Pharmacy student Ali Foster is a recipient of the 2010 RXportfolios National Achievement Award for her outstanding professional portfolio.
As a winner, Ali will receive national recognition as RXportfolios sends e-mails about Ali’s award to 90,000 pharmacists, 9,000 students,1,500 pharmacy school faculty and administrators and 2,000 industry executives. In addition, letters are sent to all Pharmacy University Deans about Ali’s achievement.
A committee of pharmacy industry professionals selects one winner from each school of pharmacy, and the decision is based on content, quality of writing and overall accomplishments displayed in a professional portfolio.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Robinson Helps Bring Physical Therapy Services to New Nashville Location
Thanks to a new partnership between Gordon Jewish Community Center and Baptist Sports Medicine—one that Belmont’s own Dr. Kevin Robinson from the School of Physical Therapy was a part of—residents of Bell Meade and Bellevue can now receive medical attention much closer to home.
The recent venture made it possible for those seeking medical attention to visit a Baptist therapist at the Community Center for services including orthopedic physical therapy, aquatic therapy, sports medicine and back, neck and spine pain therapy. Bubba McIntosh, interim executive director for Baptist Sports Medicine, said he hopes the program will grow to include more services and expanded hours.
And grow, it has. McIntosh explained that even before the program’s official grand opening, patients began scheduling appointments. Since then, the clinic has begun to see anywhere from six to twelve patients per day, and that number only seems to be growing. The partnership will no doubt serve as a great convenience to the people of Nashville.
Miss Tennessee Teen All-American aims to study nursing at Belmont
From the Paris Post-Intellegencer. . . .
Henry County High School senior Hannah Robison is the new Miss Tennessee Teen All-American. She won the title Oct. 10 in Lebanon.
Hannah participated in evening gown, interview and swimwear before she was selected the state winner. She now advances to the national Miss Teen All-American Pageant in Philadelphia in 2011. The national title was won in the past by actress Halle Berry, spokesmodel Debbie James and former Miss USA Lynette Cole of Tennessee.
Hannah is a 2010 Girls’ State representative and is her senior class secretary. She hopes to study nursing at Belmont University beginning in the fall of 2011. She was also a 2010 participant in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at Harvard University.
Hannah pulled off a rare double earlier this year. She was the Hostess Princess for the World’s Biggest Fish Fry and also was named queen during the Fairest of the Fair pageant at the Henry County Fair, thus winning the top two beauty pageant titles in the county during the same year.
Hannah is the daughter of Pam and Rusty Robison.
Nursing students help serve the community
Recently, nursing student Ashley Scoby administered flu shots to Edgehill residents in the I.W. Gernert Homes along with School of Nursing faculty Dr. Anita Chesney and Dr. Ruby Dunlap. The shots were donated by Student Health Services.
“The three of us really enjoyed interacting with the residents of the IWG high rise,” Dunlap said. “This is the kind of nursing I enjoy most— offering health services right where people live.”
In addition to the flu clinic, 87 nursing students have made home visits to refugee family clients of Catholic Charities and World Relief Refugee Resettlement. The students provided health assessments, nutrition and medication instruction and instruction on the U.S. healthcare system. The families hailed from various countries, including Nepal, Burma, Iraq and Ethiopia.
School of Nursing Adds 4 New Faculty Members
The Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing welcomed four new full-time faculty members into the School of Nursing this fall. These new members include the following individuals:
Jamie Adam comes to us from College of the Ozarks in Missouri as a full time faculty member in adult health and will be joining us in August. She has a wide range of teaching experience including 2 years at MTSU. She has an MSN from MTSU as a family nurse practitioner and a DNP in Educational Leadership from Case Western Reserve University. Jamie has experience with high-fidelity simulation and has an interest in transcultural nursing. She is also fluent in Spanish.
Loretta Bond is joining us on a full time basis beginning in August to work in adult health areas. Loretta comes to us with many years of teaching experience, most recently at Marquette University and Western Kentucky University. She has been teaching in our Adult Health I labs for the past two semesters. Loretta has an MSN form Marquette University with a support area of curriculum and instruction. She is near the completion of her doctoral work at RUSH University with a research area in health disparities-cultural mistrust.
Sandy Rosedale is inaugurating a new role at Belmont as clinical placement coordinator. She will begin in July and will be on a 12-month contract going forward. Her role will include being our primary contact to all our clinical agencies. Sandy has an MSN from University of California, San Francisco as a Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. We have known Sandy well over this past academic year as she has served in a full time adjunct faculty role teaching in community health and leadership and management. She will continue to teach approximately 6 hours per semester.
Erica Sevier is a new full time faculty member with primary responsibility in women’s health. She will be teaching primarily in NUR 4210 but will continue to help with some adult health clinical from time to time. Erica has an MSN from Vanderbilt University in Women’s Health. Of course we already know Erica from her full time adjunct role with us over the past year. Erica is teaching in the OB course this summer and will begin her full time responsibilities in August while continuing her doctoral work at Trevecca.
Health Science Faculty News
Here is what some of the College of Health Science professors have been up to recently:
Dr. Michael Voight, a professor of Physical Therapy, was appointed to the State Board of Physical Therapy by Governor Phil Bredesen. Dr. Voight was one of 135 men and women chosen throughout the state of Tennessee to represent their respective areas of expertise. In regards to the appointments, Governor Bredesen commended “all those appointed for their willingness to serve the state through its boards and commissions. Tennesseans have always been recognized for dedicating their time and talents to serve their fellow citizens, and I appreciate these men and women for upholding this tradition.”
Dr. Voight also spoke at the National Athletic Training Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, at the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting held in Providence Rhode Island, and taught a group of 50 European physiotherapists the Netherlands about physical assessment of golfers and the implications for exercise in the management and prevention of golf related injuries.
Dr. Teresa Plummer presented at the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology of North America (RESNA) annual conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Using findings from her dissertation research concerning the current state of wheelchair assessment and procurement process, she presented and also taught a half-day instructional course on the “relationship between vision, posture and mobility.”
Dr. Penny Prowers organized a team of students that presented at the RESNA conference. A write-up of their experience at the conference can be found here.
Dr. Ruby Dunlap participated in the 2010 State Health Plan Regional Workshop. These workshops are conducted by the Tennessee Division of Health Planning to get feedback from citizens on Tennessee’s proposed health goals and strategies for the state.
Dr. Dunlap advocated for strategies designed for health promotion, disease and injury prevention, and the optimizing of the roles of non-physician clinicians such as nurse practitioners to increase access to health care and decrease health disparities.
Dr. Salvatore Giorgianni was appointed to the Statewide Advisory Board to the Governor’s Office on the Men’s Health Report Card.