competence in the health care workforce.

Graduates of the DNP program will be able to enter an advanced practice specialty area, assume leadership positions in health care, as well as design complex evidence-based models of care delivery. Graduates are expected to conduct research on the evaluation of outcomes of nursing care.

HRSA awards for nursing education are competi-tive and target the needs of underserved populations. Fac-ulty leading these grants are Dr. Susan Porterfield for the Family Nurse Practitioner program and Dr. Dianne Speake for the Health Systems Leadership pro-gram.

The College of Nurs-ing was recently awarded $2.3M in grants from the Health Re-sources and Services Admini-stration (HRSA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Each of the two grants will fund the two new clinical doctoral programs available at Florida State. These grants support the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The DNP Family Nurse Practitioner and DNP Health Systems Leadership have been designed for nurses with Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degrees in nursing. The DNP, a profes-sional doctorate in nursing, is comparable to professional doc-torates in medicine, physical

therapy, dentistry and pharmacy.

These HRSA grants represent an unprecedented level of federal support for the College of Nursing. With this funding, faculty in the DNP pro-gram intend to increase the number of advanced practice nurses to deliver primary care and lead and manage complex health care delivery in poor, underserved areas.

Because of significant and recent budget cuts at the College, the awards have come at an opportune time. This HRSA funding will bolster the College’s ability to recruit nurses into the DNP program and build a strong faculty and curriculum with a dedicated focus on diversity and cultural

Senior nursing student Safichia Chew was named a Scholar in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) prestigious Undergraduate Scholarship Pro-gram (USGP). Admission to the program is highly competitive, as

more than 250 undergraduate applications were received na-tionwide. Safichia was one of only 13 scholars selected for the 2009-2010 academic year. As an UGSP scholar, she will receive up to $20,000 in financial assistance for her final year as an under-graduate nursing student. After she graduates in May with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, she will work in a paid summer position as a research trainee at the NIH. Her

internship will be followed by at least another year of employ-ment and research training at the NIH. She noted that as a nurse and a researcher, she wants her work to “help make lives better on a global scale.” Safichia’s long term goals include pursuing a doctoral degree in nursing, fol-lowed by more research, possibly on mental disorders in children. With students like Safichia lead-ing the way, nursing’s future is strong and bright.

College Receives $2.3M HRSA Funding I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Manatee Memorial Partnership

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Chillingworth Scholarships

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TMH Mentor Program

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Student Hand Wash-ing Campaign

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New Nursing Faculty 3

Helene Fuld Funding for Critical Care Laboratory

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New Students 2

Senior Nursing Student Awarded Research Funding

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF NURSING N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9 C O M M U N I T Y U P D A T E

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Chillingworth Scholarships

100 New Nursing Students

Manatee Memorial Partnership The College of Nursing is offering a new DNP program with the goal of increasing the number of advanced practice nurses available to lead and manage health care delivery. The DNP program is designed for nurses who have a Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Nursing degrees. The pro-gram has two doctoral tracks, Family Nurse Practitioner and Health Systems Leadership.

Thanks to a part-nership between the College of Nursing, Manatee Memorial and the State College of Flor-ida, nine nurses in the Braden-

ton area are earning their Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. A gift from Manatee Memorial Hospital made the partnership possible, along with a contribution of fed-eral stimulus dollars from the College of Nursing.

The Manatee Memorial Hospital Partnership for Nursing Education Fund will allow more nurses to pursue graduate level education in the Bradenton area. Thanks to a collegial arrangement with the State College of Florida, classes will be held in a classroom on the Lakewood Ranch campus with video-conferencing technol-ogy so the nursing students can be exposed to faculty on the main

FSU campus in Tallahassee and the Panama City campus.

Dr. Barbara Little, an RN with a master’s degree in public health and a doctoral de-gree in nursing practice has been hired to coordinate, facilitate, teach and advise nurses as they pursue advanced nursing degrees and leadership education. As an experienced nurse educator and recent DNP graduate she under-stands the challenges and needs of returning students. Barbara says “I enjoy counseling nurses on advancing their education and balancing work and family re-sponsibilities.”

admission requirements. One hundred of these students gained admission through a competitive ranking admissions process. Students admitted this fall will graduate in Spring 2011.

This class is the first to move from a 5 semester BSN curriculum to a 4 semester curriculum, with no required

The incoming Fall class was filled with high cali-ber students who have demon-strated academic excellence and student leadership. More than 300 students applied for admission to the College of Nursing for Fall 2009. Of these applications, more than 200 fully met the College’s

nursing coursework during the summer months. Summer op-portunities for these students include undergraduate research, study abroad, and hospital in-ternships as well as elective coursework. This BSN curricu-lum supports the College’s focus on research and evidence based practice.

Chillingworth Memorial Scholar-ship Fund to full-time nursing students. In return, these stu-dents pledge to work in Florida following graduation. Scholarship recipients for 2009-2010 in-cluded: Vanessa Gorski, Nicole Hoff, Amanda Kane, Ruth Bowen-Licciadiello, Jordan Perno, Char-lene Small, and Christina Yonchik.

(Scholarship recipients with the Coopers pictured on left. C. Small missing from photo.)

The College of Nurs-ing has a new scholarship fund. The Judge Curtis E. and Mrs. Marjorie M. Chillingworth Me-morial Scholarship fund was established by Bill, Marie and Matt Cooper at the College of Nursing earlier this year. The Coopers maximize the funds through a matching Exxon Mobil scholarship program.

Beginning Fall 2009, the College awarded seven $4,000 scholarships from the

T H E F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y

TMH Mentored Nurse Research Program Begins

P A G E 3 C O M M U N I T Y U P D A T E

The College of Nursing has entered into partnership with Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) to establish the TMH Men-tored Nurse Research Program. This collaborative initiative will cre-ate and sustain a culture of evidence based care and nursing inquiry within TMH and the College of Nursing.

Dr. Roxanne P. Hauber, a doctoral faculty member from the College of Nursing, serves as the lead faculty for this project. She facilitates nurses’ research literacy, research project development and

evaluates the level of nursing re-search mentoring needed through-out the hospital based on the nurs-ing culture and vision of TMH. Dr. Hauber meets with nurse leaders and direct care nurses to improve patient outcomes and further en-hance the patient and family care.

Dr. Hauber works closely with Robin Kretschmen, Executive Director of Nursing Practice at TMH on this initiative.

This initiative was facili-tated by Paula Fortunas, President/CEO of the Tallahassee Memorial

Healthcare Foundation, and a mem-ber of the FSU College of Nursing Community Advisory Board.

The College of Nursing welcomes two new faculty mem-bers, Dr. Marjaneh Fooladi, Profes-sor, and Mrs. Tracy Shamburger, Assistant in Nursing.

Recently hired faculty member Marjaneh Fooladi, RN, WHNP-bc, FNP-bc, Ph.D., is cur-rently serving as a Fulbright Scholar at the American University of Bei-

nursing education. She served as a Nursing Consultant for ITT Tech in Mobile, Alabama. She has worked as a nurse in a variety of settings. She is also a Major in the United States Air Force Reserves and serves as a Flight Nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) of Mission Man-agement in Montgomery, AL. Her research interests are perceived stress and team performance.

MSN, MPH, has launched an on and off campus hand washing campaign to educate these local communities about ways to deal with the spread of the H1N1(swine flu) virus.

Several events have been held on campus to educate FSU students on how they can minimize the spread of the H1N1 virus (swine flu) on campus. Students were provided with pamphlets informing them about the steps

they can take to protect themselves from contracting the H1N1 virus during the flu season.

Multiple health education requests from the community have also been answered by student groups for handwashing and H1N1 protection.

The College of Nursing under the direction of nursing in-structor, Mrs. Cindy Lewis, RN,

Dr. Roxanne Hauber congratulates Robin

Kretschman upon completing her MSN.

Two New Faculty Join College of Nursing rut. She comes to the College of Nursing from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests are reproductive endocri-nology and breastfeeding; postpar-tum blues; therapeutic tears; and gender disparity in women’s health.

Tracy Shamburger, RN, MSN, CNS, joins the faculty as she works to complete her doctoral

Hand Washing Campaign On & Off Campus

can proceed at a slower pace for student learning while not harming a patient. Simu-lated clinical learning also aids students in developing and applying psychomotor nursing skills, expands the capabilities of our clinical education, and creates seamless learning ex-periences that help student nurses apply ad-vanced theory to nursing practice.

The College of Nursing recently received $100,000 from the Helene Fuld Health Trust to create a state-of-the-science critical care advanced simulation laboratory for all nursing students. This grant will ensure that our College has the necessary resources to provide acute and critical care clinical scenarios and teach the complexity of care, and nurses’ decision making that they are likely to encounter throughout their nursing careers.

The critical care laboratory will have one of the highest fidelity simulation mannequins, the Laerdal SimMan 3G®, which will be programmed to simulate complex presentations of critical care sce-narios such as traumatic injuries, post op-erative cardiac care, acute stroke, and other common but complex cases. These simulated scenarios will allow for student critical thinking and responsiveness in a non-threatening and safe environment. Using simulation, a critical care situation

As noted by Dean Lisa Plowfield, “the beauty of simulation is that we cannot guaran-tee all our students will be exposed to essential clinical conditions by their on-site clinical ex-periences. In the simulation center, our stu-dents will all have similar exposure to complex patient care issues while we maintain patient safety as we educate the novice nurse.”

Helene Fuld Funding To Create Critical Care Laboratory

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A Note from Dean Lisa Ann Plowfield

Another year is quickly coming to a close. Our College has been faced with severe budget issues, lack of faculty to hire, and clinical site shortages. These challenges have created an opportunity to be more creative and innovative in meeting stu-dent learning needs and our regional and national workforce needs. How have we handled these challenges? The FSU nursing faculty have worked to pull together alter-nate ways of educating nurses—an advanced simulation cen-ter, new graduate programs, community care of vulnerable populations, an increasingly integrated curricula, and faculty research agendas to support student learning. Our College needs your support—please help us continue to identify excellent learning opportunities to meet today’s nurs-ing education and workforce needs. We want to partner on initiatives that will meet the community need for nurses by expanding our program size. We certainly cannot do this work alone. Every partner is essential to our success and the success of our students. Please do not hesitate to contact me to share your ideas and become a partner with the College of Nurs-ing. My email is lplowfield@fsu.edu. I look forward to your ideas and a partnership that will meet our needs in nursing education, practice and research.

Mandy Bamber, RN, MSN with students in the Simulation Center.