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MATCMadisonAreaTechnicalCollegeFor Alumni and Friends of Madison Area Technical CollegeSPRING 2004What ’s inside.Alumni Profile:Robin Roberts4Who Wants tobe a Mathematician?5Calendar of Events5A Day in the Life of a Nurse6New Associate Deanin Marketing7Hackers Beware!8Newly Minted Alumni8The Clarion Awards9Alumni Response Form11Alliant Energy Donation14Spring Break:Habitat for Humanity15And more!Nursing: Taking Careof Wisconsin ’s FutureMarilyn Rinehart,associate dean/nursingMATC’s nursing program trainsstudents for the rewards andchallenges of nursing. In theprogram, students learn thetechnical and discernment skillsnecessary to provide nursingcare to patients of all ages.There is an extremely highdemand for nurses in southcentral Wisconsin, and 98% ofMATC nursing graduates findemployment in the field.Sarah Fowles interviewedMarilyn Rinehart, associatedean of nursing.SF: What attracted youto nursing?MR: I was attracted tonursing, and have stayed innursing for almost 30 years,because of the variety of challenges I have experienced. I haveworked with newborns, children,adults and elderly people with allkinds of health problems. I haveenjoyed the interaction with people as well as the critical thinking and problem solving. Everyday is a new challenge!SF: How many studentsare enrolled in the program?How long is waiting list?MR: More than 600 studentsattend each semester in theNursing Assistant, PracticalNursing, Associate DegreeNursing and SurgicalTechnologist programs. Thewaiting list varies from campusto campus and from program toprogram. Generally speaking,students have to wait approximately two to three years fromthe time they submit their applications for Practical Nursing,Surgical Technologist andAssociate Degree Nursing programs. The wait may be longerin certain programs.continued on page 2
Nursing: Taking Care of Wisconsin’s Future (continued from page 1)contributed to a better outcome for patientswherever he or she works. The great health carewe have in the Madison area is a success storysince MATC nursing graduates are in everyhealth care setting in the district.SF: What are the biggest challenges in thenursing field today?MR: We are facing a huge increase in thedemand for nurses because of the aging population. At the same time, nurses are retiring orleaving the field faster than new graduates arereplacing them. That means that nurses are feeling the stresses of these changes on a daily basis.SF: How is MATC addressing thosechallenges?MR: MATC will be increasing the number ofstudents we admit in our Practical Nursing andAssociate Degree Nursing programs. This yearwe admitted 40 additional Associate DegreeNursing program students. We graduated morethan 700 nursing assistants last year, many ofwhom will be continuing in practical nursing orassociate degree nursing.SF: Can you share some student successstories?MR: Four graduates are now instructors inour programs! Another graduate was the outstanding MATC alumnus in 2002. Many havegone on for advanced degrees in nursing.More importantly, every single graduate hasFast FactsLargest employerin Wisconsin:Health CareindustryTuition for abachelor’s degreein nursing fromUniversity ofWisconsin –Madison: 25,000Tuition for anassociate degreein nursing fromMATC:Faculty-tostudent ratioat University ofWisconsin –Madison(nursingprogram only):1:13Faculty tostudent ratio atMATC (nursingprogram only):1:10Length of time toreceive CertifiedNursing Assistant(CNA) certificate:8 weeksAverage salary ofa certified nursingassistant: 22,441Percent growth inthe number of(CNA) jobs:15.9% 5,5002Length of time toreceive a practicalnursing degree:1 yearAverage salary ofa practical nurse: 32,621Percent growth inthe number ofpracticalnursing jobs:12.7%Length of timeto receive anassociate’sdegree innursing:2 yearsAverage salary ofa registered nurse(RN): 47,331Percent growthin the numberof RN jobs:22%
Nursing Programsat MATC CampusesTruaxCertified Nursing AssistantPractical NursingAssociate Degree NursingFort AtkinsonCertified Nursing AssistantPractical NursingReedsburgSF: What pieces of advice would you give to someoneinterested in a nursing career?MR: Don’t be discouraged by the long waiting list!Begin with the Nursing Assistant Program, since that isnow a requirement before starting nursing classes inpractical or associate degree nursing. You will gain valuable experience and you will qualify for tuition reimbursement from health care employers. Take the generalstudies courses, especially the science courses, beforeyou start nursing courses. Start reading nursing journalsto get an idea of all the possibilities out there.Remember that you start with the basic courses, but theopportunities for specialization are endless. Build a goodfoundation!For more information on the program, call(608) 246-6014.Certified Nursing AssistantPractical NursingAssociate Degree NursingWatertownCertified Nursing AssistantAssociate Degree NursingPortageCertified Nursing AssistantNew Full-TimeNursing FacultyJanet Braun, formerly employedby Dane County Public HealthLisa Cappelli, formerly employedby Hospicecare, Inc.Julie Christofferson, formerlyemployed by Dean Health SystemScholarship Recipientsand Donors RecognizedDana Schardt, formerly employedby UW-Whitewater Student HealthOn April 29, 2004, MATC celebrates its annualScholarship Awards Breakfast, which recognizesscholarship recipients and donors. During the2003–2004 school year, MATC awarded 263 scholarships made possible through generous donations fromcommunity members, corporations, foundations,MATC faculty and staff, and alumni. If you are interested in providing a scholarship to a deserving student,please call Sarah Fowles at (608) 243-4334.Retiring NursingFaculty3Judy Stoeckmann, formerlya MATC part-time teacherKathy KoegelHelen Kruse
ALUMNI PROFILEA Knack for Baseball and BuildingMATC grad receives Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association Distinguished Alumni Awardthrough his or her education,” says BobDinndorf, executive director of the MATCFoundation.Steve Hauser, MATC’s athletic director, summarized Roberts’ approach to service by saying,“The great thing about Robin is that he does notjust talk the talk, he walks the walk. He getsinvolved and stays involved until the mission isaccomplished. He does so as a leader. He doesnot stand in the background, but takes the initiative to be personally involved.”Roberts received the Wisconsin TechnicalCollege Distinguished Alumni Award in a specialceremony on April 2, 2004, and also will be recognized during the MATC Foundation Awardsand Recognition Breakfast on April 29, 2004.Question: What do the following organizationshave in common? Dane County Humane Society Dane County Credit Union Plymouth Congregational United Church ofChrist in Madison Peace Lutheran Church in Waunakee DeForest Area Public Library Madison YWCARobin Roberts Stats Attended MATC: 1973-1975 MATC GPA: 3.7 Highlights from MATC: pitcherfor MATC baseball team Graduated from MATC ’sArchitectural TechnicianProgram: 1975 Founded RobertsConstructionAssociates: 1981 Voted MVP in theWisconsin Home TalentBaseball League: 1988 Roberts Construction hasearned numerous state andnational awards for the quality of its work Contributed 142,000 to buildMATC ’s Robin RobertsBaseball Field: 2000 Receives DistinguishedAlumni Award: 2004Answer: MATC graduate Robin Roberts playeda key role in the construction of each organization’s facilities. He is the founder and owner ofRoberts Construction Associates, which specializes in church construction. He is also wellknown for his love of baseball (he played forMATC while in school). In 2000, MATC dedicated the Robin Roberts Baseball Field.“I believe Robin Roberts is the ideal technical college graduate: a person who gets a greatstart and then develops a distinguished lifelongcareer using the knowledge base established4
Who Wants to be a Mathematician?Two lines in space that are not parallel anddon’t intersect are called .Ithaca, James Madison Memorial, LaFollette,Madison West, Marquette University HighSchool, McFarland and Rufus King.Asked why math is so important in highschool, Sriskandarajah said that employers arelooking for employees who can handle mathbecause it has applications in every field.Want to know who won? Check www.matcmadison.edu/is/as/math/mathclub for thewinner’s name.“Who Wants To Be A Mathematician?” hasreceived support from the MATC Foundation,Pleasant Company, Lands’ End, Mead & Hunt,First Group, Inc., Placon Corporation, Herbert H.Kohl Charities, Capitol Bank, MacKichanSoftware, Wolfram Research Inc., AddisonWesley, National Science Foundation, Maplesoft,Texas Instruments, John Wiley & Sons, theMathematical Association of America, theAmerican Mathematical Society and State FarmInsurance.One hundred and twenty Wisconsin high schoolstudents answered this and other math problems toqualify for the “Who Wants To Be AMathematician?” competition on April 16, 2004.Modeled after the show Who Wants To Be AMillionaire? 10 finalists compete for a 2,000prize and can take advantage of three “lifelines”to help them: 50/50, Ask the Teacher and Ask theAudience. Organized by MATC Math InstructorJeganathan Sriskandarajah and presented by theAmerican Mathematical Society, this competitionis the first of its kind in Wisconsin.The 10 finalists are from the followingschools: Baraboo, Edgewood, Fort Atkinson,Answer: skew linesMATC UPCOMING EVENTSMark Your CalendarsDust Off Your Driver, Oil Your Baseball Glove — Kick Back with MATCMonday, May 17, 2004, is the Doug Redsten Golf Classic IX at theCherokee Country Club in Madison. Join us for golf, food, fun, prizes andthe chance to win 1 million dollars! Individual registration is 90; corporatefoursomes are 500 each. Several sponsorship packages are available.To receive a registration form, call Kim Conners at (608) 246-6441 or sendus a completed “Alumni Response” form (page 11).Friday, July 23, 2004, is the second annual MATC at the Mallards!MATC will offer deep ticket discounts for the Great Dane Duck Blind toMATC graduates – save over 50%! The Duck Blind features an-all-you-caneat-and-drink feast with great views of the game against the RochesterHonkers. The Mallards is a college wooden-bat baseball team and is partof the Northwoods League. To find out more, call Sarah Fowles at (608)243-4334 or send us a completed “Alumni Response” form (page 11).5
A Day in the Life of a Nursedevice returns to my floor. I take her vital signs,check her pulse, assess for pain and check fordrainage around the surgical site every 15 minutes for the first hour, every 30 minutes for thenext 2 hours, and then every hour for 4 hours.9:30am: I do full data assessments on myother patients.10:00am: I meet with my manager aboutsome scheduling changes I requested recently.10:30am: I tend to my patients’ vital signsand check my patients’ lab blood values.10:45am: The other nurses and I supplement,which means that we replenish patients’ electrolytes with potassium and magnesium asprescribed bydoctors. Theseenzymes areparticularlyhelpful for thecardiac patientson my floor.11:00am:Paperwork,paperwork. Icheck the noteson all patients.I enter data onpatients into thecomputer —there are a lotof forms tocomplete.12pm: I distribute the noon pills and makesure our patients who can eat are getting foodtrays set up and those who can’t eat or drinkhave completed their medications.1:30pm: I take a ten-minute lunch. While atlunch, I peruse a magazine that graphically displays new treatments for wounds. I get calledout of lunch because one of my patients needsan echocardiogram (a test using ultrasound) onThe following day was recordedby a graduate of MATC ’s Associate DegreeNursing Program. The nurse opted to remainanonymous due to the highly confidentialnature of her work.7:00am: Officially, I start work at 7:30am, butI usually get here between 7:00 and 7:15. First, Icount the supply of narcotics with the night shiftnurses – I have to make sure none are missing.7:30am: I attend a staff meeting during whichwe listen to a tape-recorded report from the previous shift that tells us who is going to surgeryand who is coming back from surgery. We usually have five nurses on the floor and one supervising nurse for 18-20 patients.8:00am: After the staff meeting, I print areport listing the medications required by patientsfor the day, including IV (intravenous) drips andpills. Then, I check on a patient who had irregular heart rhythms and received a special IV“push” (intravenous medications that need to bepushed through an IV tube) the night before.I check his vital signs, and then helped him getcleaned up for the day.8:15am: I check on a patient who is ontelemetry, which monitors heart rhythms. ThenI have to check the patients cared for by LPNs(licensed practical nurses) because I am usuallythe only RN (registered nurse) on my team. Asan RN, you have to do all “push” medicationsand IV drips, including dopamine, dobutamineand diltizam.8:45am: I receive a call from the ICU (intensive care unit) informing me that a new patient isgoing to be transferred to my floor. I get a roomready and when the patient arrives, I do a headto-toe assessment of the patient. I orient thepatient to his new surroundings and create anursing care plan for him.9:05am: A patient who had just undergonea heart procedure to receive an assistive cardiac6
his leg. The echocardiogram shows that a mainartery in his leg is clogged, which means immediate surgery. I call an escort to take the patientto surgery.1:45pm: I check on all my patients again. Andthen I “chart,” which means that I track patients’medications, doctors’ notes, dietary information,social work notes and nursing care on the computer. I also make addendums to the notes andcharts of the LPNs on my team.2:30pm: I leave the floor to visit a new lab inthe hospital.3:15pm: I tape a report of all my patients,sharing the pertinent information that needs tobe passed on to the next nurse.3:45pm: The last task is the same as the first— to count narcotics. This time I count themwith a nurse from the evening shift. I usuallywork late — there is so much work to get donethat I rarely leave by 4. I work 45 hours perweek without picking up overtime.New Associate Dean in MarketingBrings a Wealth of Business ExperiencePrior to that position, she was vice presidentof marketing at First Federal Savings Bank inLa Crosse for six years. Formerly, she held thepositions of senior account executive at Stephanand Brady Advertising in Madison and publicaffairs manager at G. Heileman BrewingCompany in La Crosse.Walleser is very active in the La CrosseRotary Club and the Wisconsin MarketingEducation Association. She started her academiccareer at a technical college, earning an associatedegree in finance from Western WisconsinTechnical College. She then earned a B.S. inbusiness from Viterbo University in La Crosseand an M.B.A. from the University ofWisconsin–La Crosse.In Spring of2004, MATCbrought DianeWalleser onboard as associate dean ofmarketing in theBusiness andApplied ArtsDivision.Walleser comesDiane Walleser,to MATC withassociate dean/marketinga wealth ofbusiness, marketing and education experience.She taught marketing for three years at WesternWisconsin Technical College in La Crosse.7
Hackers Beware! New MATC Programto Train Computer Security ProfessionalsThe National Science Foundation(NSF) has awarded Madison AreaTechnical (MATC) a four-year grantto develop new curriculum andoffer classes in cyber security tohelp develop and educate information technology security professionals. MATC represents Wisconsin asone of seven colleges in a five-stateregion (Illinois, Ohio, Michigan,Minnesota and Wisconsin) participating in this 3 million grant,which will create the first comprehensive information technologysecurity center in the Midwest.MATC will receive about 210,000 to develop and offerclasses as part of a new 16-creditCIS-Information SecurityCertificate that will be launchedfall semester 2004. The certificate’ssix courses are designed to be completed in three semesters and willprovide comprehensive instructionto networking students and professionals who want to expand theirskills in computer security.The salaries for IT securityprofessionals range from 38,000to 145,000, depending upon qualifications and experience. To beadmitted into MATC’s new CISInformation Security Certificate,individuals must be in at least thesecond year of MATC’s CISNetwork Specialist Program, haveearned a CCNA (Cisco CertifiedNetwork Associate) or have at leasttwo years of practical experience inthe networking field.1,323 Newly Minted AlumniMATC graduated 1,323 students at its mid-yearcommencement ceremony on December 19, 2003.The ceremony was held at the Alliant Energy Centerin Madison. Randolph resident Rachel Braaksma,who earned an associate of arts degree fromMATC’s Liberal Arts Transfer Program, presentedthe graduate address. Other speakers includedMATC District Board Chair John Ashley andMATC Acting President Dr. Rose Ann Findlen.The programs graduating the most students were:Liberal Arts Transfer (arts and sciences), Business,Computer Information Systems, Nursing, LawEnforcement, and Emergency Medical Technician.8MATC’s otherComputer andInformation Systemsprograms andcertificates: CIS CISCO CertifiedNetwork ProfessionalCertificate CIS Computer SystemsAdministration Specialist CIS Microsoft CertifiedSystems Administrator(MCSA) Certificate CIS Microsoft VisualStudio.Net Certificate CIS Network Specialist CIS Oracle DatabaseAdministrative AssociateCertificate CIS Oracle Internet JavaDeveloper Certificate CIS Programmer/Analyst CIS Web Analyst/Programmer CIS Web Programming
SPECIAL RECOGNITIONMATC Student Journalists: We ’re in the Big LeagueNathan J. Comp, copy editor of The Clarion,MATC’s student newspaper, can add thefollowing student awards to his resume: First place in Investigative Reporting,Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) First place in Feature Writing, WNA First place in News Writing, WNA First place in News Writing, AssociatedCollegiate Press First place in Feature Writing, AssociatedCollegiate Press Third place “Reporter of the Year,”Associated Collegiate Press“I am drawn to stories that other collegepapers don’t cover. A statistic I read somewhere— that there are more suicides per year thanhomicides — made me curious about the community impact of suicide,” says Comp in response toa question about the inspiration for an article onsuicide. His work has caught the eye of localpapers. In 2003, he was asked to be a correspondent by Madison’s daily newspaper, The CapitalTimes. He covers the Middleton beat and writesan average of two articles per week.Nathan has attended MATC since 1998, takingat least a semester off most years for traveling,often to Telluride, Colorado, and the surroundingareas. He plans to transfer to the University ofWisconsin–Madison in the fall of 2004 to doublemajor in political science and journalism. Hehopes to become a publisher and write for thepublications he admires most, particularly TheAtlantic Monthly.Other staffers at The Clarion have receivednational recognition for their stellar work.Clarion graphic designer Thomas Wabushreceived first place awards in the “Graphics”category at the 2002 and 2003 WNA Awards.Sharing TimeMaking a DifferenceHospiceCare Inc. is seeking volunteers to help out atthe HospiceCare Inpatient Unit in Fitchburg and toassist patients and their families living at home.Volunteers are very special members of HospiceCare'spatient-care team, providing much-needed comfort andsupport to those facing life-limiting illnesses when it'sneeded most. Numerous opportunities are available.For details, please contact Karen Reilly at 327-7105 orkaren.reilly@hospicecareinc.com.continued on page 15 HospiceCare Inc. 6395 East Cheryl Parkway Madison, WI 537
MATC’s nursing program trains students for the rewards and challenges of nursing. In the program, students learn the technical and discernment skills necessary to provide nursing care to patients of all ages. There is an extremely high demand for nurses in south-central Wisconsin, and 98% of MATC
