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University of North Carolina Wilmington • School of Nursini Changing Our Work UNCW Nursing school grew dramatically under Dean Adams' leadership When VirginiaW. Adams arrived at UNC Wilmington in 1994 to lead the School of Nursing, she inherited a program with tremendous potential. Using her extensive experience as a nurse and military leader, Dean Adams assessed the program's condition and charted a course forthe school's remarkable growth. Tothrive, thenursing school needed: 14-yeartenure, increasing the more scholarships torecruitand numberoffull-time facultyby40 retainstudents; more facultyto percent, enrollmentby46percent, teachstudents aswell as funds to the school's operatingbudgetby provide them withadequatesalaries 49percent, studentgraduationrates and tosupporttheirresearch; by 68percentand scholarshipsby DEAN ADAMS strong communitypartnerships; aphenomenal 176 percent. enhanced clinical experiencesfor founded tworural health clinicsin UnderDeanAdams' leadership, the students locally, regionallyand Brunswickand Columbus counties. school strengthened partnerships abroad; academicprograms tailored with New Hanover Regional Medical The nursing school developed a toserveWilmington'sburgeoning reputation forinnovative degree Centerand otherCape Feararea pharmaceutical industry; and a programs-such as abachelor's healthcare agencies, established building designedspecificallyfor degree inclinical research-and a researchand exchange program 21stcenturyhealthcareinstruction. outstanding instructionin human- with auniversity inJapan, initiated patientsimulation. The School ofNursing achieved a community health coursewith remarkable success duringher indigenous people in Peru, and In 2006, DeanAdams spearheaded the university's efforts to obtainstate funding to constructabuilding for Belk professorship: $1 million gift to the SoN the School ofNursing. The General Assembly earmarked $30.1 million Charlotte, N.C., philanthropistIrwin "Ike" Belkestablished forthe project;the groundbreaking is a$1 milliondistinguished professorship inApril torecruit scheduled for the fall 2008 semester. and retainexpertsintechnology-enhancedappliedlearning. InApril, the nursing school received Abusiness executiveand highereducation advocate, Belk its first$1 million professorship, established by and named inhonor of provided amajorgift, enabling theuniversity toreceive Irwin "Ike" Belk. matching funds from the CD. SpanglerFoundationof Charlotte and North Carolina's Distinguished Professors "Iamsoproudoftheaccomplishments EndowmentTrustFund. our School ofNursing achieved since BELK 1994," said DeanAdams, whobegins "Nursing facultyare thekey to solving the nursing shortage in anew role as special assistant to the NorthCarolina," saidDeanVirginiaW.Adams. "The numberofstudents tUhnaftorwteunmataeylya,cctheipstyiesadrirweectlhyardeltaotteudrtnoatwhaeynuomneb-etrhiorfdfoafcutlhteyswtuedehnatves.eligible vfaiccuelptryoavnodststianfJfualry.e "thOeubresstt;udIents, enjoyed working with them and foradmissionto ournursing programbecausewe didnothave enough lookforward tomaking evengreater educators available. That's whyMr. Belk's giftisso critical." contributions tonursing practice and InMay, the university presentedBelkwithan honorary DoctorofHumanities nursing educationin the future." degree inrecognitionofhis generosity. AX* UNCW/LAURAUPTON Excited students celebrate as the School of Nursing is recognized during UNC Wilmington's In memory commencement on Saturday, May 10, 2008. of Marguerite Mary Hopkins The School ofNursingmourns the loss December 2007 and May 2008 graduates ofMarguerite Hopkins, alecturerin the School ofNursing, whodiedinan on the job across the state automobile accidentMarch 17, 2008. Afacultymemberstarting in 1991, In the pastsix months, 89prelicensure and 13clinical researchnursing students Hopkinsretired in 1999aftera25-year have graduated from theuniversity, many ofthem accepting positions with careerinnursing. Shereturnedto health-care agencies and companies in NorthCarolina. Employersinclude UNCWilmingtonin2003inresponse cardiac, diabetic, nephrology, pediatricneurology and surgical centers in New tothe shortage ofnurseeducatorsin HanoverCounty as well as alaborand delivery unitin Craven County, an the School ofNursing. Hercolleagues emergency room inWake County and a pediatric and neonatal intensive care will rememberherreadysmile, never- unitatDuke University Medical Center. endingjokes, flairforfashion and Inordertomake a nursing educationavailableto more students, the School international travel inadditiontoher ofNursingbegan twoyears agoto accepta spring class ofstudents into the professional contributions. program. Priorto that, all studentsbegan theprogram inthe fall. The Hopkins was an experienced public December2007graduateswere the firststudents admitted in the springto healthnurse. Herpastprofessional completethe program. experience included therole of "The majority ofournursing graduates stay in the state to takejobs andpractice supervisingpublichealth nursein nursing," said Deborah Pollard, nursing professorand coordinatorofthe the SuffolkCountyDepartmentof prelicensure program. "This is agreat time topursue a careerinnursing. There Health Servicesin Hauppauge, N.Y. aremanyjobs available and unlimited opportunities forqualified, dedicated Shereceivedbothherbachelor's nurses." degreeinnursing and hermaster's degreewith aconcentrationin Infact, the starting wages formany graduates are$25-30 per hour, and some psychology/publichealth nursing new nurses obtained positionswith annual salariesthatexceed $55,000. from SUNYStonyBrook. The spring Graduation Recognition andAwards Ceremony, held May 9, was Marguerite is survivedby five children extra-special forBrookTroxell '08, whoreceived amarriageproposal onstage. and 11 grandchildren. She said yes. 2010: School of Nursing Building to open Plans arewell underway forthe new School ofNursing, a$30.1 millionbuilding scheduled toopenin fall 2010. The building's features will include state-of- the-artclassrooms, a conference center and 250-seatlecture hall, virtual hospital and hospicesimulationunits, faculty and administrative offices, researchlabs and theTechnology-EnhancedApplied Learning (TEAL) Center.Atpress time, the building's groundbreaking was scheduled forDecember2008. Please visittheSchool ofNursingWeb site atwww.uncw.edu/son forupdates. Scholarships for nursing students on the rise The amountofscholarship funding exceed $1,000," she said. availableto nursing students continues "Although many ofour toincrease, topping $90,000forthe students work, their 2007-08 academicyear. In comparison, clinical rotations and the students enrolled in 2006-07received timerequired to study more than$72,000in scholarship and to practice essential support; in2005-06, students received skills prohibitmost of about$64,000in scholarship funding. them from maintaining full-timejobs. Increasing scholarshipsupportfor Scholarships helpthem nursing studentsis acritical component afford to study full-time Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo with ofaddressing thenursing shortagein and to enterthe health-careworkforce MargaretWeller-Stargell and School North Carolina, according to Paula of Nursing Dean Virginia Adams as Kennedy-Dudley, directorofstudent in atimely fashion." UNC Wilmington announced a new services forthe School ofNursing. Wanttoestablish a scholarship to scholarship established bythe Willie Stargell Foundation for a nursing "Inaddition to textbooks and course sduepvpeolrotpmnuernstidnigrescttuodresntTesr?riCoMnctDacetrmot swittuhdeknitdnwehyosdiesesapseec.ialty is patients materials, ournursing students at910.962.2525 orKevinWilliamson mustpurchaseuniforms andhealth at910.962.2424. assessmentequipmentthatcan easily The School of Nursing received a $400,000 grantfrom the N.C. GlaxoSmithKline FoundationforCamp BONES, a university/ communitypartnershipto prepare underserved and underrepresented youth for future careers in nursing and health science. The innovative Camp BONES (Brigade of Nurse Exploring Seahawks) introduces eighth and ninth graders from New Hanover County and the Cape Fear region to careers in nursing. The program has become a model forthe state; the School of Nursing plansto assistWinston-Salem State Universitywith creating a similar campforTriad youth. ) Lorie Floyd School of Nursing recognizes outstanding RuthAnne Kuiper alumni, faculty Lorie Moore Floyd '90, vice president ofhome care services for Liberty HomeCare, hasbeennamed OutstandingAlumni Nancy Murdock leads a fetal heart rate clinic atthe School oftheYearby the School ofNursing. The prelicensure class Of Nursing. UNCW JAMIE MONCRIEF AND CAROLINE CROPP of2008selected lecturer Nancy Murdock, anursewiththe mother/babyunitat New HanoverRegional Medical Center, as Faculty oftheYearwinner.Associate professor RuthAnne Kuiperreceived theChancellor'sTeaching ExcellenceAward. UNCWilmingtoniscommittedtoandwillprovideequalityofeducationalandemploymentopportunity.Questions regardingprogramaccessmaybedirectedtotheComplianceOfficer,UNCWChancellor'sOffice,910.9623000, Fax910.962.3483.2700copiesofthispublicdocumentwereprintedatacostof$64553or$.65percopy{G.S.143-170.1 9195 ueTJBjq-pT A^TSjeATun ssAsh 1 ueuueqs 9665-C01782 ON 'uo}6uiiu|!/\a pBoy e68||0Q ijjnos L09 xauuvAepuj BujsjnNp |ooips UO}6uilU|!/VVBUI|OJBQ LjJ_IO[\| JO AllSJOAIUfl VPV'ONJjuxisd ON'uo}6u!UJ|!M MDNTL aivd sBeisod STI uo!jez!ue6jo lljaiduoN