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Hope Nursing News_____________________________________________________________________ November 2009 Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing recognizes Hope nursing student Marlee Bogema and Dr. Susan Dunn, and Hope nursing students are inducted into the society. A Hope College student and professor each received individual recognition for excellence during the recent induction and installation ceremony of the Kappa Epsilon Chapter-at-Large of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. The chapter presented senior Marlee Bogema of Grandville with its "Excellence in Student Performance Award" and Dr. Susan Dunn, associate professor of nursing and chairperson of the department, with its "Excellence in Nursing Education Award." Also during the ceremony, students from each of the four schools were inducted into the society. The students from Hope, all seniors, were: Abby Andersen of St. Johns; Marlee Bogema of Grandville; Kim Cook of Clarkston; Stephanie Cotter of Zeeland; Joanne Gabl of Saline; Jana Johnson of Petoskey; Meghan Katner of Orion; Jeana Longoria of Howard City; Andrea Mathews of Grand Rapids; Jessica Morscheck of Lafayette, Ohio; Jessie Parsons of Anchorage, Alaska; Rachel Richter of Belleville; Erin VanOordt of Jenison; and Rachelle Victory of Hudsonville. Click here to read the full article
Seminar with Microbiologist Dr. Dennis Wegner Clinically Relevant “Nuts and Bolts” Microbiology Program Description This one-day, intermediate level program will focus on the challenges faced by the bench microbiologist in providing cost-effective clinically relevant microbiology. Dr. Dennis Wegner will show how applying the latest microbiology techniques and approaches in laboratories of all sizes will improve the hospital’s bottom line and will provide high quality patient care oriented microbiology at a minimum cost. Dennis Wegner, PhD is a consulting clinical microbiologist at Collaborative Laboratory Services, LLC in Ottumwa, Iowa. Dr. Wegner has authored numerous articles and presented many programs and workshops worldwide that focus on the impact of microbiology practices on the cost of caring for patients with infectious diseases. Saturday, November 21 8:00am—5:00pm To register for Clinically Relevant "Nuts and Bolts" Microbiology click here _____________________________________________________________________ October 2009 Dr. Susan Dunn research work with Michigan State University. Dr. Susan Dunn, chairperson of the Department of Nursing at Hope College and a member of the first class of doctoral graduates from MSU's College of Nursing recent research work with patient hopelessness link to poor cardiac rehabilitation was recently highlighted in MSU News. Click here to read more. MSU News _____________________________________________________________________ August 2009 MSU College of Nursing Partners with Hope Nursing Department! The Department of Nursing at Hope College and the College of Nursing
at Michigan State University have entered into a partnership to advance
the education of baccalaureate graduates who are interested in pursuing
a research career and entering doctoral study. Click here to
read the full article on this exciting collaboration! _____________________________________________________________________ June 2009 Hope Nursing Program to Expand. In response to strong national need and student interest, Hope is expanding its nursing program. The program, which leads to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), is growing to 45 students per class year, a 25 percent increase that will be phased in beginning during the 2009-10 school year with the incoming sophomore class. Follow the link to read the full story. Hope Nursing Program Expansion Dr. Susan Dunn Appointed to Peer-Review Committee Dr. Susan Dunn of the nursing faculty has been appointed to serve as a peer reviewer for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Follow the link to read the full story. Dr. Susan Dunn Appointed to Peer-Review Committee Nursing student Lillie Lodge travels to Cameroon for Engineers Without Borders This past May, Hope College Nursing student Lillie Lodge had the opportunity to travel for the second time to the small village of Nkuv, Cameroon with the Hope College chapter of Engineer’s Without Borders (EWB). As part of the “Health Education Team,” Lillie spent her time in Nkuv teaching health and hygiene lessons to a group of women that gathered every night to learn about acute respiratory infections, dental care, diarrhea, clean water handling, and the spread of germs, among other things. Lillie taught with two other Hope students; another larger group of engineering students worked on the clean water project. Since EWB has been working in Nkuv (the project began in May 2006), there has been decreased morbidity and mortality in children under age five related to diarrhea. Click here to learn more about EWB-Hope interdisciplinary club at Hope College. _____________________________________________________________________ May 2009 Congratulations to our 2009 Nursing Graduates! National Black Nurses Association Scholarship awarded to Jeanna Longoria Hope College Nursing student, Jeanna Longoria is the recipient of a scholarship award from the National Black Nurses Association. Congratulations Jeanna! Click here to read the full article. NBNA Scholarship Award _____________________________________________________________________ April 2009 Honors Convocation On Thursday, April 23, 2009, several students who are part of the Department of Nursing program at Hope College received special recognition for their achievements. Those students are:
Hope College nursing alumni can now replace lost or broken pins! Nursing alumni may now order directly from the Terryberry company if you need to replace a lost or broken nursing pin. Please visit the Alumni section of the nursing webpage for more information on how to order. _____________________________________________________________________ February 2009 Hearty award - Research collaboration on coronary disease between Hope, Holland Hospital recognized Dr. Susan Dunn, associate professor of nursing at Hope College, and chairperson of the nursing department, was recently honored by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) for a research project conducted at Holland Hospital. The project won the “2008 New Investigator Award” from a total of six projects selected for oral presentation at the annual meeting held in Indianapolis, Ind., in September. Selection for the award is based on the quality and significance of the research and the presentation. Click to read the article. 2008 New Investigator Award ___________________________________________________________ Hope College Nursing Department joins the American Heart Association for Go Read for Women Campaign. Circle February 6 in red on your calendars! That's the day the Hope College Nursing Department will join the American Heart Association (AHA)'s fight against heart disease in women by holding Wear Red Day. We encourage everyone to participate by wearing red to class or work. For a $5.00 donation to the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Campaign you will also receive a Red Dress Pin. Your donation will help the AHA raise women's awareness of cardiovascular disease and empower women to reduce their risk. Pins are available from Donna Garrett (office #1143) or Pam Dinucci (office #1112) in the Schaap Science Center.
We are proud to be joining the AHA and concerned companies and organizations across America in the fight against the #1 killer of women – as well as of men. Wear Red Day is a chance for us to arm ourselves with knowledge about this devastating disease and to raise funds that will help the AHA advance its research and education efforts. Learn more about the national cause to increase awareness and help women reduce their risk of heart disease at Go Red for Women. Thank you in advance for supporting this lifesaving program! ___________________________________________________________ December 2008 Hope College Nursing Department Research Poster Symposium. The Hope College nursing students will be presenting their research poster symposium in the A. Paul Schaap Science Center Atrium on Wednesday, December 10th from 9:00am to 10:30am. Please join us. Refreshments will be served. Student presenters and topics are; Kristi Dannenberg: Variables Related to Unplanned Extubation Rates in Children. Erin Easter: Infection Control: Compliance with Isolation Practices. Michelle Ellis: State & Trait Hopelessness & Physical Functioning Over Time in Patients Attending a Phase Two Cardiac Rehabilitation. Stephanie Machiela: Comparative Evaluation of the Pediatric Prssure Ulcer Risk Assessment Tool (PURAT) to the Braden/Braden Q Rachael Osborne: Health at Every Size: An Innovative Approach to Improving Overall Health and Well-Being. Sarah Sosolik: Barriers Affecting Health Care Workers Uptake of the Influenza Vaccination. Jennifer Westrate: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Yvette Wissner: Use of Remote Telemonitoring Equipment in Coronary Artery Bypass (CABG) Patients to Provide Early Identification of the Dysrhythmias of Artial Fibrillation. ___________________________________________________________ November 2008 Hope nursing faculty and nursing student receive Sigma Theta Tau Excellence in Nursing Awards. Congratulations to Professor Vicki Voskuil and senior student Kalin
Terhaar, who were both the recent recipients of Excellence in Nursing
Awards by
the Kappa Epsilon Chapter-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
Honor Society of Nursing. Hope nursing faculty receives Sigma Theta Tau International Research Grant. Nursing faculty member Dr. Nancy Barnum PhD, RN, received a research award to support her work, "Why Do Nurses Need So Much Education? The Social, Political, Practice, Educational, and Gender Issues That Influenced Nursing Education's Move from the Hospital to Collegiate Setting" Congratulations Nancy! Hope College nursing student new inductees for Sigma Theta Tau Kappa Epsilon-At-Large Chapter. Nursing student new members that were inducted at the ceremony were; Kristi Dannenberg, Roxanne Fishnick, Eden Jager, Susan Kioko, Elise Regula, Jami Rubin, Shannon Schamback, Kara Tabor, Kalin Terhaar, Mallory VanderKooi, Sara Warner, Katie Wieringa, Dan Wood, and Michelle Zeitter ___________________________________________________________ October 2008 NAHN-MI awards Hope student with scholarship. Nursing student Jeana Longoria has been named a recipient of a National Association of Hispanic Nursing Michigan Chapter (NAHN-MI) 2008 Scholarship. She is one of six in the state to receive this honor. She will receive the scholarship at a banquet in Detroit on November 7th. For more information about the NAHN-MI chapter see their website at National Association of Hispanic Nursing Michigan Chapter Congratulations Jeana! ___________________________________________________________ September 2008 Nursing Research Project Wins National Award A nursing research project led by Dr. Susan Dunn of the Hope College
faculty and focused on the recovery of heart patients has won this year's "New
Investigator Award" presented
by the American Association of Cardiovascular and PulmonaryRehabilitation
(AACVPR). Please click here to
continue the article. Cameroon Project Named State Finalist A Hope College service project focused on water quality and community health in the village of Nkuv in Cameroon was named one of four finalists for Michigan's 2008 Carter Partnership Award. Nursing Department faculty and students have been an integral part of this project. Click here to learn more. ___________________________________________________________ 2008 Annual West Michigan Nursing Gala
Hope nursing faculty celebrated the profession of nursing with their colleagues at the Annual West Michigan Nursing Gala. This event is held by the West Michigan Nursing Advisory Council. ___________________________________________________________ ALUMNI NEWS Hope College nursing alumnus Renee Lick has been promoted to Student Ministries Director for Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF). Renee worked with nursing students as a Campus Staff member with NCF for the past 5 years in the Great Lakes West region. She has a passion for challenging and encouraging students in their walk with God and for assisting them as they transition from being a student to working in the profession of nursing. The vision of InterVarsity/NCF is to develop students to become world changers and leaders within the profession of nursing. Renee's responsibilities will include recruiting and developing staff and faculty advisors to work with students. ___________________________________________________________ May 2008 Kylee Brouwer Named an Academic All-American HOLLAND -- Hope College senior Kylee Brouwer of Hudsonville, Mich. (Hudsonville HS) excelled on the softball diamond and in the classroom. Earlier this month she was named a first-team Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III All-American. Now, she is being honored as a first team Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Brouwer was able to balance her outstanding four-year softball career with the academic demands of being a nursing major. A 3.76 GPA student, she received the college kinesiology department's Vanderbush Student-Athlete Award and the nursing department's Senior Sigma Xi Research Award. She is now pursuing a professional career as an emergency room nurse in Grand Rapids, Mich. Brouwer is a two-time NFCA All-American. In 2006 she was named to the third
team as a catcher. This year she was honored as the designated player, a position
In the conference tournament she batted 10-for-14 to key Hope's advance to the championship game. Brouwer set Hope career records for batting average (.457), on-base percentage (.515), games played/started (162/159), most hits (228), most doubles (41), most triples (22), most total bases (331), runs scored (168), and stolen bases (70). Brouwer is Hope's sixth CoSIDA Academic All-American joining Anne Hendrickson (1985), DeeAnn Knoll (19870-88), Johanna Pscodna (1992), Laurie Byington (1996), and Kim Grotenhuis (2000-01). __________________________________________________________ New Nursing student orientation March 2008
Newly accepted nursing students are welcomed by Dr. Susan Dunn, and after their orientation, had a chance to relax and get to know faculty and current nursing students. __________________________________________________________ Hope Flu Vaccination Clinic gives administration a shot in the arm! October 2007 Nursing students and faculty volunteered to assist with the Hope College employee flu vaccination clinic.
Nursing Lab Director Vickie Slot, helps to prepare President Bultman for his flu vaccine. Nursing students who volunteered were Shannon Dudley, Erin Van Oordt, and Lillie Lodge. __________________________________________________________ Hope Student Wins Nursing Scholarship with Essay HOLLAND - Angela Sweers, a Hope College sophomore and nursing major from Williamston, has won one of only 10 scholarships nationwide in the 2008 "A Nurse I Am Scholarship Program" sponsored by Cherokee Uniforms. Selection is based on an essay written in response to the inspirational nurses film "A Nurse I Am." Entrants are asked to explain how viewing the film changed or enhanced their perception of nursing as a career and to use one of the nurses in the film as a role model in explaining why someone should purse nursing as a career. Scholarship winners each receive $2,000. "The winning essays were thoughtful, creative and represented students whose writing skills are exceptional," said Wendell Mobley, director of Cherokee's A Nurse I Am Film & Scholarship Program. "Cherokee Uniforms appreciates the hundreds of students who participated in this year's scholarship application process." Sweers was chosen for her essay "Nursing: A Career of Compassionate Heroism." In advocating for the career, she wrote, "Pursuing a nursing career can be synonymous with pursuing a career of heroism if all aspects of compassionate, holistic nursing care are met. Therefore, an individual who actively displays compassion, and has the desire to help others while encouraging them through some of the hardest circumstances of their lives, should consider pursuing nursing as a career." Her activities at Hope have included the Hope Student Nurses Association, the student-organized Dance Marathon fund-raiser for Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, the Special Events committee of the student Social Activities Committee and the College Chorus. She is the daughter of Michael and Janice Sweers of Williamston and a 2006 graduate of Dansville High School. Cherokee Uniforms is the leader in the design of fashionable scrubs for nurses and other health-care professionals. The company provided a grant for the production of "A Nurse I Am" as a film for nurses and nursing students out of concern over the number of nurses leaving the profession within the first few years of practice. In addition to Hope, the schools with winners in this year's scholarship program are Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif.; the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Md.; Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md.; Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Fla.; Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W.Va.; and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. To read Angela's essay, please follow the link to the Cherokee Uniform, "A Nurse I Am" website. __________________________________________________________ Joint Biology/Nursing Department Seminar Dr. Tim Geary
Chicago Semester internship nursing students
Dancing Past Dawn: Hope Student Nurses Association Does 24 Hours For the Kids Members of the Hope Student Nurses Association danced, moralled, and worked the Nurses Station all night long on March 7th-8th. An all time record amount of money was raised! Thanks to everyone who participated in this fun and worthwhile event. Nursing program applicants await Feb. 1 deadline As the month of January nears an end, a portion of Hope College students anxiously await Friday, Feb. 1 - some because it is one step closer to spring, and others because it is one step closer to their goal of eventually becoming registered nurses as Feb.1 is the deadline for applications into Hope's nursing program. However, for some, February may be a challenging month, since not all who apply to the program will be admitted. With approximately 50 applications for the Feb. 1 deadline, and only 36 spots available per academic year, Hope's nursing program is arguably one of the most competitive degree fields at the college. Since becoming a full-fledged program at Hope in 2002 after previously being a joint program with Calvin College, the nursing department has graduated many students who have gone onto highly sought positions in leading hospitals and top graduate nursing programs in the U.S. Dr. Susan Dunn, chair of the nursing department, believes that this, as well as the numerous applications, is a result of the quality of Hope's program. "The Hope College nursing program is gaining recognition as one of the best nursing programs available," Dunn said. "[Hope's nursing program offers] a challenging curriculum, exceptional nursing faculty, excellent clinical experiences and a unique focus on undergraduate nursing research." According to Dunn, for the past two years, there have been more applications than available spots to the Hope program, which follows a nationwide trend. Dunn attributes this to a shortage of Registered Nurses in the U.S., as well as the job prospects available to nurses. "This shortage is expected to continue if not worsen in the future due in part to the aging of our population and the increased healthcare needs associated with aging, and the anticipated retirement of 1/3 of our existing nurses over the next 10-15 years," Dunn said. "This translates to a wide open job market for college graduates who have pursued a nursing degree.There is a position available for any college graduate who is licensed as a registered nurse." Additionally, two other factors that have created an increase in interest in nursing are the flexibility and pay of nursing jobs. According to Dunn, there is often flexibility in hours, work settings and location, and the average salary for an RN is approximately $45,000. A nurse with a graduate-level education can expect to receive a higher salary. With an abundance of applicants to the nursing program and the nursing job market showing great promise, Dunn notes that there are plans in place to grow the nursing department. A proposal for expansion will be given to Hope in 2009, and from there it will need to be approved by the Michigan State Board of Nursing and Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. For those students who do not gain admittance to the nursing department in February, there is another chance for application in October. However, for those students who are fortunate enough to gain acceptance to Hope's competitive nursing program, the effort is worth it. "Most practicing nurses will tell you that they are part of the best profession in the world," Dunn said. "I have loved every role I have had as a nurse, which have included jobs in critical care nursing, rehabilitation, research and teaching. In what other career are you assured that you will always have a job, and a job that you love?" Christmas 2007
Student Receives Nursing Scholarship A committee composed of faculty and students appointed by the Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association selected Kevin O'Brien (Hope '09) to be a recipient of the Promise of Nursing Michigan Scholarship. Kevin is one of two students in the state of Michigan to receive this scholarship. Funding for the Promise of Nursing Regional Scholarship Program is contributed by several hospitals and health-care agencies, by Johnson & Johnson, and by national companies with an interest in supporting nursing education. The Foundation of the NSNA is honoring the 2007 Promise of Nursing scholarship recipients during NSNA's 55th Annual Convention Award Ceremony on Thursday, April 12, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in Anaheim, California. Congratulations Kevin!
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