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Network
Spring/Summer 2001 ■ Vol. III, No. 1
Kristin Berlin:
Watch Out
for this
Passionate
Advocate page page 11
Janis
Gerkensmeyer
Pain and
Lullabies page page 44
Michele
Schermann:
Blending
Horticulture
and Health Care
page page 12 12
&Faculty
Publications page page 99
Nursing
School of
Nursing

Dean, School of Nursing
Sandra Edwardson, Ph.D., R.N.
Editor
Barbara La Valleur
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Contributing writers
Katie M. Dinndorf, Joanne Disch, Sandra
Edwardson, Linda Hutchinson, Gary Jader,
Barbara LaValleur, Marie Manthey, Jane Ellen
Nielsen, Marguerite Rheinberger,
Linda Skogrand, Kevin Smith
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Barbara La Valleur, Tim Rummelhoff
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Cover: Kristin Berlin, a Master’s student at the
University of Minnesota School of Nursing, is
doing her clinical at the State Capitol. She will
complete her Master’s Degree in nursing with
a focus in health-care policy, leadership/
management in May. See article on page 1.
(Photograph by Barbara La Valleur)
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Spring/Summer 2001 ■ Vol. III, No. 1
Contents
Up Front 1
Kristin Berlin: Watch Out for this Passionate Advocate for Nurses by Barbara La Valleur
Outreach 3
Outreach Calendar by Sharon Vegoe
Faculty 4
Dr. Janis Gerkensmeyer by Barbara La Valleur
Dr. Linda Chlan by Marguerite Rheinberger
Drs. Donna Bliss and Barbara Leonard
1999-2000 Publications
Kevin Smith
Jean Kintgen Andrews by Jane Ellen Nielsen
Students 12
Michele Schermann by Jane Ellen Nielsen
Undergraduate Clinicals: One Student’s Perspective by Katie M. Dinndorf
Densford Clinical Scholars
CUPES Update by Linda Skogrand 16
School of Nursing Community News 17
Humor Contest by Linda Hutchinson
Colleagues in Caring by Joanne Disch
White Family Cancer Award
Obituaries
From the Dean
May Gatherings
by Sandra Edwardson 23
Memories, Mentoring, Members 24
Nursing Alumni Society News by Marie Manthey
Speaking Out: Letters from our readers
Editor’s Corner
Welcome to the Spring/Summer issue of Network, the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing magazine for alumni, faculty, students, staff,
and friends. We acknowledge your commitment, compassion, and integrity
especially during National Nurses Week May 6 –12. The nursing shortage
has been a hot topic in the media and no doubt also in your conversations these
past few months. As a member of the University’s Grassroots Committee, I have been actively
communicating the need for investing in the future of the University and the School of
Nursing as well as the need to strengthen our foundation. If you haven’t contacted your
legislators, time is running out. See the Dean’s Column on Page 23. Please let us know what
you want to read about in Network. This is your magazine. Thank you for informing us of
your change of address as soon as possible. It helps us save money and insures that you receive
your latest copy of Network on time. Barbara La Valleur, Editor
laval008@umn.edu

BARBARA LA VALLEUR
Kristin Berlin, left, discusses upcoming legislation with Rep. Karen Clark at Clark’s office in the State Office Building as
part of her clinical internship. Clark said, “I hope I can count her as a colleague here at the legislature someday soon.
She would make an exceptional candidate for public office.”
Kristin Berlin:
care policy, leadership/management at the University of
Watch Out
Minnesota School of Nursing. She will complete the program
in May 2001.
Kristin’s clinical finds her, not in a hospital, nor in a clinic,
for this
but driving on I-94 between the University and the Minnesota
State Capitol. Kristin’s nursing and political journey
PAdvocate
brought her to the Capitol in January where she is an intern
for Nurses
By Barbara La Valleur
Kristin Berlin personifies passion. She’s passionate about
nursing, passionate about politics, passionate about
leadership. Her fast-talking, east-coast clip and intense
demeanor has earned her the nickname “CT,” for Connecticut,
her home state. It suits her: short, to the point. But watch
out. There is something special about this fiery easterner and
it doesn’t take long in her presence to find out she is one
powerful advocate for nurses.
In 1999, the 33-year-old former staff nurse came to Minnesota
and met with Ruth Lindquist, Ph.D, Division Director of
the School of Nursing, to discuss the possibilities of graduate
school. That conversation started Kristin down the road
toward a Master’s degree in nursing with a focus in health-
to Rep. Karen Clark, an 11-term representative, herself a
13-year veteran nurse. Sitting in a crowded office filled with
papers, drafts of legislation, and resource materials piled on
every available surface, Kristin discusses upcoming legislation
with Clark. Her work with Clark is clearly providing opportunities
to take new avenues on her educational journey. “I’ve
got my hands in a gazillion different pots at the legislature,”
Kristin explained later on a rare break in the basement cafeteria
of the State Office Building. Among the bills they are
working on is “a nickel-a-drink tax.” Kristin explained, “this
bill will help fund aftercare service for individuals who have
completed a chemical dependency treatment program. It is
also important because we are looking at ways to increase
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funding for sober high schools in the state. Our youth are at
such risk.”
In a special meeting with about 20 high school students as
well as several others who had come to the Capitol in support
of GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) lobby day,
Kristin listened intently as Clark addressed the concerns of
gay and lesbian students. Clark was introduced as the longest
serving, openly lesbian state representative
in the country. ‘The politics of
“Having Kristin Berlin work with
politics is powerful.
me as an intern has been a pure
joy!” Clark said, adding “Kristin is a Nurses have the
very bright, energetic, and compas-
power to be able
sionate person who came to me
unsolicited as a result of having to access that power
heard me speak to a group of nurses
and facilitate the
that I urged to get politically active
at the state legislature. I was power they have’
delighted to have a young person
with her considerable personal skills and professional nursing
background interested in learning the legislative process with
an eye to becoming part of it in the future.”
“Kristin brings both enthusiasm and intellectual integrity to
her internship with me. She has taken on several tough bills;
done thorough research, well beyond what was expected;
faithfully engaged the community stakeholders I’ve asked her
to bring into the process; and always seems refreshingly eager
to learn. Kristin also contributes first-hand knowledge of
health-care issues from a nursing perspective at every opportunity.
I found that brings valuable credibility and informed
insight I need,” Clark added. It is clear that Clark enjoys
working with Kristin. She also predicts another path that
Kristin could possibly take. “I hope I can count her as a colleague
here at the legislature someday soon. She would make
an exceptional candidate for public office and I know she has
the determination and commitment it takes to win.”
Kristin’s supervisor, Carol O’Boyle, Ph.D., R.N., Epidemiology
Supervisor in Infection Control at the Minnesota
Department of Health (MDH), explained another aspect of
Kristin’s educational process. “Kristin is working at the
Minnesota Department of Health on a study to identify the
staffing requirements for infection control nurses in U.S.
health-care facilities. Her interest in staffing issues for nurses
in the clinical setting influenced her willingness to participate
in this study to describe the time-task relationships for a specific
nursing specialty. Kristin is passionate about the nursing
profession and committed to identifying methods to improve
the working conditions of nurses. I believe she will continue
in both her education and in her career to be an advocate for
nursing,” said O’Boyle.
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May 6–12
Kristin believes strongly that mentoring and leadership play
an important part in the education and socialization process of
nursing and the learning journey. She acknowledged one of her
mentors along that journey. “The person who got me hooked
into politics is Sally Cohen, Ph.D. at Yale University School of
Nursing. I would not be here today if she had not mentored
and believed in me.”
As an intern, Kristin says her biggest challenge is time.
“Most of the bills I have been working on have been healthcare
related. I don’t have the time to accomplish what I want to
accomplish. I have to leave things and pick them up the next
week.” That’s frustrating, she admits. Yet she will be the first to
say, “it’s been a learning experience, especially learning about
state government. The politics of politics is powerful. Nurses
have the power to be able to access that power and facilitate the
power they have,” Kristin believes. “Yesterday was a great day.”
The previous day, Nurses Day at the Capitol, Kristin
attended a legislative briefing and committee hearing on a senate
bill that relates to mandatory overtime for nurses. “It was
empowering to see the power and passion they have,” she
added. “Nurses were standing up for their profession and as
human beings.” The nurses, for the most part, were representatives
of the Minnesota Nursing Association (MNA). “The
big issue was we (as nurses) can’t make the decisions about
when we leave after a scheduled shift, and yet we have people’s
lives in our hands all the time. Senator Anderson and the
others who testified clearly got their point across!”
“Nurses have to become more politically savvy,” Kristin said.
“There are approximately 55,000 nurses in Minnesota. This is
not just about MNA. This is about nurses who are not represented.
Every nurse should have business cards. It is important
for our society to realize that nurses function in many different
capacities and settings.”
W
“ e have to invest in health care, especially the Academic
Health Center in the nursing profession. Education plays
a large role in economic development and workforce issues in
this state. We have to find ways that we can work together, as
hospitals, nurses, unions, and health-care institutions. The
health-care industry needs to take a larger responsibility in figuring
out how to staff as well; this is a systems issue. They need
to think outside the box. And, it’s not just the health-care institutions.
It’s everyone’s issue,” Kristin stressed.
Kristin is a member of the School of Nursing grassroots
committee that is actively vocal about the impact of the University’s
Biennial Budget (see the Dean’s Column on page 23).
She has spoken to faculty, students, staff, and anyone who will
listen about the nursing issue in relationship to the budget.
Where will the next road take this passionate, politically motivated
nurse? Will there be signs directing her: doctorate in
nursing?
“Absolutely,” comes the immediate answer. “I’d like to stay
in Minnesota. I’m going to stay on at the legislature in the offsession
as a volunteer. I would like to gain some real world
experience in policy, leadership, management, and advocacy,
and bring that knowledge back to the doctorate program at the
U of M.”
Once again, Kristin Berlin, (soon to be) M.S.N., B.S.N. personifies
passion: Passion about nursing, passion about politics,
passion about leadership. •

BARBARA LA VALLEUR
The Outreach Program Calendar for Summer 2001 by Sharon Vegoe
May 5 Annual School of Nursing Spring Celebration and Reunion
“Voices of Caring”
Radisson Hotel Metrodome, Minneapolis
9:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. (includes brunch)
Alumni members: $25, non-members: $35
Faculty/Preceptor: $25
May 6–7 Traditional Tibetan Medicine
(Co-Sponsored with the Center for Spirituality and Healing)
Revealing the Art of the Medicine Buddha
Holiday Inn Metrodome, Minneapolis
May 6, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; May 7, 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Registration fee: $110 (10 contact hours)
May 10 “Anatomy of the Spirit and
Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can”
Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
(Co-Sponsored with the Center for Spirituality and Healing)
Temple Israel, 2324 Clinton Avenue South, Minneapolis
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Registration fee: $25
May 14–18 Summer Institute on International Infection Control
Moos Tower, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus
Registration fee: $600 (30 contact hours)
Graduate credit: 2 credits
$886.50 + $150 (materials and amenities)
May 21–22 Resource Development through Grant Writing
Radisson Hotel Metrodome, Minneapolis
Registration fee: $225 (14 contact hours)
Graduate credit: 1 credit
$443.25 + $95 (materials and amenities)
Complementary and
Alternative Therapies Conference
Two participants attending the
2000 Theoretical Foundations and
Experiential Learning in Complementary
and Alternative Therapies
conference, Noriko Hira, left, and
Ritsuko Yamada, go over notes from
the conference. Along with their
nursing educational opportunities,
they spent several days in rural Minnesota
where they were impressed by
“all the lakes, rabbits, squirrels,
birds, loons, fireflies, and kind people.”
Both Yamada and Hira are
assistant professors at the School
of Nursing in Hokkaido, Japan.
The Complementary and Alternative
Therapies conference is sponsored
by the School of Nursing, the Center
for Spirituality and Healing, and the
Academic Health Center. The dates of
the 2001 conference are July 23–27.
June 18–20 Summer Institute on Adolescent Health
Youth Development: Are We There Yet?
McNamara Alumni Center and Weaver-Densford Hall
Registration fee: $350
additional registration from single organization: $250
(20 contact hours)
Graduate credit: 2 credits, $886.50 + $125 (materials and amenities)
June 22–23 Summer Institute for Psychopharmacotherapeutics
in Advanced Practice Nursing
Saint Paul Hotel, St. Paul
Registration fee: $275 entire conference (14 contact hours),
$150 single day
Faculty/preceptor: $200
June 27–July 1 Second Annual Conference
on Pediatric Integrative Medicine
Hosted by the Center for Spirituality and Healing
Co-Sponsored by University of Arizona and Harvard University
River Centre Convention Center, St. Paul
Registration fee: $625 entire conference (30 contact hours)
$225 full-time students, $150 single day
July 23–27 Theoretical Foundations and Experiential Learning
in Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Earle Brown Center, University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus
Registration fee: $450 (35 contact hours), $110 single day;
Preceptor/faculty: $350; $70 single-day
Graduate credit: 2 credits, $886.50 + $150 (materials and amenities)
For brochures and registration materials:
School of Nursing Outreach Office, Linda Vegell: 612.626.4772,
E-mail: carls020@umn.edu
Outreach
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School of Nursing Faculty
NGerkensmeyer’s Research Shows
ewborns Experience
Less Pain
with
By Barbara La Valleur
Scientific journals as well as the national popular press are
reporting the findings of Janis Gerkensmeyer, Ph.D.,
M.S.N., R.N., Associate Professor at the School of
Nursing. Gerkensmeyer’s research is on the effects of music
on newborns (neonates) undergoing painful procedures, such
as circumcision and needle sticks.
Gerkensmeyer is looking forward to the research findings
being published this year in the prestigious Journal of Pediatric
Nursing. Articles have already appeared in Good Housekeeping
(Oct. 2000); Baby Talk & Parenting, (Oct. 2000); and Fit
Pregnancy, (Dec./Jan. 2001), as well as the Indianapolis Spotlight
Newspaper (May 17, 2000); Sigma Theta Tau’s “Excellence in
Practice,” and Inside IUPUI, a newsletter for Indiana University,
Purdue University, Indianapolis, (Sept. 21, 2000).
The study, a three-year process, was conducted while
Gerkensmeyer was a clinical nurse specialist at a pediatric
hospital in Indiana and a faculty member of Indiana University
School of Nursing, Indianapolis. Principal investigator of
the study was Betsy A. Joyce, Ed.D., M.S.N., C.P.N.P., associate
professor, along with Juanita Fogel Keck, D.N.S., R.N.,
now retired as associate professor at Indiana.
Results of the findings, according to the abstract, suggest
that “music may be an effective intervention to aid with pain
relief for neonates undergoing circumcision. Analyses suggest
that identifiable patterns
‘Music may be an effective
would emerge with a larger
intervention to aid with sample, and support the
need to further investi-
pain relief for neonates
gate the effects of music.”
undergoing circumcision.’
Gerkensmeyer hopes a
similar study with a larger
sample size will be conducted. Only 40 babies were used in
the initial study.
Gerkensmeyer expressed surprise at the findings. “We
found significance in terms of even music alone decreased
the heart rate as well as the oxygen level of newborns,”
Gerkensmeyer said, adding, “these interventions are useful in
decreasing the pain experience by newborns. This is a common
experience in which parents can relate.”
Although the study was done with two groups—neonates
experiencing circumcision and needle stick—“the most
remarkable findings seemed to be with the circumcision
group and the effects of music,” Gerkensmeyer said.
It’s not just any kind of soothing music that was used.
Specifically, one tape and one CD were utilized in the study.
The tape, “Heartbeat Musical Therapy 1, Stops Crying
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Lullabies
BARBARA LA VALLEUR
Dr. Janis Gerkensmeyer holds the tape, “Heartbeat Musical
Therapy 1 Stops Crying GUARANTEED!” used in a study with
newborns undergoing painful procedures.
GUARANTEED! ” and the CD, “Sleep Like a Baby,
Heartbeat Music Therapy,” were produced by Terry
Woodford, Colorado Springs, CO, a leading authority on
pre-recorded music therapy for children.
Tunes including familiar children’s lullabies, such as
“London Bridge,” “Are You Sleeping,” “Lullaby and Good
Night,” and “Hush Little Baby,” are set to the rhythm of a
heartbeat which has a soothing effect on the listener.
According to Betsy A. Joyce, quoted in the Sigma Theta
Tau “Excellence in Practice” article, “there are many
advantages to using music as therapy, including the cost effectiveness.
Nurses don’t need a physician’s order for this therapy
and parents can continue to use music at home. This study
supports the tremendous potential for music to contribute to
pain relief in other medical procedures.” •
Editor’s Note: For more information on the tape and CD,
visit www.babygotosleep.com. There is also a Sleep Like a Baby
CD for Adults.

By Marguerite Rheinberger
Linda Chlan, Ph.D., R.N., Assistant Professor in the School of
Nursing, believes that most people can associate something
pleasant with music. Linda will combine her love of
music with research of the therapeutic benefits of music as the
first recipient of the A. Marilyn Sime Faculty Research
Fellowship.
This past Fall, Linda received the two-year fellowship,
which has a 50 percent appointment in the Center for Spirituality
and Healing, sponsor of the fellowship. It provides
faculty with protected research time to develop a research area
specific to complementary therapies. Linda will use the time
to research the therapeutic effects of music on patients on
ventilators.
As a former critical care staff nurse, Linda cared for numerous
ventilated patients. The traditional method of managing
anxiety in these patients is by administering a variety of intravenous
sedation medications. These medications had many
side effects and Linda found that sometimes the patients
became more anxious and agitated. She wondered what else
could be done.
Her answer came while she was pursing her Master’s degree
in nursing during the early 1990s. She found research that
showed that listening to music is effective in reducing anxiety
and promoting relaxation in patients in coronary care units.
“I wondered if it could have the same benefit for patients receiving
mechanical ventilation,” said Linda. And thus began her
research interest. “Research
Dr. Chlan gives credit into the efficacy and effectiveness
of complementary
to Dr. Mariah Snyder,
therapies is the key to their
an early leader in wider acceptance by healthcare
providers, patients, and
complementary therapies.
health plans,” says Linda.
Linda defines “relaxing
music” as music with 60–80 beats per minute, slow flowing
rhythms and restrained dynamics, no words, simple composition,
and few instruments. “We always first assess a patient’s
personal music preference to avoid playing music that could
conjure up bad memories,” she says.
While the Sime fellowship provides Linda the necessary time
to focus on research, additional funding was necessary to support
her research endeavors. Thanks to the financial support
Sime Fellowship Recipient Explores
Therapeutic Benefits
BARBARA LA VALLEUR
Dr. Linda Chlan
ofMusic
Dr. Linda Chlan
of the University of
Minnesota’s Graduate
School and the Center
for Excellence in Critical
Care, Linda is currently
developing an instrument
that will more
accurately measure
anxiety in ventilated
patients than those that
currently exist.
Last Fall, Linda and
her colleagues from the
Schools of Medicine and
Pharmacy submitted a
grant to the National
Institutes of Health
(NIH), National Center
for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine.
They hope to test the
effects of relaxing music
on ventilated patients by
measuring the amount of
resulting sedation, anxiety
ratings, length of
time on ventilators, and
length of time in the
Intensive Care Unit
(ICU). They are awaiting
the funding decision.
Linda will be submitting
another grant
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Bliss & Leonard
Named to LongTerm Care
Professorships
Donna Zimmaro Bliss, Ph.D., R.N., and Barbara Leonard,
Ph.D., R.N., were appointed professorships by Dean
Sandra Edwardson during fall semester 2000.
Dr. Bliss was named to the Professorship in Long Term
Care of Elders, while Dr. Leonard was named to the
Professorship in Long Term Care of Children and Youth.
Dr. Bliss
Dr. Bliss, Associate Professor, joined the School of Nursing
faculty in 1993 after completing postdoctoral studies at the
University of Minnesota as a National Institute for Nursing
Research award recipient and a MAGEC fellow. She is the
only nurse to date who has been awarded a highly competitive
research grant from the American Federation for Aging
Research. Her research program focuses on long term care
problems common to elders, progressing from observational
studies of the causes and prevalence of diarrhea and fecal
incontinence to the efficacy of several interventions including
dietary fiber. Most recently, she has been exploring skin
problems associated with incontinence in nursing home residents.
Dr. Bliss currently serves as an Associate Editor of
Nursing Research, is a member of the National Advisory
Chlan continued from page 5
application to NIH in May. That grant will enable her to test
the acute effects of music intervention on serum measures of
stress in ventilated patients.
Former and current School of Nursing faculty members
have helped Linda at various stages in her research career. She
gives credit to Dr. Mariah Snyder, who was an early leader in
the complementary therapies movement. “I am indebted to
her vision in this area and for her willingness to be there for
me when I first became interested in researching the effects of
music,” says Linda. Dr. Ruth Lindquist provided encouragement
while Linda was pursuing her Master’s degree in
Nursing, and encouraged her to pursue a Ph.D. “She has been
and still is an important mentor to me,” says Linda.
Linda’s Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Marilyn Sime, Professor
Emeritus, who donated $600,000 to establish the research
fellowship program. According to Linda, Dr. Sime was an
advisor in every sense of the word, providing the muchneeded
support to her during her “sometimes arduous
journey to obtaining my Ph.D.”
There are many other people who were there for Linda
during her educational pursuits and continue to be. Among
them is School of Nursing Dean Sandy Edwardson. “I am
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Board of the Center for Clinical Investigation of the Wound
Ostomy and Continence Nurses, and a member of the
Executive Council of the Center for Nursing Research of
Elders at the SoN.
Dr. Leonard
Dr. Leonard, Associate Professor, has been with the
School of Nursing since 1991. She transferred from the
School of Public Health where
The professorship was
she had been a faculty member
since 1965. She is a Division created by SoN alumni,
Head at the SoN, and also
friends, faculty, and
directs the Center for Children
with Special Health Care Needs organizations.
at the SoN, one of only six
Maternal and Child Health Bureau awards that support nursing
nationwide. Dr. Leonard has pursued a focused research
program into the long term care of children with special needs
and has carefully integrated this work in meeting all three missions
of research, education, and service. Dr. Leonard’s
research is focused on developmental and behavioral outcomes
of children with diabetes. She regularly consults and
grateful for her early support of the Center for Spirituality
and Healing and for her support of my Sime Faculty Fellowship,”
says Linda.
When Linda returns to her home at the end of the day, she
finds support there as well. Her husband, James Grindle,
and her cats, Spike and Mertz, share her love of music and are
very supportive of her ambitions, she says. In her limited free
time, Linda enjoys running and watching wildlife with her
husband on their property in Lakeville.
For Linda, music has always been an integral part of her
life outside of work. Thanks to the Sime Faculty Research
Fellowship, it is now an integral part of her work life
as well. •
Marguerite Rheinberger, J.D., M.Ph., M.A. is a freelance writer
specializing in health and wellness articles.
Editor’s Note: Chlan has just received word that she was selected as
the 2001 recipent of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and
Associates, Inc. (S.G.N.A.) Outstanding Research Article award
for “Effects of a Single Music Therapy Intervention on Anxiety,
Discomfort, Satisfaction, and Compliance With Screening
Guidelines in Outpatients Undergoing Flexible Sigmoidoscopy.”
Chlan will receive the award May 20th, 2001, at the 28th Annual
Course in Tampa, Florida.

Dr. Donna Bliss, left, and Dr. Barbara Leonard, right, were joined by Dean Sandra Edwardson, center, at a reception honoring the two new
Long Term Care Professorships at the School of Nursing in November 2000.
provides educational programs to service delivery organizations
and practicing nurses on issues related to the long term
care of children.
The Long Term Care Professorship fund was established
in 1989 through the efforts of the School of Nursing Foundation
during the University’s last capital campaign. Led
by an estate gift from Freda K. Parks, a 1932 nursing graduate,
the professorship was created by SoN alumni, friends,
Nurse Practitioners: Expanding the Reach of Health Care
By Kevin Smith, R.N., C.N.P.
Announcing the world premiere of the video, Nurse
Practitioners: Expanding the Reach of Health Care, starring
real nurse practitioners, physicians, and others in the front lines of
health care. No, it will not be showing in a theater near you, but this
informative video is available to anyone who would like to learn about
nurse practitioners.
The main purpose of this video is to answer some basic questions
about the role of the nurse practitioner (N.P.). Ideal audiences include
high-school students, nursing students, clinic administrators, physicians,
and the general public. Graduate nursing students have also
found that this video helps to stimulate discussion regarding the role of
the N.P.
The first version of this video, released in 1996, was developed by
representatives from all of the N.P. programs in Minnesota. Although
the video was well received, it was felt that we needed to update some
of the information and should show a broader representation of the
faculty, and organizations. Contributions of $250,000 were
matched by the University’s Permanent University Fund. The
account has now grown to over one million dollars. Growth of
the fund makes it possible for the SoN to honor two faculty
members with professorships. Tenured faculty members were
nominated by their peers and appointed on the basis of the
recommendation of a special nomination screening
task force. •
N.P. role. The group re-convened to plot out the new, updated
release.
Some topics covered in the video include history of the N.P., educational
background, scope of practice, rural health, independent N.P.
practice, rewards and challenges of N.P. practice, meeting
health care needs, and more.
Rural N.P. project coordinators from each of the Minnesota schools
will soon have copies of the video to make available to students and
faculty. There are also plans to have the video on public access cable
television. Please contact the project office if you would like to use a
copy of the video. We also welcome suggestions you may have for
other audiences who may like to learn about the role of the N.P.
Persons interested in a copy of the video may contact the
Collaborative Rural Nurse Practitioner Program office by calling Todd
Sexton at 612.626.4826 or 1.800.597.8636.
Editor’s note: Reprinted by permission of the CRNPP newsletter,
October 2000.
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Jean Kintgen Andrews
VBy Jane Ellen Nielsen
It began as an ordinary day. Checking voice mail, then
answering messages. But one call changed the course of her
day. A private, behind-the-scenes activity was about to
go public.
“I went for a long walk.” That’s what Jean Kintgen Andrews
did after learning she was a winner of a Virginia McKnight
Binger Award in Human Service.
“Beth wanted to celebrate immediately . . . but I was torn.
I felt I should do this quietly,” says Andrews, a soft-spoken
woman whose gentle smile hints at a self-effacing humility.
Andrews, a retired University of Minnesota professor
in nursing, was officially recognized November 16, 2000 for 10
years of volunteer service at the Center for Victims of Torture
in Minneapolis. Beth Wickum, the center’s director of volunteer
services, was the catalyst for Andrews’ award from
Minnesota’s largest foundation. “Her compassion, devotion
and love for human beings make Jean an outstanding advocate
for people who have suffered some of the worst cruelty. . . .”
Wickum explains. It is no surprise, then, that Andrews’ efforts
have been channeled towards “restoring the dignity of the
human spirit,” the organization’s credo.
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is a private, nonprofit
organization founded in 1985 to provide direct care to
survivors of politically motivated torture and their families.
The CVT was the first organization of its kind in the United
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Jean Kintgen Andrews
olunteer Honored with McKnight Binger Award
States, and only the second in the world behind Helsinki.
Over the years, the CVT has pioneered its comprehensive
assessment and care programs, and gained worldwide respect.
Andrews began volunteering at the center following her
retirement in 1990. Within four years, she assumed responsibility
as volunteer coordinator, directing the activities of about
50 “befrienders” to carefully matched “clients.”
The clients are people who have fled to the United States
after enduring brutal treatment for their political beliefs. At
the CVT, they receive medical
Andrews assists with
and psychological therapy, as
volunteer training and well as support adjusting to
their lives in new communities.
is very grateful for her
Befrienders tutor, drive clients
nursing background when to job interviews, accompany
them on school visits, and often
it comes to ethical issues
orient them to self-sufficiency
and confidentiality. via local food shelves or public
transportation. But most of all,
Andrews says, befrienders help with social adjustment.
“Clients want to learn about our country, improve their
English, and do normal things with volunteers.” Restoring
self-worth and hope are some of the outcomes.
Andrews assists with volunteer training and is very grateful
for her nursing background when it comes to ethical issues and
confidentiality. “Our clients were often leaders of their communities.
Most are seeking asylum after fleeing persecution
and torture.”
Dating her interest in human rights issues to the early 1980s,
she and her late husband, L.O. “Andy” Andrews (a former
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1999-2000 Faculty Publications
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Avery, M.D., Duckett, L., & Frantzich,
C.R. (2000). The Experience of
Sexuality During Breastfeeding Among
Primiparous Women. Journal of
Midwifery and Women’s Health, 45(3),
227–237.
Bergren, M.D. (1999). Create a virtual
community: Start an Internet discussion
list. Journal of School Nursing, 15(5),
24–28.
Bergren, M.D. (1999). Legal issues:
Office management practices. Journal
of School Nursing, 15(3), 40–41.
Bergren, M.D. (1999). Criteria for
software evaluation: Legal issues.
Journal of School Nursing, 15(2),
32–33.
Bergren, M.D. (1999). Online
continuing education. Journal of School
Nursing, 15(4), 32–34.
Bliss, D.Z., & Dysart, M. (1999). Using
needleless intravenous access devices
for administering total parenteral
nutrition (TPN): Practice update.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 14(6),
299–303.
Bliss, D.Z., Johnson, S., Savik, K.,
Clabots, C.R., & Gerding, D.N. (2000).
Fecal incontinence in hospitalized
patients who are acutely ill. Nursing
Research, 49(2), 101–108.
Bliss, D.Z., & Lehmann, S. (1999).
Tube feeding: Immune-boosting
formulas. RN, 62(8), 26–32.
Bliss, D.Z., McLaughlin, J., Jung, H.,
Lowry, A., Savik, K. & Jensen, L. (2000).
Comparison of the nutritional
composition of diets of persons with
fecal incontinence and that of age- and
gender-matched controls. Journal of
Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing,
27, 90–97.
Bliss, D.Z., & Sawchuk, L. (1999).
Nursing management: Lower
gastrointestinal problems. In S.M. Lewis,
M.M. Heitkemper, & S.R. Dirksen (Eds.),
Medical surgical nursing (5th ed.,
pp. 1136–1190). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
Blum, R.T. Beuhring, M. Shew, L.
Bearinger, R. Sieving & M. Resnick
(2000). “The Effects of Race/Ethnicity,
Income, and Family Structure on
Adolescent Risk Behaviors.” American
U of M professor of education), were initially involved in
Amnesty International. That led to work for the Overground
Railroad at the University of Minnesota Newman Center,
assisting political refugees from Central America. Any victim
of physical or emotional abuse was referred to the Center for
Victims of Torture.
Clients found the CVT offered a non-clinical environment
that was comforting and safe. Located in a modest, threestory
house overlooking the Mississippi River in Minneapolis,
the center provides outpatient services for approximately 150
clients annually.
Andrews is quick to note that as demand for service
increases, the center’s focus will be forced to shift. “There
will be more outreach in the schools, a closer relationship
with the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), and
coordination of services with other centers.”
Andrews’ indefatigable schedule includes at least a 25-hour
week at the CVT. In addition, she is a favored support group
facilitator at Chrysalis, a Minneapolis women’s center. “I lead
groups for women over 40 and 55, and a self-worth group.
The two-hour sessions run from five to eight weeks.”
Inspired by a mentor in her Master’s degree program,
Andrews says she is simply giving back what she received.
“Marie Costello was forever young . . . always in tune with the
younger people. Nursing was very important to her.” Her
role model today, Andrews continues, is Margaret Rounds,
a fellow CVT volunteer in her 80s. “I’m amazed by her
energy, and her openness for everyone . . . regardless of their
Journal of Public Health, 90(12):
1879–1884.
Block, D. & L. Josten (2001).
Community Health Nursing: Theoretical
basis of the population-focused
community-oriented approach.
Community Health Nursing: Concepts
and Practice. J.A.A. a. B.W. Spradley.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Williams,
& Wilkins.
Block, D.E., A. Kinney, L. Sundberg, J.
Peterson, G. Kelly & B. t. H.
Collaborative (2000). Bridge to Health
Survey 2000: Northeastern Minnesota
and Northwestern Wisconsin regional
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Community Health Department,
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Block, D.E., Block, L.E., Hutton, S.J., &
Johnson, K.M. (1999a). Tobacco
counseling practices of dentists
compared to other health care providers
in a midwestern region. Journal of
Dental Education, 63(11), 821–827.
Block, D.E., Mareck, D.G., Lindeke,
L.L., Elliott, B.A., Mueller, C.A., Crouse,
B.J., Ludwig, D.B., Uden, D.L., &
Swentko, W.M. (2000). Developing rural
health focused interdisciplinary case
studies: Experience of the Minnesota
Rural Health School. National
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Block, D.E., Hutton, K., & Johnson, K.
(2000). Differences in tobacco
assessment and intervention practices:
A regional snapshot. Preventive
Medicine, 29, 282–287.
Block, D.E., Pollock, T.J., & Hutton,
S.J. (1999b). Technoglitches in distance
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Boyle, D.K., Bott, M.J., Hansen, H.E.,
Woods, C.Q., & Taunton, R.L. (1999).
Managers’ leadership and critical care
nurses’ intent to stay. American Journal
of Critical Care, 8(6), 361–371.
Brown, J.S., Vittinghoff, E., Wyman,
J.F., Stone, K.L., Nevitt, M.C., Ensrud,
K.E., & Grady, D. (2000). Urinary
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strengths and shortcomings.” She defines Rounds as
“selfless, although not a martyr . . . a woman for all seasons.”
The same could be said for Andrews, who grew up in Chicago
the only child of an advertising salesman and a mother
who worked with industrial physicians. Motivated to do work
in a “front-line” service area, Andrews graduated with a B.S.N.
from St. Xavier University, an M.S.N. from DePaul University,
and a Doctorate from Ohio State. In 1984, Andrews joined the
University of Minnesota faculty, initially directing the nursing
consortium in northwest Minnesota. She came on campus in
1980, teaching a graduate program for nurses who also aspired
to teach.
Throughout her nursing career, Andrews has lived her definition
of compassion: “Not only having empathy, but taking action
as a result of that empathy.” Nursing has provided her the tools
to do that. She adds, “I think people underestimate what is involved
in the practice of nursing... the skills and the intellect...
Regrettably, it’s not a role that gets a lot of recognition.”
Of course, Andrews admits feeling humbled and initially
embarrassed by her McKnight Foundation award. However,
she is pleased it has brought deserved recognition to her volunteers,
and to the Center for Victims of Torture.
Not surprisingly too, the associated $7500 cash award has
been given away. “I was getting along fine before I got it, so
I decided to invest it in human rights causes.” Andrews is content
quietly making a difference one life at a time. Those whose
lives she has touched are the true winners. •
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Bull, M.J., Hansen, H.E., & Gross, C.R.
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Chlan, L. (1999). Tips for displaying a
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Chlan, L. (2000). Music therapy as a
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Chlan, L., Evans, D., Greenleaf, M., &
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Dodgson, J.E., Allard-Hale, C.J.,
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Elser, D.M., Wyman, J.F., McClish,
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School of Nursing Students
Michele Schermann’s Project
12 Network
lending Horticulture
andHealth
Care
BBy Jane Ellen Nielsen
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a progressive thinker. His theory of relativity
revolutionized scientific thought. He loved classical
music, played the violin, and had a profound compassion
for people who were politically or economically oppressed. It
is not surprising, then, that deep in the heart of a trio of
Georgian brick buildings on the University of Minnesota
St. Paul campus is an understated woman of conviction who
references Einstein and lives his philosophy.
Cocooned in a yellow-brick office that was once a technology
shop, Michele Schermann, R.N., ’96 SoN, is Extension
Educator for the Farm Safety and Health Program housed in
the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering building at 1390
Eckles Avenue in St. Paul. Schermann has been a member of
Michele Michele Schermann Schermann
Sigma Theta Tau, Zeta chapter since 1996. Her circuitous
career path includes a degree in horticulture, a retail fabric
business, custom home furnishings, and her entry into nursing.
She was also fortunate to meet SoN clinical instructor
Donna Brauer. “Several life-altering courses changed the way
I think,” Schermann explained. Still her mentor, Donna “saw
things in me that no
Want to learn more about NAGCAT
and get CEU’s? An on-line course
about the North American Guidelines
for Children’s Agricultural Tasks has
been developed for nurses working
with rural families. Contact Michele
Schermann @ 612.624.7444,
scher019@tc.umn.edu •
one else understood.”
Today, Schermann is
involved in a NIOSH/
CDC-funded project
that curiously blends
her passions for
horticulture and
health care. As coinvestigator
on a
$450,000, three-year
grant, Schermann is working with Hmong farm families in a
seven-county metro area to address the health and safety
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Theater—it stimulates the senses, eliciting imagery of
brilliant Broadway plays, rousing musicals, and haunting
drama. An art form usually associated with entertainment, theater
is historically a communications tool. In rural Minnesota communities
today, theater is helping farm families cope with the haunting
drama of everyday life.
Farm Alarm: Coping With Stress is a 70-minute theatrical
production workshop that portrays the daily lives of two fictional
farm families. Seven scenes skillfully weave humor with the serious
consequences of stress on the health and safety of farm
families. At the end of each performance, actors return to the
stage to participate with the audience in a problem-solving discussion.
Led by a facilitator, dialogue is enhanced by a panel of local
service providers, such as clergy, social workers, and lending
agents.
To date, there have been 31 Farm Alarm performances, with an
average of 145 attendees at each workshop.
Although the original targeted audience of Farm Alarm was
farm families in the Upper Midwest, the workshop is now being
marketed as an educational tool for health-care professionals,
extension education, and agricultural business throughout the
country.
Michele Schermann, R.N., University of Minnesota Extension
Educator, reports that the sustainability of the workshops has been
encouraging. Twenty-five productions have been funded through
local community organizing efforts. The initial six workshops were
funded by a Department of Agriculture grant. In fact, she notes
proudly, the 1998 needs assessment prompting the development
of the Farm Alarm venue originated from a network of nurses in
the Red River Valley and Meeker County. Schermann is writing a
grant proposal to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in
different regions of the state over the next three years.
For more information about bringing Farm Alarm to your community,
contact the University of Minnesota Extension Service
office @ 612.624.7444, scher019@tc.umn.edu
Jane Ellen Nielsen
needs of this under-served population. The idea for the grant,
Schermann says, stemmed from two watershed opportunities.
One was to serve on an advisory committee to evaluate farm
safety curriculum for elementary students. The other was an
invitation to attend a safety day for immigrant farmers, hosted
by the University of Minnesota at their Rosemount facility. It
was the first program of its kind to include Hmong farmers.
Schermann recalls how recep-
‘Our goal is to end tive and friendly they were.
Curious about their culture,
with a recipe usable
she was intrigued to learn
by anyone worldwide.’ more.
The Hmong (pronounced
Mung) people are one of the oldest people of Asia, originating
in what is now Central China more than 4,000 years ago.
Over thousands of years, Hmong people migrated throughout
Southeast Asia, entering what is now northern Vietnam, Laos,
Thailand, and Burma in the early 19th century. During the
Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong fled refugee camps in
Thailand and eventually resettled in the United States. Today,
the Twin Cities Hmong community numbers almost
80,000—the second largest Hmong population in the United
States next to Fresno, California.
Schermann learned that Hmong society in Asia was largely
agrarian, and that the Hmong cultural history is an oral one.
It wasn’t until French missionaries assigned written letters to
the Hmong language in the 1950s that the language was documented.
As a result, many Hmong persons in Minnesota
speak the language fluently, but may not be able to read or
write Hmong. The challenge, therefore, in the area of safety
and health, Schermann explains, is to develop culturally and
linguistically appropriate guidelines.
Utilizing the resources of a Hmong liaison coordinator,
Schermann’s project will evaluate existing farm safety practices
within the Hmong family/community, and create
methodology for developing new guidelines. “Our goal is to
end with a recipe usable by anyone worldwide who wants to
apply the methodology to their needs.”
To determine what is culturally and linguistically relevant,
Schermann will evaluate family dynamics, the relationship
of work to children and parents, the way parents view children,
and how the family comes together as a team. The
project will also define specific tasks, how they are done, and
differences among social skills. The Hmong way of life,
Schermann notes, emphasizes the importance of group over
individual need. This is opposite to the American emphasis on
the individual and individual decision-making.
The current North American Guidelines for Children’s
Agricultural Tasks were established by a blue-ribbon team
from North America. Listing 62 tasks, the guidelines identify
the steps to accomplishing an activity, the related hazards,
adult responsibilities, and recommendations for supervision.
“Their failing,” Schermann believes, “is the assumption
that all farm families descended from Northern Europe. All
graphics,” she adds, “unabashedly depict Caucasians. This
oversight excludes the many diverse cultures woven into
America’s demographic tapestry.”
Schermann plans to change that. Working under the guidance
of John M. Shutske, Associate Professor at the
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering,
Schermann’s trailblazing project will demonstrate that health
and safety issues can be addressed for Z cultures, including the
politically and economically oppressed. The results may not
be immediately quantifiable, but most importantly, EVERY-
ONE COUNTS!
Albert Einstein would be pleased. •
National Nurses Week
May 6–12
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UThe experience of a first clinical is told by Katie M. Dinndorf,
a first-year nursing student. The first clinical experience is in
community-based, non-traditional settings. Students interact with
essentially healthy people, practicing their interpersonal communications
skills, conducting health assessments, and using teaching
interventions to promote health.
The clinical experience includes five weeks with children in schoolbased
settings and five weeks with older adults in assisted living and
retirement community settings. As part of the clinical experience at
Friendship Village in Bloomington, a Wellness Clinic is provided by
the students under the direction of their clinical instructor, Christine
Mueller, Ph.D., R.N. Students evaluate blood pressure, pulse, vision,
hearing, memory, nutritional health, safety, exercise and activity
tolerance, medications, risks for heart attack and osteoporosis.
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14 Network
ndergraduate Clinicals
One Student’s Perspective
By Katie M. Dinndorf
The first thing I thought when I heard the word clinical,
was that I was excited to get some experience out in the
“real world”—not sit in lecture and wonder what it would
be like to actually apply what I was learning. I was enthusiastic
about talking with an elderly person at my clinical at
Friendship Village because I’ve always enjoyed listening to
their stories about things I have not experienced. I volunteered
at Fairview with the Watchful Companion program.
We went into the patient’s rooms (young and old) to keep
them company. During this volunteer experience, I talked
with many elderly persons. I find most elderly people are
happy and very humorous, which
is the opposite of the stereotype
of being crabby and unhappy.
I enjoyed talking with them.
The day I walked into my first
clinical, I worried about who I was
going to be assigned to. I was concerned
that my client would not
want to talk or I would offend the
person somehow. I did not know if
they were conservative and might
find something that my generation
says or does offensive.
When I first entered my client’s
room, I was relieved to find that she
was an energetic woman in wonder- Katie Dinndorf
ful health. I felt comfortable and happy during our
conversations. I never felt that she was uncomfortable telling
me things or that she was bored with our conversation. As we
talked, I offered her advice about what occurs physically as people
age. It seemed that when something was going on with her
body, she wondered if it was normal. She asked me if it was normal
to urinate frequently during the night. I explained what
happens to your bladder as you age, and she was relieved that it
was a normal occurrence. I was also able to offer my client
youthful company, which she may not receive that often, living
with others the same age.
I was excited that first day, as well as anxious, because I did
not know what to expect, what type of condition my client
would be in, and how intact her memory would be. After the
first day, I was very excited to return and talk with my client.
I really enjoyed listening to her and talking with her about her
current life as well as her past experiences.
Overall, it was a wonderful experience. •
At left, Megan Bautch, first-year nursing student, looks after
nine-year-old Brittany Thomas at Fairview University Medical Center
while Tracy Meyers, below right, interviews Leatha Smith, a
resident of Friendship Village and (coincidentally!) a graduate
of the SoN as part of the Wellness Clinic.

Over 865 students, faculty,
and staff received flu
immunizations in December
as a result of a collaborative project
between the School of
Nursing, Boynton Health Service,
and the College of Pharmacy.
The project originated with an
honors project from the pharmacy
fraternity.
Two clinics were held
December 7, 2000. The first was
hosted in the CHIP Lounge.
The nursing students used the
principles of public health nursing
throughout the entire planning
and implementation stages of
this innovative project. The
students had experience with
fund-raising and grant writing to
secure resources for the clinic
implementation.
The shortage of flu vaccine
The Densford Clinical Scholars Program is winding up its
second year, and has exceeded expectations. The
Program, established in 1998, links an Advanced Practice
Nurse and a faculty member who share a mutual clinical
interest. The intent is to combine the expertise of the two
Clinical Scholars in clinical intervention projects targeted
toward improving patient care. The Center is the vehicle for
establishing the partnerships, facilitating funds, supporting
individual projects, and creating a cadre of Clinical Scholars
who can assist nurses and other caregivers in utilizing
research.
Topics that Scholars have studied include: Effects of an
Opioid Taper Algorithm in Blood and Marrow Transplant
(B.M.T.) Patients; Complementary Therapy Intervention
in Pain Management; Attitudes Toward and Use of
Complementary/Alternative Therapies by Critical Care
Nurses; and Improving Health Outcomes in Adults Newly
Diagnosed with Diabetes. The Scholar Teams have worked
together for the past two years.
During this period, the Scholars have achieved a number of
significant accomplishments, including several publications,
presentations at local and national meetings, and funding
awards. Perhaps of greater importance is the impact on
patient care that the projects have achieved through evidencebased
practice changes; the development of care guidelines,
standards and policies; continuing education opportunities;
and expanding the staff nurses’ appreciation for and knowledge
of research in the clinical setting. For this latter
achievement, Sigma Theta Tau International (S.T.T.I.) has
Pictured above are Patrick Sapp, left, and Katie Brown, right, two nursing students
who participated in the immunization clinic.
was a factor in our experience that had not been anticipated. Student teams had hands-on experience in making decisions
regarding what would be possible with a limited amount of vaccine. Planning is underway for next year’s immunization clinic.
Densford Clinical Scholars Program Exceeds Expectations
recognized the Clinical Scholars with a regional Research
Utilization Award. The Award was presented to Joanne Disch,
Director of the Densford Center, at an S.T.T.I. Regional
Forum in Philadelphia in March. The Densford Center will
be hosting a celebratory breakfast for all participants at the
Annual Research Day on April 23 in honor of the Scholars’
work.
The Densford Clinical Scholars are: Mary Fran Tracy,
Ph.D., R.N., Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care, Nursing
Services; Leslie Parran, M.S., R.N., A.O.C.N., Clinical Nurse
Specialist, Blood and Marrow Transplant, Fairview University
Hospital Nursing Services; Vivian Aarestad, M.S., R.N.,
C.D.E., Clinical Nurse Specialist, Diabetes, Fairview Hospital,
Southdale; Deb Drew, M.S., R.N., Clinical Nurse
Specialist, Pain Management, Fairview University Medical
Center; Ruth Lindquist, Ph.D., R.N., Associate Professor,
Director of Graduate Studies, University of Minnesota (UM),
School of Nursing (SoN); Carol Pederson, Ph.D., R.N., Associate
Professor, UM, SoN; Kathie Krichbaum, Ph.D., R.N.,
Associate Professor, UM, SoN; and Janice Post-White, Ph.D.,
R.N., F.A.A.N., Associate Professor, UM, SoN.
A final note: The next cohort of Scholars will be selected in
June to begin their term July 1, 2001. A.P.N.s or faculty members
who are interested in applying to become Clinical
Scholars can contact the Densford Center Office for an application
(612.625.1187). The deadline for applying is
May 15, 2001. •
Spring/Summer 2001 ■ Vol. III, No. 1 15
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CUPES Update
CUPES Increases Community Sites for Student Learning
By Linda Skogrand,
Project Leader
The Community University Partner
ship in Education and Service
(CUPES) has recently
increased the number of community
sites where health professions
students can have service learning
experiences. The sites include two
schools and three social service
agencies. This school year we have
graduate and undergraduate
students, as well as residents from
medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry,
and public health.
Andersen Schools
There are two elementary schools within one complex,
Andersen Open and Andersen Elementary, with a total of
1300 students in grades K– 8. The students at Andersen are
from diverse ethnic backgrounds, with most students representing
Native American, Latino, and African American
heritage. Health professions students have opportunities to
provide health education to staff, children, and their families,
and also gain experience in the school-based clinic. These
schools had no health education in classrooms until they
became a CUPES site. Now every child receives health education
from health professions students. This site also has a
dental clinic where Andersen children have access to dental
care provided by dental hygiene students. Community Health
Advocates also provide students with opportunities to bring
health information into the homes of school families.
Richard Green Central Park Elementary School
This site began in January 2001. The student enrollment
in grades K–8 is 800 children with increasing numbers of
Spanish-speaking children entering the school. Green Central
School came to us because the health needs for their children
are great and they asked CUPES to provide programming
similar to the Andersen Schools. There is also a day care center
and a community clinic in the building complex and health
professions are involved in service learning opportunities in
these areas as well.
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Linda Skogrand
National Nurses Week
May 6–12
Minneapolis Youth Diversion Programs
This site is a social service agency serving homeless youth
and youth at risk for homelessness. There is a drop-in center
where youth can be in a safe environment and access such services
as health care in the on-site clinic, meals, mental health
services, parenting support, and HIV/AIDS prevention information.
Health professions students can provide clinical care
and health education in the many programs provided by this
agency. This site provides students with opportunities to
understand the larger context of the lives of homeless youth.
Staff at Minneapolis Youth Diversion Programs tell us
CUPES has brought badly needed health services to
their agency.
Centro
This site provides comprehensive social services for
Spanish-speaking children, adults, and seniors who have
recently immigrated to the United States. Centro’s programming
includes an on-site clinic, employment program, seniors
services, HIV/STD prevention education, and maternal and
child health services. Health professions students provide
health education and health care to one of this country’s most
rapidly growing immigrant populations and they, in turn,
benefit with increased health services.
St. Joseph’s Home for Children
This is CUPES newest site and it serves children and
adolescents in need of protection and placement in an emergency
shelter. Approximately 2500 children were served at
St. Joseph’s last year. St. Joseph’s clinic provides comprehensive
health services to its clients as well as those in Hennepin
County’s Shelter Foster Care system. Health professions
students are providing health care and health education to a
population with extensive health service needs within the
clinic, the residential treatment program, and the day
treatment program.
CUPES is also supporting and supervising the COACHES
Mentoring Program and the production of a video entitled
Enhancing the Cultural Competence of Health Care Professionals
Who Work with American Indian Children and their Families.
The current
CUPES
sites and
projects are
able to provide
service
learning
opportunities
for up to
400 health
professions
students per
year. •
CUPES offices at Ancient Traders Market,
1113 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

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Kudos
At the April 5th meeting of the Board of
Regents, the following promotions
were approved:
Lyn Bearinger to Professor; Barbara
Leonard to Professor; Derryl Block to
Associate Professor with tenure; Merrie
Kaas to Associate Professor with tenure;
Linda Lindeke to Associate Professor
with tenure.
Congratulations to all of these individuals
for the achievement of a major
milestone.
Donna Brauer, Ph.D., R.N., Assistant
Professor, received the Excellence in
Teaching/Mentoring award from the Zeta
Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
in March 2000.
Kuei-Min Chen, a 2000 Ph.D. graduate
from the School of Nursing, has received
the Clinical Medicine
Research Award for new
investigators from the Gerontological
Society of America.
Dr. Chen, who was featured
in the Fall/Winter issue of
Network, is Associate Professor
Chen
at Fooyin Institute of
Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Katherine Belfay, a second-year
nursing student, was awarded research
funds for Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program (UROP). She was
sponsored by Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Ph.D.,
R.N., P.H.N., Assistant Professor. Her
project is entitled “Teen Parenting and
Eating Disordered Behaviors among
Sexually Abused Adolescents.” Belfay’s
Students, faculty,
and staff enjoyed a
variety of international
cuisine as part of the
School of Nursing’s
celebration of
International Education
Week in November.
International students
dressed in their country’s
traditional clothing,
provided information
about their country’s
health status, and served
delicious food samples
on the sixth floor of
Weaver-Densford Hall.
project is funded from January 1, 2001
through May 31, 2001.
Joanne Disch, Ph.D., Director of the
Katharine J. Densford International
Center for Nursing Leadership,
accepted a $1,000 gift from Minnesota
Organization of Leaders in Nursing
(MOLN) honoring Katharine J. Densford
at the Annual Spring Conference at the
Hilton. Also honored at the event were
Marie Manthey, M.N.A., R.N., F.R.C.N.,
F.A.A.N., SoN Alumni Society President
and former faculty member and
Marge Jamieson, M.S., B.S.N., former
Adjunct Assistant Professor, who received
lifetime of inspirations awards from
MOLN.
Beverly A. Fangel, a 1967 graduate of
the University of Minnesota School of
Nursing, has been awarded a 2000 Excellence
in Nursing Award from Hennepin
County Medical Center (HCMC). The
award is given to HCMC nurses who excel
in the areas of leadership, clinical skills,
and customer focus.
Karen Feldt, Ph.D., R.N., G.N.P.,
Assistant Professor, has been awarded
the 2001 Merck/American Geriatrics
Society (AGS) New Investigator Award.
This award is funded through an educational
grant from Merck U.S. Human
Health and is presented to individuals
whose research reflects new and relevant
work in geriatrics. The award will be presented
by Dr. Kenneth Brummel-Smith,
the AGS president, at the annual meeting
in May. Dr. Feldt is a member of the Center
for Nursing Research on Elders.
Ann Garwick, Ph.D., M.S., B.S.,
Professor, received word that the video
entitled “Breathing a Word: Indian Stories
School of Nursing Community News
of Asthma,” was a runner-up in the Families
with Special Needs division at the 33rd
annual Media Awards Competition sponsored
by the National Council on Family
Relations. The video grew out of work by
Garwick and Sally Auger with Native
American youth in the Phillips Neighborhood
of Minneapolis; and Allies Media/Art,
a Native American owned video production
company. It presents what it is like to live
with asthma, depicting vivid stories for
youth, families, and health-care providers.
Janis Gerkensmeyer, Ph.D., R.N.,
A.P.R.N., B.C., Assistant Professor,
received a citation for her poster at the
18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the
American Pain Society.
Helen E. Hansen, Ph.D., M.A., A.B.,
Associate Professor, co-investigator and
principal investigator Catherine Borbas,
Ph.D., Minneapolis Medical Research
Institute, Minneapolis, have been funded
for a project entitled “Improving Utilization
of Ischemic Stroke Research.” Total
projected funding is $1,564,642 for the
period September 2000 through August
2003. This study will assess the effectiveness
of a model for accelerating the use of
evidence-based treatment guidelines for
acute ischemic stroke in 24 urban and rural
hospitals in Minnesota. The investigators
from Minneapolis Medical Research Institute,
Harvard Medical School, and the
University and the School of Nursing will
test a hospital-based
intervention to improve the
quality of stroke care.
Felicia Schanche Hodge,
Dr.P.H., Professor, was
honored by The Friends
of the National Institute of
Hodge
Nursing Research in recognition
of her contributions to nursing
research and to the nation’s health in
Washington D.C.
Monisha Kannan and Sarah Westby, two
baccalaureate students, presented their
research at the 2001 National Conference
on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held
at the University of Kentucky in March.
Kannan’s research is entitled “Uncertainty
and Well-Being in Young Women Recently
Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.” Westby’s
research is entitled “Perceived Social Support
and Complementary Therapies in
Young Women with Breast Cancer.” Fac-
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ulty sponsor for both students is Elizabeth
Santas Kraatz, Assistant Professor.
Alice Kuramoto, Ph.D., R.N.,
F.A.A.N., visiting Professor
at the School of Nursing,
was recently awarded the
Excellence in Nursing
Education Award by the Wisconsin
Nurses Association.
Dr. Kuramoto is Professor and
Kuramoto
Director of Continuing Education
and Outreach Program at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
School of Nursing. She obtained her master’s
degree from the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing in medical
surgical nursing. She is teaching a graduate
course in nursing education during
Spring Semester 2001.
Elizabeth Santas Kraatz, Ph.D.,
A.O.C.N., R.N., Assistant Professor,
School of Nursing, recently received the
2000 Rising Rookie Award by the Metro
Minnesota Chapter of the Oncology
Nursing Society. Dr. Kraatz’s primary
teaching and advising responsibilities are
with master’s degree students in oncology.
She also teaches courses in ethics and
interpersonal communications. Dr. Kraatz
is a 1985 graduate of the School of
Nursing.
Barbara Leonard, Ph.D., R.N.,
Professor, has been granted a sabbatical
leave from August 2001 through July 2002
to investigate the spirituality concerns of
children with chronic illness, disability,
and life-threatening disease. She has been
selected to participate in an intensive and
highly selective program of the Center for
Religious Development at the Weston
Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. In her absence, Helen
Hansen, Associate Professor, will fill in as
division head for the Division
of Family/Child Nursing,
Nurse Midwifery, Public
Health Nursing, and Systems
of Delivery of Nursing Education
and Nursing Services.
Ruth Lindquist, Ph.D.,
M.S., B.S.N., Associate Lindquist
Professor and Division Head, received
the award for Excellence in Leadership
from the Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta
Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Lindquist is a member of the Center
for Nursing Research on Elders faculty.
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BARBARA LA VALLEUR
Trina Lone Hill,
Minority Recruiter
Joins SoN Student
Services
Trina Lone Hill is
the new Minority
Recruiter in the Office
of Student Services.
A member of the
Oglala Sioux Tribe,
Pine Ridge, South
Dakota, Lone Hill has
an associates arts
degree from Oglala
Lakota College at
Kyle, South Dakota.
She was active in student government locally as well as serving as National Student Congress President for Tribal
Colleges. Lone Hill was chosen Miss Oglala Nation in 1996 and 1997. She worked as a team leader on a
reservation based Pathway’s Project for Epidemiology in 2000.
LaVohn Josten, Ph.D., M.N., B.S.N.,
F.A.A.N., Associate Professor, was named
one of the top five leading U.S. public
health nursing experts by the American
Nurses Association.
Catherine Juve, Ph.D., M.N., R.N.,
associate education specialist has been
named director and coordinator for the
Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner
(WHCNP).
Marsha Lewis, Ph.D., M.S., B.S.N.,
Associate Professor and director of
Graduate Studies, was recently awarded
an NIH/STTR grant entitled “Internet/
CD-ROM Dementia Decision-Making
Guide.” Lewis is director of Graduate
Studies at the School of Nursing as well as
a faculty member of the Center for Nursing
Research on Elders.
Jennifer Peters, Ph.D., M.S.N.,
B.S.N., Associate Education Specialist,
attended the Gerontological Society of
America meeting in Washington D.C., in
November 2000.
Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D., M.S., B.S.,
Education Specialist, received the Excellence
in Teaching/Mentorship from the
Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau.
Shay Rogers, a first-year nursing
student at the School of
Nursing, has been awarded
2000-2001 U.R.O.P. research
funds of $1,700, for “Growth
Outcomes of School Age
Children Following Neonatal
Intensive Care,” a project she
Rogers
is conducting with Linda
Lindeke, Ph.D., M.S., B.S., Associate
Professor. Duration of the project is
January 1, 2001 through June 15, 2001.
Rogers is a student member of the Center
for Neurobehavioral Development, the
Undergraduate Research Assistant in the
Research Resource Center of the School
of Nursing; a nursing assistant on FUMC’s
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit;
teaches CPR/First Aid classes for the
American Red Cross in Minneapolis, and
is a junior class representative on the
Nursing College Board.
Susan Johnson Warner, R.N., C.N.P.,
Ed.D., a graduate of the School of Nursing,
was featured in an article in the
February 2001 issue of Nursing Minnesota
about her role in launching a baccalaureate
nursing program at St. Cloud State
University (SCSU). Approximately 150
St. Cloud State students have listed nursing
as their major. Warner previously
served as associate nursing dean at the
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire for
two years as well as helping establish nursing
education outreach sites during
14 years at the University of South Dakota
before going to SCSU in 1999.
Comings and Goings
Joanna Bernsten has been named Senior
Research Nurse Clinician reporting to
Dr. Janice Post-White.
Lisa Fink, M.S.N., B.S.N., has been
hired as an Associate Education Specialist.
Linda Gerdner, Ph.D., M.A., B.S.N.,
began Spring Semester 2001 as an
Assistant Professor. She is a member of
the Center for Nursing Research on
Elders. Her research interests are manage-

ment of agitation in persons with
Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
and culturally sensitive care in persons
with A.D.R.D. and their family caregivers.
Beth Good, M.S., B.S.N., and Linda
Hanninen, M.S., B.A., have been named
Assistant Education Specialists.
Joan Liaschenko, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.,
B.S., Associate Professor, began her
position in Spring Semester 2001. She is a
doctoral nursing graduate of the University
of California, San Francisco (1996)
where she also received her master’s degree
in Psychiatric Nursing (1989). Among her
research interests are nursing ethics, practices,
humanities, philosophy, psychiatric,
and home-care nursing.
Jenny Maytum, M.S., B.S., has joined
the faculty as an Education Specialist.
Melinda Monigold is the new Senior
Research Nurse Clinician working with
Dr. Jean Wyman.
Carol O’Boyle, Ph.D., M.S. who
received her master’s degree in Public
Health in 1991 and her Ph.D. in 1998 at
the School of Nursing, has joined the faculty
as an Education Specialist.
Diane Rose is the new Research
Assistant reporting to Ann Garwick.
Kristine Talley has been named
Community Program Specialist reporting
to Dr. Jean Wyman.
Lynn Vargo has joined the School of
Nursing and the College of Pharmacy as
the new Associate Development Officer
working with Laurel Mallen, President of
the SoN Foundation. His role will be to
secure major gifts on behalf of Campaign
Minnesota, assist with donor relations, and
coordinate the annual giving programs.
Before coming to the SoN, Vargo served as
Associate Director of Development with
Goodwill/Easter Seals in St. Paul. A 1995
graduate of the University of Chicago,
Vargo is a native of St. Paul.
The following are new support staff at
the School of Nursing. They
are Bri Fischer, Executive
Secretary; Cory Franklin,
Executive Secretary, the
Densford Center; Heloy
Hicks, Office Specialist,
Dean’s Office; Valerie Larsen,
Franklin
Associate Program
Director, CUPES; Jessica Nilsen,
Administrative Aide for the Research
Resource Center; Ko Norasing, Principal
Secretary for Student Services; Holly
Pettman, Community Program
Specialist, Community University
Partnership in Education and Service
(CUPES); and Linda Vegell, Principal
Secretary, Outreach/Clinical
Coordinator.
Hassel Feted at
Retirement after 20Years
After 20 years in the School of Nursing,
Donna Hassel retired from her position as
executive secretary in the Dean’s Office.
When she first started in 1980, Ellen Fahy
was the dean. She recalls using “an electric
typewriter and carbon paper, and many
times used a mimeograph machine. What
a long way we have come!” She reflected
on her career in the School.
In recognition of her service, a reception
was held September 28, 2000, at Eastcliff
where over 50 co-workers, friends, and
relatives gathered to wish her well on her
retirement. A brief program was conducted
highlighting the many “hats” she wore
during her tenure. Several gifts were
presented to Donna including a University
of Minnesota watch, a gift
basket of spa items, as well as cash
with which she purchased a computer
workstation for the computer her
family presented to her upon her
retirement.
With her free time, Donna plans
to do the things she enjoys best—
spending time with family and
friends, reading, and traveling. She
will use her computer to stay in touch
even though, she says, “It is still a
pleasure to see the computer off
rather than on, but time will bring
us closer.”
Mary Jo Kreitzer
receives Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
Grant for $1.6 million
Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D. R.N., Assistant
Professor, and Director, Center for Spirituality
and Healing, has been awarded a
National Institute of Health (NIH) grant
for $1.6 million to build and support a
curriculum in Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (CAM). Kreitzer was
principal investigator for the grant.
The NIH grant will allow the center to
integrate complementary and alternative
medicine learning into the required cur-
riculum of the School of Nursing, Medical
School and all other schools in the Academic
Health Center. The university was
the first institute in the country to offer a
graduate minor in this area.
“The Center for Spirituality and Healing
intends to use this grant to strengthen
and expand our collaborative relationships
with complementary providers in the
community,” said Dr. Kreitzer.
“We are thrilled to be chosen by the
NIH,” according to Frank Cerra, Senior
Vice President for Health Services, “This
is further evidence that the University of
Minnesota will continue to be seen as the
site of choice for training health professionals
in these areas. We are educating
the next generation of health-care professionals—professionals
who have not only
heard of CAM, but who have experienced
and provided those services. The NIH
grant supports our work to develop a
model and standard that we hope will be
emulated throughout the country.”
Donna Hassel received several gifts, including
a University of Minnesota watch.
Corrections
Professor Emeritus Muriel B. Ryden
was incorrectly identified in the Network,
Vol. II, No. 1.
The title of a grant awarded Dr. Linda
Chlan in Network, Vol. II, No. 2, should
have read, “Development of Measures of
Anxiety for Mechanically Ventilated
Patients.”
The title of Ruth Stryker-Gordon’s book
is It Takes a DOG to Raise a Village. The
author is a retired faculty member of the
School of Public Health.
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Colleagues in Caring
Creating exciting activities related to nursing
by Joanne Disch, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Region 4 Co-Coordinator
“ If nursing would only get its act together!”
I have heard that phrase often in my
nursing career—and perhaps you, too,
have heard it, or even said it. We know
that when groups of nurses come together
and co-create needed change, anything
can be accomplished. There are some
exciting activities related to nursing occur-
Humor Contest
We have a winner!
By Linda Hutchinson
We have a winner! He is Gary Jader, a 1981 graduate of the School
of Nursing and an R.N. for over 20 years. Jader’s story, Going to the
Dogs, about one of his favorite patients, is reproduced below for your
amusement. A special thanks to those who sent us your funny stories.
We hope you enjoy the winning entry as much as we did.
In his book The Anatomy of an Illness, Norman Cousin made the healing
power of humor famous. He describes his personal experience of
reducing pain by watching his favorite funny movies. His “humor survival
kit” included the classics by Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, and
the Candid Camera television show.
Recently, a dear friend told me of her cancer diagnosis. Knowing
that Lily Tomlin made her laugh and animals made her smile, it was easy
Going to the Dogs
By Gary Jader
Edith was one of my favorite home care patients.
She was 70-something, funny, and forgetful. I saw her
over a two-year period.
“Good morning, Edith. Where are your teeth?”
“Oh,” she said, covering her hand with her mouth and
letting me into her small apartment. “I can’t find them.”
The Denture Hunt began. I looked in the usual
places, but found no dentures.
“Where’s your dog?”
“You know, I’m not sure.”
Tootsie is a toy poodle. The kind of toy you hoped
never to receive for Christmas.
Edith and I searched for Tootsie. We found her
behind the sofa with patches of the denture gums
chewed away.
“Tootsie! Bad girl!” Edith said examining the dentures.
She put them into her mouth and smiled broadly
at me.
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ring in the state, which have significant
potential for bringing nursing together
and creating needed change. This is the
premise behind the national Colleagues in
Caring initiative and the Minnesota component
of the national project.
What is Colleagues in Caring (CIC)?
The full title of the project is “Colleagues
in Caring: Regional Collaboratives for
Nursing Work Force Development,” and
it is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
“Not a good look,” I said. Spooky World came
to mind.
After taking her blood pressure, I reviewed her
meds.
“What are these?”
“Tootsie’s pills, a tranquilizer, and an antibiotic.”
“Edith, you’re going to need to be VERY careful.
Look at these pills.” Her beta-blocker and diuretic
looked like Tootsie’s pills. Smiling, I wondered to myself
if two beta-blockers could kill a small animal.
“Hey, if I take hers, maybe I’ll become man’s best
friend,” she said with a wink and a giggle.
“Good-bye, Edith, I’ll see you next week.”
Two days later, my beeper went off. It was Edith.
“Gary, I need you to come over right away.”
“Why? What’s wrong?”
“I don’t feel so good. I can’t seem to wake up. I’ve
been sleeping around the clock.”
“I’ll be right over.”
A groggy Edith greeted me at the door. Puddles of
urine were everywhere. Tootsie was hovering over her
Foundation. Believing that nursing leaders
should work together and lead in creative,
proactive ways, the Foundation established
this initiative to enhance regional
and state collaborative planning, as well as
implement actions and policies to address
the rapid changes occurring in the
United States nursing labor market.
Who is involved? Twenty states,
including Minnesota, were selected to
receive funds for three years (recently
for me to put together a humor basket, which included a book of “Edith Ann”
humor and a fun videotape of baby animals.
What calls forth the healing power of humor in you? What makes you
laugh? Have you shared this with your family and friends so they can support
you when you need it most? Ask what makes your family and friends
laugh so you can give the gift of humor back to them.
To encourage you to give and receive more humor in your work and
home life, we are sponsoring another contest!
Tell us what works for you. Send us a brief description of your BEST
HUMOR PRACTICE. We will compile a Top Ten List for the Fall/Winter 2001
issue of Network, so there will be 10 winners each with one practice.
Editor’s Note: Linda Hutchinson, owner of Hutchinson Associates, ha!
is a professional educator, keynote presenter, and humor coach.
To check out her website, go to http://www.haha-team.com for a list of
other humor resources.
water dish. Edith had slept long into the afternoon.
Sherlock Holmes wasn’t needed for this one.
“Edith, you mixed up your pills with Tootsie’s.
You took her tranquilizers and you gave her your
water pill.”
“Oh, my, no wonder I slept like a dog,” she said.
“That’s ‘log,’” I corrected her. “You can ‘Go to the
Dogs,’ and you can ‘Sleep like a log,’ but you can’t
sleep like a dog.” Edith suffered from aphorism
dyslexia. “And if you do that again, I’m not going to take
you out for a walk,” I jested.
Edith laughed. “I’m just glad you didn’t let sleeping
dogs lie,” she said laughing again.
“Good one, Edith. Now, I hate to be dogmatic, but
this can’t happen again.” After much needed patient
teaching, I headed for the door. “Bye, Edith.”
“Bye, Gary,” Edith barked. “See, you can teach an
old dog new tricks!”
As I headed out to my car, I thought that Edith may
never become man’s best friend, but I knew she was
becoming mine. •

TIM RUMMELHOFF
Robin Lally Chosen First White Family Cancer Award Winner
Robin Lally, a Ph.D. student from Prior Lake,
MN, at the School of Nursing has been awarded
the first White Family Cancer Award.
Lally also received her baccalaureate and master’s
degrees from the School of Nursing. She will
use her award to partially fund a trip to the 2001
Oncology Nursing Society Congress in San Diego
in May, where she will present a research paper,
“Use of Care Guides to Educate and Impact the
Quality of Life of Women Undergoing Breast
Reconstructive Surgery.” Lally is currently a breast
cancer care specialist at Health System Minnesota.
Robin Lally
The award was established by the White Family
Cancer Endowment Fund, established by Earl and Duane White in honor of
Mildred (Earl’s first wife and Duane’s mother) who died in April 1977 of colon
cancer and Marion (Earl’s second wife) who died December 1998 of lung
cancer. Brennan, 8, Duane’s eldest son, was diagnosed with acute leukemia
in January 1997 and completed treatment March 6, 2000.
Janice Post-White, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the School of Nursing is
renewed). Each state has set up its own
structure and plan to best deal with its own
particular issues. For example, Mississippi
had established a Nursing Organization
Liaison Committee in the mid-1980s, so
they used their money to establish an
Office of Nursing Workforce Redevelopment
to promote workplace advocacy,
increase appropriations for nursing
education, and obtain third-party reimbursement
for advanced practice nurses.
The Idaho Commission on Nursing and
Nursing Education has developed articulation
agreements between all nursing
schools in Idaho, and examined the atti-
Joanne Disch
married to Duane and the mother of Brennan.
In honor of the courageous spirits of these family members and the expertise
and dedication of their oncology nurses, the White Family designated
funding for the advancement of nursing education, science and the art of caring
for persons with cancer.
According to the White family, “The goal of the award is to improve the
care of cancer patients and their families. Students actively enrolled in the
University of Minnesota School of Nursing at the undergraduate, master’s or
doctoral levels will be eligible to receive awards. Students may submit applications
to fund research projects, clinical preceptor experiences or conference
fees and travel.”
Awards range from $200 to $1,000, and support projects such as research
projects, clinical internships with preceptors, conference fees and travel.
Doctoral students are encouraged to apply for the Oncology Nursing
Research Short Course to present their dissertation research for critique and
mentorship at a national O.N.S. meeting.
Applicants will be accepted through September 10 for the next award.
To offer additional donations to support this fund, contact Laurel Mallon at
the School of Nursing Development Office at 612.624.2490. •
tudes of Idaho nurses toward the future
and on the concerns of health-care
providers. The South Carolina CIC developed
a state-wide nursing plan entitled
“Into the Future: Recreating South
Carolina’s Nursing Workforce for the
21st Century.”
How is Minnesota’s project set up? The
Minnesota CIC project (MnCIC) is led by
the State Collaborative Council, an organization
with representatives from
approximately 15 nursing organizations,
along with representatives from the
Minnesota Department of Health
(MDH), the Health Education Industry
Partnership
(HEIP), and the
Minnesota Hospital
and Healthcare
Partnership
(MHHP). MnCIC
provides oversight
and direction for
developing and
implementing a
statewide plan for
Minnesota nursing
leaders to use in
participating in the
Robert Wood
Johnson project.
Nursing leaders
from the major
nursing organizations
come
together monthly
to develop a plan for Nursing. The representatives
engage in dialogue and strive to
achieve outcomes to advance nursing and
patient care.
Six regional councils provide an opportunity
for nurses throughout the state to
participate in the dialogue and decisionmaking.
These regional councils are
responsible for evaluating issues within the
region, making recommendations to the
State Collaborative Council, and ensuring
that the regional plan contributes to the
achievement of the state-wide goals. A
chairperson or coordinator leads the six
councils, with a regional coordinator providing
staff support.
What has Minnesota accomplished to
this point? Thus far, MnCIC has:
• established the state-wide Collaborative
Council and the regional councils.
• implemented a state-wide Articulation
Agreement among schools of nursing to
foster a smooth transition for students
moving among educational programs.
• developed the Asset Model for the
Nursing Profession for use as a framework
in defining the characteristics needed by
nurses, and providing guidance for nurses
in strengthening their professional practice.
• conducted a survey of high school
students to determine their interest in nursing
as a career, and reasons for choosing or
not choosing it.
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continued from page 21
• joined the Coalition to Retain Nurses.
As part of this effort, a statewide conference
was held in December to hear nurses’
concerns and suggestions for action.
Presently, a plan focusing on the retention
of nurses is being developed, a major component
of which is an informational and
marketing campaign. Much work has gone
into developing a uniform, or at least unified,
database related to nursing supply
and demand, retention, and turnover in
the state.
• conducted a workshop in January on
workforce issues facing all health professions
and health-care employee groups.
• convened an L.P.N. Role Task Force
to examine the role of the L.P.N., and
ensure that their roles are being fully and
appropriately utilized.
• developed a survey which will be distributed
in the fall to nursing faculty on
satisfaction in their work environments.
• held a conference in the fall of 1999
with 150 attendees, discussing such topics
as trends in health care, nursing policy
issues, and the labor shortage, as well as
the Asset Model for the Nursing
Profession.
• established strong partnerships among
nursing service providers, nursing educators,
and other key health-care groups.
A number of other initiatives are in
progress, including a mentoring project
linking students with nurses currently in
practice; a survey of nursing students in all
educational programs; a New Grad
Success project, focusing on bridging the
gap between the skills and knowledge
nurses have upon graduation and the skills
and knowledge necessary to be successful
in the first practice setting; a nursing skills
study; forums held in each of the regions
this summer on workforce issues, and a
study of facilities providing clinical space
for nursing students to determine if there
are additional types of sites needed.
One major State Collaborative Council
initiative underway is the development of a
shared agenda for nursing to take to the
legislature for policy and action. Areas
being addressed in this initiative include
enhanced student financial support,
enhanced faculty development, commu-
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nity planning grants, and improving the
work environment.
This last initiative, developing a shared
agenda which all nursing leaders can support,
is especially exciting. Rather than
groups individually advocating only narrow
issues, the collaborative voice of
nursing is being used to advance broad
strategies which can move patient care and
nursing forward across the state.
How can I learn more? There is a
newsletter published quarterly, which is
available by calling 651.296.3388, or
e-mailing the project office at:
shelly.heller@so.mnscu.edu.
There is a Website where the newsletter
is going to be published, which also provides
other helpful information about the
project, activities, and people to contact.
That address is http://www.mnnursing.org
How can I become more involved? The
best question.
• Call the coordinator in your region
and let her or him know of your interest.
Carolyn Olson Ferguson, 88, died
January 20, 2001, at her home in Mankato, MN.
Ferguson was one of the first stewardesses from
Minnesota for United Airlines, American Airlines,
and Northwest Airlines.
Carolyn Olson received her nursing degree at
the School of Nursing.
Patricia L. Gault, 59, Class of 1965,
(B.S.N.) and 1967 (M.A.), a long-time resident of
Monticello, MN, died February 2, 2001, in California.
She had been a registered nurse at
Abbott-Northwestern Hospital for 25 years. Gault
established the Veronica Pec Gault Memorial
Scholarship in memory of her mother. The
scholarship benefits graduate students who are
preparing for nursing careers in geriatric health
care delivery.
Margaret K. Schafer, 96, died December
13, 2000. Margaret, who never married, had
an illustrious nursing career. She was operating
room supervisor at the U of Michigan Hospital in
1942 after which she joined the U.S. Army, and
was sent to London to be in charge of the western
section of Army nurses.
She became chief nurse of the U.S. Army
nurses in the United Kingdom. After the war, she
moved to Frankfurt, Germany. She attained the
rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the
• Attend a regional council meeting—
usually monthly or bi-monthly.
• Attend one of the regional forums coming
to each of the regions this summer.
• Attend the state MnCIC meeting on
November 6 in St. Cloud.
• Tap into the Website which provides
timely and helpful updates.
• Send us your address and we will put
you on our mailing list.
• Call or e-mail any of the regional coordinators
to let us know of your concerns.
• Get involved with any of the nursing
organizations in Minnesota. We have connections
with MOLN, MNA, Sigma Theta
Tau, MACN, Associate Degree Educators,
MnPNA, and others. Use your membership
in these organizations to let us know what
we are doing right and what we can
improve.
A lot is going on in Minnesota. Join with
us in creating the changes we all would like
to see happen to improve patient care and
move nursing forward. •
In Memoriam
The School of Nursing has received news of four graduates who died in the past few months.
Order of the British Empire by King George VI
and the Bronze Star by the U.S. Army.
After the war, Margaret went to Washington
D.C., where she worded with the army in personnel
and recruiting, the Navy Public Health Service
as well as the Federal Civil Defense for
which she was Chief Nurse.
Audrey E. Windemuth, 89, Class of 1939
(B.S.N.) and 1959 (M.A.) died September 19,
2000, in Roseville, MN. A native of North Dakota,
Windemuth started her nursing career in the late
1930s as a staff nurse at the University of Minnesota
Hospital and later became acting assistant
superintendent of nurses. Later, she was senior
clinic nurse in the Outpatient Department, as well
as Public Health Nurse Coordinator and Nursing
Supervisor. In addition, she was an instructor for
the School of Nursing.
She published a book, The Nurse and the
Outpatient Department, in 1957. Windemuth left
Minnesota in 1960 to become the first director of
nursing services at West Virginia University Hospital
in Morgantown, directing over 500 registered
nurses, L.P.N.’s, and nurses assistants.
She later became associate clinical professor at
the University and eventually associate director.
She retired in 1976, returning to Minnesota in the
early 1980s. •

y Sandra Edwardson
They make an odd pair of duelers. President
Mark Yudof is the erudite Philadelphia
lawyer with a rapier sense of humor.
Governor Jesse Ventura is the giant of a man
whose election “shocked the world.” The local
press can’t get enough of the dueling odd couple
over the University’s biennial budget request.
Dean Sandra
Edwardson
The President, intent on leading the University to realize its
full potential, proposed an ambitious biennial agenda with a
budget to match. The Governor, intent on honoring his campaign
pledge to return surplus tax revenues through rebates,
responded by recommending only $56 million (25%) of the
request. This is enough to fund only the increase in health
insurance premiums. There would be no support for faculty
salary increases, infrastructure support, or any new
investments.
A host of University supporters have come to our aid by
informing their legislators that they oppose the Governor’s
proposal and asking the legislators to do the same. These loyal
supporters understand the unique role that this land-grant and
research University plays as the major economic and intellectual
engine for the state.
Each year, more than 9,000 new graduates of the University
pour into the workforce lending their knowledge and skills to
our quality of life. Last year, the School of Nursing was responsible
for 96 new registered nurses, 90 new masters’-prepared
nurses and 10 new Ph.D’s. While we prepare only about 17% of
the baccalaureate graduates in the state, these new nurses along
with the new M.S. and Ph.D. graduates continue to make a dis-
From the Dean
proportionate contribution to our discipline and to health care,
just as their predecessors have for the past 90 years.
Asked how the University would respond if the Governor’s
proposal were to become law, President Yudof has said there
are only three options: retrenchment of unit budgets, salary
freezes, or double-digit tuition increases—or some combination
of the three. Any one of these options would have
serious consequences for the School of Nursing. Any significant
retrenchment will force us to reduce one or more of our
educational programs or to find the necessary funding elsewhere.
Freezing salaries will make it more difficult for us to
recruit and retain talented faculty members. Hiking tuition will
discourage applicants to our educational programs. While any
action that would reduce the number of students makes no
sense in the midst of a major nursing shortage, the sources of
other possible long-term funding are virtually non-existent.
Retrenchment would also put a damper on our growing
research effort and our commitment to experiment with new
educational programs to address the need for advanced practice
nurses and doctorally prepared faculty for the state.
As anxiety filling as this situation is, it does force us to reflect
on priorities and the value of our contributions. We think
our priorities are about right. We intend to continue to offer
first-rate educational programs and to do the research that is
needed to address health care needs.
We don’t know if the duel that the Governor has provoked is
political gamesmanship or serious business. Time will tell. But
we cannot afford to take the challenge lightly. Our lobbying
efforts have been supplemented with serious contingency planning
should the worse case scenarios become real. Won’t you
join us in making our case to the legislature? •
May Gatherings
Join us for a casual May Gathering with University of Minnesota School of Nursing alumni, faculty and friends.
Share Memories. Renew acquaintances. Discuss challenges and the latest accomplishments in nursing practice and research.
Linda Herrick (’98 PhD)
May 3, 2001 5:00–7:00 p.m.
296 E. 6th St., Zumbrota, MN 55992-1339
Guest speakers: Sandra Edwardson,
What’s Happening with the University of Minnesota
in Rochester?
Jeannine Bayard (’71 BSN/’77 MPH)
May 8, 2001 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
2160 Iglehart Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104-5049
Guest speakers: Janice Post-White & Debra Drew,
Something Needling You? Acupuncture’s Role in
Chronic Pain Management.
Alison Clarke (’64 BN/’67 BSEd)
May 10, 2001 4:00–6:00 p.m.
226 Ridgewood Road, Duluth, MN 55804-1849
Guest speaker: Mariah Snyder,
Integrated Health Care: Possibility or Myth.
Joanne Disch, Director
May 15, 2001 3:00–5:00 p.m.
U of M School of Nursing, Katharine J. Densford
International Center for Nursing Leadership, 4-185
Weaver-Densford Hall, 308 Harvard St. SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Guest speaker: Joanne Disch, The Nursing Shortage
and How the Densford Center is Addressing It.
Patricia Kane (’77 MS)
May 16, 2001 2:00–4:00 p.m.
1225 LaSalle Ave., Apt. 2304, Minneapolis,
MN 55403-2333
Guest speakers: Ruth Lindquist & Mary Fran Tracy,
A Calm in the Storm or a Storm in the Calm:
Person, Environment and Complementary Therapies.
Carolyn Schroeder (’55 BSN)
May 17, 2001 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Club – Oak Room, 729 Second Ave. S.,
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Guest speaker: Sandra Edwardson,
Nursing in 2001: A Glass Half Empty and Half Full.
Mark Kirschbaum (’94 PhD)
May 19, 2001 4:00–6:00 p.m.
4133 Deerwood Trail, Eagan, MN 55122-1887
Guest speaker: Melissa Avery,
Distance Learning in the Graduate Program.
Deanna Weisgerber, Nursing Fdn. Trustee
May 22, 2001 4:00–6:00 p.m.
2925 Gale Road, Wayzata, MN 55391-2625
Guest speakers: Carol Pederson & Leslie Parran,
Tapering Morphine in Infants and Young Children.
Anne LaBree (’53 BSN/’69 MS)
May 23, 2001 3:00–5:00 p.m.
6000 Dublin Circle, Edina, MN 55439-1730
Guest speakers: Kathleen Krichbaum &
Vivian Aarestad, An Education Model to Improve
Health Outcomes in Adults Newly Diagnosed
with Diabetes.
Cindy Bultena (’87 MS)
May 24, 2001 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Woodwinds Healthcare Campus, Conference Rm. B,
1875 Woodwinds Dr., Woodbury, MN 55125
Guest speakers: Cindy Bultena & Helen Hansen,
The Woodwinds Story of Innovation
in Health Care Delivery.
Mary Lou Christensen (’60 BSN, ’76 MPH)
May 30, 2001 4:00–6:00 p.m.
8600 Westmoreland Lane, St. Louis Park, MN
55426-1933
Guest speaker: Linda Bearinger,
Promoting the Health of Urban American Indian
Children and Adolescents: Lessons Learned from
Our Research.
Hosted by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing Foundation. Light refreshments will be served
in all locations. Please RSVP by phone 612.624.2490 or e-mail: peder010@umn.edu to confirm your availability.
Spring/Summer 2001 ■ Vol. III, No. 1 23

Memories, Mentoring, Members
Nursing Alumni Society News
This year’s Alumni 2001 Reunion and Celebration
is spotlighting the accomplishments of
alumni. Entitled “Voices of Caring,” there
will be stories from classmates, colleagues, and
mentors. The date is Saturday, May 5, 2001, from
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel
Metrodome. Call your friends and classmates,
Marie Manthey
and treat yourself to a morning of remembrance,
reflection, and celebration. For additional information call
612.624.9494.
A graduate student tea was held on March 7, to provide an
opportunity for the large body of graduate students to network
and socialize. I led a discussion forum on “Survival Techniques
for Grad School and Beyond—Connecting the Past to the
Future.” It was a great event and one of many to come.
Did you know that the School of Nursing is one of the
largest graduate programs on campus? The Board of the
24 Network
The U of M Alumni
Association and
your Nursing Alumni
Society help you stay in
touch with the University,
the school and other
alums.
Plus, membership
brings you Minnesota
magazine, invitations to
special events, low-cost
access to Internet/e-mail
and many discounts
(from theater to gopher
gear to books to car
rental to athletic events).
Name
Address
City
Home phone:
For a complete list, call
1.800.UM.ALUMS or 612.624.2323 in the Twin Cities area.
Alumni Society is taking several steps to strengthen the society.
You may have heard from us lately. Many nursing alumni
volunteered to call and encourage you to attend the Alumni
2001 Reunion and Celebration as well as to encourage you to
join the Nursing Alumni Society. We are actively seeking class
representatives from each year to help us stay in touch with
classmates. Various ideas for sharing news from each class are
being explored. A new interactive Webpage is under consideration.
With all the changes going on in the nursing
profession, the Alumni Society is committed to being proactive
in shaping the future of the nursing profession. If you
are not a member, consider joining. The opportunities to
serve are unlimited!
Marie Manthey, M.N.A., R.N.,
F.R.C.N., F.A.A.N.
SoN Alumni Society President
612.827.1611; mmanthey@chcm.com
Check payable to UMAA enclosed or Charge my: Visa Mastercard Discover Card Amex
Account number
Signature
Membership levels
$30 Single, 1 year $40 Dual/Family, 1 year 2nd Member:
$75 Single, 3 year $105 Dual/Family, 3 year 2nd Member:
Complete and return this form to: McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St. SE, #200, Minneapolis, MN 55455.2040.
Who is Y.M.T? A Lesson in Persistence
The initials read: Y.M.T. ’70.
The 10-K gold pin is a School of Nursing, University of
Minnesota pin, over 30 years old, and was lost to its original
owner.
The finder represents a lesson in persistence.
Jennifer A. Hart-Abraham, now an Attorney at Law in
St. Paul, found the pin over 10 years ago in her parents’ pharmacy
in Forest Lake, MN. She tried to find the owner at that
time, but to no avail.
Fast forward 10 years. Jennifer called Barbara La Valleur,
Communications Coordinator, at the School of Nursing.
First MI Last Maiden
State Zip
e-mail
La Valleur also persisted in asking questions, until she found
the answer (at the Office of the Registrar Files) to Who is
Y.M.T.?
Y.M.T. is Yvonne Margaret Tandberg, now retired from
nursing, and living in Forest Lake. When contacted, she could
only repeat: “I cannot believe this! I cannot believe this! I felt
so badly to have lost it. It’s something you never want to lose.
I looked down and my pin was gone. I searched and searched.
I was working in a nursing home when I noticed that it was
missing. I thought it had fallen in some bed linen and gotten
lost in the laundry. Oh, I cannot believe this.”
A meeting is being arranged to have the finder present the
owner with her long-lost pin. •

Managed Care Institute
Over 100 students and faculty from six Minnesota colleges
and universities are expected to attend the Managed Care
Institute for Minnesota Nurse Practitioner Students, a two
and a half day, interactive institute featuring outstanding
speakers, May 16–18 at the Earle Brown Center on the
St. Paul campus.
Purpose of the institute is to provide education to Nurse
Practitioner and Midwifery students to assist them in working
in a managed care environment and assist educators in developing
N.P. curriculum that included managed care principles.
Highlights of the institute will include programs on the
issues and future trends of managed care; history and evolution;
using evidence in practice; care management of
populations; accountability for providers; the ABCs of the
financial aspects; interdependence of providers, and successful
N.P. practices. •
45th Reunion
of Nursing Class of 1955
Thirty-three classmates from California to Canada,
from Maryland to Florida, attended the 45th reunion
of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing,
Class of 1955 on August 26, 2000. Classmates met
at the Fairview University Medical Center in the
morning receiving a souvenir reunion booklet and
viewed the video, Katharine J. Densford: A Living
Legacy. This was especially meaningful because
“Katy J” was dean when they were in their nurses
training. In the evening, a banquet and program was
held for classmates and guests at the Radisson Hotel
Metrodome.
Attending from left to right, front row to back:
Virginia Johnson Kemppainen, Marjorie Larson
Hoagland, Patricia Hogan Spraitz, Amy Seevers
Nelson, Mickey MacNames Allen, Phyllis Halverson
Johnson, Janet Gareis Rog, Jan Hall Kalla, and
Muriel Schmitz Schoon; second row: Mary Zimmer Schoelkopf, Claryce Lunneborg Swensen, Marjory Boyce Nelson, Georgia Swanson Schultz,
Marilyn Peterson Ingalls, Joyce Christensen Kvaase, Betty Mundt Aasland, and Janet Russell Eck; third row: Arlys Christianson Hansen,
Gena Johnson Nelson, Kay Johnson Acton, Irene Larson Johnson, Audrey Brenny Glynn, Maxine Johnson Lenz, and Marlene Anderson Skold;
back row: Delma Lind Entner, Helen Korhonen Bjorlin, Juliette Rodean Mortenson, Bonnie Logue Haugen, Kathy Horan Zyla, Eloise Benson
Sampson, Ruth Holmberg Reed, Martha Peterson Schroth, and Lu Ann Turmoe Haugen.
Speaking Out
Letters from our readers
Dear Editor:
I have really enjoyed the last two issues of Network. They
contain the kinds of articles I wish I could read about nursing
in the popular press. One that really stands out for me is the
story on Jehad Adwan and why he loves nursing so much.
Nursing is a wonderful marriage of science and the whole
human experience. I am not a nurse but I teach physiology to
nurses in the advanced practice program. I am an educator
who is appalled by how nurses are portrayed in the media.
Case in point, an MPR talk show I enjoy very much, “Midmorning,”
had a guest on that in the last few minutes blasted
schools of nursing as being, among other things, “controlled
by feminists” and “anti-science.”
I wish that we could all do a better job of informing the
public and correcting media reports about nursing and nursing
research. There is more to the story than the nursing
shortage, though I appreciate the letters to the editor I’ve read
from the University on this subject. I would like to read letters
to the editor in the Minneapolis and St. Paul papers from
nurse researchers about the knowledge generation and the use
of technology by the University of Minnesota School of
Nursing. I know some of you listen to Katherine Lanpher and
“Midmorning.” Call in sometime and identify yourself as a
“nurse scientist” or a “nurse researcher.” Maybe Katherine
will get curious and do a show about nursing research.
Sincerely,
Lisa Carney Anderson, Ph.D.
National Nurses Week
May 6–12
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Thank You
to all of the organizations and staff who provided support, time and knowledge
to our undergraduate and graduate Nursing Students over this past academic year.
All About Children
Pediatrics
Allina Medical Clinic
Albany Area Hospital &
Med. Center
Andrew Residence
Anoka County
Community Health
Anoka-Hennepin School
District
Aspen Clinics
Aspen Medical Group
Associates 2000, PA
Barron County Health
Department
Bethel College Nursing
Department
Bethesda Medical Center
Bloomington Health
Division
Bloomington Lake Clinic
Burnsville School District
191
Cambridge Medical
Center
Caregivers Network
Catholic Eldercare
Cedar Riverside School
CentraCare Clinic
Central Avenue Clinic
Children’s Health
Care–Mpls.
Children’s Health
Care–St. Paul
Children’s Respiratory &
CC Specialists
Children’s-Mpls. Home
Care & Hospice
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Associates
School of
Nursing
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
change service requested
Community Nurse-
Midwives at Riverside/
University Specialists
County Home School
Community University
Health Care
CUPES-Andersen
School, Minneapolis
Youth Diversion
Dakota Clinic
Dakota County Public
Health Dept.
Dakota Heartland
Dowling Urban
Environmental
Learning Center
Ebenezer Tower
Apartments
Episcopal Church Home
EverCare
Fargo Cass Public Health
Dept.
Fairview Clinics
Fairview Ridges Hospital
Fairview Riverside
Sub-Acute
Fairview Southdale
Hospital
Fairview University
Medical Center–
Riverside
Fairview University
Medical Center–
University
Family Tree Inc. Clinic
Farmington Family
Clinic
Fremont Community
Clinic
Fridley Medical Center
Friendship Village of
Bloomington
Health Start Clinics
HealthEast Clinics
HealthPartners
Hennepin County
Community Health
Hennepin County
Medical Center
Hennepin Faculty
Associates
Hoikka House
Indian Health Board
Infectious Diseases
Minneapolis Limited
Internal Medicine and
Geriatric Associates
Isanti County Public
Health Services
ISD 270–Hopkins School
District
ISD 196–Apple Valley/
Rosemount School
District
Lake City Clinic
Lakeland Mental
Health Care
Martin Luther Manor
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Hospice Program
Mercy Hospital
MeritCare Clinic
Methodist Hospital
Metropolitan Pediatrics
Metropolitan Visiting
Nurse Association
(MVNA)
Mid Minnesota Clinic
Min No Aya Win
Human Services
Minneapolis Age and
Opportunity Clinic
Minnesota OB Homecare
Minnesota State
Legislature
Minnesota Veterans
Home
MN Dept. of Health,
Com. Health Service
MOHPA, St. Paul
Oncology
Monticello Clinic
North End Medical
Center
North Memorial Medical
Center
North Suburban Family
Physicians
Northwest Family
Physicians
Oakdale North
OB & GYN & Infertility,
PA, Osceola Medical
Center
Park Nicollet Clinic
Paynesville Area
Health Care
Pediatric and Adolescent
Care of Minnesota
(PACE)
Pediatricians for Health
Pelican Valley Clinic
Planned Parenthood of
MN–Mpls.
Prairie Family Practice
Presbyterian Homes
Pulmonary and Critical
Care Assoc.
Quello Clinic–Eden
Prairie
Ramsey County Human
Services Department
Ramsey Early Head Start
Ramsey Head Start
Ramsey Nursing Health
Service
Regions Hospital
Ridgeview-Mound Clinic
Riverway Clinic
Scott County Human
Services
Seniors Clinic
Shriner’s Hospital for
Crippled Children
South Lake Pediatrics
St. John’s Hospital
St. Joseph’s Home for
Children & FUMC
International Adoption
Clinic
St. Joseph’s Hospital–
(Healtheast)
St. Mary’s Hospital
Stillwater Medical Group
Teachers Park Avenue
Residence
TriCollege University
School of Nursing
United Hospital
Unity Hospital
University Seniors Clinic
Veterans Affairs Medical
Center
Veterans Affairs Medical
Center–St. Cloud
Washington County
Public Health Nursing
Western OB/GYN
Westside Community
Health Services
Whittier Place
Women’s & Children’s
Clinic
Nonprofit Org.
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