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above, l. to r.: Deborah Trautman, chief executive officer, AACN; Juliann Sebastian, chair, AACN Board of Directors; Doran; McLaine; Bill McLennan, executive director, Paul’s Place; John S. Morton III, former member, Paul’s Place Board of Directors; and Kirschling with UMSON’s Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category at the AACN semi-annual meeting in late October
left, l. to r.: Trautman; Kirschling; McLaine; LaVonne Ortega, MD, MPH, lead for academic partnerships, Division for Scientific Education and Professional Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Sebastian with UMSON’s Innovations in Baccalaureate Population Health Award at the AACN semi-annual meeting
NEWS
Community/Public Health Nursing:
Still Innovating After 50 Years
In the same year that the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Community/Public Health (CPH) Nursing master’s specialty
celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first graduating class in 1966 (see “Back Story,” Page 53), the program has been recognized for its forward-thinking initiatives to prepare students for the changing nature of health care delivery. It received two 2016 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) awards: the Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category and the Innovations in Baccalaureate Population Health Award, conferred
in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Innovation in Professional Nursing Education Award in the Academic Health Center category
While the partnership between UMSON and Paul’s Place, a community outreach center in Southwest Baltimore, began 30 years ago, UMSON has recently overhauled its model for working with the center. Through a formal agreement, the center supports a portion of a CPH faculty member’s time. In return, the faculty member, Kelly Doran, PhD ’11, MS ’08, RN, assistant professor, serves as the Paul’s Place director of health
and wellness, leveraging a one-day-a-week faculty practice to manage student clinical placements while ensuring coordination and supervision of services year round.
Through this model, Paul’s Place has been able to more than double the services it provides, including a community-based, nurse-led clinic and faculty practice and
a full array of interdisciplinary services through collaboration with the University of Maryland’s five other professional schools. Approximately 75 students from across the UMB campus participate in service-learning experiences at Paul’s Place.
“Recognition by AACN is a wonderful testament to our community/public health faculty and the innovative curriculum and experiential learning opportunities that they create,” says UMSON Dean Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN. “We are especially grateful to Paul’s Place; through our longstanding partnership, we have developed new approaches to addressing the
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