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Edilma Yearwood Leads Expert Team Development of Trailblazing Innovation Faculty Tool Kit 4-11-22 Past ISPN President (2016-2017) Dr. Edilma Yearwood led an expert team commissioned by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (ANCC) in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson to develop the Trailblazing Innovation Faculty Tool Kit. Intended as a teaching tool to inspire nurses to practice with moral courage and compassion, Edilma’s team discovered 17 themes central to nursing practice such as allyship, compassionate care, moral courage, trauma-informed care, and wellness. The themes are highlighted in the documentary 5B, which features first-person accounts from nurses, who without existing protocols, cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic forging a new, person-centered approach to patient care in Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital.Additionally, Carol Davis, nursing editor of HealthLeaders profiles the toolkit in an interview with Edilma in this article, Teaching Future Nurses to Lead With Moral Courage and Compassion. Congratulations, Edilma! Sara Horton-Deutsch Authors New Book on Nursing Leadership 4-11-22 Dr. Sara Horton-Deutsch, ISPN Past President (2014-2015) and her colleague Dr. Holly Wei are authors of a new book published by Sigma Visionary Leadership in Healthcare: Excellence in Practice, Policy, and Ethics. Sara and her colleagues call for more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic, and caring leadership styles. Book content includes such topics as evolution of leadership theories, organizational culture and collaboration and policy change among many others. Free downloadable resources include a sample chapter, Facilitator Guide, and Learner Activities Workbook at this link: http://sigmamarketplace.msgfocus.com/c/1Ic2nCcWBwuGomWhz5E4WySBtRB1 Congratulations, Sara!
Past President Dr. Cheryl Woods Giscombe Appointed to New AACN Initiative In conjunction with the 2021 The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, the AACN announced a new initiative to build leadership capacity in new nurses with a special emphasis on developing essential skills in resilience, self-care, and well-being. The new standards include specific competencies related to leadership development, professionalism, emotional intelligence, and developing wellness and resilience. Dr. Cheryl Woods Giscombe has been appointed to an expert advisory group to develop new learning strategies and assessment measures that relate to personal, professional, and leadership development, including activities and self-reflection that foster health, resilience, and well-being. Well known for her scholarship and clinical work in well-being, mental health, and stress reduction as well as her national leadership roles in psychiatric mental health nursing, Dr. Giscombe joins experts to design innovative clinical learning experiences where students can practice and demonstrate their new competencies. Congratulations, Cheryl! Washington, DC, August 21, 2018 — The NLN Awards, named for three luminaries in nursing education, are to be presented at the NLN's 2018 Education Summit in Chicago. Selected by the NLN Awards Committee, the awardees will be recognized during a special Honors Convocation on Friday, September 14, 2018. The NLN Awards acknowledge individuals and organizations of prominence within nursing education and the wider stage of American health care.
NLN ISABEL HAMPTON ROBB AWARD FOR Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, FAANP — Carol Morde Ross Distinguished Professor Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Nursing Dr. Soltis-Jarrett is the Carol Morde Ross Distinguished Professor of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has demonstrated leadership in nursing education, clinical practice and scholarship for over 30 years and has developed a robust and sustainable program of nursing scholarship that focuses on advancing the role of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP). She has been awarded over $7 million in federal, state and regional funding to increase access to quality mental health services by recruiting, educating and placing PMHNPs in underserved, rural, and remote regions in North Carolina where there are gaps in specialty psychiatric services.
Ukamaka Oruche, PhD, RN, FAAN, an ISPN Board member, received two appointments: DHHS CMS Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) for a 2-year term beginning June 1, 2018. The MEDCAC advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on whether specific medical items and services are reasonable and necessary under Medicare law. They perform this task via a careful review and discussion of specific clinical and scientific issues in an open and public forum. Gubernatorial appointment to Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission (IPAS) for 3-year term. The Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS) Commission is the governing authority of Indiana Disability Rights. The Commission is responsible for assuring adequate legal and advocacy services for the protection, promotion and empowerment of the rights and interests of individuals with disabilities throughout Indiana. The Commission provides direction and advice on Indiana Disability Rights' activities, goals, and policies. https://www.in.gov/idr/2434.htm (Posted 06/26/2018)
What I have Been Working on this Summer…Julie Bertram, RN, MSN, PMHCNS-BC, PhD I love the season of summer. It is sunny, there are fresh fruits to eat, and the days are longer. This summer, I have the good fortune of health and energy, and have been exercising regularly. I do well with structure, and have been going to the office most days, even though I am not teaching. I have been working on a number of interesting projects.... See the different things I have been diving into with course development, research, role development, clinical practice, and conference planning… Course Development I am excited to be planning the use of simulations in an undergraduate psychiatric nursing course this fall. I have partnered with the UMSL Department of Psychological Sciences to provide our undergraduate nursing students with low fidelity simulation experiences with foci on attentive listening, therapeutic interviews, working with individuals with Bipolar Mania, and conducting suicide risk assessments. I had taught communication skills to undergraduate students at my former University, but by enlisting another department’s students to serve as standardized patients, I think we’ll witness some amazing learning. I will submit my entire course to IRB for a program evaluation, so that artifacts from the course can be studied. I am fortunate to have reviewed some current literature on best practices for using standardized patient scenarios. See articles worth reading at the end of this page. Research I have conducted one trauma-informed psychotropic medication management training this summer and have 3 more trainings scheduled. This is part of my Joyce Fitzpatrick Research Award-funded work on “Building Better Systems of Support for Foster Youth Who Utilize Psychotropic Medications.” I have submitted abstracts to present my work at two conferences this fall. I am also working on two article revisions to submit for publication. Role Development I am thrilled to be able to work with my first 4 doctoral candidates this summer. This is the beginning of their dissertation process, and is quite exciting for me as a qualitative methodologist. I enjoy the scholarship and intellectual exchange that happens in meetings and reviewing student work. Clinical Practice I thoroughly enjoy my work as a consultant with two foster care consortiums in town. I offer medication management training for foster parents at one consortium. At the other, I provide information, support, and guidance to a medical coordinator, and attend staffings for youth who reside in residential care. Conference Planning I am very happy to be working with a great group of women to prepare for next year’s conference. We’ve developed the objectives and found a keynote speaker. We have a wonderful enthusiasm and passion for our work as psychiatric nurses and are dedicated to the ISPN organization. Together, we’re making tremendous progress on our goals. Articles worth reading: Kirson, N. Y., Weiden, P. J., Yermakov, S., Huang, W., Samuelson, T., Offord, S. J., ... & Wong, B. J. (2013). Efficacy and effectiveness of depot versus oral antipsychotics in schizophrenia: synthesizing results across different research designs. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 74(6), 568-575. LeClerc, S., & Easley, D. (2015). Pharmacological therapies for autism spectrum disorder: a review. Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 40(6), 389. It is an open access article available by clicking on this link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450669/pdf/ptj4006389.pdf Lewis, K. L., Bohnert, C. A., Gammon, W. L., Hölzer, H., Lyman, L., Smith, C., ... & Gliva-McConvey, G. (2017). The association of standardized patient educators (ASPE) standards of best practice (SOBP). Advances in Simulation, 2(1), 10. It is an open access article available by clicking on this link: https://advancesinsimulation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41077-017-0043-4 McCauley E, Berk MS, Asarnow JR, et al. Efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents at High Risk for Suicide. A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online June 20. , 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.1109 (Posted on 07/05/2018) Additional Announcements 8/22/18
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