Member:

• Alabama Perinatal Association

• Association of Women’s Health Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)

• Alabama AWHONN Association

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

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

Reviewer:

• AWHONN Lifelines

• American Journal of Public Health

Served as graduate adjunct faculty member, St. Joseph's College:  

• Thesis committee member for Mary Watson (graduate student)

• Applied for continuous adjunct position with College of Nursing

Maintained  and analyzed fetal infant mortality statistics for Mobile County 

Works in progress:

• Submitted abstract to 2005 CityMatch Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference

• Draft manuscript of three years of Alabama Baby Coalition statistics for publication

• Draft of innovations for integrating research into a baccalaureate nursing program

Pat Hall

Completed University of South Alabama's Family Nurse Practitioner Program, passed the certification exam, and received certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 

• Completed clinical rotations at Victory Health Partners and the Shoulder Free Clinic as part of course work

Awarded:

• From the University of South Alabama: Excellence in Practice Award for Advanced Family Nursing Specialty - Post Masters

• SHC Teagle grant to develop an online pharmacology course

Publications:

• Served as contributor for chapter 12, "Diagnostic and Special Procedures," in Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins textbook entitled Clinical Nursing Skills: Procedures in Context by Jean Smith-Temple and Joyce Johnson

Attended:

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioner's Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

• AACN (American Association of Colleges of Nursing) Clinical Nurse Leader Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia

• Zeta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau Research Conference

• Presented dissertation

• Presented poster of project entitled "Globalization, Nursing, and Pharmacology: It's More than Pill-Pushing" 

• Coordinated and participated as a panel member for the discussion entitled "Globalization, Nursing, and Pharmacology: It's More than Pill-Pushing" 

• Heartland Delta Faculty Conversations, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio

• Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Course, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

• Crossroads Online Institute

• Computer Training, Springhill Medical Center, Mobile, Alabama

• Zeta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau educational sessions

• Bay Area Nurse Practitioner Association monthly continuing education sessions

• SHC Teaching for Solidarity Conference

• SHC Grant Writing Workshop

• SHC faculty workshops

• SHC Excel workshop

• SHC Faculty Fridays

Presentations/talks given:

• Developed and presented poster for SHC's COOL (Celebration of Our Learning) Day entitled "Globalization, Nursing, and Pharmacology: It's More than Pill-Pushing" 

• Heart failure presentation for Saads Healthcare

Reviewer:

• Critical Care Nurse

Audited SHC's Medical Spanish course

Served as Advanced Cardiac Life Support instructor for Providence Hospital

Advised doctoral student from the University of West Florida in writing dissertation

Submitted research proposal entitled "Identification of Differences Between Novice and Expert Nursing Students in Application of the Nursing Process and Test-Taking Skills" to SHC's Institutional Research Board in follow-up to participation in the Crossroads Online Institute;  began collecting data through focus groups with senior students

Worked with other nursing division members on the division's summer Teagle Grant:

• Developed web-based survey that was sent to nursing division chairs across the country to assess current trends in nursing curricula

• Assisted in conducting a literature search and developed the literature review to be included in a potential publication in summer 2005 

Works in progress:

• Prepared and submitted abstract of previous clinical research with Cardiology Associates of Mobile entitled "Distal Protection Prevents Stroke During Carotid Artery Stenting" for poster presentation at the World Congress of Neurology -- waiting for notice of acceptance

• Complete research study: "Identification of Differences Between Novice and Expert Nursing Students in Application of the Nursing Process and Test-Taking Skills" 

• Continue to explore publication opportunities and extension study for dissertation

• Explore publishing opportunities on the way the disabilities statement was implemented at SHC

Carol Harrison [Division Chair]

Attended:

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) annual meeting, Washington, DC

• Alabama Council of Administrators of Professional Nursing Education Programs (ACAPNEP) meeting of deans and directors, Troy University, Montgomery, Alabama

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) meeting, Mercy Medical, Daphne, Alabama

• Presentation:  Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) Mission and Goals

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) District VIII Leadership Conference:  "Our Future is Now - Leadership for Tomorrow," Mobile Infirmary, Mobile, Alabama

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) meeting:  "Dimensions of Magnetism: Creating a Magnetic Work Environment," Bishop State Junior College, Mobile, Alabama

• Catholic Health East (CHE) Governance Leadership Conference, Marco Island, Florida

• SHC information technology workshops

• SHC Faculty Fridays

Publications:

• Harrison, C (2004).  "What nurses want from a hospital."   Health Leaders, August 23, 2004.

Presentations/talks given:

• Chamber of Commerce High School Career Night:  "The Profession of Nursing"

Divisional Grants:

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Grant for Clinical Nurse Leader graduate program 

• Assisted in writing grant

• Initiated rural contacts for support letters for program

• American Association of Critical Care Nurses:  Nellcor N-395 Pulse Oximeter

• American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and Nellcor:  $5,000

• Teagle Grant for summer 2004 retreat

• Assisted in writing literature review section

• Scholarship funding from Springhill Memorial Hospital for SHC nursing students

Awarded SHC's Dawson Service Award

Member:

• Alabama Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE): District VIII President; Mobile Chapter Board of Directors

• Coordinated first annual conference at Mobile Infirmary

• Alabama Council of Administrators of Professional Nursing Education Programs (ACAPNEP), Deans and Directors of Nursing

• Mercy Medical Board of Directors:  Vice-chair;  Chair, Nominations Committee

• Bay Area Healthcare Coalition:  Steering Committee member

• Alabama State Nurses Association (ASNA)

• Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing

• American Nurses Association (ANA)

• District VIII, Baldwin County Nurses Society 

• Phi Kappa Phi

• Sigma Theta Tau

• Parish Nursing Council:  Steering Committee member

• Chamber of Commerce Health Consortium:  Board member, steering committee member

• Chaired nursing portion of  Health Occupations Fair, which was attended by 1,200 high school students from Mobile and Baldwin Counties

• Represented nursing at the Chamber of Commerce college night

• Chamber of Commerce School to Career Committee

• Mobile County School Board:  Member of  Advisory Board of Directors for school board project to develop Shaw High School into a magnet school for students interested in health careers 

Reviewed chapters in Parish Nursing: Caring for a Faith Community, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Works in progress:

• Completing the literature review portion of the division's collaborative research project

Terran Mathers

Publications:

• Three articles in ANNA Update (American Nephrology Nurses Association) (not refereed but reviewed by editor and appropriate members of the Board of Directors of ANNA)

• "Nursing Associations Hold Milestone Meeting," January/February 2005 (in collaboration with Lesley Dinwiddie and Kathy Thomas)

• "Research," March/April 2005

• "Focusing on Research Abstracts, Awards, and Grants," May/June 2005

• Contributor/reviewer for Nephrology Nursing Standards of Practice and Guidelines for Care, published Spring 2005 by A. J. Janetti, Pitman, NJ, for the American Nephrology Nurses Association (refereed)

Attended:

• American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) 36^th National Symposium:  "Partnering with Patients in Self-Management:  A Winning Combination," Las Vegas, Nevada

• Presentation: "The Effects of Professional Nursing on Dialysis Patient Outcomes"

• Presentation: "Research Designs and Research Constructs"

• Poster presentation and attendee at Enrichment Opportunities Event: "The Grant Process" and "The Research Process Game"

• Volunteer Leaders Orientation Workshop, ANNA Pre-Symposium Program, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Matthew Berrafato Workshop:  "Elephant Hunting -- Discovering and Accomplishing Your Most Important Priorities in Life," Las Vegas, Nevada

• American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) Fall 2004 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Poster presentation and attendee at Enrichment Opportunities Event:  "The Grant Process" and "The Research Matching Game" 

• Nurse Competence in Aging Workshop:  "Collaborate, Maximize, Sustain," New York, New York

• SHC Religion, Ethics and Healthcare lecture series:  "How HIV/AIDS Has Changed Bioethics" by the Rev. James Keenan, S.J.

• "Indicators of Domestic Violence," University of Mobile School of Nursing, Mobile, Alabama

• "Covering the Uninsured" Prayer Breakfast, Providence Hospital, Mobile, Alabama

Presentations/talks given:

• SHC COOL (Celebration of Our Learning) Day 2005  poster presentation:  "Nutritional Changes with Selected Diseases: Student Presentations"

• SHC Faculty Friday:  "What Is Nursing Doing for Those of Us Who Are Getting Older?"

• SHC's Chemistry 101 class: "You Are What You Eat!"

Awarded:

• Teagle Summer Curriculum Revision Grant 2004 - used for revision of NUR 420 Community as Client (taught fall 2004)

Member:

• American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA)

• National level: Research Committee - chairperson

• National level: Professional Practice Committee

• Local level: R. Michael Huddle Chapter member

• Omicron Theta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau: Secretary

Reviewer:

• Manuscript review panel member: Journal of Nephrology Nursing  

• Chapter reviewer:  Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 7th ed.; Lewis, Heitkemper, Dirksen, O'Brien, Bucher; Elsevier Publishing; in preparation for next edition

• Book reviewer:  Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 8th ed.; by Roth and Townsend. Thomson Delmar Learning, in preparation for next edition

Reviewed/provided input on:

•  ANNA (American Nephrology Nurses Association) nursing internship/externship programs

• CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) regarding Conditions for Coverage for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities 

Works in progress:

• Writing research article: "Comparison of Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Renal Failure Between Middle-Aged and Elderly Hemodialysis Patients"

• Writing/revising the chapter "The Older Patient with Renal Disease" (previously titled "The Geriatric Patient") for the 2nd edition of the American Nephrology Nurses Association's Contemporary Nephrology Nursing ); first revision has been submitted - am awaiting feedback.  To be published 2006 by A. J. Janetti, Pitman, NJ

• Assisting SHC Division of Nursing with a generic BSN curriculum design survey