News

December 2001

Happy Holidays to all! This has been a very successful and busy year for our Bistate Nurse Midwifery Education Program and we as a faculty have much to celebrate.

Class One: Barbara Parker, Kimberly Negrete, Annette VanAnne, Heidi Wade and Jacki Witt all successfully passed their National ACNM ACC Board Exams! We are so pleased and proud of each of them as they demonstrate 100% success in launching our FIRST class of nurse-midwifery students.
Class Two: Has now completed two of the core Nurse-midwifery courses, Antepartum and Intrapartum and are a very supportive, close group of women who are inspiring to us as faculty and to one another. The unique, diverse life experiences and talents of this class bring much joy to our lives and to the program.
Class Three: Many of who are completing master’s core courses and some waiting to join them in the wings as post-master’s students are an energetic bunch. We anticipate this class to eventually be up to ten students as the Antepartum summer course begins next year and brings this class together as a whole.
Class Four is forming now, and already has two placed to begin the nurse-midwifery courses in the Spring of 2003.
Our "Mock" ACNM Division of Accreditation, Accreditation site visit by Dr. Nancy Moss over Dec 12-14 went very well. The program is strong in all areas of criterion review and we will now anxiously wait for the official visit February 20-22, 2002. Class time will be scheduled for site visitors to attend a class lecture as well as be in the clinical settings observing students. Please read the final version of the Self-Evaluation Report (SER) that will be sent to you soon and save the document to review prior to the site visit in February. We may ask for some student projects to also use as exhibits of student’s work for the visitors.
The Wyandotte County Health Department has been added as an additional clinical site under the precepting of Denise Fryzelka, CNM. Primary Care, Women’s Health and Maternity services are experiences available serving a large number of Spanish speaking families.
The KUSON Nurse-Midwifery faculty practice continues to be negotiated and prioritized by the Dean. We continue to project our timeline for beginning at KUMC with the OB/GYN department in the early Spring, 2002.

We send our wishes for a peace-filled, merry, holiday season! See you all next year!

Ginger