EDUCATION
WHAT’S IN OJIN?
Capella University and ANA Leadership Institute
announce nursing scholarship winners
New articles this spring on shared
governance, long term care,
discrimination and more
“T
hank you so much for
this opportunity of a
lifetime. I could not be
more humbled and excited for
graduate school and especially
my future career.”
— Kevin Brandini, ANA Leadership
Institute Nursing Scholarship winner
at Capella University
Joining forces to support and educate nurses who want to be leaders,
the American Nurses Association
Leadership Institute™ and Capella
University have selected the winners
of six full scholarships to new nursing students. The ANA Leadership
Institute Nursing Scholarship is the
latest collaborative effort between
ANA and Capella.
Scholarship applicants were required to be ANA members, new
Capella students and participants
in an ANA Leadership Institute program. The scholarships were offered
for any degree level (bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral). Applicants were
asked to write essays on how they
plan to use their degree to improve
patient care and advance the nursing profession; the essays were reviewed by representatives from Capella and ANA Leadership Institute.
The six scholarship recipients
and degree candidates shared why
they’re seeking their degree and
what they intend to do with it once
they complete their program.
Kevin Brandini, MSN, informatics
nursing candidate. “I firmly believe
that obtaining a graduate nursing
degree in [informatics nursing] will
render more opportunities for which
I can pursue my vision, my ideas for
what clinical informatics can offer in
terms of improving the overall patient and nurse experience.”
Sarah Hall-Shalvoy, DNP candidate. “My hope is that the DNP will
further my skills as an effective leader and translator of trends in health
care and the value of nursing within
the health care system.”
Teressa Moore, MSN, nursing leadership and administration candidate. “I look at nursing as caring for
[patients] and their family members
as if they were your own. Nursing is
not just a career [in which] you help
others, but also one in which you,
too, are affected as you develop an
appreciation for life.”
Angie Oien, BSN-to-DNP candidate. “The nursing profession has
finally earned [the] admiration of
our physician and operations colleagues. This recognition has ensured that nursing’s voice will be
heard. [We need] more highly educated nurse leaders who are willing
and able to apply the principles of
transformational leadership in order to lead nursing into the future of
health care.”
Paula Schultz, MSN, nurse educator candidate. “My passion is for
every patient to receive health information that they can understand
and act upon. My goal is to see
health-literate, culturally sensitive
patient education become part of
the way every nurse cares for every
patient.”
Timothy Thomas, MSN, nursing
leadership and administration
candidate. “If I am able to positively
influence another nurse’s life and be
their mentor, it will allow me to have
a positive impact on the quality of
care they provide to their patients.”
Capella University and ANA
Leadership Institute wish the scholarship recipients all the best as they
move forward in their education
and career.
Learn more about Capella’s
online nursing degrees at www.
capella.edu/online-nursing-degrees
and ANA Leadership Institute
program offerings at www.ANAn
LeadershipInstitute.org.
NURSES ON BOARDS
American Academy of Nursing launches
Institute for Nursing Leadership
T
he American Academy of
Nursing announced March
4 the launch of the Institute
for Nursing Leadership. The Institute
houses the Academy’s work to place
more nurses on governing boards,
commissions and task forces with an
emphasis on federal and gubernatorial
appointments and governing boards
of national organizations aligned with
the Academy’s strategic plan.
The creation of the Institute for
Nursing Leadership was made possible in part by Pfizer Inc.’s $50,000
contribution that was matched by
the Academy fellows.
“We are pleased to support the
Institute for Nursing Leadership.
Nurses have a unique perspective within our health systems that
should be more pervasively channeled to advance policies and regulations that will further support
public health,” said Pfizer Senior
Director Paula R. DeCola, MSc, RN.
“An imperative exists for nurses to
be more fully integrated into forums
where these impactful discussions
are taking place.”
March/April 2015
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The American Nurse
Said Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN,
FAAN, Academy president and ANANew York member, “The Institute
for Nursing Leadership will serve
as a springboard for nurses to drive
positive change in health care and
health policy. In addition to increasing nursing appointments, the Institute will also seek to fill the gaps in
development by connecting qualified nurses with opportunities to
prepare them for leadership.”
The Academy’s Institute will increase nurse appointments to national and select state governing
boards of health-related entities,
councils, commissions and task
forces; prepare Academy fellows
and emerging nurse leaders for such
appointments; and evaluate the
impact and value of nurse appointments on the work of the decisionmaking bodies on which they serve.
The Institute will be led by a National Advisory Council, consisting of
forward-thinking leaders and chaired
by Angela McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN,
distinguished professor emerita and
university dean emerita, Indiana
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www.TheAmericanNurse.org
University, and Indiana State Nurses
Association member, and Stephanie
Ferguson, PhD, RN, FAAN, director,
International Council of Nurses Leadership For Change Program and the
ICN-Burdett Global Nursing Leadership Institute, and Virginia Nurses Association member.
The Institute for Nursing Leadership is part of the Academy’s effort
as a founding member of the newly
formed Nurses on Boards Coalition to
reach the goal of placing 10,000 nurses
on boards, commissions and task forces by 2020. The American Nurses Association also is a founding member.
The Institute for Nursing Leadership aligns with the Institute of
Medicine’s report “The Future of
Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” and its recommendation
on increasing nurse appointments
to decision-making bodies related
to health care.
To learn more about who is serving on the Institute’s National Advisory Council, go to www.AANnet.
n
org. T
he term “buy in” can be
found in almost any article
that reviews individuals’
participation in an initiative. In the
article, “Shared Governance: The
Role of Buy-In in Bringing About
Change,” Matthew French-Bravo,
MSN, RN, and Gregory Crow, EdD,
RN, will discuss the concept of buyin, identify its prerequisites, consider factors enhancing buy-in and
present scenarios of when buy-in
happens, when it almost happens
and when it fails.
“Changing the Culture of Long
Term Care: Combating Heterosexism” by Susan V. Schwinn, BSN,
RN, and Shirley A. Dinkel, PhD, RN,
discusses how heterosexism impedes the provision of culturally
competent care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) residents in long term care
(LTC) facilities. Schwinn and Dinkel
suggest approaches for changing the
LTC culture to one where LGBTQ
elders feel safe, valued and encouraged to flourish in what may be their
last home.
Although nurses recognize that
electronic health records (EHRs)
yield data useful in enhancing patient safety, evaluating care quality
and measuring staffing needs, they
indicate dissatisfaction with its design and cumbersome electronic
processes. In the article, “Health
Information Technology, Patient
Safety, and Professional Nursing
Care Documentation in Acute
Care Settings,” authors Mary Ann
Lavin, ScD, APRN, ANP-BC, FNI,
FAAN; Ellen Harper, DNP, RN-BC,
MBA, FAAN; and Nancy Barr, MSA,
RN, describe Missouri Nurses Association members’ ideas for improving nursing documentation and
documentation technology.
Discrimination against internationally educated nurses is a
controversial and seldom-explored
topic. Internationally educated
nurses view this discrimination as
an obstacle to career advancement
and professional recognition. Maria
Baptiste, MSN, NP, RN, in the article,
“Workplace Discrimination: An
Additional Stressor for Internationally Educated Nurses,” addresses challenges of immigration
and describes workplace discrimination and its consequences.
Many new OJIN columns are being posted this spring. Upcoming
Cochrane Review Brief columns address discharge planning, interprofessional education, exit interviews,
Chinese herbal medicines for osteoporosis, glove type and percutaneous exposure injuries, and sleep disturbances in Alzheimer’s patients.
The next Ethics column considers
ethical drivers for change in the
emergency department. The Informatics column discusses ethical use
of genomic information and electronic medical records. Finally, the
Legislative column advocates for
careful examination and a holistic
review admissions process by nursing schools to diversify our nursing
workforce. n
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