Creating a Healthier Society through Nursing Research, Education, and Practice Ellen Olshansky, DNSc, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN Professor & Director, UC Irvine Program in Nursing Science
Dec 14, 2015
Creating a Healthier Society through Nursing Research,
Education, and Practice
Ellen Olshansky, DNSc, RN, WHNP-BC, FAANProfessor & Director, UC Irvine Program in Nursing Science
Objectives
Key concepts that are foundational to nursing
Describe the Program in Nursing Science at UC Irvine, including vision, mission, and strategic goals
Discuss how UCI Program in Nursing Science is contributing to the health of the public through several initiatives and the scholarship of the faculty
Foundations of Nursing
Evidence-based/scientific healthcare practice
Focus on environment
Holistic health, understanding mind-body connection
Family and Community health; health promotion
Concern with public health: poverty, civil rights and voting rights, housing reform = social determinants of health
American Hospice movement was started by Florence Wald
Changing Demographic: Men in Nursing
Though men represent only 5.8% of the U.S. nursing workforce, the percentage of men in baccalaureate and master’s nursing programs are 10.4% and 8.9%, respectively.
In doctoral programs, 7.1% of students in research-focused programs and 10.2% of students in practice-focused programs are men.
How Did UCI’s Program in Nursing Science Get Here?
A Compelling Case for Growth, January 2007: Report of the Advisory Council on Future Growth in the Health Professions: Recommended substantial growth in nursing education
programs at UC Focus on graduate education as well as on BSN education
with the intent that undergraduate students will not only contribute to alleviating the nursing shortage at the bedside, but will also go on to earn graduate degrees in nursing (to contribute to alleviating the nursing faculty shortage as well)
Ensuing Challenges
Severe budget cuts in the state of California
$100,000,000 donation to UC Davis in July 2007 from the Betty Irene Moore Foundation to establish a School of Nursing
Academic Nursing is new to UC Irvine, creating the challenge (and opportunity) to develop increased understanding and awareness of who we are
Overcoming some of the negative stereotypes of nursing
Meeting the Challenge
Approved in 2006 by the UC Board of Regents and the California State Board of Nursing
First cohort of students matriculated September 2007 (these students were in their 3rd year of study because they were transfer students from other majors at UCI)
CCNE accreditation for BSN program April 2009
First BSN graduates June 2009
Meeting the Challenge (cont)
Masters in Nursing program approved by UC Board of Regents in 2009 and by California State Board of Nursing
First class of MS students matriculated September 2009
CCNE accreditation for MS program anticipated April 2011
Anticipate our first graduating class of MS students in June 2011
PhD proposal is developed and currently under review
Our Faculty
7 tenure/tenure-track faculty
5 full-time clinical faculty
4 part-time clinical faculty
~20 part-time clinical instructors
Recruiting for 2 tenure-track faculty
UC Irvine Nursing Students
Program in Nursing ScienceVision and Mission
UCI Program in Nursing Science, through its integrative, collaborative, and relational approach, will contribute to excellence in nursing and healthcare delivery/clinical practice, scholarship, policy, leadership to improve the health of the Orange County communityand beyond.
We emphasize community engagement, collaboration, and compassion as we teach our students to: deliver integrative/holistic nursing care to our citizens in our myriad
communities that is founded on scientific evidence and human caring, contribute to the scholarship of nursing through scientifically based
translational research that is disseminated widely, and become leaders in health policy, education, research, and healthcare delivery
Goals of UCI Nursing Science
Full partners with our colleagues in other healthcare disciplines and colleagues in other fields
National/international leaders in nursing and healthcare
Contribute to alleviating the nursing shortage and nursing faculty shortage
Engagement in the community; community health
Promote cutting-edge translational research
Become a School of Nursing
What is Academic Nursing?
Relationship with biomedical community
Relationship with social sciences, social ecology, humanities, law
National Institute of Nursing Research/NIH
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Academy of Nursing
Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science
Suzanne Leider Lecture Series
Symposia Series on Optimal Healing/Integrative Health
Mentoring Program for Students
Gardening and Healthy Eating Program
Association for Advancement of Nursing Science & Research (AANSR)
UniHealth Grant – Clinical Nurse Educator Program (CNEP)
Global collaboration: Taipei, Switzerland, Korea, Poland
Specific Initiatives at UCI
Initiatives (Cont)
Development of Nursing Alumni Association
Development of Sigma Theta Tau International Chapter; Alpha Tau Delta
UCI Flu Clinic
Active participation in ICTS (funded by NIH CTSA Award)
UC Nursing System-wide collaboration
UCI Nursing Science Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health
Faculty Accomplishments
Sarah Choi KL2 award from UCI’s NIH-funded Clinical Translational Science Award (Institute for Clinical Translational Research)
Alison Holman – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar; post-traumatic stress, genetics
Jill Berg – honored as community researcher through the ICTS in 2010 – asthma in the Latino community
Ruth Mulnard – runs clinical trial research on Alzheimer’s Disease; Assoc Director of ICTS
Jung-Ah Lee – studies prevention of deep vein thrombosis
Faculty Accomplishments (cont)
Lorraine Evangelista – prevention of heart failure
Ellen Olshansky – women’s health across the lifespan; community based research; qualitative research
Susan Tiso, Susanne Phillips, Camille Fitzpatrick, Karen Deck, Beth Haney – maintain practice as nurse practitioners
Maureen Movius, Bernadette Milbury, Kathy Saunders – studying simulation as a clinical educational tool
We are Prepared to Meet the Challenges Ahead!
Stay focused and motivated
Work as a team
Work with our inter-disciplinary colleagues
The Gallop Poll every year since 1999 except after 9/11 (when firefighters were voted most trusted), has found nurses to be the most trusted profession