Division of Nursing 2001-02

Meg Cole

Publications:

• Submitted "An Old Drug, New Treatment: Case Study of Placenta Accreta"  to AWHONN Lifelines

Member:

• Alabama Perinatal Association, Region IV

• Association of Women’s Health Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN):  nominated for National Nominating Committee

• Alabama AWHONN Association: Education Director 

• Alabama Baby Coalition: chair, Data Collection and Analysis, Fetal Infant Mortality Review Committee

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

• Mission and Identity Committee, SHC Board of Trustees

Attended:

• Alabama Baby Coalition quarterly meeting

• Presentation:  Alabama Baby Coalition: 2000 Statistics/Results of Fetal Mortality Review

• Alabama Georgia AWHONN Association Conference, Callaway  Gardens, Georgia

• Presentation:  Alabama Baby Coalition: 2000 Statistics/Results of Fetal Mortality Review

• Planning Committee meeting, Alabama Georgia AWHONN Association Conference, Callaway  Gardens, Georgia

• On-line attendee:  Assessment Strategies for Nursing Educators:  Test Development and Item Writing, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (121 hours)

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Enhancing Student Motivation to Learn

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Writing Across the Curriculum

Accepted for Case Study Workshop in the Sciences, University of Buffalo;  did not attend due to lack of funds (Teagle Grant proposal to attend this workshop was not funded)

Reviewer:  AWHONN Lifelines

Data collection with senior nursing students:  Spanking of Children for Discipline: A Comparison of Parents' and Non-Parents' Perceptions

-Nominated for Educator of the Year, National AWHONN Association
-Educator of the Year, Mobile Chapter AWHONN Association

-Revised NUR 320 Childbearing Family:  changed textbook and updated notes 
-Updated notes for NUR 300 Foundations of Nursing Care and NUR 411 Child and Adolescent Health
-Used PowerPoint in all lectures and put all class notes on ERes

Works in progress:

•   Continuing research with nursing students on spanking of children

•   Paper on teaching research to undergraduate students

Carol Harrison [Division Chair]

Publications:

• Article: "Charitable Nursing:  Camillus deLellis" accepted for publication in Journal of Christian Nursing

Attended:

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) meeting 

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives meeting

• Alabama Council of Academic Programs in Nursing Education meeting, Montgomery, Alabama

• "Use of a Spiritual Assessment Tool" workshop

• "HESI Testing Products" presentation, Montgomery, Alabama

• "Dementia:  A Professional Perspective"

• "Sepsis:  New Insights, New Outlooks -- Impact and Pathophysiology of Sepsis"

• "Diversity in Healthcare:  Fulfilling a Professional Obligation"

• "Numbing the Pain:  Grief and Substance Abuse"

• "Alabama Board of Nursing Update"

• "Generations at Work"

• Mobile Chamber of Commerce Health Consortium: SHC representative

• SHC information technology workshops

Divisional Grants:

• Crampton Trust grant ($22,500) for nursing equipment

• Scholarship monies from Springhill Memorial Hospital for two students ($2,000 each)

• Working with a Miami psychiatric agency on possible funding of a 25% scholarship for a nursing student

• Negotiating with ROTC to fund full scholarships

Awarded:

• SHC summer curriculum grant to develop Parish Nursing course

• Teagle grant to conduct five-day retreat for nursing division

Member:

• Mobile Chapter, Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives: Board of Directors

• Baccalaureate Deans and Directors, State of Alabama:  Chair

• Mercy Medical Board of Directors:  Vice-chair

• Alabama State Nurses Association (ASNA)

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

• American Nurses Association

• Phi Kappa Phi

• Parish Nursing Consortium

-Developed new course:  MIN 555/NUR 499 Special Topics:  Parish Nursing II;  used PowerPoint, chat room, discussion board, and lecture/discussion methodologies
-Revised content of NUR 100 Introduction to Nursing and Health
-Collaborated with Providence Hospital, University of South Alabama Medical Center, and South Alabama Children's and Women's Hospital to set up students' practicum experiences in NUR 440 

-Served on Search Committee for Health Services Supervisor position for Barton Academy
-Asked to  serve as consultant to Wheeling Jesuit University's nursing program as part of a grant (not funded)

Submitted CCNE (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education) interim accreditation report and Alabama Board of Nursing annual report

Works in progress:

• Development of Leadership in Health graduate degree in collaboration with other members of the college community

• Follow-up study of graduates and employers

• Preparing  CCNE accreditation report

Terran Mathers

Completed doctoral studies at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana;  received Doctorate of Nursing Science

 Presentations:

• Dissertation Defense, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center:  "Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Renal Failure Between Middle-Aged and Elderly Hemodialysis Patients"

• SHC Faculty Friday:  "Psychosocial Adaptation:  A Nursing Viewpoint"

-Reviewed two manuscripts for the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) Nephrology Journal (refereed)
-Book/movie/software reviewer for the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) Nephrology Journal (refereed):

• Book review:  Home Care: Patient and Family Instructions

• Book review:  Real-World Community Health Nursing:  An Interactive CD-ROM

Reviewed three chapters for Prentice Hall for new N-Clex Review book

Attended:

• Clinical Responses to Trauma-Related Fears and Stress, Dr. Cory F. Newman, Birmingham, Alabama

• International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida (SHC representative) 

• American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) National Symposium, Orlando, Florida

• Presenter  "Psychosocial Adaptation:  A Comparison"

• On-line attendee:  Assessment Strategies for Nursing Educators -- Test Development and Item Writing, National Council of State Boards of Nursing

• SHC workshop:  "Model Projects:  Enhancing Faculty-Student Communication with ERes"

• Presenter:  Demonstration of how ERes was used in NUR 420 during Spring 2001

• SHC Raymond Wlodkowski workshop:  Enhancing Student Motivation to Learn

• SHC Gayle Bolt Price workshop:  Writing Across the Curriculum

• SHC Teaching for Justice Seminar

Awarded:

• Research Abstract Award 2002 from the American Nephrology Nurses Association

• Teagle Curriculum Revision Grant for NUR 310 Community Mental Health

• Teagle Summer Curriculum Grant for new course development:  GNT 200 Health and Aging

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Graduate Nursing Department

Member:

• CHEER (group of health care workers providing home care for elderly, needy individuals)

-Complete revision of NUR 310 Community Mental Health and NUR 420 Community as Client, including incorporation of justice issues from SHC's Justice Seminar
-Developed new two-hour course:  NUR 201 Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition
-Collaborated with community clinical facilities to set up students' clinical experiences in NUR 420 Community Mental Health and NUR 310 Community as Client

-Worked with four nursing students to provide information to the Dean of Students for a program on eating disorders:  involved conducting a college survey, preparing a PowerPoint presentation on the results, and advertising and presenting the program
-Assisted in the collection of data from the nursing students for the Core Alcohol Survey
-Worked with Dr. Mike Johnson and the Development Office to update nursing alumni files and to create an alumni survey to be distributed in summer 2002
-Assisted Dr. Mike Johnson with the development of a college Institutional Review Board to review research proposals involving human participants
-Worked with Dr. Bob MacAleese to rejuvenate the Gerontology Certificate Program

Assisted nursing students in:

• putting on the SHC Health Fair (in collaboration with the Wellness Center)

• offering "Wellness Checks" to faculty, staff, and students

• the Parish Nursing community service activity of taking blood pressure checks after Sunday Masses at a local church and educating parishioners as needed regarding blood pressure regulation

Updated NUR 310 Community Mental Health and NUR 420 Community as Client on ERes and put NUR 201 Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition on ERes: added notes, PowerPoint presentations, internet connections;  used discussion board

Updated faculty web page

Works in progress:

• Chapter on ophthalmology in new pharmacology book to be published by Delmar

• Two book/movie/software reviews for Nephrology Journal

• Revising dissertation for publication: "Comparison of Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Renal Failure Between Middle-Aged and Elderly Hemodialysis Patients"

Julie Sanford

Publications:

• A book (Protocols for Acute Care Nurse Practitioners.  Barkley, T. and Myers, C. [eds.].  W.B. Saunders:  Orlando) for which I wrote a chapter (“Thoracic, Abdominal and Eye Trauma”) won the American Journal of Nursing's "Best Book of the Year" award 

Presentations:

• SHC Faculty Friday:  "The Webquest"

Attended:

• Nursing Technology Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Presentation: “Hot Topics in Online Education”

• Alabama State Nursing Association State Conference, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

• Presentation: “Issues in Online Education”

• Poster Presentation:  “Issues in Online Education”

• Nursing Education Conference, Orlando, Florida

• Presentation: “Teaching Strategies in Online Education"

• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Annual Research Day, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Updates in Cardiovascular Management, Orange Beach, Alabama

• Testing and Evaluation, Mobile, Alabama 

Awarded:

• Teagle Curriculum Revision Grant for NUR 445 Critical Care

• Research grant from the Zeta Gamma chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

Member:

• American Nurses Association

• Oncology Nurses Association

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

• American Heart Association

• National Stroke Association

• American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Courses and dissertation hours toward Doctor of Science in Nursing degree at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans (dissertation defense is scheduled for June 5, 2002)

-Developed new course NUR 301 Health Assessment
-Worked to integrate more critical thinking activities in classes instead of using lecture only format
-Placed all course materials (PowerPoint presentations, handouts, course syllabi, forms, and communications) on ERes for NUR 330 Adult Health I, NUR 410 Adult Health II, NUR 445 Critical Care, and NUR 301 Health Assessment 

Solicited and received used critical care equipment from Providence Hospital

Served as Science Olympiad coach for Cottage Hill Baptist School

Works in progress:

• Dissertation:  The Relationships Among Stress, Burden and Health Status in Rural Caregivers of Stroke Patients  (hope to defend June 5, 2002)

Donna Trimm

Attended:

• "Issues in Medical/Surgical Care" by Pesi Healthcare, Biloxi, Mississippi

• "Critical Thinking and Test Item Writing for Nurse Educators" by Susan Morrison, Ph.D., R.N. (president of Health Education Systems), Bishop State Community College

• Dr. Linda Corson Jones Memorial Nursing Research Day, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, New Orleans, Louisiana

Member:

• American Nurses Association

• Alabama Nurses Association

• Mobile County Nurses Society

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

• Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education

Inducted into the International Honor Society in Education, Kappa Delta Pi

Doctoral student at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans:  passed doctoral comprehensive exams and began work on proposal for dissertation

-Revised NUR 202 Pharmacology:  new textbook, redesigned class activities, new and updated lectures for PowerPoint presentations, new syllabus
-Revised all PowerPoint lectures for NUR 330 Adult Health I and NUR 410 Adult Health II;  wrote five new Power Point lectures
-Placed all course materials (course outlines, syllabi, lecture outlines, course information) on ERes for NUR 202, NUR 300, NUR 330, and NUR 410 

Works in progress:

• Dissertation for doctoral nursing degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana