tribute/school of nursing 2012

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SCHOOL OF NURSING | 2012

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PICTURED ARE STUDENTS from the first class at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing in 1969 (left) and our recent graduating class (right). As we highlight the accomplishments and growth within our school, we also celebrate its proud history.


4 DEAN’S MESSAGE

5 ThE UNIvERSITy of TExAS hEAlTh SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANToNIo MISSIoN

9 MEET oUR NEw TENURE TRACk fACUlTy

14 DETERMINATIoN To SUCCEED From migrant field work to nursing

16 NEw ACCElERATED BSN TRACk Accelerates Students, Transforms Health Care

20 offICE of ADMISSIoNS & STUDENT SERvICES Advancing Health Care, One Student at a Time

21 offICE of PRACTICE & ENGAGEMENT Building Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams of the Future

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6 SoUThSIDE PRIDE: A Community Mobilization Researchers from the School of Nursing are helping

members of a San Antonio community change their children’s and grandchildren’s futures by empowering them so they can reduce the plague of violence.

8 ACADEMIC CENTER foR EvIDENCE- BASED PRACTICE CElEBRATES 10 yEARS of IMPRovING hEAlThCARE

Ten years ago, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing launched the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE).

10 NoRMA MARTINEZ RoGERS: A Life Of Service

Norma Martinez Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN, has devoted her life to service to the community.

12 NURSING AlUMNI. whERE ARE ThEy Now?

Over 10,000 alumni of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing live both locally and across the world. Visit makelivesbetter.uthscsa.edu to connect with classmates or colleagues from the school.

18 oUR BlUEPRINT To TRANSfoRM ThE fUTURE of NURSING CARE

Today, our blueprint for nursing education is becoming a reality. Through the generosity of individuals, foundations and corporations and the scholarly efforts of our faculty, we have accomplished much.

23 CoNNECTING wITh ThE CoMMUNITy To MAkE lIvES BETTER

The good news: Nursing is more relevant than ever to health, and the The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing is taking students in innovative, socially involved directions. The bad news: The state budget deficit is forcing cuts to the school’s budget (and to those of all state supported schools).

22 BRIDGING oCEANS Expanding the Pipeline Abroad

26 NURSING ADvISoRy CoUNCIl The Bridge to the Community

28 SUPPoRTING ThE NExT GENERATIoN

29 DoNoR hoNoR Roll

30 fACUlTy GRANTS, PUBlICATIoNS, AwARDS

34 fAMIly & CoMMUNITy hEAlTh SySTEMS fACUlTy

35 hEAlTh RESToRATIoN & CARE SySTEMS MANAGEMENT fACUlTy

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Eileen T. Breslin | PhD, RN, FAANDean and Professor Dr. Patty L. Hawken Nursing Endowed ProfessorSchool of Nursing The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

DEAN’S MESSAGE

“Growth and success does not happen in

isolation. External stakeholders have been the key to crafting the vision of our future at

the school of nursing.”

Dear friends,We are excited to introduce our inaugural magazine, paying “Tribute” to our outstanding students, faculty,

alumni and community advocates. In the following pages you will read our School of Nursing story as captured through the themes of Discovery, Diversity, Delivery, Development and Dedication.

Now is an unprecedented time for the nursing profession. The Institute of Medicine’s landmark report “The Future of Nursing: Advancing Health, Leading Change” engages us to think in new ways about nursing. How will we educate future nurses? What new knowledge will our scientists uncover to address health disparities, intervene and manage chronic disease, prevent disease and promote health as well as improve health system function, safety and efficiency? What will our practice look like as we engage as full partners and leaders designing the health systems of the future? How will we improve the health of the public?

Our School of Nursing community is fully vested in seeking answers to these questions. Our faculty’s dedication is transforming the nursing curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels, developing and executing a dynamic strategic plan into a reality, bringing their scholarship to life through the millions of dollars in research funding and completing a very successful CCNE accreditation process. Their commitment to excellence is inspirational. Our student body is exceptionally qualified and diverse. Students engage in interprofessional learning opportunities and community service learning activities—hallmarks of excellence.

Growth and success does not happen in isolation. External stakeholders have been the key to crafting the vision of our future at the school of nursing. Two groups stand out: The Methodist Health Care Ministries and the Nursing Advisory Council. The Methodist Healthcare Ministries has been transformational in our growth through a $3.9 million gift. This gift provided the essential resources to expand our student body and create cutting edge educational opportunities to our students. The Ministries generosity provided the “spark,” for additional funding partners to join us on our exciting journey. The Nursing Advisory Council (NAC) board members serve as our voice in the community. The NAC was recognized during our recent accreditation visit as a unique, and envied resource by many institutions. Their valuable work educates our legislative partners; funds pilot research projects, funds scholarships for our students and faculty to pursue doctoral education, and is the community connection: growing our philanthropy and practice opportunities throughout South Texas.

We are hopeful that this tribute will inspire you to engage with us. We now have over 10,000 alumni who work and live around the world. We want to hear from you. As we have done since 1969, our school remains committed to educating today’s nursing leaders who will change the landscape of healthcare and play an even more critical role in translating today’s discoveries into tomorrow’s cures.

Each day, we create novel discoveries, educate in a culture rich in diversity, deliver quality, evidence-based care to our community, and remain committed to growth through our development efforts. We do so through the dedication of all. We are grateful to you for being a part of the school of nursing and welcome you to join our online community “NetCommunity.” Even better, please join us on campus to personally experience the growth and excitement.

Thank you for your support. Together, we truly hold in our hands the opportunity to build a future that makes lives better.


DEAN’S MESSAGE

Mission

We engage with our diverse students and communities to produce the future nursing leaders of our expanding world who will lead the transformation

of nursing care to make lives better through education, research, and practice.

Values

We believe excellent health care is a right of every person. We believe physical, mental and social well-being is enhanced with high ethical standards, by honoring the dignity of others, and through accountability for our actions. We believe education is a lifelong process based on mutual teaching and learning and research that ultimately makes life better for those we serve. We believe through our leadership we can influence organizations and governments within our communities to adopt practices and policy that promote health. We believe in the power of professional nurses to improve the health status of peoples here and abroad.

Vision

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing promotes excellent health care as an act of social justice for individuals and their diverse communities by creating dynamic inter-professional approaches to lead research and prepare professional nurses to deliver effective, compassionate, innovative, and culturally proficient care.

Goals

Teaching: Provide leading edge, evidence-based instruction including innovative teaching technologies appropriate to the students and communities we serve. Organizational Effectiveness: Provide an effective, efficient and inclusive infrastructure to support faculty, staff and students as they fulfill the mission of the School of Nursing. Research: Become a nationally and internationally recognized health-related research institution. Practice/Service: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing faculty will be recognized as a provider of exemplary, innovative, culturally proficient faculty practice/service throughout the region and beyond.


By Spring of 2011, nearly 400 students at the Harlandale Alternative Center will have participated in a community-based violence prevention research study being conducted through The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The program provides culturally sensitive activities for 6th – 12th grade students at the Harlandale Independent School District’s alternative school in San Antonio, as well as an accompanying weekend program for the students’ parents and grandparents.

The three-year project is funded by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

“Familias SUAVE: Preventing Violence with El Joven Noble (The Noble Youth) and Cara y Corazón (Face and Heart),” is being led by Janna Lesser, PhD, RN, and Manuel Angel Oscós-Sánchez, M.D. Dr. Lesser is an associate professor in the School of Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health Services and director of the Center for Excellence, Community-Based Health Promotion with Women and Children. Dr. Oscós-Sánchez is an associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Family & Community Medicine and director of the UT Health Science Center’s Youth Development Program.

Community Collaboration Council has key role in the project

Although they are co-leaders of the study, the faculty members are quick to point out that this is a community-based participatory research project that includes not only the students and their parents, but the Familias en Acción Community Collaborative Council composed of

Southside Pride

community members, Harlandale school officials and representatives from local community organizations and agencies.

“The collaborative council has major input and decision-making power to make sure that the project is meeting the needs of the community,” Dr. Oscós-Sánchez said. “We provide a framework and the council makes the decisions,” he said.

Faculty members provide methodology for the project

The “framework” is a proven social action methodology that helps community groups seek input from their communities through meetings and surveys, set goals for change, devise a plan for change and then gauge the success of the program. Dr. Lesser is experienced in this specialized research. She first began working on it in the 1990s during her postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles. “I had the great opportunity to partner with a community-based organization that was providing innovative programs for adolescent fathers in East Los Angeles,” she said.

“It was through this first project that I learned the true benefit of listening to the wise voices of the community when developing and implementing intervention research.” “It is very important that the people in the community make these decisions because it is their program and they are the ones who will benefit from it,” Dr. Oscós-Sánchez said.

In this case, the plan for change involves three curriculums, two for students and one for their families.

Discovery

SChool of NURSING fACTS

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing has been educating nurses since 1969 and PhD students since 1990.

“Within the collective dignity, love and respect of all people, exists the wisdom and resources for a beautiful, harmonious tomorrow”—Jerry Tello

Story by RoSANNE fohN

Isiaiah Pineda, Harlandale Independent School District student, participating in a Familias en Accion Community Volunteer Activity.

A Community Mobilization


Students assigned to one of two classes

Begun in fall 2008, the 6th – 12th graders have been participating in either the El Joven Noble violence prevention class or the Teen Medical Academy, a health career promotion class, this year.

“The El Joven Noble class increases insight into their intrinsic value and how what happens to them affects the people they love, like their families and intimate partners,” Dr. Lesser explained. “They learn that their decisions and life experiences are connected and that their decisions determine their future and that of their community.” The other class, the Teen Medical Academy, is a program developed and taught by Dr. Oscós-Sánchez to interest Latino students in a healthcare career. Each year the grade levels switched between the two classes.

Parents’ classes reinforce what it taught in school

Meanwhile, the students’ parents and grandparents are participating in weekend classes called Cara y Corazón. The name of the program refers to an ancient Aztec philosophy that stresses the communal responsibility to help all children develop a Wise Face and a Strong Heart as part of positive character development. This program reinforces in the home what the students are learning at school and focuses on the positive strengths of the Latino family, including the parents’ role as positive and respectful role models in a caring family structure.

The study tracks the students’ behavior over the course of the study to see which program, El Joven Noble or the Teen Medical Academy, helps the students stay away from violence and substance abuse.

Most recently, under the leadership of Drs. Lesser and Oscós-Sánchez, the Familias en Acción Community Collaborative Council successfully applied for and was awarded funding as one of the six sites of the Texas Department of State Health Services Healthy Adolescent Initiative. The goal of this four-year Familias en Acción Healthy Adolescent Initiative is to develop, implement and evaluate a locally relevant positive youth, family and community development program within the economically disadvantaged urban Latino community of Harlandale.

Project participants explain its successJuan Mancha|a parent:

“We’ve started a great program here on the Southside. It has been amazing. I was invited to the second meeting of the project, and I kind of freaked out the first time I went. Here we go again, all these white people thinking that they are going to fix us, that they know what is best for us. Then after getting to hear what they had to say, it kind of brought out things that I had always wanted to do with the kids … We decided on a great program, Joven Noble. And we got to teach it. We went to a lot of classes. They taught us a lot about how to work with the kids and how to help them open up. This program has been fantastic.”

Becky Gonzales|school district social worker:

“A group of us went to the initial meeting. It was a leap of faith. We didn’t exactly know where the program was going, but we went with it. We liked the idea of empowering the community. We liked the idea of sustainability. We liked the idea that the community itself was going to be running the program. I’ve seen people grow and develop their leadership skills.”

Daniel Pineda|project staff:

“I started as a volunteer. I was brought to the project by a friend who is a social-worker at the Harlandale Alternative Center. He thought this was something that I would really believe in and would enjoy since he knew the heart I have for children in the community. I started helping out and volunteering. I was blessed with a great opportunity and was hired at the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing as a staff member for this project. It has been a tremendous journey—walking with many different families of this community—and seeing its success.”

Joe Jesse Sanches|assistant superintendent:

“The program, Familias en Acción, started with two PhD nurses coming to me with a great idea for an anti-violence program for children. I later realized it was more than just an anti-violence character education program. It turned out to be a community mobilization project. Before I knew it, all sorts of folks from the community—parents, community people and professional people—were coming together. I really thank Dr. Janna Lesser and her group at the UT Health Science School of Nursing. I think they have done a great job in working with us. And I feel very honestly that not only have we learned from them, but we’ve done a good job teaching them some things.”

Discovery

Example of a Joven Noble teaching—Mascaras/Masks: This teaching is about coping with psychological injuries and how we may use a mask to survive or to cover the pain. When it is necessary to put a mask on and when is it not? When do we become the mask? The mask is a plaster mold of the young person’s face. It will have different types of decorations depending on the youth. The outside of the mask represents how the young person chooses to present himself or herself to others, the inside is reserved for important life issues that may be both personal and private.

“I was trained to teach Joven Noble. It has been really exciting teaching these classes. It is great that the students share their feelings and then take something out of these classes that they will use in their lives. They can become productive adults in the world even though they have so much to overcome. It is just a great program to be in.”

—Gwyn Garcia, a parent

“I’m a grandmother of 11 grandchildren scattered through the school district. Our children are our tomorrow, and we need to make sure that everything is going well for them. We also started the Mujeres Nobles de Harlandale. We want all these women to bring all their knowledge, all their gifts to the table. Everything is about trying to make a difference. I am so grateful for this opportunity to make a difference for me and hopefully for a couple of other people’s tomorrows.”

—Linda Morales, community member


Discovery Diversity

DR. kAThlEEN R. STEvENS RECENT RECoGNITIoN AND AwARDS

* In 2011, Dr. Stevens received one of nursing’s most prestigious research honors—Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Award

* As an Episteme Laureate, she will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in July 2012

* The Baxter International Foundation’s Episteme Award acknowledges a major breakthrough in the development of nursing knowledge resulting in a significant benefit to the public. Dr. Stevens is being recognized for her work in patient safety based on research

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice Celebrates 10 years of Improving healthcareNew nationwide collaboration takes research to the next level

(IIMS) to further reduce barriers to interprofessional translational research and to strengthen the science of quality improvement.

The ISRN’s cyber infrastructure will support the conduct of landmark improvement studies across multiple sites with great scientific rigor. Based on a website, the cyber infrastructure enables the virtual research center to conduct multisite network studies; expand scientific and human capacity to conduct improvement research; and accelerate dissemination of findings of improvement studies.

In support of collaborative research studies across the 200 member national network, the website provides a place for secure communication, storage and sharing of documents, and data repository features for retrospective investigation. A collection of research instruments and state-of-the-science bibliographies also will be available on this website. To expand human capacity in improvement research, the ISRN offers conferences, web events, training resources, and match making between academic and clinical scholars in forming broad-based research collaboratives and expert guidance in conducting research and using statistics.

As a major part of the strategic direction for research in this nascent field, the ISRN published its consensus statement on Research Priorities on the www.isrn.net website. On July 7, 2010, charter membership was opened and three national Network Research Studies were launched at the inaugural Improvement Science Summit. The three research topics are (1) frontline engagement for quality improvement, (2) preventing medication errors, and (3) team performance for patient safety.

ACE has knitted the project functions throughout the IIMS for long-range sustainability and has engaged the services of Westat, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, for support during the two-year infrastructure development. After that time, the ISRN will be co-supported by ACE and UT Health Science Center IIMS.

For more information about ISRN, visit www.isrn.net or contact ISRN Project Manager Dr. Darpan Patel at [email protected] or 210-567-5813.

Ten years ago, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing launched the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE).

This center of excellence was created with the tasks of improving healthcare and patient outcomes. Those who joined this national and global movement have achieved much progress over the past decade.

At the annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, EdD, FAAN and her team recalled their call to action: “Healthcare is not as good as it could be, and we are here to do something about it.” These visionaries reviewed the work already done and decided on future projects to take healthcare to a level never before achieved.

“In the past 10 years, the ACE team has concentrated on projects that build upon each other. This work has progressed from evidence-based community interventions to systematic reviews and from team performance for patient safety to building a national infrastructure that advances improvement science,” said Dr. Stevens, ACE founding director.

To date, ACE has garnered and invested $7 million in healthcare quality and patient safety, she explained.

As the ACE leaders look to the future, they have created the Improvement Science Research Network (ISRN) for the coming decade of healthcare. The ISRN is a nationwide collaboration of interprofessional clinical and academic leaders developed to generate a robust science to accelerate quality improvements in patient care.

Under the direction of Dr. Stevens, who is serving as principal investigator, the ISRN is funded by a two-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health. This funding is provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The ISRN is guided by a steering council comprised of 15 healthcare experts from both public and private organizations together with the ISRN Coordinating Center, which is housed in the ACE at the School of Nursing. Because ACE and the ISRN Coordinating Center were founded on longstanding commitments to clinical and translational research, they have partnered with the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science

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Diversity

Faculty: Tenure Track

Adelita G. Cantu, PhD, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Cantu received her BSN from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX; her MS with a focus on community health nursing from Texas Women’s University in

Dallas, TX, and her PhD in clinical nursing research from the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing. Her research interests include understanding the sociocultural context and intra person mediators of the initiation and sustainability of physical activity in older Mexican American women as well as its impact on diabetes development.

Socorro Escandón, PhD, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Socorro (Sookie) Escandón is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health Systems. Prior to joining UT Health Science Center, she served as faculty on

the Research and Education teams at the University of New Mexico. She received her MS and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing, with a minor in Community Based Interventions from the University of Arizona. Dr. Escandón is bicultural and bilingual and has maintained a consistent scholarly effort on health issues of English/Spanish-speaking people identified under the umbrella of Hispanic/Latino. Her investigative efforts have been concerned with (1) enhancing key health care and health maintenance knowledge/skills for young potential caregivers who anticipate caring for their elderly family members; (2) expanding a conceptual model of intergenerational caregiving among Hispanic/Latino family caregivers; (3) developing an instrument from her own qualitative data and pilot testing this proposed familism scale for intergenerational family caregivers. She has also consistently served as a resource and consultant to other researchers confronting conceptual equivalence in translation of instruments and research methods for the Hispanic/Latino population. She is active in WIN (Western Institute of Nursing Research) and serves as co-facilitator for a Latino Research Interest Group. Dr. Escandón is a Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing FLAG fellow.

Peter Andrew Guarnero, PhD, MN, MSc, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Guarnero received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from St. Mary’s Seminary College,

his BSN from Marcella Neihoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, his master’s in nursing with specialization in psychiatric nursing from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his PhD from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Guarnero completed postdoctoral training in vulnerable populations’ research at the Center for Vulnerable Populations Research at the UCLA School of Nursing. He recently completed a master’s of science in clinical research from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Prior to his appointment to the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing, Dr. Guarnero was at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing where he taught in both the RN-BSN program and the traditional BSN program. He has extensive experience in qualitative methods and community based participatory research. Dr. Guarnero’s research interests focus on health promotion behaviors among men of color.

Deborah kendall-Gallagher, JD, PhD, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Kendall-Gallagher joined the Department of Health Restoration and Care Systems Management as an assistant professor in August 2010 after completing a post-doctoral

research fellowship with Dr. Linda Aiken at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Building on 20 years of experience in health care quality improvement, Dr. Kendall-Gallagher focuses her research efforts on clinical microsystems, health care delivery systems, and interprofessional education and practice. Dr. Kendall-Gallagher’s educational degrees include a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Arizona, a doctor of jurisprudence degree from South Texas College of Law, and PhD in nursing from the University of Colorado, Denver. In addition to conducting research, Dr. Kendall-Gallagher teaches health policy, health care reform, and leadership in the master’s and doctoral programs.

Carole white, PhD, RN Associate Professor

Dr. White completed her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University. She was a faculty associate in the Department of Neurology at the UT Health Science Center for 6 years where

she managed an international NIH-funded secondary stroke prevention trial. She was appointed Associate Professor in the School of Nursing in 2010. Her research is focused on optimizing outcomes for stroke survivors and their family caregivers. She is conducting research on post-stroke depression and quality of life nested within the secondary stroke prevention trial. She is also undertaking research to develop and evaluate the use

of health technologies to support self-management and monitoring after stroke. Dr. White is teaching evidence-based practice methodology in the graduate program.

Rosemary walulu, PhD, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Walulu joined the school of nursing faculty in the Fall of 2010 in the Department of Family and Community Health Systems. She is a UT Health Science Center School of Nursing Alumni that has

moved back to South Texas from Purdue University. Her area of research is HIV/AIDS, and she is building her science around the transition of care for HIV-infected pediatric patients to primary care. She is also conducting research on the experience of mothers living with HIV disease. Dr. Walulu is acutely interested in this research area because she is from Kenya; which has high HIV prevalence rates. She is currently teaching in the undergraduate nursing research and pediatric courses.

M. Danet lapiz-Bluhm, PhD, RN Assistant Professor

Dr. Lapiz-Bluhm originally hails from the Philippines where she finished her BSN from Cebu State College. She obtained further education and training in Biomedical Sciences (Neuroscience)

as an Australian International Development Assistance Bureau merit scholar at the University of Queensland (Australia), a predoctoral trainee at the Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and an international merit scholar of the Council for Vice Chancellors and Principals of UK and University of Nottingham (England, UK) for her doctoral degree (PhD) in Biomedical Sciences. She has received numerous awards for her scientific work on the effects of stress on neurobiological systems and cognition. More recently, she received the Hogg Foundation Grant for Mental Health and the Mentored Research Career Development (KL2) award in Clinical and Translational Science from the IIMS. Other than her research work, she teaches undergraduate nursing research and graduate advanced pharmacotherapeutics and promotes evidence-based practice, as well as interprofessional education towards quality of care and patient safety.

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She has served the needs of San Antonio as a nurse, a nurse educator, and an advocate for the underserved population.

Upon graduation, Dr. Martinez Rogers entered what was then known as Incarnate Word College where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Counseling from St. Mary’s University.

In her pursuit for excellence, she earned a second Master’s Degree in Nursing from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. For 17 years, she specialized in psychiatric nursing at a number of area hospitals before being assigned to the William Beaumont Army

Medical Center at Fort Bliss, Texas, where she earned Achievement and Commendation Medals from the U.S. Army for her participation in Operation Desert Storm.

Dr. Martinez Rogers then enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin where she graduated in 1995 with a PhD in Cultural Foundations. She subsequently earned two postdoctoral fellowships at Indiana University School of Nursing.

In 1996 she joined the graduate faculty at the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing, where she currently serves as a professor.

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Norma Martinez Rogers

A Life of ServiceNorma Martinez Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN, has devoted her life to service to

the community.She started as a teacher in the Edgewood Independent School District

and as a caseworker for San Antonio’s Catholic Family and Children Services before embarking on a career in nursing and nursing education.

Diversity


Dr. Martinez Rogers has composed more than a dozen articles which have been published in local and national publications, including “Challenges and Changes” which appears in the “Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.” She created and produced a number of plays that her undergraduate students have performed to help them incorporate theory and concepts into real-life situations.

She is the founder of Juntos Podemos, a mentorship program for her students. This program began with a $5,000 stipend and just received a continuation grant from Health Resources Service Administration allowing this program to grow by more than 460 percent, and ensure 98 percent of the students in this project are academically successful.

Five years ago, Dr. Martinez Rogers partnered with the U.S. Western District Court Probation Office to provide a female-specific program for women convicted of a federal felon and under community supervision. She began this program to prevent relapse and recidivism. It is the only female group in the Western District Court, and more than 150 women have successfully participated in this program.

The focus of the weekly groups is to teach these women life skills, parenting skills, prevention of substance abuse, and dealing with their shame and guilt. She personally provided services such as renting facilities to hold meetings, providing food, and holding graduation ceremonies for the participants. This program has been funded by the MESA project, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation to do life history interviews, the Office

of Minority Health to develop a curriculum, and presently the Office of Women’s Health to revise and evaluate the curriculum that is based on Pick Your Pathway to Health model.

In November 2006, she was selected to be a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) which is the highest honor one can achieve in nursing. Nursing professionals have to be nominated by two members of the Academy and then selected by the board of the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Martinez Rogers is the immediate past president of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN), and during her tenure had much to celebrate. Her major goals while being president were to: 1) ensure that NAHN had a voice and visibility with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; 2) increase the number of chapters in the United States; 3) increase recruitment and retention of members; 4) develop a national mentorship program which would be modeled after the UT Health Science Center’s

mentorship program Juntos Podemos; 5) increase partnerships/sponsorships with corporations which could provide funding for scholarships and educational programs to help eliminate Hispanic health disparities; and 6) be a spokesperson for the Hispanic community on health care reform.

During her term as president of NAHN, Dr. Martinez Rogers accomplished the following:

Increased NAHN membership by 23 percent;•Added eight chapters across the United States:•

Brownsville, TX■■

Hartford, CT ■■

Corpus Christi, TX ■■

El Paso, TX■■

McAllen, TX■■

Savannah, GA ■■

Pueblo, CO ■■

Wichita, KS;■■

Obtained Fiscal Year 2010 Congressional Appropriations of •$500,000 for the Juntos Podemos/NAHN Mentorship Program. This is the first-time in NAHN’s 35-year history that it has received Congressional Appropriations. This program is housed at the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing;Formed new partnerships and collaborations with the following:•

■■ United Health Foundation on Avanzamos con Ayuda de United Health Scholarships

■■ Kimberly Clark■■ Huggies on “Every Little Bottom Diaper Campaign”■■ Coca Cola Foundation on “Muevete USA,” aimed at reducing

childhood and adolescent obesity in Hispanics■■ Gibson Guitars on “Muevete USA”■■ Pfizer on “Pfizer Health Answers,” which are National Health

Guides for Hispanic medically underserved communities ■■ and Pfizer on smoking cessation program for female

Hispanic consumers;Presented on several panels with the Congressional Hispanic •Caucus focusing on the need for health care reform.

She also is on the Board of Directors for the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurses Association. She recently was appointed by the U.S. Government Accountability Office to be a member of the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) which will examine how Medicaid physician pay affects access to care by Medicaid patients and those in CHIP as well as other issues.

Dr. Martinez Rogers was nominated by Dr. Mary Wakefield to be a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Health Service Corps. She was selected by its members to be on this Council. The Council’s purpose is to help eliminate health manpower shortages in health professional shortage areas.

On the local, state and national levels, Dr. Martinez Rogers continues each day to make a difference. As a faculty member with the School of Nursing, she is helping to prepare students for careers in nursing. Her dedication to service continues on through them.

Norma Martinez Rogers

A Life of Service

Diversity

On the local, state, and national levels, Dr. Martinez Rogers continues each day to make a difference. As a faculty member with the School of Nursing, she is helping to prepare students for careers in nursing. Her dedication to service continues through them.

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The University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing is a significant component of the only Tier 1 research university in South Texas. we are creating excellence in nursing leadership through our innovative teaching, quality research, compassionate care and community service.

The only UT System school in • the South Texas region to offer doctorate nursing degrees

Between 17% – 18% of our nursing • students are male

More than 54% represent the • following groups: Hispanic, African American, Native American, Asian, and other groups

More than 10,000 alumni have • received degrees since 1969*

90% of graduates employed • upon graduation

And graduation rate is 82.7% • —ranking us 8th out of 25 schools of nursing in the state of Texas

Since fall 2000, School of Nursing • has offered over $450,000 annually in Merit and Need Based Scholarships

More than 300 clinical affiliates • (clinical rotation partners)

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* Whereas more than 10,000 alumni have received degrees from the Nursing School, current locations are not known for all of those still living.

** Atascosa, Bandara, Boerne, Bulverde, Canyon Lake, Castroville, Cibolo, Comfort, Converse, Devine, Dilley, Fair Oaks Ranch, Floresville, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Kerrville, LaCoste, Lakehills, Lavernia, Lytle, Marion, Medina, Mico, Natalia, New Braunfels, Pearsall, Pipecreek, Pleasanton, Rio Medina, Schertz, Seguin, Spring Branch



When I was a little girl, I used to dream about being a lawyer or a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in the world. These professionals looked so impressive in their business attire. I imagined them having sophisticated conversations with other sophisticated people. They drove their fancy cars into the fancy garages of their summer vacation homes.

That world was far from the reality of my childhood as a migrant field worker. My daydreams of a different world were interrupted by the incessant mosquitoes that tormented me underneath the tall weeds in the fields. If that didn’t get me back to reality, the sound of my mother’s voice telling me to get back to work would.

I spent half the school year in Texas, and the other half in the northern states working the family business as a migrant field worker. I hated it back then, and I sure let my mother know. I complained that everyone else had summers off school, and everyone else was able to finish the entire school year but I wasn’t. I wanted to be a cheerleader, but cheer camp occurred in Texas during the summer, and I was always working up north.

My mother came from generation after generation of migrant workers, and it was all she knew. Back then, it was a way of life, and the family worked together to survive. She was one of 16 children who were all pulled out of elementary school to make a living working year round. My mother reinforced the fact it was hard work but it was honest. She also said if I didn’t want to end up doing it for the rest of my life, it would take a good education and determination to succeed.

With that job I didn’t see my single mom ever driving a fancy car into a fancy garage, and this definitely wasn’t a summer vacation. I knew that life wasn’t for me, and this is where the dream began.

There would be many obstacles to overcome to achieve my dreams. I am fortunate I was able to rise above many challenges.

As a child, I was a victim of abuse which, unfortunately, showed me how to be just that—a victim. Even though I helped to stop the abuse and the abuser was sentenced for his crimes, it didn’t change how helpless and powerless I felt. There was so much taken from me that I can never fully explain it. As far as I was concerned, the only thing I had that nobody could take was my brain and my heart and their contents: knowledge and desire.

However, more emotional and physical challenges were ahead of me. I fell in love in junior high and had a baby with my boyfriend just before

high school graduation. He was not ready to be a father or have a family. I still had a brain and a heart, but now I had a baby to raise. This was in 2000 and I was 17. My mother said it was my choice so it was my responsibility—not hers. I made the trip with my mother to the northern states one more time. With the first $400 I made working the fields, I bought a 1977 Ford Maverick, a bright tan clunker that looked like a banana.

During this time, I also managed to win a battle against uterine cancer with modern technology, medicine and surgery. This experience gave me so much respect for health care and all it entails because someone’s life depends on it.

The bright tan banana clunker took us back to the Texas border: Crystal City, where the only “good” jobs were teaching and nursing. At that time, I couldn’t see myself teaching because I did not enjoy the learning process. I was easily frustrated in classrooms because I had a difficult time sitting still long enough. I later was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD was another hurdle to overcome.

I then began my education to become a nurse. I worked two jobs —as a substitute teacher and a beverage barn server—and went to school. During this time, I had also fallen in love and had a very premature baby boy at 28 weeks. Desire and determination allowed me to graduate about four weeks later with my licensed vocational nurse degree in 2006.

I quickly realized I could only do so much with that license so I applied to San Antonio College’s associate degree in nursing program and was accepted through one of the last distance learning classes available. It was there that a very special instructor, Joan Garcia, noticed my niche, which is my deep passion for teaching my patients. She talked about where nursing stood in terms of education and why I needed to further my education. This two-minute conversation had a very lasting effect on me.

After graduation, I was sitting at my charge nurse desk browsing the web for suggestions on management of a rare disorder to better understand my patient’s needs when my ADHD got the best of me, and I looked up The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. This is something Joan suggested to me six months before.

I saw they were accepting applications for the Master of Science in Nursing program. It is as though it was calling out to me personally. Like it was there for just me. It didn’t cost much to apply, and I used the money I saved for a concert to pay for the application. I was so thrilled when I was accepted.

Experiences we live through are the ones that shape who we become, and people who enter our lives do so for a particular reason. Everything I have lived through has led me to nursing. It has made me who I am today.

I can’t tell you how much I love what I do, how I love my patients, and how I love to teach. I can’t tell you if I am perfect for this or whether this is perfect for me. I can tell you that it did take desire, drive and sacrifice. I also can tell you that every drop of sweat was worth the trip here to The University of Texas Health Science Center. This is where I belong.

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DETERMINATIoN To SUCCEED

From migrant field work to nursing “


Experiences we live through are the ones that shape who we become, and people who enter our lives do so for a particular reason. Everything I have lived through has led me to nursing. It has made me who I am today.”

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“Experiences we live through

are the ones that shape who

we become, and people who

enter our lives do so for a

particular reason. Everything

I have lived through has led

me to nursing. It has made

me who I am today.”


Story by BRANDy AllRED Academic & Student Services Coordinator

To meet the growing demand for nurses, nursing programs across the nation are creating and adapting their pre-licensure programs to attract individuals with diverse backgrounds to the field of nursing.

As part of this effort, the School of Nursing has implemented a new Accelerated BSN track to the undergraduate program in May 2010. The new track represents the continued efforts by the School of Nursing to transform health care and to meet the need for more nurses. This new fifteen month program is designed to assist individuals who currently have a Bachelor of Science degree in a field other than nursing to transition quickly and effectively into nursing careers. Additionally, the track is designed to meet the needs of such students who have demonstrated success in a field other than nursing through the use of learner-centered, technology enhanced learning experiences.

While maintaining current enrollments, the newly revised Traditional BSN Track Program, the new Accelerated BSN track will annually produce an additional 70 to 80 nurses bringing School of Nursing total annual enrollments above 320.

The School of Nursing has offered an accelerated track in the undergraduate program for approximately three years; however, the program was a hybridized section of the Traditional BSN track.

Revisions to the accelerated track were designed in response to student feedback who had completed the hybridized track. Additionally, this model for educating second degree students has also been implemented at other nursing schools across the nation. Those schools have reported this model to be an effective and efficient method for bringing new nurses into the profession more quickly. Specifically, many schools report that graduates of their accelerated tracks score higher on the national nursing licensure examination (NCLEX-RN).

Identical material is covered in both the Accelerated BSN Track and in the Traditional BSN Track, but the Accelerated BSN Track offers a greater use of technology to facilitate learning. Furthermore, clinical hours are more concentrated than in the traditional track.

Individuals interested in the Accelerated BSN Track are admitted and graduated during the summer semesters. Because students are in classes and clinicals five days per week and are expected to participate in self-directed independent study during off hours, students are discouraged from working during this program.

While students in the Accelerated BSN Track are not able to work, there are many advantages to this program. They are able to graduate approximately nine months faster than Traditional Track students. This allows them to enter the workforce more quickly. Also, students are able to develop a more intensive relationship with faculty because they are with dedicated faculty for the duration of the program.

If you have further questions regarding the new Accelerated BSN Track Program, please visit the School of Nursing website: nursing.uthscsa.edu.

New Accelerated BSN Track Accelerates Students, Transforms Health Care

Individuals are able to graduate approximately nine months faster than Traditional Track students. This allows them to enter the workforce more quickly.

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(lEfT To RIGhT) Whitney Higgins, Cristina Lopez and Ruth Gonzales—all currently pursuing the accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree —are greatly enjoying their program of studies at the School of Nursing.


Our Programs include:

* An upper division Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program which admits in both the fall and spring

* A 15-month Accelerated Track for applicants who hold a baccalaureate degree in a field other than nursing

* Alternate Entry Masters Degree for ADN/Diploma RNs

* The only PhD in Nursing Program in South Texas

* Web enhanced programs

http://nursing.uthscsa.edu/

Our Blueprint to Transform the Future of Nursing Care: In 2009, Dean Eileen T. Breslin, PhD, RN, of the School of Nursing initiated a campaign focused on developing partnerships to:

q■■Increase enrollment of outstanding students,

q■■Recruit, retain and educate distinguished faculty,

q■■Expand nursing research excellence,

q■■Broaden nursing curriculum and innovative teaching approaches, and

q■■Update our academic environment—facilities, technology and laboratories.

Today, our blueprint for nursing education is becoming a reality. Through the generosity of individuals, foundations and corporations and the scholarly efforts of our faculty, we have accomplished much.

Increase Enrollment of outstanding Students Through a $3.9 million grant awarded by the Methodist Healthcare Ministries,

$2.7 million is allocated for faculty and curriculum specialists to design and teach three new degree programs including:

An Accelerated Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (ABSN) for students •who have a bachelor’s degree in another field and wish to join the nursing profession. The program began in May 2010 with 60 students. Nurses with a bachelor’s degree provide bedside care and fill entry-level management positions in hospitals.An Accelerated Online Master’s Degree for nurses with an associate’s degree •in nursing. This program will begin in 2011. Nurses with a master’s degree can advance their careers in hospitals, become clinical faculty members or enter the research fields.A Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) degree to provide highly educated •clinical nursing specialists, executive leaders and clinical faculty members, an additional $150,000 in scholarships for DNP students. This program will begin in Fall 2012.

In addition, these funds were received to support the above programs:In addition, • $816,600 was received through the U.S. Department of Education to increase our PhD student enrollment by providing full scholarships to our students, and $1,425,600 was received from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for advancing nursing education.$1,425,600 from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration •(HRSA) for advance nursing education.

The University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing Enrollment Totals

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Broaden Nursing Curriculum and Innovative Teaching Approaches

Through the $3.9 million grant awarded by the Methodist Healthcare Ministries, $235,000 was allocated for computer equipment, software, enhancements to the university’s distance education program, and miscellaneous expenses to support robust online learning programs in the School of Nursing

To support integrating practice approaches across our curriculum, the School of Nursing was awarded a $300,000 HRSA grant titled “Developing Informatics Competency in Nursing Students.” This grant will allow 696 graduate and undergraduate students to be trained to use Electronic Health Records equipment.

The Ruth Ann Baldwin Endowment for Nursing Education: a $100,000 endowment was established in the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center to support education and growth within this Center.

Recruit, Retain and Educate Distinguished facultySchool of Nursing received a $100,000 gift from the Estate of Howard Halff

to provide scholarships to current School of Nursing faculty obtaining doctorate degrees. Additional funding for this program is provided by the UT Health Science Center Nursing Advisory Council.

Update our Academic Environment —facilities, Technology and laboratories

A state-of-the-art clinical skills and simulation center is being constructed within the School of Nursing for use by nursing, medical and other health professionals throughout South Texas through a:

$850,000• gift from Methodist Healthcare Ministries$1 million• grant from the Economic Development Administration$750,000• in construction support from University Health System$500,000• in equipment support from KCI$100,000• gift from Donna Block$25,000• gift from Patricia Pliego Stout$25,000• gift from the Nursing Advisory Council$290,000• grant from HRSA to support the Educational Management System within the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center.

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Expand Nursing Research ExcellenceThe School of Nursing received $1,481,205 of National Institutes of Health

(NIH) funding to support the Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship’s program: Mechanisms for Enhancing Scholarly Achievements (MESA).

A $3.1 million grant for quality and safety education, research and clinical collaborations was awarded to the Academic Center for Evidence Based Practice from the UT System. This funding will propel the partnership between TeamSTEPPS, which is a national teamwork system designed for health care professionals, and its partner hospital University Hospital. The intent is to address needs for excellence in clinical education and professional development in teamwork training directed toward patient safety.

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The nursing profession is at a juncture in the preparation of future health care professionals at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To address the growing shortage of nursing and rigorously prepare students to be successful in their nursing careers, the Office of Admissions and Student Services (OASS) provides services in a learner-centered environment to prospects interested in a nursing career.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing is placed in a unique setting. Situated in the heart of South Texas and located within a health science center which encourages interdisciplinary approaches to teaching, learning, and service, the mission of the OASS is to recruit, retain, and graduate the best and the brightest.

Additionally, the OASS prides itself in providing the best service in one location to prospective applicants, enrolled students, faculty members and constituents. Such services allow an easier transition from prospect to student. These support services also supplement the students’ educational experience as they transition into exceptional health care providers. Service is what the OASS strives to provide each and every day.

The five staff members in the OASS are responsible for recruitment, retention and graduation of School of Nursing students. Office members organize monthly open houses to distribute information regarding the admissions process to prospective students, visit middle schools, high schools and colleges to engage prospective undergraduate and graduate applicants.

It is the team’s goal to provide important information about the science preparation and application process to prospective applicants. Additionally, information is presented about the curriculum and the nursing profession. The OASS works closely with faculty

members in the selection process of all undergraduate and graduate applicants to the School of Nursing traditional BSN, Accelerated BSN, MSN and PhD programs.

The OASS staff members are charged with orchestrating relevant and efficient orientation programs for all incoming students. Many of our students have been away from school for a while, and the three-day orientation program is critical to students’ success. A variety of sessions provide information and expectations of School of Nursing students. During orientation, current students and faculty work closely with incoming students to share the support mechanisms available to them as students.

Continuous support is also provided to School of Nursing students: writing assistance, career services, scholarships, leadership training activities, student organizations, and soon, a new tutorial programs (funded through Federal Work Study funds). The tutorial program has 10 tutors that provide services to enrolled students who are facing academic challenges. In addition to providing tutorial services, the tutee will work as a quasi teacher with compensation. This opportunity will allow students who have considered teaching to navigate the world of education while continuing with the next step in their career of pursuing graduate education.

The School of Nursing is committed to retaining admitted students and continuing a relationship with students beyond graduation. Students who have previously graduated also benefit from the OASS notification of employment opportunities and receive the School of Nursing Alumni Magazine with the majority of stories written by OASS employees.

The OASS goal is to nurture prospective and enrolled nursing students in a learner-centered environment with available services housed in one location.

Admissions & Student ServicesAdvancing health Care, one Student at a Time

School of Nursing student embrace Hilda Mejia Abreu, BA, MS, Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services.

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In September 2009, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio created the Office of Practice and Engagement (OPE) by hiring Julie Cowan Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, as the first Associate Dean for Practice and Engagement.

The practice and engagement mission integrates discovery, diversity and delivery, she explains. “Our developing clinic system provides a research and learning laboratory where evidence-based practice

and education occur. The UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise is creating an accessible, caring, high quality, culturally proficient, and effective health care delivery system for individuals, families and communities,” Dr. Novak said.

Clinical Enterprise services include the UT Health Science Center Student Health Center (SHC), the UT Health Science Center Employee Health and Wellness Clinic, and community clinics servicing chronic disease management, behavioral health, services for underserved populations, and a wide range of global health care initiatives.

Student Health Center The SHC has been run by the School of Nursing since 2007. In September 2009, the SHC expanded from

two to four exam rooms and from to two to seven faculty advanced practice nurses to improve the system of care and to expand clinical sites and faculty practice opportunities. This learning laboratory allows students and faculty to understand the business of healthcare while creating an effective, safe and high-quality nurse-managed system of care.

Employee WellnessDue to the success of the SHC, documented need, faculty expertise, and access to research populations, the

OPE/UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise was invited and agreed to create an Employee Health and Wellness/Occupational Health Clinic. Dr. Novak created a rendering in collaboration with facilities management/university architects. The proposal was "fast tracked" and completed in November 2010. Since opening in November, there has been much success including a student, faculty and staff event to launch a series of health promotion and disease prevention initiatives in the Fall 2010 and Women’s Health Awareness Week in May 2011.

Planning for the future, there is hope for increased collaboration with the Behavioral Health Department for the UT Health Science Center and the opportunity to collaborate with UT Medicine in the newly constructed Medical Arts and Research Center.

External ActivitiesEngagement activities external to the university have occurred in several areas. The AVANCE, Inc Clinic is part

of the Early Head Start program and two faculty, pediatric nurse practitioners are serving as care providers. Through the pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) program, AVANCE is a learning laboratory for our students. The success of this program has led to a request from Head Start to expand the model to other San Antonio Head Start facilities.

Five health homes are being created by the UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise in partnership with Head Start. The San Antonio Independent School district has asked Novak and her team to create the health home model for their district. A $7 million proposal has been submitted and if funded, the model will provide a nurse-managed clinic (NMC) health home at each of the eight SAISD high schools.

The second established site is Healy Murphy Alternative High School and Day Care Center. Two faculty APNs are developing faculty practice sites in this setting and expanding operations to create a nurse-managed health home. These will serve as clinical learning sites under the Office of Practice and Engagement/UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise.

Through a HRSA grant, electronic health records will be linked to AVANCE and Healy Murphy Clinics with the UT Health Science Center Health Centers (employee and student). All of these nurse managed clinics provide care for designated Medically Underserved Populations.

In planning for the future, the third component of the external Clinical Enterprise will be private practice contracts and industry partnerships. These initiatives are in the developmental phase.

Julie Cowan Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP,

FAANP, serves as the Associate Dean for Practice,

holds the Thelma and Joe Crow Endowed

Professorship, and serves as the director of The

University of Texas Health Science Center at San

Antonio Student Health Center at the UT Nursing

San Antonio Clinical Enterprise.

She was previously professor at Purdue

University School of Nursing and served as Director

of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program.

She also served as the director of the Purdue School

of Nursing Clinics and as director of the Service

Learning Innovation and Scholarship in the Center

for Instructional Excellence.

Dr. Novak has held leadership positions at

the University of Virginia Schools of Nursing and

Medicine and the University of California San

Diego/University of California San Francisco

Intercampus Graduate Studies Division and

Department of Community and Family Medicine.

School of Nursing faculty nurse practitioners

lead and manage the clinics. They have the

authority to write prescriptions and are nationally

certified in their specialties and licensed by the

Texas Board of Nursing.

Nursing faculty members who provide care at

the Employee Health and Wellness Center and the

Student Health Center include:

Bridget Slattery MSN, RN, FNP-BC, •

the lead nurse practitioner

Diana Beckmann-Mendez, PhD, RN, •

FNP-BC

Margaret Brackley, RN, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, •

FPMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Holly DiLeo, PhD, RN, FNP-BC•

Margit B. Gerardi, PhD, RN, WHNP•

Rita Hannah, MSN, RN, FNP-C•

Deborah Pallister, MSN, RN, FNP-C•

Ada Tapper, MSN, RN, FNP-C•

Candace Tull, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC•

Practice & EngagementBuilding Interdisciplinary healthcare Teams of the future

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Associate Dean Julie Novak, a pediatric nurse, brings her compassionate heart to the care she gives her young patients.


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After Dr. Eileen Breslin, Dean of the School of Nursing, visited Thailand’s Chiang Mai University Hospital in May 2009, Pakamas Boonyaphisompan, a Thai nurse of 19 years, knew she wanted to observe firsthand the educational curriculum at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing and the services provided by University Hospital. Countless emails, documents and a few international phone calls later, Pakamas became the first international visiting nurse to the School of Nursing.

Bridging Oceans: Expanding the Pipeline Abroad

Pakamas’ personal conviction to help Chiang Mai University Hospital become a center of excellence for cardiovascular services is sponsored by the Chiang Mai University Hospital. She will observe University Hospital’s processes and practices in an effort to improve the quality of services provided by Chiang Mai Hospital. Specifically, she has been commissioned by the Chiang Mai University Hospital to focus on understanding how University Hospital’s process from patient entrance to exit works and how this process may be implemented into the Thai setting.

When Pakamas arrived on January 22, 2009, she was greeted by Hilda Mejia-Abreu, Associate Dean for Admissions & Student Services at the School of Nursing. Ms. Abreu aided Pakamas in searching for an apartment, opening a checking account, and being cleared by the Office of International Services as an official visitor to the UT Health Science Center. Pakamas considered this portion of her journey to be extremely easy and credits her smooth transition to the School of Nursing admissions team.

Less than one week after arriving here, Pakamas found herself in University Hospital shadowing nurses on 12-hour shifts. When not observing hospital practices, she would visit the Office of Admissions & Student Services to learn more about the curriculum and the training future nurses receive at the School of Nursing. As she points out, for Chiang Mai University Hospital to become a center of excellence, every dimension to the hospital also must exhibit the highest level of excellence.

Pakamas elaborates, “Though the hospital process can be improved, without quality nurses to implement and adhere to the process, Chiang Mai Hospital cannot be a center of excellence for cardiovascular services.”

Pakamas was a visiting nurse at the UT Health Science Center and University Hospital

until April 2010.

Story by BRANDy AllRED Academic & Student Services Coordinator

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Dr. Nancy McGowan, assistant professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio School of Nursing and Ms. Pakamas Boonyaphisompan (Moin), Chiang Mai University.


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Some of the most critically ill patients in the ICU are experiencing better outcomes because of protocols implemented by health care teams led by School of Nursing alumnus Charles Reed, MSN, RN, CNRN.

Connecting With The Community To Make Lives Better

Nursing Advisory Council members Barbara Wulfe and Donna Block with PhD student Charles Reed at the 2011 School of Nursing Scholarship Luncheon.


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Reed, a graduate of the School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio’s BSN and MSN programs, is the patient care coordinator in the Surgical Trauma/Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital in San Antonio.

Thanks to a generous $5,000-a-year scholarship from The Barbara Wulfe Living Endowment, Reed is currently pursuing his PhD in the School of Nursing and said his education allows him to directly help improve the health care of seriously ill patients. His research on improving life expectancy of ICU patients through glycemic control was published in an issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

“I love what I do because I am able to impact practice and make a difference in patients’ lives through nursing. My research translates into better service for patients,” Reed said. “I’m especially grateful for the Wulfe scholarship that allows me to continue to pursue my career goals and to be a positive change agent. I wouldn’t be able to accomplish this without Mr. and Mrs. Wulfe’s financial assistance.”

GIFTS VITAL TO THE FUTURE OF NURSINGEileen Breslin, PhD, RN, FAAN, School of Nursing dean, said

support from donors and the community is more important than ever to the education of future nurses.

“We are thankful for the tremendous legislative support our School of Nursing receives,” Dean Breslin said. “However, recent state budget cuts have affected institutions of higher education across the nation including our own programs. So we are very grateful to the generosity and leadership of our donors who will help us keep the cost of education down for students in the future.”

In 2010, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc. (MHM) awarded a grant of $3.9 million over three years to the School of Nursing. Last year, the grant accounted for 7.2 percent of the School of Nursing’s budget for faculty salaries and new equipment.

Pilar Oates, executive director of MHM, said the foundation board understands the importance of educating nurses locally for the future.

“We are keenly aware of the nursing shortage in our service area,” Oates said. “Methodist Healthcare Ministries was looking for ways it could help produce more nurses who would remain in South Texas to practice. We found that the UT Health Science Center’s School of Nursing was the right partner to help us accomplish this goal.”

The nursing profession is one of the most critical and respected professions in the health care industry. With the national move toward healthcare reform, nursing schools across the country, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, are struggling to expand educational programs and training to meet the rising demand for top-notch professionals.

Applications to the School of Nursing’s undergraduate program, in 2010 – 2011, totaled 1,142 with 328 students admitted that year, an increase of 88 students. But with an estimated $2 million annual budget shortfall in tuition reimbursement, the need

for additional teaching and learning space, and continued growth in its graduate nursing programs, the school will be relying on philanthropy and community partnerships to meet the needs.

“We have extremely generous scholarship support and an exemplar curriculum, however we must keep the cost of education affordable to all students while continuing to provide state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities and curriculum,” Dean Breslin said.

RISING TO THE CHALLENGEFaculty and administrators in the School of Nursing are finding

innovative ways to finance the rising cost of education. One of those is through the UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise. The enterprise consists of clinics located throughout the city and are led by nurse practitioners who work in collaboration with the School of Medicine’s UT Medicine San Antonio physicians. The clinics provide care to more than 11,600 adults and children each year.

In 2009, Dean Breslin recruited Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, to develop and direct the clinical enterprise, designed to stimulate income-producing community partnerships.

“It’s very similar to how the university’s School of Medicine earns income from its clinical practice at its clinical home, the Medical Arts & Research Center (MARC),” Dean Breslin said. “The enterprise builds revenue for the School of Nursing while putting nurses into the community doing what they do best: promoting, maintaining and restoring health.”

Dr. Novak, who also is associate dean for practice and engagement in the School of Nursing, said nurse-managed clinics across the country can fail if they rely on a single grant.

“Instead, we’re striving for a diverse basis of support through billing as well as foundation, state and federal grants, and through philanthropy and other federal programs,” she said. “This is a national model for establishing a clinical enterprise within a nursing school, and community partnerships are vital to our success.”

Another example of how the School of Nursing is garnering support is through its Nursing Advisory Council (NAC).

Established with eight members in 1983, the NAC has grown to more than 50 active members who are distinguished leaders from throughout San Antonio and the South Texas community. Their focus is to promote


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excellence in educational and nursing care programs through fundraising activities, and to establish partnerships with local organizations toward increased community visibility for the School of Nursing.

Every member of the NAC plays an integral role in the school’s success. Their commitment to making lives better has driven more than $6 million in endowments, capital improvements, and programs to the School of Nursing. Not only is the NAC working closely with the Office of Development to raise money, it is also committed to developing a pipeline of faculty to educate students. Just as the Barbara Wulfe Scholarship is assisting Charles Reed to pursue his PhD in the School of Nursing, many of the NAC members are supporting students and faculty who are interested in returning to the school to achieve their terminal degree and return to teaching.

“The major barrier in increasing the student body of all nursing schools is a shortage of qualified nursing faculty,” Dean Breslin said. “Regardless of the budget cuts, we must continue to grow and develop our faculty pipeline.”

Through the school’s annual luncheon, hosted by the NAC, the school raises close to $60,000 annually, which benefits the school in the form of faculty scholarships and grants.

CONTINUING THE MOMENTUM“It’s wonderful to know that there are people in the city who are so

generous and caring,” Reed said. “Their scholarship gifts help alleviate a lot of stress for students like me, and it gives me confidence knowing that someone really believes in my success.”

Many members of the NAC were also instrumental in establishing a longstanding partnership between the School of Nursing and Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc. (MHM), which helped lead to the $3.9 million gift MHM made in 2010.

“Because of our faculty, NAC and the community, our School of Nursing is experiencing great success,” Dean Breslin said. “But to continue this momentum, it will take more leadership and support from our community than ever before. We are so grateful to those who are ensuring an exceptional School of Nursing in San Antonio and South Texas for generations to come.”

For more information about giving opportunities in the School of Nursing or to join the Nursing Advisory Council, call (210) 567-5313 or e-mail [email protected].

SCHOOL OF NURSING BUDGET BREAKDOWNThe notion that tuition and funding from the state covers the cost of nursing education is simply not true. “We are partially funded by the state through a formula funding process as recommended by a biennial Formula Advisory Committee for consideration by the Commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.” said Rudy Gomez Jr., assistant dean for administration and School of Nursing financial officer for 30 years, “However this formula doesn’t begin to cover all the expenses.”

BUDGET CRUNCH

Increase in BSN applicants—328 applicants • accepted out of 1,142 in 2010 – 2011

BSN undergraduate admissions increase • from 240 in 2009 – 2010 to 328 in 2010 – 2011 —37 percent increase

Cost to educate one full-time undergraduate • student—$10,000 a year

Cost to educate one full-time graduate • student—$16,000

$2 million annual budget shortfall in • tuition reimbursement

In FY 2011, the cost to operate the School • of Nursing—state funds represent 40.5 percent of total revenue; FY 2012 forecast of state funding is 33 percent

Nursing Shortage Reduction Program from the • Texas Legislature funds represent 2.4 percent of the School of Nursing budget

Ratio of faculty to students in the undergraduate • program—1 faculty-to-10 students. In the graduate program it is 1 faculty-to-6 students

BLUEpRINT FOR SUCCESS

The School of Nursing at the UT health Science Center offers:

An upper division Bachelor of Science in Nursing • (BSN) degree program that admits in both the fall and spring;

A 15-month Accelerated Track for applicants • who hold a baccalaureate degree in a field other than nursing;

Alternate Entry Master’s Degree for ADN/• Diploma RNs;

A Doctorate of Nursing Practice DNP program;•

The only PhD in Nursing program in South Texas;•

Web-enhanced programs; •

All nurse practitioner faculty maintain a • faculty practice;

An overall National Certified Licensing • Board (NCLEX) pass rate is greater than the national norm;

A graduation rate of 82.7 percent—ranking the • school 8 out of 25 schools of nursing in Texas;

Designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution; and•

Construction of a 7,281 square foot Virtual • Hospital equipped with state-of-the-art simulation mannequins that is set for completion in 2012.

“I’m especially grateful for the

Wulfe scholarship that allows

me to continue to pursue

my career goals and to be

a positive change agent. I

wouldn’t be able to accomplish

this without Mr. and Mrs.

Wulfe’s financial assistance.”Charles Reed




500+Number of undergraduate nursing students

250+Number of graduate nursing students

18%Percentage of School of Nursing students that are male

over 54% represent the following groups: Hispanic, African American, Native American, Asian, and other groups

300+ clinical affiliates (clinical rotation partners)

over 10,000 alumni have received degrees since 1969 * 13 fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)

The NAC is the bridge to the community to generate financial resources, influence awareness, and develop partnerships that enhance and support the School of Nursing and its undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

At this time, Gregg Muenster, vice president of US Trust/Bank of America, chairs the council and its 51 active members and 18 emeriti members. This group is comprised of 45 percent business executives, 43 percent nurses and each with unique community connections and interests in nursing.

The incredible success of these NAC members begins with a carefully created and organized strategic plan. Their blueprint for success has truly allowed them to take their support to a previously unforeseen level. Their plan has five important goals.

Goal 1NAC’s first goal is to gain financial support for the School of

Nursing. In 2006, the council helped the school to raise approximately $2 million in cash gifts, in-kind donations, pledged gifts, endowments and known estate gift pledges. By 2010, this annual amount has increased to a record $6.52 million.

Goal 2 The council’s second goal is create opportunities to engage nurses

and to improve public awareness of the importance of nursing, nursing education and the School of Nursing.

The NAC members concentrated on organizing three varied events to achieve this goal:

Dialogue and Discovery Dinners hosted by NAC members in their •homes for potential donors. The dinners allowed the guests to meet the Nursing Dean and to learn about the School of Nursing. One-on-One Corporate Meetings set up by NAC members •with presidents/CEOs of companies not currently involved with the School of Nursing.Community Social Events held at NAC members’ homes for 80 •to 100 members of the community.

These events allowed community members who were not previously familiar with the School of Nursing to learn about the exciting educational, research and nursing practice programs currently going on at the school and throughout the community.

Goal 3NAC members have set their third goal as actively serving as

informed advocates in appropriate public and private forums. With the upcoming 2011 Texas Legislative Session, council members will concentrate on legislative matters of importance to the School of Nursing. These issues include budgetary cuts, infrastructure issues, student enrollment topics, and advance practice nurse privileges. In partnership with the The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Governmental Affairs Office, the NAC will develop a list of legislative priorities, schedule appointments with legislators and community members who influence such decisions, and travel to Austin in the spring for the Legislative Session.

Goal 4In its fourth goal to support school events and activities, the council

members are dedicated to the Annual School of Nursing Luncheon. This large fundraising luncheon provides speakers discussing the state of nursing and healthcare across the country. Funds raised from the event go back to the School of Nursing as grants and scholarships to faculty and students. In 2009 – 2010, the NAC awarded almost $48,000 in funding through this event. By increasing attendance and heightening corporate support, in 2011, the Spring Luncheon reached a new high in raising close to $67,000 and hosting 350 guests.

Goal 5As its final goal, NAC members concentrate on building relationships

to attract, support and retain outstanding students, faculty, staff and administrators to the school. This is being accomplished through:

Faculty research support, •Faculty scholarships,•Fall student scholarships,•Student emergency scholarships, and•Summer student scholarships.•

While the Nursing Advisory Council has achieved great results, it continues to work on each of the goals outlined above. The council’s continued success is important to the future of the School of Nursing. As the community supports the school, the school is able to create nursing professionals who care for area residents needing healthcare at a variety of settings. It is a cycle of success that continues each day.

Nursing Advisory Council

The Bridge to the CommunitySince 1983, the Nursing Advisory Council (NAC) has been dedicated to one crucial mission for the School of Nursing.

Development


Development

Gregg E. Muenster, Chair

MembersLaura AlvaradoKristi ArlittMartha AvantEstella AveryKay BasharaHarold E. Batiste, Jr.Donna BlockEvelyn BoazKatherine BullardCarolina CanalesPhyllis CheletteGraciela Cigarroa

Helen CoronadoKaren Diaz Robin Ford DillardMarcy DodererVeronica EdwardsJohn FuentesWalton GregoryBarbara HaleyBetty HalffMary HenrichKaren Heizer HerrmannJennifer HsuAnne Magers KanterSandy KleinAllison Kustoff

Hector Ledesma, Jr.Deborah LewisNancy LoefflerJaney B. MarmionJennifer MoriartyAmparo OrtizJudy PalansLoretta PattersonBill RascoAnn B. RichardsonLorena RodriguezDouglas SchroederJoanie SchwartzHarry SmithYvonne Speer

Patricia Pliego StoutCarol SwartzDana TerracinaLewis ThorneWendy TillotsonMarilyn WeberMaria WellischTina York

EmeritiPatty L. HawkenRobin AnciraLouise BeldonErin BowmanRosemary Breedlove

Toni GoldsmithAnthony HargroveEarline LagueruelaNancy MillerMaria Cristina RodriguezPhyllis SiegelMarie SmithMarilyn Stanton-WhiteDelight TillotsonSue TurnerNeill Walsdorf, Sr.Linda S. WinstonBarbara Wulfe

2011 – 2012 NAC Members & Emeriti


Exceptional, successful, close knit, generous, and notable are just a few of the adjectives regularly used to describe donors to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing.

Individually and collectively, donors to the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing have taken the attitude of making significant contributions to enhance and support the next generation of professional nurses. They have enriched and improved the lives of both students and future patients and people across Texas and the United States with their support of student scholarships. This is a tribute to donors and their generosity.

More than $300,000 is provided via endowed and annual scholarships that assist students to defray tuition, fees and other incidental expenses. In the past year, more than 300 School of Nursing students have continued and completed their education due to the support provided by School of Nursing generous friends and supporters.

When students receive scholarships, they are so thankful that they often visit the Office of Admissions and Student Services to share with us their gratitude when they bring a thank you letter for the donor or donors.

Our donors are creating future donors. Most of the students who are now receiving scholarship funds tell us that in the future they would like to emulate the generosity of School of Nursing donors. The School of Nursing community and the extended family members sincerely appreciate the financial support of nursing students.

The School of Nursing is fortunate to have a rapidly growing number of scholarships for a highly deserving and intellectually talented student body. The compounded effect of gifts for scholarships from generous donors not only benefits students but also creates permanent legacies that serve as beacons to attract potential students considering the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing. Scholarships have grown and will continue to grow because of donor commitment and support of the next generation of nurses who will make lives better! We sincerely appreciate these acts of kindness.

Annual Scholarships are provided to our students through our Annual

Fund Campaign, Living Endowment Scholarship

Program, and annual events hosted by the School.

Other nontraditional mechanisms for giving (i.e. a

donation of stocks) are also utilized thorough our

annual scholarship program. The entire amount

donated annually to the school is distributed to

the scholarship recipient (s) according to the

donor’s wishes.

Endowed Scholarshipsare permanent gifts to the university. The

endowment corpus holds your entire gift in

a perpetual fund which grows forever in its

ability to contribute to the university and your

area of interest, as specified in the endowment

agreement. Endowment gifts allow both the

corpus—your original gift—and the income the

corpus generates—to grow. Endowments may

be cash gifts, pledged gifts, planned gifts or

combination “blended” gifts. A minimum gift of

$10,000 establishes an Endowed Scholarship at

the university and can be paid off over a 5 year

time period.

Development

Supporting the Next Generation

Jenna Reynolds, undergraduate nursing student and Fred Petmecky, Volunteer President for the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo (SALE) at the 2011 SALE scholarship luncheon.


Endowment SupportGloria AcostaGary A. Baldwin Edeward BlockAnne F. BriscoeAllen and Barbara DreebenMary FordPatrick and Kelley FrostThe Estate of Howard HalffRonald and Karen HerrmannCarol L. LynchGladys I. LynchSteve and Mary Anne LynchBecky Garcia MichelsWilliam Gray MontgomeryNancy E. OroPhilip & Jean PiccioneJane Cheever PowellRonald J. ReedCarol Ann ReineckLeonard B. RodriguezFamily and Friends of

Jennifer Herin SelvesterRobert I. ShelbyBarry and Carol Swartz

Capital SupportDonna BlockThe Economic Development

AdministrationKinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI)Methodist Healthcare MinistriesUniversity Healthcare System

Program SupportRonald C. CarrollThe Estate of Howard HalffMethodist Healthcare MinistriesThe Alamo Travel Group,

Patricia Pliego StoutToltec Apartments, LTD.

President’s CouncilAbbott Laboratories Employee

Giving CampaignThe Alamo Travel Group, LPPatricia K. AvantJames and Estella AverySam and Kay BasharaMichael and Irene BlackDonna BlockFrancisco and Graciela CigarroaJo Ann CrowMarcella DodererJohn and Cecilia FuentesBetty Murray HalffPatty L. HawkenIngenesis, Inc.Brenda G. JacksonCarolyn Seale and Carol Lee KloseJanna W. LesserJaney B. MarmionGregg and Sydney MuensterCarol Ann ReineckMaria Cristina RodriguezSol and Joanie SchwartzKatherine A. SchwesingerBillie SealePaul and Marie SmithNeill and Beverley Walsdorf

J. Michael WilkesMaura WindlingerWortham Insurance &

Risk ManagementBarbara R. WulfeRoger L. & Laura D. Zeller

Charitable Foundation

living Endowment ScholarshipPatricia ArmstrongBeldon RoofingJane M. CardeaWilliam and Jean CraigJoseph Johnson and Karen DiazGeorge W. Brackenridge Foundation John and Darlene GilcreastHead Family FoundationJanet S. JeanninFernando and Martha LopezGeorge and Becky MajorJim and Julie MeyerPan American RoundtableSan Antonio Federal Credit UnionSan Antonio Livestock ExpositionSigma Theta TauLewis and Nancy ThorneDavid and Wanda TillotsonDelight TillotsonWendy TillotsonMary E. WalkerWomen’s Overseas Service LeagueBarbara R. Wulfe

friends of the School of NursingEduardo and Laura AlvaradoBetty J. AndrewsLyda Consuelo Arevalo-FlechasKristine ArlittMartha Sellars AvantPatricia Kay AvantJames and Estella AveryChristopher BajecBank of America-San AntonioSam and Kay BasharaHarold E. Batiste, Jr.Beldon Roofing CompanyBernice BeversPamela Sue BilbreyBill Beatty Insurance

Agency, IncorporatedDonna BlockEvelyn E. BoazMarian W. BorrellKaren A. BoyleRosemary S. BreedloveKaren Margaret BrownKathleen Ann BuckleyCarolina L. CanalesAustin Capital, Inc.Armando CapoteJane M. CardeaPhyllis CheletteLaura Ehrenberg CheslerFlorence Marie ChesnickCHRISTUS HomeCareCHRISTUS Santa Rosa

Health Care Corp.Ann C. Coleman

Patricia Leanne CordierHelen CoronadoCrossvault Capital Management, LLCJo Ann CrowCandace CurleeGayle H. DasherKaren C. DiazRobin Ford DillardCarrol Wayne DoolenVeronica EdwardsEarl Fae Cooper EldridgeW. Frank and Rose Ann ElstonGail D. ErlitzMelissa M. EsparzaAnne EvansMichael R. FalkHortensia T. FloresMary J. FordLark Angela FordPeggy P. FrancisDiane FrazorBeverley A. FreemanFrost National BankJohn and Cecilia FuentesChristina GallasMargit B. GerardiJohn and Darlene M. GilcreastAngela Yvette GlassAntonia GoldsmithRoberto GonzalesJerry Puente GonzalesWalton B. GregoryJean M. GuyerBarbara A. HaleyBetty Murray HalffPatty L. HawkenIrwin HelfordPatricia E. HernandezThe Herrmann Family

Charitable FoundationCarol A. HewsonMary Louise HeyeJanis Lee HofmanJoan Maureen HoyumpaJennifer HsuJohn and Judith HutchersonIngenesis, Inc.Brenda G. JacksonMary F. JacksonNancy Grace JacksonLuLu Alice JimersonLois Bates JonesChristine S. JulianClare Marie KarabaszElia C. KeckGemma Trieste KennedyKinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI)Sandra M. KleinMarilyn Ann KrauseKustoff & Phipps, LLPL.D. Ormsby Charitable

Foundation, Inc.Judith R. LachmanEarline LagueruelaMary K. LaraBarbara F. LawHector Ledesma, Jr.Pauline Ellen LeeAdrianne D. LintonJohn H. Littlefield

Patricia Mary LivingstonNancy A. LoefflerJill C. LuccaTheresa Ann LymberyNancy K. MaebiusMary A. Manwell-JacksonLouise A. MaplesJaney Briscoe MarmionChristina J. McCleanCatherine S. McLeodKaren Elizabeth McMurryLupita MedinaPatricia L. MegoHilda Mejia AbreuShirley W. MenardMethodist Healthcare Ministries

of South Texas, Inc.Deborah MettingDelia G. MeyerJacqueline R. MickleyAngela D. MileyLinda Conway MillerNancy B. MillerCeleste G. MiltonMission Pharmacal CompanyDonna L. MonkMorningside MinistriesPatricia M. MossGregg and Sydney MuensterNix Health Care SystemEstate of Ruskin C. NormanLorenzo and Amparo OrtizEllen OttJudy PalansMickey L. ParsonsMarcia R. PatrickLoretta H. PattersonPeterson Regional Medical CenterJean M. PiccioneCols Philip and Jean PiccioneJimmy Earl PierceMarilyn Ann PonceLinda Jean Porter-WenzlaffJane Cheever PowellWilliam and Lucy RascoJune H. RekwardMargaret M. ReynoldsAnn RichardsonGloria P. RiosMarian S. RodgersLorena RodriguezLisa J. RodriguezMaria Cristina RodriguezRaul Rodriguez-BarocioNorma Martinez RogersTerry Ann RomoKathleen RubanoCharles R. RubleDebra E. RueschenbergSan Antonio Federal Credit UnionSan Antonio Medical FoundationMarcia A. SawyerRobert N. SchnitzlerJoan H. SchwartzThe Kyle & Billie Seale

Family FoundationCorrine Lois ShermanPhyllis B. SiegelSigma Theta TauPaul and Marie Smith

Cecilia A. SokolowskiSoutheast Baptist HospitalArlene StarrBrian E. SteigerwaldElisabeth E. SwannDana M. TerracinaTesoro Petroleum CorporationJulia A. ThompsonWendy TillotsonSue E. TurnerJulie L. TwistCarol Lee TwomblyUniversity Health SystemUrology San Antonio, P.A.Dolores M.Magaly VaronaSusana P. VelaMarilyn WeberLinda L. WeissMaria WellischWellMed Medical Mgmt IncWells Fargo BankCarolyn Leone WhiteSondra K. WhiteThe Whitehurst Foundation Linda K. WinstonJames Clinton WorthBarbara R. WulfeJoan WyattSuzanne S. YarbroughBertina Buran YorkRoger L. & Laura D. Zeller

Charitable Foundation

friends of the School of Nursing —Deans DiscretionaryJo Ann CrowPatty L. HawkenLoretta James

friends of the School of Nursing —ScholarshipsDonna K. BrunsFlorence Marie ChesnickJo Ann CrowLilia DeBenedettoAnita M. EggertThe Greater San Antonio

Chamber of CommerceSheryl R. HegedusNatalie Efting HendrixWalter H. KeimPatricia Mary LivingstonMary A. Manwell-JacksonHilda Mejia AbreuJohn J. MelvinDelia G. MeyerJacqueline R. MickleyPercy L. RichardAlicia Saldivar RowleyMichelle Ann RyersonMartha Ann SandersCorrine Lois ShermanNancy M. SmithJulia A. ThompsonLottie R. Tones

DONOR HONOR ROLL September 2009 – August 2011

Development


Dedication

Ongoing and Completed during period January 2010 – May 2011

kAy AvANT, PhD, RN, FAAN

Walker, LO and Avant KC. Strategies for theory construction in nursing (5th Ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall. (2011).

Odenbreit M, Staub MM, Herdman H, Brockel J, Keenan G, Avant K. Nursing Classification: Criteria and Evaluation In: H Herdman (Eds). Nursing Diagnosis Definitions and Classification 2011 – 2013. Chicester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

DIANA BECkMANN-MENDEZ, PhD, RN, FNP

Klugman CM, Peel JL, Beckmann-Mendez DA. Art Rounds: Teaching Interprofessional Student Visual Thinking Strategies at One School Academic Medicine 2011 Oct;86(10)

ANDREA BERNDT, PhD

Berndt AE. Developing Collaborative Research Agreements Journal of Emergency Nursing 2011 Sep;37(5):497 – 498

Berndt AE. How to Be a Critical Consumer of Research: Two-Step Approach and Five Statistical Concerns J ournal of Emergency Nursing 2009 Nov;35(6):536 – 537.

Berndt AE, Parsons ML, Paper B, Browne, JA. Preliminary Evaluation of the Healthy Workplace Index Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):335 – 344.

Owens BL, Jackson M, Berndt AE. Complementary Therapy Used by Hispanic Women During Treatment for Breast Cancer Journal of Holistic Nursing 2009 Sep;27(3):167 – 176.

Heye ML, Berndt AE, Lehman CA, Stevens, K. Measuring Evidence-Based Competencies in a Clinical Nurse Specialist Program Clinical Nurse Specialist 2010 Mar;24(2):98

MARIA lAPIZ-BlUhM, PhD, RN

Furr A, Lapiz-Bluhm MD, Morilak DA, Bluhm ML. 5-HT2A receptors in the orbitofrontal cortex facilitate reversal learning and contribute to the beneficial cognitive

effects of chronic citalopram treatment in rats. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2011 Oct:1 – 11.

Lapiz-Bluhm MDS & Morilak DA. A cognitive deficit induced in rats by chronic intermittent cold stress is reversed by antidepressant treatment International Journal for Neuropsychopharmacology 2010 Feb;13(08):997 – 1009.

REBECCA BoNUGlI, PhD, MSN, APRN, CNS

Bonugli RJ, Brackley MH, Williams GB, Lesser J. Sexual Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adult Women with Severe Mental Illness: A Pilot Study Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2010 Jul;31(7):456 – 460.

Schillerstrom JE, Salazar R, Regwan H, Bonugli RJ, Royall DR. Executive function in self-neglecting adult protective services referrals compared with elder psychiatric outpatients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2009 Oct;17(10):907 – 910.

MARGARET BRACklEy, PhD, FAAN, FAANP

Brackley MH, Williams GB, Wei, CC. Substance Abuse Interface with Intimate Partner Violence: What Treatment Programs Need to Know Nursing Clinics of North America 2010 Dec;45(4):581 – 589.

Wei,C.C.& Brackley M. Men Who Experienced Violence or Trauma as Children or Adolescents and Who Used Violence in Their Intimate Relationships Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2010 Aug;31(8):498 – 506

Bonugli RJ, Brackley MH, Williams GB, Lesser J. Sexual Abuse and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adult Women with Severe Mental Illness: A Pilot Study Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2010 Jul;31(7):456 – 460

CARRIE Jo BRADEN, PhD, RN, FAAN

Braden, C.J. Guidelines for Achieving Clarity of Concepts Related to Quality of Life In: Quality of Life From Nursing and Patient Perspectives: Theory, Research and Practice. Boston, MA: Jones & Barlett Publishers, 2nd ed.; 2012

Sidani S Braden C. Design, Evaluation, and Translation of Nursing Interventions. Malden, MA. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

Arevalo-Flechas LC, Braden CJ. Caregiving: A hard job done with love The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging 2009;13(6):S326 – S327.

EIlEEN T. BRESlIN, PhD, RN, FAAN

Jacelon, C.S., Donoghue, L.C., Breslin, E.T. Scholar in residence: An innovative application of the scholarship of engagement Journal of Professional Nursing 2010 Feb;26(1):61 – 66.

ADElITA CANTU, PhD, RN

Cantu AG. Exploring Intra-Person Mediators of Older Mexican American Women Who Exercise: A Life History Approach Hispanic HealthCare International 2011;9(2)

PAUlA C. ClUTTER, PhD, RN

Clutter P, Reed C, Cornett P, & Parsons M. Action Planning Strategies to Achieve Quality Outcomes Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):272 – 284

PATRICIA A. CoRNETT, EdD, RN

Cornett P, Parsons ML. Editor Foreword, Journal Issue, Healthy Workplace, Part II Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):263 – 263.

Parsons ML; Cornett P. Sustaining the Pivotal Organizational Outcome: Magnet Recognition Journal of Nursing Management 2011;19(2):277 – 286.

Parsons ML; Cornett P. Leading Change for Sustainability Nurse Leader 2011 Aug;9(4):36 – 40.

Clutter P, Reed C, Cornett P, & Parsons M. Action Planning Strategies to Achieve Quality Outcomes Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):272 – 284

vICky D. DITTMAR, MSN, RN, CNE,

Dittmar VD. Acute Respiratory Disorders In: Linton, AD (Ed). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing (5th ed). St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

PUBlICATIoNSFaculty


Dedication

MARy DUNN, RN, PhD, PHCNS-BC

McSweeney JC, O’Sullivan P, Cleves MA, Lefler, LL, Cody M, Moser DK Dunn K, Kovacs M, Crane PB, Ramer L, Messmer PR, Garvin BJ, Zhao W. Racial Differences in Women’s Prodromal and Acute Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction American Journal of Critical Care 2010 Jan;19(1):63 – 73

SoCoRRo ESCANDoN, PhD, RN

Escandon, S. Theoretical Versus Grass-Roots Development of a Community Partnership Qualitative Report 2010 Jan;15(1):142 – 155.

BERThA floRES, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC

Flores BE, Volker, D. Cervical Cancer Screening and Older Mexican American Women: A Case Study Research in Gerontological Nursing 2011 Jan;4(1):3 – 8.

lARk foRD, MSN, RN

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MARGIT GERARDI, PhD, MS, MSA, MSN, WHNP

Holt K, Gerardi MB. General indicators of IPV in Women‘s Health In: Holt K Gerardi MB. Intimate Partner Violence: Domestic Abuse, Assault, and Spouse-Battering. Saint Louis, Missouri: GW Medical Publishing/ STM Learning; 2012.

Gerardi MB. Female reproductive disorders In: Linton AD (ed). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, (5th ed). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012

Gerardi, MB, Wright, SE, Nicolas-Wedige, R, Berkowitz, AC, West, AJ, Morel, RJ, Saucedo, DK. Trauma First Aide in primary care: Treating physiological symptoms induced by trauma American Journal for Nurse Practitioners 2010 Sep;14(9/10):44 – 53.

SARA GIll, PhD, RN, IBCLC

Walulu RN, Gill SL. Role of Spirituality in HIV-Infected Mothers Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2011 Jul;32:382 – 384.

Walulu RN, & Gill SL. Living for My Children Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research 2011 Apr;11(1)

DelliFraine J, Langabeer J, Williams JF, Gong AK, Delgado RI, Gill SL. Cost comparison of baby friendly and non-baby friendly hospitals in the United States. Pediatrics 2011 Apr;127(4):989 – 994.

PhyllIS A. GoRDoN, MSN,RN

Gordon PA, Christensen CR. Cardiovascular: Peripheral Vascular Disease In: MS Baird & S Bethel (Eds). Manual of Critical Care Nursing (6th ed). St Louis, Mo: Elsevier; 2011.

ChRISTIE l. hARPER, MSN, RN, CCNS

Reed, C, Pao, W, Cocletti, J, Harper CL, Beadle, R. Standardizing Oral Care Practices in an Academic Teaching Center American Journal of Critical Care 2009 Oct;18(3):e14

BRENDA G. JACkSoN, PhD, RN

Johnson, M., Phanhtharath, P. & Jackson BG. The bullying aspects of workplace violence in nursing Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Dec;32(4):287 – 295.

DEBoRAh l. kENDAll-GAllAGhER, JD, PhD, RN

Kendall-Gallagher D, Aiken, LH, Sloane, DM, & Cimiotti, JP. Nurse specialty certification, inpatient mortality, and failure to rescue Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2011 Jun;43(2):188 – 194.

DIANNE lAvIN, PhD, RN

Lavin D. Smoking In: James, L. & O’Donohue, W (Eds). The Primary Care Toolkit. New York: Springer Science & Business Media LLC; 2009.

ChERyl A. lEhMAN, PhD, RN, CRRN,CNS

Lehman CA, Mauk, K. Gerontological Rehabilitation Nursing. In: Mauk, K. (ed.), Rehabilitation Nursing Chicago, IL. Jones and Bartlett; 2011.

Heye ML, Berndt AE, Lehman CA, Stevens, K. Measuring Evidence-Based Competencies in a Clinical Nurse Specialist Program Clinical Nurse Specialist 2010 Mar;24(2):98.

Lehman CA. APN Knowledge, self-efficacy and practices in providing women’s healthcare services to women with disabilities Rehabilitation Nursing 2009 Sep;34(5):186 – 194.

Lehman CA. Nursing Management: Chronic Neurologic Problems In: Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, & Bucher. Medical-Surgical Nursing, Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, (8th ed). St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2010.

Lehman CA. Practical Issues in Conducting Hospital-based Research Perioperative Nursing Clinics of North America 2009 Sep;4(3):269 – 276.

Lehman CA, Gutierrez A.. Orthopedic Disorders, Burns, Blasts and PTSD. In: Jacelon C (ed). The Specialty Practice of Rehabilitation Nursing: A Core Curriculum (6th ed). Glenview, IL: ARN; 2011.

JANNA lESSER, PhD, RN

Lauerbach, S.S. & Lesser J. Psychiatric care and mental health in the community. In: K. S. Lundy & S. Janes (Eds.). Community health nursing: Caring for the public’s health. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett; 2009.

Koniak-Griffin, D. Lesser, J. Takayanagi, S Cumberland, WG. Couple-focused human immunodeficiency virus

prevention for young latino parents: randomized clinical trial of efficacy and sustainability Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2011 Apr;165(4):306 – 312.


Lesser J, Oscos-Sanchez,MA, Davis, C.. Latino Adolescent Mothers and Fathers in South Texas Managing Violence Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2010 Feb;31(2):96 – 102.

Kelly, PJ, Lesser J. Mexican-American Neighborhood’s Social Capital and Attitudes about Violence Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2010 Jan;31(1):15 – 20.

Kelly P, Lesser J, Chang A, Oscos-Sanchez M, Martinez E, Pineda D, & Mancha J.. A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of an Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program with a Mexican-American Community Family and Community Health 2010 Jul/Sep;33(3):207 – 215.

Lesser J, Koniak-Griffin, D, Huang, R, Takayangi, S, Cumberland, WG. Parental Protectiveness and Unprotected Sexual Activity Among Latino Adolescent Mothers and Fathers AIDS Education and Prevention 2009 Oct:88 – 102.

ADRIANNE lINToN, PhD, RN, FAAN

Linton, A.D. Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, (5th ed). Editor of entire book. Author of 34 chapters. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

JUDy l. MAlTAS, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNS-CC

Maltas JL. Cardiac Disorders In: Linton AD (Ed). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing (5th ed). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

Maltas JL. Study Guide Medical-Surgical Nursing Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby; 2011.


Dedication

kIM MCAlISTER, MSN, RN

Grizzle, R.W., Reeves, B., McAlister, K., Zottarelli, L.K. Disaster preparedness program at a senior center: Implications for community partners servicing ethnically diverse older adults. Texas Public Health Association Journal 2010 Jan;62(4):9 – 11.

NANCy MCGowAN, PhD, RN, CEN

McGowan N. Evidence Based Practice: The Debate. Journal of Emergency Nursing 2010 Nov;(47):71 – 72.

JUlIE NovAk, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP

Novak, J.C. Designing a Nurse-Managed Healthcare Delivery System In: Yuehwern Yih (ed): Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

Novak JC. Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Collaboration: Essential for the Doctoral Advance Practice Nurse In: Dreher HM & Glasgow ME (eds). Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice. New York, NY. Springer Publishing Company; 2011.

Stadtler, A, Novak J. Nursing Organizations, Education, Practice, Research and Policy In: Sparrow, J & Lesser, B, Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton. Malden, MA. Wiley Blackwell; 2010.

Erler, C., Novak, J.C. Bisphenol A Exposure: Human Risk and Health Policy Journal of Pediatric Nursing 2010 Oct;25(5):400 – 407.

Richards, E, Novak JC. From Biloxi to Cape Town: Curricular Integration of Service Learning Journal of Community Health Nursing 2010 Nov;(27):46 – 50.

MICkEy l. PARSoNS, PhD, MHA, RN, FAAN

Ayon A, Parsons ML. Modeling and Role Modeling: Promotion of Self-Care Knowledge in a Regional Health System. International Journal For Human Caring 2010 Sep;14(2):66.

Parsons ML; Cornett P. Sustaining the Pivotal Organizational Outcome: Magnet Recognition Journal of Nursing Management 2011;19(2):277 – 286.

Warner-Robbins C, Parsons ML. Developing peer leaders and reducing recidivism through long-term participation in a faith-based program: The story of Welcome Home Ministries Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 2010 Jul;28(3):293 – 305.

Warner Robbins C, Parsons ML; Co-Issue Editors. Editor Foreword, Journal Issue, Faith-Based Programs Addressing Community Health Issues Family and Community Health; The Journal of Health Promotion and Maintenance 2009 Oct;32(4):292 – 292.

Cornett P, Parsons ML. Editor Foreword, Journal Issue, Healthy Workplace, Part II Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):263 – 263.

Berndt AE, Parsons ML, Paper B, Browne, JA. Preliminary Evaluation of the Healthy Workplace Index Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):335 – 344.

Parsons ML, Warner-Robbins C. Empowering Formerly Incarcerated Women Through a Caring Ethics Model International Journal for Human Caring 2010 Sep;14(3):74 – 74.

Clutter P, Reed C, Cornett P, & Parsons M. Action Planning Strategies to Achieve Quality Outcomes Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):272 – 284.

Crist JD, Parsons ML, Warner-Robbins C, Mullins MV, Espinosa YM. Pragmatic Action Research With 2 Vulnerable Populations: Mexican American Elders and Formerly Incarcerated Women Family and Community Health: The Journal of Health Promotion and Maintenance 2009 Oct;32(4):320 – 329.

Clark P, Parsons ML, Payne L, Garcia S, Reimer A, Golightly-Jenkins C. Impacting Patient Safety Through the Healthy Workplace Journey Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 2009 Oct;32(4):305 – 313.

Parsons ML; Cornett P. Leading Change for Sustainability Nurse Leader 2011 Aug;9(4):36 – 40.

lINDA PoRTER-wENZlAff, PhD, RN, CNE, NEA-BC

Porter-Wenzlaff L, Rice J, Sievers L. Dimensional Analysis Improves BSN Students’ Medication Calculation KSA’s http://www.nursinglibrary.org/: Sigme Theta Tau International; 2011 Sep. (Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library, managed by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International).

Porter-Wenzlaff, LJ. The Leadership Roles of the Licensed Vocational Nurse In: Linton AD. Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing (5th ed). St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

CyNThIA v. PURCEll, MSN, RN

Purcell, C.V. I watched my parents dance today. (Original Poem) The Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 2010 Feb;14(2).

Purcell C.V. Mr, Busby: Or, why I became an oncology nurse Oncology Nurse Advisor 2010 Dec:47.

kAThlEEN A. REEvES, MSN, RN, CNS, CMSRN

Heye ML, Reeves KA. Pain Management In: Linton, AD. Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing (5th ed). St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

CARol A. REINECk, PhD, RN, FAAN

Reineck CA, AONE Regulatory Monitoring Committee Members. AONE 2010 Introductory Guide to Health Care Regulation Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL: American Organization of Nurse Executives; 2009 Dec. 100 p. I served as editor of this work. Regulatory Committee members contributed sections based on their expertise. Now available in members only area of www.aone.org.

Reineck CA, Reed C. In pursuit of Quality Outcomes (Chapter 76) In: Nancy Rollins-Gantz, Editor. 101 Global Leadership Lessons for Nurses: Shared Legacies from Leaders and their Mentors,. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary; 2010. p. 401 – 406.

Eun Goung A., Choi J. A., Ko U.J., Reineck C. A Study of Republic of Korea Army Nurse Officers’ Perceived Level of Readiness Journal of Military Nursing Research 2009 Sep;27(2):5 – 26.

Briley-Hudson V, Jackson-Malik P, Reineck CA, Kittner, A. AONE Delegation Visits India Nurse Leader 2010 Dec;8(6):21 – 25.

Reed C, Reineck CA, Fonseca, I. Communicating with intubated patients: A new approach American Nurse Today 2011 Jul;6(7):34 – 34.

Reineck CA. Honoring Military Nursing Leadership: Focus on the U.S. Army Nurse Corps AONE Voice of Nursing Leadership 2011 Nov;9(6):12 – 14.

Reineck CA. Insurance Coverage & Reimbursement In: Doctor of Nursing Practice Finance and Business Skills. Waxman KT (ed). Danvers, MA: HC Pro; 2012.

MARk SoUCy, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FPMHNP-BC

Soucy MD. Psychological response to illness. In: Linton A (Ed.). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

Soucy MD. Psychiatric disorders. In: Linton A (Ed.). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

Soucy MD. Substance related disorders. In: Linton, A. (Ed.). Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.


Dedication

Williams GB, Gerardi MB, Gill SL, Soucy MD, Taliaferro, DH. Reflective journaling: Innovative strategy for self-awareness for graduate nursing students International Journal for Human Caring 2009;13(3):36 – 43.

kAThlEEN STEvENS, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Stevens KR. Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. A guide to best practice. In: Critical appraisal of literature. In Melnyk & Fineout-Overhold (Eds).. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.; 2010.

Stevens KR. Evidence-Based Practice: Destination or Journey? Nursing Outlook 2010 Jan;58(6):273 – 275.

Stevens KR. Guest editor for special issue on evidence-based practice Nursing Outlook 2010 Nov.

Stevens KR. Guest Editorial: Evidence-based practice:Destination or journey? Nursing Outlook 2010 Dec:273 – 275.

Heye ML, Berndt AE, Lehman CA, Stevens, KR. Measuring Evidence-Based Competencies in a Clinical Nurse Specialist Program Clinical Nurse Specialist 2010 Mar;24(2):98.

CANDACE TUll, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC

Tull CM, Lovato, Stella, Woodson-Day, Beverly, Ross-Gordon, Jovita. Faculty Perspectives of Adult Learners in a College Environment The Journal of Continuing Higher Education 2011 May;59(2):77 – 84.

MARy E. wAlkER, MSN, RN, CCNS, CMSRN

Walker ME. Skin Disorders In: Linton AD (Ed). Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing (5th ed). St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2012.

RoSEMARy wAlUlU, PhD, RN

Walulu RN, Gill SL. Role of Spirituality in HIV-Infected Mothers Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2011 Jul;32:382 – 384.

Walulu RN, & Gill SL. Living for My Children Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research 2011 Apr;11(1).

CARolE whITE, PhD, RN

White CL. Nurse Champions: A Key Role In Bridging the Gap between Reseach and Practice Journal of Emergency Nursing 2011 Jul;37(4):386 – 387.

White CL, McClure LA, Wallace P, Bramiah J, Liskay A, Roldan A, Benavente OR. The correlates and course of depression in those with lacunar stroke: results from the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes (SPS3) Trial Cerebrovascular Diseases 2011 Sep;32:354 – 360.

Benavente OR, White CL, Pearce L, Pergola PE, Roldan AM, Benavente M.F., Coffey C, McClure L.A., Szychowski J.M., Conwit R., Heberling P.A., Howard G., Bazan C, Vidal-Pergola G., Talbert RL, Hart RG. The Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes (SPS3) Study International Journal of Stroke 2011 Apr;6(2):164 – 175.

Benavente O, Kase C, Arboix A, Roquer J, Castellanos M, Trueta J, McClure L, Lau H, Roldan A, Hart RG, White CL. The short-term functional outcome in patients with lacunar stroke. Observations from the SPS3 Study Stroke 2011 Feb (41): e243.

White CL, McClure LA, Szychowski M, Benavente OR, on behalf of the SPS3 Investigators. Intensive Risk Factor Management in the Elderly with Small Vessel Disease: The SPS3 Experience. Cerebrovasc Disease 2010 May;29(suppl 2):34.

Elkind M. S. V., Luna J. M., Coffey C. S., McClure L. A., Liu K. M., Spitalnik S., Paik M. C., Roldan AM, White

CL, Hart RG, Benavente OR. The Levels of Inflammatory Markers in the Treatment of Stroke (LIMITS) Study: Inflammatory Biomarkers as Risk Predictors after Lacunar Stroke International Journal of Stroke 2010 Apr;5(2).

White CL, Szychowski JM, Talbert R, Holzemer E, Lau H, McClure LA. Self-Rating of Health and Adherence to Secondary Stroke Prevention Medications in the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes Trial. Stroke 2010 Feb (41): e290.

Rochette A, Korner-Bitensky N, Bishop D, Teasell R, White CL, Bravo G, Côté R, Lachaine J, Green T, Lebrun L-H, Lanthier S, Kapral M, Wood-Dauphinee S. Study protocol of The YOU CALL—WE CALL TRIAL: Impact of a multimodal support intervention after a “mild” stroke BMC Neurology 2010 Jan;10(3).

GAIl wIllIAMS, PhD, PMHCNS-BC


Brackley MH, Williams GB, Wei, CC. Substance Abuse Interface with Intimate Partner Violence: What Treatment Programs Need to Know Nursing Clinics of North America 2010 Dec;45(4):581 – 589.

SUZANNE yARBRoUGh, PhD, RN

Saewert, K.J., Yarbrough, S.S. Evaluation of clinical performance. N. Ard, & Valiga, T. M. (Ed) In: Clinical Nursing Education: Current Reflections. New York,NY: National League for Nursing: 2009.

hERlINDA ZAMoRA, MSN, RN

Zamora H., Clingerman E.. Health Literacy Among Older Adults: A Systematic Literature Review Journal of Gerontological Nursing 2011 Oct;37(10):41 – 51.


Dedication

koko AUNG

kAy AvANT

CARol BARRERA

kAThRyN BAUER

DIANA BECkMANN-MENDEZ

ANDREA BERNDT

MARIA DANET BlUhM-lAPIZ

REBECCA BoNUGlI

JANNETTE BooDoN-EllIoTT

TERRI BoyCE

MARGARET BRACklEy

CARRIE Jo BRADEN

EIlEEN BRESlIN

kAThlEEN BUCklEy

ADElITA CANTU

JANE CARDEA

ShARoN ChAThAM

PATRICIA ClARkE

lISA ClEvElAND

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PATTI DAvIDSoN

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MARy “kElly” DUNN

SoCoRRo ESCANDoN

REBECCA fENToN

BERThA floRES

JUlIE GARCIA

ERICA GARCIA-fRAUSTo

REBECCA GARCIA-MIChElS

MARGIT GERARDI

SARA GIll

DIANE GoDDARD

kARA GooDSPEED

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PETER GUARNERo

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PATTy hAwkEN

ChERI hICkS

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BARBARA holTZClAw

MARGARET hUMM

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DIANNE lAvIN

JANNA lESSER

MARy MAffEI

MARGARET MARShAll

JENNIfER MARTINEZ

CERvANDo MARTINEZ

lISA MATASovSky

MARy ANN MATTESoN

kIM MCAlISTER

CARolyN MClERRAN

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JUlIE NovAk

MARIA oSTRANDER

DEBoRAh PAllISTER

ZANDRA PEREZ

SUEllEN REED

SUSAN REIff

fRANNIE RETTIG

JACqUElINE RIlEy-BAkER

BEvERly RoBINSoN

NoRMA MARTINEZ RoGERS

lISA SIEvERS

lAURA SISk

BRIDGET SlATTERy

CARMIllIA JEAN SMITh

MARk SoUCy

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RoSAlIE TIERNEy-GUMAER

CANDACE TUll

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RoSEMARy wAlUlU

CyNThIA wESToN

DoRoThy wIllIAMS

GAIl wIllIAMS

MARThA wIllIAMS

MARGARET wooDTlI

CAThy wooDwARD

SUZANNE yARBRoUGh

STACEy yoUNG-MCCAUGhAN

lISA ZERDA

DR. ADRIANNE lINToN, ChAIRfAMIly & CoMMUNITy hEAlTh SySTEMS

PhoTo of DR. CARol REINECk

FAMiLy & COMMuNiTy HeALTH SySTeMS FACuLTy


Dedication

ElIZABETh ANDERSoN

NATAlIE BAkER

JAMES BlAND

JoyCE BoRGfElD

JAMES ClEvElAND

PAUlA ClUTTER

PATRICIA CoRNETT

vICky DITTMAR

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lARk foRD

DEBoRAh foRMAN-lINDSAy

PhyllIS GoRDoN

ChRISTIE hARPER

BRENDA JACkSoN

lINDA JUENkE

DEBoRAh kENDAll-GAllAGhER

ChERyl lEhMAN

ShARoN lEwIS

JUDy MAlTAS

NANCy MCGowAN

CAThy MIllER

DENISE MINER-wIllIAMS

MARISSA MolINA

kRISTEN ovERBAUGh

MICkEy PARSoNS

lINDA PoRTER-wENZlAff

CyNThIA PURCEll

DIANE RANkIN

kAThlEEN REEvES

JANIS RICE

wESlEy RIChARDSoN

ANGElA RoSS

JoSEPh SChMElZ

JENNIE ShAw

PAMElA SMITh

MARy STEPhENS

kAThlEEN STEvENS

ISABEll STolTZ

JACqUElyN STovAll

MARThA TUllER

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MARy wAlkER

PATRICIA wAThEN

ShERRy wEAvER

BEvERly whEElER

CAThERINE whITE

CARolE whITE

kRISTINA wISE

hERlINDA ZAMoRA

DR. CARol REINECk, ChAIRhEAlTh RESToRATIoN & CARE SySTEMS MANAGEMENT fACUlTy

PhoTo of DR. CARol REINECk

HeALTH ReSTORATiON & CARe SySTeMS MANAgeMeNT

Pauline Swiger (left) reviews her course work with Carol Reineck, PhD Swiger is a major in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and a full-time student in the first cohort of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Master’s Program.

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