the pulse: october 2011
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Fall is in the air and with that comes one of my most favorite times of year at the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing (IVMSON)—Homecoming. Homecoming is always a special time for us as we reflect back on the thousands of graduates who have helped make our school what it is today, and look forward to the numerous possibilities that lie ahead for our students.
One of my most favorite memories from last year’s Homecoming was watching our students connect with alumni from the class of 1960. It was special to see the unique bond that nursing creates; regardless of the numerous differences between the groups, their mutual love for the profession and commitment to caring for others united them.
That’s what Homecoming is about! It’s about remembering and celebrating your roots, and for us as a school of nursing, our roots are planted firmly in Ida Moffett’s vision for nursing excellence. Whether you are a Birmingham Baptist or Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing graduate, you reflect the core values and beliefs she held so dear – academic excellence, caring, compassion and service. These foundational values and beliefs are important and serve as the “golden thread” that holds together the IVMSON from one generation of graduates to the next.
In this issue, we highlight the Moffett Nurse Network. This program was created specifically with our alumni in mind and it attempts to unite Moffett Nurses in their own communities across the country. Moffett Nurses are special and we hope that you will enjoy reading about some of their many accomplishments in this newsletter. We are immensely proud of our rich history of nursing excellence and the legacy that our alumni and students have helped create.
Whether you are an alumnus, student, parent or friend of the school, I hope that you will consider joining us for Homecoming on Saturday, October 29th. The details of our events are included in this newsletter. You are an important part of both our history and our future and we would be honored if you would join us as we celebrate 89 years of nursing education.
Ralph W. Beeson Dean and Professor
Message from the Dean: The Golden Thread
In This Issue:
Accelerated
second degree students welcome ASNA Executive Dir.
Homecoming
2011 Alumni
inducted into Nursing Hall of Fame
Spotlight:
Moffett Nurse Network
IVMSON
receives grant for simulation
Alumna turns
101 In His Words:
Davy Campbell
The Pulse
“Caring is the shining thread of gold that holds together the tapestry of life." Mrs. Ida V. Moffett
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Accelerated Second Degree Students Gain Insight on Legislative Issues
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
On Wednesday, October 5, the Accelerated Second Degree nursing students had the opportunity to meet and discuss legislative and healthcare issues with Joe Decker, Executive Director of the Alabama State Nurses Association, as part of their senior Management class.
On the behalf of ASNA, Decker represents nurses in governmental agencies, the Alabama Legislature, allied health organizations, and the public. He is also responsible for administering all activities and personnel of ASNA in compliance with the American Nurses Association bylaws, House of Delegate’s decisions, and policies of the Board of Directors.
Decker spent time explaining to students the importance in becoming a member of professional organizations, such as ASNA, as well as the difference between state and national associations.
“Mr. Decker’s presentation helped me to understand the differences in professional organizations and how my membership can impact decisions affecting my career and my future patients,” said Shayla Montgomery, an accelerated B.S.N. student from Birmingham.
As part of their Management course taught by Susan Sheffield, MSN, RN and Janet Alexander, EdD, MSN, RN, students learned about healthcare policy and legislature, so Decker was a perfect speaker to bridge the classroom content with real life experience. Students were then required to select a healthcare policy issue they supported and write a paper demonstrating the impact that particular policy has on the healthcare legislative. Along with the health policy paper, student composed a persuasive letter to their state representative or senator in regard to the issue they supported.
Decker’s presentation on current state legislative healthcare bills was extremely informative and gave students a great starting point. A few current healthcare bills he discussed included the Nursing Scholarship Bill (SB209/HB372), a Smoke Free Alabama bill (HB149), and the restriction nurse practitioners of Alabama currently have (i.e. writing prescriptions, etc).
Overall, the opportunity and chance to ask questions to Decker was another exceptional experience that the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing gives students.
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Learn more about the Alabama State Nurses Association here.
By: Molly Hamilton, accelerated second degree student
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Make Plans to Join Us for Homecoming 2011
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
Bring your family and come celebrate 89 years of Nursing Excellence!
Saturday, October 29, 2011
IVMSON Annual Alumni and Friends
Homecoming BBQ
12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m.
Center for Healing Arts Plaza
$5/person, payable at the door
Please RSVP to Katie Stripling at
[email protected] or 205-726-2265
The classes of 1957, 1960, 1962 and 1968 will gather for breakfast and fellowship at 10 a.m.
This is a great opportunity for classes to reunite and spend some time together! If your class
would like to meet prior to the BBQ, please contact Katie Stripling to reserve a space.
Samford vs. Western Carolina
2:30 p.m.
Click here to purchase tickets to the game.
Nursing Hosts First Aid Stations
Throughout the 2011 football season, IVMSON faculty and students have staffed the First Aid stations at all of the home football games. This has been a great opportunity for our students and faculty to partner with athletics to serve the community. There are still two home football games left. Be sure to stop by and say “hello” to the Moffett Nurses!
Above: Faculty members Jill Butler and Becky Warr Right: Faculty members Lora Shelton and John Lundeen with BSN student Sarah Stewart
Accolades, Honors, and Acknowledgments—Alumni and Students
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
MSN students Debbie Duke, Carrie Dooley, Heidi Emanuel and Ann McEntire, and professor Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE, presented a poster: Decreasing Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease Through Parish Nurse-Led Community Health Classes, at the 25th Annual National Westberg Symposium in St. Louis, MO, on September 16. Jessica Johnson, BSN 2009 and current FNP student, received a scholarship from the American College of Nurse Practitioners. Arlene Jones, DNP 2011, has passed the NLN Academic Nurse Educator certification exam and earned the CNE credential. Bobbie Loveless, DNP 2010, has passed the NLN Academic Nurse Educator certification exam and earned the CNE credential.
Rebecca Newton, DNP student, was selected as for the National League of Nursing’s year-long Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators. Stuart Pope, DNP 2009, had a manuscript, “Another face of health care disparity: Stigma of mental illness” published in Journal of Psychosocial Nursing. Carol Ratcliffe, DNP 2009, has been selected to receive the 2011 Alabama State Nurses' Association Outstanding Nursing Administrator Award. She will be recognized at a ceremony in Auburn, Ala. on October 20. Karen Taylor, DNP 2011, passed the NLN Academic Nurse Educator certification exam and earned the CNE credential. Liz Zegler, BSN student, received first runner up in the
Miss Samford pageant on October 15.
Alumni Inducted into Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame
Three Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing alumni recently joined the ranks of legendary nurses Ida V. Moffett, Margret Millsap and others, as members of the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame. On Thursday, October 13, Greg Eagerton, DNP 2009, Carol Ratcliffe, DNP 2009, and Regina Yarbrough, MSN 2008, were inducted into this prestigious group for their extraordinary commitment to the nursing profession. Rounding out the group of inductees were Elizabeth Morris and Bettie Ann Cleino, the grandmother of an IVMSON BSN student. Dr. Eagerton currently serves as Chief Nursing Officer, Birmingham VA Medical Center. Dr. Ratcliffe is the Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nurse Executive at St. Vincent’s East and Mrs. Yarbrough serves as the Chief Nursing Officer at Princeton Baptist Medical Center.
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Dr. Greg Eagerton Dr. Carol Ratcliffe Regina Yarbrough
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
Program Spotlight: Moffett Nurse Network
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Alumni relations are a priority for IVMSON as we seek to connect with and unite graduates from the Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing and the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing. With the 90th Anniversary just a couple of months away, the Moffett Nurse Network is expanding and evolving to serve the school’s growing alumni base. Over the past year, we have spent a great deal of time talking to our alumni, and alumni from other schools of nursing to identify the strengths, weaknesses and areas of opportunity in our alumni programs. Through these conversations we have gained invaluable insight into the needs of our graduates and as a result of that dialogue, the Moffett Nurse Network was born. IVMSON launched the Network earlier this year to ease some of the barriers alumni face when trying to connect with their alma mater and other Moffett Nurses. The Network continues to evolve and we are always looking for ways to improve and grow. So far, the Moffett Nurse Network has hosted events in six cities and as a result of these events we have had contact with more than 400 of our alumni. Although not all of these alumni join us at events, they are plugged into a Network of Moffett Nurses in their area and are reassured of our commitment to a longstanding relationship with them. As we travel from city to city, it is always special to see the unique bond that Moffett Nurses share. As a school, we have reconnected with old friends, and helped alumni reunite and expand their networks in their hometown. In one city, we learned that five of our alumni lived within a few blocks of one another and never knew it! Looking forward to 2012, we hope that our alumni will continue to join together and help us celebrate the rich 90 year tradition that makes IVMSON such a special place. If you would like to help facilitate a Moffett Nurse Network event in your area, or if you would like to serve on a planning committee for the 90th Anniversary, please contact Katie Stripling at [email protected].
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
Upcoming Events for Alumni and Friends
Thanks to a generous grant from the Hill Crest Foundation, the simulation center will now have additional resources to further enhance the integration of simulation into the nursing curriculum. Through a multi-year pledge, the Foundation will help IVMSON continue to invest in the utilization of this revolutionary technology.
Throughout the 2011-12 year, more than 230 simulation events will occur in the center. IVMSON continues to strive for full integration in clinical courses and thanks to the Hill Crest Foundation IVMSON will be closer to achieving that goal. This year IVMSON will extend simulation to include community health. We will also begin development of an informatics curriculum to be integrated into courses as well as simulation. This will include the implementation of an electronic health record and a virtual simulation community.
The Hill Crest Foundation’s investment in the Simulation Center will make a lasting impact on the student experience for the health care providers of the future.
IVMSON Receives Grant for Simulation Center
October 29: Class of 1957, 1960, 1962 and 1968 Reunions 10:00 a.m., Center for Healing Arts, First Floor (each class will have their own reserved space) October 29: Annual Homecoming BBQ 12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m. at Center for Healing Arts Plaza $5/person, payable at the door. Please RSVP to Katie Stripling at [email protected] or 205-726-2265 November 4: Class of 1961 Reunion The Class of 1961 will gather for a reunion on Friday, November 4th at 11:30 a.m. in the Rotunda at Samford University. If you plan to attend or have questions, please contact Sherree Jones at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there!
If you’re interested in hosting a Moffett Nurse Network event in your city, please contact Katie Stripling.
Alumna Celebrates 101st Birthday
Marna Barefield Green, alumna of the class of 1932, celebrated her 101st birthday on September 23. Mrs. Greene lives in Houston and stays in touch with IVMSON through her daughter Joy. IVMSON is blessed to have reconnected with such a special family.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Green!
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In His Words: B. Davis Campbell, MSN, CRNP
IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
It all happened so quickly. I was a healthy 43 year old male with hardly a worry in the world. However, one day after jogging, I noticed some blood in my urine. Follow up tests for kidney stones proved negative. However, after the painless hematuria persisted intermittently for about a year, I underwent a cystoscopy and discovered I had a stage 3 transitional cell carcinoma of my bladder. I was devastated. Therefore, on August 27, 2004, I underwent total removal of my bladder and creation of a new bladder, a “neobladder”, out of twenty inches of my small intestine. Due to my surgery, I had to learn to catheterize myself two to three times per day. I subsequently recovered from my surgery and returned to my work as a nurse practitioner at University Hospital, still in shock of what had occurred in my health. During this time, I learned everything anyone would ever want to know about bladder cancer. Even though I had no major risk factors for bladder cancer, for example, cigarette smoking, I felt that I was diagnosed with cancer for a purpose, perhaps, to be a “poster child” for bladder cancer. Therefore, I submitted a manuscript to Nursing magazine entitled, “Bladder Cancer: Signs, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment.” I was delighted to learn several months later that my manuscript would be published. Nursing magazine changed the title to “Bladder Cancer: Revealing News about a Hidden Threat,” but said it
would be published in April 2006. I was ecstatic. Although I still couldn’t understand completely why I got cancer, it was still going to have a positive outcome in that I would have an article published in a national nursing magazine. Then it happened, part two. In 2006, cancer was discovered in my lymph nodes and I underwent three and a half months of brutal chemotherapy with cisplatinol and gemcitabine. While receiving chemotherapy, I was hospitalized four times with anemia and dehydration. One time I was hospitalized with a urinary tract infection and I ended up receiving seven units of blood. My chances of living five years according to my oncologist were 15 to 20 percent. But God had other plans. I passed my five year anniversary of my last chemotherapy treatment in June 2011 and was declared cancer-free, although I still have residual effects from the chemotherapy, in particular, partial hearing loss, renal insufficiency and peripheral neuropathy. Therefore, still trying to comprehend the reasons for my cancer diagnosis and treatment, I felt led to write a book. One purpose for writing was to inform the public about how to overcome cancer based on my experience. In addition, in writing, it would help me deal with the pain that cancer had brought into my life. I am happy to report that my book, A Place I Didn’t Want To Go: My Victory Over Cancer, was published in September 2011. The book deals with the spiritual, emotional and physical challenges of dealing with cancer. It also lists the seven warning signs of cancer, the three types of sickness according to the Bible, and a six step guideline for overcoming cancer. Most importantly, it provides hope for anyone going through cancer or major illness. The title is based on John 21:18 where Jesus tells Peter that one day Peter would be brought “to a place he didn’t want to go”. I was brought to a place that I didn’t want to go, i.e. cancer, major surgery and chemotherapy, but am hopeful that my story will serve as encouragement to others. Encouragement through these difficult times is especially important considering that one out of two men in the United States and one out of three women will experience cancer in their lifetimes. My book, available on Amazon, describes the heartache of cancer diagnosis and treatment, but also trumpets the joy of victory.
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Davy is a class of 1983 graduate of IVMSON. Click here to find his book on Amazon.
Debbie Duke, BSN, RN and Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE, presented to the Alacare Home Health and Hospice PAC, on Faith Community Nursing (Parish Nursing) and Congregational Health on October 11. Arlene Hayne, DSN, RN and Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE presented, Presentation Rubrics: Improving Faculty Professional Presentations, at the National League for Nursing Summit, Leading Academic Progression-Advancing the Health of the Nation, in Orlando, FL on September 22, 2011. Arlene Hayne, DSN, RN and Sharron Schlosser, DSN, RN, CNE presented, Using Problem Based Learning to Analyze Health Policy, at the Fourth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference, Impacting Health Care Policy, in New Orleans, LA on September 29.
Belinda Isley, MSN, WHNP, FNP, NP-C, was selected to share a “Clinical Pearl” in the upcoming issue of The Clinical Advisor.
John Lundeen, MSN, RN CNE, was elected to the National League of Nursing’s NLN's Nurse Educator Certification Commission where he will serve for three years.
John Lundeen, MSN, RN, CNE, Jill Pence, MSN, RN and Vicki Rochester, MSN, RN received the ABN Nurse Educator Scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year. The recipients are pursuing doctoral degrees and there were only 22 of these scholarships awarded statewide. Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE, Debbie Duke, BSN, RN and students Carrie Dooley, BSN, RN; Heidi Emanuel, BSN, RN; and Ann McEntire, BSN, RN; presented a poster presentation: Decreasing Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease Through Parish Nurse-Led Community Health Classes, at the 25th Annual National Westberg Symposium in St. Louis, MO, on September 16. Sharron Schlosser, DSN, RN, CNE; Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE; and 2010 alumna Susan Stillwell, DNP, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN presented at poster, DNP Students’ Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice, at the Fourth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference, Impacting Health Care Policy, in New Orleans, LA September 28-30. Sharron Schlosser, DSN, RN, CNE; Gretchen McDaniel, DSN, RN, CNE; Arlene Hayne, DSN, RN; Margaret Findlay, PhD, RN, CNE; and Jane Martin, PhD, FNP-BC, NP-C presented a poster, DNP Capstone Projects: Pathways to Evidence-Based Clinical Excellence, at the National League for Nursing Summit, Leading Academic Progression-Advancing The Health of the Nation, in Orlando, FL on September 21-23, 2011 and at the Fourth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference, Impacting Health Care Policy, in New Orleans, LA September 28-30.
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IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
Accolades, Honors, and Acknowledgments—Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Alumni Attend NLN Summit
A number of IVMSON faculty and alumni reunited at the annual National League of Nursing’s Education Summit in Orlando, Fla., September 21-23.
Drs. McDaniel, Hayne and Schlosser at the DNP Conference
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IVMSON E-NEWSLETTER October 2011
On Saturday, October 15, IVMSON was celebrated at the Samford vs. Elon football game. A variety of faculty and friends of the school were involved in the celebration, that included on-field presentations and a video segment. Lora Shelton, DNP, FNP, CNE, was recognized as “Faculty Member of the Game.” As such, Dr. Shelton officially put the game ball in play at the start of the game and was featured in a video presentation. Dr. Shelton is a passionate advocate for student nurses and a shining example of excellence in education and nursing practice. Alumna and Advisory Board Chair, Mrs. Jo Kicker and her husband Robert, were honored with an on-field presentation of a game ball signed by Samford football coach, and former Heisman Trophy winner, Pat Sullivan. The Kickers are incredible partners in IVMSON’s mission and their commitment to nursing education is admired and appreciated by many. Other faculty, friends and Advisory Board members joined Dean Nena F. Sanders, DSN, RN, and other Samford Administration throughout the game. Tremendous thanks to Samford Athletics for this special day!
Samford Athletics Highlights IVMSON
Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing Holiday Open House
Thursday, December 1 4-6 p.m.
Center for Healing Arts
Please join us for refreshments, fellowship and tours of our facilities, including the state of the art human
simulation center.
Following the Open House, you are invited to join Samford University as we usher in the Advent season
with the traditional Hanging of the Green and Lighting of the Way
ceremonies. The ceremonies begin at 6 p.m. in
Reid Chapel.
Save the Date Holiday Open House
The Kickers with their game ball
Mrs. Gloria Schaefer enjoying the game with Samford’s mascot Rex
Dates To Remember
If you have any student, fac-ulty, or alumni awards, presen-tations, conferences, scholar-
ships, photographs or any other announcements, etc.
that you would like posted in the next edition of The Pulse,
please send them to [email protected] or call 205-726-2265
...to all who participated in providing information for this newsletter.
“Caring is the shining thread of gold that holds together the tapestry of life.” Mrs. Ida V. Moffett
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