Minnesota Nursing Magazine Spring/Summer 2012 - School of ...

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New Appointments
Diana Drake, MSN, RN, WHNP, is a clinical instructor in the School of Nursing and a
member of the Child and Family Health Cooperative Unit. Drake is a certified women's
health nurse practitioner (WHNP) with more than 20 years experience in community
clinics, private practice, and larger health care systems. In addition to clinical practice,
Drake has been a clinic manager and part owner of a women's health practice. In 2006,
she was awarded a Bravewell Scholarship for a two-year fellowship in Integrative
Medicine at the University of Arizona with an internship at the Penny George Institute
for Health and Healing, Minneapolis. Prior to accepting her current position, she was the
consulting Director of Wellness for a private college in Los Angeles. In addition to her
clinical instructor appointment, Drake has the position of program director, Women's
Integrative Health and WHNP with the Women's Health Specialists Clinic, University of
Minnesota Physicians, Fairview. Drake received her Master of Science in Nursing degree
from Drexel University, Philadelphia. She is currently enrolled in the School of Nursing's
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and expects to complete her degree in
September 2012.
Renee Kumpula, EdD, RN, PHN, is a clinical assistant professor and director of Continuing
Professional Development. She is a member of the Adult and Gerontological Health
Cooperative Unit. Kumpula earned an EdD at the University of St. Thomas and a Master’s
of Nursing at Bethel University. She has practiced in acute care, public health nursing,
community nursing, hospice nursing, and parish nursing. Kumpula’s research interests are
end-of-life nursing, spiritual care, adult and online learning, alternative pedagogies, and
teaching and learning theory and assessment. Her honors dissertation, “Patterns under
Construction: Nurses’ Lived Experiences Shaping Spiritual Care,” used phenomenology
to ascertain how some nurses formed personal patterns for providing spiritual care to
patients across the lifespan and in a variety of acute care settings.
Dan Lovinaria, DNP, MBA, RN, CRNA, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, joined the School
of Nursing faculty as a clinical assistant professor and associate director of the nurse
anesthesia specialty. He is a member of the Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative
Unit. Lovinaria has been a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) for more than
10 years and has 19 years of nursing clinical experiences including critical care, nursing
staff education, rehabilitation, psychiatry, and home health. He received his BSN from the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, a MS in nurse anesthesia from the Minneapolis School of
Anesthesia and St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, and a DNP from the U of M School of
Nursing. For six years, Lovinaria served as the nurse anesthesia student clinical coordinator
at Fairview Southdale Hospital and is currently the Interim Chief CRNA. Dr. Lovinaria is
a member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and serves as the vicepresident
of the Minnesota Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA) and chairman for
MANA’s Peer Assistance Program.
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