December 2012 Newsletter

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Our Programs:

Bachelor of Science in

Nursing (BSN)

Early Admissions

BSN

Accelerated BSN

Licensed Practical

Nurse (LPN) to BSN

Mobile Intensive Care

Technician (MICT) to

BSN

Registered Nurse to

BSN

Registered Nurse to

MSN

The MSN program now

has two concentrations.

Students may select one

of the following:

Nursing Education -

Direct Care

Nursing Leadership

and Administration

The Doctor of Nursing

Practice (DNP) has two

program entry points:

Post baccalaureate

Post master

The post baccalaureate

program offers Clinical

Nurse Specialist (CNS) &

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

specializations in the are-

as of Acute Care, Family

& Psychiatric/Mental

Health as well as the DNP

advanced curriculum.

From the Chair

Wichi ta State Un ivers i ty

School o f Nurs ing Insp i re Innova te Exce l

As the Chair of the School of Nursing, I am delighted to share this issue of the School of Nursing Newsletter with you. It highlights our out-standing students and faculty and gives you an inside look at what the

School is doing to ensure that our mis-sion and vision statements are being met. The 2012-2013 academic school year promises to be an exciting year with:

New MSN concentrations Phasing out of APRN MSN program

(students will continue to be in the program until 2014/2015)

A new cohort of BSN-DNP students And the big event – our accreditation

visit November 7th – 9th

The modified Master of Science in Nurs-ing (MSN) program was approved by

This issue

From the Chair P.1

Nursing Students win 1st place P.2

Student & Faculty Accolades P.3 & 4

Nurses in the News P.5

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the Kansas Board of Regents and ac-cepted applications for the Nursing Education-Direct Care and Nursing & Leadership Administration programs this fall.

We are currently in the re-accreditation process and everyone has done an amazing job of getting us ready for the visit. It has included: im-plementation of new bylaws, mapping of AACN education courses to the es-sentials, faculty & staff gathering data, committees & councils discussing & approving changes to move our curric-ulum forward and so much more! A summer task force on accreditation developed our written self-study report which was approved by the faculty this summer. Everyone has been doing an amazing job and will work on complet-ing the final product to prepare for the visit November 7th – 9th. It is going to be a great year!

Wichita State University School of Nursing Mission

To improve the health of the community by inspiring change in health care through

Innovation and excellence in nursing education, scholarship, practice, and service.

For information about the School of Nursing visit us on the web at Wichita.edu/nursing

Contact us at (316) 978-3610 or email [email protected]

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School of Nursing Meets All Professional Program Standards for

Accreditation!

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very positive step. I want to thank the faculty and staff for all the work they did, and the support

of CHP (esp. the tech staff and web development team). The SON students and advisory com-

mittee are to be commended on their willingness to take time from their very busy schedules to

meet with the accreditors. I also appreciate the support received from Provost Pickus and his

staff in academic affairs. The Accreditation evaluators also gave high marks to the President

and his support of the School of Nursing.

Thanks to everyone!

School of Nursing (SON) faculty and staff heard the verbal report

from our professional accreditation evaluators today.

They reported the School of Nursing meets all professional pro-

gram standards. We also received positive comments yesterday

from the Board of Nursing reviewers. As with all program as-

sessments, in our own review we found areas we hope to im-

prove and the accreditation evaluators found a few areas that we

should address.

On the whole – very positive comments were made about the

quality of our programs, our students and faculty.

This is the first major step in the accreditation process – but a

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Dr. Elaine Steinke Inducted as a Dr. Elaine Steinke Inducted as a Dr. Elaine Steinke Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of NursingFellow of the American Academy of NursingFellow of the American Academy of Nursing

According to the website of the academy: www.aannet.org

The American Academy of Nursing's approximately 1,890 Fellows are nursing

leaders in education, management, practice and research. They include: asso-

ciation executives; university presidents, chancellors and deans; state and federal political appointees;

hospital chief executives and vice presidents for nursing; nurse consultants; and researchers and entre-

preneurs.

Invitation to Fellowship is more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing profes-

sion. Academy Fellows also have a responsibility to contribute their time and energies to the Academy,

and to engage with other health care leaders outside the Academy in transforming America's health care

system by:

Enhancing the quality of health and nursing care;

Promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum;

Reducing health disparities and inequalities;

Shaping healthy behaviors and environments;

Integrating mental and physical health care; and

Strengthening the nursing and health care delivery system, nationally and internationally

Dr. Barbara Morrison, PhD, RN, CNM

Janice M. Riordan Distinguished Professorship in

Maternal & Child Health Ask Dr. Barbara Morrison where she finds her enthusiasm and she is likely to tell you she is the ultimate, passionate

educator and scholar. Dr. Morrison says, “I thrive on sharing my knowledge and understanding of birth, newborns, newborn

and family adaptation, Kangaroo Care, breastfeeding, bonding, and changing health care practices to provide optimal care to

newborns and their families.”

As she learned more about infants during her experience at Frontier Nursing Service in Hyden, KY, Dr. Morrison real-

ized she wanted to know even more and decided to get her master’s in nursing and earned her PhD in Midwifery and Maternal

-Child Health.

At Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Dr. Morrison joined forces with Drs. Su-

san Ludington and Gene Anderson to explore and promote Kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care. This scholarship and the work with

Drs. Ludington and Anderson have led to the development of the Kangaroo Care Certification Course sponsored by the United

States Institute of Kangaroo Care and the Skin-to-Skin Learner’s Manual.

Dr. Morrison lives in Wichita and has two daughters.

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A Reputation for Success:

School of Nursing Students Win 1st Place in Banner Competition

grateful for the support they received from the

College of Health Professions.

At a reception to honor the College of Health

Profession’s students successes, Dean Co-

hen pointed out the College of Health Profes-

sions has:

Students place in the banner competition

every year

Created 52 banners in the past 13 years

Placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 21 times

Placed 1st nine out of 13 years



WSU nursing students have winning down to

an art. On August 28th, at the 13th annual convo-

cation, nursing students took 1st place with their

banner. Nursing students previously took first

place in 2010 and have placed in the competition

in previous years.

Students Elizabeth Boyarski , Alex Leach and

Alisa Smith put in a lot of time and effort in creat-

ing the banner. They estimated the time spent

designing and creating the banner was at least

eight hours.

Smith said winning was worth the effort of “A

lot of hot glue and burnt fingertips”

A significant amount of

that time was spent de-

signing the banner and

at Hobby Lobby picking

out material. But for

their efforts the students

received $150 from

Dean Cohen.

Boyarski, Leach and

Smith said they based

their banner on the elec-

tion, the Olympics and

everything patriotic.

The students admitted

they didn’t expect to

win. Although none of

the three were able to

attend convocation as

they were at clinicals,

they were extremely

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For information about the School of Nursing visit us on the web at wichita.edu/nursing


Nurses in the News

Governor Brownback signing of proclamation to recognize

national Nurse Practitioner Week (Nov. 11-17).

Pictured: Dorothy Ochs (Ft hays). Diane Ebbert (KU) Meri-

lyn Douglas (NP from Garden city) ; Karen K. Trees NP ;

me (WSU) ; Serena Stutzman (NP); Michelle Knowles (NP);

Jane Peterson (UMKC; KC NP)

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Brandy Jackson presents at Epsilon Chapter-at-Large Fall

2012 Scholarly Event and General Membership Meeting

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Third and fourth semester WSU Nursing students learn how to re-

spond in situations they may encounter on the job through simula-

tion experiences. The interprofessional education simulation at

Wesley Medical Center (WMC) was conducted Wednesday, No-

vember 14 by Dr. Paul Uhlig of the Mid-Continent Regional Center

for Health Care Simulation.

The simulation brought together WSU nursing students, KU School

of Medicine, Wichita medical and pharmacy students and respitory

therapy students from Newman University.

At WMC students practiced a simulation scenario of a of a man

(mannequin) who had recently suffered a heart attack and was ex-

periencing unusual behavior. Students in Phyllis Fletcher’s

_________class worked together with the other students to deter-

mine the man was experiencing bleeding from the groin.

Madison Hirt, a fourth?? Semester student said the experience,”

For information about the School of Nursing visit us on the web at wichita.edu/nursing


Support for Deployed Student

Simulation provides real-life experience for WSU Nursing Students

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On Friday October 5, Dean Peter Cohen announced he was stepping down as Dean of the College of Health Pro-fessions. In an email sent to the College, Dean Cohen wrote, “After nearly 15 years, I will be stepping down as dean of the College of Health Professions, effective June 30, 2013. I will remain at the university in a faculty role.” He went on to explain that President Bardo is committed to having a new dean in place by July 1, 2013. Dean Cohen expressed his sentiments of for the College. “Words cannot express what an honor it has been for me to serve this college. To work with so many people com-mitted to a common purpose of educating excellent healthcare practitioners, researchers, and leaders in an atmosphere which encourages respectful and collabora-tive discourse on the current and future health care problems that face our community, region, and state has been a source of daily inspiration for me over these 15 years.”

Support Wichita State University School of Nursing

The School of Nursing’s mission is to improve the health of the community by inspiring change in health care through innovation and excellence in nursing education, scholarship, practice, and ser-vice. Your gift helps us live out our mission. Even though Wichita State University is state as-sisted, the needs of our students, faculty and staff are well above what support the state provides. The WSU Foundation fills that gap by accepting private support from corporations, foundations and individ-uals. Donors provide undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, endowed professorships, fac-ulty support, equipment upgrades and more. You can make a tax-deductible contribution by go-ing to www.wichita.edu/give and on the first page, select “Please direct my gift to:” and then type in School of Nursing. Then, select a pre-determined amount or type one in. For more information, contact Lynette Murphy, sen-ior director of development, at (316) 978-3441 or [email protected].

From your newsletter editor: As a WSU alumni, I am very pleased to be working at the University from which I graduated. I received both my undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Elliott School of Communication and I am currently pursuing my master’s in public health. I am excited to be working at the School of Nursing and I love hearing all the wonderful things WSU nurses are doing. If you have any ideas for stories, I would love to hear them. Please feel free to contact me. I am located in room 534, Ahlberg Hall. School of Nursing Administrative team:

Betty Smith-Campbell, PhD, APRN-CNS Chair and Professor

Alicia Huckstadt, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice Program/Professor Brandy Jackson, RN, MSN, MBA Director, Undergraduate Nursing Program

In our next issue



Pamela K. O’Neal, MA Academic Writing Specialist

316-978-5731 [email protected]

CHP Dean Steps Down

http://www.wichita.edu/give

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