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Year in Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Student Services: Expanding Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Education: High-Tech Simulation a Growing Part of Nursing Student Experience . . . . . . . .
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Research: Cancer Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Practice: Growing Advanced Practice Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Faculty Publications, July 2013-June 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Class Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Honor Roll of Donors, July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Current Endowments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Alumni Spotlight: Mountain Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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C O N T R I B U T O R S
Editor
Anne Mattarella
Writers
Marlena Bermel
Dimple Bhakta
Ross Burkstaller
Cindy Foster
Michael Haederle
Photographers
Paul Akmajian
John Arnold
Marlena Bermel
Alejandro Flores
Kathy Montoya
Debra Serrino
Designers
Peter Arathoon
Sara Mota
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N ow that the Affordable Care Act has been rolled out across the county, nurses continue to be an increasingly significant part of the solution. In response to health needs in New Mexico, the state has increased funding for advanced practice registered nurse education. Nurses and advanced practice nurses, in particular, are relied on to help stem the tide of an overburdened health care delivery system. The UNM College of Nursing is up for the challenge and can use your support!
Inside your Annual Report, you will learn how clinical training using hightech simulation is a growing part of our nursing student experience at UNM.
Students participate in rare and complex scenarios without placing patients at risk or in discomfort. This high-tech and high-touch training enables students to enter the health care workforce with a higher skill level during their first months on the job.
We are also excited to introduce you to the cancer research of Dr. Barbara Damron and Dr. Emily
Haozous. You will learn how Dr. Damron is working to reduce disparities in Hispanic cancer patients using text messages to increase compliance. Dr. Haozous incorporates into her research her pride in representing Native American populations, including research on the far-reaching effects of radiation from the Trinity Project detonations in the mid-1940s.
The College has also been fortunate to receive state funding to increase total enrollments in UNM’s
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife programs.
The increased enrollment opportunities aid in getting these nurses into New Mexico’s communities.
Additionally, UNM’s preceptors are located statewide throughout rural New Mexico, providing invaluable clinical experience for students.
To help keep pace with this added capacity, we have been hiring at an increasing rate. We had nine faculty join our ranks this year. Student Services has also added two new advisors and a financial aid specialist.
Guiding students through the program as efficiently as possible is critical to keeping costs down for all involved. Our Student Services team will update you on the fantastic job they do shepherding students through the program.
In spite of the economy’s relatively strong performance, student debt burdens can be overwhelming.
The College works diligently to provide educational and financial opportunities for students wherever possible. Thank you for supporting the UNM College of Nursing and helping to improve the lives of so many New Mexicans.
Nancy Ridenour, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, FAAN
Professor and Dean
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Dean to Serve on NMCNE Board
Dean Nancy Ridenour was nominated to serve on the New Mexico Center for
Nursing Excellence Board of Directors.
She started in January 2014.
Cox Awarded 2014
AACN Faculty Policy
Intensive Fellowship
The American
Association of
Colleges of Nursing held its second annual Faculty Policy
Intensive on March
24-27, 2014, in Washington, DC. This fully funded, four-day immersion program is designed for faculty at
AACN member schools who are interested in actively pursuing a role in health care and nursing policy. The
2014 cohort was chosen from a highly competitive pool of more than 30 applications, and Dr. Kim Cox, Assistant
Professor, was selected. Dr. Cox had the opportunity to enhance her existing knowledge of policy and advocacy through sessions that strengthened her understanding of the legislative process and the dynamic relationships between federal departments and agencies, national nursing organizations and the individual advocate.
Regents’ Professor and Regents’
Lecturer
Dr. Robin Meize-Grochowski, Professor, was appointed as Regents’ Professor
(2014-2017), based on her years of service to the College of Nursing and
UNM, stellar administrator roles and teaching excellence. Dr. Kim Cox,
Assistant Professor, was appointed as
Regents’ Lecturer (2014-2017), based on her exemplary performance as a junior faculty member, significant program of research in midwifery and women’s health issues, demonstrated leadership by serving as a board member for the
New Mexico Department of Health
Certified Nurse-Midwifery Advisory
Board and as chair of the College’s
Program Evaluation Committee.
Regents’ Professor and Lecturer are special titles bestowed on faculty members who, in the judgment of the Dean and on the advice of a faculty selection committee, merit recognition of their accomplishments as teachers, scholars and leaders, both in University affairs and in their national/international professional communities. These appointments will be made to full professors for terms of three years. In addition to the title
Regents’ Professor, the appointment also carries a stipend.
U.S. News & World Report Ranking
According to the U.S. News & World
Report’s “America’s Best Graduate
Schools” for 2015, the College’s Nurse-
Midwifery program ranked 5th and the Master’s program ranked 79th nationwide. The report surveyed and analyzed a total of 128 medical schools and 25 schools of osteopathic medicine in the United States. The schools were ranked according to selected measures of academic quality, including academic reputation, student selectivity, faculty resources and the percentage of graduating physicians who go into the primary care specialties of family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics.
Dr. Mayo Retires
Dr. Rebecca Mayo, faculty, retired from the UNM College of
Nursing on June 30,
2014. Dr. Mayo was the program coordinator for the
RN to BSN program.
Video Featured by Scrubs Magazine
A video by students at the College of Nursing, “Things Nursing Students
Don’t Say,” was featured in Scrubs magazine. To read more or to see the video, visit http://scrubsmag.com/videothings-nursing-students-dont-say/.
Dr. Roper Named
UNM Teaching
Fellow
Dr. Van Roper,
Assistant Professor, was selected as a UNM Teaching
Fellow for 2014-
2015. Fellows will investigate carefully defined teaching challenges by examining the latest research on teaching and learning in their respective disciplines and will also be responsible for creating innovation in teaching and evaluating evidence of student learning with their methods.
Carol A. Lindeman Award
Dr. Carolyn Montoya, Associate
Professor and Interim Practice Chair, has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Carol A. Lindeman Award for her dissertation research. The selection was made by the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) Nursing Program
Committee. She was honored at the WIN
Conference this April in Seattle.
Ostrem Appointed Chairperson
Kristen Ostrem, Nurse-Midwifery
Concentration Coordinator, was appointed to be the Ultrasound
Education Task Force Chairperson by the
American College of Nurse-Midwives.
This will be a three-year appointment.
Rodgers to Become
Associate Editor
Dr. Beth Rodgers,
Professor, PhD
Program Director and
Interim Research Chair, has been invited to be an associate editor of Global Qualitative
Nursing Research , a new online, international peer-reviewed journal focusing on qualitative research in the field of nursing. The journal specializes in topics important to nurses, including nursing, care, health and illness.
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Rodgers on Leadership Team for the PCORI
Dr. Beth Rodgers, Professor, PhD
Program Director and Interim Research
Chair, has also been invited to serve on the leadership team for the Patient-
Centered Outcomes Research Institute
(PCORI) for the newly formed Sleep
Apnea Patient Centered Outcomes
Network, one of the priority areas identified by the Institute for development and funding. This group will be responsible for setting the agenda for the advancement of science related to sleep apnea research and outcomes and development of networks to improve research and patient outcomes.
Montoya Selected as an AANP Fellow
The American Association of Nurse
Practitioners (AANP) announced that Dr.
Carolyn Montoya, Associate Professor,
Interim Practice Chair, has been selected as a 2014 Fellow. The purpose of the AANP Fellows is to influence national and global health by engaging recognized nurse practitioner leaders who make outstanding contributions to clinical practice, research, education or policy, enhancing the AANP mission.
The program also provides a forum to extend and enhance Fellows’ efforts to mentor and to facilitate the leadership development of nurse practitioners.
By becoming a Fellow, Dr. Montoya agrees to participate actively in FAANP initiatives and projects.
Liesveld Joins
NMNEC Leadership
Council
Congratulations to
Dr. Judy Liesveld,
Associate Professor and Education Chair, who is now a new member of the New
Mexico Nursing Education Consortium
(NMNEC) Leadership Council. Dr.
Liesveld replaces Dr. Debra Brady, who retired in June. The NMNEC Leadership is made up of seven members, two from prelicensure baccalaureate programs, one from an RN-BSN program and four from prelicensure associate degree programs.
AACN Nightingale Scholarship
Awarded to Haynie
The Albuquerque chapter of the
American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses (AACN), in partnership with the New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence, announced Dr. Keith Haynie,
Assistant Professor, as the first recipient of the AACN Nightingale Scholarship of
$1,000. The scholarship is in recognition of his past and future contributions to critical care nursing.
New Mexico Governor Susana
Martinez Champions Nursing
Nurses are “the backbone of efforts” to expand New Mexico’s primary care workforce, according to Governor
Susana Martinez, and they help ensure that people living in the state’s rural and underserved communities can obtain the high-quality care they need and deserve. A video from the Governor helped open the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Academic Progression in Nursing meeting in Washington,
D.C., which brought together nurse leaders from around the country. In her remarks, Governor Martinez explained why New Mexico has implemented a common statewide nursing curriculum, made it easier for nurses in the state to further their education and placed “a strong emphasis on nurses.”
The New Mexico Nursing Education
Consortium is a collaborative of nearly every nursing program across the state creating a common core curriculum in nursing education, transforming the current structure into a resourceefficient and easily accessible baccalaureate program for students.
Cohen Selected as
Institute of Medicine
Nurse Scholar-in-
Residence
Dr. Sally S. Cohen,
Associate Professor, has been chosen as the 2014–2015
Distinguished Nurse
Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academies. As a scholar-in-residence, Cohen will work on child health policy, an area in which she has made significant contributions, as evidenced through the publication of her research in peer-reviewed journals, as well as her book, Championing Child
Care , in which she analyzed three decades of national child care policies and politics.
2014-2016 Medical Education
Scholars Named
Mary Wright, Principal Lecturer II, was recently chosen to participate in the upcoming Medical Education Scholars
(MES) program, sponsored by the UNM
School of Medicine’s Office of Education and Office for Medical Educator
Development. As they begin their scholarly quest, Wright will join 12 other successful members who will form the
2014-2016 MES cohort.
100% Pass Rate for PNP and
ACNP Grads
Congratulations to the summer 2013
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Acute
Care Nurse Practitioner graduates for their 100% pass rate on their certifications!
Dr. Duphorne’s
Retirement
After 40 years of service to the UNM
College of Nursing,
Dr. Patsy Duphorne retired September 1,
2014.
Parshall to Be Inducted as a Fellow of the AAN
Dr. Mark Parshall, Associate Professor, will be inducted as a Fellow of the
American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).
FAAN membership is awarded by invitation as recognition of outstanding accomplishments within the nursing profession and to health care. Selection criteria include evidence of significant contributions to nursing and health care and sponsorship by two current
Academy Fellows. Applicants are reviewed by a panel composed of elected and appointed Fellows, and selection is based, in part, on the extent the nominee’s nursing career has influenced health policies and the health and well-being of all.
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Global Health Experience Reunion
For the past five years, Dr. Judith Harris has been taking nursing students to Bolivia or Kenya, partnering with
Project Helping Hands to offer our students the opportunity to travel abroad and apply their skills.
Dr. Harris brought together the Global
Health Experience alumni on April
15th to reminisce and learn more about the Judith Harris Global Health
Endowment. Started by Dr. Harris in
2011, the endowment will help cover the costs involved for our students who participate in this experience. Dr.
Harris hopes that eventually cost will not be a barrier in giving our students the opportunity to turn the world into their classroom.
$1.6 Million to Expand Nurse
Practitioner Program
Governor Martinez asked the New
Mexico Legislature for, and received,
$1.6 million to add 24 additional nurse practitioner training slots, adding family and pediatric nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives to the state’s health care workforce.
Morton Honored with
Excellence Award
Nancy A. Morton, Clinical Educator II, received the Excellence in Education/
Research/Academia Award at the
2013 New Mexico Nursing Excellence
Awards Nov. 2 at the Hyatt Tamaya
Resort. A total of 22 nurses, five retired nurses, one nursing student and one individual were honored at the event. A nurse for 36 years,
Morton is the Director of the
Undergraduate Program at the
UNM College of Nursing.
one of 100 Alumni
Transformers in Nursing and
Healthcare as part of their
100th anniversary celebration. She was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the profession and her dedication and passion to improve the health of children and families.
Cohen Honored by Yale University
Dr. Sally S. Cohen, Associate Professor, was recognized and honored by Yale
University School of Nursing as one of their outstanding 90 nurses as part of their 90th anniversary celebration.
Dr. Cohen was recognized for her many achievements and contributions to the discipline, particularly her dedication to nursing and health policy and her outstanding scholarship around social policies for children.
Lobo Recognized by Alma Mater
Dr. Marie Lobo, Professor, has been recognized and honored by The Ohio
State University College of Nursing as
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A s the College of Nursing expands it programs, the need to expand the number of employees also grows. More faculty, more advisors and more student services personnel need to be hired. We’d like you to meet the newest members of the Student
Services Team. These are three fantastic ladies who come with a wealth of experience to help our students progress into exceptional nurses and amazing alumni.
Nissane Capps, Senior Academic Advisor, has been an advisor at the University of New Mexico for 7 years. She began her career at the College of Arts and Sciences.
higher in nursing, and the students are more focused,” says Capps. She finds working with this professional population very rewarding.
An Academic Advisor for the College of Nursing, Quena
Echeverri-Gonzales does advising and recruitment for the MSN program. More specifically, she is working with Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Family
Nurse Practitioner and Nurse-Midwifery students.
Prior to coming to the College, she worked in various capacities at UNM for the past 10 years, most recently with the College Enrichment and Outreach Program under Student Affairs. Echeverri-
Gonzales enjoys working with the students and learning about the profession of nursing.
Kelsey Higgins, Quena Echeverri-Gonzales, Nissane Capps
Eventually, she moved over to the School of Medicine before joining the College of Nursing. She is primarily in charge of advisement for the RN to BSN program.
Having always loved advising, Capps likes the fast pace and changing dynamics of nursing. “The stakes are
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In July of this year, Kelsey
Higgins began working as a
Financial Aid Officer for the
College of Nursing. She works, part-time, alongside Ana Vigil, awarding students financial aid, loans, grants and scholarships based on qualifications.
Originally from New Mexico, she moved to Arizona, where she also worked in financial aid.
Knowing she wanted to return home, she immediately looked for a position where she could continue the work that she loves and was able to join the UNM
College of Nursing Student
Services team. When asked what she likes about her job, she says she likes working with the students and she has always wanted to help people.
T he patient blinked his eyes and stared at the ceiling, mouth open. An unsettling moan erupted as his chest began to rise and fall. The stone-faced figure in a hospital bed looked like the high-fidelity mannequin that he was – yet the touch of his skin and the beat of his heart were lifelike.
Instructors at the University of New Mexico College of
Nursing simulation lab know their new computerized mannequins can be intimidating at first. used for more complex scenarios, from cardiac arrest to multiple trauma injuries. Midwifery students can monitor the fetal heartbeat as Sim Mom labors. They can later practice using pediatric exam tools on Sim
NewB, a newborn simulator.
“In the lab you can tie many nursing concepts and skills together that are needed by a student and increase the holistic way in which they care for their patients,” said Herica Torres, RN, MSN, a clinical instructor and simulation coordinator.
“Our nursing students may start out a bit ambivalent about the experience,” said Lab Director
Joseph Poole, Jr., RN, MSN. “They aren’t sure what to expect from the mannequins, and they are having to perform an exam on one in front of their peers. But their hesitancy doesn’t last long. It really does begin to mimic the clinical setting as they move through the session moment by moment.”
Simulators have been in classrooms since the
1980s, but a new generation of high-fidelity simulators has brought about something of a revolution in the way nursing classes are taught. These Wi-Fi mannequins groan, wheeze and blink. Stomachs rumble. Pulses race and then drop dangerously low. They might vomit. With the help of moulage, bodily fluids flow, and smells waft across the exam table, mimicking the clinical setting.
Regulators love them. They want to see students learning without placing patients at any unnecessary risk or discomfort. They also know that when students can participate in complex and rare scenarios, they are better prepared to enter the workforce after graduation.
Every undergraduate student at the UNM College of Nursing is now required to spend time in the simulation lab. Beginning students practice inserting intravenous lines and performing basic skills on lowtech mannequins. The more complex models are
The evolution has been quick. Five years ago, most
UNM nursing students encountered a small number of mannequins during their training. By 2013, a total of
856 student encounters had occurred in the lab. That number increased to 1,250 in Spring 2014.
“I love the sim,” said nursing student Darlene Lucille Baca, who is beginning her last semester of training. “It was creepy for a minute, but it really forces you to focus.”
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“You can hear the wheezing in the chest. It helps even in little things, like remembering that you must first listen to the bowel before you palpate it or you will change what you are hearing. It really cements how to do your head-to-toe assessment, which is one of a nurse’s primary duties,” she said.
Undergraduate students usually begin a simulation lab day with a briefing session that orients them to the simulation, and they prepare for the patients they will be taking care of that day. Once the simulated experience is over, the students gather for debriefing,
Poole said.
Lab supervisor Arthur Sedore then begins to put the mannequins through their paces from his post in the lab’s control room, where he operates a computer linked to the mannequins. Students may hear low, anguished moans as Sedore changes vital signs and makes other adjustments to the patient’s condition.
Students administer medications and perform nursing interventions to see how the patient responds.
Students have access to a nearby phone that they can use to consult with other members of the care team on better ways to care for their patient.
“If they are focused and achieving the simulation learning objectives, we might expand the scenario to allow them to complete all the objectives,” Poole said. “If everyone is having difficulty and getting frustrated, then we stop and go to the debriefing room. Often, that is the important part of the process, when they are learning from their peers.”
Research is showing simulators to be good teachers. A recent
National Council of State Boards of Nursing study, “The Effect of High-Fidelity Simulation on
Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Performance,” showed that students benefitted from combining simulation with clinical activities.
“Being able to follow up with a ‘hands-on’ clinical time really can enhance the learning process,” he said.
Sessions typically last about 20 minutes. While one group will assemble to take care of their patients, the other will sit in the debriefing room with their instructor and watch their peers perform in the scenario.
“The study showed what we had been hearing from employers – students who had been through simulations begin with a higher skill level during their first months on the job,” Poole said.
“With the simulations, they are able to see and treat a wide range of patients, and it shows up in their confidence and competency.”
A trail blazer throughout her career, Barbara Damron,
PhD, RN, FAAN, was the first oncology advanced practice nurse in south Texas, was the first to teach chemotherapy certification training to oncology nurses, helped to develop the Texas Cancer Council (and the
New Mexico Cancer Council) and helped to ensure that all nurses throughout the state of Texas received cancer education training through the Nurse Oncology Education
Program, which she founded. She is currently the Director of the Office of Community Partnerships & Cancer Health
Disparities for the UNM Cancer Center and Associate
Professor at UNM College of Nursing and at UNM Family &
Community Medicine at the School of Medicine. Damron is a lead faculty member with the Robert Wood Johnson
Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at UNM. She teaches health policy at the PhD and MSN levels and also serves on dissertation committees.
When you ask Damron what she’s most proud of, she does not make mention of the research she’s done or the policies she helped create. After 20 years of advanced practice oncology experience, it is all about the patient.
She brings the spirit and energy of her patients to the scientific aspect of her job. Damron knows that had she started as a scientist, she would not have the same understanding of the need for her work.
Barbara Damron
Damron has many concurrent scientific research projects, but her biggest is addressing disparities in Hispanic cancer patients. It began by translating an educational sevenmodule program, Cancer 101, into Spanish and testing the knowledge gained by patients. The project then tested text messaging as a means to improving physical activity and dietary habits in Spanish-speaking individuals.
Participants demonstrated large improvement through self-reporting. For Year 4, this same messaging system was used on Hispanic colon cancer patients receiving oral chemotherapy. Patients and providers are currently being surveyed and interviewed to determine whether text messaging reminders increase adherence to taking the drug. The National Cancer Institute has provided the funding for these advances each year.
Damron is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health
Policy Fellow. She worked as a professional staff member in the US Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions on health policy in Washington
D.C., and she continues that hard work here at home.
Nationally, research is moving toward the use of human genetics to tailor treatments to an individual’s makeup.
Cancer is leading the way in this field. There is a need for human specimens, and people in general are hesitant to participate. Damron is working with the Pueblo Council of
Governors to discuss the needs and wants of the pueblos in regard to policy and protection in genetic testing. It is her goal that the final guidelines would be used across
UNM, not just the Cancer Center. The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and American Cancer Center are providing funding for this project.
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W hile at Yale earning her Master of Science in Nursing degree, Emily Haozous, PhD,
RN, realized there were very few Native
American nurses conducting research. A member of the Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache Tribe, she applied to the Yale PhD program and was accepted, completing the program in 2009. Haozous is currently an Assistant
Professor at the UNM College of Nursing, teaching
The first comprehensive study conducted by the federal government to estimate cancer risk to New
Mexicans alive at the time of the Trinity nuclear test is now being performed. A team from the National
Cancer Institute came to New Mexico in September to conduct in-depth interviews to determine the typical diet and lifestyle habits of Native American and
Hispanic populations living in New Mexico in the mid-
1940s to understand the full impact.
The team, including Dr. Haozous as a co-investigator, travelled throughout the state, interviewing elders about their memories of their diet and lifestyles during the 1940s. Dr. Haozous coordinated interviews and community meetings, and facilitated the qualitative interviews.
Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar program, Haozous is also working to address medical mistrust of health care providers among Native Americans. She began her research three years ago using digital storytelling to improve cancer screening rates with
Native American women. Cancer survivors and family members who lost someone to cancer were asked to create a short video sharing their experiences.
Through this project, Dr. Haozous learned that digital storytelling workshops provided a healing process for those who made the videos. Qualitative interviews were done with survivors and family members. The participants reported that they expected to learn the technical skills of making a video; instead, they received a very powerful healing experience.
Emily Haozous research methods in the MSN and PhD programs.
When you ask her what she’s most proud of, she says that it is being able to advocate and provide a voice for indigenous people in health research.
In July 1945, the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb, nicknamed “Trinity,” near White Sands,
N.M. There was never any follow-up done on the cancer risk from the exposure to radiation until now.
Other sites of major radiation releases have been studied extensively, including the effects of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the
Nevada and Marshall Islands nuclear test sites.
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Haozous is quick to point out that the UNM College of Nursing has some wonderful Native American scholarships for students: Louise Grey Kiger
Nursing Scholarship, Joan Marie Tippeconnic
Memorial Scholarship Endowment, and Thomas A.
Plein Memorial Scholarship Endowment. She is extremely proud to be part of a college of nursing that has alumni, faculty and staff who are so dedicated to supporting the successes of American Indian nursing students.
E rin Stopani couldn’t seem to get enough of a good thing when she finished the certified Nurse-
Midwifery program at the University of New Mexico
(UNM) College of Nursing last May.
“I graduated on Friday and started school again on
Monday for the Family Nurse Practitioner program,”
Stopani says matter-of-factly. When she graduates next spring, she will have a Master of Science in Nursing degree as a nurse-midwife and a post-master’s certificate as a family nurse practitioner—and a job waiting for her at Presbyterian Healthcare.
The extensive clinical experience she has gained in her training has given her first-rate preparation for the demands of the workplace, Stopani believes. “That was one of the main reasons I chose UNM,” she says. “The amount of clinical experience was above what most other programs expected. I really think that is the best way to learn.”
Stopani’s experience is typical for many graduates from
UNM’s trio of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) programs. Soon, thanks to an infusion of new state funding, more students will have an opportunity to pursue this career track.
In a bid to boost the ranks of primary care providers in the state, the 2014 New Mexico Legislature included a nearly
$1.7 million recurring appropriation to grow the total number enrolling in UNM’s pediatric nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner and certified nurse-midwife programs from 24 to 40 students.
Enrollment deadlines are fast approaching—Oct. 1 for the certified nurse-midwife program and Nov. 1 for the pediatric and family nurse practitioner tracks. The first expanded classes will start in the summer 2015 semester for graduation in 2017.
“We’re trying really hard to get the word out,” says
Carolyn Montoya, PhD, a certified pediatric nurse practitioner, associate professor and interim director of the College of Nursing Practice Team. “The Legislature is making a commitment. I am trying to be sure that we spend this money appropriately and we have sufficient students.”
The three APRN programs each begin with online courses in pathophysiology, research, nursing theory and health policy, Montoya says. Then the training shifts to clinical courses on block schedules, in which students alternate between the classroom and hands-on training in clinics.
“We send students all over the state,” Montoya says. “We can’t have you in a class on Monday and expect you to do a three-hour drive to Las Cruces to do your clinical.
If you are from a rural community, we will try as much as possible to place you for your clinical experience in your hometown.”
The trio of programs are a good fit for registered nurses (RNs) looking to expand their skillset and for greater autonomy in their practice, Montoya says, pointing out that New Mexico is one of 16 states in which nurse practitioners and certified midwives practice independently and with their own prescriptive authority.
“One of our selling points is that we’re not a massive program,” Montoya says. “There are some that take a hundred or more students. We don’t do that. Our students receive individualized faculty instruction.”
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The fact that 100 percent of the students who have graduated from the program in the past five years have passed their certification exams is another plus, she says. Students also benefit from close supervision from faculty and preceptors while getting their clinical training, she says.
Stopani, a Chapparal, N.M., native who started out as a licensed midwife before earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN) at Texas Tech University, had more than 800 patient interactions in the certified nurse-midwifery program. “It’s incredible that we have preceptors who share their clientele with us,” she says.
“They’re so invested in our learning that they’re willing to share those experiences.”
Kendall Brown, who earned his BSN at UNM, is enrolled in the family nurse practitioner program. A Gallup, N.M., native who is also a member of the Navajo Nation,
Brown wants to make primary care available where it’s most needed.
“There’s not that many health care providers out there,” says Brown, who hopes to work for the Indian Health
Service after he graduates. “The need is great. Many
Native American patients cope with conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and anxiety,” he says.
“What I’m learning in school is how to manage these illnesses,” he says, adding that the extensive classroom and clinical training he’s received so far has been “worth it” because it has improved his skills as an RN.
Diana Sanchez-Gallegos, who earned her undergraduate, Master of Science in Nursing and post-master’s certificate from UNM, has worked at
Presbyterian’s family practice in Belen, N.M., for 21 years.
Board-certified as both a family nurse practitioner and a pediatric nurse practitioner, she remembers well the bumpy transition between RN and nurse practitioner.
“All of a sudden, you’re in a role where you’re making all the decisions and you’re writing them down,” she says.
“It’s a whole different ballgame when you’re signing your name to those orders. It’s a real responsibility, a real role change.”
Sanchez-Gallegos says that these days, she learns a lot from serving as a preceptor to young APRN students from UNM. “You sometimes get stuck in your old ways,”
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Carolyn Montoya, who continues to treat pediatric patients in addition to meeting her busy administrative responsibilities in the College of Nursing, says becoming a nurse practitioner “is the best decision I ever made.”
She hopes that as more students graduate from the
APRN program, many of them will choose to remain in New Mexico to practice in rural and underserved communities, where the need is the greatest.
In small towns, she says, practitioners get to know their patients outside of the clinic. “It’s a very unique relationship,” she says, “very different from an urban setting.”
But for Montoya and others, the work is its own reward.
“My mind is engaged 110 percent when I’m in clinical,” she says. “When I’ve had a tough day here, I go and see my little babies. You are totally engaged in that encounter, and it’s challenging and satisfying.”
American Journal of Occupational Therapy,
2014, 68, 194-202
INGRID HENDRIX AND COLLEAGUES
“Effects of Partnerships Between People With Mobility
Challenges and Service Dogs”
American Journal of Public Health, 2013,
103(12), e15-e29
EMILY HAOZOUS AND COLLEAGUES
“Shared Decision-Making for Cancer Care Among Racial and
Ethnic Minorities: A Systematic Review”
Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2014, 2(3), 183-197
BETH RODGERS
“Breaking Through Limbo: Experiences of Adults Living With
Obstructive Sleep Apnea”
Diabetes Spectrum, 2014, 27(3), 197-206
ANN CAUDELL AND COLLEAGUES
“Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Care Management by
Hospital Glycemic Teams: Results of a Society of Hospital
Medicine Survey Among 19 U.S. Hospitals”
Disability & Rehabilitation, 2014, doi:
10.3109/09638288.2014.881565
KIM COX AND COLLEAGUES
“A Comprehensive Assessment of Family Caregivers of Stroke
Survivors During Inpatient Rehabilitation”
First American Art Magazine, Spring 2014, 2, 36-39
EMILY HAOZOUS
“Allan Houser, Reflections on My Grandfather”
Journal of Community Health, 2014, 39(5), 863-871
JONGWON LEE AND COLLEAGUE
“Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Cervical Cancer and Cervical
Cancer Screening Among Asian American Women”
Journal of Community Health, in press
GEOFF SHUSTER, BLAKE BOURSAW, AND COLLEAGUE
“The Impact of State Certification of Community Health Workers on Team Climate Among Registered Nurses in the United States”
Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2014,
Article ID 321604
EMILY HAOZOUS AND COLLEAGUES
“Blood Politics, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Misclassification
Among American Indians and Alaska Natives”
Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 2014,
59(3), 237-245
KIM COX
“Counseling Women With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: Toward a Shared Decision-Making Partnership”
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and
Neonatal Nursing, 2013, 42(3), 311-320
EMILY HAOZOUS AND COLLEAGUES
“Midwives’ Verbal Support of Nulliparous Women in
Second-Stage Labor”
Nursing Economics, 2014, 32(3 Suppl), 3-35
CHRISTINE DELUCAS AND COLLEAGUES
“Excellence and Evidence in Staffing: A Data-Driven Model for
Excellence in Staffing (2nd Edition)”
Nursing Ethics Journal, 2014, 21(1), 76-85
CHRISTINE DELUCAS
“Foreign Nurse Recruitment: Global Risk”
Nursing Outlook, 2013, 61(5), 311-336
MARIE LOBO AND COLLEAGUES
“Voices Not Heard: A Systematic Review of Adolescents’ and Emerging Adults’ Perspectives of Health Care Transition
Services”
Nursing Research and Practice, 2013, Article ID 909606
MELINDA TINKLE, RICHARD KIMBALL, EMILY HAOZOUS, &
ROBIN MEIZE-GROCHOWSKI
“Dissemination and Implementation Research Funded by the
US National Institutes of Health”
Public Health Nursing, 2014, doi: 10.1111/phn.12142
JONGWON LEE AND COLLEAGUE
“Exploring Precarious Employment and Women’s Health Within the Context of U.S. Microenterprise Using Focus Groups”
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Qualitative Health Research, 2014, 24(1),
78-89
AMY LEVI AND COLLEAGUE
“How Clinicians Develop Confidence in Their Competence in
Performing Aspiration Abortion”
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública,
2013, 34(4), 213-219
AMY LEVI AND COLLEAGUES
“A Radio-Education Intervention to Improve Maternal
Knowledge of Obstetric Danger Signs”
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública,
2013, 34(4), 235-243
BLAKE BOURSAW AND COLLEAGUES
“Obesity and Malnutrition Among Hispanic Children in the
United States: Double Burden on Health Inequities”
Sage Open, 2014, doi: 10.1177/2158244014545463
BETH RODGERS AND COLLEAGUE
“Optimistically Engaging in the Present: Experiences of Aging
Among Gay Men”
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2014, doi:
10.1177/0193945914529025
JONGWON LEE AND COLLEAGUE
“Feasibility of Utilizing Ethnic Beauty Salons for Cervical Cancer
Screening Psycho-Education”
American College of Nurse Midwives, http://midwife.org/ACNM/files/ACNMLibraryData/
UPLOADFILENAME/000000000290/Delayed-
Umbilical-Cord-Clamping-May-2014.pdf
KIM COX AND COLLEAGUES
“ACNM Position Statement: Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping”
Book
Mastering Concept-Based Teaching, St. Louis, MO:
Elsevier, 2014
BETH RODGERS AND COLLEAGUES
Book Chapter
“Landing Fellowships and Internships”
NANCY RIDENOUR
In Accelerate Your Career in Nursing: Professional
Advancement and Recognition. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma
Theta Tau International, 2014
Book Chapter
Contributor on teamwork and interprofessional practice
NANCY RIDENOUR
In Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management
of the Adult Patient. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2014
Book Chapter
“The Evolution of Nursing Science”
BETH RODGERS
In Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice
(2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2014
Book Chapter
“Qualitative Research for Nursing Practice”
BETH RODGERS
In Research for Advanced Practice Nurses (2nd ed.).
New York: Springer, 2013
Book Chapter
“The Nexus of Science and Policy in Infertility Treatments”
MELINDA TINKLE AND SHANA JUDGE
In Science and Politics: An A-to-Z Guide to Issues and
Controversies, Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2014
Book Chapter
“Global Health: Health Sciences and Team-Based Care”
HERRICA TORRES AND COLLEAGUES
In Global Health Programming in Medical and Other
Professional Schools (2nd ed.). Self-Published with
Sponsorship by Consortium of Universities for Global
Health, 2013
‘59 BSN, was honored by the Avalon Children’s Dental Health
Clinic. Among other programs she initiated, in assistance with her clerk,
Cathy Moran, she began a dental clinic in the auditorium of Avalon
School in Catalina Island.
The
50th anniversary.
returned to the
College of Nursing to celebrate its
’64 BSN, received the
New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence Legend of Nursing award.
’63 BSN, returned to the College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’71 BSN, returned to the College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’70 BSN, returned to the
College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’83 MSN, returned to the College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’85 BSN, is currently working at Moreno Valley
Healthcare Clinic.
Michael Chicarelli
’89 BSN and ’92
MSN, was honored by the UNM
College of Nursing with its 2013
Distinguished Alumni Award.
’86 BSN, was named president and chief executive officer of UNM Sandoval Regional
Medical Center, effective December
19, 2013. Prior to assuming her current role, she served as the center’s chief operating officer.
’83 BSN and ’94
MSN, returned to the College of
Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’97 BSN and ’11 MSN, was named by
Albuquerque Business First as one of their 40 Under 40 honorees, which pays tribute to the most outstanding young professionals in
Albuquerque.
’91 BSN, was honored by the UNM College of Nursing with its 2013 Distinguished Alumni
Award.
’95
BSN, returned to the College of
Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’99 MSN, returned to the College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’99 BSN and
’07 MSN, returned to the College of
Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
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’94 BSN, received the New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence award for Excellence in
Practice, Critical Care.
’08 MSN, received the
New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence award for Excellence in
Leadership, Management/Emerging
Leadership.
’08 PhD, was named President, Health Care &
Education, by the American Diabetes
Association.
’01 MSN, received the New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence award for Awards of
Distinction, Community Service.
’00 BSN and ’02 MSN, was chosen to receive the inaugural
Inspirational Young Alumnus Award given out by the UNM Alumni
Association.
’05 BSN and ’13 MSN, is currently working for Presbyterian
Medical Group.
’03 BSN, received the New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence award for Excellence in
Practice, Medical/Surgical.
’05 BSN, married
Patrick Mondragon.
’00 BSN, ’04 MSN and ’12 PhD, received the New Mexico
Center for Nursing Excellence award for Advanced Practice.
’02 BSN and ’11 MSN, returned to the College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’06 BSN, returned to the
College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
’01 BSN, was named chief nursing officer of Rehoboth McKinley Christian
Hospital.
’09 MSN, was honored by the UNM College of Nursing with its 2013 New
Alumni Award.
’12 MSN, has joined
Southwest Medical Associates.
’11 MSN, received the New Mexico Center for Nursing
Excellence award for Excellence in
Practice, Public Health/Community/
School.
’13 MSN, joined the Dar
Luz Birth Center team.
‘10 BSN, returned to the
College of Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise.
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’13 MSN, is currently working for CHRISTUS St. Vincent
Regional Medical Center as a nursemidwife.
’10 BSN, was wed to Juan Chavez this year.
’11 BSN and ’13
MSN, returned to the College of
Nursing and volunteered, helping to evaluate our basic BSN students who were participating in a simulation exercise. She is currently working at
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, also known as Tsehootsooi Medical Center.
’13 BSN, was selected for the UNM Sarah Belle Brown
Community Service Award. Tran was also the recipient of the 2014 March of Dimes Award.
’10 BSN and ’12
MSN, spoke at a UNM Health Sciences
Center-sponsored event at the UNM
Gallup campus. The evening helped promote health care professions to our UNM Gallup students.
Are you an alumnus who has something exciting to share?
Please email Marlena Bermel, senioralumni relations officer, at mbermel@salud.unm.
You could be in the next Annual Report!
The University of New Mexico College of Nursing is grateful to the following alumni, friends, corporations and foundations for their generous gifts and pledges received by the University of New Mexico Foundation.
Carter Fleck Society
$1,000,000+
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Eleanor King Society
$100,000-$999,000
Sue Daulton
Dean’s Circle
$10,000-$99,999
David and Lynda Tippeconnic
Dr. Dale Melada and Prof. Ivan Melada
Dr. Estelle Rosenblum
Dr. Nancy Ridenour and Ed Mason
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
Gertrude E. Skelly Charitable Foundation
Mammacare Corporation
New Mexico Educators Federal Credit
Union
Prof. Peter A. Winograd
Prof. Roy Caton, Jr.
Sigma Theta Tau-Gamma Sigma
Chapter
Thomas A. Plein Foundation, Ltd.
Nightingale Society
$1,000-$9,999
Anthony and Shannon Martinez *
Bank of America Foundation
Christopher and Maribeth Thornton
Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center
Dave and Marty Evans
Debra Smith *
Dr. Judith Harris and Richard Silverstein *
Dr. Leah Albers and Thomas Roberts
Dr. Orcilia Zuniga Forbes *
Dr. Richard and Linda Baty
Dr. Samuel and Wendy Adamo
Drs. Linda and Stan Carpenter
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Imagine Nation Books, Ltd.
Jerome and Ruth Firsty
Joan and Dr. Raymond Bowen *
Kathy Ann and Bradley Day *
Larry and Anna B. Harris Foundation
Louise and Charles Kiger *
Maribeth and Christopher Thornton
Patricia and William Carpenter *
Patricia Gayle Petty *
Patricia Hurst *
Ross and Katie Burkstaller
Sheena Ferguson *
Sheila and Charles Hopper *
The Boeing Company
Virginia Printz- Feddersen and
Richard Feddersen *
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$500-$999
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Catherine and Steven Perry *
Cecilia Garcia *
David and Annie Olson
Diane Beach and Dr. Geoff Shuster, III
Dr. Marie Lobo
Geraldine Rodriguez
Karen and James Phippard
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Kristen Ostrem *
Lucy and John Wines *
Michael and Diana Larson
Patricia and Mark Johnson *
Penny and Arthur Fishel
Valerie and Greg Mackey *
Joyce and Bill Butt *
Julie Gorwoda *
Karen Ikins *
Kathleen Davis and Robert Wengrod
Margret Rae Gutjahr *
Nancy Bordenave *
$100-$249
Amy Rohr *
Andrea Robles *
Angelina Gallegos *
Ann Musinski *
Antoinette and Dr. Calvin Spellmon *
$250-$499
Betty and Melvin Hochhalter *
Carol and James Moye *
Debra Houlden-Engvall and Eric Engvall
Dorothy and Richard Beach *
Dr. Elsie and Bruno Morosin
Dr. Linda Chambliss
Dr. Mark and Diane Parshall
Dr. Mary and Peter Muller *
Dr. Robin Meize-Grochowski and Daniel
Grochowski
Drs. Cornelius and Patricia Higgens *
Drs. Robert and Judith Lindeman *
Geniel Parson and Andrew Torres *
Ariel Garcia *
Bertha Williams *
Betsy and Dick Frank
Bianca Torres *
Blake Boursaw
Candice Busa *
Carole Owens *
Charelle and Adrian Segura *
Colette McWhorter *
Cristina Diaz *
Diana and Mark Albertson *
Dorothy and Dr. William Voss *
Dorothy and Robert Benz *
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Dr. Barbara Nylund-Morgan

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Gayle and George Campbell *
Ignacio and Anna Ortiz
Irene Gray
Iva and Colonel Dennis Dakin *
Jamey and Elizabeth Braun *
Jenny and Mark Watkins *
Joan McClelland and Stephen Glick *
Joe Rayburn *
Katelyn Sanchez *
Katherine and Charles Williams *
Kathy McNamara *
Kelly Martinez and Edward Bortot *
Leticia Rivas *
Loretta and Charles Maxwell *
Lucy and George Barabe *
Marjan Dinge *
Marlena and John Bermel
Mary Bryn *
Melissa Montoya *
Melissa Reeves *
Merri and Kurt Shipley *
Michele and Melvin Kirk *
Michele Head *
Molly Ashcraft *
Nancy and Eloy Nunez *
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Nicole Luchene *
Noah Stearns *
Patricia and Thomas Hill *
Rhoda and Paul Greenfield
Rhonda Phillip *
Ryan Harris *
Samantha Headstream-Pehl *
Sara Barron and Dr. Robert Margulies *
Sarah Daly *
Susan and John Cheshire *
Tina Bui-Burgos and Raul Burgos *
Tracey and Donald Kasnic *
Valerie Romero *
Wendy and Lewis Kimmelman *
William and Bethany Adamo
New Horizons Society **
Current Members
Joan M. and Raymond C. Bowen
Kathy A. and Bradley W. Day
Maryann Evans and Edwin G. Roos
Martin W. and Lois Ann Fleck
Terry Jackson and James Gustafson
James Hesse
Hari Kaur Khalsa
Linda Ann Kirby
Helen and Gerald Moser
Annie L. and David C. Olsen
Elsie Charlese Spencer
Estelle Rosenblum
Rob Rayner
Virginia Crenshaw
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48th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference
Watch for more information at www.winursing.org
● Keynote Address: Barbara J. Safriet, JD, LLM, Lewis and Clark College
● State of the Science Speakers: Paula Gubrud-Howe, EdD, RN, FAAN,
Oregon Health & Science University ● Sandra L. Haldane, BSN, RN, MS,
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium/Southcentral Foundation
● David Vlahov, RN, PhD, FAAN, University of California, San Francisco
● Preconference Speaker: Nina Wallerstein, DrPh, University of New Mexico
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Current Student Scholarship Endowments
Diane Lynn Adamo Memorial Scholarship in Nursing
Agnes Ripple Adams Memorial Scholarship Fund in Nursing
American GI Forum Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Robin Armell Memorial Scholarship
Broadmerkel/Brown Endowed Memorial Fund
Marie C. Caton Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Rufus F. Carter Scholarship
Mary Helen Terret Craig Endowed Scholarship
Diane Doherty Memorial Scholarship
Marty and Dave Evans Scholarship Endowment in Nursing
Carl H. Feak, Jr., and Joy N. Feak Nursing Scholarship Fund
Maggie Ferguson Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Evelyn Marlin Fisher Endowment
Friends of Nursing Endowment
Shirley N. and Frank B. Gilliam Endowed
Scholarship in Nursing
Hall Carper, Huntsinger and Martinez
Scholarship Endowment
Helene Fuld Health Trust Scholarship for Baccalaureate
Nursing Students
Julie Gorwoda Endowed Nurse-Midwifery Fund
Marie Honette Hoch Scholarship for Nursing Students
Nellie F. Huntsinger Scholarship Endowment
Portia Irick Nursing Scholarship
Emma M. Olson Memorial Endowment
Bryant E. Pedrick Nursing Endowment
Thomas A. Plein Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Maryann and Edwin G. Roos Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Estelle H. Rosenblum Dissertation Award
Senior Class Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Sigma Theta Tau Gamma Sigma Chapter Nursing Scholarship
Donea and Bill Shane “Returning to School”
Nursing Scholarship
Sharon Lee Smoker Nursing Scholarship Endowment
Joan Marie Tippeconnic Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Federated Women’s Club of Albuquerque Scholarship
Virginia S. Jackson Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Louise Grey Kiger Nursing Scholarship
Dean Eleanor King Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Dorothy Langraf Memorial Scholarship Endowment in Nursing
Carolyn Dooley Martinez Scholarship Endowment in Nursing
Reverand Uvaldo Martinez Memorial Scholarship
Aladino and Nellie Matteucci Endowed Scholarship
Debra Lynn Baker Mauney Memorial Scholarship
Peter and Geneva Meerdink Endowment Fund
Dale and Ivan Melada Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
John Meredith Endowed Scholarship
Blanche Ausley Montgomery Memorial Scholarship
Current Faculty and Program Endowments
Leah L. Albers Professorship in Midwifery
Carlson/Petty Endowment for Innovative Nursing Education
Carter/Fleck Endowed Professorship in Nursing
College of Nursing Clinic Endowment
College of Nursing Education Endowment
College of Nursing Organizational Services Endowment
College of Nursing Practice Endowment
College of Nursing Research Endowment
College of Nursing Administration Endowment
College of Nursing Student Services Endowment
College of Nursing Technology Endowment
Virginia P. Crenshaw Endowed Chair in Nursing
Ruth Franklin Endowment for Geriatric Nursing
Giddens’ Neighborhood Endowment
Judith Harris Global Health Endowment
Idolia Hawkins Endowed Award in Nursing
Aladino and Nellie Matteucci Faculty Fellowship
Nurse-Midwifery Education Endowment
David C. and Annie L. Olson Endowment
Rob Rayner Dean’s Scholar Endowment
Ridenour Faculty and Staff Development Endowment
Rosenblum-Weiss Endowment for Women’s and
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P roviding patient care in the wilderness can be very challenging. However it’s what
Erin Weber, RN, Class of 2012, is passionate about. She is a volunteer for the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue
Council and provides technical rescue support as well as medical support during rescue missions.
Her background as a nurse is in the
Medical/Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at University of New Mexico Hospitals.
Monitoring someone’s vital signs and providing care while performing a trail carry-out is difficult. Often, it is dark and cold. Patients are strapped into the litter (a stretcher with one large tire on the bottom made specifically for wilderness evacuations) with a harness, wearing a helmet and usually bundled in a sleeping bag to keep warm. Trails can be steep and narrow, equipment is limited and getting the patient out of the mountains quickly and efficiently is a high priority.
During a March 2014 rescue mission in the Sandia
Mountains, time was of the essence because the patient was in critical condition. Due to high winds, the first helicopter evacuation was unsuccessful, and the team began a trail carry-out. As the patient’s status continued to deteriorate, there was a second attempt at a helicopter evacuation. The winds continued to rage, but the experienced pilot was able to land in the foothills. My Ha, a fellow student, was the flight nurse on the helicopter. My and Erin had worked together during their core graduate classes, with My enrolled in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner concentration and
Erin in the Family Nurse Practitioner concentration. Erin stated, “It was a pleasant surprise to see her get out of the helicopter and come on scene.” Erin helped My load the patient into the helicopter and off they went.
Erin enjoys participating in the evolution of the nursing profession and collaborating with others. It is her goal to provide skilled and compassionate care, whatever the setting may be. Patient outcomes are always on her mind, even in the midst of a technical rope rescue.
Erin Weber

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N U R S I N G P R O G R A M S
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Basic Entry Option
RN to BSN Option
Master of Science in Nursing
Nursing Education
Advanced Practice Nursing
Adult-Gerontology Acute
Care Nurse Practitioner
Family Nurse Practitioner
Nurse-Midwifery
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
Individualized Plan of Study
Health Policy Concentration
Doctorate of Nursing Practice
Nursing Executive
Organizational Leadership (NEOL)