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PURDUE NURSESpring 2005Purdue nurses: leaders,scholars, innovators,strategic thinkers, andclinical experts engagedin their communities Suzi Mathews (BS’02) and Kim Mills (BS’91), page 201

FROM THE HEADDear Students, Alumni, and Friends,The Purdue University School of Nursing continues to respond to the needs of thehealthcare system with:• An enlarged class size from 100 to 145;• Growth of faculty and staff to 65 members;• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, approved by the Purdue GraduateCouncil on Jan. 20, 2005;• MS Adult Nurse Practitioner program, with its emphasis on health promotion/disease prevention/chronic disease management;• Developing PNP program;• Second Degree Baccalaureate Program;• Creative clinical site expansion;• Partnership in the Purdue Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering;• Increased scholarship and research funding.Julie C. Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANPProfessor and Head, Purdue School of NursingAssociate Dean, College of Pharmacy, Nursing,and Health SciencesThis issue of Purdue Nurse is a testament to the students, alumni, faculty, andcommunity partners who exemplify excellence in nursing and healthcare. We highlightour students and our alumni who make us proud through their service learning projects,their commitment to quality care across a variety of settings, and their heroism.Our focus on service learning and mental health promotion as exemplified in theKySS walk continues with co-sponsorship of a suicide prevention workshop at theLafayette YWCA on Feb. 8, 2005, and a research project and community-wideeducational effort to reduce stigma related to mental illness.Features by and about our outstanding alumni are a testimony to the quality oftheir Purdue School of Nursing education, their commitment to quality healthcare, andtheir perseverance.Our focus on diversity is exemplified in the hiring of a Director of DiversityEnhancement, our new Spanish for Healthcare Professionals course, our health fairstargeting underserved populations, and our global partnerships.Much of what sets us apart is the generosity of alumni, faculty, and friends of theSchool of Nursing. Your gifts are not only a powerful way to ensure your legacy; theyalso make a difference in the lives of future nurses and the patients for whom they care.This issue expresses appreciation to our donors who help us achieve the goals ofour strategic plan. Of critical importance is doubling the size of Johnson Hall in order tobetter accommodate our growth over the last three years and to allow further expansion inthe future. Our plan is also to expand our Family Health Clinic of Carroll County in orderto increase student learning opportunities, clinic services, and faculty practice.As we review our progress over the past several years we are pleased toacknowledge that we are on track. Achieving our goals will benefit our students andfaculty as well as the profession and our local to global community.Thank you for your commitment and generosity as we strive to attain “the nextlevel and preeminence.” We hope to see you on April 15, 2005, at our Helen R. JohnsonLeadership Conference (register online at www.nursing.purdue.edu).Warmest regards,Cover: Suzi Mathews (BS’02) and Kim Mills (BS’91) are part of the PHI Air Medical team based at the Purdue Airport, which providesmedical transport services to communities and hospitals across Indiana. Read their story on page 20.2

PURDUE NURSESPRING 2005ContentsJohnson Hall of Nursing502 N. University StreetWest Lafayette, IN 47907-2069Phone (765) 494-4008Fax (765) 496-1800www.nursing.purdue.eduJulie C. Novak, DNSc,RN, MA, CPNP, FAANPProfessor and Head,Purdue School of NursingAssociate Dean, College ofPharmacy, Nursing,and Health Sciences(765) 494-6644jnovak@nursing.purdue.eduSpanish Language Focus, page 10FeaturesAdvisory Board, page 16Alumni Spotlight, page 23Editor: Lynn HollandDirector of CommunicationPurdue School of Nursing(765) 494-4038lholland@nursing.purdue.eduContributing EditorsAnn HuntJulie NovakEditorial AssistanceMelissa DannerRoxanne MartinPurdue Nurseis publishedtwice a year by thePurdue UniversitySchool of NursingSchool AlmanacKySS Walk: Integration of Learning, Discovery, and Engagement ....................................... 4School Adds Second Degree Program ............................................................................. 6Doctor of Nursing Practice Approved ............................................................................. 6Center for Nursing Education Helps Students Master Technology .................................... 8Professors Develop Spanish Class for Healthcare Providers ................................................ 10Baccalaureate Graduates, December 2004 ......................................................................... 11What’s New in Nursing? ..................................................................................................... 12Donor Honor Roll: Thank You for Your Generous Support!............... 13Advisory Board Provides Community Perspective............................... 16Alumni AlmanacAlumnae Crew Helicopter Transport ............................................................................... 20Dolls Provide Nursing Scholarship ................................................................................. 21Mother/Daughter Alumnae Share Love of Nursing ......................................................... 22Nursing Alumnus Is ‘Larger Than Life’ ........................................................................... 25Faculty AlmanacNews and Notes ................................................................................................................ 27Zink Retires After 31 Years .............................................................................................. 29Transitions/New Appointments ........................................................................................ 30Purdue is an equal access/equal opportunity university.3

SCHOOL ALMANACKySS Walk IntegratesNursing Mission andCommitment to MentalHealth PromotionThe walk was a collaborative effort with the Mental HealthAssociation of Tippecanoe County, (CEO Jennifer Flora, left) andthe School of Nursing (Head, Julie Novak, center). The school’smental health promotion activities are funded in part by a generousgift from Linda Rohrman (right).On a beautiful day this fall, over 185 people came out toSlayter Hill to embark on a walk-a-thon organized by thesenior nursing leadership class.The event was part of the Keep Your Children/YourselfSafe and Secure (KySS) campaign, organized by the NationalAssociation of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) andNAPNAP Indiana, to promote and support mental health.“The urgent need to raise public awareness, decreasestigma, and accelerate the pace at which mental healthpromotion, screening, and early interventions are deliveredby healthcare providers exists throughout the country,” saysDr. Julie Novak, national project co-director and head of thePurdue School of Nursing.Continued on next pagePurdue students engaged community members, like theseteachers from a local elementary school, in the walk-a-thon tosupport mental health.Over 185 people joined in the Walk-A-Thon, including Chris Novak (left) and his Sigma Chi Fraternity brothers.4

The senior nursing leadership class, along with their facultyadvisors, organized the Keep Yourself/Your Child Safe andSecure (KySS) Walk-A-Thon on the Purdue campus. Theyare (back row from left) Professor Linda Bowman, MelanieBush, Erin Grubb, Brooke Parker, Tina Mazzone, Brandi Schwab,Erin Exline, and Professor Martha Libster; (front row from left)Melissa Hedrick, Megan Kula, Erin McClay, Stacy Najdek, Schoolof Nursing Head and project co-director Julie Novak.The mental health promotion program focuses oncommunity education related to psychosocial issuesand de-stigmatizing mental illness, education of nursingstudents and other healthcare providers, and researchregarding mental health issues.Since the focus of the senior nursing leadership classis implementing leadership and management principles,organizing the KySS Walk-A-Thon served as a meaningfulopportunity to apply that knowledge.It also provided opportunities for service learning andcommunity engagement, and has the potential to improve thequality of life in the Purdue and Greater Lafayette community.The students donated the proceeds from the walk-a-thon toWabash Valley Hospital, the Cary Home for Children, and theNAPNAP Foundation.One in four children and teens are affected by the“new” psychosocial morbidities ranging from familydysfunction to eating disorders, violence, substanceabuse, depression, and an increased rate of suicide,Novak says.The School will continue to focus on mental healthpromotion, laying the foundation for ongoing programsof research, academic programs, and community education.Other events taking place throughout this academicyear include an Ethics and Human Rights Conference,co-sponsorship of a suicide prevention workshop, aresearch program in Tippecanoe and surrounding ruralcounties, various community education programs, andan April 15, 2005 Leadership Conference keynoted byKySS founder Dr. Bernadette Melnyk, Dean, ArizonaState University.The WLFI-TV18 television cameraman leads off the KySS walk. ThePurdue event was the first university-based KySS walk; six other walkswere held nationwide. The next Purdue KySS walk will be held theweekend of October 15-16, 2005.The Minority Student Nurses Association volunteered to do sitecleanup after the walk. They are (left to right) Courtney Prewitt, NicoleLigon, Patricia Samaniego, Devin Foster, president, and ProfessorCynthia Bozich-Keith.5

ACADEMIC PROGRAMSSchool Adds Second Degree BaccalaureateIt takes four years of study to earn a traditional baccalaureatenursing degree, but there are many people who have earnedother types of four-year degrees who would like to become nurses.The Purdue School of Nursing is providing these individualsa way to enter the profession with a new Second DegreeBaccalaureate Program. “These students can be prepared to benurses in a shorter time than a new high school graduate; theyhave more life and academic experience, says School of Nursinghead Julie Novak.“These are academically proven and career-oriented adultlearners. Their maturity, experience, and educational backgroundhelps them function as a member of a multidisciplinaryteam. They also meet the need to increase the number ofpotential leaders in nursing.”Second-degree students like the curriculum because it isless disruptive to their lives. “They learn quickly and with greatproficiency,” says Dr. Barbra Wall, director of the new program,“and they have a capacity for the integration of material born oftheir liberal arts or science preparation or their work experience.They often are more informed than new high school graduates intheir choice of nursing. The program also promotes a climate thatrecognizes each person’s past experiences and builds on thosestrengths.”The program, now accepting students at the West Lafayettecampus, consists of two parts: pre-nursing requirements (aboutone year) and nursing requirements (15 months).The pre-nursing requirements (28 credits) are in the physicaland social sciences, mathematics, and humanities and may becompleted at Purdue or other institutions. Students may already haveearned some or most of these credits in obtaining their first degree.Nursing requirements (59 credits), include both theory andclinical. These may be earned only at the Purdue School ofNursing as a full-time student.Admission is now open: members of the first class willbegin in May 2005. For more information, contact Dr. Wall at765-494-4023 or bwall@nursing.purdue.edu.Mope Adeola, AdultHealth CNSstudent, consultswith Taru Bhaidsnaand Monica Keyes,members of thefirst MS/ANP class.First MS/ANP CohortNears GraduationThe first cohort of the new MS/ANP program willgraduate in May 2005. The program is focused on thedelivery of culturally-sensitive primary healthcare in ruralsettings and chronic disease management. The School hasover 135 clinical preceptorship contracts, and studentsalso have the opportunity to participate in research withnursing faculty as well as on interdisciplinary teams withother schools and departments.Other program features include the opportunity totailor elective courses in an area of sub-specialization suchas gerontology or pharmacology. A pediatric nursepractitioner program is planned.Prospective students can apply online at http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/admissions/apply.cfmFor more information contact Dr. Barbra Wallat (765) 494-4023 or bwall@nursing.purdue.edu, Dr. JulieNovak at (765) 494-4004 or jnovak@nursing.purdue.edu,or visit the website at www.nursing.purdue.edu.Doctor Nursing Practice ApprovedA Doctor of Nursing Practice(DNP) program was unanimouslyapproved by the Purdue GraduateCouncil on Jan. 20, 2005.The DNP critique team, Drs.Wall, Wilkerson, Edwards, and Novak, thank thefaculty for their unanimous support of the concept; thedoctoral program committee; Dean John Pezzuto forhis understanding of our vision and capabilities;Associate Provost Christine Ladisch; Drs. Lucy Marionand Elizabeth Lenz for their consultation; GraduateSchool Dean John Contreni and Associate Dean Phil Popefor their guidance; Melissa Danner and Roxanne Martinfor their clerical support.After a year of assessment, planning, and programdevelopment, the critique team responded to the questionsposed by the Area Committee of the Graduate Council fromNovember through January.The Graduate Council Area Committee was chairedby Dr. Olin E. Rhodes. The motion was seconded byExecutive Associate Dean Marc Loudon and IUPU FortWayne School of Nursing Chair Dr. Carol Sternberger.Dr. Julie Novak was able to announce this “leap forward”to the 350 nursing deans and faculty at the AACN DoctoralEducation Conference in Coronado, CA.The proposal will be reviewed by the Provost, President,Board of Trustees and subsequently the IndianaCommission for Higher Education. Our goal is to have allapprovals completed during the Spring semester.6

IN BRIEFSchools Become CollegesThe shape of healthcare is changing—and so is our name.We are still the School of Nursing, but with the approval ofthe Board of Trustees, we are now part of the College of Pharmacy,Nursing, and Health Sciences at Purdue University.The Purdue Board of Trustees approved the renaming of theschools of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, education,engineering, liberal arts, pharmacy, nursing and health sciences,science, and technology as colleges rather than schools.Provost Sally Mason said the renaming “better reflects thecomprehensive, multidisciplinary range of academic programsoffered by the schools.”Purdue, Regenstrief Establish Centerto Re-engineer Healthcare DeliveryThanks to a multimillion dollar commitment from theRegenstrief Foundation Inc., Purdue has established a center toapply the principles of engineering, management, science, andinformation technology to improve the delivery of healthcare.The Purdue Regenstrief Center will apply process-engineeringprinciples, such as supply-chain management and just-in-timemanufacturing, to healthcare delivery, following the flow ofinformation, funds, and materials through the system to achievebetter results and efficiency.Some initial areas of research will include improving thesafety and efficiency of patient care, providing more efficientdeployment of physicians, nurses, and other healthcarepersonnel, and better coordination of inpatient and outpatienttreatment. Drs. Julie Novak and Karen Chang were invited toserve on the Regenstrief Launch Team. Six nursing facultymembers collaborate on Regenstrief projects.School Renewed as CE ProviderThe School of Nursing’s continuing education provider statuswith the Indiana State Nurses Association has been renewed,according to Director of Lifelong Learning Dr. Patricia Coyle Rogers.Since 2000, the School has offered 48 continuing educationprograms, provided 125.3 contact hours, and had an attendance of 2,667.Step-Up Program Recruits New NursesDrs. Carol Baird and Sharon Wilkerson have been awarded a$365,719 grant from the Health Research and Services Administration,DHHS, for a new program, “STEP-UP: Students To ExemplaryProfessionals (CNA to RN).”The program uses a career ladder approach to promote theentry, advancement, and retention of minority and/or disadvantagedindividuals into nursing careers in order to increasehealthcare workers in rural, underserved areas.There are four steps to the program: recruitment, pre-entry tonursing degree programs, entry and retention in nursing degreeprograms, and recruitment into graduate education.It is anticipated that at the end of three years there will be 24CNAs, six graduated LPNs, four graduated ADNs (two more inprogress), and 12 in progress in BSN programs of nursing.Professor Seeks Arthritis SubjectsLiving with arthritis can be extremely difficult. Dr. CarolBaird is trying to find non-pharmacologicways to improve life for people with arthritis.She is seeking subjects to participate inresearch on the usefulness of a tape recordingto improve health and lessen symptoms ofosteoarthritis.Men and women aged 55 or over whohave osteoarthritis are eligible. Those whocomplete the study will receive $30.If you or someone you know would likeBairdto participate, contact: Dr. Baird at 765-494-4036 or email: clbaird@nursing.purdue.edu.Clinic Receives Award, Hires GradBarbara Strasburger, MS, CFNP, and the School of Nursing’sFamily Health Clinic of Carroll County have received the MedicarePhysician Office Quality Initiative Excellence Award from HealthCare Excel, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization forIndiana.The award recognizes healthcare providers who exhibit acommitment to superior care, and strive to better serve theirpatients, their staff, and their communities.In other clinic news, Mindy Hoffman, (BS’99, MS’04) RN,MS, CFNP, has joined the staff as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Sheis also a member of the School of Nursing faculty.She provides healthcare services including health promotion/lifestyle behavior change, sports, commercial driver’s license andwomen’s health physicals, diagnosis and treatment of minorillnesses, and management of stable chronic conditions.Melnyk Will KeynoteSpring Leadership ConferenceThe seventh annual Helen R. Johnson Leadership Conferencewill be held Friday, April 15, 2005 in the Purdue Memorial Union.Featured speaker will be BernadetteMazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP,FAAN, FNAP, Dean and DistinguishedFoundation Professor in Nursing, ArizonaState University College of Nursing andAssociate Editor, Worldviews on Evidence-BasedNursing.Dr. Melnyk’s keynote is entitled “APrimer on Evidence-Based Practice.” Shewill also discuss the impact of the Keep YourChild/Yourself Safe and Secure (KySS)MelnykCampaign, a national mental health promotion campaign forchildren and teens. Dr. Melnyk is founder and chair of KySS,which is sponsored by the National Association of PediatricNurse Practitioners.For more information or registration, contact Dr. PatriciaCoyle-Rogers, Director of Continuing Education at 765-494-4030or pcrogers@nursing.purdue.edu, or Dr. Julie Novak, AssociateDean, College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences; Head,School of Nursing, 765-494-6644 or jnovak@nursing.purdue.edu.7

Clinical Assistant Professor MikeCriswell watches as student AnnaShadday learns how to properlyventilate a patient using an adultmanual resuscitator bag andairway trainer.Critical Care Lab Helps Students Master TechnologyBy Mike Criswell, MSN, RN, CCNS, Clinical Assistant ProfessorToday’s Purdue School of Nursing graduate is expected tomanage patient care at a high level, or what is commonly referredto as “hitting the ground running.”Performing the art of nursing is increasingly more difficult asmore patients are elderly, and with more complex problems.Healthcare today demands that the nurse have a wider knowledgebase and skill level before entering the workforce.At Purdue, a priority is to prepare our students for what theywill face once they graduate and enter the job market.A high percentage of Purdue nurses are beginning theircareers as critical care nurses. Whether in medical/surgical,coronary intensive care, pediatric/neonatal intensive care, emergencyor trauma, the nurse must have some prior knowledge andskill acquisition or will most certainly be overwhelmed.The critical care teaching laboratory in the Center for NursingEducation offers the undergraduate nursing student the opportunityto touch, listen, and experience what critical care nursing is allabout. The student participates in many “high tech” areas ofcritical care, such as airway management, mechanical ventilation,hemodynamic monitoring, and dysrhythmia recognition.The equipment and simulators in the lab are “state of theart” so students are working with what is currently used inclinical practice. One of the new simulators in the lab is theartificial airway trainer. This device provides the student withactual practice suctioning, “ambuing” and providing airwayassistance.The Siemens-Servo 900 –C mechanical ventilator iscomplete with a “breathing adult mannequin.” This gives thestudent a visual understanding of how ventilator modes andsettings affect breathing patterns.Practice time suctioning and care of the patient with anartificial airway is a very important skill students learn withthe ventilator simulator. The bedside monitors in the lab allowthe student practical experience placing electrodes, zeroingtransducers, identifying waveforms, and monitoring cardiacrhythms.A cardiac defibrillator/simulator provides “hands-on”practice in dysrhythmia recognition and emergency treatmentof life-threatening rhythms. Students work together as a teamin the lab managing many different simulated emergencysituations, termed “mega-codes.”The time spent in the critical care learning lab prior toactual clinical experiences in a critical care unit has beenfound to reduce anxiety and increase student comfort levelwith the technology and types of patients they will encounterin the ICU.9

Professors DevelopSpanish Class forHealthcare ProfessionalsIn many parts of the country, including ruralIndiana, the Spanish-speaking population is growingrapidly, and with it the need for language training andcultural sensitivity for healthcare providers.Two professors have created a new course to addressthis need: Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.Professor Mary Ilu Altman is a native Spanishspeaker, born and educated in Nicaragua. She earned herbachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Purdue. InMarch 2004 she became the School of Nursing’s Directorof Student Services and the newly created Director ofDiversity Enhancement.In contrast to Dr. Altman, Professor Liz O’Neil, CFNP, hasnever taken a formal Spanish class. She learned Spanish as anurse at a health clinic in rural Honduras while her family wason sabbatical.Together, the two teach the grammar and vocabularynecessary for introductions, making appointments, taking ahealth history, naming parts and systems of the body, andresponding to a medical emergency.The students also studied health beliefs and practices in theHispanic community, and reviewed and selected appropriatepatient education materials in Spanish.Later in the semester, they took those materials to a healthfair for adult learners at the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy(LARA), where 40% of the students are Hispanic and havelimited access to health screenings.The first Spanish for Healthcare Professionals class included (front)Professors Mary Ilu Altman and Liz O’Neil, (second row) Kara LaLiberte,Jonell Hessler, Jenny Peplinski, Krista Spitzer, Megan Martin, Kim Sarver,and (back row) Amber Thompson, Catherine Wyckoff, Amy Wadsworth,and Courtney Woehler.Ten nursing students performed screenings (in Spanish) ofheight and weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar. They alsoprovided literature in Spanish concerning obesity, high bloodpressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, mammograms, pap smears,and local health clinics that serve the uninsured.The experience was instructive and encouraging, even if theadult learners did not speak English very well and the nursingstudents did not speak Spanish very well. “I was still impressedwith how well we were able to communicate with each other,”one student said.The health fair will be repeated at LARA. Thanks to a $2,000Service Learning Faculty Development Grant from the PurdueOffice of Engagement, a second health screening will be held at aclinic site in Frankfort, IN. The second semester enrollment forSpanish for Healthcare Professionals nearly doubled in size, andincludes pharmacy students.Se Habla Espan ~ ol en la ClinicaBarb Strasburger, MS, RN, CFNP, andtranslator Solymar Palacio (back) talk witha Hispanic client at the Family Health Clinicof Carroll County in Delphi, an affiliate ofthe Purdue School of Nursing.Se habla espan ~ ol at the FamilyHealth Clinic of Carroll County, anurse-managed affiliate of the PurdueSchool of Nursing.Hispanic clients make up 27% ofthe client base at the clinic in ruralDelphi. To serve their needs, all of thenurses speak some Spanish, whileFNP Liz O’Neil and translatorSolymar Palacio are both fluent.“Communicating in Spanish,even at a basic level, can improvenursing service to the Spanishspeakingpopulation and makepatients feel much more comfortable,”O’Neil says. “When you interviewsomeone in their own language, theywill tell you more detail, and tell youthings they might not feel comfortablesaying if their interpreter were a childor a family member.”Palacio accompanies patients intoappointments, and also translatesdocuments for the clinic. The fundingfor the interpreter position was securedthrough a grant from the United Fundof Carroll County by clinic directorDr. Julie Novak.10

BACCALAUREATE GRADUATES, DECEMBER 2004Katherine AndruszkiewiczNorthwestern Memorial HospitalLabor and Delivery, ChicagoKonnie BanksWabash Valley HospitalWest LafayetteSuzanne Dimmich BeckerHome Hospital Surgery DepartmentLafayetteAmanda BegleyUndecidedJennifer BlankenshipMethodist Hospital OncologyIndianapolisMarcia DavisHome Hospital Labor and DeliveryLafayetteMelinda Foley-MinksSt. Elizabeth Hospital Medical/SurgicalLafayetteKathy FormanSt. Clare Medical Center Medical/SurgicalCrawfordsville, INErin GrubbReid Hospital ICURichmond, INAngela GunkelUndecidedMelissa HedrickMethodist, Indiana UniversityRiley Hospital, IndianapolisJennifer HowellSt. Vincent Hospital ERIndianapolisMary JohnsonAlexian Brothers Medical CenterOrthopedics, Elk Grove, ILAngela KnightRiley Children’s Hospital NICUIndianapolisMegan KulaSt. Vincent HospitalIndianapolisBelinda Lafferty-ZarateSt. Elizabeth HospitalLafayettePamela MartinPorter Memorial HospitalValparaiso, INMichelle MeadorFamily Healthcare of Ellensburg &Cascade Pediatrics, Ellensburg, WAJustin MeyerPulaski Memorial Hospital Medical/Surgical Winamac, INElizabeth NolanSt. Francis Resurrection Health CareMedical/Surgical Telemetry, Evanston, ILAlexandra ParkerInova Fairfax Hospital Medical/Surgical ICUFairfax, VABrooke ParkerSt. Vincent Hospital NICUIndianapolisNicole Pearson2nd LT Army Nurse CorpsPatricia RobbinsSt. Vincent HospitalIndianapolisSara SeayNorton HealthcareLouisville, KYSarah SorensonArnett Clinic PediatricsLafayetteJulia StaggersSt. Vincent HospitalIndianapolisKarrie VanaSt. Vincent Hospital CardiacIndianapolisLaTanya WilliamsRosewalk Village Assisted LivingLafayetteTina WrightNorthwestern Memorial HospitalSpecial Care Nursery, Chicago11

12SCHOOL ALMANACWhat’s New in Nursing?By Mary Musselman, Academic AdvisorHaving been a nurse for 24 years and a nurse practitionerin an outpatient clinic for the last 12 years, Cindy Modlin-Adamssays that the one thing she is certain of is change.She observes how change has occurred by the number ofnew prescription drugs and drug formularies and in Medicaredocumentation and reimbursementguidelines, as well as intechnology and in the amount ofpersonnel turnover in thehealthcare field.The scope of this article isto address the importance oftechnology, education, attentionto research, and creativesolutions in reducing shortagesin the nursing workforce.In a world of technologythat grows at an incredible pace,it is important that nursingstudents feel comfortable usinginformational technology, saysDr. Karen Chang, assistantprofessor and adult healthnursing expert.The majority of hospitalsnow have policies, proceduresand medical records in electronicformats. “All communicationswithin my clinic are nowthrough computer and the internet,” Modlin-Adams says.Users are able to find, organize, and communicate informationas well as make presentations in order to improve the systemof delivering quality patient care and nursingeducation,” Dr. Chang says. “From PocketPCs to Tablet PCs to Medline Plus HealthInformation, the world of medical informationcan be literally at a nurse’s fingertips.”In the field of nursing education, aterm used in class and textbooks is notnecessarily a new term but the definition andits focus may have changed, says ProfessorClara Richardson, clinical assistant professor.“We talk about “atraumatic care” inNursing 412, a course in pediatric nursing.Professor Richardson says. “Twenty yearsago, healthcare providers didn’t realize thatchildren experienced pain to the same degreethat adults do. Now there are multipleassessment tools for the assessment of painin children.”A definition for atraumatic care fromWong’s Nursing Care of Infants and Children,published in 2003 is: “the provision ofProf. Karen Chang is involved in several research projects utilizinginformation technology in healthcare, including Type 2 diabetes.Prof. Clara Richardson with A.J. Martintherapeutic care in settings, by personnel, and through the use ofinterventions that eliminate or minimize the psychologic andphysical distress experienced by children and their families in thehealth care system.”Some of the interventions that could eliminate psychologicdistress may range from providing play activities for expressionof fear or anxiety to providingchoices for children torespecting cultural differences.Interventions for physicaldistress in the hospital settingmay include reduction of loudnoises, bright lights, and theuse of analgesic creams todecrease pain of injectionsand blood draws. Thus, a termis brought back to life throughresearch, practice, andeducation.The importance ofadvanced education isemphasized in the growingneed for expert clinicians.“Nurses who master thematerial and who continue tolearn deliver the best care forthe community,” says AssistantProfessor Barbra WallResearch by ProfessorLinda Aiken at the University of Pennsylvania found there arefewer medical errors and there is better patient care if baccalaureatenurses take care of patients. ANA Magnet-designee Clarian HealthSystems hires baccalaureate nurses, accordingto Dr. Christine M. Pacini, the Director ofEducation, Nursing and Patient Care forClarian Health Partners in Indianapolis.The shortage of nurses is an ever-presentconcern. Dr. Wall believes that creative andsound ways of retaining the nurse populationas well as reintroducing the nurse populationback into the work force could help theproblem. To this end, Drs. Nancy Edwards, PatCoyle-Rogers and Barbara Wall have written agrant to bring non-working registered nursesinto the workforce by offering them a refreshercourse. Other benefits for nurses are paymentfor graduate course work, flexible work hours,and sign-on bonuses.What’s new in nursing? The worldchanges literally from day to day with advancesin technology and research, but what isever present is quality patient care and qualitynursing education given back to the communityby caring health professionals.

DONOR HONOR ROLLThank you to the individuals and corporationswho made gifts to the School of Nursing fromJan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2004. We appreciate yourloyal support. Every effort has been made toensure that the information listed here is accurate.Please let us know of any changes or additions.Charter Benefactors Club(Over $10,000)Mary AdeLaNelle and Leslie GeddesLinda RohrmanNursing Benefactors Club($1,000 - $9,999)Cardinal Health, Inc.Eli Lilly and CompanyMiriam EppleFamily Health Clinic of Carroll Co.(FHCCC Fundraiser)Cinda Fluke and Ronald AlvarezSteven and Lynette GoldsberryHospiraEvelyn and Marvin HudsonJane KinyonSharon MillerNorth Central Health Services(FHCCC)Julie and Bob NovakSarah and Gary PottsNancy and James RussellNorma and James TomlinsonLynn and Thomas VertacnikSharon and Clarence WilkersonLeight M. Wilson FoundationKathleen and Steven WodickaRuth WukaschDean’s Club ($500 - $999)Pamela and Eino AaltonenJanet AinsworthJames and Leocadia BienJo and Earl BrooksCaterpillar IncorporatedClarian Health PartnersRuth and Phillip DeTurkFort Wayne Medical SocietyFoundationLeslie JohnsonSherman KesslerBarbara and John MacDougallCarl and Jacqueline MeyerKaren and Scott MillsMitsubishi CorporationHelen and Thomas NillPhilips PACEMimi and John PezzutoTracy and Manfred PykaPeggy and Noel ReenLaura and Timothy SandsEmma SmithBarbara and William SobatJoyce WaltersDianna WellenPatrons Club ($250 - $499)Joy and Thomas AtkinsonCarol and Robert BairdBard Global DistributionCarolyn and David BlueLaura and Jay BoldenMartha and Frederick CarlsonPatricia and George Coyle-RogersMargaret DalphondExxon Mobil CorporationElizabeth GarstPatricia Gawrys and Craig BixlerGeneral Electric CompanyAudrey HeastyIOOF 28Leslie and Jerry JaredJames and Susan JohnsonLions of IndianaAnn and Greg LoomisMarsha MackeyNelda MartinezKristina and Steven MatthewsMaureen and Mark MillerKathy and David NicholsDiane RolfsLaura RothenbergerDonna and Bruce SchmeiserJudith SchmutteSigma Theta TauVirginia and James SkilesJennifer and Mark SmithRuthAnn and Michael SmolenSharon StotenBrian WagnerWaste ManagementKimbra and Gary WeesnerRoberta WellsDonna and Chris WeyerCharles and Kathleen WolfLaurie and Michael WrightSusan and Mitchell YeakleyNursing Supporters Club($100 to $249)Abbott Funeral HomeMargaret and Willis AltLynn AmmonNancy AndersonSuzanne and Lynn AtkinsonJudith and Michael BaldwinChristi and David BarneyRebecca and Bruce BaumannMarjorie BaylorCori and Andrew BelushDebra and Timothy BergKaren BlankenbergerSusan and Marcus BlaskieSusan and Wayne BlomDiane BodalskiLinda BowmanShelley and Ronnie BoxellSue BraceyFlorence BrentlingerBarbara BrodieCynthia and Brian BucklesKathleen BullaSandra BurtonNancy and William BussoSharon and Garland ByronConnie CallDiane CampbellKristina CarlileAnna and John CarrLisa CarterBonnie and Gerald CeresJulie and Patrick ClesterMelissa ClevelandMargaret CohenPamela and Thomas ConquestNoelle CopeKristine CorbanAndrea and Raymond CowardTheresa CoynerNancy CriggerDonna CzechDaimler-Chrysler CorporationLinda and Robert DamingJane DannhausenDave’s Delphi IGALaura and Joseph DavidAnn DayLinda deGrootCity of DelphiDelphi CorporationDelphi Veterinary ClinicLisa and Kim DeremiahKaren and James DeutschDick Krieg Motors Inc.Kara and William DixonLisa DobogaiPamela DosmannPatricia DuffCrista and Thomas ElderLouise Engert and David ArtusDenise EnglerCarmen and Allen ErnstJason and Kendra FauxBert and Jeannie FellMichael and Sandra FightsRochelle and David FindlayThomas FisherJennifer and Jonathan FoutsFriends-Family Health ClinicGannett Company Inc.Susan GarlLaura and Michael GarmanMichelle and Joseph GerretyJoy and Jeffrey GilmoreKaren GlaserSue GluekJeanette and Peter GoldsbroughSandra and Douglas GoodenJanelle GraySandra HaleBrenda and James HenryRichard HensonNancy HeynenCheryl HickeyJeanette and Charles HiteKathryn and Robert HoddesonHeather and Steven HofferDebra HoggLynn Holland and Byron JenkinsonLori and Douglas HoltKaren HoodBrian HoppRemi HueckelIllinois Tool Works Inc.Andria JacobsDona and Terry JonesTeresa JonesBeth and David JumpKappa Kappa KappaLisa KarasJanet and Alan KemperDenise and Kenneth KindlerJoan KinnamanTheresa KlassenEsther and James LambertLaura and Tyler LaSellHolly LeachRhonda and Michael LeckroneGwen and Robert LombardJudy and Marc LoudonSally and Charles LowreyNancy Northcutt LundquistWilliam and Claire LutherSuzanne and Kean MacOwanMary and Charles ManogueRosemary and John MarburgerSonya and Jon MarineDiana MarionTerry MathewsPatricia MathisonLisa and Todd McKibbanBeverly and Ronald McMurrayMDM Home Health Care Inc.Rebecca MillerMargo and Michael MinnichLeticia and Cary MitchellMarcia MoloyElvira MontanoDonna and Douglas MooreJoanna MorfordMeryl Morton13

DONOR HONOR ROLLStephanie and Robert HisleRachael HivelyJennifer and William HobensackLori HoeingJennifer and David HofmannMary HoskinsIlona and Robert HouseMary and Craig HoyingCatherine HudsonJudith and Gary HudsonLori and Gary HughesApril HuttRebecca and Charles HyltonBarbara and David HyslopAnn IamsJudith and Kevin IngallSheryl and Scott IngramLydia and J. JarboeAmy and Garth JenkinsMegan and John JernovicsCheryl and Donald JohnsonCarla and Todd JulianJennifer and James JustusBeatrice and Joseph KaczmarekCasey KapoorAmy and Alan KarpickDonna KauffmanAmy and Brian KavickyAmanda KellyBarbara KellyLeigh and Landon KesslerBeth and Donald KingJessica KittermanSheila and Victor KlinkerBarbara KnepshieldFrances and John KottkeCarol KowalewskiLola KozakTonya KrekelerNell and John KretzschmarJoan KuipersKaren and Larry KultChristine and Michael LadischLinda and Jack LaDukeMargaret and Jay LandwehrLindsay and Dirk LangMaria LaRosaTracy LarsenKrista LeathermanWilliam LeburgSheila and Michael LehrAmy and David LeisingDenise LeNeaveErin and Frank LeonardDebra and Brian LewisSusan LilekGloria and John LohrSusan LoskutoffNoelle and Aaron LottesLoyola University Medical Center,ChicagoMarjory and Aaron LybargerCynthia and Robert LynchSusan LynchEleanor MaggioRoxanne and Anthony MartinMary MassnerPhyllis MawSusan McAlisterCynthia and Larry McCammentSarah McCartyLuann and Coeburn McDanielSheri McDonald-Beasley and EricBeasleyJohn McGrathTerri McMullenDeborah and George MearsRebecca and John MeisbergerBecky and Dennis MellonBarbara and Moyne MetzgerJanet and Michael MicottoRita MierBrenda and Greg MilakisMilakis RentalsJan MillerLisa and Michael MillerSarah MillerAmy Miller-SmithDorothy and Brian MimmsPatricia and Stephen MinerMelissa and Gregory MiscikLori and Jeffrey MonaghanKim and Timothy MongerConnie MontesJoanne MorrisMary and Bruno MoserDominique and Matthew MuhladaKathleen MyersRebecca NavarroJennifer and Robert NavilleNancy NavratilNavy Recruiting District, IndianapolisJanice and Luther NeeleyVicki and Larry NeesConstance and Mark NeundorferDeborah NewkirkDawn and Gerald NiccumMonica and Mark NiccumAnna and Phillip NiceTeresann and Kent NickleLaurie OberOhio State University MedicalCenterTerri and Michael OlingerWilliam and Virginia OlsonElizabeth and Robert O’NeilOneAmerica Financial PartnersMartha and Robert OsbornJane OverbaySharon OwenLinda PackCarol ParksHolly and Nicholas PattersonJanet and Steven PazarCarol and William PennCarolyn and David PepplerDiane and Randy PepplerAnn and Saban PercefullDawn and Randell PetersonSue PflumLezli and Steven PhallenKathleen PickrellLinda and Keith PingJennifer and Michael PlasterCarolyn and Gregory PooleLessandra PopePorter Memorial HospitalWinona and Jeffrey PowellLibuse PressnerKathy and Daniel PuperiJean and Joel PutnamDeborah QuillDianna RainsSandra RalstonRaytheon CompanyCindy ReeceSandra ReifeisChristopher ReitmeierPeggy RhodesConnie RichardClara RichardsonRebecca RicheyKay RichterBetty RiddickRoche Holding Ltd.Kay and Kevin RossDeena and Jeffrey RosswurmPolly RoyalHeidi and Stephen RozowSuzanne RudmanBeth RuffMartha RushJane and Charles RutledgeKari SalsberyStephanie SandorMary SaundersSBC Communications Inc.Elizabeth and William SchalliolJulia Schauer and Aaron AntonJill ScheidtCarolyn SchlimmeTrinna SchlosserSusan and Donald SchmalPenelope and Gary SchmickerLinda SchoeckAnne and Robert SchoenJamelyn SchoenbeckShari SchraderChun-Yi ShangJacquelyn ShantiSusan SheetsJessica ShermanAmy and Timothy ShinnemanCara and Craig ShoemakerPamela SkinnerCarolyn and Charles SkurkaNancy SloneAnnette and Raymond SmithCoral and Terry SmithDiana and Jeffery SmithEmma and Stephen SmithJane and Gregory SmithKay and Scott SmithPamela and Douglas SmithAmy and Easy SpearsCatherine SprySt. Joseph’s Hospital, Ft. WayneLisa and Christopher St. CharlesKathryn and Howard StahlAmie and Michael StamperAnn StarryBrenda StephensDeborah and Elmer StifflerLinda and Christopher StockwellAngela and Scott StorzGail StraneyVicki and Gary StuffleLaura and Robert SuleckiWilliam and Deborah SummerfieldBonnie SwarrJane SwartleyMichele and Larry TanseyRose Maria TateSonna TerryJill and Robert ThomasFranene ThompsonTracy and Gregory ThorleyJudith and Kris TownsendMary and Dave TrachtenbergidLori and Brett TriebelMargaret and Richard TrznadelMary and Emanuel TsourounakisGale and Ronald TurcoKaren TurnerDeanna and R.VanBussumEleanor VanNattaCarol VanSchepenNancy and David VanZeeConnie and Walter VargasRhonda and Ivan VogelgesangMelissa VonderauAmy VyainJane WagonerBrenda and Steven WakefieldBarbra WallKathleen WalstonJane WatsonLaura WattHeather and T. 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NURSING ADVISORY BOARDThe Purdue School of Nursing Advisory Board members are mentors, role models,community activists, and change agents. The Board meets each semester to hear anupdate regarding the Strategic Plan and School activities and to provide expert advice.Carl Abbott, Carroll County Supervisor, owns and operatesthe Abbott Funeral Home in Delphi, IN. He is the past chairmanof the board for the Purdue School of Nursing Family HealthClinic of Carroll County. His wife, Leah, was a practicing nursewith the Tippecanoe County Health Clinic prior to welcomingtheir children, Noah (4), and Myah (2). The family willwelcome another baby in May.Lawrence A. Anthrop is the Senior Vice President and SeniorTrust Officer at Lafayette Bank and Trust Company. He completedhis studies at the National Graduate Trust School atNorthwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is a member ofthe Lafayette Estate Planning Council. He and his wife, Dianne,have two daughters, Laura and Christine.James Bien, MD, is Chief Medical Officer with Arnett Clinicin Lafayette. Prior to this appointment he was a practicinggeneral pediatrician and Medical Director of Clinical Researchwith Arnett Clinic. Dr. Bien received his undergraduate degreein biomedical engineering from Marquette University, hismedical degree from Northwestern University and completedhis pediatric residency at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Heheld teaching appointments at UC and SIU Schools ofMedicine. He is currently a Volunteer AssistantClinical Professor with IU School of Medicine. He and his wife,Cadi, have three children Madeleine (13), Abigail (10), andTommy (8), and a Golden Retriever, Atticus.Colleen DeTurk, MSN, RN, Professor Emerita, taught publichealth/community health and health assessment at the PurdueSchool of Nursing for 25 years before retiring in 2004. She hasa lifelong interest in continuing education (CE), earning herMSN in public health nursing in 1983, and becoming directorof the school’s CE program in 1995. She served as President ofDelta Omicron, President of ISNA-Region 8; and was on theCommittee for Approval for the Indiana State Nurses Association.She and her husband, Gene, have two children and fivegrandchildren.Schaunita Falter has owned Global Greetings and DeDe’sUnique Boutique on Main Street, Lafayette, for 10 years. Shesits on several boards, including Hanna Community Center andSycamore Council Girl Scouts. She is a 2002 graduate ofLeadership Lafayette. She has one son, Shannon.Jennifer Flora is an alumna of Indiana University. She hasserved as the Chief Executive Officer of the Mental HealthAssociation of Tippecanoe County, Inc. since 1994. Under herleadership the Mental Health Association has expandedprograms, built the Seeds of Hope Day Shelter building in 1997,and constructed the new Mental Health Association CommunityBuilding, dedicated in January 2005. She is an ardent advocatefor individuals with mental health challenges, an advocate forthe homeless, and a volunteer for several local organizations.She and her husband, Grant, live in West Lafayette and havetwo children who attend Purdue.The School of Nursing AdvisoryBoard met in November 2004 foran update and discussionsregarding new School of Nursingactivities. The business meetingwas followed by a social hour,dinner, and student presentationon the Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe and Secure(KySS) campaign at the newDauch Alumni Center, and a PhilWoods Quintet concert at LoebPlayhouse.16

Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, RN, MSN, FAAN, is CEO of SigmaTheta Tau International (STTI) nursing honorary. Under herleadership, the organization has increased its chapter network by24% and its inducted membership, who reside in 90 countriesaround the world, from 190,000 to 345,000. Her focus is to provideopportunities for nurses globally to learn, lead and serve. Under herleadership, STTI has developed partnerships with the World HealthOrganization, the International Council of Nurses and numerousnational and international organizations and corporations. Sheholds a BS in nursing from the University of Kentucky and a MSwith specialization as a PNP from the University of Virginia. Sheand her husband, John, have two children.Mike Gery is a 1966 graduate of Purdue University with a BAin History and an MS from Indiana University. He taught highschool for 12 years and served as State Senator from TippecanoeCounty for 24 years. While he was a State Senator his interestswere primarily education and fiscal matters. He also served asChairman of the State Budget Committee. He is now retired,and serves as president of the Lafayette Community Foundation.Mike and his wife, Carolyn, have three sons.LaNelle Geddes, RN, PhD, is the former Head of School ofNursing and Professor Emerita, having retired in December2003. Dr. Geddes maintains close association with the school,mentoring several faculty members and serving on the Primaryand Area Promotion and Tenure Committees. She received herPhD in biophysics from Baylor University College of Medicineand has published extensively. She is a member of the PurdueUniversity Teaching Academy and a recipient of the AmocoFoundation (now known as the Murphy) Teaching Award.Drs. LaNelle and Leslie Geddes are ready for the School ofNursing Advisory Board meeting in Krannert. In the backgroundare retired State Senator Katie Wolf and Carl Abbott.Leslie Geddes, PhD, received his BS and MS in ElectricalEngineering from McGill University and his PhD in Physiologyfrom Baylor University College of Medicine. His researchinterests are the control of ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation,the fabrication of vascular grafts and heart valves with SIS, andfundamental electrode studies. He is a Showalter DistinguishedProfessor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering.Linda Hojnacki, MBA, received her AD in Nursing fromPurdue and her BS in Nursing from Indiana University,Bloomington. She originally worked as a critical care nurseand has published several articles regarding wellness andcritical care. She developed an interest in business managementand earned her MBA from Pepperdine University. She nowholds all major securities licenses and serves as a financialadvisor for Foothill Securities, Inc. She and her husband,Charles Wunsch, M.D., live in Reno, NV, and Palm Beach, FL.Attendees at the November 2004meeting included (left to right)Carolyn Gery, Kathleen andSteven Wodicka, Mike Gery,Grant and Jennifer Flora.Kathleen Wodicka, Mike Gery,and Jennifer Flora (president ofthe Tippecanoe County MentalHealth Association) are boardmembers.17

Professor Emerita Sharon Posey (left), School ofNursing Head Julie Novak, and GreaterLafayette Health Services Vice President forPatient Care Services Sally Lowrey visit beforethe meeting.Ann H. Hunt, PhD, MSN, BS, RN, earned her BS and PhDfrom Purdue University, and her MSN from Indiana University.She participated in a NIH Post Doctoral Fellowship at WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine in 1992-1993. She taught for21 years at the Purdue School of Nursing, retiring in 2000. In2003, she was elected to the West Lafayette City Council, whereshe works tirelessly for community priorities including healthand education. She volunteers at the Indiana Veterans Homeand Klondike Elementary School. She is a Certified AdvancedMaster Gardener and is employed part-time as a sales associateat a local garden center. She and her husband, Dick, have twoadult children and four grandchildren.Janet Kemper graduated from Purdue with a BS in Nursing.Currently she works as a staff nurse and Patient Care Coordinatorin med-surg at Lafayette Home Hospital and is certified intelemetry and chemotherapy. She is also the past president ofthe Purdue Nursing Alumni Organization. She and her husband,Alan, have two children, Crystal and Brian.Sherman Kessler graduated from Purdue with a BS in AnimalScience and a MS in Agriculture Economics. For 52 years hewas CEO of the family farm running a farrow-to-finish hogoperation and feeder steers. He has been a member of thePurdue University Board of Trustees and has been a supporter ofthe School of Nursing for many years.John A. Knote, MD, holds a BS from Purdue in PE and a MDfrom IU. He is board certified in radiology and nuclear medicineand has practiced diagnostic radiology with DMI and theArnett Clinic. He now works with the Indiana RadiologyPartners as part of the Clarian Health Systems in Indianapolis.He served as Speaker of the AMA House of Delegates, pastpresident of the Organization of State Medical AssociationPresidents and the Forum for Medical Affairs; trustee andchairman of the ISMA Board; former speaker and currentChancellor of the American College of Radiology.Sally Lowrey holds a BS from the Purdue School of Nursing,and an MBA from the Krannert School of Business. She iscurrently Vice President for Patient Services at Greater LafayetteHealth Services Inc. She is facilitating new collaborative modelsbetween GLHS and Purdue School of Nursing. She and herhusband, Charles, have two children.Barbara MacDougall received her AD and BS in Nursing fromPurdue. She has worked as a surgical nurse in Indianapolis andis an active volunteer in her community. She and her husband,John, a retired general and thoracic surgeon from St. FrancisHospital, have two children, Katie, a student at IUPUI, andJamie, a student at Purdue, West Lafayette.Nancy McCall, ScD, received her BS in Nursing from Purdue,and her MS in Health Policy and ScD in Health Economics fromHarvard University’s School of Public Health. Currently she is aPrincipal Scientist with Research Triangle Institute and managerof their Washington D.C. office. She resides in Washington withher husband, Sandy, their son, Lemi, and dog, Max.Barbara Miller received her BS in nursing from Purdue and anMSN from Indiana University. She is a former Purdue School ofNursing faculty member. Currently she is the President of DocMiller’s Fish and Seafood Company in Colfax.Sharon Posey, MS, RN, Professor Emerita, earned her BSN atSpalding College, MS in education from Indiana University, andMS in nursing from the University of Kentucky. She taughtpublic health nursing at the Purdue School of Nursing for 20years before retiring in 2003. She was particularly interested innon-clinical settings and serving culturally diverse populations.Sharon developed the school’s senior public health experience atthe Navajo Indian Nation in Kayenta, Arizona, an active studentclinical rotation for the past 10 years. She and her husband,Phillip, have four children and seven grandchildren.Sarah Potts is a graduate of the Purdue School of Nursing andthe President of the Nursing Alumni Association. She began hercareer as a labor and delivery nurse. Prior to her retirement in18

Senior nursing studentsMelanie Bush, StacyNajdek,and Erin McClaywith Dr. Novak. Thestudents shared theirexperiences with KySSwith the board.March 2000, her specialty shifted to homecare and elder carewhere she was a Clinical Supervisor and Nurse Liaison inHomecare at Hancock Memorial. Sarah and her husband,Gary, served as co-chairs for the President’s Parent AdvisoryCouncil at Purdue. They have retired to Las Vegas, NV. Theirsons, James, Andy, and Brian, are also graduates of Purdue.Kathleen Risa is a 1970 AD graduate of Purdue’s School ofNursing and holds BS and MS degrees in Nursing from theUniversity of Pittsburgh. She maintains certification as an AcuteCare Nurse Practitioner and in Infection Control. She iscurrently employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs in thePittsburgh Healthcare System where she functions as aninfectious disease/ID/HIV Nurse Practitioner. She attributes hersuccess in nursing to the superior academic focus and solidscientific underpinnings of the nursing program at Purdue.Ann Roberts graduated from Methodist Hospital School ofNursing, Indianapolis, and St. Joseph University. She receivedher National Managed Care Certification in 1996 and is amember of STTI. For over 30 years, Ann has practiced invarious nursing specialties, including home healthcare, emergencynursing, and managed care. Prior to serving as the CEOof Individualized Care Management, Inc., she developed thefirst ever on-site utilization review/case management program.Her company has multiple branches throughout the Midwest.Patricia Tabloski, PhD, received her BS in Nursing fromPurdue and her PhD in Nursing from the University ofRochester. She is currently an Associate Professor at BostonCollege. Her major area of research is gerontology. She is aformer recipient of the School of Nursing’s Alumnus of theYear award.Dan Vierk attended Indiana University. He is an entrepreneurand CEO of Vierk Fine Jewelry and Exchange and otherbusinesses in Lafayette and beyond. He has been a long-timebenefactor of the Purdue School of Nursing. Dan and hiswife, Karen, reside in West Lafayette and Marco Island, FL.Karen Vierk graduated from Purdue with an AD in Nursing. She leftnursing to pursue a business venture where she served as the CEO forCarter Oil Supply, Inc. She has since retired from the business. Karenand her husband, Dan, have been generous supporters of graduateprogram development. They have five children (two of whom arePurdue graduates) and eight grandchildren.Kathleen Wodicka received her AD in Nursing from Purdue andher BS from Indiana University. She worked in Indianapolishospitals in cardiac care, open heart recovery, and cardiac cathlabs. In 1978, she retired from nursing to care for her two daughters.Her focus turned to habilitation and education of children withdisabilities and she worked in the legislative arena to update thecurrent statutes. She has also worked in the education arena toinform parents and their children of their rights and responsibilitiesand to empower them to become advocates. In 1998 shereturned to the Cath Lab as a Clinical Manager and subsequentlyaccepted a position at Sigma Theta Tau International.Katie Wolf is a retired Indiana State Senator. Prior to her 14 yearsas Senator, she served in the House of Representatives for twoyears. She attended Purdue and Indiana Business College and withher husband is the owner/manager of a family farm. She wasinstrumental in legislating increased support for mental healthclinics and has been the recipient of outstanding legislature awardsfrom multiple institutions ranging from childcare to humanservices.Ruth Wukasch holds a DNS and MSN from the Indiana UniversitySchool of Nursing, a BS from Purdue School of Nursing and adiploma from Passavant Memorial Hospital, NorthwesternUniversity. Until her retirement in 2003, she taught senior levelleadership and management at the School of Nursing for 13 years.Previously, she was Director of Professional Services at CharterHospital; Director of Employee Assistance Programs for St.Elizabeth Medical Center; a school nurse and psychiatric nurse.Since her retirement from Purdue she serves as a Court AppointedSpecial Advocate (CASA) for children, serves on the WestLafayette Library Foundation Board, and travels. Ruth has threechildren and five grandchildren.19

ALUMNI ALMANACAlumnae Crew Helicopter TransportInside Hanger 8 at the PurdueAirport, Kim Mills (BS’91) andSuzi Mathews (BS’02) wait for thecalls that will fly them intomedical emergenciesThe two School of Nursing graduates arepart of the PHI Air Medical team, which providesmedical transport services to communities andhospitals across Indiana.Mills, a 1977 Ivy Tech nursing graduate,began her nursing career as an operating roomtechnician at St. Elizabeth Hospital. “I quicklyrealized that I wanted to keep learning, keepprogressing,” she says. She entered the PurdueSchool of Nursing at age 24, continued to work,had twins, and was pregnant again when shegraduated seven years later.She was working in the emergency room when she wasintroduced to flight nursing through a “fly-along” program, andin 1999 joined a flight crew based in Rochester, IN. She joinedPHI when the service opened in Lafayette in the summer of2004.Suzi Mathews was also a non-traditional nursing student.She earned her diploma from the St. Elizabeth School ofNursing in 1985, and practiced for 12 years before she enteredthe Purdue School of Nursing.“It was very hard,” she says. “I was a single parent withthree children. It took me five years, but I knew I needed to doit.”Both Mills and Mathews continue to work part-time at theSt. Elizabeth emergency department when they are not on dutyat Hanger 8. “We are adrenaline junkies,” Mathews admits.“As a flight nurse you have to perform at a high level on amoment’s notice. You never know where you’ll go or whatyou’ll find there.”“It takes enhanced critical thinking skills,” Mills adds. “Ireally like the combination of flying and taking care of themedical emergencies and critically injured patients. I like thechallenge of the unknown.”PHI Air Medical, based in Lafayette, LA, opened operationsin Lafayette, Anderson, and Columbus, Indiana, to supplementother private and hospital-based air medical transport services inthe state. “These placements fill gaps in central and southeasternIndiana transport services. The extra minutes make a hugedifference in patient outcomes,” Mills says.20Kim Mills (BS’91) and Suzi Mathews (BS’02) are flight nurses for PHI Air Medical,based at the Purdue Airport.The flight team consists of a pilot, a nurse, and aparamedic. The nurses and paramedics work 24-hour shifts:the pilots work 12-hour shifts.In the first six months of operation, the Lafayette flightcrew has averaged about 20 flights a month, mostly forinterfacility transfers from smaller communities to largerhospitals.Crew members also spend considerable time on teachingand continuing education. “We are continually learning,”Mills says. The crews attend required classes in advancedcardiac and pediatric life support, pre-hospital trauma lifesupport, crew resource management, and required clinicalhours in emergency rooms, ICU’s, pre-hospital settings withEMS and Fire Services, pediatrics, obstetrics, and operatingrooms.They also view outreach education as part of theircommitment to quality care and community involvement. Theyoffer continuing education hours in trauma, medical, cardiac,and pediatric emergencies and management. Also, each flightteam member is required to maintain instructor status in onediscipline. “We cover a broad range of topics specifically forhospital and pre-hospital personnel,” Mills says.“The education I received at the Purdue School ofNursing helped prepare me for this career,” Mills says. “Ittaught me critical thinking, how to work independently, andhow to keep on learning. That’s really key. You can neverstop learning, especially in nursing.”

Dolls Form Basisof Nursing ScholarshipNancy Russell (AD’76) collected nurse dolls for 28 years.Eventually the collection covered an entire wall in her office, anétagère in the kitchen, one in the bedroom, the mantle in theliving room, and every end table in the house.She had nurse dolls made of porcelain and of plastic, ofglass and metal and paper. There were almost 400 of them.“My husband began the collection with a one-of-a-kindblown glass figurine,” Russell recalls. “My daughter made nursesout of clothes pins and papier-mache. Friends and relatives sentnurse dolls of every size and material.”When Russell decided it was time to downsize, she contactedher friend Jane Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor and AssistantHead for Academic Affairs, about donating the collectionto the School of Nursing. Kirkpatrick put Russell in touchwith Barbra Wall, Director of the school’s Center for NursingHistory, Ethics, and Human Rights.“I faced the need to find a new home for my dolls withemotional misgivings,” Russell says. “But when Barbra Wallcame to my house for the first time, she went from shelf to shelfoohing and aahing. I knew then I had made the right decision.Nurses would appreciate the significance of the collection .”The more historic and unusual dolls will be kept in the Centerfor Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights, and put on displayat key nursing events. Dr. Julie Novak, Head of the School,suggested that the rest be sold and the proceeds put in a scholarshipfund in Nancy Russell’s name, if she approved.“The scholarship idea made my heart sing,” Russell says.“My first degree, from Ohio State, was on a scholarship. Thatallowed me to begin my journey to being a nurse. And nowthe collection will be loved and appreciated by hundreds ofcaring individuals. What more could I ask for!”Russell earned a BS in Biology Education from Ohio Statein 1961. She worked in medical research and secondary educationuntil her daughter was ready to start school, then she beganlooking for a new direction that had to do with medicine.Helen Johnson encouraged her to study at Purdue for anAssociate Degree. After graduation, she worked as a staff nursein orthopedics at Home Hospital, at the Indiana University StudentHealth Center emergency room, in a utilization review positionat St. Elizabeth Hospital, and finally at the Woman’s Clinicin Lafayette. For the last three years before her retirement in1994, she was Director of Nursing at the Woman’s Clinic.Today Russell serves as a parish nurse at Central PresbyterianChurch when she is in Lafayette, and as a consultant toparish nurses at Presbyterian churches when she is in Florida.“I will always appreciate my Purdue nursing degree,” shesays. “It helped me turn a profession into a passion, and nowinto a calling.”Nancy Russell in 1976Jim and Nancy RussellDr. Barbra Wall holds one of theoldest dolls in the Russell collection:a porcelain doll holding a baby. Itwill be displayed in the Center forNursing History, Ethics, andHuman Rights.21

ALUMNI ALMANACMother, DaughterShare Loveof NursingBy Sharon (Lilly) Taggart (BS’76)I was at the Purdue School of Nursing in the early 1970’s.Sometimes it seems so long ago, but then at other times onlyyesterday.Lofty goals and a feeling of being able to be anything Iwanted were responsible for my enrollment at Purdue. Midsemesterfreshman year found me reeling from advanced chemistryand calculus wandering the campus, talking to myself.It was about this time I was sent to an office with a kindlywoman who would give me some ideas and answers. I had walkedinto the office of Eota Stokes. Her passion for the art of nursingwas evident and contagious. She changed my life.Labs in the Quonset huts on the south edge of campusconsisted of fellow students trying out new skills on each other. Ifit was a particularly undesirable procedure, like inserting a NGtube, only one of us would volunteer and the rest of us wouldcrowd wide-eyed around the lucky inserter and the apprehensiveinsertee. Higher grades were hoped for if we volunteered, but itnever worked.Much of the excitement in studying nursing was due to thehands-on learning. I still remember the time I confessed toDorothy Stewart that I was afraid to give injections. I wasconvinced that she wouldn’t make me do them. My next patientassignment had five injections in the three hours I took care ofhim. I was never afraid again or never admitted it.The uniforms were eagerly awaited and proudly worn. Avisual badge of our goals, they said to the entire campus, we weregoing to be nurses! They consisted of a white uniform, whitesocks, white shoes, polished off with a mustard yellow pinaforethat we were sure would pass for Boilermaker Gold.Atop our heads perched a real nursing cap. Yellow and blackvelvet bands fastened on either side with Purdue seals, like a halo.Many of those caps may be in memory chests, or like mine,have been used by young daughters to play dress-up as nurses.Who would have thought that 20 years later that same little girlwould find her own passion in the same career? Minus the cap.Foundation and CouragePurdue not only awarded me a nursing degree, it also gave methe foundation and confidence to reach new heights and try newchallenges.Five years after graduation, spurred by a lack of health care forindigent women, I earned certification as an OB/GYN NursePractitioner. In 1980 the term nurse practitioner was new and oftenmisunderstood. Time after time I had to explain just exactly what aSharon (Lilly) Taggart(BS’76) is a NursePractitioner andColposcopist (biopsyof patients who havean abnormal papsmear) at PlannedParenthood ofIndiana. Shesupervises 12 clinicsacross the state aswell as providingdirect patient care.nurse practitioner was and what they could do.The job of a nurse practitioner in reproductive health carehas been demanding, challenging, varied, immensely rewarding,and never dull.My daughter, Courtney, experienced a lot of that medicalworld right along with me. She refined her first steps at a publichealth clinic for women and children. She created a play area forkids in the clinic waiting room with her own toys, and preferredto use unusual medically correct terms to confuse her teachersand fascinate classmates.Many childhood vacations consisted of her accompanyingme on trips across the country as a contract speaker for thesexually transmitted infection (STI) branch of the Centers forDisease Control. She colored pictures while I spoke to conferenceaudiences with even more colorful pictures. She was welltraveled, well versed, and very desensitized to many medicalissues. Nursing was simply an accepted part of her life.It should have been no surprise when she chose nursing asher major. She enrolled at Purdue at a time of no white caps, nogold pinafores, and a beautiful new building with a high techeducational lab.The Purdue School of Nursing had come a long way in 25years. But as much as things change and progress, other thingsremain constant.The names are different, but the caring, the humor, theenthusiasm for learning and infusing that into the students, thepride in nursing and the love and devotion to the profession arestill displayed by the faculty. I’m confident that it will always bethere, and will go with each new nurse they send into the world.A wise person once said, if you want to know what kind of aparent you were to your child; wait until they have children oftheir own and watch them parent those children. You may findyourself in them.If that can be applied in any way to my daughter’s view ofher mother as a nurse, if I were a role model for even a small partof her decision to make nursing her career, then I am humbledand honored.It is a wondrous feeling when a parent can see a grown childtruly find their passion and life’s fulfillment in a chosen career.When that passion comes full circle and it is the parent’s careerpassion as well, then no greater reward could befall a parent…..anurse.There was a time my daughter saw the medical world throughmy eyes. I now see the future of nursing in her eyes, and all thoselike her.sandwtag@tctc.com22

There was a time my daughter sawthe medical world through my eyes.I now see the future of nursingin her eyes, and all those like her.A Daughter’s ViewBy Courtney Porter (BS’02), RNC, MSN, NNPMy mom, Sharon Taggart, graduated from Purdue Universityin Nursing and went on to become a Nurse Practitioner.My childhood, spent watching her in her career, wascompounded with that internal calling and deep knowledgethat I knew for a very long time; I wanted to be a nurse.My plan was to be a midwife, but during a job shadowexperience after high school I was introduced to neonatalintensive care nursing.I had found my passion in nursing. I couldn’t think ofanything else that I wanted to do. As a sophomore at Purdue’sSchool of Nursing I applied for a student nurse externship inthe neonatal intensive care nursery at Methodist Hospital inIndianapolis.I was told that it isn’t usual to hire someone with only onesemester of clinical experience, but my enthusiasm coupledwith Purdue’s name on my resume got me the job.I was so excited! I had previously decided that I wantedto further my education and become a nurse practitioner. WhenI found out that there was a Master’s degree and NursePractitioner certification in neonatology, I specialized inneonatal intensive care. I could not wait to get started!The work as a nurse extern over two years provided mewith valuable experience, and in my senior year at Purdue Iwas accepted to Vanderbilt’s School of Nursing in the NeonatalNurse Practitioner Masters Program.I attended Vanderbilt directly out of undergraduate schoolwhile working at Methodist as an RN in the NICU.I am convinced without a doubt that my educationalexperience in the nursing program at Purdue prepared me tosucceed in a tough graduate school. Not only did the mentionof Purdue as my alma mater impress people, but the selfdisciplineand study skills acquired there have benefited memany times since graduation.Purdue’s reputation for being a very strong school ofnursing was evident everywhere I went, and as one nursemanager put it, “Purdue’s graduates are real nurses.”I am now employed at Riley Hospital for Children in theneonatal intensive care unit performing duties of a certifiedneonatal nurse practitioner. My responsibilities daily includethe assessment and management of critically ill infants as wellas supporting their families in any way that I can during aCourtney Porter works at Riley Hospital for Children in the neonatalintensive care unit as a certified neonatal nurse practitioner.difficult and stressful time in their lives.I work as a team with 14 other NNPs and together weperform highly skilled, critical procedures such as neonateintubations, spinal taps, and placement of central lines.We are responsible for critically ill infants during transportby helicopter or ambulance, writing orders, interpreting x-rays,and rotating to outlying hospitals to attend high risk deliveries.All of this and so much more assures my love for this jobevery day. I am mentally stimulated by analyzing an infant’sdiagnoses and using my knowledge and problem solving skillsaccrued at Purdue and Vanderbilt.In addition I am emotionally fueled by these babies and theirfamilies to assist in any way I can to help them fight through onemore hour, one more day.There were times that undergraduate and graduate schoolseemed impossible and overwhelming; and just as many times Iwas inspired by some knowledge or skill or ray of motivationthat I gained from the outstanding and dedicated professors atPurdue.In part, I have made it to this place in my nursing careerbased largely on the educational foundation from my years atPurdue. Purdue’s reputation as a first-class nursing school willbenefit me in my career.But I have been the recipient of so much more from theeducation at Purdue. In many hospitals and medical settingsacross the country, as it is in my setting, Purdue educates us totake care of those in need at a critical time.courtneyelizabethporter@yahoo.comCourtney is one of three recent Purdue Nursing graduates to go onto advanced studies at Vanderbilt University: the others are JulieElam (BS’ 96) and Megan Mutz (BS’04).23

ALUMNI ALMANAC1960sMARY T. MAUCK (AS’67) received her BSN in 1970 and MSNin 1980, from Indiana University. She is currently employed asDepartment Administrator, Southern California PermanenteMedical Group (Kaiser) in Gardena, CA. Her address is 1801263 rd Street # 137, Lomita, CA 90717.mmauck2828@aol.com1970sPAMELA A. MIYA (AAS‘73, BS’75) is Associate Professor,College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center.She has been appointed to a four year term on the AdvisoryBoard of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethicsand Human Rights.JILL HEATHERINGTON (AD’76) received her BSN fromIndiana State University in 1990, and her MSN-FNP fromClemson in 1999. She currently works as a FNP in an emergencyroom in Greenville, SC. She has four children andrecently became a grandmother for the first time. Her secondson, a firefighter, returned home safely from year in Iraq withthe U.S. Army. Her daughter graduated from Clemson in 2004,and her youngest son is in the U.S. Army stationed in Geissen,Germany. Her new address is 199 Pond Drive, Easley, SC29640. fnp911@hotmail.comSHARON PETSEL VAN HOVE (AD’77, BS’81) was an OBcharge nurse at Hendricks Community Hospital from 1977 to1981, then a NICU staff nurse and preceptor at Riley Hospitalfrom 1981 to 1989. She has been an instructor of nursing atBall State University and PRN staff nurse, Mother/Baby, BallMemorial Hospital since 1999. svanhove@bsu.edu1980sPAM BUTLER CONRAD (BS’81) earned her certification as aClinical Aromatherapist in2000, completed a ComplementaryMaternity Internshipat Queen Mary’sHospital, London, in 2002,and earned a postgraduatediploma in ComplementaryTherapy Studies from theGraduate School ofIntegrated Health Universityof Westminster, London,England, in 2004. She iscurrently adjunct faculty atIUPUI teaching continuingeducation classes including24Clinical Aromatherapy forMedical Professionals andConradIntroduction to Complementary Therapies for HealthcareProfessionals. Her Zionsville, IN-based company, Aromas forHealing, was founded to educate women, provide treatment,and develop products to ease women’s life cycle transitions andoffer choices for their healthcare. Her website iswww.aromasforhealing.com; her email is conradrod@aol.com.For information on her classes, visit www.cln.iupui.edu.CONNIE HOCKSTRA VARGAS (AD’82, BS’89) is a CertifiedAdult Nurse Practitioner working at Primary Care Associatesin Merrillville. She is also the proud aunt of Erin Knight, whowas accepted into the 2005 class of the Purdue School ofNursing. Erin’s goal is to be a nurse practitioner.cvnp@webtv.netTERESA BAKER ROBERTS (BS’83) is currently working parttimeat Dupont Hospital Pediatrics (PRN), with pediatricianDr. Christopher Tallo, and substituting at Northwest AllenCounty Schools. roberts.five@verizon.netJULIE L. WILSON INGALL (BS’87) is presently a stay-athomemother of two daughters, ages three and six. She isactive in church and helps with hospitality activities for PTAand MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). She is a certifiedJazzercise instructor, teaching 3 to 4 classes per week. Herdermatology nursing career is on “hold” at this time. Her newmailing address is 203 Morganford Place, Apex, NC 27539.jingall@nc.rr.comSTACEY KNORR YEOMAN (BS’87) is currently working inlabor and delivery at Home Hospital in Lafayette, IN. She andher husband, Gary, are the proud parents of their fifth child, adaughter, Leah Elizabeth, born on Aug. 17, 2004.skymomof4@cs.comJANE N. “ABBY” ABBOTT-RIDER (BS’88) is a certified ANPat Logansport Family Health Care. She and her husband, Jeff,welcomed a son, Peter Nathanael, on Oct. 17 (the Wisconsin-Purdue football game sent her into labor!) He joins Ian, 11;Andrew, 9; Graham, 6; and Sarah, 3. thistleb@tds.netSUE ELLEN RUPLEY SCHEIBER (BS’89) gave birth to a son,Caleb Matthew, on June 17, 2004. Her new address is 4218 N.Rangeline Road, Huntington, IN 46750.1990sKARLA FADDEN AHRNS (BS’92) has been promoted toTrauma Services Coordinator at the University of MichiganHealth System. She has published the following: Ahrns, KS,Burns, In: Sole ML, Klein DG, Moseley M (Eds.): Introductionto Critical Care Nursing, 4 th Ed. Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders, Co., 2005. Ahrns, KS. Trends in burn resuscitation:Shifting the focus from fluids to adequate endpoint monitoring,edema control, and adjuvant therapies. Crit Care Nurs ClinNorth AM, 16(1): 75 – 98, 2004. kahrns@med.umich.eduKELLY HURST JONES (BS’93) is currently working as anoperating room nurse at Clark Memorial Hospital inJeffersonville, IN. She welcomed her first child, CarsonDavid, on July 26, 2004.

HEATHER CAMPBELL WEBER (BS’94) iscurrently a Family Nurse Practitioner for AmericanHealth Network in Peru, IN. She has beenmarried to T.A. Weber for five years and they havea one-year-old daughter, Lauren.Heather@webervst.comJENNIFER EHINGER BUCK (BS’95) welcomedthe birth of her second child, Nathan Alexander,on July 8, 2004. Her new address is 387Greenbriar Dr, Avon Lake, OH 44012.JULIE ELAM (BS’96) went on to earn her MSNfrom Vanderbilt. Sheis now a doctoralstudent at the Schoolof Nursing, IUPUI.She presented a poster,“Results of PittsburgSleep Quality IndexParameters for FemaleBreast Cancer SurvivorsSeeking Treatmentfor Hot Flashes”at the Sigma Theta Tau15 th InternationalNursing ResearchElamCongress “Building Community Through Research”in Dublin, Ireland, July 22-24, 2004.DENISE SWANSON-SKRADSKI (BS’96) isenrolled in the University of Pittsburgh NurseAnesthesia program. rdskradski@aol.comHEATHER WILL ARNOLD (BS’97) is currentlyworking in public health for a program calledHealthy Child Care Illinois serving nine centralIllinois counties. She and her husband welcomedtheir first daughter, Madilyn, on Dec. 2, 2002 andtheir second daughter, Megan, on Jan. 20, 2004.Her new address is 3516 St. Annes Dr., Springfield,IL 62712. nursarnold@insightbb.comSARA CAMPBELL POLLARD (BS’97) is thefounder and coordinator of the PostpartumDepression (PPD) Education Program at ColemanCenter for Women at Indiana University Hospitalin Indianapolis. The mission of this program is tolower the incidence of PPD by identifying,screening, and educating those pregnant womenwho are most at risk to develop the disorder.rnssp74@netzero.netKATIE HADDIX BEEHN (BS’98) is currently a fulltime,stay-at-home mom to Jared Randall (3 ½ years),Julianna Rose (22 months), and Elizabeth Kate (3months). Before having children, she worked in theNICU and was active in bereavement care. She alsovolunteered at a Crisis Pregnancy Center where sheperformed pre-natal ultrasounds.kbeehn@cinci.rr.comContinued on page 22Nursing Alumnus Is‘Larger Than Life’Steve Baunach (BS’97) was one of 11 Purdue alumni chosen tobe featured for “Purdue Day” at the Indiana State Fair in August 2004.He was nominated because of his involvement in The IndianaHeart Hospital and the impact a healthcare facility like this has onthe economic development of the state. His larger-than-life-sizedphoto cutout was featured at the fair and in print advertising.“As the Charter President of the Purdue School of NursingStudent Council, I am proud to represent the school and feel it myobligation to promote bothnursing and Purdue any chanceI get,” he says.Steve worked as a cardiovascularnurse at CommunityEast when The Indiana HeartHospital (TIHH) was beginningthe construction phase. He hadsome experience with the earlierversions of the software thatwould become the hospital’strademark product, Centricity.“I was seen as a valuableasset to GE Medical Systemsbecause of my nursing/ITexperience,” he says. He washired as a contractor to helpdevelop the software.As a contractor he consultedwith Community HealthNetwork to transform theirworkflow and develop computerizednursing documentation,the Intra-operative cockpit, andphysician documentation.As a part of IT ProfessionalServices, he also trained all theSteve Baunach’s larger-thanlife-photocutout at the IndianaState Fair.employees of the hospital in all applications to be used. He stayedat TIHH through its “go-live” in February of 2002.Once the hospital was open and self-sufficient, he movedbriefly to sales where he helped sell systems to Saint Francis HeartHospital of Tulsa, the world’s second all-digital hospital, andUniversity Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida.In October 2003, he was promoted to America’s Marketingand now serves as the Manager of Digital Hospitals for theAmericas. He also manages all national show sites for GEHealthcare Information Technologies.Steve is also a First Lieutenant and Intensive Care Nurse inthe United States Army Reserves and was appointed the Commanderof Alpha Company of the 256th Combat Support Hospital,a 16-bed hospital, in December 2004.This field hospital is fully functional and deployed within tenmiles of the forward battle area in war. Alpha Company has 325personnel comprised of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and specialtypersonnel. The hospital takes up eight acres of ground and is a partof the U.S. Army Reserve component stationed in Blacklick, Ohio.His e-mail is steve.baunach@med.ge.com.25

ANNE MARIE MILLER BINGHAM (BS’98) currentlyworks part-time as a Circulating Nurse in OR at ColumbusSurgery Center in Columbus, IN. In June 1999 she marriedB.J. Bingham. They are the parents of Zachary Bernard,born September 2003 and Ruth Elizabeth, born April 2004.annbingham76@yahoo.comTONYA KREKELER (BS’98) is currently a staff nurse andlactation counselor at Home Hospital, Lafayette, IN. Shehas a son, Cameron, who is five years old and a son, Colin,who was born June 28, 2004. He was 10 lbs. 7 ½ oz and21 1/4” at birth.NANCY NORTHCUTT LUNDQUIST (BS’99) is currentlyworking part-time in surgery at Porter Hospital in Valparaiso,IN. She gave birth to a daughter, Aubrey Lynn, on Oct. 18,2004.2000sTRICIA MEEGAN GRABINSKI (BS’00) is the IVF Coordinatorat the Reproductive Medicine Group, Tampa, FL. OnSeptember 25, 2004 she married Jim Grabinski (BSSE ’01).tricia@grabinski.netLAURA LEVERTON SMITH (BS’00) graduated in May2004 with an MS from Purdue School of Nursing and nowworks as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a gastroenterologyclinic. lauraleverton@yahoo.comCOURTNEY JANE ANDRES SCHILMILLER (BS’01) hasbeen a staff nurse at University of Louisville EmergencyDepartment Trauma Center since 2001. In January 2004 shewas promoted to relief charge nurse. She is a member ofANA, Emergency Nurses Association and Kentucky NursesAssociation. In 2004 she was the recipient of the KentuckyNurse Excellence Award. She married Michael Schilmillerin April 2004. Her new address is 6870 Stiller Road, FloydsKnobs, IN 47119.MEGAN MUTZ (BS ’04), co-recipient of the ISNA 2004Spirit of Nursing Award, is completing her first year ofgraduate study at Vanderbilt University. She is studying tobecome a women’s health nurse practitioner.meganmutz@yahoo.comGini Hinrichs (BS’03) is currently stationed in Iraq.She writes:“I am in the Al Anbar providence with an FRSS(forward resuscitative surgical system) and SSTP (surgicalshock trauma platoon). Our hospital is a Level 2 and it ismade out of tents.“I work mainly in the ER, but I also do recovery,operating room, and even flight nursing. You could say I ama long way from my days at Home Hospital in Lafayette!“We are seeing some horrific injuries, but we are doingsome great things. I don’t think anything could have fullyprepared me for what I am doing, but I wanted to take thetime to thank the School of Nursing for the knowledge andskills I learned there.”Virginia M. HinrichsENS NC USNtubbs03@hotmail.comFaculty and staff prepared a 38-pound care package forGini and her fellow nurses containing an assortment ofnecessities including peanut butter, Oreos, Pringles, wetwipes, facial cleaners, nail files, and lip balm. Contentswere based upon requests received by Julie Novak fromformer students serving in the Middle East.Let us hear from you!We will use your news in the nextissue of Purdue Nurse.Please send photos!REPLY FORM ON INSIDE OF BACK COVER26

FACULTY ALMANACGRANTSCarol Baird, DNS, APRN, BC, and Sharon Wilkerson, PhD,RN, CNS, received a $365,719 grant from the Health Researchand Services Administration, DHHS, for “STEP-UP: Students ToExemplary Professionals (CNA to RN).” STEP-UP Coordinatorsare Liz O’Neil and Noelle Lottes; program evaluator is Dr.Laura Sands; STEP-UP clinic mentor is Dr. Julie Novak; CNAinstructor is Dr. Nancy Edwards; Academic Counselor isEleanor Stephan with assistance from Dr. Mary Ilu Altman.Nancy Edwards, PhD, RN, Barbra Wall, PhD, RN, andSharon Wilkerson, PhD, RN, received a $5,000 PurdueGraduate School Recruitment Grant, October 2004.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, and BarbStrasburger, MS, RN, CFNP, Expansion of Services: FamilyHealth Clinic of Carroll County, $15,000 from the United Fundof Carroll County, and $11,500 from the Indiana State Departmentof Health.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, with Alan Zillichand Anna McDaniel, $20,000 grant for the Development of anOnline Tobacco Cessation Course for Purdue and IndianaUniversity Health Care Professionals, Indiana Higher EducationTelecommunication System.Elizabeth O’Neil, FNP, RN, and Mary Ilu Altman, PhD,received a $2,000 Service Learning Faculty Development Grantfrom the Purdue Office of Engagement, December 2004. Theaward will fund the NUR 348 Spanish Health Fair project at theLafayette Adult Resource Academy.Laura Sands, PhD, received a $435,377 grant from the NationalInstitute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health on “ProgressiveFunctional Loss in Elders with Dependencies.” She alsoreceived a subcontract of $5,971 from the San Francisco VeteransAffairs Medical Center to provide psychometric consulting forthe development of a tool to measure patients’ preferences fortreatment for prostate cancer.PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCESPamela Aaltonen, MS, RN, “Bye, Bye, Boomers: Public HealthWorkforce Development and the Role of Affiliates, Indiana’sPlan,” American Public Health Association annual conference,Washington, DC, Nov. 8, 2004.Karen Chang, PhD, RN, “iCare Worksheet in the Pocket PC andthe Tablet PC,” and “DEMS - Diabetic e-Management System,”Regenstrief Center Health Care Delivery Systems workshop, WestLafayette, IN, Sept. 23, 2004. Also represented RegenstriefCenter Healthcare Engineering at “National Health InformationInfrastructure” conference, Washington, DC, July 20-23, 2004.Jane Kinyon, APRN, BC, “Assisting Clients to Cope withGrief,” Family Services, Inc. Home Care Staff, Lafayette, IN,June 23, 2004.Martha Libster, PhD, RN, CNS, “Healing Traditions,” secondannual Conference on History, Ethics, and Human Rights, PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, Sept. 10, 2004.Noelle C. Lottes, RN, MS, CFNP, “Hypertension,” PurdueUniversity President’s Council, West Lafayette, IN, Oct. 22, 2004;“Breast Cancer Risks, Detection and Treatment,” Harrison Hall,West Lafayette, IN, Oct 6, 2004 and Windsor Halls, WestLafayette, IN, Oct. 27, 2004.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, Otitis MediaWorkshop; Female Athlete Triad; Effective Interventions,Tobacco Use Prevention/Cessation, Contemporary ForumsClinical Pediatrics Conference, Seattle, WA, Sept. 18-22, 2004;“Mental Health Promotion, Reducing Stigma: The KySS Campaign,”Conference on History, Ethics, and Human Rights,Purdue University, West Lafayette, Sept. 10, 2004, and MentalHealth Association Annual Meeting, Lafayette, Eli Lilly,Aug. 9, 2004.Polly Royal, MS, APRN, BC, “Diabetes,” Purdue UniversityPresident’s Council, West Lafayette, IN, Oct. 22, 2004.Laura Sands, PhD, “Health Consequences of Living with UnmetADL Needs,” invited presentation to the IUPUI RegenstriefInstitute, Nov. 2, 2004; “Consequences of Frail Elders Living inthe Community Without Needed ADL Help,” invited for presentationat the 57 th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society ofAmerica, Washington DC. The Gerontologist, 44(1), 2004.Barb Strasburger, MS, RN, FNP, “Sustainability in NurseManaged Clinics; Chronic Disease Management,” podiumpresentation at the National Nursing Centers Consortium annualmeeting in Nashville, TN, Oct .15-17, 2004.Barbra Wall, PhD, RN, “Definite Lines of Influence: WomenReligious and Catholic Laywomen in Late 19th and Early 20thCentury Hospitals,” History of Women Religious Conference,Atchison, KS, June 2004; “Irish Catholic Sisters and Nursing inAmerica, 1865-1925,” International Nursing Research Congress,Dublin, Ireland, July 2004; “Unlikely Entrepreneurs: CatholicSisters and Hospitals, 1865-1925,” Annual Social ScienceHistory Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2004.Donna Schmeiser, MSN, RN, BC and Karen Yehle, MS, APRN,BC, “Moving an Idea to Reality…A Capstone for FundamentalsStudents,” podium presentation at the Drexel University NursingEducation Institute, Philadelphia, PA, June 2004.Karen Yehle, MS, APRN, BC and Donna Schmeiser, MSN,RN, BC, “An Innovation to Increase Confidence for the NursingStudent Entering the Acute Care Clinical Setting,” roundtablesession at the 31st annual National Conference on ProfessionalNursing Education and Development, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2004.Karen Yehle, MS, APRN, BC, Nancy Edwards, PhD, RN, andRuth Wukasch, PhD, RN, “The Influence of a ClinicalPreceptorship on the Development of Leadership Concepts inSenior Nursing Students,” podium presentation at the 15thInternational Nursing Research Congress, Sigma Theta TauInternational, Dublin, Ireland, July 2004.27

Burton, E, Phillips, RS, Covinsky, K, Sands, LP, Goldman, L,Dawson, N, Conners, A, Landefeld, CS, (2004),“The Relation of theAutopsy Rate to Physicians’ Beliefs and Recommendations AboutAutopsy,” The American Journal of Medicine, 117, 255-261.Chren, MM, Sahay, AP, Sands, LP, Maddock, L, Lindquist, K,Bertenthal, D, Bacchetti, P, (2004), “Variation in Care forNonmelanoma Skin Cancer in a Private Practice and a VeteransAffairs Clinic.” Medical Care, 42, 1019-1026.Wilkerson, SA & Loveland-Cherry, C (2004), Johnson’s BehavioralSystem Model. In J.J. Fitzpatrick & A.L. Whall (eds.),Conceptual Models of Nursing: Analysis and Application, 4thed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/ Prentice Hall.PUBLICATIONS OF BOOK REVIEWSJane Kirkpatrick, MSN, RNC, (left) and Linda Caputi, MSN, EdD,RN, Professor of Nursing, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois,(right) received the 2004 Pinnacle Award in the category ofComputer-Based Professional Education Technology. The award,for the CD-ROM “PhysWhiz II: Labor and Delivery,” was presentedat the November Sigma Theta Tau International conference byDan Pesut, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, President of STTInternational. The CD-ROM is available for purchase throughCollege of DuPage: http://www.cod.edu/software.Baird, CL, & Sands, L (2004) “Effectiveness of Guided Imageryand Progressive Muscle Relaxation to Reduce Chronic Pain andMobility Difficulties of Osteoarthritis,” Pain ManagementNursing, 5 (3), 97-104.Coyle-Rogers, P (2004) “Shared Success: The Challenge ofCaring for Today’s Health Occupations Educators,” Journal ofCareer and Technical Education, 20(2), 7-24.Coyle-Rogers, P and Rogers, G (2004) “Differences in AdaptiveCompetency Acquisition Between Traditionally Certified andAlternatively Certified Technology Educator Teachers,” Journalof Technology Studies, XXIX(2), 120-123.Libster, M (2004) “Herbal Diplomats: The Contribution of EarlyAmerican Nurses (1830-1860) to Nineteenth-Century Health CareReform and the Botanical Medical Movement,” Golden ApplePublications, November, 2004.Novak, J (2005). “Health in the Global Community,” in Nies,M and McEwan, M Community Health Nursing: Promoting theHealth of Aggregates, 4th Edition, Philadelphia: Elsevier; Novak,J (2005) Co-editor, “Food Safe Schools,” Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention, American Nurses Foundation NationalNursing Coalition for School Health. Co-Editor of KySS Supplementfor the Journal of Pediatric Healthcare.Buffum, M, Sands, LP, Miaskowski, C, Brod, M, Washburn, A(2004) “A Clinical Trial of the Effectiveness of Regularly ScheduledVersus As-needed Administration of Acetaminophen in theManagement of Discomfort in Older Adults with Dementia,”Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 52, 1093-1097.28PUBLICATIONSYehle, K. (2004). [Review of the book Cardiovascular NursingSecrets]. Doody’s Review Service (on-line). Available: http://www.doody.comACCOLADESPamela Aaltonen, MS, RN, was appointed to the Indiana AreaHealth Education Center Advisory Board and elected to theGoverning Council of the American Public Health Association.Carol Baird, DNS, APRN, BC, is president-elect of Purdue’sDelta Omicron chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.Cynthia L. Bozich Keith MSN, APRN, BC, received a Certificateof Recognition at the Volunteer Recognition Day Ceremony fromthe Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, LogansportState Hospital, April 22, 2004.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, was selected toreceive the 2005 Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Awardfrom the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University ofSan Diego. She was also included in Who’s Who in the World andWho’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and was appointed to theAACN Doctoral Program Planning Committee. She moderated twosessions on the “Future of Doctoral Education” and one sessionon “Building Research Networks.”Polly Royal, MS, APRN, BC, achieved Board Certification inMedical-Surgical Nursing from the American Nurses CredentialingCenter.Laura Sands, PhD, received the 2004 Faculty EnhancementAward, School of Nursing, Purdue University.Kathleen Sebrey-Schafer, MSN, RNC, NP, has been recertifiedas a Perinatal Nurse Practitioner by the American NursesCredentialing Center.Marti Van Court received the 2004 School of Nursing StaffEnhancement Award.Karen Yehle, MS, APRN, BC, was recertified as a ClinicalSpecialist in Medical-Surgical Nursing by the American NursesCredentialing Center.

ENGAGEMENT/SERVICEPamela Aaltonen, MS, RN, served as mentor for Indiana Teamof the Mid-America Regional Public Health LeadershipInstitute (University of Illinois Chicago School of PublicHealth).Carol Baird, DNS, APRN, BC, is a grant proposal reviewerfor American Nurses Foundation grants and Sigma Theta TauInternational grants, and a manuscript reviewer for the Journalof Advanced Nursing, Orthopaedic Nursing Journal, andWorldviews on Evidenced-Based Nursing. She is also acommittee member of the Indiana Arthritis Initiative SteeringCommittee, Indiana State Department of Health, and was aninvited participant at the 2004 DIS International EducatorsConference, Denmark International Studies.Diane Campbell, MSN, RN, serves as treasurer of SigmaTheta Tau’s Delta Omicron chapter, teaches pregnancy classesat Lifecare Services (a local crisis pregnancy center), and is amember of the March of Dimes speaker’s bureau for area highschool classes. She is also a member of the program servicescommittee for the March of Dimes.Karen Chang, PhD, RN, was a reviewer for Health Resourcesand Services Administration Nursing Workforce Diversitygrant, Feb. 17-20, 2004, and helped Lafayette Adult LearningAcademy develop a proposal requesting equipment related toinformation technology. She is also chair of the ResearchCommittee of Sigma Theta Tau International Society, DeltaOmicron Chapter.Patricia Coyle-Rogers, PhD, MSN, RN,BC, was named to theAmerican Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education& Professional Development panel of nurse CNE expertreviewers.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, and KarenChang, PhD, RN, serve on the Purdue University RegenstriefCenter for Healthcare Engineering Launch Team. Novak servesas President of the STTI Delta Omicron chapter.Julie Novak, DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, chaired theNational Nursing Coalition for School Health, American NursesFoundation.Laura Sands, PhD, became a reviewer for “The Journals ofGerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.”Kathleen Sebrey-Schafer, MSN, RNC, NP, and Julie Novak,DNSc, RN, MA, CPNP, FAANP, serve on the Advocacy andPolitical Strategies Committee of the Female Athlete TriadCoalition. Novak also serves on the Executive Committee.Barbra Wall, PhD, RN, is a Panel Reviewer for the NationalLibrary of Medicine/NIH Publication, September 2004.SharonWilkerson, PhD, RN, CNS, is an Indiana AssociationInfant Mental Health board member and chairperson of thestrategic planning committee.Karen Yehle, MS, APRN, BC, is a Sigma Theta Tau InternationalAbstract Reviewer, Leadership Sessions, Internationallevel, for the 2005 Convention and was named an appraiser forthe Commission on Approval by the American NursesCredentialing Center.Zink Retires After 31 YearsMary Helen Zink, EdD, RN, MA, has seen many changesin the 31 years she has been at the Purdue School of Nursing.She began her career here in 1974, when Helen Johnsonwas still head and faculty offices and the learning center werelocated in the Quonset huts in South Campus Courts.She helped expand the nursing program from an associateto a bachelor’s degree. Today, as she is ready to retire, theschool is once again expandingits programs frombachelor’s to master’s todoctoral degrees.“In those early days allthe faculty members woremany different hats—teaching, administering,advising students,” she says.“We had to build many of thesupporting structures thatmake the school what it istoday.“We worked as a team togive our students the besteducation,” she says. “And itpaid off: employers havesought after Purdue nurses Mary Helen Zink, EdD, RN, MAfrom the beginning of theprogram, because of our emphasis on clinical experience andleadership.”Dr. Zink went into nursing because of her love of science,and of teaching. She earned her BS degree from St. Mary’sCollege in South Bend in 1960. Fresh out of school, she wentto work at the 60-bed pediatric unit at St. Joseph Hospital inPontiac, Mich. She also taught at McCauley School of Nursingfor two years before becoming the administrator for Holy CrossSchool of Nursing in Anderson, IN.Dr. Zink came to Purdue in 1974 as Associate Professorand Section Chairman of the Associate Degree Program inNursing. She was also Acting Head from 1974-1975. Sheserved as Assistant Head for Instructional Administration from1982 -1992. In the last decade, she has focused on teachingleadership and management.“The basic thing we are still teaching students is to beleaders in all practice settings. It is important that they becreative, critical thinkers, futurists, who are comfortable withcommunication and delegation,” she says.“I try to teach students what they can do to furthernursing, how they can give quality patient care with limitedresources, and the importance of ethical and legal responsibilitieswith regard to delegation.”“Mary Helen provides an extremely important historicalperspective and wise counsel,” says School of Nursing headDr. Julie Novak.In retirement, Dr. Zink, who is primary caretaker for hermother, hopes to do more traveling and become more involvedwith the community at the new University Place complexwhere they live. It is also likely she will continue teaching insome way: “It’s always been a dream of mine to work withelementary school students,” she says.She also enjoys outdoor activities such as golf and sailing,and maintains a condo and sailboat in the Traverse City areaof Michigan. And it is likely she will heed her own advice:“Always keep growing.”29

FACULTY ALMANACLibsterNielsenBowman Braswell Davis GonzalesNelson RichWebster WellsNEW FACULTY / TRANSITIONSMachatyPierceMartha Libster, PhD, RN, CNS, was appointed AssociateProfessor of Nursing. She holds a doctoral degree in Humanities-Healthcare from Oxford Brookes University in England, and anMSN in psychiatric nursing from the University of Colorado. Herresearch areas include: history of nursing prior to 1860, botanicaland other domestic medicine, healthcare reform and cultural aspectsof health and healing. She held faculty positions at the University ofNorthern Colorado and the University of Colorado Health ScienceCenter School of Nursing. She was also director of the IntegrativeResource Center for Cancer at the University of Colorado CancerCenter. She is the author of three books and speaks internationallyon the integration of traditional healing and nursing practice.Jacqueline Nielsen, PhD(c), RN, MSN, AOCN, CNS, wasappointed Visiting Assistant Professor. She earned her ASN andBSN from the Purdue School of Nursing and an MSN OncologyCNS from IU. She is also certified as an Advanced OncologyCertified Nurse (AOCN). She has worked as a staff nurse, chargenurse, nursing supervisor and oncology CNS for 14 years at GreaterLafayette Health Services. She has facilitated cancer support groupsand community cancer screenings. She created the first localdedicated Community Cancer Resource Collection in cooperationwith the West Lafayette Public Library and coordinated CampBluebird (an adult cancer retreat).Linda Bowman, MS, RN, has been appointed ContinuingLecturer. She received her BS in nursing and MS in ChildDevelopment and Family Studies from Purdue. She was COO atArnett Health Systems for 18 years, adjunct faculty in the BusinessDivision at Ivy Tech State College, instructor for the Society forHuman Resource Management Certification Program, andExecutive Director of the multi-county Visiting Nurse Home HealthService, Inc. and Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. for 12 years.Bowman has provided leadership to a variety of non-profitcommunity groups including the United Way. Her teaching areas atPurdue are leadership and management, public health, communityengagement, and service learning.Mel Braswell, MS, RN, CNS, CNOR, Clinical Assistant Professor,has been named Assignment Coordinator for the School ofNursing. In this newly approved position, she will coordinateclinical site placements, course assignments, and correspondingfaculty assignments. She works closely with the Assistant Head ofAcademic Affairs, Student Services, and Program Directors forcourse scheduling needs, and with the Director of Engagement forclinical site needs. She has been with Greater Lafayette HealthServices for 31 years, and is currently Education Manager forPerioperative Services.Lynn Davis, MSN, FNP-C, RN, has been appointed VisitingAssistant Professor. She received her FNP from Indiana WesleyanUniversity in 2004. She was a practicing RN for 25 years in homehealth, public health. She taught pediatrics, adolescent health, adultand women’s health and ambulatory care at Ivy Tech State College.At Purdue, she teaches health assessment and public health nursingat the Family Health Clinic of Carroll County.Yolanda Gonzales, BSN, RN, MS(c), has been appointed VisitingAssistant Instructor. She graduated from the Purdue School ofNursing in 2000, and has worked in labor and delivery at HomeHospital. She is completing her MS in women’s health at IUPUI. AtPurdue, she is mentored by Professors Jane Kirkpatrick and DeDeCampbell as a member of the maternal health teaching team.Kimberly DeJarnett Nelson, MSN, RN, CS, ANP, FNP, hasbeen named Visiting Assistant Professor of Nursing. She earned aBSN from Ball State University in 1986, and an MSN fromIndiana University in 1996 specializing in Primary Health Care ofAdults - Adult Nurse Practitioner. She completed her PostMaster’s Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Indianapolisin 1998. She has worked in Internal Medicine, ER, occupationalmedicine, and cardiology. Currently, she is employed byArnett HealthSystem in Internal Medicine in a group of five MDsand two NPs. At Purdue, she teaches the Adult Nurse Practitionerseminar and role transition course.

Heather Rich, RN, BSN, MS student, has been appointed VisitingClinical Instructor. She graduated from Purdue in May 2000, andis currently working towards her MS degree through IUPUI (PedsCNS). Her previous employment includes staff nurse and patientcare coordinator at Home Hospital Pediatrics. She was also adjunctstaff at Ivy Tech State College. At Purdue, she is mentored byProfessors Jane Overbay and Clara Richardson as a member of thepediatrics teaching team.Kay Webster, MS, RN, CNS, has been appointed VisitingAssistant Professor. She received her bachelor’s degree from theUniversity of Indianapolis and her master’s from the Universityof Illinois in Chicago. Her expertise includes critical care nursing,home health, and life long learning. At Purdue she teachesfundamentals and public health clinicals.Courtenay Wells, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, has been appointedVisiting Assistant Professor. She earned her BSN from the IndianaUniversity School of Nursing, Indianapolis, in 1998, and her MSfrom Purdue in 2002. She worked in medical/oncology, inpatientpsych, ER, home health, and as a FNP. She teaches psychiatricnursing, practices in the Nursing Center for Family Health, andassists with the preceptorship component of the ANP program.STAFFEva Machaty has joined the School as receptionist and accountclerk. A native of Hungary, she taught mathematics and musicat the junior high level. After coming to the United States, sheworked in financial services and as a decorative painter.Sonia Pierce joined the School’s secretarial support staff. Shehas 26 years of experience at Greater Lafayette Health Services.She will support Jane Kirkpatrick, Assistant Head for AcademicAffairs, and Pam Aaltonen, Director of Engagement. She will alsosupport the maternal health and public health teaching teams.The Student Services team lifted off in a Black Hawkhelicopter with Purdue’s Army ROTC as part of the“Fly an Educator” program sponsored by the IndianaNational Guard. The adventure included a presentationabout opportunities for those interested in joining thearmed services through the Army ROTC program atPurdue. Adventurers included academic advisors EleanorStephan, Laura Curry, and Mary Musselman, and Directorof Student Services and Diversity Enhancement Dr. MaryIlu Altman. The team will fl y to Camp Atterbury in April fora base visit.ALUMNI, SEND US YOUR NEWS!We love to hear from alumni! Send us anote about yourself-- position, promotion,professional activities, publications, honors,marriage, babies, change of address.We will use your news in the ALUMNIALMANAC section of the next issue ofPurdue Nurse. We can also use photos!Name(Maiden name)Year of graduation/DegreeAddressCity State ZipCheck here if this is a change of addressE-mailActivitiesMail to: Lynn Holland, Purdue Nurse, Johnson Hall School of Nursing, 502 N. University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2069or email lholland@nursing.purdue.edu31

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