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Leadership in ActionThis fall, nurses have been forced into the spotlight around the global crisis of Ebola. Unfortunately, the media focuses on the negative instead of highlighting the heroes. Thousands of nurses prevent infections, save lives and earnestly care for and about their patients every day. Nurses do this heroic work without a spotlight or title, often with little recognition. This can lead some to believe they don’t have anything to contribute to the larger conversation or a leadership role. That’s simply not true.

CU-trained nurses are leaders and experts. You were well-trained in school and have been perfecting your knowledge with evidence-based practice. Some of you have been researching best practices, precepting nursing students, starting new programs, opening practices in your communities, and giving your all to your patients and providers. You have much to contribute. Don’t be afraid to lead.

This issue of Connections focuses on leadership in action—nurses who are looked to first. Jose Hernandez is a first-generation nursing student who serves on the board of Sheridan Health Services and teaches young adults about heath careers. Certified Nurse Midwife Amy Nacht, MSN, directs our University Nurse Midwives practice and is in rural Guatemala helping to open a birthing center near El Pomal. Assistant Professor Scott Harpin is changing lives in Denver through his work with homeless and at-risk teens at Urban Peak. Read more about their stories in this issue.

Our faculty are also leaders. They have been working overtime this fall to revise or create programs that meet the needs of our state. Programs in military and veterans’ health, nursing education and acute care will begin in 2015. Faculty are also working at our South Denver location to pioneer our first programs there. We’re excited about all of these opportunities.

In addition, CU faculty have received top national recognition. The American Academy of Nursing honored four faculty and one emerita in October. Professor Colleen Goode, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC, was recognized as a Living Legend. Professor Sarah Horton-Deutsch, PhD, PMHCNS, RN, ANEF; Associate Professor Jacqueline Jones, PhD, BN, RN, FRCNA; Professor John Welton, PhD, RN; and Associate Profes-sor Emerita Sue Hagedorn, PhD ’95, RN, PNP, WHNP, FAANP, were honored as fellows. Hagedorn was also among three faculty emeriti who were recognized by the CU College of Nursing Alumni Associa-tion in September. Kathy Magilvy, PhD ’82, RN, FAAN; and Jean Watson, BS ’64, MS ’66, PhD ’73, AHN-C, FAAN, also received awards.

I hope the stories in this issue will offer you some ideas of how you can put your leadership skills into action. Already leading in your hospital, school or community? We may want to use your story as inspiration for others. Tell us more by emailing us at BeTheNurse@ucdenver.edu.

Sarah Thompson, PhD, RN, FAAN

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On the Cover: Jose Hernandez helps with patients at the sheridan Health services Community Clinic.

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College to train nUrses in UniqUe speCialty: veterans’ and military health

American civilians think of military health care either as long wait times at the VA or field hospitals similar to the TV show M*A*S*H. Today, injured soldiers who arrive alive to the combat hospital have a 98% survival rate (Military Medicine, 179, 5:477, 2014). Although a vast improvement from previous wars, it also leaves the country with a larger population for whom to provide care.

The complexities of health care for veterans and military personnel are challenging and there are no academic degree programs devoted to this specialty practice. The University of Colorado College of Nursing is working to change that. This fall, the college hired Ret. Col. Mona Pearl, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, to develop educa-tion offerings that will train caregivers in the unique needs of this growing population.

Pearl is a master’s-prepared nurse who served as the deputy commander of the Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facil-ity during Operations JOINT

The first military and veterans’ health courses are expected in spring 2015, with degree programs in the specialty to follow by fall. More information will be available at www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/vets.

goode, fellows reCognized at aan

CU College of Nursing faculty were very well represented at the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) annual confer-ence in October in Washing-ton, D.C. Professor Colleen Goode, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC, was honored as a Living Legend and four others were recognized as fellows.

Living Legend. Prior to coming to the CU College of Nursing, Goode served as chief nursing officer and vice president

for patient care services for the University of Colorado Hospital. Her research and influence as a nurse executive were key to transforming the hospital into an internationally recognized evidence-based practice institution. In 2002, she founded the first post-baccalaureate national nurse residency program with UHC/AACN. At the college, Goode helped develop a new educational model to merge community college and upper-level BS in nursing education. Among her many awards, she has received the university’s prestigious Sabin Award for Exceptional Contributions, a Nurse Researcher award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives, as well as the Edge Runner award from AAN.

ret. Col. Mona Pearl, PhD, rN, CNs, CCrN

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ENDEAVOR and JOINT GUARD in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. During Operations ENDUR-ING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, Col. Pearl was on an alert aeromedical evacuation crew to care for the wounded and later deployed to care for returning combat casualties at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews AFB, Md. She also served as director of the Medical Directorate for the Chief of the Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 2014.

“Our troops are returning from more than a dozen years of war,” Pearl says. “We have honed our knowledge with intense experience, and now we need to take their care to the next level—codifying this as a professional specialty rooted in academic scholarship and merit-ing academic specialty degrees.”

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The Living Legend award, which recognizes lifetime contributions of honorees to nursing and health care, is considered the highest honor in the nursing profession.

Fellows. Professor and Watson Caring Science Endowed Chair Sara Horton-Deutsch, PhD, PMHCNS, RN, ANEF; Professor John Welton, PhD, RN; Associate Professor Jacqueline Jones, PhD, BN, RN, FRCNA; and Associate Professor Emerita Sue Hagedorn, RN, PhD, PNP, WHNP, FAANP, were all inducted as fellows. Induction is a significant career accomplishment.

“I am honored and humbled to be inducted into the academy,” says Welton. “I stand on the shoulders of giants.”

“i stand onthe shoUlders of giants.” To learn more about each of these faculty, visit www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/faculty.

assistant deans to lead gradUate, UndergradUate stUdies

Two new assistant dean positions in the college will oversee graduate and under-graduate education to lead change, advance health and ensure exceptional educational and clinical experiences for students. The positions are both hands-on, working closely with faculty and students, as well as visionary, to keep abreast of the ever-changing needs of a today’s health care system.

Rosario Medina, PhD, FNP-BC, ACNP, CNS, now assistant dean of graduate programs, was previously associate profes-sor and director of advanced registered nurse practice-FNP for the Nova Southern Univer-sity College of Nursing. She has practiced as a family nurse

practitioner and a clinical nurse specialist in Florida.

Medina earned her bachelor’s from Pace University Leinhard School of Nursing, her master’s (CNS) from College of New Rochelle in New York and her first post-master’s certificate (family nurse practitioner) from Florida Atlantic University). She received her PhD and a post-master’s certificate (acute care) from Barry University in Miami. Her research trajectory focuses on underserved populations, particularly Hispanics, and their health behaviors.

Karen Gorton, PhD, RN, MS, assistant dean of undergradu-ate programs, joined the CU College of Nursing in 2013 after a five-year stint at the University of Northern Colorado School of Nursing. There she was an assistant professor as well as interim director of the nursing program, then director of the nursing program. Gorton earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Carroll College/Columbia College of Nursing after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical education and athletic training. She earned her master’s in nursing from the University

of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her PhD from the University of Northern Colorado.

meek to manage phd program

This summer, Professor Paula Meek, PhD, RN, FAAN, was named PhD program director for the college. Meek—whose areas of research include pulmonary sensation/dyspnea, cognitive process and symptom self-management, and cancer treatment-induced symptoms—brings to the position excellent experience in teaching doctoral students and obtaining NIH research funding.

Meek’s past positions include professor and senior associate dean for research and scholar-ship at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing in Albuquerque. She has served as faculty at the University of Arizona and University of Utah, and has been at the CU College of Nursing since 2008. She earned her BSN from Brigham Young University and her master’s in physiological nursing from the University of Washing-ton. She earned her PhD from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

stUdents start in soUth denver

This August, 36 nursing students, who started this summer on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, transitioned to the south Denver location where they will finish out their bachelor’s program. Classroom space on the second floor and the clinical education center in the basement of The Wildlife experience were still under construction this summer. The space was donated to the university in one of the largest real estate donations in the institution’s history.

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College introdUCes new aCademiC offerings

nUrsing edUCation CertifiCate A new nursing education certificate will allow bachelor’s-prepared rNs to take the next step toward roles in nursing education. Whether nurses are interested in precepting students in their hospitals or clinical settings or are interested in becoming nurse educators, this three-course certificate will help them explore best practices in evidence-based teaching and learning. The first course, Nurs 7862 Best Practices in Teaching and learning will be offered spring semester. The other two certificate courses—evolving Nursing education science and Nurse educator roles and outcome-focused Curriculum Design and Program evaluation—will be offered summer and fall respectively. Courses can also be taken individually to address specific interests and learning goals. for more information about the certificate, visit www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/NeC. To enroll visit www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/nondegree.

aCUte Care nUrse praCtitioner ms Curriculum for a master’s specialty in adult acute care nurse practitioner is under consideration by College of Nursing and graduate school faculty this fall and, if approved, would accept students for a fall 2015 start. The college currently offers post-master’s certificates in the adult and pediatric acute care nurse practitioner roles. The certificates allow nurse practitioners already working in hospital settings to become certified in acute care. The new specialty would train nurses with baccalaureate degrees for the adult acute care nurse practitioner role.

for information about acute care programs, please call 303-724-1812 or visit www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/acutecareAgNP or www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/acutecarePNP.

military veterans’ health initiative The first course in the college’s new veterans’ and military health initiative, Veteran and Military Health Care systems, will also be offered in spring 2015. This course will examine veteran and military health care delivery systems, related policies, health care trends and issues facing those systems, with an eye toward creating innovation in these areas. The course is approved for graduate credit and may be applied as an elective toward current Ms and PhD programs, or for future graduate programs in military/veterans’ health. Curriculum for these graduate programs are still under development. Details will be available online at www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/vets as courses and programs are approved. Meek

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The College of Nursing’s Fall Photo Contest encouraged faculty, staff, students and alumni to submit photos of themselves in their “Be the Nurse Everyone Looks to First” t-shirts.

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Congratulations to Diane Skiba, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, who is the 2014 recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award. The AMIA Signature Awards Committee recognizes a “distinguished career with significant impact permeating the care of patients and the discipline of nursing.” In addition, Skiba has been recognized as an Honorary Fellow in the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.

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Congratulations to our Summer 2014 nursing graduates. We are proud to announce that every student graduated with honors!

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Happy 10th anniversary to the Center for Midwifery at University of Colorado Hospital! The center continues to grow, and just last month delivered a record number of babies (55). Congratulations!

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Dean Sarah Thompson, PhD, RN, FAAN, visited Durango this summer for the College of Nursing alumni reception at The Strater Hotel. Check out some of our alumni with their new tagline T-shirts.

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for John klebanoff, taking Care of others was in his blood. He genuinely wanted to make a positive difference in the lives of others. He came from a family of health care provid-ers—his father and brother were physicians; his sister, a counsel-ing psychologist.

A native of Albuquerque, N.M., Klebanoff earned a BS in 1982 from the CU College of Nursing. He then moved to New York City, where he earned an MSN at the Hunter College of Nurs-ing. During his master’s work, he was a staff nurse at New York University Hospital. But Klebanoff also was interested in management systems—so he shifted gears, continuing on a career path that led him to occupational health nursing in major retail, transportation, and the Visiting Nurses Association of New York. He passed away in December 2012.

For anyone who can recall decades ago being around nurses who happened to be men, the term “male nurse” was common—indicating how uncommon it was. Klebanoff was known to have lamented the absence of men in the nursing profession. He was dedicated to caring for patients

and understood that compassion knew no gender boundaries. He also believed that being a man and providing quality care put patients—many of them men—more at ease.

Klebanoff’s best qualities, recalls long-time friend Tim Hillard, the executor of his estate, were “loyalty, generosity, kindness…the qualities we want in others. John always wanted to make sure the people around him were okay.”

The John L. Kelbanoff Scholar-ship Endowment, a gift of more than $240,000, will continue to allow nurses to help those around them. The scholarship will benefit CU College of Nurs-ing students beginning next fall.

“John’s family and friends hope the availability of the scholar-ship, and the example of his successful and satisfying career in nursing, will encourage more men to join the profession.

“John’s estate planning was done consciously,” Hillard says. “It allowed him to make a difference. And he always remembered the encouragement and support he received from the college in choosing a career in nursing.”

Ensuring a Healthy Future for NursesaboUt gift planning

The process of gift planning employs varied and creative structures (ranging from bequests, to annuities, to charitable trusts) to help a donor make a charitable gift that is tailored to their individual financial, estate, and tax-planning goals.

Cu gift planning professionals work closely with donors and their advisers to best determine what and when to give, as well as the optimal structure for the proposed gift. This process engages donors both emotionally and economically, with an eye toward donors’ personal circumstances—which may include complex income and estate planning issues involving family businesses, real estate or intergenerational wealth transfer.

Common examples of tax- and estate-wise planned gifts include:

n Bequests, which are are provisions in wills and trusts that distribute assets at the direction of the decedent. Beneficiary designations are contrac-tual directions for distributing assets such as balances in irAs, life insurance, or bank and brokerage accounts. Bequeathed assets or beneficiary designations are transferred to Cu free of estate taxes, if certain requirements are met.

n real estate such as personal residences, vacation homes, and agricultural and commercial property.

Charitable gift of real estate can free donors from the costs and responsibili-ties of maintaining a property, and avoid the hassle of selling it. it also can yield an income tax charitable deduction equal to the property’s appraised market value, and help you avoid long term capital gains taxes on the real estate’s appreciation.

n Charitable gift annuities, which are simple contracts between you and the Cu foundation. in exchange for your gift to fund the annuity, you can name individuals who will receive a fixed annual cash stream for life. A charitable gift annuity can provide steady payments during retirement for you and/or loved ones.

n Charitable remainder trusts can provide a fixed income (charitable remainder annuity trusts) or a variable income (charitable unitrusts) to the donor or other named individuals each year for life or up to 20 years—after which the trust balance reverts to the Cu foundation to support the area at Cu specified by the donor.

Very often, the tailored approach of gift planning allows you to make a gift to Cu of a magnitude and impact you never thought possible. for more information on gift planning, contact 303-541-1335 or karen.thompson@cu.edu.

“John’s family and friends hope the availability of the sCholarship, and the example of his sUCCessfUl and satisfying Career in nUrsing, will enCoUrage more men to Join the profession.”

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Working to Reduce Health Care Disparities: Student José Hernandez

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it’s hard to imagine what José Hernandez will accom-plish or what challenges he’ll surmount in the next decade of his life—if only because the 25-year-old second-year nursing student is accomplishing so much already.

Hernandez, who will earn a BS in nursing in May 2015, aspires to reduce health care disparities among underserved communi-ties—particularly in public and women’s health. “I think it’s important to promote access and increase the numbers of underrepresented popula-tions in health care” he says, “through science, technology, engineering and math [STEM], and research.”

Hernandez is a first-generation college student from an impoverished immigrant family. In the essay that earned him a scholarship during nursing school, he describes growing up in a household that needed financial assistance and food stamps, and with a father whose illness left him unemployed and unable to work.

Despite the demands of manag-ing his family’s household needs and finances, Hernandez stayed in school at his mother’s urging, earning his first BS in integrated biology, cum laude, from the University of Colorado Denver in 2013. He had considered taking academic leave but, he says, was thankful for a support system—including a biology professor at CU Denver—that encouraged him to stay on track.

He also credits the Undergradu-ate Pre-Health program at CU Denver, “which exposed [him] to many health care careers,” and the TRiO Student Support Services program, which helps first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities achieve academic success and reach their full potential.

Now, in the Office of Inclusion and Outreach (OIO), where he has worked since August 2013, Hernandez organizes campus visits for multiple academic institutions interested in CU health careers; strives to moti-vate minority students to pursue higher education, and assists the staff with outreach initiatives and tracking student progress.

“I know what it feels like to be uninsured, in poverty and uneducated,’’ he once said, explaining his passion for community service. “The OIO provides the perfect platform.”

In his work as mentor to elementary, middle and high school students, Hernandez is a role model. “I tell them they can be anything they want to be. I had bad grades, but I went through remediation and ended up tutoring in math. I was one of the few who didn’t fall through a crack.”

Hernandez also works as an Advanced Care Partner at the University of Colorado Hospital. He is a surgical technician, providing assistance for patients undergoing operative procedures such as caesarean births. He performs newborn screenings and testing for infants during their first 24 hours of life and provides postpartum care.

Hernandez says each course he’s taken opens up “more cool things to explore,” but he is focused on midwifery. During his clinical rotation in OB-GYN, Hernandez knew of two neighbors who were giving birth at the time. “It was a very neat feeling,” he says, “to help people. Women are very vulnerable and underserved, so the Sheridan Clinic is a good framework for me.”

Hernandez, who is bilingual, serves on the board of directors of Sheridan Health Services, where he volunteers with marketing and outreach initia-tives to attract members of the community (where he grew up) who are in need of health services the clinic offers.

“Sheridan Health Services has been a learning mine for me,” he says. “On the board, I see how grants are written and proposed to fund the clinic…and I have a better structure of how I can greatly impact the health of communities in need.”

So how does someone who takes care of others, whether as a mentor to youngsters and potential health care provider or as a clinician assisting in the operating room, take care of himself? Hernandez finds balance in his love of music, playing the trumpet in occa-sional gigs. “I like the cohesion with friends and community.”

What’s next? Having grown up speaking two languages, Hernandez has “always admired people who take initiatives to learn a new language and culture.” After graduation, he plans to travel to India to study Hindi. Then he’ll pursue a master’s degree, setting his sights on providing health care to underserved women.

women are very vUlnerable and Underserved…

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amy naCht, MSN, CNM, knew early on that health care with a community impact was her calling, and that being a midwife was the right path to follow.

It started in her undergraduate years; midwifery was a topic in a religious studies class at CU Boulder, where she majored in anthropology. “Midwifery has a focus on education, on commu-nity and family health,” Nacht says, “and has its roots in public health. I am at heart a public health advocate and dedicated to the notion of service.”

Small wonder, then, that Nacht, director of University Nurse Midwives and a senior instructor at the College of Nursing, was in rural Guatemala this fall working alongside Gretchen Heinrichs, MD, and a multidisciplinary team from CU to help improve maternal health outcomes for a community of agricultural workers and their families.

Nacht has visited Guatemala three times this year alone, and will continue her work there with additional trips.

The birth center where Nacht and her colleagues are teaching is part of the Center for Human Development, which opened last spring on a banana plantation. The center is a collaboration among the Colorado School of Public Health, Children’s Hospi-tal Colorado and AgroAmerica, one of the largest agribusinesses in Guatemala and the region.

She and colleague Ana Williams, also a nurse-midwife with the University Nurse Midwives, have been implementing, testing and training what the World Health Organization terms traditional birth attendants (TBA). “There are no professional midwives [in Guatemala],” Nacht says, “and many birth attendants are illiter-ate and lack the knowledge, skills, and equipment to manage obstetric emergencies. The team uses a “community approach, bringing

[birth attendants] into the system, with the hopes of improving the self-efficacy of the TBA to refer women to the birth center for complications of pregnancy and for their deliver-ies” she says. “We’re not there to encourage reliance; we’re there to increase capacity.”

She and Williams are providing training in emergency obstetrics care with the ultimate goal of improving maternal outcomes in an impoverished country where nearly half (47 percent) of births occur in the home. Nacht and Heinrich developed the educational materials. One of the other “teachers” is MamaNatalie, a birth simulator used to facilitate discussion, knowledge and skills training. These trainings augment what the TBAs receive from the Guatemalan Ministry of Health at monthly educational meetings.

“I’m only one piece of the big project,” Nacht says. “We want to get more midwives to volunteer.”

“I’ve always been driven to work abroad as a midwife.” Nacht has volunteered in Guatemala City, worked with the indigenous population in Tarahumara, Mexico, and spent a year on the Texas-Mexico border working in women’s health.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 1992, Nacht earned a BSN and an MSN from Case Western Reserve Univer-sity, then a CNM from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing.

While teaching at the College of Nursing and directing Univer-sity Nurse Midwives, Nacht is enrolled in the MPH program at the Colorado School of Public Health. But those undergradu-ate years still have relevance: “Anthropology is still a love of mine, and still informs much of what I do, including parenting.”

In 2013 she received an Ameri-can Public Health Association student research award and was a recipient of the Midwife of the Year Award from School of Medicine’s OB/GYN residents.

Nacht hopes one day to travel to Africa and Southeast Asia, regions with a high maternal mortality rate. But she has plenty of experience with foreign cultures at home, caring for refugees from Africa and other countries. The University Nurse Midwives practice also cares for underserved women in the metropolitan Denver area.

“I am a global health advocate abroad and nationally. I get satis-faction from dealing with the same issues here in Denver as in Guatemala—satisfaction from ways we can improve health in underserved populations and make sustainable change in people’s lives.”

Nacht Trains Guatemalan Birth Attendants in Emergency Obstetrics

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assistant professor sCott harpin, phd, mph, rn, rarely hears back from the young people he works with at the Urban Peak shelter. And maybe that is a good thing.

“If they’re not going back to the shelter, we hope that their situ-ation has improved, and maybe that means success,” he says.

Harpin’s research focuses on the health outcomes of vulnerable adolescent and young adult populations. His association with Urban Peak, an organization dedicated to serving homeless youth in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs, began in 2012 thanks to introductions by colleagues at the university.

“The opportunity to work with the shelter was right up my alley,” Harpin says. For a decade, he had worked as an intake

nurse at St. Joseph’s Home for Children—a stepping stone between home and foster care—in Minneapolis, Minn.

As he enters his fourth year at the CU College of Nursing, Harpin’s passion for his community-engaged research is clear.

“All my training has been in adolescent development and adolescent resiliency, trying to get kids on a pathway of health and wellness,” he says. “If they’ve had bad things happen to them, I want to figure out how we inter-vene on their cycle of trauma, abuse, and poverty, and offer a better trajectory in life.”

Harpin does not look for specific illnesses or issues when first meeting adolescents. “I look for whatever is ‘upstream,’” he explains. “I’m public health trained, so I’m always thinking about prevention and those

multiple layers—like their environment, education, and family of origin—that impact where they are today.”

The children and young adults Harpin sees are not usually sick, but they have often been traumatized in other ways.

“My program of research has been to look at their mental health and to provide brief inter-ventions, so they can get control of whatever tough situation that they are in—hoping they don’t return to risky behaviors or a traumatic environment,” he says.

A Community Engagement Grant through the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has enabled Harpin to partner with Urban Peak to improve the shelter’s screening process and train lay people to carry out those brief interven-tions. Their goal is to screen

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all 250 youths who are admit-ted each year to the Urban Peak shelter for mental health distress and provide tailored interventions for their most pressing concerns. He believes it’s important to address mental health issues in this population because his research revealed what he describes as “incredible” rates of suicide and self-harm.

“It’s vital to get these kids safe and off the street,” he says. “But it’s also critical that we address the depression, the anxiety, or in the most extreme cases, keep them from hurting or killing themselves to give them a chance.”

When Harpin presents at confer-ences, his research receives validation from the leaders in his field and senior faculty from institutions across the country.

“They tell me to keep pushing ahead as this research is impor-tant,” he says. “It’s good to hear that from the same individuals I reference in my papers.”

Despite the challenging nature of working with at-risk adoles-cents, Harpin confesses to finding positive aspects in what can often be difficult situations.

“I like to work with the riskiest, toughest youth,” he says. “They often have crazy stories but are usually very open, and they want to learn from me. They yearn for someone to give them a chance, someone who cares about them, and to be a role model in a way.”

Even though he may never hear back from the young people he helps at Urban Peak, he believes they are thankful for his help.

“I once had a young woman at Urban Peak tell me she always wanted to be a nurse, and that after spending time with me and our nursing students, that desire was reignited. It was very gratifying to think how my career—first in foster care health, and now improving service delivery through research to runaway youth—may have changed lives like hers.”

Harpin Helps Homeless Adolescents

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assoCiation honored some familiar faces during its awards ceremony Sept. 5, 2014. Three of the four award recipients are faculty emeriti who are beloved by alumni.

pathfinders awardThe Pathfinders Award honors nurses who have bettered the profession and patient care by forging pathways and overcom-ing barriers, or by creating path-ways through the development of exemplary programs, theories or innovations. Throughout her career at CU, Distinguished Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita Jean watson, BS ’64, MS ’66, PhD ’73, AHN-C, FAAN, has done both.

Watson came to CU in the early 1960s as a nurse pursu-ing her bachelor’s degree and moved quickly into the master’s program in psych mental health nursing. She then earned a Graduate School certificate in social and clinical psychology, and a PhD in educational psychology and counseling in 1973.

Watson began teaching in the college in the early 70s, progressing from faculty roles to undergraduate assistant dean, associate dean for graduate programs and finally dean. During her career she helped establish the school’s first doctoral program, a PhD in nursing, and in the late 1980s, the first clinical doctorate, the ND, which was the predecessor to today’s DNP program.

Committed to education and innovation, Dean Watson initiated a national model for collaboration between colleges and clinical institutions on the teaching of student nurses.

Today we call this model the Clinical Scholars. Watson’s own research led to the development of the Theory of Human Caring and to the Center for Human Caring, as well as the Murchi-son-Scoville Endowed Chair in Caring Science at the college.

Watson’s theory and caritas processes are now used nationally and internation-ally to improve self-care and patient care. The Watson Caring Science Institute & Interna-tional Caritas Consortium in Boulder, which she founded, provides caring and caritas education around the globe.

She has received 10 honorary doctorate degrees, including seven international doctorates, and has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on caring. Watson is a fellow in the Ameri-can Academy of Nursing and, last year, was named a Living Legend, the highest honor in the nursing profession.

Watson’s caring science theory and Caritas Processes™ created pathways for nurses to care for themselves and their patients in more meaningful ways. She

pushed toward innovation in research and education for nurses during times when the profession was reluctant to change. Watson was honored with the Pathfinders Award for all of the pathways she forged during her career.

lifetime aChievement awardThe Lifetime Achievement Award honors alumni who are recognized for their contribu-tions to improving the quality of life and impact on the health care system as educators, clini-cians, researchers or facilitator/administrators. Professor Emerita kathy magilvy, PhD ’82, RN, FAAN, received this award.

Magilvy worked as a public health nurse in DuPage County, Ill., before earning her master’s in community health nursing at Northern Illinois University in 1974. She began as an instruc-tor of public health nursing at the CU College of Nursing in 1975. When the school started

a PhD program in 1978, she became one of its first students, graduating in 1982. Back when PhD programs required second language proficiency, Magilvy successfully changed that policy, obtaining permission to use sign language to fulfill the requirement.

After earning her PhD, Magilvy rejoined the faculty. She held a number of academic and administrative roles including PhD program director, assistant dean for graduate programs and associate dean for academic programs. She mentored and shepherded hundreds of students through their programs. Among her former students are at least 50 nursing faculty members, several deans, and at least four chief nursing officers and hospital administrators.

Magilvy received the Elisabeth H. Boeker Faculty Excellence in Research Award and the Nightingale Award for Excel-lence in Nursing Research. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the Western Academy of Nursing and the University of Colorado Emerging Leaders Program.

Emeriti Among Association’s 2014 Award Recipients

Pathfinder Jean Watson accepts her award. Alumni Association President Cindy oster, PhD, MBA, APrN, CNs-BC, ANP, with lifetime Achievement Award recipient Kathy Magilvy.

AluMNi AssoCiATioN AWArDs

For her career-long commit-ment to nursing education and research, Kathy Magilvy received the association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

distingUished alUmni awardThe Distinguished Alumni Award is given to an alum who has made significant contribu-tions to nursing on a local, national or international level or to the college, either financially or in time and effort.

Associate Professor Emerita sUe hagedorn, RN, PhD, PNP, WHNP, FAANP, has made a career of challenging the norm. In her bachelor’s program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hagedorn successfully led a campaign to ban the tradi-tional blue striped dress nursing uniforms. After earning her master’s in maternal-child nurs-ing in 1982 at Boston College and becoming a pediatric nurse practitioner, she helped found and direct the Teen Health Center at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the first comprehensive school-based health center in Massachusetts.

While finishing her PhD at the CU College of Nursing, she directed the Partnership in Prevention, a long-term mentoring program for at-risk adolescents and, while on the faculty, established other faculty practices for at-risk or under-served populations.

After retiring in 2006, Hage-dorn earned a master’s in media studies in 2010 from The New School in New York City. This second career has allowed her to take advocacy to a whole new level. As she puts it, there’s a critical need for “media-savvy nurses and nurse-savvy media.”

Her company, Seedworks Films, has produced more than 20 films on nursing and social justice, including a history of the CU College of Nursing called “Legacy of Innovation: A History

of the University of Colorado College of Nursing.”

Hagedorn is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nursing.

For her leadership in nurs-ing education and practice, philanthropy, advocacy and social justice, Hagedorn was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award.

distingUished serviCe awardThe Distinguished Service Award honors someone who has made a substantial contribution to the support of the College of Nursing and the improvements of health care in Colorado through philanthropic, political or administrative channels.

Clare sandekian, MS ’69, was recruited to Denver in the early 1960s to become associate director of nursing of the Colo-rado Psychiatric Hospital, the highest position in the hospital for a nurse. At CU, Sandekian completed a master’s degree in psychiatric nursing in 1969.

After 11 years at the Colorado Psychiatric Hospital, she served as director of nursing for Lutheran Medical Center and Denver General Hospital, for 11 years each. Throughout this time Sandekian served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserve and served as chief nurse at Fitzsim-mons Army Hospital. She retired with the rank of full colonel after 28 years of service.

During the 1990s Sandekian became a board member of the CU College of Nursing Alumni Association. She served as president and established an association scholarship for alumni. Sandekian made sure that there were adequate funds for graduate scholarships and often added to the amount awarded. Last year, the alumni association board voted to rename its fund the S. Clare Sandekian Scholarship.

During her career, Sandekian mentored many graduate nurs-ing students, leading to her passion for nursing scholarships. When the college was moving to the new Anschutz Medical Campus and needed clinical lab space, Sandekian and her family stepped up to help fund a new Clinical Education Center.

For her vision, leadership, insight and support over the past 30 years, Sandekian received the Association’s Distinguished Service Award.

editor’s note: full bios and lists of past awards recipients are available on our website, along with nomination forms and criteria. Please visit www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/alumni and click on Alumni Awards.

Alumni board members presented the Distinguished service Award to Clare sandekian, Ms ’69, at her home on sept. 17: (seated) Joy french, Kathryn Callahan, Carol Brautigam, Ms ’71, sandekian, and Deanna geldens, (standing) Cindy oster, PhD ’02, Karen Marks, Matt sandekian, Muborak gani, Bs ’13, Mary McMahon, Ms ’84, and eve Hoygaard, Ms ’89.

Alumni Board secretary Mary McMahon, rNC, Ms, CHsT-CP, with Distinguished Alumna sue Hagedorn.

Live the Mantra College of Nursing Alumni Director Deanna geldens Mail stop C288-1 13120 e. 19th. Avenue Aurora, Colorado 80045 303-724-4869 deanna.geldens@ucdenver.edu www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/alumni www.facebook.com/cucollegeofnursing

Office of Alumni Relations— Anschutz Medical Campus Academic office 1, room 1214 12631 e17th Ave., A080 Aurora, Colorado 80045 877-HsC-AluM or 303-724-2518 fax: 303-724-2515 healthalumni@ucdenver.edu www.ucdenver.edu/alumni

University of Colorado College of Nursing Alumni Association2012-2013 Board of DirectorsCarol A. Brautigam, Ms ’71Tiffany Bowser, CUSNA President M.J. gani, Bs ’13 Kelsi Hertzler, Bs ’12 Caitlin Horsley, Student Council Presidentevelyn l. Hoygaard, Ms ’89,

Past PresidentKaren Johnson, Bs ’07Anne Marie Kotzer, Ms ’82, PhD ’96Mary McMahon, Ms ’84Kathy oman, Ms ’88, PhD ’99Cynthia oster, PhD ’02, PresidentHeather Ponicsan, Student Senate Presidents. Clare sandekian, Ms ’69gretchen schlueter, Bs ’13Tammy spencer, Ms ’89Martha stoner, Bs ’66, Ms ’67, PhD ’82sara Weneck, Bs ’09

Ex-officio membersJoy B. french, MPH, Director,

Office of Alumni Relations Anschutz Medical Campus

Deanna B. geldens, Mss Director of Marketing, Communications and Alumni Relations, College of Nursing

Maureen Durkin, Assistant Dean, College of Nursing

sarah Thompson, PhD, rN, fAAN Dean, College of Nursing

CU College of NursiNg

I’ve been thinking more about the College of Nursing’s new tagline “Be the nurse everyone looks to first.” What does this look like on a daily basis?

In this issue, you’ll read stories of leadership in action—examples of nurses being looked to first in their communities. These expert nurses are leading, solving problems, designing innovative programs of care and providing high quality care to a variety of underserved popula-tions. Their work and commitment to overall health is truly inspiring!

Nursing leadership is so important to the future of our profession. Your education from the University of Colorado gave you the skills needed to succeed. I now encourage fellow alumni to live the mantra. “Be the nurse everyone looks to first” by supporting new graduates and fellow alumni as they begin or advance their careers. Reach out and support the next generation in our discipline through preceptor-ship, mentorship or teaching. (See page 12 to learn more about a new benefits package for advanced practice preceptors.)

The College of Nursing is a springboard for the education of our next generation of nurses. Thank you for supporting the College of Nursing Alumni Association S. Clare Sandekian Scholarship Fund to help alumni earn advanced degrees. We’re just $15,000 shy of endowing the fund that will ensure scholarships for alumni in perpetuity. Please consider giving another gift in 2015.

We have some exciting events planned for 2015 to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the nurse practitioner role at CU nearly 50 years ago (see the back cover for details). Please watch your mail and email for special events in your area. If you are not receiving our eConnections quarterly newsletter or special events email invitations, forward your name and current email address to deanna.geldens@ucdenver.edu to be added to the list.

Alumni support of the CU College of Nursing can help fulfill the need for CU-prepared nurses who are ready to lead and design innovative solutions to the complex health care needs of our state and nation.

Do you have ideas of how alumni can “Be the nurse everyone looks to first” every day in their communities? Email your story or suggestions to BeTheNurse@ucdenver.edu.

Cynthia A. Oster, PhD, MBA, APRN, CNS-BC, ANP CU College of Nursing Alumni Association President

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To give to the College of Nursing Alumni Association s. Clare sandekian scholarship fund, make your check payable to the university of Colorado foundation, put the fund name in the memo line, and mail to The Cu foundation, P.o. Box 17126, Denver, Co 80217.

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1970sBonnie Gance-Cleveland, Bs ’77, Ms ’82, PhD ’95, rNC, PNP, fAAN, was named Pioneer of the year for the Colorado rocky Mountain NAPNAP Chapter. gance-Cleveland is the loretta C. ford endowed Professor at the Cu College of Nursing.

Linda Krebs, Ms ’77, PhD ’97, rN, AoCN, fAAN, chaired the Conference Management Committee for the 18th international Congress on Cancer Nursing (iCCN) held in Panama City, Panama, sept. 7-11. she is an associ-ate professor at the College of Nursing.

Deborah Elaine Davis, Bs ’78, Ms ’94 Ms, rNC-oB, C-efM, was recognized with the fetal Heart Moni-toring instructing recognition Award from the Association of Women’s Health, obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHoNN) on sept. 11, in Washington, D.C. Davis was part of the original national committee that developed the AWHoNN fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practice course in the early 1990s.

1980sRoxie Foster, Ms ’81, PhD ’90, rN, fAAN, received the south Dakota state university Distinguished Alumni Award in october. foster is professor emerita of the Cu College of Nursing.

Kathy Harris, Ms ’84, rN, CHe, was featured as “faces in Nursing” on the Colorado Center for Nursing excellence (CCNe) website. Harris is regional vice president of clinical services for Banner Health Western region and chairs the CCNe board of directors.

Ruby Martinez, Ms ’84, rN, PhD ’95, was featured as “faces in Nursing” on the Colorado Center for Nursing excellence website. she is currently in private practice and is board certified as a specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing.

Jennifer Disabato, Ms ’86, DNP ’12, CPNP-PC, AC, has been recognized as the fellow of the year for the Colorado rocky Mountain NAPNAP Chapter. she is an assistant professor in the Cu College of Nursing and the school of Medicine.

1990sEileen Breslin, PhD ’92, rN, fAAN, dean and professor of the school of Nursing at the university of Texas Health science Center san Antonio, is

in memoriam

1930sJeannette Boyd Burliuk, Bs ’32, sept. 17, 2009.

1940sEllen L. Claiborne, Bs ’45, Ms ’89, Aug. 19, 2014.Midori Komoto, Bs ’45, Aug. 14, 2014. Mary Knoedler Hollis, Bs ’49, July 4, 2011.Helen Stetson Smith, Bs ’49, notified Jan. 15, 2014.

1950sLouise Allen Feidler, Bs ’50, June 29, 2010.J. Marie Coakley, Bs ’51, ed ’62, Aug. 14, 2014. Gertrude Crowley Davis, Bs ’51, ANP, Mar. 12, 2014.Carol N. Larson, Bs ’51, Nov. 28, 2010.Barbara Helen Timblin, Bs ’52, Apr. 8, 2014.Helga R. Larsen, Bs ’53, oct. 3, 1999.Darlene Gaskin, Bs ’53, sept. 29, 2014Helen Chorak McLaughlin, Bs ’53, Apr. 19, 2000.Helen Gurley Wolford, Bs ’53, Nov. 11, 2002.Darlene Timken Born, Bs ’55, sept. 4, 2013.Ruby Konishi Sakurai, Bs ’56, Mar. 6, 2014.Jessie Anne Bryant, Bs ’57, Ms ’66, oct. 27, 2013.Ruth M. Baughman, Bs ’58, Apr. 7, 2014.Roberta L Clegg, Ms ’59, PhD, Apr. 20, 2014.Betty J. McCracken, Ms ’59, sept. 17, 2008.

currently serving a two-year term as president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. on June 10, Breslin was invited to a White House Ceremony announcing enhancements to federal programs designed to alleviate student debt.

2000s Patricia Levi, Ms ’12, MPH, rN, received first place for her poster

titled “Quality strategy to follow up Meaningful use (Mu) of electronic Health record implementations” at the American Nursing informatics Association 2014 Annual Conference in las Vegas.

Maria Vejar, DNP ’14, had her DNP Quality improvement Project, “Medication Management for elderly Patients in an Academic Primary Care setting: A Quality improvement Project,” published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

1960sSherry D. Barnes, Ms ’60, Mar. 18, 2014.Clara LaVerna Kirby-Travis, Ms ’60, Apr. 20, 2001.Joyce M. Lamb, Bs ’60, Apr. 13, 2014.Alta Vasey Morgan, Bs ’60, Ms ’63, sept. 25, 2012.Gretchen R. Neal, Bs ’60, Dec. 7, 2013.Sharyle Kay Akins, Bs ’61, Dec. 28, 2013.Ingrid Gassner Simpson, Bs ’61, June 1, 2014.Eileen M. Williams, Ms ’61, Nov. 4, 2013.Marjorie Jean Mulcahey, Bs ’62, feb. 12, 2014.Mary P. Smith, Bs ’62, June 24, 2014.Bernice Evelyn Stuart, Bs ’62, Aug. 19, 1999.Joyce Hazelbaker, Ms ’63, May 14, 2014.Mary E. Florence, Bs ’63, notified Dec. 13, 2013.Roseanne G. Jackson, Ms ’64, May 29, 2012.Nila P. Grosvenor, Bs ’65, Ms ’74, feb. 26, 2011.Joan Kelsey Abrams, DNP ’67, Jan. 19, 2013.Jo Ann C. Prickett, Bs ’68, Apr. 25, 2011.Carolyn Ann Sears, Bs ’68, Aug. 21, 2013.Kathleen Miller Russell, Bs ’69, Mar. 21, 2014.

1970sNatalie Mara, Ms ’70, Aug. 9, 2014.Lurana Mary Patterson, Ms ’71, Aug. 18, 2014.

Edna D. Gay Wilson, Ms ’71, May 25, 2011.Mary Carole Schoffstall, BA ’73, Ms ’75, July 26, 2014.Mary E. Jensen, Bs ’74, July 30, 2011.Sally B. Olds, Ms ’75, feb. 1, 2014.Donna F. Zupkus, rN, Cs, Ms ’77, Jan. 18, 2013. Judith Minderler, Ms ’78, oct. 14, 2014.

1980sNatalie Ann Motz-Streeter, Bs ’82, Aug. 1, 2009.Sharon Corez Reveille, Bs ’84, Aug. 16, 2014.Felicia Chwasz Storb, Ms ’87, July 15, 2014.Deborah O’Brien McCormick, Bs ’89, June 19, 2013.

1990sLinda Jean King, Bs ’95, Jan. 10, 2014.Gisela Henschel, Bs ’97, sept. 18, 2014. Clare Eileen Patterson, Bs ’99, Jan. 4, 2014.

2000sLisa M. Goodwin, Bs ’00, June 19, 2014.Woynshet H. Woldemariam, Bs ’03, July 14, 2012.Paul A. L’Herault, Ms ’05, June 6, 2014.Jeff T. Middleton, Bs ’06, Jan. 26, 2014.

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CU College of NursiNg

yoUr advanCed degree in nUrsing qualifies you for many leadership roles. Consider teaching the next generation of nurses by precepting students in your workplace. Not only will you make a difference for the profession, you will advance your career.

Preceptors are needed in the following specialties: acute care adult, acute care pediatrics, adult/gerontology nurse practi-tioner, adult/gerontology clinical nurse specialist, family nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse practitioner, nurse midwifery, women’s health nurse practi-tioner and family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.

Preceptor Qualifications• Master’sdegreeinthe

specialty area

• Nationalcertificationinthespecialty area

• Meetsstatelicensingrequire-ments for advanced practice and prescriptive authority (where appropriate)

BriDge your gAPs. ADVANCe your CAreer. iMProVe HeAlTH CAre ouTCoMes.increase your knowledge and improve your value as a health care professional through innovative, interprofessional continuing education and extended studies with the Cu College of Nursing. start your journey at nursing.ucdenver.edu/CePD.

ob/gyn CliniCal skills for advanCed praCtiCe providersJanuary 8-9, 2015

Didactic and hands-on skills performance training essential to primary care. www.regonline.com/OBskills

5th annUal pediatriC advanCed praCtiCe ConferenCeFebruary 9-10, 2015

Provides clinical updates in evidence-based care on a variety of common pediatric diagnoses, integrating pharmacy content and speakers. excellent reviews!www.regonline.com/PedsAP15

CardiovasCUlar pharmaCologyMay 8-9, 2015

examine cardiovascular pharmacology through basic pharmacodynamics, mechanisms of action, drug interactions, pharmacokinetics, dosages and adverse effects. www.regonline.com/HeartRx

motivational interviewing for healthCare professionalsOngoing Enrollment Online Education

Develop an in-depth understanding of motivational interviewing as an evidence-based approach to support client health behavior changes.www.regonline.com/CUMotivate

maymester in nepalglobal health stUdy abroadMay 18-June 5, 2015

global health practicum in Nepal. Applications for this professional development event are due March 20, 2015. Join Pamela Prag, CNM, Ms, MPH, in this amazing adventure. experience grassroots program development and evaluation. Connect with local health care providers and international organizations. explore the beauty of central Nepal and collaborate with local Nepali students. Available for credit to degree and nondegree seeking students. www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/nepalpracticum

palliative Care online

Palliative Care in Nursing certificate will be completely online as of summer 2015. for details, call 303-724-1372 or join the professional development email list, www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/signup.www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/pallcare

CE/Professional Development

Benefits PackageThe College of Nursing offers a rich benefits package to preceptors for their hard work and dedication. By precepting advanced practice nursing students for at least 45 hours per semester, you may:• Obtainonlineaccesstothe

vast resources of the Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library.

• Takeoneonlinecontinuingnursing education module for free.

• WaivetuitiontowardoneCUnursing course as a nondegree student on a space-available basis.

• Receiveautomaticwrittenverification of preceptor hours at the end of the semester and for American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

• Becomeeligibleforapreceptor award and attend an annual preceptor awards dinner in the spring.

For more information contact Rosario Medina, PhD, FNP-BC, ACNP, CNS, Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, 303-724-8816, or rosario.medina@ucdenver.edu.

Stay Connected to the School that Started Advanced Practice NursingBecome a Preceptor Today

NursingCE@ucdenver.edu 303-724-6883

The university of Colorado College of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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approximately 65 alumni and guests, faculty, staff and students participated in reunion activities this September. It was great to see a few of our 1954 grads reunite at events. At the 1964 reminiscence luncheon on Saturday, alumni brought photos, memory books and other memorabilia from their college days—and two even donned their uniforms.

Classes ending in 5s and 0s will celebrate next year along with certificate and degree gradu-ates of our nurse practitioner programs. Save the date: Sept. 18, 2015.

1 Class of 1964 classmates pose for a group photo after lunch. seated (l-r) Penny McKenzie Donelan, Joan (laurie) Pinson goodman, Judy scheideman Cook, rosalind Hazzard losey. standing (l-r) Jacqueline landers Dunn, glenda Daughenbaugh Nichols, linda snodgrass Chase, Jeanette fletcher Habenicht, Carolyn Mascitelli lane, Judy Whistler Peterson and Doris Weyl feyling.

2 Judy scheideman Cook, Bs ’64, Kathleen saidy, Bs ’74, Carole Mutzebaugh, Bs ’67, Ms ’69, edD, and Jody Hinrichs, Bs ’69, Ms ‘62, PhD, hold up their new branded T-shirts.

3 1954 grads Marlis Murray laursoo, Trudy schilling Zimmerman and Mae fukaye flickinger posed together for a photo at lunch.

4 Julie Candia, ND ’03, Ms ’04, and Muborak gani, Bs ’13, get to know each other over lunch.

5 Doris Weyl feyling, Bs ’65, susan Talbot, Bs ’94, susanne rathbun, Bs ’64, and linda Marin, Bs’ 64, enjoyed visiting the eisenhower suite in the old fitzsimons Army Hospital (now Bldg. 500).

6 Penny McKenzie Donelan, rosalind Hazzard losey and Joan (laurie) Pinson goodman are well dressed for their 1964 luncheon.

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nUrse praCtitioners were invented at the University of Colorado in 1965 by Loretta Ford (nursing) and Henry Silver (medicine). Now it’s hard to imagine nursing (or health care) without them. Help us celebrate the birth of the nurse practitio-ner movement in 2015. Look for us at national nurse practitioner conferences and watch for invites to local events.

watCh yoUr mail and email for details aboUt all UpComing events. Opportunities for the college to reach out to alumni, often come up after the magazine has already gone to press. And, we must use email for last minute invitations. If you are not getting news and invitations from the college, please send your current email address to Deanna.geldens@ucdenver.edu. If you do not want to receive email from the CU Foundation, simply include “no email solicitations” in the request.

CU system event CU Family Night at the National Western Stock Show friday, Jan. 23, 2015, National Western Complex Watch for registration at www.UCdenver.edU/alUmnievents

we don’t just teach nurse practitioners. we invented them.

save the date cu college of nursing Gala honoring dr. Loretta Ford

Friday, september 18, 2015 denver, colorado

Formal invitation to follow