NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 NURSES ON THE COVID-19COVID-19 FRONTFRONT LINESLINES 3 SPRING 2020 4 28 CELEBRATIONS VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2 GIVING LEADERSHIP 3 Why I give: Sean Clarke Executive Vice Dean 36 Leadership and Dean’s Circles Emerson Ea Assistant Dean for Clinical and Adjunct Faculty Affairs NEWS Kimberly Glassman 4 Faculty & staff achievements Associate Dean for Partnership Innovation Ellen Lyons 6 COVID-19: NYU Meyers cares 5 Associate Dean for Finance and Administration 7 Faculty notes Gail Melkus 8 Staff achievements Vice Dean for Research 8 Staff profile: Meet Jamie Chiappetta, James Pace Associate Director of Finance Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs 9 Staff profile: Meet Tamara Tobee, Eileen Sullivan-Marx Administrative Assistant for Dean Operations EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 10 Nurses sleep less before shifts, Meredith Barges imperiling patient safety and care Communications Coordinator 10 Through NICHE program, nearly EDITORS 3,000 nursing home residents in 6 Keith Olsen Washington State to see quality Director for Communication care improvements Hank Sherwood 11 Prof. Janet Van Cleave receives Associate Director for Communication Oncology Nursing Foundation grant to improve patient outcomes in DESIGN head and neck cancer Carabetta Hayden Design, Inc. nyunursing nyunursing nyumeyers nyu-meyers 28 Owing to the fast-moving and historic nature of COVID-19, the theme of this issue of NYU Nursing shifted in the middle of production to highlight the College’s efforts to combat the virus. We salute all of our faculty, alumni, students, and staff who are on the front lines and behind the scenes, whose selflessness abounds and care for NURSES ON THE COVID-19 FRONT LINES humanity is limitless. FEATURES 12 COVID pandemic proves again “there is no single role of the nurse” 14 College course: Disaster nursing: Saving lives during outbreaks, floods, fires, & spills 12 14 15 Lataijah Beadle BS ’20: “I’m on Capitol Hill” 17 Popular new clinical simulation focuses on LGBTQ patients 18 Lim shows why everyone needs a role model 20 Seeing double? The Paradis sisters score the twin advantage 21 Inspired by nursing 22 Faculty Q & A: Meet Mary Brennan, Clinical Assoc. Prof. & Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP 18 20 Program Director 23 Faculty Q & A: Meet Donna Hallas, Clinical Prof. & Pediatrics NP Program Director 24 New prescriptions for a disease multiplier 22 23 26 Celebrating Estelle Massey Osborne: A nurse trailblazer ALUMNI 32 Greetings from the Alumni Association President 26 32 24 33 Alumna profile: Robin Schafer, 33 35 DNP ’21, BS ’99 34 In memoriam: Kious Kelly BS ’12 34 Class notes 35 Grads on the job NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 1 Follow me on Twitter @EileenSullivanM for the latest news from the DEAN’S CORNER College and in nursing. Dear all, The COVID-19 public health crisis has families during one of the most unnerv- THE DEAN’S LIST upended our lives in quite literally every ing times in modern history. way possible in a very short amount For many of our students and young For this Dean’s List, I want to commend of time. With just a few days’ notice in alumni, this is the first time that a the entire Meyers community for its March, NYU Meyers moved to remote national or global emergency has dis- instruction and remote work as the virus rupted daily life in such a pervasive way. ability to adapt to uncertain conditions quickly spread through New York City As someone who has lived through a few with agility. I am proud to work and and NY State. NYU will continue to oper- of these traumatic events, I want to leave learn alongside all of you and cannot ate remotely through the summer. you all with a question to ruminate on wait until we can reunite in person. The virus has particularly affected New in the days, weeks, and months ahead. In particular, I want to commend our York City, with more than 142,000 cases Once the world ceases to be consumed clinicians who have treated COVID-19 and 15,000 deaths as this magazine by this virus’s rapid spread, Which future patients and/or volunteered during goes to press. Our city is the hallmark of will we choose for our loved ones, our this crisis: an NYU Meyers education, and when it patients, and, of course, ourselves? Life grieves, we grieve. We mourn the passing will almost certainly be different once of friends, neighbors, and loved ones. the pandemic abates, and that is okay. Ab Brody, Assoc. Prof. COVID-19 has robbed us of warm But we, the members of the Meyers embraces from family and friends, nights community, can make the world a better Theresa Bucco, Clinical Asst. Prof. at the movie theater to unwind, and visits place through knowledge, transparency, to favorite local restaurants and coffee and kindness. Leon Chen, Clinical Asst. Prof. shops for simple indulgences — all of which we likely took for granted before. Together, Maya Clark-Cutaia, Asst. Prof. Of course, being a nursing institution, so Jeff Day, Clinical Asst. Prof. many of our faculty, alumni, and graduate Dean Eileen students have been on the front lines of this crisis, including KP Mendoza BS ’18, Caroline Dorsen, Asst. Prof. whose face is on our cover, after a shift Brian Fasolka, Clinical Asst. Prof. from the Surgical & Transplant ICU at Mt. Sinai Hospital. We dedicate this issue to Selena Gilles, Clinical Asst. Prof. all of you who selflessly gave more than Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN most can imagine for patients and their Dean & Erline Perkins McGriff Professor John Merriman, Asst. Prof. Jennifer Morrison-Nahum, Clinical Asst. Prof. Jen Pettis, Assoc. Dir., Program Development, NICHE Gina Robertiello, Asst. Dir., Simulation Center Dorothy Wholihan, Clinical Assoc. Prof. Fay Wright, Asst. Prof. 2 NYU NURSING SPRING 2020 Did you know there are creative ways to support NYU Meyers in which the College, you, and your loved ones all benefit at the same time? GIVING Are we already in your will, trust, or other estate plans? If you have named NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in your will, please let us know because it helps us plan for the future. It also allows us to thank you for your generosity and to honor your loyalty to the College. If you have already included NYU Meyers in your will, call or email Karen Wenderoff, director of development, and she will add WHYMA ’73I GIVE ALICIA GEORGES your name as a member of the Society of the Torch. The Society of the Torch is a special group of alumni, faculty, and friends HONORING A NURSING PIONEER THROUGH PHILANTHROPY of NYU who have recognized the impor- Nearly five decades have passed, but tance of planning their philanthropy by Alicia Georges can still recall how was able to succeed — and break down providing for the University and its schools inspired she was by Estelle Osborne. countless barriers for Black women and and colleges through their wills and estates. “Estelle and I were in the same sorority, Black nurses. Through bequests in wills, trusts, and other Alpha Alpha Kappa,” she says. “She By supporting the scholarship fund, arrangements, these donors have found was one of the stateliest, put-together Georges, who serves on the NYU Meyers a satisfying way to leave a meaningful women I have ever met. She had so Dean’s Council, is also giving back to the legacy. Or if you would like, your gift may much confidence — she knew she was as institution where she earned her Master’s remain anonymous. good as anyone else. As a Black nurse degree in nursing. Don’t have a will? and a fellow AAK, that motivated me.” “Meyers gave me a grounding that was You are not alone! Now is a great time to Georges went on to a distinguished more than how to care for sick people,” start planning. Please consider including career as a nurse, educator, and admin- she says. “I learned about the importance NYU Meyers in your will. Contact Karen for istrator. She currently serves as chair of of public health — of knowing what’s suggested bequest language and NYU’s tax the Department of Nursing at Lehman going on in the community. And while ID to share with your attorney. College of the City University of New it wasn’t easy getting a Master’s degree York and the national volunteer president as a Black woman in the early 1970s, Have you ever wished you of the American Association of Retired NYU was different. It was one of the first could do more for NYU Meyers? Persons. She is determined to extend institutions to embrace diversity. I met By including us in your long-term financial Osborne’s legacy to future generations faculty I really admired, like Claire Fagin, plans, you may be able to: by including NYU Meyers in her estate Martha Rogers, Erline McGriff, and Dee planning — and specifically, by allocating Krieger — leaders who never hesitated to • Create a gift that benefits you and your funds to the Estelle Osborne Scholarship reach out if they thought I needed help.” loved ones; Fund, which supports high-achieving Through her philanthropy, Georges • Provide immediate or tax-deferred tax Bachelor’s degree nursing students from hopes to help students “who would advantages to yourself and your heirs; underrepresented communities. never otherwise get the opportunity • Generously support future generations of “I wanted to have an effect on a legacy to take advantage of the world-class nursing professionals. that needs to remain at NYU forever,” education at NYU Meyers” while she explains. honoring a nursing pioneer who was her Osborne came of age when state- personal role model.