999. Over the residency. She is the principle investiga- to assess risk communication educa- past 11 years she has been a statistical tor for a National Institutes of Health tional practices in genetic counseling principal investigator for several land- (NIH)/National Institute of Nursing programs. He also directs a Marchionne mark clinical trials in neuropsychiatry, Research pilot study on a new interven- Foundation-funded study examining including the National Institute of Mental tion to improve medication adherence breast cancer patients’ understanding of Health (NIMH)-sponsored Treatment for and co-investigator on an NIH/National genomic information about their risk of a Adolescents with Depression Study. Silva Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant cancer recurrence to help inform adjuvant received a PhD in experimental/biologi- on tailored interventions in diabetes treatment decisions. He is a member of cal psychology from and hypertension. She is a fellow in the the American Society of Preventative State University and completed an American Academy of Nursing and the Oncology Executive Committee where NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral fellow- Cardiovascular Nursing Council of the he chairs the Behavioral Oncology and ship in neuropsychology and cognitive American Heart Association and a 2009 Cancer Communications Special Interest neuroscience at the University of North recipient of the American Association of Group. He was previously a professor Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, Critical-Care Nurses Circle of Excellence in the Duke Medicine Department of Silva was a member of the faculty in the Award. She holds a bachelor of science Psychiatry and a cancer control scientist medical school psychiatry department degree in nursing from the University for the Cancer Prevention, Detection, and and was director of the Neurobehavioral of Tennessee, Knoxville, a master of Control Research Program. He has served Assessment Core and associate director of science in nursing degree from the Duke on numerous editorial boards. He holds the Data Management and Biostatistics University School of Nursing, and a a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the Core for UNC’s NIMH-funded Mental doctorate degree from University of University of , San Diego, and Health and Neurosciences Clinical North Carolina at Chapel Hill. master’s and doctorate degrees in social Research Center. psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. announcement

DUSON Faculty Grant Activity FY 2008–2009 13 New Grants 9 Grants Renewed 27.7% Success rate for new grant submissions $3,285,164 Total Grant Funding $3,634,428 National Institutes of Health Funding Post-doctoral fellowship The Duke University School of Nursing is pleased to announce that it will be starting a post-doctoral Terry D. Ward, PhD, RN, has been Michael Zychowicz, DNP, fellowship program in Fall 2010. This appointed assistant clinical professor. RN, ANP-C, FAANP, has been fellowship program will support Her experience includes serving as appointed associate clinical professor two post-doctoral fellows each year interim director of nursing education at and director of the Adult Nurse in developing rigorous theoretical the Watts School of Nursing, as a home Practitioner Program. His experience and methodological approaches for health medical and surgical nurse in includes 10 years as a nursing faculty studying the separate and combined Durham and surrounding counties, and member at Mount Saint Mary trajectories of chronic illnesses and as a clinical nurse instructor in surgery College in Newburgh, N.Y., and 13 care systems. The program aims are on psychiatry and medical surgical years as an adult nurse practitioner to expand the cadre of nurse scientists nursing units. She is a member of the and RN first assistant at surgery in with advanced training necessary to Southern Nursing Research Society, the orthopedics and sports medicine, as build the science on trajectories of North Carolina Nurses Association, the well as 15 years as a reserve officer in chronic illness and care systems and National League for Nursing (NLN) the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. He is a expand infrastructure within the and the American Nurses Association. nursing faculty representative for the school and interdisciplinary linkages She is a program evaluator for the NLN National Health Services Corps, a outside the school to support post- Accreditation Commission and was a fellow of the American Academy of doctoral training on trajectories North Carolina NLN executive board Nurse Practitioners, and a member of of chronic illness and care systems. member from 2003–05. She is a recipi- the National Organization of Nurse Post-doctoral training will involve ent of the 2007 North Carolina Nurse Practitioner Faculties and National auditing advanced coursework and Scholars Award and a Triangle North Association of Orthopedic Nurses. He supervised research. Each fellow Carolina Nurses Association Scholarship. is a 2007 recipient of the American admitted to the DUSON post-doctoral In 2009 she presented “Life is Hard: The Academy of Nurse Practitioners fellowship program will work with a Lived Experience of Adults with Bipolar Award for Excellence and a 2007–08 mentor who shares a research interest Disorder and Comorbid Substance recipient of the Leadership in Academic and is able to supervise the fellow’s Use Disorder” at the 10th Advances Nursing Fellowship from the American research. In addition, post-doctoral in Qualitative Methods Conference Association of Colleges of Nursing. fellows will participate actively in an and 15th Qualitative Health Research Zychowicz is the lead author and editor interdisciplinary center on campus that Conference in Vancouver and at the of the book “Orthopedic Nursing relates to their research area. Southern Nursing Research Society 2009 Secrets” and will be writing a regular For information about application

Annual Meeting. She holds bachelor column on orthopedic pathophysiology 2010 materials and possible mentors, and master of science in nursing degrees for Orthopedic Nursing. He holds a potential fellows should contact from the University of Mobile in Mobile, bachelor of science in nursing degree Diane Holditch-Davis, PhD, Ala., and a doctorate from the University from The State University of New York RN, FAAN, Marcus Hobbs of North Carolina at Greensboro. at Plattsburgh, a master of science Distinguished Professor of Nursing, degree from Syracuse University, and a Duke University School of Nursing, doctorate of nursing practice from Case DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710 Western Reserve University.

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Alumni & Friends Website Redesign Duke Nursing Alumni Association Past- President Connie B. Bishop, BSN’75, spearheaded a redesign of the Nursing Alumni Association website, nursealum. duke.edu, over the summer. The new site is designed to reflect the layout of the Duke University School of Nursing website. “Our goal was to have the Alumni and Friends site serve as a portal for alumni to Duke Medicine Architect’s Office access information about nursing alumni events Duke Expanding Medical Campus and services, the School Duke Medicine has embarked on the most ambitious expansion of its medical of Nursing, and Duke campus in decades—a project aimed at enhancing the experience of patients, University,” said Bishop. families, students, and staff. The new site is Construction has begun on the centerpieces of the expansion, the Duke divided into three main Medicine Cancer Center and the Duke Medicine Pavilion, which together areas that direct you to Alumni Association will add more than 800,000 square feet of space, with 160 intensive- and Awards and benefits, alumni news, Duke intermediate-care rooms, 16 new operating suites, 130 exam rooms and Nursing Magazine, the Nursing Alumni 75 infusion spaces dedicated to cancer care, and expanded and updated Council, and Reunion information. The imaging platforms. right navigation bar contains quick links to The Duke Medicine Pavilion will be a 580,000-square-foot, eight-story frequently used services, including the Duke addition to Duke University Hospital and is expected to open in 2013. The Today website, a daily online newspaper for Duke Medicine Cancer Center is a 267,000-square-foot, seven-story building the Duke University community, and a link devoted to cancer care and clinical research and is expected to open in 2012. to the Duke University Alumni Association, The decision to expand followed rigorous rounds of project reviews and where you can update your contact infor- approval by the State of North Carolina. According to Duke officials, mation. There are also links for upcoming larger, modernized facilities are needed to meet the needs of the fast-growing events at the School of Nursing and Duke and aging population of the Greater Triangle area. University events of interest. “This much-needed expansion will enable Duke Medicine to continue to “We hope you will make nursealum. further our missions in clinical care, teaching, and research—and to fulfill duke.edu your primary Duke link and that our commitment to all the people who depend on us to provide them with you share it with your fellow alumni and the best care available,” said Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health friends,” says Bishop. affairs at Duke and CEO of the Duke University Health System. The new facilities are designed to be highly efficient, convenient, and welcoming, with natural light, green spaces and courtyards, larger patient rooms and patient resource rooms, and amenities for patients, families, and visitors. Climate controlled concourses will connect the new buildings with each other and with the existing Duke Hospital and Clinic buildings. A central outdoor park, the Duke Medicine Quadrangle, will connect the existing School of Nursing building, Duke Medicine Pavilion, Duke Medicine Cancer Center, and Duke Clinic. For more information, including videos and a live construction webcam, please visit dukemedicine.org/construction. Wood JohnsonFoundation(RWJF) tothe 20 10 Grants Boost Diversity Foundation Robert Wood Johnson 15 well asmen—havereceived$10,000scholar Relf. “We arecommittedtocontinuingthis New Careersin NursinggrantsfromRWJF. Nursing grants. The school received $70,000 Nursing grants.Theschoolreceived$70,000 demonstrated financialneed. Dukewas overcoming significantlifechallenges, and organizations andindividualsaswell.” Duke UniversitySchoolofNursing. PhD, RN,ACS-BC,FAAN, assistantdeanfor People who are currently underrepresented in People whoarecurrentlyunderrepresentedin Hispanics, andotherracialminorities,as progress, and we will seek support from other progress, andwewillseeksupportfromother undergraduate education. program throughtwoRWJF NewCareersin in nursing thanks to two grants by the Robert in nursingthankstotwograntsbytheRobert in 2008 among 57 other schools nationwide to receive among 57otherschoolsnationwide toreceive highly qualified students from diverse racial, highly qualifiedstudentsfromdiverseracial, has allowedDuketoofferscholarships has appliedformorefundingthe2010 academic year, accordingtoMichaelRelf, ethnic, andgenderbackgrounds,”said scholarships recognizecommunity service, nursing are getting more chances for a career nursing aregettingmorechancesforacareer sented groups­ ships forthe16-monthAcceleratedBSN STUDENTS 0 5 Ethnic andGenderDiversityinABSNProgramsince2000 “This wonderfulpartnershipwithRWJF A totalof31peoplefromunderrepre- In additiontoincreasingdiversity, the FALL 2002 FALL Asian Indian American African American – 09 and $240,000 in2009 $240,000 and 09 —including AfricanAmericans, FALL 2003 FALL

FALL 2004 FALL Gender: Male Other Hispanic FALL 2005 FALL – 10, and – 11 11 FALL 2006 FALL - Accelerated BSNstudentsinJanuary. Together withthe72ABSNstudents ABSN Program Expands The DukeUniversitySchoolofNursingadmittedanewcohort52 Degree Type Undergraduate Average GPA 3.38 Snapshot ofJanuary2010enteringABSNClass Nick Robbins, andBrianGammon. Duke Men in Nursing Plant Daffodils Springtime willbringhundreds ofyellowdaffodilstotheSchoolNursing hundreds ofbulbs inthefall.Fromleftare Abdur Akbar, GregFlynn, approximately to140studentsgraduatingintwocohortseachyear. for program 16-month the in enrollment total 2009, admitted inAugust thanks totheDukeAmerican AssemblyforMeninNursing,whoplanted the classesof2011isnow124,andplansaretocontinueexpanding FALL 2007 FALL 1 BA/BS FALL 2008 FALL 20 BA FALL 2009 FALL 31 BS SPRING 2010 SPRING odn eodr ere 12 Holding SecondaryDegrees SPDBoeia niern 1 1 MS/PhD-Engineering Engineering MS/PhD-Biomedical Science-Geology of Master Master of Science-Chemistry Promotion Health Science-Exercise, of Master Education of Master 2 Arts Fine of Master Administration Business in Master’s Health Public in Master’s 150 STUDENTS 120 90 60 30 0 ABSN PlanstoExpand 72 2009 AUGUST 52 2010 JANUARY TODAY FUTURE 7 7 2 2

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Gilliss and Champagne Gilliss Assumes Appointed to Presidency of AAN Endowed Professorships Dean Catherine L. Gilliss, BSN’71, DNSc, Catherine L. Gilliss, BSN’71, DNSc, RN, FAAN, became president of the Board RN, FAAN, and Mary T. Champagne, of Directors of the American Academy of PhD, RN, FAAN, were appointed to Nursing (AAN) during the 36th Annual endowed professorships in the School of Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in November. Nursing in July. Champagne, who served The Duke University School of Nursing’s as dean from 1991–2004, now holds the Laurel Chadwick first alumna dean, Gilliss is nationally known for her contributions Professorship. She is also a senior fellow in the Duke Center to nursing education. Over a 35-year career she has prepared 3,500 for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Gilliss, nurses for careers in nursing science and advanced practice. current dean and vice chancellor for nursing affairs, now Before coming to Duke she was professor and chair of the holds the Helene Fuld Health Trust Professorship. Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of The Laurel Chadwick Professorship was established by California, , from 1993–98 and professor and dean School of Nursing alumna Laurel J. Chadwick, BSNEd’53, at the Yale University School of Nursing from 1998–2004. and her husband Harry R. Chadwick Jr., T’51, L’53, of Since her appointment as dean and vice chancellor for nursing St. Pete Beach, Fla. affairs in 2004, Gilliss has presided over the approval of the PhD in The Helene Fuld Health Trust Professorship was nursing and the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree programs, established by the trust, which also helped establish Duke’s the construction of a 59,000 square-foot state-of-the-art education Accelerated BSN Program with a gift of $6 million in 2001. building, and the development of the 2006–2011 strategic plan. The Fuld Trust is the nation’s largest private funder devoted During her tenure the school has risen to become one of the nation’s exclusively to nursing students and nursing education. top schools of nursing in U.S. News rankings and National Institutes of Health funding.

Sowers, MSN’89, Named Duke Hospital President Kevin W. Sowers, MSN’89, RN, FAAN, Sowers has led organizational was named chief operating officer initiatives at Duke Hospital, currently (COO) of Duke University Hospital in ranked 10th nationally by U.S. News, June 2009. Due to a restructuring of to improve clinical quality, patient the Duke Hospital leadership to align satisfaction, work culture, and finance. more closely with the national health He has led several hospital expansion care marketplace, the title of COO was projects, including a major expansion changed to president in January 2010. of the emergency department, mod- Sowers, who started his career ernization and expansion of hospital at Duke 24 years ago as an oncology operating rooms, development of North nurse, was selected following a national Carolina’s only pediatric cardiac care affairs at Duke and CEO of the Duke search. He previously served as COO unit, and expansion of the intensive University Health System. and interim chief executive oficer (CEO) care nursery. Sowers is internationally known for and was responsible for implementing “Throughout his two decades of his lectures and writings on the issues strategic objectives in collaboration service to Duke University Health of leadership, organizational change, with physician faculty, administrators, System, Kevin has played a significant mentorship, and cancer care. His clinical and staff and has had responsibility role in the rise of Duke University research has focused on human responses for the management of the hospital’s Hospital to one of the elite medical to chronic illness. He is a 2006 recipient clinical service units. institutions in the country,” said Victor of the Duke University School of Nursing J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health Distinguished Alumnus Award. W. MichaelScott,MSN,FNP-BC,was Washington, D.C. Scott,whoseappointment Education Post Scott Named to National Collegiate NursingEducation(CCNE)in NurseFirst FamilyHealthCenterinSeneca, Duke UniversitySchoolofNursing. of professionalnursingeducation,”said of baccalaureate,graduate,andresidency It actstoensurethequalityandintegrity Prior tocomingDukehedirectedthe past clinicalpracticehasfocusedonrural programs innursing. became effectiveinJanuary, iscurrently for thedoctorofnursingpracticedegree. from GeorgiaSouthernUniversity, where Secretary ofEducation,theCCNEisan Scott. “Inparticular, itwillallowmetostay autonomous accreditingagencycontributing he iscurrentlycompletingrequirements and masterofscienceinnursingdegrees access tohealthcare.Heholdsbachelor and nursepractitionermanagedclinics.His advanced practiceeducationaltracks.” clinics directorandclinicalassociateinthe continued inputintoanaccreditingbody current withexistingcurriculaasitrelatesto elected vicechairoftheCommissionon to theimprovementofpublic’s health. experience workinginprimarycaresettings that hasdonesomuchtoensurethequality “This positionwillallowmetohave Officially recognizedbytheU.S. Scott hasmorethan20yearsof Academy Excellence. of Nurse Practitioners S.C. In2010 State Award for he willreceive the American year assignmentinBangkok,Thailand,throughtheRockefellerFoundation was thefirstNorthCarolina nurse memberoftheprestigiousInstitute Medicine of the American Academy of Sciences. She also holds one of Duke Medicine oftheAmericanAcademy ofSciences.ShealsoholdsoneDuke Mahidol University. University’s highest honors,theMedalforDistinguished MeritoriousService. offered options for students to study in England or in rural community community rural in or England in study to students for options offered of thefaculty, establishedapioneeringundergraduate curriculum that Primary Nursing Project, through which nurses were teamed with physicians to Primary NursingProject,throughwhichnurseswereteamedwithphysiciansto Hospital in 1963, providing care for dialysis and kidney-transplant patients. Hospital in1963,providingcarefordialysisandkidney-transplantpatients. first-ever master’s programinclinicalnursing,whichbecameanationalmodel professional nursing associations at the district, state, and national levels. She professional nursingassociations atthedistrict,state,andnationallevels.She provide morecomprehensivepatientcare. for mass-casualtydrillshospitalsstillinusetoday, anddirectedthefirst for theDurhamcommunityineventofnuclearwar, whichwasthebasis for graduatenursingspecialization.Shealsoco-chairedaprogramtocare improvements—in clinicalcare,education,professionalsocieties,andpolicy,” bachelor ofscienceinnursingeducationfromtheUniversity ofPittsburghand be overestimated.” She helped develop an advanced medical-surgical nursing course and the She helpeddevelopanadvancedmedical-surgicalnursingcourseandthe a masterofscienceinnursing fromCaseWestern ReserveUniversity. hospitals inNorthCarolina. her quietleadershipthroughnetworkingandaidingotherstoactcannot and continuousinfluenceontheprofession. clinical supervisoratAlleghenyGeneralHospitalinPennsylvania. Sheholdsa combined coreandclinicalcoursesrequiredindependent study, and to leadthedevelopmentofRamathibodiUniversitySchoolNursingat she wasknownasaninnovatorwhoencouragedprofessional development said DeanCatherineGilliss,BSN’71,DNSc,RN,FAAN . “Theimpactof “Dr. Wilson isapioneer and herleadershiphasconsistentlyresultedin As deanoftheDukeUniversitySchoolNursingfrom1971 After sheearnedherdoctoraldegreeatDukein1968acceptedathree- Wilson hasheldnumerous state-levelappointmentsandhasserved Wilson wasappointedthefirstclinicalnursespecialist at DukeUniversity Before comingtoDuke,Wilson wasastaffnurse,headandnight American AcademyofNursing(AAN). Wilson Named a Living Legend by AAN was nameda2009LivingLegendbythe Ga., inNovember. lifetime achievements, including sustained lifetime achievements,includingsustained extraordinary their of recognition in She washonoredataceremonyduringthe academy’s 36thAnnualMeetinginAtlanta, a selectgroupoffellowslivinglegends contributions tonursingandhealthcare Ruby L. Wilson, EdD’68, RN, FAAN RN, EdD’68, Wilson, Ruby L. Since 1994theacademyhasnamed people

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The vast Blue Mountains of Jamaica; the lush foothills of additional four weeks at Marangu and Kilema hospitals, located Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; the dirt streets of rural villages in nearby rural communities, to satisfy their maternity nursing in Honduras—these may not immediately bring to mind clinical requirements. clinical training sites for nursing students, but at Duke, more Many MSN students also completed residency hours in and more future nurses are honing their skills in exotic and exotic locations. Students in the Nursing Education major needy locations across the globe. spent a month as practice teachers in schools of nursing Last year 66 students from the Accelerated BSN and the affiliated with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) MSN programs completed clinical requirements and residency in Tanzania and the University of the West Indies in Mona, hours through cultural immersion-service learning experiences Jamaica. According to student Jennifer Parsons, “We learned in developing countries. that it is not always possible to conduct a learning-needs Made possible by the Office of Global and Community assessment prior to teaching a class, and that one needs to be Health Initiatives (OGACHI), the international experiences flexible in adapting to the culture of the present environment.” included sites in Barbados, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Two Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students worked Tanzania. More than 80 percent of last year’s ABSN class trav- collaboratively with local health teams at Pasua and Majengo eled in groups of seven or eight to fulfill clinical requirements Health Clinics in Moshi. With an assistant medical officer for the Community Health Nursing class. A group of students as preceptor, they provided advanced nursing care to local who went to Moshi, Tanzania, had the opportunity to spend an residents. Tanzania does not have advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), and so the students were able to introduce a new level of nursing practice to the health care system. They saw conditions rarely seen in the United States, such as malaria and typhoid, and cared for many children and adults on a daily basis. About 70 patients per day are seen at the Majengo Health Clinic, which typically has about 50 deliveries per month and as many as 10–15 births on a given day. According to Dorothy Powell, EdD, RN, FAAN, associate dean of global and community health initiatives, each experience is unique and offers the students cultural sensitivity and an awareness of health disparities in developing countries. “Our students return from their cultural immersion experiences with an in-depth understanding of the workings of community

School of Nursing students worked side-by-side with their peers at Universidad health care systems and customs of diverse Politécnica de Nicaragua (UPOLI) during a two-week global health rotation. populations,” she says. global

our graduates,” she said. “The involve- ment of these graduates signals our success in preparing nurses who are citizens of the world.” In addition to mobilizing this medical team, Duke Medicine also has provided shipments of medical supplies and medicines to Family Health Ministries, a non-profit medical mission organization in Haiti led by Duke faculty member David Walmer, MD, and his wife Kathy. The 14-member Duke team included two general surgeons, an orthopedist, an anesthesiologist, a certified nurse anes- thetist, an infectious disease physician/ internal medicine physician, an emergency room physician, wound care nursing specialists, a limb-loss nursing specialist, nurses, and a surgical technologist. Team members included:

Nurse anesthetist Lee Freeman, MSN’06, comforts a Haitian child whom he helped to Ian Greenwald, MD, team leader; David care for during the Duke Medicine Haiti Relief Team’s visit to Haiti from Feb. 5–14. MacLeod, MB, anesthesiologist; Richard McCann, MD, HS’74–’83, general surgeon; Mark Shapiro, MD, trauma Duke Medicine Sends 14-Member Team to Haiti surgeon; Cameron Wolfe, MD, infectious As medical teams from around the world infectious diseases such as tuberculosis disease physician; Jocelyn Wittstein, MD, pour into Haiti to help with earthquake and HIV/AIDS. orthopedic surgeon; Henry Ward, nurse relief efforts, a Duke Medicine team of Ian Greenwald, MD, the Duke team leader; Lee Freeman, MSN’06, nurse doctors and nurses—including four Duke leader, said the heat was sweltering, anesthetist; Jan J. Johnson, MSN’83, School of Nursing alumni—joined them adding to already extremely difficult GNC’96, nurse practitioner; Edward from Feb. 5–14. A second group from conditions. He said most operations were Lavoie, clinical nurse; Shawna Neill, Duke was planning another trip in the done under the battery power of vehicle surgical technologist; Nancy Payne, weeks following the first group’s return. headlights, and power outages were MSN’07, clinical nurse specialist; Gaye Half of the 14-member Duke frequent. “Providing care in that environ- Currier Slaughter, clinical nurse; and Medical Haiti Relief Team worked at ment is both physically and emotionally Katie Sligh, ABSN’07, clinical nurse. the Partners in Health (PIH) hospital challenging,” he said. Haitian health care providers have in Cange. The hospital is overwhelmed Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for had to pause their work to attend to with patients from Port-au-Prince, health affairs at Duke and CEO of the their own situations and families, said which is two hours away. Duke University Health System said he Cameron Wolfe, MD, an infectious The other half of the team worked at is “proud of the commitment of our staff disease expert on the Duke team. a giant field hospital in Port-au-Prince. to make the personal sacrifices necessary “We’ve been asked to work with them PIH, a global health organization led to reach out to the people of Haiti. It is a to regain management of TB and HIV/ by Duke alumnus and University Trustee testament to the character of our faculty AIDS care and work on the problem of 2010 Paul Farmer, T’82, MD, PhD, has been and employees and their preeminent infectious disease, including emerging providing medical care in Haiti for more commitment to helping others.” ones like cholera,” he said. than 20 years. The Duke team’s goals are Dean Catherine L. Gilliss, BSN’71, For the latest news about Duke to meet the ongoing demand for surgical DNSc, RN, FAAN, said she was Medicine in Haiti, and to contribute to procedures, post-op care, and specialized especially pleased that nursing alumni the Duke Medical Haiti Relief Team’s wound care; and to help reinitiate medi- were part of the Duke Haiti team. efforts, visit dukemedicine.org/Giving cal care for people with serious chronic “We know the clinical capabilities of and click on “Duke Medicine Responds to Haiti Disaster.” DUKE NURSING WINTER 09 global

McConnell Receives Fulbright Specialists Grant Eleanor S. “Ellie” McConnell, BSN’76, MSN’78, PhD, RN, GCNS-BC, associate professor of nursing and director of the Gerontological Nursing Specialty Program, has been awarded a Fulbright Specialists grant in public and global health for an educational partnership with the University of the West Indies Marguerite, Fay, and Shela (from left) are (UWI) School of Nursing in Mona, Jamaica. She is the first members of the first group of gerontology nurse specialist students at the University of the Duke nursing faculty member to receive this honor. West Indies School of Nursing in Mona, Jamaica. McConnell will assist with faculty and curriculum All three are from Barbados, where Fay is a development and refinement of a clinical nurse specialist (CNP) nurse educator and Shela and Margureite are clinicians at the Geriatric Hospital. and nurse practitioner (NP) geriatric advanced practice nursing program at UWI-Mona. She will also provide consultation on for research and education…In short the first graduates of clinical practice sites. the UWI School of Nursing Gerontology Clinical Nurse McConnell has been working with UWI’s School of Specialist Program will find themselves in a country with rich Nursing since 2006, helping to develop regional health care data resources and a commitment to systematic approaches to delivery capacity to address the needs of a rapidly growing improving health care generally.” elderly population. This work was conducted in partnership “Dr. McConnell’s work as a Fulbright Specialist will with the Pan American Health Organization Office of inform her research, enrich the initiatives of our Center Caribbean Program Coordination, the Caribbean Community of Excellence in Geriatric Nursing Education, and enhance Secretariat (CARICOM), and UWI-Mona. our Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives According to McConnell’s postings on her blog, “Barbados continuing collaboration with UWI-Mona,” said Dorothy is home to the Cave Hill campus of UWI. They have a strong Powell, EdD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for global and working relationship with the Ministry of Health, who community health initiatives. has supported development of a series of disease registries, To read Ellie McConnell’s blog, please visit including the Barbados Stroke Registry. They also have been coegne.nursing.duke.edu/content/featured-blogs successful partnering with industry to develop new resources

Safari and Service in Tanzania July 16–26, 2010

The Duke Alumni Association and the Duke University School of Nursing Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives (OGACHI) are teaming up to bring you a Tanzania safari experience paired with educational and service opportunities.

n Experience incredible viewing of wildlife and n Tour the town of Moshi and visit Kilimanjaro the natural environment of the Serengeti and Christian Medical Center, where Duke has Ngorongo Crater, including Tarangire National substantial clinical research collaborations. Meet Park, Masai farmlands, and Olduvai Gorge medical and nursing students, residents, fellows, and Duke undergraduate students and hear n Visit Amani Children’s Home in Moshi, dedicated to the protection of children of the streets and about Tanzania’s complex social and health issues AIDS orphans, and meet director Valerie Johnson with John Bartlett, MD, HS’81–’84, ‘85–’87, and Todd, a Duke alumna John Crump, MD, HS’00, Duke physician faculty members in the Hubert-Yeargan Center for n Perform community service alongside Global Health at Duke. local residents

Contact: Beth Ray-Schroeder at Duke University School of Nursing Duke Education and Travel, 919-684-3046 or [email protected] Alumni Association Regional, and Duke Raleigh Hospital, are among just 5 percent Regional, andDuke RaleighHospital,areamong just5percent nursing MagnetRecognitionProgram.” nursing practices“goeshand-in-hand withthegoalsofour University HealthSystem,the DTNI’s focusonevidence-based safety officerforDukeUniversity HospitalandtheDuke development, particularlyatthepointofcaredelivery.” DTNI hasbeendesignedasaresourcetosupportknowledge they wanttobringinnovativesolutionscaredelivery. The who solvetheeverydayproblemsinpatientcaredeliveryand questions inneedofanswers.Similarly, thesenursesare theones are wellpoisedtogenerateresearch knowledge every day,” said Gilliss. “They patient care,confrontthegapsinour the deliveryofcare. the developmentanduseofevidencein improve patientcareoutcomesthrough and translationalresearchers. training futuregenerationsofclinical to improvecareandaccesscare, of care,engagingwithlocalcommunities research intonewtherapiesandmodels and speedingtheprocessoftranslating of institutionsdedicatedtoimproving which formedanationalconsortium to receivethefirstroundofCTSAs, was among11institutionsnationwide the NationalInstitutesofHealth.Duke translational scienceaward(CTSA)from 2006 witha$52.7millionclinicaland Medicine Institute,establishedin care servicesofficerfortheDukeUniversityHealthSystem. and MaryAnnFuchs,MSN’90,RN,chiefnursingpatient directed byDeanCatherineGilliss,BSN’71,DNSc,RN,FAAN, University HealthSystemnursingleaders. of anewinstitutestaffedjointlybySchoolNursingandDuke Applying nursingresearchtoimprovepatientcareisthefocus Puts Evidence into Practice Translational Nursing Institute delivery rethinking: All three Duke Health System hospitals, Duke, Durham All threeDuke Health Systemhospitals,Duke, Durham According toMaryAnnFuchs,chiefnursingandpatient “Nurses, especiallythosewhodeliver The overall aim of the DTNI is to It isoneoffivecorecomponentstheDuke Translational The DukeTranslational NursingInstitute(DTNI) isco- care hospital,” saidFuchs. care forpatientstransitioningbackhomeafterastayinthe this istheinstitute’s emphasisonimprovingthecontinuity of identify opportunitiestoimprovecare.Agoodexampleof will enable them to deliver optimal patient care and readily indicating exceptionalqualityandsafetyofcare. of hospitalsnationwiderecognizedasnursingmagnets, cal analysissupporttonursingfacultyandclinicalassociates. work addressesitsaimsandprovidesresearchdesignstatisti - of Nursing;and ShulamitBernard,PhD,RN, ANP. consulting associate fromtheUniversityofWashington School of Nursing; Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN, a a visitingscholarfromtheUniversity ofWashington School research operationsdirector;Pamela Mitchell,PhD,RN,FAAN, professor; KimberleyFisher, PhD,RN,FNP-BC,IBCLC,clinical operations; DebraBrandon,PhD,RN,CCNS,associate MSN’91, PhD,RN,FAAN, associatedirectorforresearch “DTNI will help our nurses develop new knowledge that “DTNI willhelpournursesdevelopnewknowledgethat Other membersoftheDTNIincludeBradiGranger, The DTNIoperatesasmallgrantsprogramforfacultywhose

11 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 rethinking:student innovators to bring them back every week I can walking without pain. She also helped because they’re not paying $75 for an a self-employed, uninsured truck driver office visit. There’s no billing. It’s just who had a brain aneurism receive the plain care and it’s wonderful.” necessary brain surgery needed to survive. DNP Student Rolls The program also includes a station- “We saved his life, and now he’s perfect,” Through ary clinic at the Goldsboro YMCA, King says. “He calls us his angels.” which also is staffed by a nurse practi- King is currently enrolled in the Wayne County tioner. The two clinics see a combined Duke University School of Nursing’s Delivering Care 950 patients per month. The $600,000 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) annual cost is paid for with grants from program. She will graduate in May as by Jim Rogalski Wayne County, The Duke Endowment, a member of the program’s inaugural the State of North Carolina Office of cohort of students. Most of her course Rural Health, the City of Goldsboro, work has been done online, with Being a trucker was not a career and others. In the past five years, drug occasional on-site time required—usually that Carol Ann King, RN, FNP, ever companies have donated $5 million on the weekends. envisioned. Yet most days the petite, worth of medication through patient King’s DNP clinical immersion size four, 44-year-old nurse practitioner assistance programs. project focused on whether people who can be seen behind the wheel of an “Sometimes people will see the truck need to be screened for colorectal cancer imposing 40-foot-long rig as it meanders on the road and follow us,” King says. are getting screened. She enlisted 200 along some of Wayne County’s most “Everyone knows the WATCH Truck.” patients, only two of whom had ever rural roads. In addition to health advocacy been previously screened. “The truck can feel pretty big navigat- and general screenings for high blood “It just doesn’t happen in the unin- ing out of downtown Goldsboro,” she pressure and diabetes, her clinic coordi- sured population,” she says. says, “but I love this job and don’t want nates more involved care if needed, like Ninety-three percent of the 200 to do anything else.” colonoscopies, MRIs, mammograms, enrollees returned their initial stool cards. Her rig is a mobile health clinic called and surgeries. King is dialed in to the Of those patients who returned the cards, the WATCH Truck, short for Wayne myriad services available to the unin- 10 percent showed signs of possible Action Teams for Community Health. It sured in North Carolina, including the colorectal cancer, yet only seven percent travels to 20 different locations a month North Carolina Division of Vocational agreed to have additional screening. providing free primary care to Wayne Rehabilitation Services, which recently “The others didn’t want to deal with it,” County’s uninsured population. She sees paid for an MRI and then surgery for King says. “That was totally unexpected.” an average of 30 patients per six-hour- a young woman who without interven- The study showed the need for more day, with 40-per days not unusual. tion would have soon become disabled intense education about the dangers of “We hustle, but everybody gets the from vascular necrosis of her hip. The colorectal cancer and the importance care they need,” she says. “And if I need woman is now back at work and of being tested. Her goal for getting her DNP degree is to be more competitive when applying for grants for studies and health promotion to the uninsured. “Nurses need to be the leaders in health care,” she says. “We have a very special view. We borrow from medicine and the social sciences and put it all together for the patient. Here at the clinic we have changed the course of people’s lives.” Just one of her many successes in the past six months includes helping 14 people quit smoking. Her life’s passion is to promote healthy lifestyles through proper diet and exercise. “I tell them that their health care costs will not be astronomical later if they take care of themselves now.” through treatment backtonormal.” resolved faster, andheprogressed strength ofhis cough. Histracheotomy him somethingtodoandincreased the adapter,” shesays.“Helovedit.Itgave the hospitalunitandmadehim this eter’s mouthtube. Holt’s patientcouldn’t usethe spirom- exhalation. Butwithhistracheotomy, and providingfeedbackoninhalation patients to breathe deep by measuring incentive spirometer, adevice thatretrains an age-oldnursingintervention,the setback frompneumonia. recovery—and toavoidingaserious lung functionwaskeytoherpatient’s wanted tohelp,andsheknewrestoring throat surgeryandatracheotomy. Holt was boredandimpatienttorecoverfrom to hishospitalbed,theformerrunner with herpatient’s frustration.Confined Jo EllenHolt,ABSN’08,couldidentify by MartyFisher Patent Pending MSN Student Has “I foundafewthingsaround Normally, Holtwouldhaveoffered her device and is talking with several her deviceand is talkingwithseveral a designandutility patentpendingfor about thepatent process.Holtnowhas autonomy?’” shesays. do itontheirownandhave more into patients’lungs. valve maskorambubagtoforceair bag a use currently who therapists, respiratory to talked She existed. similar totheoneshehadimprovised Hospital colleaguestoseeifadapters University Duke her with around ing tracheotomy patient,shestartedcheck- acute careclinicalnursespecialist. is currentlyworkingonamaster’s asan Accelerated BSNprogramin2008and heal. ShegraduatedfromDuke’s inventiveness toworkhelpingpeople Holt switchedtonursingputher made rocketenginesforthemilitary, That’s whenshedecidedtolearn “I thought‘whynotletthepatient After herexperiencewiththe A formerengineerwhoonce prize. a $1,000 receive each videos top three The pamphlets. patient-education existing several YouTubeto create of versions video invited are Students at Charlotte. Carolina North of University the and University, Carolina Western of Duke, website technology educational nursing iNET-Nurse.org on competition among teammembers. most effectivetoolsforcommunication phones, andlandlines—todeterminethe devices—Blackberries, iphones,cell MD, totestseveralcommunications created byChancellorVictor J.Dzau, a grantthroughanInnovationFund hospital teams,Holtrecentlyreceived other membersofmedicalandsurgical nication amongdoctors,nurses,and Duke forherspirometeradapter. to workoutprofit-sharingdetailswith be used by other nurses. She’s also trying privacy sothecellphoneapplicationcan resolve concernsaboutprotectingpatient working withDuke’s administrationto discharged fromthehospital.Nowshe’s to care for a serious wound after being to createatutorialthepatientcoulduse cell phonecameraandvoicerecorder Dick Gordon—whensheusedapatient’s National PublicRadio’s “TheStory”with attention—including aninterviewon Surgical andTrauma Transplant Unit. currently worksasanurseonthe2300 the boatatDukeHospital,whereshe process isdoableforothers.” patenting arena.Ihopetoshowthe “Nurses areunder-represented inthe our intellectualproperty,” shesays. unfortunately wedon’t alwaysprotect ingenious waystodothings,but through thepatentprocess. to puttheirinnovativeideasintopractice it. Shehopestoencourageothernurses companies about building and marketing Holt has also started a video video a started also has Holt In anefforttoimprovecommu- Last year she received national media Holt is becoming known for rocking “Nurses comeupwiththemost

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13 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 rethinking:learning

New Educational Institute Engages Students through Technology and Interactive Learning by Bernadette Gillis

The days when a professor stood in front of a classroom and recited facts while students furiously attempted to jot it all down are numbered. At Duke University School of Nursing’s new Institute for Educational Excellence, Theresa M. “Terry” Valiga, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, is introducing new teaching methods and technology that promise to engage students and set them on a path toward lifelong learning.

Created in July 2008, the new institute promotes innova- needs teachers with a deep nursing knowledge who also know tion in teaching and learning by using evidence and best how to teach and conduct research on nursing education.” practices, creating new knowledge to fill significant gaps, and Among the radical transformations proposed are employing new models of effective teaching to nursing and concept-based curricula, which organize content around health professions educators at Duke and beyond. core themes, such as biophysical, psychosocial, and life In 2003 and 2005 the National League for Nursing (NLN) phases; better integration of classroom and clinical learning; called for major reform in nursing education, noting many clinical immersion experiences; and team learning, which educators were still teaching the way they were taught as brings students from different health professions together for students, despite dramatic changes in health care, advances in interactive learning experiences. educational technology, and better understanding about how Valiga wants to help faculty members shift from detail- adults learn. focused, content-driven curricula toward a greater emphasis on More recently, important reports on nursing and broad principles, the development of deep thinking skills, use healthcare education (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard & Day, 2010; of cutting-edge technology, and the systematic use of evidence- Institute of Medicine, 2003) have noted that “reform of health based teaching practices. The strategic use of advanced professions education is critical to enhancing the quality of technologies, in particular, not only serves to improve learning health care in the United States,” and that “nursing education outcomes but also appeals to the Net Generation and others who increasingly rely on technology. “We need to move from Before coming to Duke Valiga was chief program officer at the NLN. In the future she plans to focus on research related covering content in to teaching, learning, and technology use; developing a better classrooms to helping understanding of how the brain processes new information; and forming national and international partnerships to students think deeply promote innovation and evidence-based teaching practices. and learn how to learn… The institute will be a critical force in achieving strategic educational goals at the School of Nursing and in developing Those really are the new models for nursing education internationally, according skills they’ll need to to Dori Taylor Sullivan, PhD, RN, NE-BC, CNL, CPHQ, survive in and, indeed, associate dean for academic affairs. shape the world.” —Terry Valiga “In any given classroom, you have auditory learners, visual learners, and kinesthetic any“In given classroom,kinesthetic youand have auditorylearners, learners, visual “We needtomovefromcoveringcontentinclassrooms variety ofapproaches.Thosereallyaretheskillsthey’llneedto EdD, MSN, RN, BC, CNE, associate director; Barbara EdD, MSN,RN,BC,CNE,associatedirector;Barbara C based inthelatesttechnology. TheNurseAnesthesiaprogram Pellizzari, staffassistant;andNewmanLanier, educational learners, visual learners, and kinesthetic learners, who, if they problem-solvers. “In any given classroom, you have auditory partnership withotherhealthprofessions,”shesaid. of nursing, says evidence shows that many traditional teaching and her team about teaching methods, particularly those and herteamaboutteachingmethods,particularlythose helping studentsthinkdeeplyandlearnhowtousinga how teaching and learning occurs, within nursing and in how teachingandlearningoccurs,withinnursingin hub forinformationandresourcesthatwillhelprevolutionize methods are not as effective in helping students become methods arenotaseffectiveinhelpingstudentsbecome recently initiated a distance learning program that will allow recently initiatedadistancelearningprogramthatwillallow the differentlearningstyles,thenyoucan’t haveyourlectures truly believethatoneofyourresponsibilitiesistoteach the Nurse Anesthesia program, often consults with Valiga technology specialist. survive inand,indeed,shapetheworld,”saysValiga. can’t touchit,itwon’t berealtothem,”Gordonsays.“Ifyou grounded injustoneapproach.” learners, who, if they can’t touch can’t it, itthey won’t if who, realto be them.”learners, lassroom “The institute was created to provide a visible and vibrant “The institutewascreatedtoprovideavisibleandvibrant Valiga’s teamattheinstituteincludesPamelaEdwards, Sharon Hawks, MSN, RN, CRNA, associate director of Sharon Hawks,MSN,RN,CRNA,associatedirectorof Helen Gordon, MS, CNM, CNE, assistant clinical professor Helen Gordon,MS,CNM,CNE,assistantclinicalprofessor I nnovations Christmas garlandinsideaplasticjarfilledwithwater. Thejar your classwhofeelsacertainway, andyou’rereallyhesitantto but thatdoesn’t meanherstudents areanylessengaged.She Hawks might ask students whether they are for or against Hawks mightaskstudentswhethertheyarefororagainst Hawks hasalsocollaboratedwithValiga todevelopelectronic potential employers, Hawks says. potential employers,Hawkssays. picture ofastudent’s accomplishmentsandphilosophiesfor learning portfoliosforheranesthesiastudents.Afairlynew learning with her students, even at times making homemade learning withherstudents,evenattimesmakinghomemade is used to demonstrate the effect of removing water from the is usedtodemonstratetheeffectofremovingwaterfrom discuss things,” Hawks says. “Maybe you’re the only one in discuss things,”Hawkssays.“Maybeyou’retheonlyonein displays or models. displays ormodels. health care reform, and using handheld remotes or “clickers” health carereform,andusinghandheldremotesor“clickers” her to poll students anonymously, which helps when discussing her classesistheaudienceresponsesystem.Thesystemallows results onascreenatthefrontofclass.“It’s agreatwayto the students can enter their responses. The system then displays the studentscanentertheirresponses.Thesystemthendisplays trend inthefieldofnursing,portfoliosprovideamorein-depth students from rural areas in North Carolina to participate in students fromruralareasinNorthCarolinatoparticipate says she’s constantlylookingforwaystoencouragehands-on say so.Idon’t havetopointyou out.Thesystemallowsyouto controversial or emotionally charged topics. For example, controversial oremotionallychargedtopics.Forexample, communicate andparticipateinclassfromremotelocations. classes virtually. Video technologypermitsthesestudentsto express divergentopinionsandfeelcomfortable.” Another teaching method that Hawks has found useful in Another teachingmethodthatHawkshasfoundusefulin Gordon often takes a less tech-savvy approach to teaching, Gordon oftentakesalesstech-savvyapproachtoteaching, One ofGordon’s creationsisadollattachedtoplastic —H Nursing studentsuse theaudienceresponsesystem. G elen ordon

15 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 “[Team-oriented and problem-based learning activities] stay with the students longer. They have more meaning and can be

applied it right away in a clinical setting.” —Midge Bowers

fetal membrane of a pregnant woman. Gordon says removing Valiga says future plans for the institute include creating part of the water from the jar helps students retain a visual a repository to house nursing education resources in one understanding of what happens when a woman’s membranes easy-to-access location and promoting collaborative research rupture early, which can cause the baby to compress the efforts related to the physiology and psychology of learning umbilical cord and lead to lowered fetal heart rate. “It’s crude and teaching innovations using this evidence. Additionally, but effective,” says Gordon. “I’m taking abstract concepts and using technology to expand the School of Nursing’s reach making them relevant, understandable, and real.” nationally and globally to educate nurses and enhance health While Margaret “Midge” Bowers, MSN’90, RN, care to communities in need is underway. She envisions the FNP-BC, assistant professor of nursing, is no stranger to school serving as a model for nursing schools across the using technology in the classroom, she has also found group country that wish to advance excellence and innovation in activities—sans computers—to be effective. She says such nursing education. team-oriented and problem-based learning activities prove For a schedule of Teaching Conversations dates and topics useful for her students as they enter the real world. please visit nursing.duke.edu and click on “See all news and Bowers likes to use “unfolding cases” in which each student events,” and “the Institute for Educational Excellence hosts group is presented with a case, but instead of presenting the Teaching Conversations series.” patient’s history and symptoms all at once, Bowers gives the students selected bits of information at time, mimicking the way real life clinical situations unfold. Students then work together to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. “The lessons from these activities stay with the students longer,” Bowers says. “They have more meaning and can be applied right away in a clinical setting.” While the idea of incorporating innovative teaching methods is not exactly new in academia, Valiga says what is new is the push for faculty members to formally study these alternative methods. She is working to help the School of Nursing’s faculty members contribute to nursing education research by gathering data on what works and what doesn’t in their own classrooms and sharing that information with their peers through professional journals and conferences. Just as nurses in practice are working to translate clinical research to improve nursing and health care practices, Valiga says there is a need for nurse educators to translate pedagogical research into best practices for the classroom, laboratory, and clinical environments. Hawks, Gordon, and Bowers are all in the very early stages of data collection, and they each hope to eventually contribute to the body of education research.

Developing Nurse Educators The Institute for Educational Excellence offers a variety of opportunities for faculty to develop their educator skills. All faculty members have the chance to participate in a series of informal discussions about tools and techniques for effective teaching. Twice a month the institute hosts its “Teaching Conversations Series” at the school. Topics have included tips on presentations, best practices for online learning, and effective ways to use simulation technology.

Sharon Hawks T water skiing—fell off a roof and became water skiing—felloffaroofandbecame who hadtaughtheraboutboatingand what coursesIshouldtakeand wanted tobeanurse,”Reedsays,“but Nursing (DUSON)andforthepublic North CarolinaatChapelHill against SAT scoresIneeded.” fortunately forme[myguidance coun- I knewthatDukewasexactlywhere Hospital. Shewasimpressedwiththe plan outmyhighschoolcurriculum— a paraplegic. boy friends—a best her of one 14, age leader on public health and nursing nursing and health public on leader do a lot of catching up,” Reed says, “but do alotofcatchingup,”Reed says,“but assured ReedthatshewasnotaDuke of a scholarshiptoattendtheUniversity a in roots its has profession health has fortheDukeUniversitySchoolof needed togo.Thenurseshelpedme helped treathim. her wrong.” many nurses and nursing students who many nursesandnursingstudentswho tragic eventduringherchildhood.At three months that her friend was at Duke three monthsthatherfriendwasatDuke the advice of her guidance counselor who the bull, and I was determined to prove the bull,andIwasdetermined toprove so overpowering that she turned down so overpoweringthatsheturneddown selor] had waved that red flag in front of selor] hadwavedthatredflag infrontof caliber student. Joy Forsythe Reed, BSN’70,Joy EdD, Forsythe FAAN RN, Distinguished Alumna Award “I notonlydecidedthenthatI “My first year was tough and I had to “My firstyearwastoughandIhadto Today Reedisastate andnational Joy visited him regularly during the Joy visitedhimregularlyduringthe Her desire to attend DUSON was Her desiretoattendDUSONwas

Reed, BSN’70, EdD, RN, FAAN RN, EdD, Reed, BSN’70, he deeppassionthatJoyForsythe , Accreditation Board, which is expected Accreditation Board,whichisexpected Control andPreventionbythe Committee of the national Public Health Committee ofthenationalPublicHealth with funding by the Centers for Disease with fundingbytheCentersforDisease was ontheStandardsWorkgroup of Nursing andProfessionalDevelopment Nursing (ASTDN); the American Nurses Nursing (ASTDN); theAmericanNurses Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation.She Reed says.“To meitmakesmore sense birth-weight babyinintensivecare.” for theNorthCarolinaDivisionof Public Health.Sheledthestate’s effortto It includes two leaders from four major It includestwoleadersfromfour major led tohercurrentworkontheaccredita- issues. SheisheadofPublicHealth programs and have a lot of healthy babies problems. “Mybeliefisweneedtoshift philosophy onhealthcare,whichis istrator meldedperfectlywithReed’s adopted by the state Legislature in 2006, adopted bythestateLegislaturein2006, and localhealthdepartments.Thatplan, develop theaccreditationsystemforstate of StateandTerritorial Directors of of PublicHealthNursingOrganizations. accreditation planin2011. and nowservesontheStandards nursing organizations—the Association nursing organizations—theAssociation national eight-memberQuad Council money tothefrontendofsystem,” tion program being beta-tested nationally to accept its first applications to the to acceptitsfirstapplicationsthe the ExploringAccreditationInitiative than to spend that money on just one low than tospendthatmoneyonjustonelow to spend$120,000onpre-natalcare to keeppeoplewellavoidhealth Becoming apublichealthadmin- She has also been involved with the She hasalsobeeninvolvedwith the “Bill” Reed live in Raleigh. They have three have three They inRaleigh. live “Bill” Reed Award forPublicHealthNursing.Shehas ASTDN representatives. Association. Reedwasoneofthetwo Association CouncilonNursingPractice ANA committees to revise the Scope and ANA committeestorevisetheScopeand This wasearned,inpart,forherwork Community Health Nursing Educators; Community HealthNursingEducators; which struckthestatein1999. with theaftermathofHurricaneFloyd, was groundedintherealworld.She Foundation ExecutiveNurseFellows College of Education and Psychology; Psychology; and of Education College Nurses Association (ANA) Pearl McIver Nurses Association(ANA)PearlMcIver Nursing andalsoreceivedtheAmerican Nursing oftheAmericanPublicHealth Nursing Administration. the North Carolina Division of Public Health of Public Carolina Division North the C Standards of Public Health Nursing and Standards ofPublicHealthNursingand former chair of the Quad Council and the former chairoftheQuadCounciland DUSON. Minnear taught a leadership DUSON. Minneartaughtaleadership UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health of Public UNC-Chapel School Hill and Scott, 36. 36. Scott, and Program. In 2008 she was inducted as Program. In2008shewasinductedas in thestateoverpreviousyear. Education a fellow into the American Academy of a fellowintotheAmericanAcademyof accepted intotheRobertWood Johnson Health Public of Section the and and Economics;theAssociationof at Duke Hospital during her time at at DukeHospitalduringhertime children—Elizabeth (Beth), 26; Keri, 33; Keri, 33; 26; (Beth), children—Elizabeth outcomes. SheandDukeopenedup helping localhealthdepartmentscope Nursing; North Carolina State University Carolina State University North Nursing; how itimpactspatientcareand Nursing and Professional Development for Development Professional and Nursing recognizes thepersonwhohasmade received theReynoldsAward, which real waspowerful,” Reedsays.“She PERSONAL: the inauguralcohortofstudents to Wilma Minnear, whowas chiefnurse twice served as ASTDN president and is a the greatestdifferenceinpublichealth the worldforme.” taught conceptsofleadershipthrough course duringReed’s senioryear. T urrent “Her abilitytomakeacademics Within NorthCarolinashehas Reed says she is especially indebted Reed sayssheisespeciallyindebted In 1998Reedwasamemberof itle She and her husband William William husband her and She : Duke University School of School Duke University : Head of Public Health Health of Public Head

awards —Jim Rogalski —Jim

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Dalton’s dedication to pain man- agement research led to a number of National Institutes of Health awards. To promote knowledge and practice change, she co-founded the N.C. Cancer Pain Initiative, which was patterned after a national model created by the Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives. As committed as she was to her research, Dalton insists her biggest contribution to nursing in general was teaching thousands of nursing students, including undergraduate and gradu- ate students who were interested in Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Science developing their own studies on pain. Jo Ann Baughan Dalton, BSN’57, MSN’60, EdD, RN, FAAN Her teaching career began at Duke’s School of Nursing, and she later went on to the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, ell me where it hurts” is one of about pain. Instead of simply asking “ where she spent 27 years as a faculty the basic questions patients can patients if they were in pain and using T member. At Emory she served as the expect from a health care provider. And the response to create a one-size-fits-all Edith F. Honeycutt Chair in Oncology yet, despite significant advances in medi- treatment plan, Dalton’s study involved and Professor of Nursing until retiring cine and medical technology, knowing asking patients more in-depth questions in 2009. exactly where it hurts, why it hurts, and about factors that influenced their report The School of Nursing previously how much it hurts remains an inexact sci- of pain. She wanted to know more about honored Dalton in 2007 with its ence. People experience pain differently, the great variation she had observed in Distinguished Alumni Award. Other and caregivers vary in their understanding patients’ response to painful stimuli. honors include receiving the Outstanding of how to manage pain. Thanks to Based on each patient’s responses to Service Award from the North Carolina the pioneering research of School of the BPP, Dalton was able to create a pro- Nurses Association Board of Trustees in Nursing alumna Jo Ann Baughan Dalton, file that helped her better understand the 2003 and being elected a fellow of the BSN’57, MSN’60, EdD, RN, FAAN, individual, as well as test combinations American Academy of Nursing in 1990. patients suffering from cancer and other of cognitive-behavioral therapies such The North Carolina Nurses Association painful conditions have a better chance of as distraction, relaxation techniques, or named Dalton Nurse Researcher of the avoiding debilitating pain. imagery that might work best to manage Year in 1989. From 1985–87 she served Dalton confronted a lack of an individual patient’s pain. as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse knowledge among health care providers, “I was hoping to help people Scholar, and in 1957 she was awarded the including nurses, on how best to assess understand that it’s a complex problem U.S. Public Health Service Award. cancer pain and administer pain medica- that requires constant reassessment,” tions. In fact, for 30 of her 50 years as says Dalton, who is professor emeritus Current Title: Professor Emeritus at the a nurse researcher, Dalton focused on at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing finding ways to help health care providers of Nursing at Emory University. “For at Emory University better understand cancer pain and how example you don’t just ask, ‘Are you Education: Duke University School of it affects the lives of their patients. having any pain?’ You continue to Nursing; N.C. State University; University In one key study, Dalton and her reassess their condition. Historically of Rochester PERSONAL: She has three adult children— colleagues developed the Biobehavioral nurses did not do detailed pain assess- Katrina Dalton, Jennifer Roorbach, and ments. My work has tried to expand Pain Profile (BPP), a questionnaire that Rebecca Reynolds—and lives in Atlanta, Ga. allows patients to report on their beliefs that knowledge.” A help theonewhoisinfrontofyou.” them all,andthat’s true,”shesays.“Soyou College ofGeorgia inAugusta.She and ofadultnursing attheMedical Franklin UniversityinColumbus, , Jewell CollegeinLiberty, Mo.,andat departments ofnursingatWilliam Nursing. Sheisaformerchair ofthe of theDukeUniversitySchool of faith isforever,” shesays. 20 albinos. into herownwallettobuysunglassesfor around theworld.Oncesheevendipped provincial nursingschoolsandhospitals written andupdatednursingcurriculaat of nursesinthird-worldcountries,and for impoverishedwomen,educatedscores She hasdevelopednutritionalguidelines with avarietyofmissionorganizations. on anambitiousscheduleofmissiontrips visited 31countriesoverthepast40years support fromfamilyandfriendsshehas the leastfortunateofworld.With powered Martin’s commitment to helping devotion toservingJesusChrist,has PhD, ARNP. Davis Martin,N’56,BSN’58,MSN’60, transformed withthehelpofShirley countless peoplewhoseliveshavebeen brain tumoraremereglimpsesofthe a with boy Kenyan a and lip, cleft a with boy Faso Burkina 9-year-old a Shirley Davis MSN’60, PhD, Martin, BSN’58, N’56, ARNP Duke University School of Nursing Humanitarian Award Martin is a former faculty member Martin isaformerfacultymember “Medicine isashort-termthing,but That belief,alongwithaceaseless “A lotofpeoplesaythatyoucan’t help 22-pound cystonhisarm, a with farmer WestAfrican

appreciated by those whoreceiveit. and where the care she delivers is greatly tional nursingexpertise issoughtout countries whereherclinicaland educa- Uzbekistan, Bolivia,tonamea fewofthe Brazil, PapuaNewGuinea,Kazakhstan, like aworldmap:Kosovo,Romania, clinical nursing.Hertravelresume reads and successfulcareerinacademic sional.” So she did, retiring from a long trips morethanjustsomethingocca- was sayingittimetomakemission nursing school].” to patientswerealreadyobvious[in commitment tonursingandherdevotion Nursing HumanitarianAward. “Her nominated MartinfortheSchoolof Jean M.Bedell,BSN’56,RN,MA,who University SchoolofNursingclassmate done],” saysMartin’s formerDuke curricula inHanoiandSaigon. in Vietnam helping to update nursing remote hospital.InOctobershewillbe and patientsafetystandardsatasmall help run a clinic and upgrade nursing on aseveralmonths-longmissionto College ofGeorgiaSchoolNursing. in Columbus,Ohio;andtheMedical University Franklin ; Central Diego StateCollege;theUniversityof South CarolinaSchoolofNursing;San College ofNursing;theUniversity Florida of University the at positions faculty held has She Fla. Orlando, in nursing atValencia CommunityCollege is formerchairofmedical-surgical Martin says that in 1999 “the Lord Martin saysthatin1999“theLord “It isastonishing[whatshehas In January Martin left for Kenya PERSONAL: Education C 11 Fla. inOrlando, lives She grandchildren. of Nursing of Nursing College of Florida University Nursing, Martin says. at DukeisstilltheoneIusetoday,” as hergreatestinfluence. Department ofMedical-SurgicalNursing, former professorandchairofDuke’s as aunit.ShecountsThelmaIngles, of considering the patient and the family instructors instilledinhertheimportance the useofhisinjuredlegasithealed. to continue going to school while sparing nearly lostaleg.Thebikeallowedhim bicycle fora9-year-old boywhohad brain tumor. In Romania she bought a get surgeryfortheKenyanboywith they saw. Shecoordinatedtheeffortto his image,nottheirown,wouldbewhat mirror to people in his village, believing with greatexcitementpassedaroundthe the firsttimeeverfollowingsurgeryand surgery—saw himselfinamirrorfor cleft lip—forwhomshealsocoordinated prized sackofbeans.Theboywiththe village that he gave Martin a highly farming andcontributetohis60-person so gratefulforhisabilitytoreturn cyst removedfromhisrightarm—was she arrangedsurgerytohaveagiant T urrent “The modelthatIwastaught Martin says her Duke nursing The West Africanfarmer—forwhom itle Has four grown children and and children fourgrown Has : Duke University School of School Duke University

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19 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 s a v e t h e d a t e Reunion 2010 april 16–17, 2010 Greetings to all Duke University School of Nursing Alumni! As president of the Duke Nursing Alumni Association since program simply because of their need for more financial aid July 2009, I am continually impressed with the school’s and concerns about the current economic environment. Other academic programs and the faculty and students I have been students in the masters and post-graduate programs are also privileged to meet. The Duke University School of Nursing feeling the financial strain as they actively pursue their dream (DUSON) is growing at tremendous speed and now has just of obtaining a superb education from DUSON. under 500 students enrolled in the ABSN, MSN, PhD, and Many of us give to Duke because of our strong and loyal DNP programs! bond with our alma mater. Please consider giving to the Duke On December 12, 2009, I was proud to participate in Nursing Annual Fund so more students can receive direct the Recognition Ceremony for the Class of 2010. Sixty-eight financial aid during these difficult financial times. If you are ABSN students received the Duke Nursing Pin, 21 students one of the loyal Duke Nursing supporters, I thank you. I received MSNs, and six students received a post master’s have made a commitment to allocating all gifts I give to Duke certificate. The ceremony took place at the Bryan Center to go only to the Duke Nursing Annual Fund. In the last and was filled with excited families and students. It took four years I have served on the alumni council I have been me back to the baccalaureate ceremony that my class had in completely impressed with all the support DUSON offers its Duke Chapel. The biggest difference was that we wore white students. The current faculty and innovative programs are uniforms and stockings and these students wore party dresses models for other nursing schools. The incoming students are and jackets. The smiles all around were the same. leaving high paying careers to pursue nursing at the ABSN Currently, the School of Nursing boasts 71 ABSN level. They want to receive a top notch education and Duke students who started in August 2009, and this year another is, wisely, their choice. We need to help them realize their ABSN class of 52 has been added that just started in January. dreams. We need excellent nurses in the years ahead. Please These numbers surpass the numbers of BSN students we had consider giving to help these students. from 1984 and all previous years. Duke’s ABSN program, I hope all of you are receiving the DUSON e-News which started in 2002, has exploded, and the quality of the updates. These updates allow the alumni to see the many students is quite impressive. I encourage all alumni to come opportunities and accomplishments that are occurring within back to Duke and visit the School of Nursing’s extraordinary your school. I hope you will also visit the new website for new building and introduce yourself to students and find Duke Nursing Alumni. Get reconnected to your school and out what brought them to Duke. You need not wait for your follow its exceptional endeavors. The Duke University School reunion year! of Nursing continues to produce superb nurses! The graduates A pressing concern among the recent graduates is the of Duke today will be our future nursing leaders! depressed job market. Despite their excellent education, our I hope to see many of you at graduates are finding that jobs are scarce and difficult to Nursing Reunion Weekend, obtain. I encourage you, as alumni, to reach out to the school April 16–17, 2010. I look forward with any job opportunities in your work place. You can to attending the nursing reunion connect to Duke by visiting the DUSON Alumni and Friends events and meeting fellow alumni. website at nursealum.duke.edu. Consider also registering Reconnect to your alma mater with the Duke Alumni Directory and the DukeConnect and you too will be proud of systems. In addition, you can connect to DUSON via its accomplishments. Facebook and YouTube! I am sure any Duke Nursing Alumni would be proud to hire a recent Duke graduate. Another concern is the need for nursing scholarships. Just recently, six students deferred their acceptance to the ABSN Connie C. Kendall, BSN’84, MSNA, CRNA from theUniversityofTexas atAustin. Chapel Hillandamaster’s inlibraryscience Daughter MaryhasanMBAfromUNC- has twodaughtersandsixgrandchildren. Judith HudsonLefkowitz,BSN’56 SegoCraig,BSN’55 Virginia Boynton,BSN’50 Mary RuthThornton 1950s Caroline, BSN’80 Jane D.Swan,BSN’45 1940s classnews HS’56 her husband University SchoolofMedicine.Sheand Shade Tree Clinic, afreestudent-run challenging medical casesfromVanderbilt’s students, faculty, andhousestafftoreview and PatientAdvocacy, allowsmedical The LefkowitzHour:ClinicalMedicine a monthlyconferencenamedin hishonor. recently washonoredbyVanderbilt with of preventivemedicineatVanderbilt, grandchildren. Lewis,anemeritiprofessor a lawfirminGreenville. Memorial Hospital;andRebeccaworksat works intheoncologyunitatGreenville from Virginia; Nelda,aregisterednurse, four childrenandlivesacrossthestreet daughters. TheoldestisLoyce;Bethhas She livesinGreenville,S.C.,andhasfour to havestentsplacedinacoronaryartery. recently underwentaheartcatheterization 2000, hasdiabetesandheartproblems and amaster’s incontinuingeducation. passed awayin2008. year-old granddaughter. HerhusbandM.T. who bothliveinKnoxvilleandafour- in herhonor. Shehasasonanddaughter Visitors. Theschoolnamedalectureseries where shecurrentlyservesontheBoardof Tennessee atKnoxvilleSchoolofNursing, health nursingattheUniversityof having spent18yearsteachingcommunity of Knoxville,Tenn., isnowretiredafter – ’57 , havethreesonsandseveral Lewis B.LefkowitzJr., MD, , hasaBSNfromDuke , of Andrews, N.C., , ofAndrews,N.C., at Vanderbilt Cell Biology) of Anatomy(now of theDepartment to thechairman research assistant retired in1985as Nashville, Tenn., , retiredsince , of ,

grown childrenandfivegrandchildren. central Floridainthewinter. Theyhavetwo Mich., fromMaythroughOctoberandin and herhusbandJamesliveinLevering, back painfrompost-poliosyndrome.She daughters wholiveinWisconsin. (NAMI). Sheandherhusbandhavetwo of theNationalAllianceonMentalIllness previously helpedfoundalocalaffiliate also ownandoperatea50-acrefarm.Ann still bearealnurse.”Sheandherhusband give upnursingandwantedtoseeifIcould nursing home.Shewrites,“Icouldn’t quite a N.C., worksfiveeveningsamonthat reading, gardening, andsinginginthe When notworking sheenjoyswalking, Healthcare ofthe Triangle inDurham,N.C. quality improvementmanagerfor Interim mentored nursepractitionersfor35years. the Vanderbilt SchoolofNursing,wherehe selected asaTop 100GradsandPatronsof health clinicinEastNashville.Healsowas Sheila RiceEvans,BSN’66 Sister JeanGabrielCrothers, BSN’65 Judith E.Harlow, BSN’64 1960s Lynn CollinsClarke,BSN’59,MSN’63 Ann Teague Nandrea, BSN’56 T’90 heaven” inKeoweeKey, S.C. retirees andareenjoyingtheir“littlebitof grandchildren betweenthem.Bothare University. JudithandStephenhavesix is aheavy-weightrowingcoachatColumbia English teacherinRome,Ga.;andMichael church. Judithhasthreechildren. Habitat forHumanityandattheirlocal N.Y. Theybothenjoyvolunteeringfor book, amysterysetinRussiaandBrooklyn, husband Stephenrecentlycompletedhisfifth counselor throughClemsonUniversity. Her photography, natureactivities,andmusic. school. Outsideofworksheenjoys reading, mission church and a new mission primary Republic. She is currently helping to build a in SanPedrodeMacoris,Dominican education andmedicalcenterforchildren is directorofCentroBuenPastor, an , isanursemidwife; due tokneeand Alumni Reunion School ofNursing attend thisyear’s will notbeableto regrets thatshe Michigan and sends regardsfrom Casey, T’93 , is a wellness , isawellness , recently became , recentlybecame , of Franklin, , ofFranklin, Lucy, , is an , isan , , three childrenandgrandchildren. UNC professor, live in Chapel Hill and have Durham Chorale.Sheandherhusband,a in PonteVedra, Fla. stepchildren andtwograndchildrenlives and yoga,playsthepiano.Shehasfour jumper competitions, does organic gardening Florida. Shealsoshowshorsesathunter- Great NursesScholarshipProgramin and workingasavolunteerwiththe100 Sharon L.StanleyAlden,BSN’68 holds aCaliforniaTeaching Credentialin been aparenteducatorfor35yearsand and availableonAmazon.com.Ricehas Concerns,” publishedbyParagonHouse Encouragement forEverydayParenting written thebook,“ParentingSolutions: Joan SchweickartRice,BSN’70,has 1970s Judie K.DalsonRitter, BSN’68 coach atTheCitadel. Andrew, agraduatestudentandfootball a SergeantFirstClassintheU.S.Army;and in themilitary. Shehastwosons—Michael, educating peopleabouttheroleofwomen Washington, D.C.Shenowisdedicatedto Women’s MemorialatThe Wall in which wasresponsibleforplacingthe Vietnam Women’s MemorialFoundation, elected totheExecutiveBoardof and Iraq.Inothernews,sherecentlywas years ofservice,includingtoursinVietnam retired asaLieutenantColonelafter27 for lifeasaproductiveveteran.Aldenhad return themtoactivedutyorprepare and guidesthemthroughrecoverytoeither care and/orextensivecasemanagement program takessoldierswhorequirecomplex the Warriors inTransition Program.The through 2012asnursecasemanagerfor She isstationedinBamberg,Germany, in February. were expecting a fourth grandchildren and Calif. Theyhavethree live inSantaMaria, and herhusbandGary parent education.She military since 1993. military since1993. retired fromthe after havingbeen to active duty Corps toreturn U.S. ArmyNurse invitation fromthe accepted an , isretired , has

21 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 Class notes Connie Bossons Bishop, BSN’75, has with an engineering company, where she obituaries been appointed as a senior examiner designs bridges. Her daughter Brenda is a 1930s for the N.C. Awards for Excellence, the junior musical theater and musical theater Delores Camp Atkins, N’35, of Durham, N.C., Baldrige-based performance improvement education major at American University. died Oct. 2, 2009. She was 94. She worked as program for North Carolina. She also Her son Derek is a high school junior who a private duty and founded was appointed to the 2009 Board of plays soccer on a premier travel team. the Child Centered School in 1954. She later Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige worked on the pediatric wards at Duke and National Quality Award, which is the 1980s the Duke Eye Center. She is survived by two highest level of national recognition a U.S. Pamela C. Slaughter, BSN’80, is a clinical daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren, and organization can receive. As an examiner registered nurse at SHAPE (Supreme Head- eight great-grandchildren. Bishop is responsible for reviewing quarters for the Allied Powers of Europe) , of Clearwater, and evaluating applications submitted in Belgium. She is certified in pediatric Margaret Davey Barbee, N’35 for the award. The board is composed advanced life support, advanced cardiac Fla., died Jan. 18, 2010. She was 96. She was of approximately 500 leading experts life support, and pediatric nursing and is a a retired registered nurse from Morton Plant selected from industry, professional, and basic life support instructor. Her husband Hospital. She is survived by a son, a daughter, trade organizations; education and health is now a retired public health physician. and four grandchildren. care organizations; and government. While the couple lives in Belgium, their Frances Estes Reagan, BSN’37, of Macon, Bishop lives in Gibsonville, N.C. three adult children and two grandchildren Ga., died Dec. 2, 2009, at her home. She was Tina Marie Marrelli, BSN’75, president live in the United States. 96. Reagan, a registered nurse, had worked at of Marrelli and Associates, Inc., a health Linda Seymour Hodgens, BSN’81, College Street Hospital and was retired from care consulting and publishing company, has started LightShine Pomeranians in the Medical Center of Central Georgia. She is was inducted as a fellow of the American Newburgh, N.Y., for the breeding of cham- survived by a daughter, four grandchildren, and Academy of Nursing at the academy’s pion dogs to promote mental health. Her 10 great-grandchildren. annual meeting in November. A total of 98 breeding program features white, cream, Annie Beery Bieber, N’38, formerly of nurse leaders were inducted based on their and orange Pomeranian puppies. The Ft. Myers, Fla., died on Feb. 25, 2010, in significant contributions to nursing and operation is noted for gaining PupSAFE Greensboro, N.C. During WWII she was an health care and the extent to which their certification. She and her husband industrial nurse in a U.S. Steel defense plant nursing careers influence health policies for Jay, E’81, have three children and live in the area, and she spent three years the benefit of all Americans. Marrelli and in Rock Tavern, N.Y. in Hawaii as a dispensary nurse at Kilauea her husband William L. Glass live in Sugar Plantation in Kilauea, Kauai. She was a St. Henry, Ohio. 2000s member of the James B. Duke Society and the Nancy Munn Short, BSN’76, B’91, Margaret “Margo” Moore, MSN’08, Duke Cornerstone Society. She is survived by received the 2009 Arnold Kaluzny accepted a job in August 2009 as an two sons, a granddaughter, and two grandsons. Distinguished Alumni Award from the oncology nurse practitioner in the breast Memorials may be made to the Annie Beery Public Health Leadership Program at the cancer clinic at Lombardi Comprehensive Bieber, N’38, and Gustave F. Bieber, MD’43, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Cancer Center at Georgetown University Scholarship Fund at the Duke University School Health. She also was named a member Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She of Nursing, 512 S. Mangum Street, Suite 400, of Who’s Who in Health Policy in North lives in Arlington, Va. Durham, NC 27701. Carolina. She currently is an associate Kimberly A. Alexander, ABSN’09, Ida Shaw Applewhite Barber, BSN’39, of clinical professor at Duke University School received the Ruby L. Wilson Award St. Petersburg, Fla., died June 21, 2009. She was of Nursing, where she teaches health for Clinical 93. She was a member of the Visiting Nurses policy, health economics, and population Excellence, Association of St. Petersburg; director of nursing health to graduate and doctoral students. which is given during the start-up for the Neighborly Center Joan Cassetta Gurvis, BSN’77, was annually at for Elderly day care; director of nursing for the married to James Taggart Shields on Aug. graduation St. Petersburg chapter of the American Red 15, 2009. The couple lives in Colorado to the ABSN Cross; and lead disaster coordinator for the 1977 Springs, Colo. student who Kentucky mudslide disaster. She is survived by a most clearly Cindy Shapiro Lipton, BSN’78, of Morris daughter, two sons, and many grandchildren and demonstrates Plains, N.J., is making plans to return great-grandchildren. clinical excellence and leadership and to nursing after 21 years. She currently who has attained an exemplary academic 1940s is volunteering with a program that record during the first three semesters of Esther Parker McClain, BSN’40, of Westlake, allows her to use many of her nursing the program. She lives in Gainesville, Fla. Ohio, died July 23, 2009. She was 90. As a skills, and in May she will take a nurse nurse she cared for polio victims in Warm refresher course. Her oldest daughter Springs, Ga., and served as a U.S. Army nurse Sheri graduated cum laude from Syracuse during WWII. She is survived by three sons, University in 2008 and is employed two daughters, 13 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. “I rememberrollingouroffice chairs “She spenttimetalkingwithmygrand- Today Harrisisexecutivedirector ofthe Harris LeadsPushforaHealthierDurham finally receivinghercurrent appoint- and tuberculosis. outbreaks ofnorovirus,hepatitisA, antining dangerousdogstocontrolling and dealswitheverythingfromquar congestive heartfailure,whenapublic , was Gayle BridgesHarris,BSN’72,MPH,was design andconstructionofa280,000 grandmother, whowassuffering from down the street when we moved to this down thestreet whenwemovedtothis director, andactingdirectorbefore the cramped,windowless,andcare- father, ‘Iwanttodowhatshedoes.’” my to said “I Harris. better,”says feel services buildingthatwillsoonreplace square-foot, state-of-the-arthuman never wavered. just 4yearsoldwhenshemetawoman nurse todirectorofnursing, assistant past threeandahalfdecades,steadily ment inFebruary2009. She isthrilledtobeoverseeingthe She administersa$21millionbudget mother, andsheseemedtomakeher She andherfatherwerevisiting who setheronalifecoursethathas working herwayupfrompublichealth worn buildingwhereshehasspentthe Durham CountyHealthDepartment. health nursecametocall. building [from the originalhealthdepart- UPCLOSE - “Lots ofpeopleinmyneighborhood “I wasmycommunity’s person,”shesays. “From thebeginning,Iliked the ideaof 1972 andstartedworkatthehealth African Americanstudentattheschool, and Mainstreets]in1976,”saysHarris. and sheacknowledgesthatnearlyall of Nursing.Shewasonlythesecond advisor shereceivedaRockefellergrant completed amaster’s inpublic healthat department onJuly3.Shesayswith given earlyexposuretoclinicalnursing. UNC in1990. to attendtheDukeUniversitySchool for me.” Wilson permissiontogetmarriedwhile neighborhood onDurham’s EastSide. still inschool.ShegraduatedMay Harris grewupinaclose-knitthenrural ment buildingonthecornerofRoxboro pride thatshehasneverworkedina She wenttoanallblackhighschool, much highersocio-economicgroup. not tryingtohavethemfit where I Harris excelledatDuke,whereshe Harris continuedworkingwhile sheand She remembers asking Dean Ruby Ruby Dean asking remembers She worked atDuke,andthey’dlookout Merrick-Moore. Withthehelpofher was,” shesays. working withpeoplewhere they were, her classmatesseemedtobefroma hospital setting. her husbandraised threesons,andshe learned from nurse researchers and was learned fromnurseresearchersandwas And sheiscurrentlyco-chairofthe and humanservicesofficials,local of peoplefromDukeandacross the clinics, laboratories,pharmacies,and community as“almostspiritual.” Oversight CommitteeforDurham County and Durham Health Innovations. County andDurhamHealthInnovations. County—Project AccessofDurham develop andimplementnewevidence- together communitymembers,health two groundbreakingcollaborationsto for ProjectAccess,apartnershipthat she says.“Andwehaveseen people return towork andtheirqualityof non-profits, andDukeresearchersto She hasbeenakeyliaisonbetween prevent andmanagechronicdisease Health Innovations,whichbrings Harris servesasvicechairoftheBoard She describesthecomingtogether with theultimategoalofimproving Nobody triedtoputtheirname onit,” improve the health of people in Durham improve thehealthofpeopleinDurham Durham County and Duke Medicine on Durham CountyandDukeMedicineon hospitals thatdonatetheirservices. health insurancewithanetworkof health outcomesinDurham. based modelsofcommunitycareto life improve.” links Durhamresidentswholack “She spent time talking and she seemed to make my father, my ‘Iwanttodo with my grandmother, what shedoes.’” her feel better. Isaidto —MARTY FISHER —MARTY

23 DUKENURSINGWINTER2010 “Our ultimate goal for this foundation,” says Jessica Singletary, a former paralegal, “is to be able to fund research. Until we do, families like mine will have to continue burying their children.” Special Friendship Fuels Passion Standard says she works hard to separate her emotions from her for Fighting CDH work, “but sometimes the patient Duke Nurse Raffling Home to Raise Money comes home with you no matter how hard you try.” Standard and Jessica When Duke Hospital labor and delivery What Standard and Jessica Singletary Singletary have remained close friends nurse Venus Standard, ABSN’05, RN, both say was an immediate bond since they first met. learned that Jessica Singletary’s between them that started when Early last year Standard saw a news UP CLOSE newborn daughter had just been Singletary was first admitted to story on CNN about a family who resuscitated for a second time within Duke Hospital has grown into a raffled their home for charity. She the first few hours of life, her mother- passion for fighting the rare birth mentioned the possibility to the ing instincts went into overdrive. defect—Congenital Diaphragmatic Singletarys, who own and operate a Hernia (CDH)—that took Parker’s life. “Venus rushed into my recovery room, crop and cattle farm in Bladenboro, N.C. In CDH the muscle wall separating a pushed aside my family, and picked baby’s chest cavity from the abdominal “Jess really got her wheels in gear and me up and put me in a wheelchair,” area does not close properly, and the researched the possibility,” Standard Singletary says. “I still don’t know how stomach and intestines fill the space says, “and by September 2009 we were she did it.” where the lungs are, preventing them thinking we could do this.” Standard Standard wheeled a weak Singletary, from developing. Sometimes surgery is selling her home so she can move 32, and her husband Ashley, 29, to the helps, but half of CDH cases are fatal. closer to her daughter and grandson in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where Mebane, N.C. She sat for her mid- Following the death of their daughter Parker Reese Singletary was losing her wifery boards in February and hopes to in 2006, the Singletarys formed the fight to stay alive because of a rare become a full-time midwife. Parker Reese Foundation to increase birth defect. awareness of CDH and raise money for “Venus is just an amazing person,” “Jess had not even seen her baby yet, CDH research. Standard has offered Jessica Singletary says. “We are so and I was not going to let Parker die her three-bedroom, three-bath Chapel blessed to have her in our lives.” before she did,” Standard says. The Hill townhome for the grand prize in Standard cites three faculty members first-time parents were able to hold a raffle, with proceeds going to the for their strong support during her their daughter for the next 14 hours foundation. Tickets are $10 each with time at DUSON: former Dean Mary T. before Parker took her last breath in the drawing slated for April 15. Champagne, PhD; Queen Utley Smith, her father’s arms. If enough tickets are sold, the founda- EdD; and Michelle Martin, PhD. “They What had already become a strong tion will purchase Standard’s home for were my strength,” she says. “They friendship was further strengthened the appraised value of $240,000. All got me through and I appreciate by Standard’s actions that day. Jessica money raised beyond that will go to everything they did for me.” Singletary says, “If she didn’t do what the foundation, which hopes to make For information about the house raffle, she did for me, I would not have been a substantial gift to Duke Children’s visit cdhhouseraffle.com. able to see my daughter alive. Venus for CDH research. If not enough tickets has become a very special part of my are sold to purchase Standard’s home, For information about the family, and I know that God had put her then what money is raised will be Parker Reese Foundation visit theparkerreesefoundation.com. in my life in the right place and at the raffled in a 50-50 drawing, with 50 right time.” percent going to the winner and 50 ­­—JIM ROGALSKI percent to the foundation. two sonsanddaughters. care unitintheU.S.Brannanissurvivedby she waspartofthefirstneonatalintensive worked atJohnsHopkinsHospital,where Nursing CorpsinthePhilippines.Shethen of Nursing, she served in the U.S. Army College andtheDukeUniversitySchool was 87.AftergraduatingfromPeaceJunior Birmingham, Ala.,diedNov. 19,2009.She and threegrandchildren. daughter, She issurvivedbyason, 1985. 1952 untilshemovedtoJensen Beachin was aresidentofWest PalmBeachfrom 2009. Shewas84.BorninDurham, she Beach, Fla.,diedatherhomeon Aug.9, six great-grandchildren. three children,ninegrandchildren,and St. Vincent’s Hospital.Sheissurvivedby Junior Leagueandwasavolunteerat School ofNursing.Shewasactiveinthe before transferringtoDukeUniversity She was85.attendedElonUniversity of Birmingham,Ala.,diedJune24,2009. Joyce WhitfieldDortch,N’46 Betty LouiseRiddleBashinsky, N’45 BSN’44 Jessamine Fleming“Jacie”Owen, Brannan,BSN’44 Mary Barnes Jeane EstesTower, N’42 Laureen Rearden Steelman,BSN’40 grandchildren, andagreat-granddaughter. 87. Sheissurvivedbythreechildren,six at herhomeonMarch25,2009.Shewas San Lorenzo,Calif.,diedinhospicecare June StoneAnderson,N’42,of four grandchildren. Anglia. Sheissurvivedbytwosonsand famed WWII65thGeneralHospitalinEast the U.S.ArmyNurseCorpswithDuke’s Mary toEngland,wheresheservedin 92. In1943shesailedaboardtheQueen Rowley, Mass.,diedFeb.2,2010. 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, of , of , two daughters,andthreegrandchildren. byherhusbandJosephL.HarnSr.,survived at SarasotaMemorialHospital.Sheis was aregisterednursefrom1965–1995 died April14,2009.Shewas80.Harn 2009. She was 72. 2009. Shewas72. great-grandchildren. grandchildren, and12 four stepsons, two by survived food andmedicine.Chosyis Mexico, mission for 12 years, delivering and latersupportedtheLaBartolina, Wayne StateUniversityinDetroit,Mich., was 85.Shetaughtpsychiatricnursingat Brownsville, , diedOct.27,2009.She employed with the federal government. employed withthefederalgovernment. the U.S.NavyduringWWIIandwaslater at CokerCollegeandDuke,sheservedin illness. Shewas86.Afterearningdegrees City, S.C.,diedNov. 16,2009,afteralong great-grandchildren. two daughters, fivegrandchildren,and was 80.Sheissurvivedbytwosons, two Marietta, Ga.,diedJuly29,2009.She Spencer, N.C,diedDec.19,2009.She in NorthCarolinabeforeherretirement. was 77.Sheworkedatseveralhospitals and twogreat-grandchildren. by twodaughters,ason,grandchildren, Alamance CountyHospital.Sheissurvived was 78.Sheretiredasaregisterednurseat Burlington, N.C.,diedJuly21,2009.She grandchildren. Gatland, threesons,adaughter, andseven She issurvivedbyherhusbandIanR. pediatric departmentatJohnsHopkins. and becametheassistantdirectorfor she servedasanurseinBaltimore,Md., degree fromJohnsHopkinsUniversity, from Dukeandabachelorofscience age 79.Afterearninganursingdiploma Atlanta, Ga.,diedDec.10,2009,at Betty JaneFloraMcFarland,N’53 Barbara DeeFishGatland,N’52 N’51 Betty JewelHarn, Carol Elwood,BSN’50 Burnham Florence, Ala.,diedJan.9,2009.Shewas79. Winifred ThompsonButler, N’50 1950s Elizabeth BowersMiles,BSN’49 Nancy Starling Hill,BSN’59 Ruth ThomasChosy, BSNEd’57 Rebecca WithersHarper, N’54 , of Nokomis, Fla., , ofNokomis,Fla., , died May 31, , diedMay31, , of , of , of , of Lake , ofLake , of , of , of , of , of

son University in1984.Sheissurvivedbyher counseling fromVirginia Commonwealth She earned a master’s degree in rehabilitation Durham Veterans AffairsMedical Center. as astaffnursefor20yearswiththe ment in 2003. Her career included working a registerednursethatlasteduntilherretire- graduating fromDuke,shebeganacareeras year battlewithcancer. Shewas67.After Durham diedAug.17,2009,afterafour- her nieceKimberlyPerryGill. nieces, andfriends. and ahostofgrandchildren,nephews, is survivedbyherhusbandFredJackson York andNewJerseypsychotherapist.She Jan. 11,2007.Shewas65.aNew suddenly atherhomeinAlpine,N.J.,on daughters andtwosons. at BaylorUniversity. survived bytwo Sheis 62. Hercareerincludedservingasanurse Dallas, Texas, diedAug.3,2009.Shewas Cornelia GriffinPeterson,BSN’64 Cornelia Isabel Sklar-Jackson, BSN’63 1960s Ruth E.Long,RN,CRNA Faculty Former Cheryl MeinertMorgan,BSN’70 1970s Nancy Hyre Odend’hal,BSN’65 Hospital Auxiliary. a clinicalnursewith theDurhamRegional her companion of 22years,SheilaE.Weeks, to astudentintheNAP. Longissurvivedby Professional Achievements, given annually the RuthE.LongAward forExceptional organizations. In2003Dukeestablished state andnationalprofessionalanesthesia 2009. She was an active member of many anesthetist forabout30years,retiringin Hospital asacertifiedregisterednurse Long wasemployedatDurhamRegional Hospital SchoolofAnesthesiaforNurses. Central University and the Durham County Nursing. She attended North Carolina Watts HospitalCourseinOperatingRoom Watts SchoolofPracticalNursingandthe 2009. She was 66. She was a graduate of the nurse anesthesiaatDuke,diedAug.3, Anesthesia Program(NAP)andtaught University SchoolofNursing’s Nurse N.C., whohelpedtoestablishtheDuke She was66. Johnson City, Tenn., diedOct.23,2009. Lt. Col.ErikTerryl Peterson,T’89 obituaries , of Durham, , ofDurham, , died , died , of , of , of , of , of , and

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