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Inside This Issue

Students Corner..................2-3

Upcoming Events...............3

Faculty & Staff Notes.........4-6

Alumni & Development......7

NO LIMITS............................8

DECEMBER 2014

Dean Jeannette Andrews

Send Inquiries or Newsletter items to:Jan Johnsonjnjohnso@mailbox.sc.edu

Happy Holidays

As we enter into the holidays, I first want to wish everyone a safe, joyous, and celebratory season. In the College, there are many things to celebrate as we are nearing the end of another busy calendar year. Next week, we will celebrate the achievements of our master’s and doctoral candidates’ at their graduation events. All other students will be completing another semester, and progressing forward to their successful completion of their respective program. Our faculty will complete their final grades, papers, reports and loose ends for the year, and hopefully take a few days off dur-ing the holidays to enjoy with their families.

In the College, we are blessed to have nursing colleagues and supporters with diverse ideas, skillfull hands, compassionate hearts, and innovative discoveries. During the holidays, our faculty, staff, students, and alumni will have a presence on every corner of the map educating, caring, and motivating. However, it is the SPIRIT of nursing this time of year in the College that fosters my own renewal. I continue to marvel at our gener-ous tradition of “adopting” families and causes and making significant contributions, both in service and gifts, to others in need in our local communities. My colleagues’ generosity and spirit of giving are quite in-fectious and admirable. Together, with this spirit, we stand united in our care for others and the infinite possibilities our village will accomplish in the year ahead.

Happy Holidays – from our family to yours!

Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAAN Dean & Professor j.andrews@sc.edu

Students Corner

The Art of NursingMr. Hamrick came to the VA after a fall down an en-tire flight of stairs and was admitted for a short-term rehab stay to get stronger. He told everyone his goal was to get better so that he could take his wife on one more date to the Olive Garden. Nursing Foundation Students arranged for the Olive Garden to donate him a $30 gift certificate for him and his wife.

Anna Carol Bell is the recipient of the Palmetto Gold Undergraduate scholarship.

Senior Nursing students in N504: Emergency Preparedness: Implications for Healthcare Profes-sionals learning more about disaster preparedness and homeland security issues and implications for healthcare delivery.

The Columbia Fire Department Hazmat team and Buddy Harley, Employee Safety Manager from USC Environmental Health and Safety pre-sented a workshop that helps students apply all of the principles they have learned throughout the course related to the Incident Command System, response to a hazardous incident that requires identification of the hazardous exposure, site safe-ty, triage of victims, use of appropriate personal protective equipment and decontamination pro-cedures of appropriate.

For the final class all students will visit the SC Emergency Management Division where the Public Information Officer, Derrec Becker, will discuss the coordinating agency’s responsibility for the statewide emergency management pro-gram.

The Columbia Fire Department and USC Envi-ronmental Health and Safety are partners on Dr. Joan Culley’s R01 grant.

Check out the College of Nursing’s

Facebook page.Be sure to “LIKE” Us!

UPCOMING EVENTS

December 15th CON Convocation

Rutledge Chapel at 9:30 a.m.

December 15th USC Commencement

Colonial Life Arena at 3:30 p.m.

January 21st Cancer Survivorship Center

Research Forum College of Nursing Room 402

January 25thUSC Carolina Leadership Initiative

presents Anne-Marie Slaughter Hootie Johnson Performance Hall (DMSB)

7:00 p.m.

January 31st USC College of Nursing’s

Second Annual Clinical Practice Conference

Contact Robin Traufler

February 1st PhD (Priority) Applications Due

February 28th Optimizing Successful Aging

14th Annual Symposium on Aging

Contact Ellen Synovec

March 1st DNP Applications Due

June 5th - 6th Online Learning Institute

The College of Nursing is re-opening its Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Programs at the MSN, DNP and Post Masters Certificate levels to introduce more of these specially trained nurses into the system and better meet the needs of the state’s residents. The program will begin in the fall semester of 2015.

Professor and practicing psychiatric nurse practitioner Tena Hunt McKinney, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, who will be the director of the program, is ready to take on the mission of pro-ducing more high quality, mental health professionals to work in the state. “Providing quality care is something that I’m really passionate about, because there are a plethora of folks who are sick and not getting care and their families are not getting the support they need either,” she says.

Read more HERE.

CON to Offer Psychiatric Nurse Programs

Faculty and Staff Notes

Dr. Laura C. Hein was invited to serve on the Na-tional League for Nursing (NLN) Strategic Action Group for Diversity in Nursing Education. Nine nurses (two of whom were NLN leaders) spent two days discussing diversity and how to make nursing education more inclusive. Dr. Hein represented the LGBTQ community and emphasized the importance of recognizing and embracing all of our diversity. The current NLN Diversity Statement includes sexual orientation but does not include gender identity or gender expression. In her role as a scholar and board member of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, Dr. Hein advocated for the inclusion of “gender identity and gender expression” in NLN’s diversity mission and vision. The Diversity Action Group created a rough first draft of NLN’s Diversity Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan and will have a final version published February 2015.

Dr. Patrick Hickey re-ceived the USC Excel-lence in Teaching Award, sponsored by the Mortar Board Honor Society, on November 5th.

DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias was elected to a 3-year term as Co-Chair of the Global Nursing and Health Expert panel of the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Ronit Eilk has ac-cepted a position on on the Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care - Open Journal.

The College of Nursing team won the award for highest amount raised at the SCNF Walk on November 8th.

Dr. Tisha Felder has been selected to receive a scholarship from the Aet-na Foundation to attend the NIH mHealth Winter Training Institute Decem-ber 6-7, 2014.

Faculty Presentations

Robin Dawson Estrada and DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias presented “An Analysis of Interpreter-Mediated Primary Care En-counters: Implications for Improving Trans-cultural Nursing Practice” at the 40th Annual Conference of the Transcultural Nursing So-ciety, Charleston, SC, October 22-25, 2014.

DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias presented “The Navegantes para Salud Model: Improv-ing Access to maternal child Health Care for Hispanic Women and their Children in South Carolina” at Biennial Conference of the International Council of Women’s Health Issues in Cape Town, South Africa, November 11, 2014.

Susan Beverung (pictured with Kim Glenn) presented “Getting to the Heart of Cultural Understanding” at AACN’s 2014 Baccalaureate Educa-tion Conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace in Baltimore, MD on November 21st.

Dr. Sue Heiney visited Tokoyo, Japan October 29th - November 2nd. Pictured above with her “graduate class” she taught workshops sponsored by Hope Tree, a non-profit organization. Dr. Heiney also worked on a research paper and a research project with Japanese colleagues. Read the USC Time article HERE.

Wellness Activities

The College of Nursing Wellness Task Force offered several events for faculty, staff and students in Octo-ber and November, including Fun Food Friday and a Healthy Tailgating Cover Dish Luncheon. A Stress Management Workshop by Campus Wellness was held for faculty and staff and lunch time walks on Fridays continued.

The last wellness activity of the semester will be a visit by therapy dogs on December 8 from 11 AM – 12:30 PM in the first floor lounge to reduce stress for students and faculty as finals week arrives.

Faculty Publications

Dr. Karen McDonnell, A Decision Aid to Improve Smoking Abstinence for Families Facing Cancer in the Oncology Nursing Forum, Volume 41, No. 6, November 2014.

Hebert JR, Satariano WA, Friedman DB, Armstead CA, Greiner A, Felder TM, Coggins TA, Tanjasiri S, Braun KL. Fulfilling Ethi-cal Responsibility: Moving Beyond the Minimal Standards of Pro-tecting Human Subjects from Research Harm. National Cancer Institute Community Network Program Centers [Special Issue]. Progress in Community Health Partnerships, in press.

Andrews JO, Mueller M, Newman SD, Magwood G, Ahluwa-lia JS, White K, Tingen MS. (2014). The Association of Indi-vidual and Neighborhood Social Cohesion, Stressors and Crime on Smoking Status among African American Women in Southeastern US Subsidized Housing Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Health. 9 (6): 1158-1174.

Research Spotlight: Dr. Robin Evans Matutina

The SC League of Nursing Annual Awards dinner was held November 14th at the Clarion hotel in Columbia. Dr. Tena Hunt McKinney received the Teaching Award, Professor Toriah Caldwell re-ceived the Nursing Excellence Awards and Professor Kate Chappell received the Faculty-Student Scholarship.

Governor Nikki Haley has proclaimed November 2014 as Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month. CON Professor, Dr. Amber Williams, was instrumental with her hard work and dedication to bring awareness to the leading cause of accidental poisoning death in the United States. Dr. Robin Evans Matutina

would like to know why men choose nursing as a career and the barriers they might encounter along the way. Fe-males have historically domi-nated the nursing profession. Current estimates are that men comprise less than 10% of all nurses and nursing students in the United States. This gender disparity drove Dr. Matutina’s

interest in her current research. She is the Principal Investigator on a qualitative descriptive study that explores the perceptions of male nursing students enrolled in a traditional baccalaure-ate degree nursing program. She and her co-investigators, Dr. Patrick Hickey (Nursing) and Ken Jennings, (Nursing PhD candidate) are using focus groups comprised of a sample of male nursing students currently enrolled in the University of South Carolina College of Nursing. They hope to gain an un-derstanding about the factors that draw men to the program, the challenges they face, and the support they need through the participants’ reflections of their experiences. The study was funded the South Carolina Nurses Foundation and Dr. Matu-tina hopes that the results of her work will improve recruitment and retention of male nursing students.

Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month

VITAL SIGNS....An Update from Alumni and Development

All Gifts and Pledges to support Nursing can be sent to:

USC College of Nursing1027 Barnwell StreetColumbia, SC 29208

Gift Processing

Checks Made Payable to the USC Educational Foundation or at our website

http://giving.sc.edu/

To learn how you can make a difference at USC College of Nursing contact the

Development Office at 803-777-3468.

CON student, Amber Neira, signed a card for Do-nor Apprecitation Day on November 13th.

Shirley Stapes-Carter, Co-Chair Family Fund, Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication and Brandon Cochran, Assistant Director of Devel-opment and Regional Special Programs, spoke to the CON Faculty Council about the Family Fund on November 24th.

Thank you to Ruth Q. Seigler, RN, MN for her dedicated commitment as Senior Consultant for Development and Alumni Relations for the Col-lege of Nursing. Pictured with Jeanne Cavanaugh, RN, MN, President of the College of Nursing Partnership Board.

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