Dean Potempa Comments on the Passage of Michigan Senate Bill 2, More November News

Submitted on Nov 5, 2013

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After the 20-18 Michigan Senate vote to pass SB2 (re: APRN practice) on November 13, UMSN Dean Kathleen Potempa, Ph.D, RN, FAAN, released this initial statement:  “While I am encouraged by today’s passage of Senate Bill 2 and the Michigan Senate's decision to act for the good of citizens, the two amendments to the bill do not appear to be helpful in overcoming issues of inefficiency that Michigan’s advanced practice nurses are grappling with daily. Still, I am grateful to Senator Mark Jansen for championing this bill and all who helped get us this far. We in the field of nursing will be working with the Michigan House on the next phase of the legislation. We look forward to a proposal that is fiscally responsible for Michigan and that enables advanced practice nurses to work to the full extent of their education and training, ensuring patients are at the center of interprofessional health care teams." 

 

UMSN Associate Professor Patricia Abbott, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, was a panelist for "Care Anywhere: Creating a Great Clinical Mobility Experience," part of Intel’s Health & Life Sciences Innovation Summit. Mark Blatt, Patricia Abbott, William Morris, Joanne Handy, and C. Martin Harris Dr. Abbott shared her experiences with evolving technology as both a clinician and professor. “Mobility has changed the whole dynamic of care, and it’s coming from the patients and from our students,” says Dr. Abbott. “They come in with a whole new way of doing things and questioning the establishment, and our patients are doing the same. Mobile technology has really assisted us in putting the patient more in control of their health. We have to listen to our younger generation, and they’re saying we have to do something differently.” Other panelists included C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic; Joanne Handy, RN, MS, President and CEO, Leading Age California; and William H. Morris, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic; Mark Blatt, MD, MBA, Worldwide Medical Director, Intel Corporation.

 

The work of Clinical Assistant Professor Michelle Aebersold, Ph.D., RN, was praised in an editorial by Suzie Kardong-Edgren, Ph.D., RN, ANEF, CHSE, Editor-in Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing. Dr. Kardong-Edgren writes that Dr. Aebersold has “a brilliant but simple idea: we should/could incorporate into our simulation practice.” In targeting the common problem of nurses being unable to keep up with all of the latest research discoveries, Dr. Kardong-Edgren says that Dr. Aebersold “provides a roadmap for the introduction and implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) guidelines into hospitals.” Read the original article by Dr. Aebersold: “Using simulation to improve the use of evidence-based practice guidelines.”    
 
 
UMSN would like to congratulate alumni recently inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing and award winners.
  • Teresa J.C. Yin, Ph.D. (UMSN 1985), RN, FAAN
  • Guifang Guo, Ph.D. (UMSN 1999), RN, FAAN
  • Martha Engelke, RN, BSN, MPH (Nurs UM 1976), Ph.D., FAAN
  • Claire Caruso, Ph.D.(UMSN 1999), FAAN
  • Linda Cronenwett, Ph.D. (UMSN 1983), RN, FAAN, was awarded the AAN Presidential Award
 
Congratulations to UMSN alumna Joanne Disch (Ph.D. ’85) on her successful two-year term as President of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). “The Academy is greatly respected as a force within health care, so it has truly been a professional highlight having the opportunity to work with, and represent, such phenomenal colleagues in our profession,” said Dr. Disch. Read more in the Fall 2013 issue of UMSN’s Nursing Matters (see page 3).
 
UMSN was pleased to host a dessert reception in conjunction with the AAN’s annual conference. Approximately 100 fellows and a few alumni joined the celebration, now in its third year for UMSN. Brief remarks were given by Associate Dean for Research and Global Affairs Antonia Villarruel, Ph.D., RN, FAAN.

 

 
 
 
In addition, UMSN recognizes Associate Professor MariaDr. Maria Katapodi receiving the Protege Award from Margaret Heitkemper Katapodi, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, for her selection as the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research's Protégé Award winner.
 

COMING UP IN DEC: UMSN alumna Carmen Alvarez, Ph.D., RN, NP-C, CNM, will be a panelist on the Institute of Medicine's 2013 Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Lecture. The lecture will celebrate the three-year anniversary of the IOM'sThe Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report. It will highlight the impact of the report through implementation of recommendations at both the national and state level, discuss the continued work of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, and chart future directions and priorities for the nursing profession. The lecture will be held Dec. 11 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C.