March Headlines: Calls for Action, a New Online Program, and Major Awards
“Diversity is critical to the profession from many perspectives,” University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Dean Kathleen Potempa Ph.D., RN, FAAN, explains in Nursezone.com’s The Changing Face of Nursing: Diversity Increasing Slowly. She said it’s the key to “better match the changing face of U.S. demographics; to provide diversity of thought, life experience and culture in health policy and decision making; and to provide opportunity to all Americans to participate in the health professions, an enduring job sector in the U.S.”
UMSN Professor Anne Sales, Ph.D., RN, shares “Reflections on the State of Nursing Implementation Science” in her editorial published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies. “We consider this special issue one small signal to nurse researchers about the importance, quality, and value of research currently being conducted in nursing implementation science,” says Dr. Sales. “We urge IJNS readers to engage with these papers, consider their merits, and debate the areas left unexplored.”
UMSN proudly announces a new graduate-level post-baccalaureate certificate program in Clinical Research Management. This online 4-course program can be completed in less than a year. It’s designed to deliver key competencies for investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research. Registration is now open, and the first course begins July 1, 2013.
- UMSN Shirley Titus Distinguished Professor of Nursing Beatrice J. Kalisch, Ph.D., RN, FAAN received the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) Nurse Researcher Award on March 23. It honors Dr. Kalisch for her substantial body of research dedicated to improving nursing care.
- UMSN Clinical Assistant Professor Donna Marvicsin, Ph.D., PNP-BC, CDE was named Pediatric Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
- DNP student Denise Cooper, MS, ANP-BC, received the Evidence Based Practice Award from the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners for her poster presentation, Improved Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Assessment and Resident Outcomes: An Evidence Based Implementation Project in Long-Term Care.
- Laura Gultekin, a Ph.D. student at UMSN, has been honored with an Institute for Research on Women and Gender/Rackham Graduate Student Research award. Gultekin’s areas of interest are life events that contribute to housing instability and homelessness in women with children.
- Jennifer Salerno, DNP, CPNP, FAANP, an adjunct clinical instructor at UMSN, received the 2013 Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care from the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). Dr. Salerno led development of the Rapid Assessment for Adolescent Preventative Services (RAAPS) screening tool, a 21-question, youth-friendly, online survey on topics such as diet, violence, substance abuse, depression and sexuality.
- Four UMSN students took honors at the Midwest Nursing Research Society 2013 Conference:
- Hyojin Yoon was awarded First Place among Ph.D. Posters for "How Do Cancer Patients and Caregivers Perceive Web-Based Interventions? A Qualitative Study."
- Corinne Lee was awarded First Place among DNP Posters for the "Evaluation of the Sun Solutions Educational Intervention among Operating Engineers."
- Evelyn Shea was awarded Third Place among BSN Posters for “Family Role Strain, Adolescents’ Perceived Parental Sexual Attitudes and the Parent-Adolescent Relationship.”
- Kristen Choi received scholarship recognition for her abstract for "Family Spirituality and Communication as Protectors of Filial Efficacy and Mechanisms for Decreased Risky Behavior in Adolescents.”
