learn. lead. serve. SUMMER 2012 Student’s Cancer Care Poster Teaches Others Going for the Gold Gala A Night to Remember Making a Difference Where It’s Needed Most Mission Trips to Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam A PUBLICATION OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LOUISE HERRINGTON SCHOOL OF NURSING MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Going for the Gold: The Year of the Bear What an exciting year to arrive as dean of the partners who each relate their stories about Baylor University Louise Herrington School of how the Baylor difference is so important to Nursing! With so many national recognitions them. These stories are told to me in such a and accomplishments happening for Baylor’s way that it is easy to see how their experiences sports teams and the flurry of activities leading still influence their lives today. It is validation up to the Going for the Gold Gala here in of our unique calling to make an impact and Dallas, I could not have been busier. I have bring the light of Christ to others through our taken great pride in telling all my friends and service that we make explicit in the LHSON family that I am now a Baylor Bear, and how mission statement. by Shelley Conroy blessed I feel to have the privilege of being It has been a delight to serve you this past Dean and Professor called to serve as your new dean. It is such joy year, and be present to celebrate such things to work with such a gifted and devoted group as the annual Alumni Reunion, the Going for of faculty and staff at the Louise Herrington the Gold Gala and the signing of our transfer School of Nursing, who are dedicated to the partnership agreement with our friends at unique mission we have of integrating faith and Dallas Baptist University. We have so many excellence in academics. Baylor nurses are truly dreams for the future of LHSON that are being unique in their calling to Learn. Lead. Serve. discussed as we develop our school’s Strategic Our unique mission manifests itself daily Plan reflecting the ideals of the newly approved in our classrooms, the hospitals, clinics and Baylor University Pro Futuris vision and its community settings, and our service and five aspirational statements. By building and mission trips. It is present in the Student Life supporting an outstanding faculty of nurse activities we offer and permeates every moment scholars and researchers, we will emulate in each of the ways our faculty, staff and academic excellence in nursing education students live out their holistic lives in service to through transformational experiences for our that higher calling. Our community, educational students that ignite their desire for wisdom and healthcare partners are drawn to LHSON and an understanding of their calling to because of these qualities they notice in our Learn. Lead. Serve. while sharing their Christian graduates. I have been enriched by meeting our faith and gifts in a diverse and interconnected alumni, dean’s board members and community global society. Left to Right: John Chiles, u Troy Aikman, Kim Mulkey, Marie Chiles, Trey Wingo Summer 2012 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 Faculty News 4 Leadership Development News: Message from Janis Kovar 8 Ken Starr School News 10 President, Baylor University Student Life 11 Elizabeth Davis FEATURE STORIES Executive Vice President and Provost, Baylor University Learn Shelley Conroy Student’s Cancer Care Poster Teaches Others 12 Dean and Professor Lead Linda Plank Going for the Gold Gala: A Night to Remember 14 Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Serve Karen Holub Making a Difference Where It’s Needed Most 22 Chair, Faculty Organization Janis Kovar Alumni News 24 Director of Development Partner News 26 News from Baylor University 27 Upcoming Events back cover Comments or Questions? We want to hear from you! Send your comments or questions to [email protected]. And, if you have pictures or stories from a recent Baylor nursing event, we’d love to Photo: Dean Conroy greets Baylor alums Susie Newton ’45 (left) and have you share them with us. Wanda Manwell Hartoon ’45 (right). FACULTY NEWS Dr. Linda Plank Named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs As a Baylor nursing alum and current faculty member, Linda Plank, PhD, New Faculty RN, NEA-BC, is a familiar face around Please join us in welcoming the following faculty LHSON, and it is with great pride to the Baylor team! that we announce her advancement to associate dean of academic affairs. Barbara Camune, Recently, Dr. Plank was chosen RNC, MSN, WHNP-BC, from a national pool of applicants CNM, DrPH, FACNM, who were recommended by their joins us as graduate respective deans to take part in a program director. She prestigious competitive national will teach NUR 5V42 nursing leadership fellowship. As a part of the Nurse Midwifery American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s II and NUR 5V43 Nurse Midwifery Leadership for Academic Nursing Program, she II Practicum (with spent the summer taking “The Louise Herrington School Mary Ann Faucher). of Nursing is well on its way to part in an assessment and evaluation of her impacting the world through our Michelle DeBose, leadership skills, with PhD, MSN, MSEd, RN, faith and academic excellence. opportunities for joins us as assistant We have wonderful students that strategic networking and professor and tenure enter our doors with a heartfelt case study development, track faculty. Michelle desire to help others by meeting their consultation to achieve will teach NUR 4351.02 physical needs while also helping long-term goals and Consumer of Research with their spiritual needs. Our identifying of key and will orient to faculty and staff dedicate every day partnerships. NUR 4345 Community to helping our students reach those According to & Culture. She will Shelley Conroy, d , goals. Our new dean has challenged E D network to teach dean of LHSON, “This Parish Nursing in the us to grow in number, academic fellowship is designed spring. excellence and scholarship. We truly to develop and enhance have the capability and desire to be a leadership skills in Donna LoSasso, light to the world. I am blessed to be new and emerging DNP, MSN, NNP, RN, a part of this institution.” executive administrators joins us as assistant Linda Plank in baccalaureate and professor and tenure graduate nursing track faculty. She will programs and better prepare participants teach NUR 4351.01 to accept academic leadership positions, Consumer of Research including the role of dean or director of the and NUR 5360.01 NNP nursing academic unit. We look forward to the Physiology. Donna contributions her fellowship will enable her to completed her DNP make to our school and the achievement of our in May from Johns goals and aspirations.” Hopkins University. 4 Summer 2012 FACULTY NEWS Retirement Announcements It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to two esteemed faculty members. Please join us as we express our appreciation for their many years of dedicated service and extend best wishes for their future endeavors. JUDY WRIGHT LOTT, DSN, NNP-BC, FAAN In 2003, Dr. Lott was inducted as a fellow of the Professor Emeritus American Academy of Nursing. In 2006, she was named Dr. Judy Wright Lott officially retired from Baylor a Woman of Distinction by the Baylor Women’s Council University at the end of the spring sememster. But what she of Dallas, and in September 2010 was honored as one of will be doing next is the exact opposite of retiring. Dr. Lott 60 visionary leaders in nursing and healthcare by her alma will be starting a nursing program! mater, the UAB School of Nursing. She will be the founding dean of The Baylor family wishes Dr. Judy Wright Lott much the nursing program at Wesleyan success with her new mission in life! College, a private, faith-based women’s college in Macon, Georgia. MARTHA BRADSHAW, RN, MSN, PHD Professor and former Associate Dean This is a perfect fit for her as she is originally from Georgia and will be Dr. Martha Bradshaw joined near her family. the LHSON family in 2004 as A nationally recognized expert in associate dean before graciously skin science and a veteran neonatal serving as interim dean during nurse, Dr. Lott joined the Baylor our national dean search. faculty as professor of nursing in 2001 from the University Recently, Dr. Bradshaw retired of Cincinnati, where she directed the neonatal nursing from Baylor University and now program. She was appointed interim dean of Baylor’s works as a writing consultant for nursing school in summer 2002 and, following a national Baylor Health Care System. search, was appointed dean in December 2002. Dr. Bradshaw taught nursing The following areLHSON accomplishments achieved for a span of more than 30 years under Dr. Lott’s stewardship: in the states of Texas and Georgia. In 1970, she graduated from Baylor University with a BSN, and later aquired a u Increased enrollment master’s and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. u New academic programs, such as the nurse- Her professional experience as a registered nurse was midwifery doctorate in nursing practice (NM-DNP) primarily in Labor and Delivery and Operating Room, and an accelerated nursing program (FastBacc) both before and during her time in teaching. u New facilities, such as the Barnabas Success Center, During her distingushed career, Dr. Bradshaw published and the addition of high-tech teaching tools, such as five books and over a dozen professional articles.