By Hallie Leo and Kaylee Pugliese
UMass Chan Medical School Communications
November 07, 2022
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing pupil Shawna Steadman, MSN’09, ACNP, ACHPN, teacher successful nursing, has a lifelong transportation to UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. Steadman's mother, a UMass Memorial caregiver for much than 36 years, discovered she was large with Steadman during a displacement astatine the hospital.
“She was moving connected 3 West arsenic a level caregiver erstwhile she got the telephone connected the hallway telephone that she was large with me,” Steadman said.
Steadman, a Dudley native, volunteered astatine the infirmary arsenic a teenager. After earning a bachelor’s successful biology astatine Providence College, she decided to travel successful her mother’s footsteps, enrolling successful the Graduate Entry Pathway programme astatine the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and earning her master’s grade successful nursing successful 2009.
“At the time, a master’s grade was the modular for being a caregiver practitioner,” Steadman said. “Over the years, I’ve seen a request for enactment wrong the caregiver practitioner’s scope, but besides wrong palliative care.”
Wanting to physique her enactment skills, the parent of 3 enrolled successful the Post Master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice programme astatine UMass Chan.
“A large portion of the Doctor of Nursing Practice is learning however to beforehand wrong an enactment and I knew that the DNP would springiness maine a much broad acquisition than a elemental conference,” she said.
Steadman’s acquisition with patients with superior illnesses inspired her DNP scholarly project. Working with chap pupil Amanda Hazeltine, MS, CNP, AGACNP-BC, Steadman is addressing prime beforehand attraction readying successful the intensive attraction unit.
“A large portion of my probe is to amended superior unwellness discussions astir diligent goals and what their expectations are arsenic the unwellness progresses. The situation is these discussions aren’t documented successful a cardinal mode that’s easy retrievable by different providers,” Steadman said.
Steadman teaches precocious palliative attraction to postgraduate nursing students and symptom absorption to nonmigratory physicians.
The Student Spotlight bid features UMass Chan Medical School students successful the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. For much accusation astir UMass Chan Medical School and however to apply, sojourn the Prospective Students page.
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