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School of Nursing Newsletter - March 2012

March 2012

Dean's Message
Students have returned this week from spring break, and we are enjoying the successes of Creighton’s basketball teams. Meanwhile, 102 senior BSN students are immersed in their preceptorships and 40 MSN and DNP students are in their final residency experiences. Both groups are looking forward to May graduation.

Last month, I visited San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of the Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP). ICP is an 18-month program designed to develop Ignatian partners in Jesuit higher education who are prepared and committed to advance their school’s Jesuit, Catholic mission. The seven-day immersion in El Salvador is one component of ICP and is designed to foster an appreciation of the Jesuit commitment to a faith that does justice.

Our group of 22 representatives from 13 Jesuit universities visited Archbishop Oscar Romero’s home, tomb and the site of his assassination; Central American University and the site of the 1989 assassination of the six Jesuit priests; massacre sites in Cuscatlan; and various neighborhoods, businesses and churches. We visited with community members and business leaders, members of Christian Base communities, educators, students and government and elected officials.

The immersion was an intense emotional learning experience laden with conflicts, contradictions and complex issues. I’ll share more about the ICP and my experiences in subsequent messages.


-- Eleanor Howell, PhD, RN
Dean 

presidential research award
Misty Schwartz, BSN'92, Ph.D., (left) and Ann Laughlin, BSN'76, MS'94, Ph.D., were recipients of the newly established Presidential Faculty Research Fund, intended to support and enhance the research and scholarly work of full-time faculty. The title of their research is “The Association between Dairy Food Intake, Serum Lipid and Vitamin D Levels in Adolescent Females.” Professor Joan Lappe, MS'85, Ph.D., and Margaret Begley, BSN'91, are also on the research team.
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Alumni News

Alumni Honoree
Eileen Van Tasell, BSN'68, was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Alumni Merit Award from the School of Nursing.
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call to nursing
Three alumni shared their unique “calls” to nursing as part of Creighton's Founders Week: Mike Romano BSN’83; Diane Millea, BSN’77, DNP’11; and Patti Higginbotham MS’97.
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Engage Your Classmates
Volunteers from the Classes of 1962, '72, '82, '87, '92 and 2002 are needed to help create a buzz leading up to Alumni Weekend. Opportunities for all time commitments.
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School news

pinning & hooding
Seven new DNPs graduated in December, with another 116 currently enrolled in Creighton’s DNP program -- attracting students from as far away as California and Pennsylvania.
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The Stork Arrived!
At left, Health Assessment Lab Coordinator KC Pullen snuggles one of the school’s newest additions, a newborn infant simulation mannequin.
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Faculty Updates

Emeritus honors
Sue Tinley, BSN'66, MS'84, Ph.D., (pictured with Creighton President Timothy R. Lannon, S.J.) and Joan Norris, SJN'57, Ph.D., were awarded emeritus faculty status at the President’s Convocation in February.
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IGGY Award
The newest IGGY Award recipients are professors Amy Cosimano, BSN'95, Maribeth Hercinger, BSN'76, Ann Oertwich, Nancy Shirley and MarySue Wydeven.
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Student Notes

New Careers in Nursing
Ten Creighton nursing students are reaping the rewards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) scholarship program.
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Scholar-Athlete
Nursing junior Ally Jensen of the Creighton women's basketball team has been named a Missouri Valley Conference honorable-mention scholar-athlete.
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STUDENT NURSE ASSOC.
Nursing student Sarah Farley, president of the Nebraska Student Nurse Association, welcomed the state association members to Creighton for their annual meeting in February.
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