MOVING AHEAD IN NURSING - University of Mary Hardin

MOVING AHEAD IN NURSING
At the University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor,
the moment is right for
nursing education.
education
Throughout Texas and across the United
States, there is an unprecedented
shortage of nurses. The Texas Nurses
Association reports that by 2020, 36 percent
of the nursing positions in the U.S. will be
unfilled because there are not enough
trained professionals to meet the demand.
At the same time that an expanding senior
population is creating a greater need for
healthcare services, rapid technological
changes in healthcare are raising the bar
for the level of professional training nurses
need to do the job well. Increasingly, the
Bachelor of Science in Nursing is becoming
the level of entry for professional nursing,
and the demand for BSN-degreed nurses is
outpacing the number of graduates.
The Scott and White College of Nursing
at UMHB has responded to the call for
more nurses by expanding opportunities for
students to earn the BSN degree. Over the
last decade, efforts to expand the nursing
program have resulted in dramatic increases
in enrollment. In the year 2000, the number
of declared nursing majors was 220. In the
fall of 2011, 682 students were declared
nursing majors, and it is estimated that the
college could double in size when additional
space is made available for its activities.
NUMBER OF NURSING MAJORS AT UMHB
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Momentum has brought us here. Momentum will move us forward.
Thanks to a simulation, she was ready
for the real-life test. For their labor and
delivery lab assignment, Brittany Justice and
her classmates responded to a simulation
mannequin programmed to exhibit the
symptoms of a new mother experiencing
post-partum hemorrhaging. Brittany was
pleased to earn an A on the assignment—
but the real payoff for her studies came one
week later, when the junior nursing student
was completing her clinical rotation in labor
and delivery at a local hospital.
Toward the end of her shift that day,
Brittany decided to stop in and say goodbye
to her patient, a woman who had just given
birth to her fifth child. Though the patient
seemed to be sleeping peacefully, Brittany
recognized the signs of a post-partum
hemorrhage. Finding that the woman had
no pulse, she immediately called for help
and, with the help of an RN, raced the
mother to an operating room for emergency
surgery that saved her life.
“The simulation exercise prepared me to
move quickly when I saw the woman’s ashen
color and blue lips,” Brittany said. “You can
read about symptoms in a textbook, but
it’s different when you see them; working
with the simulation mannequin helped
me recognize the symptoms and know
exactly what to do when it happened to
my patient.”
Brittany Justice, Class of 2012
WE ARE PREPARING
ORDINARY PEOPLE FOR
EXTRAORDINARY LIVES,
AND WITH EACH LIFE
THAT IS CHANGED, THE
MOMENTUM GROWS.
THE PHILOSOPHY
UMHB MISSION
STATEMENT
The nursing education program at
UMHB is built upon three important
ideas:
Student focus — Students often cite
the small classes and the emphasis on
the individual needs of each student as
the reasons they enroll at UMHB. “We
believe it is important for our faculty
members to interact with their students
both in and outside of the classroom, to
give each of their students the individual
attention that he or she deserves,” says
Dean Sharon Souter. “To meet the needs
of the individual student, we also make a
point of incorporating a variety of teaching
techniques, so that students who learn in
different ways will all find ways to master
the subject matter.”
Technical excellence — Great care
starts with the right education. As a
program accredited by the Commission on
Collegiate Nursing Education and the Texas
Board of Nursing, the Scott and White
College of Nursing models its curriculum
on the high professional standards set by
those organizations. Nursing students
complete two years of core courses in
math, English, history, and science, then
At UMHB, our beliefs shape our actions.
embark on specialized
courses where the latest techniques
of healthcare are learned. Graduates
emerge extraordinarily well prepared for
their profession: the average first-time pass
rate of UMHB nursing students on the
NCLEX licensing exam is 95 percent, well
above the state and national average.
Christian emphasis — “We are clearly
different from other nursing programs
in that we talk with our students about
spiritual issues as well as about how to
care for people’s physical needs,” says
Dean Souter. “We pray before tests; we
sit down and pray with students who are
facing personal difficulties. I believe the
Christian component of our program
makes them better nurses,” Souter adds,
“because they come to understand the
importance of compassion and service,
and they are not afraid to address the
spiritual needs of their patients.”
“The University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor prepares
students for leadership,
service, and faithinformed discernment
in a global society.
Academic excellence,
personal attention,
broad-based scholarship
and a commitment
to a Baptist vision for
education distinguish
our Christ-centered
learning community.”
THE FACILITY
The UMHB Campus Master Plan calls
for the construction of a three-story,
76,100-square-foot building to house
the activities of the Scott and White
College of Nursing. The facility has
been named the Isabelle Rutherford
Meyer Nursing Education Center,
in recognition of a lead gift for the
project from the Paul and Jane Meyer
Family Foundation. The design of
the center will be based upon best
practices in nursing education and
will reflect the distinctive philosophy
of the UMHB nursing program:
Student focus — Classrooms throughout
the building will be equipped with modular
furniture to allow rooms to be configured
for multiple learning modalities, from
lectures to group work to individual wireless
computing stations. Small study areas and
conference rooms will be strategically placed
throughout the building to foster group study
sessions and tutoring. A student lounge
will give students a place to relax between
classes, and a learning resource center will
offer research materials and textbooks in a
comfortable setting, with soft seating areas
and outlets for charging laptops.
Technical excellence — Technology
will play a pivotal role in the new nursing
education center. The center will include
large clinical simulation laboratories fitted
with high fidelity Sim Man “patients”
programmed to manifest a variety of
symptoms and to respond to the students’
care, both through vital signs and vocal
responses. The second floor of the building
will house a hospital simulation area with
a nurses’ station, four standard hospital
rooms, an ER/trauma room, a labor and
delivery room, a room for critical care, and
a home health simulation room; each of
the rooms will include a computerized
patient simulator. All simulation labs
will be equipped with video cameras to
record students as they offer care to their
“patients,” plus debriefing rooms where
professors can meet with their classes to
critique the students’ performance.
Christian emphasis — A unique feature
of the Isabelle Rutherford Meyer Nursing
Education Center will be the inclusion
of a small chapel on the first floor of the
building. The chapel will offer students
and faculty a quiet retreat for moments
of prayer and meditation. “Nursing is a
notoriously high stress profession,” says
Dr. Souter, “and our nursing students often
face very difficult situations. Whether they
are struggling with the loss of a patient or
with the pressures of a hectic schedule,
we encourage them to turn to God for
comfort and guidance. We are extremely
pleased that a chapel has been included
in the design of the building, because we
want our students to be attuned to their
spiritual health as well as their mental and
physical wellbeing.”
“Graduates of the University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor’s College of Nursing
enter the healthcare industry with
more than extraordinary knowledge.
UMHB’s rich Christian heritage also
instills compassionate, caring attitudes in students, making graduates
wholesomely prepared to care for
others as healthcare professionals.”
— Cyndy Dunlap
System Chief Nurse Executive
Scott & White Healthcare
THE ISABELLE RUTHERFORD MEYER
NURSING EDUCATION CENTER
FEATURES
• 200-seat lecture hall with advanced audio/
visual technology
• Two large clinical skills labs equipped
with a total of 24 simulation mannequins
programmed to manifest a variety of
symptoms and to respond to care
• Physical diagnosis lab equipped with 12
simulation mannequins
• Hospital simulation suite with four
standard hospital rooms, a nurses’ station,
an ER trauma room, a labor and delivery
room, an ICU room, and a home health
simulation room. All rooms will be
equipped with computerized patient
simulators
• Six video-equipped exam rooms where
students can practice diagnosing volunteer
“patients,” plus locker rooms, rest rooms,
and a lounge for the volunteers
• Control room to coordinate video cameras
in all simulation labs and suites
• Three debriefing rooms where professors
and students can review video recordings
and critique their performance
• 120-seat classroom which can be
configured for lectures or for group work
• Eight high-tech learning labs with modular
furniture that will seat 64 students each
• Offices for 25 faculty members, plus an
office suite for the dean and the college
secretary
• Learning resource center with research
materials and textbooks
• Student lounge
• Wireless internet access so all areas can be
used for administering computerized tests,
when needed
• First-floor prayer chapel
The nursing education
center will include a
simulated hospital suite
(left) where students will
learn to care for patients
in emergency room,
labor and delivery, and
intensive care settings.
BE A PART OF THE
MOMENTUM.
Your gift to the Isabelle Rutherford Meyer
Nursing Education Center will help to
alleviate the critical shortage of registered
nurses by making it possible to double
the enrollment of the Scott and White
College of Nursing. This new facility will
provide increased space and state-of-the-art
equipment, to prepare more students for
the high-tech environment they will face in
hospitals and clinics after graduation.
Our development team is available to
explore how you can make a meaningful
gift in support of nursing education through
the Momentum campaign. Naming opportunities are available to recognize those who
are special in your life.
Brent Davison
Vice President for Development
254-295-5044
[email protected]
Michael Ball
Senior Director of Development
254-295-4688
[email protected]
Kevin Fralicks
Senior Director of Development
254-295-4279
[email protected]
Gene Kimes
Director of Gift Planning
254-295-4608
[email protected]
Susan Kolodziejczyk
Director of Development
254-295-4173
[email protected]
Office of Development
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
UMHB Box 8409
Belton, Texas 76513
Michele Padilla
Director of Foundation Relations
254-295-4166
[email protected]
To make a gift online, go to
www.umhb.edu/momentum