Annual report 2014

Annual Report 2014

WE TEACH

WE RESEARCHWE CARE

AT THE LEWIS SCHOOL

Issue 3, July 2013-June 2014

I’m pleased to share what the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions has accomplished during the 2014 academic year. Two years into our strategic plan, I’m happy to say that we are moving forward through the hard work by everyone: faculty, staff and students.

The success of our students remains our top goal. To allow more students to achieve their dream of a career in the growing health care field beyond our more traditional programs, we have created a new bachelor’s of interdisciplinary studies (B.I.S.) in health informatics, offered in partnership with the Robinson College of Business. We have already reached our capacity of admitting 50 students per semester in this program of study and our first students will graduate in May 2015. This B.I.S. degree will meet the health care industry’s demand for health informatics professionals and since Atlanta is the southeastern hub for health informatics, we expect our graduates will find jobs in the region and become leaders in this growing field.

We’ve broken down barriers to graduate healthcare education with a revamped application process that yielded 55 percent more graduate students in Spring 2014. We added a new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree to give nurses the choice of a clinical terminal degree and strengthened our physical therapy program with the addition of an alumni mentoring program. A proposal to add a Master’s Entry Occupational Therapy program has just been approved by the Board of Regents.

Interprofessional education, a major initiative of the Institute of Medicine, is a standard in our college. Historically, our students learned their professions in academic major silos, studying only with students of the same major. Now, following two years of developing interprofessional workshops and interdisciplinary simulations, our students learn together in interdisciplinary teams. Dr. Joan Cranford, assistant dean for interprofessional education, is leading our partnership with faculty at Morehouse School of Medicine for ways that our students can serve the community in these interdisciplinary teams.

Our students can’t be successful without top faculty and faculty leaders. We welcomed a new chair for the Department of Nutrition, Dr. Huanbiao Mo and a new associate dean/director of the School of Nursing, Dr. Elaine Fisher. We are focused on recruiting and retaining master teachers and developing our internal faculty pool. Innovative teaching techniques, including the use of 3D iPad technology, digital technology and technical simulations have sprung from recent teaching effectiveness workshops.

Our faculty research is growing. A newly established structured mentoring support program and new interdisciplinary research teams helped strengthened our faculty’s ability to compete for top research grants. We are already reaping benefits of a grant writing ‘boot camp’ held in January for a select group of faculty. Several faculty have recently received federal (HRSA and NIH) and inter-university collaborative grants.

The Lewis School faculty and students take pride in our strong community partnerships and collaborations. We’ve given local communities low tech, portable health records we created for homeless individuals, a business plan for the Atlanta Food Bank and provided back-to-school physicals for uninsured children. Farther afield, our physical therapy students treated Georgia’s migrant farm workers. Internationally, nursing students cared for the urban and rural poor in Nicaragua. Formal relationships with three universities in China brought opportunities for international research and instructional collaborations.

I thank all our supporters who are a part of our school family, particularly the donors who have made many of these changes possible. I’m particularly grateful to Ken Lewis and his family for their continued support through their generous $5 million pledge, which will carry us into the future. I’m also grateful for all the other donors who have helped us exceed our fundraising goals for the year.

Regards,Margaret C. Wilmoth

Margaret C. Wilmoth, PhD, RN

Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions

Dean’sMESSAGE

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STRATEGIC PLAN

Where are we today?

In 2012, a team of faculty and staff in the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions created a strategic plan to propel the school towards its vision of becoming the premier school of choice for educating health care professionals in the southeastern United States.

Now two years later, how are we doing?

Follow us as we examine our three external priorities.

l Facilitate student graduation success and expand program offerings.l Expand research capacity and productionl Strengthen collaborative entrepreneurial relationships locally and globally.

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“Having students working in

interprofessional teams breaks down the culture of fear

and increase the level of comfort of working together,” Joan Cranford says.

Interprofessional education (IPE) is taking hold of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions and changing the way students learn. It is a collaborative method of teaching students from multiple majors and strongly endorsed by the Institute of Medicine. The Lewis

School offered IPE in formal workshops and in-class training for the past two years and beginning Fall 2014, adds students from another university.

Joan Cranford, assistant dean for interprofessional education and clinical associate professor of nursing, along with Khadeja Johnson, M.D., of Morehouse School of Medicine, invites third year Morehouse medical students to participate in simulations with nursing, nutrition, physical therapy and respiratory therapy students at the Lewis School simulation lab. In addition, Dr. Johnson is coordinating a community service program at St. Joseph’s Mercy Clinic, for student teams to apply skills they’ve learned in lab.

Dr. Johnson’s interest and enthusiasm brings new life and ideas to the young program. Cranford credits both the national Interprofessional Education Collaborative conference and the Georgia State 2013 mass casualty drill with sparking Dr. Johnson’s interest.

The 2013 mass casualty drill featured a simulated shooting and a campus police SWAT simulation drill, giving Lewis School students experience as first responders. Students practiced triaging the wounded, making priority transport decisions for the injured and caring for the patients in the mock emergency room.

“Having students working in interprofessional teams breaks down the culture of fear and increase the level of comfort of working together.

Tracking pre-majorsKeeping undergraduate students on track to graduate from competitive health care programs is a challenge that Georgia State has met with a new tracking system. Advisors in the university’s Undergraduate Advisement Center and The Lewis School’s Office of Academic Assistance use a new combination of student software to identify and track students’ grades to determine likely success of gaining admissions to a Lewis School program. Students are individually evaluated and those who are not reaching the level needed for Lewis School admission are referred to transition advisors. This new system helps students avoid the frustrations of repeatedly applying to programs for which they may never be admitted and helps them to stay on target for a timely graduation.

Pathways to Student SuccessInterprofessional Education

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Interprofessional education allows us to bridge the disconnect between majors,” Cranford says.

IPE work will be incorporated into each Lewis School’s major curriculum by Spring 2015. Currently, students add IPE to their course load with no credit. Interprofessional education extends beyond the formal scenarios devised by the faculty. Students

in nutrition, nursing and respiratory therapy have collaborated to educate peers with tips and tricks on patient care unique to their specialties. Nutrition students have educated nursing students on the importance of communicating patient dietary needs to the patient’s family and respiratory therapy students have demonstrated a variety inhalation masks to nursing students, increasing their confidence in caring for intubated patients.

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“Atlanta is a hub for health care informatics and

we are providing undergraduates

with an entry to this growing field,”

Goodfellow says.

Health information technology professionals are in great demand and Georgia State University has stepped up to

fill that demand with a collaboration between the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information technology, computer science, and health care that supports safe, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable patient-centered clinical care. Graduates have the opportunity to work on the clinical side at health care organizations, for the federal government, or on the business side for consulting firms and health care vendors.

The Department of Physical Therapy (PT) offers an alumni/student mentoring program, matching PT students with working PT professionals. The alumni mentors provide broad professional advice and networking opportunities and in return gain the pleasure of positively impacting the careers of aspiring PTs. Nine students and nine alumni participated in the mentoring for 2014.

Pathways to Student SuccessInterdisciplinary degrees

The Lewis School has enrolled 87 students in the clinical track of the bachelor of interdisciplinary studies in health informatics. The concentration is four semesters beyond the first two years of the undergraduate curriculum and because of its professional nature, students apply for admission into the program and are formally admitted at the beginning of the fall semester of their junior year.

“Atlanta is a hub for health care informatics and we are providing undergraduates with an entry to this important and growing field,” says Lynda Goodfellow, associate dean of academic affairs in The Lewis School.

Graduates can expect to work for health care systems in information services, project management, health information management, business/clinical intelligence or quality and safety.

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The School of Nursing has been reaccredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for ten years. Reaccreditation covers all the school’s nursing degree programs, except for the new Doctor of Nursing Practice. As a new program, it must be accredited for the first time separately and faculty expect to have it accredited later in the year before the first class graduates. Accreditation is vital to the school as its graduates must graduate from an accredited nursing school in order to take the NCLEX or advanced practice licensure exams.

“It is rewarding to receive confirmation of our faculty’s excellent teaching and

clinical preparation,” says Margaret C. Wilmoth, dean and professor of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions. “However, we couldn’t achieve this accreditation without the assistance of all involved, particularly our faculty and staff, as well as our clinical preceptors.”

The school’s accreditation is valid until 2024. Three of the school’s other departments have undergone successful reaccreditation in the past couple of years. The school’s newest interdisciplinary degree in health informatics, offered in partnership with the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, will go through initial accreditation in the near future.

Nursing

94% NCLEX (exam forlicensure as registered nurse)

100% Advanced PracticeNurse registration exam

2014 Licensure Pass Rate

100% for 2013 Coordinated Program graduates on the registered dietitian exam

Nutrition

97% National PhysicalTherapy Exam (NPTE) for PT licensure in Georgia

Physical Therapy

100% CertifiedRespiratory Therapist - entry level RT credential

100% RRT RegisteredRespiratory Therapist

Respiratory Therapy

Nursing Receives Reaccreditation

Pathways to Student SuccessExceeding Expectations

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Building Community & Global Relationships

Strengthening relationships with the health care community reaches

beyond the state of Georgia. Nursing students took their skills and knowledge overseas for The Lewis School’s first international

community service outreach.

Study Abroad Nicaragua

“Como estas?” a Georgia State nursing student says to a young child, asking ‘how are you doing?’ The nursing student isn’t making polite conversation but trying to assess the child’s overall health.

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“I gained so much confidence in my assessment skills during this trip to Nicaragua, I think that I will be a more confident new graduate nurse thanks to this experience.”

Kelly McCahill, nursing student

“[Thank you ] not only for your medicine and human resources, but your human touch, and caring for our people.

A Nicaraguan official

“I think the most rewarding part of our experience was being able to provide aid to groups of people that receive very little medical attention.”

Jennifer Meagley, nursing student

Set up on the porch of a rural home outside of Leon, Nicaragua, 19 senior nursing students get their first taste of health care in the field. This makeshift clinic, complete with wandering barnyard animals, provides the community of El Pozo Quezalguaque with the only opportunity for health care.

Under the close supervision of nursing and respiratory faculty, three local physicians and two nurse practitioners, the students served 383 patients during the four day clinical practice, gaining valuable experiences in health care.

Shadowing physicians, nurse practitioners and a local pharmacist, students conducted physical assessments — listening for heart and breath sounds, checking wounds and assessing joint and muscle pain. Other students collected basic health histories, took vital signs and tested blood glucose when necessary before referring the patients to the health care providers for further treatment. The students, working with two nurse practitioners and a Nicaraguan pharmacist, gave antibiotic and steroid injections as prescribed by the physicians and nurse practitioners.

Using a local physician’s clinic, the students held a health fair for the community; they taught residents how to prevent and recognize Dengue fever, the importance of PAP smears and cervical cancer screening as well as how to perform monthly self-breast exams. Each topic of the health fair was selected by Dr. Medina, the host physician, as education topics sorely needed in the community.

“It was an amazing experience to be able to work directly with a nurse practitioner, and I gained so much confidence in my assessment skills during this trip to Nicaragua,” said nursing student Kelly McCahill. “I think that I will be a more confident new graduate nurse thanks to this experience.”

The Nicaraguan health care providers and the local community leaders were overwhelmed by the students’ work.

“[Thank you] not only for your medicine and human resources, but your human touch and caring for our people,” said one Nicaraguan official.

Faculty leaders were also impressed with the students’ efforts, noting that they did a good job of applying the skills they had learned back on campus.

“The students demonstrated what can be the hardest thing to teach, true compassion and caring for those in need,” says Kristen Lingle, clinical assistant professor of nursing and team leader. “They were compassionate, well-prepared and hard-working, working long hours in difficult circumstances with nothing but gratitude for the opportunity to help others.” The students earned 60 community clinical hours for their work.

The students say they will never forget what they experienced and learned in Nicaragua.

“I think the most rewarding part of our experience was being able to provide aid to groups of people that receive very little medical attention,” said nursing student Jennifer Meagley. “Everyone welcomed us with such gratitude and respect. I simply could not have asked for a better experience.”

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Research

To begin rehabilitation, the stroke survivor uses the small magnet affixed to the tip of the tongue and moves the tongue to control the hand exoskeleton and an on-screen computer cursor to play a series of simple video games. As therapy progresses, the goal is for the patient to rely less on the tongue and more on the hand for movement to play the games. Eventually, the tongue is no longer needed as a controller, and the patient can graduate to traditional physical therapy.

Butler is confident the combined robot and tongue controller is a viable way to increase hand and arm movement for the weakest stroke patients. Previous research on speech and gestures has shown a link between hand and tongue movement in the brain.

“The brain is capable of massive reorganization subsequent to stroke. When people lose the neurons representing portions of the hand, neighboring areas ‘invade’ the cortical space that was formerly occupied by the hand. We believe by using the tongue to control a robot, neurons representing the tongue can be ‘remapped’ to hand neurons, allowing stroke survivors to move more,” says Butler.

This pilot research is funded by the Healthcare Innovation Program and the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a consortium which brings together major Atlanta universities—Emory University, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse School of Medicine—as well as area hospitals, to develop healthcare innovation that directly impact patients’ lives. The pilot grant was one of only two seeded at Georgia State in 2013.

Synchronous tongue-hand controller to help stroke patients

Andrew Butler, associate dean for research and professor of physical therapy, Maysam Ghovanloo, associate professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, and Dr. Samir Belagaje, neurologist at Grady Hospital, are exploring new ways to rehabilitate the weakest stroke patients using a specially-designed robotic exoskeleton. The exoskeleton strengthens arm muscles and improves brain connections as part of rehabilitation.

The original robotic hand therapy system was designed to help patients regain wrist and arm movement. Yet, stroke survivors who have significantly limited movement of the hand cannot use this robotic exoskeleton. To overcome this problem, the system was combined with a unique interface that allows the tongue to control the hand robot. The tongue drive system uses a lentil-sized magnet on the tip of the tongue as a joystick to control the movement of the robotic arm. Individuals with spinal cord injury have used the tongue drive to maneuver wheelchairs. With the combined hand robot and tongue drive systems, stroke survivors with severe movement limitation are able to move their impaired wrist and hand, which may lead to improved muscle strength and brain reorganization.

The robotic rehabilitation originated from the widely utilized concept of constraint-induced therapy, in which a stroke patient with his or her unaffected, restrained hand is forced to use the weaker hand to perform task training. However, to participate, a patient must have at least 10 degrees of extension in the wrist, two fingers, and thumb. Patients without this level of mobility were left with few options to begin the rehabilitation process.

Butler found approximately 30 percent of his potential research participants lacked the aforementioned minimum levels of wrist and hand movement to participate in constraint-induced therapy. The tongue drive therapy system may help patients achieve the minimum 10 degrees of wrist extension needed for other types of traditional therapy.

Voluntary tongue movement is often unaffected by stroke, and the neurons in the brain that control the tongue may be able to remap to control the hand, taking the place of the damaged hand motor neurons through a process called neuroplasticity. Although neurons cannot regenerate in the brain, existing neurons can reorganize based upon the stimulus received.

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Designing New Electronic Medical Records System for Campus Researchers

Lynn Long, clinical instructor of nursing, has the daunting challenge of designing the university’s first electronic medical records (EMR) and occupational health compliance program for students and employees working in animal research.

In conjunction with the university research office and the university veterinarian, Long manages the health, safety, and risk of anyone who comes in contact with any of the university’s more than 6,000 animals.

“There are more than 400 participants in the program right now, and to be able to get that volume of participants evaluated, we needed a good system that would be able to handle the information in an effective manner,” Long said. “Paper and pencil charting is just not effective anymore. This way, the records are housed in a manner that doesn’t take up any space and they are accessible to others long after I’m gone.”

Veterinarian Dr. Michael Hart and his team of assistants care for the animals, which are mostly small rodents. However, Long must oversee the health risks of the researchers, students, and maintenance staff exposed to

these animals in their daily work, on campus and at the Language Research Center.

Long carefully checks each human participant’s vaccine records and exposures to develop a risk profile for each one. In addition, she provides preventive medical services such as tuberculosis and respiratory tests.

“The most interesting part of the job is hearing what the researchers are doing when I meet with them to discuss their medical history or provide a preventive service,” said Long, a family nurse practitioner. “The research division is doing amazing work, and it is fun to hear what is going on.”

Long has worked with Brock Davis, a lead application developer in the Information Systems and Technology office, to develop the system using SharePoint.

Her groundbreaking work has been instrumental to the university this year because the animal research program recently received AAALAC accreditation, a significant accreditation related to laboratory animal care and use programs.

“Paper and pencil charting is just not effective anymore...”Lynn Long, clinical instructor.

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In Memoriam

John Rhodes Haverty, M.D., founding dean of the School of Allied Health, a precursor to The Lewis School, passed away on January 24, 2014. Dr. Haverty, a native Atlantan, received his A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1948 and graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1953. During that time, Dr. Haverty also served two years in the U.S. Navy.

Dr. Haverty practiced pediatrics in Atlanta for 11 years prior to his appointment as dean. He served several roles in Atlanta area hospitals including charge resident at Grady Memorial Hospital and associate head of pediatrics at Crawford Long Hospital (now Emory Midtown Hospital) before entering private pediatric practice.

In 1968, Dr. Haverty founded the School of Allied Health with degree programs in nursing and physical therapy, the first accredited physical therapy program in Georgia. He added respiratory therapy and nutrition soon thereafter. By the time Dr. Haverty retired in 1991, the school has evolved into the College of Health Sciences with more than 1,000 students enrolled annually and employed more than 100 faculty members.

A tireless leader in health care and medical education, Dr. Haverty served as president in 1974 for the National Board of The Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions and chairman of the American Medical Association’s Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation in 1982. He served countless other health care boards including the American Red Cross, Atlanta Chapter. He received the Red Cross’ prestigious Charles R. Drew Award in 1998. Dr. Haverty also was a founding member of the Georgia Health Foundation and served as chairman from 1990 to 1991.

Dr. Haverty remained active with Georgia State University following his retirement. He served on the university’s Institutional Research Board from 2001 to 2003 and the College of Health and Human Sciences Board of Advisors from 2000 to 2011 as well as the subsequent Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions’ advisory board from 2011 until his death. Georgia State University presented Dr. Haverty with an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004.

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Students, alumni, donors, faculty and staff of The Lewis School were treated to a special Centennial edition of the J. Rhodes Haverty Lecture with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. In Fall 2013, Carter gave the keynote address on issues of mental health “Myths and Misconceptions about Mental Health in Military Veterans.” Military and mental health experts Dr. Mary Jo Larson and Dr. Michael Schoenbaum presented special mental health challenges women face in the military and the correlation of deployment to suicide among veterans.

Carter is the co-founder of The Carter Center and creator and chair of the center’s Mental Health Task Force. In addition, she has written two books on the issues of mental health. Larson is a senior scientist at

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and leads an observational study of post-deployment outcomes among over 640,000 Army men and women. Schoenbaum is the senior adviser for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics at the National Institute of Mental Health’s Office of Science Policy, Planning and Communication. He examines the risk and protective factors for suicidality in the U.S. Army.

The Haverty Lecture was established in 2003 to honor the career of Dr. J. Rhodes Haverty, the founding dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences, the predecessor to The Lewis School.

Former First Lady Addresses Veterans Mental Health at Annual J. Rhodes Haverty Lecture

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Key Contributors

IndividualsRichard AmberyDan BenardotMildred M. CodyErling EiaDr. Richard A. Elmer

and Katherine Lloyd (deceased)Rita EngelhardtFrances J. FowlerJoseph D. HarrelsonRoy HarrisElice D. HavertyJacqueline HerdSharon K. HicksCennette F. Jackson (deceased)Susan J. Kelley and

Ronald F. VerniSusan K. LairdDonna and Kenneth D. LewisJames H. Mobley Mark D. Oshnock

Debianne and Robert PetermanRobert PettignanoKimberee J. Phelps Joseph D. SansoneMark A. WeinsteinKaren C. WilbanksMargaret C. WilmothPatricia Yarbrough

Corporations and FoundationsAtlanta FoundationCLC FoundationHavertys Furniture Companies, Inc.Jesse Parker Williams FoundationKiwanis Foundation of AtlantaLettie Pate Whitehead FoundationMary Ryan & Henry G. Kuhrt FoundationPediatria Healthcare for KidsPublix Super Markets CharitiesRent Consulting Group, LLCRobert and Polly Dunn FoundationRoderick, S., Flossie R,. & Helen M. Galloway Foundation, Inc.Tenet Healthcare Corporation Thanks Mom and Dad FundXerox CorporationZap Fitness Foundation

Thanks to generosity of The Lewis School’s donors and supporters, we have reached and surpassed our goal for giving for the third year in a row. Private giving to the school and its entities exceeded by eight times the projected giving for 2013-2014.

Also in 2013, The Lewis School introduced the Dean’s Circle to recognize top donors. An exclusive group of donors, the Dean’s Circle members have given at least $1,000 annually, thus committed to ensuring the continued excellence of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions.

Dean’s Circle donors for 2014 are noted below.

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Lewis School Receives $5 Million PledgeThe Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions received a $5 million pledge from Georgia State University alumnus Kenneth D. Lewis. This is the second and largest gift to date from Lewis for the school, which benefits students in all five of the school’s academic pro-grams. In 2003, the nursing school was named the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing in honor of his mother, a 46-year career bedside nurse and her name carried over to the new School of Nursing and Health Professions, formed in 2011.

The Lewis pledge will support three chair pro-fessorships and faculty achievement awards.

“This pledge guarantees we can attract the stel-lar health care faculty in all our disciplines,” says Margaret Wilmoth, dean and professor. “Ulti-mately, our students will benefit. Health care is becoming increasingly complex and recruiting top educators and researchers will strengthen our existing faculty. In turn, an energized top notch faculty will educate future classes of nurs-ing, nutrition, physical therapy, respiratory thera-py and health informatics students, helping us to reach our goal of becoming the premier healthcare school of choice in the southeast.”

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The Lewis School received a three- year, $1,146,189 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration to develop a new interprofessional model for graduate nursing education. The new model of interprofessional

education is aimed at improving coordination of patient care for individuals with multiple chronic conditions.

An estimated 60 million Americans have multiple chronic conditions, and that number is expected to rise to 81 million in the next six years, creating a major challenge for health care providers.

“This grant allows us to prepare health professionals to work together, to col-laborate in caring for people who are aging and have multiple chronic con-ditions,” said Margaret Moloney, project director and associate professor of nursing. “Georgia is a medically underserved state, with very ethnically diverse residents and an aging population which has multiple chronic conditions.”

Pathways to Student SuccessHRSA grant changes the face of graduate nursing education

“We are fortunate to have the strength

of student and faculty diversity,

as well as practice diversity within our

faculty,” Margaret Moloney says.

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Over the next three years, up to 60 graduate nursing students in the Lewis School, with graduate students in respiratory therapy, nutrition, physical therapy and social work, will work together in a clinical course taught by faculty who are clinical health experts in these programs. They will also learn from Georgia State’s gerontology faculty.

The school added matching funds of $63,495 to cov-er some graduate research assistant and staff sala-ries.

International PartnershipsAs part of The Lewis School strategic plan, build-ing relationships with international partners helps strengthen the school’s vision of becoming the pre-mier school of choice for educating health care pro-fessionals in the southeastern United States.

During the 2013-2014 academic year, The Lewis School hosted faculty from Wuhan University’s HOPE School of Nursing in China. Drs. Regina Cole, Tai Wang and Dean Margaret Wilmoth visited both

Wuhan University and Shangdong University to ex-plore collaborations. In the spring, The Lewis School formalized a memorandum of collaboration (MOC) with Wuhan’s HOPE School of Nursing to work on rehabilitation nursing. The Wuhan delegation visited Atlanta to observe U.S. health care systems, visiting the Shepherd Center as well as The Lewis School Physical Therapy and Wellness practice clinic and nursing and physical therapy teaching labs. They also met with officials at Grady Hospital to see how elec-tronic medical records had been implemented at the state’s largest hospital.

In April, The Lewis School hosted Dr. Carina Berterö, nursing professor and well-known researcher from Linköping University in Sweden. Dr. Berterö hosted several workshops for nursing faculty and doctoral nursing students, providing a series of lectures and discussions on metasynthesis and the Swedish vs. the U.S. healthcare systems and healthcare educa-tional systems.

As a culmination to meetings with Shandong Sports University, the Department of Physical Therapy hosted three exercise science scholars during the summer and early fall of 2014. The teams studied early inflammatory response and functional recov-ery following traumatic musculoskeletal injuries and biomechanics.

“It is so important to maximize nurses’ time in pa-tient care, and interprofessional collaboration allows them to do so,” says Moloney. She says the pilot grant program aims to be the best example of how interprofessional collaboration can work.

“We are fortunate to have the strength of student and faculty diversity, as well as practice diversity within our faculty,” she said.

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Gullian, S., Berg, C., & Bryant, L. (2013). Sex differences in psychosocial correlates of concurrent substance use among heterosexual, homo-sexual and bisexual college students. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1097-9891. doi: 10.3109/00952990.2013.796962.

Chen, Y., & Howard, A. M. (2014) Effect of robotic therapy on improv-ing upper-extremity function in children with cerebral palsy: A system-atic review. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, Epub April 11 2014. PMID: 24724587.

Chen, Y., Lee, S-Y, & Howard, A.M. (2014) Effect of Virtual Reality on Improving Upper-Extremity Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Meta-Analysis. Pediatric Physical Therapy,26(3), 289-300.

Lee, S-Y, Vasiredd, M., Chen, Y., Wang, Y. T., & Hilliard, J. PNI biomark-ers and health outcomes in college women. Healthcare, 2(2): 207-219.

Chen, Y., & Weaver, L. (2014). Invited Commentary on “Accommodat-ing the Bayley-III with regard to motor and/or visual impairment: a comparative pilot study.” Pediatric Physical Therapy, 26(1): 68. PMID: 24356321.

Chen, Y., Mitch, A., Chafin, K., & Sargent, R. (2013). The Impact of body-scaled information on grasping action in toddlers with and without Down Syndrome. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Prac-tice, 11(3): 1-7.

Lee, S-Y., Wuertz, C., Rogers, R. & Chen, Y. (2013). Stress and sleep disturbances in female college students. American Journal of Health Behavior, 37(6), 851-858. PMID: 24001634.

García-Vergara, S., & Chen, Y., Howard, A. (2013) Super Pop VRTM: An Adaptable Virtual Reality Game for Upper-Body Rehabilitation. In: Shu-maker R, editor. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Systems and Ap-plications. Volume 8022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p 40-49.

Nixon, M., Chen, Y., & Howard, A. (2013) Quantitative evaluation of the Microsoft Kinect ™ for use in an upper extremity virtual rehabilita-tion environment. International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, p. 222-228.

Clark, P.C., Aycock, D.M., Reiss, A., Tanner, D., Shenvi, N.V., Eas-ley, K.A., Wolf, S.L. (2014). Potential benefits for caregivers of stroke survivors receiving BTX-A and exercise for upper extremity spasticity. Rehabilitation Nursing, 0, 1-9. doi:10.1002/rnj.147.

Stamp, K.D., Dunbar, S.B., Clark, P.C., Reilly, C. M., Gary, R.A., Hig-gins, M., & Kaslow, N. (2014). Family context influences psychological outcomes of depressive symptoms and emotional quality of life in patients with heart failure. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Jan 14 PMID:24434821.

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Dunbar, S.B., Clark, P.C., Reilly, C.M., Gary, R.A., Smith, A., McCarty, F., Higgins, M., Grossniklaus, D., Kaslow,N., Frediani, J., Dashiff, C., & Ryan, R. (2013). A trial of family partnership and education interventions in heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 19, 829-41 PIMD: 24331203..Klinedinest, N.J., Clark, P.C,. & Dunbar, S.D. (2013). Older adult stroke survivors discussing post-stroke depressive symptoms with a healthcare provider: A preliminary analysis. Rehabilitation Psychology, electronic publication, Jul 15.

Cody, M.M. & Tuma, P.A. (2013). The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Public Policy Priorities Overview. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 113(7), 907-919.

Hyun, M., Chung, H. C., De Gagne, J. C., & Kang, H. (2013). The effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on depression, anger, and self-control for Korean soldiers. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, doi: 10.3928/02793695-20130930-05.

Arora, P., Ganji, V., Penutmetcha, M., & Zhang, X. (2014). Dietary intake of fried and processed foods in the USA is inversely associated with obesity but positively associated with glucose intolerance. Nutrition & Food Science, 44 (1), 6-16.

Gardenhire, D., Ari, A., Hess, D., & Myers, T. (2013). A Guide to Aerosol Delivery Devices for Respiratory Therapists (3rd ed.). Ameri-can Association of Respiratory Care.

Gardenhire, D.S. (2014) Airway Pharmacology. In S. Hinski (Ed.) Re-spiratory Care Clinical Lab Competency Manual. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier.

Gardenhire, D.S. (2014) Delivery of Aerosol Drug Therapy. In S. Hinski (Ed.) Respiratory Care Clinical Lab Competency Manual. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier.

Gardenhire, D.S. (2014) Airway Pharmacology. In R.M. Kacmarek, J.K. Stoller, & A.J. Heuer(Eds.) Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care, 10 ed. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier.

Gardenhire, D.S. (2013) Improved Aerosol Delivery with a Conserv-er-type Nebulizer System Powered by 6 Common Home Air Com-pressors. Pediatric Pulmonology, 48(S36): 352-353.

McPeck, M., Gardenhire, D.S., (2013) Influence of Sonic Energy on Concomitant Aerosol Delivery with the Vibralung Acoustical Percussor. Pediatric Pulmonology, 48(S36): 364-365.

Bloomer, S.A., Han, O., Kregel, K.C., & Brown, K.E. (2014). Altered expression of iron regulatory proteins with aging is associated with transient hepatic iron accumulation after environmental heat stress. Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases, 52, 19-26. (doi.org/10.1016.j.bcmd.2013.07.002).

Henes, S.T., Cummings, D.M., Hickner, R.C., Houmard, J.A., Kolasa, K.M., Lazorick, S., Collier, D.N. (2013) Comparison of predictive equa-tions and measured resting energy expenditure among obese youth attending a pediatric healthy weight clinic: One size does not fit all. Nutr Clin Pract 2013:28: 617-624 [Originally published online ahead of print August 6, 2013 DOI: 10.1177/0884533613497237].

Kelley, S.J., Whitley, D.M. & Campos, P.E. (2013). Psychological distress in African American grandmothers raising grandchildren: The contribu-tion of child behavior problems, physical health, and family resources. Research in Nursing & Health, 36, 373-385.

Kelley, S.J., Whitley, D.M. & Campos, P.E. (2013). African American caregiving grandmothers: Results of an intervention to improve health indicators and health promotion behaviors. Journal of Family Nursing, 19, 53-73.

Whitley, D. M. and Kelley, S.J. (2013). Promoting family empowerment among African American grandmothers raising grandchildren. Bert Hayslip Jr. & Gregory C. Smith (Eds.) Resilient Grandparent Caregiv-ers: A Strengths-Based Perspective, pp. 235-250. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Helvig, A., Minick, P., & Patrick, D. (2014). Post-operative Management of Patient’s with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Implications for the Medical-Surgical Nurse. Med-Surg Nursing. 23(3):171-177.

Nucci, A.M., Russell, C.S., Luo, R., Ganji, V., Olabopo, F., Hopkins, B., Holick, M.F., & Rajakumar, K. (2013)The effectiveness of a short food frequency questionnaire in determining vitamin D intake in children. Dermato-Endocrinology. 5.205-210 [Epub ahead of print http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/ derm.24389].

Rajakumar, K., Holick, M.F., Moore, C.G., Cohen, E., Olabopo, F., Haralam, M.A., Bogusz, J., Nucci, A., Greenspan, S.L. (2013). Impact of Seasonal Flux on 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Bone Turnover in Pre- and Early Pubertal Black and White Youth. Pediatrics International. 1(25 DOI: 10.1111/ped.12210.

Asfaw, M., Mingle, J., Hendricks, J., Pharis, M., Nucci, A.M. (2014) Nutrition Management after Pediatric Solid Organ Trans-plan-tation. Nutr Clin Pract, 1-9 [Epub ahead of print http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0884533614521242].

Franciscus, M,. Nucci, A., Bradley, B., Suomalainen, H., Greenberg, E., LaForte, D., Kleemola, P., Hyytinen, M., Salonen, M., Martin, M.J., Catte, D., Catteau, J., (2013) The TRIGR Investigators. Recruiting and Retaining Participants for an International Type 1 Diabetes Prevention Trial: A Co-ordinator’s Perspective. Clinical Trials. doi:10.1177/1740774513510070.

Polovich, M. & Gullatte, M.M. (2014). Principles and standards of chemotherapy administration. In M. M. Gullatte (Ed.), Clinical guide to antineoplastic therapy: A chemotherapy handbook (3rd Ed.). Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.

Polovich, M., Olsen, M., & LeFebvre, K. (2014). Chemotherapy and biotherapy guidelines and recommendations for practice (fourth ed.). Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.

Polovich, M. (2014). Hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis. In J. Held-Warmkessel (Ed.), Oncologic Emergencies. In D. Camp-Sorrell & R. Hawkins (Series Eds.), Oncology Nursing. Reston, VA: InPractice. Re-trieved from https://www.inpractice.com/Textbooks/Oncology-Nursing/Oncologic-Emergencies/Hypersensitivity-Anaphylaxis/Chapter-Pages/Chapter-Page-1.aspx.

Pickler, R.H., Calamaro, C., Docherty, S., Goodhue, C.J., Magee,T., Mc-Carthy, A.M., Sadler, L., Small, L., Spratling, R., Van Cleve, S.N., D’Auria, J., & Jones, D.C. (2013). NAPNAP Research Agenda Revisions: Prelimi-nary Survey Results. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 27(5), 390-394. DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2013.05.004.

Tsai, L.C. & Powers, C.M. (2013) Increased hip and knee flexion dur-ing landing decreases tibiofemoral compressive loads in females who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Am J Sports Med.41:423-9.

Tsai, L.C., Scher, I.S., Powers, C.M. (2013) Quantification of tibiofemo-ral shear and compressive loads using a MRI-based EMG-driven knee model. J Appl Biomech, 29:229-34.

Collins, E., Schwartz, L. & Wilmoth, M. (2013) “Have You Ever Served in the Military?” Campaign in partnership with the Joining Forces Initia-tive, Nursing Outlook. (61) 375-376.

Wilmoth, M.C. & Shapiro, S.E. (2014). The Intentional Development of Nurses as Leaders: A Proposed Framework. Journal of Nursing Admin-istration, 44 (6) 333–338.

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