CCNE Accreditation of DNP program

We just received official word from CCNE that our DNP program received the
maximum 5 years accreditation allowed for a new program and that we had no
compliance concerns!

We are now able to boast that not only do we have the first DNP program in
California, but the first one accredited as well!  This is a wonderful reflection on the school, the faculty, staff and students, and on the university support that we receive for program development and pursuit of excellence.

Marjorie Godfrey, Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Annual CNL Conference

Marjorie M. Godfrey Instructor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Director, The Clinical Microsystem Resource Group

Marjorie M. Godfrey, MS, RN is Instructor for The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Marjorie is a national leader of designing and implementing improvement strategies targeting the place where patients, families and care teams meet-the clinical microsystem. She leads as the Associate Director of Improvement with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Improvement Leader with the Vermont Oxford Network.

Marjorie is Visiting Assistant Professor, Fairfield University School of Nursing in Fairfield, Connecticut for the 2008-2009 academic year. Her focus is in collaboration with Dean Novotny and the faculty to design and advance the graduate Clinical Nurse Leader program curriculum to include clinical microsystems, quality and safety in partnerships with local health care organizations to become the premier Clinical Nurse Leader program in the USA.

Marjorie has worked with health systems in the United States, Sweden, Canada, Norway, France, Kosovo, Tunisia, Chile and the United Kingdom. She collaborates with Qulturum in Jönköping, Sweden, senior leaders to support innovation and transformation of their health care system using clinical microsystem processes and frameworks. She co-leads the International Clinical Microsystem Network with Sweden.
Marjorie has consulted and collaborated with leading health care systems throughout the United States including Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Geisinger Health System, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Texas Health Resources, University California, Davis, and Exempla Health System in Denver, Colorado.

Marjorie is co-author of the textbook, Quality by Design, (Jossey-Bass) released March 2007, and the lead author and architect of the Clinical Microsystems "A Path to Healthcare Excellence" series. She is the developer of the Clinical Microsystem website, www.clinicalmicrosystem.org. Marjorie is currently collaborating with colleagues from The Dartmouth Institute writing a second clinical microsystem textbook scheduled for release in early 2010 (Jossey-Bass.)

Marjorie is a frequent contributor to improvement journals and presents widely nationally and internationally on microsystem fundamentals with a focus on development and advancement of front line staff and system outcomes. She is a member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement faculty and has advised improvement activities specific to Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practices. She is actively supporting the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Clinical Nurse Leader program through integration of clinical microsystem frameworks, quality and safety.

Marjorie has a M.S. from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School, B.S.N. from Vermont College of Norwich University, and a diploma in nursing from Concord Hospital School of Nursing. She currently is a PhD candidate at Jönköping University, in Jönköping, Sweden researching the impact of coaching interdisciplinary healthcare teams to achieve strategic improvement goals.

Her interests include supporting and coaching healthcare leaders and clinicians, interdisciplinary teams, and young professionals in discovering ideal care delivery systems utilizing clinical microsystem methods and tools that uncover systems and identify opportunities for improvement at the clinical microsystem level to the macro-organization level.

Marjorie will be speaking at our 3rd annual CNL Conference on June 18: Magnetism in Action. To register for the conference, click here.

Funding for FNP Students

Loan Repayment

Now Accepting Applications: $200 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will double the NHSC field strength this year.

• Full-Time Service: Apply by July 29
• Part-Time Service: Apply by May 25
• Help with the Application Conference Call: May 20, 2:30 to 4:30 pm ET, 1-888-889-0974, passcode 8360318

The National Health Service Corps recruits primary care medical, dental and behavioral and mental health clinicians who are dedicated to providing care to the Nation's underserved people. In return, they can reduce or eliminate their health professions student debt by providing care at a National Health Service Corps-approved site.

The Full-Time Program starts with an initial award of $50,000 for 2 years of service. The new Half-Time Pilot Project starts with an initial award of $50,000 for 4 years of service. Participants may apply to extend their service until their debt is paid.

When you join the National Health Service Corps, you become part of a network of more than 10,000 dedicated clinicians and sites caring for the most medically underserved people in the U.S.

Am I Eligible?

• U.S. citizen or national [+]
• Trained and licensed in one of the following primary care disciplines:
• Allopathic (MD) or Osteopathic (DO) Physician [+]
• Primary Care Nurse Practitioner [+]
• Certified Nurse-Midwife [+]
• Primary Care Physician Assistant [+]
• Dentist [+]
• Dental Hygienist [+]
• Health Service Psychologist [+]
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker [+]
• Psychiatric Nurse Specialist [+]
• Marriage and Family Therapist [+]
• Licensed Professional Counselor [+]
• Working or applying to work at a site that is approved by or has applied to become approved by the NHSC
• Unpaid government of commercial loans for school tuition, reasonable educational and living expenses that are not consolidated with non-educational debts

What is the Service Commitment?

NHSC loan repayors are committed to serve 2 years (full time) or 4 years (part time) at an approved site in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area.

You can apply if you are already working at an approved site or seeking employment at a site that is either approved or meets site eligibility requirements and plans to become approved by applying for Recruitment and Retention Assistance (for more information, see Communities).

Many types of health care facilities are approved NHSC sites. About half of NHSC clinicians fulfill their service commitment at federally-supported health centers. Health center clinicians can be granted medical malpractice liability protection through the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Other types of NHSC approved sites include rural health clinics, Indian Health Service clinics, public health department clinics, hospital-affiliated primary care practices, managed care networks, prisons, and U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement sites.

Loan repayors negotiate their salaries with the employing site.

Questions: CallCenter@hrsa.gov or 1-800-221-9393 (TTY: 1-877-897-9910), Monday through Friday (except Federal holidays), 9 am to 5:30 pm ET.

USF Haiti Teach-In on April 19

Complete Program: noon-7:00 pm in McLaren 250

12:00 – 12:05 p.m. Welcome, Dean Jeffrey S. Brand, USF School of Law

12:05 – 12:20 p.m. Welcome Address by USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. First-Hand Accounts

• Walter Riley, civil rights attorney and chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
• Doug Sovern, KCBS radio reporter
• Judith Faustin-Gabriel, Novato-Horeb Haitian Seventh Day Adventist Church

1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Cultural, Political, Religious and Historical Context

• Brian Concannon, director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and chair, Lawyer's Earthquake Response Network
• Pierre Labossiere, cofounder, Haiti Action Committee and boardmember, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
• James Taylor, professor of politics, University of San Francisco

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break & dessert refreshments
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. The Response
Medical

• Dr. Barbara Newman, emergency medical physician
• Jeanne Krafft, registered nurse and activist with Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos
• Enna Trevathan, professor, USF School of Nursing and nurse manager, VA Palo Alto Hospital
• Especianise Loresca, Haitian medical student
  

Legal

• Brian Concannon, director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and chair, Lawyer's Earthquake Response Network
• Margaret O’Shea, senior associate, DPK Consulting
• Karen Musalo clinical professor and director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, UC Hastings College of the Law
• Richard Boswell, professor and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, UC Hastings College of the Law
• Holly Cooper, lecturer and associate director of the Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis School of Law
  

Humanitarian Aid

• Anne Bartlett, professor of sociology, University of San Francisco
• Annie Blackstone, U.S. director, Sion Fonds, an NGO working in Haiti
• Mariam Danielyan, USF law student
• Pamela Keenan, resource development coordinator, What If? Foundation
  

4:30 - 4:45 p.m. Break
4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Student Projects
School of Law

Anthony Phillips on Haiti's debt to France
David Smart on Haiti's onerous debt to international financial institutions
Jeff Kaloustian on economic and social rights of Haitians in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Dana Isaac on her experience preparing Temporary Protected Status immigration applications for Haitians during a spring break project in Miami

Undergraduate Students

• Students Kalie Patterson, Anna Tull, Kelsey Jones, and Alia Al-Sharif on the Haiti relief bingo fundraiser, which raised $18,000 for relief efforts

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception and music: Kalbass Kreeyol

HRSA Nursing Scholarship Program

Accepting applications until Thursday, May 6, 5 pm ET. Don't wait until the last minute to:

• Read and save a copy of the Application and Program Guidance (PDF - 286 KB)
• Submit your On-line Application
• Download, complete and fax or mail your Supplemental Forms (PDF - 234 KB) and required documentation

Questions? CallCenter@hrsa.gov or 1-800-221-9393 (TTY: 1-877-897-9910) weekdays (except Federal holidays) 9 am to 5 pm ET.

Eligibility

1. To be eligible for a scholarship, by the application due date all NSP applicants must be:
   1. A U.S. citizen (either U.S. born or naturalized) or U.S. National; and Lawful Permanent Resident
   2. Enrolled or accepted as full or part time student in a nursing degree program from one of the following:
      1. An associate degree school of nursing – A department, division, or other administrative unit in a junior college, community college, college, or university which provides primarily or exclusively a two-year program of education in professional nursing and allied subjects leading to an associate degree in nursing or to an equivalent degree and is an accredited program;
      2. A collegiate school of nursing – A department, division, or other administrative unit in a college or university which provides primarily or exclusively a program of education in professional nursing and related subjects leading to a degree of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of nursing, graduate degree in nursing, or to an equivalent degree, and including advanced training related to such program of education provided by such school and is an accredited program; or
      3. A diploma school of nursing – A school affiliated with a hospital or university, or an independent school, which provides primarily or exclusively a program of education in professional nursing and allied subjects leading to a diploma or to equivalent training and is an accredited program.
   3. Individuals in a Reserve component of the Armed Forces or National Guard are eligible to participate in the NSP.
   4. Attend a nursing school or program located in a State –
      The schools and educational programs for which scholarship support is requested must be in a State (includes the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Territory of Guam, the Territory of American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia). Students attending schools outside of these geographic areas are not eligible for Nursing Scholarships, even though they may be citizens of the United States.
   5. Starting the nursing degree program on or before September 30, 2010.

2. You are ineligible if you:
   1. Have any judgment liens against your property arising from a debt owed to the United Sates, and
   2. Have a breach of a prior service obligation, or
   3. Have judgment lien(s) arising from Federal debt, or
   4. Are excluded, debarred, suspended, or disqualified by a Federal Agency.

PLEASE NOTE: Students enrolled in LPN programs, self-paced study programs (online), bridge programs or dual degree programs are not eligible for a scholarship award.

3. NSP applicants who have a history of not honoring prior legal obligations, as evidenced by one or more of the following factors, may not be selected:
   1. Default on a prior service obligation to the Federal government, a State or local government, or other entity, even if the applicant subsequently satisfied that obligation through service, monetary payment or other means;
   2. Default on any Federal payment obligations (e.g., Health Education Assistance Loans, FHA Loans, Federal income tax liabilities, federally guaranteed/insured loans such as student or home mortgage loans, etc.) or non-Federal payment obligations (e.g., court-ordered child support payments); or
   3. Write off of any Federal or non-Federal debt as uncollectible.

Please be advised that a credit and excluded parties list system check will be performed as part of the application process.

CNL Conference Registration Now Open

Developed in 2004, the Clinical Nurse Leader is emerging as one of the most influential roles in the nursing profession. Whether creating education tools to teach patients how to self-administer injections, improving discharge methods for patients, or streamlining bedside reporting during change of shift, the CNL is a transformational leader, a patient’s voice, and a revolutionary addition to the clinical care arena.

On June 18th, 2010, the University of San Francisco School of Nursing will host its 3rd annual Clinical Nurse Leader conference. This conference will focus on Clinical Nurse Leader practice within the microsystem and the potential that the CNL role has for enhancing the journey toward achieving Magnet Recognition through the narratives of CNLs and managers alike.

Register Today!

CNL Conference 2010 Registration Form (.pdf)

March 29 Crawford Lecture features Loretta Sweet Jemmott

Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD., RN, FAAN
University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott is the van Ameringen Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania - School of Nursing. Most recently, Dr. Jemmott received the Claire M. Fagin Distinguished Researcher Award.

She also holds secondary appointments in the University's School of Medicine and Graduate School of Education. In 2004, Dr. Jemmott was appointed Assistant Provost for Gender and Minority Equity Issues for the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jemmott has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on designing and testing culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate, and theory-based strategies to reduce HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors among African American, South African, and Latino youth and adults.

Dr. Jemmott has received many awards for her research and community efforts, including the Congressional Merit Recognition Award, The Red Ribbon Award for outstanding service in the field of HIV/AIDS, and the Governor of New Jersey's Nurse Merit Award in Advanced Nursing Practice. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the CDC's Division of HIV, STD & TB Advisory Council, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Most recently Dr. Jemmott received the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Award and the Distinguished Daughter’s of Pennsylvania (Governor’s Award).

The Crawford Lecture is presented by the University of San Francisco School of Nursing in collaboration with the USF Alumni Association and the Beta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.

The Crawford Lecture was endowed in the memory of Geraldine Crawford to provide education for the community.

Contact the School of Nursing at (415) 422-3691, tai@usfca.edu for more information about the March 29 event and/or to be on the event's invite list.