Nashville Medical News featured two stories about Belmont earlier this month on expansion of the School of Nursing’s patient simulation program and Dean Cathy Taylor’s perspective (among others) on the future of the DNP degree.
You can read the full stories on the their website: Belmont Expands Simulation Program, Adds Fellow and Local Deans Weigh in on DNP
Belmont pharmacy students recently attended the 126th annual Tennessee Pharmacist’s Association meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kelly Maguigan (’14), Mandy Newman (’14), Alexander Tu (’16) and Kyle Robinson (’14) (pictured at right) represented Belmont’s College of Pharmacy in the Self Care competition. Dr. Traci Poole, advisor of Belmont’s chapter of the Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists, stated, “It was wonderful to see our student pharmacists engaged with their state association in a variety of ways, ranging from discussion of policy in our House of Delegates to the Self-Care Competition.”
Several Belmont pharmacy faculty participated in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting from July 13 through 17 in Chicago, Ill. The meeting is the primary source of innovations in teaching in colleges and schools of pharmacy, offers a large selection of faculty development opportunities and provides a merging of academia and accreditation issues.
Belmont faculty learned new techniques in the areas of student recruitment, student remediation, the scholarship of teaching and practice innovations as well as learned new standards of accreditation, new CAPE competencies and software products.
Marilyn E. Thompson Odom presented at a round table session on Assessment of Student Learning and Level of Empathy Through Use of Creative Expression. Elisa Greene, Ashton Beggs, Mark Chirico, Alisa Spinelli, Condit Steil, Kristina Wood and Phil Johnston–presented Integration, Innovation and Collaboration at Belmont University College of Pharmacy at the poster session. Leigh Ann Bynum, Hope Campbell and Lindsay Hahn presented Making Cross-Linkages Work Between Clinical and Management Classes in the College of Pharmacy at the refereed poster session. Andrew Webster and Angela Hagan served as administrative representative and faculty representative, respectively, in the House of Delegates. Phil Johnston served on the Council of Deans.
Dr. Michael Voight, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences at Belmont, recently presented at the annual meeting of the National Athletic Trainers Association in Las Vegas, NV. His presentation, attended by over 400 conference delegates, was on assessing and developing rotational speed in athletes. Dr. Voight shared his work in assessing fundamental movement and in turn correcting the impairments discovered. Examples were given utilizing several of the PGA tour players that he works with.
Dr. William Gibson ’12, has accepted a position as a Clinical Pharmacist for Central Washington Hospital following completion of his PGY-1 residency. Central Washington Hospital is a 206 bed Regional Level III Trauma and Heart Center and is the major medical facility and referral center for patients in the North Central Washington area. Dr. Gibson will provide pharmacy services for a spectrum of clinical disciplines including general medicine, oncology, cardiology, pediatrics, intensive care, obstetrics, surgery, and emergency medicine. He states that his residency gave him the opportunity to better determine his specific practice interests and that Central Washington Hospital is a great place to begin his career.
Dr. Beth Hallmark, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director of Simulation for the College of Health Sciences at Belmont, recently presented two workshops at the annual meeting of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) in Las Vegas, NV. INACSL promotes research and disseminates evidence based practice standards for clinical simulation methodologies and learning environments.
Dr. Hallmark was a co-presenter in a session about implementing cost saving and waste reduction measures in simulation laboratories. In addition, she was part of an expert panel of simulation coordinators for an advanced workshop providing an overview of operational management systems used in simulation, covering inventory, scheduling, and development of policies and procedures.