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Volume 22 • February 2005
Celebrating A Half-Century Of
S P E C I A L
A N N I V E R S A R Y
I S S U E
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
From the Dean ........................................................................................................... 1
VITAL SIGNS
Feature: Tracing 50 Years of Nursing Leadership ..........................................................2
UIC College of Nursing
Volume 22 | 2005
Feature: Center for Learning Excellence ...................................................................... 4
Other Teaching News ................................................................................................. 5
Regional Roundup ...................................................................................................... 6
Vital Signs is published annually for alumni
and friends of the College of Nursing at the
University of Illinois at Chicago.
Research Update ......................................................................................................... 7
Power of Nursing Leadership ...................................................................................... 9
50th Anniversary Events ........................................................................................... 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Barbara Matthopoulos
EDITOR
From the Alumni President ...................................................................................... 11
Class Notes ............................................................................................................... 11
Gail Mansfield
WRITER
Alumni Profile: Carol Estwing Ferrans, PhD, RN, FAAN ........................................ 14
Faculty Profile: Patrick Robinson, PhD, RN, ACRN ................................................ 15
Spring Design and Marketing
DESIGN
Faculty and Staff Updates ......................................................................................... 15
How You Can Make A Difference: Support Today’s Students ................................... 17
NURSING ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2004-2005
OFFICERS
Mary Doherty, BSN ’80, JD ’86
PRESIDENT
C. Sue Fahrenwald, MS ’95
S E C R E TA RY
TREASURER
PHOTOGRAPHER
BOARD MEMBERS
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
Wendy Escontrias, BSN ’99, MS ’01
Amnuayporn (Amy) Rasamimari
Susan Esslinger, MS ’84
Lisa Infantino
Charlotte Golden, BSN ’66
Urbana Representative
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Gloria Henderson, MS ’70
Rhonda Kistler, BSN ’91, MS ’02
Quad Cities Representative
Mary Maryland, PhD ’94
Sandra Masterson, BSN ’68
Vicki Day, MS ’94
Mark Mershon
Mai Nguyen, BSN ’87
Jennifer Bailey McGinn, BSN ‘02
Harlene Pearlman, MS ’95
Mary Nies, PhD ’88
PA S T - P R E S I D E N T
Olimpia Paun, MS ’94, PhD ’01
Eileen Rossen, MS ’73, PhD ’98
Kate Vos, MPH ’00
Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN
UIAA Representative
Barbara Matthopoulos
Faculty Liaison
Sheryl Coon
UIAA Liaison
Lauretta Quinn, PhD ’96
Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
CON Student Council Treasurer
FROM THE DEAN
help us celebrate!
IMAGINE 50 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE :
degree in another field and the newly funded
palliative care certificate. We offer profiles of
our new, inspiring faculty member Patrick
Robinson, PhD, RN, ACRN, and alumfaculty member Carol Ferrans, PhD, RN,
FAAN; updates from our regional campuses;
and noteworthy recent accomplishments of
faculty and alumni.
When the UIC Board of Trustees authorized
the College of Nursing as an autonomous
unit in 1955, an even dozen students composed our first nursing class. Today, our thriving and influential College has educated
more than 9,500 alumni, shaping the knowledge and practice of health-care professionals
in Illinois and across the nation and globe.
We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished so
far, and look forward to building upon this
solid foundation to attain even greater
heights in nursing leadership.
In this issue of Vital Signs, we celebrate our
first half-century and our building for the
future. Learn more about the rich history of
your College through our timeline and historical photos, and read about our innovative
Center for Learning Excellence, graduate
entry program for students with a university
Vital Signs | Volume 22 | February 2005
Over 2005, we would like to see you! Come
and join us for our first 50th celebration
gathering (see page 10)! Plan on attending a
Starry Gala Reception with Silent Auction at
Chicago’s Adler Planetarium on Thursday,
May 5, 2005, and our Blast from the Past as
we Fuel the Future Open House in the
College on Friday, May 6, 2005.
Keeping you connected to your College is
important to us. We’re delighted to announce
the debut of our new alumni Web site,
www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni, a single source
of College news, a way to stay in touch with
faculty and fellow alums, join in alumni events
and hopefully “give back” to the College as you
see fit to do.
In honor of completing 50 years of exemplary nursing education, please consider giving
back through a special anniversary gift. May
we suggest the denominations of $50, $150,
$250, $500 or any amount with a 5 or a 50
in it? We are on a campaign to raise 50th
anniversary scholarships, endowed for those
students most in need, as well as funds for the
Center for Learning Excellence. Our College
attracts the best and the brightest but not
necessarily the wealthiest. We have an abundance of deserving students, many who are
still the first in their families to go to college,
but the costs of tuition are rising as the state
cuts back on its support. Help the nurses
for tomorrow avail themselves of the opportunities that you had to receive a top-notch
education at UIC College of Nursing. You
may direct your gift to our scholarship program, the Center for Learning Excellence or
another college initiative of your choosing
(see page 17). Or make your donation online
at www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni.
As one of our alumni, you are a vital and
vibrant component of our proud 50-year
history, you are the foundation of our reputation as a top 10 nationally ranked college
of nursing and your continuing support
helps us build a pathfinding future. Thank
you for your continued interest and engagement in the life of your College of Nursing.
Together, I look forward to celebrating our
Legacy of Leadership.
Joan L. Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
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F E AT U R E : 5 0 Ye a r s O f N u r s i n g
TRAC I N G
50 YEARS OF NURSING LE ADE RSHIP
The College of Nursing starts its second half-century with a solid legacy of leadership in nursing education,
research, practice and community service. Here’s a look back at some highlights of the CON first 50 years.
1950s
1960s
1970s
The Board of Trustees authorizes the School of Nursing
to become the College of Nursing, an autonomous unit
of the university, in 1955.
Groundbreaking for the College of Nursing building
is held.
The College of Nursing building is completed.
The first class of 12 nursing students is admitted.
Uniforms cost from $7.45 to $8.15 each.
Governor William G. Stratton signs a bill making nursing school scholarships available through the Illinois
Department of Public Welfare in exchange for one year
of employment with the department.
A scholarship of $57.50 to cover tuition and fees for the
1957 winter quarter is awarded to Marguerite Dixon by
the Woman’s Club of Hinsdale Nursing fund.
Mary Lohr, PhD, is dean from 1972-75.
Mary K. Mullane, PhD, DSc, RN, serves as nursing
dean from 1962-1971.
Master of science degree in nursing is approved in
1962. Five students are admitted to the program in
1963, including Helen Grace, who later becomes dean.
Enrollment in the College of Nursing reaches 239 by
the end of the ’60s and more than doubles by the end
of the ’70s. Less than 50 percent of the students who
apply are accepted.
Harriet H. Werley, PhD, RN, FAAN, serves as associate
dean for research from 1974-1977.
The PhD program is approved by the Board of
Trustees in 1974.
The Peoria and Urbana-Champaign regional programs
open in 1974.
Helen K. Grace, PhD, RN, FAAN, becomes dean in
1977, a position she holds until 1982.
Emily C. Cardew, MS, RN, serves as dean from
1957-62.
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1980s
1990s
2000 and beyond
The Quad Cities regional program opens in 1980.
The College graduate program reaches sixth place in
the country in reputational rankings published in
U.S. News and World Report.
The HIV/AIDS program completes 10 years in its
peer education program in Botswana, a model for
AIDS prevention efforts elsewhere on the continent.
The Rockford regional program opens in 1991.
The College ranks third (2002) and fourth (2003)
among 82 nursing schools in NIH funding.
The College holds its first telemarketing campaign,
raising $14,500 from 473 alums.
Mitzi L. Duxbury, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNS, is dean
from 1983-88.
The Center for Nursing Research in Washington, D.C.,
awards a five-year grant of more than $500,000 to
Assistant Professor Paula Meier, DNSc, RN, for her
study, “Nursing Management of Breast Feeding for
Pre-Term Infants,” and a grant of $250,000-plus to
Assistant Professor Eva Smith, PhD, RN, to
develop “Church-Based Education Programs for
Black Hypertensives.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) designates
the College of Nursing as a WHO Collaborating
Centre for International Nursing Development in
Primary Health Care in 1986.
Undergraduate and graduate program curricula are significantly revised to meet the current and emerging
needs of the health-care system for advanced clinical
practitioners in nursing. College programs change to a
semester calendar.
Dr. Kim is chosen as the only Illinoisan to serve on
the 47-member Health Care Professionals Review
Committee to President Clinton’s Health Care Task
Force, providing a strong voice for progressive changes
in the role of advanced nurse practitioners.
The CON honors Dr. Harriet H. Werley for her leadership in health-care scholarship and her generosity in
establishing the Harriet H. Werley Chair in Nursing
Research, the first endowed academic position
The College faculty group practice, University of
Illinois Nursing and Health Care Associates, is up
and running.
The College BSN to PhD program, emphasizing
nursing science for clinical practice, is the first of its
kind in Illinois and only one of a handful in the U.S.
Chicago philanthropist and businessman Irving B.
Harris makes a $1 million gift to the College to
support programs in improving the well being of
young children.
A Center for Reducing Risks in Vulnerable
Populations is funded through NIH/NINR.
The College receives a grant of nearly $900,000 from
(held by Suzanne Feetham, PhD, RN, FAAN, from
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to assist the University
of Botswana in developing a graduate nursing program
1996-2002).
The Health Resources and Services Administration
funds a Career Ladders program and a Nurse
with the potential for serving southern Africa.
Joseph and Mary Lou Piscopo generously establish a
Retention/Patient Care Quality Improvement project.
Mi Ja Kim is appointed dean in 1989 at the onset of
the 35th anniversary; she serves until 1995.
$5 million dollar endowment for the Center of
Narcolepsy Research in the College in 1996.
Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, becomes dean of the
College of Nursing in 1996.
The Harriet H. Werley Chair in Research is held by
Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN, an expert in cancer
pain and computerized clinical assessment and
decisional support.
The first College of Nursing “Power of Nursing Leadership” celebration, sponsored by UIC, is held in 1998.
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F E AT U R E : C e n t e r F o r L e a r n i n g E xc e l l e n c e
CENTER FOR LEARNING EXCELLENCE
integrates technology and education
FOR CUTTING- EDGE LEARNING
“Clicks and bricks” is how Beth A. Brooks, PhD, RN, CHE, clinical
assistant professor, PMA Dept., and associate dean, educational
outreach, describes the components of the CON new Center for
Learning Excellence (CLE). Dedicated to providing state-of-the-art
integration of technology and learning, the CLE brings together
several established and new computer-based education programs—
“clicks”—with an innovative new lab—“bricks”—on the first floor of
the nursing school.
With several programs such as online courses already thriving, and new
technology-based learning initiatives underway, “it made sense to
bring these programs together in a center that supports innovative
teaching, provides the tools to help faculty further these efforts, and
recognizes successes with special awards and grants,” Brooks says.
“We’re still in the early stages—we’re now working on a long-term
strategic plan for the center—but the basic pieces are there.”
Graduate nursing student Charles Yingling oversees the “bricks”
portion of the CLE: the newly refurbished skills competency center
occupying what used to be a women’s locker room. “Our old lab
upstairs focused on a hospital setting, but the majority of our programs
are clinic- or outpatient-based,” he says. “So our new center has both
a hospital side, with patient simulators, and a clinic side with six exam
rooms, closer to what is found in a clinic setting.”
Another room in the lab contains recording equipment used by faculty to record themselves narrating PowerPoint presentations. A graduate nursing student who doubles as a professional voiceover artist is
available for faculty who seek a more polished delivery, Brooks notes.
Yingling explains another emerging use for the recording studio: a setting for observing realistic simulations of student-patient interactions.
Actors trained to portray “patients” with specific complaints interact
with students, while faculty members observe on video.
“ ...it made sense to bring these programs
together in a center that supports innovative
teaching, provides the tools to help faculty
further {learning} efforts...”
Programs gathered under the CLE umbrella include videoconferenced
undergraduate and graduate courses that connect the five campuses,
two fully electronic classrooms with roaming units that can be
used in other campus areas, and more than 30 fully online or
Web-enhanced courses. The center’s faculty and student toolkits
include Web and PowerPoint programs on enhancing computer-based
teaching, enhancing study skills, writing plainly and identifying student plagiarism. CLE also sponsors “lunch and learn” brown-bag sessions for faculty and students.
“Clinical situations are harder to recreate in the standard classroom,
and faculty can’t always evaluate students specifically in a clinical setting because of the differences among patients,” Yingling says. “This
standardizes what the students confront and experience in a fun way.”
Some of the software applications being tested on specific groups—
for example, a program used for clinical case studies in the new
Graduate Entry Program (see page 5)—will be transferable to other
courses and other uses. “A lot of our resources will be useful for a number of groups as they trickle over from the pilot users,” Brooks notes.
Brooks and Yingling note that financial support from alumni and
friends will be crucial to ongoing development of the Center resources
and offsetting the high costs of equipment and technology. To learn
more about ways you can contribute to CLE, visit our Web site at
www.uic.edu/nursing.
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OT H E R T E AC H I N G N E WS
LONG A LEADER IN
EDUCATION , THE
CON
CONTINUES TO CREATE
forward-looking
curricular offerings.
Graduate Entry Program
welcomes first class
“The day our first class of students came in
for orientation in December was one of the
most exciting days in the past two years,” says
Patricia Lewis, PhD, RN, associate dean for
clinical practice studies, describing the longawaited debut of the Graduate Entry
Program (GEP).
Designed for individuals who want to
become nurses but hold baccalaureate
degrees in non-nursing fields, the GEP
launched in January with 28 students. The
program begins with an intensive 15
months (three regular semesters plus one
summer) providing students with the
foundations for nursing practice and the
preparation to take the National Council
Licensing Examination-Registered Nurse
(NCLEX-RN).
Interest in the program ran high long before
the GEP was offered.“We had 500 people on
our e-mail list asking to be notified when we
were accepting applications,” Lewis relates.
“Graduate entry programs across this country have had tremendous response
from applicants. It helps people find their
way into nursing through a program that fits
who they are.”
Pre-license courses cover such areas as
pathophysiology and pharmacotherapeutics,
cultural fluency and communication skills,
integrated health care in several specialty
fields, bioethics, and leadership roles and
transition into professional practice. After
successful completion of the NCLEX-RN,
students begin advanced-practice specialty
courses in any of the UIC nursing master’s
options: 11 nurse practitioner as well as six
clinical nurse specialist and two health systems leadership options.
“We have worked almost two years to
finalize the GEP and we have an exciting, cutting-edge curriculum that incorporates the
most recent approaches in higher education
for nursing practice,” says Barbara Simmons,
PhD, RN, clinical assistant professor. “Our
faculty team is dedicated to the program.”
Lewis adds, “Having the luxury to build a
program from scratch, rather than making
incremental changes in an existing program,
has been wonderful. It’s going to be very
exciting watching these students develop over
the next four years.” She echoes Simmons’
praise of the diverse faculty team that labored
to build the program: “Some of the faculty
members who worked on this weren’t destined to be part of the teaching team, but they
wanted the College to have this program.”
For more information, visit us on the Web at
www.uic.edu/nursing/prospective_students.
End-of-life APN program
is first in country
With an $800,000 grant from the Health
Resources and Services Administration of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, the College is recruiting for a novel
program to educate nurses and other health
professionals. The first of its kind in the
country, the wide-ranging advanced practice
palliative care certificate program is designed
to attract nurses, and could appeal to other
health professionals, including social workers,
physicians and allied health-care providers.
The advanced training is intended to meet a
growing need for expert palliative care, allowing death with dignity and compassion not
only for the rapidly increasing numbers of
elderly in the U.S., but for anyone approaching death.
“The American health-care system often fails
to provide sustaining care to people who are
facing their own death or the death of a family member,” says Jeannine Forrest, PhD,
RN, project director and research assistant
professor. “Patients of all ages and their families need advanced, competent help in navigating the myriad physical, psychosocial,
spiritual and economic challenges of serious
illness, along with support in making complex and difficult ethical decisions consistent
with preferences for end-of-life care.”
The problem is especially acute in Illinois,
Forrest notes. According to Last Acts, a
national coalition to improve care and caring
near the end of life, state policies may hinder
good pain management. Only a few Illinois
residents die at home, even though most
Americans say they would prefer to do so.
Just a handful of hospitals in the state provide end-of-life services such as hospice care.
Under the program, which will incorporate
the latest advances in health care and medical
science, nurses and other health professionals
will master the elements of comprehensive,
culturally appropriate, compassionate and
coordinated care for adults, children and
infants, as well as their families, who are facing life-threatening illness or approaching
death. Graduates of the program will be
prepared for certification both in their own
specialty area, such as maternal, pediatric,
geriatric or surgical nursing or medical social
work, and in palliative care.
Nationally, only two programs offer education
in palliative care for advanced practice nurses.
UIC’s is the only one to encompass care for
patients of all ages, and the only one in Illinois.
For more information, visit us on the Web at
www.uic.edu/nursing/prospective_students.
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REGIONAL ROUNDUP
REGIONAL ROUNDUP
QUAD CITIES
25 YEARS OF THE RN - BSN PROGRAM
“Being in a quality program with other students who work outside the
home really gives our students camaraderie and a feeling of support
from one another,” says Pamela Hill, PhD, RN, professor and director
of the Quad Cities RN-BSN program, celebrating its 25th anniversary
this year.
CELEBRATING
Created in 1980 to address the shortage of baccalaureate-prepared
nurses in that part of the state, the program now has graduated 311 RNBSN students. Most work full- or part-time outside the home, and the
four-semester, part-time program is designed for their schedules.
“The working nurse cannot go to school four or five days a week, so
we’ve designed the program so that they come in one day a week for
classes,” Hill says. “We also make trips to the Chicago campus so they
can meet the dean and tour the campus.”
of the Health Sciences; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
School of Nursing and Library and Information Services; and the
Illinois Department of Public Health Training and Resource Center
Library. The UIC Library of the Health Sciences has guided the development of a Web site with links to instructional and evidence-based
resource materials targeted to public health nurses.
“To enhance PHN skills in finding and evaluating the literature, a series
of instructional modules will offer accessibility via the Internet and the
IDPH intranet,” says Roberta Lyons, MPH, CHES, project director.
“Currently under development is a database to further disseminate
integrative literature reviews conducted by Illinois PHN graduate students to a wide audience of public health nurses. And, to facilitate access
to information, the university health sciences library partners will offer
reference and document delivery services to public health nurses,”
adds Baldwin.
ROCKFORD
REDUCING HEALTH DISPARITIES IN RURAL AREAS
The program makes heavy use of technology, incorporating online classwork as well as “polycom” technology, which uses TV screens to allow
students at the Quad Cities and Chicago campuses, plus nurses
at the University of Chicago Hospitals, to see each other and interact
during class.
Many RN-BSN students go on to pursue their master’s degrees after
graduation, a testament to the success of the program.
“Our students are pretty happy; we have a great learning environment
with helpful and supportive staff and faculty,” Hill says. “Our professors
and staff do a remarkable job of facilitating students’ progress through
the program.”
With the support of a Project EXPORT (Excellence in Partnerships
for Community Outreach and Research on Disparities in Health and
Training) Center for Excellence in Rural Health grant from the
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the
Rockford-based Center for Rural Health Professions is working to
reduce health disparities in rural areas.
“We have a number of activities going on under this grant,” which is
funded by the National Institutes of Health, explains Patricia Lewis,
PhD, RN, clinical assistant professor and director of the Rockford
program. “We’re working on assessing the extent of the problems in
different areas—for example, diabetes and arthritis—and collaborating
with rural communities to define their own health-related priorities
and then find ways to help them improve care systems and education.”
PEORIA
TAKING ILLINOIS PUBLIC HEALTH
NURSING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
The “Advancing Public Health Nursing Education (APHNE) in
Illinois” project directed by Kathleen Baldwin, PhD, RN, and
L. Michel Issel, PhD, RN, of UIC’s College of Nursing and School of
Public Health, respectively, is the source for another Illinois public
health nursing initiative. The State Advisory Board of the APHNE
grant recently articulated the need for greater ease of communicating
about evidence-based practice among public health nursing (PHN) academics and practitioners.
This awareness led to a proposal to improve access to and education
regarding the evidence base for PHN practice. The proposal was developed jointly by personnel from the Peoria nursing program and Library
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Another of the program’s aims, Lewis notes, is to recruit students from
rural areas into the health professions. “The literature says pretty clearly that if they’re from rural areas, they’re more likely to go back and work
there,” she says.
The Rockford Regional Campus’s Center for Rural Health Professions sponsors a number of activities to help reduce rural health disparities, including this 2004 summer camp for rural high-school
students interested in health careers.
REGIONAL ROUNDUP
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R E S E A R C H U P DAT E
UIUC/UIC partners in the center include the schools of medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry and pharmacy. In addition, the program enjoys active partnership with hospitals in Dixon, Freeport and
other cities.
“What we try to do is pull together all of our resources and determine
which programs are appropriate for students’ participation,” Lewis
explains. Once a month, the rural medicine students host a Tuesday
night informal discussion that is often attended by nursing and public
health students.
“In terms of collaboration, we’re still very young at this,” Lewis says of
the center. “But there’s a lot we’ve learned, we’ve built good relationships
and we’re moving along.”
URBANA
Research at the College of Nursing is designed to improve health and
reduce health disparities within the U.S. and globally. The College
ranked fourth among all schools of nursing in research support from
the National Institutes of Health for 2003.
College faculty members are known for their strong and diverse programs of research ranging from basic biological and biobehavioral to
community-based intervention research. Major areas include women's
health, the development and evaluation of interventions to reduce
health disparities and improve quality of life, and global primary
health care.
The following are snapshots of some research currently being conducted at the CON. For details on all funded research at the College,
visit www.uic.edu/nursing/research.
PROVIDING HEALTH CARE TO FAMILIES
OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
In Urbana, the College opened its clinic for families of international students in 2001 with $51,000 of in-kind contributions and donated space.
Today, the clinic serves more than 1,500 clients from all over the world.
“We serve the families of international students, who do not have access
to student health services and may not be eligible for public monies
because of their international status,” says Linda Farrand, PhD, APNP,
BC, clinical assistant professor.
To eliminate the language barrier, the clinic uses a language line that
connects users to interpreters in more than 90 languages. Staffed by
volunteer physicians, nurse practitioner faculty members and students,
the clinic is open about 25 hours a month, and has become an
umbrella environment for other services such as public health and
Planned Parenthood.
“This is a wonderful environment where our nurse practitioner graduate students can apply what they’ve learned,” Farrand says. As a result,
students from fields including social work and human development have
begun working at the clinic.
Last year, the clinic received a two-year grant from the UIUC department of human development’s Family Resiliency Initiative. To decrease
isolation of immigrant families, Farrand and her colleagues have developed online content for providers to develop cross-cultural healthcare.
“We’re piloting our content now with the center staff, and at the end of
the grant, well have something we can share with community and educational partners,” she says.
The clinic “is a study in community organization,” Farrand says. “It’s a
basic public health initiative that is really working.”
S TUDYI N G TH E EF F ECTS O F T H E
EX TER N AL EN V I RON MEN T O N
R EDUCI N G BR AI N I N JUR I E S
TESS L . BRIONES , PHD , RN , RESEARCH ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR , MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING
Briones’s program of research focuses on brain plasticity, the overall
mechanisms that govern brain flexibility and mutability. “Specifically,
we’re interested in examining the integrated response of the brain
following drastic fluctuations in blood flow (cerebral ischemia), such
as those seen in severe head injury, stroke and cardiac-arrest patients,”
Briones explains. “In our laboratory, we’re examining the mechanisms
at the molecular, cellular and behavioral (systems) levels whereby the
nervous system responds to injury and how the external environment
can lessen the effects of ischemic damage in the brain.”
Studies for which Briones is principal investigator, funded by the
National Institutes of Health and the College internal research support fund, employ external environmental factors for animal models
including sensory stimulation (use of a sensory-rich environment
including a constantly changing array of toys, bells and socialization),
exercise and dietary modulation.
“We use a multifaceted approach in trying to answer our research
questions including electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry,
stereology and molecular biology,” Briones says. “A lot of studies focus
on the cellular or molecular aspects that occur after nervous system
injury; we try to bridge what happens at that level with what it means
in terms of behavioral impairment and recovery.” Some examples of
ongoing studies in Briones’s laboratory include examining the effects
of the external environment in influencing the link between behavior
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(learning, memory, and motor coordination and strength) and gene
and protein expression following cerebral ischemic damage; effects of
dietary modulation, sensory stimulation and exercise in ameliorating
the mitochondrial damage caused by oxygen and glucose imbalances
that accompany cerebral ischemia; effects of sensory stimulation in
activating endogenous stem cells in the adult brain to potentially
replace neuron loss after cerebral ischemia; and effects of gene silencing together with sensory stimulation and exercise in either preventing the development or slowing down the progression of Alzheimer’s
disease.
compare, from the perspectives of parents, nurses and physicians, the
parent determinants of these decisions.” Data will be used in a subsequent intervention study.
ONE - STOP ASSESSMENT,
DOCUMENTATION AND DECISION
SUPPORT FOR CANCER PAIN
DIANA J . WILKIE , PHD , RN , FAAN , PROFESSOR AND
HARRIET H . WERLEY ENDOWED CHAIR FOR NURSING
RESEARCH , MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING
ASSESSING PARENT DETERMINANTS
IN LIFE SUPPORT DECISIONS FOR
EXTREMELY PREMATURE INFANTS
KAREN KAVANAUGH , PHD , RN , ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ,
MATERNAL CHILD NURSING
“Technological advances in obstetrical and neonatal
care have led to unprecedented dilemmas regarding
life support decisions for extremely premature infants
(22 to 25 weeks gestation with an average birthweight
of 400 to 750 grams),” says Kavanaugh. The prognosis for the infant of a pregnancy with a threatened
preterm delivery between 22 and 25 weeks gestation, and associated
life support treatment decisions for the infant, remain challenges for
health-care professionals.
“Many experts advocate for involving parents in life support decisions
because of the high mortality and morbidity for extremely premature
infants, and because parents bear the devastating emotional and
financial consequences of these decisions,” Kavanaugh says. Through
a National Institutes of Health-supported study, she is using a decision support framework to describe parent determinants of decisions
regarding life support and end-of-life care made over time prenatally
and postnatally for extremely premature infants. Kavanaugh and her
team are studying 50 families and their health-care professionals
(physicians and nurses) to determine parent determinants of life
support decisions.
Little is known about the parent determinants of decisions relative to
life support and end-of-life care for extremely premature infants, but
“this is essential knowledge prior to the development of supportive
interventions to improve the quality of decision making and ultimately improve client outcomes,” Kavanaugh says. “Thus, the purpose of
this qualitative descriptive longitudinal study is to describe and
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“Unrelieved cancer pain is a major health
problem,” says Wilkie, whose research focuses
on PAINRelieveIt, a computerized set of tools.
PAINRelieveIt includes three components: electronic
versions of valid and reliable scales for pain assessment
(PAINReportIt); a printed summary of the patient’s pain data with
decision support for providers to prescribe algorithm-based analgesic
therapies (PAINConsultN); and computerized multimedia education
customized to address the patient’s pain management needs
(PainUCope). “PAINRelieveIt allows patients to describe their pain
using PAINReportIt and touch-screen technology,” Wilkie explains.
“Answers are automatically stored in an electronic database, which is
then used to generate PAINConsultN and PainUCope.”
Funded by the National Cancer Institute, Wilkie’s research “is ahead
of the ball in terms of what the National Institutes of Health wants
to see happen: it’s one-stop assessment, documentation and decision
support,” she says.
PainUCope uses patients’ answers to provide a multimedia, tailored
education program that helps patients overcome misconceptions that
can be barriers to pain management. “For example, many patients fear
addiction to narcotics, but addiction is very rare when the medications
are used appropriately for pain-management purposes,” Willkie
explains. “One component of the program, which uses a combination
of fun, interactive teaching techniques that keep learning active, is
dedicated to helping patients overcome that fear.
“When we put the components of PainRelieveIt together, we’re helping to save health-care professionals time while improving patientprovider communications,” Wilkie says. “It’s putting the patient into
partnership with his or her health-care provider.”
P OW E R O F N U R S I N G L E A D E R S H I P
2004 POWER O F NURS I NG
LEA DE RS HI P EVE NT
another success!
The Seventh Annual Power of Nursing Leadership Event welcomed
nearly 700 health-care leaders from across Illinois at the luncheon
held on Friday, October 22, at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. This
year’s theme, The Nurses Who Shape Health Care, celebrated the tireless
work of nurses, past and present. Guests were welcomed by
Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of the American Academy of
Nursing and dean of UIC College of Nursing, the event’s presenting
sponsor. A great laugh was had by all who were entertained by Bobbie
Staten, a registered nurse turned professional humorist who delighted
the crowd!
(Left to right ) Ginger Barthel, Keynote Speaker Linda Ellerbee,
Dean Joan Shaver, Sandra Reifsteck and Ann Minnick.
This year’s scheduled keynote speaker was journalist/TV personality
Cokie Roberts, who was unable to attend but was ably replaced by
Emmy-award winning producer Linda Ellerbee.
Annually, the Power of Nursing Leadership recognizes the significant
contributions of nurses working in health care, and their influence
on health care and health-care delivery. Nominations are made by
peers and reviewed by a committee of health-care leaders who have a
nursing background.
With a heartfelt response of gratitude to her peers, Laura Leigh Ferrio,
RN, MSN, MBS, CRRN, vice president of patient care services and
chief nurse executive at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, accepted her award as the 2004 Outstanding Illinois Nurse Leader.
Harlene Pearlman (MS '95) poses with
UIC CON’s very own Kathy Lesinski (right)
as the duo promotes our 50th Anniversary.
Humorist Bobbie Staten, RN, entertains
the crowd.
The SAGE Award salutes nurse leaders for their own ability to be
Significant, Advise, Guide and Enlighten. This year’s winners
were Ginger Barthel, RN, MA; Ann Minnick, PhD, RN, FAAN; and
Sandra W. Reifsteck, RN, MS CNAA, FACMPE.
The Power of Nursing Leadership was presented by UIC College
of Nursing, and co-sponsored by Nursing Spectrum/Nurse Week,
the University of Illinois Medical Center and several health-care
partners who together salute the noteworthy contributions of Illinois’
nursing leaders.
Co-sponsor Nursing Spectrum is on-hand to salute nurses shaping health care in Illinois with its
2005 calendar for attendees to help themselves to!
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A N N I V E R S A RY E V E N T S
50TH Anniversary Celebration
HIGH - ENERGY EVENTS TO SHOWCASE FIRST HALF - CENTURY OF EXCELLENCE
Mark your calendar now for the College of Nursing’s 50th anniversary celebration. To honor the roads we’ve traveled, acknowledge the accomplishments of
the day and cast our vision toward the future, we’re pleased to invite all College alumni to join us in celebrating this milestone with two special events on
May 5 and 6, 2005, in Chicago. Be sure to bring along your nostalgia, reflection and celebratory spirit.
Thursday, May 5 | 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
GA L A R E C E P T I O N A N D S I L E N T AU C T I O N AT T H E A D L E R P L A N E TA R I U M
Reconnect with classmates and former professors as you celebrate
the College’s stellar past and support future UIC nursing scholars. Start
contacting your friends from school today—each decade will be
assigned a color so that attendees may pick out their fellow grads in
the crowd (1950s—red; ’60s—orange; ’70s—yellow; ’80s—green;
’90s—blue; ’00s—purple). Highlights of the evening include:
• Special
gatherings for graduates
from each decade
• Welcome
from Dean Joan
Shaver and former Deans Helen
Grace, Mitzi Duxbury and
Mi Ja Kim
• Cocktails
and lavish hors
d’oeuvres reception with cash
bar, dessert and coffee service
• Appearance
and book signing by
UIC alumnus and mystery
author Serita D. Stevens
(BSN ’71)
• Astronomy
exhibits and free
30-minute Sky Theatre show
• Silent
• Interactive
comedy appearance
by ComedySportz
• Appearance
by authors Carolyn
Hope Smeltzer, Frances R.
Vlasses and Connie R.
Robinson, autographing their
latest book, Chicago’s Nurse Parade
auction benefiting
CON scholarships, featuring
contributions from Chicago-area
businesses, regional sites and
friends of the College
• Complimentary
photo souvenir
• Music
provided by The Ron
Harris Group
$50 per person; $30 for students with current UIC IDs.
Register online at www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni/, or call 312-413-2888.
COST IS
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING The Adler Planetarium is located
at 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive. Parking is available for a nominal
fee in a lot adjacent to the planetarium. Find directions online at
www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni/.
College guests
will receive a special rate at the Chicago Marriott at the
Medical Center/UIC, $129 per night (single/double). Make your hotel
reservations online from our Web site, or call 800-228-9290 and ask
for Group Code “NUR”.
SPECIAL HOTEL RATE FOR ANNIVERSARY ATTENDEES
COMING FROM ANOTHER REGION ? TRAVEL AS A GROUP
Interested in attending anniversary events as a group? To join up
with fellow alumni from your region, contact these representatives
to find out what carpooling or group arrangements your region may
be organizing:
Peoria: Nylene Bradburn,
[email protected], 309-671-8464
Rockford: Asako TakekumaKatsumata, [email protected],
815-395-5624
Friday, May 6 | 8:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
— 50 Y E A R S A N D
B L A S T F R O M T H E PA S T O P E N H O U S E
Leave your business attire at home and dress down in the clothes you
wore to class during your school days. Share perspectives on nursing
today with alumni from a variety of professions, CON faculty, and current students and new grads. This special open house in Chicago welcomes all who attend the May 5 gala, as well as alumni and friends who
wish only to attend this event.
• Coffee
and pastries in the Midwest
Nursing History Museum
with current
and former deans
• Dialoguing
• “Profiling
with Distinguished
Alumna Leaders: How the UIC
College Helped Shape My Career
and My Life”
• College
B E YO N D
THERE IS NO COST TO ATTEND THE EVENT,
but please RSVP online
at www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni so we may anticipate your attendance.
The UIC College of Nursing is still
located at 845 S. Damen Ave., between Polk and Taylor streets.
Metered parking is available on Taylor Street, and paid parking is available in the Wood Street Parking Structure.
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING
FOR MORE INFORMATION For general questions regarding anniverthe Nursing
Workforce: Alumni-Student Panel” sary events, contact Coordinator of Events and External Relations
Barbara Matthopoulos at [email protected] or 312-996-7663, or visit
• “Creating New Knowledge:
www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni.
Quality Circles”
• “Strengthening
• “Testing
New Models: Looking
at College Research”
• Pizza
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tour and lunch
Quad Cities: Beverly Mangravite,
[email protected],
309-757-9467
Urbana: Kathleen Schiff,
[email protected], 217-244-0410
and beer reception
F R O M T H E A LU M N I P R E S I D E N T
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C L A S S N OT E S
CON ANNIVERSARY IS AN OPPORTUNITY
to reconnect
As the College enters its 50th year, the opportunities for alumni to reconnect with their classmates
and favorite faculty members are being developed
in a way never done before.
Plans are in motions for two exciting events to celebrate the College’s 50th anniversary (see page 10).
Save the dates!
To help our graduates keep in touch with college happenings, we’re
proudly debuting the alumni Web site, www.uic.edu/nursing/alumni.
We hope you’ll visit the Web site often to stay abreast of college news
and events, submit your own news, contact classmates, become a mentor, volunteer as an Alumni Board member or on an alumni committee, make a gift, find valuable career information, and purchase UIC
clothing and other gear. You can even nominate yourself or another
alum for one of the several prestigious College awards recognizing our
outstanding graduates in their practice.
There are lots of other ways to reconnect with your college and
your fellow graduates. The alumni board hosts reunions, student
mentoring programs and a holiday luncheon. (Visit the alumni Web site
for details.) In honor of our 50th anniversary, I also invite you to join
fellow alumni and the Alumni Board in supporting the college through
a contribution directed toward a scholarship, the Dean’s Fund for
special college initiatives, or a specific department or program of
your choice. Giving back to the college is a meaningful way to recognize the many gifts that our UIC nursing education has brought to
our professional and personal lives—and to ensure that those gifts
are carried forward to the next generation of bright and committed
nursing students.
The College Alumni Board always welcomes your input. Share your
news and ideas by e-mailing us at [email protected], calling 312-9967663 or writing to the UIC CON Alumni Board, 845 S. Damen
Avenue (MC 802), Chicago, IL 60612. We look forward to hearing
from you—and seeing you at this year’s anniversary and alumni events.
Very truly yours,
CL ASS NOTES
1954 Rosemary Devine Nolan (BSN) worked in ChampaignUrbana in women’s health until her 2002 retirement. She
teaches childbirth education with two other educators, and
travels extensively, including Florida, Ireland and Costa Rica.
She plans to drive to Phoenix soon to visit with classmates.
1959 Ellen Riggle Naney (BSN) works full time in a Medicaidreimbursed position caring for a ventilator-dependent
14-year-old boy “door-to-door” on school days. She does volunteer work on a crisis line and a food program for
HIV-positive individuals.
1964 Delores (Dee) (Leusby) Fulk (BSN) was active in nursing for
30 years following graduation, including CCU, ICU, trauma,
surgery and post-anesthesia recovery. She ran a helicopter operation for nearly 10 years and is rated to fly fixed and rotarywinged aircraft. Ten years ago, she switched
to natural history, filling her life with sea turtles, dolphins and narrating boat cruises. She
and her husband, Bill (MD ’64), were married the year after graduation; they live on
Sanibel Island, Fla.
Joan Arteberry Zavitz (MSN) retired two years ago; previously,
she was founder and dean of Aurora University’s nursing program. She writes a weekly newspaper column and, along with
her spouse, Phil, participates in raising granddaughter Madison,
2, along with daughter Tina. They live in St. Charles, Ill.
Theresa (Terrie) Cree Crist (BSN) received her master’s degree
in nursing administration from DePaul University in 1983,
and is an advanced certified nursing administrator. Her last
position was vice president of operations for a three-state home
health agency based in Ohio. She retired in 1997 after being
diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and now does volunteer work to
spread the word about this disease.
Judy A. Jacob Haselhorst (BSN; MSN ’70) retired from
health care last year after more than 44 years in hospitals and
health-care consulting. The past five years, she was a consultant
with Kurt Salmon and Associates in their Health Care
Consulting Group, Strategic Facility Planning. She is owner
and teacher in a preschool and is starting an after-school
community program.
Mary E. Doherty (’80)
Alumni Board President
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C L A S S N OT E S
Betty Stuebe Paps (BSN) earned a PhD and taught nursing
for over 30 years. She spent 20 years in the Air Force Reserve,
serving in Desert Storm as a flight nurse. Since her retirement
eight years ago, she travels the world, most recently Kenya,
Russia, Tibet, Nepal and Antarctica, with a trip planned to
Egypt and Jordan in 2005.
1975 Carolyn Cathey Castelli (MSN) works at New York
Presbyterian Hospital, White Plains, N.Y., ranked second in
behavioral health in the USA by U.S. News and World Report,
where she currently focuses on retention issues in the Nursing
Department. She is married to Jay Castelli and they have two
daughters enrolled in Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
1967 Rosellen Bohlen (BSN) has been working for 13 years in
Women’s Health Care at Carle Clinic, Urbana Campus, where
she cares for women across the lifespan. She married Dennis
Potten in 2000 and their grandson, Johan Bendiksen, was born
in 2002.
Heena Reiter (formerly Hildy Heine Reiter) (MSN), is founder
and director of the Gesher Center for Jewish
Spirituality, Meditation and Healing near
Charlottesville, Va., and does part-time nursing in a residential treatment center for
adolescents. She and her husband, Stephen
Reiter, have three children.
1968 Linda Peters (BSN) is an architectural historian, and has
written the nominations that have placed some of Chicago’s
significant buildings and districts on the National Register of
Historic Places and designated as Chicago Landmarks. She also
is an adjunct professor at Oakton Community College, where
she teaches humanities.
1970 Ruth Ann Wright-Piros (BSN) retired in 1997; her last position
was directing the Respiratory Therapy Department at Iowa
Methodist Medical Center. Her hobbies include flying,
traveling and working on her acreage. Husband Jim Piros
(MD ’71) also took up flying, and now the two do most of
their local traveling in their Piper Cherokee 6.
1971 Janet Goble (BSN) received her reliability in the Newborn
Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program
(NIDCAP) in 2003. She is developmental care coordinator at
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tucson, Ariz.
Susan Connell (BSN; MSN ’73) is an attorney who practiced
law in Chicago with the federally funded Legal Services
Corporation, created to provide civil legal representation for
the poor. At San Francisco State University (SFSU), she
teaches courses in bioethics, ethical issues in science and
technology,and business ethics. Since 1986, she has also taught
in the NEXA program at SFSU, which focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and sciences.
1973 Florence L. (Nail) Miller (BSN; MPH ’00) is an APN CNS in
Medical/Surgical Pediatrics, John Stroger Hospital of Cook
County, Chicago. She also holds an MSN degree from Wayne
State University.
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Carol Leenerts Rossel (MSN) is on the graduate nursing
faculty at North Park University, Chicago.
1976 Janis (Foster) Waite (MSN) is an associate professor at Saint
Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, teaching both
undergraduates and graduate students. She earned her doctorate in education from UIUC in 1998, and says she “greatly
appreciated the rigor of the program back then and know that
the med-surg focus with a teaching minor gave me the basis
to continue to enjoy my work roles all these many years.”
1980 Irene Danylyshyn-Stasula (BSN) is project coordinator for
The Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental
Safety and Health of the School of Public Health at UIC.
She lives on the northwest side of Chicago with her husband,
George, and two daughters, Olena and Ulana. She also has
worked in occupational health with Equifax Services, Inc.,
and Geo Health.
Mary E. Doherty (BSN) is currently serving as president of
the Alumni Board and will be working on gathering as many
of her classmates as possible for their 25th reunion as the
College celebrates its 50th. She has worked as a lawyer, using
her nursing skills, since 1986, and recently taught an introductory course at the College on “Becoming a Nurse Expert
Witness.” Since the courts now require nurses, not doctors, to
testify in medical negligence cases as to the standard of care of
nurses, more nursing experts will be needed to serve as experts.
“Our alums can serve that need,” she says.
C L A S S N OT E S
1982 Jerry Durham (MSN) is professor of nursing at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis, where he also has served as dean of the
Barnes College of Nursing and Health Studies (1997-2001) and
as vice chancellor for academic affairs (2001-04). Previously,
he held nursing leadership positions at Illinois Wesleyan
University, Indiana University and Mennonite College of
Nursing. He holds master’s degrees in medical-surgical nursing and psychiatric community mental health nursing, as well as a doctorate in higher education administration.
His books have received five Book of the Year
Awards from the American Journal of Nursing.
Donna L. Hartweg (MSN) is the Caroline F. Rupert Professor
of Nursing and director, School of Nursing, Illinois Wesleyan
University. Teamed with a colleague in the university’s Hispanic
studies department, her research emphasizes perceptions of
health and physical activity of low-income Spanish-speaking
women from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, with hopes
for future intervention studies. She notes that his work parallels
the College’s efforts to increase the number of Spanish-speaking
nursing graduates.
1984 Joanna Spahis (BSN) is a clinical nurse specialist in pediatric
genetics at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas.
1985 Mary Ann Keough (MSN) has launched Keough Consultants,
Grand Rapids, Mich., using her nursing and law background to
assist non-profit organizations and projects including writing
grants for green building construction on a college campus, an
urban ministry that serves the homeless, a parish nurse/health
ministry network and a church-based free medication clinic.
1987 Georgia M. Knuth (MSN) retired in 2001 from a senior management occupational health nursing leadership position.
In 2002, she established her own consulting firm, GMK
Consultants, Inc. She also is part-time deputy director for
the UIC Occupational Health Nursing Graduate Program.
She and her husband, Don, live in Lemont, Ill, and have four
married sons and three grandchildren.
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1987 Cynthia Roy Epplin (BSN) is president of Epplin Anesthesia
Services, Ltd., in southern Illinois, where she is a solo anesthesia provider in rural hospitals as well as part of an anesthesia
group at an orthopedic surgery center. She graduated from
Washington University in St. Louis as a certified registered
nurse anesthetist and from University of Kansas with a master’s
degree in nurse anesthesiology. She and her husband, Ken,
are building a new home in southern Illinois.
1988 Janice K. Schneider (BSN) worked for the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services in Alaska for almost 15 years, most
recently as an itinerant public health nurse, providing health
services for seven villages ranging in population from 37-700.
She also has spent lengthy periods in Mongolia, addressing rural
health issues.Last year, she returned to Wisconsin to serve as primary at-home caregiver for her father, who died in June.
1989 Donna Kring (MSN) is a nurse practitioner in pediatric
neurology at Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
1991 Paul Kuehnert (MSN) was selected as one of 2004’s 20
Executive Nurse Fellows by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. The three-year fellowships allow recipients to
remain in their current positions while offering them experiences, insights, competencies and skills necessary to achieve or
advance in executive leadership positions in a health-care
system undergoing unprecedented change. Kuehnert is
currently executive director of the Office of Public Health
Emergency Preparedness for the Bureau of Health, Maine
Department of Health and Human Services, Augusta, Maine.
Margaret Winter (BSN) received her MSN degree from
Northern Illinois University in 1994. Since 2001, she has been
an assistant professor of nursing at Olivet Nazarene University,
Bourbonnais, Ill., and is pursuing her doctorate in education.
She lives in Indiana, where she is an advocate for reducing shaken baby syndrome and child abuse.
1994 Kristine Marie (Biros) Meece (BSN) worked in the Special Care
Nursery and Prentice Surgical Service Units at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, then earned her JD degree from DePaul
University School of Law. She worked as an
associate attorney at the law firm of Bollinger, Ruberry &
Garvey in Chicago, specializing in medical malpractice defense
litigation, until becoming a full-time mom in 2002. She and her
husband, Tim, have two daughters and live in Burr Ridge, Ill.
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A LU M N I P R O F I L E
1996 Judy Walloch (MSN) teaches at Graham Hospital School
of Nursing in Canton, Ill., and has begun work on her PhD
dissertation in education. She is studying the assessment of
students in nursing education.
ALUMNI PROFILE
CAROL ESTWING FERRANS, PHD, RN, FAAN
(MSN ’82, PHD ’85)
1997 Michele Morgia Dostal (BSN) graduated from Rush University
in 2003 with an MSN degree and certificate in anesthesia.
She is a CRNA at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where
she also teaches student nurse anesthetists. She married
Stephen Dostal in 2004.
2000 Karla Duitsman (BSN) is an RN at Provena Covenant
Medical Center, where she is the day shift charge nurse on the
oncology/medical floor as well as a rapid response nurse, troubleshooting in all units. She says her UIC BSN has benefited her
ability “to move up the clinical and management ladder.”
2001 Veronica Olivares (BSN) is a pediatric RN at Hope Children’s
Hospital and the busy mother of a two-year-old.
2002 Lauren Diegel-Vacek (MSN) is coordinator of the
Bariatric Surgery Program, Division of General Surgery,
UIC Medical Center.
Jason Lohmeyer (BSN) coordinates a grant-sponsored Visiting
Nurse Program that blends palliative and hospice care in a
rural setting. He serves at Cross Road Medical Center in southcentral Alaska, making home visits to elders in an area the size
of Ohio and frequently traveling 150 road miles in a given
day to see only three clients. He plans to return home to
Illinois to complete graduate studies in gerontology (GNP) at
UIC CON.
2004 Monica Manaois (BSN) is a staff RN on the Postpartum Unit
and a new ambassador for RN recruitment, Alexian Brothers
Medical Center, Chicago.
Lu Olson (MSN) is employed by the order of Saint Francis as
the sole practitioner in two rural family practice clinics.
KEEP IN TOUC H
Now is the time to reconnect with classmates and meet new
alumni who share your commitment to the nursing profession.
The College of Nursing Alumni would love to hear from you.
Please drop us a note at [email protected]. We’ll publish
your update in the next issue of Vital Signs.
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Improving the quality of life for
chronically ill patients
Carol Estwing Ferrans, PhD, RN, FAAN, came to UIC to pursue her
master of science degree in nursing in 1980. She never left.
Joining the College faculty a a lecturer in 1982—when her department
head had to make a special case for Ferrans to be excepted from the
then-policy against hiring UIC grads—Ferrans is now the deputy director of UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
as well as professor of medical surgical nursing. She is renowned for
developing the Quality of Life Index, which is used in both clinical
practice and research. The index has been translated into 20 languages
and used throughout the world in more than 150 published studies.
Ferrans has been conducting studies focusing on quality of life and
minority issues in health care over the past 20 years, funded by the
National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Nursing
Research. She maintains an active program of research, studying the
effects of illness and treatment on quality of life in cancer, cardiac disease and other chronic illnesses. “I’ve always been interested in healthcare disparities,” she says, “which is a very natural fit at UIC because
of our mission and concern with social justice.” Current studies at
the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities are addressing the apparent disconnect between rates of screening and the stage
of diagnosis in breast cancer by race and ethnicity; identifying factors
contributing to delay in seeking medical care for breast cancer symptoms for women in lower socioeconomic groups; and assessing behavioral carriers to prostate cancer screening among African American
men, among other topics.
Last November, Ferrans was one of only four scholars from throughout the world selected for the International Society for Quality of
Life Studies (ISQOLS) Distinguished Research Fellow award. She
was honored for her “substantial research contributing to a better
understanding of quality of life issues” at the ISQOLS annual meeting
in Philadelphia.
She has taught undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students, and
continually serves as an advisor to graduate-level students. “My teaching has developed so that it’s definitely more research-focused, helping
newer researchers develop their skills.”
FAC U LT Y P R O F I L E
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FAC U LT Y & S TA F F U P DAT E S
FACULT Y PROFILE
PATRICK ROBINSON, PHD, RN, ACRN
FACULT Y &
S TAFF UPDATES
SPECIAL HONORS
Balancing a commitment to
teaching, research and service
Assistant professor of medical
surgical nursing.
POSITION:
PhD in nursing, Loyola
University Chicago; BSN and MSN,
Indiana University.
EDUC ATION:
Robinson came to the
College in 2001 on a National Institutes of
Health (National Institute for Nursing
Research-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship
in biobehavioral research; Dean Joan Shaver,
PhD, RN, FAAN, was his advisor. He’s been
an adjunct faculty member since 2001.
BAC KGROUND:
Teaching immunology to undergraduates and master’s-level
students and the philosophy of sciences to
doctoral students, he gets to enjoy the range
of learners. “There’s something special about
teaching undergraduates; talking about therapeutic communication and the nurse-patient
relationship really resonates with them. But I
enjoy doctoral students the most. People see
me as being close to their age, so there’s not the
power difference that I want to avoid imposing. We have a free exchange of ideas.”
CL ASSROOM FOCUS:
C U R R E N T R E S E A R C H : Present and recent
studies include “A Pilot Study on the Effects
of Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training on
HIV Lipodystrophy Syndrome,” funded by
the American Nurses Foundation/Hyundai
Motor America, and “A Pilot Study of the
Effects of Endurance and Resistance Exercise
Training on the Anthropomorphic and
Metabolic Abnormalities of HIV Lipodystrophy Syndrome,” funded by Sigma
Theta Tau International Small Grants
Program. Robinson is now preparing a grant
proposal to be submitted to NIH.
AIDS CARE:
Robinson is the current president of the
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC),
an organization in which he’s been active—
and held numerous leadership roles—since
1992. After watching numerous friends and
acquaintances succumb to HIV-related illnesses, “I began to think about what my
response was going to be and what part of my
life I’d devote to it. I was blessed because I had
the knowledge and skills to make a difference.
So I learned all I could and threw myself into
it full force.”
LEADING THE CHARGE IN
IN CREASIN G INTERN ATION ALIZATION :
As ANAC president, he’s worked to change
the association’s governance structure, expand
educational programming and bring a larger
international perspective to the organization.
“What’s happening internationally with
AIDS is immense, and many people don’t
realize that one of the impediments is
human resource issues. We’re trying to work
with the U.S. government to build a nursing
infrastructure to ease the burden of our colleagues in resource-challenged countries.”
W H E N H E ’ S N O T W O R K I N G : “My real
hobby right now is ANAC,” but he’s a regular runner and an avid theater fan. “I’m a frustrated actor, but the truth is, I wasn’t that talented—and you get to satisfy that need in
front of a classroom.” He also enjoys spending time with his West Highland white terrier, Florence Nightingale.
“I have a
very traditional, tripartite focus on teaching,
research and service, and I’d like those to
remain balanced. Research means a great deal,
but the students are what really matter to me.’
ON KEEPING THE BAL ANCE:
Agatha Gallo, PhD, RN, FAAN, Maternal
Child Nursing (MCN) Dept.—inducted as
fellow into the American Academy of
Nursing and to the Nursing Science:
Children and Families Study Section, Center
for Scientific Review at NIH.
Rosemary White-Traut, DNsc, RN, MCN
Dept.—appointed to Board of Directors of
the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute,
L.L.C., a board providing guidance and
strategic direction in support of maternal
and child health care worldwide.
Tonda Hughes, PhD, PhD, RN, FAAN,
Public Health, Mental Health and
Administrative (PMA) Nursing Dept.—
inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian
Hall of Fame. The Hon. Janice D.
Schakowsky (D-IL 9th) made a speech in
the U.S. House of Representatives to
congratulate Hughes.
Emma Balquiedra Nemivant, retired faculty—received 2004 Banaag Award conferred
by Her Excellency President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo on Dec. 15, 2005 at
Malacanang Palace, Manila, Philippines.
The award goes to Filipino individuals and
organizations overseas for outstanding
service and achievements.
Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, (PhD ‘90),
UIC
College
2004
Distinguished Alumna,
HIV/AIDS coordinator,
University of Botswana—
elected to parliament to
become minister of health
in her country, the first nurse ever to
be a member of parliament and minister
of health.
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FAC U LT Y & S TA F F U P DAT E S
Carol Florek, MSN Dept. manager—
received the 2004-05 UIC Award of
Merit, a campus-wide honor which recognizes academic professional and support
staff excellence.
LEADER
APPOINTMENTS
Patricia Lewis, PhD, RN—appointed as
associate dean for clinical nursing practice
studies. Pat is also director of UIC College
of Nursing Rockford Regional Program and
clinical assistant professor in the PMA Dept.
Marquis Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN—
appointed as associate dean for PhD
nursing science studies. Mark is a professor in
the MSN Dept. and a gerontology expert
with a research focus on understanding delirium in older adults.
Beth Brooks, PhD, RN—appointed as associate dean for outreach education and executive director of the College Institute for
Healthcare Innovation. Beth is clinical assistant professor in the PMA Dept. and has
expertise in work redesign, point-of-care documentation and professional practice governance. She spearheads the College advanced
practice Administrative Nursing Leadership
(ANL) emphasis.
PA P E R S A N D
P R E S E N TAT I O N S
Catherine Batscha, PMA Dept.—presented
workshops on Illness Management and
Recovery, Family Support, Building Com-
munity Residential Networks and Assertive
Community Treatment in Singapore.
Kathleen Norr, PhD, MCN Dept.—traveled
to Chile in December to be present at the
official launching of the project “Mobilizing
Health Workers for HIV Prevention in Chile”
and to conduct workshops in qualitative data
collection. Rosina Cianelli, a recent graduate
of the UIC PhD program in nursing and
a trainee in UIC’s AIDS Training for
International Research Program, is the
Chilean co-PI for the project.
Dorie Schwertz, PhD, MSN Dept.—was an
invited speaker at the American Heart
Association Scientific Sessions in November
2004, where she presented “Lifestyle Genes
Interactions.”
Jean Berry, PhD, RN, and Sandy Burgener,
PhD, RN, FAAN, both MSN Dept., received
a three-year Dept. of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) training grant for both
Adult Nurse Practitioner and Adult/Geriatric
Nurse Practitioner education.
OTHER
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Dorie Schwertz, PhD, associate professor, MC
Dept., came in third place in her age group in
the Chicago Area Runners Association Circuit
Races this year, a highly competitive series of
17 races that started with the Shamrock
Shuffle last March and finished in November.
N E W FAC E S
Laura Vaillancourt—joined as director of
communications and Web development.
JoEllen Wilbur, PhD, PMA Dept.—copresented several papers, including “Correlates
of physical activity among urban dwelling
African American and Latina” at the
American Public Health Association,
San Francisco.
Barbara Matthopoulos—joined as coordinator of external relations and events.
GRANTS
Kathy Pischke-Winn—joined as manager of
professional development and clinical
conferences (IHI).
Jan Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, MSN Dept.;
Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN, MSN Dept.; and
JoEllen Wilbur, PhD, RN, FAAN, PMA
Dept.; and team received a five-year P30
Center grant: Center for Reducing Risks in
Vulnerable Populations (CRRVP) from
National Institute of Nursing Research.
Mary Pat Califono—joined as director
of consulting, Institute for Healthcare
Innovation (IHI).
Qin Fan—joined the College as director of
advancement.
For all your alumni relations questions, including how you can take part in the 50th anniversary celebration, reach Barbara Matthopoulos
at (312) 996-7663 or [email protected].
GLOBAL KOREAN NURSING FOUNDATION
Dean Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Professor and Dean
Emeritus Mi Ja Kim, PhD, RN, were keynote speakers at
the inaugural conference of the Global Korean Nursing Foundation
(GKNF) held in November in Seoul. The conference was co-sponsored by the Korean Academy of Nursing; Korean Nurses
Association; and Sigma Theta Tau International Korean chapter,
the first of its kind in Korea. Dean Shaver spoke on “Building
the Evidence Base for Nursing Practice” and Dean Emerita Kim on
“Research Training for the Evidence Based Nursing Practice.”
In addition, Dr. Kim was elected founding president of the GKNF.
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H OW YO U C A N M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E
HONOR YOUR COLLEGE
by supporting today’s students
R
With the costs of higher education on the rise, more and more students rely on financial
assistance and scholarships. To continue to attract competitive and committed students
from all economic backgrounds, the College is dedicated to providing an array of financial
assistance opportunities—and we need your help to sustain and strengthen our diverse
scholarship program.
This year, consider honoring your College of Nursing’s 50th anniversary through a gift of
$50, $150, $250, $500 or another amount in a multiple of 5 or 50. “Giving back to your
College is an effective way to pay homage to our first 50 years while supporting the students
of the next half-century,” says Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and professor. “There’s no
more meaningful or long-lasting way to say ‘thank you’ for the rewards of a UIC nursing
education—and to make sure the next generation reaps those same rewards.”
Roxanne Schmertmann, a student in the women’s health nurse practitioner program, says
she wouldn’t be at the College were it not for her paid traineeship. “I was approved for fall
2003 admission, but was unable to afford to go back to school,” she relates. “Then I applied
for this scholarship for fall 2004 and was accepted. I plan on being a good ambassador for
UIC and telling everyone about my great education and the scholarship opportunities, as well
as serving as a future preceptor upcoming women’s health nurse practitioners. Thank you to
the College and its supporters for making my educational dreams a reality.”
Julius D. Sawyer, recipient of a full Board of Trustees scholarship, comments, “Receiving
the scholarship was vital in making my UIC education possible. In addition to a financial
reprieve, the scholarship was added verification that my undergraduate education efforts
were acknowledged.
CLICK IT
TO DONATE TO OUR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
“I knew that the university had expectations for me,” Sawyer continues. “This further fueled
my determination to be successful in the program. I am extremely grateful to those who
supported me.”
You can designate your contribution to benefit a specific UIC nursing scholarship fund, the
Center for Learning Excellence, a regional campus or another program at CON or area of
your choice. Please use the enclosed envelope to help support the nurses of tomorrow, or
visit us online at uic.edu/nursing/alumni.
For more information on ways you can help make a difference at UIC College of Nursing,
please contact Qin Fan, director of advancement, at (312) 996-1736, or via email at
[email protected].
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