ETA MU CHAPTER NEWSLETTER FALL 2012

The Honor Society of Nursing

A Message from the President

Hello Chapter Members,

It is going to be another exciting year for the Eta Mu Chapter. Our board members have worked hard to create diverse programs and activities for chapter members in 2012 – 2013. Please take a moment to review the fall newsletter to see how our chapter can assist you in meeting your professional nursing needs!

I would also like to extend an invitation to our new and “seasoned” chapter members to become actively involved in our chapter by joining us at one of our upcoming events!

Sincerely,

Sherry Burrell Acting President

Eta Mu Officers 2011-2012

President Sherry Burrell (Acting) sburrell14@comcast.net Vice President Joanne Murphy (Acting) joannemurphy@comcast.net Recording Secretary Hermina Waters

hermina65@hotmail.com

Treasurer Laurie Stelmaski lstelmaski@comcast.net

Faculty Counselor Nanette Sulik nsulik@camden.rutgers.edu

Corresponding Kirstin Patragnoni-Sauter Secretary patragnonik@philau.edu Membership Samantha Smith Ambassador samsmith995@yahoo.com

S I G M A T H E T A T A U

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ETA MU COMMITTEES

Governance Committee

JoAnne Murphy (chair)

Sherry Burrell

Kathy Judge

Samantha Smith

Leadership Succession Committee

Sherry Burrell (chair)

Trish Dunphy-Suplee

Laurie Davis

Kirstin Patragnoni-Sauter

Program Committee

Yolanda Nelson (chair)

Nancy Cresse

Joanne Murphy

Debbie DeVoe

Archives Committee

Nannette Sulik

Larissa Morgan

Susan Gullo

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ETA MU COMMITTEES

Fundraising Committee

Kirstin Patragnoni-Sauter (co-chair)

Laurie Stelmaski (co-chair)

Andrea Mottershead

Yolanda Nelson

Membership Involvement Committee

Laurie Davis (chair)

Lynne Borucki

Debbie DeVoe

Jennifer Baciu

Research and Awards

Lynn Eiding (co-chair)

Nanette Sulik (co-chair)

Bonnie Jerome-D’Emilia

Sherry Burrell

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26th Annual STTI Tri~State

Consortium Brunch

Distinguished Lecturer

Kathleen Calzone, PhD, RN, APNG, FAAN

“Genomics: How Personalized Health Care Will Influence Teaching and Practicing

Nursing”

Renaissance Philadelphia Airport Hotel

500 Stevens Drive Philadelphia, PA 19113

October 14, 2012 (Sunday)

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Distinguished Lecturer Grace Reilly, APN

"Nursing in NJ: what you need to know about Policy,

Legislation and Regulation”

The Rutgers Club

199 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901

October 16, 2012 (Tuesday)

5:30 PM – 9:00 PM

ETA MU’s 29th ANNUAL INDUCTION CEREMONY

APRIL 7, 2013

Scotland Run Golf Course Williamstown, New Jersey

SAVE THE DATE

Annual Founder’s Day Dinner

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BOARD MEETING STARTS AT 6 PM

GENERAL MEETING STARTS AT 7 PM

Guest Speaker: Sherry Burrell, PhD(c), RN, MSN, CNE, ACNS-BC

Topic:

State of the Science: Symptoms and Quality of life in Individuals

Undergoing Surgical Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Location: 1415 Route 70 East - Cherry Hill Plaza

Suite 1 (lower level), Cherry Hill Note: the building is a 6 story brick and glass structure that is in the Cherry

Hill Plaza, about 400 yards from Route 295.

ETA MU FALL MEETING SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Wednesday Evening

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COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT DECEMBER 9, 2012

SING ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN OF

VOORHEES PEDIATRIC FACILITY

Bring your biggest smile and your best voice for a morning full of fun. Holiday favorites will be sung with the resident children of the Voorhees Pediatric Facility. Music and lyrics will be provided as Eta Mu gathers as a group to bring holiday cheer to these children.

Feel free to bring friends and family members for this event.

For more information on Voorhees Pediatric Facility, please go to http://www.forkidcare.com/default.aspx

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the project coordinator Yolanda Nelson at ynelson@virtua.org

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2011-2012

September 12, 2012 Fall Meeting (Wednesday) Cherry Hill Plaza Rt. 70 East, Suite 1 Cherry Hill, NJ October 16, 2012 New Jersey Consortium (Tuesday) The Rutgers Club New Brunswick, NJ 08901 October 21, 2012 Tri State Consortium (Sunday) Renaissance Philadelphia Airport Hotel Philadelphia, PA November 2012 Bridge Walk/Run Benefit (TBA) ETA MU and Rutgers SNA

Ben Franklin Bridge Rutgers, Camden

December 9, 2012 Community Service Event (Sunday) Holiday Visit and Sing Voorhees Pediatrics

Voorhees, New Jersey

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January 28, 2012 Prospective STTI Member (Monday) “Meet and Greet”

Location TBA Rutgers, Camden February 13, 2012 Winter Board/General Meeting (Wednesday) Location TBA April 7, 2012 STTI Induction Luncheon (Sunday) Scotland Run Golf Course Williamstown, NJ June 19, 2013 Spring Board Meeting (Wednesday) Reorganization

Location TBA

STAY CONNECTED WITH THE ETA MU CHAPTER

Facebook

Please visit the Eta Mu Chapter’s Facebook page to stay current with all of our chapter’s events. Our Facebook page is entitled: “Eta Mu Chapter of

Sigma Theta Tau International”

Internet Website Please visit the Eta Mu Chapter’s website at

http://nursing.camden.rutgers.edu/eta mu.html

CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2011-2012

New 2012 Sigma Theta Tau Inductees

Kimberly Barrett

Hidelita Santos Bernardo, RN Kristine Buffa, RN

Abigail Canlas Amanda Dixon Morgan Ford

Katherine Freedman Jenny Gomez, RN

Marlene A. Greenbaum, RN, BSN Brittany Hannigan

Lorraine Hughes, RN Dana Jarow

Chinyi Lai, RN Melissa Lynch, RN Thomas Masullo

Donna Mattio, RN Pamela Myers, RN

Amanda Miccio, RN Megan Nahf Ying Pang

Yolanda Sime Laongdao Singkamanand, RN

Tiffany Stiteler Vivian Velez, RN

Nurse Leaders Community at Large

Joy Atkins, RN, BSN, Med Wanda Foster Clark BSN, CSN Janet Gibson, RN, MSN, MBA Melanie Robles-Jain RN, APN William McKeever, RN, BSN

Gina Totten, RN, BSN

GOOD NEWS CORNER Sherry Burrell

• Defended her doctoral proposal, “Symptom Clusters and Health-related Quality Of Life in Individual Undergoing Surgical treatment of Pancreatic Cancer” at Villanova University

• Burrell, S.A., Smeltzer, S.C., & Yeo, T. (2012). State of the Science: Symptoms and Quality of Life in Individuals Undergoing Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer. Podium presentation at the Sigma Theta Tau International: 23rd Annual International Nursing Research Congress, Brisbane, Australia

• Yeo, T. P., Burrell, S. A., Sauter, P. K., Kennedy, E. P., Lavu, H., Leiby, B. E., & Yeo, C. J. (2012). A progressive postresection walking program significantly improves fatigue and health-related quality of life in pancreas and periampullary cancer patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 214(4), 463-75.

Patricia Suplee • Received the Chancellor's Award for Teaching

Excellence from Rutgers University-Camden.

• Recently appointed as AWHONN's representative to the American Nurses Association's Committee on Nursing Practice & Economics

• Coauthored: Jerome D'Emilia, B. & Suplee, P.D. (2012). The ACA and the undocumented. American Journal of Nursing, 112(4), 21-27.

Nancy Cresse • Received the 2012 Gloucester County College

Distinguished Alumni Medallion at the Gloucester County College Commencement Ceremony, May 18, 2012. Given to a graduate of GCC who has achieved success in their profession, distinguished themselves in the Gloucester county community, and demonstrated support for GCC

Joanne Robinson

• Received the School of Nursing Award for Excellence in Professional Nursing

• Robinson, J.P., Burrell, S.A., Avi-Itzhak, T.,

& McCorkle, R. (2012). Validity Testing of the Stopwatch Urine Stream Interruption Test in Radical Prostatectomy Patients. Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing (in press).

Kevin Emmons

• Earned a DrNP at Drexel University and defended his clinical dissertation "Wounds at the End of Life: Wound Symptoms and Severity, Quality of Life, and Patient-Reported Symptoms and Preferences for Care", May 8, 2012.

Bonnie Jerome-D’Emilia • received the School of Nursing Outstanding

Nurse Educator Award • coauthored: Jerome-D'Emilia, B. & Suplee, P.D.

(2012). The ACA and the undocumented. American Journal of Nursing, 112(4), 21-27.

GOOD NEWS CORNER

GOOD NEWS CORNER

Nancy Powell

• Defended her dissertation, “The Effects of a Workplace Educational Program on Moral Distress among Registered Nurses” at Widener University earning a PhD, June 11, 2012

Carole-Rae Reed • Research Poster Award: 2012 NJENA Emergency Care

Conference, Parone, D., Reed. CR., Sherman, B., Smith, L., Johnson, R., Stauss, M., Milcarek, Hunter, K. (2012). A Comparative Study of Two Nebulizers in the Emergency Department: Breath Actuated Nebulizer (BAN) and Hand Held Nebulizer (HHN). Atlantic City, NJ, March, 2012

The following posters were presented at Cooper University Hospital's research week:

Nursing Research Award winner: O’Shea, J., DiCristo, P., Rowello N., Hunter, C., Denton, A., & Reed, CR. Comparison of different thermometers for temperature measurement in oncology patients.

McFetridge, J., Agostini, C., Brooks, L., Brooks, L., Browne, K., Cimino, M., Clarke, C., Cox, S., Coyle, K., Easterwood, D., Fluehr-Heinkel, K., Gardner, R., Gould, S., MacAdams, L., Kljuco, A., Louis, D., Maitland, R., Marinnie, E., Minder, J., Reed, CR., & Zarrella, M. The effect of a multidisciplinary education program on documentation compliance of an ICU Patient/Family Communication "bundle" related to end-of-life care.

Webb, Forys, C.B., Albano, C., Ballistreri, N., Stanger, J., Reed, CR., Milcarek, B., Hunter, K. Controlling PACU patients pain: PCA pump with basal rate vs. no basal rate.

Clinical Corner submitted by Kristine Buffa, BSN,RN

Clinical Corner: Removing Urinary Catheters at 2400 vs 0600

It has long been nursing tradition to remove indwelling urinary catheters at 0600. However, evidence has shown that patients have better outcomes if the catheter is removed at 2400. In one study it was found that removing the indwelling catheter at 2400 decreased patient’s anxiety while also increasing the amount of urine voided on the first and second void (177ml v. 268ml and 195 vs. 322ml respectively). Overall, the evidence in this study showed that patients experienced less urinary retention than their counterparts who had an indwelling catheter removed at 0600. This lead to earlier discharge for the 2400 group. 64% of patients who had their indwelling catheters removed at midnight were discharged on the same day of removal versus 23% in the group who had their catheters removed at 0600. None of the same day discharge patients were later readmitted for urinary retention. Although it was not tested in this study, the author believe that the patients returned to a normal voiding pattern due to the patients being able to sleep after the 2400 removal. Sleeping would cause a decrease in anxiety and also is hypothesized to allow the bladder to fill more slowly and fully. Reference: Kelleher, M. (2002). Removal of urinary catheters: Midnight vs. 0600 hours. British Journal of Nursing, 11(2), 84-90.

ETA MU/SNA BRIDGE WALK/RUN FALL 2012

Eta Mu Members and the Rutgers Student Nurses Association would like to invite all members, family and friends to come out for their second bridge walk/run this fall

Our first fundraising walk/run occurred this spring and was successful raising money for both organizations in our quest to support nursing students and community leaders. Please come out for another fun filled weekend morning this fall for exercise, camaraderie and service for a good cause.

Stay tuned for more information on this event in the near future