Clayton State University’s School of Nursing recently received a $750,409 advanced nursing education grant from the Health Resources Services Administration’s Division of Nursing.
“This grant will support a significant increase in enrollment in the RN-to-MSN program and includes strategies, such as faculty/student mentoring to support student retention. Faculty and students will be paired based upon common practice and scholarship interests,” said Jennell Charles, associate professor and project director.
The grant, which runs through 2014, will create an accelerated program, allowing students to move through the RN-to-MSN program in just six semesters. There will also be strategies to increase service-learning opportunities with an emphasis on reducing health disparities.
Each year, the grant will support students with a nurse and a non-nurse faculty scholar, providing students with face-to-face and web meetings. There will be an effort to focus on nursing education as well as on leadership and management.
The first-year faculty scholars are Jo Ann Dalton, professor emeritus at Emory University School of Nursing, and Robert Thomas, professor of leadership at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Management, Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
International award: Lynn Sibley, the architect of a revolutionary health care program, has been selected as the 2011 recipient of an award presented each year by Emory's Office of International Affairs. Sibley was recognized during International Awards Night on Nov. 14 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel.
Sibley received the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization, given to an Emory faculty member who advances understanding of international and global issues through teaching, scholarship or other work for the university. She is an associate professor and director of academic programs for the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, and director of the Center for Research on Maternal and Newborn Survival of Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Sibley holds a joint appointment in the Rollins School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and an associate appointment in the department of anthropology.
She is one of the architects of the revolutionary home-based lifesaving skills program, which has been recognized as a 21st-century model for birth attendant education by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Core clinical center: The Blood and Marrow Transplant program at Northside Hospital has received the designation of Core Clinical Center for the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network. This designation is accompanied by a research grant, awarded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. Northside is one of only 20 blood marrow transplant programs in the United States to be awarded this status.
The blood marrow transplant program at Northside ranks in the top 10 percent in the country in annual volume and performs the entire range of available hematopoietic transplants. Recently, data released by the National Marrow Donor Program indicate that Northside has the best survival rate for patients undergoing related and unrelated allogeneic transplants of any program in the nation.
As a Core Clinical Center, Northside will collaborate with the Network in developing and completing high-quality trials. Northside is the only stand-alone Core Clinical Center in Georgia and one of only four in the Southeast.
GMC-Duluth celebrates 5th anniversary: On Oct. 18, 2006, Gwinnett Medical Center-Duluth first opened its doors to serve expanding communities in Gwinnett and north Fulton counties. In the more than five years since, the hospital has become ingrained in the fabric of the communities it serves.
“We are driven to help the community realize their full potential by offering a compendium of care,” said Phil Wolfe, president and CEO of Gwinnett Medical Center. “This is further emphasized by GMC-Duluth’s strategic, continued growth by adding specialized services like bariatric surgery, an advanced interventional radiology unit and robotic surgery.”
“We’ve combined a quiet, healing environment with the latest in digital technology to continually deliver high-quality health care services to the Gwinnett and north Fulton communities,” said Lea Bay, president of GMC-Duluth. “GMC-Duluth provides residents with health care options and leading physicians in a location close to home.”
GMC-Duluth’s growth includes a 68 percent increase in admissions, a 31 percent hike in outpatient surgery cases and a 23 percent increase in imaging procedures. The hospital has also been a leader in serving a diverse population, with expanded food menus for patients and their families, international television programming and the addition of patient representatives and physicians who are fluent in Korean and Spanish.
Trauma care designation: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston has been designated the state's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. That's the highest level of service for trauma care and is a designation awarded by a state committee that verifies the presence of medical resources needed to provide the most advanced emergency care.
Children’s at Scottish Rite is the state’s only Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center.
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