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News and Announcements for: July 2006
Important Notices:
-GRE and Goal Statements no longer required for graduate admission to all MS programs except CRNA.
-Mandatory meeting dates and times for online classes. click here.
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- Doctoral student, Don Kurtyka, received notification that he was the recipient of the Dempster 2006 NP Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant for $2000 from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation for his research entitled: The effects of a structured adherence intervention on patient adherence to HIV antiretroviral medications and responses to treatment.
- Dr. Judy Karshmer, Sarah Cobb, Chris Olney, Kelly Stamp, and Sue Hartranft had the honor of conducting a symposium at the Sigma Theta Tau 17th Annual International Congress on July 19, 2006 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They spoke about the unique nursing research residency, which is a novel program by USF in collaboration with four area hospitals. This symposium sparked international interest in the nursing research residency for its benefits both to the sponsoring university as well as to the collaborating hospitals.
- Dr. Janie Canty-Mitchell, along with co-authors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University, co-authored the article “Evaluating Content Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of the Children’s Health Risk Behavior Scale,” in the recent issue of the journal Public Health Nursing, 23 (4), 366-372.
- Instructor, Linda Blasen, ARNP, presented at the University of Colorado’s Primary Care Conference last week:
- Common Office Procedures, a skills workshop
- Acute Abdominal Pain in Adults
- Coding for Reimbursement
- Dr. Mary Evans has been appointed as a reviewer for the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
- Dr. Linda Moody was selected to serve on the NIH-NIAMS Special Emphasis Grants Review Panel.
- Dr. Patricia Gorzka and Japanese co-investigators,
- Naomi Funashima, RN, DNSc
- Professor, School of Nursing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Tomomi Kameoka, RN, DNSc
- Professor, National College of Nursing Japan, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan
- Kumiko Hongo, RN, MN
- Chair of School of Nursing, Saniku Gakuin College, Japan
- Hiroe Miura, RN, DNSc,
- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Gunma Prefectural College of Health Science, Maebashi, Japan
- Nobuko Yamashita, RN, DNSc.
- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Gunma Prefectural College of Health Science, Maebashi, Japan
- They gave a poster presentation, “Pilot Study to Test the Face Validity of the English Version of the Japanese Self-Evaluation Scale on Role Model Behaviors for Nursing Faculty and Faculty Attributes Questionnaire” at the Sigma Theta Tau International 17th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Nursing.
- Dr. Adrienne Berarducci was recently elected President Elect of Florida Nurses Association District 20.
- Dr. Adrienne Berarducci also attended the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) conference last month in Grapevine, Texas and presented Wellness Strategies: The Post Menopausal Woman at Risk for Osteoporosis.
- Dr. Adrienne Berarducci recently published:
- Continuous Heat Therapy: Can It Have An Impact? in the journal Arthritis Practitioner January 2006, 2 (1): 20 – 24.
- Key Insights On Conservative Modalities For Osteoarthritis in the journal Arthritis Practitioner July 2006, 2 (4): 7 – 8.
- Dr. Cecile Lengacher was appointed to the Editorial Board of Holistic Nursing Practice.
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