WHAT'S NEW
Around the School
Schools
of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health Raise
Nearly $10,000 to Stop Violence Against Women
In February 2007, JHU students and staff
members from the Schools of Nursing, Medicine,
and Public Health raised nearly $10,000 to stop
violence against women and girls. As part of the
global 2007 V-Day Campaign, the 17 women hosted
academic discussion forums, coordinated a dinner
and swing dancing fundraiser, held a silent
auction, and presented two benefit performances
of Eve Ensler's award-winning play, The
Vagina Monologues.
Vlahov
Speaks To SON Audiences
On February 15, 2007 Dr. David Vlahov, PhD, RN,
the New York Academy of Medicine's Interim
Executive Director and Director of the Center
for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, spoke to a
packed room at the SON on "Community
Mobilization for HIV Prevention in Harlem."
Vlahov described the mission and goal of the
unique community project as making it "...easier
to get help for problems with drugs than it is
to get arrested for drugs."
SON Alumna Nancy McKelvey '64
was the grand marshall of the St. Patrick's Day
Parade in Washington, D.C. McKelvey is
chief nurse for the American Red Cross and is in
charge of about 35,000 nurses and 1.3 million
volunteers.
In January, Associate Professor Dan
Sheridan hosted five senior students from
Baltimore's Bais Yaakov High School who visited
the school to learn about the overlap between
forensic science and forensic nursing. Upon
graduation, the students will spend a year of
study in Israel before beginning their college
education.
Sarah Burneyand Chris Howell
(both Trad '08) will visit Centernary, Zimbabwe
this summer to work as volunteer nurses at
St. Alberts Mission Hospital. With the
help of SON faculty, staff, and students, they
ran a successful book drive and shipped
textbooks to Zimbabwe.
On
April 26, former Secretary of State Colin Powell
addressed a crowd of 400 Johns Hopkins faculty,
staff, students, donors, patients and guests to
dedicate the new David M. Rubenstein Child
Health Building. At the ceremony, Powell greeted
Brian Miner '08, SON Student Government
Association Executive President; David
Rubenstein, JHU trustee and Hopkins
philanthropist; and
Jimmie Kilpatrick '08, Maryland Association
of Nursing Students (MANS) President.
Faculty Work Abroad:
Kathleen
Becker led a delegation of Primary Care
nurses to Russia and Poland for the People to
People Ambassador's Program. The group met with
Polish Senator and nurse Janina Fetlinska and
the Polish Senate Marshall, Bogdan Borusewicz,
who was the principal organizer of the August
1980 strike in Gdansk Shipyards and co-author of
the list of workers' demands (Solidarity Trade
Union). Discussions focused on the shortage of
Polish nurses, increased educational resources
for training, and recruitment of women and men
for the profession.
Beth
Sloand led a delegation of pediatric nurses
to China on a professional exchange trip from
March 25-April 6. She discussed nursing and
health care issues with several Chinese nurses
and physicians and visited health care
facilities in Beijing, Guilin, and Shanghai.
Sloand says, "I was also able to visit with our
two baccalaureate Transitions students who are
working in China, the five Doctoral students at
PUMC who were at the JHUSON in Fall 2006, and
met one of the doctoral students who will attend
the SON this summer."
Under
the clinical instruction of Helen Thomas,
students taking the Public Health Nursing course
traveled to Haiti to complete their clinical
rotation working with a variety of community
agencies and implemented the "Hands Are Not For
Hurting" project. Participating students are
from the Class of 2007: Samantha Bennett, Joseph
Brodine, Maggie Butler, Kelly Carpenter, Lisa
D'Anjou, Kimberly Elkin, Kara Franz, and Natalia
Niefert.
