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Corporate Partnerships Genesis Health Ventures and Penn Nursing: A Unique Ve n t u re A heath-care network and Penn Nursing have f o rmed a unique part n e r s h i p that goes far beyond the traditional corporate/academic partnerships. Penn Nursing’s association with Genesis Health Ve n t u res started in 1993 when the organization began u n d e rwriting Penn scholarships for g r a d u a t e - d e g ree nurse practitioners. It g rew last year when Genesis Health Ve n t u res financed the development of a shared re s e a rch agenda with the Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science. A joint $450,000 grant fro m The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop and evaluate a p rogram of palliative care in nursing homes underscored its import a n c e later in the year. “This is an exciting model of partnership between a publicly traded corporation and a highly re s p e c t e d academic institution,” said Ira Byock, MD, director of Pro m o t i n g Excellence in End-of-Life Care , Howard Tuch and Neville Strumpf are creating new ground for collaboration. a national program supported by RWJ. “This forw a rd-thinking pro j e c t holds the potential to change the quality of health care for patients and for all of long-term care.” Genesis Health Ve n t u res, the n a t i o n ’s third - l a rgest long-term care p ro v i d e r, develops and manages h e a l t h - c a re networks for the elderly in the eastern United States. Genesis’ E l d e r C a re network offers a continuum of care to meet the changing needs of aging patients through health centers, home-care programs, outpatient clinics, and managed life c a re communities. Promoting excellence in elderly care The grant from the RWJ Foundation to study palliative care came as part of its $9.1 million program Pro m o t i n g Excellence in End-of-Life Care , which was designed to foster longt e rm changes in health-care institutions. Only 21 projects from 678 submitted won funding, and Penn was the only nursing school selected. Neville Strumpf, PhD, FAAN, RN, p rofessor of nursing and d i rector of Penn’s Adult- G e rontological Nurse Practitioner Program and the Center for G e rontologic Nursing Science, will oversee the study at Penn. The cod i rector on the project is H o w a rd Tuch, MD, dire c- tor of palliative care services at Genesis ElderCare. “Nearly 20 percent of American deaths occur in nursing homes, and we know very little about “ Penn’s nurse practitioners are the best thing that ever happened to us.” PA U L T. CA S S, MD, Genesis Health Ve n t u re s . these deaths,” Strumpf said. “The goal of the Penn-Genesis project is to further our understanding of how people die in nursing homes, to improve the c u l t u re of care for the dying, and to evaluate the benefit of intro d u c i n g palliative care programs for nursing home residents and their families.” “The study will help the nursing home industry develop a compre h e n- sive approach to understanding and managing the needs of the dying,” Tuch said. “Our program addre s s e s the needs of health professionals as well as patients. There is very little ritual surrounding the death and dying p rocess in our centers. Ritual is necess a ry to acknowledge and assist the grieving process of the care g i v e r. It not only demonstrates the import a n c e of the deceased, but also re i n f o rces the value of the caregiver and the quality of care that they provide.” Advancing evidence-based nursing home care Genesis decided last year to invest in re s e a rch through Penn. With a grant to the School’s Center for 22 P e n n N u r s i n g
PhD Graduates 8 / 9 8 - 8 / 9 9 G e rontologic Nursing Science, Genesis is supporting studies involving clinical issues import a n t to gerontologic nursing. Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, (PhD’95) began re s e a rching impro v e m e n t s for nighttime care of nursing home residents. The grant also is supporting the re s e a rch program of student Shan Wei Ko, who is developing a p roject to look at pain in cognitively impaired older adults. Investing in nursing education and practice Genesis first turned to Penn in 1993, when the network start e d developing subacute care units to meet the more complex medical and rehabilitative needs of elders d i s c h a rged from hospitals while needing further intensive medical and nursing therapies before re t u rning to the community. Sandra Crandall, (Nu’71, GNu’75) a consultant on nursing workforc e issues, encouraged Genesis P resident Richard R. Howard to re c ruit gerontological nurse practitioners from Penn. Working with Strumpf, Howard established the Genesis Scholars P rogram. The program has supp o rted the education of up to two students each year enrolled in the g e rontology or gero p s y c h i a t r i c m a s t e r’s programs. In re t u rn, the scholars commit to work for Genesis for two years. Eleven students have participated in the p rogram. “ P e n n ’s nurse practitioners are the best thing that ever happened to us,” said Paul T. Cass, MD, of Genesis. ■ Penn Nursing’s PhD program prep a res students to comprehend the t h e o retical foundations of nursing science; apply the techniques and tools of scholarly investigation; become intellectually expert in a specialty and understand how that knowledge applies to all of nursing; and take the lead in political, social, and ethical issues in health care . The strong re s e a rc h - f o c u s e d a p p roach of the PhD program is supp o rted by a broad, rich base of faculty e x p e rtise. The depth of the knowledge generated through collaborative re l a- tionships between faculty and doctoral students is reflected in the scholarly i n t e rests of the individuals who received doctoral degrees during the 1998-1999 academic year. August 1998 Patricia Bradley (GNu’86) Attributions, Worry, and Decision to Seek Treatment: Pychosocial Adjustment of African American Women to Breast Cancer Committee Chair: Barbara Lowery, EdD, FAAN, RN Kathleen Brown (GNu’79) Battered Women: The Process of Leaving Abusive Relationships Committee Chair: Ann Burgess, DNSc, FAAN, RN Mary Cooley (GNu’86, GNC’99) Patterns of Symptoms Distress in Adults Receiving Treatment for Lung Cancer Committee Chair: Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, RN Mary Kathryn Knobf Carrying On: A Substantive Theory About Premature Menopause in Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer Committee Chair: Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, RN December 1998 Linda Echols (Nu’74, GNu’79, GNc’87) Factors Related to the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis Committee Chair: Rosalyn Watts, EdD, FAAN, RN Cathy Hutto Rosenthal Toddlers Responses to Parental Presence in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Committee Chair: Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins (GNu’85) Correlates of Changes in Functional Status in Chronic In-Center Hemodialysis Patients Committee Chair: Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, FAAN, RN M ay 1999 Jacqueline McGrath (GNu’98) The Relationship Between Behavioral State and Sucking Indicators During Nutritive Sucking Committee Chair: Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN August 1999 Deborah Bruner Determination of Preferences and Utilities for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer Committee Chair: Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN, RN Nancy Hodgson (GNu’88) An Explanatory Model of Variables Influencing the Quality of Life in Older Adults with Cancer Committee Chair: Neville Strumpf, PhD, FAAN, RN Anne Krouse (GNu’92) The Family Management of Breastfeeding Low Birth-Weight Infants Committee Chair: Janet Deatrick, PhD, FAAN, RN Andrea Henriette Laizner Family Functioning and Family Goals when Mother has Breast Cancer Committee Chair: Janet Deatrick, PhD, FAAN, RN Caroline MacMoran Womens’ Experiences of Psychotherapy with a Feminist-Oriented Female Therapist: A Phenomenology Committee Chair: Carol Germain, EdD, FAAN, RN F a l l 1 9 9 9 23
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