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AUGUST 2014

Global Perspectives I have just returned from the Sigma Theta Tau 25th International Nursing Re-search Congress in Hong Kong, where I was invited to present my research find-ings on women in public housing. There were over 1000 nurse scientists from over 40 countries in attendance. In both “developing” and developed countries, costs of healthcare are soaring, as individuals are living longer with chronic health conditions and increasing complexity. Many European and Asian countries are at-tempting to increase the proportion of “university trained nurses” (our equivalent to BSN) and are increasing their efforts towards advanced practice nursing. Regard-less of one’s country of residence, gaps in health care access, especially among the most impoverished, continue to plague our global efforts.

The highlight of my trip included a tour of the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. Hong Kong has both public and private hospitals. This particular private hospital is rated as the premiere hospital in Hong Kong and has 500 beds and 30 specialist centers. Cynthia C. Huie-Rose, the Matron of Nursing (our equivalent to a Chief Nursing Officer), provided the tour (see photo). She proudly wore her nursing cap and explained that the stripes denote ranking. Her cap has 2 navy stripes with a red center, while directors’ caps have two stripes (no fill), and registered nurses’ cap have one stripe.

The hospital is positioned in a prime location, with fabulous views of the Happy Valley Race Course, in which betting on horses is a local favorite pastime. Interest-ingly, patients are assigned rooms based on the amount of money they are willing to pay. So there are no medical wards –rather patients are mixed on units based on price with the more expensive rooms on the higher levels (and better views of the race course). The largest patient room is over 3000 square feet in size and occupied by a “VIP” (unable to see during the tour). An elite ICU bed with an adjoining family room costs up to $25,000 USD per day (and this is just for the bed). All rooms are equipped with IE Buddy, a patient “infotainment” terminal operating on Windows 7, in which patients can make phone calls, search the web, watch televi-sion, receive education, etc., as well for clinicians’ use to access the patient record at the bedside. The technology is really incredible!

Globally, over one of two health professionals are nurses. Although we work in dif-ferent settings in many different locations, we have a common theme of advocating for patients and the populations we serve! Looking forward to seeing you at the Viana McCown event on October 17th. You can find the link to register in the following pages.

Jeannette O. Andrews PhD, RN, FAANDean & Professorj.andrews@sc.edu

Schedule of Events:

8:30 Registration

9:15 Welcome

9:30 Keynote Address

10:45 Break

11:00 Where were you? 70 Years of Alumni Stories 1944 - 2014

12:15 Lunch

Fashion Show: Miss McCown Presents Nursing Uniforms Over the Decades

1:15 Leadership and Challenges: Dean’s Panel Past to Present

2:15 Alumni Awards Ceremony

3:00 A Touch of Garnet & Black: Mix & Mingle at the College of Nursing

FRIDAY

October

17th

The Center for Nursing Leadership is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Successful completion of the program will award 3.5 contact hours.

Join us for the USC College of Nursing Homecoming

50th Anniversary of the Viana McCown Lectureship and Alumni Day

“Celebrating our Past, Shaping our Future”

8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Capstone Conference Center

$75 general, $30 students

REGISTER HERE

For more information contact Courtney Jones 803-777-3039 JONESC1@mailbox.sc.edu

Keynote SpeakerPhyllis Beck Kritek, RN, PhD, FAANConflict Engagement SpecialistSole Proprietor: “courage”Training, Facilitation, Consultation, Coaching, and Mediation

Special Alumni Reunions Classes of 1964, 1974, 1984,

1989, 1994, 2004, and 2009 will be held at the Viana McCown Lectureship and Alumni Day

SAVE THE DATEThe College of Nursing will host

the Cockaboose at the September 27th

Home Football Game (vs. Missouri - Parents Weekend)

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

Young Alumnus Q&A: Adrian Torbela, BSN (‘09)

Tell us about your family.My family migrated from Philippines in 2003. My mother is a registered nurse in California and my brother is a registered nurse at Palmetto Richland. My dad was a physician back in the Philippines and is now retired. My sister is currently in license voca-tional nursing school.

Where do you work now and what are your future plans?I am back at school taking science classes and am applying to medical school this year. After 4 years of working as nurse on a medical-surgical unit, I’ve decided that this was the right time to pursue medical school. Nursing has been a great experience for me. It not only helped me grow and mature as a person, but it has taught me the values of treating everyone with respect and dignity.

What is the most interesting thing you have seen or done as a nurse?There are so many interesting things you will experience in nurs-ing. One thing that stands out to me was taking care of patients with traumatic brain injury. They were not expected to survive but after a week or two on the floor, these patients went from be-ing in a coma to squeezing a rubber ball with their hands. I had a patient who even started responding to nurses pointing one or two fingers. It was amazing to see these things happen. One thing I have learned is that there is always a chance and to never give up on life.

What does it mean to be a College of Nursing Alumnus? Were there any faculty and/or campus experiences that helped you with your career choices and where you are now?I am proud to be part of the USC College of Nursing. The pro-fessors and staff were an important part in my development as a nursing student during my undergraduate years. They strive to provide quality education and training. Dr. Kathleen Mercer’s Nutrition class was very informative and I was able to utilize this to help me lose weight during the last 3 years of my undergrad. Losing weight properly was one of the best things that happened in my life because nursing demands so much from you not only mentally but also physically. Now, I still keep the healthy habits I learned in her class.

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USC College of Nursing1600 Hampton Street, Suite 736

Columbia, SC 29208Gift 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.

Faculty and Staff Notes

Faculty Publications

Hein, L. C., & Gardenier, D. (2014). Will Mar-riage Equality Make a Difference in the Health of LGBT Americans? Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(6), 376-377. doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2014.03.010

Eberth JM, Qiu R, Adams S, Salloum R, Bell N, Arrington A, Linder SK, Reginald M. Lung Cancer Screening using Low-Dose CT in the US: The Current Landscape. Editorially accepted (July 2014) at Lung Cancer.

Faculty Presentations

Christy DeGregory presented “The Effects of Multiple Gratitude Interventions Among Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease” at the Innovations in Faith-Based Nursing Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University in Mari-on Indiana on June 16, 2014.

Grants Funded

Dr. Karen McDonnell, “A Dissemination Project to Advance Lung Cancer screening in SC.” South Carolina Cancer Alliance.

Dr. Ronit Elk, “Community-Generated Palliative Care Telemedicine for Rural Black and White Elders.” R21 from National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Grants Submitted

Dr. Swann Adams, “Lung Cancer Screening: Primary Care Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices.” NIH/NCI R03

Dr. Laura C. Hein was invited to the White House for a follow-up briefing on the Affordable Care Act and the LGBT Community on July 24th, 2014. Dr. Hein was the only attendee from South Caro-lina. Pictured here with the Executive Director and members of the Board of Directors of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.

Congratulations to PhD Can-didate, Cristy DeGregory, on her Dissertation Defense based on her research study, “The Effects of Multiple Grati-tude Interventions Among Infor-mal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia and Alzheimer’s Dis-ease.”

Jessica McCormickExecutive Assistant to the Dean

Clinical Assistant Professor, Dr. Tena McK-inney joined USC College of Nursing in March 2013 after completing a Duke Uni-versity, School of Nursing research fellow-ship in Chronic Illness and Care Systems Trajectories. In 2010, she completed the requirements for her PhD at the Arnold School of Public Health, Health Services, Policy and Management where she studied health services and workforce. Dr. McKin-ney’s research program focuses on increasing

UPCOMING EVENTS

August 6thCON Staff Appreciation Day

New DNP Student Social

August 9th Summer Commencement

August 13-14 USC New Faculty Orientation

August 15th Patient Centered Decision Making: Myth or

Reality in Breast Cancer CarePresented by Dr. Sue P. Heiney

10:00 – 11:30 am915 Greene Street, Room 140

Discovery I Building

August 16th Move In Day

August 17th Freshman Tea: 1:30 pm, 1st floor lobby

New Student Convocation

August 18th CON Back To School Events

for Faculty/Staff

August 20thNew PhD Student Social

August 21stFall Semester Begins

September 1

No Classes – Labor Day

September 26th – 28thParents Weekend

September 26th Commitment Ceremony

September 27th Cockaboose

October 17th - 19th Homecoming Weekend

October 17th Viana McCown Lectureship

October 18thHomecoming Game

October 23-24 Fall Break

Faculty Spotlight: Tena Hunt McKinney, PhD, APRN

Welcome to the College of Nursing!

health system capacity for high quality health care as influenced by nurse leadership behaviors and clinical-academic partnerships to enrich the nursing education experience. For example, in Spring 2014 Dr. McKin-ney partnered with one of the largest health systems in SC to develop strategies to resolve clinical nursing education placement shortages on inpatient units. Student, faculty and nursing staff surveys indicated posi-tive experiences with the educational ecosystem model, which distrib-utes learning opportunities across multiple, diverse settings and increases clinician-student engagement. Not only did health system personnel contribute to nursing education in the clinical setting, but staff nurses also participated in College of Nursing simulations with students. The next steps are to nurture and develop the program further and to explore potential measures of the ultimate outcomes of nursing educational pro-grams- patient care outcomes and experiences.

In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. McKinney practices as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Children and Family Health Care Clinic and serves as the SC Nurses Association, Commission Chair of Profes-sional Development and Advocacy. She has provided services to un-derserved populations in rural and inner-city communities in SC since 1993.

Dr. Tena Hunt McKinney is a featured Scholar by the Vice President for Research’s office. Read it HERE.

Jamie Lawson is work-ing with the company Wildness Ventures in Ec-uador and the Galápagos Islands this summer lead-ing high school students on service oriented out-door adventure trips.

Jackie Nolan has an externship this summer with the University of Maryland Medical Cen-ter Student Nurse Resi-dency Program. She will be working on a med-surg floor.

Jordan Ferrugia vis-ited family in Italy for three weeks this summer.

Mary McGuinness has an externship this summer at Georgetown University Hospital on the Surgical ICU.

Students Corner

Atlanta, GA native, Lauren Massey, will represent nursing in the 2014 Leadership Scholars Program. The Leadership Scholars are a student driven group created by the Caro-lina Leadership Initiative that will be taking on a drastically different role for the 2014-2015 academic year. Leadership and leadership development have become buzz words on college campuses nationwide, but, many campuses fail to address the ambiguity of the term “leadership.” What does it mean to be a student leader, and more importantly, what does it mean to be a student leader at The University of South Carolina? This coming fall, this cohort of leadership scholars is tasked with answering these very questions. They will focus first on building a strong knowledge base around a number of diverse leadership models and theories, and then will begin identifying applicable characteristics that define a “Carolina Leader.” This student driven project will help to create a framework of leadership development that addresses specific student needs and interests at The University of South Carolina. Massey stated, “I am honored to have been selected as a Leadership Scholar. I look forward to using my leadership skills, in collaboration with others, to create and foster a thriving and altruistic program at USC.”

Student Nurse Leader

No Limits to our Teaching• First and largest BSN and nursing graduate programs in the state of SC • 94%-100% NCLEX and Nurse Practitioner Board Pass Rates, exceeding both state and national averages • New PhD student fellowships and stipends• National and Internationally recognized faculty• Online graduate programs ranked top in the country by US News and World Report

No Limits to our Innovation • State-of-the-art Client Simulation Lab providing revolutionizing and quality education to students• Cutting edge research in health care delivery, cancer survivorship, health promotion, and vulnerable populations• 4th DNP program in the country, now provided online• Center for Nursing Leadership is leading state-wide action coalitions responsive to the national Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

No Limits to our Caring • The College of Nursing’s Children and Family Healthcare Center is the only nurse managed medical home in South Carolina• Our dedicated expert clinical faculty provide comprehensive healthcare to all ages of an underserved population• Over 90 scholarships provided each year to our students, with the generosity from our alumni and donors• Well established partnerships with health systems and stakeholders across the state

No Limits to our Scholarship• National leaders in nursing research with 70% of our tenure track faculty having received NIH funding • Diverse portfolio of research funding from NCI, NINR, NHLBI, NLM, CDC, HRSA, Duke Foundation, & others• Two Research Centers: Healthcare Process and Redesign Center and Cancer Survivorship Center

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