learn. lead. serve. FALL/WINTER 20102011 Technology: Changing How We Educate, Learn and Work Center for Medicine After e Holocaust Journey to Vietnam A PUBLICATION OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LOUISE HERRINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Standing at a crossroads ere is great momentum in the United States At Baylor University Louise Herrington today to transform our healthcare system School of Nursing we are focused on nursing to improve quality, safety, a ordability and education transformation. To this end, we are accessibility. As nurses we comprise the largest committed to: segment of the healthcare workforce and we are at a crossroads to break down the barriers that Our Students limit our ability to in uence change, practices To recruit more nursing students and and policies. expand the diversity of our student body is past October, the Robert Wood Johnson to meet the needs of a growing and by Judy Wright Lott Foundation and the Institute of Medicine diverse patient population DSN, NNP-BC, FAAN published e Future of Nursing: Leading Dean Change, Advancing Health. e culmination of Our Faculty a two-year joint initiative, the report provides To grow our faculty base to maintain a low recommendations on ways in which nurses can student-faculty ratio be active participants in the future of healthcare. To promote the professional development Producing a healthcare system that delivers the of our educators right care—quality care that is patient centered, To prepare more nurses to be nurse accessible, evidence-based and sustainable—at educators the right time will require transforming the work environment, scope of practice, education and Our Campus numbers of America’s nurses. is and several To increase our campus footprint— other recent studies call upon educators to physically and virtually better prepare nurses to e ect change in the To utilize up-to-date and cutting-edge tools healthcare environment. and technologies As nurse educators, Baylor has always been committed to providing our students with Our Curriculum premier education and clinical experience. We To educate from a best-practices approach are preparing tomorrow’s nursing leaders. Our To collaborate with healthcare provider curriculum challenges students to think and act partners for expanded clinical like nurses long before they graduate. Serving experiences in any number of settings from schools, homes, To manage the transition from school to retail health clinics, long-term care facilities practice and community and public health centers to battle elds and the mission eld, nurses ll an We hope that the programs, initiatives and expanding role in the continuum of patient events that you read about in each issue of this care. e nurse is the nucleus of the patient publication demonstrate our commitment to care plan streamlining collaboration across our students, nurses and the entire healthcare teams of healthcare professionals. Our students industry and inspire you to join us in our must be prepared to seamlessly transition mission to Learn, Lead and Serve. into the workforce and perform within this collaborative environment. fall/winter 2010–2011 INSIDE THIS ISSUE NI R U VER O S learn. L Y IT A Y B S C G H IN O S O R L OF NU lead. serve. Baylor University Message from the Dean inside front cover Louise Herrington School of Nursing Graduate Program: A Message from Mary Brucker 2 Leadership Undergraduate Program: A Message from Cathy Rosser 2 Ken Starr Faculty News 3 President, Baylor University Development News: A Message from Janis Kovar 4 Elizabeth Davis School News 8 Executive Vice President and Provost, Baylor University FEATURE STORIES Judy Wright Lott Learn Dean, Louise Herrington School of Technology: Nursing Mary Brucker Changing How We Educate, Learn and Work 10 Associate Dean and Director, Lead Graduate Program Center for Medicine after the Holocaust: Catherine Rosser Looking Back to Move Us Forward 14 Director, Undergraduate Program Serve Lynne Mann Nothing Ever Happens by Chance: Chair, Faculty Organization How Baylor Green Made a Journey to Vietnam 16 Janis Kovar Director of Development Student Life 18 News from Baylor University 20 We want to hear from you! Send us your comments or Partner News 22 questions to: [email protected]. Alumni News 24 And, if you have pictures or stories from a recent Baylor nursing event, we’d love to Upcoming Events back cover have you share them with us. LEADERSHIPGRADUATE & NEWSUNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS A message from Mary Brucker Welcome to 21st century healthcare. Guess who a doubling of the number of doctorally prepared are nally being recognized as integral to the nurses over the next decade. We are already process—yes, nurses! Recently several powerful addressing those recommendations. groups including the Carnegie Foundation, From 2006 until this fall, the numbers of Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and the graduate students have more than doubled, United States Institute of Medicine have with 78 students currently matriculating in the emerged as strong supporters to decrease nurse practitioner and nurse-midwife programs. barriers so that nurses can better meet future Of this group, more than a dozen are students needs of our society. seeking a Doctor of Nursing degree. Primary by Mary Brucker, PhD As mentioned in the dean’s message, the care providers such as nurse practitioners and Associate Dean report titled e Future of Nursing: Leading nurse-midwives also are in great demand simply and Director, Change, Advancing Health presented a strong as the population grows and ages, even without Graduate Program recommendation that nursing education acknowledging the increase in care needed as programs should increase the number of more individuals receive healthcare coverage. graduates, especially those who are primary care Healthcare may be in changing times, but providers such as nurse practitioners and nurse- with graduates from , we can rest midwives, such as those educated at . assured we will be in good hands. Moreover, the report stated that there should be A message from Cathy Rosser “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their our undergraduate students. e new education.” graduate is better prepared to practice safely in e Future of Nursing: Leading Change, the operating room, minimizing new employee Advancing Health, 2010 orientation and orientation cost. Practice and Just as nurses and their practice have been Education are working together. put into recent spotlight, so has basic nursing Other ways in which nursing education education. Content taught in the basic nursing keeps pace with practice include the number programs drives nursing practice today and of faculty who regularly work in hospitals, should be the foundation for lifelong learning. clinics and other sites; the faculty who actively Not only do we take pride in the high rates participate in local hospital and/or professional by Cathy Rosser, EdD Director, of passing the National Council Licensure communities; and how faculty constantly Undergraduate Program Examination (-) and our high review not only what to teach, but how best to graduation rates, but there are continuous teach information. intentional activities to educate students for the If nurses should practice to the full extent changing healthcare needs. A recent example of their education, the corollary is that the is one of retirement of operating room nurses, education should enable nurses to practice thus creating a pressing shortage on that area. to the fullest extent possible. is is one of In response to such an issue being anticipated intentions of the undergraduate by our neighbor, Baylor Health Care System, program as it prepares graduates to Learn, we have developed an elective in that area for Lead and Serve. 2 fall/winter 2010–2011 FACULTY NEWS Dean Lott Recognized As nurse educators have achieved this prestigious designation. Leader in Healthcare Fellow faculty member Dottie Perri, , also is past fall, dean Dr. Judy Wright Lott earned status in 2008. “We are very proud that our was named one of 60 visionary leaders in nursing and school now has two faculty that have earned status,” healthcare by her alma mater, the University of Alabama comments Dean Lott. “Our ability to prepare highly at Birmingham School of Nursing. Dean Lott received educated nurses is directly related to the caliber of nurse her doctoral education at and was honored educators that we have here on campus.” in Birmingham at the university’s 60th anniversary celebration that included nurse practitioners, healthcare administrators, university presidents, deans and Dr. Martha M. professors from around the globe. Bradshaw to Retire e distinguished list of honorees are known for their service in the eld of nursing or healthcare on the from LHSON local, state, national or international level in practice, Distinguished faculty education or research; are recognized by colleagues and member Martha Bradshaw, peers for outstanding achievement; and are recognized h , , will retire at the end for their leadership, innovation or entrepreneurship. of the 2010–2011 academic “Alumni from the School of Nursing have been year. During her seven-year integral in distinguishing the school in state, national tenure at , Dr. Bradshaw and international circles and in shaping the nursing taught in both the graduate and profession,” said Dr. Doreen Harper, dean of the undergraduate programs, served School of Nursing. “ ese awards were established to as associate dean from 2004