Publications
Dekker, R.L. (2008). Human papillomavirus
vaccine legislation in Kentucky: A policy analysis. Policy,
Politics, & Nursing Practice, 9, 40-49.
Parrish, E.M.,
Peden, A.R., &
Staten, R.
(In press). Strategies used by advanced practice psychiatric
nurses in treating adult clients with depression.
Perspective in Psychiatric Care.
Parrish, E.M., &
Peden, A.R.
(In press).
Clinical outcomes of depressed clients: A review of current
literature. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. |
Wu, J.R.,
Moser, D.K.,
Lennie, T.A., &
Burkhart, P.V.
(2008). Medication adherence in patients who
have heart failure: A review of the literature. Nursing
Clinics of North America, 43(1), 133-153.
Emily Durbin, undergraduate research intern,
is a coauthor on a publication by the Tobacco Policy
Research group.
Ph.D. students Muna Hammash, Jan Odom-Forren,
Lynn Roser, and Carol Smith are coauthors on a RICH Heart
group publication. Angela Wu, postdoctoral fellow, is
coauthor on another RICH Heart publication.
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Presentations
Maggie Roberts, undergraduate research
intern, had a poster and paper presentation, “The Effect of
Nutritional Support on Weaning Outcome in Adult Patients
Receiving Mechanical Ventilation,” at the 2008 American
Association of Critical Care Nurses National Teaching
Institute in Chicago in May. Co-authors included intern
Ashley Wellman and Ph.D. students Sarah Kelly, Liz
Sturgeon, and Amani Khalil, as well as faculty members
Susan Frazier
and
Melanie Hardin-Pierce. The same group had another poster
presented by Hardin-Pierce, “The Effect of Glycemic Control
on Weaning Outcome in Adult Patients Receiving Mechanical
Ventilation.” Both abstracts are published in the current
issue of the American Journal of Critical Care.
Undergraduate research interns Jennifer
Baumgartner and Christina Cummings were selected for oral
presentations at the UK Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars
in April. |
Maggie Roberts shows her poster at AACN.
Connie Lamb (Ph.D. candidate) was invited
to do a presentation at Shriner’s Hospital, where she will
display her SNRS poster, “Health-Related Quality of Life in
Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular
Atrophy: Measuring the Child’s Perception.”
Ph.D. students Sarah Kelly, Amanda
Fallin, and Peggy Riley had abstracts accepted for presentation at
the American Public Health Association meeting to be held in
San Diego in October 2008. |
Activities/Honors/Awards
Students from
Ellen Hahn's Health Policy
class attended a rally to increase the tobacco tax during
the Spring 2008 General Assembly in Frankfort.
Health Policy students rally at the
Capitol. |
Susie Adams (Ph.D. 2007) will be inducted
into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in June.
Ph.D. student Rebecca Dekker received a $15,000
Philanthropic Educational Organization International Scholar
Award. Evelyn Parrish (Ph.D.
2008) received the Rising Star of Scholarship and Research
award from Sigma Theta Tau. Suzette Sewell (Ph.D. 2008) was invited to Capitol Hill in
February as an advocate for arthritis. She met with Kentucky
Senator Jim Bunning and Congressman John Yarmuth to discuss
the needs of people suffering from bone disease and
arthritis. |
