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Sep 30, 2009
Through his research in pain detection, Martin Schiavenato of the University of Rochester’s School of Nursing is developing a tool to help health care providers more accurately assess pain in infants, young children and people with dementia who cannot articulate their pain. His Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar research will support this work.
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Sep 23, 2009
Sandra Kuntz, an Assistant Professor at the Montana State University College of Nursing, is using her Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar grant to conduct a community-based participatory research project with public health and tribal environmental protection partners on the Fort Peck reservation. She will investigate the potential and actual exposure to methylmercury in women of childbearing age.
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Sep 23, 2009
The prestigious Nurse Faculty Scholar award includes a grant of $350,000, which Maren Coffman will use to study the correlation between health literacy—an understanding of health care and the health care system—and diabetes among Latinas. Coffman is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Sep 23, 2009
Randy Jones, of the University of Virginia will use the three-year, $350,000 Nurse Faculty Scholars award to study strategies to help patients feel more at ease in the final stages of life. Jones will test a decision aid for patients with advanced-stage prostate cancer to see if it facilitates informed, shared decisions about treatments that affect patients’ quality of life.
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Sep 23, 2009
Having explored cardiology and genetics for more than 18 years, Columbia University’s Kathleen Hickey will use her three-year Nurse Faculty Scholar grant to further her research on genetic mutations that may predispose individuals to a higher possibility of sudden cardiac death. “Knowing ahead of time that a genetic predisposition exists could allow us to step up our preventative efforts,” she says.
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Sep 23, 2009
The University of Maryland’s Elizabeth Galik will develop and test interventions to improve functional performance, physical activity, and quality of life among older adults with dementia. In partnership with nurses and other assisted living facility staff, the research made possible by her Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars grant will help determine how to help patients maintain their independence.
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Sep 24, 2009
Selected as one of just 15 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars this year, Janice Goodman of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions is using her grant to provide early intervention to encourage healthy mother/infant bonding for first time mothers who are at high risk of developing postpartum depression. The goal is to reduce postpartum depression and its negative effects on child development.
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Sep 23, 2009
Tami Thomas of the Medical College of Georgia will focus her Nurse Faculty Scholar research on strategies to slow the spread of viral sexually transmitted infections in rural communities. Thomas aims to use the findings to develop culturally sensitive interventions to increase the vaccination rate for the Human Papillomavirus in rural areas.
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Sep 23, 2009
Versie Johnson-Mallard is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar from the University of South Florida. She is using this competitive grant to study strategies to prevent the spread of viral sexually transmitted infections among college students and young adults.
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Sep 23, 2009
Nurse Faculty Scholar Ruth Taylor-Piliae will use her grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the health effects of tai chi in stroke survivors. She will develop a tai chi exercise program for stroke survivors and compare the results with those from other types of rehabilitation care. Taylor-Piliae is an assistant professor at the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona.
