April 2015
FeaturesU.S.News & World Report Ranks UMSON #6 in the Nation
The University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) advanced from #11 to #6 in the nation in U.S.News & World Report's 2015 rankings of accredited nursing programs. In addition to its #6 overall ranking, eight UMSON master's specialties/options are ranked in the top 10 by U.S.News & World Report.  Click here to read more.
IPE Day Instills Teamwork
Students from each of the professional schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) gained insights from each other and from standardized patients during IPE Day on Feb. 26. The third annual interprofessional education event drew 231 students and 68 faculty and staff members, including participants from the UMB programs at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG). Click here to read more.

Photo: Staci Cohen, School of Dentistry; Desiree' Colvin, BSN student at USG; Alex Joachim, School of Pharmacy; standardized patient Tom Wyatt; and Adam Bortner, School of Medicine student

Galik and Three Other UMSON Alumnae Selected as Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Elizabeth Galik, PhD '07, CRNP, associate professor, and three other UMSON alumnae - Deborah Chapa, PhD '06, Deborah Schofield, DNP '09, MS '95, and Shari Simone, DNP '11, MS '96 - have been selected to the 2015 Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program. Fellows are visionaries committed to the development of imaginative and creative future nurse practitioner leaders. Click here to read more. 

Psychiatric/Mental Health alumni celebrated the 60th anniversary of the specialty.

Celebrating Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

The annual Ann Ottney Cain Lecture in Psychiatric Nursing, held March 7 at UMSON, also celebrated the 60th anniversary of the School's Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing master's specialty. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, RN, FAAN, van Ameringen Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of Pennsylvania, presented the lecture, which focused on her pioneering community health work in preventing HIV, STI, and teenage pregnancy. Alumni from across the decades gathered for a dinner to mark this special milestone.
Dean Kirschling and Eight UMSON Alumnae Honored
Dean Jane Kirschling and alumnae Cynthia Arnold, MS '95; Cathy Chapman, MS '95; Mary Jo Huber, BSN '77; Megan Jendrossek, BSN '13; Vicky Kent, PhD '96, MS '87; Calvert Moore, MS '11; Lisa Rowen, MS '86; and Joan Warren, PhD '04, MS '88, have been honored with Baltimore Magazine's Inaugural Excellence in Nursing Awards. They will receive their awards at a ceremony on April 12.
EventsEVENTS
UMSON State of the School Address
April 8, 2015
3:30-4:30 p.m.
UMSON Room 130 

Dean Jane Kirschling will present the address, "Academic Nursing in Maryland & Beyond." Reception immediately following. RSVP to rsvp@son.umaryland.edu

Convocation
May 15, 2015
8 a.m.
Royal Farms Arena
Click here for more information.
2015 Alumni Reunion
Sept. 19, 2015
8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
UMSON Lobby & Auditorium 

If your DIN or BSN graduation year ends in a "5" or a "10," or if you earned a master's degree in the Clinical Nurse Leader option in 2005 or 2010, mark your calendar for UMSON's 2015 Alumni Reunion. Click here for more information, or contact Cynthia Sikorski at sikorski@son.umaryland.edu or 410-706-0674.

SpotlightALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Major General Gale S. Pollock (retired), PhD '05 (honorary), BSN '76, MHA, CRNA, FACHE, FAAN, has been named to the CereScan Corporation Medical Advisory Board. General Pollock will use her extensive experience and military leadership to provide CereScan with insight into the unique health care challenges facing military personnel and veterans . Click here to read more.
Robin Prothro, BSN '79, founding CEO of Komen Maryland, has announced her resignation effective July 3, 2015, after 15 years of leading the organization from an all-volunteer effort to a sophisticated role model affiliate and one of Maryland's most successful nonprofits. Prothro was also recently selected as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by The Daily Record.
Anita G. Hufft, PhD, BSN '70, has been appointed Dean of the Texas Woman's University College of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences for Valdosta State University in Georgia . Click here to read more.
Gordan X. Han, BSN '14, recently traveled to China with Karen Haller, PhD, RN, FAAN vice president for nursing and patient care services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. While in China, they assessed and examined Chinese nursing practice and shared their expertise at the Nanjing University affiliated teaching hospital. Click here to see more photos.

Photo: Gordon Han visiting with nurses in the ICU.
AlumniALUMNI NEWS & UPDATES
Alumni Career Resource Web Page
Students and alumni can access professional career services through UMSON's Student Success Center. Services include a job posting website, an annual career fair, assistance in writing resumes and cover letters, career workshops, mock interviews, and online resources. Click here for more information.
KudosFACULTY KUDOS

While attending the recent Democratic/Senatorial Campaign Committee's Annual Spring Reception in Washington, D.C., Veronica Amos, PhD, MS '07, MS '00, BSN '99, RN, assistant professor, and Jacqueline Mitchell, MS '07, BSN '92, RN, CRNP, clinical instructor, had the unique opportunity to meet Sen. Barbara Mikulski. The invitation was extended from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) to members of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA), of which Amos and Mitchell are members.

 

Photo: Jacqueline Mitchell, Sen. Mikulski, and Veronica Amos

Linda L. Costa, PhD RN, NEA-BC, assistant professor, presented an evidence-based practice (EBP) training program in Xiamen, China, March 9-13.The purpose of the program was to train mentors to introduce EBP in China's hospitals, in response to their National Health and Family Planning Commission's recommendation for nursing departments to introduce EBP to improve patient safety. The program, attended by more than 100 nurses, was sponsored by the Journal of Chinese Nursing Management and Pfizer.

 

Kelly Flannery, PhD, RN, assistant professor, has been selected to participate in the University of Maryland, Baltimore's 2015 Center for Community-Based Engagement and Learning Fellows Program. The Center was established to coordinate, guide, and enhance opportunities for community-based student engagement, scholarship, service, and learning for improving the health and welfare of the West Baltimore community.

 

Elizabeth Galik, PhD '07, CRNP, associate professor, and Roy Nirmalya, PhD, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, received Innovation Seed Track Awards from the UMB-UMBC Research and Innovation Partnership Grant Program for their grant, "Automated Functional and Behavioral Health Assessment of Older Adults with Dementia."

 

Marian Grant, DNP '10, RN, CRNP, assistant professor, co-authored the following blog post:

Sutton, S., Grant, M. (2015, March 10). Effective public engagement to improve palliative care for serious illness. Health Affairs Blog. Retrieved from http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/03/10/effective-public-engagement-to-improve-palliative-care-for-serious-illness. 

 

Lynn Oswald, PhD, RN, associate professor, co-authored the following new publication:

Oswald, L.M., Wand, G.S., Wong, D.F., Brown, C.H., Kuwabara, H., Brasic, J.R. Risky decision-making and ventral striatal dopamine responses to amphetamine: A positron emission tomography [11C] raclopride study in healthy adults. NeuroImagedoi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.022. 

http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1053811915002049

 

Kathryn Schaivone, MPA, director, Clinical Education and Evaluation Laboratories, was a contributing author on the following publication:

Schaivone, K.A., contributing author (2015). Defining excellence in simulation programs, Philadelphia, Pa.: Wolters Kluwer.

The UMSON Clinical Education and Evaluation Laboratories collaborated with Lippincott Publishing on the development and filming of the Bates Guide to Visual Exam online modules. University of Maryland standardized patients are featured in the modules. Click here to view the video.

 

Kathryn T. VonRueden, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM, associate professor, received the 2015 Distinguished Lectureship Award at the Society of Trauma Nurses Conference, held recently in Jacksonville, Fla. At the same conference, Katie Hinderer, PhD '12; Kathryn VonRueden, MS, RN, ACNS,-BC, FAACM, associate professor; and Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and interim associate dean for research, along with the University of Maryland Medical Center Shock Trauma Nursing Research team, received the Outstanding Research Publication Award for their publication:

Hinderer, K.A.,VonRueden, K.T., Freidmann E. et. al. (2014). Burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and secondary traumatic stress in trauma nurses. Journal of Trauma Nursing. 21(4) 160-169.

 

Kathryn T. VonRueden, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM, associate professor, and Paul Thurman, MS '07, co-authored the following article:

Thurman, P.T., Von Rueden, K.T., Ball, R. (2015). Hemodynamic management in hypovolemia and trauma, in Lough, M.E. (ed.) Hemodynamic Monitoring: Evolving Technologies and Clinical Practice. St Louis: Elsevier.
NewsIN THE NEWS

Subject: Graduate School Alumni Explain Program, Career Choices

Source: U.S.News & World Report - March 26

Summary: DNP student Ayyub Hanif, MS '12, BSN '10, was interviewed for the article, "Graduate School Alumni Explain Program, Career Choices."

Read the article. 

 

Subject: UMSON Dean Selected to Maryland Leadership Program

Source: Nurse.com - March 18

Summary: Dean Jane Kirschling was quoted in the story, "UMSON Dean Selected to Maryland Leadership Program."

Read the article.

 

Subject: University of Maryland School of Nursing to Offer New Neonatal Specialty

Source: Advance for Nurses - March 14

Summary: Jan Wilson, DNP '09, MS '95, BSN '74, CRNP, NNP-BC, assistant professor, was quoted in the story, "University of Maryland School of Nursing to Offer New Neonatal Specialty."

Read the article.

 

Subject: New Study Assesses Implementation of Children's Environmental Health Best Practices Among Child Care Providers

Source: PRWeb - March 11

Summary: Robyn Gilden, PhD '10, MS '01, RN, assistant professor, was quoted in the article, "New Study Assesses Implementation of Children's Environmental Health Best Practices Among Child Care Providers."

Read the article.

 

Subject: Rebecca Wiseman Appointed to Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center Governing Board

Source: CityBizList.com - March 11

Summary: Rebecca Wiseman, PhD '93, RN, associate professor and chair, UMSON program at the Universities at Shady Grove, was mentioned in the article, "Rebecca Wiseman Appointed to Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center Governing Board." 

Read the article.

 

Subject: U.S.News Ranks the 2015 Best Graduate Schools
Source: U.S.News & World Report - March 10

Summary: The School of Nursing was mentioned in the article, "U.S.News Ranks the 2015 Best Graduate Schools." 

See the rankings.

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