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Around the School
The school's health care information
technology initiatives and simulation labs were
once more a highlighted stopover in a recent
legislative visit to Johns Hopkins. As part of a
university-wide briefing in December, JHUSON
faculty, including Diane Ashenbrenner
(pictured right), highlighted for
Congressman-elect John P. Sarbanes (D-MD) the
importance of using nursing informatics to
provide quality health care for the nation.
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A
discussion and presentation on improving public
understanding of nursing was conducted with a
delegation of nurses from the Japanese Nursing
Federation. Jane Shivnan, Director of the
Office of Global Nursing attended, and alumna
Sandy Summers, MSN '02, Executive Director
of the Center for Nursing Advocacy presented.
Pictured left with Japanese nurses is faculty
member
Dan Sheridan.
The school's
Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery
Community of Practice (GANM CoP) has grown
now to 1,100 members from 112 different
countries. The new online community offers
nurses and midwives throughout the world no
matter their geographic location and physical
settings-a forum for sharing ideas, best
practices, and new knowledge. An e-mail address
is all that is needed to join at
http://my.ibpinitiative.org/public/ganm/.
The SON annual holiday festivities included
displays and information about Christmas,
Hanukah, and Kwanzaa.
According to the
American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN),
enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing
programs increased by 5.0 percent from 2005 to
2006. At the same time, nursing colleges and
universities turned away more than 32,000
qualified applicants due primarily to a shortage
of nurse educators.
Staff and faculty working on a study of the
Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation
(DOVE) intervention enjoyed a luncheon in
October to celebrate the program. Their
research examines a technique where nurses
provide information to new and expecting mothers
at risk for intimate partner violence.
Faculty
Jerilyn Allen;
Jackie Campbell; Cheryl Dennison;
Jessica Gill; Nancy Glass;
Haera Han; Haley Mark; Gayle Page;
Phyllis Sharps; Sarah Szanton; and
Nancy Woods gave oral research
presentations at the National State of the
Science Congress in Nursing Research in October.
Instructor
Dennis Jones (left) recently led a four
week women's self defense program entitled Rape
Aggression Defense (RAD). Thirteen women
completed the program this autumn, and Jones
expects to teach another RAD program again in
the spring.
Faculty Work Abroad:
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In October, faculty members
Phyllis Mason
and Beth Sloand joined a health care
team to provide relief medical services in
rural villages of Haiti. They were
accompanied by graduate students Andrea
Riley and Jill Crank.
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Cynda Rushton
traveled to China and Tibet with the People
to People Ambassador program, the first such
delegation focusing on palliative care to
Tibet. The group included 22
interdisciplinary professionals from across
the U.S. They visited hospices, traditional
Chinese and Tibetan medical programs, and
hospitals developing palliative care
programs.
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Clinical instructor and doctoral
candidate Jason Farley spent
Thanksgiving on the Southwestern coast of
Africa in Windhoek, Namibia traveling as a
consultant for the International Training
and Evaluation Center on HIV (I-TECH) and
working with the University of Namibia
(UNAM) School of Nursing. He completed a
needs assessment for the 2007 implementation
of a WHO program to support a greater role
of nursing personnel in developing countries
in the care of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
