Minnesota Nursing Spring Summer 2016

SPRING/SUMMER 2016

MINNESOTA

NURSING A publication of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing

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Professor Sieving brings a teen pregnancy prevention program to scale

13 Program evaluation: a research niche grounded in partnership

17 Predicting patients’ potential for violence

19 Leading the way in nursing informatics

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Professor Sieving brings a teen pregnancy prevention program to scale

10 A healthy habit New research suggests family meals may curb childhood obesity

14 A new perspective on women’s health

DNP students see familiar, new health challenges in Brazil 22 Nursing inventors Nurses are well-positioned to invent products that improve patient care

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38 School health leader paves way for healthy, lifelong learners Heiman named School Nurse Administrator of the Year

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF NURSING OUR MISSION To generate knowledge and prepare nurse leaders who create, lead and participate in holistic efforts to improve the health of all people within the context of their environments.

OUR VISION The School of Nursing envisions a world where nurses lead collaborative efforts to attain optimal health for all people.

Mind, body, spirit

DEAN Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI SENIOR EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LMFT, LP, FAAN ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FACULTY PRACTICE, PARTNERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Tom Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN BOARD OF VISITORS David Aanonson, pastor (ret.); Clara AdamsEnder, chief nurse executive, Army Nurse Corp. (ret.); Melanie Dreher, dean emeritus, Rush University College of Nursing; David Durenberger, former United States senator; Donald Gerhardt, chairman, Vital Simulations; Rahul Koranne, senior vice president for clinical affairs and chief medical officer, Minnesota Hospital Association; Richard Norling, senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; John Reiling, president and CEO, Safe

By Design; Jeannine Rivet, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group; Michael Rohovsky, ret. corporate office of science and technology associate, Johnson & Johnson; Roy Simpson, vice president of nursing, Cerner Corporation; Timothy Tracy, provost, University of Kentucky; and Charlotte Weaver, former senior vice president and chief clinical officer, Gentiva Home Health & Hospice DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS Barb Schlaefer PUBLICATIONS AND PROGRAMS MANAGER Brett Stursa PHOTOGRAPHERS Dan Higgins, Tim Rummelhoff, Tom Steffes, Scott Streble DESIGNER Tammy Rose CONTACT US Minnesota Nursing University of Minnesota School of Nursing 5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall 308 Harvard Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Email: nursnews@umn.edu Website: www.nursing.umn.edu The School of Nursing also has a campus in Rochester, Minnesota, at the University of Minnesota Rochester.

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Doctor of Nursing Practice students, from left, Katelyn Erickson, Kristin Kelly and Yingying Chen practice acupressure, a healing technique using pressure, during an Integrative Health and Healing class.

The Integrative Health and Healing specialty is the first of its kind in the country, and provides a strong foundation for nursing leadership and expertise in integrative health.

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FROM THE DEAN

True team-based care Dear Friends and Colleagues: When the Institute of Medicine released the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report in 2010, it gave voice to many who recognized the central role nursing plays in transforming health care. In December 2015, Assessing Progress on the IOM Report The Future of Nursing was released and illustrates how far we have come together in just five years.

The report’s initial recommendations became the springboard for strategic initiatives across the country. By articulating how nurses can contribute more fully to the triple aim of a better patient experience, improved outcomes and lower costs, the recommendations provided a road map for future-oriented schools and systems.

In Minnesota we advanced the recommendations on many fronts. Two examples: • Removing scope of practice barriers: Minnesota became the 19th state to grant advanced practice nurses the authority to practice to the full scope of their education and license. The change facilitated the opening of the University of Minnesota’s first nurse-led primary care clinic.

• Doubling the number of doctorallyprepared nurses: Anticipating future health needs, the school replaced its Master of Science in Nursing program with the Doctor of Nursing Practice program in 2007. Now ours is the largest DNP program with an on-campus component in the country with more than 350 students.

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We celebrate the progress that is well documented in the 2015 IOM progress report. Perhaps even more compelling than the progress over the past five years are the latest challenges posed to us in the 2015 report. This distinguished progress report committee advises the nursing community to generate better nursing workforce data and make diversity and cultural competence top priorities.

Most insightful, I believe, is the call to broaden the base for support of true team-based care. The concept of interprofessional care is not new; however, our approach and presumptions as nurses deserve a fresh look.

Let ours not be a nursing revolution, but rather a patient care revolution.

We would be wise to let go of old hierarchical perceptions and boldly assume our seat at the table. We must intensify our strategies to reach out to physicians, pharmacists, administrators, dental professionals, policy makers and other colleagues as true partners with the patient in charge and at the center.

“ Collaboration requires all members of a team working to their full potential on behalf of the patient and with respect for the contributions of other professions to the work … all health care professionals will need to work together to plan how to attain this goal.”

Assessing Progress on the IOM Report The Future of Nursing

Thank you to so many who have advanced the agenda, particularly the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

With progress underway and more barriers removed, it’s our call to courageous action and unbending expectations for the best for patients, families and communities.

Connie White Delaney Professor and Dean

Download the IOM report at: http://iom. nationalacademies.org/ Reports/2015/AssessingProgress-on-the-IOMReport-The-Future-ofNursing.aspx

The feeling is mutual

Two days each week, Clinical Assistant Professor Diana Drake, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, sees patients at the Women’s Health Specialists Clinic at the University of Minnesota, where she serves as one of four members of the clinic’s interprofessional leadership team. She and Carrie Terrell, MD, care for women across the lifespan who have a range of health interests and needs.

“ We have a collaborative team approach to care that results in more contributions from multiple disciplines to benefit the patient. We rely on each other’s areas of expertise to offer the patient a wider array of treatment options and create a seamless care system for the patient as much as possible.”

– Diana Drake, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC

“ Diana’s expertise in holistic health and integrative approaches helps us offer patients more options for wellness optimization and management of acute or chronic disease.

As an integrative therapies program manager, Megan Voss, DNP, RN, works closely with physicians in the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Unit at Masonic Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young patients and their families come from around world for experimental treatments that offer hope and also bring potentially catastrophic risks. With a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in integrative health and healing, Voss is able to support sick children in partnership with the full care team.

Clinical Associate Professor Mary Benbenek, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CPNP, and family practice physician Ryan Kelly, MD, co-manage patients at the Community University Health Care Clinic, a primary care clinic in an underserved neighborhood of Minneapolis.

“ Dr. Kelly is knowledgeable in the acute management of chronic diseases, which is very helpful in those scenarios when patients are developing unstable conditions. He welcomes questions and offers input into long-term management. I provide primary care while freeing him to manage those more acute patients requiring more complex medical care.

Two heads are usually better than one.”

“ While I design trials and implement complex treatment plans, Megan brings comfort through healing touch, acupressure and other approaches. She is focused on the whole patient. Together, we find ways to heal the sick child. While I focus on finding a curative intervention for the disease, Megan teaches them – Mary Benbenek, PhD, APRN, how to heal from within. Our kids FNP-BC, CPNP and their families need both; not one more than the other.”

– J ohn Wagner, MD

– Carrie Terrell, MD

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RESEARCH

HEALTH PROMOTION

Prepare to

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Professor Sieving brings a teen pregnancy prevention program to scale

by Barb Schlaefer

Professor Renee Sieving, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSAHM, is getting calls from likeminded strangers around the country.

When the teen pregnancy prevention program she and her team developed was recently added to two federal short lists of effective intervention programs, organizations from five states contacted her to learn more.

“While these federal lists have existed for several years, now the federal

Last year $65 million was awarded to organizations and agencies across the country to implement evidencebased pregnancy prevention programs like Sieving’s as part of a broader strategy by the Department of Health and Human Services to more closely align federal resources with results.

“The goal is to make the best use of government spending by investing in programs that have the strongest research evidence,” said Brian Goesling, associate director of Human Services Research for Mathematica Policy Research, the firm conducting the evidence review for the Department of Health and Human Services. “The Obama administration picked teen pregnancy prevention as one area to feature this new policy approach.” continued on page 8

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Photos: Scott Streble

Sieving’s program was catapulted into the national spotlight last year when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identified it as a teen pregnancy prevention program meeting the highest standards for rigor and effectiveness.

At about the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added the program to its published list of interventions for preventing sexually transmitted diseases.

government is linking substantial funding to the replication of evidencebased programs that have been reviewed and met certain standards,” Sieving said. “It’s exciting to see our program acknowledged.”

RESEARCH

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“ The program’s aim is to reduce two primary precursors to teen pregnancy, specifically risky sexual behaviors and disconnection from school.”

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continued from page 6 A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MODEL THAT WORKS The teen pregnancy prevention program, called Prime Time, was implemented as an 18-month intervention in a randomized trial involving 253 adolescent girls at four sites in Minnesota. The program is designed to be implemented by clinics that serve teens who are at high risk for pregnancy. The program’s aim is to reduce two primary precursors to teen pregnancy, specifically risky sexual behaviors and disconnection from school.

Sieving and her colleagues developed the model, informed by research and Sieving’s 20 years of experience as a nurse practitioner in adolescent health.

“As a practitioner, I saw firsthand the shortcomings of a health care system that only reacted to problems,” Sieving said.

“I had a sense that we could do more to help these girls develop their capacity to make wise choices for themselves and that we could demonstrate the return on such an investment.”

The Prime Time program engages teens in monthly one-on-one case

RESEARCH

Professor Renee Sieving talks with staff from the Annex Teen Clinic, which participated in the Prime Time program.

the program ended, the percentage of participants reporting they abstained from sex for the previous six months was three times higher than a control group. Participants also reported significantly greater involvement in education. Of the program participants who completed high school, 72 percent reported being enrolled in college or technical school versus 37 percent of control group participants.

These findings combined with the well-designed model and rigorous evaluation contributed to the program being listed as one of just 23 pregnancy prevention programs meeting the highest standard for evidence review.

“A well-designed randomized controlled trial is considered the ‘gold standard’ in evaluation research,” said Goesling. “To meet the highest standard, the evidence must also show that the program changed the actual behaviors of study participants, not just their attitudes and intentions.”

management sessions for 18 months.

The sessions focus on social and emotional skills, healthy relationships, responsible sexual behaviors and positive family, school and community involvement. In addition, each teen is involved in training to be a designated peer educator.

THE PROGRAM’S RESULTS In a randomized trial, Prime Time participants reported significantly greater use of dual contraceptive methods for a full year after the program concluded. Also a year after

With inquiries about the program coming in from near and far, Sieving has paused subsequent research and pivoted to developing comprehensive materials for agencies interested in implementing Prime Time in their communities. A three-day training and user-friendly intervention manuals are being developed to ensure that little is left open to interpretation for those implementing the model in their communities. A national distribution firm will promote the program and market the manuals.

NO SHORTCUTS Sieving says her new role in taking a program to scale differs from her work as a researcher in that the translational work involves even more detailed documentation of all aspects of the program. She is immersed in learning

the business aspects of taking a product to the national marketplace.

“Our materials address every detail, such as the experience and qualifications of program staff, the structure of the program and appropriate caseloads for staff,” said Sieving. “The quality of program delivery as it is implemented by groups across the country will impact youth outcomes.”

Compared to many other programs on the federal government’s lists of evidence-based prevention programs, Prime Time provides more personalized services and extensive asset development for each participant. The total estimated cost of implementing the program is $2,800 per participant.

“There are no easy answers or quick fixes to preventing early pregnancy among vulnerable adolescents,” said Sieving.

“This program showed results because the investment in young people’s positive development was real.”

Sieving is eager to return to her research to refine approaches to preventing risky sexual behaviors. In the meantime, she is excited about the prospect of meeting more like-minded people from around the country who are interested in having a lasting positive impact on youths’ lives.

Prime Time program development and research were funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Training and materials are being developed with funds from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Translational Sciences Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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HEALTH PROMOTION

A healthy habit New research suggests family meals may curb childhood obesity

by Barb Schlaefer

Most parents know the struggle of preparing dinner and getting the family together around the table.

Busy schedules, evening activities, errands and the lure of technology are all barriers to a family sit-down dinner, an activity that research shows strengthens families.

While creating a family-centric meal might be difficult, parents now have another reason to make it happen while their children are young. New research suggests that having family meals with your children before they enter puberty holds promise for curbing obesity.

Professor Jayne Fulkerson, PhD, found that preparing and eating healthy meals together may prevent excess weight gain in younger children. The research was published recently in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

“The research results suggest if younger children eat frequent and healthful meals with their families, they may be less likely to gain excess weight as they grow,” Fulkerson said.

The HOME Plus study is the first randomized controlled trial to test a family meals-focused program to prevent excess weight gain. The study involved 160 children, ages 8 to 12, and their parents or guardians.

Parent surveys and child body mass index checks were performed at the

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beginning and end of the program, as well as nine months after the conclusion of the program. Families assigned to the HOME Plus program participated in 10 monthly family group sessions and five goal-setting phone calls. Families assigned to the control group received only a nutrition newsletter highlighting healthy family habits.

The HOME Plus study found children participating in the HOME Plus program who had not started puberty gained less weight compared to children who did not participate in the family meals-focused program.

The significant effect among prepubescent children suggests the intervention may be more effective with younger children. Program participants who had started puberty did not see significant differences in excess weight gain compared to the control group.

“Additional research to confirm the effectiveness of the program specifically for prepubescent children is needed,” Fulkerson said.

Fulkerson hopes these results will encourage parents to make family meals a priority and teach their children how to create healthy meals in the process.

“Teaching children how to prepare healthy meals and snacks gives them a life skill that can promote a lifetime habit of healthy eating,” Fulkerson said.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disease of the National Institutes of Health.

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“ Teaching children how to prepare healthy meals and snacks gives them a life skill that can promote a lifetime habit of healthy eating.”

Professor Jayne Fulkerson, PhD, found that preparing and eating healthy meals as a family may prevent excess weight gain in younger children.

Photo: Scott Streble

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RESEARCH

Professor Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN

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RESEARCH

INFORMATICS & SYSTEMS INNOVATION

Program evaluation:

a research niche grounded in partnership

by Barb Schlaefer

When the state of Minnesota invested $18 million in a new funding model designed to incentivize quality and safety in nursing homes, state officials were eager to objectively gauge its effectiveness. The University of Minnesota was a logical partner.

Once the state’s program was underway, Professor Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, worked with her research team to evaluate how the model impacted participating nursing homes across Minnesota.

The team included researchers with expertise in nursing, aging, public health and management at three universities. “The results of a good program evaluation can play an important role in informing policy and program development,” said Mueller, associate dean for the School of Nursing. “There is growing demand for program evaluation. To be effective, this work must be highly collaborative.”

Mueller, who holds the Long Term Care Professorship in Nursing, has dedicated much of her career to researching nursing home quality, safety and staffing.

Nursing home costs are increasingly straining family finances and state budgets as the nation’s population over

age 65 soars. Yet universal directives for reducing costs and improving quality of care can be difficult to enforce across diverse care centers and settings.

A PROGRAM EXPERIMENT The Minnesota program, called Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program (PIPP), began as an experiment initiated by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. By awarding longterm care facilities funding up front for their plans to improve outcomes in specific areas, the state hoped to leverage more grassroots ideas and engagement from the people who understand the operations and the residents’ needs best.

The research team was involved in evaluating and refining the program.

The team evaluated the improvement of quality in nursing homes on more than a dozen measures ranging from fall reduction to wound prevention to pain management to the reduction in use of antipsychotic medications. The team was charged with determining whether this incentive-funding approach had broad appeal, or if it was attracting primarily facilities with the most resources or the best performance.

“The capacity to improve quality in nursing homes has dramatically increased as a result of this innovative state program,” said Mueller. “Many of the quality improvement efforts in nursing homes that have been selected for the program are led by nurses.”

Because facilities submitting proposals identified their own improvement

goals, program administrators sought to understand whether progress on other quality measures decreased when a focus was placed on just one or two quality measures. The team measured effectiveness through a range of quantitative and qualitative evaluation strategies, including federal Medicaid reporting, interviews, site visits and discussions with participating facilities.

A LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP “Collaboration with the University has resulted in a transparent evaluation of our programs and guides policy direction and future investments by our agency in supporting quality improvement in nursing homes,” said Valerie Cooke, program manager with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. “Christine and her team have established strong credibility and trust with nursing home staff and many welcome them into their facilities.”

Now in its seventh year, the PIPP program is admired nationally for its competitive approach, innovative funding mechanisms and outcomes. The program is credited for contributing to Minnesota’s high ratings on nursing home quality. The evaluation team continues to be involved in improving this and other state-funded care services.

The initial program evaluation of the PIPP program was funded with a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Subsequent evaluation work was funded by the state of Minnesota.

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“ We’re really looking at Afro-Brazilian women and what their experiences are.”

– Professor Diana Drake

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E D U C AT I O N

A new perspective on

women’s health

DNP students see familiar, new health challenges in Brazil

by Brett Stursa Nine students in the women’s health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner specialties of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program immersed themselves in a variety of the health care settings throughout the port city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil to gain an international perspective of health care during a practicum for the School of Nursing.

Photos: Melissa Jones

While the school has a long tradition of global programming with prelicensure students, this was one of the first times the school offered the opportunity to doctoral students. “An international view of women’s health really enhances the DNP program,” said Clinical Assistant Professor Diana Drake, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC. “I really believe we are better providers if we’ve experienced a global view of health care.”

Melissa Jones, a women’s health nurse practitioner student, was eager to gain an international perspective on women’s health to expand her knowledge of diverse health care practices and approaches in different cultures. “I hope that by drawing on global women’s health experiences, in addition to my local women’s health experiences, I will be a more culturally competent health care provider,” Jones said.

While in Brazil, they made community home care visits and held a health fair in the Quilombo village. “The health fair was an incredible experience to interact with individuals from a completely different background than our own, yet so seamlessly be able to connect with them about their health,” said Jones. continued on page 16

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continued from page 15 The students experienced alternative healing in the Candomblé tradition.

They observed health care within the prison system and spoke with sex workers at Forca Feminina, a center that supports sex workers.

“We’re really looking at Afro-Brazilian women and what their experiences are,” said Drake.

Each student was given a fictitious patient case set in Brazil that was built and examined throughout the experience. They gave presentations on their experiences and patient cases after they returned from the 10-day practicum.

While this was one of the doctorallevel immersion offered by the School of Nursing, it won’t be the last. In March, a DNP practicum was offered in rural Honduras. Ten nurse practitioner students and two faculty went to Santa Lucia, Intibuca in Honduras, and Drake is already thinking about the next practicum in Brazil.

Above right, students tour the Penitentiary Lemps de Brito to get an understanding of health care in prison. Right, DNP students and faculty, along with a community nurse, provide hypertension and diabetes screenings during the Quilombo Community Health Fair. Below, a woman waves goodbye to DNP students and a community agent after a home health care visit in the town of Cachoeira.

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E D U C AT I O N

Predicting violence DNP student implements assessment tool for patient violence

by Brett Stursa The need to better assess a patient’s risk for acting violently was clear to Jamie Giles, a psychiatric nurse at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. From graphic news reports of nurses being physically assaulted to stories colleagues shared and incidents Giles witnessed herself, the evidence was convincing. “It’s scary,” said Giles. “There has been increasing violence occurring over the last couple of years.”

As a student in the psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner specialty of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, Giles knew that literature supported the use of risk assessments in predicting patients’ potential for violent acts, but she saw a gap in the use of such tools. Giles hoped to close the gap by implementing a risk assessment at Regions Hospital. The work met the DNP program requirement to develop and implement an evidence-based project to advance system level change.

Jamie Giles

“A lot of people coming in are going through some of the hardest times of their lives and to walk with them as they heal is just something that is so rewarding,” said Giles. “But working in the mental health field, especially inpatient mental health, there is definitely a risk of patients being violent on the unit. It is an issue that needs to be addressed.”

IMPLEMENTING THE ASSESSMENT Giles worked with the workplace violence committee at Regions Hospital to create a violence risk assessment tool. It includes seven behaviors to assess, including irritability, agitation, history of violence, making threats and attacking objects. The assessment doesn’t require nurses to use a scale or range, only to determine whether behaviors are present or not. Each behavior that is exhibited is given a score, and the numbers are added to determine the risk for violence.

The levels range from low, medium and high to severe. There are suggested interventions for each risk level, which can be as simple as giving the patient gum for low risk to physical restraints or administering medications as needed for severe risk assessments.

Giles worked with more than 200 nurses on four units to implement the use of the assessment. The project was piloted on the mental health unit, two medical units and the psychiatric pod of the emergency department. She created online education to teach nurses how to complete the assessment and worked with the hospital’s information technology department so that nurses could chart their patients’ risk assessment in their electronic health records. Assessments were made every shift throughout the patients’ entire hospital stay. continued on page 18

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continued from page 17 The pilot went well enough that Regions Hospital adopted it hospital-wide and other hospitals want to use it. “It’s gone really far,” said Giles. “It’s great to see how useful it is.”

ASSESSING THE RESULTS Giles’ project had four aims: increase nurses’ comfort in identifying patients who are at risk of being violent, increase nurses’ confidence in knowledge of risk behavior, increase their competency regarding de-escalation and increase the use of nursing interventions. Pre- and post- pilot surveys demonstrated a statistically significant change in the number of nurses who felt “very confident” in their knowledge to recognize patient behaviors with potential for violence. “Findings from this project support implementing a violence risk assessment for nurses use to help increase nurses’ confidence in their knowledge of patient behaviors that increase potential for violence,” said Giles.

After conducting a chart audit, Giles determined the highest risk of violence, on average, occurred after a week stay. The finding was notable to Giles, as some research suggests stopping assessments after three days.

“The scope of her work, bringing four inpatient units together to pilot this risk assessment, is a huge accomplishment,” said Associate Professor Merrie Kaas, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS, FGSA, FAAN. “She developed and tested her leadership skills as a doctorally-prepared mental health nurse leader.”

Since completing the project and graduating with a DNP degree in 2015, Giles began work as a nurse practitioner in an outpatient mental health clinic in Plymouth. “It’s been very, very rewarding,” said Giles, about her experience implementing the assessment.

“I am so thankful that people actually got something out of this and it is helping them improve their everyday practice.”

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Taught to teach nursing informatics

Nursing faculty learn about teaching informatics at the National Nursing Informatics Deep Dive Pre-Conference in Florida.

Photo: Dan Higgins

With an eye on future, the school leads the way in nursing informatics

by Brett Stursa More than 3,000 faculty, nurse educators and clinical nurses participated in workshops and webinars taught by nursing informatics experts from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing over the last three years thanks to grants totaling $865,000 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The grants allowed the school to develop resources such as free courses, webinars, workshops and a website to inform nursing faculty throughout the country on the standards and methods essential to teaching nursing informatics.

“There is a tremendous need to increase the number of nursing school faculty prepared to teach nursing informatics,” said Tom Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, associate dean for faculty practice, partnerships and professional development. “Nationally, faculty kept saying they don’t understand how to teach nursing informatics. They are required to teach it but they didn’t understand how to teach it.”

The School of Nursing was quick to partner with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to offer its expertise on the topic, knowing nursing informatics is essential to improving the safety and quality of care nurses provide. While the Moore Foundation grant ended in 2015, the school is committed to sustaining the workshops, webinars and academic courses.

The school’s leadership in developing nursing informatics curriculum is just one of many efforts undertaken by the school to advance nursing informatics.

BREAKING THE NATIONAL SILOS Since 2013, the school has hosted the Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference, which brings together professionals from nursing practice, education, research, policy and industry annually to develop and implement a national plan of action to ensure nursing data are captured in electronic health continued on page 21

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Leadership on national informatics organizations CONNIE WHITE DELANEY – American Academy of Nursing, Expert Panel on Nursing Informatics member

BONNIE WESTRA – AMIA, member

– AMIA, Nursing Informatics Work Group, past chair

– Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, member

– Alliance for Nursing Informatics, founding co-chair

– Alliance for Nursing Informatics, past co-chair

– AMIA Academic Forum, member – International Medical Informatics Association, International Nursing Minimum Data Set Task Force chair

– AMIA, Education Committee (2014), Nominating Committee (2013), Symposium Planning Committee chair (2014)

– Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, member

– Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee (2007–2015), co-chair multiple workgroups

– Midwest Nursing Research Society, Health Systems, Policy and Informatics Research Interest Group, past chair

– Consortium on Omaha System International (2001–2015), board member

TOM CLANCY – American Academy of Nursing (20132015) Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology, co-chair

KAREN MONSEN – AMIA Academic Forum, chair elect

– AMIA (2011-2012) Planning Committee for the National Symposium member

CHIH-LIN CHI – IEEE, International Conference on Healthcare Informatics registration chair – AMIA, member – Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, member

ROBIN AUSTIN – AMIA Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Working Group, chair elect – Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Minnesota Chapter, member

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– Omaha System, board member – Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, member – ANIA-CARING Nursing Informatics Organization, member – American Academy of Nursing, Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology member – Midwest Nursing Research Society, Health Systems Policy and Informatics Research Interest Group member – American Public Health Association, Health Informatics Information Technology Special Interest Group member

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continued from page 19 records and that the data are available in sharable, comparable formats to inform care. Dean Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI saw a need for a conference focused on collaboration, moving away from a tendency to work in silos. “We wanted to create an urgent movement of people working together across traditional boundaries, sharing what they knew,” said Delaney. “The focus is on synergy rather than competitive energies.”

Initiatives and key tasks around education, practice, policies and research are identified at each conference and are advanced throughout the year in 12 committees. “The conference concludes each year with a strong sense of momentum. We have made significant progress, but there is still work to do,” said Delaney.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE The school’s leadership in nursing informatics is also reflected in its academic programs, with informatics embedded into the prelicensure and doctoral programs. At the doctoral level, the school offers a PhD degree with a focus in informatics as well as

a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a nursing informatics specialty. The Doctor of Nursing Practice program prepares nurses to utilize and teach effective use of technology in health care. The work hasn’t gone unnoticed, with U.S. News and World Report ranking the school’s nursing informatics graduate program second in the county.

The Center for Nursing Informatics at the School of Nursing further connects students and faculty through collaborations locally, nationally and internationally.

“Nurses and the field of nursing make major contributions to health care. However, as a profession, we need to do a better job of making nursing data more useful for research purposes,” said Associate Professor Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI. “Our goal at the center is to lead the discovery, application and cutting-edge thinking for nursing and health informatics scholarship to improve the health of individuals and communities.”

Visit http://z.umn.edu/informaticsresources for more information.

The First Fifty Years The work of Assistant Professor Chih-Lin Chi, Clinical Professor Tom Clancy, Dean Connie White Delaney, Associate Professor Karen Monsen and Associate Professor Bonnie Westra was highlighted in Health Informatics at Minnesota The First Fifty Years, published by the Institute for Health Informatics.

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Nursing

inventors Nurses are well-positioned to invent products that improve patient care

Planting Seeds of Innovation participants listen to fellow attendees discuss prototypes they designed.

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by Brett Stursa

Casey Hooke, a pediatric clinical nurse specialist, cringes when she sees children walking around the hospital with IV tubing dragging on the floor collecting bacteria.

Bringing those germs to their beds, where central line care occurs, increases the risk for infection.

These everyday occurrences inspired Hooke to create a device that keeps IV tubing off the ground. The inspiration came to her when she saw a dog running next to its owner on a bike that had a metal bar mounted on it with a bungee-style leash.

From there, Hooke, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, collaborated with Teresa Herriage, a Doctor of Nursing Practice student at the time, to create an IV line lifter, which is a flexible device that secures to the IV pole to keep the tubing off the ground.

A 2015 clinical project conducted by Herriage showed a significant decrease in contamination when the line lifter was used. A patent application was submitted last fall.

Hooke shared her unlikely journey from a CNS to inventor during Planting Seeds of Innovation, a one-day workshop sponsored by the School of Nursing, University of Minnesota Health and Fairview Health Services, that taught participants about the process of taking an idea to market.

“Nurses are a major untapped source of ideas for improving patient care,” said Clinical Associate Professor Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, who heads the health innovation and leadership specialty within the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. “Offering a workshop about this topic empowers nurses to bring to scale the innovations that nurses create to change lives.”

Associate Dean Tom Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, agreed. He and Potter recommended the idea of hosting a workshop to the Nursing Collaboratory, a joint effort of Fairview Health Services, M Health and the School of Nursing that works to develop sustainable solutions to improve health outcomes.

“The vision of the collaboratory is to look for ways that we can collaborate on projects that benefit Fairview, M Health and the School of Nursing,” said Clancy. “You put faculty, students and working nurses together and that’s the population you want to be innovating.”

With limited advertising, more than 100 people applied to attend the Planting Seeds of Innovation workshop, which was limited to 30 people. “I think nurses have a lot of ideas but they just don’t know how to develop and test them,” said Clancy, explaining the workshop’s popularity. “There is really an entrepreneurial spirit developing right now because you can bring your idea to market.”

Throughout the workshop, which was held in December, participants heard from nurses who were at various stages of taking an idea to market, and they had a chance to design their own device and create a prototype.

“This workshop maintained such an exciting energy throughout the day.

Nurses, as innate innovators and inventors, need this type of engaging learning and networking opportunity, and a focus on nursing innovation,” said Anne LaFlamme, DNP, RN, LHITHP, chief nursing information officer for Fairview Health Services and M Health.

“The partnerships between Fairview and M Health, the School of Nursing, the Densford Center and the Medical Devices Center made this day a huge success.”

As for Hooke, she is still waiting to hear about the patent and is working with a manufacturer to get the IV line lifter on the market for pediatric institutions to purchase. “We’re committed to getting this out to pediatric patients,” said Hooke.

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NURSING INFORMATICS

Aiming for better care, better health and lower costs Registration is now open for the 2016 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference June 1-3 in Minneapolis. The Center for Nursing Informatics has led national conversations and strategic initiatives through the conference for the last three years.

The 2016 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference will continue to advance the inclusion of standardized nursing data, captured in standardized ways and integrated into clinical data repositories for business operations and research.

For the past year, 12 virtual collaborating working groups, composed of national nursing leaders in practice, professional organizations, health policy and education, have demonstrated a concerted effort to shape health policy for including nursing data in the electronic health record, streamline workflow processes, standardize nursing data, and demonstrate the value of using nursing data to effect the quadruple aim of better health, patient outcomes, costs of care and workforce satisfaction.

inclusion in national data standards, and providing workshops, conferences and educational resources to scientists, faculty and administrators.

Multiple publications resulted from this effort along with presentations locally, nationally and internationally. Advancing the new quadruple aim, which adds satisfaction of providers, through nursing big data science is possible with the coordinated efforts of so many talented nurse leaders. More information about the conference can be found at http://z.umn.edu/bigdata.

Examples of activities accomplished by these work groups include developing a compendium on precision nursing and best practices, creating a repository of health information technology policy-related educational tools and resources, collaborating on validation of nursing information models, submitting nursing assessment data for

The Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference brings together national leaders to advance the inclusion of standardized nursing data in the EHR.

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CENTER NEWS

CENTER DIRECTOR: Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN

CENTER DIRECTOR: Jean Wyman, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN

KATHARINE J. DENSFORD INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR

MINNESOTA HARTFORD CENTER OF

The in/on distinction

Building capacity

GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING LEADERSHIP NURSING

One of the goals of the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership is to educate, coach and build the competency and confidence of nurse leaders to understand themselves, to motivate teams and to transfer nursing wisdom to the next generation of leaders. Part of this competency and confidence is discerning the difference between being in the business of nursing and on the business of nursing.

Such distinctions are well articulated by organizational strategist Chris McGoff, author of The Primes: How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem. When working in the business, you operate the systems and solve the problems that already exist. When you work on the business, your activities either change or transform the business, you bring forth new ways for the business to operate and you produce extraordinary results.

The Nurses on Boards Coalition is working to get more nurses on boards to be both in and on the business of nursing. Nursing influence on boards is about being on the business of nursing rather than in the business of nursing. The in/on distinction helps people see how they can use their nursing knowledge to exert influence and leadership to work on the business of nursing and transform the way things are done.

If you want to learn more about board leadership, check out a recently published work Nurse On Board: Planning your Path to the Board Room (Sigma Theta Tau International, 2015). In this book, both Professor ad Honorem Joanne Disch and Professor Daniel Pesut share leadership insights about their board leadership experiences.

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Anticipating the critical need for nurses who can care for the nation’s rapidly growing older population, the Minnesota Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence is preparing new faculty for academic careers in gerontological nursing.

Over the past eight years, the center offered career development opportunities, MN scholarships and travel grants to 33 PhD and DNP students. Of the graduates to date, 75 percent went on to obtain a faculty or faculty affiliate position, and three current IA students hold faculty positions.

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Several graduates hold faculty positions at nursing schools in Minnesota. At MO the University of Minnesota, Niloufar Niakosari Hadidi, PhD, is an associate professor and coordinator of the AdultGerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist AR specialty within the DNP program. Mary Dierich, PhD, is a clinical associate professor and Dianne Willer-Sly, DNP, Location of is a clinical assistant professor. At faculty who were Hartford scholars Metropolitan State University, Marjorie Webb, DNP, PhD candidate, is an associate professor and chair of the School of Nursing, and at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business, James Friedman, PhD student, serves as program faculty.

In greater Minnesota, Denise Meijer, DNP, is an assistant professor at Bemidji State University, Sara McCumber, DNP, is an assistant professor at the College of St. Scholastica, Jack Rydell, DNP, is an associate professor at Concordia College and Tai Sims, DNP, PhD student, is an assistant professor at Minnesota State University – Mankato.

Graduates are also serving on the faculty in schools beyond Minnesota. Arin Van Wormer, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Paula McNeil, DNP, is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Audrey Weymiller, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Thank you to the John A. Hartford Foundation, Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and our other funding partners who supported our students to become the next generation of academic nurse leaders.

CENTER NEWS CENTER DIRECTOR: Jayne Fulkerson, PhD

CENTER DIRECTOR: Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LMFT, LP, FAAN

CENTER FOR

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CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH

CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS

Help for expectant Family stress in the ICU parents with fetal anomaly diagnoses Expectant parents experience a myriad of emotions related to the impending birth of a child, including a potpourri of joy and excitement mixed perhaps with a touch of trepidation given the unknowns. When a fetal anomaly such as a life-threatening defect of the cardiovascular, digestive or cerebrospinal system is diagnosed, those initial feelings give way to a high level of outright distress. These expectant parents often endure distress that can interfere with their development as caregivers. In the United States, anywhere from 3 to 10 percent of infants are born with major anomalies. Yet, no reliable instruments have been developed to assess expectant parents’ needs or their developmental trajectories as caregivers after such a diagnosis.

In response to this need, Assistant Professor Anne Chevalier McKechnie, PhD, RN, IBCLC, is developing two selfreport instruments for expectant parents with major fetal anomaly diagnoses.

Anne Chevalier McKechnie, The first instrument, PhD, RN, IBCLC Communication about Needs and Information of Relevance, captures variations in expectant parents’ perceived personal needs and prompts discussion in a clinical setting before birth. The second instrument, Framing and Reconciling, Agency, and Management of Expectations, measures expectant parents’ psychological and behavioral approaches for managing maternal-fetal health care following a major fetal anomaly diagnosis. McKechnie’s work in this area is supported by recent University of Minnesota Grant In Aid funding, which will include two stages of development and testing. Her work will include cognitive interviews and field-testing with a focus on psychometric properties. She will collaborate with researchers and clinicians in both Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The primary source of stress for mothers with a child in the intensive care unit and children at home was the constant pull between the hospital and home needs and stressors related to separation, according to research recently completed by Sandra Hagstrom, PhD, APRN, for her dissertation Family Stress in LongTerm Pediatric Critical Care. Hagstrom was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Center for Children with Special Health Care Sandra Hagstrom, PhD, APRN Needs whose research was informed by her expertise in pediatric critical care as an advanced practice nurse leader at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.

Although it is recognized that a child’s admission to the ICU is stressful, little is known about family stress after the initial days in the ICU. This mixed methods study described sources of stress for families whose children remained in the ICU for one week or longer and how stress sources changed over time.

The amount and types of baseline stress varied among families, and their perceptions of success managing previous stressful situations influenced their confidence in how they could effectively deal with the ICU experience. Participants described how stress built over time in the ICU but diminished as uncertainty about their child’s condition decreased.

Hagstrom concludes that pediatric nurses need to identify the stressors families in the ICU are facing related to separation, the child’s acute illness, ongoing health care needs and effects on family roles and responsibilities in order to individualize care and best support each family.

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CENTER NEWS

CENTER DIRECTOR: Linda H. Bearinger, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSAHM

CENTER DIRECTOR: Jean Wyman, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN

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Setting a healthy course

Addressing effects of dementia-related illnesses

ADOLESCENT NURSING

A great challenge for parents, guardians, educators and health professionals is how to think about, talk about and guide young people on positive paths toward adulthood, particularly on the topic of sexual health. We understand that adolescence launches a time of intense introspection – about identity, relationships, attitudes, values and behaviors – influenced by cultures and contexts of childhood. And, we know that values and behaviors that determine a healthy course are set well before young people become sexually active.

During the 2016 Adolescent Health Summer Institute Setting a Healthy Course: Talking about Sex in the Middle School Years, learn strategies for engaging young teens and their families in conversations about values and behaviors that set a course toward healthy sexuality. Talk with young people, health professionals and educators who are committed to teaching about sexual health and improving clinical and social services. Consider evidence-based approaches with diverse groups of teens. Gain skills for working across multiple cultures and contexts, and understand the acquisition and influence of gender norms during early adolescence.

The 2016 institute will be July 25–27 at the TIES Event Center, St. Paul, Minnesota and is offered by the School of Nursing Center for Adolescent Nursing in co-sponsorship with Minnesota Departments of Health and Education, UMN Healthy Youth Development • Prevention Research Center and UMN Office for Public Engagement. For further information contact Jenna Baumgartner at baum0272@umn.edu.

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Alzheimer’s disease affects 100,000 Minnesotans over the age of 65 and that number continues to grow.

Center members are at the forefront of leading new state initiatives to improve the care of older adults with dementia and their caregivers. Both projects are funded via a new Minnesota Board on Aging grant program that focuses on helping community organizations raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Using evidence from her National Institutes of Health-funded research program, the FIT-AD Certification Training Program led by Associate Professor Fang Yu, PhD, RN, FAAN, will be a professional development program for exercise providers on how to safely prescribe, implement and evaluate exercise programs for people with memory loss. The ultimate goal Fang Yu, PhD, RN, FAAN of this project is to positively impact the daily lives of people with dementia and slow the progression of the disease through physical fitness.

Partners on this program include the University’s Academic Technology Support Services, University Recreational Center, YMCA and Centrex Rehab.

An initiative led by Professor Joseph Gaugler, PhD, will provide ongoing support to family caregivers served through the Minnesota Memory Care Management Center. This new center, housed at the Fairview/U of M School of Nursing dementia care clinic in Burnsville, Minnesota, is offered in collaboration with Fairview Health Joe Gaugler, PhD Services, Alzheimer’s Association and Wilder Foundation. This initiative will enhance care planning and use of community resources. It also will include an advocate team to facilitate culturally-tailored, comprehensive care planning for Hispanic/Latino families.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

AWARDS AND HONORS

Professional development events

Clinical Assistant Professor Robin Austin, DNP, DC, RN-BC, was elected chairelect of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Working Group.

Upper Midwest Healthcare Legal Partnership Learning Collaborative Inaugural Conference March 24 St. Paul, Minnesota

Florence Schorske Wald Lectureship on Palliative Care and Hospice Care April 10 Bloomington, Minnesota

2016 Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care Annual Conference April 11-12 Bloomington, Minnesota

School of Nursing Research Day April 22 Minneapolis, Minnesota

Medical Cannabis: Clinical Applications and Evidence April 28 Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bariatric Education Days 2016 May 25 Bloomington, Minnesota

Care Across the Continuum: A Trauma and Critical Care Conference Sept. 20 Plymouth, Minnesota American Nurses Credentialing Center contact hours offered. See www.nursing.umn.edu/continuingprofessional-development for more information.

Chief Administrative Officer Katharine Bonneson, DPA, was awarded CFO of the Year for health care nonprofits

by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Clinical Assistant Professor Diana Drake, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, received the Inspiring Educator Award from the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health. She was also selected to serve on the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health Board of Directors.

Professor Jayne Fulkerson, PhD, is serving as associate editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Professor Kathleen Krichbaum, PhD, RN, ANEF, FGSA, FAAN, is the chair of the Academic Health Center Faculty Consultative Committee.

Clinical Assistant Professor Dan Lovinaria, DNP, MBA, APRN, CRNA, is serving as president of the Minnesota Association of Nurse Anesthetists.

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SCHOOL NEWS

BRIEFLY School, M Health make joint hire The School of Nursing and University of Minnesota Health appointed Mary Fran Tracy to the new joint position of associate professor/nurse scientist. This unique position is intended to create synergy between the two organizations to advance nursing research and scholarship. Tracy earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree and PhD in Nursing from the University of Minnesota.

Dental service added to the menu at clinic Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation awarded a $275,000 grant to the School of Dentistry to integrate dental service in the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, which is run by the School of Nursing. “New research is showing that oral disease is a cause or a contributing cause to chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease,” said Tom Clancy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, associate dean for faculty practice, partnerships and professional development. “If someone comes in with dental issues, we’ll try to identify if they have other health issues that should be addressed, and we will be developing a joint assessment.” The dental service will begin this year.

NEW APPOINTMENTS Brittany Gregorich joined the school as a data collection and intervention assistant. She is assisting in recruitment, data collection and delivery of the intervention for the HOME Plus study. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in exercise and sport science and is pursuing a master’s degree in public health at the U of M. Becky Kunz joined the school as a cooperative assistant for the Population Health and Systems cooperative unit. Most recently Kunz was a program coordinator for University of Minnesota Extension’s Center of Youth Development. She has a master’s degree in organizational leadership from the University of Northwestern and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and outdoor recreation and education.

Karl Olson joined the school as a clinical assistant professor and has a faculty practice at Community-University Health Care Center. He earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Minnesota and is a certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner.

Amy Palmer joined the school as a clinical placement coordinator in the Office of Academic Programs. She assists with Doctor of Nursing Practice student placements. Palmer earned a bachelor’s degree in English and history at the University of Minnesota and is pursuing a master’s degree in higher education at the U of M.

Patients will soon be able to receive dental service at the Nurse Practitioners Clinic.

DNP courses receive national recognition The school had its first two online Doctor of Nursing Practice courses, Systems Leadership and Innovation and Science of Nursing Intervention, Quality Matters certified. For a course to receive the national certification, it has to undergo a review by a Quality Matters review team. The school’s goal is to have all the DNP core courses Quality Matters certified.

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Angela Thul joined the school as an executive assistant working with the chief administrative officer and the assistant dean for faculty practices, partnership and professional development. She earned a master’s degree in public administration from Hamline University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities.

SCHOOL NEWS

EXTRAMURAL GRANT AWARDS

FACULTY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CALENDAR YEAR 2015 Avery, Melissa Advanced Nursing Education Health Resources and Services Administration Avery, Melissa Assuring Quality and Diversity in Advanced Practice Nursing Health Resources and Services Administration Bearinger, Linda MN Knowledge to Practice in Adolescent Health (MN-KPAH) (T21) Health Resources and Services Administration Bliss, Donna Skin pH Modulation Through Curled Fiber in Incontinence Briefs Hartmann USA, Inc. Bliss, Donna Disparities in Incontinence and Perineal Skin Damage in Nursing Home Elderly (R01) National Institute of Nursing Research / National Institutes of Health Cheung, Corjena Yoga versus Aerobic and Strengthening Exercises for Managing Osteoarthritis University of Iowa / John A. Hartford Foundation (Prime) Cheung, Corjena and Talley, Kristine Wise and Well (D2D) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Chi, Chih-Lin Predictive Optimal Anticlotting Treatment for Segmented Patient Populations (R01) Harvard University / National Institutes of Health (Prime) Clancy, Thomas Integrating Healthcare Informatics into Quality and Safety Education for Nursing Students Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Fulkerson, Jayne Childhood Obesity Prevention in Rural Minnesota (COPRMC) (D2D) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Fulkerson, Jayne Healthy Home Offerings via the Mealtime Environment (HOME) (R01) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases / National Institutes of Health Fulkerson, Jayne Futures of Nursing Scholars Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fulkerson, Jayne Virtual Role Plays to Reduce the Occurrence of Childhood Obesity (Phase II) SIMmersion, LLC / National Institutes of Health (Prime) Fulkerson, Jayne Parents and Kids Prevent Diabetes University of Minnesota Foundation / Olafson Trust Gaugler, Joseph A Proactive Health Monitoring Intervention for Dementia Cargegivers: The eNeighbor (R18) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gaugler, Joseph Comparative Effectiveness of Dementia Caregiver Interventions: Towards a PesonCentered Care Planning Tool (K18) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gaugler, Joseph Social Support Aid for People with Dementia (SBIR) American Medical Electronics Corporation / National Institutes of Health (Prime)

Delaney, Connie White University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science University of Pittsburgh / National Institutes of Health (Prime)

Gaugler, Joseph Creating Objects with 3D Printers to Stimulate Reminiscing for Memory Loss (SBIR) Moai Technologies / National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health (Prime)

Delaney, Connie White Greater Plains Collaborative Clinical Data Research Network University of Kansas Medical Center / Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (Prime)

Gaugler, Joseph Memory Matters: A Mobile Aid to Stimulate Reminiscing in Person with Memory Loss (SBIR) Moai Technologies / National Institutes of Health (Prime)

Gaugler, Joseph The Personal Health Record for Persons with Dementia and their Family Caregivers (R21) National Institute of Nursing Research / National Institutes of Health Gaugler, Joseph Living Well with Memory Partners University of Wisconsin-Madison Hooke, Mary KAM: Kids are Moving: an Exercise Program for Children with Cancer Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Hooke, Mary Phenotypic and Genotypic Associations with Symptom Clusters Duke University / National Institutes of Health (Prime) Kaas, Merrie Enhancing Interprofessional Integrative Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Education to Address Health Care of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders and other Chronic Conditions Health Resources and Services Administration Kreitzer, MaryJo Nursing Leadership in Integrative Health and Healing and Co-Curricula Program George Family Foundation Kubik, Martha School Nurse-Directed Secondary Obesity Prevention for Elementary School Children (R01) National Institute of Nursing Research / National Institutes of Health Lindquist, Ruth Developing and Testing a New Model to Reduce Risks for Heart Disease and Stroke University of Alabama / National Institutes of Health (Prime) McMahon, Siobhan STRIDE - Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Brigham and Women’s Hospital / National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health (Prime) McMahon, Siobhan Enhancing Motivation for Physical Activity to Reduce the Risk of Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Wellness Intervention (KL2) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) / National Institutes of Health

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EXTRAMURAL GRANT AWARDS

FACULTY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS CALENDAR YEAR 2015 McMahon, Siobhan Multifactorial Intervention for Falls Injury Prevention Essentia Institute of Rural Health / National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health (Prime) McMahon, Siobhan SHIFT the BALANCE Minnesota Board on Aging McMorris, Barbara Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities / Minnesota Department of Human Services (Prime) McMorris, Barbara Evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Program U.S. Department of Justice McMorris, Barbara Partnering for Healthy Student Outcomes Healthy Youth Development-Prevention Research Center / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Robertson, Cheryl American Refugee Committee Ebola Care and Treatment in River Gee County, Liberia Project American Refugee Committee / United States Agency for International Development (Prime) Schorr, Erica Utilizing Wearable Technology to Monitor Physical Activity and Sleep After Coronary Revascularization (PreK) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Sieving, Renee Lead Peace Middle School Service Learning Program Hennepin County Sieving, Renee Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mueller, Christine VA Nursing Academic Partnership Minneapolis VA Healthcare System / U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Sieving, Renee MN Project Connect Client Outcomes Evaluation Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Prime)

Mueller, Christine Evaluating a Comprehensive State-Level Model to Improve Nursing Home Quality Indiana University / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Prime)

Sieving, Renee Understanding the Context of Northern Plains American Teen Pregnancy Sanford Health / National Institutes of Health

Mueller, Christine New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Talley, Kristine Preventing Toileting Disability in Frail Older Women (K to R01) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

Mueller, Christine New Careers in Nursing Technical Assistance Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mueller, Christine Home and Community Based Service Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program State of Minnesota Porta, Carolyn Reducing Stigma, Promoting Resilience: Population Health Interventions for LGBTQ Youth University of British Columbia / Canadian Institute of Health Research (Prime) Potter, Teddie The National Implementation of Team STEPPS Health Research and Educational Trust

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Treat-Jacobson, Diane Healthy Aging and Mobility Initiative Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Treat-Jacobson, Diane Long-Term Outcomes of Supervised Exercise in Peripheal Artery Disease (PAD): Impact of Differing Modes of Exercise 14 years Post-Intervention Society for Vascular Nursing Westra, Bonnie Evaluating a Software Program for Predicting Sepsis Wolters Kluwer

White, Kathryn Nurse Anethetist Traineeship Program (NAT) Health Resources and Services Administration Wyman, Jean FLAG-Faclitataed Learining to Advance Geriatrics Gerontological Society of America Wyman, Jean Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (MnHCGNE) John A. Hartford Foundation Wyman, Jean Jonas Center for Leaders Scholarship Program Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence Wyman, Jean University of Pennsylvania + PLUS Clinical Center (PENN + PLUS CC) University of Pennsylvnia / National Institutes of Health (Prime) Yu, Fang Aerobic Exercise in Alzheimer’s Disease: Cognition and Hippocampal Volume Effects (R01) National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health

SCHOOL NEWS

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR YEAR 2015 Abrahamson, K., De Crane, S., Mueller, C., Davila, H.W., & Arling, G. (2015).

Implementation of a nursing home quality improvement project to reduce resident pain: A qualitative case study. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 30(3), 261-268.

Abrahamson, K., Miech E., Davila, H.W., Mueller C., Cooke, V., & Arling, G. (2015).

Pay-for-performance policy and datadriven decision making within nursing homes: A qualitative study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 24(5), 311-317.

Allison-Napolitano, E., & Pesut, D.J. (2015). Bounce forward: The extraordinary resilience of nursing leadership. Silver Springs, MD: American Nurses Association.

Austin, R., Westra, B.L., Kunkel, D., Monsen, K.A., & Delaney, C.W. (2015).

Nursing informatics: A new career for you.

Nursing Imprint, 62(1), 33-40.

Beacham, B.L., & Deatrick, J. A. (2015).

Children with chronic conditions: Perspectives on condition management.

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 30(1), 25-35.

Benbenek, M. (2015). Internationalizing teaching and learning in a graduate doctor of nursing practice program curriculum.

In R. D. Williams, & A. Lee (Eds.), Internationalizing higher education: Critical collaborations across the curriculum (pp.

131-150). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.

Berge, J. M., MacLehose, R. F., Loth, K. A., Eisenberg, M. E., Fulkerson, J.A., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2015). Parentadolescent conversations about eating, physical activity and weight: Prevalence across sociodemographic characteristics and associations with adolescent weight and weight-related behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 38(1), 122-135.

Berge, J.M., Wall, M., Hsueh, T.-F., Fulkerson, J.A., Larson, N., & NeumarkSztainer, D. (2015). The protective role of family meals for youth obesity: 10-year longitudinal associations. Journal of Pediatrics, 166(2), 296-301.

Bliss, D.Z., Funk, T., Jacobson, M., & Savik, K. (2015). Incidence and characteristics of incontinence-associated dermatitis in community-dwelling persons with fecal incontinence. Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, 42(5), 525-530.

Bliss, D.Z., Gurvich, O., Savik, K., Eberly, L.E., Harms, S., Mueller, C., . . . Virnig, B. (2015). Are there racial-ethnic disparities in time to pressure ulcer development and pressure ulcer treatment in older adults after nursing home admission? Journal of Aging and Health, 27(4), 571-593.

Bliss, D.Z., Gurvich, O.V., Savik, K., Eberly, L.E., Harms, S., Wyman, J.F., . . . Virnig, B. (2015). Analysis of racial and ethnic disparities as possible risk factors for development of incontinence by nursing home residents. Research in Nursing and Health, 38(6), 449-461.

Brady, S., Sieving, R., Terveen, L., Rosser, S., Kodet, A., & Rothberg, V. (2015). An interactive website to promote healthy relationships and reduce HIV-risk behavior among adolescents: Process evaluation of Teens Talk Health. Journal of Medical Internet Research Protocols, 4(3), e106. doi:10.2196/resprot.3440 Brandt, B.F., Cerra, F.B., & Delaney, C.W. (2015). The United States national center for interprofessional practice and education: Integrating an informatics approach to interprofessional work.

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29(6), 592-595.

Brook, H.A., Hiltz, C.M., Kopplin, V.L., & Lindeke, L.L. (2015). Increasing epilepsy awareness in schools: A seizure smart schools project. Journal of School Nursing, 31(4), 246-252.

Cady, R. G., Erickson, M., Lunos, S., Finkelstein, S. M., Looman, W., Celebrezze, M., & Garwick, A. (2015).

Meeting the needs of children with medical complexity using a telehealth advanced practice registered nurse care coordination model. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19(7), 1497-1506.

Cady, R., Looman, W., Lindeke, L., LaPlante, B., Lundeen, B., Seeley, A., & Kautto, M. (2015). Pediatric care coordination: Lessons learned and future priorities. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 20(3). Retrieved from: http://www. nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/ TableofContents/Vol-20-2015/No3Sept-2015 Caspi, C.E., Davey, C., Nelson, T.F., Larson, N., Kubik, M.Y., Coombes, B., & Nanney, M.S. (2015). Disparities persist in nutrition policies and practices in Minnesota secondary schools. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 115(3), 419-425.

Cerra, C., Drake, D., Sick, B., Chesney, M., King, J., & Lutfiyya, M. N. (2015).

Building the foundation for culture change through the design, implementation, and assessment of an interprofessional education intervention. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 5(1), 6-57. doi:10.5430/jnep.v5n1p46 Chaiteerakij, R., Zhang, X., Addissie, B. D., Mohamed, E. A., Harmsen, W. S., Theobald, P. J., Peters. B.E., Balsanke, J.G., Ward, M.M., Giama, N.H., . . .

Roberts, L. R. (2015). Combinations of biomarkers and milan criteria for predicting hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation, 21(5), 599-606. doi:10.1002/lt.24117

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR YEAR 2015 Champlin, B.E., Purfeerst, C. R., & Englehart, A. (2015). Description of a teambased intensive advising mentor program at an undergraduate baccalaureate program from the intensive advisor’s perspective. The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, doi:http://dus.psu.edu/ mentor/2015/03/team-intensive-advisingbaccalaureate-nursing Chesney, M.L. (2015). Increasing families’ health care access and choice through full practice authority. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(3), 219-221.

Chesney, M.L. (2015). New NAPNAP initiatives to promote PNPs leading and shaping pediatric health care. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(1), 3-4.

Chesney, M.L. (2015). PNPs needed to influence and leverage resources to confront threats to children’s health and well-being. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(2), 123-125.

Cheung, C., Justice, C., & PedenMcAlpine, C. (2015). Yoga adherence in older women six months post– osteoarthritis intervention. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(3), 16-23.

Clancy, T. R. (2015). Complexity, flow, and antifragile healthcare systems. Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(4), 188-191.

Clancy, T. R. (2015). Planning, design, and implementation of information technology in complex healthcare systems. In V. K. Saba, & K. McCormick (Eds.), Essentials of nursing informatics (6th ed., pp. 525-536) McGraw-Hill Education.

Corazzini, K.N., McConnell, E.S., Day, L., Anderson, R.A., Mueller, C., Vogelsmeier, A., . . . Haske-Palomino, M. (2015).

Differentiating scopes of practice in nursing homes: Collaborating for care.

Journal of Nursing Regulation, 6(1), 43-49.

Delaney, C.W., Kuziemsky, C., & Brandt, B.F. (Guest Eds.). Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29(6).

Delaney, C.W., Kuziemsky, C., & Brandt, B.F. (2015). Integrating informatics and interprofessional education and practice to drive healthcare transformation. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29(6), 527-529.

Dey, S., Cooner, J., Delaney, C.W., Fakhoury, J., Kumar, V., Simon, G., . . . Westra, B.L. (2015). Mining patterns associated with mobility outcomes in home healthcare. Nursing Research, 64(4), 235-245.

Dose, A. M., Carey, E. C., Rhudy, L. M., Chiu, Y., Frimannsdottir, K., Ottenberg, A. L., & Koenig, B. A. (2015). Dying in the hospital: Perspectives of family members.

Journal of Palliative Care, 31(1), 13-20.

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Eberly, L.E., Cunanan, K., Gurvich, O., Savik, K., Bliss, D.Z., & Wyman, J.F. (2015).

Statistical approaches to assessing health and healthcare disparities. Research in Nursing and Health, 38(6), 500-508.

Eisenberg, M.E., Gower, A.L., McMorris, B.J., & Bucchianeri, M.M. (2015).

Vulnerable bullies: Perpetration of peer harassment among youths across sexual orientation, weight, and disability status.

American Journal of Public Health, 105(9), 1784-1791.

Erickson, K.J., Monsen, K.A., Attleson, I.S., Radosevich, D.M., Oftedahl, G., Neely, C., & Thorson, D.R. (2015). Translation of obesity practice guidelines: Measurement and evaluation. Public Health Nursing, 32(3), 222-231.

Flattum, C., Draxten, M., Horning, M., Fulkerson, J. A., Neumark-Sztainer, D., Garwick, A., . . . Story, M. (2015). HOME plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children’s sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s12966-015-0211-7 Friedrich, C., & Lindeke, L.L. (2015).

Reimbursement realities for the APRN. In K. A. Blair, & M. P. Jansen (Eds.), Advanced practice nursing: Core concepts for professional role development (5th ed., pp. 209-230). New York, NY: Springer.

Friend, S., Fulkerson, J. A., NeumarkSztainer, D., Garwick, A., Flattum, C. F., & Draxten, M. (2015). Comparing childhood meal frequency to current meal frequency, routines, and expectations among parents.

Journal of Family Psychology, 29(1), 136-140.

Fulkerson, J.A., Friend, S., Flattum, C., Horning, M., Draxten, M., NeumarkSztainer, D., . . . Garwick, A. Kubik, M.Y. (2015). Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME plus, a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s12966-015-0320-3 Gapp, N. E., Weber, J. M., Monsen, K. A., & Darst, E. H. (2015). Feasibility of using the Omaha system for assessment to determine optimal living situation for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health, 3(2), 1-6.

Garcia, A., Caspers, B., Westra, B., Pruinelli, L., & Delaney, C. (2015).

Sharable and comparable data for nursing management. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39(4), 297-303.

Garwick, A. W., Svavarsdóttir, E. K., Seppelt, A. M., Looman, W.S., Anderson, L. S., & Örlygsdóttir, B. (2015). Development of an international school nurse asthma care coordination model. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(3), 535-546.

Gaugler, J.E. (2015). 2015 year in review.

Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(8), 935-937.

Gaugler, J.E. (2015). Aging of communities: Communities of aging.

Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(2), 135-137.

Gaugler, J.E. (2015). Chronic disease and aging: Screening and management applications. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(3), 273-276.

Gaugler, J.E. (2015). Describing and evaluating novel programs and therapies for older persons. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(5), 547-551.

Gaugler, J.E., & Kane, R. L. (2015). Family caregiving in the new normal (1st ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Gaugler, J.E., & Kane, R. L. (2015).

Introduction: Family caregiving in the new normal. In J. E. Gaugler, & R. L. Kane (Eds.), Family caregiving in the new normal (1st ed., pp. 1-16). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Gaugler, J.E., & Kane, R. L. (2015). The perfect storm? The future of family caregiving. In J. E. Gaugler, & R. L. Kane (Eds.), Family caregiving in the new normal (1st ed., pp. 357-380). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Gaugler, J.E., Hobday, J.V., Robbins, J.C., & Barclay, M.P. (2015). CARES® dementia care for families™: Effects of online, psychoeducational training on knowledge of person-centered care and satisfaction.

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 41(10), 18-24.

Gaugler, J.E., Reese, M., & Mittelman, M. S. (2015). Effects of the Minnesota adaptation of the NYU caregiver intervention on depressive symptoms and quality of life for adult child caregivers of persons with dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(11), 1179-1192.

Gaugler, J.E., Reese, M., & Sauld, J. (2015). A pilot evaluation of psychosocial support for family caregivers of relatives with dementia in long-term care: The residential care transition module.

Research in Gerontological Nursing, 8(4), 161-172.

Geisler, C. C., & Cheung, C.K. (2015).

Complementary/alternative therapies use in older women with arthritis: Information sources and factors influencing dialog with health care providers. Geriatric Nursing, 36(1), 15-20.

Geisler, C., Cheung, C.K., Johnson Steinhagen, S., Neubeck, P., & Brueggeman, A.D. (2015). Nurse practitioner knowledge, use, and referral of complementary/alternative therapies.

Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(7), 380-388.

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Gray, M., Bliss, D., & Klem, M. L. (2015).

Methods, levels of evidence, strength of recommendations for treatment statements for evidence-based report cards: A new beginning. Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, 42(1), 16-18.

Hadidi, N.N., Lindquist, R., Buckwalter, K., & Savik, K. (2015). Feasibility of a pilot study of problem-solving therapy for stroke survivors. Rehabilitation Nursing, 40(5), 327-337.

Henly, S.J., McCarthy, D.O., Wyman, J.F., Alt-White, A.C., Stone, P.W., McCarthy, A.M., . . . Moore, S.M. (2015). Emerging areas of nursing science and PhD education for the 21st century: Response to commentaries. Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 439-445.

Henly, S.J., McCarthy, D.O., Wyman, J.F., Heitkemper, M.M., Redeker, N.S., Titler, M.G., . . . Dunbar-Jacob, J. (2015). Emerging areas of science: Recommendations for nursing science education from the council for the advancement of nursing science idea festival. Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 398-407.

Henly, S.J., McCarthy, D.O., Wyman, J.F., Stone, P.W., Redeker, N.S., McCarthy, A.M., . . . Conley, Y.P. (2015). Integrating emerging areas of nursing science into PhD programs. Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 408-416.

Hetland, B., Lindquist, R., & Chlan, L.L. (2015). The influence of music during mechanical ventilation and weaning from mechanical ventilation: A review. Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 44(5), 416-425.

Hong, O., Chin, D. L., & Kerr, M.J. (2015). Lifelong occupational exposures and hearing loss among elderly Latino Americans aged 65-75 years. International Journal of Audiology, 54, S57-S64.

Hooke, M.C., & Haase, J.E. (2015).

Introduction. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 31(3), 183-185.

Hooke, M.C., McCarthy, K., Taylor, O., & Hockenberry, M.J. (2015). Fatigue and carnitine levels over multiple cycles of chemotherapy in children and adolescents.

European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 19(1), 7-12.

Horning, M. L., & Fulkerson, J. A. (2015).

A systematic review on the affordability of a healthful diet for families in the United States. Public Health Nursing, 32(1), 68-80.

Jacobs, C., Gross, C., Messersmith, E., Hong, B., Gillespie, B., Hill Callahan, P., . . . Ibrahim, H. (2015). Emotional and financial experiences of kidney donors over the past 50 years: The RELIVE study.

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 10(12), 2221-2231.

Johnson, A.Z., Sieving, R.E., Pettingell, S.L., & McRee, A.L. (2015). The roles of partner communication and relationship status in adolescent contraceptive use.

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(1), 61-69.

Johnson, K.R., McMorris, B.J., Mapellentz, S., & Scal, P. (2015). Improving selfmanagement skills through patientcentered communication. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57(6), 666-672.

Johnson, S. G., Byrne, M. D., Christie, B., Delaney, C. W., LaFlamme, A., Park, J. I., . . . Westra, B. L. (2015). Modeling flowsheet data for clinical research. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science Proceedings, 77-81.

Jonk, Y. C., Lawson, K., O’Connor, H., Riise, K., Eisenberg, D., Dowd, B., & Kreitzer, M.J. (2015). How effective is health coaching in reducing health services expenditures? Medical Care, 53(2), 133140.

Kalb, K.A., O’Conner-Von, S.K., Brockway, C., Rierson, C.L., & Sendelbach, S. (2015).

Evidence-based teaching practice in nursing education: Faculty perspectives and practices. Nursing Education Perspectives, 36(4), 212-219.

King, V. J., Fontaine, P. L., Atwood, L. A., Powers, E., Leeman, L., Ecker, J. L., Avery, M.D., . . . Schoof, B. (2015). Clinical practice guideline executive summary: Labor after cesarean/planned vaginal birth after cesarean. Annals of Family Medicine, 13(1), 80-81.

Kligler, B., Brooks, A., Maizes, V., Goldblatt, E., Klatt, M., Koithan, M. S., Kreitzer, M.J., . . . Lebensohn, P. (2015). Interprofessional competencies in integrative primary healthcare. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(5), 33-39.

Kozhimannil, K.B., Attanasio, L.B., Yang, Y.T., Avery, M.D., & Declercq, E. (2015).

Midwifery care and patient–provider communication in maternity decisions in the United States. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 19(7), 1608-1615.

Kreitzer, M.J. (2015). Grace and grit in the trenches of healthcare. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(2), 3.

Kreitzer, M.J. (2015). Integrative nursing around the globe. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(3), 3-4.

Kreitzer, M.J. (2015). Integrative nursing: Application of principles across clinical settings. Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 6(2) doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200

Kreitzer, M.J. (2015). The wellbeing of the workforce—in healthcare and beyond.

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(5), 3-4.

Kreitzer, M.J. , & Saper, R. (2015).

Advancing a global vision. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(6), 3-4.

Kreitzer, M.J. , & Saper, R. (2015).

Exploring the biofield. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4 (suppl), 3-4.

Kreitzer, M.J., & Saper, R. (2015). From silos of care to circles of collaboration.

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(1), 3-4.

Kreitzer, M.J. , Monsen, K.A., Nandram, S. S., & De Blok, J. (2015). Buurtzorg Nederland: A global model of social innovation, change and whole systems healing. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(1), 40-44.

Krichbaum, K., Kaas, M.J., Wyman, J.F., & Van Son, C.R. (2015). Facilitated learning to advance geriatrics: Increasing the capacity of nurse faculty to teach students about caring for older adults.

Gerontologist, 55, S154-S164.

Kubik, M.Y., Davey, C., & Nanney, M. S. (2015). Association between student body mass index and access to sports drinks in Minnesota secondary schools, 2012-2013.

Preventing Chronic Disease, 12(E195). doi:10.5888/pcd12.150273 Kubik, M.Y., Davey, C., MacLehose, R. F., Coombes, B., & Nanney, M. S. (2015).

Snacks, beverages, vending machines, and school stores: A comparison of alternative and regular schools in Minnesota, 2002 to 2008. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 115(1), 101-105.

Lando-King, E., McRee, A.L., Gower, A.L., Shlafer, R.J., McMorris, B.J., Pettingell, S., & Sieving, R.E. (2015). Relationships between social-emotional intelligence and sexual risk behaviors in adolescent girls.

Journal of Sex Research, 52(7), 835-840.

Lee, J., & Kubik, M.Y. (2015). Child’s weight status and Parent’s response to a school-based body mass index screening and parent notification program. Journal of School Nursing, 31(4), 300-305.

Lee, S., & Lindquist, R. (2015). A review of technology-based interventions to maintain weight loss. Telemedicine and e-Health, 21(3), 217-232.

Lee, S., Kim, E., & Monsen, K.A. (2015).

Public health nurse perceptions of Omaha system data visualization. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84(10), 826-834.

Lindeke, L. L., Avery, M., & White, K.W. (2015). Overview of advanced practice nursing. In K. A. Blair, & M. P. Jansen (Eds.), Advanced practice nursing: Core concepts for professional role development (5th ed., pp. 3-26). New York, NY: Springer. www.nursing.umn.edu | 35

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS CALENDAR YEAR 2015 Lindeke, L.L. (2015). A call to action for care coordination research and pediatric implementation science. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(5), 474-477.

Linderman A., Pesut D., & Disch J. (2015).

Sense making and knowledge transfer: Capturing the knowledge and wisdom of nursing leaders. Journal of Professional Nursing, 31(4), 290-297.

Looman, W.S., Antolick, M., Cady, R.G., Lunos, S.A., Garwick, A.E., & Finkelstein, S.M. (2015). Effects of a telehealth care coordination intervention on perceptions of health care by caregivers of children with medical complexity: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 29(4), 351-362.

Lucas, M.S., Brawner, B.M., Hardie, T.L., Beacham, B., Paidipati, C., Diaz, M., . . .

Deatrick, J.A. (2015). Assessing suicidal ideation and behaviors among survivors of childhood brain tumors and their mothers during sociobehavioral research. Oncology Nursing Forum, 42(5), E319-E329. doi:10.1188/15.ONF.42-05AP MacPherson, C. F., Hooke, M.C., Friedman, D. L., Campbell, K., Withycombe, J., Schwartz, C. L., . . .

Meza, J. (2015). Exercise and fatigue in adolescent and young adult survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma: A report from the children’s oncology group. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, 4(3), 137-140.

McCabe, P.J., Rhudy, L.M., & Devon, H.A. (2015). Patients’ experiences from symptom onset to initial treatment for atrial fibrillation. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(5-6), 786-796.

McKechnie, A.C., Pridham, K., & Tluczek, A. (2015). Preparing heart and mind for becoming a parent following a diagnosis of fetal anomaly. Qualitative Health Research, 25(9), 1182-1198.

Michaud, T.L., Kane, R.L., Riley McCarten, J., Gaugler, J.E., Nyman J.A., & Kuntz K.M. (2015). Risk stratification using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in patients with mild cognitive impairment: An exploratory analysis. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 47(3), 729-740.

Miller, J., Avery, M., Larson, K., Woll, A., & Von Achen, A. M.,A. (2015). Emergency birth hybrid simulation with standardized patients in midwifery education: Implementation and evaluation. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 60(3), 298-303.

Monsen, K. A., Attleson, I. S., Erickson, K. J., Neely, C., Oftedahl, G., & Thorson, D. R. (2015). Translation of obesity practice guidelines: Interprofessional perspectives regarding the impact of public health nurse system-level intervention. Public Health Nursing, 32(1), 34-42.

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Monsen, K. A., Peters, J., Schlesner, S., Vanderboom, C. E., & Holland, D. E. (2015). The gap in big data: Getting to wellbeing, strengths, and a whole-person perspective. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(3), 31-39.

Monsen, K. A., Attleson, I.S., Erickson, K.J., Neely, C., Oftedahl, G., & Thorson, D.R. (2015). Translation of obesity practice guidelines: Interprofessional perspectives regarding the impact of public health nurse system-level intervention. Public Health Nursing, 32(1), 34-42.

Monsen, K. A., Chatterjee, S.B., Timm, J.E., Kay Poulsen, J., & McNaughton, D.B. (2015). Factors explaining variability in health literacy outcomes of public health nursing clients. Public Health Nursing, 32(2), 94-100.

Monsen, K. A., Peterson, J.J., Mathiason, M.M., Lee, S., Chi, C.L., . . . (2015). Data visualization techniques to showcase nursing care quality. CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing, 33(10), 417-426.

Monsen, K. A., Schenk, E., Schleyer, R., & Schiavenato, M. (2015). Applicability of the Omaha System in acute care nursing for information interoperability in the era of accountable care. American Journal of Accountable Care, 3(3), 53-61.

Murphy, P., & Avery, M. (2015). Choosing wisely for health. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 60(3), 235-234.

Narayan, S.M., Varghese, M., Hepburn, K., Lewis, M., Paul, I., & Bhimani, R. (2015).

Caregiving experiences of family members of persons with dementia in South India.

American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 30(5), 508-516.

Newman, D. K., Wyman, J. F., & Welch, V. A. (Eds.). (2015). Guide to urologic medications. Pittman, NJ: Society for Urologic Nurses and Associates.

Park T., Hadsall R.S., Schommer J.C., Gross C.R., Rector T.S., & Davison M.L. (2015). Development of an adverseevent coping scale (AECS) using item response theory. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 11(5), 651-663.

Pechacek, J., Cerra, F., Brandt, B., Lutfiyya, M. N., & Delaney, C. (2015). Creating the evidence through comparative effectiveness research for interprofessional education and collaborative practice by deploying a national intervention network and a national data repository. Healthcare, 3(1), 146-161.

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Pechacek, J., Drake, D., Terrell, C.A., & Torkelson, C. (2015). Interprofessional intervention to support mature women: A case study. Creative Nursing, 21(3), 134143.

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Constructing the story: How nurses work with families regarding withdrawal of aggressive treatment in ICU - A narrative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(7), 1146-1156.

Pesut, D. (2015). Avoiding derailment: Leadership strategies for identity, reputation and legacy management. In J. Daly, S. Speedy & D. Jackson (Eds.), Leadership & nursing contemporary perspectives (2nd ed., pp. 251-261).

Australia: Churchill Livingstone.

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Leadership and reflective practice: Leadership agility designed to create the future. In G. D. Sherwood, & S. HortonDeutsch (Eds.), Reflective organizations: On the frontlines of QSEN and the reflective practice implementation (pp.

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Pfeiffer, A.J. (2015). APIC Minnesota mobilizes to protect against ebola virus disease. Prevention Strategist, 8(1), 24-27.

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Potter, T. (2015). To move health care to health caring: A conversation with Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN. Creative Nursing, 21(1), 30-37.

Potter, T., & Koehn, K. (2015). Making the choice clear: Partnership and domination examples from nursing practice.

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Partnership to promote interprofessional education and practice for population and public health informatics: A case study.

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 29(6), 555-561.

Reilly-Spong, M., Reibel, D., Pearson, T., Koppa, P., & Gross, C.R. (2015).

Telephone-adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction (tMBSR) for patients awaiting kidney transplantation: Trial design, rationale and feasibility.

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Minnesota Medicine, 98(4), 36-38.

Rice, M., & Wyman, J. F. (2015). First general membership election for CANS leadership council and nominations committee members: The results are in!

Nursing Outlook, 63, 230-232.

Tluczek, A., Clark, R., McKechnie, A.C., & Brown, R. L. (2015). Factors affecting parent-child relationships one year after positive newborn screening for cystic fibrosis or congenital hypothyroidism.

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Historical perspectives in nursing. In V. K. Saba, & K. McCormick (Eds.), Essentials of nursing informatics (6th ed., pp. 3-22).

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Urban American Indian adolescent girls: Framing sexual risk behavior. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(4), 365-375.

Salisbury, D., & Bronas U. (2015). Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: Impact on endothelial dysfunction. Nursing Research, 64(1), 53-66.

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Schorr, E.N., Peden-McAlpine, C., TreatJacobson, D., & Lindquist, R. (2015).

Characterization of the peripheral artery disease symptom experience. Geriatric Nursing, 36(4), 293-300.

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Journal of Adolescent Health, 57(1), 81-86.

Skinner, L., Tripp, T.R., Scouler, D., & Pechacek, J.M. (2015). Partnerships with aviation: Promoting a culture of safety in health care. Creative Nursing, 21(3), 179185.

Song, Y., & Lindquist, R. (2015). Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on depression, anxiety, stress and mindfulness in Korean nursing students. Nurse Education Today, 35(1), 86-90.

Talley K.M.C., Wyman J.F., Savik K., Kane R.L., Mueller C., & Zhao H. (2015).

Restorative care‘s effect on activities of daily living dependency in long-stay nursing home residents. Gerontologist, 55, S88-S98.

Tanner, L.R., Hooke, M.C., Hinshon, S., & Hansen, C.R. (2015). Effect of an ankle foot orthosis intervention for children with noncentral nervous system cancers: A pilot study. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 27(4), 425-431.

Vanderboom, C.E., Thackeray, N.L., & Rhudy, L.M. (2015). Key factors in patient-centered care coordination in ambulatory care: Nurse care coordinators’ perspectives. Applied Nursing Research, 28(1), 18-24.

Westra, B.L., Clancy, T.R., Sensmeier, J., Warren, J.J., Weaver, C., & Delaney, C.W. (2015). Nursing knowledge: Big data science-implications for nurse leaders.

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39(4), 304-310.

Westra, B.L., Latimer, G.E., Matney, S.A., Park, J.I., Sensmeier, J., Simpson, R.L., . . . Delaney, C.W. (2015). A national action plan for sharable and comparable nursing data to support practice and translational research for transforming health care.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(3), 600-607.

Yu, F., Demorest, S.L., & Vock, D.M. (2015).

Testing a modified perceived exertion scale for Alzheimer’s disease. PsyCh Journal, 4(1), 38-46. doi:10.1002/pchj.82 Yu, F., Thomas, W., Nelson, N.W., Bronas, U.G., Dysken, M., & Wyman, J.F. (2015).

Impact of 6-month aerobic exercise on alzheimer’s symptoms. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(4), 484-500.

ON THE BOOKSHELF Clinical Associate Professor Kathryn White, DNP, APRN, CRNA, co-authored The Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials, Third Edition, with Mary Zaccagnini, faculty ad honorarium.

Mary E. Zaccagnini and Kathryn Waud White

THE DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE ESSENTIALS A New Model for Advanced Practice Nursing THIRD EDITION

Westra, B.L., Pruinelli, L., & Delaney, C.W. (2015). Nursing knowledge: 2015 big data science. CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing, 33(10), 427-431.

Wisnieski, D., Sieving, R., & Garwick, A. (2015). Parent and family influences on young women’s romantic and sexual decisions. Sex Education, 15(2), 144-157.

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Wyman, J.F. (2015). Bladder training. In K. Bo, B. Berghmans, S. Morkved & M. Van Kampen (Eds.), Evidence-based physical therapy for the pelvic floor (2nd ed., pp.

153-161). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Wyman, J.F., & Henly, S.J. (2015).

PhD programs in nursing in the United States: Visibility of American association of colleges of nursing core curricular elements and emerging areas of science.

Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 390-397.

Wyman, J.F., & Rice, M. (2015). CANS communication. Nursing Outlook, 63(4), 531-532.

Yu, F., Bronas, U. G., Konety, S., Nelson, N. W., Dysken, M., Jack, C., . . . Smith, G. (2015). Effects of aerobic exercise on cognition and hippocampal volume in alzheimer’s disease: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial (the FIT-AD trial). Trials, 1-13. doi:10.1186/1745-621515-394

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School health leader paves way for healthy, lifelong learners Heiman named School Nurse Administrator of the Year

by Brett Stursa

Mary Bielski Heiman’s nursing career includes being a pediatric certified nurse specialist in a hospital setting, a school nurse in the Minneapolis School District and a nurse administrator in both the Minneapolis and Edina school districts. “I am so grateful for all of the opportunities that I have had during my nursing career,” said Heiman. “If I had to choose another profession, it would still be nursing.” Her achievements drew the attention of the School Nursing Organization of Minnesota, which named her the 2015 School Nurse Administrator of the Year. We asked Heiman, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, what the future holds for school nurses, what it takes to be an effective nurse administrator and how she’s avoided burnout.

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As the health services coordinator for Edina Public Schools, you work with 15 school nurses throughout the district. What about your work do you think would surprise nurses who don’t work in school settings?

We provide a broad range of health services beyond the stereotypical bandaid. In our district alone, our health staff recorded nearly 41,000 encounters with students for first aid, treatments and medication administration in the 20142015 school year. We completed nearly 8,500 blood glucose checks for students with diabetes, screened more than 5,500 students for vision and hearing and nearly 91 percent of the students were sent back to class. It is important to keep them at school learning.

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What do you think the most significant change in the role of a school nurse has been since you began your career?

The responsibility to safely meet the complex management needs of acute and chronic student health needs continues to rise in the schools. This includes life-threatening allergies, asthma, diabetes and children with

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“ I foresee that school nurses will be a more consistent player and collaborative provider within the medical home teams. School nurses are key to improving the health and academic outcomes of students.”

special health care needs. Students attend school 10 months of the year, five days a week, seven hours a day. This equates to a lot of direct face-to-face service hours and continuity of care that requires collaboration and coordination with students’ families, care providers and classroom teachers.

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What do you think makes an effective nurse administrator?

As a school health leader, I have to ensure that school nurses have the resources and knowledge to manage the needs of their students. For example, it is imperative that school nurses have the ability to work with classroom staff to understand how a student’s health concern, such as seizures or asthma, will impact a student’s school day.

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How do you see the role of the school nurse changing in the future?

I foresee that school nurses will be a more consistent player and collaborative provider within the medical home teams. School nurses are key to improving the health and academic outcomes of students. I would like to see school nurse funding come from outside the walls of a school district.

With creative support from health care plans and community agencies, school nurses will be reimbursed for ongoing student health education in areas such as asthma and diabetes during a school year. I see there will be growing evidence to indicate the positive outcomes on student health when there is a school nurse involved.

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You’ve published numerous articles in professional publications. One of the topics you’ve written about is compassion fatigue and burnout. Are there coping strategies that you’ve used to help you avoid burnout?

I have learned to seek out a mentor or colleague who I can speak to about my work. I’ve encountered many complicated situations within my leadership and supervision roles. It is important to have someone who can listen. Mentors have helped me to stay positive, confident and inspired to do my work effectively. Overall, I’ve learned it is critical to have fun while at work and while not work, maintain a sense of humor and to exercise as much as possible.

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The final jewelry sale raised $22,000 for nursing scholarships.

Jewelry sale’s legacy will be Florence Ruhland Endowed Fellowship December’s final jewelry sale raised more than $22,000 for nursing scholarships, the second highest revenue achieved in its 23 year history.

These funds will be added to the Florence Ruhland Endowed Fellowship established by the School of Nursing in memory of Ruhland to honor the many years she chaired the jewelry sale. Although the difficult decision was made to make 2015 the last jewelry sale, earnings from endowed fellowship will continue supporting students for years to come.

Nursing Foundation. In the mid-1990s the sale became part of an annual antique show held at Har Mar Mall in St. Paul, Minnesota. In recent years, the sale shifted to the University’s Academic Health Center complex where it was embraced by the broad University community.

With Laurel Mallon’s leadership from the beginning, the first sale was held at a Nursing Alumni Society annual meeting after alumni and friends were invited to donate costume, vintage and collectible jewelry to the School of

This year the jewelry sale supported the awarding of nine scholarships. As one recipient shared, “After many months of contemplation, I decided I wanted to pursue a career in nursing. The journey

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The sale’s largest income came in 1999 when $35,000 was raised after receiving an estate gift of exquisite jewelry from a generous School of Nursing alum.

Since 1992, total income from these benefit sales has exceeded $226,000.

to get to this point has been long and expensive, but so worth it. Health care in our country is changing, and I want to be one of the leaders that changes things for the better. I know that a lot of work and care goes into the funding of this scholarship and am very grateful that you’ve chosen to invest in students like me.”

Thank you to the jewelry donors, volunteers and School of Nursing staff who have supported this project over the years. We invite you to contribute to the Florence Ruhland Endowed Fellowship at www.nursing.umn.edu/ donors-and-friends and continue this wonderful legacy.

Carol Kelsey, BSN ’60 Jewelry Sale Chair, 2006-2015

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NURSING ALUMNI SOCIETY BOARD Deb Cathcart, DNP ’14, MS ’83, RN – President Alice Sanders, MSN ’09, BSN ’05, RN – President Elect Amy Priddy, MS ’03, BSN ’86, RN – Secretary/Treasurer Wendy Sharpe, MA, BSN ’83, RN – Immediate Past President Eunice Areba, PhD ’14, RN Marilyn Bach, MSN ’95, BSN ’74, RN Jessica Bliss, MN ’09, RN Lucy Bowen, MN ’14, RN Anya Butzer, BSN Student Representative Emma Butzer, BSN ’14, RN Jean A. Carraher, MSN ’03, BSN ’95, BS ’91, RN Maureen J. Fuchs, BSN ’92, RN Anna C. Grossbach, DNP ’14, BSN ’11, RN Susan Lampe, MS ’78, RN Shanda Lembeck, BSN ’13, RN Jessica Ann Lemker, MN ’12, BS ’04, RN Karen MacDonald, MS ’87, BSN ’72, RN, CPHQ Maureen Menden, BSN ’85, RN Marge Page, DNP ’09, MS ’95, BS ’93, RN Dan Pesut, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, ACC Sheryl Ramstad, MN ’13, RN Shane Stamschror, MN ’13, MA, RN Meagan Thompson, MN Student Representative Julie Vanderboom, MSN ’88, RN Staff Representation

Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Dean Laurel Mallon, Director of Alumni and Donor Relations Marc Skjervem, Director of Student and Career Advancement Services Affiliate Members

Erin Strong, Senior Director of Campus Engagement Marie Manthey, MSsg Admin ’64, Nursing Heritage Committee Chair

CLASS NOTES Randy Huard, DNP ’15, is an assistant professor in the Nursing Science division of the School of Health and Human Services at St. Cloud State University. His teaching assignments are in public health and mental health.

Debra Cathcart, DNP ’14, MS ’83, RN, was named chief nurse executive for University of Minnesota Health. She had been serving as associate chief nursing executive and vice president of nursing for the University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.

Anna Grossbach, DNP ’14, BSN ’11, is employed as an RN clinical integration project manager at Fairview Health System’s corporate supply chain.

Anne LaFlamme, DNP ’13, accepted a newly-created position of chief nursing information officer for Fairview and University of Minnesota Health in November. She is responsible for improving and standardizing nursing and clinician workflow with electronic health record and other health information technology.

Michael Petty, PhD ’11, MS ’96, RN, received the Heart & Stroke Medical Professional Hero Award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. Petty is a cardiothoracic clinical nurse specialist at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Alice Sanders, MS ’09, BSN ’05, is now clinical program manager of case management for Medica. Her previous position was program supervisor for the home care and assisted living program, Minnesota Department of Health.

Angela Mund, DNP ’08, MS ’99, BSN ’90, CRNA, is serving as president of the Medical University of South Carolina Faculty Senate for 2015-2016. The president presides over the Faculty Senate which is the voice for over 1,500 faculty. Mund joined the MUSC faculty in 2010 as assistant program director/assistant professor in the Anesthesia for Nurses Program. She became the director of the program in 2012.

Carrie Neerland, MS ‘05, BSN ‘02, and current PhD student, was elected co-president of the Minnesota Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

She also chairs the membership and marketing committee for National ACNM. In addition, she is part of the ACNM’s Healthy Birth Initiative: Reducing Primary Cesarean Project, a national multi-site quality improvement initiative aimed at reducing primary cesareans through systems change.

Do you have employment news, a class note or a nursing memory to share? Please share your news via our website at http://www.nursing.umn.edu/alumni/submita-class-note/index.htm or email mallo001@umn.edu.

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IN MEMORY Berniece Kleaver Anderson, BSN ‘40 Elizabeth Hove Pietz, BSN ’43 Marion Mae Kost Thorson, BSN ’43 Barbara A. Smith Otte, BSN ’45 Marcella Keller Smith, BSN ’45 Marcella “Mickie” Corbett Walsh, BSN ’46 Corinne Margaret Daly, BSN ’47 LaVila Cress Hatten, BSN ‘47 Julia Schweizer, BSN ‘47 Dorothy C. Webbeking Worst, BSN ’47 Mary Alice Anderson, BS ’48 Marilyn Mueller Whitney, BSN ’48

Harriet Stafford Dukelow, BS in Nursing Education ’57 Audrey Hansen Schweitzer, BSN ’58, MS ‘59 Mary Carroll DeGutes, BSN ’59 Robert E. Channer, MS ’66 Lois G. Bernhardson, BSN ’70 Marian Jean (Stewart) Enos, BSN ’71, MS ’73, PhD in Education ’87 Susan L. (Nipper) Dunn, BSN ‘83 Marjorie J. Smith, MA ’75, PhD ’84 – recognized as 100 Distinguished Nursing Alumni

Mary Jean Fetzek, BSN (circa ’50)

Sandra L Lovell, BS Nurse Anesthesia ’78, MS ’86

Jacquelyn Winger Falk, BSN ’53

Carol Jeanne Eversman, MS ’91

Janet Russell Eck, BSN ’55

Rebekah Booth, BSN ’13

ALSO REMEMBERED Curtis Burkland, established a nursing scholarship in memory of his wife, Louise Pohl-Burkland, who held a lifelong regard for the School of Nursing.

Bruce Bliss Dayton, endowed the Grace B. Dayton Scholarship established in honor of his beloved mother who was a charter member of the School of Nursing Foundation board in 1958.

Eldred Mugford, created the Eldred George Mugford in Memory of Clare Helen Mugford R.N. Scholarship Fund in honor of his late mother who graduated from the Milwaukee County Hospital School of Nursing, worked as surgical nurse and later specialized in caring for the elderly in their homes.

Romana Marina Urueta del Carpio, BSN ’56 – Retired in 2006 from the School of Nursing as faculty emeritus in maternal child health

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

In their own words As someone who cares deeply about the school, you no doubt have your own words that describe the School of Nursing. Whether an alum, friend, parent or grandparent, you have your own personal connection to the school that frames how you think about our mission.

Dean Connie White Delaney and I recently gathered together several supporters of the school who share your passion for our mission and we asked them several different questions to help us understand that passion and the relationship between them and the school. Words such as visionary, leadership, research, interprofessional and vibrant were often used in their responses.

I want to share several responses to one of our questions and invite you to share your own thoughts with me to get a broader perspective of the school. Your insights into our mission will help us in our work to grow our base of support.

Why do you care about the School of Nursing?

“The school acts as a catalytic force in both nursing and interprofessional health care. While other academic centers seem to lag and focus inward, the school has looked outward to the community, nation and internationally to see where the needs are - both current and future - to determine what role they can play in creating a better world. The school is recognized as progressive, positive and action oriented and I’m proud to be associated with it.”

“The research they are conducting is very practical, broad and a major contributor to global health. The school is developing the knowledge and leadership skills of students to provide care and to conduct and implement research findings.”

“My career was enhanced by excellent learning opportunities, critical thinking skills and encouragement by the faculty to view myself as a person of influence in the advancement of nursing practice.”

“I care about the school because of the care I received from its graduates. Nurses are the boots on the ground in health care.”

It is a privilege to serve the school knowing the impact that we have on people’s lives. These are their words describing why they care about the school. I invite you to share yours with me at kilbride@umn.edu

John Kilbride Director of Development kilbride@umn.edu

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Our students (2015-2016) FALL ENROLLMENT

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ETHNICITY

3% Hispanic 1.5% Unknown 7% Black

STUDENTS ENROLLED Bachelor of Science in Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 Master of Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Doctor of Nursing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

8.5% Asian

78% White

2% American Indian

• Our students come from 33 states • 40% of School of Nursing students receive scholarships from the school GENDER

STUDENTS OF COLOR

14% male 86% female

13.6% 14.5% 15.8% 21% 21%

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Scholarship helps BSN student earn degree debt-free

by Tom Steffes The experience Chi Tran’s family had living in a Malaysian refugee camp gave them determination to reach for every opportunity once they arrived in the United States. After earning a degree in biology, society and environment, she sought a more direct and personal way of helping others. “I realized that nursing is the perfect fit for me because it reflects all of my interests and it will provide me with opportunities to connect with interesting people,” Tran said.

Tran is now a sophomore in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program on the Rochester campus and she recently received the Mary and Cyrus Scholarship from the School of Nursing.

The scholarship made it possible for Tran to pay her tuition without taking on debt. “I honestly teared up when I found out that I was selected for this scholarship,” she said. “I am in school because of them.”

In addition to classes, Tran works as a certified nursing assistant for 20 hours a

Chi Tran, a sophomore, attends the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program on the Rochester campus.

week. “The job itself can be incredibly demanding but rewarding,” said Tran.

After completing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, Tran expects to enroll in a doctoral program.

“I am still figuring out what I like most about nursing,” said Tran. “I am a

firm believer that a person’s life is not carved in stone, that the path changes constantly. I know for sure I will pursue a career as nurse and that I am striving to achieve a career that requires a doctorate degree.”

2016

SCHOOL OF NURSING FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dawn Bazarko, DNP, MPH, RN, FAAN, Board Secretary, Founder and SVP, Moment Health, UnitedHealth Group Mary Broderick, PhD, Catholic Elder Care, Retired Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Professor and Dean, School of Nursing Susan Forstrom, MSN, Board Treasurer Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Nursing

Cynthia Jurgensen, MSN, RN, UnitedHealthcare John Kilbride, MA, Director of Development, School of Nursing Mary Nyquist Koons, MSN Karen Kraemer, RN, HealthPartners, Retired June Lapidus, MSN, CS Psychiatric Nursing, Board Chair, Southdale Psychology Associates, Retired

John Reiling, PhD, MHA, MBA, President/CEO The Foundation for Cancer Care in Tanzania from Safe by Design Jack Spillane, Board Chair, NationalPurity Soap, LLC Kathleen Ziegler, DHA, MSHA, BSN, FACHE, Principal, Lifeline to Healthcare Quality, LLC Ex-Officio Member

Susan Lampe, MSN, Nursing Alumni Society Liaison

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DNP students in the women's health specialty staffed the Sisters Standing Up To Breast Cancer screening at the River of Life Church in St. Paul.

Master of Nursing students were inducted into the Zeta chapter of Sigma Theta Tau in November.

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From left, Kathy White, Dan Lovinaria and Roxanne McMurray simulate a procedure to place a tracheotomy during a legislative committee visit in December.

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BSN student Michelle Moreno-Lee assesses the foot health of a patient during a student nurserun clinic at the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic while clinical associate professors Jeanne Pfeiffer and Mary Benbenek observe.

Dean Connie White Delaney congratulates graduates at commencement in December.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS March 29 Emerging Professionals Network at the Lakes & Legends Brewing Company Visit www.minnesotaalumni.org for more information

April 15 University-wide Annual Alumni Celebration Visit www.minnesotaalumni.org for more information

April 21 Nursing Alumni Spring Celebration and Reunion April 22 Research Day April 22 Doctor of Nursing Practice and PhD Information Session

May 4 Center on Aging Science and Care Innovation launch event May 13 Spring Commencement June 1-3 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science June 4 Caring for a Person with Memory Loss Conference July 25-27 Adolescent Health Summer Institute For more information www.nursing.umn.edu