Creating a Sustainable Partnership: How Reach Can Exceed Touch

Siena College Engage For Change 2021! Creating Inclusive Spaces: Past, Present Future  Virtual

2021-06-10

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

Academic Nursing Leadership Conference: 2020 Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award  Virtual

2020-10-16

Reopening a Dialog on Open Airways for Schools: Closing the Educational Gap for Children with Asthma Using a Multi-Site Academic-Practice Partnership.

NYS Public Health Webinar Series  

2018-07-18

Closing the Educational Gap for Children with Asthma: Leveraging Resources Using A Multi-Site Academic-Practice Partnership

Association for Community Health Nurse Educators, 40th Annual Institute  

2018-06-09

Reopening a Dialog on Open Airways for Schools: Closing the Educational Gap Using a Multi-Site Academic Practice Partnership

New York State Department of Health webinar  New York State Department of Health webinar

2018-02-16

Asthma 102: Getting Beyond the Basics

Suffolk County Association of School Nurses meeting  Suffolk County Association of School Nurses

2016-01-01

Community and University Partnerships with Schools: A Win-Win Best Practice Model

140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association  140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association

2012-01-01

Reopening a Dialog on Open Airways for Schools: Closing the Educational Gap for Children with Asthma

Asthma Coalition of Long Island Quarterly Meeting  Long Island

2017-12-01

Evaluating an Academic-Practice Partnership’s ability to enhance baccalaureate curriculum

New York League for Nursing & Chi Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Conference  Farmingdale State College

2017-11-01

When Reach Extends Touch: How an Academic/Practice Partnership Affects Undergraduate Community/Public Health Nursing Curricula

Association for Community Health Educators 2017 Annual Institute  Baltimore, Maryland

2017-06-01

No More Snow Days: Collaborate Ultra

Center for Teaching and Learning  Farmingdale State College

2017-04-01

Teaching with Rubrics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Revisited

Center for Teaching and Learning  Farmingdale State College

2017-02-01

Do Academic/Practice Partnerships Affect the Educational Curriculum in Community/Public Health Nursing for Undergraduate Nursing Students? A Program Assessment

American Public Health Association’s Annual Conference and Event  Denver, CO

2016-10-31

An Innovative Approach to Inter-professional Collaboration Utilizing a Three Way Academic Service Partnership

Third Annual Professional Educational Conference  Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY

2013-06-01

Changing Trends: Partnering for Creative Clinical Placements

Asthma Coalition of Long Island meeting  Asthma Coalition of Long Island

2012-05-01

A Potpourri of Teaching Theories, Strategies and Beyond…

Superintendent’s Conference Day, Western Suffolk Boces  Long Island, NY

2010-11-01

Authorization of I.R. 1318 - A local law to require any store with a pharmacy to post notices about asthma inhalers in Suffolk County

Suffolk County Legislature  print

2020-07-30

Press conference held for Suffolk County Legislator Susan Berland on new authorization of I.R. 1318. Spoke briefly supporting new law and its positive impact on high needs communities.

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Hometown Hero - Farmingdale State Professor Bringing Health Care to Children with Asthma

LI Business News  print

2019-02-08

Nomination accepted for LI Hometown Hero for February 2019.

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Helping Kids with Asthma Stay Healthy in the Classroom

"Big Ideas" blog - State University of New York  online

2016-01-26

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stood at the podium at Farmingdale State College recently to announce her latest piece of legislation, the School Asthma Management Plan Act, a bill that will provide $1.6 billion in funding to school districts from coast to coast to help them develop and implement programs that will help their students better manage their asthma. Standing behind the senator was Farmingdale nursing professor Monica Diamond-Caravella, smiling as broadly as anyone in the room. That’s because Professor Diamond-Caravella has been working tirelessly for the last six years, helping bring asthma relief and education to more than 2,000 kids in grades K-12 across Long Island. She and her staff of Farmingdale nursing students and faculty, in partnership with the Asthma Coalition of Long Island, are also training school nurses, staff, coaches and teachers how to help students better manage their asthma, with the goal of keeping them in school and out of hospital emergency rooms.

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Reopening a Dialog on Open Airways for Schools: Closing the Educational Gap for Children with Asthma Using a Multi-Site Academic-Practice Partnership

Doctoral Dissertation

2017-09-22

Asthma is a serious public health concern for children. Prevalence rates are at epidemic proportions in minority pediatric populations with alarming disparate rates for emergency department visits and hospitalizations. School-based asthma education is a viable intervention to address barriers to asthma control and improve children’s self-management skills. Steeped in rich historical evidence, the American Lung Association's Open Airways for Schools® (OAS) is the leading school-based asthma self-management program to date. Although schools have been identified as the ideal environment to provide asthma self-management education to children, there are notable and extensive barriers to effective implementation. This prevailing educational gap precludes the ability to adopt recommended school-based asthma education. The purpose of this study was to use existing data to determine the effectiveness of OAS in improving asthma self-management and self-knowledge skills in public elementary school children residing in high-needs communities receiving instruction by trained nursing student OAS facilitators within a multi-site academic-practice partnership. The creation of a multi-site academic-practice partnership served to address the educational gap by leveraging resources between a local asthma coalition, three baccalaureate nursing programs and several high-needs public-school districts on Long Island, New York. As a result of this enduring academic-practice partnership, a dataset of 377 existing validated pre-and post-test OAS questionnaires was collected between September 2013 and December 2015 but never analyzed for significance. In this one group pretest/posttest design for existing data, paired t-test analyses revealed statistically significant improvement (p < .001) for both asthma self-management skills and self-knowledge. Greatest increases for asthma self-management included the ability to avoid triggers, manage variable asthma symptoms, and access appropriate treatment. Greatest increases for asthma self-knowledge were associated with recognizing an asthma attack, preventing worsening symptoms and the ability to accurately identify asthma triggers. Open Airways for Schools® is an effective school-based asthma management program that significantly improves asthma self-management skills and self-knowledge. A sustainable multi-site academic-practice partnership is a viable solution to address the gap in asthma education for children living

Do academic practice partnerships enhance the educational curriculum in community/public health nursing for undergraduate nursing students? A program assessment.

Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (October 2016); Association of Community Health Nurse Educators (June 2017)

2016-04-01

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate how an academic-practice partnership, focused on school-based asthma self-management, affects undergraduate community/public health nursing curricula. Design and Sample: Using a qualitative focus group design, forty-two students from three participating Long Island, New York based nursing programs were asked to explore perceptions of their clinical experiences teaching asthma self-management within the context of the academic-practice partnership. Measurement: A jointly created set of open-ended interview questions guided 60-minute group sessions. Data was transcribed and collaborative descriptive content analysis was done. The unit of analysis was the individual participant responses informed by group interaction. Results: While initial analysis of data confirmed achievement of embedded community/public health nursing clinical competencies, deeper analysis revealed strong linkages between student learning and the context, workings and goals of the partnership. Three major themes emerged related to participant understandings of the complexities and challenges in improving population health outcomes: positioning, professional/personal identity and social awareness. Conclusions: Heightened role formation and application of an expanding professional identity to clinical practice and personal lives was demonstrated. Academic practice partnerships established to improve population health outcomes have the added benefit of enhancing community/public health nursing curriculum through student exposure to the values, ideas and innovation of the partnership.

Theresa Santmann Patnode Grant

Farmingdale State College $5000.00

2016-12-01

Grant awarded to support doctoral research using a one group pre/post design and an analysis of existing data to determine the efficacy of Open Airways for Schools (OAS) in improving asthma self-management skills and self-knowledge in children with asthma residing in high needs communities. This multi-site research took place between September 2013 - December 2015 in over seven public school districts, 23 elementary schools, utilizing 86 student nurses as OAS facilitators from three different nursing programs across Long Island.

Performance Improvement Fund

Farmingdale State College $2500.00

2018-12-15

Grant to create an online public health course for RN to BS completion students that highlights progressive public health and population health concepts.

Director, American Lung Association Health Promotions

Claudia Guglielmo, Anne Little and Alexandra Kranidis Asthma Coalition of Long Island

2010-08-27

Partnership with Asthma Coalition of Long Island over the past 10 years has afforded opportunity to address disparate emergency department visits and hospitalizations for children with asthma living in high-needs communities across Long Island. The partnership model expanding to professors from Molloy College, St. Josephs College, Stony Brook has recently been replicated in upstate New York.

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Alternative Capstone Nursing Experience to Scale Up Testing and Case Investigation

Diamond-Caravella, M., Fox, A., Clark, M., Goodstone, L. & Glaser, C.

2021-11-11

Background: Surges related to the SARS-COV2 virus in the United States have underscored the critical importance of large-scale testing, case investigation and contact tracing. Baccalaureate nursing students have the potential to serve as surge capacity workforce in mitigation measures during this public health emergency. Methods: Over the course of eight weeks (September-December 2020) baccalaureate senior capstone nursing students served as case investigators for a local health department on Long Island, New York and surveillance pooled saliva testers for their college to ensure compliance with a state-wide Covid-19 testing mandate. To determine student perceptions working in these concurrent novel academic-partnerships during the COVID-19 pandemic, a descriptive survey of open-ended interview questions was completed by student participants (n=10). Results: Analysis of aggregate responses revealed common themes across the data set linking student learning and appreciation of the ‘eye-opening’ experience to a sense of purpose, the value of communication, education and teamwork – all within the structure of public health nursing. Conclusions: Baccalaureate nursing students can effectively serve as an untapped workforce within an academic partnership to support surveillance testing and case investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic and future public health crises. This partnership had the added benefit of exposing nursing students to the critical nature of public health nursing during this historic time in our nation.

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Let's Take Control of Asthma: An Effective Asthma Management Education Tool for Caregivers of Children with Asthma

Wruck, M., Diamond-Caravella, M., Guglielmo, C., Little, A., Tenzin, T.

2021-01-01

BACKGROUND: Effective asthma education and health literacy are essential components for pediatric asthma control. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a novel, no-literacy (pictures-only) asthma education flipchart tool on caregivers’ understanding of asthma. METHODS: Caregivers of 53 participant children were educated using a no-literacy Let’s Take Control of Asthma flipchart. An American Lung Association’s asthma assessment instrument was adapted to assess caregiver asthma understanding pre/post education. Respondents completed Asthma Control Tests (ACT) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO/NIOX) measurements. RESULTS: Paired t-test analyses revealed statistically significant improvement in caregiver asthma understanding and ACT scores (p < 0.01) following a no-literacy flipchart educational intervention. Preand-post intervention FeNO/NIOX measurements demonstrated a statistically significant decrease (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: A no-literacy (picture-only) flipchart for children and caregivers is an effective tool to improve asthma understanding and asthma control.

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Education, Communication: Public Health’s COVID-19 Defense Tools

Janine Logan, Editor

2020-08-06

Dr. Monica Diamond-Caravella, Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator, Farmingdale State College, Department of Nursing, says public health nurses and health communicators understand the root causes of structural inequities, and they are adept at addressing them.

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When reach exceeds touch: Student experiences in a cross-sector community-based academic-practice partnership

Janssen Breen, L., Diamond-Caravella, M., Moore, G., Wruck, M., Guglielmo, C., Little, A. Tedeschi, P., Zacharia, M. & Cataletto, M.

2019-02-27

Formal qualitative study exploring nursing student perceptions of their clinical experiences teaching asthma self-management education within a regional cross-sector, community-based, multi-site academic-practice partnership. Findings suggest that the context of a thriving community-based academic-practice partnership, established to improve population health outcomes, offered unique clinical learning opportunities for students through exposure to the value, ideas and innovation of the partnership itself.

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Service-Learning II

Diamond-Caravella, M. and Quinn-Griffin, M.

2015-01-01

Chapter in an Encyclopedia of Nursing Education on the concept of service-learning in clinical nursing education. DOI: 10.1891/9780826153630.0146 ISBN: 978-0-8261-5363-0

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NUR 114 Clinical and Theoretical Foundations of Baccalaureate Nursing Practice

This course provides an introduction to nursing and patient care concepts, emphasizing the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide safe, high quality care to individuals, families and communities within a multicultural environment. The theoretical foundation for professional nursing behaviors, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care are explored within the context of various health care environments, delivery systems, and inter-disciplinary teams. Concepts of caring, critical thinking, communication, and the role of the professional nurse as provider of care, manager of care, and member of a profession are integrated throughout the course as a framework for presentation of the essential components of generalist baccalaureate nursing practice. Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate beginning skills in the nursing and simulation laboratory, and apply these skills in the clinical setting to provide holistic care that promotes optimum wellbeing to individuals and families.

NUR 114L: Simulation Connect Lab: Clinical and Theoretical Foundations of Baccalaureate Nursing Practice

This course provides an introduction to nursing and patient care concepts, emphasizing the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide safe, high quality care to individuals, families and communities within a multicultural environment. The theoretical foundation for professional nursing behaviors, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care are explored within the context of various health care environments, delivery systems, and inter-disciplinary teams. Concepts of caring, critical thinking, communication, and the role of the professional nurse as provider of care, manager of care, and member of a profession are integrated throughout the course as a framework for presentation of the essential components of generalist baccalaureate nursing practice. Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate beginning skills in the nursing and simulation laboratory, and apply these skills in the clinical setting to provide holistic care that promotes optimum well-being to individuals and families.

NUR 301: Caring for Populations in the Community Setting

The course focuses on the role of the nurse in the community. Topics include health-illness prevention, epidemiology, environmental health issues, culture influences and levels of prevention. Community based needs of specific client populations will be examined. Clinical activities will be included in a variety of settings. This course is for RN Completion students.

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NUR 402: Community and Mental Health Nursing

The course focuses on the role of the nurse in the community working with individuals, families, aggregates, and high risk populations in community settings such as: clinics, home care, schools, and hospice. This course includes caring for individuals across the lifespan based upon the recognition of their physical, psychological, social, and cultural needs. Evidence-based nursing research concepts are incorporated as a basis for community and public health nursing practice. Mental health and illness concepts focus on populations that exhibit maladaptive patterns. Specific patterns included are anxiety, addictive disorders, post traumatic stress, and depression. Resources within the global community mental health system are identified.

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NUR 406: Senior Leadership Practicum

This 5 credit clinical preceptor course will provide a capstone leadership experience for licensed registered nurses enrolled in our Baccalaureate Completion track in Nursing. Students will spend a total of 120 hours working side by side an experienced clinician functioning in a leadership role. Students will identify an area of interest and appropriate goals and objectives for the learning experience. The course will connect theory to practice allowing students to make the connection between the concepts of nurse as change agents and nursing leadership. The course will include one hour of dialogue and reflection weekly

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HST 301: Health Care Organization

This is a survey course introducing the student to the concepts related to the organization of health care in the United States. Health care will be studied from a historical, political, economic and consumer perspective. Focus will include exploring the commonly used models of health care delivery and organization in the United States and selected other countries. Health Care in this country has undergone tremendous change and expansion since the turn of the last century. As we begin the next century many health care issues remain controversial and a top priority in the minds of many Americans. Access to adequate preventive and episodic health care, organ transplantation and gene therapy are just a few of the interesting topics that will be touched upon.