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NEWS Payroll Deduction Simplifies Giving to Faculty/Staff Campaign
Colleges Wins Honorable Mention for Mini Grant Allows Nursing Students to Better Assist Patients with PDAs Colleges of the Worcester Consortium Career Fair Retirement and Employee Service Recognition Program Borders Bookstore Education Appreciation Week
Douglas Frink
(Visiting Professor, Physical and Earth Sciences) has just published two
co-authored chapters in the Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of
the European Archaeological Association in Cracow, Poland, September 2006. The
book, titled The Baden Complex and the Outside World, explores new work
on the stone age to bronze age transition in central and southeastern
Amaryllis Siniossoglou
(Visual and Performing Arts)
will
be representing Worcester State College at the Dual Action exhibition at Jewett
Art Center Gallery, Wellesley
Jewett Gallery, Art Department, Wellesley College,106 Central Street, Wellesley,
MA, 02481 Website:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Art. For more information, contact Gallery
Director Clara Lieu at 781-283-2056 or at
clieu@wellesley.edu On February 23, Adam Zahler (Visual and Performing Arts) directed a staged reading of the play Darwin At Down as part of the New Voices at New Rep series. Darwin At Down, written by Gino DiIorio, theatre chair at Clark University, focuses on Charles Darwin’s decision to publish his “Big Book” and the illness of his daughter Anne. New Repertory Theatre of Watertown hosts the series as part of their initiative to help the development of new plays.
AROUND CAMPUS
Payroll Deduction Simplifies Giving It is not too late to participate in the Opportunity for a
Lifetime campaign’s special faculty/staff campaign, which is being
co-chaired by Francis “Tuck” Amory, Carol Donnelly, Elaine Dukes, and Carolyn
Dumais. Payroll deduction is a simple way to give to this campaign and support
such programs as student scholarships. If you set up payroll deduction to give
$5 per pay period, for example, then you would give a total of $130 per year.
Oftentimes outside funders, particularly foundations, ask about a college’s
internal support when they consider making a large gift.
Sign up to give via payroll deduction by April 30 and your name will be entered in two drawings for a free iPod Shuffle, a $50 gift card to Jumpin’ Juice & Java, a $25 gift certificate to Roma’s, located on Harding Street. (Drawings will be held on Friday, May 1). Get your Opportunity for a Lifetime campaign packet, including a payroll deduction form, by contacting Christina Petruzzi at ext. 8872 or cpetruzzi1@worcester.edu. Photo: Associate Professor of Business William O’Brien in the classroom
College Wins CASE Award for CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, has awarded Worcester State College two District I 2009 Communication Awards. An honorable mention was received for the "You Found Your
Place: Academic Strides Radio Spot" produced by Davis Advertising as well as an
honorable mention for "You Found Your Place: Viewbook," also produced by Davis
Advertising. CASE will present the awards in March at its northeast
regional meeting in
Mini Grant Allows Nursing Students to One of the best kept secrets in American health care today is the amount of health care families provide for ill family members. “Patients are discharged from the hospital with so many unmet needs,” said Maryellen Brisbois, an instructor in the Worcester State nursing department. A community and public health nurse herself, she supervises nursing students in the community nursing rotation who visit families in central Massachusetts and a 400-square-mile area that stretches into Connecticut. “These students need to be able to access a wealth of medical information quickly and efficiently,” she said. This is information they probably don’t have in their heads. Enter the PDA. PDAs are hand-held reference devices that enable users to check for up-to-date information quickly at the point of patient care. A 2008-09 mini-grant from the college enabled the nursing department to purchase 14 PDAs loaded with seven software programs. These include medical information databases, laboratory standards data, nursing procedures and a Spanish-English dictionary. Last fall, WSC nursing students used PDAs to check possible drug interactions, drug side effects and other technical aspects related to patient care during skilled home visits and community clinical settings. “Other nurses in the community health setting were drawn to these devices,” Brisbois said. “They’d ask our students to look things up for them.” At least two of the 11 senior students who used PDAs last fall have purchased their own PDAs. They’ll be on the cutting edge of nursing informatics as they enter the job market. An American Association of Colleges of Nursing 2002 report encouraged nursing programs to incorporate technology in their education of the next generation of nurses, Brisbois said. Technology can enhance patient safety. Elderly patients, for example, often take many medications. The possibility of drug interactions is immense. Teaching opportunities exist in the home setting that can be enhanced with immediate access to current data, she added. The goal of the mini-grant project was to make nursing students comfortable with using PDA technology. Using a survey instrument developed at Kent State University, Brisbois learned that getting used to using the PDA was problematic for some. Others reported that the cost of the device, about $500, kept them from using it. “They didn’t want to lose it,” she said. In general, students liked the devices. “Everything was there when they needed it,” Brisbois said. This spring semester, 13 juniors in the medical-surgical and pediatrics rotations in hospital settings are using the PDAs, to which software for those specialties was added. These students seem to have quickly adapted to the devices. Brisbois, who is in her second year of full-time teaching at Worcester State, is also a full-time doctoral student in the nursing program at UMass-Worcester. Although she is pleased with the results they’ve gotten so far from the PDA experiment, she cautions that the PDA can’t solve every problem. “We can’t prepare students for everything they’ll face in a community nursing setting,” she said. Reflecting on the situations that her students may face as they visit patients in their homes, she added, “It can be overwhelming, but having current information at your fingertips can help smooth the transition.”
COLLEGES OF WORCESTER CONSORTIUM CAREER FAIR Faculty, please let your students know about this
upcoming career fair.
CPR/FIRST AID
CERTIFICATION As part of this process, we would like to discover who among staff, faculty or students currently hold CPR Certification. Please take a moment to complete a brief form at http://www.worcester.edu/Police/Shared%20Documents/CPR.aspx. Completion of the form does not further obligate you in any way. If you have any questions please contact: David St.Martin, WSC Emergency Coordinator March 3, 2009 “Electronic Submissions” How to make electronic submissions through places such as Grants.gov, ERACommons, NSF Fastlane, etc. will be discussed during this workshop. March 10, 2009 “Research Compliance” We will discuss how human subjects, hazardous materials and other compliance issues relate to grants and what you need to do. This is a series of brown bag lunches. All workshops will take place on Tuesdays from 11:30 to 12:30 at the Center for Teaching and Learning (Sullivan Room 117). The Center for Teaching and Learning will be providing coffee, tea, and water. Please pre-register with Andrea Bilics at: Andrea.Bilics@worcester.edu or cteachlearn@worcester.edu
RETIRMENT AND
EMPLOYEE SERVICE RECOGNITION PROGRAM
BORDERS BOOKSTORE EDUCATORS APPRECIATION WEEK
WSC IN THE NEWS
City hires new superintendent
'Tough' teaching climate
Windham-Bannister Advocates for Intern Funding
Integrating education with the life sciences workforce
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Tuesday, March 3,
2009
THIS WEEK Thurs., Mar. 5
Women's Studies Conference Sat., Mar. 7
The Vagina Monologues
COMING UP
BBC History of WWII Film
Spring Break Sat. Mar. 21
Women's Lacrosse vs. Mon., Mar. 23
BBC History of WWII Film
Music and Social Change:
Tues, Mar. 24
Diversity Lecture Series: Wed., Mar. 25
WSC Baseball vs. Thurs., Mar. 26
SGA Auction
WSC Women's Lacrosse
WSC Night at Hanover
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College.
Dual Action is an invitational exhibition which highlights work by printmaking
faculty from schools in New England. The exhibition title references the double
creative lives that faculty lead as independent artists and educators. Works in
the exhibition represent the diversity of both traditional and contemporary
techniques of printmaking including etching, lithography, silkscreen, digital
print media, monotypes and more.
“Giving
to WSC through payroll deduction allows me to set my preferences for where I
want my donation to go and not have to worry about paying one more bill,” says
Associate Professor of Business William O’Brien Jr. ’84, Ph.D.
“Giving becomes part of my routine pay advice, and every two weeks, I get that
glow that charitable contribution researchers say givers get when donating to
desirable organizations. Setting up a payroll deduction plan is an easy and
painless way to donate so that WSC students receive scholarship assistance. Of
course, I can always give more through special fundraisers if needed, but
payroll deduction never forgets to give.”