FNUFNUhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=700632024-03-29T05:56:48Z2024-03-29T05:56:48ZFNU Hires Chief Diversity and Inclusion OfficerJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18709062017-09-29T07:54:05Z2017-09-28T10:00:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-a628-43ee-bcc567f1e69d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Position Added to Executive Leadership Team</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has hired <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/1200x1200-1CSQH95+copy.jpg/6341542b-ee7c-594b-67dd-5bfdc2d9b9ec?t=1506686003925" style="height: 250px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Dr. Maria Valentin-Welch, DNP, CNM, MPH, FACNM, as its first chief diversity and inclusion officer to lead the University on matters of equity, diversity and inclusion. Dr. Valentin-Welch is a certified nurse-midwife and has served as a course coordinator at FNU since 2013. She will assume the new role on Oct. 1, 2017. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO) will lead the development of a vision and strategy that champions the importance of a diverse and inclusive environment that values and supports all members of the University community. The addition of the CDIO position is the most recent of a number of diversity initiatives implemented as part of FNU’s strategic plan to heighten the focus on diversity and inclusion for all faculty, staff and students. The CDIO will serve on the executive team along with the president, dean, chief operations officer and the executive vice president for finance and facilities.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Research tells us that in order to incorporate an effective culture of diversity and inclusion, you must have top administrators at the highest level in the organization leading the charge,” said FNU President Dr. Susan Stone. “We have done so much to foster a culture that values diversity and inclusion; this was the natural next step for our University.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Valentin-Welch has worked on diversity and inclusion efforts throughout her career. One of her first assignments at FNU will be leading the implementation of a four-year program to increase the recruitment, enrollment, retention and graduation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, made possible by a HRSA Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant totaling $1,998,000 that was awarded to FNU earlier this year. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Valentin-Welch joined the Frontier Nursing University faculty four years ago and has served as a co-chair of FNU’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She will be moving to Kentucky in 2018 to join other administrative staff at FNU’s campus, which will be relocating from Lexington to Versailles next year. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am very excited to get started in this new role because focusing on diversity and inclusion will only strengthen Frontier’s roots, as well as our mission and vision,” said Dr. Valentin-Welch. “The birthplace of nurse-midwifery in the United States stems from the roots of Frontier Nursing University. Therefore, I am humbled and honored to become FNU’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer. Together, hand in hand, we will bring our FNU Community to higher heights.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, Dr. Valentin-Welch will offer leadership support to FNU’s Diversity PRIDE Program which has been in place since 2010 and was designed to promote diversity in nursing and midwifery by recruiting more underrepresented students. She will also focus on collaborative opportunities with other organizations to facilitate the goals of diversity and inclusion at FNU.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f195d56-c8d0-d60b-cf9b-4b382efd464f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I believe our founding mother, Mary Breckinridge, is smiling down at Frontier as we open this new historical chapter… a chapter made up of many different pages creating a wonderfully diverse and inclusive book,” said Dr. Valentin-Welch. </span></span></p>
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</div>Jordan sok2017-09-28T10:00:00ZStudent Spotlight - Roxanne LaPointe, RNJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18680352017-09-26T15:06:09Z2017-09-26T14:56:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) student <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+-+Roxanne+LaPointe.png/ea7630f3-fe48-e638-1b76-35b3e56ec856?t=1506452581894" style="float: right; height: 250px; width: 250px;" />Roxanne LaPointe, RN doesn’t use her nursing education in a hospital or a traditional health care facility. Instead, Roxanne takes her talents to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where she cares for elderly and chronically ill inmates. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I chose Frontier because they believe in underserved populations,” she said. “I decided to pursue an advanced degree so that I could do more for my patients.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roxanne is pursuing a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) at Frontier to become a Family Nurse Practitioner, which will enable her to do the work she is truly passionate about.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her patients include approximately 1,500 men from ages 18 to 80. On a daily basis, she addresses a wide range of illnesses in the correctional facility’s 20-bed infirmary. Roxanne, also a FNU Wide Neighborhoods Ambassador, has worked at her current position for over five years. She is working to make her profession more recognized in the medical world.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I help give a voice and advocate for those who are forgotten and thrown away by society,” she said.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To that end, after she graduates with her MSN this year, she has decided to pursue a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from FNU.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why Frontier? Frontier is “real and gritty,” said Roxanne, just like her work. Through her dedicated efforts, an education from Frontier is helping her make a difference.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for your diligence in serving a truly underserved population. We are proud to have you as an FNU student!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cad306-bf93-6ec1-de23-e0503f1971c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-26T14:56:00ZStaff Spotlight: Angela BaileyJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18595312017-09-25T11:12:18Z2017-09-21T13:32:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community at Frontier Nursing University<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Angela+Bailey.jpg/844b40d8-39e7-93f4-fbd0-e1f1f7e1d626?t=1506015243508" style="height: 250px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> (FNU) is proud to have a dedicated team of staff members who help FNU realize its mission. FNU Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations Angela Bailey has a passion for serving Frontier that began many generations ago. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angela, with a bachelor’s in Communication Studies and master’s in Organizational Leadership, is responsible for raising funds to support FNU programs and students. With a multi-faceted job, she also coordinates programs and services for Frontier Alumni.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bailey has been serving at Frontier for a little over three years, but her devotion to FNU developed several decades prior. Bailey’s grandmother grew up in Leslie County, just 14 miles away from the current Frontier campus, and her son was delivered by nurse-midwives from the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) - a service founded by Mary Breckinridge in 1925 to bring health care to the most inaccessible and impoverished people in that region.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I grew up hearing about the FNS nurses and the impact they had on the lives of the people of Eastern Kentucky,” Bailey says. “When a position came open at FNU, it was an easy choice to make the move.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During her tenure at FNU, Bailey has also assumed a volunteer position as VP of Membership for the Bluegrass Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bailey finds joy in helping FNU fulfill its longstanding purpose: To educate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality care to underserved populations. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Our mission is as meaningful today as it was when Mary Breckinridge came to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky,” she says. “Knowing that the work I do supports this mission and the work of our graduates all over the world makes it easy to get up in the morning and get to work.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside of work, Bailey spends time with her granddaughter and her two dogs. She also enjoys watching horror movies, reading, and painting with acrylics.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd29718c-a584-8028-f1c4-6827b4694f7a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-21T13:32:00ZFNU Celebrates National Midwifery Week October 1-7thJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18536672017-09-18T13:52:08Z2017-09-18T13:46:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-067a1d29-961c-cffb-101a-238f54fafbd4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University’s<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/2017+VE+NM+IG+1080+square.jpg/e44b5968-7167-1e18-94cf-4d09f7a6627a?t=1505756844289" style="height: 250px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> </span><a href="http://frontier.edu/midwiferyweek"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017 Virtual Event</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dedicated to nurse-midwifery is only a few weeks away! From October 1-7, the “Mission Focused: Nurse-Midwives Answering the Call” virtual event will explore the experiences of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) who are passionate leaders committed to better care for women and families.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-067a1d29-961c-cffb-101a-238f54fafbd4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To learn more about FNU’s distance education programs and degrees, visit us </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-18T13:46:00ZCourier Spotlight: Carolyn GregoryJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18500432017-09-14T16:07:17Z2017-09-14T16:05:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While she was growing up, Carolyn Gregory’s<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Carolyn+Gregory.jpg/a8029a26-220d-65d1-da84-8cc6c3ce8402?t=1505419589636" style="height: 343px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> parents always encouraged her to seek new and meaningful experiences, which led her to Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1947. Carolyn enjoyed her time as a Courier so much that she decided to remain at Frontier as the FNS Christmas Secretary and as an assistant to Agnes Lewis and Betty Lester in 1948. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I truly enjoyed the spirit of the organization and what I was doing to help their cause,” said Carolyn.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During her time with FNS, she was especially impressed with the way the midwives understood the most intimate and special experience in so many women’s lives: the births of their children.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The midwives handled deliveries with both the mother and her child’s best interest in mind,” said Carolyn. “I definitely believe that nurse-midwifery is integral to health care in this country and abroad.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The midwives were empowering role models for Carolyn. The time she spent at Frontier Nursing Service was the first time she had seen women working independently within the medical field. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolyn had the opportunity to observe a birth as well as a death in rural mountain cabins while accompanying FNS midwives. She remembers these experiences vividly, and they have profoundly impacted her life. Because of these experiences, Carolyn believes she has gained a greater understanding of life, death, and what it means to be a human being.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After serving as a Courier, Carolyn later obtained a master’s degree from Northwestern University and has been a speech language pathologist for most of her life. She continues to carry forward the lessons she learned as a Courier. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolyn has remained involved with Frontier over many decades as a donor, member of the Courier Advisory Committee, and friend to Frontier Nursing University.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your service to Frontier, Carolyn! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ff98ed-8203-d2f4-fb53-a6c3b70d2389"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-14T16:05:00ZStudent Spotlight: Gabrielle Sauder MSN, BSN, PNP-BCJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18440162017-09-11T12:33:12Z2017-09-11T12:29:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Frontier Nursing University (FNU) <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Gabrielle+Sauder+%28Pediatric+Nurse+Practitioner+and+Director+of+Mobile+Services%29+with+Mr.+Jose+R.+Sanchez+%28President+and+CEO%29+of+Norwegian+American+Hospital.+.jpg/aaf4b4fd-ca43-fdef-ec0c-877408af89ea?t=1505147504667" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Post-Master’s DNP student Gabrielle Sauder heard of a job opening for the Pediatric Care-A-Van, a program at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago, Ill., she knew she had to check it out. With a focus on health prevention, the Pediatric Care-A-Van is just what it sounds like - healthcare on wheels, provided for children in the community who have a barrier to health care access consider adding financial barriers as well. Soon after she started and based on her beginning success on the Care-A-Van, the hospital asked her to also start a Pediatric Restorative Care Dental Van. She was put in charge of starting a new program from the ground up and soon realized she would benefit from an advanced degree. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Already a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with a master’s degree, her position quickly required leadership skills that piqued her interest in obtaining her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I wanted a good return on investment,” said Gabrielle. “FNU stuck out to me as having a program that would give me the skills I’m looking for in management - and it was affordable. I also really liked the fact that there was a Post-Master’s DNP that I could complete in a short time-frame.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gabrielle’s hard work ethic is paying off. Her Care-A-Van program recently won an American Hospital Association (AHA) NOVA award. Only five awards are given annually to AHA member hospitals and health care systems that show leadership by providing collaborative health care that improves community health status.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of hundreds of applications, a large reason Care-A-Van was awarded was because of its dramatic increase in patient numbers and services over the past year and its work in the community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When I first started this position, the hospital had recently changed to a nurse practitioner led model,” said Gabrielle. “With this new structure, we doubled patient volume and quadrupled services, all with the same operating budget. Nurse practitioners are leaders and by combining medical expertise, leadership and a passion for serving others, we have been able to prove this model works.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gabrielle is set to graduate with her DNP in December of this year (2017).</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The experience at FNU has been outstanding,” said Gabrielle. “I’ve learned exactly what I was hoping to, and I am really blown away with how well they utilize technology. It really is like being a part of a community even though courses are online.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your hard work and dedication to serving the underserved, Gabrielle. We are proud to have you as an FNU student!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a94c2dc7-71cb-7ebc-dfd6-85fd68a14c96"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-11T12:29:00ZFaculty Spotlight: Dr. Ruth Elsasser, DNP, ARNP-CJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18416342017-09-08T10:45:10Z2017-09-08T10:42:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community at Frontier Nursing <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Ruth+Elasser.jpg/59a48d52-599a-33e7-6c88-24afd4d0206e?t=1504881798964" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />University (FNU) believes it is our responsibility to serve the underserved in ways that change the lives and improve the overall health of community members. Frontier course faculty member Ruth Elsasser is at the heart of this movement, hosting impactful presentations to locals that invite them to consider how diet and lifestyle choices affect their health and wellness.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ruth, a 2015 graduate from Frontier’s Post-Master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (PM-DNP) program, says her goal was always to teach. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am constantly striving to improve my skills as a clinician and gain as much knowledge as possible to positively influence the lives of all those that I touch,” Elsasser says. “The DNP has provided me with more opportunities to do just that.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elsasser chose FNU because the DNP program encourages students to develop and implement solutions to close the gap in health care. Since her graduation in 2015, Elsasser has been teaching Advanced Pharmacology at Frontier. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stemming from her experience as a student and faculty member at FNU, Elsasser has a message she is sharing with the community. Her target audience is new moms and chronic pain patients, and her theme is clear: diet and lifestyle choices directly affect personal and family health and wellness. Since beginning to share her presentation locally, Elsasser has seen positive developments.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One couple followed a few recommendations they heard from the presentation and are now weaned off of eight different medications (as a couple). They reported to Elsasser that they are much more present in the lives of their kids and grandkids because of the changes.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They felt that their lives had become ‘theirs again’,” Elsasser says. “This has motivated me, as well, to continue learning and reaching out to as many as possible.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, Ruth, for representing Frontier Nursing University’s mission, both on and off campus!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f78e7cf-61f6-23de-1642-6e074b689412"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-08T10:42:00ZFeatured Preceptor: Kathryn Carr, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18381872017-09-20T13:08:44Z2017-09-05T16:24:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) preceptor <img alt="Kathryn Carr, CNM, (left) pictured with SNMs Nicole Mapes (center) and Cecile Sampson (right)." src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Kathryn+Carr%2C+CNM%2C+with+SNMs+Nicole+Mapes+and+Cecile+Sampson..jpg/fb72d49e-5b72-fb63-93a9-886e0dd80d3b?t=1504643300452" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Kathryn Carr, CNM, from St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Mass., was honored as FNU’s “Featured Preceptor” for the summer term. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With over a decade of experience, Kathryn consistently takes several students each term in her Boston midwifery practice and provides a very high standard of care. She has precepted for FNU for over five years, and students find her positive, caring and an excellent role model. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most recently she precepted FNU students Nicole Mapes and Cecile Sampson. In addition to her clinical practice, she is very active with ACNM leadership. She was recently inducted as a 2016 Fellow of ACNM and the Region One representative for ACNM. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Kathryn has become a pivotal influence on my road to becoming a successful CNM,” said Mapes. “She has shown me what a joy and opportunity precepting can truly be, which has made me excited to teach future midwives. I am eternally grateful to have the opportunity to learn and grow from such a thoughtful, bright and selfless person.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathryn is also an accomplished linguist and is trained in French, Portuguese, Italian, Swahili and Mandarin Chinese.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathryn will receive a Starbucks gift card as a small token of our appreciation for her being a great preceptor. Thanks for your investment in our FNU students, Kathryn!</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go</span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/preceptor-archive"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to read more on previously recognized preceptors, or to nominate a preceptor.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f369621-53bb-5682-8eb0-2f64b65d9989"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-09-05T16:24:00ZFrontier Meets the Big Apple: National Midwifery WeekJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18313362017-08-31T10:37:14Z2017-08-31T10:34:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/miles+for+midwives+header.jpg/19bc7548-b412-ff4e-1ea4-c55424623a87?t=1504190132040" /></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">rontier Nursing University (FNU) is heading to the Big Apple! FNU students, alumni, faculty, staff and supporters will flood into New York City during during National Midwifery Week on October 1-7, 2017, for several events celebrating and supporting the important work of nurse-midwives. The United States has the highest rates of maternal death and injury, the lowest birth weights, and the widest disparities in the entire developed world. FNU hopes to raise awareness of how nurse-midwives are a part of the solution. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/milesformidwives2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s Happening:</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/milesformidwives2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Case Presentation Days</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, Frontier students, alumni, faculty, preceptors and friends are invited to attend the FNU Case Presentation Day on Friday, Oct. 6. The Case Day presentation will be followed with light refreshments and fellowship. Case Presentation Days are organized by FNU RCFS (Regional Clinical Faculty) to provide opportunities for networking in the region. Students doing their clinical practicum will present cases to facilitate group discussion of management options and to promote the pathways of critical thinking. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/milesformidwives2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Today Show</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU will be making an appearance on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Today Show</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Friday, Oct. 6. Frontier graduate Dwynn Golden, RCF, and Angela Bailey, FNU Associate Director of Development, will represent the FNU community in the outside audience along with a growing number of FNU community members. Participants are encouraged to bring baby dolls from home to gain the attention of the Today Show crew. Free T-shirts will be distributed as Frontier is hopeful for a large crowd and a live TV interview!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/milesformidwives2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miles for Midwives 5K</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The third event of the National Midwifery Week is the running (or walking!) of the Miles for Midwives 5K! The race, in its 15th year, will be run on Saturday, Oct. 7, through Prospect Park in Brooklyn. FNU supporters are encouraged to join the Frontier group at the race. Once again, Frontier aims to be a visible presence in the event, which raises funds for midwives in New York City.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole weekend is designed to celebrate the work of nurse-midwives. The community at FNU is hoping the events help bring attention to our country’s high maternal death and injury rates, and the vital role that nurse-midwives play in filling this healthcare gap. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know that black mothers are</span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pmss.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> three to four times</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> more likely than white mothers to die from pregnancy and childbirth</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? These racial disparities affect black mothers whether they live in urban centers or in rural areas and whether they are affluent or poor—and in some parts of the U.S., the gap is widening. FNU is committed to raising awareness of the issue and educating the healthcare providers that can make a difference.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/milesformidwives2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How YOU can participate:</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To RSVP for the FNU Case Day Presentation, please contact Dwynn Golden at </span><a href="mailto:dwynn.golden@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dwynn.golden@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or (607) 547-6190</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To RSVP for participation in the Today Show and Miles for Midwives 5K, please contact Angela Bailey at </span><a href="mailto:angela.bailey@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">angela.bailey@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or 859-899-2533. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d45928c-38bb-e581-9868-7ab8fec7e9a4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can join the conversation about these events on the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/659606860916196"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU New York Facebook event page</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span></span></p>
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Jordan sok2017-08-31T10:34:00ZSpring Term 2017 Circle of Caring Award WinnersJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18256862017-08-28T15:15:38Z2017-08-28T15:11:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Culture+of+Caring+Awards+Spring+Term+2017.jpg/e4db0c56-ab00-834c-86d1-62b590d66e0f?t=1503947656804" style="height: 131px; width: 250px; float: right;" />pleased to announce Susan Morgan and Jackie Brooks as the Spring Term Circle of Caring Award winners! The Circle of Caring Award is a new recognition for faculty and staff who go above and beyond their job duties and strive to uphold FNU’s mission and Culture of Caring everyday. One faculty and staff member will be recognized each term.</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU faculty and staff were invited to nominate someone anonymously. Nominations were then voted upon by a committee based on the following Culture of Caring characteristics: professionalism, mutual support, respect, positive communication and inclusivity.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susan Morgan is the FNU Academic Resource Coordinator. Susan’s nominations included the following statements:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“While Susan is always helpful, respectful, and courteous to students, faculty, and staff, her behavior far exceeded those attributes during the most recent Bridge Bound….Susan's heart for our students, mission of Frontier, Circle of Caring were displayed that evening through her Inclusivity, Mutual Support, Positive Communication, Respect, and Professionalism. We are truly fortunate to have Susan as an FNU employee!”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Brooks, DNP, CNM, WHNP is the Director of the ADN Bridge Option here at FNU and is also a Course Coordinator. The following are excerpts from her anonymous nomination:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“After arriving on campus for Bridge Bound, a student received word that her {child} had been involved in a very serious accident. Jackie and {staff} worked endlessly with this student to help arrange flights, a ride to the Lexington airport…”</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both Susan and Jackie will receive a framed certificate, a $50 gift card and will be featured in various FNU communications. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are so grateful to have Susan and Jackie as a part of the FNU Community!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8c7d4f3-2a46-f3bb-ee53-a7d6f7d0857b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you know a FNU staff or faculty member that goes above and beyond? </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/circle-of-caring-award"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nominate them now</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the Circle of Caring Award! </span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-08-28T15:11:00ZFNU Hosts Diversity Impact Student ConferenceJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18183362017-08-24T16:51:29Z2017-08-24T08:52:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-e79c-633c-9561f4117001"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By: Wilvena McDowell-Bernard,</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Program Coordinator, Diversity Initiative PRIDE</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-1a46-0892-7d2cbc7bcd5e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University hosted <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/DI2017+%281%29.png/661d094f-3617-d2a0-e148-afaff833fac0?t=1503579828219" style="height: 178px; width: 250px; float: right;" />its 7th annual Diversity Impact student conference, June 1-4, 2017 on the historic FNU campus in Hyden KY. This year’s theme focused on “Moving Forward: Uniting through Diversity” where students, alumni, faculty, staff and guests united for team building tasks, cross-cultural activities and collaborative discussions to address health disparities and ways to improve minority health among underrepresented and marginalized groups.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-1a46-0892-7d2cbc7bcd5e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Diversity Impact 2017</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conference started off with an impactful welcome address by FNU President Dr. Stone, as she inspired attendees on ways nurses can use their leadership skills to impact and affect health disparities among underserved and underrepresented patient populations. Attendees then rolled up their sleeves to engage in an arts and craft session that explored their creative intuitions to highlight cross-cultural communication and its’ unique role in the nursing profession.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-1a46-0892-7d2cbc7bcd5e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The arts and craft activity offered attendees insights into understanding what cultural language barriers may feel like from a patient and provider perspective in healthcare. FNU PRIDE student, LaTonya Rice, reflects on what she learned from the activity, “Learning to listen to patients more...will help me to be a better communicator when I’m providing care to my clients.”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students enjoyed a field trip to Hurricane Creek Miner’s Memorial in the appalachian mountains, and toured the site commemorating the 1970 Finley Mine explosion, which claimed the lives of thirty-eight coal miners with only one survivor. One aspect of the memorial shed light on various health conditions many coal miners endured on a daily basis. Attendees traced historical events to further explore rural health in Appalachia.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards attendees also enjoyed a cookout and nature tour of hidden trails around the Wendover House used by Mary Breckinridge during the early years of what was then called Frontier Nursing Service (FNS).</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A range of diversity topics were led by nationally recognized guest speakers, faculty, staff, and students. Attendees learned the importance of cultural linguistics with Premier Speaker Capt. James l. Dickens from the US Dept. Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health (OMH). Capt. Dickens discussed the linguistic relationship between language, culture, and how language barriers and lack of cultural awareness can dramatically impact patient/provider healthcare services.</span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vaishu Jawahar, a 2016 Courier Intern, offers helpful advice from what she learned during the sessions, "As healthcare providers...you have to be able to take care of everyone or at least make them feel comfortable enough to seek out your care.”</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendees learned hidden facts about the role Appalachia played in Rural & Immigrant Health, the Civil Rights movement, and the economic development of Eastern Kentucky, taught by Shane Barton from the University of Kentucky.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keynote speaker and 12th President of the National Black Nurses Association, Dr. Eric Williams addressed the importance of cultural competency among nursing students, and discussed ways nurses can foster their leadership skills and mentorship to improve minority health among underrepresented and marginalized groups. Attendees were encouraged to get active within their communities, school, and local professional nursing chapters.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-1a46-0892-7d2cbc7bcd5e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Session speaker, Dr. Vernellia Randall, national author of “Dying While Black” (2006), walked through the historic timeline of health disparities linked to care administered to minorities, along with various racial barriers that limit and sometimes restrict access to care. She also explored the lack of minority health professionals along with cultural bias and racial micro-aggressions that impact care provided to culturally diverse patients.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-1a46-0892-7d2cbc7bcd5e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendees enjoyed a surprise guest appearance by nationally recognized author, Dr. Scharmaine Baker of the NOLA the Nurse children’s book series. Dr. Baker was recently featured on NBC Universal TV for the “Harry” Show.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the conference, attendees were provided with helpful resources on Gender-Identity, Sexual Orientation and Trans-appropriate Patient/Provider Care from FNU Faculty Member Dr. Trish Voss, on nursing practices for LGBTQ patients and communities.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebaaad61-1459-6ff2-7651-b80ef7d9ddfb"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendees took a journey through the relationship of global midwifery from a Mayan midwifery perspective. Student speaker Essence Williams of class 140, addressed maternal-child and reproductive health amongst vulnerable populations in Guatemala, including traditional Mayan practices, and cultural rituals of indigenous cultures.</span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards, attendees learned how to infuse mindful, relaxation practices to achieve optimal performance in all areas of their lives with student speaker Heidi Carter of class 129.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the end of the conference, students, faculty & staff left feeling more empowered and focused on making a positive change in their communities. Laura Willis, an FNU PRIDE Alumni and family nurse practitioner in Ohio, expresses her appreciation and reasons why she continues to return to campus as an alum, “There’s a connection to this pace, to the history that’s here. And there is something so very important about all of the unique perspectives...that re-energizes and reinforces why I do what I do.”</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<a href="http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Frontier-Nursing-University-conference-discusses-healthcare-diversity-426340331.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click Here </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for WYMT news report on Diversity Impact</span></span></p>
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<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lcqHV_gm4bs?ecver=2" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" width="640"></iframe></div>Jordan sok2017-08-24T08:52:00ZCesarean. Once an Issue, Still an Issue.Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18064302017-08-24T08:52:12Z2017-08-21T12:40:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><em><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05b1-2be7-dd4a-ea20158df9ed"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By: Nicole Lassiter, CNM, MSN, WHNP (DNP class 28)</span></span></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sweat trickled down my skin like rain<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Nicole+Lassiter+headshot.jpg/f4677e4e-9bbf-b188-abb2-ca138e557426?t=1503333827055" style="height: 266px; width: 150px; float: right;" /> on a window pane, forming puddles underneath my thick blue nursing scrubs. In the little birth rooms in the free-standing birth center, the labors and births seemed to create more heat than the Texas sun, even in the middle of the night. Hour after hour, the women stretched and strained, moved and made noise, opened and gave forth life. For a year as an Americorps volunteer on the border of Mexico, hour after hour I learned how to provide support and to monitor and trust the normal physiologic processes of labor and birth. The vast majority of the women delivered vaginally, and we transferred those few who needed cesarean sections to the local hospital. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vaginal birth to cesarean ratio represented in that small nurse-midwife practice is considered normal and safe for the general population as well. According to the World Health Organization (2015), since 1985 both national and international healthcare standards have identified an ideal target cesarean rate of 10-15% as safe and reasonable, yet the rate is exceedingly higher in many countries, including the United States (U.S). The rate of cesarean sections in the U.S. has largely been increasing since 1996, reaching 32% in 2015 according to the most recent governmental statistical data reports (Martin, J.A., Hamilton, B.E., Osterman, M., Driscoll, A.K., & Mathews, T.J., 2017). In other words, about one in three women gives birth by caesarean section.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make no mistake, caesarean sections have saved many lives -- both for mothers and babies, and when medically necessary, they are an essential surgical procedure. However, the mistake is that they are performed too often, and often unnecessarily. If a woman or an infant does not require a caesarean, this surgery will not benefit her and her infant, and will instead expose both to short and long-term risks, some of which are quite serious. Not to mention, many risks extend beyond the current pregnancy, to future pregnancies. This is not a good set up for women and babies, many of whom do not have ready access to obstetrical care (World Health Organization, 2015). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All right then, you may ask, what do we do? The answer lies both in the individual, and in the larger healthcare system. Key contributors to both the problem and the solution include: Individual providers and medical staff, professional organizations, administrators, governmental agencies, community advocacy groups, and the patients and families themselves. For example, the professional organizations representing the majority of obstetrical providers in this country, The American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) and The American Congress of Obstetricians (ACOG) must continue to address this issue, educate their memberships, and provide resources and tools for change in their practice areas. Hospital administrators must support both providers and patients to give and receive safe, evidence-based care, and one of the most profound examples is the essential role of the nurse-midwife and nurse-midwifery education.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nurse-midwifery education and practice is designed to offer care that inherently provides solutions to those issues associated with high caesarean section rates. Maternity care in the U.S. relies heavily on procedures, many of which are harmful, unnecessary, and not evidence-based, yet they are practiced routinely. Patients often lack the information to make informed decisions, or the power to chose when they are educated about their options (Declercq,E.R., Sakala,C., Corry,M.P., Applebaum,S., & Herrlich, A., 2013). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The basic hallmarks, core values and competencies of midwifery care identify labor and birth as normal physiologic processes and advocate for refraining from medical procedures unless medically necessary. Informed and shared decision-making with patients and families are also essential components of midwifery care (ACNM, 2012). The evidence base as well as ACOG (2016) recognize that certain supportive measures such as continuous support during labor are necessary because they reduce complications and cesarean sections. These practices that support normal physiologic birth and reduce cesarean sections and are traditionally practiced by midwives. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While there are numerous risk factors associated with cesarean section, the most common reason for primary cesarean is labor dystocia, when labor does not progress quickly enough or when progress is deemed inadequate. Yet current evidence shows that women and normal physiologic labor progress </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at a rate much slower than once believed</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. For decades, many labors and women were considered abnormal and too slow. As a result, cesareans were often performed, and unnecessarily. Today, new definitions of normal labor progress will help decrease these unnecessary cesareans, and these new definitions -- which are based on normal physiologic processes -- are again, those promoted by midwifery care. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e37cbf1-05af-2b0a-9af9-3c8076aa1dea"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am reminded of the women and their unmedicated labors and births at the Texas birth center. I have often thought back to my time there as one of profound education and experience of what women can do when cared for by those who know and honor the physiologic birth process. The women had continuous support during their labors, along with patience and good care and management from the midwives and the nurses. These basic tenets of care are the very skills that will help reduce our exorbitant cesarean section rate. The good news is that we know the vast majority of healthy women have a very good chance of having a normal vaginal delivery. Their physiology remains capable. The challenging news is that our system still needs the education and structure to support this. We must continue to learn how to support this basic normal physiologic process, and have systems that support it as well. Nurse-midwifery education and care is a significant and essential part of the solution. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-622c0fb3-1450-c630-05b6-9227daca3b4f"><a href="http://www.midwife.org/ACNM/files/ACNMLibraryData/UPLOADFILENAME/000000000050/Core%20Comptencies%20Dec%202012.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACNM Core Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice. (December 2012).</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b53086e-1451-2947-e980-9fc1a690fa6d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Reaffirmed 2016). Safe prevention of the primary cesarean delivery. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Obstetrics & Gynecology</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,123, 693–711.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-622c0fb3-1450-c630-05b6-9227daca3b4f"><a href="http://transform.childbirthconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LTM-III_Pregnancy-and-Birth.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Declercq,E.R., Sakala,C., Corry,M.P., Applebaum,S., & Herrlich, A. (May 2013).</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-622c0fb3-1450-c630-05b6-9227daca3b4f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Martin, J.A., Hamilton, B.E., Osterman,M., Driscoll, A.K., & Mathews,T.J. (Jan 5, 2017). Births: Final data for 2015. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Vital Statistics Reports</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 66(1).</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-622c0fb3-1450-c630-05b6-9227daca3b4f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/maternal_perinatal_health/cs-statement/en/">WHO Statement on Caesarean Section (2015). Executive summary.</a></span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-08-21T12:40:00ZAlumni Spotlight: JoAnne Burris, CNM, MSNJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=18030802017-08-24T13:10:05Z2017-08-18T08:47:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Alumnus, CNEP Class 130</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From birthing her child with the help of <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+JoAnne+Burris.jpg/fff88214-631a-4883-dd66-a5b76e4847ec?t=1503060551045" style="float: right; height: 141px; width: 250px;" />a midwife to becoming a Certified Nurse-Midwife herself, Alumna JoAnne Burris, CNM, is the picture of how Frontier Nursing University (FNU) provides its students with an education to match their passion.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her journey from patient to provider, JoAnne now seeks to provide women with holistic care using her degree from Frontier.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suffering an uncomfortable experience with her first child’s birth, JoAnne was displeased with the way her birthing decisions were dominated by the health care providers. She sought the help of nurse-midwife Melissa Courtney in the birth of her second child a few years later.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through Melissa’s gentle consideration, consistent reassurance, and willingness to allow JoAnne to make several of her own birthing decisions, JoAnne’s second birth experience was truly an enjoyable one. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It did not take long for JoAnne to feel a spiritual calling to provide the same care for other women. Within the year she began didactic classes at FNU (CNEP 130), after receiving her associate’s degree in nursing and then attending nurse-midwifery clinical training at Womankind Midwives, a practice established by Melissa. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/uk_midwives-joanne+burris.jpg/592ee697-40fa-a5e2-1507-6859d880e60b?t=1503061298474" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: left;" />In 2016, she was hired at the University of Kentucky (UK) HealthCare Polk Dalton Clinic into the UK Midwife Clinic. The clinic collaborates with UK’s Obstetrics/Gynecology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ensuring the most resourceful care possible.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-13969a04-152d-6c09-8a69-2d2e2887a12e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I work in two patient population settings,” said JoAnne. “Half of my clinic time is spent in a downtown clinic that serves primarily Hispanic, refugee, and low-income women. The other half of my time is spent at a midwife clinic that serves patients who desire midwifery care specifically. I enjoy working at the University of Kentucky because it allows me to serve a diverse group of women.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together with Melissa and two other CNMs, JoAnne is fulfilling her dream of providing care, expertise, and empowerment to other women as they journey throughout their lifespan.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community at FNU is thankful for JoAnne’s dedication to quality health care!</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f60758cb-f567-9810-d5d9-3ac36127f237"><a href="https://uknow.uky.edu/uk-healthcare/birth-experience-inspires-new-purpose-practicing-midwifery"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://uknow.uky.edu/uk-healthcare/birth-experience-inspires-new-purpose-practicing-midwifery</span></a></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-08-18T08:47:00ZStaff Spotlight: Chasity CollettJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17945402017-08-14T08:24:17Z2017-08-14T08:21:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For some of the staff at Frontier <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Chasity+Collett.jpg/a906c213-6474-01f4-c6c1-0b21beda2b5f?t=1502713407486" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Nursing University (FNU), the connection to Frontier has been a part of their lives for many years. For Chasity Collett, it’s been since birth.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I was born an FNS baby at Mary Breckinridge Hospital, and I love continuing to help the mission,” said Chasity.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the past seven years, Chasity has served Frontier in the admissions department. She now works as a senior admissions officer, helping new and prospective students work through their admission files. According to Chasity, it’s a great place for her to both meet prospective students and process their files so they can join the FNU community. For Chasity, the community has been the best part about working at FNU.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My favorite part of being a staff member is the relationships I have developed since working here,” Chasity said. “When you join Frontier you become family and over the past couple of years that has meant a lot to me.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chasity enjoys spending time with her husband, Kyle, as well as their three children, son, Isaiah, and daughters, Kyla and Natalya. She also coaches cheerleading for second to eighth graders at her daughter’s school.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5624e403-e0b7-0b2a-3c86-ecbe61a1677e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks, Chasity, for serving the Frontier community!</span></span></p>
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</p>Jordan sok2017-08-14T08:21:00ZCourier Spotlight: Kathy DaltonJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17856212017-08-10T13:06:11Z2017-08-10T13:03:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathy Dalton, from Lexington, Ky., <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Kathy+Dalton.jpg/8f6838ff-3972-3927-3a92-f1e57c8be73d?t=1502384698204" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />grew up hearing her mother’s stories about Eastern Kentucky. While her mother was also from Lexington, her grandfather traveled frequently as a mining engineer for coal mines in Eastern Kentucky, making Kathy curious about the area. When her parents found the Courier Program at Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), now Frontier Nursing University (FNU), she decided to take the opportunity.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The summer after her junior year in college, Kathy was with FNS for eight weeks. She remembers sitting in Anna May January's room in the evenings and hearing about her experiences. Anna May advised Kathy to meet local people during her free time when she was assigned to an outpost clinic. Kathy took her advice to heart, and when she was assigned to Flat Creek, she focused on meeting as many people as she could.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Wendover, Kathy took care of horses and pigs at the Upper Shelf. On the weekends, she would go with the Couriers to a swimming hole at Hurricane Creek. When patients at FNU didn’t have transportation after they were discharged, Kathy would drive them to their homes in Thousandsticks. Some of her best memories from that time are fixing tea for the midwives at the Big House, the cooks who prepared the food in the kitchen, and daily tea and sherry hour at 4 and 5 p.m.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Serving as a Courier lit a fire in Kathy – it was exactly what she wanted to do. Her time at Frontier made her more aware of poverty and its effects, and deepened her commitment to service in her church and community throughout her life. The Courier Program serves a valuable purpose in helping not only defray the costs of healthcare, but it also gives the Couriers insight into what’s important in life. Young people in the Courier Program can be inspired to serve in their own communities after they return home, as Kathy was.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since serving as a Courier, Kathy has remained supportive of Frontier. In April 2014, she hosted a tea party to help release </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unbridled Service</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Frontier’s historical book about the Courier Program. The tea service was done in the traditional English style in honor of the Breckinridge-style tea service she learned at FNS.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathy remains involved with the University because she sees that the mission of FNU today matches Mary Breckinridge’s original mission. FNU continues to serve a need, and Kathy is proud to be a part of something that has stayed the course over time. She is also interested in how Frontier's mission can be met from a distance through technological advances. This success is an example of the best technology has to offer, and Kathy is delighted to be a part of a vital project that is serving the world.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to come work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9de0a709-cd1c-7784-3816-5c4f65f08530"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-08-10T13:03:00ZFNU Student Named 2017 APNA Board of Directors Student ScholarJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17806292017-08-07T13:54:58Z2017-08-07T13:51:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-15ba-39a4-1bf6ed6a3f4d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) graduate<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Nicole+Mutnansky.jpg/a1923fe4-c70f-89c3-4779-34efcdcd712b?t=1502128406558" style="height: 265px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> student Nicole Mutnansky, MSN, CNM, WHCNP received high honors on July 20, 2017, as she was recognized by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) as one of 30 students in the 2017 Class of Board of Directors Student Scholars. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-15ba-39a4-1bf6ed6a3f4d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicole was selected from a pool of applicants from schools of nursing at colleges and universities across the nation to receive this prestigious scholarship. Recipients, which include both undergraduate/prelicensure and graduate nursing students, were chosen based on their scholastic achievements and commitment to psychiatric-mental health nursing. The scholarship is comprised of one year of APNA membership and complimentary registration, travel and lodging for the</span><a href="http://www.apna.org/i4a/etrack/track.cfm?rType=2&campaignID=11929&contactID=143720&origURL=https://www.apna.org/AnnualConference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> APNA 31st Annual Conference</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> this October.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-15ba-39a4-1bf6ed6a3f4d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am honored to be a recipient of the APNA Board of Directors Student Scholarship,” said Nicole. “I am very appreciative of the APNA’s generosity to allow me to attend this year’s conference. When I heard about the scholarship, I knew immediately that I wanted to utilize this amazing opportunity to network with other providers, and to help move my practice toward a more integrated approach.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-15ba-39a4-1bf6ed6a3f4d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is a </span><a href="https://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3293"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">national professional membership organization</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> committed to the specialty practice of </span><a href="https://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3292"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">psychiatric-mental health nursing</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and wellness promotion, prevention of mental health problems and the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders. Membership to the APNA is inclusive of all psychiatric mental health registered nurses and nurse scientists and academicians. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-15ba-39a4-1bf6ed6a3f4d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicole, one of fifteen graduate scholarship recipients, is enrolled in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate program at Frontier Nursing University. She received her ADN in 2010 and BSN in 2012 from Carlow University. Mutnansky continued her education at Frontier, where she pursued a Master’s in Nurse-Midwifery and a post-master’s specialty in Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, graduating in July 2016. In November 2016, she was chosen as a featured speaker during Frontier’s virtual event,</span><a href="https://youtu.be/DfuJXYiXAiw"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Move Your Community Toward Improved Health: Expanding Your Role</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, celebrating National Nurse Practitioner Week. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41e14f24-bdd7-6e09-7be7-b99fd1a48d7e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I look forward to connecting and engaging with other professionals outside of my current specialty, and continuing to build on the knowledge I have received through the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate program at FNU,” said Nicole.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-08-07T13:51:00ZStudent Spotlight: Michele Holzman, RNC-OBJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17643262017-08-04T09:32:02Z2017-08-03T05:40:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">With 25 years of experience in labor </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Michele+Holzman.jpg/60134c6d-e9c3-fd53-46a9-495b51645243?t=1501105398104" style="width: 250px; float: right; height: 141px;" />and delivery, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) nurse-midwifery student Michele Holzman “answers the call” to serve Hispanic women in the Tallahassee, Fla., area every day through the miracle of birth. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michele, Hispanic herself, has a particular connection to the community that she serves. She has worked for 20 years in labor, delivery, and postpartum care with Hispanic patients, bridging the gap for this community dually through language and through extensive knowledge and care for mother and baby.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michele embodies Frontier’s emphasis on providing care to underserved and rural populations as she works with migrant mothers and families on a daily basis. Outside of the hospital walls, Michele supplements women’s health by teaching Mighty Moms classes – fitness training classes that combine her experience as a childbirth educator and five years as a personal trainer. She uses the classes to provide mothers with a practical way to improve their overall health and to educate the women to continue the health impact at home.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stemming from Michele’s passion for women’s health and direct communication as it impacts outcomes throughout the birth process, she has authored two books in Spanish translation covering this area. She not only plans to publish the documents, but also to convert the text into an easy-to-use, highly accessible app.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her dreams don’t stop there. Michele’s next project is to create a non-interventional birth wing in her hospital, and to provide a mobile antenatal clinic for the patients that live in the outlying counties. Her hope is to shift the medical model of childbirth to a physiologic focus and to better influence evidence-based discussions towards improvement of national statistics in maternal-infant care, all while continuing to service the Hispanic community.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michele, who initially began her journey at FNU via the <a href="https://www.frontier.edu/adn-bridge-entry-option" target="_blank">ADN Bridge Entry Option</a>, plans to continue on to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program after completing her MSN.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff562fae-80dc-da6c-3bce-76508e34552a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is a humbling and inspirational legacy to be a part of,” Michele says. “This is such a great opportunity, and I am excited to learn everything they have to offer.”</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-08-03T05:40:00ZBarbara and Donald Jonas Receive Honorary Doctorates from Frontier Nursing UniversityJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17662162017-08-03T12:22:14Z2017-08-01T05:00:00Z<style type="text/css">p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In honor of their extensive support and contributions to the advancement of nursing, Frontier Nursing University awarded honorary doctorate degrees to philanthropists Barbara and Donald Jonas. The ceremony took place on Thursday, July 27, at 11:30 a.m. in Greenwich, Conn. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="L to R: Frontier Nursing University Board Chair Dr. Michael Carter, Donald and Barbara Jonas, and FNU President Dr. Susan Stone. Photo Credit: Carolyn Jones" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/JONAS_PHOTO_CAROLYN_JONES_01.jpg/dfbd71d9-2034-b89e-a399-bfbbc8cfca1d?t=1501185849467" style="width: 400px; height: 267px; float: right;" />Frontier Nursing University (FNU) Board Chair Dr. Michael Carter and FNU President Dr. Susan Stone presented the Jonas’ with the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2005, the Jonas’, who are noted art collectors, auctioned off 15 of their abstract expressionist artworks. That generated millions in seed money to create their own masterpiece: The Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As they sought the appropriate beneficiaries, Barbara, a psychiatric social worker, and Donald, a leader in retail, were drawn to the nursing shortage and its overall impact on the healthcare of individuals and communities. In early 2006, they established the <a href="http://www.jonascenter.org" target="_blank">Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence</a>, a first-of-its-kind philanthropic program dedicated to advancing the nursing profession. The Center’s focus is to improve healthcare through nursing leadership, scholarship and research.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The impact of the Center has grown exponentially. In 2016, the Jonas Center celebrated its 10th anniversary reaching a milestone of 1,000 Jonas Scholars supported by the Center. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the nation’s leading philanthropic funder of graduate nursing education, the Jonas Center has grown from a New York City-focused funder to a national organization in partnership with leading schools of nursing in 50 states. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-85a8-3dc2-38a8-75ab2dba928c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Over the last decade, we have brought together numerous foundations and organizations with a shared vision to support our nation’s nurses, and the results of those collaborations have far exceeded what we ever thought we could achieve,” Donald Jonas said during the anniversary. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-715cc02a-a8e7-baf2-f70e-eb66afc0a31c"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about the Jonas’ honorary doctorates and the Jonas Center </span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org/news/post/barbara-and-donald-jonas-to-receive-honorary-doctorates-from-frontier-nursing-university" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on their website.</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </p>Jordan sok2017-08-01T05:00:00ZFrontier Alumni and Faculty Contribute to First Ever Textbook Published on U.S. Birth CentersJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17642912017-07-31T09:13:39Z2017-07-31T05:00:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book is expected to influence the future of maternal care with the most comprehensive documentation to date of the birth center model. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Five Frontier Nursing University (FNU) faculty <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/birth+center+book-+cover.jpg/c20ce24a-81be-7029-42af-113d4d95aecd?t=1501105061272" style="height: 375px; width: 250px; float: right;" />members and several Frontier alumni contributed to a new textbook for graduate students and professionals set for exhibition and a book signing at the American Association of Birth Centers’ (AABC) conference in October. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freestanding Birth Centers: Innovation, Evidence, Optimal Outcomes, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">explores the freestanding birth center models in the U.S. from the 1970’s to present. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the book release flyer, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freestanding Birth Centers, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”provides a thorough history of the birth center movement from its inception through future expansion of the model; serves as an essential resource with up-to-date evidence on clinical and cost outcomes; includes case studies linking the unique service focus of individual birth centers to the associated sections of the book; and provides practical and comprehensive coverage of all issues involved in implementing and operating a U.S. birth center.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Co-authored by Linda Cole, DNP, RN, CNM, Assistant Professor, Course Coordinator, Course Faculty, and Regional Clinical Faculty at Frontier, and Melissa Avery, PhD, RN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, the textbook is the first of its kind. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The first book published about birth centers in the U.S. begins with the most comprehensive documentation to date of the history of the birth center model featuring the pioneers who were behind it from the start and their unique stories,” said Cole. “Experts in the fields of midwifery, obstetrics, public health and business explore with the reader the latest research on outcomes of the birth center model.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A number of Frontier-educated women, including Alumni Alisha Wilkes, DNP, CNM, ARNP and Autumn Versace Vergo, MSN, CNM, CPM, as well as alumna and current Frontier Course Faculty Jill Alliman, CNM, DNP, contributed to chapters pertaining to their medical and professional specialties. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Birth+Center+book+authors+and+co-editors.jpg/21e971ec-0b3c-aee0-9bb0-abb0fe9a7db3?t=1501105131122" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: left;" />FNU Senior Instructor Kathryn Schrag, MSN, CNM, FNP co-authored the book’s first chapter, Organizing for Change: History, Pioneers, and the Formation of a National Organization. Diana Jolles, CNM, MSN, FACNM, PhD(c), a Frontier instructor and Course Coordinator, also made contributions to the new book. The foreword was co-written by Ruth Watson Lubic, an FNU honoree, with Kitty Ernst, CNM, FCH, FACNM, instructor and Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery at Frontier.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing contributions from FNU Professor Emeritus Barbara Anderson, DrPH, RN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, can also be found within the book’s 382 pages.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8505bde5-80d7-8686-99bf-4fb321cf8398"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freestanding Birth Centers: Innovation, Evidence, Optimal Outcomes </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was published by Springer Publishing Company in May 2017 and released at the American College of Nurse Midwives’ (ACNM) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">62nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Chicago, Ill., Wednesday, May 24, in the ACNM bookstore. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-32bdb068-8571-c995-11bf-824de9158ea3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The textbook will next hit the Exhibit Hall at the 11th Annual AABC Birth Institute in Anchorage, Alaska, from October 5-8, 2017. AABC will host a book-signing and a promotional event for the book on Saturday, October 7, at 10:15-11:00 a.m., where conference attendees can meet and network with the book’s contributors. There will also be books available for sale at AABC registration. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-31T05:00:00Z2017 Couriers Leave a Lasting Impact in the Communities They ServedJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17642702017-07-27T09:48:36Z2017-07-26T22:00:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2017 Courier Program is coming<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/courier+2017+group+photo+%281%29.JPG/db4e9bc1-f566-cd40-678c-60966d7cba05?t=1501104826115" style="height: 166px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> to an end! While they were only here for a mere 8 weeks, the Couriers were able to accomplish and experience many things! Couriers spent an average of 35-40 hours a week at their clinical sites and community partners. Spanning across Leslie, Perry, and Clay Counties in Kentucky and Wise County, Virginia, Couriers worked with 12 organizations! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prior to starting their experiences, seven Couriers had the opportunity to attend FNU’s annual Diversity Impact. They learned about diversity in healthcare and also attended a session about the history of Appalachia. You watch the session </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqHFe7pCimo"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Outside of their sites, Couriers have also had the opportunity to have meals with Dr. Julie Marfell, the Dean of FNU, and Jean Fee, a pioneer graduate and former nurse on horseback with FNS and Mary Breckinridge. In July, 7 Couriers assisted with Red Bird Mission’s annual health fair. They also spent a weekend in Wise, VA at the largest Remote Area Medical (RAM) event in the country. In addition to all of this service,Couriers also assisted with six student dinners at the Big House. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of their site work, Couriers have led a special project created for their site. These special projects can widely vary. Some are more administrative such as Ronnie Sloan and Brigid Horan, who worked on the Red Bed Health Fair organizing, contacting vendors, and making food vouchers for upcoming micro clinics. Brigid also worked with her supervisor at Red Bird to provide leftover food from the camp she led to families struggling with food insecurity. Others projects were more direct, such as Calla Michalak working to acquire pedometers for patients at Hometown Clinic. Brie Belz worked on informative literature dispelling myths about needle exchange programs, and Matt Hodges who worked working introducing Narcan® into local clinics. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each Courier is listed below with all of the sites they have served at within their 8 weeks and a description of their special project: </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Hodges: Served with Kentucky Mountain Health Alliance Little Flower Clinic and The Well with Big Creek Missions. He established a partnership between Little Flower and the homeless shelter in Perry County to increase patient registration. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brittany Imel: Served with Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital, the Leslie County Public Library, and the Stinnett Community Center. She worked with Dr. Haas, the hospital’s new pediatrician, to create and present health programming for youth attending Big Creek Missions’ summer camp.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Calla Michalak: Served with Hometown Clinic and Bluegrass Care Navigators. She worked to provide pedometers to all diabetic patients at Hometown Clinic.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f8fb59a5-80d4-3276-9853-e8013c344c4c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Couriers have been kept very busy the summer serving others, but they have also taken part in an experience that provide a view into what it is like to work as a healthcare provider in rural and underserved communities. We enjoyed having our eight Couriers this summer, and we will be sad to see them leave! Their last day is July 29. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-26T22:00:00ZStaff Spotlight: Katie MosesJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17612192017-07-25T09:35:22Z2017-07-25T09:31:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Frontier Nursing University (FNU),<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Katie+Moses.jpg/81c118a8-a34f-bf19-3a83-0c00bf8b5cea?t=1500989669364" style="float: right; height: 141px; width: 250px;" />the first stop for potential students is through the admissions office. Katie Moses, an FNU admissions officer, is the frontline of customer service for these applicants as they consider pursuing an advanced practice nursing degree at Frontier. She and the admissions department, fluent in all facets of Frontier’s operations, walk applicants through each step of the admissions process and often go the extra mile to explain procedures, policies and detailed aspects of campus life at FNU.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We literally, and figuratively, answer the call every day to grow Frontier's influence in the nursing field,” Katie said.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6200000000000003;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katie, who has been in her role at FNU for seven years, enjoys working with applicants through the admissions process as they seek to further their education in their chosen field. She wants to help students accomplish their nursing dreams, no matter the size.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It is an honor to aid in one's journey of self-fulfillment and betterment in any regard,” said Katie. “That is exactly why I am here.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When seeking a career in higher education, Katie chose FNU because of its prestige within the Leslie County community and its strong reputation. She was welcomed by the friendly faculty and staff, and the quaint campus layout made her feel immediately at home.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outside of the Frontier admissions office, Katie enjoys painting, sewing, reading, singing, playing upright/electric bass, and spending her time with her dachshund, Pepper, and her husband, Jeremy.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:13pt;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-right: 13pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2038e5be-79f6-fafc-c4a9-549e0b6bcea6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are proud to have staff like Katie Moses that are dedicated in their service to FNU students and the FNU community as a whole. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-25T09:31:00ZAlumni Spotlight: LCDR Gary Koller, BSN, RN, MSN, FNC-PJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17581602017-07-25T09:39:20Z2017-07-24T17:55:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a Family Nurse Practitioner master’s <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Gary+Koller.jpg/d7dce3bb-a7f9-51ab-f6c7-05b704da45cd?t=1500674250954" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />degree from Frontier Nursing University (FNU), Gary Koller, BSN, RN, MSN, FNC-P, has used his position as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Public Health Service to embrace and pursue opportunities to follow FNU’s mission and serve the underserved. Since graduating from FNU in 2012, doors have opened for Gary that he admits he never imagined.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working after graduation as a nurse practitioner for the Immigration Health Service Corps (IHSC), he was soon deployed over the next two years on international missions to the Netherlands, Senegal, Gabon, Cameron and Kenya, in order to assist patients with various medical complications. Assisting with a humanitarian crisis, he dealt with unaccompanied minors and families serving women and children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. In 2015, Gary had the opportunity to present at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., with two officers that delivered care to Ebola patients in Liberia.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within his tour of duty with IHSC, Gary was also deployed several times to various areas of the U.S. to assist with immigration health care.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Gary+K+-+Louisiana+Deployment+with+Governor+John+Bel+Edwards.jpg/3386ecac-0a6b-80e5-9afa-ddffecd142b5?t=1500989821938" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: left;" />Gary continued to represent as a Frontier alumnus when he began working at Health Resources and Services Administration in 2016. In the wake of the catastrophic Louisiana flood in August 2016, he was deployed to deliver care at the Federal Medical Center on the Louisiana Campus to patients needing complex care. He was also selected to serve in Baton Rouge at the LA Convention Center to give medical support to 1,000 families dislocated by the flood.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Gary+K+-+Aide+De+Camp+Dr.+Tom+Price.jpg/90195441-6d48-be54-a621-cd83358a308c?t=1500989857556" style="height: 250px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Gary was selected as medical support for the general community at the ceremony. Even more recently, in April, Gary was selected as an aide-de-camp for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tom Price, while visiting Region 4 of Health and Human Services in Atlanta, Ga.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e2509bf-672a-ccb8-53ab-65193f0be7ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gary is among many who have answered the call to serve his country using his nursing education. Thank you, Gary, for using your FNU degree to help protect, promote and advance the health and safety of our nation.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-24T17:55:00ZFrontier Nursing University Awarded $1,998,000 Nursing Workforce Diversity GrantJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17557982017-07-20T15:33:27Z2017-07-20T15:27:00Z<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/FNU+logo.jpg/34c02541-2908-47b4-5c80-97c3855e3cda?t=1500579134281" style="float: right; height: 250px; width: 250px;" />
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has been awarded the Nursing Workforce Diversity grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grant totals $1,998,000 in funding in support of a four-year project that will be led by FNU with assistance from several key partner organizations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal of the Nursing Workforce Diversity program is to increase access to high quality, culturally-aligned advanced practice nurses and midwives that reflect the diversity of the communities in which they serve. The grant, which provides $499,500 per year, supports a proposed project in which FNU will implement a comprehensive systems approach to implementing five evidence-based strategies to support disadvantaged advanced practice nursing students from recruitment through graduation. The social determinants of education will be used as a framework to assess student needs and guide activities throughout the course of the project.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The overall aim of the program is to increase the recruitment, enrollment, retention, and graduation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through education and training in Frontier Nursing University’s advanced nursing and midwifery programs, these students will be prepared to provide advanced practice nursing and midwifery health care services across the U.S.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Findings from an American Association of Colleges of Nursing policy brief (2016) found that racial and ethnic minority groups accounted for 37% of the country’s population, yet minority nurses represent only 19% of the total registered nurse workforce (National Council of State Boards of Nursing Survey, 2013). As minority population growth rises, so does the likelihood of these populations experiencing greater health disparities such as increased rates of maternal morbidity and mortality related to childbirth, infant mortality, chronic diseases, and shorter life spans compared to the majority of Americans. There is growing evidence that greater racial diversity in the health care workforce is an important intervention to reduce racial health disparities. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We are extremely proud and excited to receive this grant and to be a part of such an important project,” said FNU president Dr. Susan E. Stone. “We are deeply committed to the goals of the NWD program and helping to overcome barriers that hinder the success of our underrepresented students, from recruitment through graduation.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project’s primary objectives are: 1) to achieve minimum of 30 percent minority student enrollment by June 2021, the end of the project period; 2) to increase the racial and ethnic minority retention rate and 3) to graduate an average of 100 new nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners representing racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented in nursing each year of the project period.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07a3875b-617d-ea4a-a107-48ff766332f0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grant funding will support personnel, consultants, and diversity training for faculty and staff. Retention activities, including mentor programs and writing support will also be funded. FNU students will also benefit from substantial scholarship support and professional development opportunities. To achieve the goals of the program, FNU will formally partner with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Midwives of Color Committee (ACNM-MOCC), the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) and Mona Wicks, a multicultural sensitivity and diversity training expert consultant.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-20T15:27:00ZAsk the Couriers: Q & AJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17557202017-07-20T15:22:37Z2017-07-20T15:17:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d7ba84c-6176-e9e6-d1a1-49c50b9cee64"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d7ba84c-6176-e9e6-d1a1-49c50b9cee64"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had the opportunity for you to <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/courier+2017+group+photo.jpg/078f6558-f9e2-57ca-7b82-d49f3f9bbf75?t=1500578432620" style="height: 166px; width: 250px; float: right;" />ask the Couriers questions. Here’s what they had to say. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What are past Couriers doing today? - Nadia Stovicek</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: Due to the age group of our most recent Couriers, many Couriers are still pursuing their undergraduate education or are pursuing graduate medical programs. For more information about former Couriers, please visit our </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/courier-stories"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Courier Stories page</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on our website, or check out our </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHlbXU986SU-VSSsc-ry0f0kC42tilohX"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Courier Program playlist</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Why did you choose to spend your summer at Frontier? - Dr. Susan Stone, FNU President</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “I was immediately drawn to the service learning focus of the Courier program and the immersive nature of the experience. It wasn't just a 9-5 job shadowing program on a hospital unit. I wanted to get out of the space that I knew and learn more about healthcare, and life in general, with the hope that I would develop an understanding of how I could approach health and well-being in my own community from a more holistic perspective.” - Claire Gasparovich</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“As a future CNM (certified nurse-midwife), I am inspired by the history and legacy of Mary Breckinridge. I also knew I'd be proud to walk among powerful female role models as a Courier, a program that largely began with women ages 19-25 riding horseback up hollers. I think that's incredible.” - Zandy Stovicek</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I chose to spend a summer at Frontier for a mix of personal and professional reasons. On a professional level, I'm interested in rural health. This part of the country is also very underserved and I think we need more young people who are familiar with it and willing to advocate for it. On a personal level both of my paternal grandparents are from not too far from where I'm working, but I've never been to the part of the country they grew up in. It has been eye-opening.” - Matt Hodges</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What are some stereotypes the students had about the area? What have they learned about those stereotypes? Are any of the stereotypes true? Going forward, what can they do to dispel those stereotypes to their own family/friends back home? - Jamie Wheeler, FNU Staff Member</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “The biggest stereotype I had coming in was that many towns in Appalachia are dead/lost towns without the coal industry. I have been disappointed that this is true to a degree, but the culture here is incredibly rich and vibrant with some of the most amazing people. When I leave this internship to go home, I hope that the economy is able to prosper in these regions and that this area does not actually become a lost town. Going back, I plan on sharing with people that this is a forgotten frontier but there is hope for the future.” - Brie Belz</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I had heard many negative stereotypes about the lack of literacy here and I found them incredibly false while being here. I will definitely not judge a population before getting to know them well as a result.” - Brigid Horan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I believe I carried many of the stereotypes that we all think of when we consider rural life in Appalachia-- images driven by careless media and dramatic television, not intentionally but because it was all I had ever seen. The idea that the area is overrun with substance abuse. That I would have a hard time getting people to trust me much less share their lives with me. That people were less educated or possibly less civilized. Over the last month I have learned so much to convince me that these things are untrue, and while Appalachia certainly has its struggles, it is a culture and a community that is made up of so much more than what many would like to believe. Like any place in any area of the world, it can not be taken at face value.” - Claire Gasparovich</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What was your family’s impression of you coming to rural Eastern Kentucky for the summer? - Jamie Wheeler, FNU Staff Member</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “My mom and sister were both very enthusiastic about it. My sister knew a former Courier and is a practicing FNP and so was very optimistic about this experience for me. My mom is always looking for information so she researched the Courier program pretty intensively when I applied and when I was accepted. My dad and my brother were a bit more skeptical just because they didn't have as much of an understanding about what I would be doing while here. After spending last summer in rural Ecuador, however, I think my parents were mostly just relieved that I'd be in the country.” - Calla Michalak</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My mom was worried, as all moms are, since she knew I would be going into an isolated area. Both of my parents drove down with me, and when they saw the town I would be in, they were comforted and pleased with it…. My family in general was supportive and excited for me because they knew that I love to travel and serve people; they thought this was a perfect opportunity for me.” - Brittany Imel</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They were super excited because I am the second one in my family to do the program.” - Brigid Horan (Brigid is the sister of Teresa Horan who served in 2013).</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: How is East KY different than you expected? - Joel Brashear, Community Member and producer of ‘Our Mountains’</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I did not expect to love the area and the people as much as I do.” - Brigid Horan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I definitely didn't expect everyone to be so welcoming to us. Everyone that I've met here has been very warm and receptive to meeting the Couriers and chatting with us about their experiences living here and our experiences while visiting. In some situations, I think people assume that outsiders coming into a community are just looking for problems and things to change and are therefore hesitant to open up. I think Frontier's legacy in this area has definitely given us a chance to get to know people in the community more quickly than we otherwise might have.” - Calla Michalak</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What is an " Easy Win" change you see for Leslie County? I.e. One impactful change with minimal effort. - Joel Brashear, community member and producer of ‘Our Mountains’</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “Install little libraries in rural neighborhoods for children, and install summer programs for teenagers to teach them how to be innovative in helping people.” - Ronnie Sloan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I think Leslie County could benefit from transitioning to a tourist/outdoors town.” - Brittany Imel</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mentoring program.” - Brigid Horan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Can you share an "A-Ha" moment with us? - Stephanie Boyd, FNU staff member</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “I think my a-ha moment was born out of the realization that I can't make an immediate change here. For the first three weeks or so, I expected to be able to come into Leslie County and make a real and immediate impact on the health of the community. One day, when I was feeling kindof down about my lack of impact, I had a conversation that changed my outlook. I don't think the point of us being here is to make radical changes. I think the point of the Courier program is to get us here learning about some of the issues that the people here face and WHY it is that these specific issues exist here. In gaining that knowledge, we will be able to eventually carry that deeper understanding into our futures as healthcare practitioners either here in Leslie County or in other underserved areas around the world.” - Calla Michalak</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I think my biggest "A-Ha" moment was when I realized the lack of communication in the county. Many people do not even realize that there is now a pediatrician, and that is due to no internet and the isolation.” - Brittany Imel</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There was one day at the Health Wagon when I was calling patients and trying to schedule follow-up appointments with them. I remember one woman specifically talked on the phone with me for nearly 45 minutes, sharing nearly every detail of her medical history over the last 15. At first I thought, "simple enough, come into the clinic and we will get you some answers." That's when she told me that not only did she live nearly 4 hours away, but she didn't have a car. I felt pretty helpless and really stupid at that point. Even a completely free, full-service health clinic can't be the perfect solution.” - Claire Gasparovich</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: If you could summarize your courier experience with one hashtag what would it be? - Stephanie Boyd, FNU Staff Member</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: #slowdownstepup - Zandy Stovicek</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#foreverlearner #grateful - Ronnie Sloan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#lifechanging - Brittany Imel</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#tryingsomuchfood - Brigid Horan</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What advice do you have for future Couriers? - Joel Brashear, community member and producer of ‘Our Mountains’</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: “Think about your intentions going into this program. You only get out of it what you put in; to get to know the community, you will have to leave Wendover, say hi to strangers, go to community events. To do shadowing and other work at your clinical sites you will have to keep asking nurses if you can follow them, keep giving your boss ideas for projects, keep finding new programs to check out. If you can do that with a smile on your face, this is the program for you :)” - Zandy Stovicek</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e95468ab-6173-4c47-df31-828f4f001a2d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I would say be open to the possibilities. As a person who would not be in the medical field, I learned the connection of healthcare of people in the community should be taken into account when I build and transform a city. I learned that being an urban planner is more than building a pretty city. It is about joining with others to build a more effective city that people can be proud of and thrive in.” - Ronnie Sloan</span></span></p>
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Jordan sok2017-07-20T15:17:00ZFNU Launches New Innovation CenterJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17503142017-07-19T13:35:09Z2017-07-17T10:26:00Z<div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">commitments to teaching excellence and innovation, we launched the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) in early 2017. CITL is a collaborative effort between Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Anne Cockerham; Innovation Coach, Tia Andrighetti; our two instructional designers, Laura Orsetti and Ally Williams; and many faculty, staff, and administrators across the university. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Center’s two major goals are to: (1) vigorously promote </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovation </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as an iterative process of exploration, evaluation, and sharing, to improve student learning outcomes; and (2) safeguard student-centered, evidence-based </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teaching and learning</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as a vital task of the university.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first major project for CITL is the development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum-wide program of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">simulations delivered at a distance</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We chose this as the first CITL project because FNU faculty members are constantly seeking ways to enhance our students’ application of clinical knowledge, critical thinking, and diagnostic reasoning skills. We decided to begin incorporating distance-delivered simulations in online didactic courses in order for students to be able to engage in the content through the applications of concepts. An important goal is that the preceptors and clinical sites who host our students will benefit from students whose didactic courses prior to their clinical practica included extensive application of knowledge and skills to realistic patient situations. Ultimately, the clients served by our students and graduates will benefit from the intense preparation for clinical practice that our students will receive through simulation. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our distance-delivered simulations will be aligned with the objectives and needs of each course and we’re using a variety of technologies and approaches. A few examples include: web conferencing software, standardized patients, student peer-interaction activities, branching case scenario software, guided reflection, student self-evaluation, varying assessment types, and debriefing. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are a few examples of distance-delivered simulations: </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-51da-18b8-c1a0-9fdf06d73922"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A health history, standardized patient/provider encounter. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students meet with a standardized patient in BigBlueButton (web conferencing software integrated in the learning management system/Canvas) for a face-to-face, one-on-one interview to elicit a basic health history. Session is recorded. SP provides feedback after interview then students submit a reflection and SOAP note</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An interactive, branching case study using Twine</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Students work through patient histories by reading a case study and answering questions about what information to solicit from the patient. Then they perform a physical exam listening to recorded segments of heart and lung sounds and decide what other data is needed. Students then form an assessment and plan based on their findings. Students assess their knowledge using a pre and post test and more information is available if they need more practice with the didactic content.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CITL is facilitating extensive support, coaching, and feedback loops to promote this initiative. Cohorts of four course coordinators per term will design and implement distance-delivered simulations in their courses by working through a formal training and simulation-development course: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation 101: From Imagination to Simulation</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Additional faculty development support includes: in-depth debriefing training, a Simulation Resource Center, course faculty-specific simulation training, and ongoing support from the CITL staff. Members of a special subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee, Simulations Across the Curriculum, perform valuable service to the simulation initiative by serving as a simulation advisory group, providing ongoing support of quality assurance for simulations, addressing faculty development needs related to simulation, and offering a faculty Simulation Journal Club. Faculty that work closely with students in clinical practicum are providing feedback about clinical students’ knowledge and skills that could benefit from enhanced focus and application via distance-delivered simulations during earlier didactic courses. We are exploring ways for clinical preceptors to provide feedback to inform the simulation program. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to CITL director and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Anne Cockerham, “Students are at the center of our teaching and learning activities and we keep that as a guiding principle of our simulation initiative, beginning with the planning stages of a simulation and continuing until after the simulation is over. We’re ensuring that students are well-prepared for their simulation experience, from technology- and content standpoints. We have an extensive evaluation process to gather feedback from students about their experiences, including how well the simulations contributed to their learning, whether they experienced any technological or logistical problems, and how the simulations affected their self-confidence in the content and skills associated with the simulations.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-284f6ccd-50f5-226a-2efa-0ab9c57e1702"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are excited about this new initiative and, especially, about partnering with students to deepen their understanding of course content and skills. If you have ideas or feedback, please contact Anne Cockerham at </span><a href="mailto:anne.cockerham@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anne.cockerham@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-07-17T10:26:00ZCouriers: Midterm RecapJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17462422017-07-17T10:48:06Z2017-07-13T12:42:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-70a8f45f-3cd9-2294-29ba-302d37bcb10b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU Courier Program held Midterm <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Couriers+serving+tea+in+the+Big+House.jpg/5639be0c-11ee-5714-b83d-f2e97a173e87?t=1499964265548" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" />from Thursday, June 29 - Saturday, July 1, 2017. Midterm is the midway point during the Courier Program where all Couriers come back to Wendover to attend sessions and present community health profiles about the community in which they are serving. This year’s Midterm was special in many ways. The Courier Program welcomed back two former Couriers from 2016, May Congdon and Anthony Douglas II. For the first time, the Couriers also hosted a Community Dinner and Tea with almost 40 attendees on June 29!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-70a8f45f-3cd9-2294-29ba-302d37bcb10b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Community Dinner and Tea was hosted at the Big House on Thursday, June 29 with attendees from Kentucky River District Health Department, Bluegrass Care Navigators, Cumberland Valley District Health Department, and a FNU alum. Many Couriers spoke with guests about their experiences as citizens of Leslie or Perry County. After dinner, Couriers assisted in clean up and served tea and cookies to the site partners.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-70a8f45f-3cd9-2294-29ba-302d37bcb10b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Friday morning, Couriers had a discussion with James Wooten about substance abuse in Leslie County. Afterward, Couriers began their community health profile presentations at the Livery. Every Courier is required to present on the community they are serving by completing a public health profile and sharing other aspects of that community. In the afternoon, May Congdon and Anthony Douglas II spoke with the Couriers about their own experiences as Couriers. The group also discussed how they were feeling about their experience at this point and how the program can translate to their future career goals. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-70a8f45f-3cd9-2294-29ba-302d37bcb10b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Saturday morning, Couriers finished presenting their community health profiles and learned about servant leadership and emotional intelligence from Angela Bailey, Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations. Midterm concluded by the Couriers attending a lunch with Frontier supporters at the Big House. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-70a8f45f-3cd9-2294-29ba-302d37bcb10b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are curious to hear more from our Couriers about Midterms, you can view <a href="https://youtu.be/DI51sPgPqIE">this short video </a>with some Courier reflections now. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-13T12:42:00ZFNU attends the 2017 AANP ConferenceJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17422762017-08-03T12:09:58Z2017-07-12T13:02:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) attended<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/AANP+Faculty.jpg/a1478c6f-e0e3-9588-aa3f-0706f52260f3?t=1499715057659" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) National Conference held June 20-25 in Philadelphia. We were excited to see so many FNU students, alumni, faculty, preceptors and friends at this event.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU Exhibit Hall Booth was popular!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the booth we handed out superhero capes to anyone who is a current FNU preceptor or who signed up to be a preceptor, while any alumni preceptors received an additional gift of a bag or tumbler. FNU students, graduates, preceptors, and faculty members had the opportunity to pin their location on a map in our booth to show our representation at AANP from across the U.S. We had a Cape Fitting Station (photo booth) at the conference which stayed pretty busy as NPs had fun taking fun photos and posting to social media. We showcased our psychiatric-mental health Post-Graduate Certificate and DNP programs and were able to talk to many people about these programs.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni and Friends Breakfast Reception </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University hosted our annual alumni reception as a breakfast event on Friday, June 23rd. We had more than 60 in attendance. During the event attendees enjoyed a buffet breakfast and heard updates from FNU Dean of Nursing Julie Marfell and Associate Director of Alumni Relations Angela Bailey. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kitty Ernst Honors Nurse Practitioner with Purple Hat</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/AAANP+Kitty+Ernst+and+Capt+James+Dickens.jpg/2f012d54-4657-89fc-712d-1d4306af4262?t=1500316971735" style="height: 187px; width: 250px; float: left;" />The special guest for this event was our very own Kitty Ernst who also spoke to all nurse practitioners in attendance about the value of being a preceptor and the care that NPs provide. As a big surprise for everyone in attendance, Kitty bestowed her honorary purple hat to FNU graduate, Kelly Thayer, CNM, FNP. A longstanding tradition among midwives, the purple hat is a special honor as it is awarded to one midwife every year. This year marks the first year that a purple hat has also been awarded to a nurse practitioner. We hope to continue this as an annual tradition among our FNU nurse practitioners.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 30, 31); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another special guest who we <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/AAANP+Purple+Hat+Honoree.jpg/21fc0a3e-0d40-20b9-1fc5-a451167b3785?t=1500316959412" style="height: 200px; width: 150px; float: right;" />were honored to have attend our breakfast was Captain James LaVelle Dickens, DNP, RN, FNP-BC. Captain James Dickens serves in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office (HHS), Office of the Secretary, Region VI Dallas, TX as a Senior Public Health Advisor for the Office of Minority Health (OMH). He recently was the premiere speaker at the FNU 2017 Diversity Impact event.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRIDE Student Ambassadors at AANP</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f6d612cc-2d78-6140-87e8-be7f42cde775"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s Diversity PRIDE Program hosted an<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/AANP+PRIDE+Ambassador+STudentsIMG_1588+%281%29.JPG/326f99e7-96ae-45cc-97b6-ea3e1241645f?t=1499715064400" style="height: 187px; width: 250px; float: left;" /> essay contest and awarded two students with an expense covered trip to the AANP National Conference. The two PRIDE student ambassadors were Rachel Lien and Stefanie Anderson. They helped at the FNU booth and at the breakfast reception. They also attended many sessions at the conference and enjoyed networking with NPs from across the country. </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c315d1b-a467-afe7-f9bf-99ec83846a91"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1ASqV8I_GmzJkXU9t2ornuRmbFSZAAWc7kgQDCzMU47Y/pub" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read details about their experience here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You can also hear more from these students in a video diary</span><a href="https://youtu.be/ujp5F0zOKfw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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</style>Jordan sok2017-07-12T13:02:00ZStudent Spotlight: Andrew Youmans, RNJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17319072017-07-19T13:34:59Z2017-07-10T10:24:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) student <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Andrew+Youmans.jpg/a29450c1-9d84-75dd-f7ab-eef6a2c589fd?t=1498832769922" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Andrew Youmans originally had no plans to become a nurse-midwife. Early in his career, he obtained his associate's degree in nursing from Athens Technical College. During his time in school, he got a job as an obstetric technician at his local hospital to get his foot in the door and gain some health care experience. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew’s interest in the labor and delivery field grew, but his desire to become a nurse-midwife didn’t occur until he graduated. His first job after school was an emergency department nurse position. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I saw how many women came to the emergency room for pregnancy and gynecology-related issues,” said Andrew. “The ER was their only option for this type of care.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d660e1f-5bee-10cf-766d-86626dd34dd3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew decided to pursue his Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) in hopes of eventually adding the family nurse practitioner certificate to his educational arsenal. He chose Frontier for its affordability, flexibility of schedule and reputation. Andrew entered FNU through the ADN Bridge Entry Option which allowed him to bridge the gap between an ADN and MSN and bypass a bachelor’s degree. As a bridge student, he was even closer to his dream of implementing nurse-midwifery care into the emergency room setting.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently a Class 129 MSN student, Andrew is involved in several student organizations including American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and FNU PRIDE. As a student representative for ACNM, he attends quarterly board meetings and serves as a liaison to the Division of Education. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew is also a member of the Congenital Heart Public Health Consortium, the Wilderness Medical Society, the American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau (an international nursing honor society), and the Emergency Nurses Association. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew currently serves as a certified pediatric emergency nurse at Emory University Hospital in the cardiac catheterization lab. He has incorporated the nurse-midwife mantra of “less is more” as his team replaces aortic valves in the heart without surgical incisions or anesthesia. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f967-7b10-ad07-9e90cba223ac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your dedication to quality health care, Andrew! The FNU community is excited to see how your future unfolds.</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-10T10:24:00ZCouriers and Sponsors Reflect on Diversity Impact 2017Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17319002017-07-06T16:06:38Z2017-07-06T10:19:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) hosted its 7th annual Diversity Impact Conference on June 1-4, 2017. Last summer, four Couriers attended Diversity Impact prior to beginning the Courier Program. Due to their positive experience, Diversity Impact became mandatory for all future Couriers! Ambassadors from Breckinridge Capital Advisors, who sponsored the 2017 Courier Program, also attended the conference.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the first evening of the weekend, Courier Coordinator Mandy Hancock and Associate Professor Dr. Diane John led an activity entitled “Patient/Provider Care: Do you see what I see?” Attendees were split up into groups of three. One person had to verbally describe a drawing to another, a second person drew and the third person observed the communication between them. Each person was able to experience all three positions and engage in a group discussion about their observations. After the arts-n-crafts portion, Dr. John discussed how to activity related to communication between patients and providers. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many sessions were provided over the four day conference. Among the Courier favorites was </span><a href="https://youtu.be/XqHFe7pCimo"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Intro to Appalachia: Perception vs. Reality” </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">led by Shane Barton from University of Kentucky. “I really enjoyed the session with [Shane] on Appalachian culture. When trying to prepare to be a Courier, I really struggled finding comprehensive information on the area that was free of stereotypes and bias. He was so knowledgeable and passionate which made me passionate about this specific community,” recalled Claire Gasparovich. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another</span><a href="https://youtu.be/1NWIiSymh2k"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> session led by FNU Student Nurse-Midwife Speaker Essence Williams</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was also well received by Couriers. Calla Michalak who said the following about the session: “I really enjoyed the session about Guatemalan Midwives. It was really interesting to learn about the women working so hard to make that aspect of their culture work with modern medicine and even more interesting to think about how that could be applied at all levels of care all over the world.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearly every 2017 Courier intends to go into some form of healthcare. Brittany Imel said Diversity Impact affected her intended career goals because “it solidified the fact that I want to get a PHD in public health after serving as a PA for a few years. I want to be a part of the movement to get health care to all people in our country. It shouldn't matter who you are, where you come from, or what you believe; everyone deserves access to quality health care.” Ronnie Sloan, who desires to be an urban planner, said she “learned that it is more than just building a nice looking city. It is about joining forces with people in the community to discover the demands of the population and meet them with the plans to transform the city.” </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4ae0a0f-f962-d4a0-df18-938e1b28e6a1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ambassadors from Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Katie Sacharuk and Sarah Turpin, sat down with Courier staff to reflect on their Diversity Impact experience, as well. “My initial opinion going in was thinking that in healthcare they really just provide care. Here we learned that Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Midwives, they really play a role of social worker and patient advocate. They don’t just provide care. They provide support, and I didn’t know that,” said Katie. Sarah reflected on how coming to this conference exposed her to new ideas she had never experienced living in the northeastern United States her whole life. “It brought to light both the different issues that are happening within the United States and then also the wide range of people that are getting involved in the healthcare field and how they're using their experiences to then solve it.” Both ambassadors remarked that every person they spoke with, including faculty members, took time to check back in with them throughout the weekend. Katie said, “as an outsider coming in, I think you can really tell is that everyone is so different… but the one thing you can really tell is that they all had the same goal. It is to kind of unite [and] help their own community at home. So, whatever they’re learning, they want to bring it back, and they want to implement it.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/%23askthecouriers+%282%29.jpg/97067f1f-7a3b-5edc-c011-0074cca910f4?t=1498832579710" /></span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-07-06T10:19:00ZThe Call to ServeJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17318192017-07-05T07:54:52Z2017-07-03T10:10:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Jana Esden, DNP, APNP, FNP-BC; Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I chose Frontier for my family nurse practitioner education in part due to its mission in serving the underserved. At the time of my graduation, I felt well prepared to serve this population. I have worked in a few different settings from volunteering at evening clinics with long lines and very little resources, to providing care to patients with chronic conditions at a hospital-sponsored free clinic. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My most recent work has been by far the most challenging but also incredibly rewarding. I currently work in a community clinic, serving homeless men at a transitional housing complex. I also see patients transported over from a local warming shelter, which is a facility that provides dinner, breakfast and a sleeping mat for both men and women in our homeless community. These patients have many times not seen a health care provider in years and have multiple uncontrolled chronic conditions. Additionally, most all have a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACEs, which include various types of childhood abuse and household dysfunction, are actually very common. Over half of the U.S. population has suffered least one ACE. Health literature has repeatedly linked ACEs with unfavorable adult health outcomes including mental illness, substance abuse, various chronic illnesses, disability and early death. Toxic stress resulting from ACEs affects brain development in young children and changes the architecture of the brain. These changes influence behavior, learning and overall health. Toxic stress also affects the nervous system, hormone regulation, and even causes alterations in DNA. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to provide appropriate care to ACE survivors, it is important for nurse practitioners to be aware of the detrimental effects of childhood trauma on adult health. My role involves preventative care and the management of chronic conditions, but one of my most important jobs is to build trust with patients. Evidence suggests that patients are not offended when asked about past trauma and actually feel relieved to discuss these experiences. I screen all of my patients specifically for ACEs and educate them on how these experiences have influenced their journey into adulthood and have impacted their current situations and overall health. I screen all patients for anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, and I encourage them to attend cognitive behavioral therapy with one of our trauma-informed counselors. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have discovered that many of my patients have not had a provider whom they felt really cared about them prior to coming to our small clinic. If we build relationships and trust with our patients, we have more opportunity to help them in improving their health. Caring for these patients has been professionally fulfilling for me. My sincere hope is that all of our students are able to find a niche – a certain population or a specific focus – that really calls to them. I have found this in my work with the underserved. </span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dube, S. R., Cook, M. L., & Edwards, V. J. (2010). Health-related outcomes of </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">adverse </span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">childhood experiences in Texas, 2002. </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preventing Chronic Disease</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health Research, Practice, and Policy, 7</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3), 1-9.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D. F., Spitz, A. M., Edwards,</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V.,…Marks, J. S. (1998). Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults: the adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 14</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 245–258.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackson, A. M. & Deye, K. (2015). Aspects of abuse: consequences of childhood</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mersky, J. P., Topitzes, J., & Reynolds, A. J. (2013). Impacts of adverse childhood</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experiences on health, mental health, and substance use in early adulthood: a cohort study of an urban, minority sample in the U.S. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">917-925.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b03d3c6b-f95a-944c-fe68-00b5ce7fab7d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oral, R., Ramirez, M., Coohey, C., Nakada, S. Walz, A., Kuntz, A.,…Peek-Asa, C.</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-07-03T10:10:00ZCourier Spotlight: 2017 Couriers Part 2Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17303482017-06-29T11:44:03Z2017-06-28T23:03:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week, we introduce to the rest of 2017 Courier Class. Please join us in welcoming our newest Couriers!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Imel%2C+Brittany.jpg/b166ccdc-572f-c72c-b2c4-e889e2abbf5d?t=1498750784022" style="height: 120px; width: 150px; float: left;" />Brittany Imel</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a sophomore Biology major with a minor in art history at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. In her free time, she enjoys being outside and working out. Her dream job growing up was to be a pediatrician. Her favorite musical artist is Carrie Underwood. Her future goals include going to graduate school to become a physician assistant and working in a pediatrics office. Brittany says, “ I want to improve and grow on this experience by learning more about public health and services in a rural community. I also look forward to gaining a better understanding of how health care clinics operate and benefit people in their communities.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Calla Michalak</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is originally from Memphis, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Michalak%2C+Calla.jpg/1877e203-55a2-c3f2-7336-100353ca1729?t=1498750789853" style="height: 203px; width: 150px; float: right;" />TN and is preparing to enter her senior year at Michigan State University. She plans to graduate from the Honors College in 2018 with a degree in Psychology and minors in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society and Health Promotion. After finishing her undergraduate degree, she plans on entering a combined accelerated Bachelors/Masters program to become either a pediatric or women's health nurse practitioner. When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered, "I always wanted a job that would allow me to just hang out with animals (especially dogs) and give them love. So, my dream job wasn't really a job that existed." She has participated in many research projects while at Michigan State. Some of her research was published in the first volume of the MSU Social Science Scholars Undergraduate Research.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Sloan%2C+Ronnie.jpg/55944024-4c2e-c5fb-333e-70fbb1aaed7a?t=1498750794445" style="float: left; height: 267px; width: 150px;" />Ronnie Sloan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a 20-year-old sophomore at Berea College in Berea, KY. She intends to major in Environmental Policy, and hopes to become an urban planner. Ronnie loves helping others and being a part of something bigger than herself. In her free time, she likes to travel and learn about unfamiliar cultures and situations. When asked what animal best represents her, she answered, "A wolf because I am very analytical, organized for the next move, smart, and quiet but quick on my feet." She considers her proudest accomplishment to be when she trained to run a marathon. In 5 years, Ronnie hopes to be finishing graduate school for a career she is passionate about and saving for a home.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexandra “Zandy” Stovicek</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a triplet from <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Stovicek%2C+Alexandra+-Zandy-.png/d5a7b791-ad99-ed07-f16e-88d0e3e37e5b?t=1498750800039" style="float: right; height: 177px; width: 150px;" />Weehawken, New Jersey and a soon-to-be graduate of Wesleyan University in CT. Her major is in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and her passion is reproductive health equity. She is the leader of the Wesleyan Doula Project, a full-spectrum doula organization that trains volunteers to informationally, emotionally, and physically support patients through reproductive experiences. She also teaches yoga, occasionally acts and directs plays, and loves to spend time outdoors. When asked about the craziest thing she has ever done, she answered that she went ziplining in CA off the coast of Catalina Island. She is hoping to attend nurse-midwifery school in a year or two and can't wait to meet the FNU community!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has this article sparked any questions for either a specific Courier or Couriers in general? You have the opportunity to learn more about the Couriers experience! In a future blog post, we will be having Couriers and Courier program staff answer questions asked by you! To ask a question, email </span><a href="mailto:courier.program@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">courier.program@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or share your questions on social media with the hashtag #askthecouriers by Thursday, July 6 at 5pm EST. [#askthecouriers image]</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read about the new Couriers we featured earlier last week <a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/courier-spotlight-2017-couriers-part-1?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1">here</a>. </span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-41702efc-f1d0-9458-81a8-5d08b40e21e6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen in as the Couriers share their excitement in <a href="http://youtu.be/fH5NKbt-nVM">this welcome video</a>. </span></span>Jordan sok2017-06-28T23:03:00ZFNU Courier Spotlight: Edith Harrison ConyersJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17285742017-06-28T10:05:25Z2017-06-28T10:01:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edith Conyers traveled to Wendover in the <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Edith+Conyers.jpg/8df4ae01-f11b-b389-21f5-e22a163c1005?t=1498658648779" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />1960s to serve as a Courier in her early college days. No one in Edith’s family had experience in the medical professions, but her mother was intrigued by Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) so she encouraged Edith and her sister to look into the Courier Program. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Growing up near Cincinnati, they met many people with connections to FNS. After her sister Ruth participated, Edith decided she wanted to take part in the opportunity as well. Debating over what major to choose in college, she thought the Courier Program may give her a sense of direction and clarity as to what she wanted to do with her life.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Courier, Edith took care of the horses and FNS jeeps. When she was not at Wendover, Edith would travel to outpost clinics, taking care of the horses there and helping the nurses as needed. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A great deal of her time as a Courier was spent transporting patients to the children’s hospital in Cincinnati. Edith remembers the children often had relatives in the area but when she offered them a telephone to call them, the children would be confused as they had never used a telephone before. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The lack of a telephone was indicative of the fact that they had never been out of the mountains. That was a very educational thing for me to have experienced at that age,” said Edith.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edith remembers her time spent at Wendover with the other Couriers. They did not do many things together, but they always ate meals with one another and enjoyed tea time with Mary Breckinridge who came to tea every day in the Big House. According to Edith, Breckinridge was respected and admired by all at FNS and in the local community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It was a life changing experience for me,” said Edith. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edith now gives credit to her time as a Courier for making her interested in pursuing a career in nursing.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edith went to nursing school and went on to become a nurse practitioner. During her breaks in nursing school, she returned to Wendover to help. It was rewarding for her to return and help provide healthcare to the community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-10ce8fa3-ef06-7b67-f520-4524d08d8ee0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am grateful for the opportunities and direction FNS has provided in my life and am excited that the program continues to do the same for others today,” said Edith.</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-06-28T10:01:00ZFNU Students Participate in 2017 AACN Student Policy SummitJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17263862017-06-26T19:06:15Z2017-06-26T19:01:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-183dc5a9-e6a6-c19d-37de-4c473992a814"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearly 200 students representing 92 schools in 38 states across the nation attended the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2017 Student Policy Summit in March, including two Frontier Nursing University (FNU) students, Mai-Lin Rollon and Chloe Haney.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-183dc5a9-e6a6-c19d-37de-4c473992a814"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The AACN Student Policy Summit was a three-day conference held in Washington, DC, open to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students enrolled at an AACN member institution. Up to four students per institution were invited. Those in attendance were immersed in didactic program sessions focused on the federal policy process and nursing’s role in professional advocacy.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-183dc5a9-e6a6-c19d-37de-4c473992a814"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The students heard from an array of nursing and healthcare policy experts, including Linda McConnell, Chief Nursing Officer of the Veterans Health Administration, and Dr. Patricia Grady, Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Students also accompanied AACN member deans on more than 125 Congressional office visits (from over 40 states and the District of Columbia) to advocate for nursing education and research, as well as policies that would improve patient care through nursing practice.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><img alt="Deans and students from Frontier Nursing University, University of Kentucky and Northern Kentucky University meet with aides from Sen. McConnell's office while on Capitol Hill." src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/AACN+Policy+Summit.jpg/a28eef46-ad23-8dd5-6296-c4ffe7897774?t=1498518216267" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-183dc5a9-e6a6-c19d-37de-4c473992a814"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU community is thankful for organizations like the AACN that encourage our students to think about health care advocacy from a federal level. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-06-26T19:01:00ZStudent Spotlight: Heidi Carter RN, SNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17106822017-06-19T18:31:44Z2017-06-18T23:49:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality healthcare to underserved and rural populations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heidi Carter RN, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">SNM</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> knew for years that <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Heidi+Carter.jpg/c7445512-276f-60c7-1e74-3cf3aedd6e96?t=1497894356332" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />she wanted to attend Frontier Nursing University (FNU) to become a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Certified Nurse-Midwife</a> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(CNM) </span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but as a single mother with four children at home, no time seemed like a good time to get started. In October 2014, she finally decided to take the plunge, diving into </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/adn-bridge-entry-option"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CNEP/Bridge </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Class 129. </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-c277-9068-8fdf-1f86c4bd6d26"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Heidi's highest degree was an associate degree in nursing, FNU's ADN Bridge Entry Option was a perfect entry point for her to attain a master of science in nursing. </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It didn’t take much time for Heidi’s leap of faith to begin proving itself as one of the best decisions of her life. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning her career out of high school in the Air Force, Heidi learned traits of leadership, which would prove to be of immense value in her aspirations at FNU. Today, Heidi is less than a year away from finishing her degree and is involved in numerous leadership positions, not only at FNU but also at the national level with the </span><a href="http://www.acnm.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her pathway to leadership at FNU began when Heidi attended Bridge Bound in Hyden to begin her studies. She immediately felt a connection with the history of FNU and the legacy of Mary Breckinridge. It was on this trip, which she describes as a “spiritual experience,” that she heard about FNU’s </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/prideprogram"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRIDE</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> program. She knew she wanted to be involved with promoting diversity in nursing and midwifery and signed up immediately. Heidi has attended the annual PRIDE </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/home?p_p_auth=wZsJQSem&p_p_id=101&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_101_struts_action=%2Fasset_publisher%2Fview_content&_101_returnToFullPageURL=%2F&_101_assetEntryId=1621376&_101_type=content&_101_urlTitle=diversity-impact-2017&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D3%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dmaximized%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_3_keywords%3Ddiversity%2Bimpact%26_3_struts_action%3D%252Fsearch%252Fsearch%26_3_redirect%3D%252F&inheritRedirect=true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diversity Impact weekend</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on campus in Hyden, KY every year since, but her role has expanded. She now sits on the FNU Diversity and Inclusion committee, and she even presented at Diversity Impact in June 2017. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soon after beginning her studies, Heidi decided to reach out to Frontier’s</span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/student-services/sage-mentoring"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SAGE mentorship program</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to find a mentor who could help her on her pathway as a student. In a series of funny events, Heidi ended up not receiving a mentor but gaining a mentee. She found the support and co-mentoring she needed within class 129 and developed deep and lifelong friendships with many classmates. They formed a strong study group during the Bridge year, and has immense gratitude for these women. She utilizes many of the lessons learned from this experience in her mentoring for the SAGE program. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heidi began mentoring in regards to time management, life skills and schoolwork. It didn’t take long before more students began approaching Heidi for advice and help with their studies. For the last year of didactic classes, nurse-midwives and nurse-practitioners diverged so the original study group had to separate. Heidi decided to bring some of the </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-c27e-549c-7fa4-4c1dffe0a5d8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nurse-midwifery</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> students she mentored together into one study group, which at one point totaled eleven. A year later, a tight-knit group of seven women have remained as one another’s study partners, including one of her original classmates from class 129. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last but certainly not least, in her first class out of the Bridge program,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Introduction to Nurse-Midwifery</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, yet another passion was ignited in Heidi that would lead her into perhaps her greatest leadership role. Her professor,</span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/faculty-directory?p_p_id=userdirectory_WAR_fnuformsportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=2&_userdirectory_WAR_fnuformsportlet_userId=51004&_userdirectory_WAR_fnuformsportlet_directoryId=117&_userdirectory_WAR_fnuformsportlet_appAction=showFacultyDetails"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Dr. Heather Clark</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, began the class with an introduction to legislative issues facing nurse-midwifery at both the state and national level. As Heidi studied nurse-midwifery legislation in her home state of Wisconsin, she knew she wanted to be more involved in creating positive change. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attending a legislative retreat with the Wisconsin Affiliate of ACNM, Heidi met CNM’s that had been involved in nurse-midwifery legislative change for many years and was humbled by their dedication and work done at both the local and national level. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soon after, Heidi became FNU’s student legislative contact (SLC) for ACNM’s Midwives Political Action Committee (Midwives-PAC), joining a team of students from nearly every nurse-midwifery program in the U.S. When Heidi recruited 25 other student legislative contacts from FNU, doubling the size of the contacts in the nation, she caught the attention of the ACNM. Today, Heidi is no longer one of FNU’s student legislative contacts, but is one of the recently announced Student Representative’s on the Government Affairs Committee (GAC) at the national level. Her duties now include leading the SLC meeting at the </span><a href="http://annualmeeting.midwife.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACNM Annual Meeting</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, assisting with the </span><a href="http://www.midwife.org/acnm/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000004842/ACNM-Midwives-PAC-Donation-Form-141223.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midwives-PAC rally</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, attend all Midwives-GAC meetings as a full voting member, inform SLC’s about current and upcoming legislation, encourage participation in current political action, lead recruitment and organization of student volunteers in the annual PAC-a-thon, and lead quarterly SLC conference calls. She has also been tasked with further development of the SLC role into more specific state and federal grassroots efforts. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heidi has earned a number of awards, including the 2016 FNU Kitty Ernst Leadership award, and the 2017 Varney Participant Award. FNU’s Kitty Ernst Leadership award is a faculty nominated award for students that show leadership, academic excellence, and excellent clinical judgement. It is awarded yearly to one CNEP student and one FNP student during the graduation ceremony. The Varney Participant Award is a highly competitive award among all Nurse-Midwifery students in the nation. Two students are selected for this award every year and it enables student midwives to attend and participate in the ACNM Annual Meeting under the mentorship of an established leader in the field of nurse-midwifery. Helen Varney Burst, MSN, CNM, DHL (Hon.), FACNM is the author of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Varney’s Midwifery,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and started this mentorship in 2000. The original mentor was Helen Varney herself, followed by Mary C. Brucker, CNM, PhD, FACNM, and is now </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heather Bradford, CNM, ARNP, FACNM. The Varney Participants continue to keep in touch and provide support throughout each others careers. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heidi was also awarded the GlaxoSmithKline TUMS Consumer Health Care Scholarship from the ACNM Foundation.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have never gone after leadership positions,” said Heidi. “I’m not the type of person that craves attention and wants to be in charge necessarily. But for some reason, I always find myself in a leadership role and it always amazes me.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5b6fcf2-be7b-3a91-225d-e078876d8f14"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, Heidi, the Frontier community thinks you are a great leader and we are extremely thankful for all that you do to advocate for our university, your classmates, and Nurse-Midwifery. We look forward to watching your career unfold!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-06-18T23:49:00ZCourier Spotlight: 2017 Couriers Part 1Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17083092017-06-16T14:21:57Z2017-06-16T13:55:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to come work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week and next, we’ll be introducing you to the 2017 Courier Class. Please join us in welcoming our newest Couriers!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brie Belz</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a freshman biology major in the <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Belz%2C+Brie.jpg/2f3ba843-5a06-c77a-8c3b-a88d4b16d599?t=1497636318000" style="width: 150px; float: right;" />pre-med track at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. She is a dog lover, enjoys the outdoors, and feels she is at her best when she is helping others. She was born in North Carolina, but spent most of her life in Virginia. The book which has most influenced her is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Alchemist</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If she could master one skill, it would be to whistle. The craziest thing she has ever done is jump off a cliff, and her proudest accomplishment was serving as the keynote speaker at the National Space Club's Goddard Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C. In five years, she hopes to be in medical school.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Gasparovich%2C+Claire+pic.JPG/dd0bde40-50b9-1f0e-7c04-9fc7a79b2ad9?t=1497637103355" style="height: 133px; width: 200px; float: left;" />Claire Gasparovich</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a third year nursing student at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Neb. She is passionate about being involved in her local church, as well as the inner-city missions established in her area. When she is not studying, she enjoys camping, traveling and other outdoor activities. The most influential book she has read is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small Wonder</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Barbara Kingsolver. When asked about her expectations of the program, Claire responded, "I am very excited and blessed to be involved in the Courier Program and expect to develop a more applicable understanding of what it means to be active in service as a nurse in my community." In five years, she hopes to be working and studying to be a nurse practitioner.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Hodges</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a sophomore at Wabash College <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Hodges%2C+Matt.JPG/c8262d4d-59f9-1bbd-879c-eb2bd4ef9b59?t=1497637115005" style="height: 133px; width: 200px; float: right;" />in Crawfordsville, Ind., where he studies biochemistry and mathematics. He is an avid musician. Matt began playing percussion when he was seven and has since branched out into other instruments. His favorite book is</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Brothers Karamazov</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky. If he could have dinner with anyone, it would be Kurt Vonnegut. His personal hero is his father, and his favorite band is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Shouting Matches</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His proudest accomplishment is earning a full-ride scholarship. In five years, he sees himself in medical school.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-3e29-9c9c-85650c47901d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Courier+Horan%2C+Brigid.JPG/3f21dfc9-0433-e4a7-a38b-62471f3d7260?t=1497637109527" style="float: left; height: 200px; width: 150px;" />Brigid Horan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a junior nursing major at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. She is originally from Salem, Conn. Brigid says her favorite nursing class has been Pediatric Nursing, and she hopes to work in the NICU or a pediatric setting in the future. Brigid found out about the Courier Program through her sister, Teresa, who was a Courier in 2013. Her proudest accomplishment is being accepted into the Navy Nurse Corps. The craziest thing she has ever done is go cliff diving. If she could have dinner with anyone, it would be Florence Nightingale. Her goal is to continue her nursing education to become a Nurse Practitioner or Nurse Anesthetist.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b26eb1bc-b20f-8128-2c48-f96cb1515b11"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will feature the rest of Couriers next week. Has this article sparked any questions about a specific Courier or the Courier program? You have the opportunity to learn more about the Couriers’ experience! In a future blog post, Couriers and Courier program staff will answer questions asked by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To ask a question, email </span><a href="mailto:courier.program@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">courier.program@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or share your questions on social media with the hashtag #askthecouriers by Thursday, July 6, at 5pm EST. </span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-06-16T13:55:00ZFeatured Preceptor: Maggie Hughes, CRNPJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=17041182017-06-13T13:09:03Z2017-06-13T12:26:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Preceptor+Spotlight+-+Maggie+Hughes.jpg/cb175354-8e9c-4665-a72f-ae84bf7163bc?t=1497371281258" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />preceptor Maggie Hughes, CRNP from STATMED Family Medical Clinic of Ozark, Ala., was honored as FNU’s “Featured Preceptor” for the spring term. Maggie was nominated by former student Kathleen Harvey, FNP class 124, winter 2016 graduate. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maggie has practiced in rural health care settings since graduating from the University of South Alabama in 2005. According to Kathleen, Maggie is known for working with complex patients in challenging situations on a daily basis. Maggie has an amazing ability to motivate and empower her patients by establishing a level of trust and cooperation. There are many stories of her patients walking several miles to keep their appointments, many even transferring to her current clinic when she moved. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She also serves as a preceptor for up<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/maggie+hughes.jpg/a3487e69-7a2a-dc65-522c-02092f348886?t=1497373709495" style="height: 333px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> to 14 nurse practitioner students each term and her preceptorships are seen as coveted positions. She is distinguished as a mentor by her level of personal commitment of time and energy to help others. Her students feel that she empowers them to grow, recognize their strengths, and talents, and motivates them to aspire to their highest level of achievement. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maggie was honored at the 2016 annual conference of the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama (NPAA) with the Outstanding Alabama Regional Nurse Practitioner Award for the Wiregrass area. She is an active member of the Alabama Student Nurse Association (ASNA), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama (NPAA), Wiregrass Nurse Practitioner Association </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WNP), Sigma Theta Tau, and Alpha Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maggie will receive a gift card as a small token of our appreciation for her being a great preceptor. Thanks for your investment in our FNU students, Maggie!</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c5c3e8c-a24a-761a-8b0b-5e869f67ca0d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go</span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/preceptor-archive"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to read more on previously recognized preceptors, or to nominate a preceptor.</span></span>Jordan sok2017-06-13T12:26:00ZFNU Faculty, Students and Alumni Shine at ACNM Annual ConferenceJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16998462017-07-07T16:45:45Z2017-06-08T15:33:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) </span></p>
<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/ACNM+AM2017-Logo-426x80-03.png/9ae4f725-4a39-899a-6bb3-8711bf2abc03?t=1496950829013" style="height: 47px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 250px; float: right;" />
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">attended the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) annual conference May 20-24 in Chicago. As always, Frontier had a HUGE presence at the conference, and it was even larger this year as FNU President Susan Stone was inducted as ACNM president-elect. We also had many students, alumni and faculty members receive awards and recognition for their hard work. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Superheros Spotted at ACNM</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our main goal at ACNM this year was to recruit preceptors and what better way than with a superhero theme in our exhibit booth! We awarded those who signed up to be a preceptor with a superhero cape and had a Cape Fitting Station (photo booth) onsite. Other goodies included FNU cups and bags for alumni who are current FNU preceptors and those who signed up to become a preceptor. We’re excited to share great results from all this fun...we received 20 prece</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ptor inquiries and set a new record for this conference! </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our interactive booth also had several </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">activities to attract attendee participation. New for 2017 was an interactive map. We asked FNU students, graduates, preceptors and faculty members to pin their location on the map to show our presence at the ACNM conference this year. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We showcased our nurse-midwife, psychiatric-mental health and DNP programs as well. We talked to many people about Frontier’s DNP program, many of whom were interested in making changes in their communities. Many of the preceptor superheros were also interested in receiving information on our DNP program. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrations at the Annual Reception</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University hosted our annual reception on Monday, May 22. Nearly 200 </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">people attended. Guests congratulated Dr. Stone on being the ACNM president-elect and celebrated the 10th anniversary of FNU’s ADN Bridge Entry Option. Special preceptor awards including oldest preceptor in attendance, local preceptors, preceptor from earliest CNEP class and others were recognized with a gift of handcrafted bowls from our Hyden,KY artisan, Boone. Attendees also received information on the new psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program and Frontier’s new campus property. It was an uplifting event, and we were happy to network with the FNU community that traveled to the conference. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRIDE Student Ambassadors Take over ACNM<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/ACNM+Essence+and+Shoba+img170523_010..jpg/a28157fc-e754-ed5a-872b-5ecb3a2e979e?t=1496950858739" style="height: 240px; width: 250px; float: right;" /></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s Diversity PRIDE Program hosted an essay contest and awarded two students with an expense covered trip to the ACNM annual meeting. The two PRIDE student ambassadors were Essence Williams and Shoba Monteserin Narayana. The ambassadors attended many sessions and the Midwives of Color Committee (MOCC) reception where Essence Williams was awarded the first ever Midwives of Color Committee Student Appreciation Award! </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/ACNM+-+Students+Foundation+event+IMG_6984.JPG/607ac6d6-2b36-11ee-7c36-852907db2c88?t=1496950886850" style="height: 161px; width: 250px; float: left;" />Additionally, student Krystal Wilkins won a stipend to attend the conference and FNU PRIDE students Heidi Carter and Paris Maloof-Bury both received a stipend to attend the conference to receive a Varney Award. It is a tremendous honor to have BOTH recipients of this award be FNU students. Overall, FNU PRIDE Ambassadors had a big presence at ACNM this year! </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1-QUZREaHFBY_hPbIzNaJWHp9-x-Fbcvcxkqd_LUBEsQ/pub">Click here</a> to read more details about the PRIDE student experiences at ACNM.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Honors and Presentations </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were honored to celebrate the induction of Susan Stone as ACNM President-Elect. We are fortunate to have such an inspirational president at FNU, and we look forward to supporting her as she takes on ACNM presidential duties in the near future. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many faculty members, graduates and students were recognized and/or presented sessions and posters during the ACNM conference: </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanine Valrie-Logan - Midwives of Color Watson Scholarship recipient</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty Kudos</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niessa Meier - Immunization Champion Award</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kim Baraona - Teaching Excellence Award </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathryn Schrag - Distinguished Service Award</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jill Alliman- Inducted as Fellow of ACNM</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eileen Thrower- Program Committee for 2018 ACNM Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonya Nicholson- Chair, ACNM Nominating Committee</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katie Moriarty- ACNM, Board of Directors</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joani Slager, ACNM, Board of Directors</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inducted as Fellows</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-a033-3058-8e3cfca9fc2b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jill Alliman DNP Alumnus and Faculty</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-a033-3058-8e3cfca9fc2b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayri Leslie Alumnus</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-a033-3058-8e3cfca9fc2b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leslie Rathbun Preceptor </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-a033-3058-8e3cfca9fc2b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kate Fouquier Alumnus 1996</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-9c9b-b36c-2b3c-70447f218836"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sherilyn Gibbs, CNM, DNP, RNC-OB - Alumnus</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni Kudos</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nadene Brunk - Distinguished Service Award, founder of Midwives for Haiti! </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Bradish - Distinguished Service Award, author of a beautiful book of memoirs. She practiced full scope until she was 78.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Melody Shambley - Outstanding Preceptor Award. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jessica Brumley - FNU Outstanding Preceptor Award </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sessions and Poster Presentations</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonya Nicholson, Tanya Tanner and Joani Slager - The Leader Within</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonya Nicholson - Struggling Students (Preceptor Workshop)</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kim Barona- Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: Brief Intervention for a Busy Practice</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-a1e9-bd9c-6cd5-22c74e1f1d83"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rebeca Barroso and Katya Simon - Breastfeeding Support After a Postpartum Hemorrhage: Evidence-Based Midwifery Approach. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tia Andrighetti and Janelle Komorowski -Creating Realistic Homebirth Simulation Workshop </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heather Clarke - Pre and perinatal psychology 101</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanya Tanner - Sleep and midwifery practice</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanya Tanner - Developing and Promoting Your Quality Midwifery Practice</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kate Moriarty - Affiliate Leadership Workshop</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8938-d4a0-c1c9-435d75bfd777"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Cole and Kathryn Schrag - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book signing</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Freestanding Birth Centers: Innovation, Evidence,Optimal Outcomes</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-9c9c-2901-0c4c-b053d14d267f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU alumna - Laura J. Valle DNP, APRN-CNM - Waterbirth and Neonatal Outcomes: An Integrative Review and Toolkit/Waterbirth Updates </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-9c9c-2901-0c4c-b053d14d267f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU alumni - Catherine Folker-Maglaya DNP, APN-CNM, IBCLC - Table Talk: Facilitating learning About Breastfeeding in a Community College Nursing Program</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-d7c0-a97c-51f7ea628570"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you would like to see more photos from the ACNM reception and booth please click </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155532622308394"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-974c1e36-8941-ff84-d23a-a9d31a14aea1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For any FNU alumni, students, faculty or students who received awards or honors at ACNM that are not noted here, please contact </span><a href="mailto:FNUnews@frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNUnews@frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and we will be happy to add it!</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-06-08T15:33:00ZCelebrating 10 Years of Bridging into the FutureJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16950242017-06-06T18:04:18Z2017-06-05T09:48:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year marks the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10th Anniversary<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/ACNM+Picture+of+Bridge+students+past+and+present+at+the+FNU+Banquet%21+.jpg/4b0a388a-817e-992b-19f1-930536cb7201?t=1496670626000" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7f72-9361-6448-c0a9f24ec3c2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/adn-bridge-entry-option">Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) Bridge Entry Option</a> </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at Frontier Nursing University (FNU). Frontier’s Bridge Entry Option allows registered nurses with an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) as their highest degree who have been in practice at least one year to bypass a bachelor’s degree. By completing a series of courses over 12 months, nurses become prepared for a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and a career as a nurse-midwife, family nurse practitioner or psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning with only 16 students in 2007 (Class 53), FNU has now enrolled more than 1,100 students in the Bridge program. Of those students, 273 have gone on to complete a MSN as a family nurse practitioner, 204 as a nurse-midwife, and 19 in women’s health*. Eleven students have even gone on to complete a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, as of February 2017. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the past decade, a favorite part of the Bridge journey for students has been attending both </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridge Bound</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crossing the Bridge</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - events that bookmark the year-long program, both traditionally held in Hyden, Ky., and at Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridge Bound</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the initial welcome orientation into the FNU community prior to classes beginning. After the year of Bridge courses, students attend </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crossing the Bridge,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the final intensive, on-campus session before moving on to clinical speciality coursework in the MSN graduate program.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have been celebrating all year by running a photo booth contest at both Bridge Bounds and Crossing the Bridge sessions this year. Students in attendance are encouraged to use the photo booth on campus and post photos to social media with the #FNUAnswertheCall. Take a look at some of the photos </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155524082943394"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU community is grateful for all that the last decade has held for our Bridge program, and we can’t wait to see what the next decade brings!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are a registered nurse with an ADN as your highest degree, learn more or apply to our Bridge Entry Option </span><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/adn-bridge-entry-option"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Related Content: </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog?_33_formDate=1496335157642&p_p_id=33&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_33_struts_action=%2Fblogs%2Fsearch&_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1&_33_keywords=traditions%2C+building+a+community"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Traditions Blog Series</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ff885c00-7d6a-8bef-9372-f32846ae2772"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*FNU stopped admitting women’s health students to the ADN Bridge Entry Option in 2011</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-06-05T09:48:00ZDiversity Impact 2017 - Moving Forward: Uniting Through DiversityJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16920922017-06-01T11:03:34Z2017-06-01T10:55:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a rapidly-changing, sometimes divided<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Diversity+Impact+1.jpg/6d10ddcc-8c4b-35a8-c7f5-eb4855033028?t=1496329157858" style="height: 166px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> world, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) emphasizes the value of respecting and honoring diversity. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the United States, there is a wide gap in health outcomes. Several populations face greater obstacles in obtaining good health based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, age, mental health, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or geographic location. These disparities may exist because of social and economic inequality, inadequate health care providers or systems, and bias on the part of health care providers or patients. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The gap forming in the health of women before and during pregnancies is also a source of concern. Determinants of a mother’s health may include social factors, ethnic or racial group, or her previous health status. An infant child is also impacted by factors such as nutrition, family income, and the geographic location of their homes and neighborhoods. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Diversity+Impact+2.JPG/10f02fb2-6b63-7859-7622-355662d16dd9?t=1496329170734" style="float: left; height: 167px; width: 250px;" />Additionally, consider this: women living in rural areas have less access to health care than women living in urban areas. Where 22.8% of women live in what is defined as a “rural” area in the U.S.¹, there is a significant disparity between the health care they receive and the health care received by the “urban” population of women.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although health care needs around the nation are diverse, health care providers do not reflect the population. In 2008, only 16.8% of Registered Nurses residing in the United States represented diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds². Additionally, underrepresented groups make up less than 10% of nursing school faculty³. The nursing profession faces the challenge of recruiting and retaining a culturally diverse workforce that mirrors the nation's demographics.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With these challenges in mind, it is important that our education system equips nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives and other healthcare professionals with the resources they need to eliminate these disparities, and ultimately achieve health equity.FNU would like to see the Frontier community impact health equity and move forward by uniting through diversity.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On June 1- 4, 2017, Frontier Nursing <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/diversity+impact.jpg/6f484bb3-5cb8-1752-0f27-3293ef307b71?t=1496329329863" style="float: right; height: 166px; width: 250px;" />University will hold the 7th annual Diversity Impact Student Conference.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Diversity Impact is designed to open the door for nurses to foster and strengthen collaborative discussions to address health disparities to improve minority health among underrepresented and marginalized groups. Students will engage in cross-cultural and intercultural workshop activities, along with leadership strategies on current diversity healthcare trends as it relates to patient-provider care.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year’s Diversity Impact theme is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moving Forward: Uniting Through Diversity</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Students will attend sessions hosted by nationally recognized nursing leaders; participate in teambuilding activities, cultural competency awareness training, and open dialogues; network with available FNU students, community leaders, faculty and staff; and learn more about the world with FNU’s International Food Menu.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2017 Diversity Impact Speaker Prospectus can be found </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jcQXmf9XovSyJ1y4mz-uPDq1lRIQTEOsoPu78cKLp4/pub"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Go </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_h2AqRPvNUmVDp8Ei6iusEDd70R2-qP3MVWkmJdKdGE/pub"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the conference schedule.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-827e1642-642a-582e-4b6a-0d500f5fe079"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not a student? Frontier invites the public to register to watch the FREE sessions on LiveStream </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/frontier.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2iix9F44uFrsBXwjV4W9UGr2-SZQ6VV12tGevfpfNtr56vw/viewform?c=0&w=1."><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
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</ol>Jordan sok2017-06-01T10:55:00ZHealthy Futures Fair for Leslie County FamiliesJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16892992017-05-30T15:20:34Z2017-05-30T14:10:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2017 Healthy Futures Fair was <img alt="From left to right, FNU Dean of Nursing, Dr. Julie Marfell, Roger Hensley (father), Charlie Hensley (scholarship recipient), Nola Hensley (mother), Kim Summer (Gifted and Talented program in Leslie County), Kiersten White (FNU Courier Program)." src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Healthy+Futures+Fair+-+Scholarship+-++Julie%2C+Roger+Hensley+%28father%29%2C+Charlie+Hensley+%28scholarship+recipient%29%2C+Nola+Hensley+%28mother%29%2C+Kim+Summer+%28head+of+Gifted+and+Talented+program+in+Leslie+County%29%2C+Kiersten.jpg/9699ec70-0477-b231-c960-6d28d943b398?t=1496167936477" style="height: 167px; width: 250px; float: right;" />held at Mountain View Elementary on Thursday, April 6, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Co-hosted by Frontier Nursing University (FNU) Courier Program and Mountain View Elementary, this event allowed for residents of Leslie County to learn about healthcare access and services in their area. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students that attended were encouraged to learn about career options from health care representatives at the fair, as well. The fair was attended by 200 people, and around 150 healthy futures bags that included healthy snacks, a toothbrush, toothpaste, and a water bottle were given to students. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prior to the community event, three guest speakers were brought in earlier in the week for activities with Mountain View Elementary’s 21st Century Program. On Monday, April 3, Kyle Farmer, a FNU student, led two sessions in healthy food choices. A variety of fruits and vegetables were provided for students to try as well. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday, Maggie Bowling from </span><a href="http://www.oldhomeplacefarm.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Old Homeplace Farm</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brought seeds for the students to plant. The students loved spending time outside and learning about food sustainability. Last but not least, Wednesday brought Jason Lindsey, also known as “</span><a href="http://www.hookedonscience.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Science</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”, who treated Mountain View Elementary students to extravagant science experiments. He also spent time speaking with 4th-8th grade students about tobacco use and its effects on the body.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University is also proud to announce </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charles "Charlie" Dewayne Hensley was awarded the first $1,000 Healthy Futures Scholarship on Monday, May 8, at the historic Wendover Bed and Breakfast Inn. The Healthy Futures Scholarship was a one-time $1000 scholarship funded by the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) Foundation. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charlie is the son of Nola and Roger Hensley of Hyden, Ky. He is currently in the 7th grade at W.B. Muncy Elementary School, where he is involved in the United Club, the Gifted and Talented Program and the Academic Team. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We feel that this scholarship has shown Charlie that a little hard work in school does pay off and may push him to do his best in the future,” said Charlie’s parents.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any 6th-8th grade student attending a Leslie County school was invited to apply for the Healthy Futures Scholarship. Students were asked to answer one of four questions in a short essay that focused on the ideas of healthy futures. Charlie wrote about why he thought learning about health and science is important and spoke of his desire to become a biomedical engineer. Charlie plans to pursue his education at either Johns Hopkins University or the University of Kentucky. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f4b3a637-5a90-c7d3-2558-085093788c57"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Healthy Futures Fair event activities and materials were primarily funded by the FNS Foundation.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p>Jordan sok2017-05-30T14:10:00ZCircle of Caring Award Winners AnnouncedJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16892242017-05-30T14:10:12Z2017-05-25T14:05:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Circle+of+Caring+Award+Winners+-+Winter+term+2017.png/e72f15b4-8455-2804-b59c-06830d28ef5d?t=1496167748086" style="height: 131px; width: 250px; float: right;" />pleased to announce Diane John and Debra Turner as the first faculty and staff Circle of Caring Award winners! The Circle of Caring Award is a new recognition for faculty and staff who go above and beyond their job duties and strive to uphold FNU’s mission and Culture of Caring everyday. One faculty and staff member will be recognized each term.</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU faculty and staff were invited to nominate someone anonymously. Nominations were then voted upon by a committee based on the following Culture of Caring characteristics: professionalism, mutual support, respect, positive communication and inclusivity.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diane John, PhD, ARNP, FNP-BC is a Course Coordinator here at FNU. Sh</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">received the following comments in the anonymous nominations:</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Although Diane truly lives every aspect of the Culture of Caring, I think she is a model for mutual support...Diane encourages growth, even at her own expense. She encouraged me to move to a course coordinator position even though it meant she would be losing my help from full to half time.”</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have had the pleasure of working with Diane on several committees this term. Her approach to facilitation and leadership is invariably caring, respectful and professional. She has taken on very demanding tasks requiring high levels of attention to detail and the ability to coordinate many people's efforts…”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I feel truly fortunate to work with Diane; she makes FNU stronger, better, and more positive for students and faculty.” </span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Debra Turner is a FNU Student Services Coordinator. Debra’s nominations included the following statements:</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Debra always works hard for the students, which is her main priority.” </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Debra’s friendship and support to me as a new mom has been invaluable...and I want her to know how much I appreciate her support and respect for me as a new mom and colleague. It really does take a village, like the saying goes, and Debra has been, and continues to be, instrumental in my success as a new mom.”</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both Diane and Debra will receive a framed certificate, a $50 gift card and will be featured in various FNU communications. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diane and Debra, thank you for going above and beyond to serve the FNU community!</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you know a FNU staff or faculty member that goes above and beyond? </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/circle-of-caring-award"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nominate them now</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the Circle of Caring Award!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7941884a-5a8c-0792-5f92-08ce3d061747"> </span></p>Jordan sok2017-05-25T14:05:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Tanya Bailey & Daniela PaulJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16811262017-05-23T14:56:46Z2017-05-22T10:14:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumnae Tanya Bailey, FACNM, and <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Magnolia+Birth+Center+-++Daniela+Paul%2C+CNM+_+Tanya+Bailey%2C+FACNM.jpg/c2340541-5b0a-75d6-5037-af4524d7d5e2?t=1495462664252" style="height: 250px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Daniela Paul, CNM, have used their Frontier Nursing University (FNU) education to make a major impact on the women in their Greensboro, N.C., community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pair opened </span><a href="https://www.magnoliabirthcenter.net/home.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnolia Birth Center of Midwifery & Women's Health</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in March of this year. In addition to prenatal care and natural out-of-hospital childbirth, the center offers a variety of classes, seminars and support groups. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnolia invites hospitals and organizations from around the Greensboro area to offer its services to patients. Doing so avoids duplication of services while providing women with access to a variety of health care options. Additional services will be added based on patients' requests.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Magnolia+Birth+Center.jpg/787c8d71-2dd3-ee19-2b54-472345ff0fe8?t=1495462658981" style="float: left; height: 333px; width: 250px;" />Magnolia's open-door policy creates an atmosphere of acceptance and comfort for women. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"We welcome anyone from the community regardless of being a client of Magnolia, and we have business sponsors to cover costs for women who cannot afford to pay for services,” said Tanya.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniela and Tanya have plenty of experience serving together. Tanya was Daniela's mentor and guide in her first certified nurse-midwife position at </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wendover Ob-Gyn & Infertility. While Tanya was at Wendover for 10 years, Daniela moved to Arizona with her family and worked full scope midwifery for the Chinle IHS on the Navajo Nation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Daniela relocated her family back to Greensboro to join Tanya in opening Magnolia.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanya chose to become a nurse-midwife out of her desire to make a difference in her community. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Daniela and Tanya, they were inspired by legendary nurse-midwives Kitty Ernst and Ruth Lubic, whose dissertation formed their vision for the Magnolia center. Dr. Lubic attended the ribbon cutting ceremony to offer the blessing of hands for the staff.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edb992df-3084-530d-a699-4f08da274a8f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read about Magnolia's grand opening and its impact on the Greensboro community</span><a href="http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triad/top-videos/2017/04/8/new-holistic-birthing-center-in-greensboro.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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</style>Jordan sok2017-05-22T10:14:00ZFrontier Nursing University to Establish New CampusJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16749352017-05-17T16:58:32Z2017-05-17T16:57:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"> </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hyden, KY -- Frontier Nursing University (FNU), with its historic campus based in Hyden, Ky., has reached a pivotal time in its 78-year history. FNU will be moving student activities including all of the on-campus student sessions to a newly purchased property in Versailles, Ky. The move will allow FNU to better serve students and continue its longstanding commitment to the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to provide care to women and families with a focus on those in rural and underserved areas. FNU will maintain operation of the </span><a href="https://www.frontier.edu/bedandbreakfast"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the historic log cabin home of FNU founder Mary Breckinridge, in Wendover, Ky., near Hyden.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU honors its southeastern Kentucky roots but in order to continue the FNU traditions of learning and excellence in education, an expansion to a larger and more conveniently located campus was needed. The decision was made by FNU administration and Board of Directors as plans were developed for the new Versailles property and it became clear that it was not feasible to operate two campuses. The move to the new campus will allow FNU to continue to expand enrollment -- currently nearly 2,000 students -- and also improve program offerings in order to meet the growing demand for access to quality healthcare nationwide, especially in rural and underserved areas. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will continue to recruit, educate, and graduate nurses to increase access to quality healthcare for rural communities everywhere, including Leslie County. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The change to the new Versailles campus will not lead to additional tuition increases or financial burdens passed on to students. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s founder Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service and what is Frontier Nursing University today as part of her mission to provide care to women and families with a focus on those in rural and underserved areas. FNU is focused on educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to serve families with an emphasis on rural and underserved to keep Mary Breckinridge’s vision alive. FNU moved to a community-based distance education delivery in 1989 and since has been offering all programs in this format. The goal is to reach nurses in rural and underserved areas allowing access to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">graduate education to become nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners and in turn better serve their communities. Mary Breckinridge’s vision of increasing access to healthcare and improving lives of families is now accomplished worldwide through the work of FNU graduates. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new 67-acre campus in that FNU purchased in Versailles will continue to keep the University in a rural county but is also less than ten minutes from the Lexington Bluegrass Airport and accessible from major highways. The new Versailles campus will allow for more cutting edge teaching and learning facilities and an increased amount of lodging for students and faculty. The new space will have approximately 85 offices, dorms accommodating up to 90 people, faculty and staff housing for 18, a dining hall that can accommodate nearly 100 people and expanded education and simulation facilities. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s vision is that the opening of the Versailles Campus will permanently establish Frontier Nursing University as the leader in advanced nursing and midwifery education, as a national model of excellence for distance learning for advanced nursing and as the heart of the nurse-midwifery profession for the United States. In addition to hosting students, the new campus can be used for gathering leaders in the nursing and midwifery field for national and regional meetings.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All plans are tentative but FNU expects renovations on the campus to begin in fall 2017 with the Lexington Administrative offices moving to the Versailles campus in early spring of 2018. The target date for students to begin attending orientations and clinical sessions on the Versailles campus is fall 2018. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Hyden employees have the opportunity to continue to work with FNU in our new location and some positions will be maintained at the Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn. We plan to offer all incoming Frontier students with optional tours to visit Hyden and Wendover in addition to their trip to the Versailles campus. There are no solid plans for use of the Hyden campus, but we will keep the community apprised of developments and we do wish to see it put to good use for the community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The decision to move FNU to a new location was not made lightly and has been considered for years as our student enrollment continues to grow. While we understand the implications for discontinuing the Hyden campus, it is in the best interests of FNU’s mission and vision for the future. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Frontier Nursing University:</span></span></p>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-3be67d20-1835-be0b-68cc-ccf54bd15463"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of FNU is t</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">o educate nurses to become competent, entrepreneurial, ethical and compassionate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners who are leaders in the primary care of women and families with an emphasis on underserved and rural populations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> FNU offers graduate Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse-Practitioner distance education programs that can be pursued full- or part-time with the student’s home community serving as the classroom. Degrees and options offered include Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Post-Graduate Certificates. To learn more about FNU and the programs and degrees offered, please visit </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier.edu.</span></a></span>Jordan sok2017-05-17T16:57:00ZFNU Courier Spotlight: Carlyle CarterJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16722832017-05-15T20:13:52Z2017-05-15T20:10:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carlyle Carter was 10 years old the<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight-+Carlyle+Carter.jpg/7c435cc6-d388-847c-7b97-7ed9a80ad333?t=1494893553945" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> first time she met her cousin, Mary Breckinridge. Mary came to visit Carlyle’s grandmother’s farm and invited Carlyle to visit Frontier that summer. Carlyle took her up on the offer and traveled to Wendover where she was looked after by Agnes Lewis, Kate Ireland, and Jane Leigh Powell.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After this visit, Carlyle returned to Wendover a few more times while she was in high school, where she spent time with Mary, groomed the horses, and even rode on horseback with a nurse. Carlyle’s mother helped found Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), and her father and cousin were the first Couriers. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn’t until 1962, while she was attending college, that Carlyle traveled to Wendover to officially serve as a Courier. She enjoyed her experiences so much so that she returned three years later in 1965, after Mary Breckinridge had passed away, to serve as a Courier one more time.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Courier, Carlyle recalls learning to drive a stick shift in the FNS jeeps. Carlyle remembers driving a British nurse everywhere she needed to go as the nurse was not able to drive in America. On one occasion, Carlyle drove the nurse to a small cabin with no electricity where a mother was in labor. She was able to help deliver a baby by holding the flashlight so the nurse could see.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shortly after, Carlyle was sent on a mission to take two horses from the hospital to one of the centers. On the mission, they got lost in the woods. They were following a hand drawn map but unfortunately, were caught in a downpour of rain. Thankfully, they were able to find their way back to where they started.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carlyle enjoyed the Kentucky cooking during her stays at Wendover. She remembers that the butter was always homemade, and the milk that was served was not pasteurized; it came directly from the cow. These delicious meals were generally served in the dogtrot between the living room and the kitchen in the Big House by Wendover cooks.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In reflecting upon her time with Mary Breckinridge, Carlyle remembers that family was very important to her. She would welcome visitors and often times share stories about her family and about FNS. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Carlyle, Mary was a very worldly woman as well as an inspirational speaker. Her ability to move a crowd and hit their hearts was astonishing. Breckinridge would talk about life in the mountains for the people of Leslie County, particularly the financial and economic struggles along with healthcare difficulties that many of the Appalachian people faced. She also spoke to the importance of FNS in the community as many of the community members had not previously had access to healthcare.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mary Breckinridge had a glowing personality,” said Carlyle. “She had kind eyes and loved little children. She was very kind but she was also a very determined woman. She was the boss and you didn't cross her. She was very simple. There was nothing pretentious about her.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The time Carlyle spent in Wendover had a significant impact on her life. It inspired her to want to do something worthwhile in the world. She began an organization called Global Child, an after-school program that provided foreign language instruction in the public schools. It was one of the first programs of its time. It continued to grow and eventually reached 60 schools with about 2,000 students. To learn more about the organization Global Child, please visit </span><a href="http://www.globalchild.com/home.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.globalchild.com/home.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carlyle attributes her inspiration for starting this program to Mary Breckenridge:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-783d3b74-0e9a-74b5-d1ec-ed2c7cfa32f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“She wasn't in there for personal good—she was doing something good for the world, and that is how she influenced me!”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> </p>Jordan sok2017-05-15T20:10:00ZFNU Nurse-Midwifery Grad Receives Worldwide AttentionJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16668212017-05-12T09:26:44Z2017-05-11T09:50:00Z<p>One Frontier Nursing University (FNU) nurse-midwifery graduate received worldwide attention this past month after leaving mid-hair appointment to attend a birth. Did we mention her highlight foils were still in-tact? <a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/dummy/-/blogs/alumni-spotlight-carrie-lee-hall-msn-whnp-fnp-sane-cnm">Carrie Lee-Hall</a>, a certified nurse-midwife, was a couple miles away from the hospital at the hair salon when she received word that her patient was ready to deliver. Without wasting a moment, she took off to the hospital where the baby arrived less than 20 minutes later.<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/midwife-830x1107.jpg/7ece8839-1378-b36d-6b7f-6e01657eca16?t=1494510841000" style="height: 333px; width: 250px; float: right;" /></p>
<p>“First time for everything!” Hall posted on Facebook with a photo of her holding the baby. “Thought I’d share. I was at the salon and nature called!”<br />
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We weren’t surprised when the image quickly went viral after sharing the photo on our FNU Facebook page. Domestic and international news outlets picked up the story, causing thousands of people to be both enthralled and amused by Carrie’s quick response that caused her to deliver a baby with foiled hair.<br />
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While the scenario gave us a chuckle, the FNU community is also proud to have alumni like Carrie who are so dedicated to their patient’s care. <br />
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“Many people on social media joked that I should have taken out the foils before I left the salon for the sake of not harming my hair, but when I got that phone call nothing was more important than getting to my patient,” said Carrie. “My patients are my first priority and there is nowhere I’d rather be than helping them safely bring new life into the world.”<br />
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For Hall, a fourth-generation midwife, caring for mothers and babies is second-hand nature. With a focus on serving rural areas, Carrie became the first <a href="https://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Certified Nurse-Midwife</a> in many years to practice in Hazard, Ky. In addition to a master’s degree in nurse-midwifery, Carrie returned to FNU to obtain both a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner certification and a Family Nurse Practitioner certification so that she can treat families as a whole. She is also a sexual assault nurse examiner.<br />
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As Kitty Ernst, FNU Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery, once said, “The ‘heart’ of midwifery is really synonymous with ‘mothering’ – mothering with unconditional love.”<br />
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Thank you, Carrie, for displaying unwavering dedication and love to your patients - even when it means cutting out early on a hair appointment.<br />
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And for the record, we think your hair turned out great, too.</p>
<p>Related Content: <a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/dummy/-/blogs/alumni-spotlight-carrie-lee-hall-msn-whnp-fnp-sane-cnm">Alumni Spotlight: Carrie Lee-Hall MSN, WHNP, FNP, SANE, CNM</a></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-05-11T09:50:00Z5 Reasons Why You Should Attend March for MomsJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16611772017-05-10T09:34:41Z2017-05-08T10:52:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f292-2e8c-a6cb-5bc645f861a6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A message from Dr. Susan Stone, Frontier </span></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Frontier Nursing University (FNU) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">community believes that now is the time to advocate for action to improve maternity care. For that reason we are partnering with March for Moms, a rally advocating for mother’s rights. We invite you to join us on Sunday, May 14, from 1 - 4 p.m. at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thomas+Jefferson+Memorial/@38.8813959,-77.0386456,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b70b9e9c68bb:0x44137d74ec09872!8m2!3d38.8813959!4d-77.0364569"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington D.C.</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the event you will have the opportunity to connect with FNU alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends and enjoy a fun afternoon standing up for action to improve maternity care. FNU will also be sponsoring the guest speaker, David Monteith, U.K. Actor, as he leads us in defining some key issues that contribute to the worsening health of moms and babies. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would also like to share with you a recent interview with Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP who is an obstetrician and faculty member at Harvard Medical School as well as co-founder of March for Moms. A primary goal of his career is to improve the safety and cost of maternity care.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sincerely, Dr. Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FNU President</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-1284b64a-f292-c7e2-84e9-fefd06992406"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview with Dr. Neal Shaw, Co-founder of March for Moms and Harvard Obstetrician:</span></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are a lot of marches these days…do we really need a march for moms?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The past few months have brought the world a lot of shocking news. One positive consequence of these uncertain times is that it has stoked a fire of activism in the United States in a way that we have not seen in decades. We are seeing people of all stripes stand up and advocate for the issues they care deeply about, from science on Earth Day to the wellbeing of moms on Mother’s Day.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s the thing:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> moms are used to putting themselves last in order to put their families first. We believe it is high time to give our moms the support and public investment they deserve.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Right now, one in every three Americans is born through major surgery—twice as many as are medically necessary. At the same time, we have the highest rates of maternal death and injury, the lowest birth weights, and the widest disparities in the entire developed world. If that wasn’t bad enough, we also have the worst paid family leave policies in the entire developed world.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My colleagues and I believe the United States of America can do a lot better. That’s why we’re going to be at the Jefferson Memorial on May 14</span><span style="font-size: 7.2pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are you hoping to accomplish?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all love our own moms, but the way we treat moms collectively in this country is shameful. Moms are resilient—even when things are tough, they seldom complain.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal of March for Moms is to ensure they get the support and investment they deserve, whether they complain or not.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How are you going to do this?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First we created a canvas – the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on Mother’s Day. Then we built a wireframe: a platform of bipartisan issues that everyone can agree are hugely important—from preventing an alarming rate of maternal death, to investing in moms who also work with paid family leave. Within weeks, we had dozens of leading American organizations co-creating the event with us—they are collectively financing and promoting a rally that will gather thousands of families on the National Mall, and feature speakers, entertainers, celebrities, and policymakers.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will also be hosting a Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill, followed by a lobbying day directed toward a set of specific bills.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who are you working with?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March for Moms started from a conversation between leaders of two professional organizations in maternal health—the American College of Nurse Midwives and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It has since grown to include more than twenty organizations, including Every Mother Counts, March of Dimes, Lamaze International, the National Partnership for Women and Families, and many others.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok. I’m fired up. How can I be a part of this?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a0f1758c-e88f-27d8-cd6b-747887e0fb0e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three ways. First, show up. This is a historic event –the first time anything like this has happened—we need you there for it to be as successful as possible. Second, invest—any amount, even just $10, will go a long way towards making sure we capture the attention of policymakers. Third, share. Tell everyone you know—we’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.</span><a href="http://www.MarchforMoms.org"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.MarchforMoms.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-05-08T10:52:00ZCelebrate National Nurses Week 2017Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16574592017-05-05T10:12:28Z2017-05-05T09:48:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8e1-2715-67bd-9b9ec3271864"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/NNW+LogoDownload-Color.png/f19bf8f1-d6b0-1b3c-daff-c5199d756c54?t=1493992463739" style="height: 149px; width: 250px; float: right;" />excited </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to celebrate </span><a href="http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/National-Nurses-Week-2017"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Nurses Week 2017</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">! The celebration begins this Saturday, May 6, and will continue through Friday, May 12. The week is presented by the American Nurses Association (ANA) to recognize nurses working in the many fields of the health care profession. This year’s theme, “Nursing: the Balance of Mind, Body, and Spirit,” is all about celebrating nurses who lead the charge for health and wellness.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8e1-2715-67bd-9b9ec3271864"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of this week, FNU is kicking off a </span><a href="https://kentucky.kvc.org/impact/bluegrass-wellness-at-work/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bluegrass Wellness Challenge</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for all current employees and students. Participants will participate in a five-week wellness challenge that encourages everyone to get moving! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top performers will receive gift cards as incentives for participating in the challenge. FNU employees and students can watch their inbox for more details. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8e1-2715-67bd-9b9ec3271864"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, there will be a variety of fun social media contests happening all week. Be sure to keep up to date with the FNU </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrontierSchool/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/FrontierNursing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pages to participate! Winners will receive prizes. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8e1-2715-67bd-9b9ec3271864"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ANA will also be offering a free webinar titled </span><a href="http://unbouncepages.com/9f5e9b7c-0b64-11e7-adba-double/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Nurse’s Guide to Preventing Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, on Wednesday, May 10, from 1 – 2 p.m. EST. During this 60-minute exclusive live event, Joyce A. Batcheller, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN will discuss the latest research in the field and provide listeners with tools and strategies to infuse meaning, joy, and restoration into their practice and life.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8e1-cf1d-acf0-d0200ff0002b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information on the webinar or to register, go </span><a href="http://unbouncepages.com/9f5e9b7c-0b64-11e7-adba-double/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b82e7964-d8f6-2ec8-30f6-ab215101352d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU celebrates all the nurses that work hard daily to deliver quality health care to their patients!</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-05-05T09:48:00ZStudent Spotlight: Stefanie SchwarzJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16459722017-04-27T10:20:30Z2017-04-27T09:49:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a labor and delivery nurse for the <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Stefanie+Schwarz.jpg/72ecfd9c-67bb-c08f-9735-109e6967a182?t=1493301032237" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />United States Army, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) student Stefanie Schwarz enjoys serving active duty military members and their families. She is also currently pursuing her Master of Science in Nursing degree and is projected to graduate as a certified nurse-midwife in 2018 (Class 145). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her newest duty station in Woodbridge, Va., CPT Schwarz has quickly implemented an important tool she learned in her previous duty stations: the postpartum hemorrhage kit. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“By creating the postpartum hemorrhage kits for my staff, we are able to pull the kits during an emergency to have access to all the necessary supplies and medications in one convenient place,” said </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CPT Schwar</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">z</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past, medication that needed to be refrigerated was often thrown away unnecessarily once it sat out too long. Now the kits are being placed back into the refrigerator if not used, which means that the medication in the kits is being preserved. Not only does this save the pharmacy and the hospital thousands of dollars every month, it is instrumental in helping to improve patient safety. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CPT Schwar</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">z</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a Captain in the Army and was recently honored with a “good catch” award from her unit for developing this tool. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Frontier community is proud to have students like </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CPT Schwar</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">z</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who are not only great health care workers, but also look to immediately improve their health care setting. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CPT Schwar</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">z</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, choosing FNU as her university for the next step in her education wasn’t a difficult decision.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“FNU has a great reputation of bringing a unique set of people together to become nurse-midwives, and I wanted to be a part of that,” she said. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b22fb92-afae-698d-a9f5-51db2a95d28c"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CPT Schwar</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">z</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, for all that you are doing to care for those serving our country!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-04-27T09:49:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Adrian Medina MSN, RNJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16405732017-04-24T15:14:00Z2017-04-24T11:29:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) offers <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Adrian+Medina.png/6cbb81d1-51f5-8216-9ed7-2764c11d6064?t=1493047875335" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />students around the world a chance to receive a quality education. Alumni Adrian Medina, MSN, RN took full advantage of this opportunity – earning his degree while living and working in Guam! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adrian first discovered his passion for </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nurse-midwifery</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> during the labor and delivery portion of his hospital rotations. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I enjoyed looking after women in labor, and I knew that I wanted to do that for a living," said Adrian. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His passion grew as he was placed in the labor and delivery ward immediately after nursing school. When he decided to pursue a specialized degree in nurse-midwifery, Adrian's research led him to FNU. He was drawn to FNU's reputation and rich history as well as its focus on community. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite his geographical location, Adrian was able to build relationships with FNU faculty and staff during his studies, ultimately leading to a mid-clinical site visit from clinical program director </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/fnu-clinical-program-director-jane-houston-visits-students-in-guam?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_keywords%3Dguam%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fsearch%26_33_redirect%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fportal.frontier.edu%252Fweb%252Ffnu%252Fblog%253Fp_p_id%253D33%2526p_p_lifecycle%253D0%2526p_p_state%253Dnormal%2526p_p_mode%253Dview%2526p_p_col_id%253Dcolumn-1%2526p_p_col_count%253D1%26_33_formDate%3D1491223843164"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane Houston, DNP, CNM in 2016</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adrian is planning to further his education through FNU's </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/newprogram"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctor of Nursing Practice program</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in hopes of expanding his role as both a clinician leader and a nurse educator. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I hope to continue to fulfill preceptor and mentor roles, as well as pursue my interests in nursing research, hospitalist midwifery care, women's health, and perioperative quality improvement," said Adrian.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adrian also hopes to continue to work in the community, both in the clinic and in the hospital setting. According to Adrian, Guam has a very large migrant minority population and he's always seen himself working with this patient population. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a096-b22a-f92c-5350ef9b6e31"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“FNU has helped me build a solid foundation for my nurse-midwifery career,” said Adrian. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebc2640f-a097-b201-726a-8472f37d96e7"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU community is proud of the work Adrian has done and continues to do in his home community of Guam! </span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-04-24T11:29:00ZFNU Hosts “Call the Midwife” Screenings of Season 6 in Select CitiesJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16339762017-04-20T14:02:19Z2017-04-20T10:36:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p>
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<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Screen+Shot+2017-04-20+at+2.01.24+PM.jpeg/673634a5-3fbc-cb02-9d0a-5f1ad9a7069d?t=1492711258441" style="height: 376px; width: 250px; float: right;" />
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">receptionand screening events of ‘Call the Midwife’ Season 6 in March. Each event included a reception with complimentary heavy hors d'oeuvres and beverages leading up to the screening. Over 100 guests were able to mingle, network, and talk about the upcoming season of Call the Midwife in both Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as in Lexington, Kentucky. Some lucky guests were even winners of FNU and PBS giveaways! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41478efa-8bcd-19ee-4478-f51035d592d0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155337161778394"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">photos from the events</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in all cities here.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41478efa-8bcd-19ee-4478-f51035d592d0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were honored to co-host our Tampa event with </span><a href="https://breathoflife.cc/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breath of Life Women’s Health and Birth Center</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A special thanks to our event location hosts: </span><a href="http://www.wedu.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WEDU Public Media</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://www.wjct.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WJCT Broadcasting</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://www.ket.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kentucky Education Television</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41478efa-8bcd-19ee-4478-f51035d592d0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about the hit PBS and BBC drama series “Call the Midwife” at </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/home/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/home/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41478efa-8bcd-a8a1-e460-abd0c303581f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Frontier Nursing University:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41478efa-8bcd-a8a1-e460-abd0c303581f"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU is passionate about educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to serve women and families in all communities, especially rural and underserved areas. FNU offers graduate Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse-Practitioner distance education programs that can be pursued full- or part-time with the student’s home community serving as the classroom. Degrees and options offered include Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Post-Graduate Certificates. To learn more about FNU and the programs and degrees offered, please visit </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier.edu.</span></a></span></p>Jordan sok2017-04-20T10:36:00ZCourier Spotlight: Anna CareyJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16290582017-04-17T16:48:37Z2017-04-17T16:44:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After three years of teaching in a rural <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Anna+Carey.png/889bf70b-4759-d767-6770-41d4c57e216c?t=1492461991453" style="float: right; height: 141px; width: 250px;" />community in Western New York (2000-2003) , Anna Carey decided to explore other opportunities. While teaching she had become interested in her students’ experiences outside of school that were affecting their experiences in the classroom. Through an organization that helps young people find unique volunteer opportunities, she heard about Frontier Nursing Service’s Courier Program. Anna thought it would be a great way to experience the many facets of rural life.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of her first memories in Kentucky was getting lost while trying to find Wendover for the first time. This was pre-cell phone GPS days, and her paper map had a Daniel Boone Parkway with tollbooths indicated as the best main route into Hyden. However, all she could find was a Hal Rogers Parkway without tollbooths. Little did she know they were actually one and the same; the map just hadn’t caught up with the changes!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Courier in the fall of 2003, Anna participated in a wide range of activities. Some days were spent shadowing doctors and nurse practitioners as well as going on home health rounds. Other days were spent tutoring at the adult learning center and helping out at the local animal shelter. She helped serve meals at the Big House and attended Frontier Nursing Service luncheons in nearby cities. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thinking of herself as an adaptable person, Anna felt confident that she could handle any cultural differences she encountered in Southeastern Kentucky. She was surprised how some things were just like many other places she had been in the United States, but others were like nothing she had ever encountered. The first few times someone mentioned a strip job (stripped off mountain top where coal has been removed), she wondered what the heck kind of jobs people had around here, equating “strip job” with people taking off their clothes for money! Additionally, it took her ears weeks to acclimate to the accents. She jokes that she eventually learned to just be quiet and pretend she knew what they were saying, which they were probably doing with her as well!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anna was the only Courier during her stay so she spent quite a bit of time with the staff at Wendover, helping them with errands and any projects on the grounds or nearby clinics. She also spent time with them outside of work; they took her to festivals, four-wheel riding, church, elk-spotting, and out to dinner. According to Anna, the Courier Program truly was a great way to experience many aspects of life in a rural area.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surprisingly to everyone—herself mostly—Anna decided to move to Leslie County after her three months as a Courier were up, and she has been living there ever since. Her ties to Frontier Nursing Service continued as she worked a few different times as a Coordinator of the Courier Program and also worked to help establish school-based clinics in partnership with Frontier’s own clinics. Since 2005 she has been heavily involved in a small non-profit organization called COLLY (County of Leslie Lifting Youth) that focuses on children’s health and education programs. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I could have never imagined that first time getting lost in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky in 2003 that it would actually be the beginning of me finding a new path for my life,” said Anna.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61f96157-7dab-1bd2-6c29-d6cc567540c0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are certainly glad it did!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-04-17T16:44:00ZStaff Spotlight: Bridgett LyallJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16076722017-04-03T11:35:06Z2017-04-03T10:55:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For many students at Frontier Nursing <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Bridgett+Lyall.jpg/e854bdd3-9d93-2924-fe0c-e0a1ddc5259a?t=1490972255679" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />University (FNU), clinicals are one of the most stressful but rewarding times during their education journey. Bridgett Lyall, a FNU clinical credentialing coordinator, works hard to simplify the clinical experience. She and her team make sure all sites, preceptors and students have turned in the appropriate paperwork in order for students to complete their clinical practicum. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridgett enjoys the opportunity to help students with the clinical portion of their FNU education.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Students know that I am on their side, working hard on their behalf to make the process as smooth as possible," she said. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The group dynamics in the credentialing department are Bridgett's favorite part of her job. The combination of mutual respect on a professional level with real friendships on a personal level make for a wonderful work experience. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Bridgett decided to pursue a career in higher education, the history and reputation of FNU appealed to her. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-88ff-315c-b5bca075b068"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"FNU is open to positive change and has a huge influence on family health and birth options. Both of these were very important to me in my job search," said Bridgett.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9ce872ff-24de-c33a-1b71-67e08867cbb8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridgett has been in her role at FNU for almost three years. In her spare time, she likes to bike the Legacy Trail in Lexington, read and play video games with her partner.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-04-03T10:55:00ZFrontier Nursing University President Dr. Susan Stone Named President-Elect of American College of Nurse-MidwivesJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16065332017-03-30T14:40:45Z2017-03-30T14:34:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Susan+Stone+headshot.jpg/8ddc2726-785f-c7ce-913f-8becd6cdb60f?t=1490899170678" style="height: 324px; width: 250px; float: right;" />FAAN, president of Frontier Nursing University, has been named president-elect of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). ACNM is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the professional association that represents certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) in the United States. With roots dating to 1929, ACNM is the oldest women’s health care organization in the United States. The organization’s elected leaders play an important role in guiding the midwifery profession. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stone will work alongside the current ACNM president for one year and officially begin her term as president after the ACNM 63rd Annual Meeting in Savannah, Ga., in May 2018. Stone has been active in ACNM for nearly 25 years. She has also served for more than 10 years with the ACNM’s collaborative partner, the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), and as chair of ACME’s Board of Commissioners for four years. As president, she will be responsible for establishing and carrying out the goals and objectives of ACNM. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Our goal is to educate health care providers and the public about the value of midwifery, and the positive outcomes that result from our evidence-based practice,” said Stone. “Midwives are increasingly important as a solution to the impending shortage of obstetrical providers. As president of ACNM, my focus will be on reducing legislative barriers for midwifery practice, continuing to establish effective collaborative relationships with other health care providers and developing strategies to dramatically increase and diversify the midwifery workforce.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stone has worked in the field of reproductive health care for women for over 30 years. She is an early graduate of Frontier Nursing University’s (FNU) distance education nurse-midwifery program and practiced full scope midwifery care for several years. Believing that having more nurse-midwives would ultimately serve the goal of improved health care outcomes for women, she shifted her focus to the education of nurse-midwives. She has served as president of FNU for the last 16 years. During this time, the University has grown from 200 students to the current enrollment of nearly 2,000 students. Stone continues in the role of FNU president with a goal of improving health care for families through increasing the number of well-prepared nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am excited to welcome Dr. Susan Stone to the Board of Directors as ACNM’s president-elect in May. Sue brings expertise and vision to these roles, particularly in the areas of Board management and strategic financial development which will serve the members of ACNM very well,” said ACNM President Lisa Kane Low PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN. “We are fortunate to have her, and I look forward to our collaboration over this next year as she prepares to assume the role of president.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other Frontier Nursing University faculty who are also newly elected officers include Kathleen Moriarty, CNM, PhD, RN, CAFCI, FACNM, the new Region IV Representative, and </span><a href="https://api.thetopinbox.com/track/v2/link?id=bb7dd4a9-73b9-4275-8e38-d1b81712e7ef&url=http%3A%2F%2FACNM.informz.net%2Fz%2FcjUucD9taT02MzY5MDI1JnA9MSZ1PTEwOTE1MTkxOTYmbGk9NDE3Nzc0Mzk%2Findex.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charlotte Morris</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, CNM, DNP, one of two elected new Nominating Committee members. Dr. Moriarty has been a member of ACNM since 1992 and a midwife for more than 20 years. She was re-elected to a second term to serve as ACNM Region II Representative. Dr. Morris serves as course faculty at FNU. She has been a midwife for more than 30 years and a member of the Midwives of Color Committee (MOCC) since 1997. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other FNU faculty already serving in ACNM officer roles include the DNP Director, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joan Slager, CNM, DNP, CPC, FACNM, an </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACNM Board team member and the Associate Dean of Midwifery and Women’s Health </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonya Nicholson, DNP, CNM, WHNP-B, FACNM, an ACNM Nominating Committee member. FNU Board of Directors member Kerri Schuiling PhD, CNM, NP-BC, also serves as an ACNM Nominating Committee member.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Frontier Nursing University:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU is passionate about educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to serve women and families in all communities, especially rural and underserved areas. FNU offers graduate Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse-Practitioner distance education programs that can be pursued full- or part-time with the student’s home community serving as the classroom. Degrees and options offered include Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Post-Graduate Certificates. To learn more about FNU and the programs and degrees offered, please visit </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier.edu.</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the American College of Nurse-Midwives:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26d79559-2081-9e5c-4b34-c76f47d55ad8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is the professional association that represents certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) in the United States. With roots dating to 1929, ACNM sets the standard for excellence in midwifery education and practice in the United States and strengthens the capacity of midwives in developing countries. Members are primary care providers for women throughout the lifespan, with a special emphasis on pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecologic and reproductive health.Learn more at </span><a href="http://acnm.org"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">acnm.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-03-30T14:34:00ZLGBT Health Awareness Week March 27-31, 2017Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16074532017-03-31T10:12:14Z2017-03-28T09:57:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/LGBT+health+awareness+week.jpg/1050f796-3d67-12ec-1b37-74710965013e?t=1490968776386" style="height: 167px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> (LGBT) Health Awareness Week marks a time for health care providers to come together to promote LGBT health and to increase awareness as to the unique health needs of the LGBT community. The LGBT community faces many health disparities and challenges in accessing health care. Sadly, members of the LGBT community continue to face bias and discrimination in the health care setting. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A study conducted by Smith & Mathews (2007) found that as many as 18% of physicians surveyed reported feeling uncomfortable treating LGBT patients. Despite the importance of disclosure in the healthcare setting, many LGBT patients are left feeling uncomfortable in doing so with their health care providers for fear of bias (Eliason, 2001). In addition, LGBT patients face health disparities related to systemic factors, social discrimination, and lack of access to culturally competent health care (Ard & Makadon, 2017). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National LGBT Education Center has identified several ways that health care providers can come together during this week to support the LGBT community including:</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Host or sponsor an event with a local LGBT organization</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Host a grand rounds or training session at your health care facility</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a welcoming environment for your LGBT clients by placing health posters and brochures in your facility that are specific to the health care needs of the LGBT community (see</span><a href="http://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> www.lgbthealtheducation.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Obtain training that will enable you to provide the best care to your LGBT clients (see </span><a href="http://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.lgbthealtheducation.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional Resources:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><a href="https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/DADT-Brochure-Final-English.pdf https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SOGI-Patient-Handout.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promoting a welcoming health care environment</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><a href="https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/lgbt-education/continuing-education/?y=130&i=5126 https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/lgbt-education/cme/ https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/lgbt-education/cme/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional training for clinicians</span></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">References:</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ard, M. & Cooke, G. (2011). Addressing intimate partner violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26 (8), p. 930-933.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eliason, M.J. & Schope, R. (2001). Does “Don’t ask don’t tell” apply to health care? Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people’s disclosure to health care providers. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Gay and Lesbian Medicine Association, 5 (4), p. 125-34.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smith, D.M. & Matthews, W.C. (2007). Physicians’ attitudes toward homosexuality and HIV: survey of a California Medical Society. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Homosexuality, 52 (3), p. 1-9. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National LGBT Health Education Center (March 2017). </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LGBT Health Awareness Week 2017: Coming Soon! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Retrieved from:</span><a href="https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/events/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/events/</span></a></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-b5f5d750-24a9-8c69-5d54-5bec9e1434d2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/April+Dobroth.png/b12dccef-28ca-48e7-be8d-0d8632a0f0ca?t=1443827503000" style="float: left; height: 132px; width: 100px;" /></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. April Dobroth, DNP, FNP-c is a practicing clinician and Frontier Nursing University Southwest Regional Clinical Faculty (RCF) member. </span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-03-28T09:57:00ZCourier Spotlight: Fred BunchJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=16021192017-03-27T09:10:03Z2017-03-27T09:07:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community who are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred Bunch Jordan attended college <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+-+Fred+Bunch.jpg/cf0c9ece-2618-257c-5d78-99143eba1bc4?t=1490620145243" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />right after high school. After a difficult freshman year, he decided to take some time off from school and spoke with an advisor regarding his options during his time off. His advisor suggested looking into the Courier Program at Frontier Nursing Service. Only four days passed from the time he called Frontier to the day he arrived in Kentucky.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred first served as a Courier for three and a half months in 1990. Fred then made the decision to return to Wendover once again for another four months in 1991. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred spent his time as a Courier attending home health visits. He remembers visiting three brothers with Down Syndrome and helping the boys shave and feed their livestock. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to home visits, Fred spent time in the Mary Breckinridge Hospital. He worked with a family nurse practitioner assisting with entry-level triage care, such as taking temperatures and blood pressures. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During his free time, Fred visited with the local Wooten family, where he drank a little bit of moonshine and ate a lot of fried fish. To get to the Wooten house, Fred had to walk across a small handmade bridge to arrive at the front door where there was a Moody’s Bible nailed over the top. Fred accompanied George Wooten fishing and on a visit to a mine, which Fred admits frightened him a bit.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of Fred’s most eye-opening experiences came on a home health visit in Cutshin. It was on this visit that it dawned on him that his life back home - where he has the opportunity to go to college, the ability to travel and never goes hungry - was a privilege. According to Fred, this realization was very humbling for him. He also began to understand the economic difficulties that the Hyden area faced. Other than coal, job options were limited. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd1546ee-0fe2-9ff6-1eb8-3a38c0701278"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred was happy to be in Wendover, and he felt like he had accomplished what he came for. He had the opportunity to experience a culture different from his own and do something worthwhile. His time as a Courier inspired him to take a deeper look at it his life and evaluate what was important to him. It was an illuminating experience that he will always carry with him. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-03-27T09:07:00ZThe Importance of Psych Certification for Nurse PractitionersJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15826722017-03-22T09:49:35Z2017-03-13T14:43:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Heather Shlosser, Director <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/heather+shlosser.jpg/2f07c2be-3867-650f-f162-d25b1f68ba77?t=1489680669439" style="float: right;" />of Frontier Nursing University’s (FNU) </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/pmhnp-post-graduate-certificate"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psychiatric Mental-Health Nurse Practitioner (PHMNP) program</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the time to enter mental health care. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There is a national shortage of mental health care providers,” said Dr. Shlosser. “Compound that with primary care shortages and the issue becomes very significant. FNU’s Psychiatric-Mental Health Care Nurse Practitioner program teaches students to look at the whole picture- mind, body and spirit - so they can provide both primary and psychiatric care.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Psych+Certification+Importance.jpg/20a8da7a-8379-57d8-432e-4a032058d067?t=1489680726046" style="float: left; height: 226px; width: 150px;" />In short, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners are advanced practice nurses that seek to improve mental health care and the overall health status of communities. They have a focus on lifetime care for individuals and are committed to promoting mental health through assessment, diagnosis and treatment of behavioral problems, mental disorders and comorbid conditions.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now taking applications for its summer term, FNU’s Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty track option is offered for practicing nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners who have completed a master’s degree. Students can complete a post-graduate certificate with the option to complete a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“With this certification, there are numerous avenues nurses can choose,” said Dr. Shlosser. “Crisis intervention, substance abuse, community mental health centers, primary care settings, specialty medicine, cardiology, women's health...the list continues.”</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2018, the PMHNP specialty track will expand to registered nurses seeking a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with entry options for RNs with a bachelor’s or associate’s degree in nursing. Students who successfully complete the program can apply for the national certification exam. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:-4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We encourage students to continue their studies and earn a doctoral degree with the FNU DNP,” said Dr. Shlosser. “There is an even greater shortage of doctorally prepared NPs.”</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-d9c838cb-c8fc-692d-bc2f-27c926d6665d"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information on FNU’s PMHNP program, go </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/pmhnp-post-graduate-certificate"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span>Jordan sok2017-03-13T14:43:00ZPreceptor Spotlight: Sandy Blaser, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15781172017-03-10T10:45:22Z2017-03-10T10:37:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Jamie Wheeler</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are happy to announce that Ms. <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+-+Sandy+Blaser%2C+CNM.jpg/1c319460-887c-dbd9-93b5-25f9ba552010?t=1489160407214" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Sandy Blaser, CNM, from Pittsburgh, Pa. is our featured preceptor this winter term. We are proud to call Ms. Blaser one of our own; she is a 1997 aluma of Frontier Nursing University with a certificate in nurse-midwifery. Ms. Blaser was nominated by regional clinical faculty Metta Cahill, who calls her “a stellar clinician, a masterful preceptor, and an energetic, generous, humorous human being.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metta goes on to describe Sandy in more detail: “She prides herself on being up-to-date on every aspect of OB and GYN care, and moves from room to room providing expert care to all. She always has one student with her and often can juggle two at a time in the office, without missing a beat and making it all look effortless. She goes the extra mile for both patients as well as students. She is a human dynamo!”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Blaser, affectionately known as “The Blaze,” has always been there for FNU students, even those who struggle clinically. She strives to give her students the same professionalism she provides her clients. Kia Frazier (CNEP class 125, fall 2016 graduate) describes Ms. Blaser as “one of the hardest working, compassionate people that I have encountered. She is able to bring the nurse-midwifery model of care into a patient's room with grace. She amazed me from the first day to the last day I was fortunate enough to work with her.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephanie Lowe (DNP class 12, fall 2014 graduate) echoes this sentiment and says that “Sandy taught me the value of hard work and dedication to my patients. She also taught me devotion to field nurse-midwifery through her willingness to precept so many students.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8de-71fc-dbc3-c1da8333254a"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Blaser has been in practice over 14 years, and has been a preceptor with us since 2010. She is active in community theater and even precepted two students while rehearsing for a role in the musical comedy “Sister Act” at Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b07fb2-b8e2-97df-1372-9e40acc90dcf"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are thankful to Ms. Blaser’s continued service to our students. She will receive a Starbucks gift card as a small token of our appreciation.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-03-10T10:37:00ZFNU Alumni Spotlight: Demetrice H. Smith FNP-C, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15746592017-03-06T09:45:12Z2017-03-06T09:42:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Demetrice H. Smith, FNP-C, CNM <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight-Demetrice+Smith.jpg/0c137830-9e05-85be-48a6-380192394ff7?t=1488811455962" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />tends to women in every stage of their pregnancies, but this has not always been the case for Demetrice. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She began her nursing career as a registered nurse in labor and delivery after completing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. She went on to become a family nurse practitioner (FNP) and continued to work with women in prenatal and postnatal care. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It soon became apparent that an area of her practice was lacking. Demetrice found that she was missing out on a critical stage of her patients’ care – the birth. Dissatisfied with this arrangement, Demetrice decided to study nurse-midwifery at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) after hearing a program recommendation from a friend. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since becoming a certified nurse-midwife in 2015, Demetrice is now able to care for her patients in all their pre- and postnatal needs. She is also a virtual clinic instructor for a graduate nursing program. She enjoys helping students establish a solid foundation for their nursing careers. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One thing that sets Demetrice apart as a caregiver is her ability to empathize with her patients. She has had three high-risk pregnancies and can encourage patients in similar situations not only physically, but also emotionally. Demetrice has also lost four pregnancies, and though the heartbreak was not easy to bear, it has equipped her to provide a deeper level of care for patients experiencing miscarriages. Patients feel comfortable in her care knowing that she has not only the education and expertise to assist them but also the experience to connect with them on a personal level. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Demetrice values her experience at FNU and is considering expanding her education with FNU’s </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/doctor-nursing-practice"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree program</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I would recommend the FNU program to anyone. The support from the teaching staff and the ancillary staff is outstanding,” said Demetrice.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91391bff-a413-7094-c916-7b3b77f43565"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU community thanks Demetrice for her devotion and care for women’s health.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-03-06T09:42:00ZStudent Spotlight: Rhonda Hilliker, BSNJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15673592017-02-28T15:53:40Z2017-02-27T10:55:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No stranger to hard work, Rhonda Hilliker<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Rhonda+Hilliker.png/2ca4b393-7dd7-b878-648a-fe3c20231dfe?t=1488210988234" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> obtained her BSN online while working full-time night shift at the busiest labor and delivery deck in the United States Army. Since 2008, she has chosen to leave the comforts of life in the United States and serve on the mission field in the African ‘bush’. Most recently, she served almost nine months in Sierra Leone, Africa, as a labor and delivery nurse, clinical lead, and nurse educator. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Working in Sierra Leone was the hardest, hottest, and most rewarding care I have ever given,” said Rhonda. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During her first six months in Sierra Leone, she worked in an ebola holding unit providing care to pregnant and lactating women who were being tested for ebola. She then relocated to a remote village clinic where she educated local birth attendants and nurses.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After her experience in Sierra Leone, Rhonda felt called to return to the United States and advance her career by becoming a nurse-midwife. She chose Frontier Nursing University (FNU) following a recommendation from her mentor in the mission field.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Rhonda, the level of support she has received during her time at FNU has exceeded her expectations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Everyone is helpful,” said Rhonda. “The library, IT, my advisor and instructors, and everyone I met during my campus visit has been expedient and accommodating. I am thankful for the guidance and support I have received as a student.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rhonda is still an active medical missionary and will be returning to Africa for two weeks in March to teach CPR and emergency burn care at a pregnancy crisis center. She will also visit a children’s hospital to encourage and support the nurses and deliver toys to the children. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rhonda’s faith is at the core of her desire to serve in Africa. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There is no greater joy in life than knowing exactly why God created you and then doing it. He created me to serve pregnant and lactating women in places where so many people do not want to serve, and I will willingly go where He has called me...If every person took the time to share of themselves outside their personal comfort zone, their knowledge could change the world for generations to come.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7e70f84b-8049-8c3a-a587-5542c2317c1b"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Rhonda graduates in 2018, she will return to Africa as a certified nurse-midwife and resume caring for underserved populations. Rhonda’s story is an excellent example of how a student’s personal calling can align strongly with FNU’s mission. Together, we are making a difference! </span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-02-27T10:55:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Kerri Schuiling, PhD, MSN, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15554972017-02-20T10:19:52Z2017-02-20T10:16:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Dr. Kerri Schuiling graduated from<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight-+Kerri+Schuiling.jpg/98f126da-b5b4-6b27-6c85-26bc1edcd4d4?t=1487603917434" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> nursing school at Northern Michigan University (NMU), she was quickly given an opportunity to become a nurse practitioner. As only the third nurse practitioner in the state of Michigan, Kerri enjoyed her work but found herself longing to become a nurse-midwife so she could be more involved with mothers and babies.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1989, Kerri caught word of the formation of the first Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program (CNEP), which was a collaborative effort of the Maternity Centers Association, the American Association of Birth centers, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She immediately picked up the phone to inquire about the program and was met with the voice of nurse-midwifery pioneer Kitty Ernst (who Kerri mistakenly thought was the secretary). Of course, Kitty was extremely helpful and encouraged Kerri to come to Frontier! Just a short time later, Kerri found herself a part of the very first CNEP class, learning under some of today’s most well-known nurse-midwifery educators. According to Kerri, she still keeps in touch with many of the women from CNEP 1. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerri credits FNU for teaching her leadership skills that have been vital to her career success. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“FNU gives its graduates so many gifts that really aren’t recognized until reflecting on it later in life,” said Kerri.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After completing her degree, Kerri was asked to help redesign a Frontier module and eventually ended up teaching a women’s health course and physiology. During this time she met Francis Likis, who also taught at Frontier. The two ultimately ended up co-editing the book </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women's Gynecologic Health</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which received the ACNM Book of the Year Award and is now in its third edition.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, Kerri currently serves as provost and vice president, academic affairs at NMU in Marquette, Michigan. She has also served as dean of NMU's College of Health Sciences and Professional Studies. Additionally, Kerri has held positions as the dean of Oakland University's School of Nursing and associate dean and director of NMU's School of Nursing. She served FNU for seven years as education director and curriculum coordinator providing the basis for the excellent curriculum delivered by FNU today.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerri holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, master's degree from Wayne State University and baccalaureate degree from Northern Michigan University (NMU). And of course, her midwifery certificate through FNU. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerri recently was asked to join the FNU board. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I attended my first on-campus board meeting last fall and was so excited to hear about everything going on at FNU,” said Kerri. “Nursing education doesn’t always allow for creativity, but I love that at Frontier creativity, innovation and transformation are all encouraged. It makes FNU special.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerri was also bestowed FNU’s 2015 Distinguished Service to Society award, which recognizes an alumnus who goes above and beyond to provide exceptional service in his or her community. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other awards Kerri has received over the years include her induction as a fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the ACNM'S Kitty Ernst award, which is given in recognition for innovative, creative endeavors in midwifery and women's health care.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4d61abb-5c19-81a5-d9db-3e18dd4bbbda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerri’s contribution to advanced nursing and midwifery education has been outstanding to say the least. Thank you for your service to the FNU community, Dr. Schuiling!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-02-20T10:16:00ZIt Takes a Village: Interprofessional MidwiferyJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15525892017-02-16T12:43:19Z2017-02-16T12:35:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/NIcholson+head+shot+2+%281%29.jpg/8f68b08e-2f7f-e530-cd8d-d1305a7227ba?t=1487266758413" style="height: 99px; width: 120px; float: left;" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a new nurse-midwife, whenever I heard the words “interprofessional” practice, I cringed. I pictured my past experiences as a nurse in which we participated in multidisciplinary care teams. These teams would meet and basically one of the following would happen:</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-022da918-47fe-ea3a-fcbd-101a0fd630bd"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my first job as a nurse-midwife, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/iStock_17387526_LARGE.jpg/d70650c1-ba8b-7edc-d718-f0bb8c163988?t=1487266871510" style="height: 191px; width: 250px; float: right;" />I began to discover some distinct client advantages for interprofessional practice. The nurse-midwives in this practice were integrated into a multi-specialty clinic. We had an open exchange of ideas with our collaborating physicians as well as the luxury of readily available referral resources like physical therapy, diabetic education and neurology.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, the practical application was that the nurse-midwife or the physician functioned as the head of the team and would send the client out to other professionals as the need arose. We would review reports on those visits and might randomly discuss a mutual client if we met at the water cooler. But we called it a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">team</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. And we felt progressive. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This limited view of interprofessional teams was recently challenged through a personal experience. I witnessed true interprofessional teamwork in action. My son (Seth) had a serious accident at age 20 that resulted in paraplegia. After several days in a trauma unit, we were transferred to a rehabilitation facility that specializes in spinal cord injuries. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were quickly introduced to a true team approach and found our family at the team’s center. It felt like a village was helping to raise Seth out of his wheelchair. The team met regularly and with concentrated focus. There were representatives from the medical staff, nursing, PT, OT, dietary, social services, and recreational therapy. Team rounds occurred in our room three times weekly. At every incidence of rounds, Seth was an active participant in reporting his experience, discussing his needs, setting and refining goals, and asking questions. Unless there was a pressing medical need, Seth’s input constructed the skeleton of the plan for the week. All team members’ input was actively sought out and valued. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leadership of the rounds was rotated. On Monday, the rounds were led by the physician. On Wednesday, the rounds were led by the Therapy Department. On Friday, nursing took the lead. This leadership was simply for organizational purposes. The true leader in any meeting emerged as the needs and objectives of care became clear. This was a thriving example of interprofessional teamwork. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a healthcare provider, I was learning valuable lessons about teamwork that can be applied to any specialty:</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-022da918-47fe-ea3a-fcbd-101a0fd630bd"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I began to think about how this authentic team approach could effectively be translated into prenatal care. How would this look? Who would be the players? How could this concept be applied in my clinic? Could the team approach help to enhance a woman’s experience as she transitions to motherhood?</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the initial prenatal visit, one of the primary concepts that I cover is that of roles. I verbalize that the woman holds great power in this relationship and is a partner in her care. She is the team leader. I have found that most women have one or two people with whom they discuss all decisions. This is very often a mother or sister. This person must be valued by the provider and their input must be acknowledged. I describe my role as secondary. I explain that I will walk beside her through this experience and watch carefully for any warning signs. If they occur, we will discuss a plan and move forward as appropriate.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pregnant women are generally healthy so the team is comprised of core members and “as needed” members. The ongoing relationship of the nurse practitioner or certified nurse-midwife and the collaborating physician is vitally important and forms the a strong foundation for the team. The core members’ focus is on wellness. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team can be introduced to the client in individual appointments or in group care settings. These members would include social services, nutritionist, childbirth and lactation educators. The “as needed members” might include the collaborating physician, perinatologist, chiropractic provider, psych provider, etc. Literature on all services can be provided in a packet of goodies given at the first visit and utilization of the services encouraged at prenatal visits. </span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-022da918-47fe-ea3a-fcbd-101a0fd630bd"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The team could also hold a monthly “meet and greet” so that the clients become aware of the services and value of the various members. This can be done so that the clients individually speak with each team member and rotate to the next team member after a short timed period (think speed dating) or in a more casual setting where there is freedom to mingle and chat. </span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the nurse-midwife, I will discuss with the client the need for involvement of the “if needed” members based on ongoing risk assessment. The collaborating physician and I will meet at least monthly to discuss any complex client situations so that we are in agreement on the plan. If a referral to the collaborating physician is needed, I take the opportunity to remind the physician of each particular client’s needs and desire and make every effort to walk the woman down to his office for a personal introduction. The woman can then observe our interaction and trust in one another. Her confidence in her care team is nurtured.</span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interprofessional teams in the prenatal setting can help to ensure that the most comprehensive and effective care is given to each woman and her family. By maintaining the client at the center of the team, we promote safe outcomes and a positive experience. Each team member contributes to the health of the mother and family.</span></span></p>
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Jordan sok2017-02-16T12:35:00ZCelebrating Mary BreckinridgeJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15496792017-02-20T14:11:04Z2017-02-13T15:33:00Z
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7906b27-3938-4455-23a5-5afa8cda74f6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Friday, Feb. 17, is the birthdate of Frontier Founder Mary Breckinridge, and we are celebrating her life by releasing historical film footage captured during the time of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7906b27-3938-4455-23a5-5afa8cda74f6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Breckinridge established FNS in Leslie County, Kentucky, in 1925, introducing the first nurse-midwives to the United States. Riding horses up mountains, through fog, flood, or snow, the FNS nurses brought modern healthcare to one of the poorest and most inaccessible areas in the U.S. This work continues today through the work of </span><a href="http://frontier.edu"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> faculty, students and graduates across the nation. Thus, Mary Breckinridge's legacy lives on.</span></span></p>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5HjSyX5abA" width="560"></iframe>Jordan sok2017-02-13T15:33:00ZLet’s chat about it… Why You Should Consider a Doctor of Nursing Practice DegreeJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15289132017-01-24T17:58:10Z2017-01-24T14:10:00Z
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><em><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/tonya+nicholson.jpg/5e108249-2088-7fc4-1c93-2a016305a6e5?t=1485298587091" style="height: 53px; width: 50px; float: left;" /><span style="font-size:12px;">By: Tonya B. Nicholson, DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC, CNE, FACNM, Associate Dean of Midwifery and Women's Health </span></em></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you considering a Doctor of Nursing <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/iStock_88872417_LARGE.jpg/e5de4fc2-1897-b054-027e-662b35642c96?t=1485298477154" style="float: right; height: 250px; width: 250px;" />Practice degree? Here’s the who, what, when and why of the DNP.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHO SHOULD GET A DNP?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why not you? You care about the families you serve, you aim to improve health care, and you want a meaningful career. You are poised to be a part of the future of nursing practice in the United States, and DNP graduates will be leading the way in clinical settings. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHAT ARE THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF DNP EDUCATION?</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHEN SHOULD I CONSIDER A DNP?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The time is now. As health care evolves, the DNP is expected to become the entry-level to advanced nursing practice. This means that all advanced practice roles, like nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners, will be required to have a DNP to obtain initial certification and licensure to practice. This may be the case within the next 5-10 years. You can be on the leading edge of this development. This will give you a professional edge in all practice settings. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The DNP is about equipping clinicians to more effectively do what advanced practice nurses have been doing for years -- changing systems and communities to optimize client care. Instead of relying on trial and error, however, the DNP prepares you to quickly and efficiently improve health care delivery for each individual client AND all clients collectively. In other words, affecting effective action.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HOW DO I GET STARTED ON A DNP?</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore the DNP options in different university settings and determine a good match for you. Here are some questions to ask yourself as you compare possible programs:</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does the program have a proven record of success?</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are considering a DNP, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has a </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/post-masters-dnp"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">post-master's DNP </span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">program, as well as an option to complete both your </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/master-science-nursing"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSN and DNP degrees</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Go </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/newprogram"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more information. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U.S. health care needs leaders like you. The most valuable product of DNP education is the graduate -- a leader, an innovator, a change agent. This could be you! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Related Content:</span></span></p>
<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/event/moving-toward-clinical-leadership-dnp-student-stories/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moving Toward Clinical Leadership: DNP Student Stories</span></a></span></h1>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hear from several FNU Doctor of Nursing Practice students about their DNP projects and the impact of their project work on their local community health care. They will also share why the DNP is essential in their career journey as a nurse-midwife or nurse practitioner.</span></span></p>
<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/event/the-dnp-impact-nurse-midwives-improving-care-for-families/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The DNP Impact: Nurse-Midwives Improving Care for Families</span></a></span></h1>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0271c8f2-d1e3-9b12-9e0d-88af3b201ad1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) was developed to meet the demand for advanced practice nursing leaders in an increasingly complex health care system. Hear from FNU Doctor of Nursing Practice graduates and how their DNP degree was essential to improving the health care of their communities. Stories of DNP projects and community outcomes will demonstrate the impact of advancing your education and clinical leadership.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2017-01-24T14:10:00ZFNU Case DaysJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15249352017-01-20T14:54:27Z2017-01-20T14:51:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Albuquerque, N.M., to Anchorage, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/madison%2C+WI+Sept.+18%2C+16+%281%29.jpg/a726ac14-778f-9bf7-27b9-4edb5abb857f?t=1484941965370" style="height: 180px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Alaska, and all the way to the island of Guam, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) hosted 116 case days with 700 participants in 2016!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Case Day is a seminar organized by the Regional Clinical Faculty (RCF) that provides opportunities for group learning and networking within a region. Students doing their clinical practicum present a case to facilitate group discussion of management options and to promote the pathways of critical thinking. These can be virtual seminars or in-person. The in-person Case Days have refreshments and opportunities for networking.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU students, alumni, preceptors, faculty, applicants and friends of FNU are always invited to attend. Case Days allow Frontier to connect with the community, while also allowing students the opportunity to network at the early stages of their program, even before beginning clinicals. They are also a great way to stay connected to FNU, get to know other students in the area, RCFs, and even possible preceptors. It's a nice way to get a sneak peek at what clinicals will be like. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Case Days, either online or live, are an essential part of clinical education at FNU,” said Jane Houston, clinical director of midwifery and women's health. “They provide a stimulating learning environment where you can learn the latest in evidence-based health care provision from your peers."</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Case Days are held at a variety of locales including faculty and student homes, restaurants, birth centers, museums and local hospital meeting rooms, among others. Some RCF hosts choose to incorporate an additional element into the gathering like a tour of the hosting museum, birth center or even a group hike.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone is invited to attend FNU Case Days. Check here for a schedule of </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/case-days"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">upcoming FNU Case Day events</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b44d924e-bd6f-c921-663c-c851d3eb8cf1"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please take a look back at all the wonderful memories from 2016 in this short video: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/eQ21L-Etq54">FNU Case Days 2016 Video.</a></span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-01-20T14:51:00ZFaculty/Alumni Spotlight: Nena HarrisJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15157512017-01-12T11:25:55Z2017-01-12T10:11:00Z
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) Faculty </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Alumna Nena Harris provides care to women and children at a free clinic for residents of a homeless shelter in Charlotte, N.C. According to Nena, most of the women in the shelter come from a long family line of poverty – some can even remember being in the shelter as children. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Substance abuse, mental health disorders, and sometimes even domestic violence and prostitution take precedence in these women’s lives, pushing their health to the back burner. At the clinic, they are able to obtain quality health care services, including prescriptions and lab work, free of charge during a very vulnerable stage of life. The clinic also offers limited extended care so that some women can return after they leave the shelter. Nena helps provide care for these women at the clinic, young and old.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I wanted to become dually certified as a </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/family-nurse-practitioner"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">family nurse practitioner</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nurse-midwife </span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so that I could offer care across the spectrum of life,” said Nena.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nena began her nursing education at an Ivy League school, intending to continue with her graduate level education there as well. After attending a birth center workshop during her first semester and interacting with a few Frontier students, Nena began researching FNU.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Everything about the history and mission of Frontier resonated with me and the type of provider I wanted to be in my community,” said Nena. “The rest is history!”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nena graduated from FNU in 2006 with a </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/master-science-nursing">master’s degree in nursing (MSN)</a> i</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n nurse-midwifery. A long with her work at the shelter clinic, she currently teaches women’s health and childbearing at FNU. According to Nena, she appreciates the opportunity to provide compassionate, quality health care to women in all stages of life. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching at FNU has allowed me to maintain balance so that I can provide care for my community just like we encourage our students to provide for their communities.”</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c2189ab5-933b-8a7e-3c91-c38c4c29fd0a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, Nena, for setting a wonderful example for compassionate care!</span></span>Jordan sok2017-01-12T10:11:00ZStaff Spotlight: Abby Hollander McCarthyJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15086452017-01-09T14:20:39Z2017-01-09T14:16:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abby McCarthy joined the Frontier family <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+Abby+McCarthy.jpg/789cfee3-519d-ed95-454f-09fe169500a2?t=1483989562551" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />two years ago as the director of advising and then moved into her current position as the director of student retention and records. In her role, she works closely with several departments to help students understand their degree requirements and academic policies. Her team also ensures that academic records are accurate and helps students identify their clinical sites.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The student retention and records office runs programs like the PRIDE Diversity Program, SAGE Mentoring, new student orientation, and résumé reviews to provide additional support to FNU students.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abby received her bachelor’s degree in secondary education (French) from the University of Mississippi in 2002 and completed her master’s degree in higher education in 2004. Abby worked at the University of Kentucky for 10 years where she was named the Ken Freedman Advisor of the Year. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Abby, she was drawn to FNU’s mission to serve rural and underserved populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It was immediately evident that the university truly lives its mission every day in order to continue the legacy of care that Mary Breckinridge put in motion so many years ago,” Abby said.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abby’s favorite part of working at FNU is the connectedness of the community.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In any given day, I talk to people in Idaho, Maine, Arizona, Alabama and overseas, and we collaborate as if we were all in the same room. On the happy occasions when I see these people on campus visits, it’s like greeting an old friend.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her spare time, Abby enjoys playing volleyball, taking kickboxing classes, and hiking with her husband and dog. She loves to work in her yard and DIY improvements on her new house.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39fe3aac-84a8-d403-8822-a05f1bf9ff96"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for your commitment to serving the students of FNU, Abby!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-01-09T14:16:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Jane Arnold, MSN, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=15027192017-01-05T08:42:22Z2017-01-05T08:35:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1989, Kitty Ernst led Frontier Nursing<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/jane+arnold.jpg/52db1425-818a-be0b-21fb-cfb231a5471f?t=1483623572546" style="float: right; width: 250px;" /> University (FNU)’s first distance learning nurse-midwifery program in Perkiomenville, PA. One member of this pioneer distance learning class was Jane Arnold, MSN, Class 1. Jane adopted the pioneer mindset during her FNU education and continued this into her esteemed and groundbreaking career.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After graduating in 1993, Jane was brought on to establish the first hospital-based nurse-midwifery practice on Long Island, Stoney Brook Medical Center. Her biggest challenge from the beginning was educating the population, as there was no prior knowledge of nurse-midwifery. She went about this task “quietly and simply” by stating, “midwives are not an alternative to physician practices but a choice.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every high-risk patient seen at Stoney Brook was sent to a physician and once cleared, returned to the nurse-midwifery practice to finish their care. As the popularity of the nurse-midwifery practice grew, many women wanted to keep their nurse-midwives even if they needed physician care, so Jane and her team managed these families in tandem with the physicians.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This education of the population didn’t happen overnight,” said Jane, “but when women realized the tender loving care we offered and that we were knowledgeable in birth and postpartum care, the floodgates opened.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By 2006, Stoney Brook nurse-midwives had attended 20,000 births and had grown to a team of 15.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2009, Jane served as the Midwifery Director at a newly built hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. She and her team recruited and educated nurse-midwives for clinics and labor and delivery. Then, in 2012, Jane spent two years in Rwanda developing a BSN program for nurse-midwives. She united American and local Rwandan nurse-midwives to develop curriculum and to build the first BSN program to exist in the African country. Her team taught classes and assisted students with delivery at community health centers.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This program was by far the most meaningful work to make a difference for women that I have ever done. It was the epiphany of my career as a nurse-midwife,” said Jane.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Frontier keeps alive the flame that Mary Breckinridge lit. She was a visionary in the care of women and what nurse-midwifery could be.”</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e4ccc37-6ed7-a0ab-0534-b4be9fd60d6f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane took part in the establishment of our distance learning program and holds a special place in our hearts at FNU. She has also provided care to thousands of women by introducing nurse-midwifery in places where it had never been before. Thank you, Jane!</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-01-05T08:35:00ZInstitute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum RecapJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14938562017-01-03T15:02:05Z2017-01-03T15:02:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this month, Frontier faculty and <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Students+and+Faculty.jpg/222eeac1-7a9e-8e60-d986-0d5f95dbb65a?t=1482869304730" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" />students attended the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, Fla., where they had</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the opportunity to network with nearly 6,000 health care professionals and voice their ideas about improving health care quality and safety.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The three-day conference featured four keynote presentations, more than 100 workshops, a full exhibit hall, a national forum bookstore, quality improvement storyboards, and numerous opportunities for networking, including special interest breakfasts. Attendees were encouraged to “practice what you preach,” and even walked on treadmills during the keynote sessions.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The most exciting part of the weekend was when FNU students </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">were recognized as "QI Project Role Models" by the IHI Open School for their health care quality improvement efforts in their communities. The IHI Open School is a global learning community, that offers online education, local Chapters, and guided improvement projects.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU alumni Dr. Cynthia McCullough, CNM, CDNP Class 1 and Dr. Jessica Blount WHNP, CDNP Class 1 presented their DNP projects via storyboard presentations at the conference. Dr. Shari Long Romero CN</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M, CDNP Class 1 was also recognized for her exemplary clinical scholarship. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU launched an IHI Open School Chapter in 2016 which brings together students with a shared interest in improving care for patients. FNU’s </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open School Chapter hosted a Story Slam event in October focused on addressing the opioid crisis as part of RightCare Action Week. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4i0i2KiivsU?list=PLHlbXU986SU-4eEg4y9VB--ElAYMpRVqv"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">View the Story Slam recording here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which featured three speakers to tell their story in addressing the opioid crisis.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5871646-41df-fbcf-a466-642ee89e66d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The IHI Forum was</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a great opportunity for FNU f</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aculty and students to join a national discussion on improving health care! For more information on IHI, go </span><a href="http://www.ihi.org/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2017-01-03T15:02:00ZFNU 2016 HighlightsJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14956832016-12-31T10:00:23Z2016-12-29T09:28:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) experienced another great year in 2016! Enjoy this video highlighting some of our special moments this year. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/frontier-nursing-university-to-expand-facilities-in-kentucky?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D6%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU announces expansion of Kentucky-based facilities.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/frontier-nursing-university-ranks-in-top-30-best-online-graduate-nursing-programs-by-u-s-news-world-report?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D6%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU ranks in Top 30 Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs by U.S. News & World Report.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/-call-the-midwife-is-back-and-fnu-is-hosting-screenings-of-season-5-in-select-cities?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D6%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU hosts screenings of “Call the Midwife” in 5 select cities</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/fnu-s-focus-on-rural-care-featured-in-diverse-magazine?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D6%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU’s focus on rural care featured in Diverse Magazine.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/frontier-nursing-university-dnp-program-ranked-in-top-10-by-best-medical-degrees?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D5%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU DNP program ranked in Top 10 by Best Medical Degrees.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/fnu-participates-in-myjeepstory?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D5%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU participates in #MyJeepStory.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/fnu-takes-pledge-on-opioid-education-as-announced-at-the-white-house?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU takes pledge on opioid education as announced at the White House.</span></a></span><br class="kix-line-break" />
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/frontier-nursing-university-announces-new-psychiatric-mental-health-nurse-practitioner-program?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU announces new Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/dr-tonya-nicholson-and-dr-rebeca-barroso-inducted-as-acnm-fellows?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU faculty inducted as ACNM Fellows.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/diversity-impact-2016-student-conference?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D3%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU hosts 6th annual Diversity Impact conference.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/courier-program-2016-wrap-up?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_urlTitle%3Dbluegrass-and-louisville-committees-host-annual-luncheon-to-support-fnu-scholarship-fund%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179392%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dtrue%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview_entry%26_33_redirect%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fportal.frontier.edu%252Fweb%252Ffnu%252Fblog%253Fp_p_id%253D33%2526p_p_lifecycle%253D0%2526p_p_state%253Dnormal%2526p_p_mode%253Dview%2526p_p_col_id%253Dcolumn-1%2526p_p_col_count%253D1%2526_33_advancedSearch%253Dfalse%2526_33_keywords%253D%2526p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%253D179394%2526_33_delta%253D5%2526p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%253Dfalse%2526_33_cur%253D1%2526_33_struts_action%253D%25252Fblogs%25252Fview%2526_33_andOperator%253Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Courier Program enjoys another successful year.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/help-kitty-s-birthday-wish-come-true?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_keywords%3DKitty%2Bturns%2B90%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dtrue%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fsearch%26_33_redirect%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fportal.frontier.edu%252Fweb%252Ffnu%252Fblog%253Fp_p_id%253D33%2526p_p_lifecycle%253D0%2526p_p_state%253Dnormal%2526p_p_mode%253Dview%2526p_p_col_id%253Dcolumn-1%2526p_p_col_count%253D1%2526_33_urlTitle%253Dalumni-homecoming-and-courier-conclave-2016-recap%2526p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%253D179394%2526p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%253Dtrue%2526_33_struts_action%253D%25252Fblogs%25252Fview_entry%2526_33_redirect%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fportal.frontier.edu%25252Fweb%25252Ffnu%25252Fblog%25253Fp_p_id%25253D33%252526p_p_lifecycle%25253D0%252526p_p_state%25253Dnormal%252526p_p_mode%25253Dview%252526p_p_col_id%25253Dcolumn-1%252526p_p_col_count%25253D1%26_33_formDate%3D1481125318896"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU Celebrates Kitty Ernst’s 90th Birthday.</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d2656a2-4afa-fba6-577e-5d6c7c70d6f3"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/bluegrass-and-louisville-committees-host-annual-luncheon-to-support-fnu-scholarship-fund?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179394%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D1%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FNU scholarship fund supported during annual luncheon.</span></a></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-12-29T09:28:00ZFNU honored with Jonas Nursing Education AwardJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14955392016-12-29T09:26:02Z2016-12-29T09:07:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jonas Center for Nursing and <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Untitled.png/fc016f49-4cbe-4e12-011b-39b37366bbbb?t=1483020960444" style="height: 71px; width: 250px; float: right;" /></span></a></span><span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Veterans Healthcare</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> culminated its 10</span><span style="font-size: 9.6px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> anniversary year by recognizing champions of nursing across the healthcare system at an awards luncheon in New York City on December 6, 2016. The awards honored accomplishments of individuals and organizations dedicated to advancing the nursing profession through outstanding leadership in a field so essential to our health and well-being. Frontier Nursing University was honored to be an award recipient.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) received the Jonas Nursing Education Award. This award was given to FNU for its unwavering service to preparing the next generation of nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners. With more than 77 years of experience, FNU is the largest continually operating nurse-midwifery education program in the U.S., started the first family nurse practitioner program in the U.S. and has graduated nearly 5,000 nurses and midwives representing every state and many foreign countries.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Our honorees represent exceptional professionals from a variety of fields, including philanthropy, academia and arts,” said </span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org/who-we-are/leadership"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donald Jonas</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who co-founded the Center with his wife, Barbara Jonas. “It is of paramount importance that we recognize and support their continuous efforts to advance nursing through innovation, education, awareness building and promoting nursing leadership.” </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susan Stone, President of FNU, accepted the Jonas Nursing Education Award on behalf of alumni and students. In her remarks, Stone noted, “We have been honored to have six Jonas Scholars graduate from Frontier Nursing University, and we have recently enrolled another four Scholars for the 2016 cohort. As a community-based program, our Scholars are from across the United States - Alaska, Maine, Montana, Idaho and Hawaii.” The Jonas program has had a very positive impact on these Scholars and their doctoral projects, introducing them to leaders in their chosen fields and interests, and connecting them to a powerful network of support. Stone’s remarks described the current enrollment of nearly 2,000 students, 59% from rural areas and 75% from health professional shortage areas, that are helping to meet FNU’s mission to educate nurses to become competent, entrepreneurial, ethical and compassionate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners who are leaders in the primary care of women and families with an emphasis on underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joining Dr. Stone at the awards luncheon were several honored guests including Susan Graham, descendant of FNU’s founder Mary Breckinridge, and her husband Jon Kucera; Noel Smith Fernandez, former Social Services Secretary for the Frontier Nursing Service; and Ruth and Bill Lubic, national leaders in the midwifery field. Dr. Julie Marfell, Dean of Nursing, and Denise Barrett, Director of Development, were also present to accept this award. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Awards were also presented to the following individuals and organizations to recognize their outstanding contributions to nursing.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Blaustein is an Emeritus assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was one of the original founders and a board member of the Baltimore Rape Crisis Center and the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Maryland, and is the past president of the Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation, a longtime partner of the Jonas Center. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Started in 2007 as an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under the leadership of Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN and Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Center to Champion Nursing in America believes that everyone in America can live a healthier life, supported by a system in which nurses are essential partners in providing health care and promoting health.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fagin, Dean Emerita and Leadership Professor Emerita of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, is an Ambassador to the Jonas Scholar program and provides guidance for the Center’s strategic planning.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 18pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Jones is the creator of a book and film, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The American Nurse,</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> focused on raising the volume of the nurse’s voice in this country, and the forthcoming film </span><a href="http://dyinginamerica.org/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defining Hope</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which examines the dying experience through the eyes of nurses, and is supported in part by the Jonas Center. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4227b178-4aea-5834-0772-6042e81208cd"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We congratulate and sincerely thank this year’s honorees for their professional and outstanding contributions to the vitally important field of nursing,” said </span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org/who-we-are/staff"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Darlene J. Curley</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, CEO of </span><a href="http://www.jonascenter.org/who-we-are/jonas-family-fund"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jonas Family Fund</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Executive Director of the Jonas Center. </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-12-29T09:07:00ZFNU Celebrates Longstanding Holiday Tradition at the Big HouseJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14910172016-12-22T11:47:59Z2016-12-22T11:24:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Saturday, Dec. 3, Frontier Nursing <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Wendover+Holiday+Open+House+1.JPG/54710e07-18d5-4c53-a907-acb7eb339c51?t=1482424320723" style="float: right; height: 166px; width: 250px;" />University (FNU) proudly hosted the annual Holiday Open House - at the Wendover Big House, the historic log home of FNU founder Mrs. Mary Breckinridge. The local community was invited, and many current and former families of Leslie County, Ky., attended the joyous celebration. Guests enjoyed homemade cookies and Wendover's very own signature hot chocolate. Drama students from Leslie County High School conducted tours of the Big House in character of Frontier Nursing Service Staff from 1925.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Wendover+Holiday+Open+House+2.JPG/b276cbbb-d4bc-4cba-9f2b-f076f6c02631?t=1482424330950" style="float: left; height: 166px; width: 250px;" />Kiersten White featured a Healthy Foods activity as her first quarterly event in line with her Americorps VISTA service. She created handouts for parents with Healthy Holiday tips and advice for picky eaters. She also worked hands-on with many children who attended the party, talking about their favorite foods and food groups to promote healthy lifestyles.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Santa Claus was also on hand to give gifts to the children. The toys were purchased using Christmas and Children's Fund donations given by FNU friends. The remaining toys were donated to the Leslie County School District Resource Center to be given away to area families. The Fund was also used to purchase 20 hams for the Leslie County Food Pantry.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The holiday party tradition at the Big <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Wendover+Holiday+Open+House+3.JPG/b2c864f0-e870-4b96-9b98-0bef559010a4?t=1482424344020" style="width: 250px; float: right; height: 166px;" />House started in Hyden, Ky., on Christmas Day in 1925. More than 500 people enjoyed this very special open house and Big House celebration. Click here to view the </span><a href="http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Nurses-use-tradition-to-encourage-healthy-eating-during-holiday-season-404517196.html"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wendover Community Holiday Party</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on WYMT news.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155030207553394.1073741888.74873358393&type=1&l=b8488b972f"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">View photos from the Wendover Holiday Open House here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 8pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc335028-2758-defb-2d12-d0790816c3d7"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn at </span><a href="http://frontier.edu/wendover"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">frontier.edu/wendover</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn is owned and operated by Frontier Nursing University. The Wendover Big House is designated as a National Historic Landmark.</span></span></p>Jordan sok2016-12-22T11:24:00ZTake the Classroom Anywhere with the Frontier Digital DepotJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14872452016-12-20T10:19:31Z2016-12-19T10:47:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) strives <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/digital+depot+1.jpg/396eaac0-5923-4cc4-a949-e0a81a221507?t=1482247106578" style="height: 207px; width: 250px; float: right;" />to provide the best in community-based distance education. With students, faculty, preceptors and alumni around the world, our dynamic Web portal fosters interaction among the FNU community. We also offer a number of online resources for </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">self-directed and independent learning, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">such as the Frontier Digital Depot (FDD). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FDD is an online repository that makes collections of instructional content, scholarly publication citations, and student projects easily accessible to FNU students, alumni, faculty, staff, preceptors and the public. These collections allow the FNU community to stay up-to-date with the latest health care research. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://cdm16161.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16161coll4"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning Objects</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> section of the site offers users a selection of FNU’s </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">current instructional content related to nurse-midwifery and family nursing, meaning students can revisit what they are learning in class for further clarification or research. This collection was recently made public, meaning the general public and the nursing community can access educational resource materials and also stay up-to-date with scholarly lessons from the FNU classroom.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“These videos and publications contribute to the understanding of difficult concepts,” said FNU Assistant Professor Dr. Kim Baraona. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another feature of the FDD is the </span><a href="http://cdm16161.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16161coll3"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations Collection</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which not only provides a valuable student resource but also highlights FNU faculty and staff research and scholarly activities. The collection currently has 56 publications listed.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Projects from FNU's Doctor of Nursing Practice students are also included in the FDD in the </span><a href="http://cdm16161.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/dc"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DNP Projects</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> section. This collection allows others to learn from the students’ research, while showcasing the students’ knowledge to possible future employers. Currently, there are over 300 projects available on the site.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Anne Cockerham, FNU associate dean of midwifery & women’s health, the FDD showcases the FNU community and its depth of expertise. “It’s a great way to share content across the curriculum and to show off what we do to outside audiences,” said Cockerham.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5be0ae8-17c3-a664-1289-c6b07580b09a"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter what your tie to the FNU Community is, we hope you will take advantage of this incredible resource. Click</span><a href="http://library.frontier.edu/digitaldepot"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to begin exploring the Frontier Digital Depot today! </span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-12-19T10:47:00ZStaff Spotlight: Shelley AldridgeJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14832982016-12-15T11:31:07Z2016-12-15T11:16:00Z<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After graduating from the University of <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight-+Shelley+Aldridge.jpeg/3c7df748-1cb7-4bc3-be1a-c545affc8f13?t=1481819344163" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Kentucky, Shelley Aldridge found the perfect workplace to begin her career – Frontier Nursing University (FNU). </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fresh out of college in 1999, Shelley applied for a administrative assistant position at FNU. She landed an interview with FNU President Dr. Susan Stone, who was at that time the program director of the nurse-midwifery program. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I was inspired by her vision of healthcare for women and families in the United States, and I was intrigued by the world of midwifery - which I pronounced wrong in the interview, and she very politely corrected me,” said Shelley.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shelley got the job and quickly learned the ropes, proving herself to be an effective leader. In 2010, Shelley was promoted to chief operations officer, where she has been thriving ever since.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working behind the scenes at FNU, Shelley enjoys a different perspective than most. She loves to solve problems and overcome challenges on the business side of operations, and her team is always working to improve processes. Shelley encourages her employees to enjoy their time at FNU and provides them with the tools they need to be successful.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Everyone at Frontier lives and breathes our mission to improve access to quality healthcare by educating future nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners,” said Shelley. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When she’s not working hard at FNU, Shelley enjoys camping, cooking, hiking and swimming with her husband of 16 years and their two young daughters.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e3f7f0b0-0344-d593-2531-b182d768edb5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU community is proud to have Shelley serving as our COO.</span></span></p>
<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-12-15T11:16:00ZFeatured Preceptor: Erin Crone, FNPJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14800752016-12-12T11:00:36Z2016-12-12T10:56:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98402a16-f3bf-247d-4a34-c36939b52692"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98402a16-f3bf-247d-4a34-c36939b52692"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) preceptor <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Erin+Crone.jpg/5a297626-2c93-46fe-a01b-9df516aa2681?t=1481558388845" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Erin Crone, FNP, from Pullman & Ariza Pediatrics of Washington, D.C., was honored as FNU’s “Featured Preceptor” for the fall term. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erin was nominated by former student Marzi Viverette, FNP class 109, and FNU faculty member, Dr. Amy Nassar. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98402a16-f3bf-247d-4a34-c36939b52692"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Erin was an amazing preceptor,” said Marzi. “She was a patient teacher who always took the time to answer my questions and help guide me during my pediatric clinicals.” </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98402a16-f3bf-247d-4a34-c36939b52692"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erin’s love of teaching students one-on-one led her to begin precepting nurse practitioner students in January 2012. Precepting gives Erin the ability to provide a comprehensive learning experience in pediatrics. According to Dr. Nassar, Erin’s usage of evidence-based care helps FNU students learn how to treat illnesses and conditions according to guidelines.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-98402a16-f3bf-247d-4a34-c36939b52692"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/preceptor-archive"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to read more on previously recognized preceptors, or to nominate a preceptor.</span></span>Jordan sok2016-12-12T10:56:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Liz Nutter, MSN, CNM, DNPJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14764532016-12-08T07:22:42Z2016-12-08T07:17:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Liz Nutter was working on <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+Liz+Nutter+.jpg/43d8b0f5-760f-44e4-bd8e-8daa56f51d8d?t=1481199681145" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Frontier Nursing University (FNU), she conducted research on water birth and became one of few experts in the field. Now, she is passing on her expertise and knowledge by mentoring other DNP students at FNU.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Liz was introduced to the idea of a DNP, she knew it was a perfect fit. She decided to become a nurse-midwife because she wanted to stay at the bedside and implement change in her population.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an active duty Major in the United States Army, Liz completed her studies while serving as Chief Midwife and overseeing a staff of nurse-midwives on top of her Army duties. Liz was the first midwife in the Army to have a DNP degree.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Liz, the DNP program has opened many educational and professional doors. Her area of expertise is water birth, which the Army has been doing since 2004.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The OBGYN consultant to the Army Surgeon General contacted me and asked me to do a multi-center clinical trial to get a retrospective review of our data,” said Liz. “At the time, we were all using different protocols and had fantastic outcomes, but our data didn’t mean anything until we standardized our approach.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Liz took her DNP as an opportunity to explore the evidence. She took an extensive look at the literature surrounding water birth and developed a protocol based on the evidence of her research. She put together the Department of Defense’s Water Birth Program, which included training for nurses and providers.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The DNP allowed me to reach out to well-published experts that I would not have had the opportunity to speak with if my ‘doctoral student’ status had not opened those doors,” said Liz. “The DNP has also given me the title and respect to be able to articulate the evidence I found through my extensive research when I met resistance from some of our pediatric colleagues who have doubts about water birth.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Liz, her degree has also helped her bridge the gap between Certified Nurse-Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives (CPM). She has had numerous speaking opportunities with CPM organizations and the American College of Nurse-Midwives, among others.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I recently had an opportunity to speak at an international conference which was wonderful because I was able to see how our sister midwives in other countries are practicing,” said Liz.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Liz has also published two peer-reviewed articles in the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and published two chapters in books on water birth.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While her expertise is in water birth, Liz’s education has changed her perspective clinically, prompting her to consult the evidence in all aspects of her practice. She shares this with her nurses and takes articles to her colleagues, showing them the latest and greatest practices and encouraging their immediate implementation.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I think it’s really important that as DNPs, we’re leading the way. We should be taking what research PhDs have put out there and quickly implementing it into practice change. There’s no reason to have a 12 to 15-year gap where the research is sitting on a shelf and not moving into clinical practice.”</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with her impressive professional accomplishments, one thing Liz loves to do is to mentor DNP students.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I love mentoring – that’s one of my passions. I feel like it’s my doctoral responsibility to pass on my knowledge and mentor midwives that want to take this skill into practice.”</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-b38e88cc-de5d-a3ee-c4b2-72a30da3c20e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The FNU family thanks Liz for her service to our country and her dedication to her field!</span></span>Jordan sok2016-12-08T07:17:00ZRecap: First Annual Chi Pi STTI Sunset Glow Walk and TalkJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14728012016-12-06T07:24:07Z2016-12-04T23:11:00Z<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-43880dd3-cd2d-d3d1-7d93-22dcba9b98d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Oct. 20, Frontier Nursing University<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/2016+STTI+sign+pic..jpg/9936087f-85ce-4b97-a0e8-bd71a972f384?t=1481026995230" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> (FNU) faculty braved the cold and rainy weather to come together for a good cause. Held in the evening at the Leslie County High School track, FNU’s Honor Society, the Sigma Theta Tau International Chi Pi Chapter (Chi Pi STTI), organized a charity fundraiser walk. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-43880dd3-cd2d-d3d1-7d93-22dcba9b98d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complete with glow sticks and glow in the dark clothing, 15 participants walked a mile to raise funds to support a local Leslie County charity, The Pantry at Big Creek Missions. Big Creek Missions is a Christian ministry center in Bear Branch, Ky., that works to connect churches and volunteer groups from across the country with needs that exist in Leslie, Clay and Perry counties. For more information on Big Creek Missions, click </span><a href="http://bigcreekmissions.com/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-43880dd3-cd2d-d3d1-7d93-22dcba9b98d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/2016+STTI+walk+.jpg/6eab1427-5132-4d97-920e-4144b15954ae?t=1480911472000" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: left;" />Despite the inclement weather for the walk, the first annual Chi Pi STTI Sunset Glow Walk and Talk Charity Fundraiser collected $900 and approximately $100 worth of food for The Pantry at Big Creek Mission. The faculty and administration of the FNU Chi Pi STTI Chapter is matching the monetary donations, for a total of $1800.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-43880dd3-cd2d-d3d1-7d93-22dcba9b98d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Mary Lewis, the director of The Pantry, this will buy at least 12 pallets of food, to be distributed among the 900 families that The Pantry serves monthly. </span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-43880dd3-cd2d-d3d1-7d93-22dcba9b98d0"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of Chi Pi, and STTI, is to promote global health and wellness. Visit </span><a href="http://www.nursingsociety.org/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this link</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more information on STTI. </span></span>Jordan sok2016-12-04T23:11:00ZAlumni Homecoming and Courier Conclave 2016 RecapJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14697152016-12-01T11:40:34Z2016-12-01T11:33:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">By: Angela Bailey, FNU Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d6f0c90-bb3b-e063-54ee-d0e17c2bc19d"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As anyone who has visited the Big <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Homecoming.jpg/25e0737d-8b7f-4763-8a1b-525a2386d0aa?t=1480610288698" style="height: 127px; width: 250px; float: right;" />House at Wendover knows, there is a magic in those grounds that connects visitors to the history and service of Frontier Nursing University (FNU) in a nearly spiritual way. That magic was in abundance during our 2016 Homecoming celebration held Sept. 30 - Oct. 2. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d6f0c90-bb3b-e063-54ee-d0e17c2bc19d"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over 40 individuals came together for laughter, sharing and renewal. Attendees enjoyed a special Pioneer celebration, alumni and courier award presentations, continuing education opportunities, a party to celebrate the 90th birthday of Kitty Ernst, the Mary Breckinridge Festival, and much more.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d6f0c90-bb3b-e063-54ee-d0e17c2bc19d"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While a plethora of planned activities were available, some of the most special moments occurred spontaneously. Here are just a few of the moments that made the 2016 Homecoming so magical:</span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-12-01T11:33:00ZAlumni/Faculty Spotlight: Patricia Caudle, DNSc, FNP, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14650282016-11-28T10:25:06Z2016-11-28T10:17:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) was <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+Spotlight+-+Pat+Caudle.jpg/e8d58dd9-f204-47ae-ad5f-3b4d6a7cf73d?t=1480346526692" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />proud to recognize alumnus Dr. Pat Caudle with The Distinguished Service to Alma Mater award at this year’s Homecoming event. The award honors an alumnus who has continued to provide support to FNU through volunteer efforts and donor support. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Caudle is a graduate of Class 9 and is currently </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an associate professor with Frontier. She is dual certified by both the American Midwifery Certification Board and American Nurses Credentialing Council. She has practiced as a certified nurse-midwife in full scope and as a family nurse practitioner. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At FNU, Dr. Caudle is the course coordinator for Advanced Pathophysiology and has held that position since 2000. She has also taught several other courses at FNU, including Primary Care, Reproductive Physiology and Clinical Bound courses. Before coming to FNU in 2000, Dr. Caudle helped teach associate, baccalaureate and master degree nursing programs.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During her tenure at FNU, Dr. Caudle has been awarded the Student Choice Award four times. She has written several chapters for textbooks, acted as a reviewer for textbooks and served as a reviewer for the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Midwifery</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Family Nursing</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She served in various capacities for eight years for the American Midwifery Certification Board.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to teaching, Dr. Caudle has worked in hospital care, as a nurse in the United States Air Force, as a public health nurse, and as a primary care provider in various clinics. Dr. Caudle served as a nurse-midwife in the Faculty Practice in Hyden, Ky., for 2+ years. She also volunteered and served for 10 years as a provider for the Christian Health Center in Cleburne County, Ark.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fc46494-ab82-8bb1-bb7b-b98d3c027f5c"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to her dedication as a faculty member, Dr. Caudle is a leadership donor to Frontier, providing generous annual support for the endowment and to the Kitty Ernst Chair of Midwifery. </span></span></p>
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<div> </div>Jordan sok2016-11-28T10:17:00ZBluegrass and Louisville Committees Host Annual Luncheon to Support FNU Scholarship FundJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14577952016-11-21T12:12:36Z2016-11-21T10:20:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-41fa3ec2-8779-6b40-0ed8-52dc768067cc" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">On September 14, 2016, the <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/BG_Louisville+Committe+Luncheon+pan+shot.jpg/47ec8467-0bbd-4d02-922d-4def05c49ee9?t=1479741806132" style="height: 187px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Bluegrass and Louisville Committees hosted a combined annual luncheon at the Lexington Country Club, in Lexington, Ky., to support Frontier Nursing University (FNU). There were more than 100 people in attendance and over $10,000 was raised for the FNU Scholarship Fund. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The luncheon featured an update from FNU President Dr. Susan Stone, a keynote address from the award winning Kentucky author Silas House and a rousing call to action by Bluegrass Committee Member, Lindy Karns.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Silas House is a nationally bestselling writer whose work frequently appears in </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. He is a former commentator for NPR, and his work has been widely published in journals and magazines. He has lectured internationally and is widely regarded as one of the major writers of the American South.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Student Scholarship Fund gives students who are financially strained the ability to attend FNU, an opportunity they may not have otherwise. Kristen Smith, CNEP Class 136 is one student that benefits from the scholarship fund.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I have wanted to be a nurse-midwife since high school, and my goal is to give back to my community by being a trusted resource, teacher, colleague and healthcare provider to women of rural eastern Kentucky,” said Kristen. “The scholarship has provided me with financial security and fosters a foundation of continued success at FNU.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Those interested in giving to our Student Scholarship Fund can do so </span><a href="https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E202861&id=1" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">See photos of various FNU events, including the luncheon, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154305711843394.1073741876.74873358393&type=1&l=e9d10e38e5">here</a>. </span></p>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>Jordan sok2016-11-21T10:20:00ZCourier Spotlight: Marian LieboldJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14545612016-11-17T11:08:02Z2016-11-17T09:12:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-6789797c-72a1-ff80-ac8f-395c921bf891" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
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<h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:26pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to come work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nurse-midwives during home visits and births. F</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">rontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.</span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is proud to announce that Marian Liebold received the 2016 Courier Program Unbridled Service Award at this year’s Homecoming ceremony. This award is given annually to a former Courier who has carried the torch of Mary Breckinridge beyond the mountains, perpetuating the mission and spirit of Frontier in their own lives. The criteria for this award includes dedication to serving others; ongoing, longstanding stewardship of Frontier; and demonstration of personal conviction, courage and a zest for adventure. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1a1a1a;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Marian</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1a1a1a;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1a1a1a;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">served as a Courier in 1977</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1a1a1a;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Marian+Leibold.jpg/1c6e8c18-ed5e-4857-a14a-5e3f45ea2b0c?t=1479398505216" style="float: right; height: 166px; width: 250px;" />and has continued to volunteer in various capacities since that time. She has most recently served on the Courier Program Advisory Council and as Chair of the FNU Cincinnati Committee. As Chair, Marian hosts an annual dinner in Cincinnati for Frontier Couriers, alumni, donors and others interested in learning about FNU. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1a1a1a;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Through her annual events and the passionate story of how her experience as a Courier affected her own life, Marian has helped to drive new support for Frontier in addition to her own leadership support - all of which helps to sustain and grow the Courier program.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Marian is an active philanthropist and volunteer. She has served on numerous boards in addition to her role with FNU including the Bethesda Foundation, Hospice of Cincinnati, The Summit Country Day School, the Barrett Cancer Fund, Convalescent Hospital for Children, and the Cincinnati Parks Foundation. A Master Gardener, Marian serves as the Zone X (Ohio, Michigan and Indiana) Conservation Representative of the Garden Club of America. Marian was among the first to complete the inaugural Docent Training Program with the Cincinnati Parks Foundation and leads tours of the riverfront parks.</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3d257787-730b-03db-ef9b-403bf974984d" style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU family thanks Marian for her many years of support and advisement to FNU and all her life’s work to help better her community!</span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t81MNxIN6qA?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Jordan sok2016-11-17T09:12:00ZFrontier Nursing University Awards Degrees to Nurse-Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Graduates from Across the U.S.Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14500072016-11-14T11:23:48Z2016-11-14T11:20:00Z<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-71fa76f1-639f-8ea2-d74e-a7ad644a739d" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">HYDEN, KENTUCKY – </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU), a graduate school educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners, hosted its 2016 commencement ceremony in Hyden, Ky., near the historic FNU campus, on Saturday, Oct. 22nd. Over the past year, nearly 550 nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners from almost every state across the nation completed an FNU distance-education program; 44 of these graduates are from FNU’s home state of Kentucky. More than 1000 attendees joined for the commencement ceremony to honor these graduates. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Started by nurse-midwifery pioneer Mary Breckinridge, FNU has been educating nurses and midwives for more than 77 years and has grown into one of the country’s leading graduate schools with an enrollment exceeding 1800, and is recognized in the Top 30 online graduate nursing schools by U.S. News & World Report. FNU offers doctoral and master’s degrees for nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners. The university utilizes innovative distance-education methods to reach nurses throughout the country and the world. FNU graduates provide primary care for women and families residing in all areas, with a focus on rural and underserved communities.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU President Dr. Susan Stone presided over the commencement ceremony and degrees were conferred on graduates of FNU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) programs. MSN graduates completed the Nurse-Midwifery, Family Nurse Practitioner or Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner specialty tracks. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Kitty Ernst, FNU’s Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery, delivered the keynote address to the 2016 graduates. Ernst is a pioneer in the field of midwifery and in developing the best care possible for families in pregnancy and birth. She has been a permanent leader in the nurse-midwifery profession since graduating from the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery in 1951. Ernst was also the co-founder of the National Association of Childbearing Centers (known as the American Association of Birth Centers today) and served as a leader in the effort to bring birth centers into the mainstream of health care delivery.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The commencement ceremony recording is available </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/commencement-live-stream?platform=hootsuite" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For more information, contact Brittney Edwards, Director of Marketing and Communications, at 859-899-2515 or visit the Frontier Nursing University web site at </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">www.frontier.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University's programs are consistently ranked among the top in the nation. FNU's family nurse practitioner program currently ranks in the Top 15 by U.S. News & World Report. Our Master of Science in Nursing ranks in the Top 30 online graduate nursing programs by U.S. News and as the #3 online MSN program in the country by BestColleges.com. Our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program is ranked No. 10 in Best Medical Degrees’ “50 Best Value Online DNP Degree Programs." FNU's nurse-midwifery program was ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report in 2016.</span>Jordan sok2016-11-14T11:20:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Jan Stalder, APRN, FNP-CJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14472312016-11-10T12:37:14Z2016-11-10T12:27:00Z<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) was <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Jan+Stalder.jpg/f3448926-6f29-4261-9fa4-ca6402134e2b?t=1478799405868" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />proud to recognize alumnus Jan Stalder, FNP with The Distinguished Service to Society award at this year’s Homecoming event. The award recognizes an alumnus who goes above and beyond to provide exceptional service in his or her community. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As a family nurse practitioner (FNP), paramedic and firefighter, Jan serves her community in multiple ways. Her formal education includes a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Texas-Arlington and a post-graduate certification as part of FNP Class 65 at Frontier. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas System School of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Jan’s career includes experience in hospital orthopedics, intensive care and clinical genetics. She has nearly 20 years of experience in disaster response and preparedness. She holds current certifications as a paramedic and a structural firefighter through the state of Texas. Jan was honored to have been appointed by the governor to serve as a state commissioner on the Texas Commission on Fire Protection. As a founding member of Texas 4 DMAT (federal disaster medical assistance team), Jan also works with a group of professional and paraprofessional medical personnel designed to provide emergency medical care during a disaster or other unusual event. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">During Jan’s 14 years of service, she has held the positions of supervisory nurse manager, training officer and operations chief. Jan was again honored when selected as a charter member of Texas Task Force 1 (TXTF1), a federal urban search and rescue team. TXTF1 is one of 28 federal teams comprised of the fire service elite for the purpose of responding to catastrophic incidents in the United States. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Jan’s experiences include serving in New Orleans during the immediate aftermath of Katrina, at ground zero in New York City, in East Texas during the recovery efforts for the Shuttle Columbia, in the outback of Australia searching for a missing American and countless other missions.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Jan currently is the owner of </span><a href="http://www.frontierfamilyhealth.com/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Family Health</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> in McKinney, Texas. She established Frontier Family Health to provide personalized healthcare for individuals, families and business entities in and around the Collin County area. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU family is honored to present Jan with the 2016 Distinguished Service to Society Award. Thank you, Jan, for your contribution to advanced nursing! </span>Jordan sok2016-11-10T12:27:00ZCelebrate National Nurse Practitioner Week with FNUJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14443692016-11-15T10:56:11Z2016-11-07T13:47:00Z<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8fdef695-401d-257c-b8aa-4aaea560dfdf" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As part of our virtual event, we are looking for stories about nurse practitioners. Are you an NP? Is your health care provider an NP? What compelling stories do you have about your experience? We want to hear them and share them with our Frontier Nursing University community as part of our celebration! Share your story</span><a href="http://npweek.fnudigitalsummit.com/share-your-nurse-practitioner-story/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#777777;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Please provide your email address</span><a href="http://npweek.fnudigitalsummit.com/newsletter-sign-up/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here,</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and we’ll keep you updated on FNU’s National Nurse Practitioner Week celebration! To learn more about FNU’s distance education programs and degrees, visit us</span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span></p>Jordan sok2016-11-07T13:47:00ZCourier Program 2016 Wrap-UpJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14437852016-11-10T12:25:47Z2016-11-07T08:32:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-514b89d9-3ef9-c08c-a709-b2531dda8a1d" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">By: Mandy Hancock, Courier Program Coordinator</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Courier Program has officially wrapped <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Screenshot+2016-11-07+08.34.23.jpg/505cf146-ce39-4a8d-9b6d-aa3c0984e925?t=1478526025520" style="float: right; height: 184px; width: 250px;" />up another successful summer! I can say these amazing young men and women left an incredible impact on the communities in which they served. So what projects did the Couriers do this year? Here are a few!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Planning a health fair</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This summer, Couriers worked with a total of 13 different organizations to round out their Courier experience. In addition to completing service work, Couriers completed comprehensive community health profiles of their respective areas to learn more about the complexities and health problems facing these counties. Through their service, Couriers learn more about rural health and communities, while assisting these organizations and clinics with special projects. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In their own words</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: Hear from the Couriers themselves about the impact of their experience.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“My knowledge of healthcare as a whole in rural and underserved populations has grown exponentially. I learned so much about the struggles that people face day to day in a rural environment with little resources.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Through this internship I learned that quality health care does not start when a patient walks into the practitioner's office. Instead, quality health care has everything to do with the daily living and the daily health challenges of local residents who see local practitioners.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I will absolutely recommend the courier program, along with Frontier Nursing University, to friends and family. It was very well organized and fills me with a proud spirit, that people are here in the world doing good things and inspiring others to give back. The world needs to know Appalachia better... I gained so much and I think it'll influence the rest of my career in healthcare…”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I learned that a passion for service and love for fellow people is the common thread among the healthcare providers and other employees I worked with; in these communities, no matter what significant challenges come up, they are always faced with fierce love and creative solutions. I learned so much! It is hard to encapsulate it all.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/courier-spotlight-meet-our-2016-couriers-part-1-?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179393%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Meet our 2016 Couriers (Part 1 of 2)</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/courier-spotlight-meet-our-2016-couriers-part-2-?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D179393%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Meet our 2016 Couriers (Part 2 of 2)</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By2RChNsa9C4UVRzTnNSZmJuRHc" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">View this graphic to learn more about the Courier Program 2014-2016.</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Learn more about the Courier Program and how Mary Breckinridge’s legacy continues today: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#ff0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">One FNU student who has benefited from the generous support of scholarships is Tess Anna Interlicchia, a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) student. Tess is a single mother to two small children, and thanks to financial assistance, she is able to spend time with her children every weekend instead of working.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“After graduation, I plan to work as a homecare FNP in my hometown, an underserved rural area of Steuben County, N.Y. The elderly have always been my first love, and I will be honored to serve them in their homes,” said Tess. “I feel that serving the truly underserved honors the spirit of Frontier.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><img alt="" height="280" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/GivingTuesday+square.jpg/a661a455-1511-4428-a8f3-caad27115a32?t=1478007330549" style="float: left;" width="280" /></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Many students like Tess are earning degrees with the intent to use their expertise and knowledge to serve underprivileged members of their home communities. These studen</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ts have witnessed the need in their areas first-hand and are committed to improving health care where they serve.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The education provided by FNU gives graduates a measure of respect that comes with the title they earn with their degree, whether it be Certified Nurse-Midwife, Family Nurse Practitioner, Doctor of Nursing Practice, or any other title. Kyle Farmer, an FNP student and scholarship recipi</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ent, knows that his education will help him to gain the trust of people in his hometown of Leslie County, Ky.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“As I witness in my community’s hospital,” said Kyle, “many people in my area don’t seek medical attention when it is needed. This is due not only to a lack of providers, but also to a lack of trust in present providers. Appalachia has possessed a culture of self-sufficiency throughout history, but I feel that through the trusting relationships I will establish as an FNP, more people in my community will promptly seek health car</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">e.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Currently, only 2 percent of FNU students receive scholarship support. Most Frontier students are employed full-time and are responsible for supporting their families. The need for financial support for our students is great: when a new scholarship for students with financial hardships became available, FNU received 64 applications within 48 </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">hours.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f402116c-2019-406e-3a7b-e776e7f628d8" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Giving to the Frontier Student Scholarship Fund is investing in the education of FNU students, but beyond that, it is empowering these students to make a difference where they serve and to improve the overall healthcare situation in underprivileged communities.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Please answer the call, as so many of our students have, and consider a gift to the Frontier Student Scholarship Fund on #GivingTuesday, November 29! For more information on #GivingTuesday, check out </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/answerthecall" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.frontier.edu/answerthecall</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. You can give directly to the cause </span><a href="https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E202861&id=16" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span></p>Jordan sok2016-11-01T08:52:00ZLet Our Stories Move You to Answer the CallJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14371992016-10-31T13:07:07Z2016-10-31T12:34:00Z<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">By: Dr. Susan Stone</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In celebration of National Midwifery </span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/DS-Home-2.jpg/45c86bae-09b4-4a20-8a34-dc285752c1bc?t=1474043378000" style="height: 110px; width: 250px; float: right;" /></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Week in October, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) hosted our second annual</span></b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/">Digital Summit</a></span><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/"><b> </b></a>focused on nurse-midwifery.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This year also marked a special occasion for the FNU community as Kitty Ernst, FNU’s Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery, celebrated her 90</span><span style="font-size:9.6px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> birthday.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kitty has been a leader in the field of midwifery for more than 60 years and an incredible mentor to many of us at FNU. As we advocate for advancing nurse-midwifery care and education, Kitty has always encouraged us to share our stories to get our message across. And so we did.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The theme</span></b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> of <a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/">FNU's Digital Summit </a></span><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">was “Let Our Stories Move You to Answer the Call.” We spent an exciting week exploring the experiences and stories of <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Certified Nurse-Midwives</a> who are passionate leaders committed to better care for women and families.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">According to the American Midwifery Certification Board, there are more than 11,000 <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Certified Nurse-Midwives</a> and the number of midwife-attended births in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1991. FNU’s goal, and one of the reasons we host the<a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com"> Digital Summit</a>, is to be a leading educator for the 100,000 nurse-midwives needed as we move forward in reform of our health care system.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nurse-midwives are focused on the needs of the women they serve.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When Mary Breckinridge founded Frontier Nursing University more than 75 years ago, her vision was to provide nurse-midwifery care to serve the needs of women and families in rural and underserved areas. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">A study from the American College of Nurse-Midwives in 2012 found that women receiving midwifery care reported higher levels of patient satisfaction and lower costs due to fewer </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">unnecessary</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">, invasive</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">and expensive interventions.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Nurse-midwives </a>reach more mothers and increase care options for women and families through birth centers. During the <a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com">Digital Summit</a>, we heard heartwarming stories from families who chose birth center care and nurse-midwives who provide safe environments for women to have their babies. The number of midwifery-led birth centers has increased 65 percent in the past eight years, and our hope is that this model of care will continue to grow.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nurse-midwives are expanding their roles by adding other certifications.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">At Frontier, we</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">encourage <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwives </a>to think broadly about the needs of the communities they serve. Mary Breckinridge and pioneers like Kitty Ernst who have carried her legacy forward have demonstrated that nurse-midwives who care for the family benefit the entire community.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Many <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwives</a> are taking their careers a step further to ensure they are prepared to be change agents in their communities by focusing on evidence-based care, quality improvement and leadership. One example is <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/newprogram">Frontier Nursing University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)</a>. We developed this degree program to meet the demand for advanced practice nursing leaders in an increasingly complex health care system. With a <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/newprogram">DNP</a> education our graduates can directly implement evidence-based practices that lead to improved care in their communities.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">FNU DNP graduates shared during the <a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com">Digital Summit</a> how their advanced degrees are essential to improving the healthcare of their communities. We hope that more <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwives</a> and <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/family-nurse-practitioner">nurse practitioners</a> with a mission and vision for the future will choose to advance their education and clinical leadership.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Additionally, many <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwives</a> are going beyond primary and maternity care to address the mental health of the women they serve. New in 2017, FNU will offer a <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/pmhnp-post-masters-certificate">Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program</a> with an option to complete a companion DNP degree. Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 classes.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We need more nurses to answer the call.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">During the <a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com">Digital Summit</a>, I also shared my story. As a head nurse in an obstetrical ward, I found my passion for improving the childbirth experience for women. I knew that only through compassionate, humanistic and women-centered care could health outcomes be improved for mothers, babies and families. So, I answered the call.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">My journey at FNU started as a <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwifery</a> student in the school’s first distance education class. I later joined FNU as a faculty member, which eventually led to my current role as president. I’ve had the opportunity to advocate for advanced nursing and midwifery education, as well as the care of women throughout their lives in underserved communities around the world.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">Nurse-midwives</a> don’t just provide maternity care and attend births. The modern nurse-midwife plays a larger role in women's healthcare and health of the entire family. We hope our stories inspired more nurses to answer the call, whether that’s pursuing a certification in <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwifery</a>, expanding their roles as <a href="http://www.frontier.edu/nurse-midwife">nurse-midwives</a> or mentoring and precepting to shape the future of midwifery care.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We invite you to learn more about the <a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com">FNU Digital Summit</a> and view the 2016 sessions and videos </span></b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">at <a href="http://www.fnudigitalsummit.com">www.FNUDigitalSummit.com</a></span><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dr. Susan Stone</span></b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a8a7239c-1b93-42bb-82ea-f9961c26f3b3" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">President, Frontier Nursing University</span></b></p>Jordan sok2016-10-31T12:34:00ZFaculty Spotlight: Tia Andrighetti DNP, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14343212016-10-28T10:42:07Z2016-10-28T10:36:00Z<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-441a396c-0bb4-6fbf-0d02-25be611631de" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </div>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tia Andrighetti DNP, CNM had her<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Tia+Andrighetti.jpg/179e391d-db59-40f8-ab4d-5a2ea3cffccb?t=1477665642700" style="height: 131px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> first encounter with Frontier Nursing University (FNU) during her collegiate days at Pennsylvania State University. It was there that she worked with a Frontier pioneer providing maternity care. She knew from that point on she wanted to train at FNU and become a nurse-midwife.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tia decided to attend FNU, Class 9, and completed the Certified Nurse-Midwifery program. Part of her clinical rotation took place at Boca Community Hospital in Boca Raton, Fla. Her experience there led her to become a Regional Clinical Faculty (RCF) member at FNU where she advises students and guides them through the nurse-midwifery program process. Tia also worked at East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills, Fla.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In addition to her time at Penn State and FNU, Tia studied at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She returned to FNU to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree in Class 2. Tia says this is where she really came to apply all of her previously acquired knowledge in a practical manner. Her DNP project included simulations to emulate real situations and challenges faced in birth settings</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tia’s first job as a CNM was at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn. She lived in Florida at the time but sought a job in the New England area. Tia turned down several jobs before accepting her position at L&M, which was a full scope midwifery practice employed by physicians. Tia and her fellow nurse-midwife had a daily “midwife tea” where they compared professional opinions and experiences, reported on patients in their service, all while growing closer on a personal level.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tia left her job at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital to work at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., working with one OB/GYN running the hospital's clinic .</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Along with her extensive nursing and midwifery experience, Tia has taught in the nursing world for quite some time. She taught BSN OB clinicals at the University of New Hampshire before arriving at FNU. For her work as an RCF, Tia has received the Student Choice Award twice. She says the most rewarding aspects of teaching are the “aha moments” when students come to an understanding of the concepts being taught, as well as “midwifing the student.” Her advice to incoming students is to “realize the seriousness of what you are undertaking – and enjoy the ride!”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tia is a member of several professional organizations. She was an American College of Nurse-Midwives-affiliate vice president, and previously served as secretary and treasurer. She is also involved in these organizations: , the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and the Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Networks. In addition, Tia reviews articles for the </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Journal of Midwifery</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Women’s Health</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> and was named Reviewer of the Year in 2015.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">When she’s not working, Tia enjoys spending time with her children and family, traveling, gardening and reading.</span></p>Jordan sok2016-10-28T10:36:00ZFaculty Spotlight: Beki Asti, FNP-BCJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14204942016-10-18T07:59:17Z2016-10-17T09:36:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-3c57db35-d2d7-80b4-b151-d95f9e031df7" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Beki Asti knows how to set goals and <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+Beki+Asti.jpg/7214977f-bfa0-440b-92b3-6a319d8da8c6?t=1476728383818" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />live them out. She received her undergraduate degree from Carroll College in Wisconsin and went to work as a nurse in the United States Air Force, but her sights were set on eventually becoming a nurse practitioner.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I always knew that I wanted to be a nurse practitioner,” said Beki. “To accomplish that, I set a goal to go back to school five years after graduating. It passed by faster than I expected, and when the time came, I went to Frontier Nursing University to get my master’s degree.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Beki went through the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at FNU, earning her Master of Science in Nursing degree. She found her FNU experience enjoyable and rewarding, and she was impressed by the program’s ability to ease the challenging transition from nurse to advanced practice nurse.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">One of Beki’s roles at FNU is Regional Clinical Faculty. In this role she enjoys working with students to make the same transition from nurse to nurse practitioner. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I’ve been there and I enjoy helping students as they’re going through that change as well.” She spends many hours reading, writing papers, and working on projects. Beki embraces the challenging work as it gives her another means to relate to her students. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Her project focus within her doctoral studies is how to manage obesity in patients with mental illness. She encourages students with interest in this topic to engage in discussion and come to her with questions.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Beki’s nursing career has been full of variety. Her first job after college was in a start-up community clinic where she was the only nurse practitioner.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Finding where to fit in was challenging, as I first had to educate the physicians on my abilities and scope before I could be a useful addition the team.” </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Since then, she has worked on an Army base where her patients were military dependents and active duty. She has also worked in several urgent care clinics. One such clinic was located in Massachusetts, where the clinic saw many primary care issues due to a lack of primary care providers in that area.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Currently, Beki works in Community Mental Health. She also splits her time at FNU between Regional Clinical Faculty for nurse practitioner students and teaching a Principles of Health Promotion course.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Beki’s involvement in the nursing community is widespread and impressive. She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She serves as a counselor for FNU’s Chi Pi chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, helping with student membership enrollment into the honor society. Beki is also a member of the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Beki hopes that through her role at FNU, she can inspire students to follow in her success. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I want to show students the different settings offered to nurse practitioners as well as the ongoing education that all of us are in pursuit of.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">When she’s not working, Beki loves spending time with her husband and two small children.</span></p>Jordan sok2016-10-17T09:36:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Damara Jenkins, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14162862016-10-13T13:27:17Z2016-10-13T13:13:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-268162c8-bf04-ce38-3a92-d5204f473800" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) alumni<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spotlight+DamaraJenkins.jpg/872b7b1d-c46d-47ee-a084-10e60f9051e0?t=1476378968906" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> Damara Jenkins (Class 48) first stumbled upon nurse-midwifery after contemplating medical school. She quickly discovered that midwifery fit her personal philosophy, and from that point on she wanted to pursue a career as a Certified Nurse-Midwife.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">When looking for the right school, Damara was first drawn to Frontier’s distance education program. As a working mother raising four children, the flexibility offered by FNU was an attractive option. She also had family ties that made FNU appealing. Damara’s grandfather was a surgeon who had volunteered with the Frontier Nursing Service. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Most importantly, Damara felt that her personal passion and goals closely aligned with Frontier’s long-standing mission to serve rural and underserved communities. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“My goal was not just to produce more nurse-midwives in Kentucky, but also to focus on serving women in my local community,” said Damara.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">She first practiced as a CNM in July 2011 at Woman Care in Indiana. Many of her patients traveled from Louisville, Ky., to see her because they couldn’t find nurse-midwives with hospital privileges in the Louisville area. Over time, that changed. In November 2014, Damara accepted a position in the Division of Midwifery at the University of Louisville, Center for Women and Infants. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In this role, Damara serves women from Louisville and surrounding areas with diverse economic and educational backgrounds. The Center recently hired two additional nurse-midwives to support the demand for the midwifery model of care. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“One of the nice things about working in the hospital setting is that I have the opportunity to teach not only nurse-midwives or nurse practitioner students, but also medical students,” said Damara.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">According to Damara, she is pleased to see a steady increase of deliveries since arriving to the Center. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Damara is not only carrying out the Frontier mission by providing midwifery care through her regular job duties, but she is also serving as a preceptor for FNU nurse-midwifery students. In addition, she is involved in a local group that is trying to establish a birth center in Louisville. Being a part of the “Friends of the Birth Center” group is a first step to increasing birthing options for women in the area. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I love my job,” said Damara. “Yes, it’s difficult and you have to have the flexibility to change your plans at any given moment, but it is so rewarding being in a position to witness women’s strength. It’s also amazing just being a part of the midwifery community and connecting with people from all over the world as we support and learn from one another.” </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://www.wdrb.com/story/30600214/as-c-section-rates-soar-in-kentucky-some-mothers-are-pushing-for-more-natural-births" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Visit this link</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> to see Damara featured in a news segment on WDRB 41 in Louisville.</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.whas11.com/entertainment/television/great-day-live/parents-to-be-have-natural-options-in-first-of-its-kind-local-program/329540110" id="docs-internal-guid-268162c8-bf11-18c6-a0bc-190c077a31fd" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Visit this link </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">to see Damara featured on WHAS 11 Great Day Live! </span>Jordan sok2016-10-13T13:13:00ZStaff Spotlight: Laura DavisJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14122582016-10-10T14:32:04Z2016-10-10T14:28:00Z<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span><br />
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Laura Davis, Controller for Frontier<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Laura+DAvis.jpg/114ff025-7f46-458e-ad8a-9638dd755166?t=1476124238579" style="height: 131px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> Nursing University (FNU), earned her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Kentucky and went on to receive her Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification. She also has a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma from Villanova University. For the past two years, she has managed the daily operations of accounting at FNU.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Laura manages a team of five associates and is mentored by Michael Steinmetz, VP of Finance. Her team operates the daily procedures of payroll, accounts payable, student accounting, financial reporting, charitable registrations, and management of funds related to grants and donations. Laura is also responsible for coordinating the annual audit of FNU’s financial statements.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Laura’s Six Sigma certification is put to good use among her accounting team members. Six Sigma is a set of techniques that seeks to improve efficiency and quality of output by identifying the causes of defects and variability in daily processes and improving them. Originally, this method was created and implemented for the manufacturing sector, but Six Sigma can be applied to any industry, including accounting.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“We try to create an environment in which we are all encouraged to improve an aspect of our process each day to serve the community at large,” said Laura. “Our team flourishes in this environment, which makes us feel empowered as individuals and creates a spirit of teamwork.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As she had always enjoyed her experiences with higher education, Laura chose FNU for the chance to be an active participant in it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I loved the idea of working in a growing and innovative environment that supports the health of families,” said Laura.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Laura’s favorite part of being at FNU is being part of a culture of creativity and learning. Outside of her work as Controller, Laura and her husband also own a needlepoint company that creates wholesale designs for stores around the country, as well as a retail segment with customers in 45 states. She stays active, frequently competing in races, and is involved in Boston Terrier rescue with three dogs of her own. Laura also has a travel agent license and cruises every chance she gets! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thank you for your commitment to improvement at FNU, Laura. </span><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span>Jordan sok2016-10-10T14:28:00Z2016 American Association of Birth Centers Birth Institute RecapJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=14097252016-10-07T12:22:59Z2016-10-07T12:18:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-2b4ba2fa-9fed-4639-c49f-bb02dda91b6e" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) faculty, <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/ABCR.jpeg/8bf290b1-17f5-4267-bee6-78957245c593?t=1475857289965" style="height: 187px; width: 250px; float: right;" />alumni, students, staff and preceptors along with over 150 registered participants traveled to Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 22 - 25 for the 2016 American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Birth Institute. The conference was held at the Omni William Penn Hotel and and offered great networking and educational opportunities for attendees.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ANNUAL RECEPTION</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU hosted its annual reception at the conference on the evening of Thursday, September 22. More than 50 members of the FNU community attended the reception, which included light appetizers and fellowship in celebration of Kitty Ernst’s 90th birthday. Dr. Susan Stone welcomed everyone and gave updates on the launch of FNU’s new Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, the 2016 Digital Summit as well as the Kitty Ernst Midwifery Chair opportunity. Dr. Tonya Nicholson also awarded several preceptors with tokens of appreciation, including Maureen Darcy, Jackie Griggs, Ava Miller and Jami Hain.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU EXHIBIT BOOTH</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU exhibit booth was very interactive this year as FNU hosted a photo booth in celebration of Kitty Ernst’s 90th birthday. Attendees were invited to dress up and share their photo with the hashtag #KittyTurns90 to be entered to win exclusive FNU prizes. Kitty was gracious enough to sit in the FNU photo booth, which created a large line of attendees hoping to get a photo with Kitty. FNU also created a lot of excitement as they introduced the new Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program to attendees. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">STUDENT AMBASSADORS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU’s diversity </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/prideprogram" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">PRIDE</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> program invites students each year to submit essays for a chance to represent the university at the AABC Birth Institute. PRIDE ambassador Javonne Woodland won this year and participated in clinical activities and sessions, attended the FNU reception, and assisted at the FNU exhibit booth. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10154719490133394" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Click here to view photos from the 2016 AABC Birth Institute</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>Jordan sok2016-10-07T12:18:00ZFNU Celebrates National Midwifery WeekJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13995132016-10-03T10:50:39Z2016-10-03T10:47:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-872ee724-8aff-adbf-913e-a995a8723a68" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It’s finally that time of the year again! <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/DS1.jpg/4675349a-8fd6-41a7-9f99-fd464ca7f9ff?t=1475506163098" style="height: 167px; width: 250px; float: right;" />Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is excited to be celebrating National Midwifery Week (October 2-8, 2016). Whether you are a midwife, know a midwife, or want to know more about midwifery, this week is for you. National Midwifery Week was created by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to celebrate midwives and midwife-led care. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Of course, this is a monumental week for the family and friends of FNU. We have filled the week with all sorts of activities and events to celebrate the occasion. Here’s just two ways you can get involved:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tune in to our 2016 Digital Summit. The "Let Our Stories Move You to Answer the Call" virtual event is going on right now! Explore the experiences and stories of Certified Nurse-Midwives who are passionate leaders committed to better care for women and families. Go </span><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> for more information.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Share YOUR story. As part of our Digital Summit, we are looking for stories about Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM). Are you a CNM? Is your health care provider a CNM? What compelling stories do you have about your experience? We want to hear them and share them with our Frontier Nursing University community as part of our celebration! Find out how </span><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/share-your-nurse-midwifery-story/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To learn more about FNU and the programs and degrees offered, visit us </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span>Jordan sok2016-10-03T10:47:00ZFNU’s Digital Summit Starts October 1!Jordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13954132016-09-30T14:21:10Z2016-09-30T14:16:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-0a1194f0-7c4c-8d38-8fc7-b9d8bca22e62" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University’s</span><a href="http://frontier.edu/midwiferyweek" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/DS-Home-2.jpg/45c86bae-09b4-4a20-8a34-dc285752c1bc?t=1474043378000" style="float: right; height: 154px; width: 350px;" /></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Digital Summit</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> dedicated to nurse-midwifery starts this weekend! From October 1-7, the “Let Our Stories Move You to Answer the Call” virtual event will explore the experiences and stories of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) who are passionate leaders committed to better care for women and families.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Digital Summit is one of the ways we are celebrating National Midwifery Week. Here’s a sneak peak into a few of our sessions:</span></p>
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/event/fnu-birth-centers-and-midwifery-care/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Go Inside Two Birth Centers and See Why More Mothers are Choosing Birth Center Care </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">(October 4 at 12 p.m.)</span></h2>
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/event/moving-toward-midwifery-why-should-i-become-a-nurse-midwife/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Moving Toward Midwifery: Why Should I Become a Nurse-Midwife?</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> (October 6 at 6 p.m.)</span></h2>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Go </span><a href="http://fnudigitalsummit.com/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2016-09-30" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> for a full list of sessions. All sessions are </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">free and easy to join</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> at</span><a href="http://frontier.edu/midwiferyweek" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier.edu/MidwiferyWeek</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. Here’s how to participate:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tip: If you’d like to plan ahead, each session page has an option to add session information to your calendar. Scroll to the bottom of the session page and look for the Google Calendar and iCal Export buttons.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To learn more about FNU’s distance education programs and degrees, visit us</span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>Jordan sok2016-09-30T14:16:00ZStaff Spotlight: Lesia HolderJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13436242016-09-23T10:16:28Z2016-09-22T11:54:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b1d170b3-5298-0c82-5dd8-0a92d824621e" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lesia Holder has always worked in higher <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Lesia+Holder+spotlight.jpg/9f58a923-262b-4eec-8ac9-5c3f53aa0fc2?t=1474640084363" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />education and looked specifically for institutions with a unique history and mission. When she heard about the academic advisor position open at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) she knew it would be a great fit. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Working at Frontier for the past two years now, Lesia loves sharing in the common mission of reaching rural and underserved communities. As an academic advisor, she helps students navigate academic programs and university processes, with a goal of making their FNU journey a little easier.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I hope that my students feel supported and reassured by having someone in their corner from start to finish,” said Lesia. “I truly enjoy meeting with them each term to see how they're doing and help them make steady progress toward graduation. I also love hearing about their families, road trips and work adventures. The FNU community is great at building good relationships, even when you are 1,000 miles away!” </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lesia’s favorite part of working at FNU is sharing in the victories of her students, small and large. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“When a student emails me that they passed an exam they were worried about, or thanks me for listening to them unravel for a few minutes, I feel like I'm doing good work.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">According to Lesia, she can often sympathize with her students’ workload struggles because she spent a number of years balancing work, motherhood and graduate school. Lesia has completed two years toward her Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Kentucky, and already holds a Master of Arts in French Literature and a Bachelor of Arts in French.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lesia has two sons who are 12 and 8, and a daughter who is 5. According to Lesia, the family is always in transition so there is never a dull moment. Her oldest just survived his first year of middle school, and now she has a new kindergartner this fall. Spending time with her children is Lesia’s biggest joy, but she also loves to read, cook and decorate. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thanks for all that you do to help our FNU students, Lesia! </span>Jordan sok2016-09-22T11:54:00ZAlumni Spotlight: Julie Paul, CNM, DNPJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13157632016-09-19T16:02:04Z2016-09-19T15:57:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-1983357c-4403-9b44-40ff-56e2ea8d8f76" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU)<img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/blog+spolight-Julie+Paul.jpg/16eaf091-3f4b-4f4d-8534-26e7d75d35f8?t=1474315259421" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" /> alumna Dr. Julie Paul graduated from CNEP class 42 (2006) and returned to earn a DNP in Class 4 (2011). She has worked in a large midwifery practice since 2006 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., and serves there as the co-director of a certified nurse-midwife hospitalist program.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Julie has led the creation of a unique and innovative early labor management (ELM) program. A centerpiece of the program will be an early labor lounge—the only one of its kind in the U.S. The quality improvement (QI) program was initiated by certified nurse-midwives, nurses and physicians at South Shore Hospital and is supported by the chief medical officer, chief nursing officer and obstetrics chief in their hospital. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">When developing the ELM program, Julie worked with the chief and many nurses from the hospital’s obstetrics unit, midwifery colleagues, nursing administration and FNU co-faculty member Susan Yount. The project originally was meant to be a local project to promote spontaneous progress in labor, using standardized procedures, in order to reduce the numbers of women having Cesarean sections. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Julie’s “brainchild” design for an early labor lounge, created in collaboration with hospital colleagues, enables women to progress through a sequence of interactive “stations” during early labor. The lounge is an alternative to the sort of waiting room that women typically encounter in hospital labor and delivery units. Activities in the lounge are intended to delay admission to the birthing unit until active labor is established by reducing stress and providing education and support in early labor. For instance, an acupressure station helps mothers with back pain while in labor, while a couch with a meditation CD helps with anxiety. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Already the South Shore NTSV cesarean birth rates have decreased from approximately 33% to a current rate of 23-25%—as the number of midwifery births has increased and women are given longer times to labor before diagnosing labor dystocia. South Shore delivers about 3,500 babies a year, with 60-80 of those births attended by nurse-midwives—more than double the 30 births in 2012. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The South Shore ELM team presented a workshop at the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) annual conference in 2016. Julie and her colleagues creatively developed a unique program that aligns with the national ACNM QI Reducing Primary Cesarean (RPC) initiative. They submitted a letter of intent to a multi-site ACNM QI initiative and were chosen to be part of the ACNM Reducing Primary Cesarean Collaborative; a data-driven quality improvement collaborative.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Quickening</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, a quarterly journal of ACNM, will feature an article on the early labor lounge this fall. Julie’s collaborative team will monitor the results of the mothers’ participation in the education program and early labor lounge over the course of this next year. Inclusion in the ACNM QI program takes their local project to a national arena. The development of this project is a perfect example of how nurse-midwives are change agents in the health care arena.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We are proud to have FNU alumni like Julie who are making a difference! </span>Jordan sok2016-09-19T15:57:00ZFNU Celebrates Midwives During National Midwifery Week with a Digital SummitJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13116532016-09-16T12:31:29Z2016-09-16T12:24:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e4cf5193-33cd-a1d3-7858-204bb2bd0298" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">National Midwifery Week is the</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/DS-Home-2.jpg/45c86bae-09b4-4a20-8a34-dc285752c1bc?t=1474043378657" style="float: right; height: 132px; width: 300px;" /></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> first week of October, and Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is celebrating by hosting a digital summit dedicated to nurse-midwifery. From October 1-7, the “Let Our Stories Move You to Answer the Call” virtual event will explore the experiences and stories of Certified Nurse-Midwives who are passionate leaders committed to better care for women and families. All sessions are free and easy to join at </span><a href="http://frontier.edu/midwiferyweek" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier.edu/MidwiferyWeek</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU Digital Summit will include one to two sessions per day and cover topics such as:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">National Midwifery Week was created by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ACNM and its more than 7,000 midwife members, physicians and women’s health organizations observe National Midwifery Week each year. The 2016 “Get Moving” theme inspired FNU to give a voice to those in the Frontier community who have moving stories to share. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nurse-midwives, prospective midwives and others can participate in the summit from anywhere and view the full schedule at </span><a href="http://frontier.edu/midwiferyweek" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier.edu/MidwiferyWeek</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
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Jordan sok2016-09-16T12:24:00ZPreceptor Spotlight: Starla Leete, CNMJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=13011342016-09-13T13:17:01Z2016-09-13T13:10:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-79fa3fd4-2484-e415-ea69-4c09e6ca5ab8" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight-+Starla+Leete.jpg/a4be1229-e91f-4647-8b6f-2a547f8c46ef?t=1473786917381" style="float: right; height: 141px; width: 250px;" />preceptor Starla Leete, CNM, from Health Dimensions Clinic of Rock Springs, Wyo., was honored as FNU’s “Featured Preceptor” earlier this summer. Starla is a 2003 graduate of Frontier with certificates in both Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Care. FNU 2015 graduate Mandi Lew nominated Starla for the honor. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mandi was Starla’s first </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/academics/nurse-midwifery" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">CNEP</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> preceptee and is now a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) in Rock Springs where she is partnered with Starla at Health Dimensions Clinic. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">According to Mandi, as the first CNM in Southwestern Wyoming, Starla has created a positive atmosphere towards nurse-midwifery in the community. Their new practice caters to all women’s needs, including maternity care, primary care and a variety of other services. Until recently, Starla was the only female women's health care provider to offer women’s health services in Rock Springs. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In addition to being active in both her community and the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Starla is a proud mother of three boys. Her hobbies include travel, reading, and exercise. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For more information on Health Dimensions Clinic, visit their Facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HealthDimensionsClinic/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thank you for your dedication to our FNU community, Starla! </span></p>
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Jordan sok2016-09-13T13:10:00ZFNU PRIDE Program Wraps up a Busy YearJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=12810892017-01-05T08:33:47Z2016-09-05T16:27:00Z<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f1eb21eb-fc06-3671-e48e-b140b68ee7cd" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s been an exciting year for the <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/PRIDE.jpg/26f6031d-0f1f-4629-be81-ffa0f9f62b32?t=1473176317000" style="height: 188px; width: 250px; float: right;" /></span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/prideprogram"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) Diversity PRIDE program</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an initiative designed to promote diversity in nursing and midwifery. FNU is proud to recruit and retain underrepresented students who have the goal of becoming nurse-midwives or nurse practitioners. Here’s a quick summary of the exciting events that our PRIDE students have participated in throughout 2016:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American College of Nurse Midwifery (ACNM) Annual Conference</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The summer kicked off in May when two PRIDE ambassadors were selected to attend the ACNM Annual Conference. FNU PRIDE students Michelle Gragg and Ximena Rossato-Bennett represented the university and the diversity program at the conference as recipients of the annual ACNM Student Ambassador essay contest. The essay contest is an initiative aimed at fostering student leadership retention, professional networking and continued nursing education. Michelle and Ximena attended sessions on race, socioeconomic disparities and cesarean epidemic delivery rates in the U.S. Click </span><a href="https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/blog/-/blogs/2016-acnm-annual-conference-recap?_33_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.frontier.edu%2Fweb%2Ffnu%2Fblog%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26_33_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_33_keywords%3D%26_33_delta%3D5%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_33_cur%3D4%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview%26_33_andOperator%3Dtrue"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to read more about the ACNM Conference and </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/acnm2016_pride_summary.pdf"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to see the PRIDE summary of the conference. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Annual Conference</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In June, two other FNU PRIDE ambassadors, Elena Prendergast and Rachel Koransky-Matson, were selected to attend the 31st AANP Annual Conference. Elena and Rachel were also winners of the annual AANP Student Ambassador essay contest. The conference offered an opportunity for FNU students to enhance their skills and experience the clinical side of providing innovative care to patients. To read about Elena and Rachel’s experience at the conference, go </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/aanp2016_pride_summary.pdf"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In July, FNU Diversity PRIDE Program Coordinator Wilvena Bernard, along with PRIDE Student Ambassador Adriana Hernandez, traveled to Chicago to attend the NAHN Annual Conference. Wilvena and Adriana met several nurses and shared information on FNU’s distance education program and specialty tracks. During the conference, attendees participated in a variety of workshops focused on healthcare issues facing the Hispanic population, the role of new technology in improving care for Hispanic patients, how to use outcomes-based research, the value of advanced and continuing education for nurses, and how to develop a professional leadership development plan. Go </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/webdocs/pride/nahn_2016_pride_summary.pdf"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to read more about the conference. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In August, the 44th annual NBNA Meeting and Exhibition convened in Memphis, Tenn., with thousands of attendees. FNU Diversity PRIDE Program Coordinator Wilvena Bernard along with PRIDE Student Ambassadors Essence Williams and Homecia St. Clair, attended the conference. Conference workshops focused on multifaceted opportunities in nursing and healthcare, as well as advocacy for a diverse and inclusive workforce to improve the health of citizens living in diverse communities. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In September, the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 41th American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) annual meeting and exhibit was held in Miami Fla. FNU Students, Julian Williams and Thomas George represented FNU and the Diversity PRIDE program. The overall conference goal of AAMN focused on supporting the professional growth of men in nursing. The theme centered on promoting diversity and inclusivity to increase gender diversity, where currently male nurses make up 9% of the overall nursing profession. See the students’ video summary </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZzjbibU-EA&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de9b9ea6-6ed3-0754-766b-5c77f31fca9b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These events were not only great experiences for our students, but also great opportunities to share FNU’s diversity intiative PRIDE program. We are excited to finish out the year by sending two PRIDE ambassadors to two additional conferences hosted by the American Association of Birth Centers and the American Assembly of Men in Nursing. Stay tuned for updates on the PRIDE program throughout the year! Learn more about FNU’s Diversity PRIDE program </span><a href="http://frontier.edu/prideprogram"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">See more from our PRIDE ambassadors on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHlbXU986SU8PlL0tuXlwC8krOD2dXDuI" target="_blank">YouTube channel!</a> </span>Jordan sok2016-09-05T16:27:00ZAmerican Association of Nurse Practitioners: 51st Anniversary RecapJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=12420862016-09-01T12:03:27Z2016-08-29T10:53:00Z
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU faculty, alumni, students, staff and preceptors, along with over 5,000 other nurse practitioners, traveled to San Antonio, Texas, June 21-26 for the 51st anniversary of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The conference was held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and offered great networking and educational opportunities for attendees.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Reception.jpg/e828f900-6574-476b-9a45-e2146770afa2?t=1472482690209" style="height: 167px; width: 250px; float: left;" />FNU hosted its annual reception at the conference on Thursday, June 23. More than 50 members of the FNU community attended the breakfast, which was an omelet party celebrating Kitty Ernst’s 90th birthday. Many students and alumni were excited to hear about the launch of FNU’s new </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/pmhnp-post-masters-certificate" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. Go </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10154430579213394" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> to see photos from the reception.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU exhibit booth was very <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Photo+booth.jpeg/883a9708-3af1-4c89-b03c-a1d0febbff41?t=1472482684511" style="height: 241px; width: 250px; float: right;" />interactive this year as FNU hosted a photo booth in celebration of Kitty Ernst’s 90th birthday. Attendees were invited to dress up and share their photo with the hashtag #KittyTurns90 to be entered to win exclusive FNU prizes. FNU also created a lot of excitement as they introduced the new Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program to attendees. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">FNU’s diversity </span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/prideprogram" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">PRIDE</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> program invites students each year to submit essays for a chance to represent the university at the AANP conference. PRIDE ambassadors Elena Prendergast and Rachel Koransky-Matson won this year and participated in clinical activities and sessions, attended the FNU reception, and assisted at the FNU exhibit booth. The PRIDE ambassadors also submitted video diaries of their experience during the conference. See their videos </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2njpuH4hRGs&feature=youtu.be" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. For more details on the PRIDE program, visit</span><a href="http://www.frontier.edu/prideprogram" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">www.frontier.edu/prideprogram</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrontierSchool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10154430579213394" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Click here to view photos and videos from 2016 AANP conference.</span></a>Jordan sok2016-08-29T10:53:00ZStaff Spotlight: Debra TurnerJordan sokhttps://portal.frontier.edu/c/blogs/find_entry?p_l_id=70063&entryId=12385252016-09-01T08:14:18Z2016-08-25T11:05:00Z
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality health care to underserved and rural populations.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has <img alt="" src="https://portal.frontier.edu/documents/10609/179341/Blog+spotlight+-+Debra+Turner.jpg/bee8890c-b8bf-43a1-9479-d8d7ff8b0217?t=1472138122272" style="height: 141px; width: 250px; float: right;" />always been a part of Debra Turner’s life. Debra was born at Hyden Hospital in Hyden, Ky., the home of FNU’s historic campus. FNU Founder Mary Breckinridge opened the hospital in 1928 to provide health care to mothers and babies in rural Eastern Kentucky. Known as Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) at the time, Debra grew up under the care of FNS nurses. Today, she is the student services coordinator at Frontier. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-12fb79a8-e5a8-92df-7c88-d1c03b283c36" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“FNU is a part of my heritage,” said Debra. “When the student services coordinator position opened up nine years ago, I knew I wanted to apply. Coming back to Hospital Hill after so many years for my interview was like coming home. Memories came rushing back like rewinding a tape.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Debra “Answers The Call” by helping students begin their FNU journey with a positive orientation experience and planning commencement. She maintains Pre-Bound materials and webpages and was essential in the creation of a Pre-Bound course in CANVAS. Debra works behind the scenes to make sure the classrooms are stocked with supplies and works closely with Student Council representatives to ensure all students have proper representation. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">According to Debra, the best part of her job is seeing students progress from orientation to successfully completing their programs. She also works hard to make sure FNU employees feel appreciated and keeps them informed of community involvement opportunities. Debra wrote the proposal for a $1000 scholarship for a Leslie County High School senior who is pursing nursing as a career. It was approved and Debra now presents the award each school year on awards day.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Debra serves on a number of FNU committees and represents FNU at monthly Hyden-Leslie County Chamber of Commerce meetings & other community events. She serves as secretary of the Mary Breckinridge Festival planning committee, which is a community ran event. In her free time, she volunteers for the Trails of Leslie County Initiative Program. In the past, she has assisted with a Bible Study program for inmates in the Leslie County Detention Center and taught Sunday School as well as Vacation Bible School at her church. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">According to Debra, her greatest accomplishment has been raising two boys and seeing them mature into men and leaders. She is looking forward to meeting her first grandbaby January 2, 2017. Debra also manages a small home-based business and enjoys traveling to historical sites, seeing new places and researching her family genealogy. She even finds time for one trip to the beach each year! </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Debra has a bachelor’s degree in Human Services & Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College and an Associate of Arts and Certificate in Business and Office Technology from Hazard Community College.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I love that FNU is still carrying on the mission that started it all,” said Debra. “It’s a privilege to work for a organization with a mission to serve the rural and underserved population.” </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The FNU community is thankful to have hardworking staff members like Debra! </span></p>
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