The Institute for Nursing - April 2019

Page 8 New Jersey Nurse & Institute for Nursing Newsletter April 2019
NJ Board of Nursing
Appointments of Blozen and
Egenton by Gov. Murphy
NJ Governor Phil Murphy reappointed Barbara B.
Blozen, RN, EdD, BC.CNL, to the NJ Board of Nursing
for a second term, and appointed Patricia Egenton, RN,
MSN, NE-BC CCRN CEN, to a first term, on Dec. 21,
2018. Blozen has served four years on the Board, and as
elected Board of Nursing President since 2017.
Blozen, New Jersey City University Associate
Professor, is responsible for theoretical and clinical
education of RN-BSN nursing students. She has an
extensive background in leadership of the NJSNA
Continuing Nursing Education approval program.
Previously, she was a faculty member at Seton Hall
University, Burlington and Ocean County Colleges, and
Barbara B. Blozen
practiced at Community Medical Center, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, and
Shoreline Behavioral Health.
Egenton, a nurse entrepreneur, is a Rutgers-Camden
University and Rowen College at Burlington County
Adjunct Clinical Professor. Her extensive background
in clinical practice in emergency nursing, ICU, and
PCU was achieved over several decades at Our Lady
of Lourdes, Thomas Jefferson University, Cooper and
Virtua hospitals; positions she held included those in
management, logistics, operations, and education.
Egenton challenges nurse scholars to answer the question:
what does a RN do? They must know that a Registered
Professional Nurse “diagnos(es) and treat(s) human
responses to actual or potential physical and emotional
health problems” (NJ BON, Definition of Nursing).
Patricia Egenton
NJ Board of Nursing, one of many licensing boards under the Division of
Community Affairs, in the Department of Law and Public Safety, is composed
of 15 members. Nine members are RNs; in addition to Blozen and Egenton are
Irma Camaligan, James Doran, Lucille Joel, Gina Miranda, Robert Shearer, (APN
designee), Dorothy Kozlowski and Mary Beth Russell (nurse educator designees).
Two members are designated Licensed Practical Nurses: Marieta Zapata, and
one vacancy; three are public members: Tafun Selen and Ann Semanik, and one
vacancy; Alison Gibson is the State Government member.
Authorized under NJ Statutes, beginning in 1914, the Board of Nursing
establishes policies and regulations to protect the health and safety of the public.
In its regulation of the profession of nursing, the Board licenses registered
professional nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certifies advanced practice
nurses, sexual assault forensic nurses, as well as homemaker-home health aides.
The Board also accredits schools of nursing, and approves clinical education
experiences.
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Members in the News
Nightingale Research Grant
Awarded to Lydia Albuquerque
Lydia Albuquerque, RN, APN, DNP, has received the Nightingale Research
Grant award. The grant funded research that investigated predictors in heart
failure patients leading to readmission within thirty days of hospital discharge. The
outcome of the study provides health care professionals information identifying
which factors are more heavily linked to readmission.
Albuquerque is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in Heart Failure. The study was
designed as a result of working with patients on a daily basis and was enhanced by
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) study at William Paterson University.
The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses grant is established to
support novel, innovative heart failure nursing research and to improve patient
and family outcomes. This focus matches the purpose of the DNP degree;
Albuquerque said, “Completing the DNP and pursuing the research study was a
natural fit.”
In addition to the research award, Albuquerque recently received another
honor. In 2018, she was presented with the Divas and Dons Award by the
NJSNA Institute for Nursing. Albuquerque is a faculty member at William Paterson
University and continues to practice as an APN. An abstract of the study may be
found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.10.014
Beitz Named National
Academies of Practice Fellow
Janice Beitz, RN, PhD, FAAN, a professor at the
Rutgers University, School of Nursing–Camden, has been
named a fellow of the National Academies of Practice
(NAP), a national inter-professional organization that
advises governmental bodies on health care delivery in
the United States. She was inducted at the NAP annual
meeting in Arlington, VA on March 9.
Beitz joins Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden Dean,
Donna Nikitas, and professors, Cynthia Ayres, and Nancy
Pontes, as Rutgers–Camden fellows of the National
Academies of Practice.
“This fellowship in the National Academies of Practice
will provide an opportunity for me to influence quality patient care for the future,”
said Beitz. “I am honored to be able to influence decisions based on my clinical
expertise and scholarship regarding safe, effective patient care.”
An expert in wound, ostomy, and continence (WOC) care, Beitz has more than
40 years of nursing experience in acute, sub-acute, and outpatient care settings.
She is the director of the graduate-level Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden
Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Education Program. She is board certified
as an adult clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing, and as a nurse of the
operating room.
The educational programs that Beitz created in wound/ostomy/continence
and perioperative nursing care have been recognized with awards from the
Pennsylvania League for Nursing, the WOCN Society Northeast Region, and the
American Professional Wound Care Association.
Prior to joining the Rutgers University–Camden faculty in 2012, Beitz taught at
La Salle University, worked as a staff development instructor at Graduate Hospital
in Philadelphia, and was a WOC advanced practice nurse consultant at Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital and several other Philadelphia hospitals.
Beitz was awarded a BSN at La Salle University, a MSN degree at Villanova
University, and a PhD in educational psychology at Temple University. A fellow
of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), she is a member of the Academy
of Nursing Education Fellows (ANEF), recognized for innovations in improving
clinical practice and patient safety through education, practice, and research.