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Oct 10, 2009
Dr. Donna Roberson, a doctor with the East Carolina College of Nursing, has is awarded a grant to help prevent the spread of the HIV virus.
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Oct 5, 2009
Elizabeth Galik, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, receives a grant for research on improving the physical activity and quality of life for seniors with dementia.
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Oct 2, 2009
Nurse Faculty Scholar Devon Berry , Ph.D., R.N. discusses the impact of ethnocentricity at the “The Role of Nursing in Promoting Global Health: The Power of One” conference, held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
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Sep 18, 2009
Nancy P. Hanrahan, PhD, RN, CS, Assistant Professor of Nursing, has been appointed as the Dr. Lenore H. Kurlowicz Memorial Term Assistant Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing effective July 1, 2009. The Chair was founded earlier this year by a gift from the Kurlowicz Family in memory of Dr. Lenore H. Kurlowicz, a former faculty member in the School of Nursing. Dr. Kurlowicz, Associate Professor of Gero-psychiatric Nursing, died in 2007 following a long illness.
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Aug 15, 2008
Cindy Anderson of the University of North Dakota is using her Nurse Faculty Scholar award to study vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women from the rural, northern plains. Vitamin D is mostly obtained through sun exposure, which is seasonally limited in the area, posing potential health risks for mothers and their unborn children.
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Jul 25, 2008
As one of 15 inaugural Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholars, Angela Amar of Boston College is studying the factors that encourage college women to report experiences of interpersonal violence. The findings will be used to develop campus and national policies, as well as campus programming to encourage women to report these episodes.
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Sep 10, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J., SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today awarded the first round of grants to 15 junior faculty nurses from around the country to develop the next generation of academic nurse leaders and strengthen the academic productivity and overall excellence of schools of nursing.
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Jul 30, 2008
Nancy Hanrahan is using her three-year Nurse Faculty Scholars grant to examine outcomes from patients admitted to hospitals for psychiatric services. Hanrahan, of the University of Pennsylvania, hopes that understanding organizational performance, quality of services provided, and outcomes for patients and staff will assure optimal management of inpatient psychiatric services and effective patient care.
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, AkkeNeel Talsma, Ph.D., R.N., at the University of Michigan explains the use of evidence-based practice as a tool to provide a high level of quality care and establish better health care outcomes for patients and families.
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Sep 9, 2009
Nurse Faculty Scholar Devon Berry had an epiphany as a teenager that guides his work in health care to this day: Religion, he observed, seemed to help keep people healthy. Read about his work on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's website.
