Fall 2023 | Faculty and Student Accomplishments
Recent updates from the College of Nursing faculty and students.
Tamara Macieira, PhD, RN, assistant professor, Gail Keenan, PhD, RN, FAAN, R. Murray and Annabel Davis Jenks Endowed Professor, and Yingwei Yao, PhD, research associate professor, were notified that their grant, “Harmonizing and Integrating Nursing Data into Multidisciplinary Datasets to Evaluate Hospital Care and Readmissions of Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias,” would receive funding from the National Institute on Aging for the R33 phase of their study. This funding will provide three years of support to continue their important work on capturing nursing data for patient care decision-making.
Four College of Nursing faculty have been promoted, effective July 1.
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- Ann Horgas, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN: Professor.
- Miriam Ezenwa, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, FAAN: Professor, with tenure.
- Laurie Duckworth, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, FAAN: Clinical Professor.
- Karen Reed, MSN, DHSc, RN, CNE, CNL, CRRN: Clinical Associate Professor.
Lisa Scarton, PhD, RN, assistant professor, was among 253 distinguished nurse leaders inducted as American Academy of Nursing Fellows. The inductees were recognized for their substantial, sustained and outstanding impact on health and health care.
The College of Nursing was awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration Nurse Faculty Loan Program, developed in partnership by the directors of both the PhD and DNP programs, Angela Starkweather, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, Chamings Professor and assistant dean for research development, and Rene Love, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, associate dean for academic affairs – graduate clinical education. The program designates $191,357 toward students who are enrolled in the PhD or MSN-DNP programs and allows eligible students to take loans for the cost of tuition, fees, books, lab expenses and other reasonable educational expenses. Up to 85% of the loan is canceled when the student obtains a full-time nurse faculty position, including serving as a preceptor, over a four-year period.
Victoria Menzies, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor, and current DNP students, Mariah Rappazzo and Genevieve Banaag, researched a new method for de-escalation in psychiatric units, where the model they created may soon be used to transform how nurses and other health care workers communicate with those in their care, as well as each other.
Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor, Yinwei Yao, PhD, research associate professor, and postdoc Tasha Schoppee, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, suggested that dignity therapy, whether it is led by chaplains or nurses, may help improve dignity for outpatient palliative care patients with cancer.
