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ACADEMIC PROGRAMSSchool Adds Second Degree BaccalaureateIt takes four years of study to earn a traditional baccalaureate nursing degree, but there are many people who have earnedother types of four-year degrees who would like to become nurses.The Purdue School of Nursing is providing these individuals a way to enter the profession with a new Second DegreeBaccalaureate Program. “These students can be prepared to benurses in a shorter time than a new high school graduate; theyhave more life and academic experience, says School of Nursinghead Julie Novak.“These are academically proven and career-oriented adultlearners. Their maturity, experience, and educational background helps them function as a member of a multidisciplinaryteam. They also meet the need to increase the number ofpotential leaders in nursing.”Second-degree students like the curriculum because it isless disruptive to their lives. “They learn quickly and with greatproficiency,” says Dr. Barbra Wall, director of the new program,“and they have a capacity for the integration of material born oftheir liberal arts or science preparation or their work experience.They often are more informed than new high school graduates intheir choice of nursing. The program also promotes a climate thatrecognizes each person’s past experiences and builds on thosestrengths.”The program, now accepting students at the West Lafayettecampus, consists of two parts: pre-nursing requirements (aboutone year) and nursing requirements (15 months).The pre-nursing requirements (28 credits) are in the physicaland social sciences, mathematics, and humanities and may becompleted at Purdue or other institutions. Students may already haveearned some or most of these credits in obtaining their first degree.Nursing requirements (59 credits), include both theory andclinical. These may be earned only at the Purdue School ofNursing as a full-time student.Admission is now open: members of the first class willbegin in May 2005. For more information, contact Dr. Wall at765-494-4023 or bwall@nursing.purdue.edu.Doctor Nursing PracticeApprovedMope Adeola, AdultHealth CNSstudent, consultswith Taru Bhaidsnaand Monica Keyes,members of thefirst MS/ANP class.First MS/ANP CohortNears GraduationThe first cohort of the new MS/ANP program willgraduate in May 2005. The program is focused on thedelivery of culturally-sensitive primary healthcare in ruralsettings and chronic disease management. The School hasover 135 clinical preceptorship contracts, and studentsalso have the opportunity to participate in research withnursing faculty as well as on interdisciplinary teams withother schools and departments.Other program features include the opportunity totailor elective courses in an area of sub-specialization suchas gerontology or pharmacology. A pediatric nursepractitioner program is planned.Prospective students can apply online at cfmFor more information contact Dr. Barbra Wallat (765) 494-4023 or bwall@nursing.purdue.edu, Dr. JulieNovak at (765) 494-4004 or jnovak@nursing.purdue.edu,or visit the website at www.nursing.purdue.edu.6A Doctor of Nursing Practice(DNP) program was unanimouslyapproved by the Purdue GraduateCouncil on Jan. 20, 2005.The DNP critique team, Drs.Wall, Wilkerson, Edwards, and Novak, thank thefaculty for their unanimous support of the concept; thedoctoral program committee; Dean John Pezzuto forhis understanding of our vision and capabilities;Associate Provost Christine Ladisch; Drs. Lucy Marionand Elizabeth Lenz for their consultation; GraduateSchool Dean John Contreni and Associate Dean Phil Popefor their guidance; Melissa Danner and Roxanne Martinfor their clerical support.After a year of assessment, planning, and programdevelopment, the critique team responded to the questionsposed by the Area Committee of the Graduate Council fromNovember through January.The Graduate Council Area Committee was chairedby Dr. Olin E. Rhodes. The motion was seconded byExecutive Associate Dean Marc Loudon and IUPU FortWayne School of Nursing Chair Dr. Carol Sternberger.Dr. Julie Novak was able to announce this “leap forward”to the 350 nursing deans and faculty at the AACN DoctoralEducation Conference in Coronado, CA.The proposal will be reviewed by the Provost, President, Board of Trustees and subsequently the IndianaCommission for Higher Education. Our goal is to have allapprovals completed during the Spring semester.

IN BRIEFSchools Become CollegesThe shape of healthcare is changing—and so is our name.We are still the School of Nursing, but with the approval ofthe Board of Trustees, we are now part of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Purdue University.The Purdue Board of Trustees approved the renaming of theschools of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, education,engineering, liberal arts, pharmacy, nursing and health sciences,science, and technology as colleges rather than schools.Provost Sally Mason said the renaming “better reflects thecomprehensive, multidisciplinary range of academic programsoffered by the schools.”Purdue, Regenstrief Establish Centerto Re-engineer Healthcare DeliveryThanks to a multimillion dollar commitment from theRegenstrief Foundation Inc., Purdue has established a center toapply the principles of engineering, management, science, andinformation technology to improve the delivery of healthcare.The Purdue Regenstrief Center will apply process-engineeringprinciples, such as supply-chain management and just-in-timemanufacturing, to healthcare delivery, following the flow ofinformation, funds, and materials through the system to achievebetter results and efficiency.Some initial areas of research will include improving thesafety and efficiency of patient care, providing more efficientdeployment of physicians, nurses, and other healthcarepersonnel, and better coordination of inpatient and outpatienttreatment. Drs. Julie Novak and Karen Chang were invited toserve on the Regenstrief Launch Team. Six nursing facultymembers collaborate on Regenstrief projects.School Renewed as CE ProviderThe School of Nursing’s continuing education provider statuswith the Indiana State Nurses Association has been renewed,according to Director of Lifelong Learning Dr. Patricia Coyle Rogers.Since 2000, the School has offered 48 continuing educationprograms, provided 125.3 contact hours, and had an attendance of 2,667.Step-Up Program Recruits New NursesDrs. Carol Baird and Sharon Wilkerson have been awarded a 365,719 grant from the Health Research and Services Administration,DHHS, for a new program, “STEP-UP: Students To ExemplaryProfessionals (CNA to RN).”The program uses a career ladder approach to promote theentry, advancement, and retention of minority and/or disadvantaged individuals into nursing careers in order to increasehealthcare workers in rural, underserved areas.There are four steps to the program: recruitment, pre-entry tonursing degree programs, entry and retention in nursing degreeprograms, and recruitment into graduate education.It is anticipated that at the end of three years there will be 24CNAs, six graduated LPNs, four graduated ADNs (two more inprogress), and 12 in progress in BSN programs of nursing.Professor Seeks Arthritis SubjectsLiving with arthritis can be extremely difficult. Dr. CarolBaird is trying to find non-pharmacologicways to improve life for people with arthritis.She is seeking subjects to participate inresearch on the usefulness of a tape recordingto improve health and lessen symptoms ofosteoarthritis.Men and women aged 55 or over whohave osteoarthritis are eligible. Those whocomplete the study will receive 30.If you or someone you know would likeBairdto participate, contact: Dr. Baird at 765-4944036 or email: clbaird@nursing.purdue.edu.Clinic Receives Award, Hires GradBarbara Strasburger, MS, CFNP, and the School of Nursing’sFamily Health Clinic of Carroll County have received the MedicarePhysician Office Quality Initiative Excellence Award from HealthCare Excel, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization forIndiana.The award recognizes healthcare providers who exhibit acommitment to superior care, and strive to better serve theirpatients, their staff, and their communities.In other clinic news, Mindy Hoffman, (BS’99, MS’04) RN,MS, CFNP, has joined the staff as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Sheis also a member of the School of Nursing faculty.She provides healthcare services including health promotion/lifestyle behavior change, sports, commercial driver’s license andwomen’s health physicals, diagnosis and treatment of minorillnesses, and management of stable chronic conditions.Melnyk Will KeynoteSpring Leadership ConferenceThe seventh annual Helen R. Johnson Leadership Conferencewill be held Friday, April 15, 2005 in the Purdue Memorial Union.Featured speaker will be BernadetteMazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP,FAAN, FNAP, Dean and DistinguishedFoundation Professor in Nursing, ArizonaState University College of Nursing andAssociate Editor, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing.Dr. Melnyk’s keynote is entitled “APrimer on Evidence-Based Practice.” Shewill also discuss the impact of the Keep YourMelnykChild/Yourself Safe and Secure (KySS)Campaign, a national mental health promotion campaign forchildren and teens. Dr. Melnyk is founder and chair of KySS,which is sponsored by the National Association of PediatricNurse Practitioners.For more information or registration, contact Dr. PatriciaCoyle-Rogers, Director of Continuing Education at 765-494-4030or pcrogers@nursing.purdue.edu, or Dr. Julie Novak, AssociateDean, College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences; Head,School of Nursing, 765-494-6644 or jnovak@nursing.purdue.edu.7

SCHOOL ALMANACBy RuthAnn Smolen, MS, RN“It’s Happening Here!” is a very familiar message acrosscampus. And it’s a very familiar scene in the Center for NursingEducation (CNE) in Johnson Hall, where comprehensive learningand the discovery of new knowledge continues to strengthenlearning outcomes.In this issue we spotlight two faculty members who arecommitted to “making it happen” in lectures/demonstrations andsimulation practices in the CNE presenting students with complex,interactive and lifelike pre-clinical experiences.As learning and discovery in the Purdue School of Nursingcontinue to develop in innovative ways, the opportunities forstudents are unlimited. The LaNelle Geddes Enrichment Libraryfund provides one of these opportunities for nursing students tostudy and review difficult concepts in pathophysiology.Birthing Model Helps Teach Assessment TechniquesBy Diane Campbell, MSN, RNClinical Assistant ProfessorHaving a teaching tool like the “Noelle”birthing model is a great opportunity to initiatenew maternal/child students to the basic assessment techniques of labor and delivery and postpartum in a controlled learning environment.As a faculty group, we’ve used “Noelle” inthe CNE to teach fetal monitoring, cervicaldilation, palpation of uterine contractions, anddescent of the fetus. In an educational setting,students are free to ask questions, repeat assessments that were confusing and develop confidence in their skills. As a faculty member, I cancreate the learning situations I want my studentsto experience without affecting clients or theirfamily members.When reviewing postpartum assessments,we’re able to visualize various episiotomies andtalk about the mother’s possible responses and theClinical Assistant Professor Diane Campbell and students Megan Horn, Jeannursing considerations without using a hospitalNorman, and Heather Lowe observe “Noelle,” a birthing model, in the Centerized client as our model. This gives me a chancefor Nursing Education.to teach my students about possible “teachingmoments” and to be sure they all have a similar knowledge baseto begin our clinical rotation.country have this teaching model, we feel fortunate to share herStudents usually enjoy the interaction we have withwith our students and the community.“Noelle” and visitors to the CNE seem to enjoy her as well.In the future, we hope to have her software established to aShe allows us to explain and “experience” the labor process inpoint where we can also use her more effectively in simulationa very cognitive way. Since only a few schools of nursing in theat the hospital.8

Clinical Assistant Professor MikeCriswell watches as student AnnaShadday learns how to properlyventilate a patient using an adultmanual resuscitator bag andairway trainer.Critical Care Lab Helps Students Master TechnologyBy Mike Criswell, MSN, RN, CCNS, Clinical Assistant ProfessorToday’s Purdue School of Nursing graduate is expected tomanage patient care at a high level, or what is commonly referredto as “hitting the ground running.”Performing the art of nursing is increasingly more difficult asmore patients are elderly, and with more complex problems.Healthcare today demands that the nurse have a wider knowledgebase and skill level before entering the workforce.At Purdue, a priority is to prepare our students for what theywill face once they graduate and enter the job market.A high percentage of Purdue nurses are beginning theircareers as critical care nurses. Whether in medical/surgical,coronary intensive care, pediatric/neonatal intensive care, emergency or trauma, the nurse must have some prior knowledge andskill acquisition or will most certainly be overwhelmed.The critical care teaching laboratory in the Center for NursingEducation offers the undergraduate nursing student the opportunityto touch, listen, and experience what critical care nursing is allabout. The student participates in many “high tech” areas ofcritical care, such as airway management, mechanical ventilation,hemodynamic monitoring, and dysrhythmia recognition.The equipment and simulators in the lab are “state of theart” so students are working with what is currently used inclinical practice. One of the new simulators in the lab is theartificial airway trainer. This device provides the student withactual practice suctioning, “ambuing” and providing airwayassistance.The Siemens-Servo 900 –C mechanical ventilator iscomplete with a “breathing adult mannequin.” This gives thestudent a visual understanding of how ventilator modes andsettings affect breathing patterns.Practice time suctioning and care of the patient with anartificial airway is a very important skill students learn withthe ventilator simulator. The bedside monitors in the lab allowthe student practical experience placing electrodes, zeroingtransducers, identifying waveforms, and monitoring cardiacrhythms.A cardiac defibrillator/simulator provides “hands-on”practice in dysrhythmia recognition and emergency treatmentof life-threatening rhythms. Students work together as a teamin the lab managing many different simulated emergencysituations, termed “mega-codes.”The time spent in the critical care learning lab prior toactual clinical experiences in a critical care unit has beenfound to reduce anxiety and increase student comfort levelwith the technology and types of patients they will encounterin the ICU.9

Professors DevelopSpanish Class forHealthcare ProfessionalsIn many parts of the country, including ruralIndiana, the Spanish-speaking population is growingrapidly, and with it the need for language training andcultural sensitivity for healthcare providers.Two professors have created a new course to addressthis need: Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.The first Spanish for Healthcare Professionals class included (front)Professor Mary Ilu Altman is a native SpanishProfessors Mary Ilu Altman and Liz O’Neil, (second row) Kara LaLiberte,speaker, born and educated in Nicaragua. She earned herJonell Hessler, Jenny Peplinski, Krista Spitzer, Megan Martin, Kim Sarver,bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Purdue. Inand (back row) Amber Thompson, Catherine Wyckoff, Amy Wadsworth,and Courtney Woehler.March 2004 she became the School of Nursing’s Directorof Student Services and the newly created Director ofTen nursing students performed screenings (in Spanish) ofDiversity Enhancement.heightand weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar. They alsoIn contrast to Dr. Altman, Professor Liz O’Neil, CFNP, hasprovidedliterature in Spanish concerning obesity, high bloodnever taken a formal Spanish class. She learned Spanish as apressure,diabetes, hyperlipidemia, mammograms, pap smears,nurse at a health clinic in rural Honduras while her family wasandlocalhealth clinics that serve the uninsured.on sabbatical.Theexperiencewas instructive and encouraging, even if theTogether, the two teach the grammar and vocabularyadultlearnersdidnotspeak English very well and the nursingnecessary for introductions, making appointments, taking astudentsdidnotspeakSpanish very well. “I was still impressedhealth history, naming parts and systems of the body, andwithhowwellwewereable to communicate with each other,”responding to a medical emergency.onestudentsaid.The students also studied health beliefs and practices in theThe health fair will be repeated at LARA. Thanks to a 2,000Hispanic community, and reviewed and selected appropriateServiceLearning Faculty Development Grant from the Purduepatient education materials in Spanish.OfficeofEngagement, a second health screening will be held at aLater in the semester, they took those materials to a healthclinicsitein Frankfort, IN. The second semester enrollment forfair for adult learners at the Lafayette Adult Resource AcademySpanishforHealthcare Professionals nearly doubled in size, and(LARA), where 40% of the students are Hispanic and haveincludespharmacystudents.limited access to health screenings.Se Habla Espan ol en la ClinicaBarb Strasburger, MS, RN, CFNP, andtranslator Solymar Palacio (back) talk witha Hispanic client at the Family Health Clinicof Carroll County in Delphi, an affiliate ofthe Purdue School of Nursing.10Se habla espan ol at the FamilyHealth Clinic of Carroll County, anurse-managed affiliate of the PurdueSchool of Nursing.Hispanic clients make up 27% ofthe client base at the clinic in ruralDelphi. To serve their needs, all of thenurses speak some Spanish, whileFNP Liz O’Neil and translatorSolymar Palacio are both fluent.“Communicating in Spanish,even at a basic level, can improvenursing service to the Spanishspeaking population and makepatients feel much more comfortable,”O’Neil says. “When you interviewsomeone in their own language, theywill tell you more detail, and tell youthings they might not feel comfortablesaying if their interpreter were a childor a family member.”Palacio accompanies patients intoappointments, and also translatesdocuments for the clinic. The fundingfor the interpreter position was securedthrough a grant from the United Fundof Carroll County by clinic directorDr. Julie Novak.

BACCALAUREATE GRADUATES, DECEMBER 2004Katherine AndruszkiewiczNorthwestern Memorial HospitalLabor and Delivery, ChicagoMelissa HedrickMethodist, Indiana UniversityRiley Hospital, IndianapolisAlexandra ParkerInova Fairfax Hospital Medical/Surgical ICUFairfax, VAKonnie BanksWabash Valley HospitalWest LafayetteJennifer HowellSt. Vincent Hospital ERIndianapolisBrooke ParkerSt. Vincent Hospital NICUIndianapolisSuzanne Dimmich BeckerHome Hospital Surgery DepartmentLafayetteMary JohnsonAlexian Brothers Medical CenterOrthopedics, Elk Grove, ILNicole Pearson2nd LT Army Nurse CorpsAmanda BegleyUndecidedAngela KnightRiley Children’s Hospital NICUIndianapolisJennifer BlankenshipMethodist Hospital OncologyIndianapolisMarcia DavisHome Hospital Labor and DeliveryLafayetteMelinda Foley-MinksSt. Elizabeth Hospital Medical/SurgicalLafayetteKathy FormanSt. Clare Medical Center Medical/SurgicalCrawfordsville, INErin GrubbReid Hospital ICURichmond, INAngela GunkelUndecidedMegan KulaSt. Vincent HospitalIndianapolisBelinda Lafferty-ZarateSt. Elizabeth HospitalLafayettePamela MartinPorter Memorial HospitalValparaiso, INMichelle MeadorFamily Healthcare of Ellensburg &Cascade Pediatrics, Ellensburg, WAJustin MeyerPulaski Memorial Hospital Medical/Surgical Winamac, INElizabeth NolanSt. Francis Resurrection Health CareMedical/Surgical Telemetry, Evanston, ILPatricia RobbinsSt. Vincent HospitalIndianapol

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