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Notes — College of Nursing |
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| Shown
with Sen. Max Baucus (l to r) Charlie Winters,
Rita Cheek and Patricia Butterfield |
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MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing had an exciting
fall with the approval of its new Clinical
Nurse Specialist master's program option,
several faculty achievements and a visit from
Sen. Max Baucus. In addition, the College
of Nursing continues to look at ways to assist
with the nursing shortage. |
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Board of Regents recently approved the addition of a new
graduate program option in nursing. Beginning in fall
2003, students will be able to pursue either a Family
Nurse Practitioner (FNP) option, a program that has been
offered since August 1994, or a Clinical Nurse Specialist
(CNS) option focusing on one of two areas of study: Care
of the Adult with Acute/Chronic Health Problems or Community/Public
Health Nursing. Graduates will be eligible for national
certification as clinical nurse specialists (CNS) in Community/Public
Health Nursing or Medical/Surgical Nursing and may apply
for licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
(APRN) in the State of Montana. |
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College of Nursing is pleased to announce several faculty
achievements. Great Falls faculty member Eve Franklin,
who recently completed an eight-year term as a Montana
state senator, was recently elected as House District
42 legislator. Franklin recently wrote of her experiences
in politics in "Pilgrim in Politics," published in Policy
and Politics in Nursing and Health Care. John Honsky,
adjunct assistant professor at the Missoula campus, has
been awarded a $6,000 federal nurse traineeship for the
2002 -2003 academic year for graduate studies in the Psychiatric
Nurse Practitioner Program at Gonzaga University. Associate
Dean Gretchen McNeely and retired Great Falls Campus Director
Sharon Hovey were recently published in the STTI book,
The HeART of Nursing. The College of Nursing had five
representatives at the 2002 State of the Science Congress
in Washington, D.C., including Patricia Butterfield (Bozeman),
Rita Cheek (Missoula), Jean Shreffler-Grant (Missoula
campus director), Clarann Weinert (Bozeman) and Charlie
Winters (Missoula). Susan Raph, adjunct assistant professor
and Great Falls campus director was recently elected president-elect
of the Montana Public Health Association at the annual
conference in Helena. R. Therese Sullivan of the Bozeman
campus was inducted into the Carroll College Alumni Hall
of Fame during its Alumni Awards Banquet this past fall. |
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assist in reducing the nation's nursing shortage, Congress
passed the Nurse Reinvestment Act last summer. Sen. Max
Baucus visited the College of Nursing in November and
spoke to faculty, staff, administrators, local alums,
nurses and health care professionals about what the Reinvestment
Act means for Montanans. |
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addition to increasing enrollments, offering all courses
at upper-division campuses, opening a satellite campus
in Kalispell, and adding upper-division level courses
to the Bozeman campus, the College of Nursing is collaborating
in locations around the state which are experiencing a
nursing shortage. Recently, the MSU-Bozeman College of
Nursing, MSU-Northern, and MSU-Great Falls College of
Technology formed a partnership with health care agencies
in rural north central Montana in an effort to further
meet the nursing shortage needs in that area. This consortium
developed a plan designed to balance quality nursing education
with the forces that limit recruitment of nurses and allied
health care professionals in the rural setting. The collaborative
efforts resulted in the hiring of Jeri Pullum as coordinator
of these efforts to assist place-bound individuals access
nursing educational opportunities. The plan is to use
this model throughout the entire state of Montana. |
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Cathy
Caniparoli
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deep sorrow, the College of Nursing said goodbye
to Great Falls faculty member Catherine Daly
Caniparoli, who died on Nov. 18. At the time
of her death, Cathy was in her 12th year as
an adjunct assistant professor of nursing
at Montana State University-Bozeman on the
Great Falls campus and the Family Nurse Practitioner
Program coordinator. Her work and vision provided
the basis for many of the pivotal progressive
changes in nursing and health care delivery
in Montana in the last 15 years. |
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She provided steadfast support for advanced practice nurses
as primary care providers to improve the quality of health
care throughout Montana. |
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