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NURSING NOW
THE ENQUIRER ■ MAY 11, 2014
Tips to help fund your
nursing education, S4
Informatics nursing’s new
frontier, S10
UC’s DEUs provide 1-on-1
clinical education, S11
‘BSN in 10’
changing
providers’
approach
to nursing
By Val Prevish
Enquirer contributor
I
ncreasing levels of complexity
and technology in health care
are driving changes in the way
providers and hospitals work,
and initiating a push for more
education for every professional who
is involved in patient care.
Nurses are no exception. While a
two-year registered nursing degree
has been the standard that many
hospitals and institutions required
for years, experts in the health care
field are calling for the bar to be
raised to a required Bachelor of Science (BSN) degree.
Referred to as the “BSN in 10,” the
new requirements, which several
states including Ohio are considering,
would require all associate degree
educated nurses to obtain their bachelor’s degree within 10 years of licensure. Nurses educated before the
legislation takes effect would be
exempt, but many would be encouraged to further their education.
The trend has already changed the
way many local health care organizations are approaching nursing.
At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center the BSN degree is the
preferred standard for new hires,
says Susie Allen, PhD, RN-BC, assistant vice president for the Center for
Professional Excellence and Education at CCHMC.
“Our goal is to be at 80 percent
(BSN educated nurses) for direct
care by 2020,” says Allen, which is
also a goal set by the Institute of
Medicine for all health care institutions in a report issued in 2010.
Currently the hospital’s percentage of direct care nurses with BSN
degrees is 70.2 percent, she says.
Allen says there are several indusTOP AND BOTTOM LEFT PHOTOS BY TONYA BORGATTI FOR THE ENQUIRER / BOTTOM RIGHT PHOTO PROVIDED
See BSN IN 10, Page S5
S2 SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 /// THE ENQUIRER
Practical Nursing
isn’t just a
It’s a calling!
Debra Buck, RN, BSN is an ER nurse at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center. She started UC’s RN to BSN program in a brick and
mortar setting but was forced to switch to online courses midway
through. Online learning “pushes you into learning more about
technology,” Buck said. PHOTO BY TONYA BORGATTI FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Honing tech skills an
added benefit to
learning online
By Sue Kiesewetter
Enquirer contributor
hen registered nurse Debra
Buck decided to go back to
school to get her bachelor’s
degree in nursing, she expected to
take all her classes in a brick and
mortar building.
But midway through her 18month University of Cincinnati RN
to BSN program, the Goshen woman
found herself taking her courses
online instead – and not by choice.
“I was freaking out,’’ Buck said.
“I’m a hands-on learner. I wanted to
be in a classroom. It took me a while
to catch on.”
Despite her misgivings, Buck, 53,
continued with the online program
and earned her bachelor’s degree
last month.
She is one of a growing number of
students in the University of Cincinnati’s College of Nursing who are
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pursuing part or all of their education through online classes.
“What I like about online is I
could go to class anytime,’’ said
Buck, who has worked 19 years as
an emergency room nurse at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center.
“I could do homework at 2 a.m. if
I wanted to. I couldn’t go to class at
2 a.m.”
Doing all her assignments outside
the classroom taught Buck how to
prepare a PowerPoint presentation,
and other skills she can apply to her
work as more updated technology
comes to health care settings.
“I’d rather go to class, but now
that I’ve done it, I would recommend it to anybody. It pushes you
into learning more about technology.”
Buck said her next goal is to get
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What does it mean to be a
?
certified nurse
‘Confidence in
the basic care we bring
to patients,’ nurses say
tion. Recertification requires
another webinar every two
years.
Dudley, for 25 years a
ith health care costs
neonatal nurse in the NICU
rising and technolat Good Sam, says she and
ogy changing rapLammers are putting the
idly, the need for specialized,
skills acquired through certihighly trained nursing care
fication to good use.
is becoming increasingly
“A lot of co-workers will
important. Hospitals, and
come to us when they can’t
even patients now are placget a baby to calm down,”
ing greater value on nurses
Dudley said. “The extra
with the skills and knowleducation and expertise
edge acquired through certigives us confidence in the
fication.
basic care we bring to that
patient. The babies and their
Patti Burke, a wound
ostomy and continence certifamilies benefit from improved outcomes and refied nurse at Bethesda North
duced stays.”
Hospital, is certified by the
Wound Ostomy and ContiMany nurses say that
certification has provided
nence Nursing Certification
them greater career stabilBoard.
ity. And, according to a 2001
“I’m seen as a mentor and
study by Ann H. Cary, PhD,
in more of a leadership
role,” Burke said. “CertificaMPH, RN for the American
Journal of Nursing, a certition has validated my knowlfied nurse often makes deciedge and the care I provide
sions and clinical judgments
to patients. It helps keep me
with greater confidence and
functioning at a high level.”
The Institute of Mediaccuracy.
Patti Burke of Lakeside Park, Kentucky, is a wound ostomy and
A Harris Poll conducted
cine’s goal is for 90 percent
continence certified nurse at Bethesda North Hospital. Burke says
in 2002 found that 78 percent
of clinical decisions to be
the ongoing education she’s received every five years through the
of respondents knew nurses
evidence-based by 2020,
recertification process has helped keep her up to date on the latest
could be certified, and
believing this will result in
technology and made her better prepared to make key clinical
improved patient outcomes,
awareness of nursing certifidecisions to improve patient outcome and reduce costs. PROVIDED
cation was slightly higher
thus reducing costs to hospithan other protals as well as patients,
fessions such as
with fewer complicaphysicians, actions and reduced length
of stays.
countants, teachBurke says the ongoers and mechanics. The same
ing education she’s received every five years
study found that
through the recertifica73 percent of
tion process has helped
Americans
keep her up to date on
would, if given
the latest technology and
the choice,
made her better prechoose a hospital
pared to make key clinwith a larger
ical decisions to improve
percentage of
patient outcome and
certified nurses.
Juanita Dudley, left, and Christy Lammers
reduce costs.
“Patients are
are certified in neonatal touch and
St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Missy Rittinger,
For example, using a
more knowlmassage nursing at the Neonatal
RN, BS, SANE-A, CFN has held the SANE
dressing that isn’t
edgeable health
Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan
certification for 14 years. PHOTOS BY TONYA
changed as often becare consumHospital.
BORGATTI FOR THE ENQUIRER
cause it has been proven
ers,” Burke
through intensive study to
says. “They will ask, ‘What
have better absorption.
does it mean to be a certified
“There’s research behind it,”
nurse?’ ”
WHICH CERTIFICATION IS BEST FOR YOU?
Burke says.
Costs for certification
For a comprehensive list of nursing certifications, visit the AmerMissy Rittinger of Union,
vary according to specialty.
ican Nurses Credentialing Center at nursecredentialing.org/certifiKentucky, is a certified SexFor Rittinger, the initial
cation and the American Board of Nursing Specialties at
ual Assault Nurse Examiner
costs for SANE-A certificawww.nursingcertification.org (click on Accreditation).
Adult/Adolescent (SANE-A)
tion were out of pocket with
at St. Elizabeth Healthcare
reimbursement by the hospiin Edgewood, Kentucky.
tal upon successful comple“Certification exhibits to
tion. For members of the
RN, BSN, NTMNC of Western drome (NAS) due to exposure
professionals in the medicalInternational Association of
Hills are certified in neonatal to narcotics, wanted to find
legal system that the nurse
Forensic Nurses (IAFN), the
touch and massage nursing at ways to calm babies aside
has experience in and specif- the Neonatal Intensive Care
test costs $275, or $400 for
from medication.
ic knowledge about caring
non-members. To be a memUnit at Good Samaritan Hos“I was seeking out knowlfor patients of sexual asber of the IAFN costs $129
pital.
edge, ways to do a better job
sault,” Rittinger said. “The
annually. Continuing educaThrough her own research, of reducing a baby’s pain,”
certification also demontion is the financial responsiLammers, who’s been workLammers said. “It’s a passion
strates skill and clinical
bility of the nurse, Rittinger
ing in the NICU at Good Saof mine, my motivation. Baexcellence in the field of
says.
maritan for 14 years, learned
bies are in pain because they
forensic nursing and allows
For Lammers and Dudley,
of the Neonatal Touch & Mas- are in withdrawal. I now
the nurse to provide specialNeonatal Touch and Massage
sage Certification program at come to work with more tools
ized care that these patients
Certification cost $650 plus
Creative Therapy Consultin my toolbox.”
need and deserve.”
travel expenses. They apants in Tipp City, Ohio.
Lammers and Dudley took
Juanita Dudley, RN,
plied for and were granted
Lammers, who often cares a 15-hour webinar, then an
NTMNC of Batesville, Indithe full amount through the
for infants who experience
8-hour course and exam in
ana, and Christy Lammers,
Mary Ann McGrath Nursing
Neonatal Abstinence SynFlorida to earn their certifica-
By Jeff Wallner
Enquirer contributor
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What does a
EFM certified
nurse do?
Velour Pashi, RN-BSN,
c-EFM is a certified electronic
fetal monitoring labor and
delivery nurse at Mercy
Health-Anderson Hospital’s
Family Birthing Center.
Pashi uses technology
that visually assesses the
well-being of an infant in
utero throughout pregnancy, labor and at delivery.
Pashi has been with
Mercy
HealthAnderson
Hospital for
three years
and certified in
electronic
fetal monVelour Pashi itoring for
the past
two. She said she pursued
certification to gain more
knowledge in her specialty
and to better communicate
with patients.
“Knowing what to do is
only one part of being a
good nurse, but through the
certification I solidified the
understanding of why I’m
doing what I’m doing in
order to provide the best
outcomes for the babies and
mothers I care for,” said
Pashi.
“I am an interpreter,”
Pashi said. “Nurses are in the
middle between the patient
and the doctor. The doctor
provides the orders and
touches base with the patient, but when the doctor
leaves it’s up to the nurse to
keep his or her orders in the
minds of the patients and to
subsequently make sure the
doctor knows how the patient is feeling and why.”
Depending on shift assignment, Pashi works one
on one with patients who
are in late stages of labor,
two patients in early stages
and up to 15 patients in
triage ER for women in
various stages of pregnancy.
Pashi said the cost for the
National Certification Corporation certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring was
$200 and the cost of renewal
certification was $100.
Jo Kovach
Education Endowment
Award. Recertification
costs $85 per nurse.
Health care providers
see the benefits to the bottom line of employing and
training a highly skilled
team of professionals. The
ongoing training of knowledge and skills is as important as the certification
itself.
“Everything comes down
to (better) patient outcomes
and fewer complications,”
Burke said. “Medicare
grades us on those results.
Certification encourages
life-long learning.” m
S4 SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014 /// THE ENQUIRER
Start search for financial aid as early as possible
By Tom N. Tumbusch
Enquirer contributor
N
ursing continues to be one of the
fastest-growing occupations in
the nation, as nurses make up
the majority of the health care industry
workforce. In fact, recent projections
from a January 2014 report published
in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Occupational Outlook Handbook estimate the job growth to be 19 percent
faster than the average occupation
through 2022.
Registered nurses will see some of
the strongest growth in the next decade, adding more than half a million
new jobs, but many nursing students
are concerned about tuition costs.
“The good news is if students have
already identified that nursing is what
they think they want to go into, that’s
half the battle,” says Dan Bisig, college
admissions and funding specialist at
College and Beyond, LLC. “Nursing
programs are very competitive no
matter where they are, so students
need to do their homework in advance.”
Part of that homework, Bisig emphasizes, is having the “money talk” with
parents and starting the search for
financial aid as early as possible. In
addition to traditional aid, nurses who
commit to working for at least two
years in high-need areas after graduation can receive up to $50,000 in loan
repayments from the National Health
Service Corps and other organizations.
Some students might consider starting at a less-expensive two-year college
program. Others, such as those seeking
to become nurse practitioners or physicians’ assistants, may feel the extra
value of a larger institution justifies
higher costs.
“Most of the ‘flagship’ universities
will have the nursing program as well
as full medical school opportunities,”
Bisig says, but he also encourages
aspiring nurses to have financial and
career backup plans. “There’s a lot of
competition to get into that kind of
program.”
Nursing programs naturally seek
students with the strongest potential,
but other factors are making admission
even more competitive. According to
Susan Wajert, dean of Health Sciences
for the College of Mount St. Joseph, a
nationwide shortage of nursing faculty
is limiting the number of students universities can accept.
“There are many students waiting to
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get into nursing programs who are
qualified, but they can’t get in because
there aren’t enough faculty,” Wajert
says. “The average age of faculty tends
to be in the 50s to 60s. In the next 10
years, as well as the demand for nursing, there will also be a demand for
nursing faculty.”
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Financial aid
FINANCIAL AID RESOURCES
FOR NURSING STUDENTS
Continued from Page S4
At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center the BSN degree
is the preferred standard for
new hires, says Susie Allen, PhD,
RN-BC, the hospital’s assistant
vice president for the Center for
Professional Excellence and
Education. PHOTO BY TONYA
BORGATTI FOR THE ENQUIRER
BSN in 10
Second-degree nursing programs like Mount
St. Joseph’s MAGELIN (Master’s Graduate EntryLevel into Nursing) allow students who already
have an undergraduate degree to complete the
requirements for nursing in as little as 15 months,
but that may not offer cost savings to students
who bring debt from their first degree.
Mary Givhan, director of financial aid for
Thomas More College, advises nursing students to
start looking for financial aid at least 11⁄2 to 2 years
before they start their degree.
“The first year is mostly going to be research,”
Givhan says, noting that the preparation pays off.
“The year leading up to the application you’ll have
all that stuff down pat.” She also advises students
to ask about institution-specific aid as early as
possible.
Givhan knows from her own daughter’s experience paying for a nursing degree that students
need to have a solid financial plan despite the
opportunities. “There are a lot of jobs available for
nurses and they are paying well,” she advises,
“but it does take some commitment on their part
to have a plan going in.” m
National
» Health Resources and Services Administration/National
Health Service Corps:
www.HRSA.gov
» American Association of
Colleges of Nursing: aacn.nche.
edu/students/financial-aid
» Discover Nursing (Johnson &
Johnson): discovernursing.com/
scholarships
» National Student Nurses
Association: nsna.org/
FoundationScholarships.aspx
» nursingscholarships.org (has
pages specific to Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana)
Indiana
» Indiana Center for Nursing:
ic4n.org/statewide-initiatives/
scholarship-program
» Indiana Health Care Associa-
tion: ihca.org/pagesroot/pages/
Education-Scholarships.aspx
Kentucky
» Kentucky Nurses Foundation:
kentucky-nurses.org/Main-MenuCategory/KNF/Scholarships
» Nursing Incentive Scholarship
Fund (Kentucky Board of Nursing): kbn.ky.gov/education/nisf
Ohio
» Ohio College Opportunity
Grant (OCOG):
ohiohighered.org/ocog
» Nurse Education Assistance
Loan Program (NEALP):
ohiohighered.org/nealp
» Ohio Nurses Foundation:
ohionursesfoundation.org/
scholarships-and-grants
Compiled by Tom Tumbusch
Continued from Page S1
try reports that cite decreased morbidity and mortality rates for patients
in hospitals with higher numbers of
BSN educated nurses. One of the
more widely quoted studies was published by Dr. Linda Aiken at the University of Pennsylvania Center for
Health Outcomes and Policy Research which
cites a 4 percent decrease
in the risk of
death with
each 10 percent increase
in the number
of BSN educated nurses on
hospital staff.
“I really
believe in this.
Not only for
Deborah Smith-Clay patient outcomes, but for
elevating the professional standard of
nurses,” Allen says.
To help nurses achieve this educational goal, CCHMC and other organizations have instituted programs that
assist with scheduling and paying for
increased training.
Agnes Distasi, program director
for the RN to BSN Program at the
Christ College of Nursing and Health
Sciences, says Christ began its first
RN to BSN specific program this fall.
“Programs to continue your education are very available,” she says.
“Hospitals are providing a pathway to
do this. Students in RN programs do
not think of it as an endpoint anymore. They think of it as the start of
their training.”
Deborah Smith-Clay, RN, MSN,
PhD(c), dean of nursing at Beckfield
College, says hospitals are interested
in achieving Magnet status, recognition from the American Nurses
Credentialing Center that means the
hospital has demonstrated excellence
in care across 35 areas of focus. Magnet hospitals employ higher percentages of BSN educated nurses, she
says.
“Becoming a nurse today means
you have to look forward to continuing your education and keeping up
with changes,” says Smith-Clay. “The
bedside contact nurses provide is a
critical part of the healing process
and their training is very important.”
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Leveraging Technology to Transform Health Care
Connect. Collaborate. Innovate.
iCon Initiative
Robotics & Telehealth
Faculty Positions
Leveraging the power of iPads and their associated
apps and technologies allows UC College of
Nursing students to connect, communicate, and
access knowledge in exciting new ways. Through
the integration of iPads, course delivery has been
transformed in our BSN and DNP programs and
allows students to graduate with the competency
needed to leverage technology in health care
effectively.
In the evolving world of health care delivery,
telehealth is becoming ubiquitous. Through
community partnerships, UC College of Nursing
is exploring the potential impact robotics and
telehealth can have in this evironment. Students’
exposure is key to once again allowing them to
graduate with the skills they need to effectively
provide care utilizing telehealth technology.
Our vision is “through creative leveraging of
technology, UC College of Nursing will lead the
transformation of health care in partnership
informed by the people we serve.” This vision
guides the work of the college and creates exciting
opportunities, not just for students, but also for
faculty members. If you love connecting with
others, collaborating and innovating, then
consider a faculty opportunity at UC College of
Nursing. We’re a college on the rise, and we are
looking for nursing leaders to join us in leading the
transformation of health care.
Program Offerings
• RN to BSN Online
• Traditional BSN
• Accelerated Program
• Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education
(online)
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(with on campus, online & hybrid options)
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(with on campus, online, & hybrid options)
• Doctor of Nursing Practice (hybrid)
• PhD in Nursing
Our Vision- Through creative leveraging of technology, the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing will lead
the transformation of health care in partnership informed by the people we serve.
Visit www.nursing.uc.edu/nursing-technology or talk to an advisor at 1-855-558-1889.
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The best of the best on how to achieve as a nurse
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he University of Cincinnati College of Nursing’s Board of Advisors hosts the Florence Nightingale Awards for Excellence, now in
its 22nd year. The six 2014 winners give
their advice to those who are considering pursuing a career in nursing.
Sadie Hughes, Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
ing a nurse is to be prepared to work hard
every day. With this work come great rewards. Nursing allows you the opportunity to
make a difference in the world one patient at
a time. While completing your nursing degree take advantage of all educational opportunities that are available. As you enter
the nursing profession find yourself a mentor
in whatever path of nursing you select. This
relationship can be invaluable toward the
success of your career. Never be afraid to
Nursing is an honorable profession that
holds many opportunities for helping others.
If service is one of your gifts you will find
nursing very rewarding. While the basic study
of nursing is constant, the domain of nursing
has grown over the years to include many
specialty branches in which one might find
their passion. I am blessed that God has
afforded me the opportunity to be employed
in such a humble profession.
pursue new challenges in your nursing career.
Sheila Carroll, Rose Garden Mission
David Sens, Bethesda Butler Hospital
The sub-specialties of nursing are so
vast. I would advise a nursing student to
explore the many departments within the
hospital, out-patient, community, faithbased, and advanced degree to see what is
your passion. Spend at least one year really
learning nursing after you get your degree.
Meet each new patient as a new complex
individual, not as a complex nursing problem. m
A nursing career is a great choice. I suggest volunteering at a hospital or shadowing
a nurse to give you an idea what the job is all
about. The special thing about nursing is that
there are many different types and areas of
nursing to get involved in. Be prepared to
meet an amazing, caring group of people!
It’s great.
+ ! Lindy Vitatoe Mathes, Bethesda
North Hospital
There are so few opportunities in life to
profoundly impact the lives of people and yet
a nurse has that opportunity every day.
Nursing is more than a career, more than a
profession. It is a calling to heal, to help, to
be present for our patients in their time of
need. The gifts our patients give us far outweigh the long hours, hard work and emotion. They give us perspective and allow us to
stand by their side during some of the most
difficult challenges of their lives.
Ginny Summe, Good Samaritan Hospital
Nursing is not just about classroom and
clinical education. Computer and business
skills complement and support nursing care.
However, more importantly is the human
interaction with doctors, support staff, patients and families that achieves excellence in
patient care. Learning to time manage and
critically think are key. Listening to and
advocating for your patient will achieve the
best possible outcome for everyone.
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NURSING INFORMATICS
Integrates clinical with technical sides of patient care
By Val Prevish
Enquirer contributor
Nursing is going high tech
with strong job growth predicted in the new specialty of
informatics.
Information technology is
changing health care and
nurses now have opportunities to incorporate tech skills
into their careers by becoming experts in this new specialty niche.
The job combines elements of nursing, computer
science and information management to support patient
care, says the Journal of the
American Medical Informatics Association.
Recent developments in
health care delivery such as
electronic medical records
and the implementation of
new regulations surrounding
the Affordable Care Act have
made the need for more informatics specialists strong.
The completed changeover to
digital medical records this
year will bring about as many
as 70,000 new informatics
jobs alone, says JMIA.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics predicts a roughly
20 percent increase in health
informatics jobs over the
next several years, although
it did not specify how many
of those would go to nurse
informaticists over informatics technicians, who do not
have the extensive clinical
training of nurses.
Lynelle Johnson, an instructor for the Master’s
Degree in Nursing Informatics program at Northern
Kentucky University and
chief informatics officer with
the Veterans Administration
Healthcare Network of Ohio,
says nurse informaticists
bridge the gap between the
BECKFIELD COLLEGE
Debbie Hayes, vice president and chief operating officer of
Inpatient Services at Christ Hospital, is the first student to
graduate from NKU’s MSN Program in Nursing Informatics. Hayes
says data is taking on a greater importance in providing health
care. PHOTOS BY TONYA BORGATTI FOR THE ENQUIRER
Sandra Oppelt is a data specialist in the Quality, Case
Management Department at Mercy Health Jewish Hospital in
Kenwood. Oppelt is one of a growing number of data analysts in
the health care field who are trained specifically to use
technology to improve care, but who do not have clinical
backgrounds such as a nursing degree.
clinical and the technical side
of patient care.
“This is truly a new frontier,” she says.
Marilyn Schleyer, PhD,
concentration coordinator for
the Master’s Degree Program
in Nursing Informatics in the
Department of Advanced
Nursing Studies at NKU, says
the field is in its infancy as
new jobs open each day with
the evolution in the way
health care is implemented.
“The jobs are getting created as health care changes.
NKU is one of the first nursing informatics programs in
the country,” she says.
Debbie Hayes, the first
student to graduate from
NKU’s MSN Program in
Nursing Informatics and the
vice president and chief operating officer of Inpatient
Services at Christ Hospital,
says data is taking on a great-
the health care field who are
trained specifically to use
technology to improve care,
but who do not have clinical
backgrounds such as a nursing degree.
She says information and
data in the hospital now move
at much faster speeds thanks
to technology. This means
more is expected from data
analysis and more specialists
will be required to harvest
the information and relay it
to those who need it.
“Before, data was paperbased and it took days or
months to analyze it. Now the
same information can take
minutes to gather,” says Oppelt, who has worked in
health care administration
more than 40 years, but is
getting a college degree for
the first time now at Cincinnati State. The two-year HIT
degree will bring her more
er importance in providing
care, especially as hospitals
and providers face increased
scrutiny to keep costs under
control and improve patient
outcomes.
“As a nation we have realized the power of data,”
Hayes says. “We can really
drive health outcomes to
improve care. We have to
continue to evolve our delivery to provide greater value
to patients. Harnessing the
power of data enables us to
do this.”
Not everyone involved in
the new informatics jobs
wave is a nurse, however.
Sandra Oppelt, data specialist at Jewish Hospital and
a student at Cincinnati State
Technical and Community
College’s two-year-old Health
Information Technology Program, is one of a growing
number of data analysts in
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opportunities for advancement, she says.
Bob Nields, who co-chairs
the Health Information Technology Department at Cincinnati State along with Cindy
Kniep, says as electronic
medical records continue to
impact the way hospitals and
providers do business, the
need will grow for health
informatics specialists.
“The Affordable Care Act
required hospitals to implement electronic medical records. Now you have the data,
so you need to analyze it,” he
says. “They are telling us
they need these jobs. The
co-op opportunities are increasing.” Kniep echoed the
feelings of other informatics
educators: “The word is out.
This is a growing field. People who have these skills are
going to seek out these opportunities.” m
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Clinical teaching model gives 1-on-1 instruction
By Sue Kiesewetter
Claudia Mitchell,
executive
director of the
University of
Cincinnati’s
undergraduate
nursing
programs, says
UC’s new
Dedicated
Education Unit
clinical teaching
model gives
students the
opportunity to
“become full
members of the
health care
team.” PHOTO BY
Enquirer contributor
echnology is changing the delivery of education for students at
the University of Cincinnati’s
College of Nursing.
It’s coming at a time when the college is also launching Dedicated Education Units at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center – a relatively
new practice in the region.
“We want to be able to facilitate
active learning,’’ says Greer Glazer,
dean of nursing. “This gives us the
ability to have a more individualized
approach with students.”
Through the units the college provides faculty to mentor and teach the
hospital nurses, who in turn work oneon-one with students in clinical settings. That ensures a close connection
between curriculum and practice
since the only students in the units are
UC students, Glazer said.
Under the model more students are
served, which in turns helps address
the shortage of faculty. Glazer said
studies also show that nurses who
serve as clinical instructors are more
likely to continue their education.
It is a model first adopted in Australia in the late 1990s that is now being used in the United States, said
Claudia Mitchell, executive director of
UC’s undergraduate nursing programs.
Last August, the College of Nursing
launched its first unit for juniors in the
four-year BSN program for their medical/surgical rotation. Two additional
T
Chris Edwards demonstrates the capabilities of UC’s V-Go
robot at the college’s UC Innovation Collaboratory House
on-site at Maple Knoll Village, a continuing care retirement
community in Springdale, Ohio. Edwards is UC College of
Nursing’s assistant dean for Information Technology and
Communications and director of the Center for Academic
Technology and Educational Resources (CATER). PROVIDED
units were launched for the just-ended
spring term and more are planned for
the future.
“It’s a win-win. Our students become full members of the health care
team,” Mitchell said.
“It not only gives student more
individualization … staff nurses engage in professional development and
advances their (learning).”
Startup money for the project came
from a $198,000 grant through the Ohio
Board of Nursing’s Nurse Education
Grants program.
To better prepare the students for
the units, the university is improving
its instructional material through
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technology.
Nursing students in the bachelor’s
and some other programs are required
to purchase an iPad mini, said Chris
Edwards, the College of Nursing’s
assistant dean for Information Technology and Communication.
The university is restructuring
content in several ways. PowerPoint
presentations, for example, are being
reconfigured into multitouch books
using the iBook platform to create
more interactive content. This fall,
faculty will design study guides with
notes for the iPad.
“We’re changing how we approach
learning. We didn’t take this lightly –
asking students to buy iPads,’’ Edwards said. “They’ll be able to use
these on the floor with patients. It
fits into a lab coat pocket.”
Some content can also be converted into flash cards for study with the
iPads, Edwards said. The university
is also encouraging students to use
eBooks, which are 40-60 percent less
expensive than textbooks.
Doing so will allow them to easier
take notes in the appropriate content
area as well as send and receive
notes from classmates and instructors. Searches can also be done
across all content on the iPad, Edwards added. m
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