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School of Nursing

Retirement Reception for Pamela Potter, Dec. 16

Pamela Potter, associate professor of nursing, will retire at the end of fall semester. She came to the Bluff in 2007 with a BS from Northern Illinois University, an MA from the University of New Mexico, and a DNS from Yale University. Potter is well-known for her work in facilitating the development of the School of Nursing’s new undergraduate degree in integrative health and wellness studies.

A farewell reception for Pamela Potter will be held on Monday, December 16, in Franz Hall’s Murphy conference room, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend the reception, thank Pamela for her years of service, congratulate her, and wish her a fond farewell.

School of Nursing Offering Reiki/Healing Touch Clinic

Need a little relaxation? Try 15 minutes of Reiki/Healing Touch this next week before finals. Open to faculty, staff, and students. Reiki/Healing Touch clinics will be held in BC 375 on December 3 from 2:30-4 p.m. and December 4 from 12:45-1:45 p.m. Sign up outside the door. Clinics will continue monthly in 2020.

Reiki and Healing Touch are relaxing modalities offered to clients by practitioners across the country in both outpatient and inpatient settings. For more information contact Cynthia Backer, nursing, at backer@up.edu and see the University of Minnesota links on Reiki and Healing Touch.

Jann Murray-Garcia, “Cultural Humility & Interrupting Scripts of Inequality,” Nov. 11

In celebration of the School of Nursing’s 85th anniversary, our first guest speaker, Jann Murray-Garcia, will be visiting campus on Monday, November 11, 2019, to discuss “Cultural Humility and Interrupting Scripts of Inequality.” Murray-García is a pediatrician and a founding faculty member and associate health sciences clinical professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. For event details and to RSVP please click here.

Free Screening: “Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer,” Nov. 18

The School of Nursing’s International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee (IEDI) will offer a free screening of “Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer,” a short film documenting the journey of two transmasculine people, their families, and communities as they navigate breast cancer and ovarian cancer within the medical system. The screening will be on Monday, November 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. Find out more at the film’s Eventbrite and Facebook pages. A Q&A with Erin Waters and guest panelists will follow.

For more information contact Nozomi Birkett, nursing, atx7381 or birkett@up.edu.

Personalized Health Care Event, July 24: Your Input Wanted

Join us for a free educational event to learn how you can be involved in a historic effort to advance medical breakthroughs on Wednesday, July 24, from 6 to 8 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. Food and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP here. For any questions, please contact Ana Aguilera, nursing, at aguilera@up.edu or x8141.

School of Nursing Seeking Pregnant Volunteers

The School of Nursing is seeking pregnant women who are willing to help its DNP students as volunteers. They are are in their second clinical year and currently taking a Gender Health course, and their professors would like to prepare the students prior to going to their clinical sites.

Faculty would like to demonstrate how to measure the abdomen, check for fetal heart tones, and allow students to do the same as well as interview volunteer patients and provide appropriate education per trimester. You are the patient but you are free to be yourself, give as much as you want of your own history or someone else (your chance to act!). There are six students in this class and the students will work in groups of two so you will have only one group of students working with you at a time. There are other women volunteering so you will not be alone in the simulation classroom. You may bring a support person with you, either partner or friend.

The study will take place on Saturday, January 26, 4:15-5:15 p.m. in the School of Nursing simulation lab. Volunteers will not need to stay for the full amount of time.

The School of Nursing will compensate volunteers $50 for their assistance with this class. You will need to complete a W-2 ore W-9 form, invoice, and informed consent which will be provided for you. Please contact Amber Vermeesch, nursing, at vermeesc@up.edu for more information.

New School of Nursing Dean: Our Own Casey Shillam

University of Portland President Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., has announced the appointment of Casey Shillam as dean of the School of Nursing, effective December 1, 2018. Shillam, who has been a faculty member since 2006, most recently served as interim dean of the School of Nursing since former dean Joane Moceri’s retirement this past summer.

Shillam’s UP career began when she was hired in 2006 by dean Terry Misener to serve as an instructor. Upon completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of nursing until accepting a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Davis. She returned to UP in 2015 as associate dean after serving as the founding director of the nursing program at Western Washington University in Bellingham. She holds a bachelor of arts and letters from Portland State University, and bachelor, master of science, and Ph.D. degrees in nursing from Oregon Health & Science University. She was selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Executive Nurse Fellows program and completed the fellowship in September 2017, and has served for two terms on the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Health Policy Advisory Council.

For more information contact the School of Nursing at x7211 or nursing@up.edu.

Dr. Joane Moceri Nursing Scholarship Announced

In honor of Joane Moceri’s retirement as dean of the University of Portland School of Nursing, an endowed scholarship for nursing students has been established in her name. The Dr. Joane Moceri Nursing Scholarship, initiated by her family, will help support first generation college students and underrepresented students of color.

The endowed scholarship came as a surprise; Joane’s husband Steve and their three children originally began thinking of a scholarship last year as the most meaningful gift they could give her upon her eventual retirement. A diagnosis of kidney cancer earlier this year accelerated her retirement plans and the scholarship was presented to her on the University’s Founders Day celebration on April 10. All of the Moceri children, as well as friends and co-workers from Oregon, Washington, and Washington DC contributed to the endowment.

During her tenure as dean, Moceri has overseen the development of a simulated health center, created new and innovative teaching programs, and fostered a deeply interconnected culture of mutual support and celebration between faculty, staff, and students. She was appointed dean of nursing by University president Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., in July 2015. She joined UP as an associate professor in 2012, and began service as the associate dean for the undergraduate nursing program in May of 2013. Along with nursing, Dr. Moceri has experience in business management and taught undergraduate courses on nursing theory, communication, and nursing leadership; as well as graduate courses on resource management, communication, and population health.

For more information contact the School of Nursing at x7211 or nursing@up.edu.

Healing Beyond Healthcare, March 6

The Garaventa Center and School of Nursing invite you to a free presentation, “Healing Beyond Healthcare,” on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:15 p.m., in the Chiles Center Hall of Fame Room. In their talk, adjunct nursing instructor Katie Strawn and Columbia University orthopedic surgeon Joseph Dutkowsky will shine a light on the chaos of the healthcare debate through the lenses of faith and science. Come share an evening of stories from the field of what’s possible when doctors and nurses combine the knowledge in their heads with the love in their hearts to bring hope to medically fragile children.

For ADA accommodations or more information, contact the Garaventa Center at x7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

Mallie Kozy Selected For 2017 Faculty Policy Intensive Program

Nursing professor Mallie Kozy has been selected as one of four participants from around the nation for the 2017 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Faculty Policy Intensive program. The 2017 cohort consists of nursing faculty members selected from a national pool of applicants, to participate in a three day intensive experience to enhance knowledge of policy and advocacy. Kozy and her colleagues were chosen by AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council from a highly competitive pool of applicants based on their past achievements and future interests in alignment with AACN’s 2017-2018 Federal Policy Agenda priority areas— workforce, research, higher education, and models of care. The end goal is for participants to strengthen relationships necessary to advance policy within federal departments and agencies.

Now in its fifth year, the FPI is a three-day immersion program designed for faculty at AACN member schools who are interested in elevating their role in shaping health policy. The FPI will be held this fall and will coincide with the AACN fall semi-annual meeting. These faculty members will have the unique opportunity to enhance their existing knowledge of policy and advocacy through sessions, panel discussions, and workshops that will strengthen their ability to engage in the dynamic relationships necessary to advance policy within federal departments and agencies, Congress, national organizations, and as individual advocates. 

Kozy joined the UP nursing faculty in 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing from Duquesne University in Pittsburg in 2007, and earned an M.S.N. at Medical Collee of Ohio (now University of Toledo) in 1994. She served as professor and dean of Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing from 2013 to 2016, and was as associate professor and chair of undergraduate nursing studies at Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio from 2007-2013. She is a registered nurse through the Oregon State Board of Nursing and the State of Ohio Board of Nursing.

For more information contact the School of Nursing at 7211 or nursing@up.edu.