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Carolina Nursing Fall2017 COVER v3.qxp_Layout 1 9/29/17 10:09 AM Page 3
C A RO L I N A NURSING
UNC Welcomes 7th Dean
Nena Peragallo Montano, DrPH, RN, FAAN
FAL L/ WI NT E R 20 17
D e a r A l u m n i a n d Fr i e n d s ,
It’s hard to believe I’m nearing the end of my first year at Carolina Nursing. As I take
time to reflect on all the work we’ve done in this short period of time, I’m struck again
with the warmth, hospitality, and intellectual vibrancy I’ve met with from so many here.
From students to alumni to faculty to campus colleagues, my welcome has been
enthusiastic and supportive— a great encouragement to a new dean ushering in a
time of growth and change.
I came to UNC well acquainted with its reputation for academic rigor, scientific
productivity, and emphasis on service to the people of North Carolina, all of which
were great attractions for me, and none of which have disappointed. The ethos to
serve and improve the lives of the people of this state is very real at the SON, and I am
proud of the work our faculty and students undertake each day to further that service,
especially for our underserved and rural populations.
From Hurricane Matthew relief efforts to mobile health clinics, to new faculty practice
sites, to furthering mental health care in our rural communities, to improving the
diversity of the state’s nursing workforce, our faculty and students train their sights and
best efforts on relieving the needs of our fellow citizens and neighbors. Our mission
to serve is thriving.
Likewise in full vigor are our missions to educate and discover. 2017 has seen the start
of a thorough, faculty-led curriculum review and revision; the hiring of a new executive
dean and associate dean for academic affairs in Peggy Wilmoth (see page 11 for more
on Dr. Wilmoth); and the introduction of a new academic structure. Meanwhile our
research enterprise has been busy and productive under the direction of Dr. Ruth
Anderson, our associate dean for research, who was recently honored by the
University with an endowed Kenan Distinguished Professorship, one of the highest
honors that can be bestowed on a faculty member by their colleagues here.
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This summer also saw the launch of a much-needed new website for the School
(nursing.unc.edu), as well as the launch of the all-new SON Portal, a searchable,
easy-access, online information hub for current students, faculty, and staff
(sonportal.unc.edu). Indeed, it is an exciting time to be at Carolina Nursing!
But of course there’s more work to do.
7 YEARS / GOAL: $ 22 MILLION
This month, we join the University in kicking off the Campaign for Carolina,
a $2 billion
$4.25 effort
billion to raise
effort private
to raise dollars
private to secure
dollars thethe
to secure University’s andand
University’s The UNC School of Nursing remains one of the world’s very best, but now
SON’s place among the best academic institutions in the nation. more than ever, we need the help of friends and supporters to strengthen
our position against challenges facing schools of nursing across the country,
challenges that lead to increased competition to recruit and retain the best
For the SON, this will mean a $22 million effort to ensure our ability to compete for
faculty and students for Carolina: a nationwide shortage of nursing faculty,
and retain the best of the scarce resource of nursing faculty and students, through
leaner federal budgets for scientific discovery, rising tuition, and aging facilities.
endowed professorships and scholarships, as well as resources to upgrade facilities
and to support our local and global outreach. It’s a significant sum for a School of
Nursing to raise, but with the extraordinary support this School enjoys among you,
its alumni, friends, and the community, we’re excited to get started!
Four key ways you can help:
We’re also excited to know that even with a history as full of highlights as the School’s
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has been, its best days are ahead. Thank you for all you do to make that true.
Warmly,
Nena
Faculty Support — to ensure
the strength of our educational
offerings, research enterprise, and
service to the public, we need
2 Student Support — to ensure
that the best and brightest
nursing students can study,
practice, and advance health
endowed professorships, faculty care in North Carolina, we need
development, and seed and travel scholarships, emergency funds,
funds. travel funds, and externship and
“Our vision is to become the number clinical training funds.
one public School of Nursing in the United States
to ensure the highest-quality nursing education,
science, and practice for the people of North
Carolina. The talent is here to get us there; we just
3 Facilities Support — to ensure that
the School of Nursing keeps pace
with the latest advancements in
nursing education and science, we
4 Global and Local Outreach —
to ensure our mission of service
to the people of North Carolina
and beyond, we need faculty
need the resources to retain what we have of the need funds to update our clinical service professorships, global
skills labs, improve our classrooms and local travel awards, mobile
best and brightest in our field, and to attract more
and technology, and renovate clinic support funds, and
such talent to our faculty and student ranks.” Carrington Hall. research funds.
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Contents
5 F E AT U R E
You Can Call Her Nena
11 School News
She is
23 Development Dr. Nilda Peragallo Montano, but
you can call her Nena.
32 Honor Roll of Giving
She is a force. Energetic, decisive, attentive, thoughtful. She wears the
mantle of leadership comfortably and she gets things done. She is
48 Alumni News
motivated to act by a mission to care, and she means to change things
for the better. She is propulsive and real, plainspoken and warm.
She is a nurse, in other words.
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Her internationally recognized research “I did my first big study at the University of Illinois
career grew out of a single moment of in Chicago—it included 780 women and focused
on sexually transmitted infections and HIV. It was
profound empathy.
called SEPA, which means ‘you know’ in Spanish,
and it included demonstrations, role-playing,
“I was doing clinical work with students many
and skills building. The intervention has been
years ago at the start of the AIDS epidemic
extremely successful. We did a second study in
when there was a lot of fear and stigma and
Miami where we looked at the intervention’s
misinformation surrounding the disease. One
effects on violence prevention. When President
of my students and I walked into the room of a
Obama issued his statement to establish a
patient, and it was immediately clear he had been
working group on the intersection of HIV/AIDS,
neglected. There were trays everywhere that no
violence against women and girls, and gender-
one had picked up; his curtain was drawn, his
related health disparities, the only nursing study
room was dark, and he was entirely alone. I felt
he cited was ours.”
terrible for him. We cleaned the room, raised the
blinds, sat down on the bed, and held his hand
and talked with him. It was a terribly affecting She asks, and listens to the answers.
experience. It was then I got interested in
research on HIV/AIDS. My first study was a “I’ve spent this early time at the School getting
random survey of nurses’ knowledge of the to know as much about it and our history as
disease and their attitudes and potential bias possible; likewise, our faculty, students, the
toward AIDS patients. I found a connection, but University, and other schools in the university.
it wasn’t that nurses didn’t want to take care of I have been meeting with our alumni and want
patients—it wasn’t a true bias—there just wasn’t to get to know our state legislators. I also want
enough knowledge in the ’80s about the AIDS to know more about our clinical partners, as I
epidemic. I wanted to take part in changing that.” believe collaboration with them is critical to
meeting the educational needs of our students
and ultimately the health care needs of the state
Her research is a change-maker.
we serve and patients beyond it.
“Once a nurse, always a nurse,” she says, and her Until you meet her in person, here’s a sneak peek
“As an outcome of that first project, Florida
face crinkles and her eyes light up as she does at our School’s new leader:
changed its licensing renewal requirements for
so. She understands the value of this collective
nurses to include HIV education. I was very proud
identity. At the bedside or in the clinic, classroom, She greatly respects the reputation of of that outcome, but mostly it’s an excellent “I love that the mission
lab, or office, she believes all nurses share her UNC and the School of Nursing. example of the very real value of nursing research
same passion for care and manifest it through a
to patient care. Our science isn’t an ivory tower of Carolina is so uniquely
unique and valuable set of skills. They look for “Carolina is an exceptional university. It is well exercise—far from it. Our science is so patient-
solutions, create a culture of support, and most
of all, effect change.
recognized and has a long heritage of prestige. centric it can effect real, on-the-ground change tied to the people of the
And it’s a Research 1 university, which means a lot in health care.
As a nurse, educator, scientist, and administrator,
of important and useful research activity is taking state. ‘Of the people, for
place here, and the School of Nursing is a vital “From there, I went on to focus on what was
Nena brings all these attributes and more to the
School of Nursing’s dean’s suite. They inform the
contributor to that. We have really talented faculty
and students at the School, and so much potential
happening with Latinas and HIV. At the time, the people’ is a beautiful
attention was almost solely focused on drug users
choices she makes as our seventh dean and
inspire her leadership as she seeks new
to grow our research activity for the betterment of
patients in and beyond North Carolina. I am
and male-to-male sex, with no attention given to and resonant ethos.”
women. So, when I went for my postdoc at the
opportunities, weighs possibilities, defines incredibly proud to be the seventh dean of this University of Pennsylvania (which she attended as
options, and sets new standards for creativity fine School and motivated to do a job worthy a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar),
and innovation in an increasingly global arena. of it.” I focused my research on women and HIV. continued on next page
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She encourages diversity as a path to
the future.
“North Carolina has a diverse population—rural
and urban populations, a wide range of races and
ethnicities, many vulnerable and underserved
populations. I would like to see the diversity of
our faculty and students mirror that of our state’s
population, and I’d particularly like to see more
men enter the profession.
“We’re well on our The public we treat is diverse, and we should
have nurses who look like, identify with, and talk
way to effecting like the people they’re taking care of. I want to
diversify what we are doing in research to ensure
real, positive change that certain populations aren’t overlooked or
ignored. We have interesting projects and a
broad portfolio of funding grants on both the
for the profession teaching and research fronts, and we’re well on
our way to effecting real, positive change for the
profession and for patients the world over.”
and for patients Her leadership is grounded in a passion
the world over.” for nursing.
“I’ve always loved nursing. I worked in a hospital
at the bedside, and then grew into academia
from clinical nurse to teacher, researcher, and
“I love that the mission of Carolina is so uniquely administrator. I have practiced in Chile, in
tied to the people of the state. ‘Of the people, for Germany, and other points on the globe. There
the people’ is a beautiful and resonant ethos, and are so many opportunities in this profession to
I think it behooves the School to conduct an in- do and be what you want.
depth assessment of what is needed in our state
so we can direct our efforts to meet those needs. “We are the largest segment of the health care
community, and we should be proud. When you
“We know there is a shortage of nurses in North look at the top jobs for growth, health care is at
Carolina, especially in rural areas. What can our the top. The Institute of Medicine’s Future of
faculty, alumni, and clinical partners tell us about Nursing Report asks nurses to take an even
that shortage or other health care needs facing greater role in our changing and complex health
our neighbors? This kind of information is care system. It’s important for the School to look
essential to helping us map out our direction and at how we are aligned with that effort. Carolina
leverage our resources to shift focus, expand or Nursing has a powerful reputation for excellence
contract programs, raise funds for new initiatives and visionary thinking—we’re in our rightful place
or facilities, and so on. Everything is dependent when we’re leading the profession into the 21st
on assessing the needs of the state.” century.”
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Five SON Faculty Elected
S C H O O L N E WS
Dr. Nena Peragallo Montano
Doctor of Public Health, the University of Texas to Fellowship in American
Master of Science in Nursing, the University of West Virginia
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, the University of Chile
Fellow, the American Academy of Nursing
Academy of Nursing
Inductee, Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
In June 2017, the American Academy of Nursing announced its selection
Dr. Peragallo Montano is internationally known for her of 173 highly distinguished nurse leaders for its 2017 class of Academy
research in health disparities, cultural competency, and fellows, five of whom are UNC School of Nursing faculty. We are delighted
the recruitment and retention of minorities in nursing. to congratulate Drs. Anna Beeber, Beth Black, Cheryl Giscombe, Coretta
Jenerette, and Julee Waldrop on this significant achievement! This class
marks the first time the UNC School of Nursing has had five faculty selected
Beeber to fellowship in the Academy in one year.
She believes alumni turn knowledge She will push the envelope. Selection criteria for fellowship include evidence of significant contributions
into action. to nursing and health care, and sponsorship by two current Academy fellows.
“It’s a priority to grow research here at Carolina
Applicants are reviewed by a panel consisting of elected and appointed fellows,
“Our alumni are a critical part of the makeup of Nursing—it’s a useful source of much-needed
and selection is based, in part, on the extent to which the nominee’s nursing
the School of Nursing and integral to our identity. funding, but more importantly, it’s a direct
career has influenced health policies and the health and well-being of all.
They know the school. They’re so proud of being reflection of our mission, and a way for the
Carolina nurses and they’re such an asset: they School to effect real, lasting change in health Black
are our representatives, our public image, and care and improve the lives of humankind.
The Class of 2017 joins this impressive list of School of Nursing faculty:
our ambassadors. I love meeting our alumni
face to face and hearing the School’s history “We have a great and talented faculty who are
G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN
direct from the source. doing a terrific job and want to do more to
Ruth Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN
advance good health and well-being.
Linda Beeber, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
“I want to understand our alumni’s thoughts,
opinions, and vision for their alma mater. I want “And we’re in the midst of conducting a thoughtful Diane Berry, PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
them to have a close relationship with the environmental scan because health care is Giscombe Linda Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
School and vice versa, so they can lead us to changing daily, and nurses are important to all Carol Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
opportunities and relationships they have the changes. We need to communicate with our Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN
cultivated. clinical partners and ask, ‘What are you looking
Cheryl Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN
for, and how can we meet those needs?’ We need
Kathleen Knafl, PhD, FAAN
“We have a lot of work to do together: we need to respond by evaluating our programs based on
to feed the pipeline for retiring nurses and nurse those needs and updating our curriculum. Barbara Mark, PhD, RN, FAAN
faculty; we need to advance the discipline; we Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN
Jenerette
need to diversify our resources—and they can “I want to see Carolina Nursing go to the very top Mary H. Palmer, PhD, RN, AGSF, FAAN
help us prepare the next generation to serve. of nursing school rankings—not because rankings Nilda (Nena) Peragallo Montano, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Their input is integral to the advancement of are important in and of themselves, but because
Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN
our agenda, and it is a win-win for everyone who they’re a measure of our success in bringing the
Suzanne Thoyre, PhD, RN, FAAN
is engaged and invested in the School.” best in nursing education, research, and service to
people in and beyond North Carolina. It may take Marcia Van Riper, PhD, RN, FAAN
us a little time, but we will do it.” ■ Margaret “Peggy” Wilmoth, PhD, RN, FAAN
Waldrop SeonAe Yeo, PhD, RNC, WHNP, FAAN
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The The infants generate good suction.” Feeding problems can
Feeding
be exacerbated or facilitated by external factors.
Breathe. Suck. Swallow. Even in healthy infants, Babies in the NICU are fed about eight times a
the sequence requires a delicately coordinated day by multiple feeders: nurses rotating on or
dance of efforts. To suck, the baby must organize off a shift, parents or grandparents, speech or
Flock
its oral-motor functions. To swallow, its airway occupational therapists. “You can think of the size
must close to let fluid go down the esophagus. and shape of a person’s body—each person
To breathe, the esophagus must close and the holds the baby a different way—and this changes
airway open. Babies challenged by pre-term the feeding dynamic,” Thoyre said. “Feeding
birth, complex medical conditions, genetic strategies make a difference. Someone might
irregularities, structural abnormalities, or think it’s best to hurry the baby through a feeding
Nourishing research for neuromuscular disorders are already fragile:
missteps in feeding are common and further
so the baby doesn’t tire. Consistent strategies
from feeder to feeder can support the infant’s
childhood feeding disorders threaten their abilities to thrive. “Although
premature infants do swallow amniotic fluid and
breathing and make a big difference. “And of
course, breastfeeding for all vulnerable infants is
Eating: more than 30 nerves and muscles must engage in near-perfect make breathing movements in utero, they’re not the most optimal feeding strategy that can be
sequence to perform this act critical to growth, strength, brain development, expected to coordinate sucking, swallowing, and offered,” Thoyre added.
and behavior. Most children never give it a second thought; but for more breathing until at least 32 weeks,” Thoyre said.
than 1 million U.S. children under the age of 5 and their families*, it’s “If born before that date, they’re fed through a
feeding tube into their stomachs, and as they
a difficult, daunting, and life-altering challenge. The Feeding Flock at the The children
UNC School of Nursing exposes barriers to feeding for infants and young are ready, start on oral feeding in the Neonatal
children and informs interventions for families and the medical community Intensive Care Unit (NICU). We watch the Some children have difficulty eating from birth.
who care for them. And they’re making a difference. unfolding of their feeding skills across time, and For others, feeding problems arise when they try
it can be very challenging for these babies.” Bad to manage more complex foods or if they
timing of the suck-swallow-breathe sequence experience developmental delays. Underlying
can result in aspirating fluid into the lungs, gastrointestinal differences, such as reflux or
The team
predisposing babies to pneumonia or reactive constipation, can mean a child will have a low
The Feeding Flock research team grew out of shared interests. In 2009, PhD airway disease, a potential precursor to asthma. appetite or eat only small quantities of food at a
students Jinhee Park, Britt Pados, and Hayley Estrem joined their mentor, Other infants with medical complexities face their time. Sensory impairments can lead to issues
Francis Hill Fox Distinguished Term Professor Sue Thoyre, PhD, RN, FAAN, own unique set of challenges. “Skill in feeding is with food textures, taste, or temperature: some
to develop ways to measure feeding problems during infancy and built on practice,” Thoyre said. “We have this children will accept only mild foods, and others
childhood and build a stronger evidence base for care. As team members period of time in the NICU when we can help prefer strong flavors. “A child might only respond
graduated, they continued to work together to advance the science. Pados, children develop functional feeding patterns to foods that remain consistent meal to meal,”
an assistant professor at UNC who lives in Boston, and Park, an assistant and avoid compensatory strategies. “ Thoyre said. “For example, Goldfish crackers
professor in the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, collaborate always look and feel the same. Yogurt tends to be
remotely. Estrem is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Carolina’s Center Some infants with fast respiratory rates hold consistent in how it feels in the mouth. Some
for Developmental Science. “By 2012, we knew we were productive their breath to do multiple sucks or swallows, children learn to trust these ‘safe’ foods and
together and would continue to work together throughout our careers,” essentially uncoupling sucking and swallowing become really selective or restrictive in the foods
Thoyre said. As the initiative grew in reach and scope, The Feeding Flock from breathing. For the tiniest babies, holding they will eat.” Parents of children with feeding
added team members Eric Hodges, a faculty fellow in the Center for their breath for even five seconds can result in a difficulties turn to their health care providers to
Developmental Science and associate professor in the School’s Family decline in oxygenation and a compensatory spike talk about strategies that help eating go more
Health Division, and Cara McComish, a speech-language pathologist and in their respiratory rate as they recover. Other smoothly. “We’ve found research is not very
assistant professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Clinician infants compensate by letting the milk drip strong to guide clinicians as to whether a problem
and pediatric speech pathologist Krisi Brackett, MS, CCC-SLP, rounds out forward out of their mouths. “That’s a functional is transient and will resolve on its own, or if that
the team. Together, they reflect the knowledge and talents of neonatal and short-term behavior for them because it prevents same problem will become chronic and need a
family nurses, nurse researchers, speech and hearing science research, them from aspirating,” Thoyre said, “but it’s a very team approach to care,” Thoyre said.
family research, and speech pathology. atypical way for them to eat, and it doesn’t
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Eating requires more
reflect what their child is willing to do about revised, and a reading level sixth grade or below
eating and the biological symptoms they observe is maintained to make sure parents use these
related to food or mealtime. ChOMPS looks at tools as intended, and they measure what we aim
than 30 nerves and feeding skills as well as all the skills that enable a
child to eat more complex foods—the ability to
to measure.” After a questionnaire is complete,
it’s sent out to a wider audience to test its
muscles to engage in hold his or her body, sit up, and even run or walk.
The final questionnaire in the toolkit is the Family
reliability. In the most recent study, more than
600 families from 43 states and nine countries
near-perfect sequence.
Management Measure of Feeding (FaMM Feed), participated to test the reliability of PediEAT and
which looks at how parents manage family life ChOMPS.
when their child has a feeding problem.
Ashley Collier of Greensboro participates in
The FaMM Feed is an adaptation of the FaMM the registry and contributes to questionnaire
questionnaire developed by Frances Hill Fox development. Her daughter, Macie, now 9,
The toolbox Distinguished Professor Kathy Knafl, who is a stroke survivor.
researches how families manage when their child
To improve care and develop a stronger research has a chronic health condition. “The FaMM Feed “Doctors discharged Macie knowing she was
base, The Feeding Flock team has developed scales responses to statements such as ‘Feeding going to have feeding delays,” Ashley said. “The
multiple ways to measure feeding problems for our child is often overwhelming because of the professionals saw the red flags, but they didn’t
babies in the NICU up to children 7 years of age. way he/she eats’ and ‘In the future we expect our know how to identify them, explain them to us,
“We focus on these ages because this is the time child will be able to feed him- or herself without or educate us about them. They also didn’t
period in which most children, parents, and help from us,’” said Thoyre. “These answers help know what to do about them or where to send
health care providers are in need of help,” Thoyre us understand how much this problem is the us to get help. It was beyond frustrating. Macie
said. “All of our questionnaires provide parents center of family life, how well parents feel they was three when we finally found The Feeding
and health care providers information and can are managing feeding, and their outlook for the Team at UNC Hospitals.”
be used to develop and track child response to future. It is helpful in assessing what support
feeding interventions.” Once a preterm infant families need.” An interdisciplinary unit of pediatric
has started eating, NICU nurses, clinicians, and gastroenterologists, nurse practitioners,
researchers use the Early Feeding Skills (EFS) pediatric speech pathologists, and
assessment to profile a baby’s ability to engage The research registry nutritionists, The UNC Pediatric
in feeding, suck efficiently, and remain Feeding Team collaborates with
physiologically stable. This assessment More than 300 families who have a child with researchers from The Feeding Flock
documents any accommodations the baby may an eating difficulty agreed to join The Feeding to discover and implement best
use to coordinate swallowing with breathing, Flock’s research registry. Their experiences inform practices. Ashley was introduced to The
and measures the baby’s progress. the development of the NeoEAT, PediEAT, Feeding Flock through Macie’s caregivers.
ChOMPS, and FaMM Feed questionnaires. “We “What I like about The Feeding Flock is
The next assessment, NeoEAT, tracks the start out with parents telling us what they see that they’re identifying these red flags,
progress of both bottle- and breast-fed infants and develop their descriptions into items for the quantifying them, and publishing their
from birth to age 6 months. Team member Britt questionnaire,” Thoyre said. “For example, an item research so professionals can now know what
Pados developed NeoEAT with a research grant might say, ‘My child won’t eat lumpy food,’ and to do,” said Ashley. “Their research informs
from the American Academy of Nursing through then the parent scales that statement from my feeding team, and vice versa. Other
the Academy of Neonatal Nursing and the ‘always’ to ‘never.’ We take parent responses back parents starting out on this journey will
Foundation for Neonatal Research and Education. to clinical and research experts who give us have much better resources.” ■
feedback on the relevance and clarity of each
The PediEAT and ChOMPS assessments focus on item. We then resubmit the questionnaire to If you or someone you know would like more
children aged 6 months to 7 years. PediEAT parents and ask them what each item means to information about The Feeding Flock registry or
enables parents to document behaviors that them. Through each step, the questionnaire is research, please contact feedingflock@unc.edu.
*www.feedingmatters.org
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HRSA Awards SON $2M to Support Wilmoth Appointed Executive Dean,
MENTORS Program Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
The UNC School of Nursing received a grant from With a primary emphasis on mentoring through Margaret C. “Peggy” Wilmoth, PhD, RN, FAAN became the new executive
the Human Resources and Services Administration peers, success and wellness coaches, faculty, and dean and associate dean for academic affairs for the UNC School of Nursing on
(HRSA) in the amount of $1,997,082* over four nurses from across the professional spectrum, the August 7, 2017.
years to support a key program developed and program aims to provide individualized support
directed by Associate Professor Shielda Rodgers, and strategies to improve academic outcomes for An experienced oncology nurse with a program of research in psychosocial
entitled “Meeting Educational these student populations within the UNCSON, oncology, Dr. Wilmoth is noted for having established highly distinguished dual
Needs Through Optimization of and ultimately to fill a much-needed pipeline of careers in academia and the military for more than 35 years.
Retention Strategies for nurses of diverse ethnicities and backgrounds to
Students,” or MENTORS2. serve the population at large. Dr. Wilmoth previously served on the faculty at Georgia State University’s Byrdine
F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, a school she earlier led
The MENTORS2 program is “We aim to provide the diverse people of North as dean; and she retired May 1 from a decorated military career, having reached
designed to increase the Carolina and beyond the very best educated the rank of major general and deputy surgeon general for the U.S. Army Reserve,
percentage and retention of nurses,” said Nena Peragallo Montano, dean and the first nurse and woman to fill the role. She
UNC School of Nursing students professor of Carolina Nursing. “To do so, we also served on the Army Reserve Forces Policy
from underrepresented ethnic believe it is crucially important that those nurses Committee, having been appointed by the
minority groups and represent the populations they will care for, so we secretary of the Army, where she most recently
disadvantaged backgrounds are thrilled to have this important project funded served as deputy chair.
through a multi-pronged to better serve the needs of our students and
approach aimed at minimizing the negative ultimately of their patients.” “We are thrilled to have Dr. Wilmoth join the
impact of social determinants on academic administration and faculty of Carolina Nursing,”
success. Faculty members involved with the The MENTORS2 program began on July 1, 2017, said Nena Peragallo Montano, dean of the UNC
program include Ashley Leak Bryant, Bev and is funded through June 30, 2021*. School of Nursing. “Her proven leadership,
Foster, Cheryl Giscombe, Coretta Jenerette, military service, experience, in interprofessional
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Tarshe Johnson, Mary Lynn, Kathy Moore, and education and training, and impressive
Hudson Santos. *Subject to the availability of funds and satisfactory progress of the project.
contributions to nursing science uniquely qualify
her to lead the School’s academic programs
“With new leadership, and special projects as we work to become the
leading public school of nursing in the nation.”
curriculum revisions, capital
th
The executive dean and associate dean for
campaigns, and new practice academic affairs is responsible for planning,
American Health Council Ranks SON
Fourth Among U.S. Schools of Nursing initiatives just getting administering, evaluating and improving the
School’s academic programs, and assists the dean
underway, it’s an exciting as needed with operations and special projects.
The American Health Council, a nationwide collective
time to be joining the UNC “With new leadership, curriculum revisions, capital
of health leaders and innovators, announced its
rankings of the nation’s best nursing schools in
School of Nursing.” campaigns and new practice initiatives just getting
underway, it’s an exciting time to be joining the
May, 2017, and Carolina Nursing ranked fourth! — DR. WILMOTH UNC School of Nursing,” said Wilmoth.
16 17Soltis-Jarrett Awarded $1.1M from
HRSA to Advance Mental Health
Nursing in NC’s Rural Areas SON Offers
Goshen Medical Center has
locations in Clinton, Faison,
First Study
With $1.1 million in new funding from the Human
Resources and Services Administration, Ross
Distinguished Professor Victoria Soltis-Jarrett
Garland, Goldsboro, and Wallace
Abroad
and the UNC School of Nursing will help meet
the pressing psychiatric–mental health needs of
Studies show
that 70 percent of people Opportunity
rural and underserved populations of North who go to primary care
Carolina. facilities for treatment present with
a mental health or substance abuse issue, but
The funding will be used to partner with Goshen don’t receive adequate assessment or treatment
Medical Center, North Carolina’s largest rural for those issues. Soltis-Jarrett believes nurses are The School of Nursing broadened its global footprint
federally qualified health center, to educate 12 uniquely positioned to address this gap: this year, offering its first study abroad opportunity to
new primary care nurse “Primary care NPs can learn to effectively screen, students in the undergraduate nursing program.
practitioners NPs to assess, and treat many common psychiatric
implement integrated illnesses and substance abuse disorders to BSN students Harry Adams, Maddie Lewis, and
(mind/body) health remission and increase the quality of life for Savannah Samuel were selected as the Cronenwett
care for patients in NC’s patients and their loved ones. One of my current Global Health Scholars for 2017, and on May 8
rural and underserved projects is already demonstrating remarkable traveled to Jonkoping University in Sweden with
counties. outcomes to this effect.” Dr. Eric Hodges to begin their five-week global
health program and earn nine credits toward their
“An exciting outcome “The School of Nursing has long taken the lead in nursing degrees.
of this new project is meeting the psychiatric–mental health needs of
that it will also enrich vulnerable populations in North Carolina, and As part of the exchange program, Jonkoping
and expand the nurse this grant allows us to extend our impact,” said University will send two students to the SON in
practitioner curriculum Dr. Nena Peragallo Montano, dean of the UNC fall 2017.
across all practice areas School of Nursing. “We’re very proud of the work
at the School of Nursing to include advanced of Dr. Soltis-Jarrett and her team. They are directly Named to honor Dean Emeritus Linda Cronenwett,
psychiatric–mental health concepts, including answering Carolina’s call to our faculty to engage the Cronenwett Global Health Scholars Fund was
psychiatric assessment, management, and in real, serviceable ways toward producing a established in 2010 to help undergraduate students
psychopharmacology,” said Soltis-Jarrett. healthier North Carolina.” to expand their worldview through a global health
“Offering a graduate curriculum that prepares experience. And it’s especially fitting that this first
NPs working in non-psychiatric mental health Our thanks and congratulations to Dr. Soltis- study abroad experience should be at Jonkoping.
settings in NC—particularly primary care, acute, Jarrett and her team for their efforts to provide Dean Cronenwett established a special relationship
and extended care settings—to provide whole whole health care to patients in North Carolina, with the university during her time at UNC, and the
health care, and specifically behavioral health and for strengthening Carolina Nursing’s Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
care, to patients will meet a pressing need in our programs to better prepare our graduates to framework she developed has been adopted by the
state.” care for the state’s most vulnerable communities. Swedish Nursing Society.
18 19Faculty News and Accomplishments
Rumay Alexander assumed the presidency of PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, of the Gunderson Health Linda Cronenwett, professor and dean emerita, was named a
the National League for Nursing in October 2017. System, and Patricia Wright, PhD, CRNP, ACNS-BC, Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing for having
She was also appointed to the board of directors CHPN, CNE, of the University of Scranton. demonstrated extraordinary, sustained contributions to nursing
for the Nurse-Family Partnership. In July she and health care. She was honored at a special ceremony in
became UNC’s associate vice chancellor for Washington, DC, on October 5.
diversity and inclusion. Ashley Leak Bryant was recognized at the
Oncology Nursing Society Congress with the
Victoria Mock New Investigator Award, which
Ruth Anderson, associate dean for research, was acknowledges the contributions of new
named a Kenan Distinguished Professor by the investigators in building a scientific foundation for
University in July. oncology nursing practice. Dr. Bryant presented
the award lecture, The Impact of Patient Reported
Outcomes on Functional Status and Quality of
Anna Beeber was elected to fellowship in the Life in Adults with Acute Leukemia.
American Academy of Nursing in June. She Donna Havens was elected to a second two-year Deborah Mayer was invited to serve as a panelist
also received a $10,000 grant to help fund an term as chairperson of the American Nurses at a community oncology event hosted at the
ongoing, collaborative project between the Carol Durham received a Presidential Citation Credentialing Center’s International Magnet White House on January 11, 2017. The event,
School of Nursing and The Carol Woods from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Recognition Program. She was also inducted into which was part of the White House “Making
Retirement Community, aimed at improving the for her work in advancing simulation in Sigma Theta Tau International’s Nurse Researcher Health Care Better” Series and held on behalf of
quality of care in long-term care settings and interprofessional education. She was honored Hall of Fame at the International Nursing the Cancer Moonshot, focused on improving
increasing the workforce of geriatric and long- at the International Meeting for Simulation in Research Conference in Dublin, Ireland in July innovation and access to quality cancer care in
term care nursing experts. Healthcare in early 2017. 2017. The University of Toronto invited her to the community health setting.
serve as the Frances Bloomberg International
Visiting Professor in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg
Faculty of Nursing from November 1, 2016, to Rebecca Kitzmiller was awarded a position in
Beth Black was elected to fellowship in the Cheryl Giscombe was elected to fellowship
October 1, 2017. Over the course of this the NC TraCS KL2 program. As a KL2 scholar, Dr.
American Academy of Nursing in June. Her book in the American Academy of Nursing in June.
professorship, Dr. Havens made four week-long Kitzmiller will advance her knowledge and skills
Perinatal and Pediatric Bereavement for Nursing She was likewise recognized by her alma mater,
visits to lead a program of study that engaged in data science, statistics, and machine learning
and Other Health Professions (Springer Press) Stony Brook University, at its annual 40 Under
faculty, students, and academic partner while conducting research to develop an
won a 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book Forty award ceremony, and served as the
healthcare facilities in the area of Shaping improved method for the early detection of sepsis
of the Year award, claiming first place in the commencement speaker for Stony Brook’s
Systems to Promote Desired Outcomes. using continuously streaming physiologic data.
Palliative Care/Hospice category. Dr. Black psychology department at its spring graduation
co-edited the book with Rana Limbo, PhD, RN, exercises.
Sara Hubbell was selected to receive the Sonda Oppewal received the APPLES Teaching
American Association of Nurse Practitioners Excellence Award. The award recognizes the
(AANP) 2017 State Award for Nurse Practitioner contributions of faculty members in integrating
Advocate. She was honored at an awards academic coursework with community service for
ceremony in June 2017 in Philadelphia. The undergraduate students. Sonda also created the
Linda Beeber was designated an American Academy of Advocate Award recognizes a nurse practitioner course “Health Care in Global Context,” in which
Nursing Edge Runner for her model of care, Reducing from each state who has made a significant she leads a group of students to spend a week in
Depressive Symptoms and Enhancing Parenting in Low- contribution toward increasing awareness and Tyrell County, North Carolina, examining
Income and Newly Immigrated Mothers of Infants and recognition of nurse practitioners. residents’ health.
Toddlers. The Edge Runner initiative recognizes nurse-
designed models of care that impact cost, improve
quality, and enhance patient satisfaction. She was Coretta Jenerette was elected to fellowship in Shielda Rodgers was awarded $2 million in grant
likewise appointed to the U.S. Department of Health the American Academy of Nursing in June. She funding from the Human Resources and Services
and Human Services Interdepartmental Serious Mental was likewise selected to receive the 2017 Association for her project MENTORS2, which
Illness Coordinating Committee, which reports to Southern Nursing Research Society Award for aims to promote diversity in the nursing
Congress and federal agencies. Research in Minority Health for her highly workforce in North Carolina through focused
esteemed work with individuals living with sickle mentorship of students from underrepresented
cell. The award was presented at the SNRS ethnic minority groups or disadvantaged
Annual Conference Awards Luncheon on backgrounds.
February 24, 2017.
20 21Gwen Sherwood received the Mary Tolle Wright Lisa Woodley was named the UNC School of
DEVELOPMENT
Award for Excellence in Leadership, a Founders Nursing Faculty of the Year for 2017 by nursing
Award of the Sigma Theta Tau International
Honor Society of Nursing. She will be recognized
colleagues at UNC Health Care for “consistently
exemplifying excellence in customer service,
New Nursing Professorship
at the biennial convention held in October 2017. communication, safety, professionalism,
innovation, stewardship, teamwork and support of
Honors Jane Sox Monroe, BSN ’56
the nursing profession.”
Victoria Soltis-Jarrett received more than
$2 million in grant funding for projects that The professorship will honor a distinguished teacher
contribute to the psychiatric and mental health SeonAe Yeo had her study “What Characteristics
and scholar at the School who upholds the work ethic
needs of North Carolina. The projects aim to of Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions Are
increase access to psychiatric services, engage Key to Effectively Reducing Weight Gain in Obese and altruistic ideals Jane possessed.
the community with the School of Nursing’s and Overweight Pregnant Women? A Systematic
strategies, and improve health literacy in the state Review and Meta-Analysis” published in Obesity
in order to de-stigmatize mental health issues. Reviews. To honor his late wife, a Carolina alumnus, W. Paul Monroe endowed The Jane Sox
Monroe Professorship in Nursing within the UNC School of Nursing Foundation.
The professorship will honor a distinguished teacher and scholar at the School who
Julee Waldrop was elected to fellowship in the Jessica Zegre-Hemsey presented her study upholds the work ethic and altruistic ideals Jane possessed.
American Academy of Nursing in June. “Pulse oximetry parameters to augment detection
of myocardial ischemia—a feasibility study” to an Jane Sox Monroe was a member of the second graduating class of the School of
international audience at the International Society
Nursing in 1956. This group of women were pioneers in nursing education, setting
Hugh Waters visited Washington, DC, at the for Computerized Electrocardiology annual
an example and becoming role models for generations of future Carolina nurses.
invitation of the Centers for Disease Control and conference in April.
Prevention. He was a participant in a panel
discussion on the Economic Burden of Obesity: Jane used her nursing education in many ways. She
Implications for Productivity and Competitiveness Meg Zomorodi was selected to direct the new started her career as a public health nurse, helped begin
at an event organized by the Obesity Care UNC Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative, the nursing program at Lenoir Rhyne University, served
Advocacy Network. Additionally, his article linking funded by a $1.5 million grant from the William R. as chairman of the Catawba Country Board of Health,
indoor tanning devices and their financial impact Kenan Charitable Trust. The initiative gives UNC and worked in the area of geriatric nursing, a patient
on U.S. health care was published in the Journal health professions students interprofessional population that was very special to her.
of Cancer Policy in February 2017 and was clinical experiences in rural areas of North
featured on CBSNews.com. Carolina. In 1994, Paul honored his wife by creating the Jane Sox
Monroe Endowed Scholarship, which provides
scholarships to nursing students each year on the basis
of meritorious achievements.
P RO M O T I O N S N E W A D M I N I S T R AT I V E
TENURE TRACK: APPOINTMENTS In 2002, the couple donated $250,000 to the School of
Jia-Rong Wu to Associate Professor Anita Tesh Nursing to fund the building of the W. Paul and Jane Sox
Lixin Song to Associate Professor Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Division Monroe Human Patient Simulator Laboratory for Clinical
Diane Berry to Professor Cheryl Giscombe Care Skill Development. The patient simulator, nicknamed “Stan,” continues to
FIXED TERM: Assistant Dean, MSN Division equip Carolina nursing students with the clinical skills they need before working
Jean Davidson to Cl Associate Professor with patients.
Jennifer D’Auria
Bev Foster to Cl Professor Assistant Dean, DNP Division
Theresa Raphael-Grimm to Cl Professor Jane died in April 2016, but her accomplishments and enduring legacy continue to
Linda Beeber
set the standard for nursing at Carolina. The establishment of this professorship
Assistant Dean, PhD Division
Ruth Anderson to Kenan Distinguished Professor aims to further this legacy by supporting, in Jane’s name, the teaching and research
Rumay Alexander to Associate Vice Chancellor Tom Bush of a distinguished professor who will impact future generations of nursing students.
for Diversity and Inclusion Assistant Dean for Practice
Shielda Rodgers
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
22 23“Reverence for Life”
Photo courtesy of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
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“Reverence for life” were words Dr. Arthur After Maimon was discharged, he established his “In his practice, which was patient-centered care,
“Reverence for life” were words Dr. Arthur After Maimon was discharged, he established “They were the key to his practice, and the key
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received.”
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emblazoned in bronze on the façade of Hôpital
of Hôpital his aunt and uncle—served the local community.
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course of 30 years.
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began making to practice
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alongside his mentor and friend Albert
practice medicine alongside Dr. Mellon and stroke diagnosis and care.
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in Rockford, Illinois, venture to the island
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among who shaped the doctor the many professional camaraderie that he had long career in nursing research and clinical care.
who shaped the doctor and the man Maimon and professional
established camaraderie
among that colleagues
friends and Maimon hadalike. “My hope would be that some of percentage
man Maimon had become.
had become. established
Maimon also continued his trips to Haiti alike.
among friends and colleagues in his Faucette
of the said Maimon
award’s pickedwill
recipients up join
the spirit of men
nursing
Both his interest in medicine and his own retirement, this time bringing young physicians like Schweitzer and Denny, and it is her hope
faculties or serve in leadership roles in that
Maimon also continued his trips to Haiti in his
Both his
personal interest for
reverence in medicine and
the nursing his own
profession with him to encourage their career development hernursing,”
husband’s she said. “He strongly
endowment believed
will do justice to hisin the
retirement, this time bringing young physicians
personal respect for the nursing profession
were borne out of his teenage years, when he and teach clinical medicine by example. collaborative
spirit and memory. relationship between physicians
with him to encourage their career development
“He relied heavily upon
were borne out of his teenage years, when he and nurses.”
lived with his aunt and uncle—a nurse and a and teach by example.
lived with his aunt and uncle — a nurse and a Chapel Hill is also where Maimon met his future “My hope would be that some of percentage of
physician. The young Maimon watched as they
his nursing staff. They
physician. The young Maimon watched as they wife, Betty theAs
award’s recipients
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benefit
ran a clinic out of their home, nurse and doctor Chapel Hill isFaucette, BSN
also where ’98, who
Maimon completed
settled in with
ran a clinic out of their home, nurse and doctor herwife,
nursing or serve in leadership
from the rolesdemonstration
characteristic in nursing,” she of
said.
together, to care for the local populations of his Bettydegree at the
Faucette, BSNUNC
’98,School of
while she
were the key to his
together, to care for the local populations of Nursing. “Hegenerosity
strongly believed in the Maimon,
that defined importance of nurses
today
Flint and Flushing, Michigan. completed her nursing degree at the UNC School
Flint and Flushing, Michigan. delivering patient-centered
Faucette, along with thecare.”
School of Nursing, will
of Nursing.
Maimon attended medical school, but was soon
Maimon attended medical school, but was practice, and the key to Thus, it was out of a combined love and respect
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for his wifeout
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had
continue to revere the man, his life, and his
As doctoral students will continuously benefit
career.
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deployed by the Airby Force to serve
Forceinto
the Korean from the characteristic demonstration of
soon deployed the Air serve in the for his wife
worked and the countless
alongside the doctor nurses who hadhis
throughout
War. Upon his return in 1952, he conducted
Korean War. Upon his return in 1952, he career alongside
that Maimon generosity that defined Maimon, today Faucette,
worked the decided to establish
doctor throughout histhe
patients received.”
research on infectious
conducted research disease at Warren
on infectious Air
disease at Arthurthat
C. Maimon Trust at the School of Nursing. along with the School of Nursing, will continue to
career Maimon decided to establish the
Force Base under Floyd Denny, MD,
Warren Air Force Base following Floyd who would
Denny, revere the man, his life, and his career.
Arthur C. Maimon Trust at the School of Nursing
later
MD,become a physician
who would at UNC. a physician at
later become “In his practice, which
soon before his death inwas
earlypatient-centered
2016. care,
For more information about Hôpital Albert Schweitzer
UNC. he relied heavily upon his nursing staff,” said For
Haiti, morevisit
please information about Hôpital Albert Schweitzer
www.hashaiti.org.
Faucette. Haiti, please visit www.hashaiti.org.
24 25Alum de la Guerra Supports
SON Military Initiatives
with Scholar Award
Rizza de la Guerra’s grandfather was a flight She has championed the School of Nursing’s
surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. Her husband, Karl, military affiliated student program since it began
served in the Air Force for 10 years. It’s with this in 2014. The program generates funds to support
service in mind that Rizza and Karl decided to give military students and provides mentoring and
back to veterans by creating The Karl L. and Rizza networking opportunities to ensure a smooth
H. de la Guerra Veteran Health Scholar Fund in the transition from service to academia and onward
UNC School of Nursing Foundation. into the profession. It is bolstered by strong
clinical partnerships with area Veterans Health
Rizza graduated from the School of Nursing with a Administration hospitals.
BSN in 1986. Now, she sits on the School’s
Foundation Board of Directors and chairs the In creating the Veteran Health Scholar Fund, Rizza
Board’s Corporate and Foundation Relations and Karl take this program a step further. The
Committee. Her friendship is enjoyed by students award financially supports military affiliated
and faculty, and her regular donations have nursing students as they care for other veterans in
sustained the School of Nursing for years. a clinical setting.
“There are a lot of barriers to care when you go
into the VA,” said Rizza. “We thought it would be
great if there was a system where veterans could “We thought it would be great if
help out other veterans.”
there was a system where veterans
“We want the student nurses who receive this
award to know that their service doesn’t go
could help out other veterans.”
unnoticed, nor does the service of those they
care for,” said the de la Guerras.
Dean Nena Peragallo Montano agrees. “Since I
am the mother of a veteran, our School’s military
initiatives are dear to my heart, and we are so
grateful to the de la Guerras for choosing to honor
the service of our military students and to support
them in this way,” she said.
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