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ACADEMICS.......................................P. 4
RESEARCH......................................... P. 5
PRACTICE...........................................P. 6
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Congratulations to all faculty, staff, students and alumni for
helping the MUSC College of Nursing achieve the number one
ranking in online graduate nursing in the country.
We could not have done it with you.
NEWS & NOTES
A warm welcome at CON’s Grand Open House
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
SPOTLIGHT
New year brings a new name
The College of Nursing’s Diversity
and Inclusion Committee (formerly
the Diversity Committee) continues to promote an environment
of respect, teamwork and mutual
understanding among students,
faculty and staff. The working committee is dedicated to equity, access,
and inclusion and includes Tiffany
Williams, diversity officer; Carolyn
Page, director of student services
and alumni affairs; Ruthie Conner, Carrie Cormack, Tina Lopez
(faculty); Sabrina Green, Libby Cole
(staff); Liz Kreuze, graduate student;
and Tiffani Smalls, undergraduate
student.
The committee’s goal is to attract,
recruit, admit, retain and educate
a diverse student body and faculty,
while being understanding and
accepting of all people regardless
of social, cultural and economic
background. These differences may
be reflected in a number of ways
including ethnicity, sex/gender
identity and orientation, socioeconomic status, language, age,
physical characteristics, disability,
pregnancy, veteran status, country
of origin, citizenship, religious or
political beliefs, military status, and
others. You can support the committee by valuing diversity and being inclusive of all.
For additional information about
CON’s Diversity and Inclusion
Committee or diversity at MUSC,
visit http://academicdepartments.musc.
edu/nursing/about/diversity/
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY
THU-FRI
12-13
MON
16
MON
16
WED
18
MARCH
MUSC Board of Trustees Meeting
MON-FRI
all day | Colcock Hall
09-13
President’s Day
MON
CON open
16
Faculty Assembly
WED
1 - 4 p.m. | CON 202
18
Staff Meeting
MON
9 a.m. | CON 202
30
Spring Break
CON open
Faculty Assembly
1 - 4 p.m. | CON 202
Staff Meeting
9 a.m. | CON 202
Faculty Workshop: Evaluation & Assessment
presented by Michael Bridges, PhD
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (start time pending) | CON 221
Presidential Scholars Program Call for Applications
The Dr. Raymond S. Greenberg Presidential Scholars is now seeking applications for the university’s interprofessional program for 2015-16.
The Scholars Program is a two-semester experience for approximately 50 students, joined by selected faculty scholars from each college, as well
as the Charleston School of Law. This extracurricular program allows students to bring an interprofessional perspective to the study of complex social,
political, and human issues of broad interest to health care professionals and biomedical researchers.
Scholars meet bi-monthly for dinner meetings and presentations; additional meetings to complete a group community project may occur. Other
events include a trip to the SC State Legislature and dinner with MUSC President Cole. Previous Scholars have found participation in the program has
greatly benefited their professional development.
Deadline for applications is February 27, 2015. Click here to complete an application.
The Office of Student Diversity and the Multicultural Student Advisory Board (MSAB) presents BlAck
HiSTOry MOnTH 2015
“A Century of Black Life, Culture,
History, and Health”
Basic science Building (BsB) Room 302 • NooN - 1 p.m.
(lunch will be provided for the first 50 guests)
PreSenTerS
02.04.15 Willette S. Burnham, PhD., Assistant Professor, executive Director, Offices of Student Program
and Diversity, co-chairperson for the Diversity and inclusion Strategic Planning committee for the
MUSc enterprise
02.11.15 campus and community Diversity Panel
02.18.15 David cole, M.D., FAcS, President of the Medical University of South carolina
02.25.15 Vivian Bea, M.D., resident, Department of Surgery
ebony J. Hilton, M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Division of
critical care Medicine
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OFFICE OF ACADEMICS
New DNP track: Executive Leadership and Innovation
Recently the College of Nursing announced a new track for the Doctor of
Nursing Practice (DNP) program that will open August 2015 pending approval from the Commission on Higher Education. The proposed Nurse
Executive Leadership and Innovation program meets current national
recommendations to prepare
executive nurse leaders to
transform health care. The DNP
nurse executive is the bridge
between the patient/family,
community, interdisciplinary
team, and administration. As
nurses with advanced education, the nurse executive will be
visionary and innovative. The
proposed asynchronous online program will be completed in two years
(seven semesters) and the flexibility of online education allows students
to continue working while obtaining graduate education.
The program will focus on providing nurses the knowledge and skills to
be executive leaders who are competent, entrepreneurial and can transform health care and outcomes in an ever-changing healthcare system.
The core competencies for the nurse executive include: knowledge of
the health care delivery system and organizational environment: health
care finance, policy, and management; communication and relationship
management; and diversity and professionalism.
Applicants must hold a BSN degree, but a masters degree may be an
MSN, MHA, or MBA, as these degrees address the administrative role
graduates of the program will be prepared to assume.
Coggins receives scholarship
Christin Coggins, accelerated BSN student
has received the Elizabeth Ann Jones Alumni
Scholarship. Coggins transferred to
MUSC from the College of Charleston
(CofC) where she
was a member of the
nursing club. While
a CofC student, she
completed the CofC
Emergency Medical
Technician course,
as well as served as
a volunteer for both the Roper Hospital SCRUBS
program and MUSC HealthLinks. In 2014, she
participated in the Palmetto Medical Initiative
and traveled to Uganda, Africa with a team of
physicians and nurses to provide care to rural
villagers. Coggins shared this was a significant
event, and that is has become her goal to become a medical missionary and providing quality care. One of Coggin’s references wrote, “she is
well motivated, bright, cheerful, and enthusiastic.
I believe she will be an outstanding nurse. Please
educate her, and send her back to Spartanburg
so she can make a difference in our community.”
Students give back
CON’s undergraduate nursing students contributed to an outstanding flu vaccination season at the Ralph H. Johnson
VA Medical Center. As part of their clinical rotation, students, along with their instructors, staffed several immunization
stations in the main lobby of the hospital. Veterans arriving for their primary care clinic
appointments had the opportunity to get their flu injections with minimal time lost from
their routine activities. The students
administered shots, answered quesCharleston VA achieves 5-star rating,
tions regarding the flu strains and
sixth fastest growing VA in US
allergy information, as well as provided
The Ralph H. Johnson VA was again rated a 5-Star
assurances that the vaccine really did not cause flu. Several Veterans even
medical center, the highest possible rating accordagreed to be vaccinated for the first time, due to the “expert salesmanship”
ing to VA’s Strategic Analytics for Improvement and
of the student nurses.
Learning Value (SAIL) model, and became the sixth
In addition, the students utilized an appropriately designed mobile cart,
fastest growing VA in the U.S. for percentage patient
and traveled to offices and nursing units to make the flu vaccine availgrowth in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2014. This
able to all staff members. Many of the VA nursing staff had been bedside
rating, which ranks the Charleston VA in the top
educators to these students just a few months prior and felt confident in
10 percent of VA medical centers nationwide for
their students’ abilities.
quality of care and efficiency, was first achieved by
With the collaboration of the College and VANAP faculty over 5,000
the Charleston VA in October 2014. Click here to
injections were administered from September through December. Both
read more.
the Veterans and CON nursing students benefited.
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH
Publications &
presentations
PUBLICATIONS
> DeCristofaro, C., Murphy, P.,
Herron, T., & Klein, E. (2014) Using Guided Response to Stimulate
Student Engagement in the Online
Asynchronous Discussion Board.
International Journal of Arts and
Sciences, 7(3), 45-57. www.university-
publications.net/ijas/0703/pdf/H4V646.pdf
Submitted grant applications
Mathew J. Gregoski, PhD resubmitted an application to the American Heart Association for the NCRP Winter 2015 Scientist Development Grant titled, “Personalized Prevention of CVD: Role of Genetics, Stress, and Behavioral Factors.” The first aim of this
study will use a machine learning multivariate adaptive regression splines approach
with Jackson Heart Study archival data (with subsample cross validation) to expand an
endothelial system/autonomic nervous system pathway within a biobehavioral model
to include additional sympathetic nervous system, endothelial system genes and
environmental stressors, and hypertension/CVD outcomes. The second goal will be
to systematically examine additional hypertension pathways using multivariate adaptive regression splines to detect genes by environment interactions and psychosocial
characteristics related to hypertension/CVD among the Jackson Heart Study population. Generalized estimating equations based on the machine learning results will be
calculated with results reviewed by an epidemiological expert with over 25 years of experience in hypertension studies to ensure appropriate inclusion of variable selection.
The results will be used to determine effect-size for potential environmental exposure/
pharmacogenetic intervention strategies for future trials.
Cathy Durham, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, has been awarded a grant opportunity as co-PI
with James Sterrett, PharmD (College of Pharmacy) through the MUSC Interprofessional Collaboration Grant Pilot Project Program. Their grant is titled, “Interprofessional
Partners in Healthcare: Integrating Telepharmacy Precepting and Consulting Optimizing Collaborative Care and Education in a Nurse Practitioner Clinic targeting the Medically Underserved.” The project started in January and will go for one year.
NIH’s new biosketch format
Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is a new electronic system that
helps researchers assemble the professional information needed for participation in
federally funded research. SciENcv gathers and compiles information on expertise,
employment, education and professional accomplishments. Researchers can use
SciENcv to create and maintain biosketches that are submitted with grant applications
and annual reports. SciENcv allows researchers to describe and highlight their scientific
contributions in their own words.
SciENcv (part of My NCBI), is offered by the National Library of Medicine. Access
SciENcv at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/.
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> DeCristofaro, J. & DeCristofaro,
C. (2014) Value-Added Hybrid
Learning: Using OnlineResources
in the Community Arts Adult-Education Setting. Journal of Teaching
and Education, 3(2), 201-206. www.
universitypublications.net/jte/0302/pdf/
H4V648.pdf
Andrews, J.O.; Mueller, M.; Newman, S.D.; Magwood, G.; Ahluwalia, J.S.; White, K.; Tingen, M.S.
(2014) The Association of Individual and Neighborhood Social
Cohesion, Stressors, and Crime on
Smoking Status Among AfricanAmerican Women in Southeastern
US Subsidized Housing Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Health,
1(6), 1158-1174.
Spruill, I.; Magwood, G.; Nemeth,
L.; Williams, T. (2015) African
Americans’ Culturally Specific
Approaches to the Management
of Diabetes. Global Qualitative
Nursing Research, 1(2), 1 –9. DOI:
10.1177/2333393614565183
> Gracie, D. (2015). Patient Engagement in Healthcare IT. In
Patricia R. Sengstack & Charles M.
Boicey (Eds.), Mastering Informatics: A Healthcare Handbook for
Success (317-337). Indianapolis, IN:
Sigma Theta Tau International.
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OFFICE OF PRACTICE
Advanced practice nursing bill introduced in SC House
BY AMY WILLIAMS, MSN, APRN, CPNP
W
hen the 121st session of the South
Carolina General Assembly convened in January, Representative Jenny
Horne’s APRN Reform Bill, H.3078 was
introduced. The bill has eight sponsors
and was referred to the committee on
Medical, Military, Public and Municipal
Affairs (3M Committee) on January 13.
The proposed bill will remove ratios of APRNs working with physicians
(currently it is one physician to three
APRNs), remove the 45-mile physician supervision law, and give APRNs
schedule II prescriptive privileges. South
Carolina is one of 31 remaining states
that have limits on APRN scope of
practice that do not allow the advanced
graduate-level nurse to practice to the
full extent of her/his education and
training, which includes diagnosing,
prescribing medications, treating and
referring patients.
When introduced in early December,
the bill had letters of support from physicians, agencies and patients across the
state in both rural and suburban areas.
These letters asked the General Assembly to remove barriers to the APRN
profession, allowing them to practice to
“When APRNs are free from
undue supervision requirements and other undue
practice restrictions, they can
more efficiently fulfill unmet
health care needs.”
- Federal Trade Commission Policy Paper
their fullest extent and give more South
Carolinians access to care throughout
the state.
This comes at a time when more
than 800,000 new patients will enter the
health care marketplace because of the
implementation of The Affordable Care
Act. South Carolina struggles with caring for many of it’s citizens, ranks 45th
on the national health care report card,
ranks 33rd for the lowest number of
primary care physicians, and falls in the
bottom five for unhealthiest states.
Part or all of the state’s 46 counties
receive a medically underserved designation by the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Furthermore, the American Association
of Medical Colleges Center for Workforce predicts that there will be a shortage of 63,000 physicians by 2015, and
130,600 by 2025. This is occurring while
the number of nurse practitioners in the
US will increase by 94 percent by 2015.
States with full scope of practice have
better health outcomes than South Carolina. Despite these staggering statistics,
the bill is expected to meet opposition.
What needs to be done?
All nurses and APRNs working in South
Carolina need to contact their state representatives and senators (visit www.SCStatehouse.gov to locate your representatives) and ask them to support the APRN
reform bill, H.3078. APRNs can send
a letter (not an email) that describes
how the current laws restricts practice.
Using pen and paper may be the most
effective way to communicate with
your representative. We have learned
that many representatives and/or their
aides are more likely to read letters, but
only count emails. Additionally, phone
calls are useful. Call members of the 3M
committee to request that Chairman
Howard hear the bill as soon as possible
and “Vote Yes” when the bill is debated
on the floor.
Attention: Health care professionals
At the completion of this event, participants will be able to:
• Discuss the foundations of community-based palliative care
• Identify legal and regulatory components of
community-based palliative care
• Describe coding, billing and financial aspects of
community-based palliative care
• Distinguish successful community-based models of
palliative care
• Implement “best practices” in community-based palliative
care services
12:30 - 5:45 p.m. | College of Nursing | Room 202
(both days)
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There is a $20 processing fee for CE credit for nurses, physicians and social workers to be paid online www.NHPCO.org
(you must create an account and complete an evaluation).
Seats are limited. Click here to sign up for event.
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FACULTY & STAFF NEWS
Wins
Suparna Qanungo, PhD, research assistant professor, was
recently highlighted by the Office of Development and Alumni
Affairs about her philanthropic work in the children’s welfare
home in rural India. Read about her story, “College of Nursing
researcher helps to provide better future for girls in India” here.
In addition, Qanungo completed advanced training in data
management for clinical trials from Vanderbilt University in
December. Being the stellar student, she completed the course with distinction by
scoring 97.5 percent.
Kahlil Demonbreun, DNP, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC, ANP-BC,
instructor, has received the 2015 AANP Nurse Practitioner State
Award for Excellence from South Carolina. A reception will be
held for recipients from each state in New Orleans, LA in June.
FEBRUARY 2015
Some colleges say more men are entering
nursing programs
Marisa Torrieri | Healthcare DIVE
Look who Professor Elaine Amella
ran into at the AACN Doctoral Education
Conference in San Diego, CA...
recent PhD graduate, Dru Riddle.
Riddle succesfully defended his
final dissertation on January 9.
Congratulations!
One important key
to success is
self-confidence.
An important key to
self-confidence is
preparation.
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What I learned about love as a pediatric nurse
Kateri Allard, RN | The Huffington Post
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The CCNE accreditation
evaluation will take place
September 28-30, 2015.
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An interview with President David Cole: 2015 - A
strategic approach to a new year
Mikie Hayes | The Catalyst
Each year, a new edition of MUSC’s
Humanitas affords MUSC members
the unique opportunity to celebrate
the humanities via publication of
original short stories, poetry, music,
photography, paintings, etc. Submissions will be accepted through February 14 for the following categories:
written word, photography, visual art,
and music.
Visit the Humanitas website for more
information and to view previous editions.
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WELCOME TO THE WORLD
Terri Fowler and her husband, Matt
welcomed a baby boy on
January 9 at 11:55 p.m.
Jake Lucas Fowler weighed
in at 7 lbs., 8 oz.
Congratulations!
All faculty and staff are required
to be in attendance. No annual or
professional leave will be granted
during these dates.
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